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AI DI + the Little Red Riding Hood saga KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)
#kiseki: dear to me#kisekiedit#kdtm#kiseki dear to me#ai di x chen yi#chen yi x ai di#zhang teng#chiang tien#louis chiang#jiang dian#nat chen#chen bowen#userspring#uservid#userrain#userspicy#pdribs#userjjessi#*cajedit#*gif#ai di dressing up as red riding hood as a double fuck you to zhang teng after that day he came threatening at their bar <3#like. ok later when ai di talks about how whoever works for zhang teng doesn't know what they're doing & is all smug about it#and about how easy it was to lure them out and catch them thats fuck you number 1. number 2 is spitefully choosing red riding hood#but also something something ai di never getting to have the childhood that his peers did.#and realizing that & the way he wants to take this opportunity to play around. the way taking on the role of student#is ai di putting on a play just as much as the costume contest is. and he does have fun with it but it also smothers his real self#the real ai di throws away the beanie/fake persona once he's teased about it. the real ai di would have killed zhang teng if he could.#idk i like the reality vs fantasy bit he does to himself. he takes zhang teng's stupid comment like a challenge#ANYWAY DONT YOU LOVE HOW THE ONE (1) BL TROPE CHEN YI AND AI DI GOT IS ALSO TIED TO THE PLOT??? CUZ I DO
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мαχтσи нαℓℓ - тнє ωσяℓ∂ вєтωєєи υѕ
#good evening i’ve found a new ship that’s altering the chemicals of my brain#binge watched the series in one sitting and my god#another enemies to lovers trope that’s grabbed me by the neck and refuses to let go#the chemistry was chemistrying#damian and harriet ate this up so bad whew!#i wish there was a way to wipe my memory and do it all again#the pool scene did a real number on me i want it projected on my gravestone and played on a infinite loop#maxton hall#maxton hall the world between us#bellfort#james beaufort#ruby bell#james x ruby#ruby x james#damian hardung#harriet herbig matten
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“requiem for methuselah” crazy ass episode for many reasons. Kirk is being fully insane, like I don’t actually think, even controlling for how quickly and easily and readily he seems to fall in love with anybody at the slightest encouragement, that he’d go that bonkers for that android woman he just met while everyone on the ship was this close to dying, but that’s neither here nor there, because in the background you’ve got an equally but much more subtly insane episode for Spock, who extremely uncharacteristically admits to experiencing an emotion (or nearly experiencing, whatever) and that emotion is ENVY of all things. And then spends the rest of the episode warning Kirk away from this new love interest (something that doesn’t usually happen, even when Kirk has very inadvisable love interests) and is, in the end, the person who accurately identifies that Rayna’s competing love for Kirk and Flint is ultimately what overwhelms and destroys her with the most killer line in maybe history???
And then to wrap it up we get an equally uncharacteristic sort of denouement scene (TOS loooves to cut an episode off right after the actual climax, leaving little time for falling action or character reflection, or to stick a sitcom-y button on the end where the gang all smiles and laughs at their misadventures and everything resets to zero, which is not a criticism, it’s just the style of that era of tv, honestly) where Kirk is literally miserable over Rayna’s death (again, kind of unusual for a lot of his love interests, he tends to be able to move on pretty quickly) and Spock goes to see him and he falls asleep right in front of Spock (also odd) and then when Bones comes in to give the final word on Flint, Spock waves him off from waking the Captain (tender) and Bones gives him that awful speech about how it’s sadder that Spock can’t even imagine the love Kirk felt for this random android woman than it is that Kirk lost her in the first place (debatable but also rude) and how his great tragedy is that he can’t love at all like they can and how all he wishes is that Kirk could forget about all of this and move on. AND THEN, to have Bones leave and Spock go over to Kirk and very gently, tenderly, reluctantly touch him and put his hand to his forehead and tell him to forget and HAVE THAT BE THE END OF THE EPISODE??? What am I supposed to do with that??
#‘the joys of love made her human. the agonies of love destroyed her’ hUH. What a cool line.#hope it doesn’t become some sort of…thesis statement for you or something SPOCK#listen my number one beef with the way they write bones is that they just make him completely mischaracterize everything to suit the plot#this man is not an idiot he KNOWS Spock has emotions and just suppresses them#you’re going to tell me he’s been on that ship with Spock for years and thinks he feels no love whatsoever for anyone???#like even after what happened in the empath and in that episode where McCoy thought he was dying#he knows Spock loves people!!! COME ON#does he really just mean romantic love?? that’s so boring WRITE HIM BETTER#also they’re banking a lot on people remembering what the Vulcan mind meld is for that last bit#like I know it comes up a lot but…this is 1968 or whatever. They don’t have this shit on dvd to rewatch#you’re counting on really dedicated fan memory here or on people catching reruns#because otherwise it just looks like Spock waiting to be alone to touch Kirk as tenderly as possible and pray he forgets this woman#truly what’s going on#anyway I kind of hated this episode#like quite frankly there was too much going on#are androids people? would Kirk fall in love that hard that quickly and choose it over the safety of his crew?#why wasnt the illness ravaging the crew a bigger deal??#they didn’t even get into WHY flint was immortal#he was just a regular human and apparently the ONLY one who was granted immortality by the earth’s atmosphere#leaving aside the very creepy and very early born sexy yesterday trope going on throughout#but it was a really good Spock episode if you just….dont look at anything else….#the writer for this one also did Day of the Dove and Mirror Mirror which explains a LOT#two other episodes that are interesting for the character dynamics but really chaotic plot wise#anyway imagine saying to Spock’s face that he has no idea what love can drive a man to do#one has to laugh#tos#star trek#as always…. I’m sorry that I’m Like This
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sega please do not save maria please do not save maria PLEASE do not save mariaaaaaaa sega PLEASE
#shadow the hedgehog#sonic x shadow generations#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sxsg spoilers#sxs generations#maria robotnik#the very end of the story trailer looks interesting but the implications are giving me BIG concerns not gonna lie#I lost a family member at a very young age and my number 1 most LOATHED trope of all time is undoing the loss of a loved one#so far all the official game content that has touched on maria and gerald completely avoids to commit with confirming her death#which if the reasoning is in order to avoid spoiling the impact in game --I get it#but i am also EXTREMELY worried that they're planning to use time-shenanigans to “tastefully” retcon a difficult lore topic altogether#her death is MEANINGFUL and IMPORTANT and HOLDS DEEP IMPACT TO SHADOW AS A LESSON IN GROWING AND LETTING GO!!#sega you are so so close to peak here please PLEASE do not mess this up#people think kids can't handle heavy topics like death in media#but for kids going through this kind of thing in real life it is SO important to be able to see characters learning to navigate grief#you will not look cool for bringing them back. please don't do this
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this brave anime dares to ask "what if a cute girl was head over heels for a totally milquetoast, cardboard personality guy and she did literally all the work maintaining a basic friendship with him"
#always so one sided#''hey! lets hang out later!''#''lets trade phone numbers!''#she texts first. carries the conversation. pushes to hang out again (which he EVENTUALLY says yes to)#the guy just stands around waiting for someone else to do osmething#thsi isnt abt a specific anime its just a common trope im thinking abt
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I thought the early 2000s "strong yet naked/mostly naked woman kept in her place by stronger, bigger, beast/monster or gang of racist caricatures" trope* was known by basically everyone but I mentioned it as a criticism of this older art book I'd flipped through recently to a friend and it turns out it isn't lol Maybe I've just read too many Heavy Metal issues... It used to be HORRIBLY inescapable in any sort of mature art scene back in the day lmao
*This trope is different from the pre-2000s one because the women usually look like they COULD fight back for at least a little bit whereas the previous trope had them be completely helpless damsels in distress
#textpost#And the damn apes. Why were there so many APES in art back then#I am so TIRED OF APES#'look at my drawing isn't it so quirky and funny. i have given the sassy stylized gorilla a naked human woman and sunglasses har har'#Ngl when the NFT thing started and I saw the ape one taking off it was instantly enemy number one because I am TIRED OF APES!!!#Not that every fictional or stylized ape is bad but there is a particular way they can be drawn where it makes me roll my eyes#Those NFTs are a prime example. They were absolutely drawing on the apes I loathe when designing those#I suppose these apes are parallel to that category of 'unintelligent and crude unkept representation of the reader/artist that still-#-hooks up with the smokin hot babe with the hourglass figure' trope#Which I also loathe#Probably this doesn't make any sense lol#I don't know how many of my followers on here shovel as much of this shit into their eyeballs as I do#Unfortunately sometimes the periodicals with such tropes that I so despise also occasionally have little gems between that make up for it#Wading through the Kevin Eastman+Simon Bisley Heavy Metal pissfart era for a scrap of Moebius or something avant garde#If I wasn't working on 1000 different things I would write reviews of Heavy Metal issues from my bookshelf lol#Some of these issues are ripe vomit. I could really tear into them#Insane that they went from cutting edge of adult SFF sequential art to whatever the fuck was going on in the FAKK 2 era#Ok I need to go get ready for bed lol enjoy whatever this post turned out to be
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As always, (no pressure) reblog for more votes, etc. <3
#fiction#tropes#blorbo#fandom#poll#tried to choose ones that are just specific and over-used enough to be cliche#and yet still vague enough to be a valid archetype#also biased towards ones that are popular on tumblr despite cliche-ness cringe or problematic/stereotypical aspects#possibly due to the room for nuance still existent in these tropes#or possibly due to a high number of tumblr users relating to these characters#or perhaps because some popular early blorbos fell under these umbrellas#either way#I'm really curious for how this will turn out!#apparently I'm in a poll mood today
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I’d love to know your top 5 drarry cliches!
ahh thank you, phoebe! i love this.
harry's chest monster. an essential ingredient in drarry soup, imo
sectumsempra scars of course!!! i love how they're probably not even canon but like utterly ubiquitous and necessary. which makes sense: sectumsempra is probably one of the worst canon emotional cockblock (specifically the aftermath of it, when harry's response to nearly killing someone is to be mad about quidditch and go get a girlfriend about it, god jkr was dumb. perhaps unintentionally, that response is probably the most compelling evidence for harry one day becoming a wizard cop!) so we all need harry to feel some feelings about it.
returning the hawthorn wand. i admit that i do some mental editing whenever harry's like "oh yeah i forgot i had this and just tossed it in a drawer, you can have it back if you want" it has to be a MOMENT !!!
nightmares/sleeping better when the other's around, especially if that's the first form of intimacy.
when they're not friends but just can't leave each other alone. is that a cliche?? like even when there's no reason to be in each other's business, they try to find reasons to be because they "hate" each other. or when they haven't seen each other in a while, see each other again, and have to know everything about each other immediately, rapidly becoming obsessed, etc.
#asks#phoebe-delia#ask meme#top 5 lists#this one wound up being hard!!#because there are tropes (and i have another ask for those i'm psyched about it)#and there are cliches#and a good number of drarry cliches actually drive me insane lol
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Could you draw five having a siamese (I just see him with a Siamese cat-)
Totally :D
Here’s five and the cat he Didn’t Want (but the cat he ended up with anyway🤭)
#you know that trope of dads/old men refusing to get more pets because they don’t need them#and then end up the closest buddies like 2 months later#that’s five and this cat#they would spend all their time together and he’d also name it something ridiculously normal#the same spirit of Mr pennycrumb. this cat has a more legitimate paperwork sounding name than five does#let’s call him. Sir Mortcombe#myart#fanart#artists on tumblr#the umbrella academy#tua#number five#five hargreeves#tua art#I’m drawing at the speed of one thing every few weeks lol. I’m trying tho!
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We have moved on from Boy Singing His Feelings With Guitar. We are now on Boy RAPPING His Feelings. This is worse.
#original#I’m the number one hater of boy sings feeling with guitar#if there are no haters of that trope I’m dead#i saw you in my dream#(AND THEN YU BROKE OUT THE GUITAR ANYWAY. WHY AM I HERE. JUST TO SUFFER).
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moriarty and sherlock are criminal x investigator written by straight people and hannibal and will are criminal x investigator written by gay people hope that helps
#never thought I’d be sherlock posting here hello#I’ve been watching it with my mum and y’all were right about the queerbaiting my god it’s as bad as supernatural#even my MOTHER pointed it out 😭😭#moriarty is kicking his feet and calling sherlock sexy and giving him his number only to show up like did you like it when I acted GAY#IT WAS BUT A DISGUISE like steven moffat what are you silly?#could’ve done anything with that dynamic idk there’s a whole triple foil thing going on with watson#also the trope where character a freaks out when character b is in danger (pool scene you know the one)#and moffat makes it so AWKWARD with the gay jokes like what is he doing#meanwhile hannibal is telling will that if he saw him everyday forever he’d remember this time#and that he let him know him and see him and will wonders if they could survive separation 😩#moffat ruined my life and I don’t even GO here#anyway sherlock fandom I’m so sorry for what they did to you 💔#sherlock#sherlock holmes#jim moriarty#sheriarty#nbc hannibal#hannibal#will graham#hannigram#ghost speaks
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thinking about rafe & coryo & anakin & astarion and how imo their inherrent appeal (if you pick up on any) is supposed to be in the fact that something is extremely wrong with them (or they aren’t meant to have any appeal at all). bc i don’t understand the stans who are so selective with reading and hearing they try to argue otherwise like were you so blinded you ignored the glaringly & obviously bad things about them??????? rafe & coryo & anakin later especially?????????
#thinking about hannah’s posts about rafe and how he’s portrayed vs how he’s seen#‘it’s in the potential’ ‘i can fix him’ zuko’s redemption arc and it’s consequences on media consumers#NOT EVERY BITCH CAN BE HIM#some characters cannot (within canon) be redeemed accept it and fuck him about it anyways#to clarify i fw with the trope of he’s less awful to you but i love when its still mentioned how sick he is and you should rlly be grateful#astarion in a dark urge playthrough likes animal cruelty#most times anakin kills its in large numbers and hes extremely obsessive#coryo knowingly takes joy in starving others and playing with them like a snake does a rat etc etc#one of the most knowingly sadistic inhumane characters and you can’t really make him give a fuck#rafe is arguably incestuous and a void for drugs who will leech off of you like a parasite if you stay with him despite everything#etc etc etc.#they’re reactionary the world pivots around their emotions and in most situations i believe they’d kill you before they let you go#they’re the sun in the way that in their own universe they are the center of it and they’ll eventually collapse in on themselves#bc they’re burning up themselves and those around them but for the time being its give them enough of a high to live off of#*it gives#astarion is more covert maybe on purpose#and if you don’t know his ea backstory i think you’ll just gloss over a lot anyway but he’s a bitch regardless and he serves himself#and later you but no one else#like imo even with the spawn ending he’s not treating everybody like he’d treat himself and you#tw animal cruelty#tw murder#(mainly)#📜.scrolls
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doomed yuri girls and their destructive loops centered around their "best friend"
#signalis spoilers#madoka magica spoilers#signalis#madoka magica#puella magi madoka magica#pmmm#doomed lovers are my favorite trope#i dont care how evil she gets i am homuras number one supporter#same with elster#girls ftw!!!#homura akemi#elster#LSTR
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📚: 𝑴𝒓. 𝑾𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑵𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 (𝑀𝑟. 𝑊𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 #1)📱💬
✍🏽: 𝐋𝐲𝐧𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫
#mr wrong number#lynn painter#colin beck#olivia marshall#colin and olivia#old enemies#enemies to lovers#one bed trope#forced proximity#fling#secret romance#secret identity#books recommendations#new books#libros recomendados#books#libros#frase libro#smutty books#book tumblr#booklover#book couples#spicy books#book lovers#romance books#bookish#book quotes#book#bookworm#brothers best friend
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do you guys ever think about how the last person Natalie saw alive was Misty, and the last person she saw in her dream as she died was Lottie, and the fact that Travis did not show up in the dream at all?
#like come on the love of your life showing up to guide you to the other side is like the number one trope in these situations and yet#there was no travis there was LOTTIE#anyway yeah i'm thinking about this a lot#yellowjackets#lottienat#yellowjackets spoilers#natalie scatorccio
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Sequel to This.
I'm completely devasted that we haven't got that kind of 4 Horsemen where we would've had 4 Obscure Animated Movies that are also based on Old Obscure Shows (most of which are Cartoons but The Magic Roundabout is Stop-Motion sooo..).
Though on the OTHER Hand, if you'd be one of the People who'd consider "Happily N'Ever After" to be an Adaptation of Simsala Grimm, (then I guess you'd at least consider to be a Fourth One completed) I still believe we would've gotten an Pentalogy of Obscure Adaptational Movies (considering we all know the Tragic Backstory behind the Space Goofs movie).
#I'm just backstabbed by so much betrayal of this#like it feels like that we've been completely robbed blinded of not getting a 5th Movie to complete this kind of trope 😭#lowkey that the Tabaluga movie is my Fav out of these BUT I bet the Space Goofs movie would've been my number one fav#indie text#space goofs#stupid invaders#les zinzins de l'espace#tabaluga#the magic roundabout#here comes the grump#simsala grimm#happily n'ever after#ice princess lily#doogal#a wizard's tale#meme#xilam#I may have accidentally spelled the other title for the Tabaluga movie wrong but eh who cares anyways since most of the US Titles are Cheap
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