#the drama would be delightful

[zeb-z]

as much as Bad very much does care for the well being of all the eggs, as much as Leo of course cares for her tio, the fact remains that Roier is her closest family and caretaker right now, and he Does Not Trust Bad. not with the time of day, not with the location of Pepito’s room, certainly not with Leo. and it’s like, after everything that happened in Purgatory, it’s to be expected. it doesn’t matter how much Bad has cared for the eggs, it doesn’t matter how much we as the audience know he’d do everything in his power to keep any one of them safe - the fact remains that his actions have tarnished the trust he’s built with some of the other islanders. it remains to be seen how this’ll come into play with the rest of Red, as they’re still missing, but it’s super obvious with Roier.

I doubt Roier will be on tomorrow to take care of Leo, and I know Bad is planning on giving her cookies and taking care of her. and I’d bet money this’ll be another point of tension against Bad - yes, even though he’s watching out for Leo. I keep coming back around to actions having consequences, but it’s prevalent, and this is one of the many Bad is experiencing - a complete lack of faith and trust from the others because of his actions in Purgatory.

#either that or maybe it’ll get Roier to trust bad a bit more. I kinda doubt it though #it keeps circling back around to purgatory but it’s so prevalent rn with what’s going on and how people treat bad #it’s like. yeah it makes sense Roier would not want bad taking care of Leo. it doesn’t matter that we know bad only cares about her he #doesn’t get that trust anymore. like #it sucks because ofc we know bad has only ever cared about the eggs. and it’s always been known to everyone else #but purgatory still frayed the trust enough to put doubt on that #by Roier at least. etoiles’ level of trust still means he trusts him w the eggs as far as I’ve seen #idk we’ll see what happens we’ll see #im just delighted at purgatory having lasting consequences. drama and intrigue and fraying trust. it’s interesting #and to be clear - I am so glad bad will be there to take care of Leo tomorrow jfjskfkd #mcyt #qsmp #q!roier #q!bbh #z speaks

[sketching-shark]

Another point in the hardworking ZBJ agenda is how whenever SWK is injured, ZBJ's the first on the scene healing and helping him. Dude's really like "id sell that BiMaWen out for a single corn chip <3" but SWK gets something in his eye and ZBJ's like "HOU'GE ARE YOU ALRIGHT???"

SO TRUE ANON. From what I understand the Red Boy arc is an important piece in the "Zhu Bajie complains all the time but works hard and cares deeply" agenda. It's definitely neat as well how much genuine growth there is in the relationship between Zhu Bajie and Sun Wukong over the course of the journey too. Pig man and monkey man enemies to besties fr <3

#xiyouji #jttw #journey to the west #zhu bajie #zhu wuneng #sun wukong #monkey king #sfagtea really is delightful how many 'and ANOTHER reason Mr. Pigsy is great is...' anons I'm getting these days #I've only heard secondhand about how that's kind of a common sentiment in China #pretty neat to potentially see it becoming true of the west as well #anon answered #also ough I definitely would love to see a retelling with more interactions between Niù Mòwàng and Zhu Bajie with Sun Wukong in the middle #I think that dynamic would be very interesting #potentially heart-wrenching #but also very funny #a bull and a pig fight over whether a monkey is their bestest of besties #all while the monkey doesn't get what the drama is about

[vaguely-concerned]

cause of death: the way that even after shaking off zhao yunlan’s grip on his arm in this scene, shen wei still comes back to gently brush their hands together before he moves away

(and zhao yunlan’s fingers curl softly against his hand in answer too)

truly this man is just operating at peak yearning at all times the poor fucker

#I must repeat: THE scene of all time my good god #guardian #zhenhun c drama #weilan #shen wei #zhao yunlan #if I knew how to gif I would gif this. but as it stands please have my meticulous screencap documentation instead lol #also it will be forever hilarious to me that shen wei is more Shook by zhao yunlan being upset with him #than he is when he goes a whole episode thinking he accidentally killed that cat lady fhskfas he's just like 'oh my bad. fs in chat' #he seems mildly pleasantly surprised to find she didn't die after all. as one might be to find there are enough leftovers to eat for dinner #and that's all #and then whenever zhao yunlan is the least bit mad at him he has a small existential breakdown in real time #the power of bae I suppose #(show!shen wei is less overtly hashtag feral deep down but he DOES have thsi phlegmatic mellow savageness I find both deeply endearing #and very very funny #it does make him feel strange and a bit alien in a similar way but by different paths and it's delightful)

[vegaseatsass]

So one of my favorite underrated elements of Gap was just how much damn fun the group of friends is. Raucous mean girls who turn their bullying to good when they become the lesbian village it takes to raise a Sam. I never finished Secret Crush On You but the friends groups in that were also the stars of what I saw of the show. So I'm really really really happy Idolfactory is continuing this trend in The Sign! The groupchat cannot shut UP about Yai. Laura called him revolutionary: the first straight man hag. We cannot get enough.

#the biggest revelations for me so far were 1. this is not (as the teaser i watched a year ago led me to believe) actually a cop action drama #it is a past lives mythology monsterboy drama with some cop action on the side #if i had known that i would have started so much sooner!! but alas i was off tumblr #so instead i just got to be surprised and enthralled! and full of monstergirl monsam daydreams #2. you can write a super buff straight man i find unpleasant to look at and instantly turn him into my favorite character #just by making him (LITERALLY) applaud his gay friends' sex lives #khem tells the story of his first time with thongthai and the crowd goes wild! the crowd is yai #his slow-beaming delight any time queer homies in his vicinity get together #his supreme overinvestment in shipping tharn with phaya past all sense and reason #it is a delight i was thoroughly unprepared for #waiting to find out he was from like the cupid species in his past life #anyway i can't actually look at anythingggg anyone else is saying until we're caught up #but i'm really enjoying myself! ty tumblr!!! #the sign #idolfactory #dear diary

[mistspinner]

one thing the Netflix Sandman is doing an excellent job of is showing us exactly why Destruction wanted out of this family

#if I had to deal with all that dysfunction I too would fuck off to nowhere #the sandman #sandman tv #destiny and death: eldest siblings who keep trying to parent you #dream: obsessive emo edgelord #desire: messy bitch who lives to create drama #despair: enables desire #delirium; a delight but cannot be left alone for her safety and that of those around her

[iwtvdramacd18]

My super specific Season 2 wish is that we hear Claudia do the famous Lestat fuck ass laugh that everybody hates. And it's directed at Armand

#I understand why we got The Laugh TM only once in S1 #like ofc Louis is going to fixate on it specifically then because it reads like Lestat is actively mocking him #and by that time we know Lestat is enough of a piece of shit to actually do that and his behavior later also adds to that being believable #But it actually being Lestat being like legit delighted and finding it funny louis would even feel the need to ask if he's enough #He's just got a horrible nervous tic adjacent laugh #Anyway claudia inherit the laugh craft it as a weapon against louis new sugar daddy. #drama txt

[hua-fei-hua]

due to a series of wacky hijinks, am watching a recording of a peking opera called "a drunken concubine", but the only subtitles are in simplified chinese so like fuck me i guess. anyway having read a summary in english beforehand i at least know the gist of the plot, and i am, like, surprisingly enthralled by what's going on

#the very delightful parts are when i Understand The Dialogue ofc. every so often i pause to look up repeated phrases #not gonna lie i was expecting to get kinda bored w/it n close the tab but i'm just like 'damn... what drunken antics are next.' #花話 #but it's also fun to watch bc i'm like 'this would make for a solid script [for competitive speech] if it were in english' #like imperial court drama? already pretty solid premise. 4-5 diff chars w/speaking lines is a good limit #n they have distinctive personalities to draw postures n voices from #(this is probably kind of incomprehensible considering how Niche competitive speech is as an extracurricular lol) #but anyway a lot of scripts that are supposed to be comedic are mid bc they're like predictably fake #AND ALSO MOST OF THE COMEDIES ARE WRITTEN FOR MALE PERFORMERS. the ones written for girls are so trite it's infuriating #they're also kind of stereotypically misogynistic. like tbh. which is probably why i never picked scripts from our dropbox stash #idk maybe i also don't find a lot of the comedic scripts to be funny bc 1. tumblr humor; and 2. i take writing humor Very Seriously(tm)

[softquietsteadylove]

For the mermaid AU:

After the capture situation Kro is angrily searching for Thena. Gil is taking care of Thena and one day Kro arrives at Gil’s doorstep.

Let’s do a little more angst and sweet moments :D

"Gil."

Oh fuck.

Gil nodded to the fellow fisherman. They were never exactly on super friendly terms anyway, so it wasn't exactly as if he would have been expecting them to start chatting lightly. "Kro--what are you doing here?"

"Well," the taller man began, stepping into Gil's home without so much as an invitation. He pulled his hands out of his rain coat pockets. "I was in the area."

Bullshit. It took a solid twenty minutes by motorboat - or ten minutes by ship - to get to the port from Gil's little island.

"I'm sure you heard that I had a..." Kro paused, looking around the kitchen, "rather large catch get away from me."

"Yeah, I heard," Gil managed to sound casual as he said it, closing the door behind Kro, resisting every urge of his to throw him out. "What was it, a swordfish?--shark?"

"Hm," Kro scoffed quietly, finally turning to Gil. "Bigger, actually--something quite...unique. It was a real treasure."

Gil nodded, as if to offer his sympathies to the monster in front of him. "Well, it happens to the best of us, y'know? Don't let it get to you."

"Well, the thing is, Gil," Kro walked back over to him with a menacing look on his face. "It didn't just get away. Someone snuck onboard and cut my net."

"Really?" Gil asked immediately, refusing to give Kro even a hint that he knew what he was talking about. "That doesn't sound like any of the guys here."

"No, I didn't think so either," Kro faked a sigh. The guy had a sense of drama, huh? "But then someone told me that your little dinghy was missing after my catch was taken."

Gil shrugged, putting his hands on his hips. "I had some dinner at the pub and headed home, man. I don't know what to tell you."

Kro looked out Gil's kitchen window to the end of his dock. "What's the box for?"

Gil held his breath. He had built it there so Thena could come and go as she pleased. It had clothes, and food, little trinkets he found that he thought she would like. Granted, he had built it for her long ebfore all this had happened. "Well, I'm always forgetting something before I head out, y'know? So I built that for some spare tarps and extra socks and shit."

"Smart," Kro outright laughed. He looked at Gil again. "I know she's here, Gil. Or if not here, then you have her close by."

"Who?" Gil scowled.

"Don't pull that shit with me, Gilgamesh," Kro snarled, happy to storm over to him. Gil was a mountain of a man but Kro had a freakishly tall frame and he wasn't exactly lacking strength himself either. "You stole that little nymph from me."

"You caught a nymph?" Gil continued to rile up the increasingly dangerous visitor. He managed to feign his disbelief only because Thena was upstairs having a refreshing little nap in the bathtub. "You feeling okay?"

"I will find her, mark my words," Kro growled right in Gil's face. "I will find my fortune and when I do, I will have you arrested for theft. Maybe I'll even rip out one of those little fangs of hers and send one to you on a necklace."

"Get out."

Kro leaned back, satisfied to have gotten any reaction out of Gil at all.

Gil was shocked he had held himself back from snapping the guy's neck. Kro would be deserving of it, just for making him imagine Thena getting her teeth pulled.

"I'll be back, Gilgamesh," Kro promised ominously, pulling the front door behind him on his way out.

Gil waited until Kro was all the way back to his main dock and heard the motor start up. He sat himself down - collapsed - into the seat at the table. He had known this would happen--had been expecting it since the night Kro caught Thena. And still he was shaken.

"Gil?"

He scrubbed his hands over his face before looking up. Thena leaned her head against the doorway, her hair completely dry despite her aquatic lounging. She was wearing a soft, pale blue denim shirt of his, the sleeves rolled up messily and unevenly to her elbows.

Thena came over to him, resting a hand on his knee and looking to him carefully. "You look frightened."

He nodded. He felt frightened. He took her hand in his, holding it to him. "He doesn't know you're here, but he knows it was me. And he's not going to rest until he finds you."

"So he won't find me."

"Thena-"

"Gil," she soothed, her voice as smooth and iridescent as a seashell. She knelt down next to him, letting him keep her hand in his for comfort. "The safest I can be is with you. Even if he combed the ocean for me...I would still come back to see you."

Gil sighed, taking in the beautiful Angelfish before him. He knew she was telling the truth, and he probably wouldn't have been able to resist her either. He liked to believe he would, but if he was being totally honest, he would probably be out there looking for her too.

"We're safe here," Thena nearly whispered.

Gil let out a shuddering breath. He pressed a kiss to her hands. "No more swims for a little while, okay, Angelfish? Not even around the dock."

Thena nodded, fully understanding the restriction and the need for it. "What about you?"

He shook his head. "It'll only be even more suspicious if I take time off work now."

He had only taken the day immediately after the rescue off for himself. And even that was potentially suspicious. He just couldn't bring himself to leave Thena alone.

"I'll be fine here," she smiled at him, as if her life weren't hanging in the balance of something out of their control. "You go and work. I'll read the books Sersi brought."

Gil nodded, trying to take in a single steady breath for her sake. He ran his thumb over the back of her hand, "want anything when I go out tomorrow?"

Thena pulled his hand to her cheek and leaned into his touch. "Just...come home soon."

#Thenamesh Mermaid AU #the drama! #some angst #Thena sees Gil off to work and maybe stretches her fins a little #but when he's at work she's supposed to stay in the house #so he showed her how to fill the tub #he thought maybe she would like playing in the water #only to discover she naps in it with her tail hanging over the side #or she submerges her tail and leans on the edge of the tub with her arms #he's found her like that a few times #he doesn't exactly have to worry about her drowning in the bath after all #and he brings her back little things when he goes to the mainland #like rocks or pretty shells or beach glass that looks like her eyes #or his--as she started requesting #she's always delighted by whatever he brings her

[imaginmatrix]

I am reading a popular fantasy romance book series and oh my god I hate it so much it’s so bad lmao

#I would have been obsessed if I had discovered it as a teen #but the author sucks and the writing sucks and I’m only on the third book at this point because #I’m a sucker for bad boy love interests #and the audio drama cast is a delight #but jfc #morgan murmurs #it’s SO BAD #WHY IS IT SO POPULAR #(it’s because it appeals to a bunch of favorite tropes)

[phoenixcatch7]

Why aren't there more shazam x Percy Jackson crossovers. They slap incredibly.

#Batfam this Batfam that #Give Billy camp half-blood and he would die for all of them within 24 hours #They're ALL like him! #like. come on #That was be so good #Percy teaching him to wield a sword! Annabeth researching old myths of him and getting wiggled out #Chiron and cap discussing philosophy and sharing memories of ancient times #Thalia trying so hard to remember that this kid isn't technically a half sibling Jason delighted to ruffle his hair n share lightning trick #Bulky sharing stories of wonder women with reyna who looks up to her #I KNOW Jason especially would sibling adopt so fast #Nico breaking into his sleeping spot regularly with food and stuff Sally gave him for them both #SALLY JACKSON OKAY #older camp kids sharing stories of homelessness. Challenging Billy - not cap - to get to the top of the lava wall #Cap chaperoning visits to the mortal world and reading signs for the dyslexic peeps #Percy and Annabeth tell him they carried atlas burden and he is in AWE #Monsters start causing drama and when the jl are freaking out cap steps up like nah I know some guys #*summons swarm of slightly ratty teens with Greek armour and weapons* GO FORTH MY WARRIORS #Batman asks if Jason is caps kid and they're both SO offended #Frank suggests Billy go to camp jupiter for uni and they're super accommodating for hero shenanigans and Billy cries #Cap and pjo would do each other SO MUCH GOOD #shazam #captain marvel #Pjo #percy jackson #pjo hoo toa #Dc #justice league #The potential FLUFF. The potential ANGST. The FOUND FAMILY #shazamily #dp x dc

[unproduciblesmackdown]

woah... that's some premium human (kittycat?) heart in conflict with itself

(fr everyone in lackadaisy is kittycats to me lmao. going like, whoa, neat humansona ideas....)

and also fr like everyone get in on "mordecai killed atlas even though of course he didn't do it b/c he Wanted to: bet on it" if only for the fun drama of it all....it Is fun & funny to me that like, sure there's only so many major characters, and sure there's no incorrect one to point to like "wow what a delight" but i wasn't really That previously aware that mordecai is like a fan fave like omg the bad bitches (especial popularity) he pulled by being autistic :'] we just don't expect to see it lmao. like this theory should also be more popular then if even just by virtue of that premium kittycat heart in conflict with itself material it supplies. pointing at mordecai like haha he's sooo upset about all this and That Is Why He Quit, not to go investigate marigold which he's also just said he Wasn't doing until just now. we've seen the [oh grief? besot? interesting] bonus material....not that i don't think most people do imagine that of course mordecai has a good amount of emotional investment in things driving him here, but this does ramp it up which i think also works as an argument in its favor; like i'd be inherently more skeptical about any theory that required mordecai to actually care less about things lol than about any that gives him more personal emotional motivation

truly like "we know mordecai wouldn't want to kill atlas..." (agreed) "...so he can't have been the one to kill him" like first of all lol no way is it a Writeoff anyways, like we've got a mystery here but we Won't imagine ways in which [nobody could ever kill someone they didn't want to kill] wouldn't apply? second of all: Think Of The Drama Of Him Killing Him Even Though He Wouldn't Want To

#i also lean towards the additional drama of ''he felt a gay type of way about atlas'' lol #this theory does though add more mystery around ''what Specifically is mordecai investigating rn then?'' #since i don't think it's [specifically who shot atlas] what with that having been mordecai; to me.... #could be ''who knows that mordecai shot him'' but could also be something broader #such as the whole mystery of ''what were the circumstances that led to atlas's death'' #lackadaisy #mitzi and mordecai murder mystery #and i also know they're not Not kittycats...insofar as it's Not ''au of this world: what if ppl had been bipedal cats'' lol #and rather ''it's just this world as a setting in a fictional story & ppl are cats for fun & practicality & other rewards'' #i will always remember the way the one time i recommended lackadaisy in person they rejected it b/c of the cats thing lmfao.... #like yeah idk if you're first & foremost worried abt your state-issued fursona idk what to tell you i guess.... #anyways you're so right. elevator pitch for this theory: intensifying mordecai's anguish marinade beyond [annoyed by own job] #joke's on him. his teamup with the savoys is a delight. see also my theory that: #where the comic cuts off currently the savoys Are abt to burst in & shoot gracie & have to become either more Friend Or Foe to mordecai #than he would like. out here like ugh we just work together can you Not forcibly carve sigils into my chest while serafine is like lol. lma #unbelievable........there's nobody you can put in a room w/mordecai & Not have it be a dream team #autistique funny little guy....the universal [makes it a dream team] ingredient

[yohankang]

watching tdj isn't enough i need to inject it directly into my veins

#i'm still on ep 1 and there are so many amazing things about this drama i'm overwhelmed #like it's a delight to watch for someone who's main interests are law politics and media language (me. tdj was created for me) #kang yohan is a political genius i would LOVE to study him #k.txt

[liashinigami]

A thing I have seen coming since the first Korean BL series (that was actually called a BL, bc my god is there a divide in the Korean filmmaking scene between queer films and BL...people get heated) was announced, was that this would open the gate to more LGBT rep in regular KDramas. The Korean market will go with the trend of time, and the success of BL has shown producers, that it is a valuable variation of the already working formula.

After the immense success of the Semantic Error adaptation from last year, more and more shows, which went into production after SE aired, have been including expicitely queer characters (Love in Contract (tvN), Extraordinary Attourney Woo (ENA/Netflix), Under the Queen's Umbrella (tvN)...and those are just the most recent ones I can think off without looking stuff up).

While there have certainly been a few gay characters in shows over the past ten years or so, only few have had bigger roles, and fewer have had their sexuality been known from the beginning. Only two years ago every single queer side character with the smallest amount of relevance to the plot seemed like a novelty and suddenly we have so many at the same time!

With this new wave in 2022 most of those characters might still be young gay men, but the fact that they are allowed to expicitely exist on Korean TV (even having same-sex relationships which do not end in tragedy!) while still not being reduced to their gayness alone is a huge step for KDramas! Recently I feel like every second new Kdrama I hear about has gay characters in small or large roles and it feels great. And all of this was really only possible because BL has proven to be a profitable variant of the usual Korean storytelling format that is KDramas and thus given the industry that last push it needed to start portraying queerness as a part of the everyday.

Having observed the slow acceptance over the past ten years made me slowly tired, but then witnessing the new boom got me excited again to watch new dramas and follow the changes this new delevopment will bring with it!

#midnight thoughts #not really midnight #but whatever #Just over the past few weeks every drama I have started suddenly had queer people in it #and that delighted me every single time #it feels like this could have a good influence on the perception of queer people in korea #especially the way the portrayals work right now #I would need to write half an essay to explain why #maybe I'll do that at some point #but yeh #these were the thoughts lol

[mc-pumpkin]

I have a vision. I'm imagining a future in which Grian woo's BigB, and Scar, feeling cheated and underappreciated by his soulmate, teams up with Pearl to cause mildly concerning but mostly annoying torment towards their soulmates together

#I want this to happen #I want this so bad #like Pearl indirectly caused BigB's death. do you see my vision here #the conflict!! #the drama #an alternative route I would also enjoy is Pearl joining Scar and Grian in general #Grian having to handle 2 unhinged characters hell bent on mischief sounds delightful #none of these are predictions btw they are simply scenarios that bring me joy

[senadimell]

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#look i know i posted the patrick stewart video (which was delightful but also wholly voluntary) #but if i never hear another thing about celebrities' private lives i would be A-OKAY #i do not want or need an opinion on a certain celebrity couple #i do not want to take a side or treat it like it's a movie #IT"S NOT A MOVIE #TRIALS ARE NOT MOVIES AND WE LITERALLY WILL NOT HEAR ANYWHERE NEAR THE EVIDENCE THAT THE JUDGE/JURY IS PRESENTED WITH #and my opinion DOES NOT CHANGE WHAT HAPPENS in the trial. they're not part of my community. i will literally never meet them #i want it to stop being headline news because they've been public and earned a lot of money #i haven't done a whole lot of research but i think generally we would be a whole lot better off #if trials were much more private #something something parasocial relationships should stay parasocial #because in this case. we the public cannot actually reduce any ACTUAL HARM by following the trial like a drama #it's not like your sibling abusing their child or the neighbor mistreating their spouse #those are cases that you can actually improve for the better. #or you know what? donate to a related cause or volunteer at a shelter #but following the trial literally. literally. will make you angry and lead to zero activism #maybe i've missed something here. maybe i'm wrong. if so i'm willing to learn about benefits of acting contrary to the way i've described #(do not send me anything about the trial whatsoever. i'm talking about...maybe studies that say outcomes are better when trials are #covered by media. or saying that people are more involved in activism when they follow trials or something) #then i can decide if i want to know why it's been a BBC headline for US and Canada for weeks on end

[nonbinarynightcrawler]

I'm actually gonna be a huge bitch whenever FoB finally fucks up enough that stans can't ignore it/pretend it never happened

#listen i dont care pariculally either way #but they got so fucking weird about the Panic stuff #im gonna be more than a little delighted to watch the unfolding #im too old to care abt fandom drama but jesus the amount of 15year olds i had to block #over multiple platforms bc they would not shut the hell up