#it's just bitching nothing serious but

[rival-the-rose]

I have. So much bitching to do

[fairymousse]

If I see one more unfunny "Miquellestor" joke, I'm going to start biting people

[ssruis]

I’ve seen more posts about mizurui and ohh how will rui comfort mizuki in this situation what’s Rui’s reaction gonna be how will rui take this rui rui rui than mizuena since mizu5. do we have to make everything about one of the four guys in the game. Including an event heavily focusing on the relationship mizuki has with another girl. Serious contender for funniest (in a bad way) responses to a post I’ve seen in a while was the qrts to someone saying “it’s nice to see an implied sapphic transwoman in media bc it’s so rare. This is why I don’t like mizurui.” (benign and valid opinion). Someone said “Ena is just mizuki’s friend her relationship with rui is really romance coded you’re just an idiot.” Someone else said “can we stop posting our opinions on the internet” being 100% genuine. Another person said mizurui would have killed themselves in middle school if they hadn’t met.

[sleepsi]

Ough...The angst in the idea of loop returning to their party and them and Isabeau getting together but it doesn't work because of how different Loop is from Siffrin. Like (to me) Isaloop works because Isabeau doesn't view Loop as a version of Siffrin but learns to love them as their own person, all before actually getting together. (Because Loop isn't siffrin anymore. They've branched into their own person even if they didn't want to, they just don't fit the role anymore. They have to learn that's okay in order to heal.)

(this got a lot longer than I thought so here's a read more)

As much as they hate it, Loop's family has to walk on eggshells. Loop is volatile. And while Isabeau know they'd never hurt him, or anyone else, he also knows that Loop wouldn't tell him if he hurt them. As much as love can heal it's difficult when sometimes Loop leans into him like they need him just to breathe and sometimes just looking at him makes them zone out and claw their arms. They're not telling him anything. They're not communicating how he can avoid hurting them, they're just blaming themselves for being hurt. he can tell it's draining on them, and it's draining on him as well. he hates how he dreads waking up in the middle of the night to Loop's nightmares, to wake them up, only for them to flinch away from him and move into the floor. He dreads touching Loop, even if he wants to because sometimes he just doesn't have the emotional energy to worry about their potential reactions. He doesn't want to eat across from them and watch them pick at their meal, because they wear Siffrin's face. Siffrin, who would scarf down multiple plates at every meal, with a giant smile and big eye, food smeared across his face. Loop doesn't do that. Loop's scared of making a mess. Loop's eye isn't big out of joy, or excitement. They're wide in fear, they're waiting for the other shoe to drop, for their family to finally realize they aren't Siffrin...

Isabeau hates that they're right. They're right to be scared, because Isabeau loved Siffrin. Isabeau could love Loop, but Loop keeps trying to be Siffrin and it hurts. It hurts Isabeau to see this....stranger parade around in Siffrin's face, smiling like a maniac and trying to mimick Siffrin's behaviors.

And Isabeau blames himself. he knows that thinking this way isn't good, he can't go back in time to do anything to change it. But he regrets it. He regrets not telling Siffrin he loved them, because maybe if he had said something earlier, Siffrin would still be here. If he had told them, Siffrin wouldn't have died alone and scared, thinking that no one cared about them. Maybe if he had told them, they'd have eternity together, frozen in time by the king.

[vanillaboyfriend]

that edit is doing better than i expected :) yippee

[apartmentdemo]

palaye royale in royal television s4e1

[mushed-kid]

there’s a norwegian saying that goes “det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlig klær” which basically translates to “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing”, and we take that shit serious cause why is there literally a hurricane coming in tonight and they’re still not closing my school for one day. ONE SINGLE DAY

[saph-yells-into-the-void]

you aren't any better than anyone else for disliking a ship. y'all know this, right? ....right?

[kcuf-ad]

SML related youtubers with Logan/SML

[autumn-applepie]

University ever pushes you so low you have to go buy a couple of beers? /srs/neg

I'm gonna vent in the tags for a moment humor me for once /gen

[lewyn-martell]

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[ugly-lizard-crab-thing]

*getting an eeg scan*

*tech can't pick up my brain waves*

It's official. I have no brain

[theinfinitedivides]

this is so random but i would love to hear your opinion on mydramalist as a fellow asian drama lover. because it’s obviously well known as a reliable wiki of sorts in dramaland but i beg to differ. (the only plus i feel being the summary and cast list for info)

i mean, i’ve not seen a single comsec w more than two brain cells as a whole? there’s always complaints about female leads rooted from misogyny, they are never happy about story progression, and i just find so many of them kinda dumb sorry lol. like zero media literacy to be found, insufferable arguments, etc. the star ratings are rly just given to popular dramas w high profile actors too.

and i personally find it disheartening that so many ppl end up referring to mdl when considering dramas because so many gems are then lost and not given appreciation.

anon. anon anon anon if you know the way i sat straight the f*ck up when i saw the notification and then read through this ask bc yes. yes to everything here that is exactly it. almost three fourths of what i've watched this year was either 1. not received well by the general MDL crowd (Moon in the Day. where is the taste brethren to not like MITD and not even for reasons that actually make sense), 2. received well but had a good chunk of people bitching in the comment section, or 3. received well but had the main point of the show (and its relevant characterization) go over their heads. (The Worst of Evil aka TWOE comment section, i am f*cking looking at you. i can count on one hand the number of people who understood what that show was supposed to be about) the one fourth that managed to escape was bc the toxicity did not reach the comment section and everyone was pretty f*cking civil. alas if only it could be like that all of the time

case in point for the ratings example, since we've already briefly tackled the lack of media literacy—j-dramas on MDL are notoriously rated much, much lower than either k- or c-dramas. half of the time that's bc there are less users watching (and rating) them therefore the average is lower but the other half it's bc people simply do not understand good media when they see it. don't get me wrong there's some freaky ass sh*t in the j-drama world that i would not touch with a Grinch level pole but to see MDLers out here talking about how slow j-dramas are and that nothing's happening. have you considered that you are either watching the wrong genre or you shouldn't be watching j-dramas in the first place bc their entire setup and general narrative framing arcs are not your style. have you even thought about that for six seconds or are you too busy expecting it to read like a typical tropey rom-com k-drama with your trending oppas. (no hate on my tropey rom-coms with [most of] said oppas, i need them when i don't want to think i just want to see sh*t on my screen and scream about hot people and the Hand Umbrellas in the Rain and the Back Hold when the male lead catches the female lead before she falls and you have the fifteen second focus on their faces just looking at each other)

and the misogyny. oh God do not get me started on the dichotomy that was the Cult, as we affectionatly called ourselves, on the feeds while THEE sageuk of the year My Dearest was airing (beloved show [that i still need to finish. JangChae i'm sorry ily life hates me like the mf it is 😭], beloved commentary on the feeds. they saw the vision on the feeds) vs the sh*tshow that was the landmine field of the comment section (the takes i saw on Gil Chae, Eun Ae AND Ryang Eum respectively.......... the misogyny wasn't enough we had to add the homophobia into the mix. buy one get one free deal fr fr). you mad man. that sh*t was insane there was a point i banned myself from scrolling farther than the cast section until the show finished airing. i kid you not on average they didn't have even half a braincell. maybe a quarter of a quarter of one. f*cked up just say you are not decent people and go

this is not to say that all of MDL is like this. i have gotten tuned into absolute masterpieces of content (and have tuned others, amen) bc of a comment comparing a show i'm watching to another one or a review being posted in the feeds about a film with less than 500 people interested. i have reconsidered my choice to not watch something after having spirited discussions in private messages discussing the pros and cons of the premise and whether they managed to get it done without f*cking sh*t up. i still contribute semi-regularly by adding relatively unknown actors and crew members to the database so they can get the credit due them. if you know where to look, you can get some good sh*t out of that place. problem is most users who are new to both the site and East/Southeast Asian cinema as a whole don't know where to look, and the cycle continues, and the ratings continue to be skewed/bloated and no one pays attention to the plot, if there even is any to pay attention to.

tl;dr: begging people to not let MDL be the be all end all for their drama recs a la 'well MDL doesn't like it so i won't watch it'. babe we have said MDLers complaining about how the ratings on Viki are too high but in my entire time watching dramas i've found that in the past two to three years the Viki ratings are making more sense than the MDL ones. sit with that for a sec. when you're done branch out and see the world (literally and cinematically), i promise you will be a better person for it

[bbrabbits]

that squid game reality show genuinely & sincerely makes me so irrationally angry & the stupid ass takes surrounding it make it so much worse.

i actually sincerely cant handle it. it makes me so irate bruh

[crafiet]

Everytime I try to read shoujo romance I just can't take it seriously

[rachymarie]

High-masking mfers could practically beg the healthcare department for help for months with tears in our eyes* and they will still say "soz but you're not suicidal so you don't need help but here's a weekly educational group for an illness you don't even have and u are not allowed to talk about anything but the specified illnesses which you don't experience making you feel more alienated and isolated than ever lolz"