#go to waste no ty

[theinfinitedivides]

this is so random but i would love to hear your opinion on mydramalist as a fellow asian drama lover. because it’s obviously well known as a reliable wiki of sorts in dramaland but i beg to differ. (the only plus i feel being the summary and cast list for info)

i mean, i’ve not seen a single comsec w more than two brain cells as a whole? there’s always complaints about female leads rooted from misogyny, they are never happy about story progression, and i just find so many of them kinda dumb sorry lol. like zero media literacy to be found, insufferable arguments, etc. the star ratings are rly just given to popular dramas w high profile actors too.

and i personally find it disheartening that so many ppl end up referring to mdl when considering dramas because so many gems are then lost and not given appreciation.

anon. anon anon anon if you know the way i sat straight the f*ck up when i saw the notification and then read through this ask bc yes. yes to everything here that is exactly it. almost three fourths of what i've watched this year was either 1. not received well by the general MDL crowd (Moon in the Day. where is the taste brethren to not like MITD and not even for reasons that actually make sense), 2. received well but had a good chunk of people bitching in the comment section, or 3. received well but had the main point of the show (and its relevant characterization) go over their heads. (The Worst of Evil aka TWOE comment section, i am f*cking looking at you. i can count on one hand the number of people who understood what that show was supposed to be about) the one fourth that managed to escape was bc the toxicity did not reach the comment section and everyone was pretty f*cking civil. alas if only it could be like that all of the time

case in point for the ratings example, since we've already briefly tackled the lack of media literacy—j-dramas on MDL are notoriously rated much, much lower than either k- or c-dramas. half of the time that's bc there are less users watching (and rating) them therefore the average is lower but the other half it's bc people simply do not understand good media when they see it. don't get me wrong there's some freaky ass sh*t in the j-drama world that i would not touch with a Grinch level pole but to see MDLers out here talking about how slow j-dramas are and that nothing's happening. have you considered that you are either watching the wrong genre or you shouldn't be watching j-dramas in the first place bc their entire setup and general narrative framing arcs are not your style. have you even thought about that for six seconds or are you too busy expecting it to read like a typical tropey rom-com k-drama with your trending oppas. (no hate on my tropey rom-coms with [most of] said oppas, i need them when i don't want to think i just want to see sh*t on my screen and scream about hot people and the Hand Umbrellas in the Rain and the Back Hold when the male lead catches the female lead before she falls and you have the fifteen second focus on their faces just looking at each other)

and the misogyny. oh God do not get me started on the dichotomy that was the Cult, as we affectionatly called ourselves, on the feeds while THEE sageuk of the year My Dearest was airing (beloved show [that i still need to finish. JangChae i'm sorry ily life hates me like the mf it is 😭], beloved commentary on the feeds. they saw the vision on the feeds) vs the sh*tshow that was the landmine field of the comment section (the takes i saw on Gil Chae, Eun Ae AND Ryang Eum respectively.......... the misogyny wasn't enough we had to add the homophobia into the mix. buy one get one free deal fr fr). you mad man. that sh*t was insane there was a point i banned myself from scrolling farther than the cast section until the show finished airing. i kid you not on average they didn't have even half a braincell. maybe a quarter of a quarter of one. f*cked up just say you are not decent people and go

this is not to say that all of MDL is like this. i have gotten tuned into absolute masterpieces of content (and have tuned others, amen) bc of a comment comparing a show i'm watching to another one or a review being posted in the feeds about a film with less than 500 people interested. i have reconsidered my choice to not watch something after having spirited discussions in private messages discussing the pros and cons of the premise and whether they managed to get it done without f*cking sh*t up. i still contribute semi-regularly by adding relatively unknown actors and crew members to the database so they can get the credit due them. if you know where to look, you can get some good sh*t out of that place. problem is most users who are new to both the site and East/Southeast Asian cinema as a whole don't know where to look, and the cycle continues, and the ratings continue to be skewed/bloated and no one pays attention to the plot, if there even is any to pay attention to.

tl;dr: begging people to not let MDL be the be all end all for their drama recs a la 'well MDL doesn't like it so i won't watch it'. babe we have said MDLers complaining about how the ratings on Viki are too high but in my entire time watching dramas i've found that in the past two to three years the Viki ratings are making more sense than the MDL ones. sit with that for a sec. when you're done branch out and see the world (literally and cinematically), i promise you will be a better person for it

#inbox #q: anon #mydramalist #mdl #kdrama #not what i expected to see this Friday but i needed to see it #anon love this got a bit long i'm sorry i am just. Passionate about this subject as you can tell #honestly istg the only reason i still use MDL is to track my sh*t. plus i obsessively organized my profile page and i am not letting that #go to waste no ty #i feel like the Asian drama fandom over here on Tumblr are just. slightly more normal somehow. also you'll get f*ckingly long analyses #on shows that will have you face down on the ground shot in six different places taken apart etc etc #situations like these are when i'm grateful that Bollywood is not available on MDL bc the takes with even less than a quarter of #a quarter of a braincell that i would have to deal with then........... God loves me that's why it hasn't happened #also. the Caribbean seeped into this once again let me explain. 'you mad man' is a Dominican (DM not DR) phrase. it has nothing #to do with the 'you mad?' in the African American community that is an entirely separate thing. 'you mad' here means 'you crazy?' #or 'bitch you ain't serious'. could have also said 'you too have limyé' but that would need another paragraph by itself to explain #bc of the Dominican specific context and this is not the kweyol/patois class session today sksksksk

[sealrock]

the major arcana, shuffled: 4/??

THE HIGH PRIESTESS; ⤉ spirituality, higher power, mystery, subconscious ⤈ hidden motives, secrets, repressed intuition, cognitive dissonance THE EMPRESS; ⤉ motherhood, femininity, nurturing, harmony ⤈ smothering, negligence, lack of growth, insecurity THE EMPEROR; ⤉ fatherhood, structure, authority, control ⤈ tyranny, domination, recklessness, rigidity

#mypost. #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv oc #ffxiv:tma #oh boy a 3 for 1 deal!!! #ty to fheythfully for your portrait tutorial!! :D #my game crashed when i was making this and i was about ready to pass away #the idea for this was 'haunted family paintings' with a dash of dorian gray #i intentionally fucked up the facial expressions with crimes & used photoshop filters to achieve the decaying effect of the reverse #for the people who don't know the tatlongharis (aka paris' maternal family via andromache): #the priestess is their aunt cassandra / the empress is their grandma hecuba / the emperor is their grandad priam #paris never met their grandma because she died way before paris was born #how did she die? priam accidentally caused her death but she (and cassandra) predicted she would die b/c they have the echo #so there you go :) #also i tried to match the crowns to the card names but i don't think i got close lol #body horror cw #just in case #notice how hecuba's face is all mangled while priam's flesh is wasting away. like the rotten corpse he is #as per usual flip your phone around to see the reverse sides #🏵️

[smply-sktchng]

power and denji eating hamburgers tofether

sotrue!! burgertime!!

#ty for requesting hehe >:-p #(Denji will eat Power’s vegetables after he finishes his burger bc he doesn’t want them to go to waste) #watched Good Burger (1999) a few days ago and 1. I think Denji and Power would like it #2. I had ‘im a dude shes a dude hes a dude we’re all dudes hey’ stuck in my head #for most of the time I drew this #gave them silly little burger hats #csm #csm fanart #csm requests #chainsaw man #chainsaw man fanart #csm denji #csm power #csm kobeni #chainsaw man denji #chainsaw man power #chainsaw man kobeni #sketch #theyre ketchup and mustard #(halloween costume ideas)

[mintjeru]

how do you think alhaitham convinced the two captured akademiya scholars to cooperate with him in the archon quest?

open for better quality | no reposts | ID in alt text | textless version under the cut

#alhaitham #genshin impact #genshin #fanart #myart #doodle #ironically this was an unprompted image that came about as a result of a worldbuilding conversation #i think he turned out very pretty ty for cooperating with me alhaitham #thought it would be a waste to not go full color after finishing the lineart so it took me all day hehe oops #enjoy!!

[girls-and-honey]

my kitchen is about to smell so goooood

#is it more than i can eat before they go bad? maybe. i might freeze some bc almost-as-good is way better than wasted #anyway ty food network go to recipe site #personal

[danothan]

after spending the entire day clothes shopping with no luck, i at least didn’t come home completely empty-handed

pickled leeks be upon me

#danbles #food #i remember why i don’t go shopping now #ty for all the advice tho #i’ll try not to let it go to waste #but today was not my day 😔

[bonerey]

i need. To be killed

(ep 129)

#the fact this weeks episode gave me everything i wanted on a silver platter is something im still not over. god. #ohhh . i need one of you to kill me #wbg #woe.begone #w.bg #woe.begone podcast #wbg spoilers #woe.begone spoilers #w.bg spoilers #IM INSANEEEE I MFUCKING INSANE. #SOMETHING ABOUT 'TY WOULDNT LET A RESOURCE LIKE HIM GO TO WASTE' IS JUST LOOPING OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN MY BRAIN. FUCK. OUGH.

[copper-crow]

3, 4, 16? :D

3. (What is your favorite region?)

I have at least some love for every region (no matter how much pain they've caused me) but it's probably Garbage Wastes. Unsurprising given my artblog's theme lol. It was the region I spent the most cycles in on my first playthrough. It's just the right amount of activity; not quite Sky Islands level of chaos, but not as quiet as someplace like Shaded Citadel. The region itself is pretty varied, being split between the lower caves and the surface, so it never feels dull. I also got my first ever kill here, a single normal vulture. Shame I was on Monk and couldn't get the mask lol. The scavengers are incredibly fun to interact with, too.

4. (What is your least favorite region?)

Underhang. I have nothing but hate for Underhang. I know it's a subregion, but I'm counting it anyway just for the sheer amount of resentment I have for it (I don't care much for The Leg, though I like The Wall a lot). On my first playthrough, I was stuck there for hours upon hours upon hours. Grappleworms are frustrating to use, and I couldn't get enough karma to use the Five Pebbles gate, so I just died over and over to either Daddy Long Legs or falling off of the map. I never succeeded, either. After hour 4 I gave up and installed a warp mod so I could skip to the end. The worst part? The cycle I was stuck on was cycle 69.

(alternatively, if I had to pick a single region, it'd be Drainage System. There's almost nothing to interact with except leeches, and the linear nature of it takes away a lot of the exploration. I tend to avoid it.) 4. (Which of the Downpour slugcats are you most excited for?)

This is a tough one! I'm excited for all of the slugs for different reasons. They all have unique regions and different places in the timeline, and as a lorehound, I'm excited for all of it, along with the special abilities. Artificer's double jump looks like a ton of fun to use, though I'm terrified of having to fight scavs all the time. Spearmaster has a lot of interesting implied lore so far (learning more about SRS!), and the entire deal with the spears is going to be fantastic for combat. Rivulet's movement capabilities are extremely exciting, too, and I'm curious how they'll made the regions to incorporate the water breathing. I think I might extend the timer a bit, though, only having a handful of minutes per cycle sounds scary lol.

Overall, though, probably Saint. As much as I hate grappleworm mechanics, Saint's story and gimmick sound fantastic. No killing, hunter enemies (or worse!) almost certainly the latest place in the timeline, and being mostly lore-focused? I'm so excited to suffer for the sake of learning more about the world.

#rain world #ty for the ask :) #It's so hard to pick favourites when I love everything about the game so much #every region is unique and interesting in it's own way! #and I also hate all of them for specific things #like subterranean is super varied and fun to run through. plus it has a lot of environmental storytelling! but also it hurt me so much #garbage wastes holds a special place in my heart either way #I don't go to underhang on principle anymore either. I could probably do it with the skills I have now #but I refuse to set foot on that cursed subregion

[gatual]

wow just went thru a folder I have where I save lil screencaps of cute tags and asks and i almost tear up im so glad to have met y'all the love I've received from mutuals and online friends its been so important t me thank u n I love u and hope u have a good week💞🍀

#it's a folder I've made like more than a year ago it's called serotonin kdbbfbrj #and it has yk tags lil messages pics asks all kinds of things from moots and frends online and im so🥺 #thank u😔 fr.. it means a lot♥️ #reading things from ppl that were not in touch anymore is kind of heartbreaking but there r so many of u that r still there !! and also #new ppl!! ❤ so again ty #🍒 #the love u give the love u receive it never goes to waste :') its nice to look back and see there was love even if it's not there anymore.. #love a lot !!!!!!! don't hold back love is never too much #sorry going thru that got me feeling this way and now I needed to get it outbgjtbgkfieje anyway bye☺️ #muah☺️☺️

[aquablues-archive]

hi bestays here’s everything that has happened so far today because i have an hour break before i have to set up for the evening 👍👍

#ok got up at 5:30 bc my alarm didn’t go off so we were kinda late #but i was fine we got here by 6:30 👍👍 #then i had to label the dishes for the procession #amd then i had to fill more flower vases with water like yesterday #and then put out all the breakfast foods i got to eat a whole bao 👍👍 #after that i set up some of the flower vases on the tables #then i did my aunts makeup my own and then my moms #i didn’t get to b in the procession but tbh i didn’t want to bc their stairs r so high and just putting on those shoes killed me 😭 #after the procession i just sat around until my cousin came #and then my uncle made us take photos #i didn’t watch the ceremony bc there was no space in the house so i just hung out outside lolz #so missed the hair cutting ceremony missed the string tying ceremony but i did eat more bao 👍👍 #after eating i put my head down on the table and knocked out LOLZ #i woke up bc my brother poured water on me 👎👎 #then we took pictures again w the bride and groom #and then i took pictures for my aunt and uncle #atp i switched out my heels for crocs i cld not do it bestays my feet HURT #lot of my relatives told me i look pretty today so i am feeling hashtag slay 👍👍 #and then at 1 the morning ceremony ended and i changed clothes and cleaned up outside #so much wasted food like if ur not gonna eat it all don’t take everything brah #and now i am sitting on the couch typing this before i go back to help set up #also someone stole my moms shoesfjfk #and i can feel my contacts sticking to my eyelids #it is also extremely fawking hot like the amount of water i drank already .. she is hydrated she is almost drowning

[bootdork]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite people (positivity is cool)✨🎶

YESS I love these thank you so much. I'm gonna go with my current top 5 because it changes a lot.

- Crumbs - Rebecca Black

- Blood Like Lemonade - Morcheeba

- The Curse of the Blackened Eye - Orville Peck (but frankly this entire album)

- Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet

- Years - Sierra Ferrell

#also listening to orville's cover of smalltown boy a lot #and margaritaville... i got high and listened to it for 4 hours straight idk what to tell you. wasting away again. in margaritaville. #i know this list is just GAY country country country country #sierra ferrell is so underrated btw go listen to her #TY FOR THE ASK BTW I LOOOVE THESE #ask

[tearfest]

i’m prioritising my replies rn but more plots for tyron/namgi pls!

#ooc. #indie smut rp #indie kink rp #indie rp #pls < 3 #my boys ! #im making gif icons from scratch for ty so dont let my hard work go 2 waste !

[homicidal-slvt]

I'm sorry but being contractually attached to someone doesn't seem too fantastic of an idea.

#“Oh yeah lets have a bunch of papers tying us together” #how about lets not. how about we just vibe instead. marriage seems like a waste of money and effort #also it kinda kills the romance because I've seen so many times where people just stop trying because their legally attached now #like its no longer just loving one another it becomes “Well. guess the papers say we're in it now.” #sorry my view of marriage is so bitter. I've been through a lot of shit #vee's random thoughts go brr #vee's thinking too much

[celianascended]

Happy birthday! 🎂

Thank you!! :3💙

#ok so confession time this ask has been there since like. last September i think??? #and it was not my birthday #but it is today #i mean it just ended its midnight as im typing this vut #*but #ajgsgsgsfhf i had this ask sitting here for so long because i didnt wanna let it go to waste #but like ty anon 😭🎉 #celian posts #asks

[midnightcarp]

sometimes, you just gotta start compiling your own wiki for that game you like. you'll catch me dead before using fandom.wikia for my rune factory 4 needs

#yeahh babey that database part of my microsoft office class is not going to waste after all #though i did kinda forget how to use it bc it isnt as fun as excel sadly #ty talks