#showing the foreground and background yk

[mettywiththenotes]

Thinking about Izuku who can pose confidently in front of a camera now, and anti-social Tomura not even looking at the camera and/or staying in the background

[sexlapis]

ideas for actor!toji x yn

fluff / suggestive things

1. toji n reader are at an interview discussing their upcoming show! and the spicy scenes 😜😜😜😜 reader is asked "where there any times while filming you felt were really memorable ?" and yk... 😜 u can add onto it

2. toji n reader go on a secret vacation together (somewhere sunny like a beach ) , and when reader posts pictures on her instagram a BEEFY man's shadow can be seen in the foreground taking the pictures for her! and fans go willllld with it

3. while at an award show reader n toji win an award for best duo? or best preformances together, but toji couldn't attend the award show, so when y/n is on stage giving her speech she talks about how much she appreciates and loves toji as a actor and as a person! toji sees the video on twitter and comments something like "that's my girl! :)"

4. a vlog of toji and y/n getting ready together and it's jus super cute and fluffy 😭

kinda freaaakyyyy 😜😜😜

1. so, assuming that toji and y/n are actually a thing, toji has a habit of leaving marks on you EVERYWHERE. litters of kiss marks, HICKEYS ESPECIALLY, and bruises at ur hips from his grip during yk... at a certain photoshoot you wore an particularly skimpy dress, it reveals parts of your legs, upper thighs, shoulders, and collarbone. and some hickeys can be seen 😛😛😛😜😜😜

2. the cast of their upcoming show is at dinner, vlogging! and toji is sitting in front of y/n (it's like a booth their sitting in.) toji can be seen nudging y/n under the table to check her phone and toji sent her a lil sum sum 😛😛😛😛

3. in the back of an behind the scenes vlog, toji and y/n can be seen in the background of a shoot! HAND PLACEMENT!!!!! toji has his hands wrapped around readers neck, his hands resting slightly on her boobs 😜😜😜

and yeah! i really love the series so i gotta keep it going 🙏🏽

TY FOR THE IDEAS I WAS RUNNING DRY & JUST MAKING SHIT UP ON THE SPOT SO THANK YOU😭🩷🩷

these are all great, esp number one of the second part. i’m so using that one. i will credit you when i make toji & yn being a couple pt 4 😌☝️

[starlightswait]

sam rewatches shadowhunters 2022, 1.02 the descent into hell isn't wasy

“clary is there a war going on that i don’t know about?” “there is now” makes me think about how this situation is actually pretty new for this younger generation of shadowhuners. and just a few mins in the show goes out of its way to highlight how censored knowledge of the revolt and the circle is. yes they face demons everyday but they only have a vague understanding of their sordid history re: the uprising. so like, as many mistakes as they make, they’re making them not only bc they’re flawed (though that too obviously), but bc this is new territory. that’s not to excuse any of the shitty things alec, jace, and izzy might do down the line, bc everyone does shitty things and it’s important they be acknowledged, but to say - knowing this lends some sympathy to the lightwoods. (and yes jace is included in this. jace is a lightwood. i have an agenda.) (i use a jace wayland tag bc no one ever really calls him jace lightwood in the show but still. i digress) anyways i’m willing to have some sympathy bc of this, but not excuse what shouldn’t be excused. also it’s a damning critique of the us education system LMAO

i know they make a point of acknowledging it later, but clary’s just wayyyy too okay with all of this. she got to have exactly one (1) breakdown and now she’s totally on board with the very nature of the reality she lives in shifting. meanwhile i would still be processing DEMONS??? with simon lmao

i always get frustrated when a show isn’t clear about whether a character knows about their best friend’s crush on them or not. like if they don’t that makes sense if they do that makes sense just pick one or the other? the awkward glance between her and simon and her gently correcting that they’re best friends makes it seem like she at least has an inkling?? and then other times she just seems completely clueless abt it.

lmao i love how for these first few episodes, most of what alec does is just stand quietly in the bg and then make snarky comments. also it’s very subtle bc he could not be Less in the foreground if he tried (almost like... they’re doing camerawork to set up part of his character... inchresting) but he smiles when jace makes fun of izzy’s cooking and as izzy is introducing herself/kinda toying with simon and it’s just a real cute little background detail like. he loves them both a lot. 

he’s still being kinda snarky but jace warning simon not to eat izzy’s food is kinda nice considering we learn pretty quickly that it is legitimately that bad. although i’m also wondering if it’s supposed to a very brief shovel talk wrapped up in a weird metaphor? bc like, he shows concern/annoyance when simon shows an interest in izzy, so maybe it’s not that nice lmao, idk

yk, luke being so desensitized to killing a member of the circle could actually make sense, bc he’s had to do it before probably. but it also highlights how the same shouldn’t be true for the lightwood trio. the ease with which they killed the circle members last ep and will continue to do feels jarring, makes it seem like they’re more used to it than they actually are. i mostly see it as a failing in the writing - this show chooses weird emotional and moral stakes to focus in on or ignore at times - but i guess it could also hint at the way shadowhutners as raised as child soldiers and that desensitizing them to violence in general - something that is ALSO woefully underexplored even though it would’ve been a really interesting commentary on cycles of trauma.

okay i’ve always thought jace is a little too okay with allowing hodge to be tortured by his rune to get information and like. he is? but he’s also holding himself back from feeling about it, there are a few twitches that i used to read as anger that now make a lot more sense of recontextualized as feeling bad about hodge but believing what they’re doing is necessary. and he doooes go to catch hodge... only to say “we don’t have a choice, you understand that right hodge” and like. this so shakily walks the line between a well-meaning ends justifying the means mentality and emotional manipulation. for all jace’s rule breaking and bravdo, he’s still a student of the clave.

“dot... you can’t trust anybody” “you’re absolutely right” :( not much to say here, but i’m having a lot of dot feelings this rewatch. and these events breeding distrust even amongst two representatives from diff factions of the downworld is interesting and will continue to be relevant

“it’s not good for any of us” something i do like about izzy is at a certain point, she does know when the jokes stop. she’s a fun loving playful person by nature but when asked by simon the nature of the threat to clary - and all of them - are facing you suddenly understand how scared everyone should be. bc izzy is terrified. just hiding it well. (i think izzy and magnus have a lot in common just fyi)

honestly clary’s interest in jace has a lot less meaning behind it, at least as far as i can tell, than his with her. like, she’s just plainly attracted to him. and that’s fine! it’s honestly a healthier starting point than where he’s coming from. but given the stakes they’re currently facing, it seems weird for that to be any degree of a priority for her when i don’t really see the emotions there yet.

the way izzy touches clary’s hair? is gay as hell. we love to see it. (i can actually really easily see them going for a sapphic storyline for izzy, and i can even see a way for it to make narrative sense and not pull away from alec’s own coming out narrative. the caveat is that in this magical au in my head, it wouldn’t really work until s3, but there would obvs be signs before that)

“actual demons with tentacles that wanna murder us” “one google search away!” clary and simon are a golden comedic duo

jace batting izzy’s hand away while she’s touching the weapons and going “no, izzy” like... it’s interesting that they’re often seen as partners in crime against alec’s Only Sane Man archetype, but i do think jace sees it more as a tactic and izzy kinda just likes chaos jdjhdhshs. i might change my mind about this later bc the show goes back and forth a lot on who has the braincell between him and izzy.

“the little girl” alec stop that’s sexist. like it is more about how she’s a baby fledgling shadowhunter that’s gonna get them all killed and/or in trouble with the clave (which is not a position you wanna find yourself in) which is a reasonable concern, but don’t frame it misogynistic language, okay alec?? okay??

pragmatic as he’s being, magnus is still helping as many of his fellow warlocks as he can and offers the same protection to dot. like... i love him.

i love dot too though and like :(( she’s trying her best!! to not die and also protect clary!!

i usually like how in-sync alecnizzy are with each other but they’re simultaneous “absolutely not” / “don’t even” is a bit stilted. but i do like jace’s slight amusement at how quickly they both understood what he was saying and them both being #concerned and in sync about it

the rotating circle effect is fun, i will admit

so is izzy grabbing simon’s arm to hold, though i think it’s less flirtation and more her wanting to keep him in-reach for the sake of protecting him

“if something happens to her, that’s on us, you know that don’t you?” ugh alec is so interesting and i’m gonna get progressively more annoyed as the season presents his very valid concerns as just jealousy or pettiness. like, snarking aside, alec doesn’t trust clary or know what to make of her, but he doesn’t want her to DIE. their whole thing is protecting people. and aside from that, if she dies - it will be their fault in the clave’s eyes bc it seems that they’re not supposed to have taken her to the silent brothers without seeking an audience officially. alec’s insistence on following the clave’s rules is partly loyalty to the clave bc of the way he was raised, partly because logic, structure, and rules make sense to him and are part of what has kept him alive so far, and partly bc - the clave is rigid and unforgiving. alec knows this and doesn’t want their family to give them an ammunition that could be used against them. which is. unfortunate and we will literally see that he's right about where the blame will lie later on.

i also like how many small alec and simon parallels we get. “we don’t even know these people,” simon says to clary. and like! yeah! and you’ve both got valid concerns! but, yk... plot!

also clary’s insistence that she felt something was missing from her life has never really resonated. i think if they were going to go that route, they needed to establish it more in the first ep, with more time being focused on her being a fish out of water in her own life and the plot heavy stuff only coming in at the beginning in the flashforward and at the very end. yes, evidently a lot of these rewatch notes are just going to be me rewriting and restructuring the show

dot being captured by valentine and forced to take his injections. ugh. never going to be over how brutally she was treated and little the writers seemed to care about her character.

jace smiling as simon rants... #soft “you’re not that funny” YOU’RE FUCKING LYING JACE AND YOU KNOW IT

“the problem is now i don’t trust you” honestly very fair, so far simon has very little reason to trust any of these people and jace’s prank did not help lmao.

“i can’t be here anymore” *gestures to simon* “so jace i’m gonna go mind the perimeter” jdshhshs rude ? yes. also pretty funny. what’s doubly funny is i’m positive he was planning to go check the perimeter anyway, he just wanted to bitch first

"and it's cooler than a flashlight" hshdhdsh one of the charms of this show is when it cops to its own cheesiness

"me?" simon is adorable ans him being genuinely surprised by izzy asking him what he wants breaks my heart a bit. like the alec and simon parallels are very noticeable this time around but i don't think they play into that much later on?

okay was luke's plan just to like? wake clary up ans tell her everything in this flashback? (she wasn't asleep but he and jocelyn clearly thought she was). at least wait til breakfast my dude!!

alec does has have legitimately concerns lafter the clary revealbut aside from expressing them too brusquely, it's also just not a good idea to reveal that distrust in front of her? speaks to alec's like of guile

this scene with simon being kidnapped and he and clary screaming for each other works a lot better than the scene last ep with clary and jocelyn screaming for each other as she sends clary through a portal. like this is still melodramtic but less forced somehow.

i get that izzy probably thought he would get in the way or distract her but. i think it would've made a lot more sense to keep simon with her when she was checking on that noise

anyway so far these eps are really fast paced is what i'm noticing. i think it works a bit better here than ep 1 bc it felt like a lot happened to move the story along, but i still think they should find some time to slow down and do some more intricate world building...

[princessnijireiki]

so I watched "thoroughbreds" last week… and it was an interesting movie, particularly bc it was veru dark material but avoided showing any heavy violence or gore onscreen, and I'm… satisfied I watched it (better than "papillon" lmao), but idk if I would call it enjoyable?

though I will say I'm also irritated by it. bc the score was very effective, except at different points they played selections from a tribe called red + tanya tagaq's track "sila"— and I like the track a lot (stream "we are the halluci nation" on spotify!), but I hate that, like… there's this trend where racially or ethnically "othered" music is used in white cinema (especially in white independent film) to set an "unsettling" tone, or as bgm for white characters tapping into anger or "primal" emotions or "uncivilized" behavior.

and the rest of the score is mainly tense strings so the throat singing (plus, yk… recognizing the track itself) really stood out for its use in these pivotal moments about lil white girls plotting & carrying out murder or violence… and it's really not a cute trend even a little bit.

I know I'm being overly defensive & sensitive about it, but if we're being honest, it really irked me, same as it irks me in like fanart bullshit or irl when white girls throw on blaccents or ig makeup video bgm choices, that "ethnic" music & by extension those performers are, like, commodified & hypersexualized or viewed as hyper-aggressive or eerie or whatever even in music form, regardless of the context or contents of the music itself in question.

it's like wednesday in "addams family values" using a "woke" monologue to give all the "misfit" characters a free pass to play out ugly redface & "savage" stereotypes… superficially, it might feel like cool representation and a vicarious venting of the tensions & racial burdens you as an indigenous person actually have to carry.

but at the end of the day, it's textbook nasty old-fashioned whooping & warbonnets & arrows & scalping threat clichés, note for fucking note, being utilized to showcase the primitive or animalistic violence (or sometimes violence & primitivism standing in for "freedom" from "civilized" society) in white characters' hearts, wearing the ugliest stereotypes of your people as a skin while they're the ones who actually get to vent and get the last laugh…

or, musically, it feels like the same kind of surreal off-key choices as that hunger games song "the hanging tree" (which already felt like a white girl cover of "strange fruit") getting that weird pop remix played on top 40 radio the summer that whichever movie it was in came out… it's discordant & feels inappropriate & def comes from and is informed / shaped by a wellspring of racism that isn't necessarily apparent on the surface unless you have more background knowledge than this particular moment or media is giving out.

I don't really have other beef with the film as of yet (it's gotta percolate in my brain a little… it wasn't exactly satisfying, but it was so well-constructed visually & narratively that I don't actively dislike it in spite of that)… but this is just a pet peeve of mine.

"ethnic" background presence only being justified by the white folks in the foreground turning "savage" or "going native" or whatever the fuck is like… deeply weird & really uncomfortable to endure once you learn to see & recognize those patterns of behavior & decisions in personal or professional media.