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Let's see if this damn potato works.

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You're telling me I have to wait a WEEK to get the next 2 episodes of No Gain No Love? Go eat a bucket of horse shit. ✨

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i don't know about the rest of you bitches but brisket five is mine

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okay, wait a sec. there's clearly a lot to be discussed about the umbrella academy final season. lots of messed up stuff, things just left hanging, events that occurred which were only given to us as one liners, without any further elaboration about what happened. but right now my biggest query is, how did the durango reach the earth?

the marigold reached it obviously because of reggie and his whole reset plan to bring back his wife, which i just have no way of logically explaining how that is possible, so i won't get into that. but from what abigail explained of founding marigold and durango, i can only assume that these were elements found solely on their planet, or world, or whatever. that world ended, and before it did, reggie sent some marigold flying over to the earth.

but why in the ever loving fuck, would he also send over some durango, which arrived in the most bizzare of places and forms by the way, when he was perfectly aware of the reaction the presence of marigold and durango near each other caused? it literally does not make any sense for him to send over such a volatile material to earth, where he's attempting to create a new life with the assistance of some sweet, glowing marigold.

and let's say he did this purely for the sake of scientific investigation, wanting to know why this element was so deadly. perhaps he wondered if the reactions it caused with marigold could somehow be weaponized. but that also doesn't make sense, because there was no active research taking place on or around jennifer. she was just the random girl found inside a massive squid, around whom reginald would later go on to form an entire town of brainwashed soldiers in order to prevent her from coming into contact with the marigold.

jennifer's presence is in no way helping reggie achieve anything. she is no public figure he would have trouble getting out of the way, though i'm sure no trouble would bother him in the least. she has no family, no big contacts as far as we know. her entire existence, as far as reggie and his goal is concerned, is redundant.

so why, in this timeline, does he just not get fucking rid of her? why, even if ultimately the presence of marigold is the reason everything keeps getting messed up again and again, does he keep that chunk of durango around?

and i swear to god, if the reason for this turns out to be abigail, because she went all like, "oh, she's just a poor, oblivious girl. let's let her be", i will literally reach inside 'the cleanse' to get that pasty ass couple out and unalive them all over again.

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so i finished season 4 of the umbrella academy, and let's pretend that nothing past the first episode happened. that jean and gene were just lunatics who got caught and that was the end of all keepers. that abigail wasn't a suicidal bitch. that there are no alternate timelines at all, and the now non-two faced mrs. hargreeves let the marigold reach our eight homies because that's where it belonged. that after getting their powers back via episode 1, the umbrella academy finally got back what they'd been missing the past six years, the lack of which was making their lives as bleak as they were, and now they're all fucking jolly, and everything's fucking fine.

because i'll tell you what's not, is that bloody bogus ending.

still a fun ride though, if you ignore the wretched 6 years, 5 months and 2 days.

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after binging on the first 4 episodes of the umbrella academy, i'm going to take a break now, because sitting that long in front of your television is unhealthy apparently, even if you're enjoying it immensely.

also, i don't want to say anything just now because i want to post properly about the show after i've finished it and have had the time to soak it in and process it, but since i literally just got done with episode 4, i have to say it.

the last scene from that one, is something parents all over the world will rejoice about as they show it to their kids, and go like, "see, maria/john, that's what happens every time two people bone, so you better keep your hands to yourself" in that creepy voice that adults use with their offsprings when it comes to stuff like this.

so, yeah, i'm going to find something else to do that doesn't involve screens, and process the rollercoaster ride i went on in the last few hours, so that i can come back again. happy watching to everyone who's been glued to everything tua today, just like me!

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so i lowkey gave up on the agggtm adaptation after finishing episode 3 of the series. i was at the very middle of the show, and so disappointed by all the unnecessary changes they'd made from the books, and the snowball pacing was doing nothing to engage me whatsoever, in fact it was one more reason that i turned away from it. the only thing redeeming i think i found was the dynamics of pip's friend group. it was fun whenever they were all on screen together.

i heard someone online talk about pip and ravi's chemistry together being another redeeming point, and i thought about adding that as well, but looking back it was only okay, nothing out of the world. the fact that they were spending a lot of time alone together probably helped this person believe that their chemistry was excellent, when it was only fine. the actors tried their best, of course, but they are also very young and i personally think they were having a hard time conveying the kind of under the surface tension i would've loved to see.

lastly, i also heard someone online say that stanley forbes just never showed up. that was probably the most crushing thing i heard in the time after episode 3 and about to go on to episode 4, eventually stopping me from continuing because stanley is my man yo. you can't do me like this. you can't literally handpick one of the most memorable and important characters from the books and just kick them to them to the curb. even if stanley does end up hopefully inevitably in season 2, which i don't know yet if there will be one, it seems very sucky to me that he wasn't there at all this season, when the show is just taking off.

now although i have more to say from the first three episodes i saw of a good girl's guide to murder, i will refrain from doing that because incorporating all those things into this post will take a lot of time and make it so much longer. also, i'm waiting on the premiere of the umbrella academy season 4, if that wasn't already crystal clear enough from my last post, and will be pouncing on it the moment it's available, so i can't scar this beautiful waiting time by writing down and explaining the flaws of a show i didn't like, in length.

that'll be all. i do think i will complete watching a good girl's guide to murder someday, most probably if there's a season two later on, because then i'll need to know the show's altered version of what happened before. if there never comes a season 2 after all, then it's really in the hands of fate if i finish agggtm or not.

i will probably end up doing it though, like five years down the line. i can't handle unfinished shows, or anything else. see y'all.

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the umbrella academy, it says. final season coming august 8, it says. then why isn't it HERE YET?! BECAUSE GUESS WHAT SUCKAS, IT IS. AUGUST. FUCKING. EIGHT!

seriously what's the deal, people? i woke up this morning with this sole goal in mind that i was going to devour the final season of tua today, and then i wake up and open netflix and it's just not there. and okay, maybe it just hasn't premiered because of my time zone yet, but i'm still mad because i couldn't see it as soon as i woke up, which is what i'd been uselessly hyping myself up about since yesterday. if only i was in a better time zone. that's fine though, it's not anyone's fault. i'm just really looking forward to watching the last season, and the anticipation is eating me alive. fingers crossed that it premieres soon, and hopefully i'll be back on here with something great to say.

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i feel like there's something poignant about me walking past a banner today that said 'investing in your dreams is worth—' and then I couldn't read any more because my mother taunted me about my slow walking pace, so i ran to catch up. and the entire time we got whatever groceries and knick knacks we came for, i kept thinking about that banner and how it probably ended with 'worthless'. coming back from the errand, i walked the same route back and what it said was 'worth it', that investing in your dreams was worth it. and upon discovering how that banner really read, i should have been uplifted and optimistic, but all i could really feel was this hollowness, because i knew somewhere along the way to today, i had lost that one part of me that knew how to hope.

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I just saw the first episode of the adaptation for a good girl's guide to murder, and you know what? I think it is indeed a good girl's guide to murder — book to tv adaptations.

Because i tried my level best to give it the benefit of the doubt the moment they straight up showed us, like in the very first shot of the proper opening, it was Andie walking with the back of her head all messed up. But then the show just jumped straight into things, exposition be damned.

It was such a sudden start, followed by such a choppy and trippy directing style along with characters being thrown in your face left and right. That's literally the advantage of a series, that you can take your time with exposition and introducing characters, and the show gave us the perpetrators within the very first episode, probably within the first twenty minutes of the show.

Seriously, the casting for Elliot Ward, the vibe the show character gave off, and the camerawork done around him; I wouldn't need to have read the books to know that this man, this sus as all hell man, was somehow involved with the whole Andie-Sal case.

If only they'd told us he was a teacher right away too, and I would have immediately found him to be the guy who wrote Sal's confession, because it was so "literate".

I'm not even going to get into how ludicrous and tacky the whole Hastings silver whatever party add-on was to the script, and the way Pip showed in that star costume to Ravi's.

Honestly, I feel that in the show, most things Pip is doing are very un-Pip-like, because Pippa is supposed to be a compulsive character, not impulsive. Everything she does seems to be done recklessly without much forethought, or if there is a thought process going on, we as an audience are not privy to it, which is a bad move that does not allow us to truly know her character in the least.

I understand the show makers were trying to take a different, creative angle, which would be more suitable to their storytelling methods and perhaps, what they thought would be more compelling to the audience, and it might even have worked—had this show not been adapted from a very well-loved book series.

Many people watching the show have already read the books, with some reading them just to see the show and how it compares. This translates to, we have pretext. We know what the book's flow was like, that the show's flow should have been like. We understand the essence of every character, the vibes of every scene, and the overall themes and tension at play throughout the story, which unfortunately for me were not captured by the show at all.

It's a shame, because the actors seem to be trying their best, the show makers probably tried their best to make this engaging and interesting, to have us on the edge of our seats even with most people already knowing what will happen by the end, but it fell flat because they mangled the story so much, that it lost both the mood and momentum, and the mystery, that so many people out there, or at least I, stayed with the books and loved them for.

Now, since we can't end on such a sad note, I'll tell you about my favorite moment from the first episode, which was when Nisha Singh, Ravi's mom, opens the door for Pip and Pip goes, "I have some information for Ravi" and Nisha's like, "From a galaxy far, far away?" because Pippa's dressed like a bloody blinding star.

This was the only scene I liked so far after having seen the first episode because it made me go, "ha! Now we know where book Ravi gets all the sass and charm from."

So, anyone else watching it? Or seen it already? Warn me about how much worse it's gonna get from here. Ciao!

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*casually drops the first fanfiction I ever managed to complete*

It's an XO, Kitty fanfiction. While I didn't think the show was top tier material, despite that, it was still very enjoyable. The main protagonist is an OC and Minho is her love interest, because boy doesn't deserve to get stuck with the disaster that is Kitty, not that she isn't great. It's just—it's a cute story I wrote, okay? Give it a chance.

Quotev → https://www.quotev.com/story/16165788/with-love-flora

Archive of Our Own → https://archiveofourown.org/works/51499798

If this post managed to get on your Tumblr feed, you better read the shit out of this book. Capiche?

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For some reason Choose Love, the latest interactive movie on Netflix, played out for me just as I had wanted it to.

As soon as the last love interest was introduced, I had formed this entire narrative in my head in accordance with Cami's character. I knew what she has to do to leave the past in the past, try out the new opportunity that has come her way, and by the end still be where I wanted her, which was safely back home.

With the way everything played out with my first run of the movie, it's safe to say I'll be able to read the consequences of my choices in the next run very well.

Consequences of having a writer mind, am I right?

Anyway, the concept of Choose Love is fun and it felt that way too when I was watching/directing it. The characters besides Cami, who is sort of a blank slate for obvious reasons, are as fleshed out as you can expect any rom-com characters to be.

It's cute. Give it a try.

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I just saw episode 8 and honestly, fook the scriptwriters or whoever is responsible for this. Because why can't my woman just keep her man?

Why is it that So Mun gets to keep his friends and his grandparents, and Na Jeokbong doesn't have to separate from his dad? Why does Chu Maeok still get to talk to her son and be in a relationship? Why does Ga Motak get to be a cop again and reconnect with people from before his accident? Why does everyone get some form of happiness in the familiarity that was life before being Counters?

Everyone but Do Hana.

That woman got barely ten minutes of bliss before it was ripped away from in such a brutal manner, that I wouldn't wish on anyone. Granted, taking away Park Dohwi's memories was her own choice, but I'm pointing my finger at the writers here. Just why would you do that to her?

She's a gem, our Do Hana, and she deserves to be happy.

It's Hana getting a moment of true happiness for me

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It's Hana getting a moment of true happiness for me

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I saw the Barbie movie today and oddly liked it despite the fact it didn't quite live up to the hype all the marketing had created around it, at least for me.

I remember feeling defeated for a moment as the credits rolled and the song barbie world boomed around me. I was like, "what have I done?" Because I'd spent more than I'd thought watching the movie in its first week and at a more expensive theater in our locality. But then as I walked out of the hall to my car, I had an epiphany.

I strangely liked Barbie because it had everything one could ask for with Barbie. It was pretty and chaotic and nonsensical in a way that hooks you despite knowing what will happen already. This was all the same stuff we saw in all Barbie movies as children.

Perhaps the reason many people found the movie disappointing and couldn't accept the ideas it was presenting, was because this time there was no cartoonish packaging to wrap it all up and dismiss them in. Perhaps they couldn't comprehend that real people, the likes of Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig and Ryan Gosling, would support and help spread the ideas which had previously been delivered through the means of animated media aimed at 12 year old girls.

So, no. The Barbie movie wasn't a legendary piece of art many had expected it to be. What it was, was a pink acid trip radically serving us feminism and the joy of being human with the side of a blasting soundtrack.

I can't wait to watch Barbie again.

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Ep 10 of Celebrity is heartbreaking. That's all I have to say. And I may have also involuntarily found out who _bbbfamous is. I definitely did not go searching for it.

Definitely not.

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So while I was having a fun time enjoying game night and then crashed into a peaceful 8 hour sleep exhausted from all the strategy planning and recklessness and laughing, ao3 was apparently being attacked.

Imagine waking up early with all the inspiration of the world just bubbling inside you, the excitement to finally upload the chapter you promised your audience you'd give them like 2 months ago so fresh in your mind that you go on Tumblr to post about it. And then I witness the devastating news.

AO3 has been down for a while and will probably continue to do so due being under a DDoS attack. Let's all do our part and stay off the site so that the staff can work it out without writers and readers clogging up their network trying to gain access.

"Besides, we all know we are but mere moths, who once the flame of AO3 alights again, will trample over all those sane humans on the internet to get to it."