#The Screen Foxes

[deadsince1973]

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So, I saw someone say yesterday that "most people skim watch Chinese dramas", and that honestly blew my mind. If it has subtitles, I have to watch it and focus on it.

But then several thoughts occurred to me. You see, right now, my friend and I are watching The Longest Promise and The Screen Foxes. To us, The Longest Promise is painfully slow. We thought it was a little slower than most Chinese dramas, but most Chinese dramas are a little bit slow, and The Longest Promise actually feels much slower to us because we hate the main character and, like, half the story decisions so much, we thought. (Sorry, no offense to Longest Promise fans.) We thought that if we actually liked the main character and were invested in her story, the way the show dilly-dallied on every one of her scenes - having her say the same things over and over again, showing a dozen different angles on some magical moment in her life, having her express feelings about something that happened in a previous episode that she had made very clear at the time - would be enjoyable. Meanwhile, before we started The Screen Foxes, I read three different reviews that said the plot moved lightning-fast, bounced all over the place, and didn't make any sense. And ... none of that is true (so far). The plot moves at a normal pace. A thing happens, and then, something else happens as a consequence. There ARE several different interconnected story threads, and we do bounce back and forth between them, but it all makes sense. And last night, it hit me that maybe The Longest Promise is so slow because you're supposed to "skim watch" it. Certainly, if you dip in and out, you can follow the plot very easily. Scenes are long enough that it's hard to miss a whole one if you're checking back in frequently, repetitive enough that you can understand the point of the scene even if you miss three-quarters of it, and the same points are repeated in multiple scenes, so there are very few details you can miss even if you don't watch it too closely. (Plus, the plot is predictable enough that it's easy to follow.) Meanwhile, because The Screen Foxes doesn't dawdle on any points, if you're not actually sitting down and watching, it must seem chaotic and nonsensical. Why are they fighting this green monster now? Wasn't the show about painting a minute ago? The green monster is being used by a Taoist to body-guard a rich family. The Taoist is actually the one who made the family rich. Why? That's the mystery we need to find out. In the meantime, this family used its wealth to cheat in the painting contest from the last episode, so fighting their body guard is advancing that painting plotline too. But if you looked away from the screen during the two minutes where they were explaining all that, then yeah, it would be super confusing why this show just went from a painting contest to a demon fight.

If Chinese dramas are MEANT to be watched in the background, and that's the reason so many of them are so long and slow, then, honestly, my whole worldview has been changed.

So, TLDR: I have to know now: DO most people actually "skim watch" Chinese dramas????

#P.S. I will have more to say about The Screen Foxes when I finish it probably. #Also the fast-forward option is here because I saw someone say something about that in a post a few months ago. #Also having it on in the background would explain how my Chinese friend - who had a kid and a full-time job - could find time to watch mor #C-dramas than me. It just never crossed my mind because since I don't speak Chinese it would never occur to me to not sit down and focus on #the show. #poll #original #The Screen Foxes #The Longest Promise #The Untamed #Word of Honor #Till the End of the Moon #Love Between Fairy and Devil #Legend of Fei #The Oath of Love #<- Just some C-dramas I was thinking about as I typed all this.

[timotey]

Fox in the Screen, episode 9

Oh, wow, this scene was so intimate with the string music, the slo-mo, all the fade-outs, all the close-ups. It was honestly more intimate than outright sex when Bai Sheng was healing Qiong Hua 😳

#fox in the screen #the screen foxes #huang junjie #hao zejia #cdrama #mé

[aimeegbbs]

falling for your rival (henry's version)

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwarb #rwrbedit #filmedit #filmgifs #dailylgbtq #userbean #first prince #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #i need this movie and these two disasters on my screen rn #also sorry for the quality #**

[voidstilesplease]

the way he translated half-royalty half-movie star, depressed gay, and hrh prince dickhead from pages to screen so effortlessly 🥲

#his casting is A+ #nicholas galitzine #rwrb #firstprince #red white and royal blue #prince henry fox mountchristen windsor #i knew he'd be perfect since day 1 #the reviews from the london and nyc screening are stellar so far

[mixtercandy]

Shout out to the REAL fnaf mvp SPARKY THE DOG !!

#cand posts #cand arts #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf movie #freddy fazbear #foxy fox #bonnie bunny #chica chicken #sparky the dog #Im SO proud of you being in the movie you were my favorite hoax AND NOW LOOK AT U.. ON THE BIG SCREEN.. #I LOVE YOU SM SPARKY u guys have no idea even after the hoax was confirmed i still make like toy n funtime designs #like years ago HGUEHGUH- BUT I NEVER GAVE UP HOPE ON YOU.. U R NOW OFFICAL #(atleast in movie canon but thats better than no canon at all so)

[yrsonpurpose]

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023) book → screen (x)

#rwrb #rwrbedit #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #firstprince #usersteen #usernuria #uservik #usermaloune #chrissiewatts #userveronika #mine* #dont look at me this start off as...something #anyway the comparison discourse is Old so im not trying to start it again #HOWEVER its so nice to see how some things adapted and translated to screen #some times for the better #i needed to have taylor say then fucking have me so badly GODDDD

[bisexualfbiagents]

THE X FILES | Fight the Future (1998)

#the x files #txf #txfedit #xfilesnet #dailytxf #dana scully #fox mulder #mine #fight the future #ftf #can't believe i've never giffed ftf my beloved #someone invent a time machine so i can go back to 1998 and watch fight the future on the big screen as god intended #i was only 3 when it came out 😭😭😭

[0vergrowngraveyard]

my boy

#i have injected the idea that sails is missing an ear into my veins it is consuming my entire being #anyway i love my pirate son #i wish he got more screen time #but at least he got to pilot the big robot #sails the fox #sonic prime #art

[snowthedemonfox]

ive been messing around with these lil guys for the past 2 hours

#theyve been walking around my screen all day and its literally free serotonin for me #i love them smmmmm #arctic fox speaks #murder drones #i think the artist is gonna make a J one next so im excited for that #uzi doorman #serial designation n #serial designation v #cyn #nuzi #yes i ship it dont @ me

[silverspadesss]

no thoughts, just zac’s smile when pib saw the fox and the rabbit were alive <33

#neverafter spoilers #d20 #neverafter #dimension 20 #tricksters #pib #puss in boots #the fox and the rabbit #i love my little shithead animals and their twenty minutes of screen time together #they’re FRIENDS your honour #the way zac’s voice softened at ‘i remember the last time we saw each other.’ #he deserved this win and to see his spirit friends again :)

[emilylprentiss]

THE X FILES 1.10 – "Fallen Angel"

#his face 💀 #the x files #fox mulder #david duchovny #txfedit #thexfilesedit #tvedit #usercats #usertj #userrinanoir #userleah #userveronika #useralien #singinprincess #sophiedevreau #kallypsos #txf gifs #i did this the screen recorder way bc i didnt have the patience for downloading/capping tonight. idk if it even looks different but 🤷 #*mine

[deadsince1973]

The writing in The Screen Foxes is WAY too good for its budget.

#I was going to wait until I finished it to make a post about it but #I'm watching episode 14 right now and it kind of blew me away! #The Screen Foxes #The Foxes in the Screen #original

[timotey]

The prince, Mu Jing, is really head over heels for Bai Sheng, isn't he? Like, holy smokes. Ever since he first saw Bai Sheng, he has been all, "Who is HE? 😍" and then he went after him like a starving dog after a bone.

I mean, he invited Bai Sheng to the palace to help him re-write some lost pages from an opera libretto. He made Bai Sheng's presence the condition of a favor he did for the heroine. And then he waited on Bai Sheng and made ink for him and handed him water and asked about his painful past and... The prince has it REALLY bad!

#fox in the screen #the screen foxes #huang junjie #huang jun jie #cdrama #mé

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

okay hear me out...

fan made visual novel where the reader is the new chancellor of the republic after sidious dies under mysterious circumstances. (*coughitwasyoucough*) all the various jedi and sith are alive. the clone wars continue. multiple endings, morality system, dating options. 🤓

(art credit: photomanip of imperial throne and maul from comics, cleaned up and spliced together with a ui.)

#renpy is not hard to make visual novels in #it would just need a writing team and an art team #maybe like 6-8 people total #star wars #sith #darth maul #chancellor of the republic #Coruscant #tcw #clone wars #the clone wars #commander fox #would get so much screen time #do you use the clones? ... you know the codes.... #do you have the jedi? or destroy them on your path to power? #do you unite the sith into a new order? #do you haul anakin back to mortis and sit him down? #or do you fall in love with him #and have padme assasinated to get her out of your way? #... or is it padme your heart desires? #hmmmmmm

[sh-0-w-1-sh]

Chaos Sonic is so “^o^” coded

#miles tails prower #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fandom #tails the fox #sonic #sonic prime nine #sonic prime #shadow fanart #shadow the hedgehog #metal sonic #chaos sonic #ahhhhhh since I’m posting it today no post on Saturday (prob I might just post tik Tok screen caps) #BUT AHHH I NEED THE FANFICS RN #(literally had this already made 2 days in advance) #FREAKING OUT OVER SONIC PRIME #THE ENDING AHHH #NOT GONNA SPOIL UNTIL SATURDAY BUT AHHHH I LOVE EM SM

[fexarii]

Kanako deserved sm better dawg, fym ur mom just injects u with some Mystery Possibly Corrupt Liquid cuz u were having confidence issues and u instantly die uughh, , beats Ceroba up ,,,/lh

anyways now she's slop in Alphys' basement forever, how we feeling gang (i cried)

#art #digital art #whiteboard fox #kanako ketsukane #undertale #undertale fanart #undertale yellow #uty #uty fanart #utdr #uty spoilers #undertale yellow spoilers #fex's artcade #might draw more of her cuz she needs more screen time #can't believe we didn't even get to see what happened to her #actually maybe thats for the better??? #i think i wouldve cried even harder dude #not even a body horror obsessed loser like me could go yippee . #SHES JUST A LIL BABY!!! #DAMN U CEROBA!! #WHY DIDN'T U LISTEN TO UR NERD HUSBAND .