#I'm a genius tbh

[kreekx]

IT'S SO STUPID I'M SO SORRY I WAS CRYING WHILE MAKING THIS.

cr on 2nd art btw!: _Avenoire on X (or twitter idk)

[i-ate-the-rats]

hehehehe oh shit indefinite sad dark shadow (⊙ˍ⊙).

[vickyt-mv]

quick lon'qu for his birthday 🗡️🗡️

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Aof Noppharnach writes some my favorite openings I've seen across all genres. They open like musicals and fairytales. He writes these beautiful monologues that set everything up while romantic scores roll out and the camera floats across the settings. For real, watch the fluid camera work in any of his openings; it's one of the way he snags you. I just swoon.

Look at the opening lines of He's Coming to Me: "It was as simple as that. My heart stopped beating and I died. I have the same dream every time. You must be wondering how a ghost can dream." Call me Ishmael, who!?

And like, the way after the title sequence of Dark Blue Kiss, though, that the music and camera instill a magical fondness on the main characters as it establishes them in their natural habitats--swimming at pool, tutoring at Sun's cafe, etc.--with partial shots that reveal their confident faces in quick and steady succession!? Like, oh yes, all my old Kiss Me Again friends are glowing and tryna make the best of it all.

1000 Stars monologue about second lives in video games might be cheesy except we're cutting between a slick moneyed boy at a roulette table, an earnest girl on a bus, and a group of rangers scouting the forest in pitch black, and wondering who's about to die as mentioned in the voice-over and why are these randos living worlds apart being braided together like this!?!?

And then Moonlight Chicken is just *chef's kiss* using a post-Covid news segment to invite us into a struggling Pattaya neighborhood. And we hear about the economic hardships, the intentions of joy, the Chinese lanterns hanging outside, and see shots of the staff and late-night customers in bright warm light. Then we cut away to people watching the clip at a much dimmer version of the diner as business gets underway. Complaints and arguments and interruptions all occurring within A SINGLE SHOT until Jim walks out onto the street as the music just fully swells, and I'm passed out from the CINEMA of it all!!!!

The comparison I jump to quickest is the opening of Disney's Beauty and the Beast as we are told through stained-glass images the tale of the castle's enchantment and then toured about the small-minded town and its inhabitants as they gossip about Belle. By the end of the two sequences we have learned about every main character and their motivations with a smooth, inviting flow across the physical space and conversations. I honestly wonder if Aof studied the Disney Renaissance openings (majorly influence by another gay visionary, Howard Ashman)?

When it's an Aof script, you just know the viewer within the first fifteen minutes has everything they need to be prepared and excited for the ride they're about to take. Tone and Rhythm: established. Setting: explored, Characters: I already love them more than life itself.

[chimkennuggies]

Ok but HEAR ME OUT (delusional)

Again with the rarepair bs (it also started as a joke)

But like-

They actually match each other's freak‼️‼️

This one doesn't have any context though, they just look good together ig

ANYWAY

ORIN WITH A TOOTH GAP💥💥💥

[vhalesa]

And what if they were raptors?

[transfem-jakob-ingold]

Whoever was responsible for that transfer fucked around and (probably never) found out lmao

[the-anime-man]

If there's at least something special to say about the season finale of vip it's that vic michaelis has a very lovely voice

[daydreamerwonderkid]

It's fucking wild how they managed to make the reveal of Homura becoming a witch not only shocking and devastating, but then made it immediately irrelevant only a few minutes later by having her transform into a LITERAL GOD.

Fuck, I wish I had that kind of writing talent O_O

[enbysiriusblack]

rewatching gilmore girls and what'd you mean they ruined rory in later seasons??? she's always been that girl. in the first ever episode she wants to turn down private school cause she spoke to a cute boy once and mocks classmates for painting their nails. throughout season 1 she mocks other girls repeatedly. in season 2 she makes fun of/gets upset at lane for becoming a cheerleader. she gets in a fight with dean (where she was right), but makes up with him and apologises for thinking a woman shouldn't have to cook and clean for their husband. like i do love rory sm, but she was never a girls girl & she was always spoiled and oblivious of that & prioritises boys over everything else.

[liedownquisition]

I'm so tired.

Bonus meme under cut:

This is both for him in general (or at least the fanon version dominating fics) and extra for him as Robin specifically tbh. Let him grow up and find an identity outside of being Bruce's emotional support child. It's not like it's actually helping anymore anyways.

[thefinalinagirl]

I'm so not okay about how Spiral ended, because my mind keeps coming back to badly beaten up Schenk, escaping the factory, and I can't not imagine him going back to his small rented flat, where he just stumbling to the bathroom, sits on the floor, and coughs up blood. There's ringing in his ears, that's not going away, and he closes his eyes, because this darkness, this nothingness is somewhat comforting, and he just thinks about everything that happened, and everything sucks, but he knows: even though he's alone, he should keep going.

[fuckyeahgoodomensfanfic]

idk how it happened but my rec post for BNF is 792 words long and that's before reading the last chapter. I will try to contain myself and not add too much more. I am so excited for the finale tonight!!

[confused-stars]

I absolutely get why at first glance ratiorine looks like haikaveh

but the moment you take a second glance, you realize they're wildly different, uniquely interesting dynamics that you can't really compare

[jupitersflytrap]

i just read the curious incident of the dog in the night-time and hopped on here to see what the general consensus was about it and oh dear i was not expecting to see so many people hating it

[lizasweetling]

Mini Vacation for Phil! new page next Wednesday, presumably filler till then <3