#here we go anyway

[littleragondin]

5, 8, and 18

Thank you for asking (*´︶`*)

5. Second Chance Romance

I can think of a few very good examples (A Breeze of Love recently, which was lovely), but my favorite is probably Kang Seojoon and Han Jiwoo in To My Star 2. I'm a HEA kind of person, I like to imagine that when the couple is endgame they are forever, but still at the end of season 1 a lot of the issues those two have felt barely touched upon and ground for trouble. And, well...

I like how the fact that they had quite a significant history together (they moved together!) and knew each other so well played into the way they hurt and chased each other. You never forget that they shared something far more than a teenage crush or a little flirt, and there is so much work left to do for them to address their issues. It hurt me a lot but I do like it immensely.

8. May/December

Hmm that's a harder one... I can't think of any relationship that would fully fit in the BL I have seen outside of the second leads in MODC ... If I go with an age gap that put significant weight on the age difference/question (even if it's by Nozue himself) it would probably be Nozue and Togawa from Old Fashion Cupcake. I especially like that it centers in part around the way Nozue burdens himself with what a man his age should or shouldn't do, and how Togawa slowly helps him remember that, you know, age is just a number etc. and that you can be a serious man in a beige three-piece and still go on a strawberry crepe date with your handsome employee =3

(also I think Izumi and Kikunosuke in Ossan's Love Returns work for this category so let me plug it in because whatever the hell is going on with them, I am 100% behind please and thank you (also the added bonus of Izumi grieving Kikunosuke's friend?? fantastic))

18. Slow Burn

This one easily goes to an ongoing burn, and it's Nomoto and Kasuga from She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat. This show is taking it's time with Nomoto slowly discovering her feelings and coming to term with it (and hopefully, acting on it by the end of the season). It's a quiet, soft show that I think actually handle its leisurely pace really well - never boring nor repetitive, but just like Nomoto it gives itself time to bloom into itself. I love them, and I am so so happy to have them back (´꒳`)♡

BL Romance Trope ask Game ~ Ask Me!

[cofhades]

motte in den flammen

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[coddda]

I wish we could have met in some other way.

Lawlight Week Day 2: Soulmates

If you saw me repost and re-edit this several times uh No you didn't </3

Still frames/Individual gifs:

If you know what every frame is from you get a free cookie. by the way

[poisoned-pearls]

Masquerade Road Trip 🚌

Okay but like…. What if instead of using mirrors they had to stuff this whole cast of people into a bus/van

It’d be a little funny

(Also turn up phone brightness to see it better. Or don’t. Idk I don’t control you)

[title]

“May I rest my weary head on your shoulder?” (insp.)

In the Mood for Love (2000), Rafiki (2018), Cold War (2018), Your Name Engraved Herein (2020), But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), Moonlight (2016), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), And Then We Danced (2019), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Lovesong (2016), God’s Own Country (2017), The Handmaiden (2016), Notorious (1946)

[tippenfunkaport]

You know, it would be amazing if Hollywood learned the right lesson from the success of Nimona. Something like "Hey, maybe don't throw out a nearly done movie as a tax write off" or "people want queer stories" or even "don't be afraid to take some storytelling risks and be original" but you just know they're going to come away with some absolutely batshit takeaway like, "next time delete all the evidence and burn it to the ground so the gays can't make us look bad!"

[sapsolace]

obsessed w these boneheads as of late :]

[lotus-pear]

mourning black and the death of ideals

[kaahmbem]

legend has it that the young witch circe and the once beautiful nymph scylla shared a complicated past...

[soldrawss]

Part 2 finally! Part 3 to come soonish,,,

You can find part 1 here!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[egophiliac]

crossing my fingers and wishing upon every star that chapter 10 finally brings us the tweel cards 🤞🤞

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"