#but variety is the spice of life

[emcee334]

I appreciate that the Cohoot head matches well with the Kulu-Ya-Ku armor set 😁

[itshomobirb]

i just found a nice tts application for my desktop that'll read out any text i copy and ive become so powerful. balabolka my beloved <3

[gingersnapwolves]

Over 60 here. I didn't count all the individual sample bags on the fifth shelf...

Why are there so many boxes of tea?! There's loose leaf tea in the cabinet too!

[fictionz]

Happy to see Kristin Lehman out here getting a role on The Outer Limits as a normal person, not carrying on ill-fated romances from behind a screen or via hologram.

From “Time to Time,” season 7.

[god-of-this-new-blog]

One must imagine Lawlight happy

[minniiaa]

Law and Luffy are unquestionably my favorite ship for many reasons, one of them being that they both fit perfectly in either a top/bottom role.

Bratty Bottom Luffy and Dom Law? Yes. Hungry Top Luffy and Pathetic Bottom Law? Perfect. I have never read a Lawlu fic I didn’t like.

[amygdalae]

Yknow what they say. Cayenne pepper is the spice of life

[strawlessandbraless]

Reblog for science 🧫🧬🔬🧪🥼🔭⚗️🧑‍🔬

[eppysboys]

I will say, this shot is great, perfectly captures Brian's mix of amusement, admiration and nervousness at press conferences:

This shot.......perfectly shows that the wig budget was below the floor

[magistralucis]

pronouncing the necron 'sz': personal rating list*

broke: /s/ only ('seras')

woke: /z/ only ('zeras')

provoke: /s/ and /z/ pronounced separately ('s-ze-ras')

bespoke: /ʂ/ or /ʃ/ ('scheras')

invoke: tensed fricative /s͈/ ('sseras')

misspoke: /s/ but evil ('ßeras')

(* Further notes in tags.)

[purgefluidz]

I can pretend any male celebrity has a vagina

[sotiredmostnights]

i think one thing FE3H did that's kind of disappointing is it made a lot of the fandom expect every single character to have a tragic backstory and every single support chain to hold some deep level of emotional weight. these aren't *bad* things to want in a game by any means, but personally i think it's important to appreciate supports or characters that are silly or whimsical or just plain endearing without being so serious all the time

[colinrobinsonscardigan]

Some cats will let you rub their belly and wiggle their tail around and squish their toe beans and not care, and other cats will be like ‘you stroked just two millimetres too far down my back. Die.’

And personally I think that’s beautiful✨

[thinkinginscripts]

"I need some variety in my reading material"

*briefly stops reading the 200k (E) GO alpha omega pirate adventure to read a 7k (T) GO meet-cute

Ahhhh that's better.

[buildoblivion]

listen I’ve enjoyed all the big experimental episodes we’ve had the last few weeks but I am gobbling up this gay little psuedo-historical with my bare hands

[pharawee]

I think it's no secret that I'm not all that much into gmmtv BLs. I used to think that it's because I'm just not that into the romance/slice-of-life/ensemble cast genre and it's pretty much all gmmtv focusses on in their BLs. Or maybe I'm really that shallow and I just don't like anything mainstream.

I can't really talk myself out of the mainstream thing because it's unfortunately kind of true, but also I like plenty of romance/slice-of-life/ensemble cast shows by smaller companies, like Gen Y or Future or Our Days (the list goes on and on and on).

There's just something about gmmtv BLs these days that loses me every single time. A series starts out strong with an interesting concept and characters and then it just gets... boring to me:

The things and characters and issues I find interesting are never delved into, and (probably because of that) everything just feels so shallow and formulaic and palatable. Shows like Never Let Me Go and Be My Favorite and My School President completely underwhelmed me towards the end, to the point where I was relieved when they ended and I no longer had to gif them (which is an entirely different thing that I'm trying to work on 🙏).

And now the same thing is happening with Wandee Goodday and it makes me really sad because I really like Great and Inn and the rest of the cast.

Mind you, I'm not blaming gmmtv for this. They're mainstream for a reason and good for them! I'm also not saying that their approach to making series or marketing their actors is bad because clearly their success and their many fans prove them right.

But there's just something about how smaller or indie companies work that appeals to me so much more. I like shoestring budgets, I like it messy and rough around the edges. I like it when they're so passionate and ambitious about their projects that they try to make it happen no matter what. I like it when they take risks with genres and stories that bigger companies wouldn't touch because they're not as marketable. I like when they say "fuck it, let's do wonky sound and rookie actors because if we don't we won't have the budget to make it happen at all."

I suppose it's similar to gaming for me, where I appreciate indie games and ambitious AA titles much, much more than AAA games that tend to appeal to the biggest possible audience.

Ultimately, I'm glad there's a market for both, but it's sad to know that many smaller productions will never be as commercially well-received as mainstream titles (while ironically being held to the same standards). And it's also bittersweet to know that whenever gmmtv contracts one of my favourite actors (which is fine of course - it's one of the best things that can happen to an upcoming actor in Thailand), I know that I won't get to see them again in the kind of series that I prefer.*

*Sometimes they contract them out to non-gmmtv productions. That's how I became a fan of Marc Natarit. But as soon as they're in a fixed acting pair it's basically over.

I guess the easiest solution is to just stop watching BLs from gmmtv (I'm explicitly only mentioning BLs here because I like most of their gen shows a lot more - The Gifted is still one of my favourites and just recently Enigma and Midnight Museum and Mama Gogo were absolutely amazing) but the problem is... their pilot trailers actually get me excited. Right now I'm really looking forward to Kidnap and ThamePo. Plus, once in a while gmmtv DOES take a risk and then you get incredible shows like Not Me (which apparently didn't do very well numbers-wise, so from a business pov it makes sense not to invest in them too heavily).

In the end, I think I need to get a lot more selective with the Thai BLs I want to watch. After all, there's now so many of them that we can finally afford to be picky (and that has to be a good thing, right?).