#also more episodes to screen record for me lol

[wisp-like-whispers]

These korfc contestants are about to be traumatized lol

[aboringredmop]

k still don't know how im gonna post the videos (YouTube? unlisted?someone please help) but I can't sleep so I thought it'd write down whatever I remember happening!

(edit: here's the full recording! )

Becky and Joe walked on stage wearing sunglasses and red leather jackets and threw 3 of the trio plushies into the crowd. didn't get one unfortunately but it's really cool some people got free plushies :)

they made this robot child called the Inspiration Child, who's clearly meant to be a nod to ai (can learn from our show and generate it's own content!)

they explained how they met (and had some dodgy animated retelling), and how they started with small projects like commercials and music videos, until they came up with designs of the trio (and a mysterious fourth fella)

they made the designs first, then made the set, then the song and finally wrote the script for creativity. red guy was just a red mop head with legs at first ("alien squid thing") but Joe put the red guy head on for shits and giggles once and Becky thought it was hilarious so they kept it in the show

they were really not expecting it to blow up, and when Sundance called because they wanted to show creativity Becky thought it was a scam caller lol

they talked about the kickstarter and the credit card fraud kid. the mailed him saying "hey maybe dont do that" but the kid didnt know how to undo it cuz he just found a website full of credit card information and went ham, so Becky and Joe had to contact kickstarter because people were pulling out of the funding because they thought the project was overfunded (kickstarter was very difficult to contact)

they also made (lighthearted) fun of nsfw fluffybird art ((no padlock 😔) "using OUR characters to act out their SICK FANTASIES" - Becky) and theorists, especially because most if not all of the webseries is just them fucking around.

Inspiration Child also says something along the lines of "wow what a cool show with a great message of how corrupt the media is. I hate the media!"

Becky and Joe had these rules to make the show as vague as possible (no pop culture references, no names, no swearing and way too much detail put into small things)(the duck guy drag queen absolutely obliterates the no swearing rule lol)

they talk about the pilot, how they focused too much on the story because they felt like they had to due to it being on the big screen now, and how it ended up ruining the atmosphere and such of the pilot. they did show the entire thing sped up but my phone sucks ass so I could not get it to focus correctly. I'll see what I can salvage so you people can dissect frames of your blorbo you're Legally Not Allowed To See (which is also the official reason we don't get the pilot)

also pilot concept art showed that Mean Steve is in fact just called Key

they showed a whole post-it wall full of ideas for the tv show. don't know how much I got on footage, but what stood out most to me were 2 episodes called Money and Christmas. Joe mentioned "clock in a wheelchair" specifically

also really fun fact. Becky made the Lesley suit during covid, and pretty much threatened Baker into writing a human character into the show to wear it. concept art also shows Lesley with a mask made out of the same fabric, don't know if this was part of the original suit tho

they showed Warrens old models (?). he was gonna be a wayy more ugly looking silicone pug-worm thing y'all got lucky with the bald fuck

lily and todney were directly based off of some cancelled show about two porcelain doll children with panda parents. do not for the life of me remember what it was called but Becky and Joe were very enthousiastic about it (UPDATE: Candy and Andy!)

international release of the show soon!

Inspiration Child talks about what he's learned and sings a little song, then generates his own dhmis inspired content of a cult meeting in a forest at night. the dhmis Discord server called this "potential new content" but I doubt it

3 cultists walk on stage, face the screen backs to the crowd, drop their cloaks and boom! drag queens!!!

they were not mentioned on the site or during earlier parts of the show at all so they were a complete surprise. I asked Becky about it later during the night and she said she really wanted them there, so she asked and they were excited to! hope this means more official content with them soon I love them

they dance to There's Three Of Us, then Duck lipsings the shredder song which turns into a techno remix while Red and Yellow dance during the background

then Duck and Yellow make out while Red tries to undress to the instrumentals of the Fucked Up Part of Creativity but can't get out of his suit on time before the song ends

the drag queens, Becky and Joe and the Inspiration Child walk around during the meet and greet later and I got signatures from all of them! except inspiration child he didn't have thumbs

the drag queens were so fucking funny. Duck adopted inspiration child and loudly yelled at everyone to "GET AWAY FROM MY FUCKING CHILD" (their duck voice is sooo good). yellow stood in a corner staring at a wall for like 10 minutes and red was constantly awkwardly hovering just outside the frames of pictures (and also could not see shit lmao)

Becky liked my shirt! (the one with the melting trio heads) said she handdrew it

I'll post the signatures and some more stuff tomorrow because it is. 5 am

edit Heres the signatures! yellow guys is Italian I think? and means hi I love you :)

(the liyskaen is duck trying to spell my name. they got pretty close)

[superstarzzzzz]

So y’all fw EVEN MORE Mr. Puzzles hcs?

Cause I got some :}

tbh I feel like Puzzles get’s too babied in the fandom. A lot of people forget that he’s kind of an asshole, and takes a long time to warm up to people. However, once he realizes how he feels and is willing to reach out more, things get a lot better.

It’d probably be really awkward more than anything else. He wouldn’t understand relationship stuff and you’d have to explain things to him, which would kill the tension for a bit. However, he makes a huge effort trying to be a good partner.

Puzzles wants a relationship (platonic or romantic) but doesn’t want to be fixed/helped. He likes the attention and having a permanent audience.

If anyone here knows Guilty Gear, you guys would probably be like A.B.A and Paracelsus, where the two of you would get into a relationship out of needing something from the other rather than for genuine interests (Him wanting someone to control and you wanting to fix him (or make him worse)) (Yes, this is a callout post for all of us, me included). It would take a while for the both of you to finally realize that your goals are what is harming the relationship from going further, and it takes a while to overcome that boundary. But once you guys do, it’s much easier to work together.

If your relationship is in the real world, he’d probably get annoyed with you more often than not during the beginning. Nothing that would make him lose it, but enough that he’d need to take a moment to readjust. Picture him dealing with Mario’s antics in the gameshow episode without going crazy, as well as him talking to Boopkins during the Price is Right Segment.

Bottom.

He’ll let you kiss his screen but the moment you aren’t looking he’s wiping that shit off. Not because he doesn’t like it, in fact he loves how much you wanna kiss him and give him attention, but it’s a ocd/texture thing; he can’t handle feeling dirty in any way.

When he blushes, it’s like screen-burn (when a static/unmoving image burns into the screen for long periods of time). If he’s blushed in the past 30 mins, you can still slightly see it up close.

His love languages is gift giving and acts of service. He also loves literally everything except gift because you’d be the greatest gift (plus he’s personally not a material-wealth kinda guy. Leave the gift-giving to him).

Doesn’t have a type/isn’t picky. Anyone who’s willing to give him attention, he’ll love.

He hasn’t genuinely laughed at something in years. He’s seen all the comedy shows and knows all the tropes so much that nothing gets to him anymore. You might make him chuckle or smirk but his goal is to make you smile and laugh. If you do laugh at his jokes, it warms his heart a lot. However, he can tell if a laugh is forced/fake, and will call you out on it if he’s not in a good mood.

Whether you like it or not, you pretty much can’t leave him alone once the two of you are official. If he needs some kind of comfort, he’s latching onto you. If you’re far away, he’ll either make the journey to see you or will call you every ten minutes

Hates modern phones and can’t text for shit. The gloves DO NOT help at all. He’ll just call you if he wants to talk to you, but the two of you are usually together so there’s no need.

Literally just unhindged Fluttercord.

A Two-for-one deal: a partner and a white noise machine lol.

Tastes like battery acid. I will not elaborate further.

His memories are like recordings that he can display on his screen, but he rarely does. If he falls asleep and dreams about memories of you, he might display them like that one scene of Pearl sleeping in Steven Universe.

Loves coordinating and matching outfits, but he’ll literally wear the same thing so he likes it when you coordinate with him, really.

Fr tho he is totally a bottom, but he’s overall more of a switch. If he has control over the situation, he’ll make sure everything goes flawlessly. However, if you make him go off-script and cause him to fumble, you can easily take over.

Now these ones are specifically horror movie/show based from a request last post!

He’s okay with slasher movies, but hates the amount of unnecessary stuff like the swearing and sex. All cheep tactics to the the audience interested.

Hates phycological horror. Respects it, but hates it. Partially because he’s in minor denial of what he puts his actors through (he knows and accepts that’s he’s brainwashing people and controlling them, but he often justifies if for his sake).

Likes watching some horror movies because a lot of actors started with horror and got bigger because of it.

Truthfully, he’s a little traumatized from horror movies after staying up late one night to watch night television and adult shows as a kid. When a horror movie started playing, he forced himself to watch the whole thing and had nightmares about it months after. He overall tries to avoid horror.

If you guys are in a relationship and you wanna watch a horror movie, he’ll be hesitant. As you set it up, he’d also try to switch the movie and distract you, which fails. “Well, I mean, if you insist. Oh- but how about this other movie! It’s excellent, and the bonus features are so interesting!”

If you call him out for it, he’d apologies and admit he’s not a fan of horror. You could totally tease him, saying that “there’s no such thing as monster” and that you’re there to protect him if something goes bump in the night, and he’ll get offended and would watch the movie JUST to prove that he isn’t afraid.

He’d be shaking by the 30 min mark, over-dramatically reacting to everything. This could be for 1 of 2 things:

1. He’s genuinely terrified and the suspense is killing him. He’s curled up on the couch with his manic smile waiting for SOMETHING to happen, but nothing’s happening yet, so why’s THE MUSIC GETTING LOUDER?!?!?! You could scare him with a poke or a loud noise, which would cause him to basically skyrocket to the ceiling in fear, or you could gently take his hand and cuddle with him, which he’d immediately grab onto you and squeeze you the entire movie.

2. The acting is horrible and nothing makes sense. If the fear isn’t good enough to captivate him, he’s sprawled out on the couch and complaining the whole time. It’s almost funny how passionate he is about it, if not for the fact that you just wanna watch a movie. You could shush him, but he’ll just go back to talking in the next 5 minutes.

As for the theatre, you kinda can’t take him regardless of what’s playing, mainly because of his screen. He can’t dim it, and he’s already a beacon of light in dim rooms, so the theatre is a no go. He doesn’t mind, as he obviously prefer television. However, if you’re willing to drive and watch them, he’s fine with drive-in theatres. They remind him of his childhood, and it give him a reason to cuddle with you.

Only major downside of a drive-in is all the bugs sticking to his screen in the night, which he’d freak out about. He’d drench himself with so much bug repellent that he’d stink of chemicals.

Here’s a bunch of relationship hcs! Tried to make them mostly interchangeable between romantic and platonic relationships. I’ll continue to cook up more headcanons but I may or may not be working on a fic of my own, inspired by all the amazing writing I’ve been reading from the fandom. Til then, I’ll continue posting here! Questions/comments/suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks and have a great day!

[hexxbug]

ACT 3!!

I can't believe it's over :((

This is probably more analysis than the other ones I've done lol, spoilers below :o

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AHHHHH so sad, I loved it sm

WE GOT MORE EKKO!!! FINALLY!!!!

THE RECORD BEING JINX AND EKKO INSTEAD OF VI!!

I was joking throughout ep7 and saying oh this is the closest we'll ever get to timebomb when she hugged him, then when they were working on the hextech AND THEN WE ACTUALLY GOT TIMEBOMB???!!!!!!!!

At first I wasn't a massive timebomb shipper, I preferred them platonically icl but it was SOOO FUCKING CUTE and I've been converted! (mostly, I still think they're sweet as a platonic pairing too but either is good) (the au has definitely won me over lol but I personally still think in the main timeline they'd have a different relationship anyway, maybe Ekko has/had a crush on her and in the finale maybe it was mutual but it needed more time to be fleshed out for me to properly ship it, I generally see Jinx as not really in a place to be interested in romance)(grey romantic/demi maybe???)

MA MEILLEURE ENNEMIE?????? THAT SONG HAS BEEN LIVING RENT FREE IN MY HEAD SINCE THEN AND I AM NOT OKAY. ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SPECTACULAR SONG

I think they should've given us a couple extra episodes because him and Heimerdinger, Mel and the whole Jayce Viktor story did not get enough screen time imo, could've done with a bit more interaction idk

Claggor glancing at Mylo being bros!!

HEIMERDINGER STAYED BEHIND!! NOOOOOO. he was such a silly guy I was very sad

ik yordles basically respawn or whatever but still :((((

Cait being like "who decides who gets a second chance" like it wasn't her busting Vi out of jail like 6 months prior

JINX SHE WAS SO BROKEN😭😭😭😭MY POOR LASS

lowkey wish we'd got to see her go absolutely batshit over Isha's death but I get the direction they went in (or just been able to see more of their reaction and recovery from her death in general)(because that shit was glossed over)

Vi being so upset and destroyed about Jinx, saying she shouldn't have done this and then Cait going mf I practically engineered this whole encounter😭😭😭

CAITVI IS A GO!!! I REPEAT CAITVI IS A GO!!!! HHHHHHGHHHHHGGG THEY'RE SO FUCKING CUTE!! I really love how the scene played out

VI'S "Cait I don't FUCKING CARE" just marry her already (ngl not the way I thought that confession would go but I'm glad it was pretty happy)

MEL!!!! I love her character design smmmm it keeps getting better and better🤩🤩🤩she needed more time and practice with her powers though, I think they rushed that a bit.

EKKO MY MAN!!!! HE REALLY WAS THE BOY SAVIOUR!!!!! COMING IN CLUTCH THERE AT THE END

JAYCE. VIKTOR. YOU GAY MFSS LMAO (platonic or romantic they are so in love) I also think they rushed their whole story because both of them were suddenly like "oh yeah besties again✨✨" and I wanted a bit more story there but THEY STARTED IT TOGETHER AND THEY ENDED IT TOGETHER🥲����(they basically saved Piltover with the power of friendship lmfaoooo)(jayce's whole monologue to Viktor was absolutely adorable though)

JINX NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'm not okay💔 I know it's what she wanted, really, but it felt so flat idk I wish she'd lived and come to terms with every (also I love her and she needs to come back so that's probably why I didn't like it too lmaoo)(ik she fell like a hundred stories or whatever and canon divergence is a thing but my girl is a big part in LoL so maybeeeeee????)(I'm once again in denial....)(COPIUMMM)

ALSOOO CAIT WAS LOOKING AT THE BLUEPRINTS FOR THE HEXGATE AND HAD JINX'S BOMB SO I WILL STAY UNDER MY LITTLE DENIAL ROCK THANKYOU VERY MUCH

Honourable mentions:

Heimerdinger being like "you sure it's 4 seconds???" and Ekko just like •_• "mmmhm yep definitely" poor guy was TRAUMATISED😭😭😭it was so funny to me

Also Heimer's bard moment, him just being able to chill for once hahah<3

All the outfits in ep 7, I loved them! ALSO THE DANCE SCENE!! SO SWEET

LEST!! I wanted to see more of her she was so cool!

The blue haired woman who died:(( rip to a queen

And the guy who took over manning the hex gun🫡

Maddie, ngl I wasn't expecting her to betray Cait but it was unsurprising really, I would've loved to see what she'd make of the aftermath and better terms the city's are on but it was also a very dramatic moment for Mel and I liked the twist lol.

FIRELIGHTS(EKKO) FIGHTING TOGETHER WITH JINX!!!! AYYY

Just the whole union of Piltover and Zuan in the fight against Ambessa and the Herald(I wanted more build up for that too tbh but anyway)

VIKTOR GOING THROUGH ALL THE TIMELINES TO FIX IT AND IT BEING JAYCE!!!

The sweet little Cait and Vi scene at the end🥹

My mum who's been subjected to all of S2 and her main comment at the end was "I'm still a bit confused" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[georgevilliers]

Mary & George thots

I watched all 7 episodes this morning starting at 4:30am on about 4 hours of sleep so here are all of my very sleep deprived but professional opinions. Also, I read the book The King's Assassin by Benjamin Woolley so i have Extra Opinions

(spoilers and lengthy thots beneath the cut)

These are not going to be in any specific order because I can not be bothered (see: me being up since 4am on 4 hours of sleep) and as a blanket statement I loved the show!!!!! Most of the things I will say are going to be neutral statements relating to differences I saw between what I read in the book and what was in the show. These are not good or bad things, just observations! I think it's fun and interesting to look at the things they changed to make it more interesting and palatable for a tv viewing audience, and I don't think it changes the quality of the product at all! With that out of the way, let's get on to the content:

we'll start with the things I loved

NICHOLAS GALITZINE. Like. HELLO??? I am very familiar with his work (watched everything he's been in and recorded a podcast about it) and I know he's been criminally undervalued in almost every project he's ever done but this really, really tested his limits and I mean that in a very good way. You can tell this whole project was a test of his abilities as an actor both physically and mentally and he really rose to the challenge in such an impressive way. I'm not really sure if this is ever going to be Emmy/awards fodder (if they meant it to be they released it at a very poor time but thats a different discussion for another time) but I do think this is going to lead to some very interesting places for him. People (important decision making ones) are going to see this and realise what his abilities are and this is a very good thing.

The costumes are so incredible. The details, the colours, the cuts, the CAMP. I'm not a costuming expert so I have no way of knowing how accurate any of the costuming was but damn did it look good.

On that note the CAMP. Oh my god. This really had that je ne sais quoi that makes something camp in the way only queer people can make something camp, so really hats off to everyone involved in the production value.

I should mention all of the actors here, including Julianne Moore and Tony Curran. I am biased, being that I now seem to only exist to consume Nicky G media, but everyone did such a great job.

The script is so complex and rich, I really don't envy the actors having to memorize some of the tongue twisters that were part of the dialogue.

I think they did a really good job of crafting George as a character. As someone who is predisposed to love Nick's face (lol) I really did feel a bit of hatred towards him sometimes. I found him embarrassing, hot headed, full of himself, and pitiable, sometimes all within a few scenes!

Let's talk about some of the big changes I noticed

they really REALLY made up about 95% of Mary's storyline, I would say. This is just going off the King's Assassin, mind you, but from what I learned about Mary from that book is that essentially her only role in the course George's life took was the initial bit: sending him to France to become a learned gentleman, and sending him to London to try to catch the king's attention. If anyone has any recommendations for sources about Mary's life I could read about I would be very interested in it in order to piece together more fact and fiction! In general, I would just assume the vast majority of Mary's storyline did not happen, but it was fun though! One thing that is mentioned in the book is that her and the king did become good friends.

I really missed the use of nicknames from James. I guess it was hard to show most of them on screen as a lot of them appeared in letters they wrote to each other when they were apart, but James often referred to him as "Steenie" referring to St Stephen who apparently "had the face of an angel", amongst numerous other nicknames such as wife, dog, and child etc.

I also really wish they had included this famous speech of King James' to his privy council, because it is burned into my brain I can literally recite it word for word now: "You may be sure that I love the Earl of Buckingham more than anyone else, and more than you who are here assembled. I wish to speak in my own behalf and not to have it thought to be a defect, for Jesus Christ did the same, and therefore I cannot be blamed. Christ had John, and I have George."

I think they sort of removed some of George's abilities in order to make him rely on Mary more to involve her character in the storylines. In reality he made all of his own political decisions, knew how to play the king without help if he needed, and was a competent (if not terrible and easily swayed by bribery and trying to level up his own interests) member of the government

One of my favourite things to learn from the book is that when George took a wife (which, I believe in reality he was all too happy to marry in order to secure his possessions with an heir) she was welcomed by the king with open arms. King James became besties with Katie and he considered her as sort of part of their "family". In general I think they played up the "jealousies" from King James.

While it is alleged that George did kill James, it was not by asphyxiation. According to the book, he was suffering what is now known as malaria and had a violent fit, thought to be brought on by a "medication" George gave him which was provided by a doctor but actually administered by George, which is what ended up finally killing him

In general I wish the end hadn't felt so...rushed? Maybe it only felt that way because I know how it actually plays out and maybe if I rewatch while not trying to think about real life events so much, it might feel less so. But the whole issue with Spain took up such a small amount of time in the show when in real life it was like...a problem spanning multiple years. And I know they obviously can not show all of that within a 7 episode television show, it does seem like maybe they should have left it out altogether if they weren't really going to see it to its full justice?

My other small complaint is that it felt to me in some parts that the love between King James and George wasn't there. Certainly it feels to me like perhaps George did not feel the same level of love towards King James as the king felt for him, but the king certainly felt so much love for George. There were multiple instances outlined in the book in which they were "on the outs" because George started ignoring him in favour of Charles, or for other reasons, and it seemed to really tear at the king and he seemed to often be the one reaching out to George trying to keep his love close, rather than George trying to rein the king back in under his power. At that point, George had all of the power he needed and the king was so passive and loved him so much, he stayed the king's favourite until death, and George had very little to worry about in that regard.

There! That's all I can think of for now, and I think this has gone on quite long enough. I feel I need to rewatch the show and try harder to not think about real life situations and just enjoy the story. The fiction in the series is greater than the fact but I still think it's fun! And I recognise that there is a need to dramatize things greatly because the way things really played out in reality would not make good television at all. I hope no real history scholars find this post, and if you do please be gentle with me! I am not really an expert, just a history fan (even though I do find myself wanting to quit my job and become a George Villiers scholar).

If you read all of this you really deserve a medal, and you have all my thanks!

[timeslipcamp]

thoughts on episode 2

sho was the first boy i picked when i started playing so i was so stoked to get to his chapter. this is also the episode where i had to cover the screen while i was reading because the anomaly scared the shit out of me lmao

let's go!

spoilers through episode 2

seriously though that tulpa is fuckin scary

i do love sho and leo's dynamic lol they're so different to the frostheim ghouls. i would love an origin story on them someday and how they made their pacts and when they started running scams. i do respect leo's hustle about trying to dig into why everyone made their pacts because i ALSO would be nosey as hell about that. that being said this is still my fav comment ive seen in the game

i LOVE that initial contact we get between jin and alan. jin's polite at first and even apologizes while alan stays distant, and i can totally see this whole awkward vibe where like, there's this begrudging respect between two powerful ghouls but there's just enough history that makes them weird with each other. tohma left alan for jin's house and maybe that's why jin was polite (because as we see later in the scene he doesn't necessarily care) but alan's still kind of cold and UGH i could do a whole post on jin/tohma/alan and their dynamic its so SPICY

i neeeeeed more info on the clash. what was jin doing that he saw the repercussions of other houses? was he an observer in whatever resulted in the other houses going defunct? did he witness whatever fight happened in clementia? was he at the sidelines? given that his next comment was about alan's fists being for "taking lives" i almost want to say he witnessed dante dying, or heard about it in detail. i need to know what happened last year so bad.

"girl receives devastating news" yeah we have to hang out with leo

apologies to all leo stans i don't actually hate him lmao it's just too easy to make fun of him. he is a really interesting character and i do like what he adds but god does he remind me of this one kid i used to coach

"for strangers? compassion's not a one way street." ALAN I LOVE YOU god this dude is so good. sooooo so so good. i love him so much. give me a good ol worthy complex any day of the week. and he wears it so well

leo asked someone to unseal the juvie records of alan, is it a contact he had previous to coming to darkwick?

i forgot we got alan tohma this early!!! the rendezvous..........so alluring, so mysterious. this is actually the first mention of the traitor i believe, when tohma mentions they're closing in on the spy. i didn't think we heard about it until taiga brought it up. interesting, thanks tohma

i do also like that the vagastrom students of all people say "sketchy priest" lmao like okay pot calling the kettle black there. they have to be referring to haku, right? what other priest is there lmao

me when my theories are proved right

god i fucking hate this thing hahahaha just looking at it makes me crack up. i messed up a voicemail at work by laughing at this thing. anyways towa intro!! love that freak

oh alan said he became a ghoul by coincidence. interesting. does he mean it's a coincidence that he survived or a coincidence that the opportunity arose in the first place?

god i can't stop laughing at that fucking dog

honestly i don't think i can state just how much i love alan. like the grandpa thing is definitely a little overdone sometimes but he's so funny. alan you can do no wrong

"From this year, all captains and vice captains are ghouls." thanks hyde, that's interesting, so they could have been gen students in years past

also personal biases aside, i think it's really interesting that leo was chosen as vice captain. i'm sure hyde had a hand in it so that way sho was still free to go on his lil errands for him. leo however is EXCEPTIONALLY nosey and i'm sure that's going to serve him well as vc

also it's still so crazy to me that sho's stigma didn't work correctly when we held his hand. hear me out for a second, i have a crazy theory i've been working on. i'm kind of wondering if sho isn't fully a demon and somehow got roped in with leo's pact and that's how he became a ghoul. granted i haven't read all their affinity lines and i have like zero evidence for this except for how him and leo seem like a package deal, but something about their constant deals doesn't sit right with me. idk. theory is still in the oven, i have a post i'm working on as i do these rereads.

or maybe it's just that since his stigma is "jamming" which hasn't been fully expanded on, it jammed things so hard that it even jammed himself? idk still working on that

this is the first point i started wondering about what i had mentioned in my post about hera's snakes--a few of the ghouls have made comments like this, and while i don't think mc might be like, the cure or whatever, i think either the ring can help fully complete whatever partial thing the ghouls have gone through that still ails them, or maybe even her curse cancels out some of the ghouls' transformation, if it can be considered a curse. idk. no that doesn't feel right. the pentacle is a common wiccan symbol for balance of the elements, especially when surrounded in a circle like that, so i think it just "completes" something within them and unlocks their full abilities

also first look at the tree!! towa and that tree are so so fascinating, i can't wait to get to the part in my reread where we have that first convo with him about it

all in all episode 2 is shorter than the first but just as good. vagastrom has such a different vibe from frostheim and it's so cool to see how it played out. vagastrom is so fun they're definitely one of my favorite houses

see you all for my episode three reread!! workplace enemies here we come!!!

[daryl-and-carol-oh-my]

Where are you at in your giffing project? What's your process I'm so curious! I love seeing your daily gifsets, it makes me smile and I hope you're feeling better! 🫂

Hello, Anon!! Sorry it took me a few weeks to get this ask! My life is crazy, crazy insane right now xD Thank you so much for telling me my gifsets make you smile, that makes me feel really good!! <3333333333333 I'm gonna give an update and try to explain my process under a cut so no one has to read my ramblings unless they want to xD

As a lot of my Caryl friends know, my aunt Dawn had a stroke in January and passed away. She was the heartbeat of my household and my mom took it very hard. My mom's lost all her siblings now and she's slowly working through that grief process </3

The house we live in was under a contract with my Aunt so the last few months my family got together and decided to buy it from the landlord, who was very close with my aunt, and settled on a pretty reasonable price. We all did a deep, deep dive into cleaning the place up and getting those arrangements. It's just me and mom now, it's very quiet lol. But we are doing okay and things seem to be falling into place and going well. <333

I am a little behind now in my season 5 giffing xD I had to pause in all of my projects and resort to screen recording Mad Men, which is my next big project for my @my-ladies-noble gif blog. I also finished screen recording The Crowded Room for the same blog. So I have big plans for making a crap load of Christina Hendricks gifs and more Amanda Seyfried gifs. And the Age of Consent for more Helen Mirren goodness, which is the Muse I am in currently, writing wise. I also have The Beast Must Die all recorded up for my @foreign-bodies gif blog to feed my Jared Harris obsession. xD Gonna finish getting the queue for that filled with Meet Joe Black gifs. I always kinda slow down on the queue if I don't have the next project ready to go or I think I might run out of material xD

I picked up season 5 last night. I am in the middle of editing CODA and once I get that finished, I will load that queue up with No Sanctuary gifs. I'm super stoked to get to Consumed. A lot of darker gifs but I got every single second pretty much and I'm excited to get those out to the masses!!! :D I wanted to be way ahead of editing than I am. I didn't want to have a huge gap between seasons but that's life, I suppose xD

Once I get back into the groove I can usually juggle all the projects at once so nothing runs out, my process is pure insomniac chaos xD I like to have about 9 or ten episodes of TWD ready to go before I start on anything else. This blog is my biggest priority. I love making gifs for all the characters and it's the one thing other than writing that gives me pure joy and life.

Thank for your curiosity, Anon!! I'll be posting regularly scheduled gifsets very very soon again!!! Have a happy weekend, stay well, and safe!! <3333333333333333333

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA for hiding my identity?

By the time this gets posted, the event will already be over, but I think this'll be entertaining enough for the tumble.

Okay, context, I work in a music producing studio with a LOT of very extroverted/ambitious young people. I'm also a young adult in my mid 20's, but I've been working at this studio since I was an intern in my teens. However, because of my close age to our newer hires, it's easy to assume that I work in the same positions as them instead of being their manager/superior.

Recently, our senior staff decided that they wanted to train and promote a new manager. However, this specific job will have a lot of responsibilities. I'm currently the only person in this studio who does this job and I'm so excited to have someone to help me with managing so many different things including but not limited to: organizing physical records, managing customer relations, using different computer programs for various tasks, etc. The pay makes it worth it, but my stress could use some help lol

Unfortunately, our senior staff is referred to by a literal title. Majority of my bosses can't use the programs I use and they don't want to learn. More often than not, I'm the one training THEM. I love my bosses, though, I've spent more time with them than my own family, but that's a tangent for another day. SO, the problem! They can't train the new promotion, they don't know who to pick for the new promotion, and only few people actually can.

My immediate supervisor (the only other person at our location who can do my job) proposed a joke solution. She said that she could take over my duties while I go through the training process with a handful of candidates and select who I think would be best for the job. She said she got the idea from a webtoon she read and I started laughing. To this day, she still won't tell me which one it is, so I'm gonna assume it's some yaoi.

A couple days went by and I realized that it would be a really funny idea to do, and that even if we don't promote the whole group, they'd still be trained in case me and/or the person I do select leaves the job. I went back to my supervisor, she reminded me that it was a joke suggestion, but that she also hadn't thought of anything else. So, we've screened five candidates and I've inserted myself discreetly into this group, making it six. Next week, we begin the training. I'm gonna purposefully be mediocre and middle-of-the-herd like Saiki K. and observe from the inside.

But I know that this is lying to my coworkers and manipulative. Honestly, it looks like my life is turning into an episode of Undercover Boss. So, tumblr, Would I Be The Asshole for lying about my identity?

What are these acronyms?

[chxrrywines]

random spn ask: a character you love that a lot of people seem to dislike? (aside from sam we already know that lol)

hi hi sweetheart ty for the ask!!

i’ve seen a lot of jess hate recently so my first instinct is to say jess LMAO i just adored her SO MUCH i really wish she had more screen time :( though saying that one of my favourite tropes ever is the dead character that haunts the narrative and jess literally haunts sam throughout the entire show her dying is what set off the rest of the show i just honestly think she’s one of the most important characters in the show if not THE most important (aside from thing 1 2 & 3) in terms of how much the story is affected

i also really really really loved kelly i thought she was such an underrated character but she also has such a huge impact on the story. the way she just wants jack to be born and be happy and taken care of is just :( the scene where she records that video for jack kicks me in the feels every single time and don’t get me started about the episode where they reunite in heaven

something to be said about the way generally disliked spn characters are often women ahem

[deliciouskeys]

Hot takes, roughly in order of how much I care…

Homelander and Ryan

I liked the what felt like 2 minutes of Ryan and Homelander that we got in this episode. I know where they’re going with this, but I expected so much worse from the slapping scene that was mentioned in spoilers. Is the Boys writers’ room going on record that corporal punishment may not be justified in the face of sexual harassment? Because I think that’s a controversial stance, especially if there’s a clear work power dynamic at play lol. Anyway, I’m glad they chose this gray scenario, because it’s really hard to be sympathetic with a guy like Adam.

When Homelander says “that’s… amazing”, I think that’s being interpreted as incredulous and dismissive in online circles. I think he’s genuinely surprised that’s what first comes to mind to his son, but I don’t think he’s disdainful per se. In Homelander’s mind “saving people” is very much synonymous with “putting wrongdoers in their place”. And since he sees society (‘in America’) as wrong, his grand plan of supes becoming more of a despotic pantheon over the normies isn’t necessarily in contradiction with Ryan’s desire to ‘save people.’ TL;DR I don’t think HL is dismissing Ryan’s aspirations out of hand.

(Hearkening back to “You people should be thanking christ that I am who I am, because you need me. You need me to save you, you do. I am the only one who possibly can.”)

ETA: ok I need to clarify this part since what I wrote here sounds like HL and Ryan are going to get along great and that’s not what I meant to convey. I cannot field all the DMs! This is a hot take! I just meant that I didn’t expect HL to realize he might not know what Ryan wants because he’s been fucked by Vought. My expectations bar is perpetually low, please keep this in mind. I also despise the oversaturation of portrayals of bratty kids in media so please know that’s just my personal aesthetic bias.

Other Vought peeps

I wish Sage got more screen time. I appreciated ATrain’s taking initiative to escape notice. I do wonder what Ashley would have done if Cameron Coleman hadn’t just broken up with her.

I’m glad Stan Edgar gets to say Homelander is a “Freudian cesspool of random impulse and deep insecurity” right on the heels of e4. “Glad” lol.

Virus farm section

I’m getting a little tired of characters saying “we’re at an impasse” when… they’re clearly not at any real impasse. Victoria could have exploded the Boys’ heads and brought in other redshirts to help find Sameer if she really wanted to. And she paid the price for not doing that. Is the implication that she is afraid of Annie and Kimiko?

As for the virus… well. I’m strangely fine with what Billy is doing. If this virus isn’t even that contagious supe-to-supe, then his plan to keep trying to kill HL with it makes a lot of sense. As for Sameer? Well, if they hadn’t wasted the “last dose” (see below for why that’s stupid) of the virus on sheep, and Victoria didn’t just shrug and say ‘guess that’s that’, and also let the Boys live in the first place, Sameer would still have his leg.

I did cringe when the sheep was vomiting its guts out and Victoria, Kimiko, and Annie were all within Ebola-body-fluid-droplet range of it. Because this thing does sound more contagious than HIV, at least.

If Billy Butcher really needed some more virus I hope he grabbed the carnivorous sheep carcasses. Presumably there’s a gallon of replicated virus right there. Not only does it kill supes, it’s also a virus that replicates orders of magnitude faster than any living thing on earth lol. There are many things that are funny about how they’re researching this virus. Not a single biohazard tissue culture hood in sight. No cell based assays. AAAAANYWAY, it really doesn’t matter. Big fast compound V targeting(?) virus doesn’t need logic.

Overall just not a fan of big loud sequences with ultimately low stakes, so the flying sheep were a lot less fun to me than the e2 fight scene action.

What I think isn’t working

This is minor but after Gen V, I cringe at Sam’s acting. Just that one line they gave him sounded bad to me, and I know it’s probably just PTSD from how much I disliked the end of Gen V but there it is. I’m sorry to those of you who like him, this is clearly personal opinion. Cate is fine, she can stay.

Hughie’s storyline… I don’t even know what to say. Nothing about his parents’ shitty behavior was resolved. And then Hughie was forced to say his dad is his hero to save his mom’s life. And also be the one to euthanize him. What a weird, weird arc.

I’m saying absolutely nothing about Frenchie’s storyline because it is even more inexplicable. @kosmochlor covered it all.

[blush-and-books]

oh also! you’re a film major right?.. what did you think about the direction on the show?? and what do you think abotu the fact so much of donna and harvey is Hidden from the audience like we never see what the can opener thing is and when they spend the night in s3 we never actually see them kiss like he leans in and the door closes in front of the camera

HAHA!! yes i am a film major with an actual degree now lol. but let's all take my thoughts with a grain of salt.

i don't have any grand thoughts on how the show is directed, because it's always felt pretty basic to me lol!! the shots are very simple, the composition never goes too crazy (but sometimes i will say they do kinda eat some shots however overall it's incredibly one-toned), and tbh that's very typical of a show like Suits bc it's somewhere in between "network procedural" and "adventurous legal drama."

the fact that so much of donna and harvey is hidden from us is likely a combination of deliberate action, and whatever the fuck is going on in that writers room. The can opener thing reminds me a little of the character Maris Crane from Frasier - if you're unfamiliar, she's the wife of one of the main characters but she's never EVER shown on screen and we never hear her voice, she's just talked about in increasingly alarming descriptions (multiple facelifts, fragile and little body, etc). All of this is to say that the can opener thing suddenly becomes a bit where the writers are probably like "it would be funny if we reference it and build on it but we never have to decide what it actually is, so that we can escalate it as much as we want." first it's the can opener, then there's thumbtacks involved, and then there's supposedly a record amount (two dozen? three dozen?).

the choice to never show us their real first kiss in the other time is definitely absolutely deliberate. at this point in the series, i don't think it was locked in for donna and harvey to be endgame, so there was a lot of room to toy with the audience. they build us up with their flirting and talking about hooking up but they're going to deny us the satisfaction and leave us wondering - where does this really go? and do we really want to see them kiss for the first time in a flashback?? that's a big moment even if it's a past event, so they wouldn't want to just dump it on us in a way that's less meaningful than how it could happen in the present timeline.

id love to hear more things you think were hidden from the viewers!!!

small other bit of cinematic analysis: something that has started to irk me in my rewatchings of various episodes and getting stills for the edits i've been making is the series lack of solid two-shots between donna and harvey. so many of their interactions are just filmed in a shot-reverse-shot (back and forth between shots of each character over the shoulder of the other character as one of them speaks) and there is like SO MUCH INTIMACY that can be made just by putting them in a frame TOGETHER. and it's not that they never do this, there's some great examples, but I've found there's scenes between them that just could have benefitted from having both of them in the frame and not just cutting back and forth. if you'd like more explanation on this i will get stills from other series as well and demonstrate but it's a very little nitpicky thing honestly

thank you for this ask!!! send more when the mood strikes 🥰🥰🥰

[portuguesedisaster]

So, I don't usually do these because I tend to believe that there's always someone who enjoys a piece of media even if I did not and I hate to run on people's parades but like...I think this one deserves it. REALITY WAR (in no particular order)

What I liked

Thirteenth's appearance - of all the cameos, i did not mind this one. I'm all for more Jodie on screen and I just really love her character. Was it necessary? Nope, it was not but I vibe with it

Ruby- ok ok ok I think this one might be unpopular because people don't like Ruby maybe? Idk I really like her, specifically within the blond young woman stereotype? Particularly, she reminds me of Lucie Miller from the BF EDA's, which I'm still not sure if it is on purpose. BFF in space is one of my favourite tropes that DW does as companions so it ticks my brain.

Anita - I thought her joke on working in hospitality is funny.

Looms - they cannonized the looms did they not...well hope that part of the fandom is vibing ( will get there lol)

What I don't like

The ending - I hate the idea of a companion actor playing the Doctor so...uh. also Rose is one of my least favourite companions DW ever had. Not for me.

Belinda - hate this character arc. Idk what is going on behind the scenes or what people were thinking but WHY did we stuck Bel in a box through the entire climax? And WHY do we leave her as a mother to a toddler, when she never wanted this before? And WHY did we rewrite the entire season context so as to make that happen? Weird women always want to have kids message (also idk if it's me, it also gave me pro life vibes that i did not particularly care for)

Omega - RTD WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY BUCKET MAN? I love Omega. The Three Doctors is one of my favourite episodes of all time, not just because of One, Two and Three ( 💛) but also because I love Omega's story. Yes give me someone who went beyond everything that was ever known and was left there to die, while society moved on. Yes, give me the Time Lords being completely useless and having to use the Doctor and fucking their pride (also that story is solved with recorder action, bless)

Characters as a whole - WHY ARE THEY HERE? Rose, Shirley, Mel (even though her angry conversation with the Rani was an interesting choice), Kate, etc. they are just there to remember that they probably should be there because they work on UNIT

Rani - her character is a mess originally and I kinda hate that no one did anything with it. Yes.

Conrad - Why did this guy get an actual happy ending? Someone let Ruby kick his ass please.

Regeneration - I want more of Ncuti. Poor guy got stuck between DT IS BACK and BP IS BACK (great, one my least favourite doctor-companion pairings). BF get on it!

Just context - the first part of this season until Story and the Engine (my favourite fifteenth story guys) is pretty good. Why did this ending completely fucked up that??

[mortalscience]

5, 6 and 16 for the ask meme

5. Favorite season?

This is gonna be a real basic bitch answer but it's season 12, because I'm too Garvez-obsessed to let anything else take number one priority in my brain. That was the Golden Season for them imho, it's the whole journey of them going from frenemies to friends, and that relationship between them really carried me through that entire season. They've got lots of great moments in later seasons too obviously, but season 12 is just fun. Also I don't hate the Spencer-in-prison storyline. Like, I think it did drag on a little too long, but it was something different, and it gave all the other characters a lot of stuff to be angsty about, and I love that. If you force me to take Garvez out of the equation I'm gonna be totally wild and say the Evolution seasons and yes it's two seasons but they're each so short and interconnected that I'm going to count them together. Because I am a cheater, lol.

6. Least favorite season?

HOT TAKE coming in for a landing: Season 1.

I straight up found the show difficult to watch in season 1. The show was very very focused on the stories/unsubs. And it's not that the episodes being focused more on the stories vs characters was a bad thing per se, but I wasn't impressed by the stories they were telling, lol. I had just come fresh off a rewatch of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and to be blisteringly honest, the writing on that show in terms of the crimes and criminals was so fucking good that it kind of blows every other crime show out of the water (if we're talking solely about the stories).

So the story writing itself was not impressing me, and I desperately looked to the characters to find something to latch on to and get me through - and the character moments were few and far between, and what there was, I didn't like.

I didn't like Gideon. I didn't like Morgan. I didn't like Elle. I didn't like JJ. I barely liked Penelope and Hotch. I was, frankly, neutral on Spencer.

It was ROUGH for me in that first season. It was sheer willpower that got me through it, because I just knew in my bones I would like it later (and also, as I've mentioned before, I wanted to wait for Paget Brewster to show up!!), and immediately the show started getting better for me in season 2.

But yeah, that first season was.. phew. I think it's the only season where I haven't rewatched a single episode from it yet, except for the pilot. I rewatched the pilot with commentary after finishing the finale, and I was like yeah, I do not like this any better.

Also the first season is so male-focused with the characters, which never impresses me, so there is just barely anything for me to like in season 1. D:

HOT TAKE OVER

16. Hottest character?

I meannnn it's Luke. I'm definitely the most attracted to him than of anybody else. The face card is undeniable, and his personality backs it up. He's so sweet and loyal and dedicated, and I love sunshine men, so it all comes together for the perfect combo of hotness.

Also, I'm slightly biased, because when he walked onto the screen there was a record scratch in my mind and I was like IS THAT FUCKING JESSE RAMIREZ FROM ROSWELL? And yes, yes it WAS. I did not know he was on the show and I mean Roswell was not a show I had thought about in at least a decade, so it was a real surprise.

Not a teenage crush walking back into my television life and looking even hotter as a full grown man??? Anyway I was doomed to be in love with Luke Alvez. <3

Got damn just look at him. 🥵 🥵🥵

[butchdiaz]

hiiiii your edits are so incredible!!! i've been thinking about trying my hand at video editing do you have any tips?? also how does one source clips lol

hope you're having a good day :)

hi!!!! thank u so much! for sourcing clips, i did it the hard way by downloading full episodes and screen recording the clips i wanted w quicktime which is a lengthy process that takes up a lot of space on ur laptop LOL but i really wanted HD footage and didnt know any other way when i started and now i just have my own little library of clips.

here is a lifesaving site to download eps if u dont wanna/cant torrent. i forget who made it but if someone knows lmk so i can credit!

after i had done all that i discovered that there were these magical things called scene packs that are more popular over on twitter. where u can easily download every buddie scene in s2-4 for example that took me hours to record myself 🤦🏽‍♂️ i dont really have any specific sources for u bc im not on twitter. sorry ik thats not very helpful LMAO but if u ask around/search for them i know they are out there!

and uhhh as far as tips go here are some things i personally think about while editing! everyone has different styles and methods though:) this got long accidentally so its going under the cut oops

- i like to try and tell a story w my edits so im almost always thinking about that first and foremost. like how can i tie the beginning to the end and have a satisfying climax etc. i try to work with the song and highlight the emotional/tonal shifts in the music with my editing

- on that note, i am very influenced by the music while im editing cause i want my edits to LOOK like how it FEELS when im listening to the song. i think my best example of this is im afraid i love you. the drop in the chorus feels like a punch to the gut everytime and i really wanted to visuals to reflect that so it would be the most powerful. hence: soft lovey dovey looks galore and then BAM! SHOOTING. these comments fills my heart with glee cause it makes me feel like i did a good job capturing the feeling the song gives me.

i also really love the way the beat comes in in the second verse of that song and i made sure to sync up the shots to the beat at that moment instead of the words in order to highlight the musical shift. (i always think about how @ilostyou loves that verse and calls it bouncy, it makes me feel like i achieved my goal!!!!)

- the little details and nitpicky stuff goes a long way! like painstakingly making sure clips hit right on time with the beat/the words if thats ur intention. it may seem like a chore at the time but it definitely pays off for me at least

- i also think a LOT about composition, and how to make edits flow smoothly so that the viewer can follow the story easily. if i have a bunch of faster clips in a row im going to try to make sure the focus stays in the same place so the viewers eyes dont have to jump around to find what they are looking for. its easier to explain w an example so in happy to be here, for these three shots on the word "en-gi-neer" i wanted the order to go frank -> dr salazar -> buck.

because then it goes back to frank for "listening" so i wanted space between when it shows him AND i wanted it to end on buck cause he's the most important. but the original shot of dr. salazar was flipped so at first it looked like this:

and i didn't like how ur eyes had to go back and forth so fast, so i flipped the middle clip. it was much easier to process all three clips in quick succession if the subject didn't move. hope that makes sense!

[alltid-og-for-evig]

Previously on: Making my sister watch Tvd and tO

(I was doing this on Twitter but I hate it there lol)

(Some misc thoughts before I started recording her journey:

In a tragic turn of events my sister does not, so far, like the Originals, which is both totally fine and the worst thing to ever happen 😔

My sister is NOT buying the Klamille romance at this point and I'm SO curious if she'll ever change her mind

She says they were kind of cute and building to something but then she became his therapist and now she doesn't get it at all. Mostly she doesn't get why Cami is even here right now.

She's still firmly with Klaroline. No one in tO has caught her eye for a love interest with Klaus - though she can understand klayley in concept, she just doesn't think Klaus cares about her rn (which is valid, they have *very* few scenes in s1)

We've had a long chat about it and my sister has concluded that Cami should have been a witch (or some other supernatural creature but we settled on witch)

My sister has pointed out that Jackson sounds kind of like Dean 90% of the time he speaks and now I can't unhear it or stop laughing every time he talks 😂

In a shocking turn of events, my sister is in love with Klaus/Genevieve

Her main thing is that there's too big of a power imbalance with him and Cami, but Genevieve is a witch that can stand up to him and put him in his place. (Its also why she's alright with klayley in concept, they just haven't had any real bonding moments yet)

My sister brought up a good point tonight watching the s1 Originals finale, which is - was Hayley sired to Hope? If not, is it because she wasn't grateful for being "freed" from turning, or something else? WAS she sired and just broke the bond off screen?

My sister trying to remember what happened in what she watched of tO: "oh yeah, and he's got Elijah, who we care about, I guess."

In tvd news, after listening to me rave about steroline for four seasons straight, my sister finally, in season five, "sees the ship", but she's still pretty convinced the writers won't actually go there 😆)

Tvd s6

She hates Alaric being brought back to life solely because Damon wasn't, which means she's already primed to get on the Alaric hate train 😈

She hates everyone so far bc they've all given up on finding Damon (he's her favorite character). I'm JAZZED for her to find out Enzo's been working all summer to find out what happened to him (& yells at Stefan for giving up). I can convince her of denzo supremacy I KNOW it 😌

[I believe her exact words recently were "you need to be more like Enzo to deserve Damon" (which I said, "you need to BE Enzo to deserve Damon")]

Enzo and Caroline are now her favorite people, as they're the only ones who care about finding Damon and Bonnie

"Why won't they just let this happen??" - my sister about steroline rn

"Hopefully Bonnie comes back this episode" oh, my sweet hopeful sister, she won't come back for EIGHT FUCKING MORE EPISODES 😭😫😡😭

Seems like she's *really* off the delena train, and she's now fully down for Damon and Bonnie, which is a twist I didn't see coming 😳

"Can we just forget about Elena?" Oh she's gonna be THRILLED at how this season ends 😂

She really hates this cancer storyline because she says it makes no sense and you know what? She's right

Forgot to say she was really disappointed they didn't do a whole episode dedicated to Kai and Luke fighting in some mental plane while they merged, which yeah, and its gonna be even MORE disappointing when they don't do that for Josie and Lizzie either 😭

She's thinking about which tvd/to characters could have kids on Legacies and I wonder if she'll be disappointed to find out there's only three "legacy" characters 🤔 (She says if they don't have a Bonnie descendent on Legacies what are they even doing?)

"Its okay, Enzo will take care of his new momma." Oh its SO hard not to make a comment about the future "romance" with him and her..... 😆

She's chill with Elena being in a coma but she thinks the obvious solution would be to make Bonnie a vamp, she dies, then drinks the cure out of Elena

Since "forced pregnancy vampire Caroline" isn't something anyone would naturally think, my sister is SO confused who the siblings she's heard me talk about in Legacies are because she was *convinced* they had to be Jo and Ric's kids 😂

TO s2

I appreciate my sister's dedication to calling Oliver and Jackson, Sam and Dean 😆

She's reached acceptance with Cami, as she's reasoned her and Klaus can have their moment cause one day she'll die, but Hayley's immortal now so he can be "true" endgame with her post canon 😌

Hilarious that my sister just hates the OG actor for Kol. Like apropos of nothing she thinks even that guy's face is annoying. She massively prefers the new guy 😆

She's still not a Klamille fan and at this point, I don't think she ever will be 😔 Ah well, I can get her on the klayley endgame train I'm sure 😌

Tvd s7

She is instantly against Caroline and Ric being engaged. She's right in this.

Her fave is Damon -> says Damon and Klaus are the same -> Lizzie is (more toned down) similar to both of them. . .this is how we get her fave character being Lizzie 👀🕯

[raptorsgust]

hello! so i was lucky enough to snag a ticket to the tgcf donghua s2 fan screening right here in singapore, so here's a short report on the happenings! under the read more as there will be spoilers including those from the novel

arrived at around 1:20pm and it already looked like a full house! lots of people queueing at the photobooths and stuff, LOTS of cosplayers, mainly hualian and beefleaf. after a while i asked an usher about the merch booth but it was already closed due to the long queue, so i just went to find my seat which was near the back (in front of a bunch of cosplayers haha)

the hall had at least eight screens but none were positioned in a way where i didn't have to turn/crane my neck lol i can still feel the strain

the screening itself started at about 10 minutes past 2pm! we first had some voice actor greetings first, both of shi qingxuan's voice actors seemed to have received the loudest cheers from my pov! all of them ended their greeting with 天官赐福，百无禁忌

there was also a quick announcement of another tgcf collab cafe in 2024! sg just keeps winning and winning

after that we finally started the screening with a recap of s1 starting from the cart scene all through the banyue arc. xie lian's lines were all newly voiced by his new voice actor deng youxi, and he sounded alright to me! (note: not 100% sure that he did replace jgt's voicing but that's what i remember, correct me if im wrong!)

more than an hour of s1 later, we smoothly transitioned into the first episode of s2, and the following are some highlights and points:

s2 is still based on the unrevised novel as far as i can tell

everyone loves shi qingxuan!!

ghost city is very extravagant and fun! lots of quirky ghosts, there's joss paper flying around everywhere

xl's 不举 was omitted even though it's already rated m18 lol

the part where hc teaches xl to shake the dice has a lot of hand touching and cute reactions from the ghosts and sqx and lqq

a LOT of teasing leading up to the reveal of hc's true form, they'd show part of his face, his hand, his boots, and when he stepped out from behind the curtain and xl laid eyes on him for the first time there were shoujo bubbles

also A LOT OF SCREAMING FROM THE AUDIENCE tbh it was already loud enough throughout the gambling scene it was just hilarious

frankly i couldn't see hc clearly cuz, bad seat, but we all know how he looks like anyway

idk if it's just mE but the audio of the entire screening had its pitch raised, all the songs were a key higher, everyone sounded higher-pitched...... to ward people from secretly recording it?

feels bad for fulgur cuz it feels like most of the audience didn't care about him? half of them left their seats for the photobooths during his q&a segment

quiz time was interesting......

for "what is hc's weapon?" the host accepted the answer E-Ming, as in the person who answered said cAPITAL LETTER OF THE ALPHABET E which i would personally not accept as correct but o wells

the last question was "what did hc give to xl at the end of s1?" and the lucky person who answered very precisely said "his ashes in the form of a ring" and the host went aRe YoU sUrE and tried to make us recall an oBjEcT and i think we were all second-guessing ourselves there lmao please get a host who did their homework next time

pretty sure that was a huge spoiler for donghua-only fans tho HAHA

after the event was over i hung around texting friends and then tried to see if the merch booth was available but all the nice merch was sold out, and frankly just thinking of trying the queues at the photobooths was mentally draining so i just left haha

overall it was a great experience! watching and reacting together with so many other fans is truly a rare experience and despite going solo i had fun!

excellent door gifts too, the acrylic stand is of great quality and is now set up and sitting on my mxtx shelf~