#do i tag this as tv rec i mean the eternal love was pretty cute

[sarah-yyy]

Sarah! Do you recommend watching Eternal Love?

Not sure if you meant to ask about 三生三 (eternal love, which i generally abbreviate to 33) or 双世宠妃 (the eternal love, which you’d have seen a lot of on my blog recently because i just finished this), but just to be safe, I’ll talk about both?? 

33 is..........very tropey, and this is coming from me. If you’re down for some 仙侠 romance and nothing else, I’d recommend it. The plot does get a little boring after awhile, and low-key a lot of the conflicts are p repetitive, but I got through all of it anyway because I accidentally got invested in the side pairing, rip me. To be fair, everyone in the show is ridiculously attractive (think Dilraba, Vin Zhang, Vengo Gao etc etc), so it was a pretty okay thing to have on in the background while I was in between classes or having meals. Ft. tropes like...mistaken identity, amnesia, character death that isn’t actually character death, The Evil Concubine. It’s just............a lot. 

The Eternal Love was funner to watch, though honestly, I still have so many questions about the last four episodes??? Like if you’re watching it, I’d honestly recommend you just stop before it gets too weird and ruins the show for you. For the most part, it’s rom-com-y and cute, and the leads are just adorable in their roles? Ft. fun tropes like time travel, mistaken identity. It’s predictable at times, but still mostly quite a bit of fun to watch. 

If I had to pick, I’d recommend The Eternal Love over 33. It’s definitely easier to watch, what with it only being 24 20 eps, and most of it was good for laughs. (I’m honestly serious about the last four eps being weird. I wish I’d skipped it tbh.) But both shows are nothing too special, so don’t expect too much from them. If you’re looking for period drama to watch, try Princess Agents! Or Midnight Diner, if you don’t mind it being set in modern times! :) 

[whorewolf]

music

fav genre; uh. pop? i guess it's pop. i am pretty bad about knowing genres, and like, sometimes i'll dip my toe into emo, but anything remotely hardcore i tend not to be able to listen to for very long. fav artist; HONESTLY. like. i will go to bat for carly rae jepson and hozier. those are like, the two that are the only 2 moods i experience. oh fuck, and left at london (she just put out a new album, highly rec all her shit) fav band; ummm well it was patd for a little bit. *pulls up spotify* uhhh. mcr. THE CLICK FIVE. i can't explain to you why, you either get it or you don't. fav song; god i don't know if i have one, uhhh. as the world caves in by matt maltese makes me cry every time i listen to it? so there's that. love will find a way from the lion king 2? me from the beauty and the beast broadway show, and brutus by the buttress most listened song recently; probably either stalker's tango by audioheart, 70s porno music by cute whore, or an unhealthy obsession by the blake robinson synthetic orchestra song currently stuck in your head; my head is a cyclical mess of every song i've ever heard. literally every time i hear anything that could be remotely close to a lyric, that song is playing in my head for hours, or god forbid a tiktok has a song in it. fav lyrics

And hey, you, don't you think it's kinda cute That I (I) died (died) right inside your arms tonight That I'm fine even after I have died Because it was in your arms I died

My name is Brutus and my name means heavy So with a heavy heart I'll guide this dagger Into the heart of my enemy My whole life you were a teacher and friend to me Please know my actions are not motivated only by envy I too have a destiny This death will be art The people will speak of this day from near and afar This event will be history And I'll be great too I don't want what you have! I wanna be you!

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | loud or silent volume | slow or fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio on.

books

fav book genre; romance!!! tropey, tired romance. especially time-displaced partners and fake dating, and a desperate longing to like fantasy as much as i used to. fav writer; i don't have super set writers i return to, but i had a long love of christopher pike (at least, his non-scifi stuff for me) and r.l. stine. fav book; you know it's the great gatsby. we all know. we wish it was something else, but we know. also ouran high school host club by bisco hatori. good shit. or is that a book series? i'll put another in series. fav book series; THE FIREKEEPER SAGA BY JANE LINDSKOLD. i was OBSESSED with this series when i was younger! a princess raised by super-intelligent wolves??? INCREDIBLE. WISH THAT WAS ME. also beastars AND beast complex by paru itagaki. and the wize wize beasts of the wizarding wizdoms by nagabe. people shouldn't skip this one in favor of beastars necessarily! comfort book; you know it. you love it. it's the great gatsby again, baybee. or, in my younger and more vulnerable years, the greek's chosen wife by lynne graham. e.e;; look, it was the one harlequin novel i'd found at the time w/ a fat protag. especially one who wasn't shamed for it. FUCK IT. MANGA TOO. beauty pop by kiyoko arai. god it's so charming. the closest i come to dealing with that tsundere boy shit. perfect book to read on a rainy day; damn, any good gay romance novel. can't go wrong. i wish i had a better rec for you. fav characters; haruhi fujioka (ohshc), firekeeper/tamara (firekeeper saga), nick carraway (the great gatsby), i have such a frustratingly bad memory lmao 5 quotes from your fav book that you know by heart;

i'mma be real, i dont know full quotes by heart, but i know parts of quotes so you'll get the full versions. also not 5

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced — or seemed to face — the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

tv + movies

fav tv/movie genre; r o m a n c e. mostly movies, since show romances tend to be utterly drawn out and largely forced. for shows, probably procedural crime shows, since no one knows how to make a mindless crime show quite like the us fav movie; god dammit it's the great gatsby again, the 1974 version. but also the 1946 version of beauty and the beast. and cry-baby directed by john waters. and sleepaway camp (1-3), and behind the mask: the rise of leslie vernon, and pontypool. comfort movie; i kinda have a rotation? for a while it was johnny dangerously, and george of the jungle, and the road to eldorado (the animated dreamworks one), and even the quiet man. the lion king 2 movie you watch every year; i try to watch a couple holiday movies (particularly valentine's, halloween, and christmas) every year, but i been slackin'. i think i watch creepshow pretty regularly, though, along with sleepaway camp 1. fav tv show; columbo. the owl house. the 1990s beauty and the beast show as a concept. comfort tv show; columbo. the owl house. leverage. lie to me*. most rewatched tv show; COLUMBO. ultimate otp? god i dont know anymore. mormor? harringrove? 5 fav characters; lieutenant columbo, eda the owl lady, nuka (tlk2), jason voorhees, cry-baby walker

tv shows or movies |short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) (either!) | one episode a week or binging |one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga | half hour or one hour long episodes| subtitles on or off | rewatching or watching just once | downloads or watches online

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