i am once again begging people to learn how to recommend things. i’ve been seeing a couple posts lately about a league of their own that have honestly done a really poor job of selling it, not least because none of them actually say what it’s about
one essentially said “you guys need to watch it because it’s got queer woc, and if you don’t watch it, we’ll never get a season 2” which is coming at it backwards. why do i care about getting another season of a show i haven’t watched yet?
another said “if you liked our flag means death you should watch this, because they’re both gay and about real-life historical figures” which, while technically true, is missing the point of both shows. ofmd is a comedy about pirates in the early 16th century. a league of our own, from what i can tell (i had to google it, because none of those posts mention any of this) seems to be a drama about baseball in the early 20th century. what about those is similar
do we really need to keep having this discussion about not tokenizing stories?? because it does it a disservice to boil it down to “it’s good and you should watch it because it’s Diverse”
it’s like if i said, “hmm, i want to go clothes shopping, my closet feels stale,” and you told me, “i have just the thing,” and tried to give me a blank cardboard box with something inside. “what is it?” i ask, and you tell me, “it’s purple.”
but is it a top? pants? i don’t really wear skirts so i wouldn’t be interested. is it a turtleneck? i like those sometimes, but it’s really hard to pull them off. what material is it? i have sensory issues and i don’t like polyester. what if we’re not the same size and it doesn’t fit?
“it’s purple” you tell me. “you like purple. you’ll like it, trust me.”
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a bit of a reality check here (and yes, i am going to ask this question in a very biased way anyways), but:
AITA for not wanting another date when the woman you’re meeting doesn’t ask any questions about yourself for like the 5 hours you spend together and approx. talks 1/3 about her ex-girlfriend?
When I told her that I wasn’t really thinking about a second date because of it, she said she was too nervous at first (which is true, she almost 180°ed when I met up with her and was too shy to look into my direction for several minutes) and that she prefers to text people for a long time before meeting, which is where she asks about things she’s interested in (we texted for 1.5 months before meeting which isn’t really my style and I was accordingly bad at texting: she texted me good morning and good night everyday and i was happy when i managed to text her and/or reply to her once a day. I like to think that I tried)
but I still feel it is weird to just talk about yourself and your ex (at hour 4 I gave up on talking about myself without any prompt because whatever I said would be the first and last thing we’d exchange on that topic).
in good (?) news: I know get how Uncle Jim in MLC felt, because she still lives with her ex of 5 years and it did come up very often in conversation. While Wen didn’t tell him, Uncle Jim was 100% right that it makes things really tiring because the other person clearly isn’t in the mindset to start sth new.
If anyone is the type to text a lot before meeting someone: anything where this disconnect can be mitigated?
because I always thought it was standard (and at least my preference) to meet up very early to suss out the vibes. But maybe it’d be better in these cases to not start anything when you’re not texting back as frequently in the first place?
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Sending all my love to the girl who loitered in front of me for a solid three minutes this morning opening and closing her bag and walking between the two benches that were straight across from me all while glancing back and forth at me. Your extremely blatant queues did eventually manage to get noticed by my oblivious ass but i am So Shy™️ you were super cute and i loved your hair, your overalls, and your pride pins and i’ll regret not talking to you for forever now
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I’m excited! Writing's going so well, I’m like two months ahead of schedule 🥳
As a treat, I’ma share a little sneak peak from one of their text messages. As usual, Marshall and Nicolas text a lot behind the scenes, and there’s gonna be a text messages chapter again.
If anyone hates spoilers: Scroll away now!
Revision #93 Text Messages (skit)
Marshall: Alex is your other roommate, right?
Nicolas: yeah, she works at the club too, as a singer
Marshall: oh, I think I saw her perform once!
Nicolas: she goes down well with the patrons for some reason
Marshall: yeah, I can imagine. she got an amazing rack
Nicolas: if you’re into big tits then sure I guess? her ass is nice tho, for a girl's ass at least
Marshall: wow, you really are incredibly gay. how did you manage a girlfriend at all?
Nicolas: she was very flat chested for starters
Marshall: must be or otherwise you wouldn’t even have looked at her, eh
Nicolas: actually, she was flatter than you
Marshall: are you calling my tits fat?
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