#aka: shows i watched as a kid bc we didn’t have cable

[starsbythepocketful13]

Dash and Lily ep. 5 thoughts aka my longest one yet

• Netflix skipped right from the end of 3 to 5 and I didn’t even notice

• what is this and why is it Japanese

• ngl watching the mochi-making is relaxing

• also I really love how this show could have just been about a white girl and a white dude having a Christmas romance while interacting with their mostly white friends and family, but they said no, we’re going to include POC. Way more reflective of modern day America and I am here for that.

• DIVERSITY ❤️

• I legit love this dare. Mochi making. I wish I could do this.

• both of these dares look hella fun

• the audacity of this Japanese granny throwing out his attempt at mochi (but is she wrong, nope LOL TRASH)

• “he looks rude.” Very on the nose.

• last time I’ll say it: I WOULD LOVE for someone to take me on a date featuring these dares

• Lily, breaking shit is fun. You should try it.

• Mori-Novak? I’m realizing I don’t actually know either of their last names. Literally the only last name I know is THIBAUD.

• actually yeah you do sound like a stalker.

• Edgar, there are nicer things (or just things) to say other than “you’re weird” and variations thereupon

• this man (boy, I guess) seems very patronizing

• don’t ever say the word bourgeoisie again.

• I wanna say that it’s cute that he still has her bracelet but he still seems like a douche and they are n o t endgame

• NYC you are gorgeous at Christmas. God, I miss pre-pandemic life

• I feel bad for thirsting after Dash a bit since he’s technically a teenager in the show

• awkward......could have been worse tho. Legit thought he was naked under the robe.

• bReAkFaSt At TiFfAnY’s

• someone tell him to put on another cable knit sweater for dinner

• lowkey love the phrase “eternally fraught”

• STOP RIPPING OUT PAGES LOL

• stop fighting Benny and Langston it’s making me sad

• geez this apartment is b e a u t i f u l. Lily and Langston’s apartment: goals.

• LANGSTON SHUT UP.

• YEAH YOU SHOULD BE SORRY.

• bro your dad is just old you. Exactly the same. Good on him for landing the hot microbiologist tho.

• so that’s who he called for dinner

• um because books are great, dad

• “sometimes the best answer to a problem makes itself heard, but only if your mind is quiet” wise words lily

• aww Lily got to him. Made him soft ❤️

• I want that green birdcage

• POOR INNOCENT SNOWMEN but also I guess she heard my suggestion 😂

• oh I guess it’s time for Edgar to get his

• kinda feel bad for him. He was a stupid kid and now he’s getting yelled at for being a stupid kid haha

• we were all stupid kids once

• i’m sorry, but the only one who actually looks (kind of) like a high schooler in this show is Lily.

• oh of course she’s moving back

• MALLOY? These names.

• OH SHIT OH SHIT THIS IS GONNA BE CRAZY. wait never mind they’re definitely going to meet next episode, NOT this one. MB.

•I’m excited and nervous as hell bc the book meeting was TRAGIC for Lily



[fratboykate]

Dude every1 hates/doesn't trust Apple so nobody is subscribing to their service. Ppl got burned so bad w/ the last 2 giant mega corporations who promised to be great and to do even greater things (not even gonna mention google bc we're kidding ourselves if we think we can escape it... they're a damn verb in multiple languages!) aka FB and Amazon that we are just staying clear of their shows, bc apparently if Netflix was good for killing something other than Blockbuster, it was the Pirate spirit.

Do you think I’m paying for Apple TV+??? lol I literally linked to where you could stream the entire season online for free the other day.

Also...who is “everyone”? I have never heard a regular person say they don’t trust Apple. You know Apple holds a major share of global phones and computers right? Like...what??? I’ve heard the tinfoil hat shit about “not trusting apple” only from the Android fanboys online but no one likes them anyway so their opinions don’t count lol.

I actually know quite a few people who have Apple TV+ but most if not all of the already had an Apple TV device before they launched their subscription arm last year so it was a logical transition for them. Truth of the matter is, people are burned out with subscriptions. This is just cable bundles another way and the initial appeal of Netflix was that we were getting rid of those. Anyone with a brain knew it was a bad idea for each network/studio/company to want to release their own paid platform and saturate the market but people gotta run first face into a wall first before they learn their lesson. Apple not being as mainstream as Netflix or Hulu has nothing to do with people not trusting it. Audiences just don’t want to pay for yet another subscription when Apple hasn’t really put out anything that appeals to the masses. They’ve suffered from the same problem Prime has which is they’ve gotten a lot of big names on their shows but the shows are either bland as hell or they do a shit job at marketing them. Like...the marketing campaign for Dickinson is disappointing as hell once you watch the show and see the thirty different ways they could’ve pushed this. They’ve been relying on names to get them subscribers and it doesn’t work like that. I love Hailee. Like LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE Hialee and I didn’t watch the show until I literally had to for a work thing because I knew I wasn’t going to pay for ATV+ so then watching it was just going to mean extra steps for me since I had to torrent it. The new streamers are bombing their approach at appealing new audiences and we’re going to see a lot of them go away in the next couple of years because of it. That’s what it comes down to, not some major distrust campaign.

Also like, imagine thinking Apple is any more of a threat to anything than Disney is. Disney is the real poison in the entertainment industry and yet people rushed to subscribe to it???? Your logic does not compute.

[yinx1]

See I liked Wanda from the cartoons and comics bc unlike MCU (Wanda is a badass mutant and being on the Magneto side of X-men she and her sister are my faves growing up). Like you I didn’t like MCU Wanda until Civil War-ish and most definitely Infinity War cause she obviously is her own powerhouse the men on the team didn’t even know. Cause in the comics she actual is able to wear the infinity gauntlet she’s that strong. (Aka men writing women characters they don’t understand).

I don’t really fuck with white celebs, like the bar is high for white men higher for white women. Women is higher cause I’m a woman and with that it should be a common factor but with white women NOPE. Have yet to find a white woman that will go to bat for ppl other than whites, besides Jane Fonda. Like I believe the only white man I have reblogged is Cillian Murphy only cause he isn’t about that celebrity life, he is very active in the liberation of Ireland, and is a homebody. Like he comes out does Peaky Blinders and goes home. And I every role he puts his all into, you can tell he loves what he does. He’s been unproblematic for decades. LOL. Plus his facial structure 😘👌 man can do no wrong in my eyes. His wife is a very Very LUCKY woman (28 Days Later 😜).

My Brain: Yinka, you is mad crushing on this happily married with two kids white man, why 😒

Me: The eyes, jaw line and Tommy Shelby 🥵

ANYHOOO, what was that😅, I usually follow my rules with what I said before I guess I was thinking more new shows with new characters. MCU yes written by whites the characters are established for decades and were apart of my childhood seeing I’m was huge analog TV after school cartoons/6am Saturday morning cartoons child growing up. I didn’t have cable until junior year in high school. Which is why I ignore that rule when it comes to MCU, DCU/TV, like Justice League Zack Snyder is my JL/JLU and animated movies characters. It’s nostalgic for me. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Now with FatWS apparently the same guy that wrote Empire wrote this. And it shows. 😑 I enjoyed Empire all the way up to the finale season though the first two series are better. It’s just that I’m looking at the episode line up of only six episodes and what he has put out in the first two episodes. There is a lot of shit in those first two episodes and this third episode felt like filler that isn’t needed. I also felt that Sam literally and figuratively took the backseat in this episode. (Just in case ya don’t know I watch shows for the black ppl) and other than Sam being a barrier for Sharon not wasting Bucky and Zemos asses what was Sam’s agenda this episode? He wasn’t needed at all and was refused to comic relief (like Finn in TLJ) and this is his show. Like the whole cell phone on loud af vibrate. No Sam isn’t that stupid. Funny but not stupid. It was just OOC Sam just for the sake of plot. I’m hoping that Sam has a full season character arch but it’s been three episodes and we still haven’t had Sam say truly why he didn’t take the shield or dealing with the shield being with captain douchebag and how he is still working for a system that bold faced lied to him about the shield. And every time I think we about to get some where with Sam’s feelings cops roll up or Bucky is being a douch and talking bout the fucking shield again. It’s frustrating. Cause there are only three episodes left and we got all this other shit in the show as well. It’s been three episodes of conflict I need analyzation, reflection, resolve, and acceptance from Sam’s character now. I’m angry cause I might not get it. That it will be a fake out like Smallville Superman. We won’t see Sam truly be Captain America.

Anyhoo when it comes to new shows with new characters hell yes I’m looking at your writers room. I do have POSE in my Netflix queue but it’s been there a while. I will watch it one day. Maybe sooner since our conversation.

Now Chille if you read AND UNDERSTOOD the fuck I said here you deserve a standing ovation

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@yinx1 Sorry. I felt a way about hijacking that person's post that way. I'm bad about that. Idek that person. 😅

There's a lot here, but the points that really stood out to me were about the writers room and the representation. Like, not in this thread, but whenever we were discussing these Marvel shows that they have you felt underwhelmed by the racism notes in Falcon Nem, but tagged that you had enjoyed Wanda's show, which... Eh. Wasn't intestine for me, but I AM curious since you said about projects with certain folk connected to them and whatnot - were there some Black women behind the scenes of that one? Ultimately, I don't care enough about MCU Wanda to watch a whole show about her, but if it's some Black women in the writers room and stuff, I *might give it more attention. I don't like that white lady in the front, so idk. I didn't like her before I even knew about the G slur incident, and in sure it's actual Romani actresses out there they could have given that role to who wouldn't have been so culturally insensitive and heralded as good because she insisted on a costume 🙄.

But also, there are Black people behind the scenes of Falcon Nem too and they are actually, even if watered down, addressing actual cultural and racial situations in the show. Like, sure it's on Disney level, but it's there.

I feel like I'ma go on far too long, but you can ignore me or whatever. I just didn't want it to look like I was like, "Fuck that convo" 🤣

Last thing I plan to say about Ryan vs Julie - hate them both. I think that I can tolerate Ryan more because he's trash, but he thinks he loves and appreciates Black women - in that the white gays way that the white gays do, all the while getting on our Black ass nerves. He writes shitty material for them... But he ALSO handles EVERY subject in a detached and unaware way. He failed at school shooting, bisexuality, trans issues, etc you name it. He's still *sometimes entertaining to me, but I absolutely hate him at the same time. Overall shitty person with issues writing things in a way that's authentic and genuine.

Julie Plec killed or mammified every Black woman that was put on TVD, and in her real life talked to Black female fans like they wasn't shit AND had the audacity to take to Twitter and more specifically speak to a Black woman who had been shot about how she firmly believes that Black women are stronger and meant to save "the rest of us," and for all that Ryan is or ain't, he at least ain't did no shit like that.

I've seen Black women survive in his work. I've seen them have their own shit going on that wasn't snatched away from them. A lot if the typical too, but of stupid shit he's said, I haven't come across any as vile and idiotic as Julie Plec. I literally want her smote, stricken with illness and plague like Job and then dead. Nothing else. She can't have a blink of my time. The ONLY person that she's brought to light that I can think of is Kat Graham.

Hella people didn't know her before TVD. Hella people didn't know numerous Black/queer entertainers that have become known from RM products. Overall, statically, I feel like he's a lesser evil than her. I would watch her choke and die.

If SHE had worked on Pose, I probably wouldn't have watched it no matter who else was involved. I felt like they deserved that chance that they got and there are no shows like it with a Black woman or Black queer as the powerhouse behind it. So, for me, those crumbs and how they will help the generations to come are more valuable than nothing whatsoever. Ultimately, it was a step forward more than a step back, and for everybody who didn't watch it I understand. But, I did see a lot of people who didn't watch it for very woke reasons who will watch white productions, or shows with only one Black character and no queer characters, or shows with a racist lead, or minimal POC in the writers room and/or none behind the production.

That's what I don't understand. If we can dedicate time and energy to predominantly white shows with predominantly white producers, writers, directors, we should be able to dedicate energy to Black shows/queer shows/POC lead shows that do the inverse, even if the big name is a shitty one. And if we aren't willing to do that, or if that's not our biggest concern, then we can just say, "I don't like them and I'm not participating," as I would if Julie Plec had a show with a Black cast.

Like, I'd look like a whole ass lie if I said it's because of the anti-blackness and the fact that there are no Black people in the writers room, because I watch things all the time with that set up, as they're the majority of entertainment. When I saw Pose advertised, first thing I said was, "Naw. Fuck Ryan. I ain't watching that." It was the Black creators and stars that pulled me in and it was them that made it revolutionary. It was Ryan that the network was willing to commit to and sign on for. Girl, if you read all that, I commend you.

If not, I'm sure I'll see yo ass on the dash later. 😂