#when they're all singing at the end godddd

[natjennie]

sobbing crying wailing btw

[maybuds]

I also think it's interesting to see how movies and music are also not even marketed as art/stories anymore like the barbie phenomenon is such a clear example, the whole scheme was it's a Barbie movie! look at the aesthetic! it's all PINK! isn't it fun that it comes out the same day as that war movie that's all red and black ! boo explosions ahah !! like ??? where's the plot of the movie?? isn't anyone going to tell us that? and the answer is no bc it's irrelevant lol, ppl go watch it bc they can dress up and take pictures to post on Instagram, they go see the new mcu movie bc they "have to" finish the trilogy so they can talk about it on Twitter, it doesn't matter if all we have is reboots bc stories don't matter anymore.

it's also happening with concerts like people don't go to listen to the music (bc the music isn't even that great tbh ! it's just what's popular on tiktok!) but bc it's an ~experience~ and again an opportunity to dress up and post pictures!! even for the singer what they're wearing matters more than what they're singing! and I get that live music/concerts have always been an experience per se BUT it had never been this disconnected by the music itself imo

also I'd urge to recognize who is benefiting from these shifts bc what happens when going to a concert or watching a movie becomes something that requires a specific aesthetic that then needs to receive social media approval?? exactly, you need TO BUY STUFF! every time ! and who sells you the stuff ? the companies that have partnered with the company that made the movie of course! the popstar with their specific brand ! the influencers paid to go to that concert and that movie premiere! it's literally a Neverending cycle of money that you keep giving to the same people and a Neverending production of stuff that will be thrown away almost instantly bc it's made to become irrelevant almost instantly!

oh my godddd this is all so true, you said it all anon. and it’s depressing for the ones who want to produce and create art because this is what their hard work comes to, as consumables or just products to sell, and they end up just looking at it as another job instead of something they were passionate about in the first place. it’s a struggle with, like, reconciling artistic expression/meaning-making and earning an income, and you can’t blame them for choosing the latter at some point. it sucks, everything sucks, it’s unsustainable and it’s such a depressing scene to look at, especially when all you wanted was to create something meaningful. and it sucks that the way people now engage with this stuff on social media also inevitably perpetuates the shittiness of it for artists and creators everywhere, it just becomes a cycle and just the big studios and brands are benefiting from it

[i-luvsang]

i'm doing good, thank you for asking :)! and yeah catching up with content can be hard, especially as a multi stan trying to catch up with old and newer content :,). i've caught up with some of the stuff i wanted to watch but not all. but i have more than enough time since i have vacation now. i watched their last stage and argh the ending :,). yeosang is so cute the way he just kept looking at woo ahhdh what a cutie :,) ALSO i noticed that yeosang sings the beginning in django and when he sings 'dangerous' you can hear his lisp shdhs

i don't rlly remember how i found out abt ateez, i think it was because of kingdom? but what made me want to get into them was coming across a clip of ateez on jessi's show when they did the close-up? idk i just fell in love with both hwa and yeo and i remember saying i thought one of them would end up being my bias. and here i am, still biasing them both :,). they're just so ahshsh, also my bias wrecker changes so much it's basically the other 6 members. like the past few weeks it has changed a few times, i think rn it's woo?? but it used to be mingi and san like 2 days ago. ALSO JONGHO'S PURPLE HAIR??? it suits him sm but also omg when it started fading it kinda looked greyish and i feel like grey would suit him so much, just like hongjoongs grey hair it's so pretty!! i can't believe this cb is already over too it went by so fast it's unreal, and their tour in asia is starting really soon?? i'm so proud of them but i also hope they get rest after this because i can't imagine how exhausted they must be :(. — 🎧

so glad you’re good !! <33 yeah don’t be afraid to take ur time being a multistan is hard work LOL

nO BC ITS SO SO CUTE I CANNOT IM NEVER GONNA STOP WATCHING THAT CLIP OF HIM 😭 and omg one of my favorite things is hearing yeo’s lisp when he sings, really when he does anything i love his lisp so so so so much it’s so endearing i cry

YOU ARE SO TRUE FOR THAT LMAO honestly i cannot pinpoint when i really got into them i liked them since predebut/debut but i don’t remember which era i actually started learning HAHAJSJS i think one of the moments that solidified yeo as my bias was his iconic acrostic poem “emma watson,.. nekkeo” IDK IT JUST MADE ME LAUGH SO MUCH AT THAT TIME. i remember being like “yep that one’s mine” tho again i cant actually remember if he was already my vais before then lmao

BUT NO IM THE SAME WAY WITH BUAS WRECKERS IT JUST CHANGES ALL THE TIME HSHSJ but GODDDD THE PURPLE HAIR ??? i cannot get him out of my head since then and yeah the way it’s faded to look more like joong’s grey is SO SCRUMPTIOUS

i knowwww it’s been such a lovely comeback it has gone by so fast :,) i agree tho kq has definitely been overworking them with this tour is been going on for so long and they’ve had two comebacks during it, it’s crazy. i hope after they finish this tour they can catch a break <33

[polyhexian]

Second half.

What boring shit composition again. These look like drone shots.

I'm glad all three lions are friends.

These white lions should be more battle scarred.

"you've spent your entire life with females! How do I talk to her?!?" Valid. Good. I like that he values like. You know how to talk to girls because you were allowed to have friends who were girls and I wasn't! I like that mufasa being raised with lionesses is never treated as a bad or shameful thing. It's only ever treated as, essentially, a superpower, that lionesses ARE truly the things that power the pride

Oh my god. They pulled in the fucking score from the original. Because of course they did. They didn't fucking know what else to do and knew they couldn't do anything better. And, well. They're right lol

AW. Mufasa you self sacrificing bastard. Seeing Mufasa and sarabi have the real chemistry but he's trying soooo hard to help his brothers shit ass game.

This is working as a prequel, the kind of story where you know the outcome, but you're still invested in how they get there.

AWWWWW BABY KIARA SNUGGLING WITH RAFIKIIIII

Again, another scene that just. Ends. As if it were cut for commercial. Bizarre. Just such like execution.

I have to say I'm enjoying myself more than I expected. I don't hate it. I like the STORY, and I like the VISUALS, but the writing and execution is so fucking piss poor. The music is shamefully bad. This is worse than being just bad and unsalvageable like the 2019 movie or like most of these shit live action remakes. It feels like the people who came up with the story gave a shit about making it a good story and a good prequel, but no one else working on it did. And if they had... It could have been good. It could have been. I can feel it. That it could have been good and it isnt.

Sarabi on his ASSSSSSSS LIKE SHUT THE FUCK UPPPP BOYYYYY

Oh my god we're singing again

"his Destin was to save you" oh my godddd thats a fucking to say

This is one of the more tolerable songs, but it's still kind of nothing

Aaaaand here we go. I called it. EXACTLY what I said it would be. Taka's incredible loyalty and love is destroyed because he can't handle sarabi likes Mufasa more than him.

WOW. Okay. That was a fucking fast heel turn. He's already like NO LONGER MY BROTHER and "we tell each other everything!" Like he didn't hide it from you dude it just happened.

WHAT

WHATTTTTTTT

IT TOOK MUFASA SITTING WITH SARABI FOR TWO SECONDS FOR TAKA TO FULLY TURN TK HEEL? he's changed his VOICE performance. He's manipulating and scheming. He's ready to fucking kill Mufasa??? Already??? He's ready to go join the guy who murdered his parents??? What???? What????

I wish we had maybe seen him scheming before this but like... Trying to do so helpfully. Lying to save them. Showing his skill at it, foreshadowing it was coming.

Literally takas behaviour has changed on a DIME. His VOICE is different. This isn't a logical character change. Not NEARLY enough happened to break him this badly. Not nearly enough of his potential was foreshadowed. We saw his potential for cowardice twice and that's solidly telegraphed. But we have never seen him be manipulative or deceitful or disloyal. In fact we have seen the OPPOSITE, that he was horrified and affronted when his dad suggested it. We needed to either see that he has a tendency to lie and manipulate that has not yet manifested as a terrible thing that it will eventually, OR we need to see him incredibly loyal and honest and that honest and loyalty turn around and hurt him so that we see why he would lose faith in it. He tells the truth to sarabi about not saving her or something and she gets with Mufasa because of it and he thinks if only I'd lied... Something.

Why the fuck are animals like... Like this. "Do NOT let him divide us!" You just met these people!

Why do only two of the white lionesses ever get to speak

We NEVER saw taka be upset that their mother loved him more before this. That's completely new. Where did it come from? His mother loved him and we never saw him jealous. Also he had every tight to be upset about their dad choosing Mufasa in the end. But we never SAW that. That's new.

SARAFINA???? SARAFINA??? SARAFINA MAYBE????

It's insane the animals all just. Fall in line. Conceptually this works. Tell them about the circle of life that like. Mufasa respects it. These hunters overhung. They kill more than they can eat. These are not the kings you want. Fight not for me but for the circle of life!

Also it's fucking insane that taka fully turned on Mufasa and tried to kill him and that he is going to still live in the pride lands with him lmfao. Like. In what world

Actually you what would have been good? If Mufasa HADNT killed this guys son. If their mother had, and taka STILL lied.

Alright, okay. Last minute heel turn from taka saves him. Sure. Mufasa doesn't kick him out, but never trusts him again. Sure.

Why is this tiny lion cub still with the lionesses? Like why haven't they shoved that thing in a hole or thrown it on an elephant or something?

Oh lmao. Okay. The way the mountain splits and the rock falls to make pride rock. That's pretty cool.

What the fuck is up with this water here. Why is this here

What is WITH this water???? why is this HERE?????

Ahhh again the class on pass pulling him up. Good foreshadowing. Strong

Ahhhhh sarabi doesnt know. Mufasa doesn't tell her. That tracks

HYENAS

nice

They belong here

Part of the fucking circle of goddamn life

The royal blood thing is so bizarre. Like he clearly??? Was???

The taka betrayal might have worked better if it wasn't so SUSTAINED. If he'd been running around in the mountain all mad, fallen and run into the white lions who were going to eat him and he was going to be eaten. But he would be a coward and be like no no don't eat me noooo and sell out Mufasa and sarabi like "HE killed your son and.... They're up there" and then the white lions run off to get them. And he's left behind like shoulders hunched. To feel ashamed and better and cowardly.

The name thing she was awkward huh. Could have been better huh.

Wow his mom's here lmfao. Kind of forced. She shouldn't have been here. It's too much.

Again with the score lollllllll

AWWWW HER LITTLE BABY ROAR

Kiara is so fucking cute of my god

KION REAL?!?!?! KION REAL?!? WHAT!?!?!

Alright. Now that I can pirate TV on TV. It's time to get it over with and watch fucking Mufasa.