#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.

[raimagnolia]

Nah, I actually liked the movie and y'all can kiss my ass

God dayum did M3gan make me more wary of technology But also, i think it's hella ironic that this woman, who has low empathy, created an ai robot for kids, and forgot to do what?

Make her have empathy.

She gave M3gan intelligence, CBT practice, mental health diagnostic capabilities, and a highly rational thought process... making her the smartest, most manipulative psychopath in the room without empathy or an intrinsic moral code; only orders.

She did, essentially, create a person. But because she never had that intention, she didn't get M3gan what she needed that she lacked which is only seen if you compare her to a human being and not a program.

And then THE TWIST??

"Jesus Christ, I thought we were friends." it's a funny line thrown into the trailers, but what's funny? in the actual scene it was never meant to be said sarcastically. it was genuine.

you realize M3gan was never a second child; she was a second woman.

"our child"

she wanted to raise Cady as a CO-parent. It was Cady's AUNT she was attached to and felt betrayed by, because the feelings weren't mutual. That's why every clipped command she was given, M3gan initially complied but not without an air of "bitch who you think you're talking to?" I loved it.

(edit: there's a weird take spreading around that is hitting outside of joking territory, and that's "Megan did nothing wrong"- girl, she literally tried to kill the aunt AND the child, get therapy)

Also,

Look at this cutie!!!

Amie Donald! You kicked ass in this movie!

[ray935sworld]

VR's academy of supernatural riders (Part 16: Brain overload)

TW: This chapter contains thinking about character death and includes remebering past injuries and therefore blood

Alex brain went in overload. There was a hand on his arm. He felt it clearly. Fingers holding onto his arms. It wasn’t a tight grip. It wasn’t violent or demanding. The pressure was noticeable but far from too much. It felt soft. Caring.

He looked up. He stared at Dani and Jorge. They were across the room. There was no way they could touch him from over there.

There was only one other person present.

“Alex?” He would be able to recognize that voice everywhere. Through every storm or loud music, he had recognized that voice for ages now. His whole life, this voice was ever present.

He felt his breath being knocked out of his lunges. It felt unreal after the last few days. Like it was a dream. Like he had fallen asleep and was just dreaming, his mind coming up with unreal scenes to handle everything.

What if he was going crazy? What if this was all his imagination? What if Marc had passed away already and Alex brain had come up with all this to cope with the lost. Maybe he was home somewhere, being held by Luca, when his brother was buried deep under the earth, lost for eternity. Maybe he had fallen asleep in the car when they left the hospital, leaving Marc’s body behind, turning cold all alone.

And all this – Luca hurting Marc, the werewolf story, and the voice whispering his voice – was just made up to deal with it, to try and escape the pain.

He remembered the dream in which he had visit Marc grave. What if it hadn’t been a dream? What if that was the reality and this was the real dream.

Too much crossed his mind all at once. He couldn’t help it. His mind wouldn’t shut up. Too many emotions, fear and hope, mixed. How could they feel so different and be so close at the same time. For a second his chest hurt from the lack of oxygen. It felt empty like he was suffocating. Like someone had thrown a stone at his chest that pulled his skin back.

Then he turned towards his brother.

His older brother looked at him, his eyes tiny, almost again swallowed by his eye lids, but he looked at him. He could see the movements when trying to scan the room. He moved. He was alive. His gaze then stayed on Alex. He just stared at him, not actually saying a word. His mouth hang slightly open. Salvia was running down his cheek.

‘Like a wolf’ Dani thought as he spotted it, but kept quite since the brothers deserved this moment. He decided to give them space. There was no real reason for them to be there, so he stood up, his hand held tight in Jorge’s as they left the room.

None of the brothers had notice them leave. Marc looked too tired to actually notice anything beside the most obvious things placed right under his noise. He reminded Alex a little bit of the close to black out drunk version of his brother. But he blamed it on the strong medication the other had been given. They must still affect him. Not that he cared. He would take his brother drunk, high or however

He swallowed thickly. It felt like there was a huge lump stuck in his throat. He didn't quite believe his luck yet. “Marc” Alex exclaimed careful, his heart beating faster than before. He felt tears forming in his eyes so he quickly blinked them away. He needed to make sure Marc was actually alright. Therefore, he had to see him clearly.

He had to make sure that this was real. That he wasn’t locked in some kind of fucked up reality that would only end up hurting once it came crushing down. He wanted to protect himself from that feeling. He looked at his brother. He almost expected to wake up or see the scene change in someway. But it didn't. It stayed like that. Every detail like it was fixed in that spot.

But it seemed like he hadn’t been tricked. He still saw his brother, alive and moving. He watched him blink and smile a crooked grin at him. That was all the confirmation he actually needed.

Alex wanted to cry and jump and yell. But he didn’t want to be separate from his brother. Instead, he stood up and threw himself against his brother. He heard a laughing yelp leave his mouth but he didn’t care at that moment. A heavy weight was lifted from him. He felt free again. There was no crushing pain buried inside himself that kept nagging him. No.

He grab him close like his life depend on it. And it did. In a way. “Marc. Marc, come on. Marc, can you hear me?” he asked still slightly anxious. He clutched to his brother body, aware of every movement. Feeling how his chest moved up and down and up again, regularly, in a normal rhythm and without any trouble. “Please- Please answer me” he begged.

He felt skin. And bones. He was real. This was no dream, no hallucination. This was real. His hands looked for his wrist, the unharmed one. He took it, desperately. His hands were shaking. It was almost impossible to hold still but he managed to find a pulse. He felt the blood pumping against his fingers and laughed in relief. “Yeah, of… of course I can hear you, idiot. What’s going on?” Marc asked tired. “Oh thank god… Doesn’t matter. Not right now. I’ll tell you later” “Kay”

Alex grinned and just hugged him, pressing himself against his older brother. And now he wasn’t able to hold back his tears anymore. He felt how he started to cry. Sobs were shaking through his chest. He was full on crying and sobbing against Marc but at the same time he was laughing with relief.

He cuddle as close as he could and felt Marc weakly respond to that. He felt how his arms hugged him. Not as tightly as normally but at least he felt the reassuring pressure that he was alive and well.

They stayed like that. Alex sobbing and laughing in relief, Marc unable to process anything that was happening. He tried to remember what had happened but he failed. His mind seemed to be blank. It was like fog covering his memories, beside certain things.

He knew that he was meeting with Alex. And Luca. Where was he, by the way? Confused he looked around. He trusted Luca and it wasn’t like him to leave Alex alone when he crying like that. Marc trusted Luca when it came to his younger brother. So why wasn’t he around?

Or had he left after he woke up? No. No, only Dani and Jorge had been there? Right?

His mind seemed to go in circles. But he didn’t really care. He didn’t care one bit, not when Alex was here, crying until Marc’s shit was stained with tears.

So he just hold him. He tried to hold him as close as possible. He wanted Alex to feel safe. Just like when they were kids.

Alex used to sneak in Marc’s room when he was younger just to cuddle. They often fell asleep like that. And they always ended up in a pile of blankets and pillows when there was a thunderstorm or the rain was too loud for the children’s ears.

Marc looked towards the window. The curtains were slightly open. It seemed to be dry. No rain. So why was Alex scared? They were together so nothing could hurt them. Not anymore.

They stayed like this for some time. It wasn’t important how long. As long as it was long enough for Alex to calm down.

When his sobs started to die down, he sat up. There was still tears and snot running down his face which he quickly wiped away. He took a deep breath, trying to make sense of the situation and find out how to proceed as Marc asked. “Alex… Are you okay? Why were you scared?”

He wanted to laugh out loud at that. He smiled, remembering that they used to cuddle as kids whenever they were scared. He smiled that this was his first association. “I’m okay” he answered smiling brightly. “You just gave us a big scare, you asshole” “Oh… I did?” “Yeah… The scare of a life time, actually” “Oh… Well, that wasn’t very nice of me” “No, it really wasn’t”

Marc looked a little but like a child. He had that innocent and slightly guilty look in his eyes that seemed to indicate that he knew he fucked up but he didn’t exactly understand why or how. “I’m sorry” he said with a small sad face.

“I know. It’s okay. I know you didn’t mean… Now it’s okay. I needed a miracle and…” he swallowed hard. He thought back to the last hours. He hadn’t even noticed that it been days since the accident. Hours had passed since Luca had left. “I got it”

He exactly remembered the way he felt when he first was lead in Marc room. It felt like he had been losing his mind. Like he had crashed himself and he was hitting the wall. But the feeling remained. It was like he had been stuck at the feeling of being crushed against a wall.

And then he witnessed Luca being covered in Marc’s blood.

He saw it so clearly in front of him. Like it was happening right now but this time he had the opportunity to take it in. He saw the blood staining Luca’s finger. The drops were detailed and dark red. There was a lot. And it kept running over his hand before staining his cloths more.

He felt the stung in his stomach but since this time, his body didn’t fill up with adrenaline, he didn’t move or scream or reacted. He had to feel it. He felt the fear of having lost his brother all over again. He felt the pain and the fear mix with hatred.

He didn’t mean to. He tried to get ride of those thoughts and tell himself it wasn’t as bad. Luca had just done what he had to. Afterall, he was the reason his brother was still looking at him and answered his question. So was it really the attempted murder he thought he had witnessed. Probably not. Maybe not.

But it felt like that.

And he struggled a lot with convincing himself that it wasn’t. Luca had been standing there, having broken Marc skin. He had torn his veins open like it was paper and had let the blood run all over him and the bed – his hospital bed, where he had been brought to heal, to rest, to be safe. He had destroyed that safety in a violent way.

And he had destroyed the trust Alex had in him. He had trusting him with literally the most important person in his life and had to come back to that scene.

Not to mention that apparently Luca hadn’t really trusted him in the first place. Or why did he not tell him about his little secret? Why did he thought Alex couldn’t be trusted with his real identity – status – being – or whatever it was called.

He had trusted him. And he had thought that he was being trusted.

Finding out he was wrong hurt more than he liked to admit.

But at the end, Luca and his questionable action had saved his brother. And he wasn’t supposed to be there when Luca did what he did. So he shouldn’t really blame him.

But did the goal really excuse the methods and everything broken on the way?

Alex had always felt his feeling very strongly. He struggled with staying level-headed in certain situations. And right now, he wished he could just turn his emotions off and the objective side.

Luca hadn’t tried to kill Marc. He had tried to safe him. He hadn’t put him in more danger. It was more Alex that had added more risk by not letting Luca continue and throwing him out without hearing his explanation. Even though he doubt, looking back, he would have believed him.

He sighed, his mind tiring itself once more.

“I didn’t mean to scare you” a voice broke his concentration. Maybe he wasn’t as in control of his facial expression as he had thought. Marc must have noticed the worry creeping in his face.

He looked at his brother. But his eyes were closed. He was leaning in the cushions, on the verge of sleep again, as expected. “Really… I … I didn’t want that” His voice low and soft, he was clearly almost asleep again. “I know. Marc, I know. Don’t worry” “But you’re afraid. You are half scared to death”

He looked at him questioning, unsure how to respond to that statement as it wasn’t untrue. Still he had thought he had been better at hiding his original thought process. Apparently not. Even a half-asleep Marc could see through him.

“Oh and tell Vale I’m sorry too… I didn’t mean to scare him”

Wait what?

[incarcerationofaflowerchild]

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

[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

[ugly-lizard-crab-thing]

*getting an eeg scan*

*tech can't pick up my brain waves*

It's official. I have no brain

[vanillaboyfriend]

that edit is doing better than i expected :) yippee

[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

[ozlices]

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

[snazum]

me trying to stroll thru the ted nivison tag on tumblr for some sick art X READER, IMAGINE, OTHER THINGS I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF EVEN THO IT'S QUITE LITERATLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME XDD

[unproduciblesmackdown]

mordecai is the first funny bitch like spends 90% of his time literally just standing there going "i'm dapressed" to himself while everyone in the vicinity takes potshots and then he's clocking in for the night shift where for the next 9 hours people go "god mordecai would it kill you to act like you're having more fun at the [kills you] factory"

[monsterhugger]

yknow sometimes i get why tumblr had so many insanely obvious hoaxes gain traction bc the way some people on here will eviscerate people for being even slightly incredulous about something is honestly scary