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Me: I'm going to start posting reviews of BLs as I watch/re-watch them!
Also me: forgets after posting a grand total of one
Anyway, here's one that was in my drafts since I re-watched Cupid's Last Wish, despite having only first watched it a couple of months before XD While it's easily the weakest of EarthMix's series for me, I enjoyed the heck out of it both times regardless! Shout out to the hair and costume departments btw
The cons first: The weakest part is probably the subplot with Win's aunt and uncle, which fizzles out into nothing and feels like it was only there to pad out time, and I may have skipped some of it this time around. It also felt a little sexist with how they kept making a point of how weak Lin's body is and so on. I think it's meant to show how she's more of a princess/mama's girl, but it felt more like women are inherently weaker at times. But it wasn't as egregious as the sexism in some things I've seen and I'm a sucker for both road trips and body swap and this did both of those really well imho. Plus, I loved the romance! (We’re onto the pros now) Before watching, I saw a few comments saying body swap is overdone (though I can't seem to find many other BLs with body swap?? Maybe it's just dramas in general?), but I'll never get enough body swap and, like I said, I think it was particularly well done here. Mix and Jan did an incredible job of portraying the same character and I thought the transitions between showing Mix and Jan as Win were very smooth and edited nicely.
I liked that for all the tender moments between Win and Korn we see Mix, and that, while it's clear that Korn only ever 'sees' Win, too, it's fairly believable that Win would think Korn was being sweet because he's in Lin's body.
Of course, he's also a little bit of an idiot because we see in all the flashbacks it's clearly Win he has feelings for, but I don't entirely blame Win. Plus, it makes for all the things I love: misunderstandings, miscommunication and angst! (Sidenote: some days, I feel like I'm the only person who still loves misunderstandings and miscommunication. Ah well!)
Korn is the biggest sweetheart. Like, he is just so lovely! The scene where he's trying to distract Win when he has cramps is the cutest.
Win is also largely a fun character (and his constant need to be eating is a mood). Of course, he IS a major dickhead at the start, and borderline (or just plain old) abusive with his sister, which is another sour point—I think they could've set him up as impetuous and stubborn without that, or I would have preferred it, anyway. So, I can definitely understand why it was a deal breaker for a lot of people! But I pushed through and I'm glad I did, because it had so many things I loved
And the chemistry between Earth and Mix is as palpable as always: they really have something special onscreen (and, as I've said before, I love their offscreen interactions, too) and there are so many gorgeous moments in this show!
The hand holding while falling asleep, Korn trying to distract and cheer Win up, covering his eyes because he's afraid of ghosts (and then covering the hole in the tent in that one flashback), the confession, the kissing... The romance is really lovely and that's what I'm here for.
Oh, and the cowboy hats don’t hurt either lol (they sadly only made a brief appearance)
So, yeah, just some more rambling thoughts from a relative BL newbie XD I gave this an 8.5 on MDL, which didn't change after re-watching. I can easily see myself returning to this again too
(Oh and I also enjoyed the little follow up Zero Supporter, which was basically an extended ad for that iced tea! It was really fun seeing Earth and Mix play each other’s roles, particularly Earth.)
#cupid's last wish#cupid's last wish the series#earthmix#thai BLs#thai bl dramas#reviews from a BL newbie#a tag i will eventually regret when i can no longer call myself a newbie lol#lazzarella watches tv#idk why I’m posting this because I feel embarrased but eh#So I’ll post it when no one’s around heh
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Hello. This is the anon that asked if Albert was manipulative towards Victoria. I meant to thank you for your response as soon as I saw it, but I got caught up in life. I don't know if I'm once again seeing people only react to the show's history or actual history, but I just read with my own two eyes that Victoria "stopped" being the queen only because Albert "turned" her into "money-giver" and "baby-automat." Are people just determined to make Albert look like the bad guy no matter what?
I mean, I get that Victoria and Albert had a power struggle, literally, when it came to their relationship, but Victoria never stopped being the queen. Didn’t she give him the key to her dispatch or “red” box as a Christmas present after Vicky was born? And wasn’t Victoria well aware that if she didn’t want any more children, all she had to do was stop having sex with Albert? People make it sound like she was being forced against her will to become pregnant or give Albert any money and power.
I’m glad you liked my first response, and I’m glad you’re back with more because honestly, the ITV Victoria “fandom” is kinda ridiculous and I don’t like to wade thru it when people try and act like they’re interested in history when half the time they’re interested in furthering a fictionalized agenda. I can tell you that when it comes to the ~history fandom~ on here, the biggest work of fiction in relation to V&A prior to Victoria was The Young Victoria, and everyone was obsessed with V&A together and nobody really questioned it… until there was a ship to be put up against it. Lol, I guess poor Paul Bettany didn’t get people’s hearts going like Sewell, even tho the latter really isn’t my thing either.
The thing that people have a problem with, fundamentally, is Victoria being a woman of her time–I would say this more than Albert being a man of his time. If Victoria had wanted to say no to sex with Albert, she could have; in fact, all evidence points to the fact that she was far more sexual than he, especially after they grew into the marriage. If she’d put her foot down after, say, baby number four, she would have had two sons and two daughters and not only would Albert not have objected, but her people couldn’t really say much about it either. But she didn’t, because Victoria loved sex and she loved Albert and she loved having sex with Albert. I’m not saying that Albert didn’t love sex/Victoria–no doubt he loved Victoria, but his thoughts on sex are a bit murkier. Sidenote: he did comment on her cleavage in his notes right after they were married and clearly found her physically attractive, but his feelings on sex in general were often prudish and maybe even complicated by the disaster that was his parents’ marriage, imo. Some have even speculated that Albert was asexual, though not aromantic, and had sex with Victoria to make her happy–I don’t think so based off of what I read, but he certainly was not keeping Victoria pregnant in order to keep her under his thumb. In fact, as soon as Victoria had so many babies that it became physically hazardous for her to keep getting pregnant, she stopped getting pregnant–and as Victoria’s response to being told that babies = death was “but what about my fun in bed” (allegedly) I have a feeling that Albert, who was already apparently at his wit’s end with worry over her and baby Beatrice prior to the birth, put his foot down. Albert wasn’t unaware of the dangers of pregnancy for a woman back then, so I find it especially bizarre that people are insinuating that he purposefully kept Victoria pregnant in order to exert his power over her. Certainly, a byproduct of Victoria’s pregnancies were that Albert took the reins more often, but he also was notably pretty involved with the births for a man of the day, and seemed to be worried about her physical and mental health during the pregnancies (again, for a man of his day–he wasn’t fretting over postpartum depression, but he did make note of Victoria not being super happy about being pregnant, about how he wished she’d be able to enjoy motherhood more–it’s not like he wanted this chick miserable in bed waiting for a baby to come). She would have likely been expected to have at least three children no matter what–ideally four, I think. No matter who she married, she would have needed at least two healthy sons for people to feel comfortable, and a daughter would also be ideal for marital alliances. Her love of sex with Albert and a lack of good contraception back in the day (as well as I’m sure a lack of belief in the propriety of contraception on his part, and hers as well most likely) equaled more babies.
As for Albert’s control over finances, I’m not 100% sure on that anecdote, but honestly, like you said, Victoria could have taken away much of what she gave. Maybe not easily all the time, but she remained the queen, Albert a prince consort. She gave him power, she gave him money, because she wanted him to be happy, she loved him, and at the end of the day, she was (as I keep saying) a woman of her time who lacked a strong male figure for much of her life and clearly sought one. She wanted him to be big and strong–I mean, not to speculate, but it sounds like it kind of turned her on when he took control. With any other historical figure I’d say that’s going too far to ponder, but we have Victoria’s diary entries, and while they are edited, she clearly thought a lot of this guy. Now, you don’t have to think the world of him–but let’s say you have a friend. She’s a vibrant girl and she’s dating a guy who’s a nerd, who’s quiet, you don’t get the appeal, he seems uptight. But if she ADORES him, if she sees something through him, if she starts doing more of the things he likes to do to please him–would you say that he was forcing his will on her? No. You’d say that you don’t get her taste, you don’t see why she’s doing it, but it’s HER choice. I really don’t see Victoria’s choice to give Albert more power as a bad thing, at least not in the short term–he was by no means a perfect would-be monarch, and of course he was alive when the monarchy was transferring from being a ruling power to a reigning power. But he did care about the less fortunate in a way that Victoria and many English nobles (Lord Melbourne included) didn’t. He did see a responsibility in the royals to set a good example, and for that matter to “give back” even if that meant simply raising awareness for important causes like the abolition of slavery. He was very well-educated, and while Victoria absolutely inflated his intelligence in her mind as a young, naive, lovestruck girl, he was impressive in many ways. She saw things that she liked, and frankly–Victoria wanted to be the queen, but she was never all that into the serious job of it. She seemed more about socializing that social reform, you know? And that’s okay. Albert could handle that, and Victoria could handle the more public side of things.
The thing about Albert is that he’s fallen prey to an unfortunate part of historical research in this day and age… Wherein people (largely people who write pop history, or crossover history) have written and written about “controversial” people to the point that it becomes overdone (Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra) so they look at things that are VERY obvious and make a complicated issue out of it. Henry VIII was probably a dick with some natural mental illness(es), but we wanna make something new and exciting–so we start going, oh, can this all be traced back to his mom dying when he was young and his father favoring Arthur? Oh, is this all due to a traumatic brain injury that probably didn’t happen? Prince Albert was probably a man of his time–he wanted to be the head of the household and got insecure about that, but overall he had a happy marriage and loved his family. But we want it to be MORE, so we look at this marriage through the lenses of 21st century standards, and we find flaws that only exist to a certain extent. Albert and Victoria did not have a perfect marriage, and they clashed over dominance at times. But ultimately, Victoria certainly wanted Albert to be the head of their personal family, and that gradually led to him becoming more powerful.
Also, people tend to take a lot of the less flattering perspectives on Albert from Englishpeople of the time who were xenophobic towards Germans sooooooo not super reliable imo. People said he was money-grubbing because compared to Victoria he didn’t have a lot of personal funds; but to be frank, differing factions would have been critical of anyone she married. She was a sovereign queen, people assumed that her husband would have control on some level–and on some level, he eventually did.
At the end of the day, people are essentially angry that Victoria doesn’t live up to their feminist expectations of what a sovereign queen should be, when she… lived… in… the…. nineteenth… century……..
And for God’s sake people are dramatic, she never stopped being queen, she just handled fewer administrative duties and took on a more ceremonial role. Which was inevitable, to be quite honest, due in part to her sex and in part to the fact that the monarchy was, as previously mentioned, becoming less of a real ruling entity. Much of what Albert did was contained to running the literal household and handling marital alliances, nothing compared to what, say, Elizabeth I did.
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