#i wanted to like this show

[heretherebedork]

Hello there.

Been reading your opinions about A Boss and a babe and I find it interesting because before it started I wasn't really looking forward to it. It seemed like it was not going to be my kinda show. And you seemed somewhat on the other side of it. And then I started watching and something weird happened. I liked it. A lot. I can't explain it, really. Everything you say about the show is true. I can't even deny it. So many things make absolutely no sense.

I should hate Cher. I'm not a big fan of that specific kinda of goofiness and mannerisms. But I like Cher. I, of course, like Gun, but that could just be the fact that I think Force has a gorgeous smile and I think that was the only reason I got through Enchanté.

Except for a couple of side chars this show should bore me and irritate me to death. It's not a great show. There are several problems with it. And yet, I find myself smiling through most episodes. I really can't understand it myself.

Anyway, just wanted to share.

Hope the show improves just so at least you get to enjoy it a bit more too.

I wish I liked it, I really do.

I love the side characters, honestly. I adore them. Three, Zo, Jack and Thoop are the only reason I can get through this without much greater suffering.

The problem for me is that I can't... I just can't do shows where nothing makes any sense. If I can't find some kind of sense or growth that works I just... I can't.

I wanted to like Gun, he seemed like such a good character but then he turned out to be... nothing. Everyone describes him one way but everything we've seen of him says otherwise and I just... augh! I can't do it, honestly. And it's frustrating because I like the kind of archetype he's supposed to be but... isn't.

The show is occasionally amusing but so was Paint With Love and neither of them worked for me in any way.

I really don't think there's a way the show could improve at this point but I've been wrong before. Enchante seemed fantastic and then ruined itself entirely in, like, two episodes so... anything is possible!

But, yeah, my biggest problem is just that I can't do brain off shows. I'm always thinking and if the show tries to tell me one thing and show another thing... it doesn't work and I get frustrated.

I see what they're doing with Cher but yeah, manic pixie dream boys just aren't my jam. They can be done well but the show has to give room for that and this show is... not. Not at all.

I'm glad people are enjoying it. I really am. I wish I could.

But instead I'm going to sit here and be frustrated that Gun said that Thyme had every right to the video game they started making together and that is definitely sounds like the game was Thyme's idea but kept working on it nonetheless instead of making even the slightest changes? Like... why? Why would you try to race him instead of just making a slightly different horror game? Listen to Jack! Let him make suggestions! Change the name! Not hard and a much smarter business decision.

... Yeah, this is why I doubt I'll enjoy the show, sadly. Don't worry, I won't tag my negative things, lol.

[beaft]

it is legit bizarre to me how hard video game creators and film directors and showrunners try to pretend that fat people don't exist. can you think of the last time you saw a fat person in a lead role? god forbid a fat woman? i can walk down the street or go into a shop or restaurant and see fat people everywhere but then i switch on the tv and suddenly it's like a glimpse into an alternate universe where no one has a bmi over 24. insidious and weird

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[lemongogo]

dont forget what happened to icarus

[atalana]

but seriously i do find it so funny that ford was like OH GOD MY PRECIOUS REPUTATION after bill possessed him around other people for all of one night

and then he gets back to this dimension after thirty years and this is now the photo the press associates with his name

[perfectlyripeclementine]

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

[cyancees]

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

[cryptocism]

that half-blank, half-apocalyptic look

"i can b ur angle or yuor devil" etc etc "get a man who can do both" etc etc

obsessed with this vamp i think he should get to do whatever he wants forever

[chloesimaginationthings]

Man this scene in FNAF 2 movie is gonna be wild-

[hoshizoralone]

reflection

[kimdokjas]

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

[heretherebedork]

Everyone last week: Look, there's no sexuality crisis! What a mature, fast relationship that makes perfect sense

This week: Sexuality denial and crisis with absolutely no relationship and a timeline of less than month for Gun to have completely changed apparently.

Me: Not even a shocked pikachu face, just rolling my eyes

[hansoeii]

I probably won't finish this piece any time soon, but I wanted to share the unfinished version with you anyways!

[fairsweetlonging]

truth serum / system reveal au where shen qingqiu gets hit with an uncloaking spell that reveals the system in the reflection of his eyes every time it pops up.

during one of his missions, in the treasure hoard of some dragon-like creature, he finds a golden, oval shaped hand mirror, its gaudy style more victorian based than anything (airplane you hack!), that doesn't seem to do anything when he looks into it. but when he does, it reveals the system's screen in his eyes.

he doesn't notice this, of course, because he can't see it, and the system, surprisingly, stays quiet.

the peak lords think he's cursed.

maybe mu qingfang is the first to notice, during the mandatory post mission check-up, when shen qingqiu is scrolling through his most recently accumulated points and mu qingfang can see the strange vividly-blue lines reflected in his pupils. it's gone when shen qingqiu blinks, like it was nothing but a trick of the light.

it comes out when yue qingyuan is visiting and, just as he's done laying out the plans for a new mission, shen qingqiu's eyes glaze over and a bright blue box takes over the whole of his iris. shen qingqiu goes quiet; the thing in his eyes moves, shifts, pulses for a second, like static worms crawling all over his pupils. then he blinks, and it's gone, and shen qingqiu accepts the mission that yue qingyuan was almost sure he would decline.

maybe there is an intervention, when the peak lords corner shen qingqiu at qian cao peak and try to figure out what's wrong, subjecting him to all kinds of treatments and curse-finding spells that turn up empty, they can't find anything.

of course, the silencing threat is still very much up and running. at first shen qingqiu was kind of confused by the whole ordeal, but when the peak lords start describing a "strange blue box", he realizes, with sickening suddenty, that they're describing the system. and he can't say anything.

this only makes everything worse, because their fellow peak lord now keeps evading every question and acts like he doesn't understand. liu qingge points right at his face and asks, "that blue box, what is it?" and shen qingqiu laughs nervously and starts talking about how bright the weather is and surely it's the sky and nothing to worry about!

even worse, during the intervention the system thought it was a good idea to start talking to him, so now even the peak lords who hadn't seen it and who might have been persuaded by light tricks and reflections, get a first row view that no, that definitely isn't a trick of the light.

they try to do the whole thing of "are you in danger, blink twice" but shen qingqiu can't even do that because it's still a direct admittance!

maybe eventually he starts saying vague confirmations that don't actually confirm anything, like "this master hears what you're saying", or maybe he goes with a classic "this master can neither confirm nor deny that." but the system starts warning him for that too and eventually he stops saying anything, which worries the others more.

luckily mu qingfang catches on that every time they ask a direct question about the box or shen qingqiu says anything vaguely confirming, it appears. it doesn't appear when they ask about curses or demons, so it must not see that as a threat.

for a little extra angst: maybe the peak lords keep pressuring him for answers, and at some point shen qingqiu gets fed up and snaps out something like, "why don't you understand that i'm not allowed to answer that!" the system counts this as a direct admittance, threatening it's existence. so it punishes. shen qingqiu has a qi deviation so bad it lasts two weeks and takes two people every day to cleanse his meridians. the system doesn't appear in that time. it doesn't appear for a long while after that, either. the peak lords stop asking, mainly because shen qingqiu will instantly leave the room if they do. they don't stop searching for a cure, though.

shang qinghua returns from a business trip and catches on the second someone mentions a blue box and forced silencing.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

i redesigned the transformers one cast in the style of transformers animated!

[gunstellations]

rival battle ⚔️