#genre defying

[dougielombax]

I’ve always found combining the machine with the divine to be oddly interesting.

No I don’t mean in a hamfisted superficial Christian symbolism way.

I mean like everything from the Mata Nui robot to TempleOS. (Yeah Bionicle does this a LOT!)

Idk why it just fascinates me for some odd reason.

Anyway here’s my attempt at a mood board:

Here it is

[leveretngsfavs]

Pump Femtanyl Directly Into My Brain 24/7

https://www.youtube.com/@Femtanyl03

thats really all there is to say on the matter

[currently-becoming-potatoes]

No, but if I was the villain, I’d learn the power of evil friendship. And evil harmony. And I’d fight the hero with my evil group of colorful best friends.

[katabay]

WOW this has been ROUGH in the Life Events category of things, but. slowly crawling out of that. hopefully

this was the opening scene for a something I started writing after watching the Manben inverview with Nishi Keiko and thinking back to all the classic shoujo manga I stayed up reading back in the day, like damn that's so true Urasawa Naoki

it's partially a love letter to all the greats of the genre that I read, and also to the late night teleseryses that captivated me over the years lmao. it'd be nice to find the time to tackle it properly as a comic, but I'm having fun working on it recreationally :)

✨but since it's recreational, some character info✨

the first character seen is lawrence 'law' valenciano (late 30s), the one with the glasses is cris volante (mid-later 20s). law works at a karinderya, cris is an extremely broke university student.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta / tip jar!

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[wombywoo]

a deadly combo of insomnia, jet lag, and being sick allowed me to hallucinate the very last scene of my potential quinncent series (yes SERIES) of novels (novels!!) and I'm pretty pleased with what I've come up with 😁!!! let's just see how long it takes to get there 💃 

[raining-anonymously]

i still can’t believe there was a phineas and ferb episode where a man hunted perry and doof for sport with the implicit goal of murdering them both and keeping them as trophies

[hunxi-after-hours]

"Qin Zhou's" throat trembled as he quietly closed his eyes, no longer looking at those souls. "I will protect all of you." "Qin Zhou" slowly spoke his promise. In this moment, everyone heard only the promise, but Mu Sichen heard the words that Qin Zhou could not say out loud. "I will protect all of you, so that no divine monster can harm any of you, including myself." Accompanying these words, all of Qin Zhou's emotions vanished. Even desire, even aspiration, even hope — silently, he obliterated them all. All that was left in his soul was that promise. From this moment, he became Him.

ok ok ok I'll admit I haven't read many books that regularly use 祂 ta (the divine third-person pronoun) so maybe this is me 少见多怪 but GENUINELY this was such a cool moment. I almost had to take a lap around the subway car because this was so well done

[chaos0pikachu]

Everyone needs to put respect on Atsuhiro Inukai's name because this man out here collecting BL genres like they're Infinity Stones

[vampireslucy]

thinking about how S2 of iwtv is, among other elements, a tragic tale about two people engaging in a 77 years long theatre production version of themselves for the sake of revenge. and incredibly one of the things you can see it through is that one of the few times armand looks alive in dubai is when he struts home with a pair of horrendous sunglasses he stole from some asshole positively giggling

[ckerouac]

I am absolutely fascinated by some of the Bridgerton S3 discourse I've stumbled upon that seems to funnel into one of two arguments.

'Penelope should've married Debling because she'd be rich, left alone, and able to do exactly what she wanted because he'd be gone/dead and that's a win for her because that's what all of us really want!'

'Penelope should've never forgiven Colin for saying he'd never court her because it was cruel and indicative of what he really thought and she deserves better because in real life this happens all the time, especially to fat girls, and he's the worst!'

My friends. My dudes. Y'all.

Are you lost? Did you take a wrong turn in the library and are unsure of how you arrived in the Romance section? Because Bridgerton is not contemporary fiction. It's not even Historical Fiction. It's ROMANCE. Which has its own genre rules and traditions and I can only imagine these bad faith complaints are from someone who thinks everything has to 'defy the genre!' as if the term romance is a dirty word.

If this were contemporary fiction, sure. The HBO limited series of this where Nicole Kidman plays a brooding Portia would have Penelope learning the lesson that she's wrong to wish for a man to complete her and take her doomed husband Debling's money to girlboss her way into a gossip empire while impressing her success on Colin who realizing too late what he let get away. I've read many stories like that, loved a bunch of them. She'd move to NYC and end it overlooking her empire from her glass penthouse. Amazing.

But this is not contemporary fiction.

This is ROMANCE.

And one of the requirements of Romance is the Happily Ever After. Penelope, as our heroine in a Romance story, will get the Happily Ever After that she states she wants. And that is to have a marriage based in love and to have that love be a partner that supports her dreams. Rules of the genre guarantees that that's where we are going to end up. That's not Debling - who offers her support and freedom, but not love. Pen wants love. So she will hold out for love, and will get it.

The other nonsense with Colin who should be punished for saying one cruel thing... The other BIG ASS FANTASY EXPECTATION OF ROMANCE FICTION is that the hero will fuck up and disappoint the heroine and, here's where the romantic fantasy comes in, will recognize his mistake, sincerely apologize to the heroine, and then change his actions. Which he did. Immediately. As soon as he realized his bravado hurt Pen, he parkoured his way through everything standing in his way to apologize and beg her forgiveness.

THAT is the crux on which Romance hinges. In real life, he will make excuses and will insist he did nothing wrong. In Romance, the heroine was correct to hold out for what she wanted. In Romance, the hero recognizes his error and apologizes and changes for her. In Romance, he releases the pretenses he's been holding up because she was right to believe in him and he desires to be the man she wants and deserves. That's the fantasy this genre promises. THAT'S the Happily Ever After. He explicitly says 'you were right' and she gets what she wants.

'That's not how it happens in real life!' is the entire fucking point. Insisting that the heroine should settle or that the heroine should not receive a sincere apology which leads to her getting everything she's dreamed up is just being deliberately genre ignorant.

[micamicster]

Spotify edit for THE GET DOWN BROTHERS from The Get Down (2016-2017)

Companion edit for Mylene Cruz & The Soul Madonnas

Credit where it’s due to @9clouds for the template psd I used for these edits. Thank you for making it available!

[dudeyuri]

i wish i could stop thinking about bad buddy for two seconds but anyway i Love how pran just cannot resist pat. yeah he playfully resists to flirt with pat, but his eyes (and dimples) are always daring pat to keep pushing his buttons. he may walk away, but pran eventually lets pat reel him into the romcom every time. he's getting courted he's initiating bets/debts he's enthusiastically participating in the "first one to fall in love loses" competition. pat's got every trope in his back pocket but pran's been writing love songs for him since high school. "forbidden fruit is the sweetest" as he says. it was irresistible like happiness was choosing him

the point is pran "we know how it's going to end, isn't it better not to start at all?" parakul played right into the role he knows leads to tragedy because the happiness was too profound to deny. and the tragedy does crash around them, he wasn't wrong. the worst thing that could happen happens (and then it keeps happening, the dull unending tragedy of the closet, shielding their relationship from parents who already know about it). it's a tragedy but it's not the ending. not for pat "we can't let it end like this" napat and the love of his life!! their story ends on a happy note. imagine telling episode 5 pran the honeymoon comes after the tragic nosedive. anyway this post got away from me. love wins

[lloydfrontera]

why did bkmoon make Lloyd and Javier so infuriatingly gay. like what was the reason ??? and then he made Lloyd marry Alicia???? what ???? i want to dissect his mind and thought process because what the hell ????????

i am on the exact same boat as you nonnie i wanna take a peek into his brain so bad. gimme ten minutes in the same room as him and google translate i can get it out of him i know this.

of course it could simply be that he's a straight author raised in a misogynistic amatonormative culture that places higher emphasis on the importance of the male pov who simply didn't consider how giving the relationship between his two male protagonists more depth and relevance to the plot than to the actual romantic relationship between the main character and his love interest could be misconstructed and interpreted. i mean. that's very much a possibility. wouldn't be the first time unfortunately lol

[strikeslip]

Me, trying to describe the Scholomance setting from the point of view of an enclave leader for my game setting document:

Take two once-in-a-generation talents, put them through hell together, and sometimes they’ll fall in love, blow up multiple major pieces of infrastructure, and upend every plan anyone had for the next ten years. This probably shouldn’t be a surprise, but…

[hackoftheyear]

LMAO does it give you that notification when someone says “I was wrong” because if so that’s hilarious