#this is a rom dram

[hiraethedits]

corey + allyson + the bike

[girlsjustwannef1]

I know this isn't gonna translate 100% like I want it to, but...

When people hate on modern remakes of old shows and movies, that now have female/queer/poc/disability representation, it always blows my mind that that's the thing you choose to focus on. Especially when the show has always had a political message that you just missed and now you blame 'wokeism' for pointing it out by using minority groups.

Cause for me that's the best way to prevent the erasure of classical literature and media. Like, we still have facism and racism and horrible workers rights and a high cost of living, but we also happen to have iphones.

[rosedenali]

Hope this isn’t weird but you posting that you’re writing just sparked a bit of joy in me! I don’t even know what it is but I just love your writing style so much that it made me happy to know that you’re creating! I hope whatever it is sparks 10x as much joy in you!

hehe thank youuu i outlined it last night n wrote a bunch of dialogue n maybe i can eventually turn it into something <3

[levibloodmobile]

[theoddest1]

Honestly, people ship Adam and Lute, and I realized something,

That ship is NOT healthy whatsoever either. For starters.

Adam does NOT have any respect for Women or at the very least indulge in relationships beyond One Night Stands, did anyone even catch what he said in s1e1?

Lute's obsession with Adam is often interpeted as "Romantic" when it can be considered a Limerence (Or worse a Yandere)

3. I feel like the relationship would be unprofessional and weird, Adam named all of them like they were his CHILDREN and we're supposed to ship them?

4. It seems like fanservice like EVERY other ship in the Hellaverse. Viv's stories are 99% Romance Based and the other 1% is dedicated to lack of storytelling. I mean, relationships CAN be good for storytelling and actually offers something to the plot IF it is planned accordingly. In that case, the whole Chaggie Arguement, HuskerDust Interaction, etc are all stinted because the storyline wanted Rom-Dram instead of actual slowpaced shit.

5. Lute's turn around to start caring about Adam because her LOVER died is BS, Adam only views women as objects, expendables (especially IF they die in combat.) He does not mourn his fallen soldiers, he barely even acknowledges their contributions, he did with Lute because Lute to him is a Loyal Servant. He see's her as his right hand, not a partner.

6. Theoretically speaking, if Adam beds with Lute like he did with the Virtues would he even go beyond it? Adam is the type of guy to not be committed in a relationship, so WHY VivziePop WHY!?

I am sorry for my rambling but this boggles my cranium. Why do people ship them? Is it because Evil Villain x Henchwoman core? Are we ignoring character personalities and shipping them because opposites attract?

Nah, you're good! I just am completely fucking baffled that Viv thought having a dude indulge in several sins, most in which would have never allowed him access to heaven to begin with. Like....hello??? Like the odd ass related with him and Lute is already weird af, but him being so vulgar, no wisdom, and having affairs with several women as well is just hilariously ridiculous.

[its-me-jane-lane]

thinking about movies the gang would be into:

quinn is the easiest. i think the early 2000s romcom wave would absolutely floor her. she might even grow closer to daria as she realizes that a lot of them are modern adaptations of classic literature. she’d start reading classic romances and realize she actually enjoys them? definitely seeing her as a fan of clueless, mean girls, ten things i hate about you. also less mainstream, but party girl is so quinn coded. you’d probably have to force her to watch it, but she’d come out the other end as a huge fan.

daria would definitely appreciate a good social commentary, with emphasis on the absurd ones. cronenberg and lynch feel like safe spaces for her to venture, but i can also see her liking pre-codes and ingmar bergman. my gut says videodrome, persona, and the passion of joan of arc.

jane is into the art of the grotesque, but not without some greater narrative purpose. this extends to both beautifully deranged queer films (waters, almodóvar), and violent horror with a heart (creating a minor overlap with daria’s cronenberg roots). pink flamingos, dark habits, the fly.

trent wouldn’t be a big movie guy, but i can see him being into brendan fraser’s comedy era, with emphasis on airheads and monkeybone. maybe also encino man.

jodie not only cares a lot about her identity as a black woman, but like daria, she’d love a good social commentary. i can see her having a deep connection with set it off, though her favorite director would ultimately be spike lee. do the right thing is 100% in her top four. her and daria’s idea of a good social commentary can differ, but they get along a lot in their overlap. she does, however, occasionally fall for the charm of a bad rom/com/dram, she’d just never admit it out loud. she’s shown mack plenty he could blackmail her with though, if he ever wanted to.

he won’t though. mack doesn’t mind, as he ends up liking them too, but he’d love a comedic or underdog sports story. i unfortunately don’t know enough of those to give specifics on that, though. maybe white men can’t jump?

kevin and brittany watch kids movies but this isn’t a bad thing. it’s (implied) canon that kevin likes (the daria equivalent of) the muppets, so those are his go-to films. he loves the celebrity cameos, but doesn’t know their names, so he goes, “that’s that guy from that thing, or whatever!” i think brittany would like the animated barbie movies (and actually secretly understand the deeper themes in the later canon)!

[youremyheaven]

Dramatic Essence & Makeup pt 2

I thought I'll make a post about how Dramatic Essence becomes more evident when someone who has it wears makeup (this is especially true if you have both Dramatic & Romantic essences) and how they can look a bit washed out or plain without makeup.

Lisa

Lisa is gorg and makeup helps enhance her Dramatic essence, without makeup she looks younger and cuter

Selena Gomez

Like Lisa, Selena also has Romantic, Dramatic & Ingenue essence and without makeup, the Ingenue essence is more evident than the Rom-Dram one

Rihanna

Even Rihanna has the same combination of essences and the drama ✨💅🏼 becomes more evident when she makeup on

Elizabeth Gillies

Makeup helps enhance sharp features we have. Without makeup we're all Yin and with it our Yang is more apparent.

Odeya Rush

Look at how her features pop with makeup?? She already had sharp features but with makeup they became even more obvious.

Ni Ni

Makeup doesn't have to be heavy for this to work. Even soft makeup can accentuate features.

before you say "everybody looks better with makeup" 🙄🙄no they dont

Aishwarya Rai

granted that some of these are just the wrong seasonal colors on her, i still think Aishwarya Rai is one of those people who look better with minimal makeup. in the middle pic, it's just some eyeliner and some lipstick thats similar to her natural lip color and she looks amazing.

Deepika Padukone

the way her Dramatic essence jumps out with makeup is amazing. you can almost always tell whether or not someone has Dramatic- Romantic essence based on whether or not they look good with a smokey eye look

Haifa Wehbe

she's stunning either way but the smokey eye really makes her eyes pop even moreee

[dentpx]

The roms, the coms, the rom-coms, the drams, the dramadies. The straight-to-dvds

[techav]

More Speed, More Power, Pretty Pictures

I added some crude functions to the ROM monitor on my Wrap030 project to read the root directory of a FAT16-fomatted disk and load binary files into memory to execute. This opens up a new option for developing programs and running them on the computer, and makes it easier to keep programs on-hand for loading when I demonstrate the computer.

So what new program do I build first for running from disk? The same Mandelbrot renderer I've been using all along, of course! All I needed to do to get it running from disk was adjust a few load instructions to use PC-relative addressing and then change the vasm output to raw binary.

It ran without issue ... mostly. I had been noticing some instability with the system in general. It's not really related to the programming work I've been doing, it just tended to show itself more when doing the kind of FPU-intensive processing required for the Mandelbrot program. Sometimes the system wouldn't boot at all, sometimes it would continually reset. Other times it would run fine for a while, but randomly throw a coprocessor protocol exception (especially when using double- or extended-precision floating point values).

I had a pretty good idea of where this instability was coming from ...

As someone on Discord put it, that's a pretty little antenna I've got there.

High speed computers don't like excessively-long wiring between components. I made the ribbon cables long because there were other boards I developed for this system. But, I'm only using the CPU board, the FPU + IDE mezzanine board, and the video generator board. All that extra wire is just making things more difficult.

A year ago, when I first put these three boards together, I had to bump the bus speed down to 25MHz to get it to run. I could run the CPU board up to 56MHz by itself, and I could get it to run with one expansion board or the other up to 40MHz, but with all three boards, 25MHz was the best I could do (out of the oscillators I had on hand). I have some 33MHz oscillators now, and while I could get it to run sometimes, it was obviously far more unstable.

It was time to trim those pretty little antennas.

I left room for one more card, in case I can get my DRAM card working later, but trimmed a few inches off. The result? Rock solid at 25MHz now.

... and at 32MHz.

... but 40MHz still doesn't run.

I am quite pleased with that result. My target for this system in the beginning was 25MHz. That extra 30% speed increase is very noticeable, especially when running a program like the Mandelbrot renderer.

But I had a thought.

My FPU is rated for 25MHz, and here it's running solid at 32MHz along with the rest of the system. But my FPU board was designed to support the FPU running at a separate clock speed from the rest of the system (the 68881/68882 FPU is actually designed to support this, so I implemented it when I built my mezzanine board).

What would happen if I tried running the FPU even faster? Perhaps using that 40MHz oscillator that I couldn't use for the complete system?

Surprisingly, not a problem running the CPU at 32MHz and the FPU at 40MHz.

... or 50MHz

... or 55MHz

... or 67MHz!

Once again, I've run out of faster oscillators. This computer is running stable with its FPU clocked at over two and a half times its rated speed.

The video above is a real-time capture of the VGA output of this machine running that Mandelbrot renderer (now modified to use 96-bit extended-precision floating-point arithmetic!) with the CPU & main bus clocked at 32MHz and the FPU clocked at 67MHz. Some frames take minutes to render. Some complete in as little as seven seconds.

I am in awe. While I had big dreams when I first started working on this project six years ago, I never could have imagined it running this well at that kind of speed. I am very happy with how this project has turned out so far, and can't quite believe I actually built something like this.

I typically wrap up these posts with a plan of where to take the project next, but the project has already exceeded my expectations. There is so much it is already capable of now that I have a permanent storage option available. I guess I could try getting that DRAM card running to expand the main memory beyond 2MB, or try adding a keyboard and some text routines to complement the video card. Both are good options towards getting a proper operating system running, which has always been a goal of the project.

Either way, I'm sure I'll have fun with it.

[heartsandstars46]

Choose your own And-venture*

So when my Andrew crush was revived, I realized how little of his filmography I’ve actually seen… or even heard of? I really had no idea where to start, but now that I've been making my way through it, here are some notes that hopefully help you find the Andrew you’re looking for! (I will keep updating as I watch more!)

*🙈 I am so sorry--once this entered my brain, it became the only title.

(We all know the gist of Spider-Man and The Social Network, right?)

Big “precious bean” energy: 

Boy A (2007)

🏆 Won a best actor BAFTA!

Aesthetic: Sooo young and bashful/endearing

Plays: Jack Burridge, a boy who is starting over after years in juvenile detention.

Love story?: Yes, and it makes me all 🥹🥹🥹.

⚠️ Childhood stuff can be intense.

Would I rewatch? 👍 (I already have lol)

Never Let Me Go (2010)

Aesthetic: Shaggy hair to shaved head

Plays: Tommy D., a young man living in a wild dystopian England. 

Love story?: More like love triangle! 

👎 The characters are kids at first, so Andrew isn’t in it the whole time.

Would I rewatch? 👍 (and I'm currently reading the book because I found the movie so interesting!)

Promising college student ("non-Eduardo Saverin" division):

Lions for Lambs (2007)

First feature film!

Aesthetic: Cute enough frat boy in a hideous shirt.

Plays: Todd Hayes, a privileged, disaffected yet apparently promising college student.

Love story?: No

👍 Despite the ridiculously famous names in the cast, Andrew has one of the leading roles!

Would I rewatch? 🤔 Maybe? It’s not great, but Andrew does manage to make Todd kind of interesting. (Or at least not totally one-note.)

Portrayals of real people

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

⭐️Oscar nom #1

Aesthetic: 1940s country bumpkin to blood-covered army medic

Plays: Desmond Doss, a “conscientious cooperator” in WWII.

Love story?: Yes and it’s cute 

⚠️ Violence (In a war movie?! What are the odds!)

Would I rewatch? 🤔 Only the beginning (pre-war) because I could not handle Andrew in peril. (And I really liked The Pacific, so I did not expect to be so freaked out!)

Breathe (2017)

Aesthetic: ‘50s sportsman/adventurer/“tea broker”

Plays: Robin Cavendish, who lived for decades on a respirator after contracting polio (then a death sentence)

Love story?: Yes, and it’s lovely and inspiring and all the things. 🥹(I’m not entirely sure why they are so in love, because the movie really speeds through everything pre-polio, but Andrew and Claire Foy do sell it.)

⚠️ Full disclosure, I did cry at this one.

Would I rewatch? 👍

Weird with a side of conspiracy theory/mystery

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)

Aesthetic: All in on the ’70s—long hair, sideburns, bellbottoms, etc.

Character: Eddie, a young reporter who uncovers shady goings-on.

Love story?: Kind of?

⚠️Nudity

⚠️ Violence

Would I rewatch? 👎 Just could not get into it--didn’t like his character, found the story to be meh/confusing....

Under the Silver Lake (2018)

Aesthetic: Stoner slacker in graphic tees and skinny jeans

Plays: Sam, an aimless L.A. 30-something who becomes obsessed with his neighbor’s disappearance

Love story?: Ehhh… kind of, I guess? Not formally, though.

⚠️Nudity (prob the most out of all of these?)

Would I rewatch? 👍 and this is not my type of movie at all. For as weird as it is, it's also... fun?

Rom-Dram

We Live in Time (2024)

Aesthetic: Clean-cut, sometimes bespectacled, lots of cozy sweaters 

Plays: Tobias, a sensitive and nerdy Weetabix salesman going through some major life upheaval.

Love story?: Yes, the movie revolves around it.

⚠️Nudity

Would I rewatch? 🤔 When I first saw it, hard no. (With these actors, my expectations were high. And the movie did not convince me that Almut and Tobias were actually a perfect match. 🙈) But I did love Tobias, so I would watch again for him. 👍

Influencer Douchebag

Mainstream (2020)

Aesthetic: BLONDE (!!) Andrew is more attractive than he has any right to be. 

Plays: Link, a mysterious loner who becomes a social media star

Love story: Ehh… there is sex? (But nothing graphic that I can recall)

Would I rewatch? 😬 Not the whole thing. I have rewatched parts where Andrew gets to show Link’s tenderness and humanity, but some scenes are just painful. (I get that Gia Coppola wants the audience to be uncomfortable, but I don't need to relive it!) Also, full disclosure, I don’t watch the Jake Paul-type influencers, so that aspect has no appeal to me personally.

[jackhkeynes]

Alburgh Anecdotes

excerpt in translation from a letter from the Danish playwright Absolon Mortenszen to his Borlish friend Anscon d'Aupont.

Scey un novel freir ag hostel, lovastr a men e (��a tu vil my femn confeyar) formous a men sou Daniel. There is a new friar at the hostel, less talkative and (if you will believe my wife) less handsome than Daniel.

Lonc mey soumonendessem es i cas min all'astuçour demant encontrað n'eç dram a rigteç inerrevibr ancour scenað ny citað aval; l'a heu d'un segr sognant de parrinment fair a Rom e posc alandar de le stimar noc Chrestan aðief! More than anything he reminds me of the moralising mentor one sees in the dreadful morality plays they still show down in the city; he seems the sort to dream of visiting Rome and upon arriving declare it insufficiently Christian!

Se poð appondr ig y novel ensignment y Machinaçon de Helios de Lorenzo yon tu m'expateyau tras un asc volois y bossir appoussar colombant vars un raivottaç, oc m'ajoutaçant toð cas. One supposes Lorenzo's new Mechanisms of Helios sculpture about which you droned on at me for hours might send the good man directly into an apoplexy, which would at least be entertaining.

Y novel dram es un picq issaur, noc obstroint y temp moglastr y vertað desconent naðusc ig Albourg no's, a my sorc, Barcelon. The new play is a mild success, despite the inclement weather rather betraying the fact that Alburgh is not, to my regret, Barcelon.

[askallianything]

Describe them in three words. Now let them describe themself in three words.

Would they agree with the term ‘guilty pleasure’? Do they have any?

What would they do if they knew it would be forgiven?

((Unpredictable, obsessive, ride-or-die))

Mmh... me in three words? Let's see .... I'm beautiful and loyal.... but super unpredictable! Id make the perfect girlfriend for anyone who wants to live life like it's a rom-dram!

Guilty pleasures..... I'd like to believe we all have things we begrudgingly enjoy. I have a few, to be honest. Most of it relates to environmental intelligence and carbon footprints. Like... I really love long, steamy, hot showers. But it wastes so much energy and water and ughhh I always feel so baddddd

Mh.... there's a lot of people I'd hurt if there'd be no consequences. I hate that I think like that, but it's just so natural for me. Aside from personal situations, I guess there's also some not-so-peaceful protesting I'd do. Oh, and I'd shoplift a whole bunch of shit. Everything's so expensive these days....

[damistrolls]

Juniee, what's some Fleet-acceptable Movies that you like to watch?

(or does the fleet not have content restriction for what you're allowed to watch?)

"The fleet doesn't exactly restrict the kind of movies you can watch.

I mean, so long as it's not rebel propaganda, but I mean, that's illegal everywhere. And who would want to watch that stuff anyways?"

Says the troll who would gladly watch empire propaganda.

"Anyways, I mostly like to watch crime dramas and stuff. Some mysteries, too."

She also likes rom-drams. Not that she'll ever admit to that.

[rosedenali]

wolf 1994 fic i am coming for you

[turtlecano]

someone's GOT to also have had the thought "charlie/zoey/pim love triangle: queue drama"...right?

i can see the title now: "If Smiling Friends Was A Rom-Dram" call to the void? hello?? has anyone played around with this? is there a reason why i havent seen anyone play with this? does the fandom not like that idea?? its literally the most un-characteristic thing the show would ever do but that's the fun in being a fan i guess lol i mean, some of yall are already FREAKY with Smiling Friends like that soooooo why not angsty too? (that isnt grim and gnarly lore lol)

Im genuinely curious. Someone out there, please... tell me your thoughts. It pops into my head whenever I scroll past ship art

I'm not a shippartist in ANY capacity, but hear me out: IN👏THIS👏VERSION👏: There's a feeling in the air that Charlie and Zoey are falling out of love, and the feelings Charlie and Pim have for each other deep down is starting to show itself, but Charlie and Zoey haven't properly sorted out they're relationship issues, and broke it off yet.

I imagine Charlie is checked out of the relationship. At first, he was definitely into Zoey, but he felt she never really reciprocated any advances he made on her, but somehow, they still got together. He felt confused, a bit betrayed, but now, he's stopped trying to even put any effort into it anymore. He doesn't feel it's a very deep or meaningful relationship at all, and all he can think about deep down, how things might be different if he was with Pim. Like, he's had these emotions that he's packed down all this time, thinking "how could Pim EVER see a relationship there?". But he still indulges in the idea in where he could have something so much more fulfilling with the one he's BEEN having feelings for, for the longest time. THEN, I like to imagine Pim feels the same way Charlie does toward him. Not seeing how the other would EVER wanna be their boyfriend and repressing those emotions. Pim is especially good at it though. Along with that, he could NEVER think of backstabbing Zoey with how her and Charlie are still together.

I think Zoey sees the relationship that is actively withering away in front of her, and from her perspective, she's the only one who's trying to make it "work". But her and Charlie see they're needs they need from each other pretty differently. Over time, she starts to realize, she's mixing up platonic, with romantic. I like to think when she starts seeing little things in their interactions with one another, she feels the teeniest bit jealous, but deep down, knows that Charlie should be with Pim, not her. But shes scared she'll lose him all together, and they wont be friends in the end. She wants to still hang out and create those new memories and experiences with Charlie, just yknow "not like that"

Like is that too much?? As an demi/ace, Ive never EVER got into speculative shipping and relationship drama about fictional characters before, untillll i got into my first relationship almost 2 years ago. But OF COURSE, it had to be with this goofy ass show ands its goofy ass characters and hypotheticals you arent supposed to take seriously. Im thinking of this big ol' story with all these nuances, while on the other hand i've seen NOTHING I cant be the only one! If there's someone doing something similar to this, PLEASE TELL ME!! Im super curious as to how someone else would shove such a heavy plot point like that into a simpler show like Smiling Friends (simple baisic plot wise that is)

[priropro]

📣✨️A new trailer has been released for📣✨️

Parfum Nostalgique!

❤️The click-through josei slice-of-life dram-rom-com about a 265-year-old therapist-by-day dom-by-night vampire❤️

Come meet Val and his whimsical friends in Act 1 of this ongoing visual novel series!