#the double episode 29

[nunafilms]

In the past, you were the most ruthless at chess. You taught me to sacrifice one piece to save the game. Why hesitate now?

✩  The Double ─ Episode 29 (墨雨云间)

[darknutmeg]

Ten episodes left and not a single kiss. Peak slow burn romance and it's good because the plot is stellar. I don't need any romance right now, I just want everyone, LITERALLY ALL OF THEM, to get what they deserve.

(Oh and I have one question: Does the Emperor know that she's not Jiang Li? Cause it kinda feels like he does.... 👀)

[elegantmarigold]

I have definitely. a few. thoughts but the main and most coherent one is HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN NEXT WEEK?!? WHAT IS ABOUT TO GO DOWN??? HELLO?!?!

[chilkookiepal]

Burn With Me

kind of yandere /toxic JJK x Reader (hints at reader being black)

summary : in which what yours is mine to Jungkook and what's his is infact Not yours

genre / angst for this chapter , dark romance, themes of exercised control

MINORS DO NOT INERACT!!!

🤍🤍🤍 🤍🤍🤍 🤍🤍🤍 🤍🤍🤍 🤍🤍🤍 🤍🤍🤍

Jungkook doesn't share

he will do anything you tell him to He would become your servant if you allowed that

He was very curious about  you which meant that he had to be attached to your hip whenever he could that also to him and in his own merits of logic meant that he was allowed to be in your business as much as he wanted You didn't even have to know

he was watching his own unspoken rules getting jeopardized at times especially when you did things like these

What belonged to you belonged to him and the opposite was a dead end

It wasn't just you , jungkook just consisted of too many possessive bones in his body

It's either he was just that good at masking his distaste for sharing or you just couldn't take a hint He didn't even have the time to do s double take in his already livid state

see the thing is he was simply caught off guard

you had gotten into the mood to clean up the house which also meant that the laundry coul not be avoided

You and Jungkook were simply cohabitant new room mates and it has been a little over a month since a friend sent you in the direction of an empty apartment listing Doing all in her might to get you out of her and her boyfriend's freaky way

Upon meeting your landlord you had been skeptical but you didn't have that many choices plus the neighborhood seemed safe and the rent was pretty fair so you moved in

You both got along fine ,quickly falling into a routine,the living situation was practically homey, marriage like sealed with a lot of tension.

his jaw was so tensed if you noticed you would think something was bound to snap,his reaction was simply an erorr detection in his exercised control

you had these instances where you stepped on his toes without even thinking twice

you were not being the most considerate in his eyes and this additional moment as if his day was not bad enough to you, why did you have to have your episodes right when he was livid

he was simply pissed off and you just happened to be the first thing in sight , a winner of his bad moods by default as his eyebrows scrunch at your appearance

"Is that my t-shirt?"

You were a mess to say the least, your braids in a ponytail that fell down from a bun keep getting in your face disrupting the surface of the counter that you are currently wiping down at

in the background you hum to a song blasting on volume 29 , it's nearing 1pm in the day when the door ahead beeps and open revealing a slightly disheveled Jungkook who had knocked off work earlier than normally

Something about his presence is not very friendly in this moment where his tongue pokes at the side of his cheek from the inside

You had never seen him like this before, a nervous light smile gracing your lips When your eyes trail further to examine him his lip seems slightly busted "Jungkook, what happened…are you okay?" You simply ask concern fully evident in your widened shiny orbs

You are not sure what is happening exactly between Jungkook rolling his eyes, a dark chuckle, the quirking if his eyebrow and the impatience evident on his face all together bringing you back to his initial and only words to you as it was your first time seeing him today

"Oh yeah, I was doing laundry and my clothes got drenched " growing antsy under the weight of his gaze you assure him that you have plans to wash it and that it was safe

"So you wear my clothes, who gave you permission?"

if you ever thought your eyes could not get any bigger they could as well have been hanging out of their sockets in this instant

"I didn't think you would mind-' He is stepping closer in slow strides and unwavering predatory gaze solely focused on you and you alone you look like a deer caught in the headlights

"Who gave you the fucking permission to wear my shirt y/n ?"

He seems to be a different person as he stops a little distance from you eyebrows drawn together in an angry frown

you're still trying to be sure that this is Jungkook that standing in front of you, to keep yourself from running the hell out of sight

"I'm sorry, I -" he chuckles in disbelief "you can be such a selfish brat sometimes, I can't believe you would just help yourself to my clothes without my permission  what else do you fucking take from me when I'm not around, huh?"

It's a rhetorical question and His words taking on a patronizing tone that triggers a defensive alarm in your brain

the way he drags his eyes across you makes you question your existence for a hot minute

and somewhere between the pitch of Jungkooks mean words , his gaze and the ringing in your ears turning into a deafening  intolerable sound your eyes start tearing up and when you can no longer take any of it even the t-shirt feels like it's weighing you down and in the defeat of it all your hands reach for the hem of the shirt and you drag the t-shirt over your head shoving it in his chest before turning to hide away behind the protective walls of the one thing you infact had the full rights to in jungkooks shared apartment

You are simply too livid to realize the state you have him in in the span of the moment you throw his shirt at him

Tits standing pretty above your figure He never thought he'd ever see this view

and when you turn away from him your pretty ass swaying makes him want to pull you back in to his arms just to feel the softness of your flesh against his finger tips and another tip making his explosive mood into something more sinister than what he had been initially presented with

"Fuck " he lets out under his shaky breath

The door slamming in a distance ahead

You don't come out of your room in the next four hours

Hopeful that he would leave again

You had fallen asleep somewhere in between your crying waking up around sun down to take down your laundry you tie your robe around your figure and your door creaks at contact You don't even make it far when you spot familiar closet colors that belong to you already folded neatly on the nearest couch to your room

You don't bother to look for him Even when the kitchen smells nice and dishes clank there

You retreat back to your room before exiting again to take a shower

When done you get back into your room not acknowledging his presence even though he's sitting right across the room

You were dressed up when you exited the room again, wearing your work attire with your braids flowing down your back and a satchel bag on your shoulder He could tell you were off to work with your change of clothes in the bag that has some volume today hinting him something he won't even let himself consider

He's there on the kitchen island following your every move with his eyes you know he is there so you ignore more you see him as you look around for your preferred pair of sneakers that you are not sure where they went

The comfortable ones that tolerate your herrendous hours of standing

frustrated you go back into your room to check again settling on a  different pair

"Come and eat " A voice you are ignoring announces from the kitchen You ignore him

you are approaching the door when he stands in front of you

"Please "

"I'm not hungry " you say lowly

Your stomach growls for the nth time like a paid actor

his eyebrows knitted knowing that you had not eaten in hours

You try to push past him but he just stands in your way tall and broad as ever

You glare at him hoping he will get the message

Angel,I'm sorry ," he takes the opportunity to let out the word when your eyes finally meet his

"Yeah me too , could you move"

He won't budge , refusing to let you leave without eating

"I'm really not interested"

At least you were talking

"Please"

he has those sparkling eyes staring into your soul

"I already dished for two "

"Well now you got extra for tomorrow "

"You can't work on an empty stomach"

you ignore the last bit of his opinion continuing to scurry away and you don't even hear him approach you until he's dragging you to the counter opening a chair for you and putting a plate in front of you

You eat with him still avoiding him You were always like this You got scared to look people in the eyes whenever you had arguments

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean any of the things I said- I was not even upset with you, you were just there"

You clear your throat before muttering a heavy apology that tugs at your heart strings

"I'm sorry-

I'm sorry for wearing your t-shirt, it won't happen again"

You simply got forward and out of lane earlier and that makes your appetite want to desipate

You were probably being unreasonable but what if he resented you for all he did for you as well

You surely despised feeling indebted to people and you feared overstepping boundaries and overstaying your welcomes

"Thanks for the food " You are on your feet to do the dishes when he does it again, he takes the dishes to put them in the dishwasher before you can make it to the sink

"Princess, look at me"

He was now stood in front of you too close for your bond to Jungkook that is under reevaluation

With a sharp inhale you meet his gaze , unreadable, almost unfamiliar

"I- I have to go"

He wants to place his arms on the counter to cage you there and never let you out of his sight

"Let me drive you there"

"thank but my ride is already here"

This was his least favorite category of brattiness from you and if you weren't already icing him out he would have pointed it out

You excuse yourself past him and rush for the exit your sneakers squeaking against the tiles with each hypnotic sway of your hips A part of him thinks you don't even know what you do to him And

Truth is you had no clue what you had gotten yourself into He was trying his hardest to change , learning to leave behind a method of love that burns and destroys him and anything he touches

This was no regular man, he was something far more than obsessive and he was scared that he was already getting too lost in you You were right here under his nose now , you grew on him too quickly

What's yours was his and what's his was his, YOU were his you just didn't know it yet which was why he got pissed earlier when you fit perfectly into HIS t-shirt you disrupt an order of control that goes unspoken to him

wearing his t-shirt was just too hard for him to handle but fuck that image of your body is now engrained in his head and in the camera east corner of the apartment in the living room too small to be noticable Well at least to your pretty eyes he thought to himself Same pretty eyes that were glossy when you looked up at him earlier with just a pair of cotton panties on

another pair that you would be losing to Jungkook without a clue in the world

He had no interest to wash that shirt anytime soon, your bare nipples were pressed right against that fabric, his shirt for fucks sake

He wanted to lift you in the air and just fuck you then and there but !he was a patient man however far that would take him

you were becoming like a deep ocean slowly sinking him to the bottom with an anchor that he tied himself securely to his own ankle

You didn't even have to do anything to have him wrapped around your little finger and that is how he knew he had no plans of letting you go well at least any time soon ...

DON'T BE A SILENT READER , I'M HUNGRY FOR FEEDBACK 😭😭

do not translate ,copy / re-use .

[somehow-a-human]

Whose POV is it Anyway?

A Companion to Owls.

DO NOT ASK NEIL ABOUT FAN THEORY

Job 30:29-31 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. My skin is black upon me and my bones are burned with heat. My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

Continuing my analysis of the narrator/POV perspective of Good Omens season two with a look at the episode 2 minisode set in 2500 BC, Uz. God, I love this minisode.

For reference & context, I recommend reading these posts:

Whose POV is it Anyway? - Introduction

Lens Filters

POV "Your 'Something's Wrong' Voice"

POV a Trip to Hell and a 25 Lazarii Miracle

We open our journey into the land of Uz with Crowley giving Job's goats a speech that sounds awfully similar to his own troubled relationship with The Almighty. Crowley is alone here. The episode cold-opens and we've had no lead up to suggest otherwise, so this is Crowley's POV. His hair is short and more vibrant, I'd say this is likely the Black Diffusion FX filter.

Yes for the sake of this post I am doubling down on the fact that there are TWO SEPARATE WIGS. See more here.

Aziraphale arrives, he looks cute and silly, the permit is long, the goats are "destroyed" and they part ways.

The next scene we get is Aziraphale in heaven checking with Muriel and the Archangels that the permit Crowley has is in fact legitimate. This time, we are seeing Aziraphale's POV. Heaven is a stark white office building but the golden hue is almost overwhelming in this flashback. The Bronze Glimmer Glass filter is clearly being used here.

Aziraphale decides he's going to confront Crowley about saving the children, little does he know Crowley wouldn't harm them to begin with but regardless...

When we re-enter the minisode, we do so via a subtle zoom in on Crowley's face in modern day. We then enter the scene through Aziraphale's illustrated Bible and see Crowley asking Job where his kids are. We've again lost the golden glow of the BGG filter, moved back to the BDFX filter and into Crowley's POV. Crowley's hair is still short, Aziraphale isn't present here, he's alone, so these are his memories.

When we see Crowley walking up to the house to find the kids we have switched back to Aziraphale's POV. The scene is extremely warmly lit, it's soft and yellow, and Crowley is now in a different wig. His hair is much longer, softer and more attractive looking. In one of the X-Ray behind the Scenes videos I even caught a screenshot of the film slate from this scene and you can clearly that they've written in BGG as the filter used, so we have confirmation.

We continue through the Job minisode in Aziraphale's POV. The reveal of the goats, saving the kids, the ox rib temptation, the first conversation about loneliness, it's all from Aziraphale's POV. until after he "comes to" in the bookshop in present day.

When we revisit the minisode, and for the remainder of it we are seeing it from Crowley's POV which was an interesting thing to realize. We see Crowley and Aziraphale witness Job speaking with God, saving Jobs children, deceiving the Archangels, and having their emotionally revealing conversation overlooking the beautiful sea all from Crowley's POV. His hair remains short and more vibrant red throughout all of it, we don't see the return of his long long gingery waves. The lighting when the angels are present for the children's "resurrection" is very warm but I'm going to chalk that up to the Heavenly Hosts presence.

It makes sense that this reaction is Crowley's POV. Silly silly angel, did a good deed and thinks he's a demon?! But then he realizes how upset Aziraphale is, how scared and he comforts him. He tells him he isn't going to do anything that would hurt him, that would get him in trouble. Then, something about the fact that what follows is also from Crowley's memories, his perspective...

"That sounds..."

"Lonely? Yeah."

"But you said it wasn't."

"I'm a demon. I lied."

NEXT POV The Dirty Donkey & I think I Found a *Clue*!

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved in our archive

Something y'all may need with family get-togethers for the winter hollidays coming up. Several studies have shown 500% increase in risk for cardiovascular episodes after a covid 19 infection, but not for vaccination. Call people out if they spread this bs.

By Chris Mueller

The claim: Studies show COVID-19 vaccine recipients are 500% more likely to die from a heart attack A Nov. 29 Threads post (direct link, archive link) makes a claim about the COVID-19 vaccine and its effect on the heart.

“Your chance of dying from a heart attack from that ‘vaccine,’ according to their own studies, is 500% greater than if you were unvaccinated,” reads the post. “This is state-sanctioned murder.”

It was liked more than 500 times in four days.

Our rating: False There are no studies that show COVID-19 vaccine recipients have a 500% greater chance of having a heart attack. Some studies show the opposite − that the shot is associated with a lower risk of heart attack.

COVID-19 virus linked to heart attack risk, not vaccine There are no credible news reports about a study saying COVID-19 vaccine recipients have a 500% greater chance of having a heart attack. The American Heart Association even recommends the COVID-19 vaccine to people with a history of heart disease and stroke, saying they are "at much greater risk from the virus than they are from the vaccine."

There are several studies that show the vaccine is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and strokes.

A study of nearly 46 million adults in England found that people who received the COVID-19 vaccine had fewer heart attacks and strokes than those who had yet to be vaccinated. The researchers examined medical records from the two years between December 2020 and January 2022.

“This England-wide study offers reassurance regarding the cardiovascular safety of COVID-19 vaccines, with lower incidence of common cardiovascular events outweighing the higher incidence of their known rare cardiovascular complications,” the study says.

Erin Faherty, a pediatric cardiologist at Yale Medicine, previously told USA TODAY that vaccination for COVID-19 is associated with a lower risk of heart attack.

"We have no evidence to suggest that the COVID-19 vaccine shuts down the heart or is associated with widespread heart failure," she said in February. "From the data we have, the risks of COVID-19 infection far outweigh the minor cardiac risk of vaccination."

Some studies have linked the virus – not the vaccine – to a higher risk of cardiovascular events. People who caught the disease early in the pandemic had double the risk, while others with severe cases had nearly four times the risk, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health published in October.

But a study of more than 8 million adults in Sweden found “full vaccination significantly reduced the risk of several more severe cardiovascular outcomes linked to COVID-19, such as heart attack, stroke, and heart failure,” said Fredrik Nyberg, an epidemiology professor and one of the study’s authors, in a news release.

There is a “causal association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis,” which is inflammation of the heart muscle, but cases are rare, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the post for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Our fact-check sources Nature, July 31, Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 million adults in England University of Cambridge, July 31, Incidence of heart attacks and strokes was lower after COVID-19 vaccination American Heart Association, Oct. 9, COVID-19 Is a Coronary Artery Disease Risk Equivalent and Exhibits a Genetic Interaction With ABO Blood Type American Heart Association, Oct. 6, 2023, What people with heart disease should know about vaccines today National Institutes of Health, Oct. 10, First wave of COVID-19 increased risk of heart attack, stroke up to three years later USA TODAY, Feb. 14, No evidence COVID-19 vaccine 'shuts off' the heart, contrary to anti-Kelce post | Fact check Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accessed Dec. 4, Clinical Considerations: Myocarditis and Pericarditis after Receipt of COVID-19 Vaccines Among Adolescents and Young Adults

[foreverlogical]

Wednesday brought new allegations from the Department of Justice on Donald Trump’s attempts to subvert the 2020 election, and Thursday’s print edition of The New York Times wedged its story on them into one skinny column that appeared mostly below the fold. This stands in stark contrast with the paper’s treatment of Hillary Clinton’s emails in 2016. 

On Wednesday, a federal court filing from special counsel Jack Smith’s team was unsealed. In the document, the Justice Department alleges that Trump “used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process” in 2020. The filing notes that after an aide told Trump about the threat that the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol posed to then-Vice President Mike Pence, who refused to subvert the 2020 election results, Trump replied, “So what?”

The document also lays out evidence bolstering the charge that Trump knew his claims of election fraud were false, even as his campaign pushed to undermine vote counts.

In the paper’s Oct. 29, 2016, print edition, the lead photo was of Clinton and aide Huma Abedin, and the lead all-caps headline of the day read “New Emails Jolt Clinton Campaign In Race’s Last Days.”

The New York Times, frequently described as the “newspaper of record” for the United States, has come under criticism for the tone of its election coverage.

According to a study published in June by Media Matters for America, the Times published 32 articles about the ages of Trump and President Joe Biden, but 78% of those stories focused on Biden’s age alone, while only 6% (two articles) focused on just Trump.

The paper has also underplayed June’s positive inflation report, which was released as the Trump campaign attacked the Biden administration over the issue. The Times also provided scant coverage of a policy proposal by Trump that experts have said would raise food costs.

In his Sept. 10 presidential debate against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, Trump pushed the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that immigrants are being brought to the U.S. to replace white people. In a fact-check of Trump’s statement, the Times merely noted that his claim “lacks evidence” and did not connect it to its roots in the white supremacist movement.

There are also issues with the Times’ coverage of Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate. The paper reported on Vance’s false claim that Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, left military service because his unit had been ordered into service in Iraq, but it did not inform readers that this was a lie.

In a July 15 report on Vance’s stance on abortion, the paper edited a quote from the candidate to make it appear as if he opposes a federal abortion ban. However, the full context makes clear Vance backs a “minimum national standard” on the issue—which is a ban.

The Times’ influential reporting has historically had a significant effect on world events. Possibly the most negative episode of this occurred in the case of the paper’s amplification of false claims by the George W. Bush administration that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

[curlyhairedbooklover]

How many times do Will and Hannibal say each other's names?

I have had this data sitting around finished for over a year (and started collecting it three years ago) and have finally decided to just share it! I’m splitting it up into three posts, this one is about how many times Will and Hannibal say each other’s names, the next adds in Jack and Alana, and the third is a bit of a departure as it’s about the gender split of the murder victims in the show!! 

Very quickly I’ll go over the format! I was particularly interested in what form of name people used so it’s split into first name, title, and full name (slightly varying depending on the needs of each table) as well as whether the character is speaking directly to the person whose name they are saying or if it’s to someone else!

Adding a disclaimer that I did this for fun so I haven’t double checked it meaning there may be some mistakes, but I tried my best! 😌

Getting into the data itself: first of all, Will says Hannibal’s name 109 times throughout the entire series, 29 of them are while talking to Hannibal himself and 80 are while talking to others. Will only uses Hannibal’s first name 48 times with none of them occurring in s1 and only 6 being while talking TO Hannibal himself… (Though the s2 one is in conversation with both Jack and Hannibal being more directed towards the former but Hannibal is present so it counts babeyy!!) He likes calling him just “Dr.” doing so 5 times but the majority of the time he uses “Dr. Lecter” when speaking to Hannibal making up the remaining 17 times! When talking about Hannibal he uses his name the most in s2 at 42 times but only 14 of those are his first name. He prefers to use a more impersonal form in s2 as opposed to s3 where he uses Hannibal’s name 34 times in conversation but a whole 28 of them are his first name!! He really said I’m on intimate terms with Hannibal now 😌. (Especially if we remember this is the season where he addressed Hannibal by his first name 5 times too….) 

Hannibal on the other hand uses Will’s name almost double the amount of times that Will uses his! Hannibal’s total comes to 204! Most of them are in s1&2 at 88 and 75 respectively, before dropping down to 41 times in s3 (2 times less than Will that season!) He also uses Will’s first name Significantly More at 184 times, in fact he only full names him 20 times! The only two times he uses Will’s full name while talking to him are in 1.11 when Will has a seizure in his living room and he’s doing the “It is [time], I am in [place] and my name is Will Graham” routine. Interestingly he uses Will’s full name 9 times while talking to others in s2 but they are exclusively in s2a, once Will got out of prison he went all in on ‘Will is my best friend’. Although I want to note that in 2.1 he uses Will’s first name while talking to others 10 times during the episode…… There are only three episodes in the entire show where he doesn’t use Will’s name and they are all in s3 (3.3, 3.4, and 3.7) he really tried to have his Hot Girl Summer and forget about his ex though luckily (for him and us) it did not last. And in 3.9 he uses Will’s name 15 times that episode and all of them were his first name, he’s down bad!! He simply can’t help it!! Across s3b he uses Will's name 32 times which is 78% of all the uses in s3, turns out going to prison for a man just makes you talk about him More!

This table also includes a side table of every time they talk to or about each other! Not much to note there except that they talk the most in s1&2 resting at 39 and 43 respectively before dropping to only 25 conversations in s3 but they are separated for 5 episodes so I think we can forgive them for that 🤷‍♀️ although they do have a few flashback or hallucination conversations (on that topic the two conversations in 2.4 are hallucinations from Will and the single conversation in 3.8 is technically the letter Hannibal sent Will but I felt like they deserved to be counted!!) When talking about each other Hannibal initially does so more, having 24 conversations in s1 as opposed to Will's 7 about him. Whereas they are more evenly matched in s2 with Will at 33 and Hannibal at 27. In s3 Will completely overtakes Hannibal talking about him 36 times to Hannibal's 13! It’s interesting that despite Will talking so little about Hannibal in s1 he ends up the ultimate winner at a total count of 76 conversations to Hannibal’s 64! But it's safe to say that with those totals they are both completely obsessed with the other 😌

To f i n a l l y let my English degree in for a minute it’s very telling that Will uses Hannibal’s first name sparingly, indicating that it took time for him to build intimacy and trust with him. If we look at the occasions in which he deploys it when talking to Hannibal he uses it as a weapon to induce Hannibal into doing things BY referencing their intimacy this way and letting it bleed into his words. This convinces Hannibal that he needs to go to prison so Will could always find him and later to go along with Will's plan to break him out. Hannibal on the other hand readily uses Will’s first name from the beginning and in fact does so More at this point than later on. This shows how he was fostering dependence and creating trust that he could then use to break Will and watching him break would in turn feed his curiosities about Will. There is also a notable jump in 3.8 in his use of Will's name since the beginning of the season, it marks the first time they have seen each other in 3 years. Now Hannibal is trying to re-ingratiate himself to Will while simultaneously throwing barbs at him to try to inflict some of the pain he felt in their separation and to test if Will felt the same anguish (which we know he of course did however much he denies it..)

I hope that this data has been interesting and most importantly has illuminated how insane they are about each other!! I would love to hear any other thoughts people have in the tags or comments!

(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)

Shoutout to @will-gayham for going insane about this with me for the past two years and being as enthusiastic about ✨data✨ as I am, love you! 🫶

[ofmdrecaps]

08/28-29/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Ruibo Qian; Vico Ortiz; Ruibo Qian; Nat Torres; Eliza Cossio; Madeleine Sami; Damien Gerard; Cortney Andersen; Call To Action: Yahoo Survey; Love Notes; Daily Darby/Today's Taika;

== Recap Status ==

Hey friends, my dad finally had surgery and he's alive but there are complications. I've compiled what I can for these two days, idk how useful it is. I'll try to get more done tonight since so much happened today but I'm not sure how far I'll get. Sending hugs and good vibes <3 Thank you for all the kind words and folks checking on me, sorry I'm slow to respond, been a lot the last few days. Pardon me for any mistakes, please feel free to let me know if there are.

== David Jenkins ==

David's mom Mary was just named US Open Employee of the Month! Congrats Mrs. Jenkins!

David retweeted this old post by Liam Gallagher <3

David Jenkins twitter

== Rhys Darby ==

= Cryptid Factor: Live in Edinburgh =

Rhys and the boys have posted a a partial video of the first night of The Cryptid Factor Live <3 Check it out on their patreon.

Source: The Cryptid Factor Patreon

The episode of Expedition X with Rhys is out on Discovery!

Source: Phil Torres Instagram

Rhys is being the best band manager Murray and promoting his son Finn's band! You can follow them on Youtube!

Source: Rhys Darby's Twitter

Yes, Rhys Darby has worn a kilt, take that information and do with it what you will <3

Source: @wastingyourgum's Twitter

== Ruibo Qian ==

The Pirate Queen is playing around with filters and having a good time <3

Source: Ruibo's Instagram Stories

== Vico Ortiz ==

Vico made a shoutout to our beloved Samson <3

Source: Vico Ortiz Instagram

== Minnie Driver ==

New hair cut for our Anne Bonny!

Source: Minnie Driver's Instagram

== Madeleine Sami ==

More Double Parked BTS/promos from Mads and Crew!

Source: Madeleine Sami's Instagram

== Nat Torres ==

I forgot about the other dogs that the cast posted for International Dog Day back on the 26th! Here's one of our awesome writers, Nat Torres' beautiful pup <3

Source: Nat Torres Instagram Stories

== Eliza Cossio ==

Another one of our writers we don't see out and about too often has made an appearance! We miss you Eliza! So good to see you having fun!

Source: Elisa Cossio's Instagram

== Courtney Andersen ==

Happy International Dog day from Courtney, The Revenge's rope maker and his pup! (David popped in to wish the Prince well too!)

Source: Courtney Andersens Instagram

== Damien Gerard ==

Happy Acting Anniversary to our dear Father Teach! <3

Source: Damien Gerard's Twitter

== Call to Action: Yahoo Feedback ==

Thank you to our friend Lucy over on twitter for bringing this to everyone's attention!

Source: Lucy on Twitter

== Love Notes ==

Sorry I don't have a lot in me right now to get the fan spotlight section together lovelies. I hope you're doing so well and staying healthy. I think about you all all the time. I found a few things that made me smile/had some good vibes, sending them along to you. Take care lovelies <3

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== Daily Darby / Today's Taika ==

Smiles and chats for our guys tonight. Gifs courtesy of the so very talented @eddie-redcliffe and @celluloidbroomcloset

[maharetscompound]

IWTV S2 - Cast & Productions Interviews - Part Two

This is a compilation of all cast and productions interviews during Interview with the Vampire Season Two.

(Disclaimer: If I've missed something or miscalculated, please just let me know.)

The first half of the interviews are listed and linked here, from April 29 - June 8.

The second half of the interviews are below, from June 9 - July 3⬇️

Week of Episode 2x5 (June 9 – June 15)

June 9 – Tell-Tale TV – How Rolin Jones Solved the ‘Weird Lestat Problem’ on ‘Interview with the Vampire’: Plus Details on Claudia’s Recasting, Ben Daniels as Santiago, and More - Rolin Jones and Mark Johnson

June 9 – Entertainment Weekly – Interview With the Vampire stars break down the truth of what happened in San Francisco - Jacob Anderson and Assad Zaman

June 9 – Comic Book – Luke Brandon Field Talks Young Daniel Molloy and That Fateful Original Interview - Luke Brandon Field

June 9 – TV Guide – A Conversation With Interview with the Vampire's Daniel Molloys, Eric Bogosian and Luke Brandon Field - Eric Bogosian and Luke Brandon Field

June 9 – TV Insider – Inside the Brutal ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Season 2 San Francisco Flashback - Rolin Jones, Assad Zaman, Luke Brandon Field, Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson

June 9 – Screen Rant – Interview With The Vampire Season 2, Episode 5: Luke Brandon Field On Exploring Daniel's Past & Bonding With Louis - Luke Brandon Field

June 9 – Collider – Luke Brandon Field Dissects His "Tough" 'Interview with the Vampire' Episode - Luke Brandon Field

June 10 – The Wrap – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Star Luke Brandon Field on Excavating Daniel Molloy’s Past: ‘A Visceral, Sublime Experience’ - Luke Brandon Field

June 10 – Autumn Brown (Video) – Double Vision with Eric Bogosian & Luke Brandon Field  - Eric Bogosian and Luke Brandon Field

June 10 – AMC Talk – Composer Daniel Hart Breaks Down The Music Behind The Madness Of Season 2 - Daniel Hart

June 12 – TV Guide – Interview with the Vampire Costume Designer Carol Cutshall Delves Into Season 2's Best Looks - Carol Cutshall

June 12 – The Mary Sue (Video) – Luke Brandon Field on young Daniel, music, and 'Interview With the Vampire' – Luke Brandon Field

June 13 – TV Insider – ‘Interview With the Vampire’: Luke Brandon Field Reveals His & Eric Bogosian’s Shared Inspiration for Daniel - Luke Brandon Field, Eric Bogosian and Rolin Jones

June 14 – TV Guide (Video) – Interview with the Vampire: Louis and Daniel Discover Shared Trauma – Assad Zaman and Eric Bogosian

June 14 – On the Score – DANIEL HART continues his INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE - Daniel Hart

Week of Episode 2x6 (June 16 – June 22)

June 16 – Entertainment Weekly – Interview With the Vampire stars dissect episode 6's tragic betrayal - Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman and Delainey Hayles

June 16 – TV Insider – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Stars on Armand’s Betrayal, Madeleine’s Transformation & That Major Twist - Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles and Sam Reid

June 17 – Collider – 'Interview with the Vampire' Creator on Telling a Haunting Season 2 That Will "Stay in Your Bones" - Rolin Jones and Mark Johnson

June 17 – TV Guide (Video) – Interview with the Vampire Stars Rewatch Season 2 Scenes – Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid and Delainey Hayles

June 17 – Autumn Brown (Video) – Dressed to Depress with Roxane Duran – Roxane Duran

June 17 – AMC Talk – Sam Reid’s Character Lestat Is Hot & Bothered For All The Wrong Reasons - Sam Reid

June 18 – Podsluchane (Video) – Assad wants to see the world burn – Assad Zaman

June 19 – Katie O’shaughnessy (Video) – Chatting with Assad Zaman! – Assad Zaman

June 20 – TV Insider – How to Prepare for Lestat’s Return in ‘Interview With the Vampire’s Most Pivotal Episode - Sam Reid and Rolin Jones

June 21 – ReVamp – Delainey Hayles - Delainey Hayles

Week of Episode 2x7 (June 23 – June 29)

June 23 – Collider – ‘Interview with the Vampire’s Assad Zaman & Eric Bogosian on Season 2’s Satisfying Conclusion - Assad Zaman and Eric Bogosian

June 23 – Collider – 'Interview with the Vampire's Roxane Duran Explains Madeleine's Fateful Choice - Roxane Duran

June 23 – Entertainment Weekly – Interview With the Vampire's Sam Reid breaks down that 'brutal, heartbreaking' death - Sam Reid

June 23 – Screen Rant – Interview With The Vampire Season 2, Episode 7: Roxane Duran On Madeleine & Claudia's Fate - Roxane Duran

June 23 – Decider – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Stars Sam Reid and Delainey Hayles Break Down Claudia’s Final Moments: “Lestat’s Never Gonna Get Over It” - Sam Reid and Delainey Hayles

June 23 – Screen Rant – Interview With The Vampire Season 2, Episode 7: Sam Reid On Lestat's Plan (Or Lack Thereof) For The Trial - Sam Reid

June 23 – TV Guide – Interview with the Vampire's Delainey Hayles and Rolin Jones 'Leaned Into Grotesque Beauty' for the Trial's 'Horrifying' End - Delainey Hayles and Rolin Jones

June 23 – TV Insider – Inside ‘Interview With the Vampire’s Most Tragic Hour: The Trial Explained - Delainey Hayles, Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid and Roxane Duran

June 23 – Comic Book – Interview With the Vampire: Roxane Duran Breaks Down Madeline's Tragic Fate - Roxane Duran

June 23 – TV Line – Interview With the Vampire EP on the ‘Grotesque Beauty’ of [Spoiler]’s Death Ahead of Season 2 Finale - Rolin Jones

June 23 – Vulture – Delainey Hayles Played Claudia’s IWTV Tragedy Like a Volcano - Delainey Hayles

June 24 – AMC Talk – Assad Zaman On Armand’s Alien Beauty In Season 2 - Assad Zaman

June 25 – TV Insider – ‘Interview With the Vampire’: Roxane Duran Says Madeleine’s Illicit Affair Was ‘Not About Love’ - Roxane Duran

June 26 – The Hollywood Reporter – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Renewed for Season 3 at AMC - Sam Reid

June 26 – MXDWN – Showrunner Rolin Jones, EP Mark Johnson, And Actor Assad Zaman Discuss Journey To Paris For ‘Interview With The Vampire’ S2 - Rolin Jones, Mark Johnson and Assad Zaman

June 28 – Autumn Brown (Video) – Terrorized and Therapized with Sam Reid – Sam Reid

Post-Finale Interviews (June 30)

June 30 – ATX Festival Panel (Video) – Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire Q&A with Creatives & Cast – Assad Zaman, Rolin Jones and Mark Johnson

June 30 – Variety – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Team on the Finale’s Big Reunion and How Season 3 Will Feel Like It’s Been ‘Taken Hostage By Lestat’ - Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Delainey Hayles and Rolin Jones

June 30 – Screen Rant – Interview With The Vampire Season 2, Episode 8: Assad Zaman & Eric Bogosian Answer Lingering Devil's Minion Questions - Assad Zaman and Eric Bogosian

June 30 – The Wrap – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Cast Unpacks Season 2 Ending, Teases Season 3 - Sam Reid, Assad Zaman, Jacob Anderson and Rolin Jones

June 30 – Screen Rant –  Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Ending: Louis & Lestat's Relationship Future Addressed By Star - Jacob Anderson

June 30 – Decider – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Season 2 Ending Explained: Jacob Anderson Explains the Profound Meaning Behind “I Own The Night” - Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson

June 30 – Collider – 'Interview with the Vampire's Jacob Anderson & Delainey Hayles on the Season 2 Finale's "Sickening Reveal" - Jacob Anderson and Delainey Hayles

June 30 – Vanity Fair – Jacob Anderson Loves Doing “Insane” Things on Interview With the Vampire - Jacob Anderson

June 30 – Collider – Has 'Interview with the Vampire's Sam Reid Ever Played the Real Lestat? It's Complicated - Sam Reid

June 30 – The Daily Beast – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Stars Unpack That Shocking Finale Twist - Assad Zaman and Eric Bogosian

June 30 – Los Angeles Times – ‘Interview With the Vampire’: Rolin Jones on Season 2’s finale; what’s next for Louis and Lestat - Rolin Jones

June 30 – New York Times – ‘Interview with the Vampire’: Ben Daniels on That Bloody Season 2 Finale - Ben Daniels

June 30 – Entertainment Weekly – Interview With the Vampire showrunner and Sam Reid tease season 3 after that emotional finale - Sam Reid and Rolin Jones

June 30 – TV Fanatic – Interview with the Vampire Post-Mortem: Sam Reid On 'Messy' Lestat and Lestat's Reunion With Louis - Sam Reid

June 30 – TV Insider – Behind the Scenes of ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Finale, Plus Season 3 Teases About Lestat & Louis - Rolin Jones and Mark Johnson

June 30 – Screen Rant – Interview With The Vampire Season 2, Episode 8: Jacob Anderson & Delainey Hayles Say Goodbye To Claudia - Jacob Anderson and Delainey Hayles

June 30 – TV Insider – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Stars Break Down That Game-Changing Season 2 Finale - Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman and Eric Bogosian

June 30 – TV Line – Interview With the Vampire EP Talks Finale Deaths, Betrayals and Twists, Teases Lestat-Centric Season 3 - Rolin Jones

June 30 – The Hollywood Reporter – ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Boss, Stars Talk Finale’s Heart-Wrenching Twist and Season 3 - Rolin Jones, Assad Zaman, Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid

June 30 – TV Guide – Interview with the Vampire's Jacob Anderson and Rolin Jones Wanted to 'Achieve Vampire Grace' for Louis - Jacob Anderson and Rolin Jones

Post-Finale Interviews (July 1 - July 3)

July 1 – UPI – 'Vampire' star Sam Reid: Claudia, Louis will always be family to Lestat -Sam Reid

July 1 – The A.V. Club – Showrunner Rolin Jones on that explosive Interview With The Vampire finale - Rolin Jones

July 1 – The Wrap – ‘Interview With the Vampire’: Assad Zaman Unpacks the Truth Behind Armand’s Lies - Assad Zaman and Rolin Jones

July 1 – Decider – ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Stars Weigh in on Whether Louis and Lestat are Like Ben and J. Lo: “They Always Get Back Together All the Time” - Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson

July 1 – Little Gold Men – Jacob Anderson Dives Deep Into Interview with the Vampire’s Wild Finale – Podcast - Jacob Anderson

July 2 – Vulture – ‘The Show Is Built to Make People Feel Insane’ A season-two post-immortem with Interview With the Vampire showrunner Rolin Jones. - Rolin Jones

July 2 – Vulture – It Tastes Different Playing Armand - Assad Zaman

July 2 – AMC Talk – Eric Bogosian On Daniel Molloy’s Surprising Journey Through Season 2 - Eric Bogosian

July 3 – Playbill – How Eric Bogosian Achieved a Lifelong Dream in AMC's Interview with the Vampire - Eric Bogosian

July 3 – What to Watch – Sam Reid on how playing Interview with the Vampire's Lestat 'has become a lifestyle' - Sam Reid

July 4 – TV Tonight – How Emma Freeman creates the (bloody) magic for Interview with the Vampire - Emma Freeman

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STRANGER THINGS 5 PRODUCTION MASTERPOST / part 007

October 22 / 2024

Pics from the Creel house with Jamie there + rovickie news

Circus stuff + Finn arriving at the radio station set

Holly on set at the Creel house

Again

Jamie on set dressed as Henry

Vecna's make up + Noah hinting at the mind flayer imo

October 25 / 2024

POSSIBLY Eleven on set at the Creel house but it's not confirmed that it's her

October 28 / 2024

Will is the centre of the story in season 5

October 29 / 2024

New pic of the UD tunnels

They literally posted trashcans, this is probably in the hospital set and something Demogorgon-like is happening because lights are flickering

October 31 / 2024

El spotted in the UD with Hopper and a 3rd person that we think is a random kid that they have to save, sadly it's not Erica teaming up with them: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

Finn gets a coffee ☕ Mike was at the lab set with Will and Robin

Searching for random musicians (probably for a graduation scene as we learned )

November 2 / 2024

Military checkpoint set probably where the Bradley's truck gets attacked by monsters: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

A good picture of the gay van *ahem* I meant the blue radio station van

November 4 / 2024

Various BTS pics of cars and the kid with Hop and El in the UD

November 5 / 2024

Blood prints in downtown Hawkins + military and random stuff

Is there a battle going on in Hawkins?

November 6 / 2024 ( Stranger Things DAY!!! )

ALL the names of the episodes

NEW BTS PICTURES WILL, MIKE, LUCAS, DUSTIN, NANCY, JONATHAN, STEVE, JOYCE AND HOPPER !!!! Promo pictures quality 🥰

+ the duffers and a BTS of a scene with lots of characters (the names are written on the chairs)

Filming in downtown Hawkins with the military / again

November 7 / 2024

Video of Noah/WILL AT CASTLE BYERS

November 12 / 2024

My speculation on this scene

November 14 / 2024

New military in downtown Hawkins scenes + blue van... Steve, Robin, Hopper, Murray and Linda Hamilton's character

November 15 / 2024

Searching for real couples and dog walkers idk

Filming at the Wheeler house and the lab (?)

Finn spotted on set as Mike - again

November 17 / 2024

BTS pics of random stuff

November 20 / 2024

There's no Christmas epilogue like we thought but they were looking for catering people maybe for the graduation or something like that also they have been filming at Mike's house and Gaten + Finn and maybe Jonathan's double were spotted on set

November 21 / 2024

These could be doubles but we have a scene with Will, Dustin, Joyce, Nancy, Mike, (maybe) Lucas and Robin: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 (maybe this is Mike and not Steve?)

November 22 / 2024

They aren't decorating for Christmas (sadly) because we found out it was the town doing that and they took the decorations down to film BUT it's still confirmed that Hawkins gets saved and not destroyed

Jamie has wrapped filming as Henry Creel

Random AF - they hired this group for the 200 day of filming party

November 25 / 2024

Downtown Hawkins and BTS stuff random + Karen working

Again

November 26 / 2024

BTS pic of a Demogorgon at the hospital, it's basically confirmed that they are gonna attack there, also we found out that the IF poster behind is a AIDS prevention poster

New set in an abandoned school

Matthew Modine (Brenner) posted and OLD video hinting that he might return as Brenner in S5, I think he'll be in some visions or flashbacks

November 27 / 2024

1989 GRADUATION TIMEEE

Spoilers of who survives the finale and makes it to the epilogue (unless that's all a dream/vision lol)

December 1 / 2024

Downtown Hawkins has been rebuilt and there's a movie set (probably for the Lumax date)

December 2 / 2024

SPOILERS FOR WHO SURVIVES - conversation between two characters on a bench near the monument of the fallen in the epilogue in 1989

We have lots of pictures and videos of this scene :

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16

Kids in the epilogue that I thought after posting this, maybe will remind one of the characters of when the Party was little

The blue van was filming but not for the epilogue

Searching for extras, not for the graduation but for a SPOILER!!!! .... College scene for someone in 1990

December 4 / 2024

SPOILERS of some names in the monument of the fallen

December 5 / 2024

My theory about Lumax

December 10 / 2024

Coffee for Gaten

December 11 / 2024

SPOILERS OF THE CHARACTERS THAT SURVIVED THE FINALE (at least for the leaks)

December 12 / 2024

They filmed a scene at a bar with some characters, spoiler of the epilogue

December 13 / 2024

SPOILERS OF THE EPILOGUE - two characters meeting in 1990 :

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

December 15 / 2024

WILL on set, 1987 because of the outfit and also Derek is there and El too : 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

Headless stonathan spotted

SPOILERS OF THE FINALE / EPILOGUE

For my personal speculation about stuff you can search St5 speculation ( warning ⚠️ there's lots of byler lmao)

GO TO -> 001 / 008

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✩  The Double ─ Episode 29 (墨雨云间)

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QL Schedule 02.12.24-08.12.24

MONDAY

Our Youth (Miseinen)

TUESDAY

Love Is Like a Poison Mate The Series* CITYBOY_LOG

WEDNESDAY

Spare Me Your Mercy See Your Love 0.5D Let's Eat Together Aki And Haru, More Please The Heart Killers Winter Is Not the Death of Summer Seoul Blues

THURSDAY

Spare Me Your Mercy Fourever You

FRIDAY

Be Moon: Falling for My Enemy's Son Caged Again Sweet Daddy

SATURDAY

Petrichor* Secret Love Pluto* Teenager Judge Bad to Bed Haunted Hearts

SUNDAY

Secret Love Love In The Air Koi Tokimeki Bakudan Mhom Ped Sawan* Your Sky Perfect 10 Liners Love Sick Red Whisper*

starts airing soon:

4/12 0.5D 4/12 Let's Eat Together Aki And Haru, More Please 6/12 Be Moon: Falling for My Enemy's Son 11/12 Eyes On You 13/12 Thame Po 14/12 The Renovation 15/12 Meet You At The Blossom extra episodes 20/12 Eternal Butler 29/12 Sangmin Dinneaw 14/02 Baban Baban Ban Vampire

waiting for international release:

? Double Exposure ? Smells Like Green Spirit ? There's Love That Starts From Mistaken Identity ? Me, Him and You ? See You ? Fragrance You Inherit* (here with fansubs) ? Mr. Mitsuya's Planned Feeding (here with fansubs) ? Sugar Dog Life ? Meet Unexpectedly ? Love In The Big City (movie) ? No Heaven But Love* ? Uranus2324* ? A Man Who Defies the World of BL S3 (here with fansubs)

*you can track ql schedules here

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The Double 墨雨云间 episodes 2 || 29

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Eps 28-29 Speedrun...

I'm trying to play catch up after falling behind a bit, so here's just a highlight reel/speedrun (as much as I can speed...which is not very much tbh). The meta has dwindled down to nothing; I do apologize. This is very much just reaction-based. Also, I'll probably have to stay out of the tag once the express episodes come out, unless the site I'm watching on uploads those eps too.

Spoilers incoming!

Ep 28

Heh. ZYC's plausibly deniable jealousy is back and boy have I ever needed it. His cursing better be more intense now that he's basically confessed to ZYZ several times over lmao. And oh how precious he is, taking Ying Lei's ice marks comment seriously enough to double check his neck.

Ah. Watching WX's convo with Princess Longyu while knowing what happens in ep 29, the irony of her lie about being poisoned...Good (and terrible) stuff...

Oh god oh dear I was watching the whole acting ordeal through my fingers with preemptive second-hand embarrassment for ZYC. The moment WX pulled out her little booklet but we were cut off from seeing the msg, I knew, esp given the very pointed shots of the fish right before their whole convo haha. Not bad of a set-up imo, more subtly natural than usual which I like since I prefer explanatory flashbacks to have a bit more premeditation baked into the original scene for viewers to pick up on in real-time, which this show doesn't always do.

But oh my. I have to say this. I apologize in advance but it's in my damn handle so forgive me but—ZYC is so fucking lovely when sulky and embarrassed. I'm smitten. I had seen the director post those shots of TJR all dramatically lit and beautifully framed months ago and I had no idea it was going to be used for this. And this is coming off the heels of the previous episode's mpreg joke, which I'm still not over. This show's commitment to flustering ZYC's character needs to be studied and replicated in fanfics. Who said that? Not me. Anyway.

I've seen mixed reactions to ZYC not being in on the acting, but just for me personally, I like that it wasn't intentional for them to leave him out, and I really am glad to have heard his honest feelings in that moment. It felt significant to see him make that decision against even the rest of their family, and I'd personally rather it come out while the rest of them are playing at discord than actually seeing them fight internally just to witness ZYC draw his ultimatum so genuinely and seriously. It feels like yet another moment where the narrative is creatively committing subtext into text for us and for ZYZ to hear, without having to torment us with somehow worsening the stakes within their group to the extent that would elicit such a reaction.

WZY and Chongwu Camp really invest in a lot of latex skin huh?

Oh my god I love that PSJ sucks at acting too. Her panic at having to pretend lmfaooo. Also, this gets at something I really should have realized much earlier on, but the way ZYC and PSJ have so many similarities in disposition and belief, and also how WX and ZYZ overlap a lot in their inclination for acting and playful tricks and teasing—I love that. WX and ZYC each gravitating towards respectively familiar personalities in romantic partners, which actually very much happens irl. Basically seeking out personalities similar to their comforting (pseudo-)familial bonds. Also explains why I love both ZYC and PSJ so much.

Lmfao Ying Lei's theme song kicking in as he volunteers to hold onto the dragon scale really does get me. His song captures his character so well.

Any day I get to watch TJR inception-act as Ao Yin acting as ZYC is a good day for me. That little snarl of a reaction after Ying Lei pulled out his weapon is some good shit. I love that even the texture of his voice and the cadence of his line delivery is different (the stark contrast when actual ZYC shows up in the next scene is *chef's kiss*). And he is uniquely suited for batting his eyelashes, I must say.

Okay! Onto Ep 29:

First ZYC forgets how to count when he calls them a group of five...now ZYZ tricks Ying Lei into giving his all to protect an empty box...when will the grievances against Ying Lei end?

My live reaction to finding out WX's been fatally poisoned: ZYZ, ZYC, Bai Jiu, and WX passing around the hot potato of mortality.

I'm glad for some more emotional development on the Li Lun!Bai Jiu front! I feel like he's been on the back burner for a bit with the ZYC demonizing (which he caused anyway, lol). I am certainly intrigued by Ying Lei being around to hear Li Lun!Bai Jiu's monologue and what this may lead to. And it's been said but LZY (Bai Jiu's actor) does soooo well here it's such a great watch.

Also...Li Lun wants a roof (well, technically, eaves) to shelter from the rain and a lamplight in the dark? Sounds like a throuple with ZYC and ZYZ really might fix him tbh.

Justice for WX in ZYC's flashback from two years ago. She does not say "Are you stupid?" but more along the vibe of "Don't be silly" as she and ZYC discuss his snake bite. The subs are too literal here it makes her sound so out of pocket lmao

God I'm so glad PSJ slapped all of WX's will to live back into her in ep 27 because yes girl!!! Fight for your right to live!! Also, speaking of, where tf is PSJ ): Her girl is dying, why doesn't she get any screen time to react? Do I assume she knows or not?

But yay! The contract ripping was cute. As an aside, I do wish I personally felt enough of a spark between ZYZ and WX to ship them on my own because the writing is there for their pairing to be pretty solid. Like I've said before, they're sweet and good together but they just don't rot my brain. I wonder what's missing for me because I honestly like their acting much more than I expected to. Perhaps it could also be a matter of contrast, as some dynamics in the web of relationships stand out to me in terms of chemistry more than others, even if we're not talking strictly romantic (I mean, I'm of the belief that TJR could have chemistry with a brick wall if he wanted to). Anyway though, I'm going off topic. ZYZ and WX cute (and tragic)!

I gasped at ZYC going to meet WZY. That's what I call desperate measures.

Ha, ZYZ asking ZYC to protect him while he's weakened from the Ever-Burning Wood reminds me of CQL c:

Yooooooo ZYC grabbing the newly reforged Cloud Light Sword and all that gorgeous light. What a hero. Smitten, I say.

Ohhhh the Li Lun/ZYC superimposed images, the way I was holding my breath and worried for a second that ZYZ would call ZYC by the wrong name !!!! That's some legit ex-vs-current-lover storytelling like whew. But I needed ZYC to catch ZYZ a little better than that when he fell like embrace the man already pls

The cave scene!!!!! I'm looking through my fingers. I feel like I'm intruding. How many jade pendants does ZYC have on his person for ZYZ to drink at any given moment? And oh wow something about the framing of ZYC's hand on the wine bottle as he mixes it—what an intimate ritual. Feels like I watched ZYC make three separate confessions just seeing him pull out the jade, mix the drink for ZYZ, and hold it out to him with his eyes averted...And then he goes and lays his heart bare (again! once more on top of the conversation in ep 26 like he is really not letting any chance of misunderstanding arise he is trying to show his hand as much as possible wow). But yeah who's gonna gif the wine mixing for me?

Fuckkkk, they're zhiji, they said it, I'm going insane.

I love ZYZ's pause right before he drinks the first cup. Watching the gravity of this moment and ZYC's absolute sincerity hit him, settle on him. Such a meaningful and significant breath between actions. Like, we are allll aware of how serious this is.

ZYC holding intense eye contact while drinking the second cup??? Uh??? I really should be turning away now right? And ZYZ's stare back is truly indistinguishable from his openly loving looks at WX. I am on the floor.

All of ZYC's toasts are about ZYZ being a savior of some kind ;-;

Another live reaction: WHEN DID ZYC BECOME A SURGEON THEY JUST DID SURGERY ON ZYZ'S CORE IM CRYING.

ZYC most dramatic surgeon I've ever seen did you see the way his hair caught the wind? God but his nonchalance is killing me. Yes why not bare your heart and soul over some wine you mixed specifically for ZYZ and then operate on ZYZ's core in one sitting? All in a night's work I guess. Also ZYZ's still recovering from the Ever-Burning Wood oh my god someone take ZYC's license away what is this medical malpractice. Bai Jiu is out of commission for a little bit and all of a sudden everyone thinks they're a doctor smh.

All I have to say about the WZY meeting is sometimes I get so distracted by ZYC's eyelashes. Also goodbye and good riddance WZY! Unless the drama decides to pull a fast one on us, which is never beyond the realm of possibility here. But at least he burned.

PSJ is back :D Head empty except for how pretty her red cape is.

Ouuugh Li Lun who is constantly possessing people and obsessively making others look at the real him and Ao Yin who is constantly impersonating people and now asking to be remembered for how she actually looks. What a pair, I can see why they stuck together all this time. Also Ao Yin's true form is so pretty. Girl I know you killed a bunch of people and continuously framed our heroes and caused so so so much heartache for them but I'll remember your true form dw )-:

The borrowed sympathy Li Lun gets while in Bai Jiu's body is quite poignant and so complicated and tbh I want more of it. As someone who doesn't want him to go down this unfortunate path any further, I have hopes about the potential there, but it's probably safer to expect the worst.

Not sure if this more surface-level commentary is still fun to read, but this will probably be all I have time for from now til the end. And since I'll be staying out of the tag soon, it'll just be me shouting into the void for the next few days. Thanks to anyone still sticking around and reading these!

Also sorry I don't add more photos on the regular, I'm watching the show in pretty shitty resolution and on a player than is awful to screenshot from (-:

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I have an issue with the "the giga cover is likely fujobait" because I can't help but think:

if it was truly fujobait, why now?

Why try to get their attention if MHA is now in the 100M club? The series now so popular, hori/jump doesn't need queer shippers to increase its popularity.

Why try to get fujos and queer fans, if it's already popular in that group? Wasn't it apparently shown that MHA is more popular with women and LGBTQ+ fans?

Why try to get that audience when hori had the chance to do that back in 2016-2018 when Kr//bk was the popular gay ship? Wasn't there an interview where someone pretty much asked hori if he's for kr//bk, but instead of playing along, hori made it about bkdk (the ship that no one took seriously at the time) and said he saw the hand hold more about bkdk angst. Kr//bk was a popular ship, it had bones making official art of them. The smash parody manga had moments of it. Two heroes was their movie [I believe hori didn't really help in that movie. However, notice how in the second movie, (he was a part of that one), focused on bkdk (again, the ship no one took seriously)]. Hori had the ability to use that ship as bait, but he seemed to be the only one out of everyone else to not go for it. Instead he kept pushing for the ship that was thought to be too toxic to even become a platonic ship.

If horikoshi did not want bkdk to seen as romantic, why isn't he stopping jump for implying it? You really can't say that he has no ability to, the guy went to bones and told them the ending. Now, notice how bones suddenly stopped making iz//ch moments and added a bkdk moment in the recap episodes (something that they would never do 2 seasons prior). The assistant (whom hori is friends with) is a loud speaker of dkbk lol. Hori follows him on twitter, there's no way that hori hasn't seen his dkbk art once. Same for katsuki's JP VA (who is also a friend of Hori).

Why try to bait the audience when the manga is ending?

Idk, maybe there's a chance he is actually queerbaiting and make iz//ch canon, but again, after everything?

After the togachako arc? He had made ochako confess her crush on midoriya, only for seconds later to not only brush it off as unimportant (unimportant in the sense of it was more of way to relate to toga and speak with her, it wasn't really used as a "canon izu//ocha" moment), she tells toga that she could have ochako's blood for the rest of her life (and we know that's toga's love language of returning/accepting her feelings) and she told toga that she had the cutest smile in the whole world. Like, didn't hori say that toga was made for ochako's character? I feel like it wouldn't make sense for hori to do all of this, then have ochako end up with midoriya, it would feel like a middle finger to toga tbh.

After chapters 285, 322, 362, 367, 403, and 404? The apology? The "you're the closest one to midoriya izuku, therefore I need to kill you in order to make him go crazy". The heart shaped black whip after seeing bakugou's dying body? The "their feelings became one" double spread? this bullet point could be spread to about 2-3 document pages, but I'm just going to summarize for this post lol. But overall, these chapters (and a few more), show me (imo) that it the "fujobait" claim isn't really strong to use against bkdk.

Again, maybe this is queerbait, because I know that there are times where other media/anime have done simliar and still had the MC in a heterosexual relationship, and leave everyone dumbfounded lol. Once again, all I say to this is "let's see what happens."

P.S. Isn't this the same author who said that he thought that naruto was going to end at 698 (the implied SNS ending) lol? Idk if it's true, that's just something I've heard.

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EDIT 11/29/24: WELP I GUESS I'M BOOBOO THE FOOL LOL