#i want to talk about a media im enjoying

[shirecorn]

Where my circle of 30 freaks who are normal about media

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have found a beautiful perfect humble rock specimen that is light yellow with a weird dark yellowy brown lining, somewhat resembling a chunk of smoked gouda cheese... effervescent

[foxublanketfort]

depressing how I finally got to update my nonbinary fish into a biblically accurate version of them while my pressure hyperfixation is going into hibernation

[stormyoceans]

how do you manage to enjoy things and not just be stressed about everything? like today was supposed to be a fun day but i did not enjoy it all because i was like so anxious... why am i incapable of just live in the moment and have fun with all the trailers this feels so unhealthy 😔 i really don't know what to do maybe i should step aside from social media and bls for a while? has this ever happened to you monica?

i definitely had LOTS of fun watching the GMMTV 2025 event live and im very excited for most of the series we've gotten but i do need you to know that today i've been an absolute MESS anon

like straight up if anyone thought that me saying 'shitting yelling crying shaking like a chihuaua in a snowstorm' was just a bit for the internet imma need y'all to think again. i mean yeah, okay, some stuff im obviously exaggerating, sadly i haven't learned how to levitate yet, but you know. most of it is actually true. at one point i was so worried about jimmysea not getting anything that i was genuinely feeling sick to my stomach

but at this point in life i know myself, i know i tend to feel and somatize (..is that the right word ;;;;;;) a lot, and i know when something is starting to get a bit unhealthy for me. i think getting very emotionally invested in something isn't necessarily bad, but what i always say is that watching QLs is a hobby, and as such it's supposed to make us feel happy and help us relax and unwind after a hard day. if this stops happening, and you start getting more negative feelings associated with it than positive, then i do think that maybe it's time to take a break

i do wonder if you're experiencing this with the QL world as a whole or if it was more limited to GMMTV 2025, because one thing i need you to know is that an event like this is not good for anxiety. there's so much anticipatory stress that builds up with every trailer that goes by, and so much uncertainty about what the outcome will look like, that it's very easy to get overwhelmed by it

so i think the most important thing is to try to question yourself and understand which factors are making you feel bad. for example, i tried so many times to be active on twitter, but that site just makes me feel bad, and the few times i still go on it to look for some jimmysea pictures i inevitably end up seeing something that upsets me or gives me anxiety and that sours my experience of watching QLs

so yeah i think understanding what's making you feel bad is very important to find a solution, and if you're gonna have to step away from one particular social media, or to watch something else for a while until everything stops being so overwhelming, i hope you know that it's okay and that there's not a wrong or a right way when it comes to this, just what makes us feel good or bad

aaaand this was so unnecessarily long so im gonna shut up now, but i do hope you're gonna feel better soon, anon!!!!

[deargravity]

haiiiii sardini i hope youre weeell !!!!! dyou have any favorite/comfort media like movies or books or anythinf that changed your tastes 4ever !!!!!???

haiii i’m doing okay actually.. college is a horror but we persist. so firstly, i have a LOTTTTT of stuff i really enjoy and no real fixed tastes, except that i don’t like romance-centred plots. i love gothic literature and detective fiction mostly but i’ve been getting into memoirs too etc etc let me get into it

so, FIRST OF ALL i really like sherlock holmes. i grew up on it so it’s given me a taste for cozy mysteries in general and the occasional hardboiled crime/espionage novel. it’s my all-time favourite series but i also have quite a few adaptations i enjoy and return to

- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (the original canon, cozy detective fiction)

- Charlotte Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro (a young adult series with 4 books)

- the 1940s Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone (all on youtube, btw, a great way to pass the time)

- Moriarty the Patriot (manga series, with 1 season of animation, one of my ALL-TIME favourite adaptation ever)

- Enola Holmes (the book series, but the movies are also really fun)

- Moriarty: The Devil’s Game & The Silent Order by Charles Kindinger (audible original podcast, a moriarty origin story with a refreshing change in perspective, where Moriarty is the heroic protagonist and Holmes is the villain antagonist, a lot of creative and original recharacterisation, it was so interesting just give it a chance)

- Sherlock & Co. (ANOTHER FAVOURITE. and a classic. a podcast too, set in the 21st century and by far, my favourite adaptation of the original stories and just wonderful)

OTHER THAN THAT:

- (book) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - got me into gothic horror

- (movie) Good Will Hunting - coming of age (?) movie about friendship, love, potential, and the power of vulnerability

- (movie) Jennifer’s Body - i’m not a horror fan at all actually but this was a horror comedy, iirc and it did give me a taste for evil women in fiction

- (book) Unquiet by Linn Ullman - a recent 4⭐️ read, a very intimate, vulnerable memoir of grief and memory that opened me up in a lot of ways

- (movie) Bound 1996 - lesbian noir film, god i love criminal / mafia lesbians

- (music, album) Folie á Deux by Fall Out Boy

- (animation) Arcane

and you may already know this but i’m also into Paradox Live, A3, Blue Eye Samurai and Mahoyaku. i’ll get into anything if it can promise me a good, fun time I don’t really have limits on the kind of media i can enjoy, except that maybe animanga is a little hard for me to get into.

[mar64ds]

the wild robot was a good movie but i think i watched it at a bad time 😔

[viciousvampirevillain]

Im sure someone has said this before, but I cannot stand when people in the TS fandom complain about the finale taking as long as it is.

First of all, we know Thomas has been actively working on the finale. He has updated us about it consistently. It is four parts long. It has music. It takes a lot of effort.

Second of all, Thomas’ career is his creative expression. Whether you like it or not, he is an artist. Artists owe you nothing. Their art is for them, not for you and your consumption. If you can look through an entire gallery of hard work and get upset when the artist hasn’t added to a painting and can only focus on that then you contribute to the unfair treatment of artists. Stop allowing yourself to be brainwashed by capitalistic consumerism.

That, along with the fact that Thomas hears your criticism and wants to make up for lost time, is why the finale is four parts and musical. Because that is what Thomas wants it to be as the artist.

While artists like Thomas rely on that consumption to make a living off of their creative expression, that does not mean they need to live in service to the consumer because, as I said, art is for the artist.

I might sympathize more if the situation was that he hadn’t posted any sanders sides content since POF, but we have had content. We’ve had WTIT and a slew of short form content, but it seems like most critics aren’t just content with what they have. Which is incredibly ungrateful considering how much effort Thomas puts into listening to his audience.

Long story short; let Thomas be an artist and make the art he wants to make for goodness sake.

[volfoss]

I’ve never seen you talk about themes and tropes you enjoy in media and stuff like that, it’s always about how misogynistic or racist something is, which it’s totally valid of course, but I think we often forget those are not the only types of things we can take from a story. Anyways you’re totally valid for being a hater lol.

if u are referring to the stuff ive been posting lately irt tezuka its because the themes and tropes are pretty well documented but the horrors are not. and id rather any mutuals know about those rather than solely focusing on the themes being there and not addressing that, esp when those are easily found on sites like tezukainenglish or even looking up essays on the matter. i also feel that if its about this topic, it is something i bring up when its there (the one im reading rn handles a lot of anti-war themes in a really good manner and i did get into that pretty deeply in my review of it (which i havent posted yet bc its been taking a while to get through)). imo its something where it is important to discuss issues w media and id rather be getting into both that and thematics of the media vs just an analysis of it (which can tend to overlook issues). w kimba specifically, it was VERY hard to overlook the issues that were in the media as it was glaring and pretty much everywhere bc it was DRENCHED in racism. i did not want to be like ok :) heres the super good themes in this bc quite honestly it was a very miserable experience to read. my posts on tumblr are also not indicative of HOW i enjoy something or if im focusing on themes or not bc often thats something i tend to be messaging friends about as i watch/read something. i love analyzing themes and getting into the nitty gritty of a media but i also think its important to bring up issues when they are less talked about in the general fan space of it all. if you talk to me one on one you KNOW how passionate i get about themes in a story but its just not something i talk about publicly.

[rainingincale]

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[elmorejuniorhigh]

waow. so fucking cool that both ging and mito freecss are aroace. who would have thought

[planet4546b]

actually maybe i just need to join one of the book clubs at my local library🤔

[catgirlwizard]

still can't believe i used to post on this website every day and now I rarely go on here cause I've got a live in partner and we have 2 cats together and i spend all my time with them or cleaning or doing diy projects or taking care of the pets or drawing or trash picking/craigslist searching and stealing moss and plants from neighborhood sidewalks and having gay sex and cooking dinner and fantasizing about how we'd decorate a house together and planning our wedding we're gonna have some day and researching last names we can have as a couple jdkfhgsdf. anyways, he's the sweetest most supportive partner I could ask for and I'm incredibly lucky to have them. monday night I went out with a grocery cart to collect trash and he was like 'hope you find something good! let me know if you need help :D" and when i called him asking him to walk 10 minutes to help me carry an end table cause my cart was full of rugs and halloween decorations he didn't question it, he was just happy for me. and yesterday he saw how i arranged my collection of loose bones on the bookcase we built together and complimented it. and even though i've got plants in every sunny window in the house he still offers to buy me more, and supports me taking clippings of stuff wherever we go so I can root them at home, and buys me cut flowers all the time cause he knows I like them. even though everyone else is like 'decomposing roadkill is weird' or 'trash is gross, don't you have enough stuff?' or 'where are you even going to put more plants, enough is enough' my partner just supports and encourages my weird hobbies. even when he doesn't enjoy the hobbies he still listens to me talking about it because he likes seeing how excited I get. and I'm really lucky to have someone like that <3

[egotisticallyenthralled]

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[lesbianraskolnikov]

I will read more books i promise though i cannot say if id talk as much as i do this.

[ghost-t-cryptids]

Honestly? I feel like quitting posting art....

From mental health problems to just...the lack of support for small artists....its getting to me, I guess.

For now, I will post like usual, but I will be giving this some thought.

[lycastanne]

pro-hero!bakugou is so busy, as expected since he's a hero after all. a great one at that. he avoids relationships, because he's aware about how he cant properly manage his time. he wont go around giving hopes to people, he is a straight forward man.

but fuck, when he sees you in some movie premiere which his friend acts in, he really wants to try commit a relationship with you.

you're a journalist, he noticed from the mic you held and the logo around it. ah, you work for a big entertainment media or magazine? he's not sure. your body language shows that you're confident, he likes that.

he didn't even realize when you start talking to him.

“mr. dynamight, im (name) (last name) from vogue. can we ask you questions regarding the movie?” you asked politely.

“tch, dont make me wait too long.” he said, keeping the nonchalant act.

you gestures to your cameraman partner to get ready. once the camera is ready, you start to introduce yourself and him. he watches you with a small smirk, clearly enjoying this.

“dynamight, we hear that you're not a big fan of romcom movies, is that true? does this movie change your perspective of romcom movies?”

“yes.”

you furrowed your brows, confused.

“okay... moving on, who's the first one that comes to your mind when you hear 'queen or king of romcom'?”

“julia roberts. i think.” there's a questionable pause.

“i love her too! especially in notting hill. i watched notting hill when i was 14 and since then library date is my dream date.” you rambles, all giggly and smiley.

“have you been to one?”

“hm? im sorry?”

“the library date, i can take you. if you want to i guess.” his tone isn't exactly friendly but his reddened cheeks makes you realize that he doesn't mean it the mean way.

“id love to, y- yes— oh my god.” you stutter.

“i have to have your number then.”

since you don't carry your business card and there's only a pen, bakugou let you write your number on his arm.

“good, call you later, dollface.” within a blink he's gone.

your flabbergasted face is the only thing you could muster.

“is the camera still on?”

“its live.”