#Tvb

[golyadkin]

old college pals

[irraydiate]

Rustyjaks

I needed to learn how to draw his face, but then I got carried away

If you want to use these you don’t need to give credit, but if someone asks, please link back here.

[sherbetstudios]

The Violet Blaze boys decided to walk to the crowd at the @tmntaucompetition …

… it didn’t quite go how Tello planned.

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I’m sure we’ve become more and more familiar with the marvelous turtles in the backgrounds, but here’s who they all belong to!

Swanatello by @tangledinink

omega by @kathaynesart

Artemis and Finley by @addystuffs

random donnie

And ‘open you shell’ Donnie by @onejellyfishplease

random Leo

I Hope i did your lovely characters justice!

[blackstar044]

New wings :)

[liz-freemen]

🤍

For my bestie

[don-dake]

遐想 對 現實 (daydream vs. reality)

I remember when those “Expectation vs. Reality” posts were quite the thing back in the day. Probably not as popular now but, just thought of this one from an old HK series from 2003.

Context: Main character (man in white Mao suit) is the Emperor Yongzheng from the Qing Dynasty who time travelled to 2003 Hong Kong. Hence, his way of talking is more formal Cantonese than the usual colloquial speech of other modern HK characters. And his views on women are on the chauvinistic side.

English translation and description provided in the ALT Text.

daydream…↓

reality. ↓

《九五至尊》 (2003) | 第十四集

新詞：

就腳 (🇭🇰🇲🇴 zau⁶ goek³)

爛溶溶 (🇭🇰🇲🇴 laan⁶ jung⁴ jung⁴)

[raptorific]

One of my favorite things is that when I tell people The Venture Bros is all about a horrible and bald middle-aged bald man that is far too pathetic and too horrible to possibly Babygirlify, the sort of people likely to Babygirlify horrible pathetic middle-aged bald men always take that as a challenge and think they’re capable of Babygirlifying him, and continue to think that they’ve won for like, the first three seasons. And then suddenly, about halfway through season 4, even they find their limit. And I win.

[xinyuehui]

EP3 - Fibrous Lovers · The Threat of Love (2000)

[linggluu]

27 year old Mr. Leung ;;

[golyadkin]

Don't you want to be famous? Don't you want to be on TV?

[irraydiate]

I tried to draw this fully on model and in line with how an actual scene from the show would look, but then I drew the background and I couldn’t help but give it some dumber lighting effects.

[krownest]

i've been watching 男親女愛 (war of the genders) tvb sitcom because i want to improve my cantonese and it's a good show for that + was extremely popular when it came out (2000s) and is basically a cultural touchstone in hong kong

but goddd sometimes it is such a slog and cringe because its views are so dated. i've no doubt it was considered relatively progressive in its day (female lawyer, male clerk etc) but i'm on ep 33/100 and so far we've had predatory lesbian, casual homophobia, and racist tropes. product of its time i guess but honestly it makes me understand hk ppl and my family's conservative views more

[diciamoaddiosenzacrederlo]

Ma voi Ve lo ricordate com'era prima di whatsapp? Prima delle spunte blu e del "online" prima del "sta scrivendo" e dell orario con l'ultimo accesso? Io si, io c'ero....

Pagavamo i messaggi 14 cent l'uno, e avevamo solo 140 caratteri a disposizione. Scrivevamo sgrammaticati e abbreviati per farci stare tutto, anche se alle volte bisognava decifrare tutti quei tvb e tv1kdb...

Si imparava l'ansia dell'attesa e spesso non si sapeva nemmeno se quel messaggio era poi effettivamente arrivato, che era anche la bugia perfetta quando non volevi rispondere "scusa, non l'ho ricevuto"

Ci facevamo gli squilli, che significavano un po' tutto... Dal "hei ciao" al "hei, ti penso" andava un po' a libera interpretazione...

C'erano le Christmas card o le Summer card, che ti regalavano 100 messaggi al giorno, e le catene "manda questo a 10 amici" e speravi sempre di non finirci in mezzo, però in fondo anche un po' ti piaceva esserci, li in mezzo.

Una generazione che sapeva aspettare, che sapeva condensare una lettera d'amore in un unico messaggio, una generazione di interpreti di squillini. Una generazione di romantici la nostra.... Forse l'ultima....

_diciamoaddiosenzacrederlo

[blackstar044]

[omarfor-orchestra]

Hai rotto il cazzo a essere così bello

[don-dake]

河國榮 Gregory Charles Rivers

(30 April 1965 — 2 February 2024)

Posted this on my Insta Stories a couple days back but decided I'd do a post here too because I realised I'm still feeling saddened by Mr Rivers's passing.

For people of certain older generations, especially those who grew up in the 1990s watching Hong Kong TVB series, Mr Rivers, aka 河國榮 (Ho Kwok-Wing) to HK TV viewers, was an easily recognisable and familiar face, having been (at that time) the only foreign/Caucasian face to appear consistently in HK television armed with an impressive fluency in Cantonese.

I guess his passing has affected me more than I thought it would because firstly, I'd admired him for his proficiency in Cantonese and subconsciously looked to him as an inspiration.

As someone who grew up being terrible at Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin) and got teased for being “the banana” (i.e. yellow on the outside but white on the inside), the constant presence of this Caucasian guy on TV who could speak better Cantonese than I, partly spurred me on to learn Cantonese better myself.

Secondly, he represented an age when HK and by proxy, Cantonese, was flourishing; Mr Rivers's story of coming to Hong Kong purely motivated by his love for Cantopop and the Cantonese language is (sadly) not the kind of story one will hear very often again…

With his passing, it's like yet another bit of the shine of “Golden Age” HK being taken away…and this “Golden Age” was part of my childhood, so it means another part of my childhood is gone…

Anyway, I'll end this post with this video of an interview Mr Rivers did (c. 2007), sharing briefly his thoughts on his experiences as a foreign actor in HK.

河生，對於學緊廣東話嘅我嚟講，

您畀咗我唔少不知嘅鼓舞。

呢一點，我會喺心裏永遠默默感激。

希望您而家搵到了安寧，同妻子一路走好！