#ml always playing the victim

[rarereceipts]

At the time this was a bombshell! 💣💥💥

September 12th & 2 years today

GB have been accused, since before they ever got to be friends, of cheating. (Still to this day, I see people repeating those lies) 🙄 She used this lie for years to play the victim! It was like, "Awwwww, everybody feel sorry for the poor, depressed, heartbroken, cheated on victim of B's adultery and mistreatment." It was all total Bull$***

Here, we have proof that M & AE were definitely the couple that moved on first. GB took years of negative press and sm abuse from the industry, fans, haters and rando's. Every. Single. Day. For. 2 YEARS.

I remember those days well. I also remember articles & tweets of shocked people apologizing after her "anniversary" post.

She is such a 👹. She and her fans spread around alot of toxic lies and hate for the fun of it. Years of this piled on until the EF debacle when B posted his karma tweet.

Feel free to add on, whatever I've missed..✌🏼

[dangermousie]

Top Dozen 2023 drama MLs so far

It's August, so not the end of the year, neither it is at halfway year mark, but why would I ever do anything like a normal person? Here my very very subjective list. I have limited myself to one dude per drama or LYF would be half the list. No order except alphabetical.

Chen Wende (Sun Yizhou in Gone With the Rain, China)

The epic troll lord stole the whole drama as competently as he stole the FL's heart. He was competent and adult and oh-so-amused by but also gone for the heroine.

Gu Jiusi (Bai Jing Ting in Chang Feng Du/Destined, China)

CFD lost steam for me halfway through but Jiusi's character remained a delight throughout and BJT gave a great performance as a golden boy who went through a bunch of hell and grew up but remained goodnatured at heart.

Han Dong Jin (Kim Young Kwang in Call It Love, Korea)

You know, he and Jing (from LYF1) really fit the same mold even if one is in a mellow realistic modern and another in xianxia - lovely traumatized people from monster families who win over heroine with a metric ton of baggage through sheer unswerving decency. I have a type.

Jang Uk (Lee Jae Wook in Alchemy of Souls s2, Korea)

I loved Uk in S1 and S2 continued that love - he's so intense, so grieving, so still in love with Naksu. LJW is always a good actor so it's such a pleasure to see him in a good role.

Kim Do Ha (Hwang Min Hyun, My Lovely Liar, Korea)

The year of surprises - Minhyun, who I found utterly wooden in AoS stole my heart here as this hopeful, traumatized sweetheart of a man.

Kim Moo Chan (Park Hae Jin, The Killing Vote, Korea)

Yeah, we are only one ep in but who said anything about this list was objective? PHJ brings his usual unsettling intensity to the role of a cop who breaks all the rules and teeters on the edge and now is set to catch a killer who really only differs from him in a matter of degree.

Lee Jang Hyun (Nam Goong Min in My Dearest, Korea)

If I had to pick a favorite ML from this list, it would be between him and Jing (LYF). This is basically if you took Rhett Butler and took out slavery and rape but gave him a sword. The character is complex and nuanced and NGM is giving his usual incredible performance.

Lee Rang (Kim Bum in Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938, Korea)

I was not a Rang fangirl for most of the original (even if he was well-acted; and he did win me over by the end) but I fell for him head over heels in this sequel/prequel/spin-off. I am so happy the man who believed he had nobody and was abandoned by everybody ends the story with his beloved brother and his beloved woman, both.

Moon Seo Ha (Ahn Bo Hyun in See You in My 19th Life, Korea)

A lot of MLs on this list have serious trauma and haunted by it and can't let go of their past love (I have a type) but even by those standards, Seo Ha was such a lovely, quiet person slowly healing.

Tantai Jin (Luo Yunxi in Till the End of the Moon, China)

Abuse victim/monster/praiseworthy king/xianxia saint/man on the brink - LYX portrayed a character in multiple timelines and many different complexities and did it amazingly. Tantai Jin may or may not win my favorite place on this list, but his performance was hands-down the most glorious thing this year.

Tushan Jing/Ye Shiqi (Deng Wei in Lost You Forever part 1, China)

If before LYF aired someone would have told me that a character played by Deng Wei, an actor I've always found eminently forgettable, would make it on this list and be in the running to win the whole thing actually, I'd have wondered what weird reality they came from. They somehow managed to make someone genuinely good and kind not in the least boring; I am ridiculously invested in the man who managed to keep his soul after all he's been through.

Yun Xiang (Chen Xiao in The Ingenuous One, China)

A schemer on a revenge quest, smarter than anyone else in the room but helpless in front of love. Yun Xiang was an adult in an adult story for adults and it was glorious.

[pruneunfair]

Women who deserve better, both in story and writting. *Spoiler warning*

Isabella de Mare

Shes who I think of when someone asks me which character has the most wasted potential. She's a horrible human being with no other qualities but that was fine because she was set up at first as this conniving mastermind behind it all, her whole monologe about not putting all your faith in men was pretty badass and she even knew Ceasre would fall out of love with her eventually, girl just wanted that power. Unfortunately authors didn't want her to be smarter or even as smart as the FL so they dumbed her down into a spoiled green tea bitch with a low intelligence stat.

Rhyse Sinclair

Honestly she's one of the better green tea women I've seen, I like that instead of her immediately trying to mess with Edith she's trying to be her friend and actually does a good job playing the role of the sweet saint while dropping hints of her new rotten nature. I think she was originally a sweet girl who wanted the best for Edith until the Author started to influence her more and more.

Iris Van Conrad

Correct me if I get something wrong cause i just started reading this one. While Iris is annoying and just the typical punching bag designed for the FL to basically say "I'm not like other girls." I kind of pity her, she's getting humiliated every which way. In the beginning the FL pours wine on her for insulting her dress and a comment said that was classy? That's literally the opposite of how to handle a situation with class, she's not hard to dislike but not hard to like either, I want to hope she'll become a real threat but it's unlikely

Rashta Ishka

Ah, the iconic Rashta and probably one of the most famous green tea bitches. This girl was done dirty by both the story and the writting. She's the anti-sue to Naviers Mary sue. She was a slave sold by her father, was taken advantage of by one of her masters and got pregnant, her child was then taken from her by her master and he gave her a dead baby he claimed was hers and that's only a slice of what she goes through.

Nobody really likes her, she's regarded as a stupid slave who barges in on the empress, Sovieshu happily takes advantage of her to try to make Navier jealous and her only friend is manipulating her into ruin, all while any chance at her being complex is destroyed by the writers who turn her from a smart grey character/Villainess to another wicked punching bag to be used as a stepping stone for Navier and Heinrey.

Aisha

Basically Rashta but even worse. She never succeeds in any of her plans or schemes and is always one step behind the girlboss protagonist Robelia. Aisha exists to be the "other girl" fans can make fun of. The moment the protagonist shows up, the ML (who I'd beg to differ is the sole conflict and not her) ditches her to be with Robelia now that's she's "interesting" leaving Aisha to basically throw childish tantrums as she fails to be better than the FL and worse yet, the writer justifies Alexandros cheating and is viewed as misunderstood while Aisha still a pick me concubine who's only personality is trying and failing to win over Alexandros.

Minthe

The only one who's not from a manhwa. Minthe is proof to me that no one on webtoon really cares if your a mistress just as long as your the protagonist. She is one of the few character in lore olympus written with acknowledged flaws and reasons to be upset, Hades gets in an emotional affair with Persephone and apparently she's evil for not sucking it up and being reasonably upset, she's often a victim of prejudice by the other characters and is literally called "nymph trash". Even the fans would ridicule her for being upset and getting in the way of the creepy ship between Hades and Persephone to the point of bodyshaming her and being overly happy when Persephone turned her into a plant. In the end Minthe gets a half-assed arc and leaves the story forever.

Diane Poitier

One of the other well written women in historical manhwas. She's treated pretty badly by everyone including her brother and the Emperor who she tries desperately to keep by her side and she wrongfully takes it out on the protagonist Adelheid but whats different between her and other concubines in other media, Diane was there before Adelheid so it gave a reason why she was defensive (not an excuse but a reason). Seeing her break down when Adelheid actually cared about her broke my heart and really showed just how little worth outside of the Emperor she really has for herself and makes some pretty nice character development for herself and died realizing she blamed her problems on the wrong person.

[ourpickwickclub]

OMG someone (GR? lol) must be reporting the comments on ET's IG, cuz some of the BEST ones are now hidden. Whoever screenshots them, can you please get the hidden ones too, cuz they are too good. like these:

I think I speak for all women Gavin, you cheated we don't give two s**** about your feelings, and you get to live with that until your kids you're a big cheating loser bag.

Here's how not to get divorced don't be a whore

You cheated and how she found out about it was humiliating and you wish there was more of a connection with the person you cheated on???!!! Your narcissistic, self centred, selfish side is showing. Go back under your rock and grow a sensitivity chip. Geez

Maybe he should have kept his 🍆 in his pants!

Wasn't he banging the nanny? That's what he should feel shame about

Should have thought about that when he was cheating with the nanny! 💩

Came to the comments to say what everyone else is saying YOU CHEATED THOUGH RIGHT? Woman are not centers for broken men 🖤 men need to grow up and hold themselves accountable for destroying things. This dude is a clown and I hope he knows it.

You never thought you would get divorced? Because you thought Gwen was a slave to your blatant and flagrant infidelity? What a pompous loser!!

The man shagged the nanny and now is blaming the ex for the family break up and lack of connection 😒

Oh, please. We know this type of guy. Effing Cheater!

Stupid m fu**er 🤷🏼‍♀️and with the Nanny 🤦🏼‍♀️stupider 😩

He’s a butthole

Somebody smack the audacity out of that man.

Well duh you wouldn’t have if you had kept you 🍆 in your pants ! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Don’t be a dirt bag cheater

Then he shouldn’t have been a cheating pig! Let that be a lesson to cheaters! You ruin lives.

So while he was running around the world putting his penis in strange women, he never thought "Hey, I wonder if this might lead to a divorce for me."

You feel bad for kids. Dude you cheated HELLO. Keep it moving your a disgrace as a lil man

Oh please now you want Gwen’s attention in your life? Give it up

Such a jerk

Well, he should have kept his pecker in his pants. That was his choice.

Well maybe he shouldn't have been a whore!

Well, you f’d the babysitter. Pretty sure that was not in your marriage vows! Idiot! She is much better now than she was when she was with him.

"I never thought id ever get divorced" he almost said "I thought she put up with it and stay for the sake of the kids cause he feels bad for them how stupid is he

Cheater . She’s happy. Let it be .

Yeah, it would have been nice if you didn't stick your d inside your nanny! Then maybe you wouldn't have any shame?

Should have kept your penis in your pants . You caused the break up of your marriage and now you’re crying about a lost connection with your kids . You didn’t just cheat on Gwen , you cheated on your 3 kids .

Helps if you keep your penis in your pants too

Sir we do not give a flying fck what u have to say.

Cheaters always come back to play the victim! Boy bye Go on and join in with Jimmie Allen, I’m sure they can be cheating besties!

He’s a cheating sack of ugly it’s no wonder she left

You f U — t someone else, a lot!

These things tend to happen when you’re at dirty Cheater

Ya CHEATER!

Right… while he was banging the nanny

Makes me so sad... What a moron cheating on her. ESP with a downgrade.

Cheaters deserve the worst

While then you shouldn’t have cheated! Loser

Perhaps if you’d kept your pecker in your pants things would be different. I’m glad for Gwen that she’s found so much happiness and rebuilt a beautiful home. The divorce must have been a painful time for her

You never deserved Gwen you pos

Cheaters always try to find an excuse to play the victim

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Just wanted to post the hidden ones here in case they get deleted, although screenshots look better...it reminds me of when Gibson was deleting every facebook comment roasting ML in their ad last year. All of the comments were pure gold, did anyone happen to screenshot them before they got deleted? They were so funny. It feels good when people get what they deserve.

Even though it can never take away the pain that BG suffered, it's nice to see so many people on the side of TRUTH and not falling for lies and manipulation.

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[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

RANT : ML Season 5's Ending

I don't post about Miraculous much, but I need to get this off my chest.

WARNING :

Salt. Just...all the salt.

Chloe:

I don't like Chloe, she's a horrible person and hogged a lot of screen time throughout the show that could have been given to other characters, such as Nino. However, I find it disturbing that they decided to send a teenage girl to live with her abuser, with absolutely no friends; meanwhile her father, who only deciding to put his foot down last minute, gets to quit the job he's always hated anyway (even though he's abused his power before, and not just for Chloe's sake) without being called out for how he spoiled his daughter AND the adult magical terrorist gets a statue.

Not to mention Felix, a teenage boy who also has done terrible things, basically gets away scot-free. Remember when he basically tried to kill EVERYONE except for four people including himself, remember when he tried to force himself onto Ladybug, remember when he gave all the miraculous to a terrorist, remember when all it took to "redeem" himself was to emotionally manipulate someone in a vulnerable state into watching a play to convince her to solve the problem he caused for him (btw I can't believe Kagami came up with that plan and revealed Ladybug's identity behind her back, what the heck?) I get that he was abused, at the end of the day he's an abuse victim doing literally anything he can to gain the freedom he never had, but if he gets sympathy after all of that, what about Chloe? She was abused, she was neglected. Felix not only is seemingly forgiven and "redeemed", but still gets to be a permanent miraculous holder. When you combine that with how the narrative treats Gabriel and Andre, it looks like a sexist double standard...probably because it is.

Chloe sucks but that isn't entirely her fault. Andre spoiled her rotten, Audrey was a horrible influence when she wasn't straight up neglecting or verbally abusing her, Miss Bustier coddled her and Damocles let her get away with pretty much anything (although in their case I guess the mayor would've prevented them from letting Chloe face substantial consequences), Gabriel (and Lila) manipulated her multiple times. I'm not absolving Chloe of all blame, but she's 14. Leaving her with her abuser is horrible. That isn't cathartic, it's cruel. I'm not even asking for a redemption, I just think this "punishment" is too much.

Gabriel (and Tomoe too I guess):

Let's talk more about Gabriel. Gabriel, the abusive father, the magical terrorist, the guy that spent some of his final moments manipulating a teen, not only gets to make his wish, but also gets to be remembered as a hero. Statue included. Never mind that pretty much all of Adrien's classmates knew he was a terrible father at this point, they all clap and cheer when it's revealed he's getting a statue. The whole world is lied to and told the Alliance rings were hijacked by Monarch and that Gabriel sacrificed himself whilst trying to help stop him (I don't blame Ladybug for that though, I'm solely blaming the writers here). And we're supposed to be fine with this because he misses his wife and "tried to be a good father"? No.

An abused teenage girl is supposedly terrible beyond redemption, but an adult abuser is essentially outright vindicated by the narrative (the person he abused is tricked into thinking he was a hero, and Paris is basically a utopia post-wish). What a horrible message.

Remember, this may not be the end of the show, but this is the end of Gabriel's Agreste's story, and what an unfitting end it is.

Oh, and Tomoe gets away scot-free by the looks of it, because of course. Maybe she'll get comeuppance in a later season, but I'm not gonna defend the finale because of what a future episode might do, especially when this would've been the perfect time (and this goes for the possibility of Gabriel's secret identity being revealed to the public too).

Adrien:

I think Adrien is easily the most overrated character in the show. He's constantly coddled by the narrative, tends to "inspire" Marinette to be more passive and forgiving than she should be, and is incredibly bland (or at least he was until they started pushing just how angry he could get and how entitled to Ladybug's love he could feel, which I guess is something, but that something sure isn't pleasant); but you're telling me he doesn't get to have a legit passion beyond knowing he loves Marinette, to be involved in the final battle, to find out his dad is Monarch OR even that he's a sentimonster? He needs to know his life is tied to that ring and that he should be careful with it. This isn't "protecting him" (he's not a baby, if Felix eventually came to terms with being a sentimonster so can Adrien), if anything it's the opposite. Not letting him know that is dangerous! If not Marinette, Felix? Kagami? Nathalie? No one's going to tell him?! I hate to say it, but by robbing him of his agency and deciding they know what's best for him, they're being controlling over Adrien too; and no, I don't think that's "interesting", not after five seasons of Adrien already being controlled by someone else.

What is the show even trying to say? That Adrien needs to be controlled because he can't handle his emotions? Forget about giving him time or a good support system, he just wouldn't be able to handle it? If it was just his nightmare that'd be one thing, but Chat Blanc seems to indicate this is legitimately what they're saying. Why is this show trying to portray an abuse victim as someone who's dangerous and needs to be kept under control? Not just dangerous, but ultimately more dangerous than his abuser, since Gabriel made his wish and everything turned out fine (and at worst maybe one innocent person would have died/fallen into a coma had his wish not changed), but in "Chat Blanc" EVERYONE other than Chat died.

It does not matter if he finds out in a later season; it doesn't change the fact that his family is willingly lying to him and potentially endangering him by doing so, all for the sake of his abuser. Sure, you could argue Gabriel emotionally manipulated Marinette, but what's everyone else's excuse? I don't care if it leads to "interesting conflict", a) it's a conflict they've done before (Ladybug keeping secrets from Chat Noir), I'm not gonna praise the show for repeating itself, b) don't tell me telling Adrien the truth would've been "too sad" for the show to do but Marinette having to keep her mouth shut about Gabriel for the rest of her life (or even temporarily) is "interesting angst" (at least try to hide your favouritism, besides it's never even implied she feels guilty over this), and c) it's not like it will have a satisfying payoff, after all, it didn't last time. Even if Adrien does find out, Gabriel's not around anymore, so chances are Marinette will have to suffer the consequences of that, not Gabriel. That's not satisfying.

Like...Gabriel may as well have been related to Marinette instead (not her father but her uncle or something). Why not? Remember when he was her favourite fashion designer? (Don't worry if you don't, the show doesn't either.) Maybe have him become her mentor, imagine how much more of a personal impact Ladybug and Monarch finding out each other's identities could've had on both of them.

Why even have the main villain be related to the deuteragonist (giving him a closer connection to the main villain of the show than the actual main character) if you were just gonna side-line him in the final battle and rob him of any sense of closure? Whatever drama they can squeeze out of him finding out who Monarch is (IF he does) won't be nearly as interesting as it would've been to see Chat Noir confront Monarch, face to face, knowing that he's his father. Adrien might not even remember Gabriel being abusive at all, it's not made clear. But if he doesn't, all that time spent on Adrien's relationship with his father, building up a big confrontation between them? Wasted.

Remember how season 4 ended? How it built up Ladybug and Chat Noir working together to retrieve all the Miraculous back, after a season of them being more distant?

What a joke.

Is he the deuteragonist, or a trophy? The show can't seem to decide.

Marinette:

And then there's Marinette who, in a show that supposedly wants to empower young girls, doesn't even get to defeat the main male bad guy. After multiple seasons with her as the main lead, after multiple episodes where she's apologised or made to feel bad for either completely justifiable reactions or things that straight up weren't her fault (remember when she was made to say she was "out of line" at the end of an episode that was supposed to be about racism and police aggression?) meanwhile other characters rarely apologise to her in return, we don't even get the satisfaction of seeing her truly defeat the person that's caused her so much grief.

Seriously, she went through so much in this show; between the class consistently siding with Lila over her (btw turns out Lila basically had nothing to lose the whole time because she had multiple identities, yet another unsatisfying conclusion to a conflict), being forced to become a guardian, losing all the Miraculous, etc, and for what?

She failed. That's not me being too harsh. She may have influenced Gabriel to change his wish (emphasis on "may have", I'm pretty sure that woman was originally Emilie but in that case Nathalie being healed doesn't make sense), but her goal was to prevent the wish in the first place.

And why did they have to make her look like a fool? Felix's play spelled it out for her that Gabriel is Monarch, she even realises that he referred to the day she lost the Miraculous, but from the way it's presented she only figures out Gabe's Monarch after seeing him de-transform? Why did she think giving him a another chance would turn out well? She tried that all the way back in season 2, and it didn't work. Marinette is kind-hearted but she has her limits. You're telling me Lila crossed a line but Monarch could maybe be reasoned with? Why? Because he has a sob story?

Marinette is strategic and quick-witted. She's not an idiot.

Gabriel gets to make his wish and everyone else (who am I kidding, just Ladybug) has to clean up after him. Not only that, Ladybug does him a favour and ensures everyone is tricked into believing he was a hero. If anything, Chat Noir, the main male superhero, landed the killing blow.

Great. Just great. How empowering.

Bonus nit-picks:

--Did everyone on the planet seriously forget that the Adrien and Kagami in the Alliance rings aren't real, they're virtual simulations? That wasn't a secret. How did they fall for Gabriel's fake plea?

--If they were gonna put the girls from the specials and Future!Alix on the poster, they could've have them do more at least.

--Okay, Luka training with Su-Han was random but I guess since he was a temporary Miraculous holder it kinda makes sense...Penny and ESPECIALLY Jagged though? Nah.

--Ivan was the first person to EVER be akumatized then saved by Ladybug and Chat Noir. So with that in mind, surely he more than anyone would trust that they'd never kidnap two virtual innocent people, and would join Alya in reminding everyone else how they were always there for them, in a touching moment that brings the "first arc" full circle...oh.

--Look, Marinette is very talented, and I realise she had the book to help her but...I'm sorry literally HOW did she fix the Miraculous? Gabriel needed high-tech, presumably very expensive, machinery to re-shape them.

Final thoughts:

What makes this all sting so much more is that, wasn't season 5 supposed to be the original ending, just in case future seasons didn't happen? All seasons after this one are basically bonus seasons. So originally the show ended HERE. The last we would've seen of Chloe was her crying, trapped with her abusive mother. For all we knew Adrien would've been living a lie the rest of his life, looking up to his abuser. Gabriel is never fully revealed as the monster he truly was and is honoured as a "hero". Marinette literally gets stabbed in the back (well, it was her stomach, but you get the idea). There wasn't even a reveal, Ladybug and Chat Noir would've just never found out who the other truly is I guess.

Oh, but don't worry. Marinette and Adrien kissed.

That's all that really matters, right? (Never mind the fact that they spent five seasons building up to the start of a romantic relationship, and it will undoubtedly take even more for it to become a healthy one.)

Maybe the ending was originally different. Maybe they modified the ending of the season finale after finding out season 5 wouldn't be the last season. Maybe this will all somehow be fixed later (no matter how long they may will drag it out for).

Or maybe Marinette's blatantly out of character action (she hates liars, and only lied about her identity because she had to, even considering Gabriel's attempts to emotionally manipulate her previous episodes have made it clear she would not lie to Adrien, let alone the WHOLE WORLD, about Gabriel) will come back to bite her for the sake of having something to blame her for next season.

I don't know.

I don't care.

The writing for this show has been poor for a LONG time. I only stuck around because I still found myself having fun watching it from time to time, even as the problems got worse. That, and I was hopeful it would at least stick the landing. But after this, I don't think I can stomach continuing to watch a show that will probably continue to push such awful messages, and with such awful pacing.

Word of advice, all shows have flaws, so feel free to complain when a show does something you think is stupid (I've never found the argument that kids shows shouldn't be criticised because they're kid shows to make sense), but if you're not enjoying yourself because you can't overlook a show's problems, if you don't find pleasure in watching a show...just stop watching it. It's a waste of your time. Don't "wait for it to get good", don't wait for future seasons to clean up a current season's mess, don't continue watching it just because the fandom makes better content. I promise you there are better shows out there that deserve (and need) your attention.

So with that in mind...I don't think I'll be watching what comes next.

[dreamingsnowflake2013]

Apparently, the female lead is a well-known 'mistress dispeller' and 'emotional counsellor' who either helps wives save their marriage or get them a swift and beneficial divorce from their cheating husbands. The male lead's wife asked her to investigate him and trap him by proving his infidelity so she could divorce him and grab half of his wealth.

Something tells me she might be meeting her match soon and her winning streak is about to get broken.

The way the camera switches to him while she is sweeping her fingers across his face on the tablet like a caress!

Interestingly, Han Qing seems reluctant to break up a marriage, apparently having a moral code against cheating and always trying to save a marriage. The ML's wife probably knows, which is why she reveals a bruise on her neck suggesting he beats her and playing the victim of physical abuse, which is the clincher for the FL, outraged at such tactics, making her determined to bring him down and punish him.

She is so extra, sealing and stamping the contract to trap him with her lipstick! The game is on!

[timingmatters]

Okay I’m on ep 27 of the remarried empress and while i started out HATING Rashta i do have to say i have come to feel bad for her. She was a slave who was used by a rich boy she SERVED to (the power imbalance of it all) and then abandoned with child, then made to believe her child was killed (or maybe sadly it WAS killed). She is clearly uneducated and has suffered a lot. In an empire where it is known nobles take lovers outside of the marriage and its seem as normal, I can’t blame her for using her charms as survival with the emperor. And while to me the issue is not that, but rather that she sees too quick and comfortable putting other women and the empress in harm’s way to get her way (absolutely not justifiable), I do feel like so far as of chap 27 she is clearly super uneducated and being used by all these different men. She took advantage of the emperor’s attention to survive, but it was HIM who constantly disrespected the empress first. The former slave owner (who either had her believe he killed her child or actually did, so absolutely FUCK him) is using her too. And now this other guy seems to be playing with her too but I feel like he might be using her for a bigger plan. She seems younger than the empress too. She is super uneducated, traumatized, young as hell, and out of her depth. Can’t say she is a bad person for trying the only thing she has (her looks) and use them for her own survival. And given that the empire has slavery as legal, I can’t put it on her if she also feels animosity towards nobles and blames the empress too. Like, is not even that she was an illegal slave, she was “legally” abused as a slave. If the empire had slavery as something illegal that would be much different. In her position i would also feel little remorse about what I’m doing in order to survive around people who both legitimize and practice slavery.

All that said, it is clear since the beginning she still takes pleasure on fucking up the empress, which has always been uncalled for. I truly hated her, but the more I see of her background the less i dislike her. I still don’t like her at all, but its silly and blind to treat her as the biggest enemy on the story when it is clear all these men keep using her and that she is a victim of the own system put in place. So far in the story (i keep emphasizing that because I know the story is ongoing on s3 with like 140 eps so things might change drastically) but kinda just want her punishment to be to go away. No physical harm, no jail, no nothing. Her biggest crime has been to break a marriage, which she did as a means of survival. Like, she really didn’t do anything THAT evil. It is horrible but like her own experiences were more horrid and those people bared no punishment because her slavery is legal. Again, can’t blame her for much. I’m sure most women would do the same in her position so far. How could you not? Is literally survival. Surviving vs simply becoming a lover of a marriage between rich people (where taking in lovers is legal) is not the worst crime ever.

I do hope the story demolishes the practice of slavery by the end. To continue to make her a villain and have slavery as a legal and “fair” system would SUCK amongst a story otherwise interesting enough with lovely art would be a waste (and I LOVE when the ML is pathetic and whipped over the FL, so I love how much he blushes).

[immaturityofthomasastruc]

I think your response to the arc ask just a moment ago hits it on the head. Characters don't go from being good to bad or visa versa in ML, they were just always good or bad originally and it was 'misunderstood'

There is no growth only reveals.

(The post this user is referring to)

It feels like the writers want to show that they're capable of character development, but whenever they play the "Character X has a tragic backstory/is a victim of another villain" card at the last second, it comes across as incredibly forced.

[mintaka14]

WIP Wednesday 3rd May 2023

Here’s a little bit of the angst-fest I’m playing with at the moment - a ML Lukanette variation of the hanahaki concept, where the victim coughs up a lungful of flowers not because of unrequited love, but because of feelings they’ve suppressed and won’t confess. So, here, have a bit of Lily White and Blood Red:

               “I’ve tried to be patient,” Chat said desperately. “I’ve respected that you wanted to wait, but don’t you think it’s time you admitted it? Milady, this denial is killing you.���

               Marinette could have laughed at the thought of Chat and patience, if she’d had any breath left for it. Instead, she shook her head, pressing a hand to her aching throat.

               “Admit what?” she rasped. What could she possibly have to admit to Chat that would take away the flowers filling her lungs.

               “You know!” He grasped at her hands, holding them fast against his chest. “You know how much I love you, milady. Why can’t you just tell me how you feel?”

               “I have told you.” Her voice was harsh and raw. Marinette tried to tug her hands free, but there was no strength left in her. “Chat, you know exactly how I feel about you.”

               “Then why do you have hanahaki?” he said stubbornly.

               “Don’t make me do this, Chat.”

               She was too tired. Too tired, and he was hurting her. Her wrists felt bruised under his hands.

               “Just say it,” he pleaded.

               And she was too tired to be tactful anymore, too tired to be gentle, so she gave him the words he’d always longed to hear.

[jolmi]

KDrama Review #2

I cried. It was painful but worth it. It is a 2022 release Thriller drama, with the main themes being- School violence, revenge, bullying, a Strong female lead, slow burn romance. It is one of the most subtle but fulfilling slow-burn romances I have seen. It makes you question if such people and relations exist

A brief Synopsis: A high school student with dreams of being an architect and living a happy life, is brutally bullied by her wealthy classmates. At 19, she has no one to protect or console her. The school authorities don't raise their voices against the violence just because of the bullies' " RICH " badge. Instead, the teacher beats her up when she mentions their negligence and severe bullying to be the reason for her being a dropout. To add on, her mother betrays her by taking money from the perpetrator's family and giving them a clean chit.

After getting physically and mentally tortured, she had to leave the school. While she makes up her mind to get revenge on the people who destroyed her childhood. She makes the perpetrator her 'dream'! She works hard with the hope of getting to her 'dream'.

The perpetrator is now married t a rich guy, as she dreamt, and has a child now. The other four bullies are also leading a lavish lifestyle in spite of all the crimes they have committed. The former victim of their bullying now starts her elaborate revenge plan without actually getting her hands dirty.

what do you think? It is a really well-written and well-played drama. This is not the genre I would usually go for, but I would not regret watching it. The best part of these dramas is that the bad guys are always the bad guys. Just by the look, you know that they can never change, which makes the decision of taking revenge on them natural! But the question remains, to what extent would you go to get the revenge? Would it be okay to kill someone for the mistakes they have done? It is usually said and even in this drama, they mention that forgiving and moving on might actually be the right thing to do. In other words, taking revenge may not give you peace, and may not make you happy. But it is true that some mistakes can never be forgiven. It is just not humanly possible to forgive a person who consciously inflicted physical pain on you and destroyed your dreams.

My fav scene: Me being me! I liked the slow-burn relation the FL and ML had. Something which made me smile was the Go board game scene in his house. The first time she comes to his home and shows him the scars, he promises to be her executioner, as she wanted. At the same time, he gives her the door passcode and tells her that she can enter and leave his house at her will. but every time she enters, she can play her turn in the game of GO, so he can know that she had come. The game might go on forever, but at least, he has someone to wait for, and she has someone who is waiting for her. This is the sweetest thing a person can do.

[dangermousie]

Say You Love Me - done

Was it a good drama? Objectively perhaps not. But it was worth the price of admission to see incredibly solid acting from everyone (this drama is old, and so it did not suffer from the phenomenon of idols who may be talented in other things but have no experience with acting being put in just for looks) and tackle themes and characters modern dramas don't really care for - I mean, the gender reversal itself with the two women being the doers and the drivers and both men being passive willing or unwilling recipients of what they dish out is fascinating. Byung Soo, our ML, was a tall, well-built Victorian maiden, suffering over loss of chastity and falling ill from angst and needing permission to take any action and second ML was willing to enable SFL to bang other men as long she wanted it. The two women literally fought and then men only wept. It was also remarkably character consistent; Byung Soo was a lovely sweet puppy of a person and the drama showed what a freaking drawback or even cruelty that could be. (I am still impressed that Kim Rae Won, who in my head is associated with these totally alpha types, played such a weak, submissive, beta boy (because I can't really call BS a man between his youth and personality) so well).

Anyway, eps 12-15, let's go. ML and FL have finally had enough of their psycho significant others and ran off to the same place. This is the first time we see them happy in eps and eps. For someone who was obsessed with his smile, SFL really made sure he never smiles again, this is the first time we see his smile in eps and eps.

But they can't get back together because he feels unworthy and also because SFL has basically terrified him into thinking she will die if he leaves her (which is deeply ironic in light of what is about to happen.)

Because his granny dies (and SFL chooses to bring up what he did with FL at the freaking funeral, because the woman knows no shame or time/place, god when FL dragged her off and they had a fight, it was glorious.)

And that is basically the last straw for a dude who was already contemplating suicide a while back and that was before everything else that got dumped on him. And so our Victorian Maiden ML aka monk boy literally collapses into a unconsciousness and is likely to die from EMO AND STRESS AND ANGST. God, I love this drama.

SFL decides a great thing to do to an unconscious and possibly dying man is to move him from the home he grew up in to her apartment because she doesn't like looking at pictures of him with others in the place. She also doesn't let his friends visit (I am not saying FL, I am saying dude friends) because "I am his wife." She is so insane, her brain should be dissected for study. The best part he's utterly unconscious but he keeps weeping FL's name non-stop over and over and over as SFL is slowly driven insane by that. GLORIOUS!!!!

SFL is, as always, making everything about her - someone else's suicide attempt, funeral of someone else's loved one, someone else's childhood trauma, and now someone else's unconscious murmurs are all directed to torment her, the real victim.

This cracked me up - she always says that when he's about to die but the moment he's not literally on brink of death, she's all...psych!

Bwahahaha how I enjoyed this.

And then they are all so yeah he's dying. Why it does not occur to anyone to take him to the hospital is beyond me. Unless they know it's a Victorian Emotional Illness (tm) so no hospital can be cured. So SFL finally caves and lets FL in to see him.

Guess who magically gets better? Heeeee.

Anyway, YC makes sure he's OK and peaces out. SFL is all fine fine you can go to her, my boy toy, mainly because I think she's (a) finally realized he's literally gonna die at the pace she's going and (b) he's literally ready to bolt anyway, even his obedient self can't take it any more. But also the way he basically desperately asks for permission - I roll my eyes at melo cliches a lot but the power imbalance in this is honestly kinda awful, not just because he's so nice/weak and she's so neither, but because he's so much younger and so much more inexperienced in life and like dude, it's almost like she kidnapped a high schooler and locked him up in her basement.

Except of course she renegs yet again but at this point even the spineless SML has had enough and basically tries to drum some sense into her. But also SML tells her he loves her and I think this helps her because this psycho needs to cling to SOMEONE. So puppy is finally free but that whole being in his house with wedding photo etc was last straw for FL and she's all I don't want him back, it's all too painful, I want no relationship thanks...

But of course it doesn't last long because they love each other like mad and all they need one little push from their fam where they send a clip from her old diary to them blah blah. The way he runs to their place and finds his old bike and she's left there his chastity necklace (yes, I know it was true love necklace but we all know what it was, she even labeled it something like "BS is only mine" necklace back way when) and, more importantly, the paper with "Tag" eeeee! (reference not to just their childhood but their breakup when she told him he has to stay away until she unfreezes him and tags him and then he can come find her.) AAAAAAAA

This is adorable!

Meanwhile SFL swans off overseas to happy bliss with SML, utterly and gloriously unpunished for all the awful awful stuff she pulled.

Moral of the drama: Never stick your dick in crazy.

Or perhaps, maybe if you didn't teach them so much abstinence, dude wouldn't have lost his mind to hormones and avoided all that misery.

Oh, and I really now want to know how heavenly his hair must be for FL to be so obsessed with it she can't think straight.

Anyway, it was a fun ride, and I am just glad I finally found another rare Kim Rae Won drama where he doesn't die or his OTP doesn't die. That man is drawn to misery.

[madlymine]

Episode 9 - Recap

♠ CHARACTERS: Aono the ghost (ML) Yuri the airhead (FL) Fuju the victim (ML's best friend) Mio the horror-enthusiast (FL's potential best friend) + Midori the psycho (FL's older sister) + Okasan (FL's mother) + Hirose the kindhearted (another friend of Aono)

+ Barefoot lady in red (I got chi~lls) https://youtu.be/wTdZbbx53uk

♠ EP9: back to the conversation that was cut-off on the pervious episode between Aono and Fuju.

Aono: "she is like a baby-chick. I helped her, she fell for me. If you helped her instead, she would have loved you." Fuju: "don't say that!" Me: "well, it's the truth."

[in looney-town: FL's house] it's a family meeting! Midori tells Okasan-shark that she found condoms in Yuri's room (which she planted..)

O: "you've been playing around lately. you're always out." Y: "I have tomodacheese!" M: "I saw you hugging a boy last night. I guess he's into your new hairstyle. That's Fuju, right?" Y: "how do you know him?" M: "my old classmate has a sister your age and she told her about the rumors." Y: "he is just a friend!" M: "sex friend, huh?" Y: "NO! I liked a different boy but he died. we didn't even hold hands.." O: "what about these condoms?" Y: "they are not mine! I've never seen them before." M: "oh, so I'm lying! that's mean! mama, you can't forgive this."

[FL's bedroom] Yuri gets depressed and thinks of cutting herself again to end her misery. Then she sees Aono's match textbook and hugs it, which makes her snap out of her dark thoughts. She messages the Blue Cheer Squad for a meeting.

[Mio's Livingroom] Yuri tells Fuju and Mio that she wants to collect things that can keep Aono's memory alive. Photos and personal items. Anything.. Fuju agrees to help and leaves the house. Then Mio apologizes for not being able to save her friends the previous day.

Mio: "I tried leaving the house but I started feeling sick.. I'm really afraid of going outside. I don't know the reason behind it. I really wanted to help you out but couldn't stand up."

Yuri is actually surprised to hear this! Can she be more self-involved?

Y: "you've been so helpful all along. even if you can't help, I consider you my friend. but I didn't notice your sufferings. that makes me sad. so don't apologize."

[at school] Yuri tries to find photos of Aono by asking classmates. No one helps and they make fun of her hair. Calling her weird and mocking her for wanting photos of her ex, when she is rumored to be dating Fuju now.

HIROSE shows up to save the day. He has pictures on his phone and also decides to help Yuri with her mission, being a friendly guy, they collect many from others too.

Then Fuju and Hirose tell Yuri that Aono always flashed a fake smile for taking pictures. Then Yuri wonders if he was also was fake smiling, when they dated cause she no longer remember.

[Aono's grandparents house] Fuju gathers all of Aono's stuff from school and Yuri prints the photos she got, then they go to Aono's house to hand everything to his grandparents. Aono lost his parents at a young age but we still don't know anything about his younger brother.

After the visit, Yuri is more calm and she tells Fuju that she finally realized that Aono is gone. BUT! Mio sends a video on Blue Cheer Squad chat that was taken by Fuju. The video shows Aono coming out from a supermarket and eating a fried fish (something) and laughing with Fuju. WHICH makes Yuri miss him and want to see him again.......

[during class] Yuri still thinking about Aono, until he appears! She stands in shock and everyone is surprised.

Aono: "you're being tricked. everyone is lying to you." Sensei: "what's wrong?" Classmate: "must be the curse! Aono is here, right?"

a vase gets broken and all students freak out.

Sensei: "be quiet! why are you making a fuss?!"

Aono standing by the door now and talking to Yuri: "I'll tell you the truth. come."

Yuri follows him to the hall and it's definitely his demon form. the hall gets darker as shadows of hands coming out the him move towards Yuri's feet.

END.

the real joke would be not getting any answers from the finale and that there is another season coming. which is HighLy likely D;

a year ago

[leclercsainzz]

ILLICIT AFFAIRS PART 3

PAIRINGS: lando norris x ex!gf / tom blyth x reader

TYPE: social media au

WARNING: // cheating implied

part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5

yourusername

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yourusername: xoxo

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user: side profile >>>

user: she’s gorgeous 😩😩😩

hunterschafer: sooo fine 😍

hunterschafer: you’re unreal, i swear

↳ yourusername: *kisses* 😘😘

user: tom’s one lucky dude

↳ user: lando*

↳ user: tom* i said what i said, babe:)

landonorris: my gorgeous girl 😍

↳ user: you mean our*

↳ user: actually, he meant tom’s*

user: babe, you’re the definition of perfect 😩

↳ yourusername: you are 💗

lilymhe: myyyy godddd 😍😍😍

tomblyth: 😳 gossip girl, is that you?

↳ yourusername: does this confirm you’ve watched gg?

↳ tomblyth: aside from that one episode you and hunter made me watch, noooo

user: my oh myyy 😍

user: MOTHER 😍😍😍

user: beauty

user: it’s the way she responds to tom’s comment but not lando who happens to be her boyfriend …..

user: so are you and tom having an affair ???

carlossainz55: peek a boo, i see you

↳ yourusername: oohh no, you’ve found me:( bummer

↳ user: carlos?? 😭😭😭

user: not even lando makes her smile this much anymore

user: REJECT ME SO I CAN MOVE ON, PLZ 😭😭😭

oscarpiastri: hellooo 👋🏼

↳ yourusername: ‘ello, mate

user: lando gets no response?? that’s crazyyy

user: pov lucy gray after she escaped coriolanus

zendaya: 😍😍😍

user: our beautiful lucy gray frrr ❤️

user: everyone getting a reply but lando

user: she’s ALWAYS flirting with tom???? like???

↳ user: he flirts with her too??? it’s not just her???

user: i feel for lando, fr 😔😔😔

user: if she doesn’t respond to my comment that means she’s secretly hooking up with tom

↳ user: me when i’m delusional

oliviarodrigo: you’re gorggg 😍😍

↳ yourusername: thank you, ml 😘 you’re gorgeous too

user: OBSESSED with you, omg!!! 😩😩😩

user: so fine and for what??

user: 😍😍😍😩😩😩

user: my favorite person ever 🫶🏼

user: where’d you buy that dress???

user: 😍😍

user: she’s so pretty wtf

user: @tomblyth babe, i see it! i’d be after her too 😍😍

user: tom secretly to yn: “break up with your boyfriend”

↳ user: ya’ll play too much 😭😭😭

user: lando’s gonna BURST out one day, i swear

↳ user: he’s gonna come for all of us 🤣

imessage

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yourusername: i swear i don’t love the drama, it loves me

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user: MOTHER IS QUOTING “I DID SOMETHING BAD” AND “ENDGAME”?!!??

user: yn in her reputation era???

user: my favorite cheater 😒😒😒

francisca.cgomes: 😍😍😍😍 OBSESSED, omggg

user: this is def about the whole lando cheating situation

↳ user: she cheated first tho????

hunterschafer: 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

hunterschafer: FUCK IT UP 😍

↳ yourusername: i love youuu, my loveee ❤️

lilymhe: i’m in love with you, my godddd 😩

taylorswift: 😍😍😍

↳ user: MOTHER COMMENTED OMG AOALAPS

maxverstappen1: fun fact: i like that song

landnorris: 😍😍

↳ user: the audacity

↳ user: not him commenting

user: idk if lando’s the stupid one for fumbling or if tom’s the lucky one now that he gets to have her???

↳ user: you’re acting as if she’s a game of some kind

user: idk why you’re “upset” when you cheated first 🙄

user: shE’S in her reputation era!! i’m HErE FOR IT!!

tomblyth: you’re fancy, huh? 🤔

↳ yourusername: you could say i’ve been dressing for revenge

↳ user: OMG OMG

user: i just know lando’s crying after losing this baddie

user: funny how she’s the one who cheated on lando and acting like the victim, lmaoooo

↳ yourusername: how about you don't speak unless you know what you're talking about? 😊

↳ user: U TELL HER, YES!!!!

↳ user: yn ain’t playing no more

user: lando fumble this baddie and now it’s tom’s era!!

user: @tomblyth THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!!!

user: girl bffr yk damn well you started all this when you started sleeping around with tom while having a boyfriend

user: she’s the biggest swiftie i know, makes me love her more

user: she cheated on lando and now that lando supposedly “cheated” she wants to act like the victim 😂 honey, get a life

↳ tomblyth: how about YOU get a fucken life rather than comment on a situation you don’t know shit on

↳ user: YES BABE, STAND UP FOR YOUR GIRL

↳ user: say iT louder!!!! 👏🏼

user: the way tom defends her, i love them!!! 😩😩

user: lord 😍😍😍

user: i wanna be yn so bad 😩

carlossainz55: en tu era de reputación, no?

see translation: in your reputation era, no?

oscarpiastri: slayyyyyyy (did i do that right?)

user: queen behavior!!

user: that’s mother right there 😍😍😍

imessage

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lando.jpg: yea yea 🖕🏼

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user: lando being shady in his jpg account??!? 👀

user: wait- i’m confused asf

user: are lando and yn still together??? 😭😭

yourusername: 😘😘

↳ user: PARENTS!!!

↳ user: mom commented!!!

user: is she lowkey being shady by commenting “😘” or??

↳ user: it seems genuine but at the same time shady?? idk how to explain it lmao

user: yn and lando being messy? orrrrr???

user: guys it’s just a caption, omg 🙄🙄🙄🙄

luisinhaoliveira99: 🤩🤩🤩

↳ user: what is she doing here?? 😬 isn’t she the one who was seen with lando in those pics???

user: DRAMA??? I LOVE DRAMA OMg

user: yn was so real when she said “i don’t love drama, it loves me” bc??????

user: he has all the right to be shady

user: shady lando >>>

user: tag her, babe, don’t be scared

user: @yourusername @yourusername @yourusername @yourusername @yourusername

user: my unbothered king ❤️

↳ user: he seems pretty bothered to me, babes

user: oh damnnn 🫢🫢🫢🫢 drama

user: things better be good between you and yn, i swear 😭😭

user: before everyone starts blaming yn or lando, ya’ll gotta remember we don’t know what happened between them

user: i NEED to know what happened!!!!!

user: why blame lando or yn???!?!? let’s all just collectively agree that it was tom’s fault

user: i would be mad if i lost the baddest bitch too

user: i never thought i’d see lando throwing shade back at yn from his jpg account 😭😭😭

↳ user: no frrrr 😩 but then again it doesn’t surprise me bc he dedicated this account to yn way before all this shit happened

user: they’re so messy, omg

user: @yourusername DRAG HIS ASS QUEEN

user: @tomblyth come defend your girl, bro

carlossainz55: pobrecito el niño 🤣

see translation: poor little boy

comment has been deleted

user: i thought i saw a comment by carlos ????

↳ user: same, omg! i think my shit’s glitching

user: keep your head up, king ❤️❤️ you deserve better

user: i hope him and yn aren’t fighting 😭😭 i cant take it

user: yn commented kissing emojis so i’ll take that as them being happy together (yes, im delulu) 🤪😜😜🤪🤪😜😎😎

user: yn will get her karma, don’t worry

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yourusername: your loss babe 💋

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user: is the caption a shade towards lando???

hunterschafer: you’re actually soo hot 😮‍💨

lilymhe: just fell on my knees, my goddd 😩

user: post break up glow up is real 😍😍😍

user: patiently waiting on lando’s comment

user: LIVING FOR YN’S REPUTATION ERA OMG

alexandrasaintmleux: the prettiest 😍

tomblyth: oohh wow

↳ yourusername: 🤭🤭

↳ user: i need them to date!!!

user: MOMMY 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

user: she’s so fine, oml 😮‍💨

isahernaez: dios mío 😍

see translation: my god

↳ yourusername: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

songbirdsandsnakes: ❤️❤️

user: serving as always!!! 😍😍😍

user: gorgggg

user: that’s why tom’s the better man

joshandresrivera: you’re too cool for the world! 🤩

↳ yourusername: you said it, not me 😜

user: call him out, babe! show him what he’s missing

user: @landonorris

user: you’re unreal 😩

user: dO one better and get with tom!

charlottesiine: 😍😍😍

user: i love her friendship with the wags/ex wags ❤️

user: pretty girl

user: definitely his loss babe!!

user: yk what they say? one man’s loss is another man’s gain

itselenaberri: my oh my 😮‍💨

user: MOTHER IS SERVING AS ALWAYS!! 😍😍😍😍

user: 😍😍😍😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😩❤️❤️❤️😩😩😩

user: reputation era (yn’s version)

user: am i the only one waiting for lando to comment?? even though i know damn well he ain’t gonna comment

user: brown looks so good on you 😩😩

user: SLAYYYYYYYYY 😍😍😍😍

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yourusername: fun times w/ some of my favorite ppl;) ❤️

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user: DYLAN AND YN??!? A DUO I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED

user: sHe’s back with tom, yayyy!!

user: in her slay era, indeed!

user: is that lando????

tomblyth: slayyyyyyyy

↳ yourusername: slayyyyy, bbyyyyy

↳ user: “bby” 😭😭

user: lando continues losing on and off track as always

user: ONE MANS LOSS IS ANOTHER MANS GAIN, ONE MANS LOSS IS ANOTHER MANS GAIN, ONE MANS LOSS IS ANOTHER MANS GAIN, REMEMBER THAT

user: is that lando in the fourth slide????

user: lando liked this post so i’m gonna believe that’s him in the blue hoodie (i’m delusional, i know) 🤪🤪🤪

↳ user: it’s okay, babe, i’m with you

user: DYLAN AND TOM?? you’re winning 😭😭😭

user: yn ln, my best friend ❤️❤️

hunterschafer: slayyy bestie 😘

↳ yourusername: 😘😘😘😘

hunterschafer: i spy with my little eyes mr tom blyth

joshandresrivera: cute 😘 @tomblyth

user: I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THATS LANDO

user: @landonorris mate, is that you?

oscarpiastri: am i still one of your favs? 🥺

↳ yourusername: always!!

↳ carlossainz55: after me, that is

↳ yourusername: 🤫

user: i Can take all three of them, idc

user: thomas meeting lucky gray and coryo when???

↳ user: coryo ain’t gonna be too happy about this

user: living for yn’s slayyyyyyy era 🤩

↳ yourusername: 🩷

user: missed seeing tom on her page, omg

user: idk who i love more tom??? dylan??? or yn????

user: everyone’s talking about tom and dylan but what about lenny????? show my boy some appreciation!!!!

user: gUys!! i haVe a theory! after lucy gray left coriolanus in the forest, she escaped and found thomas 😲😲😲

↳ yourusername: 😮😮 how’d do you know, omgg??

↳ tomblyth: ooooh??? we’re officially done

↳ user: i absolutely love these two, i cant 😭😭😭❤️❤️

user: the maze runner x the hunger games crossover?

↳ user: we sha’ll call it the maze games

user: my fav duo!! ❤️❤️❤️ #yntom

user: yntom nation rise, iT’s our turn now!!!

user: dylan, omg 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

would it be a bad idea if i made a pt 4?

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[ourpickwickclub]

Do you think ML or GR took the B&G relationship seriously when it first came out or do you think they laughed and thought no way that’s lasting?

I think it was both of their worst nightmares because it gave power to Blake and Gwen. I think GR was scared and pissed and threatened but thought Gwen would still go back to him in the end. I think ML was shocked and intimidated and angry but thought Gwen would dump Blake and she could continue to torture him. GRs first post was about always keeping your knives sharp. Creepy. ML was a bunch of strong sad victim posts and then following Gwen. Creepy.

These are all my guesses. I watched it play out live back then and it was a rollercoaster. I was on to GR but I fell for some of MLs stuff early on because I didn’t know who she was other than the country singer whose music I didn’t know married to that guy on the show Carson Daly hosted. Seriously. That was my knowledge level before I watched the second half of season six when I heard Gwen would be on in season 7. I only ever tuned in for Gwen but Blake won me over in about 4 seconds. Charming, talented, funny, handsome, and that amazing voice.

Anyway, it’s funny to me now. I really thought watching the CMAs, oh poor ML, she had no idea Blake had started dating Gwen and there she is with pink hair that looks so dumb in comparison to Gwen’s iconic looks. No wonder she’s crying. She lost her man, he’s with Gwen so she will never get him back, and she looks so stupid with that hair. It never would have occurred to me that the psycho had pink hair on purpose and cried for attention, had repeatedly cheated on Blake, etc. Shows how little I understood!

- B

[danmei-hoe]

i was reading holding onto my man in cg and although I did like the story, the author's blatant sexism and some revenge plot where the person doesn't even deserve it made me decide to drop it on the 86th chapter ugh 😭

the translation is amazing, and i really thank the translators for their hard work but this ended up not being my cup of story

*incoming rant about why i dropped the novel*

one of the most disturbing thing was the way the MC always ended up in the body of either a 15 year old or a 16 year old or a 17 year old and then ends up having sex with the ML

i actually looked past that despite how uncomfortable it made me feel but anyway, I got past that

and then the author decided to make the MC a dog

a fucking dog

And although nothing happened between the MC and ML during this time, there was an instance where the ML's 'eyes darkened' after he pecked the dog! MC. Like, bro??? HE'S A FUCKING DOG???? I- 🙃

and there's also some remarks about how 'woman are inherently weaker than men and cannot play games and those who do are always masculine and tomboys and pretty girls always need a male partner to complete the quests' in the gaming arc, and it's quite saddening to suddenly see that in the middle of a story which you are enjoying, especially since it's so demeaning 😭

and then in the apocalypse arc and slag gong arc, i felt like the punishment was too much for the characters, especially considering that they were also victims of misunderstanding

in the apocalypse arc, Shen Muze and Su Yu are clearly the same age, but SY can be forgiven for fighting with SM (which led to his death) but SM should suffer for the rest of his life despite being in the same situation as the past??? I mean, he was also a child and he clearly felt remorse and was even willing to die for SY but we are supposed to hate him because he is a cannon fodder? that's just so 😭

and in the slag gong arc! both XYF and RY are victims, and it's just that Rong Yi's acting managed to even fool XYF

the guy witnessed his lover jumping onto the arms of the person who caused his death in happiness and he is supposed to just forgive Rong Yi?? Yeah sure if he had taken a little time to understand the situation it would've been better but I don't think he deserved that bad of an ending honestly

all in all, this story made me feel conflicted because it's actually written quite well but at the same time, it just challenges my moral views so I might have to drop it

[pigagainstsuicidism]

Well historical materialist-style communists (henceforth histcoms) of any stripe and anarchists are unfortunately probably always going to have some heavy tension between them, if the theory of prefiguration is correct. There's a lot of aspects to this cultural rift. One has to do with their relationships to abuse.

Prefiguring Abuse

Council communists have a pretty varied relationship to anarchists, and historically both revolutionary traditions influenced each other greatly. There's heavy tension in virtue of how each tradition began, and how they developed very different relationships to historical figures.

Much like the split between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks started from a high profile mobbing/abuse case (the Bauman affair), the anarchists and the histcoms started from one as well. The now widely undisputed case of Marx and Engels abusing several members of their organization left its mark on the communist movement.

From that abuse of power arose two different approaches to tradition, one of uncritical celebration and one of critical engagement and inspiration. Histcoms now go by 'Marxist' whereas ancoms tend to just be ancoms, not 'Proudhonists' or 'Bakuninists' or 'Malatestites' or 'Kropotkinists.' Histcoms do more than just pay homage to their contributors, they celebrate them uncritically, without really feeling the weight of such an act upon their victims.

The mobbing and abuse was conducive to the anarchist tradition to follow a different route from the histcoms. Since whatever fallibilities and wrongdoings of the Jura federation, of specific anarchist figures, etc. would be amplified if these figures were celebrated, it was important not to emphasize and glorify any figure. How would the victims of Bakunin's anti-semitism feel seeing him celebrated while their ideas were dismissed by his peers, left to decay undocumented?

Glorification and Dogmatism

So the rather strange fact that despite ancoms heeding historical materialism plenty, there's so much tension between council communists and ancoms can be partially explained. Namely, it can be explained by the cultures that came out of perpetrating and invisibilizing the abuse, and out of being subjected to the abuse.

A lot of council communists it's spoken to do acknowledge the historical record around the various abuse cases in the First International, but it really does sort of just stop at acknowledgment and not really critically engaging with it. But the theory of prefiguration demands of us that we think very critically about how certain elements of our traditions can "snowball," and so an important part of analyzing our conditions is analyzing significant elements of the past and their causal relationship with our present conditions. This being an paradigmatic component of anarchism does make it easier to avoid dogmatism.

A Caveat

Anyway, all of this does need to be caveated with the immense complexity and diversity of these movements. Plenty of council communists were very tight with their anarchist communist neighboring movements. Even Leninists and anarchist communists impact each other heavily sometimes, as we saw in the early Chinese revolution where MLs and ancoms heavily influenced each other before all of the anarchists were exiled to Hong Kong, and ML strategies and ideas influenced how anarchism expressed itself in Hong Kong and anarchism heavily influenced how the Mao era played out (in particular, with many of the successes of the early era of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution).

Furthermore, many anarchists are plenty dogmatic. Anyone vulnerable who's been in enough anarchist spaces has been abused and mobbed out of them plenty, and whether or not it's true that it's harder to get away with just paying lipservice to the culture of being cognizant of power dynamics and abuse in anarchism, abuse culture is more powerful than any tradition.

A Specific Example: The United Front

Histcoms had a famously varied respond to the United Front. Leon Trotsky, at the same time as anarchists Armando Borghi and Errico Malatesta as well as more broadly the Italian Syndicalist Union, pushed for the United Front. The revolutionary socialists would work with rank and file reformist socialists against fascism, and while resisting would show the folly of the reformists who always prepared to betray the working class. They would resist fascism and radicalize the working class simultaneously.

Meanwhile, Stalin went with the Popular Front strategy of class collaboration, and the Italian left rejected both (with Bordiga writing plenty critical on both the United Front and the Popular Front).

Today, you can find with some effort leftcoms who disagree with rejecting the United Front, Trotskyists who disagree with accepting the United Front. But without any persuasion, ancoms have a fairly diverse set of lines, with perhaps the most typical line being that the United Front was a failure, but cannot be compared to the disaster of either the Popular Front or rejecting all alliances altogether.

For that reason, contemporary especifismo traditions (for example) deploy a variety of strategies that have been developing for a century now from the United Front, all with their own conditions, strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures. It is possible, it would seem, to honor the fallen contributors to your history without being loyal to them.

These two different approaches, one that tends towards glorified adherence to one's past contributors and one that tends towards honoring without glorifying, towards critical engagement, is a significant source of discord between the two traditions.

Random Thoughts on Marxists

This is gonna be me just rambling about things I saw on marxist spaces. I'll be focusing on experiences I had with council communists (CC) and Left communists (LC)

Dogmatism

Ok, I wanna be honest, this is just a vibe I got. If u had to ask me for tangible evidence, I'd be 🤷‍♂️

Is just a feelin I got of "this is the way to go cause Dude in 1924 said so". It feels very restricting, takin away the potential that human imagination has in socialist movements

It felt like "this is the way! Oh ure more keen on this idea? Let me see what Dude said in '32...mmm sorry! Can't do it!"

But maybe is just me! I'm the type of kid to ask why a 100 times! Did I ask why a 100 times? Not really I was a shy kid, but in my mind I did it so it counts

On Anarchy

Idk the hate coming from Marxists towards anarchists! And I'm not even talking about MLs, I'm talking about marxists/communists that have more in common with bakunin that with lenin!

Like, I remember a CC (council communist) talking about an anarchist revolt (in a hypothetical communist revolution) on the same terms of a counter revolution by reactionaries!!

Or how a CC insta page made fun of an anarchist comparing Lenin to Lasalle (socialist that though that socialism could be achieved by takin control of the state. Marx didn't like him) and being something like "anarchist critique of lenin is bad!"

And I was like "Bro, half the memes u posted are just you sayin that lenin and lasalle are the same!!"

Another thing that I notice is this mentality off "if a marxist said X, that's good, if an anarchist said the same thing, then bad!"

I heard ppl talk about Marxists sayin that the "dictator of the proletariat" is the revolution itself and I was like "ok, that feels like anarchism but with some marx sprinkles in it!"

The end goal is the same, the way of achieving it is the same, the anti-authoritarian sentiment is the same BUT we ain't anarchists! No no no, we're total opposite actually!!

On Ukraine

Since the beginning of the invasion, I heard so many shit takes from the left. When I heard em from MLs I was like "shit take? Yes, but I wasn't expecting something else from yall" But from the left communists?

They can only chant "no war but class war" wich is nice, don't get me wrong, but is...just bs

They always go against the MLs cause they're not good enough on examining the world, that MLs are just too blinded by propaganda, how MLs don't have a grip on the world, and then the only solution they give is "the Russians and ukranians soldiers should go against their generals and politicians (to achieve socialism)"

In what world will this happen? Defenetly not in this one!! How distant can you be from the real world to say that ukranian soldiers just have to go and fight their politicians!

I'd be like telling someone's who's house is burning down to go and beat the cops that arrived at the scene cause they're class traitors! They are, but saving the house from the flames maybe takes the priority!!

I'm not a patriotic person. I never was. So my thinking doesn't come from "we must save our country!" type of sentiment. It comes from a "This is my house, the street where I used to walk my dog, the bar where I used to go and chill with friends"

Idk how to end this ramble...if u read it all, damn, ure one cool person. If u have something to say, be nice about it. Have a good day!!