#but maybe it's just personal taste

[mikimeiko]

Arcane | Season 2 (2024), Christian Linke and Alex Yee

[egophiliac]

I love your take on Crowley!

I know that the early, non-Diasomnia stories aren't really your thing, but are you reading the novels at all?

I have been following some of the fan translations and the second book seems intense! Would love to hear what you think about them.

thank you! 💚💚💚 I'm not really sure why you think I don't like the earlier arcs though, I love pretty much all the characters and their storis! (I think 5 and 1 are my favorite of the past episodes, though 6 infected me with the Shroud brainrot something fierce.) I just...ESPECIALLY love diasomnia. :') but there is room in my heart for all of these dweebs! like, who among us is not just as ride-or-die for Adeuce as they are for us.

that said, I don't really follow the other adaptations like the manga (aside from a dip-in just to see the new Yuus) or the novels, though I keep meaning to check them out! I do like seeing the differences between the different forms of media, and how certain things get adapted one way or another! but alas, time/a lack of accessibility stands in our way more often than not. :( someday...someday I will have time to consume all of the media...

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

From now on, wherever I am, that's your home.

Blue Canvas of Youthful Days Episode 8

[daisywords]

anyway my stance on "reading the classics" basically boils down to the fact that what is or is not defined as "a classic" is somewhat arbitrary, and therefore it makes no sense to treat "the classics" as some sort of uniform genre that you either like or dislike. Whether you liked Great Expectations has no bearing on whether you'll like 1984 or Rebecca or Pride and Prejudice or East of Eden or Frankenstein or Crime and Punishment. Because those are all vastly different books. "I don't want to read Classics; they're all boring and probably sexist or something." <<free yourself from the arbitrary category of "classic." It just means a lot of people liked the book. You might not. but you might. Treat it as an individual title.

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

i think a major thing that is overlooked in the x files is that when they do their little cutscene of them driving from washington dc to the bumfuck middle of nowhere at the start of each episode, their roadtrips must be SO long. so what are they doing in that time? are they fighting over which radio station to listen to? filling the silence with conversation? is that how they become inseparable, over mind-numbing hours on the road where stories slip off of the tongue with ease?

[marzipanandminutiae]

I need a bookcase for my new apartment!

I want the antique mahogany bookcase with elaborate carving

I can afford the antique mahogany bookcase with elaborate carving (it's actually a steal)!

the antique mahogany bookcase with elaborate carving is in Gloucester and I live in Boston an hour's drive away. and I haven't driven in eight years

[aruinedthing]

season 1 louis telling his family he dipped from the opera cause he was bored and got hungry & then lestat afterwards calling him on acting like he didn't enjoy the opera when he very much did; season 2 louis telling armand he doesn't want to come to the theatre because he had enough of that back in the states... 35 years and still lying about the theatre to hide how much he loves lestat huh

[izukusagi]

i gotta say it i gotta

i don't understand the predilection of bkdk fics to put Izuku in a crop top/other effeminate clothing when the guy in canon practically lives in stupid tshirts and jeans or cargo shorts

[campbyler]

Hi again! just want to say thanks for the song 'kiss me slowly'. your playlist has been one of the best driving playlists ive had and made my summer 2024 sooo magical with little dreams of camp on long journeys. i am definitely more of a mike than a will when it comes to driving, both in song choice and car type! hehe!

and this song throws me back to my teen days, listening to emotional 00s indie rock back when people used to make 5 min long youtube edits to harry potter and twilight using songs by howie day, the fray, and anything that was on one tree hill lol

very pleased to add to my acswy driving playlist!

hello and thank you and you are so so welcome!! this is actually the second time i’ve put this song on a mike pov fic playlist — i think it just makes a lot of sense for him and i associate him quite heavily with this era of 2000s-early 2010s pop rock/pop punk, and lyrically it fits so well with how i see his specific style of Yearning teehee. even aside from mike, kiss me slowly by parachute has been on my rotation for Years because i also first discovered it through a youtube edit 😎 i think driving wise and in general i personally am definitely a good mix of both of the music tastes we’ve assigned them in this universe (and usually the tastes i assign them in all my fics anyway lol), it honestly just depends on what mood i’m in when i get in the car, but i like to be a little self indulgent with mike’s driving tunes here because i think the mustang’s roof goes down and the feel good nostalgic pop comes OUTTTTTTT ‼️‼️‼️ so glad you’re having a good time with the playlist and our tunes! thanks for the love 🩷

[mabaris]

no youre completely right - im a gay (trans)man and i legit wanna see so much more about the women bc There Is So Little. I wanna make a lesbian oc who gets bent in half by taash. im very normal.

i’m just tired man!!!! it feels so obvious how disproportionate it is when you’ve got. a cast of characters that we know almost equally little about. and a few of them explode in popularity and it’s like spongebob sticking his hand out the curtain. literally all a character needs to do numbers is to be a light-skinned man

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Those Beyond The Wall

sequel/companion to The Space Between Worlds, set a decade later

character-focused sci-fi set in an area divided in two, the rich protected city on one side and everyone else in the post-apocalyptic desert

follows a woman who works under the Emperor in Ashtown, keeping the peace

when mangled bodies start showing up with seemingly no murderer, she’s tasked with finding the cause, and finds out that it’s the result of corruption spanning both cities and multiple worlds

explores oppression and messy revolution, police violence and apartheid

bi & polyamorous MC

[percivalklossowskithefifth]

i honestly feel like some relationships need to be explored even more. much more. preferably in a written form. on some strange site that resembles an archive. the one that we people own.

[wheatormeat]

Can more people please watch odd taxi, its story and dialogue writing is genuinely so fantastic. Its characters are so real to the point its almost jarring, and the art and music direction is phenomenal. its only 12 episodes and it USES those 12 episodes. I genuinely don't think there's any show like it. (but if there is, send them my way) the only preface I can give for it is that its a crime thriller and AVOID SPOILERS

please I'm tired of every other isekai show getting its 5th season while a masterpiece like odd taxi gets ignored cause it has furries. PLEASE

[icewindandboringhorror]

boy in silly sitting positions compilation

[markantonys]

is ROP lacking in the female character department or have i just been way too spoiled by the plethora of them in WOT? lmao

like, galadriel's excellent, 10/10 no notes. but it feels like the others are always playing second fiddle in a storyline the source material designed to be about men (disa, miriel), or are bopping around on a charming sidequest that, while important as a breath of lightness amidst the heavy stuff, is nowhere near as compelling as the ring-related storylines (nori, poppy). (or had to get written out due to the actress leaving; such a shame because i imagine bronwyn would've been a big player in the southlands storyline this season.)

and i think it mostly comes down to source material. i have a vivid childhood memory of reading the hobbit and then the fellowship of the ring and then quitting because i got bored and cranky about there not being any girls except for arwen in like 2 chapters, so i would not be surprised if much of ROP's source material is similar, where the vast majority of the important players are men. and the show is doing what it can to add in more ladies, but it's just tough to make them feel like they're on an equal level of narrative importance as the men for whom the story was originally designed.

and that makes me so incredibly thankful for WOT and the huge amount of story-driving women RJ baked into the story. i give him flak for some things, but in this regard he was truly ahead of his time! and ahead of OUR time, even today it's rare to see a (mainstream) story with such a wide array of female characters. and that's made the show's job easy; it doesn't have to fight the source material to make women important in the narrative, because they already are. i saw a text post the other day about "tasting the good bologna" and how you can never be satisfied with a mid-quality thing again after you've had the most luxurious version, and boy have i tasted the good bologna with WOT and female characters.

[eclaire-went-bam]

cluster b "trying to act better" culture is craving the chaos again after too long. feeling as though things have been safe for too long, there hasn't been real strife with others, and that should be changed. the unwieldy urge to start shit again just for the sake of it, just for the familiarity of it, because that's what's normal.

maybe it's to stave off brain-numbing boredom? maybe i think i was happier when things were chaotic, when i wasn't? maybe i'm just not a good person, and that much so is embedded in my flesh. i dunno.