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[raguonmynieceandnephew]

THEY DIDN'T FISH HIM OUT. HE WAS SUMMONED. NAH BITCH, WHAT YALL NOT GONNA DO IS MESS WITH MY MAN.

[bloomingundertheshadows]

About to put a pretty controversial take about this season on here. Be warned.

I think people are giving producers way too much crap about creating drama this season. On some level, yes, adding the secret date cards and having SM choose the rooms are keep it a secret are them intentionally injecting chaos into the house. I even made a post last week about how producers are wayyyy more active and chaos creating, which I stand by, but I don't think it's somehow ruining the season.

I don't think the date cards or even them keeping the room choices a secret are meddling too much or ruining the contestants' abilities to form relationships. I think there might be something to be said about editing focusing too much on the times contestants are asking 'do you like me' etc, but people are acting like production is actually ruining the season.

And what I'm basically trying to say is what I touched on in my last His Man 3 post - the contestants choices in how they react to a given situation ( i.e SM refusing to just tell Hwi he wants to date) is equally or even more so responsible for the chaos that is unfolding.

I think that if all this stuff happened last season, it would not have been that big of a deal. JS was in a similar position to Hwi, but he was just way more relaxed and unbothered about SH going on other dates. Last seasons cast was just a lot better at not showing external stress and were frankly a lot less anxious. This season they're just much more...fiery I guess is the word? High energy is how I feel watching them.

If anyone is watching The Ampliverse recaps (which you should, they're the highlight of my week), they talked about how there's not anyone right now who has chemistry the was JS&SH or HJ&MS did. That may be a casting issue or it may just be because we're only at episode 6 (didn't get our best dates on His Man 2 until Day 4). And that is 100% playing into what is happening right now where no one is really sure they want to just commit to one person.

Last season, I also think the contestants had the advantage of going on dates they weren't as excited about first. SH went on a date with HJ and SW before JS and MS went on two dates with JS. Tbh, I think that if SH went on a date with JS first, last season would have been hella more stressful than the cozy little season it ended up being.

I would even make the argument that a secret extra date card would have made MS's life so much better because he would have gone on a date with both HJin and HJoon and the totally chaos at the end wouldn't have happened.

Contestants last season were just more decisive in what they wanted. Only like 1-3 people were interested in exploring multiple men. And I think that's just how the cookie crumbles sometimes when you cast. There's only 8 people, so maybe sometimes they just fall into place like last season. Or maybe it's less clear like this season.

I'm not saying production is saint worthy, and there's always room for improvement. The secret missions almost feel tooo on the nose for any given situation, and I wish they were much more random. Like maybe the person who got the least calls gets a special advantage or you just randomly find a card when you're outside smoking. IDK.

But, mdl and the His Man Youtube comment section are basically aflame with people saying they're ruining the show. And I just don't feel like that's an accurate placement of "blame".

I'm sure some people will have made it to the bottom and completely disagree with me. I'm not going to go bat for random TV show producers or put that much work into defending them. It's fine if the added stuff is making the show too high stress or dramatic for you. I was also expecting the show to be much more chill given the tone that last season set.

I also don't want to come off like I'm somehow blaming the very real people contestants on the show for making sometimes (frankly) boneheaded decisions.

But I do think it might be worth everyone asking if PD is actually sabotaging them or if this stress is a consequence of having real people with human emotions and faults be the center of a dating show.

[self-made-cages]

The trendy new meeting ice breaker at my office is “what’s your serial killer trait?” and yeah I guess it’s funny and all for people to be like “sometimes I wear socks to bed har har” but I’m not the biggest fan of having to whip out one of my very real OCD challenges for the amusement of a table full of accountants ��

[heartbreakercupcake]

You know only Tumblr would make me defend a nothing character like Dana cause it seems like people forgot that Miguel is also the reason their relationship went to shit

Like, are we gonna miss the part where Dana begged Miguel to talk to her but he just threw a plant at her

BY NO MEANS IS DANA PERFECT OR AM I EXCUSING THE SOME OF THINGS SHE DID

but you people fail to see how Miguel pushed her away and left her in the dark, she talked about how she could barely get a hold of him

I get it, hes doing Spiderman shit, he doesn't want her to get caught up in it, we all know the story

BUT like you gotta look at this from Dana's pov suddenly out of no where your fiancé just stop talking to you he can't get a hold of him no matter how hard you try and when you do hes not talking to you or telling you whats really going on and then when he you finally BEG him to tell you whats wrong he throws something at you AND HES STILL NOT TALKING TO YOU AND GOES OFF SOME WHERE WITH HIS EX

SO LIKE-?????

[cementcornfield]

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[flamedoesart]

It's really sad how being a bench trio fan is considered cringe now, just bc the ccs haven't hung out in the same stream in ages.

[rainia]

when is the apotheosis trio just going to fucking admit they all are obsessed with each other and have a group make out

[toffoliravioli]

now just remember what happened the last time the devs played the habs…..

if they lose we sellin everything-

[the-nefarious-vampire]

as an aroace, im particularly dangerous, because i wont fuck or marry. i only know how to kill.

[youthofpandas]

What’s up with how the dunmeshi fandom just lies about this kind of stuff all the time. It is easily confirmable information that it was a monthly series, something incredibly common in the industry.

A not weekly magazine schedule is literally common !! Especially in the seinen shoujo and josei demographics, sometimes monthly, sometimes biweekly, sometimes every two months, sometimes seasonal! Please stop lying about how Dunmeshi was some special unique creation that defies all standards of manga just to hype it up because it is so clear that every single one of these comparisons is centered around Weekly Shonen Jump (and understand that SJ has many magazines under its brand that are monthly or semimonthly). Not everything is WSJ and it needs to stop being the only point of reference in conversations like this 🤧

[creed-of-cats]

"If voting changed anything they wouldn't let people do it-" grabs your face THEY DIDN'T JUST "LET" PEOPLE DO IT, MOST PEOPLE COULDN'T VOTE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. PEOPLE OF COLOR ONLY GOT THE FULL RIGHT TO VOTE 50 YEARS AGO IN THE US, THATS BARELY A GENERATION.

IF IT DIDNT MATTER AT ALL WHY WOULD THEY SPEND SO MUCH TIME GERRYMANDERING THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYWHERE?? WHY CAN'T FELONS VOTE?? WHY CANT PUERTO RICO VOTE? WHY DO THEY KEEP SWITCHING DATES AND LAWS AND TIMES AND WHATEVER THEY POSSIBLY CAN TO STOP PEOPLE FROM VOTING?? WHY DO THEY MAKE EFFORT AT ALL??

BEING DISILLUSIONED IS A REASONABLE RESPONSE. BUT PEOPLE FOUGHT AND DIED AND ARE STILL FUCKING DYING FOR THAT RIGHT, DONT SPIT IN THEIR FACE.

[mybreadsmybutters]

when i was a kid i wanted to be a famous youtuber like dan and phil so that people would gay ship me with my irl best friend and we would be sooo weirded out by it and laugh and make videos joking about it but secretly it would make her realize her repressed gay crush on me and i'd help her through her gay crisis and then we would have a sickeningly sweet sappy romance and read fanfiction about ourselves together... anyways just found out she's married to a guy in the mafia now so i probably don't have a chance

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)

[qrbits]

gaming at the office 😎

[bajaja-blast]

you dislike Luke Castellan because he disagreed with an oppressive government system and actually took action to change the abusive ways him and his peers have been forced to follow for millennia.

I dislike Luke Castellan because in the Titans Curse he manipulated Annabeth, who he raised as his little sister, into holding up the sky, the FUCKING sky, for over 20 hours and had the audacity to walk away as though he was completely apathetic towards it while she begged and pleaded with him to help her.

we are not the same.

[chloesimaginationthings]

The puppet definitely has favourites in FNAF