#this was stuck in my drafts

[juneboba]

áo gấm - vietnamese traditional dress

[apocellipse]

in inertial spin i was the one who acquiesced and flung away. in our big bang i was the empty space. i think i spent too long being inhuman. does a shadow have a family? does a ghost?

Please tell me about your place in your family

[dekaydk]

Oi! Or, Twins the Series postmortem

As they say in Thai BLs when they're exasperated, Oi!

This show was mostly what I expected at the outset, based on the trailer. Lots of pretty men on display in athletic gear—which I totally support and definitely enjoyed—but not a lot of writing, acting or directing.

The writing, directing, cinematography, sound (especially in the last episode) were uniformly sub-par. But the writing deserves special opprobrium because it was terrible. No matter the actor you cannot elevate writing this bad.

I'm not going to rewatch the show. Some reactions, roughly in chronological order.

The setup for Zee's beating was completely inadequate. First of all, why? What was the motivation to commit a serious crime? The fact of it and the scene itself had less impact.

Zee and Sprite's parents should have been better explained up front.

Same with First's dad. This relationship wasn't explained well.

Zee was never likeable, so why Sam liked him was baffling.

Tan is into Sam because the plot requires it. He has no reason other than SAM CUTE (which I grant is a starting point; Team is cute) but he acted like he had a lot more knowledge of Sam as a person. But what am I expecting, given the short shrift this show gives to character development.

Speaking of character development, the behavior of the volleyball team members was only occasionally consistent. At times it felt like they edited scenes from different episodes into the same episode.

The jujitsu team deserved a little more backstory so we would understand the dynamics at work.

The F&Z lights in the dorm room: where did they come from, why did they show up long before they're even confessing?

Same goes for Salmon as for Sam on liking Zee. What's likeable? If she's gonna be into anyone you'd think it would be Sprite.

Sprite deserved to absolutely DECK Zee for being his usual jerky self to First. Then Zee says ,"Oh I had nothing to do with why First is upset so you have to fix it." Salmon, you should have smacked some sense into your man, but nooo, you're cool with this self-indulgent nastiness.

Sprite and Zee's parents got a VERY unearned redemption at the end. So, for that matter, did First's dad.

Namkhing got really, really punished. I'm not sure if this is intended to be a swipe at delulu fans, or what.

The last episode was one of those Warp 8 wrap-ups. (Stuff got resolved in ways that violate conventional space-time laws.)

General observations

The writers and director did not have a theory of the case behind the script. It was just a "get to the end while keeping the audience from leaving" effort.

Plausibility was stretched to the point of how things get spaghettified near black holes. I kept thinking "yet another scene where people are puzzled by Sprite/Z's behavior and don't ask about what's going on." (Or they express something to each other, then drop it for the seventeenth time.)

The script was also repetitive, with the basic plot elements getting replayed over and over and where is the fast forward button.

The script did Frame dirty by not giving him something to work with in the contrast between Sprite and Zee. As a result, Frame came across as just a pretty face. As someone (possibly apocryphally) observed of an up-and-coming starlet of the 1930s, his acting skills "run the gamut from A to B." When the script (theoretically) called for Sprite to display sadness, irritation, uncertaintly, Frame kept going to that slightly slack-jawed expression. The director gets a lot of blame here too, because the audience should be getting what's going on in the character's head. Was there even an acting coach? Was this the acting coach's first job too?

Ryan did a lot better. Though I suspect with a better director and script, he could do better still.

Mike's actor ("Ten" Apivit) out-acted EVERYONE on this show. Too bad the character was so badly written.

Continuity was terrible. Why do they keep changing uniforms in the same day? (Athletic clothing sponsor, yes, but in the same practice session?) The F & Z lights again.

Sound editing was weak, and in the finale, terrible, with the music almost drowning out the dialog.

Cinematography was almost nonexistent. The rooftop scenes were semi-decent but you cannot shoot rooftop scenes without at least trying. Doesn't have to be Bad Buddy et. al., but knowing those excellent scenes exist means you can't just phone in your own.

Lighting was almost uniformly harsh/even. What few lower lit scenes we got were outdoors in the dark.

Summary

Amateurish effort overall, but I will not complain about having been provided with much eye candy. (Team's legs are still my favorite anything in this show. Fight me.) The pulchritude was off the charts, and I am delighted to have been introduced to Team, Ten, Nut, Frame, Kong, and of course Ryan.

[menelaiad]

the infamous 'last sighting of a barbary lion in the wild' photo taken by marcelin flandrin (1925) haunts me to my core. there's something so achingly poetic about it.

[paracawsal]

30 days of them: Day 9

“Your God tells you it is time for them to appear to you without a body. What does their Energy look like? What color is it? Do you see pictures in it.. and if you do - what are they of?”

(again, obviously upg) probably like a grey-blue mist/fog

typically I ‘feel’ things and don’t see them, so sometimes she feels like a cold fog, sometimes like a weighted blanket, etc, it really just depends

Edit: I was thinking about it and it’s actually more like: if you’ve ever been downwind of a snow machine at a ski area, it’s like a mist of tiny ice crystals, not really “snow” (I guess snow is made of tiny ice crystals but I don’t have the words to explain how they are different, they just are lmao)

[halcyone-of-the-sea]

John Price pets dogs by giving them three firm slaps on their side like a used car.

[woman-respecter]

clowns (hamas apologists) to the left of me jokers (white nationalists etc) to the right here i am stuck in the middle with jew

[wispscribbles]

why are you and your drawings so cool 😭🙏

afdsasdfasg thank you !! irl ppl would laugh at me being called cool lol - Have a ghoap as thanks <33

[thebaratie]

BANG x2!

[ghostsangels]

Having art block but at least I can still make things like these

Based on this

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

distracts you from the fact that i posted the wip for this like seven months ago with the wlw rarepair

[forsworned]

Being the only female on TF141 is like Simon constantly scolding you for getting into sheningans with Johnny and Kyle while Price sits on his arm chair with a good book, whiskey in hand and him puffing out smoke like a chimney from his cigar like the daddy he is.

"Delete it."

"Why?"

"Cos I fockin' said so."

You cock an amused brow at him as you look up from the embarrassingly cute photo of the skull-masked behemoth fast sleep and cuddling your Hello Kitty plushie. "Cos y'fockin' said so?" You mock his gravelly Manchester accent and it sends Johnny and Kyle into a fit of giggles. And even Price is chuffed by it. It's contagious really.

It lets your guard down enough for him to yank your phone out of your hand deleting the picture with a swiftness that made your eyes ream and your heart jump. You all groan and jeer at him for being a poor sport but he's quite satisfied with himself. Little does he know, you have a few copies of it in your desktop.

[bloo-the-dragon]

Umm... yeah so. I got a new pet. He zoomies

Inspired by this:

@crackedlemoncandy​

[probably-not-a-rutabaga]

maybe one day i'll stop drawing gemini/aberration crossover stuff,,, but today is not that day

gemini donnie and the itty bitty cat/slug/turtle hybrid baby designs are @tangledinink's ofc :3

[thevoidstaredback]

Hey! So, it's been a while, but I finally remembered to come back to this! But, it's not gonna go the way you'd think.

If Danny had it his way, he'd be at his Aunt Alicia's house for the summer instead of New Jersey. This place is gloomy, grimy, and soaked through with so much crime that it's a Problem(TM). Like, seriously? New Jersey hasn't allowed the death penalty since he was seven, but can't they make, like, one exception? Get rid of The Joker and half of Gotham's problems are solved.

Unfortunately, he's only here as a guest, so he can't really do anything. Which, for the record, is a shit rule. Call a goose and goose, and that's exactly what Gotham City, New Jersey is.

It isn't all that bad, he supposes. Sure, the pollution blocks out the entire sky at all times, the buildings that aren't condemned are only feeding the rich while stealing from the poor, an entire twenty-four block are has been given up on by mostly everyone, the local vigilantes won't kill the recurring problems like the cockroaches they are- There was a good point to all this.

Oh! He has family here. That's it. That's the only silver lining, and it's bronze.

But, hey, it can't be that bad. From what he understands, his half-brother and company don't actually live in Gotham. Bristol, according to Talia is technically outside of Gotham City Limits, but is still considered as part of the city. Makes sense, aside from the fact that there's no bridge between Bristol and Gotham. Weird design, but he's not rich so he's not really inclined to care or understand.

Half brother, right.

Danny doesn't like Damian much, but that's because he's a clone...of Damian. Danny's a clone of Damian, not the other way around. Ra's makes that very clear

The only reason Talia wants him with Damian is because she's upset with Bruce Wayne. What is it with divorced parents and putting their kids on the middle of their fights? Or maybe that's just Talia?

Anyway.

Gotham, New Jersey is a dismal place. Danny's not germophobic by any means, he can't really afford to be, but even he's having a hard time being in the city.

It was so much easier hiding out with the Fentons.

Well, 'hiding' is a subjective term. Ra's and Talia knew where he was, so did Deathstroke, probably, but that was it.

Essentially, everyone he should be hiding from knows where he's been hiding, which means he's just been on some kind of twisted, extended vacation.

As far as Danny knew, Bruce Wayne had no idea he was coming. Damian knew because Talia had wanted him to pick Danny up from the airport. Weird because while Damian is technically older, Danny is still legally two years older.

Well, 'legally' is a stretch. He doesn't technically exist, outside of the LoA and Amity Park.

The point is that Damian is waiting for him at the end of the terminal, looking as much like an excited puppy as he can, with an older gentleman. Talia had given him nothing to work with, but Danny didn't really care who this guy was as long as he didn't try to make him do anything he didn't want to.

...living in the Midwest was doing wonders for his mental stability, but Ancients was it making him soft!

"'Danny', I presume?" the old man asked, his accent heavy.

Good, so Talia did give Damian his actual name. "Yep. You are?" He may not want to be here, but he still knows his manners. Even if he's only going to use the bare minimum of them. Malicious Compliance and all that.

"Alfred Pennyworth, the family butler." He didn't extend his hand to shake. Danny didn't mind. In fact, he actually preferred that.

Okay, so maybe he's a little bit haphephobic. Leave him alone!

"Danny," Damian greeted, a smile of excitement in his voice but not his face, "It's good to have you here. How did Mother convince you to come?"

"Bribery." Mostly.

Damian seemed to deflate a bit. "Father and the others don't know you're here."

"Do they even know about me at all?"

"No."

"Perfect! Then I can stay at a hotel-"

"For the entire summer?" Alfred raised his eyebrow, "I must insist that you stay at Wayne Manor while in Gotham. Master Bruce will most pleased to meet you."

"Why?" Danny scoffed, "I'm not his kid, nor do I want to be."

Damian slouched a little bit more. "Come, we must get back before the others send out a search party for us."

"Dramatic much?" Danny scoffed.

"Not at all," Alfred took both of Danny's bags before leading the way out to the car, "It' happened before in less time."

"I don't doubt it for a second. I'm calling Bruce a dramatic bitch."

Alfred smirked ever so slightly. "Quite right, Master Danny."

"Don't call me that."

"Alright then, what should I call you?"

"'Danny'. No honorifics, no add ons, no trying to fullname me, nothing else."

"And when you go out with the rest of the family?"

He scoffed again. "You really think they'd let me go out with them? I'm an assassin. In fact, the first thing I'll do the second I'm let out of the house is kill the clown bastard."

Damian rested his hand on Danny's arm. "They let me out with them and I tried to kill Drake. As long as you uphold a promise not to kill anyone, you'll be allowed to patrol with us."

They reached the car, Damian sat behind the driver while Danny sat behind the passenger. Alfred put the bags in the trunk. "So? What will you be called on patrol?"

Danny rolled his eyes, popping his headphones in and not looking away from the window. "Respawn."

Storyboard

[witchydykebitch]

Rupaul has the vibes of an Austin Powers villain. No, I will not explain further.