#live tv was a wonderful time

[ceruleanhouse]

i’m going through a once upon a time rewatch at the moment… up to ep18 in two days like this is serious y’all.. emma swan snow white my original lesbian awakenings i love you

[a-whole-tempest-in-a-teacup]

Something something Percy telling Annabeth to just be a kid. Something something the studio teachers letting Walker, Aryan and Leah pursue their interests in between filming and giving them space to breathe during intense rehearsals and shoots.

Something something the entire pjo team trusting this trio of young actors to be the face of a huge and complex mythological series while giving them the respect, care, and support they need to perform to such a high standard and enjoy the work they're doing. And amongst all that, working on crazy sets with stunt work and long days, making sure they get the chance to just be kids.

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Akechi keeps sending messages to hang out but there's no rank up 😔

[mila-carat]

I was watching this Chinese variety show just to see Ricky and Zhang Hao but then I saw one of the hosts was Zhang Zhenyuan and now I want to cry… 😭💔

[aeolianblues]

I’ve only just watched the first episode of the new Taskmaster today, and the thing is, everyone’s rightfully cracking up at John’s line about the 2 hours spent working out health and safety and insurance with the producers, it’s very funny, but it genuinely took me a little while to remember how funny it is. It’s the John exposure. As a regular listener to the Elis and John radio shows over the years, you just know that this is genuinely how John is. He’ll mention—and probably even get excited to go over the nerdy details of what counts in the car insurance, I can swear he’s done that on Radio X before. He’s the guy that will do an hour long standup special concerning slotted spoons (with a side of anxiety). He’s wildly funny, but to listeners of the Elis and John shows, this is just Friday afternoon.

[rosalie-starfall]

Jane Curtin

Saturday Night Live November 15th 1975

[psalmsofpsychosis]

So, i finished watching Batman (2022). Long story short, it's wonderful. The cinematography and the atmosphere are simply impeccable, it's got one of the best productions i have seen in blockbuster superhero movies in the last decade. The flow of the movie is perfectly executed and choreographed; it's a truly seamless visual experience, eye candy to the bone, and the story is intriguing and lovely and pleasing to the senses too. It's a reasonably well made movie.

It also does quite remind me of my main point of disdain towards live action Batman depictions post-Batman&Robin, which is, i think fellas take Batman way too seriously.

Listen, the guy walks around with fucking pikachu ears on for fucks sake. I dont think that straight up looney tunes comic relief is the right flavour to put in the live action batmanverse blender, even though it has the potential to be incorporated very well, but. There's a certain quality of offbeat, paculiar weirdness to Batman, a quality of almost playful and offputting bizarre wit, there always has been. He's got a fucking sith pikachu mask on. It's very human, very endearing almost. it's an element of imagination and wonder which is something Bruce Wayne has, even when it's corrupted to only include doom and gloom scenarios.

and the comics successfully translate that subtle wit and uncomfortable quality of all the characters, including Batman, by incorporating acidic colors, borderline hallucination-esque imageries, warped character designs, the whole thing feels like the worst acid trip you've ever had in an alley behind a bar and that's how the tone carries. It's how the worldbuilding and the characters feel congruent and authentic. The colors also give Batman a dynamic personhood by depicting his unceremonious humanity as much as they buff him up. There's a fun and gore-ish, psychopathic sincerity to the comics.

and the movies absolutely take that element out and all you get is the most "just some guy" artless character depictions and Batman himself doesn't feel human. he is written way too seriously for a guy who has pikachu ears and wears his underwear on his pants.

And this is by no means a Batman (2022) problem; it's a persisting trend of live action superhero media progressively stripping their stories of heart and soul because executive fellas have cought the "THIS IS A BIG FUCKING DEAL!!!!! EVERYTHING IS SO SERIOUS HERE!!!!!" disease and think giving superhero narratives their color and humanity back somehow makes them less poignant and significant. There's no sense of dynamism and wit to the batman movies, and the tone and atmosphere of Batman (2022) is fucking gorgeous, it's a singular experience, but it feels so out of place with Batman. It feels like Batman's costume belongs to another movie entirely, something more playful and weird.

[silent-partner-412]

ok now that the dust has settled i need to be honest and say i’m a bit disappointed we have to wait even longer for the final re-recorded albums.

look, taylor can do whatever the hell she wants and there’s no way i’m not listening to a brand new album she releases. the visuals for it look great, i love the title, and even if i hated all of what we’ve seen i’d still listen to it cuz it’s fucking taylor. but also, we’ve been in this re-recording era for three years almost. by the time tortured poets department releases, fearless tv will be over three years old, yet we still don’t have reputation or debut tv. i just don’t get what the wait is for considering the genesis of the whole project was that she wanted to reclaim her art (which, to be clear, was something she was talking about in 2019 when lover was new).

like i said, i’m not mad about new music cuz that would just be foolish. but i really just want to move on with the re-recordings, and i feel like taylor would want to as well.

[toasted-valentine]

@pyrotechnicarus was right, that tv can fucking glow.

[sunnyvaiprion]

Anti-Senti measures

[the-physicality]

so i did watch jocks in jills as per my usual monday routine

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

a hard thing about having my brain is that when i am really into something, i enter a state of weird mania where my creative energy is completely crackling and tireless and single-minded, as evinced by the three fics, one vid, and one zillion posts i have inflicted upon the romangerri tumblr community since sunday D:

[todayisafridaynight]

*head in hands* whats the opinion on the yakuza tv series brother

i cant have an opinion on a thing when the thing aint even out yet brother

[icewindandboringhorror]

oh my god.. a job for me.. historical pierrot beach performer lol

[feralnumberfive]

Oh, oh, oh-oh, oh.....

[arttheclown]

god what an incredible year i’ve had. 2022 was undoubtedly one of the best of my life and i can barely wrap my head around it.