#this is probably my favourite episode so far

[pharawee]

🖇️BL WATCHLIST DECEMBER 🎄

🎬The Heart Killers - IQIYI | GAGAOOLALA | YOUTUBE - I'm watching, yes, but I'm more hoping I can passively enjoy this show through my dashboard.

🎬Winter Is Not the Death of Summer But the Birth of Spring - YOUTUBE - I love the idea of this but unfortunately I'm waaay behind with watching.

🎬Spare Me Your Mercy - IQIYI | YOUTUBE - My favourite Sammon novel, now on fast-track to becoming one of my fave BLs.

🎬Fourever You - WeTV | YOUTUBE - I still love this show very much, especially for the actors, but I'm beginning to struggle with the slice-of-life aspect of it.

🎬Caged Again - WeTV | GAGAOOLALA - I love one (1) show. 🐧🐈‍⬛

🎬Love in the Air - 恋の予感 - GAGAOOLALA - It's so much fun to revisit this and spot all the differences. Plus, free Japanese lesson.

🎬Petrichor - IQIYI - I'm watching this a few days later with the gf but so far I like it a lot.

🖇️CALENDAR (THAI PRODUCTIONS ONLY)

🖇️UPCOMING

🎬Addicted Heroin (Special Episode) - YOUTUBE - All I know about this is that it's a special ep set after the end of the series and (probably) leading into the second season (if it gets made).

🎬Hidden - YOUTUBE - I'm not sure if this is a BL or even a series but it has Tong Thanayut in it and apparently will release independently on youtube. I'll keep you updated.

🎬Eyes on You - YOUTUBE - This is a co-production between Hong Kong and Thailand and will also release independently on youtube. I'm not sure if this release is for the full series or just an episode 0. I'll keep you updated on this too.

🎬ThamePo - I liked the pilot trailer more than the actual release trailer but when does that ever not happen? I'll probably watch this casually (the way I watched Kidnap) and make a few gifsets on the side if the fancy strikes.

🎬The Renovation - This looks really good and I hope they make this available internationally. 🤞

🎬Sangmin Dinneaw - So apparently this is going to be released at the end of December? And it's a Thai production with a Korean actor? That's all I really know about it. Wait, Rossi and Non are in it so I need to watch.

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[ladytano]

As predicted I loved Mirror, Mirror. An alternative universe were everyone is comically evil can never go wrong for me. I love that shit every single time. The episode also had some good Uhura content which is always a plus. Everyone was working together as a team to get the fuck out of there which was just a fun time in general. 

[wonderholegifs]

Rhett & Link's Wonderhole

[evankinkley]

donovan rocker in every swat episode → 2x09 (1/2)

[janamensch]

Tired boy Xantheus :(

[phantomlemon348]

Max: "Welcome to the case, father"

Mendel :*looks confused*

Max: "Oh, it's usually something we say around about now"

Max: *quickly glances at Oskar*

[deadwardiann]

oh… ommmm that.. mmmmmm magnus pod episode 10 was mm very aaammmmmmmm aaaaaaaa oooooooo aaaaaaaaa aaaammmmmm oh i loved that. wont spoil, but THE MUSICCC !!

[kideternity]

Okay now i've finished Adventure let me write up my full thoughts about the season. This will be less structured than the Tamers review and I apologise for that, I just kind of had a different watching experience with Adventure and thus sort of format my feelings about it in a different way idk. Whatever the case, here’s my full review of Adventure under the cut, and if you don’t care about that, then here’s the TLDR;

I liked adventure! I had a lot of fun watching it. It’s not a perfect season, but nothing is, and whilst I am going to take a break for now, I'm excited to start Digimon Adventure 02 in the foreseeable future.

-First, I do want to highlight things I really enjoyed. I really loved the animation and art style- I know its seen as very cheesy and dated and not the best animated (Most notable example that comes to mind is reusing the animation for special moves) but IDC, I love the cartoony style and I've always been very endeared to older styles of animation and how they make use of the medium.

-I liked the kids! I liked the kids a lot! They’re good kids! The cast of adventure is absolutely a highlight, and I can see why Bandai always goes back to them for use in future projects, whether or not that’s ultimately a good thing.

-Whilst I personally prefer the more Urban Sci-fi / Fantasy settings of Tamers and Savers, The Isekai approach lends itself to be a good way to immediately show off the digital world and the creatures within it, and to start exploring the worldbuilding within. I like the worldbuilding of Adventure! It felt kind of more purposely vague then Tamers and Savers, but it’s an interesting world they set up, and I'd like to see more of it explored

-I missed the global aspect of Tamers and even Savers. Though I can’t really fault Adventure, being as it was literally THE first season ever, for staying strictly in Japan. I just personally enjoyed how large and expansive things got in Tamers, and how people from all over the world were involved. I will say, I did appreciate Adventure also having more unorthodox or complicated family dynamics- such as Yamato and Takeru being the kids of divorce who aren’t able to 24/7 be around each other, or how Koushiro is adopted. It’s always a breath of fresh air to see media, especially for kids, tackle these sorts of things with nuance and grace.

-The soundtrack was absolutely gorgeous. Probably my favourite out of all of the soundtracks so far- there was just so much passion and emotion packed into each musical piece.

-Tone and themes were fairly consistent throughout, mostly due to the fact that Adventure doesn’t really have any sort of grand overarching messaging like Tamers or Savers did. I would assume, due to being again, the first season of anime, it cared more about plot and characters than trying to Say anything too radical. Hence, the themes follow pretty standard “good versus evil” tropes, as well as the power of compassion and community and optimism and hope that digimon usually utilises in each of its different stories across mediums, instead of anything more complex, like Tamers attempts at dissecting morality and violence, and Savers discussing the inherent value of lives that aren’t humans and trying to understand those not like you. Adventure plays it safe, and doesn’t get burned because of it, which I can’t fault.

-The villains are. Eh. They’re entertaining but none of them are necessarily very well written. The most well written villain was Pinochimon, and ignoring that i'm a biased party, most people seem to agree with me on this. Vamdemon was definitely the most intimidating and well built up antagonist. Apocalymon has a really cool and sympathetic concept, and I wish he had been focused on more. Generally, due to the nature of Adventure's “good versus evil” tropes, a lot of the villains aren’t really allowed any sort of nuance or are portrayed in a “They're Inherently Damnable Let's Kill Em” sort of way, which is unfortunate. Only Ogremon top of my head really gets any sort of minor redemption at the end without dying for it, ala Wizarmon, Gottsumon and Pumpkinmon.

-Like Tamers, Adventure is much more open to the idea of making horny jokes and talking about romance, which I do not enjoy, and it was by far the worst one when it came to that in my opinion. Why were there so many jokes about masc digimon hitting on Mimi. Stop that right this instant.

-Generally, I would say plot and character writing is a mixed bag. None of it is necessarily godawful, but you can tell that Adventure was very haphazardly and sloppily written. There’s a lot of inconsistencies in the writing- a lot of new characters or story elements are sort of abruptly added out of nowhere with no real build up and which sometimes ultimately don’t really matter all that much. It has definitely the worst pacing out of the seasons I've seen so far- Again, Building up momentum to then just suddenly stop and spill exposition on you. Savers and Tamers had issues too, but their handling of the plot was usually much tighter and the writing much more concise. Whilst I love the kids, and they do definitely get their own character arcs, none of them are written equally in that regard and often times it leads to situations where some characters get their arcs finished early and then stay stagnant for the rest of the season (Sora and Koushiro) whilst others only get major character writing near the very end (Yamato). It also definitely played favourites with some of them lol. Random things will interject in pivotal moments and the arcs for each different villain all have entirely different vibes to one another. Truthfully, it does come across as a much of mini stories hazily slapped together in an attempt to create a Larger Grander Narrative. Which, again, it was their first attempt ever creating an anime for Digimon, so I suppose I can’t blame them too much for this. It’s a miracle this took off so well in the first place.

Again, there’s definitely stuff I'm missing that i'd have wanted to say, but as a whole, again, I like Adventure! It’s not my favourite season of the digimon anime, and I can definitely understand the frustration for Bandai constantly milking it as a cash cow for the nostalgia points. But, I do think as a whole it holds up for the most part, at least for a kids anime from the late 90s, and Again, I don’t regret having watched it.

[sskk-manifesto]

^^

[getoutofmytardis]

ed and stede staying with izzy and buttons coming to visit 😭

[pufffinn]

guys i’m ngl i watched the screechers reach episode from star wars visions and i liked it sm i might start drawing it,,, like to encourage me, ignore to also encourage me

[wildtornado-o]

While I know its unlikely I would really love for one of the next episodes of rwby to show a little bit of why Neo was so mad about Roman's death, like little bits of their friendship to show how close they were, so people who didn't read the book can understand Neo a little better and like. how close Roman and Neo actually were.

[viola-halogen]

Ok I’m compiling all my thoughts about OFMD episode 6 because WHAT AN EPISODE

Firstly, I love Archie

Also I love Ed agreeing to pay for the party and the whole crew just being like kids whose dad gave him their credit card

Wee John doing drag makeup and teaching Izzy about fashion!!!!

Izzy can sing????? In French??????????

Ed shielding Stede with his body when the attack started??? Aaah my heart 💔 he is NOT prepared to lose him again

Also the fact that Ed could take being tortured himself but freaked out when Ned hurt Stede 🥲 I’m fine

The fact that Pete and Lucius missed that they’d been INVADED because they’d been having engagement sex for 24 hours straight? Ghdjdgkdkfjsjfkgkhgkgj

Also they were such hopeless rescuers. I love these idiots.

Stede saving the day with his people-positive management style!

Hellcat Maggie is an icon

On a similar note to Ed being protective of Stede, the fact that Stede snapped and was willing to kill Ned because he insulted Ed. This man does not take people being rude to his bf lightly. He will absolutely fuck anyone up who disrespects Ed and I love that.

Also I remember when Rhys Darby was on no such thing as a fish he talked about how Stede Bonnet supposedly invented walking the plank so another historical tidbit there.

The emotional stakes in that scene as well!!!! I loved how at the end the whole crew were all cheering but the camera was focused on Ed looking so worried about Stede. And Stede remembering picking flowers as a kid and realising that he really is a killer now… and just kind of walking off in shock. Damn.

With all that in mind it’s probably not exactly healthy that Stede’s response to the whole thing is to shove Ed against a wall and make out with him. But damn if I wasn’t cheering when he did.

[sylvies-chen]

ALSO MERMAID STEDE???? THIS SHOW IS THE CAMPIEST STRANGEST MOST WONDERFUL AND FANTASTIC SHOW TO EVER EXIST CAUSE LIKE YEAH OF COURSE WE GOT MERMAN STEDE WDYM THIS IS JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE OFMD WORLD HOW IS THIS REAL LMFAO AHHHHHHH HE LOOKED SO GOOD

[tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine]

i love this series so fucking much 😍

It's so epic fantasy, based on a beloved film, it's so fucking funny, has great emotional scenes (😭), LGBTQ+ representation and the outros every episode are fucking epic (Enter Sandman anyone?)

And of course Warwick Davis

[timmydraker]

Everyone in the Bat Clan has been noticing something over the years, specially about Tim.

Every so often he will go to do something with his hands or even his entire body, such as swaying or shaking his hands, but always stops himself.

There’s almost this look of annoyance on his face that just barely hides discomfort, but he brushes it off quickly.

Bruce noticed and, thinking about Robin more than anything, offered some kind of fidgeting device to help him stay on task, only for Tim to snap at him for the first time. It was his usual snark or commenting on Bruce’s well being, but a real moment of lashing out.

He decided then not to bother Tim about his clear want to move around it play with something even if it’s just his hands, mainly because he was doing his job well.

Yet, as he starts to really try and be a good parent to his kids and realises that Tim is one of the places he messed up most by basically using him to cope with grief, he decides to ask the rest of the family what they think.

Dick says it could be ADHD and he needs movements, with Barbara backing it up with a few websites in agreement.

Damian says he should mediate and Cass so what agrees but says it probably won’t help someone like Tim that much.

Duke and Steph make up a somewhat chaotic plan of coercing him into telling them what he needs, out of love and somewhat aggressive care.

It’s Jason who just scoffs and says, “It’s stimming, you idiots. He has like, super messed up standards cause of his parents, right? They probably didn’t allow it but he’s got that like, autastic thing.”

Only Jason Todd could say something so smart followed by completely idiocy.

But he is right, very much so. It might also explain why sometimes he seemingly couldn’t handle touch but when he panicked he need to be squeezed as tightly as possible.

Naturally, with a family of emotionally repressed vigilantes, they decide to subtly let him know it’s okay.

Dick is the worst with it, speaking far too loudly about how Autism is okay and how he wants to learn to support autistic kids, while Bruce thinks nodding along to this helps.

Damian just stares at Tim for five minutes before bailing and running away.

When a month passes and Tim seem more like he’s even more ashamed than anything my, Cass smashes her hand on the table at dinner and drags him out of the room to talk to him.

Tim is forced to sit and listen to his sister, who may or may not be his favourite sibling, talk about how he’s not damaged or wrong for needing to stim and move his body. She calls him out on how he is being a hypocrite, for accepting people like Bart and Barbara and and her for their disabilities whether ADHD or something physical but not himself.

Tim wouldn’t have been moved by this if it was anyone else, but never in all the time he’s known her has he heard Cass say so many words in one go nor can see her cry so much. She’s loud when she cries, making up for her silence, but it’s only something any of them have seen twice and that was Bruce and Steph.

He doesn’t just magically accept that he’s neurodivergent, nor does he ever want a title as to what is different about him, but the difference is still noticeable.

A week later him and Dick are watching an episode of their show and something Tim adores, a comic series, is referenced. Instead of what he usually does, that being sitting there as still as he can, he bats his hands around a for a few seconds before pausing and waiting for Dicks reaction.

When Dick beams at him brighter than a sun he continues, smacking the couch and even Dicks arm in his excitement.

A few days later he makes a high pitched noice just to get to an itch in his throat and doesn’t realise that Jason is there, yet when the other responds with the same noice, given a bit deeper, Tim smile. Bruce walks in on them making strange noises at each other in a sort of echo.

It’s months later when it’s his birthday and his family has come together to buy him a new, stupidly expensive camera only to reveal they also added a red light room in the manner for him to print them that they really see how much safer he feels.

He flaps his hands aggressively and jumps in place, rumbling out words that don’t all much and thanking them over and over.

He squeals happily but only has a moment where he looks shamed before Bruce holds out a flat palm for him to smack excitedly.

Later, when he gets overwhelmed and crashes a little, Duke lies on top of him to give him pressure only for Steph to sit on him.