#oldschool drama

[anemoiawithatouchofobsession]

AM I SEEING THIS RIGHT??????????????

WHAT IS LOVE/SARANGI MWOGILLAE ON MBC'S OFFICIAL DRAMA CHANNEL???

AM I WINNING?

AM I WINNING?

YES I AM!

YES I AM! MOTHERFCKERRSSSSSSSSSSSSS LETS GOOO

Can't wait to wait every week for an upload and watch it like in the olden daysssssss

WOOOOOOOOOOOO LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO

I had watched What Is Love on a movie YT channel, unsubbed and commented, in 5 parts to 1 hour. I had watched that while staying up the night and I really really enjoyed it.

The channel has now reuploaded it in one full video of almost 6 hours... sadly all the parts and all the comments under it are gone TT. But you can at least watch it now.

It's eye-opening and funny, touching and very emotionally involving all at the same time. Just too damn addictive. It is such a simple and realistic setting you get to believe every damn thing about the characters and just forget the actors are acting. Too damn real for it to be a drama, but there's the 90s for you

[scarygirlsteakhouse]

total drama tumblr gods if you have ideas for drag outfits for noah and owen plz feel free to send me them via asks or whatever <— person that only knows drag queens from youtube shorts

[aiiaiiiyo]

[rocket-sith]

Y'all. Y'ALL. I got anonymous hate on one of my fics for the first time since 2016. *sniffs* I feel so special!

Dear anonymous wanker:

Half the shit you said didn't even pertain to the fic, and the other half showcased your tragicomic inability to differentiate between the opinion of a story's author and the opinion of a fictional character within the story. *insert Shame Bell here*

tl;dr - Go spank your Twelve Monkeys to Shaw someplace else. There are plenty of amazing Shaw x Seven fics out there. I know because I've read them. I was also trolling an anti in your tags like three days ago on general principle while looking for fics, so once again - please learn to differentiate between the opinion of a writer (real person) and the POV of a fictional character (not a real person, whose feelings and perspectives we can only speculate about, especially regarding a dynamic that's clearly quite complex).

In conclusion, yo mama's so fat, Kirk broke the temporal prime directive by doing a slingshot maneuver around her ass. Also in conclusion - go touch grass. I may or may not be referring to cannabis. No stolen pots were harmed in the making of this post. This has been a message from the emergency GTFO system. *beeeeeep*

[mistofstars]

Klaas, your heart eyes are showing... 😉

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Vince 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

March 28,1970

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

28 Marzo 1970

[non-un-topo]

I don’t want to jinx it but I think I might have fixed this plot-hole

[clouds-of-wings]

Leaked footage of me shopping at Netto.

[olderthannetfic]

What are the ships pictured in that ot3 post? I've been really looking to find more pairings of exactly your vibe

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Hah! I was wondering if people were trying to figure them all out. Some are considerably more famous than others.

These are Haven and White Collar. I didn't watch either to the end and have no regrets about that, just saying. There's plenty of good fic though.

This is the venerable Highlander, baby's first OT3 for many a 90s slash fan.

The Book of Life and Singin' in the Rain.

This is the extremely underrated Man from U.N.C.L.E. film. It came out at the same time as Straight Outta Compton, alas.

Some oldschool show fans whined that it was nothing like the show, but they are wrongity wrong wrong and have forgotten season 1, particularly Marion Raven and Gervaise Ravel, upon whom the love interest and the villainess are based. (And yes, I absolutely ship show Illya/Napoleon/Marion.)

There was a nice little fic fandom for a year or two, but it withered in the absence of any sequels. The show is more of a m/m juggernaut with the very occasional foray into the main dudes having a one-off threesome with some lady. Show Illya is pretty iconic and very different from movie Illya though, so I understand that disappointment.

Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty and Mysterious Lotus Casebook. These are historical mystery and wuxia mystery respectively. The former has a more satisfying series end than the latter, but I liked both endings all right. (Look, with c-dramas, that's always my first question: Did everyone die and/or everything get left hanging in a way that will make me throw things?)

The Two Faces of January might as well be called Daddy Issues: The Movie and has allll kinds of badwrong vibes. It's not a happy story. I'm not sure Patricia Highsmith knew what happiness even looked like. But boy is it delicious! The scenery is gorgeous too.

And that last one is Les Spécialistes, a film I only discovered from a fan bitching about how it was the OT3iest thing ever but nobody remembered that it existed. It's a silly French heist movie from the 80s with some identity porn and twists.

Other people added Leverage, most notorious of OT3 fandoms, three of the side dudes from The Untamed, Arthurian legend, and Girl Genius.

[tremendouskoalachild]

what we know: The Acolyte was pitched sometime in early 2020. The Rise of Skywalker had just ended the movie saga. The Mandalorian, which kicked off disney+, had just finished its first season with great audience response. Lucasfilm was reorienting itself to streaming. Rayne Roberts loved the pitch, got Kathleen Kennedy who also loved it, and the show was greenlit.

the show premiered in summer 2024, after a generous marketing campaign (including a clip shown with The Phantom Menace rerelease, an original Victoria Monét song, and plenty of trailers and tv spots). multiple pieces of tie-in media were announced both before and during the show's airing (an Acolyte comic issue, a Kelnacca comic issue, a visual guide, an art reference book, two novels featurig show characters).

the high republic multimedia project (THR), in advanced development when the show was pitched and published continuously from early 2021, greatly influenced the show's development. the costuming is largely based on the look of THR, the show makes plenty of lore references, and includes a main character from the books in its main cast. THR material coming out in summer 2024 has "a century before The Acolyte" prominently on the cover, the upcoming show tie-ins are largely written by THR authors, and often feature other THR characters.

the show was expensive, with a long production period and a great focus on the technical aspects - building large elaborate sets, filming on location in Madeira, detailed stunt sequences with a lot of actor involvement, plenty of attention given to costumes, make-up and creature design. the cast included many high-profile actors. everything suggests the show had full confidence of lucasfilm.

what i'm gonna speculate: lucasfilm was playing the long game with this show, or hoping to. cancelling the show this early was unexpected.

in 2019 star wars was quite literally centered on the original trilogy. the seven decades or so around the OT contained all currently canon star wars media, even as the franchise was spoken of as one with 25,000 years of history. the following years would plug up even more empty spots on the timeline, with the projects often overlapping. this gave the writers much less creative freedom, which was the whole point of decanonizing all pre-2014 media aside from films and shows. over time, fans started clamoring for onscreen content set outside of the known eras, and there were more and more voices in and outside of the fandom exhausted with fanservice (the glup shitto phenomenon).

The Acolyte was set in a whole new era, as far as onscreen content goes, and its only legacy character was from children's and YA books most viewers wouldn't be familiar with. it was specifically introduced as a show you wouldn't need any homework for. it had actors prominent in entirely different contexts (Matrix. sitcom. Squid Game. YA. superhero movies. independent films. relationship dramas.) and the cast was pretty international.

the show had a lot specifically for established fans - you could say it was the most wide-reaching in its star wars references, incorporating elements from every trilogy, the animated shows, canon books, oldschool legends lore, video games. but i believe it was mostly meant to attract people who were not previously fans, and especially target demographics that were underrepresented in the fandom. draw in international audiences, young people who were around for other star wars properties but they never caught their interest, women who either weren't in the fandom or felt pushed away by the reaction to The Last Jedi.

lucasfilm execs definitely weren't planning for viewing numbers comparable to Obi-Wan Kenobi, or even Ahsoka, since those are characters people are already invested in. i think lucasfilm expected the show's audience to grow over a longer period, since plenty of people might check it out because it seems cool and they like an actor in it, and hopefully stick around to watch other star wars and become new fans of the franchise. the audience would get a chance to establish itself through new viewers watching it outside the couple weeks when it aired originally - it's a streaming platform, after all - and the show would have a solid fandom for its second season (which they were clearly planning to make).

these new fans would keep disney+ in order to check out other star wars shows and film, and keep buying star wars stuff over the hiatus. even if they were only into The Acolyte and their interest never expanded beyond that, there were many merchandising products and tie-in materials coming out. the comics and books would have connections to THR, hopefully getting an influx of readers before the initiative finishes next year and boosting sales of already published works. the THR readers who weren't interested in the show originally would see all their favorite authors writing stuff for it and check it out, too.

but then someone higher up decided to cancel it a month after airing so no i guess

[anemoiawithatouchofobsession]

I just realised... the reason why Kang Susie's career lasted so long and longer than fellow "innocent beauty" troika girls Lee Jiyeon and Ha Soobin's did is because she debuted when she was 24. Jiyeon and Soobin debuted at 17.

Susie had lived in America, had experienced a life of poverty and discrimination, went working next to high school and college, Soobin and Jiyeon had lived nowhere else than in Korea and lived life as "normal" high school girls.

Susie was an ADULT and Jiyeon and Soobin were TEENAGERS when they all debuted - Susie knew how society worked, the other two didn't, BECAUSE THEY WERE HIGH SCHOOLERS AND TEENAGERS AND LEGAL MINORS when they debuted. Like, it all makes sense. Of course Jiyeon would suffer under her antis, and then throw her career away for the first man that told her he loved her. Of course Soobin would retire directly after the rumours that hit her -

THEY WERE NOT MATURE ENOUGH TO HANDLE IT and I want yall to think back when you were 17 and imagine having to handle fame and all of that what comes with it. Trying to manage the transition between teenage and adulthood IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Compare that to 27 year old Susie, how she handled her dating scandal - she even scored two hits after that. SHE WAS 27. She was not just an adult with all of this adulting behind her, that is a fully developed, mature and grown woman. Compare that to 19-20 for both Jiyeon and Soobin when they hit their career lows.

"What If Jiyeon had just a more stable support network when her anti problem hit the fan" is literally my roman empire because if she wouldnt have retired, she'd have had a much better image change and would've slayed more mature thems and albums, Susie wouldn't have been able to fully take over that spot for herself, Soobin would've probably debuted but not been as famous and so wouldn't have dealt with so much hate, all three women would have had longer careers, and we'd have had a period of time where they all promoted together.

[shinelikethunder]

the thing about trying to convey what the fuck is up with outlander is that most attempts to explain all the ways it's Not Good Actually just sound like advertisements for how batshit it is. and it IS batshit, and horny, and self-indulgent fanfiction for weird little girls with the misfortune to grow up into straight women, and all of the above. but it is also, i cannot stress this enough, absolute fucking schlock

anyway, to offset the sin of having tempted any of you to sit through any more of it than the whipping scene and then the gratuitous torture porn in the last episode or two of season 1, let me just sit here and recommend with my entire chest that you read diana gabaldon's fanlore article, at least if you ever want a hearty oldschool-blog-drama laugh at someone who COULD at any moment have chosen to stop parading her ass in front of the entire internet but just couldn't help herself. i will never unhear the squeaking of clown shoes attached to her name, and if you're considering doing this to yourself, you should at least do it while giggling at exactly what serial numbers she filed off her self-insert fic before hopping on the internet 20 years later to get BIG MAD at people daring to write SEX SCENES about HER CHARACTERS.

[aiiaiiiyo]

[ghaniblue]

Reading List: September

The start of the month was all about Drarry Hurt/Comfort fest (recs are here), oldschool Marauders era fic (wolfstar, starcest & jily) and quite a bit of HP character meta, linked at the end. Then I started a reread of Captive Prince so I wanted fic. ❤��� denotes favourites.

>> August recs <<

Captive Prince

💆🏼 The Tall Kingdom I Surround by yekoc (Damen/Laurent, E, 3,7k)

The first time it happened, in the midst of battle preparations at Karthas, Damen had dismissed it as a momentary lapse. Laurent’s voice, issuing curt orders, and his own involuntary reaction: nothing more than force of habit, the instincts he had trained into himself, deliberately, in order to survive.

Nikandros had noticed then, and had let it go with the circumspect silence of a kyroi to his king. That was as it should be, Damen thought. It was not worth discussing. It was not even worth thinking about.

An exploration of the private, intimate power dynamics post canon. I love the thought of Damen

🌿 Bright as Lightning by blacktofade (Damen/Laurent, E, 33k)

Laurent, Prince of Vere, has always been promised to Damianos, Prince of Akielos.

Lovely arranged-marriage fic where Laurent comes to Akielos to fall in love and uncover plots.

📧 (Not) Meant For You by Holly_Golightly (Damen/Laurent, background Ancel/Berenger E, 151k)

Laurent is just trying to keep himself together and forget about what happened. Damen is trying to keep the press at bay and ignore the scandalous headlines. Auguste isn’t trying at all.

When Laurent sends a hookup text meant for his ex to his brother’s worst enemy, he unlocks a door to their shared pasts that might have been better left closed. With secrets, lies, and betrayals threatening to bring everything crashing down, Laurent has to decide how much he’s willing to risk and whether or not it’s a price he can afford to pay for his chance at a happy ending.

Modern nobility AU with high-octane emotions, blindingly hot smut, toxic exes, drama and secrets, a (very) complicated Damen & Auguste friendship, but an eventual happy end for all.

HP

🪶 So You Sprouted Wings by @hoko-onchi-writes (Drarry, E, 8k)

Like human puberty, Veela puberty can come with its own pitfalls. Uh-oh! Is that a mood swing? Veela hormones are twice as strong as their human counterparts, so you may find yourself dizzily cheerful in the morning and despairing your wretched existence in the afternoon. Don’t worry. It’s all normal. It’ll smooth out over time. Healing sexual touch can help!

❤️🎻 Opus by Spessartine (Regulus/Sirius, E, 4k)

‘Play for me,’ says Sirius.

Mesmerising, shivery prose. So sparse yet it made my brain thrum and my breath catch. Their dynamic is so sharp and aching, and the description of Reg playing violin... jesus.

😠 Just Like Me by shaggydogstail (Sirius/Regulus, E, 2k)

Regulus hates Sirius. Or maybe he wants to be Sirius. Or maybe he just wants Sirius.

🍐 Loam by adistantsun + art by dustmouth (Wolfstar, Teddy, T, 7k + drawings)

Round a bend on Swanston Road, the house slips out from between the trees like it's playing hide and seek.

Teddy wants to know more about his father. So he goes digging.

🔎 Hiraeth by llassah (Wolfstar, M, 5k)

Hiraeth, noun. Welsh. A feeling of yearning to return to a place that may never have existed. An earnest desire.

During the first rise of Voldemort, Remus gets into the spying game. No one told him it would be quite this difficult to lie for a living.

🐕 A Fearsome Business by canis m. (Wolfstar, T, 20k)

Sirius lays low at Lupin's

I used to love lay low at Lupin's fics. This one is a good representation of that sense of fragile hope.

❤️🏰 The Last Enemy: The Howling Nights by CH_Darling (Jily, T, 208k)

It’s 1975 and war is simmering beneath the surface of the Wizarding world...but at Hogwarts, it’s magic as usual as the fifth years prepare for their O.W.L.s amidst politics, pranks, and other poor choices.

Severus Snape wants to prove his worth. Lily Evans wants a fresh start. James Potter wants Lily Evans, though no one is more surprised by this than him. Sirius Black wants to write himself a new story. Remus Lupin wants to survive the next moon. Peter Pettigrew just wants to keep up.

But as tensions bubble over, sides will be chosen, friendships destroyed, families parted, and paths forever altered.

I'm so impressed with how easily this slots into canon and how real (and true to canon) all the POV characters feel. I especially enjoyed Lily, Remus and Sirius.

Meta

Gentleman Monster: How Remus's Marginalisation and Comparitive Privilege Made Who He Is by @ashesandhackles

Fred&George vs. James& Sirius and their different sense of "mischief" by @elvendorx

Barty Crouch Jr and Barty Crouch Sn: like father, like son by @artemisia-black

Yes. The Weasleys had too many kids. An analysis. (Part 1 of 2) by @arkadijxpancakes

Everything on this HP meta list compiled by @remus-poopin or these masterlists of ashesandhackles's and artemisia black's meta posts.

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Simon +43 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

[scarefox]

This is a whole ramble but there is a theme in there (for fun and giggles)

I sometimes have to think about the whole "petplay" / master-servant game Gun has going on with some of the GMM guys (Tay and Joss, officially but he probably has some of the others joined too). It's just so damn wild and funny. And everyone is pretending like that's just the most normal thing besties do. I mean sure why not but also 😏 Just them taking turns in being the others obedient cute pet-servant for one day, while he calling him "his pet" and treats him like a pet (and that outside of cameras and fanservice stuff, they do that in their private time mainly. just dragging it out in the open occasionally). I love that for them 👌

OG Fun Night S1Ep3

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... hmmm 😏

yea that's more likely

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THE WHOLE ENTIRETY OF FUN NIGHT S2EP7 is just damn wild where they compete to be Guns number 1 pet, winning a freaking collar of all things! While talking about the drama "3 Will Be Free" (which is literally a canon polyamory drama with Tay, Joss and Mild)

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also that TayGun date special

But Off is always like "You guys have fun but leave me out of that nonsense" 🙅‍♂️ whenever Gun asks him to join the pet poly circle....

BUT isn't he basically Guns first "pet" before Tay even?! Guns nickname for him is literally Papii... which I first thought means "dad" (or daddy if you will 😏) but someone once educated me that it means "puppy". Because of their first drama together "Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey".

So what I am trying to say here is: Off you lost that fight already years ago!! You have been Guns doggo all along!! lol

(but that's fine, he just doesn't want to mingle with the others 😌)

It's tragic, there once was a compilation of all the Tay and Gun pet moments (+ trust falls) with parts of an interview where Tay explains his side. And the MC was shook like "And you just let him treat you like a pet??" and Tay all shy and giggly "Yea, it's just a thing between us. I don't even know why. I went with it" 🤷‍♂️ And that he thinks that Gun is the most powerful guy in whole GMM. (A+ video.. why did they take that from us)

Yall don't understand how neat the whole OffGunTay(New) and Gun swinger / poly dynamic is. Alone for the fact that they don't care for the strict exclusive ship rule where they can only be touchy with their on-screen partner. But Gun is touchy and playful with every GMM guy and that's fine and neat af (even tho they all mainly stay in their official ship constellation as well). Meanwhile there are still so many couple themed ship war fanvideos from fans out there about which couple would be most likely real and which one will sink: OffGun or TayGun 🙄 Like bruh, everyone is Guns pet or cuddle buddy, what are yall not getting? OffGunTay(New + others) love and cherish each other (in whatever way that is does not matter). And Tay AND Off and even New encouraging Gun getting cuddly and kissed by other guys. Off and Tay are literally that "You are doing great sweety" meme when Gun has fun with others. Off being jealous is literally just a playful running gag.

I swear most BL fans are way too innocent and stuck with the oldschool relationship style for this awesome GMM (friend)ship dynamic they are playing with here...

Like look at this pile of TayGunNew while Off takes a photo

I don't know why this post turned from the petgame thing to OffGunTay & GMM polycule but it's basically the same ven diagram. Just everyone gets kisses, flirts and cuddles. As they should.

But it does not have to be the one ship over the other. Each of them literally has two hands 😌

holding hand throuple style 😌

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

Anyways.... A poly drama with them when?? Didn't P'Jojo say he wants to do a drama with Gun but doesn't know what theme? (P'Jojo who did "3 Will Be Free" with Joss and Tay already). Here! This? ✨

EDIT: I had to ad this