#maybe i'll rewatch one day..

[ididgettomeetyou]

I think using LOK as a gotcha against kataang is a fallacy. not everyone watched LOK/ not everyone cares about lok.. some of us got bored during s2 and haven't watched it since after korra lost touch with her past avatars and called it quits cause the writing teethed us off.

plus.. Fanon ideas are allowed to exist.. the show can tell us one thing and we don't have to agree with it.. I mean zutara is fanon/ taang is fanon.. so kataang fans are allowed to make hcs of their own about future kataang i dont need it to be perfect either im just saying lok .. i didn't even get past s2 so i don't care about using it to prove kataang=bad.. it bored me,

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I did ship korra/bolin for the 5 seconds they had together. .. i think it makes more sense than her and makko no hate to mako but man did makorraa feel forced

[thirddoctor]

whenever I remember how good Missy was I'm like. man. will us Master fans ever feast that well again

[billpottsismygf]

Mockumentaries

The mockumentary format can be really fun, but I've been thinking more and more about how it's not always used to its best effect. Binge watching Abbott Elementary is what has really brought some of the specifics of this into focus, and it's what is freshest in my mind at the moment, but it isn't limited to one show. My problems with it manifest in many ways, and there's nuance to all of them, but to boil them down to their essentials it's usually:

Characters doing/admitting things they want to keep secret, either from the world or from other characters, while aware they are being filmed

Shows going on for years and years, which indicates either that the documentary crew are sitting on years' worth of footage or that the fictional documentary is being released year by year equivalent to how we see the real show

Characters going off to have private moments and acting as if there isn't a cameraman (or several for all those extra angles) two feet away from them.

On the first point, especially egregious examples include the breaking of laws or rules. My main example, because it's the episode I'm halfway through right now and the thing that compelled me to make this post right now, is everyone at Abbott trying to hide the fact that they got the computers as bribes from the golf course. Even if they deceive this one guy (I'm five minutes from the end), it's going to get out eventually via this documentary they're all so happily admitting it to. This goes for various things throughout the show, including more than one plot-important blackmailing.

Even when it isn't something illegal, there are plenty of things that characters are trying to keep secret from other characters, and yet they're brazenly doing or talking about it on camera. Relating this to the second bullet point, it is thus weird when characters find out information in later seasons from interactions with one another, when they should have found that out from watching the prior season (if we assume that is how the documentary functions).

I thought about these first two bullet points a lot during the latter seasons of What We Do in the Shadows, particularly whenever the characters would emphasise that vampires are meant to be secret (eg. when Nandor appeared on the news and they freaked out, or when Nadja yelled at Nandor for sponsoring a marathon during the Vampiric council stuff). They did at least fix all this in the final episode, with the vampires explaining that they've had many documentaries made about them and none of them have ever aired, which is the sort of absurdity that fits really well in the wwdits universe. Even so, this was a last minute addition and my experience of the show as a whole was (very slightly) marred by this dissonance.

On the third bullet point, this is possibly the most egregious because it often takes me out of the most emotional scenes. This especially goes for characters sneaking off to be alone. Sometimes we only see these moments from a distance, as the camera crew has to sneak an angle to catch the character unawares, which works a lot better. Sometimes, though, this goes out the window. Because I watched it yesterday, my mind goes to Janine leaving her School District party to be alone in her office, where there are two different close up angles from inside this very small room. It's not inconceivable that she'd still be able to experience this big moment without acknowledging that she's being filmed from very close up, but it doesn't feel entirely realistic, and there are plenty of similar moments throughout Abbott Elementary and other shows.

There are lots of other little things that can break the immersion - such as the (multiple) cameras already being in the flower classroom when Janine and Gregory have their first kiss, given that J&G think the place is locked and no one is meant to be there. So, the camera crew just ran ahead, got inside and waited, then Janine and Gregory break in and don't even acknowledge the fact that these people who've been filming them for however long are already in there? - but it would be impossible to name them all individually.

It works best for me when the cameras are acknowledged as part of the world. You want to make it so that these characters know they're being filmed? Use that! For example, when Janine and Gregory actually get together and have their second kiss, Gregory dismisses and shuts them out! It still felt weird to me that they started kissing when the cameras were right there, but I love that they chose to acknowledge that it would be forced and unnatural for these two characters to finally get together while a camera crew stared at and filmed them at close quarters.

Anyway, this isn't supposed to be a rant against any particular show's use of the mockumentary format (apologies to Abbott for being my main source of examples). It's more an observation of the way it's used (or misused) in general. If I could be bothered, I'd watch a bunch of shows and take notes every time something bothers me, but it's not that big of a deal. I can see why showrunners choose the mockumentary format, as it allows characters to express their thoughts directly to camera. This can be very valuable, especially since theatrical soliloqoys feel out of place in most standard TV shows. However, while I can suspend my disbelief to an extent, it does often take me out of the world and I'd love to see more care taken when figuring out how the fact that these characters are being filmed would affect the way they act.

[minamotoz]

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Rewatching old QSMP clips is such a mixed bag because it'll be a +20 nostalgia / happiness boost but also a -20 psychic damage / depression nerf o(-(

[vladraculas]

S5 rewatch thoughts

so yeah, i made this post 3 years ago when i actually rewatched s5 for the first time and i can't believe it's been so long and i never posted this but here you go, finally

still didn't like the half breather thing and the amount of plot holes it brought with it, and how it changed Vlad's whole history and family but we're not gonna get into that

Ingrid's storyline early s5 was cool, i kinda wish we would've seen more of the VHC and her clawing her way up

the misogynistic vampires were infuriating me so much ugh

I kinda enjoyed Vlad's attitude, i feel like he was more sarcastic in this season??

Living for Ingrid's outfits (and Vlad had some good ones too)

Asan is adorable, with Ramanga gone I'm adopting him, he's my son now

I never liked the idea of Malik being a Dracula so I'm glad they set that right but I don’t like that it was like 14 episodes making us believe it's true and then going back on it also RIP Malik

they really made The Count and Renfield a comedic duo all the time, i know it's there to lighten things up in midst the other more serious storylines but it feels a little out of place amongst it and i wish the Count was a little less cartoon-ish at times

Piers was fun, his accent is fun but i actually struggled with understanding him sometimes lmao but i liked the whole technology stuff he brought into it and yeah he seems right up Ingrid's alley - human and bold and not scared of her, that's her type

I also like Talitha, her being the bodyguard was kind of a cool plot twist actually (I'm glad her father came through in the end)

I don't mind Vlad and Talitha as a couple (he finally got a healthier relationship) but I also would've liked them just being good friends

Malik and Ingrid are still a badass duo that has great chemistry that i guess you can ship now that they're not actually related whoops

I don't like how for most of the season Vlad didn't have his powers and we barely saw him doing vampire-y stuff, i always liked the little power displays like the speeding or fireballs or the vamp face and that was definitely missing for me

Vlad and Sally had a few nice moments but i wish they had more conversations and talked about how each their lives were before, that would've been interesting...

the finale almost made me cry, the last few minutes were so beautiful

I'm just glad that Vlad chose full vampire in the end and i like to think it had to do more than with just Talitha

I liked the whole "we're a new generation of vampires" and the ending with "immortality is a long time, who knows what will happen" you could elaborate and continue with a s6 and spin it further but it also stands nicely on its own, for me it was a satisfying conclusion to the show

[notonlymice]

the best girls (my opinion) (movies only)

[abloodycrow]

Could write paragraphs upon paragraphs of the costumes in JATP.

How once Julie's discovered her colour she starts wearing stuff that brings all of their colours together? The butterfly shirt, her jumper in Unsaid Emily.

The fact that purple is not only Julie's colour but it's also Caleb's colour, because the boys have those two as their options. Julie or Caleb.

The fact that the tiny blink and you miss it detail of Julie wearing the leather vest jacket in Finally Free being the one Rose wore in the first scene.

Luke's mom wearing blue when Julie visits them :)

I've already talked plenty about the boy's suits which I still love and adore.

[srdcovka]

top 5 romcoms

naur this is so hard 😭 im gonna make up fake rule and only list 90s-00s ones

1. when harry met sally (u knew this was coming)

2. 27 dresses

3. while you were sleeping

4. mamma mia

5. how to lose a guy in 10 days

[heartcircus]

i think one of my fav parts of wemmbu's new video is when he talks to wato right before he meets up with zam again . i have a lot of thoughts abt that convo but i cant properly formulate them rn lol

[hkthatgffan]

In season 5 episode 6 of Phineas and Ferb Perry do his bad shot with Dr. Doofenshmirtz is look like the picture of young Moon battle with Toffee from Star vs. the Forces of Evil?

Interesting. ISTG, Star Vs had so many interesting bits of lore and shit like this looking back on it. It's so frustrating that a majority of the fandom just had shipping brainrot and didn't give AF about this stuff. And by the time those fans left, so did all the lore interested ones too who moved on to Amphibia or TOH and so the fandom all but died.

Part of why I dislike SVTFOE so much now is just my bad experience with the fandom. I know fandom and show should be 2 separate things you look at, but bruh, you couldn't go anywhere in the Star fandom back then without the conversation devolving into Starco. We get a lore episode, "that's nice, when's the next Starco episode!" We get a fun little episode, "STARCO WHEN!" Go on any of Daron Nefcy's old tweets and IG posts and you'll probably see them flooded with comments from Star accounts last active 6 years ago begging for it.

AGHHHHHHH. It was so frustrating and I swore off ever dealing with any fandom that was more interested in shipping than the show lore. Kudos to TOH fandom in that sense. Even though I scaled by my interest with that show and fandom given I was more into Amphibia, I honestly felt there always was like a balance between the fandom's obsession with lumity and the series lore itself, so it never felt like shipping was too overbearing in it. It's what the Star fandom could've been.

Then again, I was also a lot younger and inexperienced with fandoms, so I didn't know perhaps where to look to find people who had similar interests as I did about it. Guess my inexperience and lack of know how to navigate it all just allowed me to fall into a bad crowd with that show and it left a bad taste in my mouth combined with all the other flaws I had with it. I'm glad I made it out of that fandom unharmed but man, did I see and learn things I probably never should've then. I'll stick to the GF fandom, TYVM.

Anyways, I'm rambling now. Cool reference. I mean, not probably a reference to that specifically, but cool comparison either way.

[littlehaize]

Got a niche movie you like, that you wish more people talked about?

lucky and zorba by enzo d'alò, an italian movie from 1998 based on the story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly by luis sepúlveda, a spanish book from 1996

summary: a seagull is caught by the black tide of a siking petrol shio. she manages to fly inland and falls down in a garden by a cat. moribund, she asks the cat to fulfill three promises: that when she lays her egg he must not eat it; that he must take care of it until it hatches; that he would teach the newborn how to fly.

i do not have much to say about it because i have a hard time being objective about it as it is one of my childhood movies that i thought i lost and had the chance of finding it a few months ago and was just transported by the beautiful story it is, the main themes are family and finding yourself, which are shown in very touching manners, there are songs that are beautiful, there is humor, there are hard topics talked about (death, black tide); in my very honest opinion, it is a very touching story that will give a smile and i cannot recommend it enough

sure, it can feel outdated animation wise, but i don't find it awful, it is good from the time it came out and i do think it age quite well, not perfect, but well at least

thank you for the ask!

[gardenerian]

#BringBackTagYappinMel2025

be careful what you wish for darling ray but ofc i will yap till the cows come home if u like 😘

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

yaz voice: i keep thinking,,, i keep thinking abt the.....future affecting the past of it all. the "if he runs out of time the hostile action would end and a time machine would know", "im fine because you fixed yourself", and "because it's not a grave"

like if it were me. if it were me. i still would have gone with the villa diodati conundrum. "save the poet, save the universe" what do we do when the poet IS the universe. "watch people burn now or tomorrow" like the distinction exists? like tomorrow isnt yesterday?

so we make them face the child. the doctor loses this one, right? too beholden to their rules. lost with shelley, will lose with the child. because there is no way to win it. not with the rules of the universe theyve clung to up to this point. not without play

so theres a child that needs to be saved but the doctor cant do it because it will take the foundation out from under the universe. she Can Not interfere. she fails to be the doctor when it comes to herself. but yaz is there. doctor's doctor. wont accept this. saves the child

the universe crumbles, but this or tecteun's revenge the outcome is similar except. the universe that crumbles if you save the child is the timelords' universe, their imposed histories, their laws, their logic. nothing makes sense anymore. it's terrifying. gotta let go gotta let go gotta let go. you HAVE to play. play or perish. please it's not that serious. it's just identity! funniest game there is. listen to the master; tag, youre it

[thecandymaticart]

Day 19. Dolls, Puppets, etc.

I had a different idea for what to draw but didn't feel motivated, and then I remembered this old anime I used to watch as a kid. Definitely had a lot of fun with this, but also I felt I made her look too babyish.

[sunshinereddie]

it should be illegal that its already october 19th and i've only made it to halfway through s1 of my yearly spn rewatch T^T i just havent had time this autumn to do anything period but not having time to rewatch spn makes me PHYSICALLY HURT bc i do it every year......... its my tradition........ GRRAAAHHH IM KILLING YOU MY IRL RESPONSIBILITIES