#yk bad shows have their place in the ecosystem

[lemonhemlock]

Hi Lemon!! Have you seen Bridgerton and what are your thoughts on it? If you do not wish to attract that crowd feel free to ignore this ask I won't mind!!

i have seen all three seasons, anon, but, unfortunately, i did not like season 3 at all, i'm sorry! 😵

seasons 1 & 2 were decently entertaining but i don't think there's anything i actively liked about season 3. the plot was so contrived and even for a telenovela-like show it was really hard to believe. polin had no chemistry whatsoever, which is why i found the romance scenes.....cringe and painful. nicola is so lovely, she looked really beautiful this season (that blooming dewy makeup really suited her) and she can obviously act (love her in derry girls) but colin's actor is so... one-note, for real. watching him pretend to be in love with penelope was a downright chore. the man was giving nothing!! colin also has no personality. or, if he does, it changes without explanation and we are just told how he is and are supposed to buy into it. at one point, his mother (?) tells him how kind he is and i was like? gurl? where?

also, i have to be honest, i really can't stand penelope. i think there is a huge watsonian/doylist problem with her character in that the plotline needed her to be lady whistledown but her in-universe explanations for doing what she did are so unsatisfying. marina nearly killed herself because of what she wrote ffs! and she kind of acts like the world is unreasonably unfair. but, at the same time, i found it uncomfortable the way the show was so set on humiliating penelope with every opportunity. and it had nothing to do with the harm she caused by writing her gossip magazine, it had everything to do with the fact she was fat! it was very weird. and she IS classically beautiful, so it was also far-fetched. just very exaggerated how all the bachelors went out of their way to be so nasty to her for shits and giggles.

cressida was actually one character i found myself liking. giving her a redemption arc and fleshing her out were unexpected decisions and it piqued my interest. love a good mean girl storyline! but hers didn't make sense! she has a spectacular fashion sense and her father is very rich. why would it be difficult for her to find a husband? be so for real. her dance card is empty! all that brouhaha about her difficulties in making a match with NO man interested in her at all? please. i get that this show is not supposed to be serious, but this goes beyond my suspension of disbelief

and don't get me started on francesca's snoozefest romance. it was about as riveting as watching paint dry

the fact that they keep including queen charlotte as a character and the only thing she does is obsess over lady whistledown..... you'd think the freaking queen would have more important things to occupy her time....

also i cannot believe my girl simone ashley quit her sex education job for bridgerton and they give her fuckass to do in season 3

[craacked-splatters]

"I know"

"Do u want to see what I added today?"

"Sure buddy"

(insane rambling below!)

Scrapbooks! Scrapbooks! Hell yeah!!

Hello to the 5 ppl seeing this👋 Ima be real Im running on 7 hours of sleep after 5day grind brain mushy rn and I scribbled everything maniacally by memory at 3am after having one of those revelation moments so I have no idea what I'm missing lmao. This is actually the first time drawing them like this 2. Really proud of it

and B4 u ask anything hear me out.

So like tmnt2012 mutant apocalypse am I right?

Yeah it's flawed and pacings off and stuff BUT! The implications it left behind are haunting and it has been stuck in my brain for years. One of the things that stuck with me was the fact that Raph and Don had stuff like April's tessen, Mikey's stuffed bear head, The Creeps containment jar, and Casey's skull(horrifying btw) with them and that it's like :((

I fully believe it was Donnie who collected and carried them everywhere in their car. Not only for Raph(to help with this memory)but also for himself.

Why? Well maybe I'm reading 2 much into it and it's also partly a HC of mine but also bc canonically Donnie has a bit of a hoarding habit collecting trinkets and pictures and stuff. He likes to keep things around that hold a lot of significant value to him.

We see this in The Creeping Doom during the intro

AND I swear he's got a literal wall of family photos in his lab somewhere I can't for the life of me find it but I know he did! He even took some to the farmhouse with him when they escaped during the invasion.

They're memories yk? Reminders..

Ok im having difficulty expressing this shit rn words r failing so like give me ur brain 4 a sec.

Imagine ur donbot.

You're stuck in a cold metal limbo for the rest of ur last remaining family members life. Everything and everyone you knew and cared about is dead and gone. Over thousands of species and ecosystems that made ur world unique wiped out. No more animals no more wild things no more blue clear skys. Death can't come for you. Not in a way that matters anymore.

And no matter where u go you are haunted by shadows of what once was. There are so many echoes and ghosts and cultures and stories and lives that were buried & left to rot by the gaping maws of fear & the desperate need to survive. No one cares for the past and the only other person around you can't remember it. Time will claim its domain again and there will be nothing left except empty metal husks to show sentience even existed in the first place.

Like holy shit he was just a kid bro and he never got the chance to even reach full adulthood!!! I can't possibly imagine the grief and guilt he must've carried with him all those years. He lost EVERYTHING

His family. His home. His world.

Did Donnie even get the chance to mourn??? Do u think his new body allowed it? Do u think he even ALLOWED himself to mourn? He had a hurt amnesiac brother who still needed to eat, who could still starve and bleed and die if they weren't careful enough.

So between his habits and the ✨Angst✨ and human pollution, him hoarding random ass things Wall-E style and making these shitty little scrapbooks or keepsakes didn't seem so far fetched to me. I also highly doubt there was enough time or resources to build shrines or graves in the middle of apocalypse. But yk honoring/preserving the memories of the things and ppl we love is natural for us so like SORRY if its a bit cringe of me wanting him to have SOMETHING to comfort him during the really bad days.

Even if its more bitter than sweet

Bonus doodads cuz I was indecisive:

The 1st was purple tinted cuz of donbot vision get it hehehe