#romantic teen drama

[gldnstrngs]

i cant lie i highkey wouldve loved to see merlin as a show that takes place in modern times with its own interpretations of legends etc etc

and its not like avalon high where theyre all reincarnated (although i love that concept too) but it would be more like those teen supernatural dramas (teen wolf, tvd etc etc)

it would probs be in modern day wales or england (or start in wales and lead to england) and no one knows about the existence of magic users except for the aforementioned people, anyone who’s close to them, and witch hunters

merlin would be born of magic just like the show and hunith would make sure his secret is discovered bc of the risks esp bc balinor went missing when merlin was young and she knows that the witch hunters were after him

so they move to england and merlin is raised in a town called camelot and has a relatively normal childhood and then the plot would actually start to take place when he’s in his third year of high school or smth like that

merlin’s managed to keep his identity a secret and is very much just . a Student in school like most people like him and he’s smart and kinda dorky but doesn’t really care for popularity

insert the other characters:

arthur who would be a star soccer player and loved by everyone but he tends to keep to himself. with that being said he’s still prattish and doesnt acknowledge merlin until he sees him hanging out with his half sister morgana and is like 🤨�� (+ complex gay feelings)

morgana who’s arthur’s half sister and also very popular, but more sociable and nice to everyone. she knows of merlin but doesn’t interact with him until he encounters her doing magic when she didn’t even know it existed and so he helps her with controlling it and they become friends

gwen who’s morgana’s best friend but also a good friend of merlin’s. and lance who’s apart of the soccer team and is good friends with arthur, but is ultimately best friends with merlin

then u have the rest of the knights in the soccer team who are nice to everyone and greatly loved and end up getting close to merlin when mysteries are being ~uncovered~

also the biggest thing would be that uther pendragon is the Overlord who oversees all the witch hunting and funds it and no one knows that, but merlin and morgana would find out and that would definitely make things escalate

this is very much teen wolf & tvd core bc let’s be real those were PEAK at the time they came out plus it’s fun to see a new way to interpret the arthurian legends hehwheheheh

(bradley and colin look so dorky n cute here but hopefully u all understand my vision😭😭😭)

[siflshonen]

We’re really living in a world where Toga targeted Ochako for being close to Deku but is also fixated on her because she’s everything she wishes she could be while Shigaraki targeted Bakugo for being close to Izuku because doing all the bad things he does and still having someone stick by him and be his hero is everything he wants and we are reading about it right there on the page and right there in the text and right there in the themes and their desire for connection is driving their fights and it is right there on the page and they are all in love and it is RIGHT THERE ON THE PAGE

[bi-animated]

This one’s for the #shortaki fans!

I wanted to do something for them because after hearing all the stuff that’s been going on in the Animation Industry, they are still trying to get #thepatakis made and I have so much love and respect for that 💜

I asked what I should draw on Discord and they said Tango scene, and I immediately thought of Tina from Bob’s Burgers and her “friend fiction”. I just hope Helga keeps it PG-13 🌝

Butt touching ONLY ☝🏼‼️

Anyway, if you’re interested in supporting Animation, just go sign their petition, it’s free and I have the link in my Link Tree.

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[pianapplez]

Hello there 👋👀,

So I just found your blog and had a lot of fun scrolling through all the pjo show crit😂 I couldn't help but notice that one tag you left on a post where you said you had some beef with Annabeth's portrayal in the books 👀 Would you mind elaborating on that if you're comfortable with it🙈? Because I absolutely share that sentiment, but it's sooo veeeery rare that I see other people express anything like it... I've found that trying to be a part of the fandom can be pretty alienating most of the time, if you're not exactly the biggest most devoted Percabeth shipper...😅 And often any criticism leveled at Annabeth just gets you a smack with the "internalized-misogyny" hammer... it's even worse in the tv show now due to... obvious reasons...

Again just if you're comfortable with answering of course🙈 There is a reason I stayed on anon after all...😅😂

Really glad you asked because i finally get to ramble about this heheheh (going forward, know that i skimmed over The Last Olympian to have a clearer sense of what I meant because that's the book where Rick fumbles her character more than the others)

i'm gonna try to make as much sense as possible but short answer would be, she's underdeveloped. Long answer:

She really got on my nerves in the last two books, with the whole Rachel debacle and then the Battle of New York. I can't really remember a single moment in those books where she and Percy aren't bickering or having heated discussions, which really made me question their friendship status. Of course, it's not like friends can't fight and it obviously builds up the (romantic) tension between them, but it got unbearable at one point.

I understand she's a teenager in an incredibly stressful situation that didn't even get to have a normal upbringing- she grew up way too fast (run away at 7, head counselor at 12) while also not really maturing, which is not a problem for a character, if it is handled properly. Given the fact that I am writing this, Riordan did not.

On the surface, my biggest beef is that Annabeth is not exactly held accountable for her actions (ie. treating Rachel a bit like shit and going off on Percy for a bunch of stuff.) I know Percy is to blame a bit here: as far as we know, in TLO he basically cuts the greek world out of his life as much as he can as a coping mechanism. And while yes, he never apologizes either, he doesn't give her nearly half the hard time she gives him: always either giving him the cold shoulder (there must be at least one example of this in the entire series but i cant be bothered to look it up sorry) or starting an argument only to then storm off (see the "you're a coward, Percy Jackson!" scene, which is not the fairest example since she was confronting Percy about ignoring camp but also was a bit too harsh about it) (especially after finally reading the prophecy and being under the impression that he was absolutely going to die when he turned 16 lmao) or just straight up storming off (see, Annabeth reacting when Rachel shows up for the first time during the battle of new york). While most of these feel, at least to some degree, fairly justified given how the entire situation does an absolute number on her emotions, she comes off a bit brattish and like she's trying to rile Percy up, especially when it comes to Rachel, which in the context of a battle that could mean the destruction of the world.... Well, it reads as a bit childish to me, and i wouldn't exactly have that much of a problem with it if it was dealt with in some way (a two-way apology would be nice).

After that first impression, i realized that Annabeth is barely ever anything else other than a plot device (when relating to Luke) or a love interest (when relating to Percy). This might be because the books are on Percy's POV. Hell, on the third book he's even conflicted when Annabeth is considering joining the Hunters of Artemis, aka, when making a choice for herself would mean he loses her (which is fine and dandy but it feels like Percy is more upset about her choosing her own path rather than being sad about not seeing her as often); we really only get a few glimpses of her, as in, actually her when she's on her own.

Obviously it's impossible to talk about Annabeth without touching on percabeth, which also is, in my opinion, what hinders Annabeth's character the most. On paper they sound great. The guy whose fatal flaw is loyalty falls in love with a girl whose been let down by people over and over, and she decides to never give up on the boy whose always had people give up on him (can't find one of the million posts that talks about this right now but it always goes something like that) And yeah, the bickering is really well written! But that's literally as far as it ever goes: they don't ever seem to have fun together, because 8 times out of 10 the bickering ends up being passive aggressive, and mostly done by Annabeth. My biggest gripe about percabeth is that their friendship seems to be based off... shared trauma. Literally. Other than going on quests together we are given no examples of them hanging out, nor a reason why they would want to spend time together in the first place, not even a shared hobby. Yes, in the fourth book they had a movie "date" planned but of course they didn't even get to it, and surprise surprise, they had a minor discussion, and surprise surprise, Annabeth was passive aggressive again. It's hard to picture them having fun together when even the author doesn't write in any scenes in which they get along smoothly (and before you say anything, a scene in which they get along where neither of them is about to die, and they're not talking about previous adventures. Gets a bit hard then, doesn't it?) It's even harder to picture them as a couple when the moment she gets upset about something, she starts coming off as emotionally manipulative (see, again, literally any conversation with Rachel or about Rachel)

To be fair, the books are relatively short and don't allow many "filler" chapters, if you will; there's always something happening to keep the main plot or a minor plot point moving forward, but it's not like there is no room to develop the characters' relationships, especially when we're talking about the main char and what is essentially his endgame. As an example we have Percy and Clarisse, or Percy and Beckendorf. Their interactions are brief but still hold so much weight.

Worst of all, Annabeth could be one hell of a character; what's most interesting of all is how being a daughter of Athena she is still incredibly emotionally driven, which is displayed very clearly with her fatal flaw being pride: her telling the Sphynx that her questions were too easy was not smart nor strategic: it was completely impulsive. I seriously think she wasn't far from being the best character in the series had she been given more time.

I guess i have as much beef with Annabeth as i have with Rick for doing her dirty. I really could sum this up with: while her emotions are justified, she acts upon them quite poorly. And this is what i mean when i say she's underdeveloped, because it would've been nice to see her come to her senses a bit.

Would love to read anyone's opinions on her character though, feel free to comment, even (or especially) if you don't agree with me!

[margarita-life]

Landon Carter & Jamie Sullivan | THEIR STORY (A Walk To Remember)

"...You have to promise you won't fall in love with me..."

[theskyexists]

Why was nanoha so good??? I probably couldn't watch it anymore. And theyre like... Lolis. I HATE lolis. But 1. They're old school so they just look like regular animated girls 2. There's something amazing about.... That amount of structured and logical explosive power and amazingly animated combat prowess and responsibility and tragedy and intensity packed into two very young girls. Because it's so crazy and kind of wrong. A pure contrastive power fantasy. Their relationship is also enhanced by this because it is so purely... It is so unsappy. They're just two very young girls who really have very little experience with the world and it makes their feelings for each other completely believable. The show takes itself breathtakingly seriously. I mean when it comes to the heart of the show. Nanofate is just so fresh

[mandoreviews]

📽️ 10 Things I Hate about You (1999)

This is one of my favorite movies. I don’t even know how many times I’ve seen it, but it never gets old. It’s based on a Shakespeare play (The Taming of the Shrew) which is probably why all the characters are so interesting and relatable. Shakespeare’s themes are so universal and timeless, and I think this movie is too. I’ve loved this movie from the first time I saw it.

Sex/nudity: 5/10 (drawings of breasts and penises, off-screen flashing, kissing, many innuendoes, nicknames for male parts, talk of teen pregnancy)

Language: 3/10 (mostly mild but there is quite a bit)

Violence: 2/10 (a couple fights)

Overall rating: 9/10

[silksinging]

I find it so funny how the movie made such a big deal out of Cleo and Deuce having broken up, and it’s this whole dramatic angsty thing and the first piece of info that’s given to us about these characters

And then in the cartoon show it’s just like. “yeah we dated for a bit but we’re defs better as friends, anyway-“ at like. episode 29.

[udaasibharikoihaseendaastan]

Bro I just finished watching Hidden Love and adsksdhsksks I CANT I CAN'T STOP SOBBING BRO I MEAN DUAN JIAXU IS SOOO FKING AMAZING- like kaha milte hai aise ladke yaar??! But kaha hi milenge ye to fictional hai na🥲

(ab 3-4 din अत्यंत lonely aur hopeless feel karte aur jiaxu ki yaad mai jaane wale hai)

[wildmelon]

"it's you. when all my dreams come true, the one i want next to me... it's you." (💭)

they bought a house!! pooled their life savings and bought the prettiest victorian style overlooking the plateaus and town of strangerville 🧡

(i am now begging someone to decorate the interior of this shell in a cozy cluttered dark style and tag me bc i'm in love with it but do not feel like decorating at alllll)

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the previous post, I think the way I approach trying to evaluate a piece of art is asking "Do I think the positive things I get out of it outweigh the parts of it that I don't like?" And when I call something a "guilty pleasure" song/show/book/piece of media/etc. it's really more in the sense of, "Given who I am as a person, the flaws I've found in this should be complete dealbreakers for me, but somehow they aren't, and it makes me feel like I'm having an identity crisis."

[dreadeves]

k expectedly have issues with the why is kit angry reveal bc like. babe. babe. kit knew ty for what. a month. ‘you changed into someone other than who i loved’? babe they knew each other for a few weeks tops they don’t know each other at all cmon be for real.

but also thank fucking god that it’s not because kit’s angry w ty not reciprocating!! like thank god that was going to be the nightmare scenario

[margarita-life]

Axel and Whitney | THEIR STORY (Boot Camp)

link: https://youtu.be/UFbD29P4AGY

Boot Camp, inspired by the Wattpad story by Gina Mus

#BootCamp #lovestory #theirstory

[rigginsstreet]

Teen dramas should be the genre with the most fanfiction and yet it is the genre with the least

[binging-asian-dramas]

F4: Boys Over Flowers. 7

Story: 7

Acting: 9

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to:  Meteor Garden (Taiwan drama) ; Hana Yori Dango (jdrama); Meteor Garden (cdrama) ; Boys Over Flowers (kdrama) ;

The best drama? Nope. The least one. Nope again. I’ve seen every rendition to this drama, it’s a classic even though the storyline may be troupe and cliche, but for some reason it’s always a much watch for me, especially with the original versions and Chinese version. All in all, each version actually has something special to it that is better then the other and also has something that is annoyingly bad. This version, the Thai one, has a bit of good and unfortunately a bit more on the bad side. For one thing it’s really hard to cram a big storyline like HYD into 16 episodes. Don’t get me wrong I really enjoyed how the Thai drama first started off. It was really great, but somewhere towards the middle it started to get jammed up, as those who are familiar with the anime could tell how the material was getting muddled together especially towards the end. On a positive note, the chemistry throughout the cast is one of my favorites out of all of the versions. The friendship between F4, and also the chemistry between the main leads were spot on. Then there’s always the Ren character, the Hua Ze Lei character, the Hanazawa Rui character, Yoon Ji Hoo character, and the Hua Ze Lei character. Why oh why, do they always have to be written in a damn so near perfect way. Always second male lead syndrome. *sigh*

[garbagequeer]