#easy-to-use website

[rigelmejo]

Hi friends. I am begging you. If you are learning Chinese. Learn how to search the name-in-Chinese and then some of these terms online:

"show" dianshiju 电视剧

"watch" kan 看

"novel" xiaoshuo 小说

"read" yuedu 阅读

"online" zaixian 在线

"free" mianfei 免费

"sub" zimu 字幕

"comic" manhua 漫画

"animation" donghua 动画

"audiobook" yousheng duwu 有声读物

"audio book" yousheng shu 有声书

"dub" 配音 (Specifically for Chinese dubs: 国语, 台配, 普通话)

There's MANY Chinese websites, just as many pirating sites as in English. If you can search for what you want to find in Chinese, it is ridiculously easy to find it. You can find whatever you want (mostly), if you just search in Chinese! Just search Google, or Duckduckgo, or searx.space search engine of choice! And yes, I've brought this up before. I've mentioned these search terms in other posts. They're useful!

[arcanegifs]

on gif reposting: i dont mind it if u use them for whatever but just put a credit on it please

is that too much of a request for all the free stuff ive made after all these years lmao

[kiyomitakada]

fun fact light calls kiyomi "miss takada" out loud during their hotel meetings but consistently uses "kiyomi" when passing notes to her. this is more obvious in japanese where names can take the place of you/your pronouns (and therefore light uses it like every other sentence) but is also true in english

thus establishing an illusionary environment of romantic intimacy and closeness! [weak confetti emoji]

[idle-compy]

ben not watching the road - part 2

(part 1 here)

[yarrowleef]

I think at a certain point we all gotta stop referring to the wc incest issue as "accidents." Like, it can only happen so many times before it's obvious someone made an executive choice to ignore it. it feels like...removing/lessening blame to keep calling it a clueless accident

with the way these books are written, I suspect the wc team mindset is "anything the middle-grade target audience wouldn't remember/question doesn't need to be considered." Like, if Nightheart didn't acknowledge last arc that Bayshine was related to him, then he effectively isn't related to him in the eyes of whatever new reader picked up this arc for the first time. Therefore, might as well not exist. Nothing in this world matters except whatever will get them through the current plotline.

the fact they are writing about animals and consistently refuse to use relatable familial terms like cousin/aunt/uncle/grandparent etc probably makes them comfortable shrugging it off.

the new team especially writes as if they are soft rebooting every other arc. it's the ultimate have your cake and eat it too: they don't want to do the work required to change the world/status quo to prevent this problem (doing so might slightly impede the ease of their break-neck writing speed), but they still want to do standard cliche romantic drama with their new next-gen-protag kits, so…they deal with that road block by ignoring it. There hasn't been a financial incentive not to.

this lack of care is all deeply annoying to me. but we gotta stop calling it an 'accident' b/c that implies they would be motivated to avoid it if it were pointed out to them. dog they know 😭 and they clearly decided it doesn't count if they don't acknowledge it

[calypsolemon]

Probably one of the worst effects of the disney live action remake trend is that it's got people talking about the original movies as if they are golden standards of animated cinema, when often they are rife with their own issues, both within the works themselves and outside them. Like many of these movies still function as mechanisms through which disney monopolized the animation industry, monetized poor rip offs of better and yet lesser-known pre-existing media, crafted conservative slop to forcefeed directly into the mouths of children, turned minority groups into marketable caricatures, etc etc. It's just that the remakes are so devoid of even the slightest hint of artistic integrity that the overall bar for what counts as a "good movie" is buried six feet underground.

[bayetea]

‼️🤯 NEW FANDOM RULE JUST DROPPED 🤯‼️ no more infantilizing hazel no more refusing to ship her with anyone but frank no more excluding black characters from being desirable love interests. you have to think about hazel making out with One character who was never one of her canon love interests for at least 3 minutes sorry

[identitty-dickruption]

also remember to log into ato to do your taxes <3 peace and love on planet end of financial year

[httpsawesome]

remember when liking nutella was a personality trait

[aranciadotcom]

took some sprites of the kids from the new website that came out recently :D

chris:

joy:

(there's more of hers but tumblr has a limit on pictures :/)

[otps-in-plastic]

I just want to put out a word of warning that The Ultimate Guide to Barbie from A360 Media is not a reliable source for Barbie facts. I noticed multiple errors, such as referring to Francie as Frannie.

Some random dolls are used as part of Barbie's family tree to represent Barbie's aunt and grandmother. The text refers to her appearance in a Barbie movie, so why not use an image from the movie? Again, poor research skills. Or maybe laziness. Another aunt is represented by what appears to be a Sims character.

This magazine also uses a non-Barbie doll (Mommy to Be Judith) to represent Pregnant Midge. This is a VERY common mistake, but it shows poor research skills.

There's also the usual Bild Lilli slander, but that's to be expected.

[incomplete-ruler]

So this has been on my mind for a bit, but I wonder if most paralive fans (the ones that can vote that is) vote on battles based on what song/group they think sounds the best rather than the contents of the story. It may not explain everything, but it definitely explains SOME things if true (more specifically the 1st gen rtl battles (bc the 2nd gen groups were still very new)).

[stardecahedron]

since I'm on a website building high, I made a Straw Page for fun!! ✪ ω ✪

FLASHING WARNING FOR A LOT OF GIFS ON MY STRAWPAGE BTW!!!

feel free to visit it and maybe leave some doodles? this was just for fun more than anything :))

AND AFTER I WENT TO BED SOMEONE ALREADY LEFT A LITTLE SIFFRIN DOODLE ON MY PAGE ITS SO CUUUTE 🥺

to whoever this was, thank u so much <3 lovely thing to wake up to (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

[aq2003]

I've had a vague urge to get more into Shakespeare for years; what are the top 3-5 plays you'd recommend that AREN'T Hamlet or Much Ado? And what version of each is your favorite?

(sorry for omitting two god tier ones but I've already seen David Tennant in each of those and I surmise that you're insane about both so I'm looking for some new plays)

gonna be some basic bitch answers but here:

macbeth - the tragedy of macbeth (2021) movie adaptation starring denzel washington. this movie is fucking stunning and the way they did the witches was SO good. also i have the throne of blood (kurosawa's adaptation) also on my watchlist since i've heard REALLY good things about it

richard ii - 2013 rsc production w/ david tennant (link). he gives me catastrophic gender envy, i need to become more masculine to become more feminine etc. ben whishaw in the hollow crown series (link) is great too

romeo and juliet - romeo + juliet (1996) movie adaptation directed by baz luhrmann. this is like, the most well known romeo and juliet and you might've watched it already but i'm listing this anyway because there will never be a better mercutio and the way they did the setting is SO fucking funny and inspired

twelfth night - so far only saw this one Outside On The Grass Where They Performed This At My College but i liked it a lot... reccing the 2012 globe production with mark rylance (part 1 / part 2) (his hamlet was one of dt's favorites as an aspiring actor) (i'm putting my faith in letterboxd and david's taste for this one)

coriolanus - 2014 donmar production w/ tom hiddleston (on archive.org). this is directed by josie rourke, who also directed dt/ct's 2011 much ado! the staging and the effects are fucking awesomeeee (also peter de jersey and elliot levey are in this, i love them)

also shoutout to the ones i want to watch:

the 2016 production of a midsummer night's dream w/ ncuti gatwa (i have found nowhere to pirate it and i might just crack and pay the 10 dollars to watch it)

the 2015 production of the love's labour's lost w/ edward bennett (he played laertes in hamlet (2009) and he's REALLY underrated, i love his benedick SO FUCKING MUCH even if that production overall was a little dull)

either hollow crown's or greg doran's henry iv (it's two whole plays i need so much time to watch that. and ideally i want to watch both lol)

kurosawa's ran (1985), an adaptation of king lear set in 1500s japan

vishal bhardwaj's omkara (2006), an adaptation of othello set in india

[boycritter]

IM SO CONFUSED.