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firelise · 4 months

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♪ my past can't escape me, my pussy precedes me, my my how the times change, I'm still playing the victim ONLY FRIENDS as SZA Lyrics 1/? -> BLIND

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hwangism143 · 20 days

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𓆩♡𓆪 how skz would propose to you. 𓆩♡𓆪

BANG CHAN

he would invite you over (or sneak, i should say) to the studio for a date cuz you both do this all the time

sometimes, he plays you snippets of songs he's working on, other times, you're just talking the night away while getting some work done

anyways, today he's playing you one of his songs

you're just completely immersed in the music and when it ends the lingering feeling of wanting more is left behind

how could it not? the song was about spending an eternity with you

you're about to turn around and profess your love for chan for the millionth time when you see him

he's on one knee and lets out a choked, "i meant everything in that song. i didn't know what love was before i met you, but you have shown me love and so much more. marry me?"

ofc you say yes (i mean, i would) and just end up falling asleep on his couch

LEE MINHO

you guys go to your favorite cat cafe, and bring the kids (cats?) along with you too

suddenly, soonie comes along with a note stuck to her back - "will you be our parent? i mean, for real?"

you look at minho who's playing with the cats on the other side of the room, confused, but he doesn't see you

(actually, he's blushing like crazy and is too scared to make eye contact lmao)

that is until you walk over to him and give him a nudge

he's beaming at you (this boy istg) and gets down on one knee

"we can't let our kids be a part of a dysfunctional family. they another parent, and they love having you around. actually, no, they love you. and they wanna grow old with you. so. will you, uhm, marry me? their father?"

(pls im giggling at this myself)

SEO CHANGBIN

you guys are out on a date at a fancy restaurant and changbin's acting extra giggly

now mind you, this is seo changbin. extra giggly is far more than what you would imagine

you're finally done eating and slump against your chair when the server brings another plate of food

you look at changbin with a "bro. i'm full." but the bro in question is just looking at you.

you look down at the tray placed in front of you.

"will you marry me?" it says with a ring in the middle?

"be my permanent gym partner?" asks changbin hopefully

and you say yes (bcuz who in their right mind wouldn't ???)

HWANG HYUNJIN

we all know how extra this man is, so when he insists that you two go to the bookshop where you first met, you don't protest

you're scanning the bookshelf, reminiscing about how you both bonded over monet and jane austen at this very shop

then you here a little gasp in front of you

naturally, your first instinct is to turn around and check on hyunjin

and he is down on one knee, a sobbing mess (but still cute, y'know)

"you have, and always will be my muse," he says, "so will you make me the happiest man alive and do me the honor of being your husband?"

he slides the ring onto your finger and pulls you into a hug and you're both crying and laughing and

(i'm sorry this is so cute, goodbye)

HAN JISUNG

you had made up your mind - is jisung wasn't going to propose to you, you would propose to him

(get it, queen or king or gender non-identifying reader!)

and so you're on your rooftop building when he goes "i need to tell you something" and funnily enough, so do you

(i wonder what that's about... hehehe)

after a series of 'you first', 'no you'. jisung admits defeat and slides you over the ring box

wordlessly, you slide over your box

the two of you just start laughing because, idiots in love

and then you squish jisung and start peppering him with kisses

LEE FELIX

it's a beach date!

absolutely perfect, all complete with bokkie's brownies

but felix is acting kinda nervous.

(and by nervous i mean his face is beet red and he's stuttering like crazy)

(what can you say, my boy is in love)

you're eating the last brownie when he says "close you eyes"

you do and you hear some shuffling.

you open your eyes to a sniffling felix propped up on one knee. "can I be your personal brownie chef for the rest of forever?"

who can say no to an offer like that?

KIM SEUNGMIN

you both were coming home from one of your numerous dates

it was the perfect night to be walking outside, but seungmin seemed really shifty

he was NOT enjoying himself

"are you cheating on me?" you ask jokingly

"far from it actually," he retorts, suddenly letting go of your hand.

you turn to find him in the middle of the street with a ring in his hand

"marry me. will you? please? i've had this ring with me for months and i didn't know when to propose but now i know, well like i always knew-"

you promptly shut him up with a kiss and a breathless yes

YANG JEONGIN

nothing was going according to plan for innie. you spent too much time picking an ice cream flavor and he knew that he was spending too much time at this clothing store

but they just got a new collection

and so he waits until you both are done so that he can take you to that really drmamtic fountain in front of the mall and propose to you

but watching you pick out your clothes, he realizes he wants to do this for the rest of forever

so this man promptly plops down on one knee in the middle of a department store and screams, "WILL YOU MARRY ME AND BE MY SHOPPING BUDDY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE? WE CAN BE EACH OTHERS PROBLEMS"

you just look at him confused holding up a t-shirt, "UH OKAY I'LL MARRY YOU AND WE CAN BE EACH OTHERS PROBLEMS"

you both are so loud that you nearly get kicked

(later he makes you buy him ice cream because he's a baby who's done a good job and deserves a reward)

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omgthatdress · 5 months

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Everything I know about the royals comes from Tumblr memes and one bonus episode of a totally unrelated podcast but now I'm morbidly curious, so: what's up with William? And the Middletons? Or if that's a longer story than you want to explain, do you have recommendations for where to read about this that is likely to be fairly accurate?

I don't have any facts I just have pure fucking speculation if that's okay. :)

Like I've been saying for a long-ass time the one thing I absolutely LOVED about The Crown was its portrayal of generational trauma. It very skillfully showed how being a shitty husband who cheats on his wife and treats his kids like garbage was passed down from Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark to Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh to King Charles and then to Prince William. Hell, it probably started long before that but holy shit THE CYCLE OF DYSFUNCTION AND ABUSE BE REPEATING ITSELF.

And if you really want to dig into it, well.... I think he and Harry followed a pattern that a LOT of siblings of bitter and messy divorce fall into, one kid sides with the mom, one with the dad. It's been said a LOT that Harry was Diana's favorite son, so it probably started with that. And OF COURSE William is gonna side with Charles because well... he's the heir. They have that shared trauma.

And then there's the way the whole "heir and spare" thing absolutely perverts any relationship they might have had as brothers. Charles managed to have a decent relationship with his siblings, I think, because first of all, Anne was a girl, and then Andrew and Edward were significantly younger than him and Anne, so there wasn't this unnaturally massive imbalance of power between them. One of the reasons I've come to believe the monarchy should be abolished is because of how badly it damages the structure of a family in a way that no one should have to deal with.

I think Diana might have been able to guide William into being a better person if she'd have lived, but idk. It may be wishful thinking. His relationship with her became kind of strained when he was a teenager and she was going on TV to tell the whole fucking world about her sex life. I think Diana did the right thing exposing the family like she did, but I can also understand how a 13 year old boy would be absolutely humiliated by that.

THEN there's the whole way he was a MASSIVE heartthrob as a teenager, and was intensely sexualized for it. Like it will absolutely mess with you when you have girls screaming and throwing themselves at you when you're still trying to figure your own sexuality out. It will also massively inflate your ego and convince you that the whole world loves you and there's nothing you can do wrong.

SOOOOOO

as for his relationship with Kate. She's much harder to pin down because she hasn't spent her entire fucking life in the spotlight, and the Middletons are sill granted a certain degree of privacy that the Windsors aren't. I don't think they're as absolutely fucked up as Diana's family was but I still definitely think her mom was a major driving force behind her staying with William.

I think there actually was some initial mutual attraction and that they may have even actually been in love. Buuuut then he waited ten years to propose to her, during which he cheated and they broke up and got back together. Honestly, I don't know what Kate's damage was with all of that, whether or not she was able to convince herself that William wouldn't be another shitty husband, or if she was willing to put up with his bullshit if it meant she would be queen.

Diana was more or less picked out as a bride for Charles because it was assumed that she would be a meek and beautiful wifey who never caused any problems. I mean, she was 19 and he was 32 for fuck's sake. She very much wanted to be queen. BUT what everyone wasn't counting on was that Diana would *gasp* have some serious emotional needs. She was deeply traumatized by her own parents' incredibly bitter divorce, overwhelmed and deeply lonely in her position as princess, and on top of that, suffering from bulimia and then post-natal depression. She needed love and support and Charles spent the whole marriage balls deep in Camilla.

Kate had a much more stable upbringing and had more than a few months to get to know both William and what her role as a princess would be. Ultimately, the vibe I get from her is that she's willing to be the perfect meek beautiful wifey who puts up with William's bullshit if it means she can be royal, which is exactly what Diana was supposed to be.

And I don't mean that to knock or belittle her. She's good at it. She looks incredibly happy when she's doing that. It's her career. It's an exchange I can actually really understand making, especially when your only other prospects involved working for your parents' party company.

But I could be extremely wrong about all of this Maybe she's absolutely miserable but she feels like she has no other options and worried about losing her kids and is terrified of what happened to Diana. It's hard to know, and I wish The Crown would have at least committed to *something* rather than just brushing all of this off.

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a0random0gal · 1 month

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If you had the chance to change something about the dance of the dragons (TV show or book), what would it be? For example, how a character dies, which team a house is on,or an entire character personally. How would you change it to make the story better, in your opinion?♥️🖤💙💚

Ohh anon i've got a list.

When it comes to the tv show there are a few choices the writers made that just don't sit right with me.

Laenor

I do like the characterization they went for, he's a pretty cool dude who really loves his weird, dysfunctional family. What I really don't like is how they handled his death.

See I truly can't stand it when a character is sugar coated just because they're the protagonist and thus must be righteous and always objectively correct.

So to witness the writers white wash his murder, having him flee to essos instead of being killed by Rhaenyra pisses me off. I get that after showing them being good friends it would be very odd to have her kill him.

But that's the thing, they should have opted for a more ruthless Rhaenyra in the first place!

Laenor's death in the books (at least for me) was the first instance of Rhae Rhae making morally wrong choices in order to pursue her ultimate goal. It was compelling! Here she just takes the easy way out, without having to make a tough choice.

Also his survival really fucks her up when you really think about it. Now all her sons are bastards since her marriage to Daemon isn't valid, and for the upcoming season 2, how are they going to handle Addam and Seasmoke? Laenor is still alive, his dragon won't accept a new rider. This doesn't make any sense and just causes plotholes what the actual fu-

Sidenote: After Laenor's very moving speech on how he was done goofing off and was now willing to really step up for Rhaenyra and their family it's super strange to imagine him ditching them all immediately afterwards Lol.

Rhaenys

My gosh, where do I even begin with this woman?

She too is pretty cool at the start, but then episode 9 rolls around and I roll my eyes.

She's so hypocritical. She tries to shit on Alicent for "toiling in the service of men." When that's all she does in the goddamn story!

She wants Baela to get Driftmark, tells Corlys about it, he shuts off the whole plan cause he wants a kid who he's not even related to on the driftwood throne, and when she complains about it he dismisses her.

So what does feminist Rhaenys do about it?

She... submits to her husband, something she conveniently forgets about when talking to Alicent. My god. Just remove this entire exchange, it hurts to watch.

And the coronation scene, Jesus Christ! It was so cool in the books, why did they have to ruin it? Had they replaced it with something better I wouldn't have complained, but this is just, the worst.

Rhaenys shows how badass she is by.... Brutally crushing hundreds of small folks to death and almost slaughtering the greens.

Cool, cool, absolutely necessary. Thanks Sara.

And you know what's even more infuriating? When she flees to Dragonstone to inform Rhaenyra of all that happened. She says she didn't kill the greens cause she didn't wish to start a war. I'm sorry what?

That would have ended the war at the start! As glad as I am that Rhaenys didn't barbecue them it makes absolutely no sense!

If she had killed them there would have been no dance in the first place!

I hate these dumb show only moments. They needlessly complicated an already complicated story and just mess everything up.

There's probably other stuff I could rant on, like how Aegon was made a rapist sorely to make the audience think:

Oh look! The greens are so baad, they believe a rapist alcoholic douche should be in charge instead of our empowered dragon queen, they sure do suck!

Or how house Velaryon was disrespected and mistreated by D*emyra but still somehow decided to support Nyra's claim.

They didn't really have a motive to be greens though, so I think they should have stayed neutral. Their fervent black support makes no sense.

The writers really should have given them more reasons to back up the blacks or had their beloved queen treat them better so that their loyalty made more sense ( I mean holy hell I wonder how they will handle the two betrayers and Corlys's arrest lmao).

But other greens have already shat on these awful decisions and I won't beat a dead horse.

Book

When it comes to fire and blood I surprisingly have very little complaints, except of course, the Jaehaera situation.

My poor baby deserved better, I've made a post about it in the past

(where I ranted and said stuff I kind of regret now, don't post while very angry guys I don't recommend it)

tackling how the little queen was unnecessarily killed off and how her death genuinely adds nothing so why was it added? God I get upset just thinking about it lol.

Some people say George did it cause he needed Aegon's kids to be born after Viserys's, and apparently he couldn't fathom a married teen not having kids until her 20s, which is veery weird.

The more plausible theory is that he got rid of her cause he wanted more Velaryon queens to showcase how close they used to be to the Targs.

Which is something I had understood already thanks to Alyssa, the sea Snake and all the Velaryons who were masters of ships but whatever.

#hotd #house of the dragon #hotd critical #anti team black #pro team green #rhaenyra targaryen #asoiaf #aegon ii targaryen #corlys velaryon #laenor valeryon #rhaenys targaryen #rhaenys velaryon #jaehaera targaryen #fire&blood #hotd season 2 #thanks for the ask! it was lots of fun to answer lmao

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dangermousie · 10 months

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Dramas for the first half of 2023

Now that we are six months into 2023, time to do one of these posts. I am gonna include both Korean and Chinese dramas, because why not and any drama I even checked out is on it.

DRAMAS WATCHED

29. Romance of Twin Flower (China) - make it cease existing! My favorite het web novel got murdered and then had its grave spat on.

28. Dominator of Martial Gods (China) - if MST3K still existed, this drama would be prime material for it.

27. Wanru’s Journey (China) - acting. Try it!

26. Royal Rumors (China) - they tried acting. But forgot to try having a functional screenplay on top.

25. The Last Princess (China) - acting is nonexistent and the story is trash but it never aspired to be what it wasn’t and was kinda cute.

24. Oasis (Korea) - great acting in a story with a screenplay that goes round and round fruitlessly like a hamster in a cage.

23. The Trust (China) - the OTP in this one swaps bodies but it would have been better for everyone if whoever made this and an actual competent writer swapped theirs.

22. Snow Eagle Lord (China) - yet another drama in which Xu Kai does his best to keep acting opposite a wooden costar and through a terrible screenplay. There is something seriously wrong with that man’s career choices.

21. Heartbeat (Korea) - the good: it’s harmless. The bad: it’s harmless.

20. Back from the Brink (China) - ummm the people are pretty? And if I were 10 I’d be all about this show but as is...

19. Joseon Attorney (Korea) - slightly less fun than reading a legal treatise.

18. The Starry Love (China) - the definition of a xianxia playing it safe and pastel; I did love the secondary couple a lot but it was not enough to save that snoozefest of a drama.

17. Chong Zi (China) - badly acted and a screenplay that somehow manages to be both repetitive and disjointed. But I am a sucker for the shizunfucker trope so here we are.

16. Island (Korea) - a mess but Kim Nam Gil is hot with a sword.

15. Circle of Love (China) - rationally, a hot mess. But so entertaining and addicting and fall of make outs of epicness!

14. Lady Durian (Korea) - makjang from the Queen of Makjang and with that scrumptious cast! This is gonna be GOOD!

13. The Forbidden Marriage (Korea) - sweet and oddly charming despite nobody in it bothering to act much.

12. Pledge of Allegiance (China) - the way they had to edit it likely due to censorship made it less than it what could have been but still more than most dramas this year.

11. Choice Husband (China) - delicious cliches and tropes and angst in the rain!

10. Hidden Love (China) - to make ME of all people to care about a fluffy modern is a bona fide miracle but the two mains are chemistry machines who portray longing so well.

9. Gone with the Rain (China) - wildly uneven but our heroine and the sexy general she eventually chooses are pure gold!

8. The Secret Romantic Guest House (Korea) - how to do youth sageuk right. Everything about this just works!

7. Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow (Korea) - it has flaws but is so gorgeous and full of longing and grief and everything good!

6. Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 (Korea) - a sequel/prequel that is almost as good as the original, how often does that happen?

5. See You In My 19th Life (Korea) - wacky and grieving, delicate and odd, this is everything I ever want in a kdrama.

4. Call It Love (Korea) - a truly exquisite story of trauma and loneliness and healing and love.

3. Till the End of the Moon (China) - gloriously messy in every way this is just MORE. The ending is enraging and there are issues but when it hits, it hits so hard the rest of it does not matter - the dark characters, the dysfunctional love story, the battles, the insane visuals, the EVERYTHING of it. This is what fantasy should be like.

2. Chang Feng Du/Destined (China) - came out of nowhere to own my heart via its story of growing up and finding love and slow organic relationship building and keeping your soul in a world of horrors.

1. The Ingenuous One (China) - the best one, so I am gonna talk about it below.

FAVORITE DRAMA

The Ingenuous One - so impossibly solid, from acting to visuals to screenplay to EVERYTHING! Adult characters with adult issues and choices, both moral dilemmas and battles equally compelling. The love stories, the friendships, the shades of grey. This is utterly and completely adult.

WORST DRAMA

Romance of the Twin Flower - if I could make one drama cease to exist, this would be it.

FAVORITE MALE CHARACTER

Tantai Jin, Till The End of the Moon - the best character this year hands down - by turns (and timelines) unhinged monster, a contained saint, a victim of abuse trying to attain being viewed as human, a schemer, a ruler, grief personified, curiosity and monstrosity and nobility all mingled.

Runner up: Jang Uk, Alchemy of Souls - sunshine boy gone dark and grieving, but still with that same core of steel.

FAVORITE FEMALE CHARACTER

Shim Woo Joo, Call It Love - she’s damaged and impulsive and relationship-phobic and revenge driven and glorious!

Runner Up: Shu Ya Nan (The Ingenuous One) - allowed to be tough and dark and with her own agenda and not a member of a good sect and just so cool.

NEEDS TO BE MURDERED

Han Dong Jin’s Mom, Call It Love - that woman was horrifying and the source of so much of his trauma; a real realistic monster petty in all ways except for the damage she inflicted.

FAVORITE SHIP

Gu Jiusi/Liu Yuru, Chang Feng Du - wholesome and helping each other grow and talking it out but also there is blood feeding and midnight rescues and everything. They are good but not in the least boring.

Runner Up: Woo Joo/Dong Jin, Call It Love - two wounded souls finding such slow but such amazing healing with each other.

FAVORITE SECONDARY OTP

Su Ming Yu/Ke Menglan, The Ingenuous One - there’s actually been a lot of good secondary OTPs this year (General x Fox in TTEOTM, Investigator x Princess, TIO, Rang/Mermaid, TOTNT1938) but these two owned my heart - gentleman merchant x gambling hostess ftw.

NOTP

Romance of Twin Flower - they took my favorite het novel OTP, smart and coldblooded and forces of nature and turned them into THAT?

SHIRTLESSNESS AWARD

Xiao Hong Ye, Circle of Love - guy was a terrible abuser but those pecs were the real sin!

CRAZIEST FUNFEST

Circle of Love - screenplay written by rabid monkeys and populated by a bunch of psychos but such ridiculous, irresistible fun!

FAVORITE SCENE

Tantai Jin confronting Li Susu in jail, Till the End of the Moon - the energy, the intensity, the darkness the EVERYTHING.

BIGGEST CRUSH

Li Gong Quan, The Ingenuous One - yeah whatever, I realize he’s a minor character but I loved him so much! The whole having to bring down your benefactor who’s gone evil tho you are in love with his daughter should have been a whole other drama!

BEST SCENE STEALER CHARACTER

Chen Wende, Gone with the Rain - most of this drama is not that exciting but whenever his King of Trolls hot general shows up, I sit up and pay attention. I am 35 eps deep because of him.

NEEDS A SEQUEL

The Ingenuous One - I am dying to see what happens to royal investigator and supposedly dead princess, how our OTP will travel the world, the merchant and his lady, Ten Taels and his orphans and his girl and just everything. I loved these people so!

NEEDS A DIRECTOR’S CUT

Till the End of the Moon - it was clear they cut a BUNCH in the last third to fit the ridiculous new “40 eps or bust” rule and it would flow so much more smoothly if it was allowed to breathe.

NEEDS SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

Romance of Twin Flower - it should have been shredded into nonexistence sorry not sorry.

TOO MANY SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

Pledge of Allegiance - this drama was good but had gaping lacunae where too many scissors were taken to it for censorship reasons; I am surprised even what’s left was allowed to air tbh but still...

TROPE THAT NEEDS TO DIE

Shrill = cute - I see it every year, I hate it every year.

FAVORITE TROPE WE’VE SEEN A LOT OF

Hot Men Whump - come one, TTEOTM alone would fill the quota but we also had CFD, Call It Love, See You in my 19th life etc etc.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

Back from the Brink - it’s based on a novel by an author whose other novels (Zhao Yao, Blue Whispers, Mulberry Song) I adore and the novelist was the screenwriter so I was so excited. But it was a juvenile, flat mess that de-powered the heroine and taught me that yeah, sometimes the writer should not adopt their work.

BIGGEST GOOD SURPRISE

Chang Feng Du - I loved the novel but the trailers were a fluffy bland disaster and I checked it out with zero expectations. However, this is a glorious adaptation, a lesson in how to transport a massive novel on screen into slim 40 eps and to account for changes in medium and stricter censorship restrictions for dramas versus books while keeping the essential vibe of the original.

BEST NON-2023 DRAMA I’VE WATCHED IN 2023

The Imperial Doctress (China) - the pining the pining by the Hot Emperor! This is like all my web novel dreams come true!

MOST ANTICIPATED

A Journey to Love/Prisoner of Beauty/My Journey to You/Kunning Palace - maybe one of them will air before the world ends.

#cdrama #kdrama #2023 drama list

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hannahhook7744 · 2 months

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Fate's A Bitch!;

Summary: The WORST™ thing that could happen to Anthony has happened. He's gotten a SOUL MARK. His grandmother will be so disappointed. Trigger Warnings: broken bones, minor violence, toxic friendships (pre-relationship), children being medics, swearing, panicking, dysfunctional relationships, etc.

Translations: Je m'en fous ! Je l'utilise pour une raison, alors fais chier, Dorothy!= I don't give a fuck! I'm using it for a reason, so piss off, Daphne! Oh, putain, quel gâchis.= Oh for fuck's sake, what a mess.

Happy Valentine's Day and hope you enjoy your gift, @panthera-tigris-venenata !

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It had been nine weeks since ‘Captain’ Harriet Alice Hook had broken Anthony’s nose after he had said something that, in hindsight, the thirteen year old knew was particularly stupid even for him.

NIne weeks.

And, according to Marya Rasputin—The Queen’s Fury’s self-appointed medic—, it took only about six weeks or less for a broken nose to heal with or without medical treatment depending on how severe the fracture was. And that any bruising around his nose or eyes should have gone away in two to three weeks. But it had been NINE and the knuckle shaped bruising on his nose hadn’t gone away and neither had the bruising on Harriet’s knuckles.

And, despite what many people liked to believe, Anthony wasn’t stupid—no matter how many stupid things he might have said in the past.

He knew that the ‘bruise’ on his nose was too red to be just a bruise.

He just didn’t want to admit it.

Because if he did, then he’d have to admit what it really was and destroy any and all credibility he had as a pirate (it was a pure miracle Harriet hadn’t kicked him out for disrespecting her) and as both the noble Lord Tremaine and an isle kid. Something he absolutely refused to do.

Because if he did do that, his grandmother would be disappointed and then the rest of the adults would get mad at her for being disappointed, and it’d cause a fight so loud that everyone on the isle would know that Anthony had a soul mark. Then he’d be seen as weak and everyone younger than him in the family would be seen as free game to mess with.

Something that couldn’t happen.

Anthony groaned, placing his head in his hands after giving up on trying to wipe the mark off in the hopes that it had simply been hair dye that had somehow gotten on his nose. “Oh, putain, quel gâchis.”

Only to jump when someone banged on the door.

“Anthony, will you hurry up! There are other people in the house who need the bathroom!”

“Je m'en fous ! Je l'utilise pour une raison, alors fais chier, Dorothy!” Anthony snapped, more than a little tired and freaked out.

“You can do your hair in your own room!”

“Oh shut up and go away!”

“Fine, Lord Tremaine,“ The brunette said mockingly. “But I’m telling your mom and mine that you swore at me!”

And with that, Dorothy walked away—causing Anthony to snap out of his wallowing and scramble for the door in all of his thirteen year old glory. His soul mark problem temporarily forgotten.

“No wait! Dorothy, wait!”

#descendants #melissa de la cruz #disney descendants #descendants au #disney #wicked world #disney descendants au #harriet hook #anthony tremaine #anthony tremaine x harriet hook #oc tremaine grandchild #fanfiction #descendants fanfiction #disney descendants fanfiction #descendants oc #disney descendants oc #etc

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dlrconlicense · 5 months

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Louise Brealey On Starring In BBC Three’s Upcoming Comedy Such Brave Girls

Such Brave Girls will arrive on BBC iPlayer on 22 November

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Louise Brealey is perhaps best known for her witty portrayal of lovelorn morgue technician Molly Hooper in Sherlock – but we’re loving her recent comedy work even more. She’ll next be seen in the BBC‘s hotly anticipated comedy Such Brave Girls, coming later this month. Written by Kate Sadler, Louise plays Deb, the matriarch of a dysfunctional family, trying and failing to keep her kamikaze daughters from disaster. We sat down with Louise to hear all about it.

Interview: Louise Brealey

Hi Louise, how’s life going at the moment?

Hello! It’s been a busy summer – my new film has been doing the festival circuit so there have been a lot of planes, trains and automobiles.

You’re about to star in BBC’s new series Such Brave Girls – can you give us an elevator pitch for the show?

Two messed-up twenty-something (real-life) sisters [Kat Sadler and Lizzie Davidson] and their total car crash of a mother attempt to navigate their way out of disaster and into love.

You play Deb – can you describe her?

Deb is amazing. She’s a shockingly bad mum who has completely messed up her two Gen Z daughters. I think of her as one of those vending machines at railway stations and swimming pools where you can get a Twix, but all that’s on her shelves is Tough Love.

What was it like playing her?

A terrifying hoot – she has a lot of lines.

How did you get into character/prepare for the role?

I based Deb on a little girl I used to know. You could see every emotion on her face. Guile, rage, confusion, fear. When she was cross, she scowled. When she was delighted, she beamed.

I used my real accent: Northamptonshire. It has softened over the years, so I sound a lot posher now, but it’s how my family speak and I’ve never had the chance to work using it.

Any funny stories from rehearsals or filming?

The scenes requiring our amazing intimacy coordinator, Elle McAlpine, were hysterically funny and genuinely not at all awkward. Poor Paul Bazely who plays Dev may have experienced some chafing.

What is the cast dynamic? Who was your favourite person to work with?

We are like a little family when we are filming. I feel very protective of Kat and Lizzie. And Paul is a wonderful human being and a phenomenal actor.

Are you still in touch with any of your co-stars?

Yes, we message all the time.

Josie (KAT SADLER), Deb (LOUISE BREALEY), Billie (LIZZIE DAVIDSON) in Such Brave Girls. © BBC/Various Artists Limited/James Stack

You’re perhaps best known for your role as Molly in Sherlock. What is that like to look back on?

Bittersweet because I don’t feel we finished it, and we have lost Una Stubbs. But it was incredible to be a part of what was really a phenomenon. It couldn’t happen now with streaming.

Any special memories from the show?

Too many. Having a candle in an egg custard tart (my favourite) on my birthday in Benedict’s trailer… Laughing and laughing with darling Una and Rupert Graves, who is a dreamboat.

You’ve also starred in the likes of Lockwood & Co, Brian and Charles and Back recently. But what has been your favourite project to date?

I loved working on Clique for the BBC a few years back. I got to play a hard-ass Queen Bee university lecturer in power suits who was afraid of no one, and then to completely fall apart. In an Edinburgh accent.

I loved Lockwood & Co. How does it feel for the show to be cancelled after just one series?

I felt so bad for the young cast, the crew, the fans and everyone whose livelihoods depended on the show coming back. It got such fantastic reviews and great viewing figures. I feel like the hoop it had to jump through for the streamer was just too impossibly small.

Any roles in the pipeline that you’re excited about? (If you’re allowed to tell us!)

I’m the lead in a lesbian chicken factory musical film called Chuck Chuck Baby.

Who has been your favourite actor to work with in the past?

This is much too hard. There have been so many that I admired, and some I now call dear friends. But my buddy Jeff Rawle I’ve worked with three times now, and we are trying to make it a fourth.

Which co-star did you learn the most from?

Antonia Pemberton, who played Nanny in Peter Hall’s Uncle Vanya when I was Sonya. She told me not to keep tomatoes in the fridge.

What’s your dream role?

I’m desperate to get back on stage. I’ve been doing film and television for the past seven years, but theatre is my heart and my home.

What’s a genre you’d like to do more of?

I’d like a good horror. I can’t watch them because I’m a scaredy-cat, but I’d love to be in one.

Do you get to spend much time at home?

Not enough. I’ve been gadding about.

Do you live in the town or the country? Which do you prefer?

I’ve lived in London since I left university. I live on a hill next to an oak tree, so it feels like we are in the branches. I can never leave London because I’d miss the culture stuff, but I am a woodland creature.

What’s your interior design style?

A mish-mash of old things I’ve found in auctions. Too many books.

How do you find balance in your personal and work lives?

I don’t.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

An astronaut.

If you could give advice to your 15-year-old self, what would it be?

Don’t sleep with that guy’s flatmate when you are 21.

How can we all live a little bit better?

Choose love.

Anything fun in the pipeline – professionally or personally?

I’m going to run away to a southern European city for January and February to write.

Quick Fire

I’m currently watching… Only Murders in the Building

What I’m reading… We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The last thing I watched (and loved) was… Silo. I love Rebecca Ferguson.

What I’m most looking forward to seeing… The Motive and the Cue with Mark Gatiss in the West End because I was away for its National Theatre run.

Favourite film of all time… Don’t Look Now

Favourite song of all time… ‘Disco 2000’ by Pulp

Band/singer I always have on repeat… Leonard Cohen

My ultimate cultural recommendation… Join all the museums and galleries

Cultural guilty pleasure… Overcooked 2. It’s computer game where you run around and try to make kebabs.

What’s next for me is… Walking my dog in Beckenham Place Park – it’s south London’s secret mini Hampstead Heath.

Watch

Louise Brealey stars in Such Brave Girls, on BBC iPlayer from 22 November. bbc.co.uk

#Louise Brealey #Such Brave Girls #BBC3 #A24 #I'm loving all the Loo-tent recently #She has a little shout out to Mark Gatiss in the quick fire section #I share her sentiment on Sherlock ending

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So, I can get the reason that the show had Eun-seong and Seul-hee be such big characters. With the dysfunction in the family, I don't know if the family would be able to come together in the way that they did once Hae-in's illness came out if they didn't lose everything because of Seul-hee and Eun-seong. I also don't know if Hae-in would have revealed anything to her family about her illness until she was closer to death if Eun-seong hadn't forced her hand. I also don't know if Hyun-woo would have gotten to the point where he realized he still had feelings for Hae-in if he didn't have to deal with Eun-seong's clear interest in Hae-in. I'm sure that someone who had more interest in writing and storytelling them me would be able to make it happen, but I was okay with what the show was trying to do with Eun-seong and Seul-hee.

Where I ultimately think the show messed up in regards to Eun-seong and Seul-hee is having Eun-seong be delulu in love with Hae-in. I think it would have been better if Eun-seong grew up angry at the Hong family because his mom chose them over her own son, causing him to experience a lot of trauma. As Eun-seong got older, he began to understand more and more how messed up his mom was and wanted to understand what it was about the Hong family that made his mom decide living with that family was more important than living with her son. Through the years, he had some interactions with the Hong family, including Hae-in, and realized how fucked up the Hong family was. He'd then get mad at the Hong family all over again. So, when Seul-hee came to him talking about how she had done everything for him and that she wanted to work with him to take over the Queens group, Eun-seong realized he had the opportunity to bring down both the Hong Family and his mother.

Eun-seong then getting in between Hae-in and Hyun-woo wouldn't have been because he was in love with Hae-in and thought they should be together, but more because Eun-seong knew that he needed to get Hyun-woo out of the picture if he wanted his plan to work. So, by inserting himself into Hae-in's life, he could play on the marital discord between Hae-in and Hyun-woo and isolate him from the family. Once the Hong family lost everything, Eun-seong could then turn to making sure his mom lost everything. When Hyun-woo was still trying to make trouble, Eun-seong's actions could have been more focused on trying to make Hyun-woo stop being a pest than trying to get with Hae-in.

So, all in all, if the show had chosen to not make Eun-seong motivated by his delulu love for Hae-in and instead wanting to bring down both his mother and the Hong family for experiencing all the trauma he did, his motivations would be a lot less infuriating and we could have gotten a lot more meaningful focus on on Hae-in and Hyun-woo's relationship.

#queen of tears

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Hateration holleration, teevee edition, with important new critical evaluation features:

APPLES NEVER FALL (2024): Engrossing, often funny seven-part mystery-drama, based on a novel by Liane Moriarty, about the dysfunctional family of retired tennis pros Stan and Joy Delaney (Sam Neill and Annette Bening), whose four adult kids — rich dipshit Troy (Jake Lacy), hot mess Amy (Alison Brie), perpetually resentful Brooke (Essie Randles), and neurotic underachiever Logan (Conor Merrigan Turner) — begin to unravel after Joy mysteriously disappears. Did Stan kill her? Does Joy's disappearance have something to do with their former houseguest Savannah (Georgia Flood), a troubled young woman who had persuaded Joy and Stan to take her in under what may have been false pretenses? Everyone knows something more than they're telling, as the situation brings old resentments bubbling to the surface. Perhaps a smidgen too arch for its own good, and the shifting flashback structure sometimes makes it hard to keep track of the sequence of events, but consistently interesting and refreshingly nuanced, with well-drawn characters and excellent performances. (Neill, Bening, and Flood are particularly good.) Only the finale falls short: Certain key character motivations remain murky, and the final scenes are a bit flat, perhaps an inevitable consequence of a story that flits between tones and genres in a way that leaves it without a natural endpoint. Also, the South Florida setting isn't always convincing; big portions of the series were actually shot in Australia. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Yes! (More than one, even.) VERDICT: Flawed but worthwhile.

THE BROTHERS SUN (2024): One-season action-comedy-drama series about an infamous triad underboss from Taipei, Charles Sun (Justin Chien), who's sent to America to protect his mother (Michelle Yeoh) and younger brother Bruce (Sam Song Li) after a cunningly staged attack by an unknown enemy puts his father (Johnny Kou) in the hospital. Mama Sun scarcely needs protection, but the same isn't true of Bruce, a dorky pre-med student who really wants to do improv, and who's totally out of place in his family's world of ultraviolence and organized crime. Meanwhile, Charles' childhood friend Alexis (Highdee Kuan), who's still sweet on him, is now an ambitious assistant DA who sees taking down the triads as a defining career move. Starts off disarmingly light (though always quite violent), but gets significantly darker as it goes on, which really isn't to its credit — after the cheerful amorality of the early episodes, the increasingly maudlin themes of conflicted family loyalty feel heavy-handed, culminating in a credibility-straining climax with about as much subtlety as a cement mixer. It could also have used more Michelle Yeoh and less Sam Li, whose character is such a feckless dweeb that he sometimes grates. Chien actually makes Charles a more credible character than Bruce, impressive considering the level of pulpy plot contrivance involved. A planned second season was canceled, but except for a post-credits tag in the finale, the story feels reasonably complete. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Not so as you'd notice. VERDICT: Starts well, veers too far into turgid melodrama.

PALM ROYALE (2024): Fingernails-on-chalkboard would-be social satire, set in 1969 and featuring Kristen Wiig (with a singularly unconvincing Georgia accent) as conniving but vapid former beauty queen Maxine Simmons, who for some unaccountable reason is determined to wheedle her way into the Palm Beach upper crust, by hook or by crook, while secretly squatting in the mansion of society matron Norma Dellacorte (Carol Burnett), who almost no one realizes is actually in a coma. The glib voiceover narration recalls the early seasons of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, but with no bite and no apparent point — there's no reason to care about the premise, the plot, or any of the characters, who are neither sympathetic enough to be likable nor bitchy enough to be fun. Wiig is just awful, straining to prove she can do the kind of role that in recent years has usually gone to Margot Robbie; she can't, and she's obviously at least 10 years too old for her character. The period production design is suitably glossy, but an interesting supporting cast (including Laura Dern, Allison Janney, and Leslie Bibb) is completely defeated by the dreadful scripts, and Ricky Martin (built like a marble statue with acting to match) eventually arrives to stink up the proceedings as Norma's loyal houseboy. I only barely made it through the third episode, and the idea of enduring seven more is too painful to contemplate. If you're in the mood for genteel Southern bitchiness, you'd get more out of a highlight reel of Rue McLanahan scenes from THE GOLDEN GIRLS, which would actually be funny. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Not in the first three episodes. VERDICT: Alternately dull and agonizing.

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hey galaxythreads. i think the 1602 verse has the ideal dynamics for the odinson kids. hela is queen instead of discarded. thor has all of his siblings safe in one place (well before the portal. rip hela). and loki is unburdened by the throne and is given the attention he yearns (theatre). like good for them. plus. they are all drama queens. good on carter for calling them out.

personally, I love the dysfunctional mess that COULD have been a post Ragnarok arc, but 1602 was kinda fun, i guess? It was just so...calm, lol. I hated Loki in it, he just felt like comic relief, but i think there's an interesting story to poke at (before the universe is being ripped into shreds and Hela is killed (rip)). Like if I wrote 1602, it would be so much darker, but the concept of the world appeals to me.

Idk, part of the appeal of the Odinsibs to me right now is NOT that they all get along, but that they don't. I love just smashing them together and letting them destroy each other while simultaneously putting the broken parts back together.

But captain Carter was absolutely right. Thor is WAAAAAAY more of a drama queen than Loki is. They're all awful about presentation and flashy entrances (love them for this), but Thor is just SO dramatic it's ridiculous. I love him for this. Have you guys seen that post about Thor's drama? i haven't seen it for a while, but every time it comes up i always feel so bad for Thor who missed out on his real calling:

being a supervillain.

#thor #what if season 2 #what if season 2 spoilers

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Neuro-divergent queen > femme fatale witch GF.

Sorry Alys stans I said what I said. Stalest character trope ever.

OOPS TOO REAL

I really hope they go with the particular interpretation of Alys that she just did what she had to do to save her life and she manipulated him and played him and deliberately sent Aemond to his death 💚🖤

Meanwhile Helaena is the true love of his life, no matter how messed up and dysfunctional that may be. With her, he experiences true and pure love, and when he’s apart from her, he loses the best part of himself and descends into unbridled cruelty and malice 🐉🔥

#helaemond #anon #ask #I’m here for alysmond but only in a very particular way #I stan Alys if she deliberately drove him to his death #and then used her pregnancy by him to assert dominance #I respect the girl boss in her soooo much #but helaemond is tru love babey

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Phase 02-Book 01: Dia Rosa Rudje (pt. 4)

Previously: In an instant, Ace felt cold dread seep through his bones. He slowly turned towards the source of the voice behind him. And saw his Houswarden giving him a disapproving look.

“H-HOUSEWARDEN?!”

~Twisted Tonelico~

“Hey, Rids! Fancy seeing you hanging out with us!” Cater said, obviously trying to de-escalate the situation.

“No need to be coy with me, Cater.” said boy stopped Diamond from continuing. “I heard him call me ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unreasonable’. It’s obvious to me you have not learned your lesson at all.” He crossed his arms in disapproval. “And to think I thought you had a change of heart.”

“No no no! I do!” “It wasn’t about you, I swear!” Ace began to try and make excuses.

Deuce, Grim, and Meryu all looked at him in shame. ‘Should’ve kept your mouth shut, Ace. Should've kept it shut.’

Riddle heard enough of his rambling. “Silence! You have no qualm claiming I’m in the wrong when you're the one who chose to break the Queen of Hearts’ rules. And it's clear to me that you still need to learn your lesson. The collar will stay on until you show me genuine effort.”

“And fear not, your first year doesn’t involve the use of magic in any of the curriculum. So you won’t lose too much in class.”

“...Excuse me. Mr. Riddle?”

He turns his sight towards the newer pair of students. “And you are the ones that caused a ruckus at the Opening Ceremony. I’m surprised the Head Mage did not expel you when he should have.”

That stung the Reyvateil, but she still continued her piece. “I know that what Ace did wasn’t right? But, maybe if you could reconsider-”

“No buts,” he cut her off. “Rules exist to keep everyone in check. To prevent chaos and dysfunction. Whatever you have to say does not excuse the actions of rule breakers.” he was firm in his stance. “Failure to follow the rules leads one to lose their head.”

She turned her head in guilt and embarrassment. He really doesn't want to give Mr. Ace a second chance? One broken rule should not ruin one’s life forever.

Riddle gave her one last look before changing the subject. “Any who, finish your lunch quickly. Queen of Hearts Number 271: One should eat lunch and leave their seat within fifteen minutes. If you break the rules…” he smirked at Ace. “I’m sure you understand, right? ”

Ace reluctantly answered. “Yes, Housewarden…”

“What was that?”

“YES, HOUSEWARDEN!!” Deuce joined Ace in unison. Riddle nodded in approval.

Soon, the Ruby haired warden left, after being assured by Trey that he will keep an eye on the two first years. As he left he muttered about another rule regarding lemon tea and two sugar cubes and an empty pot. “...Letting the sugar pot run out of sugar cubes is a huge offense.”

Drip, drip…

“Hmm?” Meryu heard some dripping sounds and looked around the mess hall. What was that?

Cater let out a huge sigh of relief. “That was close!” He leaned into the table, feigning exhaustion.

“He seems like the type of guy who’s super evil,” Grim said. Deuce scolded the cat for insulting his leader.

Trey looked at Meryu, who seemed worried. He placed a hand on her shoulder, which caught her attention. “Please don’t let what Riddle get to you. He is a nice guy.”

She gave a half hearted smile, still bothered by what Riddle said, but also worried about what that strange dripping noise was. Where did it come from? she glanced back the way Riddle left, uncertainty in heart. It couldn’t be from him, could it?

“What am I gonna do?! I’m gonna be stuck with this crappy collar forever!!” Ace grieved. He began to beg Meryu for help. “Please tell me you know a song that can remove this!! PLEASE!!”

“I’m NOT a miracle worker, Mr. Ace! And, no I don’t,” she crossed her arms in annoyance at the boy thinking she’s a Genie or Djinn. “Besides, even if I did- which I don’t- I’m not strong enough to do it!”

Deuce agreed with his friend about not removing the collar. Granted, he may not get what she means by ‘strong enough’, but forcing someone else to solve your problems is a low blow idea. Grim was more mad at Ace commanding his minion to do something for him.

Meanwhile, Cater and Trey glanced at each other, confused by what the two were talking about. The latter narrowed his eyes at the Heart. “Now, Ace. You can’t ask someone else to fix your mistake. If you really want to make it up to Riddle, there is something else you could try.”

“Yeah!” Cater added. “Rizz up Rids with a gift and he’ll be willing to forgive ya!”

…

Suddenly, Ace was hit with an epiphany! “Hey~ Trey-senpai! You wouldn’t happen to have an idea for what to make as an apology, would you~?”

Said greenette arched a brow at Ace. “Well,” he started. “I was thinking of making a new tart for the Unbirthday Party. A mont blanc, to be exact.”

“So~ you wouldn't mind helping me make this tart for me, then?”

“...Sure,” Ace leaped for joy. “But. I’m not doing this for free.” Then he deflated. He looked to his senior who gave him an amused expression. “If you want to make it up to Riddle, you’re gonna help me make it.”

“Huh/ Say what now?” from Deuce and Grim.

~Night Raven: School Kitchen~

After the last class had ended for the day, Trey set up a spot for them to use the staff kitchens. So long as they made sure to clean up after themselves, students could use the Mess Hall equipment with consent from the head chefs. He told his juniors the best way to get some chestnuts are located around the school grounds; he tells them the best place is the forest behind the main building.

With that information in mind, they head out to the forest to find some chestnuts for the mont blanc. This place is quite lush, she thought to herself. So many fruit trees bloom and woodland critters scurry about the area. It gives off a semblance of life and color to the gloomy building.

Grim wandered away from her to search for the chestnuts in question, while Ace and Deuce searched the other end. The troublesome critter ran and ran til he spotted some in the tree branches above him. “FOUND THEM!!��

“You did it, Grim!” the Reyvateil looked above them, seeing that there were plenty of ripe ones in the tree. “Now we need to-”

“Ow ow ow!!”

“...Be careful grabbing them down.” Grim had pricked himself on a chestnut trying to get one with his bare paws. She shook her head at the feline.

Ace and Deuce met up with the pair after hearing Grim’s howl. “Great! We found them. But, how are we gonna get them down?”

Good question, Meryu pondered. “The school should have safety equipment, shouldn’t it?”

“Oh yeah! They have a Greenhouse here. There should be some stuff there for us to nab ‘em!”Ace answered.

~Night Raven: Botanical Garden~

The quartet had arrived at the massive Greenhouse built not too far from the main campus. It was almost like they stepped into an exotic Botanical paradise as the place has countless plants from almost everywhere in Twisted Wonderland. And according to the school directory plaque by the entrance, the tools for handling plants were located here like Ace had mentioned.

They split up again to find the place where the tools were at: Ace to the left, Deuce to the right, and Grim and Meryu took the center path.

The duo traveled down the path, admiring the countless and luscious trees and flowers. Granted, it was Meryu admiring and Grim feigning interest since he wondered how they even managed to have so many plants at the school. They were both caught up with the sights, they didn't notice the ‘branch’ on the path.

“Ow.” They both heard a growl. The source sounded close.

“What was that?” Grim’s fur stood on end. He jumped off the girl’s shoulder and into her vest to hide.

Out from the bushes next to them stood a tall, annoyed man. “You have alot of nerve stepping on my tail like that.”

He looked to be a student, with a golden yellow armband on his left arm and matching vest. Bronze skin with two lion ears adorned on his head with long, brown hair reaching past his shoulders with two braids caressing his face. His face had a scar on his left side which highlighted two emerald orbs.And his tail swishing conveying his anger at getting stepped on.

The student before them was beautiful, though rightfully pissed…

Like a predator to his prey, he leaned forward to Meryu’s face. “How do you plan to pay me back, Herbivore?”

…

“I’M SORRY!!”

~Phase 02-Book 01: Part 04-Tes biron~

#twisted wonderland #twst #ar tonelico #twst x ar tonelico au #twisted tonelico #twistedwonderland

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As I see it, Harry wasn't really The Queens problem, he has always been Charles'. So Charles rightly gets criticised for letting him run wild.

Back when the Queen was alive, Harry was the son of the Prince of Wales, ie., the son of the son of the monarch. When he was acting bad, irresponsibly, creating PR nightmares and making demands of the monarchy, he was doing this as the son of the heir. So his father should have dealt with it directly, harshly, pointedly in a way that shuts him up and makes sure he knows he can't get away with thinking he is too important.

But what we got was the constant PR that he is the queens favorite grandson, that he is just a lads lad, he is a war hero, he is super nice, normal, empathetic and the cost eligible bachelor. On top of that, Charles made it known very early on and very publiclithat Harry is part of his slimmed down monarchy.

Then Charles Ok-ed the hair-brained idea of lumping Harry with W+C early on in their marriage, effectively making them a trio I stead of making the couple shine on their own as a power couple.

All of this was (probably) done with idea of cementing 'the legacy of Charles and his golden boys' in public minds. To be blunt, Charles utilized the Halo around the solid, shiny unit that was 'Dianas two boys' and used it in a way that bleeds into his reign. He used Diana's Goodwill that was projected onto her two sons and used it indirectly for his own PR.

What he didn't count or rather did not care about, was Harry's own dysfunction. Harry wasn't mentally ever equipped to be such a high profile public figure. And his personality and character was always lacking (as seen in Spare his own words).

A grandmother sees her grandchildren through rose rimmed glasses. A queen delegates day to day family issues to responsible family members. A queen cannot be taking care of her grandsons petulance and emotional neediness. When it came to her own son, irrespective of what people say, she took him away from public life and kept him away from public duties. And she made sure to announce these decisions publicly so everyone can separate his stupidity from her. (In a way, so to speak, all of Andy's nonsense is his own responsibility. Noone says queen enabled his creepy paedo-ness).

But people do say Charles enabled Harry's sociopathy because we now have evidence that Charles kept him from taking responsibility, public encouraged with rewards Everytime he acted badly in private, polished that turd and avoided punishing him every step of the way.

For 37 years that Harry has existed, his father was the heir - basically waiting for an official job. Not directly in power. So he could have, should have taken care of this problem earlier. Now that he is king, he is busy yes. He has bigger responsibilities, yes. But he has only been king for 6 months and look how much the Harry shit-pile has accumulated.

Harry was always Charles' responsibility as a future monarch and his father. Not the Queen's, who was 2 degrees of separation away from Harry.

Well said anon. Children are the responsibility of the parents, not the grandparents (unusual circumstances not withstanding). Adult children on the other hand....my parents stopped being responsible for me when I turned 18, and even more so when I graduated college and got a job.

Here is the thing about The Queen (I was reminded of this by a friend), people seem unaware of her long history. When it came to dealing with problems that were detrimental to the monarchy, she absolutely did deal with them, arguably a little late in come cases.

Guess who dealt with Edward and Wallis in the most decisive manner? The Queen. While she was her 20s no less!

Guess who dealt with Princess Margaret's giant mess? The Queen.

Guess who dealt with Charles and Diana'a marriage and ordered the long overdue and highly necessary divorce? The Queen

Did she get "soft" in her final years? Sure. But then again, Charles is still in his 70s and The Queen was in her 90s by the time the recent storms came to a head.

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(Butterfly Reign chapter 24 spoilers)

As much as I adore br!Tommy, I am GLAD his stunt to frame br!Ranboo won't be rewarded. In fact I was hoping for it and holy damn did the author deliver.

I've been worried over how much anger has clouded Tommy's vision so much for him to truly realize which people are truly to blame of his current circumstances (*cough*philza), hell, maybe he does know, but regardless of how dysfunctional they are, regardless of how much he thinks he's disowned them, and from the way he literally had his fur standing on end when Beau confronted him of his brother's insolence, he still thinks of them as family, they ARE still his family. And that is the exact bane that makes him downscale how actually downright nasty their actions, or lack of thereof, had done to his wellbeing.

Ranboo is just the prime example of some poor worm that Tommy deems fit to throw his anger on because he's not his family, he doesn't know Ranboo the way Tommy knows his family. That despite how much more of a fit target his father and brothers are for his anger, its Ranboo he thinks as his enemy, because he's a stranger he doesn't have a history with, a nuisance, a mere rat that crawled its way in, therefore its easy to bare his fangs on him as the one big bad who'd stolen his family's affections, despite knowing it had never been his for a long time now.

Their dynamic is literally just two deprived children stuck under the emotional whims of the adults around them, with their double standards and different treatment leading them to be pitted against each other. They know this, but one brother is obsessed in the most horrifying ways, the father just downright doesn't fucking care, and the other brother is too indecisive, an enabler who only helps to pick up the pieces after the damage is done, which is almost just as worse, but I still got the barest hope for him.

Over all I just want to get them both outta this damn whole mess 😭

Now Tommy's actions, led by spite, bigotry, and anger has come back to bite him in the ass and I am but a grim audience already in acceptance of the upcoming mess this will become.

He had definitely gone too far, to use the memento his dead mother left in that way? I'm so sorry Tommy, but the next possible chain of events might just be the queen giving you bonk from the grave.

#mcyt fic #butterfly reign #meep stuff #this got too long oh my god

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List of dramas where the large age gaps (regardless of gender) didn’t deter the chemistry or ruin the drama for you, including noona romances where the age gap IS the plot

And dramas where they didn’t. I ask because I have been recommended the Turkish drama Aziz and I’m hesitant because the age gap between the two bothers me too much. Of course it is just my opinion and no one else’s and I could be wrong about it but it posed a major hindrance to me

sure! here's some that come to mind--not taking into account actual actor ages because i am too lazy to look them up :'D

Female Lead is the Older One aka Noona Romances

empress ki. QUEEN SHIT. she's older & more experienced in life than her ultimate love interest (#spoilers) and the chemistry is A++++

find yourself was a fun if average drama, but the chemistry between the leads was A+

the glory okay there's not a ton of shippiness yet, but i'm 100% sold on the potential of them in the first half

someday or one day is kind of screwy, since it's about time travelers, so who's the oldest switches around quite a bit. alice ke i think is more than 5 years older than her love interest though

eternal love: ten miles of peach blossoms. the female lead i think is like. 10s of thousands of years older than her final love interest; visually they look around the same age though #immortals

my fated boy bored me and i ended up dropping it, but the chemistry iirc was fine and the show operates on the noona romance trope

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Male Lead is the Older One

the rise of phoenixes im actually not sure how old the characters are supposed to be, but there's a sizable age gap IRL between them. the chemistry is RIDICULOUS

love between fairy and devil sort of counts? visually, they're around the same age, but the male lead has 1000s of years on the female lead in-story #immortals

because this is my first life has two couples where there's an age gap and they're both pretty great

moon lovers: scarlet heart ryeo is an entertaining rollercoaster mess of a drama, and the leads have great chemistry

my liberation notes this one isn't as straight up romantic as the other dramas listed, but there's about a 10 year gap between the leads and they work really well together

when a man falls in love. this drama is not universally liked (in fact, most people hate it but THEYRE WRONG), but it basically operates on the age gap/power gap trope and is a dysfunctional ride full of morally grey characters. i loved it, but i love mess so take that as you will

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edit: OOPS, sorry, missed the second part of the ask. dramas where the chemistry/age gap didnt work for me:

romance is a bonus book. i didnt vibe with the main couple and i think the ML had some big maturity problems as of where i left off. also i never mentally got over the fact that she was divorced A FULL ASS YEAR and he didnt know????

cheese in the trap. i liked this drama but the ML just felt way, way older than everyone around him so it’d be a little off when he’d get involved in the petty campus antics

mr sunshine. i didnt feel it between eugene and ae sin. at all. literally any of her other love interests would have been preferred

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what music/games do you all listen to

Doc here. The rest of the crew is out on operations and Carl is in surgery for the fifth time this year, so I'll answer you. Sorry 'bout the delay.

Mistral likes Arch Enemy a lot. I didn't really take her for a death metal gal, but hey, what do I know. She listens to a lot of New Wave, too. She LOVES Blondie and got me and the guys (except Sundowner) into Joy Division. Mistral also listens to a lot of film scores to wind down, especially Gladiator and Blade Runner.

As for games, I know she's a big fan of older action games, the older Resident Evils, Quake and Doom and whatnot. Talks a lot of shit in fps forums.

Monsoon is...something. Handing him the aux when we go out is like a game of auditory Russian roulette. He could put on some Ros Sereysothea from when he was a kid. He could play nothing but Die Antwoord. He could play 70's Queen. He could play incoherent electronic sounds until you scream at him.

He's the biggest gamer out of all of us, his favorites are DMC and Bayonetta. He's competing in the Wii Taser Boxing tournament with Sundowner and I now, and if he wins, we'll be hearing about it for the next six months.

Sundowner is a simple man. He likes rock, country, and that's about it. We have a lot of the same taste in country artists, we grew up on Cash, Nelson, Jennings, and, as much as he'll deny it, he'd take a bullet for Dolly Parton. Sadly, with the exception of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Motörhead, his taste in rock is a bag of hot shit. Once I tried to tell him Five Finger Death Punch is for angry alcoholics with erectile dysfunction and he just yelled "HELL YEAH BROTHER" and cranked it louder.

He isn't really a video game guy. The only video game he plays is Wii Sports, and he only plays it because I challenged him.

Sam, interestingly enough, likes grunge and 80's rock. Some of his favorite bands are Van Halen, Foo Fighters, and Iron Maiden. He can sing almost every Black Sabbath song in Portuguese. He's been trying to learn Eruption on guitar. Once we were out drinking and he somehow managed to play it flawlessly on some kid's ukulele. I guess beer gives him guitarist powers. Oh, and he loves Shakira. No matter where he is, if you put her on, he will drop everything and get up to dance. Flawlessly.

Sam's our second biggest gamer. He's a fighting game guy. I still can't beat him at Mortal Kombat or Guilty Gear. He could probably thrash me with his eyes shut, too. Maybe I'm too old for this shit.

Intern Carl probably listens to Imagine Dragons or some dumb shit like that. Probably plays Tetris on his stupid little phone.

I listen to a lot of country, I also had a buddy back at ArmsTech who got me into industrial music. We used to swap cassettes while we worked, I'd listen to his mix while he'd listen to my Merle tape. I hope he's doing well.

I haven't gamed much. I remember liking Half Life a lot when I was younger. Had a coworker who's last name was Freeman, so I used to mess with him, talking to him in an awful G-Man impression...miss that guy.

That should answer your question. Sorry again about the wait; Desperados stay pretty busy.

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