#the amount of foreshadowing is🤌

[fiftypiercings]

Just saw a jd edit with that line from dangerously yours and joonghyuk going if I betray him I betray my world, this world is very dear to me and dokja saying dearer than I?

[lesbicosmos]

bbc merlin liveblog: s1 ep7 - the gates of avalon

i forgot morganas nightmares were so significant even this early on damn

no matter who he's fighting arthurs gotta get the sword twirls in there somewhere

sophias actually so pretty tho ngl, can't say i blame arthur

"it's not that, it's just...your bench is on fire." "my bench is on fire? what- MY BENCH IS ON FIRE!" peak comedy

i wanna give morgana a hug SO badly

is it logical for morganas hair to be that perfectly splayed out around her head as she sleeps? no, not really. do i care? no because she looks fucking beautiful

the conversation is about arthur liking sophia and yet the way he and merlin look at each other says something ENTIRELY different

every merlin and uther scene is fucking gold, uthers so done with him but knows arthur cares about him too much to just sack him

sophias hair bead things r rly pretty i want them

"'SORRY'?? YOU NEARLY SHOT A CROSSBOW IN MY FACE" background arthur is hilarious

"i will find you. however long it takes." that line should NOT have been so attractive i think there's something wrong with me

rip merlin he spends half his life in the stocks

merlin spending a good minute just admiring the magic :')

the sidhe look so funky

THE FORESHADOWING OF MERLIN BEING IMMORTAL OMFG

uther laughing at arthur asking to marry sophia 😭😭

idk what the plot of the scene with uther and morgana walking down that corridor is, all im looking at is morgana

arthur genuinely seeming to break out of the enchantment with just merlin arguing...true love right there

*dramatic running montage intercut with even more dramatic elopement montage*

the shots of merlin desperately trying to find arthur in the lake have no right to be so...romantic?? like the music!!

"you managed to knock me out?" >:(

"yup! with a lump of wood!" :)

she, in fact, does have the gift.

[scrumptiousstuffs]

Only Friends Episode 2

Again, so many thoughts and feelings.

But wow, the tension and chemistry between our 3 couples 🤌🤌🤌 but ermmmm yeah this episode, my heart and soul goes to my disaster muffin Ray and his prickly hedgehog caretaker Sand

We start the episode where we left off with Top essentially pressuring Mew to be his bf by asking the question out loud. I love that while Mew said yes, he also clearly then communicate to Top saying he was uncomfortable with the loud declaration and only said yes as a kind act (but it may also be a subtle manipulation by Mew to see how far Top is committed in pursuing him. after the not-so-subtle speech by Boston stating Top’s relationship never last longer than 3 mths and he only wants to be Mew “ first”).

And Mew, taking charge of the whole narrative by asking a reset and telling Top that he will need to work for it if he wants a relationship (and I guess access to his virginity 😂).

To Top credits, he takes this all on board - playing nicely with Namchuen and April. But while he is civil enough with Boston and Ray, both can’t really hide their dislikes (for different reason) for Top. Boston is clearly still interesting in pursuing another encounter together (but it seems now it’s more a matter of pride for him? - the whole scene in the shower with Top not interested and Boston declaring at the very least, he had Top first and Mew didn’t?)

Boston actions in this episode reinforce (to me) his callous nature. He is fun to be around but doesn’t take much responsibility, and appears careless with other people’s feelings (we see it with his action and words - from the previous episode when he told Ray “why don’t you just be his (Mew) bf?”, knowing Ray has a huge crush on Mew or him going behind Mew’s back to seduce Top or him disappearing in the midst of them completing the villa/hostel project for yet another hook up with Nick). Similarly, his sexual interactions with Nick - that is just heading towards doomsville for me. On the other hand, Boston has always made it clear he is not interested in any exclusive relationship, but it appears Nick has fallen deep into the rabbit hole (the poor boy 😮‍💨). Also, I still find it creepy he take photographs of his conquests (say what???)

Anyway, like I mentioned above though - my heart ❤️ and soul belongs to Ray and Sand this episode. We see the depth of loneliness in Ray, without Mew it seems he doesn’t even hang out that much with Boston/Namchuen. And his conversation with Mew by the poolside, makes my heart aches. The way he told Mew “I want someone nice to look after you.” (And him not even thinking himself as a candidate cause he knows he is a mess, but doesn’t think he is good enough to even improve himself 😭). Also, despite him being jealous of Top, he accepts Mew decision and hasn’t tried to sabotage the relationship (unlike Boston!!)

And his whole interactions with Sand - there is no doubt he followed Sand initially out of curiosity into the strip bar (still can’t believe he did this! the whole scene was peak comedy - all the beautiful women throwing against him, but Ray only having eyes on Sand 🫣 - it tells you something though? 🤫)

What I find so heartbreaking 💔 is Ray offering obscene amount of money for Sand to keep him company but disguising if as a drink buddy “I don’t want to be alone, just drink and listen music with me.” That’s probably one of the few nights where I think Ray genuinely had fun - he found someone with similar music interest, and someone who shows kindness when he opens up about his mother’s death (also, his mom dying with alcohol in her hand? If that’s not foreshadowing I’m not sure what is!)

And well, there is no turning back for Ray after this. From the previous episode, we see Ray clings hard to his small circle of friends - and now with Sand firmly on his radar plus his circle of friends all busy with their own relationships (or in Boston’s case - his many one night stands)…I don’t think Sand stands a chance of escaping Ray (not that he tried very hard 🫣)

The way he basically cockblock Sand and then con him to drive him home (his smug face!!!)…and well, we all know what happened- Sand and Ray clearly finds each other attractive, Sand tries to stay in his lane, offering to be his friend. But Ray has different ideas, and well, I don’t blame Sand (not with the way Ray was eye fucking him)

The sizzling chemistry between these two yeah…I think it’s safe to save the smoking kissing scene (can’t believe this was an improvised scene by FK!) and Sand kissing Ray’s hip tattoo while both of them ravaging each other chest - ermm yeah 🥵🥵🥵

Although it’s safe to say, I think Sand has fallen for Ray (despite what the former stating that they are just staying friends) - especially with the ending shot of him saying with what appears to be a slightly resigned face “Sure you can stay friends, but you have to be careful, it’s like playing with fire.”

(Help people, this show has a chokehold on me!!!! 😭😭😭😭)

19/08/2023

[greywoe]

part THREE

idk if i’ll do this for all the episodes but i think it’s fun to look back at my first impressions lol

- i like how this show tends to focus on internal and interpersonal conflict and i thought it was a good choice to have the battle of the burning mill happen off screen (i mean they’ve got bigger battles to focus on in the future, don’t they). it was quite effective cutting directly to the aftermath showcasing the toll of it all

- slightly unrelated but the blackwood fits were 🤌🤌🤌 (that cape!)

- they’re making mysaria a much more prominent character than i expected and i am curious to see where they’re taking her relationship to rhaenyra and the blacks (<- modern au band name…..)

- i like short haired criston cole. i like when he’s more proactive. maybe it took introducing gwayne hightower’s sufficiently annoying ass for this to happen, but i’ll take it. at first i thought “oh nooo is this going to some buddy cop b-plot” but then baela showed up and things got interesting. i ended up liking that scene with them in the field with criston taking charge and setting things right

- sometimes they go a bit heavy with the foreshadowing but that scene with corlys and rhaenys was genuinely sad

- actually, sometimes they go more than a bit heavy with the foreshadowing. daemon’s spooky harrenhal vision was pretty cool until it faded away and alys (presumably) appeared. and. well. literally *spooky graveyard ambient sounds* *witchy lady appears* “you will die in this place” *walks away*. is that what you’re giving me? is this what counts for foreshadowing nowadays? just a plain statement of what’s literally to come in the tritest way possible?

- i’m in two minds about the closing rhaenyra+alicent scene. i like how the show is sort of framed around them and it makes sense to add scenes where their relationship is in focus. i was certainly excited to see them interact again after so long. at the same time i was confused - what exactly is the plan here, as in, concretely what does rhaenyra expect alicent to do? i like how she (rightfully) has some amount of faith in her wanting a humane solution, but at the same time how are they supposed to reach a compromise when rhaenyra’s dead set on taking the throne and alicent’s never going to let her son be defeated? and with everything else underway at this point? at first i thought it a pointless endeavour, but i suppose the point of the scene was not the negotiations but rather the fact that they both end up realising the Big Misunderstanding… i don’t know how big of an impact that will have since it’s far too late to do anything about it, but at least the two of them now have the knowledge of what really happened that night (my mum - who i watch these with, which is why i always end up seeing them pretty late since we need to make time to watch them together - pointed out that now alicent has to live with the fact that she misinterpreted viserys’s words… which i reckon might end up being significant, for her as a character if nothing else)(though in the end i don’t know how much it would have changed either way, with otto’s plans already in action)

- also i think it’s funny that the big dramatic moments of each episode so far have all been about someone from one side sneaking into the other. as i said earlier i like how they focus more on internal conflict and i guess that means they opt for this kind of solution (at least this early in the season), but it’s almost getting a bit repetitive. at some point security has to be called into question

some thoughts on that first episode bc i might as well

- that first scene in the north did not make me very happy… maybe it’s just me who likes negotiations but i was looking forward to Jace’s World Tour of North/Eastern Westeros and his talks and bargains with the different houses (especially lady jeyne! i guess i can understand why they cut it out but i think when it comes to her there’s material to build an interesting character from, but whatever. another arryn L i guess :(), but what did we get but one (1) scene at the wall for some reason. i mean i like the night’s watch as much as the next person but this just felt like straight up GoT fanservice… like what does the threat beyond the wall have to do with this conflict? they could at least have given us some parley but there was barely anything of that either. cregan stark’s going to be important later so i thought they’d do more to establish him as a character now. but literally the next scene we see jace in he’s back at dragonstone….. ok (tho i guess they could return to the north later? idk we’ll see) (also, i care less for the sara snow subplot but i was sure they would do something with it since they love to go with the juicy stuff like forbidden love and whatnot)

- on that note i expect they’re going the singers’ route with erryk and arryk which i don’t really care for (they need to make me care more for those characters first) but it makes sense

- i’m ashamed of the fact that the alyn reveal made me go “ahh” aloud and my mum (who hasn’t read f&b) went “what???” and i just vaguely waved it off because it’s so annoying when people do that and i try not to but… i was surprised they introduced him so early

- aegon ii keeps being the most entertaining character on the show and he was the highlight to me. thank you for bringing a tinge of comedy. i’d say keep it up, but… well

- this is old discourse but i don’t have much of a problem with them showing alicent being groomed and manipulated in the show which probably makes her seem more sympathetic to viewers (and i can’t help but fall for every instance the lingering and complex feelings between her and rhaenyra that still clearly affect her come up) but now i’d like to see her being more active. i liked her confronting otto but (so far) for the most part she seemed a bit uninvolved and inactive (except for the sex scenes with criston… -_- which i guess are intended to bite them in the ass later which is why it’s continuously brought up, but so far i do not care for it). i just want to see her contributing more of her own i guess. but there’s plenty of time for that in the upcoming episodes, especially now after the death of another child 😔

- i sure hope we get to see more of baela and rhaena. this was only the first episode, i will have hope in my heart

- helaena’s line about being scared of the rats felt like clever foreshadowing when i heard it, except that the blood & cheese thing happened just a few scenes later……. suddenly it didn’t feel so clever anymore, nobody will have forgotten it at that point (the best foreshadowing imo is stuff that you maybe don’t notice at first and only catch on your rewatch)

- and about that, as relieved as i am about the violence being toned down, reading the book the whole “damning one child to die but the other one is slain, so now you and your child have to live with the fact that you named him to be killed” business was very impactful so i’m a bit disappointed nonetheless. for a show that so clearly opts for emotional impact, i mean… though i suppose cutting a kid or two out is understandable. but the way they made a whole deal about not knowing the sex of the twins (and the assassins being surprisingly gentlemanly about it lol) made me wonder if they mean to do a big plot twist where helaena was lying about it and actually rescued jaehaerys, but also that (unnecessarily) changes some things and what would be the point of that. 🤔 i did really like helaena’s acting during the scene though, opting for pure shock and dissociation rather than making it a dramatic tearfest. i like helaena as a character too, from what little we have seen of her anyway, and i wish she’d had more moments previously in the show so that we as viewers would be even more emotionally connected to her, but she gets pretty sidelined in comparison to her brothers. we don’t get to know much about her in the book so i feel like that’s what the show is for! expanding upon the book!

[luuxxart]

I’ve finally sat down to read the student council au from the beginning and oughhhhh 🥺 I love them all so much the dynamics are SO tasty, the au premise gives me brainworms (also just like STEWING on what p4 protag has done with himself considering this au’s entire Thing 🕳🚶‍♂���). Your comics are always extremely funny and heartfelt and it’s really cool to see a story ft. your OCs! Also as much as I love shuake, the divorced but never really married energy hitoshi and goro have is so insane in the best way and the foreshadowing from Those Two Comics specifically got me unwell <3

BROOOOOO THANK UUUU,,,,,

the immense amount of EXCITEMTNc,,, I have about Yu/Souji,,,,,,,,, y’all have no idea. He is. Up to some shit trust meee,,,

thank u I’m so glad my ocs aren’t like. Invading the story Terribly haha,,, and man ,,, MAN !!!!! Akeshi. I think about them. And my brain go

i have. so much in store. There’s like. A really specific Hitoshi comic I wanna make,, it’s going to be. The cutest thing ever . But . In light of the future events. Probably a little bittersweet. (but like. God. The Akeshi brainworms are so bad. I made a playlist and I. Do not regret it. Bc it’s actually really nice soft background music haha)

AND OUDHHHGGHHh,,,, Miyu and Goro’s parallels ,,,,,,, brainworms unlimited. (Which is ofc what happens when a character looks. Absolutely nothing like his dad)

thank u so much for the ask Tunes !! I’ve got. 83. Pages of. The actual comic done. I am Slowly going insane but it’s worth it 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

i shall leave u with this