#a true masterpiece

[cowgirlcasanova]

red dead redemption?? ohhhh you mean follow john marston around with a camera for hours!!! yeah i love that game!

[shiveringfrogspawn]

just started watching 'we are lady parts' and man. i get it, i really do.

this show has everything?? all-female muslim punk band with awesome style, kickass attitudes and really well-developed characters?? i knew i'd die for any of them by the time i was ten minutes in so, yeah, there's that.

also. they're all very hot. would lowkey sell my soul to become a groupie. watch this space to see how this turns out :))

[arcanetoymakerau]

I SUMMON YOU I NEED TO READ YOUR THOUGHTS 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

*portal opens*

*I jump out of it*

In general? I FUCKING LOVED IT! I'm still crying (I just finished watching).

The plot, the art---AAAAAAAHHH!

Still, I wished they did 3 seasons because the pacing, or more like the delivery of the plot, was too fast. With an extra season, they could have shown the characters' development in much more depth. But this is literally my only complaint! This show is truly a masterpiece!

[ikurko]

[majerelioncourt]

Behold!

Astarion the Sensuous

[justbookscatsandtea]

I got the feeling that people hate the arc in the mortal world where Yan Dan pushes Tang Zhou away after regaining her memories. But I have to say that I actually really liked that part ... I mean it was heartbreaking and I was somewhat frustrated but I also feel like it was necessary and beneficial for them in the long run.

After first regaining her memories, she was understandably upset because Ying Yuan did everything in his power to make her hate him so that she may have a future. She doesn't know that and her feelings of betrayal are valid (I do not blame Ying Yuan for his actions either. He had an abundance of horrible and worse options and tried to make the best choices. It might have been better if he and Yan Dan communicated more but I feel he was the only one who really grasped the enormity of the situation - that there was no way Yan Dan would have survived if he so much as hinted at caring for her - the emperor was on his case already). Anyway she feels betrayed and doesn't want to be with a man who could never love her (as he made her think) and could definitely never choose her. So pushing him away was her wish to save herself from future heartbreak. It also gave her time to come to terms with her feelings and to find out what really happened back then (like with the butterfly of hate but actually love).

Then comes the iteration where Tang Zhou does the unthinkable: he decides to choose her over his sect, over his martial arts, over everything that held importance in his life. I think that it did help her heal and see that duty is not more important to him than love. (Funnily enough I have the Barbie and the Pauper quote stucknin my head because of this show: duty is doing the things your heart might well regret. It just fits them so beautifully because honestly the duty of the Sovereign Lord alnost broke them both)

But then comes the most important part for her I believe - what she did not even manage to do in the heavenly realm as isolated as she was from the world up there: she understood what Ying Yuan meant to the world. That all her friends, her family, the people she loved needed Tang Zhou to become the Sovereign Lord again. He can choose his duty over her because the sect will be FINE. Sure they needed some help establishing themselves but ultimately they did not need Tang Zhou to lead them. The stakes were pretty much non-existent. This is not true for the world where a conspiracy 11 000 years in the making has already seen ENTIRE REALMS DESTROYED. He IS the powerhouse of the heavenly realm, the only one who can make things right. That is also the compromise they make at the end after all. AFTER fulfilling his duty and saving the world, he will leave for the mortal realm and they can be together. When the world is save to live in once again. And she needed to get to the point where she sacrificed the second part of her heart not only for love. The first half was mainly out of her love for him. Sure she thought that the heavenly realm might need him but the reasons where far more personal. Now she also knows that he NEEDS to be up there and make things right. In the end he sacrificed himself for duty and love for he had already hurt her with the demonic powers he cannot control and she choses to share his destiny which enabled them later on to be reborn together.

Another minor point is that she basically turned the Uno reverse card on him: now she will push him away for his own good. I think a part of her doesn't want him to choose between the world and herself again because it is at the end a cruel choice that will tear him apart no matter what. And she loves him too much to do that hence the compromise later on.

[run2thesky]

When people ask what my favorite movie is I show them this.

[midwest-indigo]

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[beaversinflight]

watching WALL·E for the first time and experiencing all emotions at once

[thesinlesssinner]

Sometimes inspirations strikes me and I create a true masterpiece, that’s what happened today

[iambecomeafangirl]

Lonely is the muse, you will always be famous.

[wanderingmind867]

Howard the Duck #1 featured a Conan the Barbarian parody involving an evil accounting wizard named Pro-Rata wanting to obtain the key to the Cosmic Calculator, all so that he could perform a Celestial Audit or something. It's bizarre but hilarious. Also, Howard starts the book preparing to commit suicide. We also get a Spider-Man cameo, as Peter Parker is sent to Cleveland to cover reports of a talking duck.

It's just... everything in the comic is off the wall insane, and Howard just plays the straight man the whole way through. He breaks the fourth wall once, but mostly he just wants a cigar. And that's...for a book about a talking duck, Howard isn't any more unusual than you or I. He's just a normal man on his world, so he really isn't anything special. And that's the point, i think. There's something profound and beautiful about that, I think.

[dewvorce-flowers]

Just finished reading Beartown and I'm actually crying.

God what a beautiful and cruel book. If anyone read it as well and wants to scream about it, my DMs are open.

[swan2swan]

The music they put together for Earth's demise in this film is so good.

It's just so...rigid and percussive when the planet begins to die. With a frenzied strain and panic.

[neytris]

reading neteyam’s first rut series for the 11th time and all i can say is pennywise aint shit i swallow kids too

[happylittlegremlin]

Some Quick Thoughts on Dungeons & Daddies Season 2

I just finished episode 37 of Season 2 and I think everything with this show makes sense.

I’ll be honest, while I love the show, I never really felt like it hit me as hard as it should have. Only a couple times was I like “damn, this really compares to that first season”, and those episodes were honestly some of the best ones in the canon.

I was kind of worried about how they would pull this off--how they were going to keep me invested inside of all of this, because while I loved the show, I loved the show for the Dungeons & Daddies crew. I loved the original daddies so much, but the teens were weird. I never really got to meet them eye to eye. I never really understood them, and that’s probably a result of me being a teenager while listening to this.

Then this episode came out and I think I understand Season 2 now.

This series is about multi-generational trauma. I knew that on paper, but couldn’t really see it until now. There were hints of it, smidges of the pains of being a teenager, and the ultimate story of the show, but I never really saw it until now. The pain and the triumphs of these characters, seeing how they’ve changed and warped. I’m so happy to have stuck with this podcast because I now understand the teens so much more than I possibly could. At first, I didn’t see the appeal nor did I really feel the depth of character, until it was right in front of me. Until I heard the tears of Link and Scary, the fears of Normal, and the true Happiness of Taylor. Maybe I’m developing tunnel vison, but after this episode I realized this isn’t a show about people who are learning their stereotypical lessons, but a true presentation of being a teenager. That feeling of not understanding yourself, building a role and mythos about yourself so you can attach yourself to identity. This is almost the inverse of Dungeons & Daddies Season 1. Stereotypes of Dads fall into D&D Archetypes and must go through an adventure to break out of their molds and understand themselves: the series starts off semi-generic and one dimensional and grows with its own. Dungeons & D.A.D.D.I.E.S. Season 2 says the opposite. It’s stereotypes of teens who almost know they are stereotypes. They are trying to fit in a broken world. It is about people who haven’t developed enough of a identity or mold to even have anything to break out of. They are people learning themselves and, damn, isn’t that beautiful