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hearteyesandviolence · 2 years

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The Wilds Season 2 Thoughts: Episodes 5 and 6

-The boys grew on me here. Maybe it's because I had one of them to properly hate, and so the others got more room to shine. I'm still not entirely sure about the assault storyline, but it certainly gave me a new perspective on the characters.

-I have not come to love Kirin the way some have, but his protectiveness of Josh was really nice.

-That Black Parade joke was solid, gotta give it to them.

-Angsty Goodfoe kisses return and I'm here for it. If Shelby pushed me against a tree to kiss me, I would not have Toni's strength to break it off.

-Toni hiding her little smile when Shelby tells her their relationship is the one thing she's not dying...stop it....stop being so cute....

-Toni whispering Shelby's name while she reassures her.....god it's beautiful....I kind of wish I didn't know what was coming next.

-Fatin exploring Nora's journals is a fantastic character choice.

-My low key Martha/Rachel shipping got a bit of food in a lovely scene.

-God, that last scene on the beach with Rachel was just beautifully shot....part of what makes this show a cut above is that it frequently looks gorgeous.

-Nora's alive! I was pretty sure she would be back when season 1 ended, but I honestly thought Helena Howards, ahem, interesting stance on the vax might prohibit that. I'm glad, because I do love that character.

-Here's part of my issues with the guys. All the girls feel like characters I haven't really seen in media to any real extent. And all the guys feel familiar. They're not bad, but they don't feel as new as the girls.

-Seeing Gretchen in full pathetic mode was interesting. Maybe I was wrong in my earlier assessment that the show doesn't realize how ridiculous she is...

-Toni's high cracking voice in the Mortal Kombat scene is so goddamn endearing. My girl is such a dork in love.

-It's kind of crazy how much peeing factors into my OTP.

-Yes, yes, the “not saying I love you back” is a huge cliché. It also makes sense for her as a character. Yeah, she said it easily once with Reagan, and then she got her heart broken. And now she's given a way bigger chunk of her heart to Shelby. So she's gonna freak out.

-The buddy cop team of Rachel and Leah has been such an unexpected delight.

-I....really don't feel great about the Ivan/Kirin backstory....like, the evils of cancel culture? A loveable white jock being goaded into saying slurs by a black gay man? That feels like the kind of shit Ben Shapiro would dream up.

-Toni sniffing Shelby's sweatshirt....goddamn you, show.

-I still wish Toni had more storyline outside of Shelby, much as I love them, but oh man, the acting in her scene with Martha. It's insane to me how quickly she's able to go from angry to vulnerable.

-Okay, I love the second 'I love you' scene so much...but what did Shelby mean by “I didn't think you'd be back”? Did she think Toni was gonna run off to the other side of the island? Or was that her bracing for a break up.....ooof, that thought makes me sadder, knowing what I know...

-I....did not expect a Ben Folds appearance....I'm...on board?

-I love the Ghost In You callback. Despite it's context, I fell in love with that song thanks to this show.

-Episode 5 was probably the most equally I appreciated the boys and girls story line, and 6 was probably the biggest gap between how much I love the girls story and how little I cared for the boys.

-And now we get into the two episodes I am most dreading. Tonight might be a rough night.

#the wilds #the wilds spoilers #the wilds season 2 #the wilds season 2 spoilers #goodfoe #shoni #shelby goodkind #toni shalifoe #fatin jadmani #leah rilke #rachel reid #Martha Blackburn #nora reid

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le4ftea · 3 years

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So, uhh how would Tanjiro Inosuke and Genya act after having sex with their s/o for the first time? Would they be protective? Shy? Lovey-dovey? Thank you ^^

OWO HONEY. I'll tell you.

Demon Slayer Boys after being Intimate. G/N!Reader

Tanjirou

When he found out about you liking him back...

He was shaking with excitement, his hands shaking and his fingers going numb.

He was so happy that he felt that he could die and know that at least he had you.

But when you both had sex

He was very passionate and kind with each thrust, the world spinning with every deep pound into you.

After you both had lose your innocents to one another

He was shy and very gentle with you the next day, and felt as if he fell in love with you all over again.

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You softly hummed as you felt like the day had been washed in vanilla and cinnamon, the morning was somehow more lovely then before. Slowly rising up from the bed, you felt a bit of soreness in the lower half of your body.

Groaning quietly to yourself, you sat up.

A fuzzy bath robe wrapped around you yet slipped off your shoulders due to the fact it was a little bigger then usual.

Both of your bare shoulders shining with a pink blush.

Still half closed, you looked around the room almost drunkly.

Confused of why you were alone in the bed you passionately shared with the hero to all himself.

Tanjirou.

Without another minute of worry of his where abouts, the sliding doors open in a clumsy way.

A soft gasp leaving whomever it was, as the sound of dishes cling together.

"Oh oh no!" He whispered shouted as they struggled with the door and what seemed to be a tray.

You stumble onto your feet and quietly walk over to the man at the door, gently holding the door open for him to enter.

A soft smile on your face as you spoke to him, silky and smooth.

"Need help love?"

Tanjirou squaled and almost fell back from your sudden presence.

"D-Darling! Did I wake you?" Sounding worried about being to loud.

Giggling and shaking your head you replied with a 'no'.

Tanjirou had brought a tray of rice eggs and bacon that had sliced green onion and some yellow mashed potatoes that had some cheese inside, with some tea.(I wish I could eat this.)

A small blush on your face at the cute gesture.

You sat next to him and kissed his cheek.

Turning to face you immediately, his face burning a bright red. Almost whimpering at you.

Both of you grabbed your chop sticks and started to eat while you asked why he brought the food himself.

He looked away as he scratched his cheek, a blush still visible.

"Well... I just felt bad that I went to rough on you last night, I got selfish near the end and gave into my needs and probably hurt you a bit. So I asked if I could take our food here today as an apology."

His mood at change the atmosphere in the room, his face also turned into a sad frown.

You gently crested his cheek drawing his attention to you.

"You didn't hurt me love, all you did is make me fall in love with you more."

His frown jumped into a smile as a small tears popped from his eyes.

He would never be able to let you go now.

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Inosuke

He was very obvious with his crush on you, yet you seemed to be denser then a brick.

When he start up told you he loved you.

You had no other choice but to know.

And when you both finally got intimate.

Holy Hell.

This man was going really hard and rough with you, gentle groaning as you screamed his name. It was like he had been waiting forever to pound you into the bed.

Like a beast breeding his mate.

The next day he was in a daze almost for a week.

Not speaking to anyone but only staying by your side with flowers dancing around him.

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Laying on his chest, you would occasionally snuggle into him. His arm underneath you holding you closer to him.

His other laying on his toned stomach.

You both stayed like this for a while till you had the feeling of hunger, stomach grumbling quite loud now.

You pushed yourself from his warm body and saw his state that you didn't notice before.

He seemed to be a melted puddle of happiness, his aura a heart warmed glow as he had finally had you.

A dopey grin on his face until he saw you about to leave, gripping your wrist he sat up too. Looking you in your eyes deeply.

"I'm going to get food Inosuke" you whined almost at the growing hunger.

He pouted and almost asked you to stay with his eyes alone, his body language begging for you to not leave him yet.

Sighing you stood up but helped him up too and hugged him.

"Just come with me, we can eat together." His aura rising back to a heart warming glow as you felt hims nod, grabbing his bore hat he placed it on and walked with you to find food.

Sitting outside together, munching on bean buns. Humming at the yummy flavors, you turned to look at Inosuke.

A soft smile on his mouth as he ate his bun, still happy as a puppy that got a treat.

You giggled and sat closer to him as you both enjoyed eachother presences.

The wamr spring breeze blowing soft smells of nature, it was a perfect morning with Inosuke.

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Genya

This man was so rough when it came to all but you. He just silently stays by your side and always make sure he gives you enough attention.

When he confessed to you, he was a stuttering mess which was quite out of character.

And when you both decided to have sex

O my God.

You would think he would go crazy

But when he put himself in.

He would slowly pound into you, with each thrust he would whisper how much you truly meant to him.

Telling you how long he waited to be connected with you.

And he made sure you had at least four orgasms.

So in the morning he was more prideful then ever and actually acted happy to others which made people scared for their lives.

He also marked you up quite a lot on your neck to make sure they all knew you both were together.

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"Ouch! G-Genya that hurts!"

You whined as Genya gently pressed each hickey that was a beautiful purple on your neck.

Small tears forming at your big loveable eyes.

The morning was bright and fresh as the two of you woke form your long night of love making, the both of you were hugging one another when you guys opened your eyes.

Genya quickly moved away from you and wore blush of crimson while yelling at you to not get the wrong idea.

Even though the two of you basically saw eachother naked.

You both chatted about how silly he was acting but Genya smirked when he saw your neck that looked like you came back from a fight.

Blushing at how many you had, he kissed each one with a cute smile on his rough face.

"You look so beautiful."

He made sure you did not hide any of his marks with your cloths and walked with you around the temple where all of the demon slayers stayed.

The others asked if you were okay since you looked like you were in a fight to the death.

You waved them off, saying it was nothing serious and they shouldn't worry to much.

As you drifted off to the reality of what gave you such mark in the first place.

Blushing and shaking the heat from your face, you saw in the corner of your eye.

Genya grinning like an idiot. But you found this quite charming.

Running to him after saying your goodbye to the others you were talking too

You hugged Genya and hid your face in his chest, a soft groan at the sudden impact.

He frantically tried to get you off him as you could tell he was blushing at your embrace, you laughed to yourself quietly as you heard his heart beating faster then anything in the world.

He was adorable in his own strong way.

#demon slayer x you #genya x reader #demon slayer x reader #demon slayer smut #tanjiro smut #tanjiro x reader #tanjiro x you #tanjirou x reader #inosuke x reader #inosuke fluff #tanjiro fluff #genya fluff #genya x you #genya smut #tanjirou smut #inosuke smut #demon slayer fluff

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yandere-sins · 3 years

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His Love

Horrortober Day 4: Needle | “It’s just a tiny sting. You won’t notice it at all.”

Day 4! Time is passing so fast... but I am glad to do this challenge :3 I think the biggest challenge for me is actually writing for the character’s I predetermined at the beginning. I find myself wanting to switch them around for prompts but no! I will stick to the list and keep challenging myself ^-^

Warnings: Yandere, TW Needle/Syringe, Kidnapping, Gags and being tied up, Sedation Characters: Dazai Osamu x Reader

It was wrong.

With tears streaming down your face, you had to recognize that everything you thought had been right was actually terribly wrong. You only just met him. Perhaps it had been a month now. But really, you only just met this wonderful stranger named Dazai. He didn’t just catch your eye, he also pulled at your heartstrings. It was the kind of love you always had wanted, just… it wasn’t. Not really.

Not if that love meant being held captive, gagged and tied, staring into the face of a madman.

Something about the way he held the needle in his hand, clear drops of something collecting at its nozzle, seemed utterly wrong. Not just morally. Morally it was very wrong. No one should fear getting injected with something unknown. But the way he held it was strange enough to ring alarm bells. As if he didn’t know how to properly use it.

As if he didn’t know what he was doing.

“Shh,” Dazai shushed you calmly, holding down your right leg as you began to move and struggle again. Panic rose inside of you, festering in every inch of your body. NO! you wanted to scream at him, your bare feet trying to kick Dazai or at least the syringe out of his hand. Whatever his plan was, you didn’t want to have anything to do with it.

You’ve tried being calm, tried being patient with him. When he invited you over to his apartment, only to spike the tea he served you with drugs, you were scared, yes. But you tried your best to work with him and his crazy wishes. No useless question fell off your lips anymore after Dazai stared at you crazed when you asked him if you could leave. You’ve been so good. So why did you have to go through this?

“It’s just a tiny sting. You won’t notice it at all,” Dazai assured you, or rather, reassured you. But with your mouth gagged, you couldn’t tell him how little you feared the needle and how much you feared what it would transfer in your body. With the last bit of effort you could come up with, you looked at him, fixating his eyes with yours. As miserable as you could, you pleaded with him silently to please not do it.

And for a moment, it seemed to work. Dazai merely stared back. You weren’t sure what he saw, maybe it was his own reflection that made him hesitant, but it caught him, made him lower his arm. “You know,” he mumbled, slowly painting his fingers over your leg. It gave you goosebumps, but at the same time, it helped to lower your anxiety, seeing how he relaxed. “I don’t like doing this to you, either.”

Even you knew those were empty words. Just like all the other words he always told you. Dazai’ loved you’, ‘adored you’ even. What a joke. ‘Couldn’t imagine a life without you’ and ‘wished to always be with you’. And he could have! Some part of you believed that if he hadn’t done these things to you—kidnapping and mistreating you in every way possible—then perhaps, you two could have become the couple he wanted. He could have proved you wrong. Proved that the love you always wanted did exist!

You two could have found a way to live. With each other or apart, but in love. Beautiful, pure love. But not like this. Not with him still gripping the syringe in his hand, eyes lowering to leer at your body presented to him like a gift. A gift he wrapped himself while you were unconscious like so many of your days now. Because you were his present to enjoy, no matter if you liked it or not.

A sigh of relief left you, despite getting stuck on the gag, and you dared to look away, only to feel his grip tighten around your ankle again. Alarmed, you opened your eyes again, looking at a man full of disappointment and anger. Back was the tension that left you before and gone the feeling of safety you irresponsibly allowed yourself to have after the threat seemed banned.

“I don’t like doing it, but I hate it even more to see you’ve been hiding this from me.”

From his trouser’s back pocket, Dazai pulled a black, rectangle object, dangling it in front of your face. Shit, you thought, and you were pretty sure the truth was showing in your expression. You knew exactly what it was: your savior. A phone that the man who came to patch you up after a rough fight with your captor two days ago left you. It had been a risk to have, but you hid it in the cover of your pillow. But without the possibility to use it until now, this random act of kindness had been in vain. You’ve been wanting to dial the emergency contacts, but before you could, Dazai had forced you to rest, leaving you restrained until he came back. But you didn’t think he could find it, even if you never used it.

“Why must there be secrets between us, my love? You know I hate being deceived, but let’s be honest, did you really think I wouldn’t find it?”

Tugging at your ankle, you yelped, losing the strength in your body to keep yourself up and face him. You’ve been good. All this time, you had been understanding and patient. But who could blame you for clinging to a ray of hope? Shaking your head, you tried to plead with him again, but this time, his expression was merely filled with conceited disappointment. As if he was any better than you. That overprotective, obsessed, and mad asshole.

“So while I go out and find who dared putting these stupid thoughts in your head, I can’t risk you being as awake and clever as you think you are.”

The syringe came back in sight, and you felt almost defeated, knowing there was nothing you could do against a decision he had already made. There was only hoping for the best and trying to prepare for the awakening by his side later, coddled and suffocating in his chest.

“Dazai,” you said, but what came out was probably nothing more than blabbering against the gag. If he could say empty words, then so could you. If your survival depended on being sweet and kind to the man who was ruining you with his mere presence, then you would be what he wanted from you.

His eyes opened wide, his name being such a rare word to hear from you, even if you butchered it with your inability to speak properly. Letting go of your ankle, he climbed on top of you, making it easier to look at him again while you laid down and relaxed. “I love you,” you lied, the feelings never reaching your eyes, but they certainly lifted Dazai’s mood. “Me too!” he sighed, smiling softly. “I love you too.”

It really was just a tiny sting, but against his promise, you felt it painfully in the side of your upper body. Letting out a strained groan, you temporarily tensed before you were sedated, eyes slowly closing as you drifted off to another sleepless night for you. In the cold, dark bunker that Dazai called your home, nothing seemed safe, and nothing was right. You could do everything you dared, but you couldn’t do the things you wanted.

However, something even Dazai had to realize at some point was that you hadn’t given up yet. You’d never. You had a life before this—one you loved. Even if you had to make yourself small and loveable, endure the hardships of a thousand needles and the love of a psycho who you once thought was the man of your dreams, you wouldn’t give up. You wanted to believe that there was more to life than being here, that there was so much more to see and experience than the trauma you were going through. That there still was true love waiting for you. A love that was stronger than all of this.

But did you really believe you were stronger than that cunning man who calls you the love of his life?

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shipppphappens · 3 years

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Zoey's extraordinary GoodBye

To make it short: I love that episode. Best episode of the whole show. What can I say more about it?

A LOT! And I will, but I can't say anything about something I didn't like cause there had been nothing. No single moment. It was a perfect whatever final.

I think Danny Michael Davis is so loveable. He is so strange but has a good heart and proofs that so often this season. It is obvious he replaces Joan in that season, but Noah Weisberg gave him so much live and character that he isn't just a replacement, he is a well deserved part of that show. My favorite moment with him from that episode was when he told Zoey that he choose Max over her.

Tobin and Mackenzie are so cute together. The foot cuddle, their speak to the crew or theire makeout in the chair. Just cute. And her fears about working together could break them up shows just how much she likes Tobin. And Leifs smiling face when they annonced theire relationship was very nice.

I also love David this season so much and his worries about his mom were just so funny.

The scene with Emily and Maggie was so nice. I like their relationship. And I think it is totally understandable for Maggie to go on with her life and maybe get a new partner. This is a huge step from the beginning of the season. Even Rogar was kind of creepy. Maybe he is a serial killer?

And I loved Maggies speach to Max. West Coast Mom - I am crying. Max is a part of that family. That he invited Maggie, David and Emily says a lot about how connected they are. Hope we will see more of that.

The next cute couple is Mo and Perry. Nothing can Perry stop to win Mo back. Not even Danny Michael Davis doing fire violations. I am really want to know if Mo told him to do this. In my head canon he did and DMD does him that favour. The duett was wonderful. I like it so much, I love the version of that song. And it was so nice to see how his kids running through Mo's Apartment and throwing that fox in the air. I hope we will see more of that in the next season.

I also love what a good friend Mo is to Zoey and Max. All his work for the party and his speak. This was such a wonderful friendship the whole season and this was just the highlight, with that wonderful speach.

And he is always there for Zoey which is great. Loved the scene when Zoey came to him to tell she wants to tell Max how she feels. The comparison between Perry's kids and Zoey - so hilerious. Alex Newell was killing the whole scene. When he was snippy about the dream and Mitch fix Zoey in one night or his disbelieve Zoey want to go alone after all the time he was there for her. Just loved it, love Mo and his big heart.

What next...

Zoey and Simon? Ok, let's talk about that. It is not so easy cause it was a relief that Simon broke up with Zoey. I know that there are a lot of pissed people out there, but it is like Zoey said, Simon and Zoey were never meant to be. This isn't their story, had never been and had been never told that way. But I like how they handled that moment. The talk at the pier was really nice and I wish Simon all the best. He had a passion inside he can use for his projects and I think he is on a good way doing great things in the world. I loved the happy Simon from the beginning of the season.

The music from that episode is amazing. No song I didn't like. Never been a fan of Taylor Swift but the ZeP version of "Shake it off" is so great an so full of live.

And I love the song that Mitch sang for Zoey so much. I loved how they danced, how happy Zoey had been, how she finaly realized she should live with less fear. This whole scene gave me just a good feeling. It was bittersweet beautiful and it is my all time favorite Mitch and Zoey scene. I also loved theire talk. I was hoping the whole time Mitch will help Zoey to realize that she and Max belong to each other and find the courage to tell him. I thought they will use the video from episode one but this was better in so many ways. But they had this circle to the first episode that season by using Mitch related songs to come to the Max and Zoey moments. They even use the same way of cut. Also the colour of their clothes matching to last dance when Mitch died. I love how they use stuff like that.

From here on I go in chronologically way:

Zoey's sadness at the beginning of the episode was also bittersweet. It is so nice to see how Max going away affected her. Even Simon can't change her mood. The first talk with Mo had been a start to finaly think and talk about what she should really do. And her writting Max name on the cookie just say everything about her heart. I am not really sure if it was a mistake to put things on pause, but how they handled it was a huge, big mistake.

Max put the dummy in his suitcase was like Max name on the cookie. They are both so in love with each other. And I feel sorry for Rose, but I am happy she is smart enough not to push Max.

Maybe it slipped out not on purpose, but Zoey really want's to tell Max she is available. His face was priceless. And her comes the next piece from the puzzle for Rose.

It was really sweet that Zoey wanted that party special for Max and her speach was just perfect. I liked the part with the big apple is sweeter now most. That this speach end up at the kitchen made it even better. I understand that Zoey is pissed but she should know that it wasn't because he felt sorry for her because of her mom. I am happy she find out and Zoey sees again how perfect Max is for her. And would have been to easy to say all the things now, they said at the end, but the looks in their eyes said more then 1000 words.

Zoey's fear of loss isn't something new, it is her theme throughout the whole show. Explained more in the episode before and climaxed in her dream with Mitch. She is to afraid of loosing Max and even they won't break up some day, she could loose him anyway, like she lost Mitch. I think it is beautiful, but I am happy she take that jump and is finally able to tell him.

Her talk to Mo, her enthusiasm, her crazy babbling about a plan (don't do drugs in Roses backbag) and she goes without thinks through, just doing - perfect.

When she heared Max (perfectly) singing about he loves a woman and she thinks he is singing about Rose - also perect. And this is why: this isn't just the way how we get that wonderfull ending, no. Zoey is learning a lesson. If you don't know the context you can't know what is in other peoples head. It is the 2nd time in that episode she realized she can't know everything just because of her powers. And I think it is a great gesture to just let him go and to be happy with Rose cause she thinks he loves her. She doesn't try to change his mind and to get what she wants, she accepted his choice. This shows how much she loves him cause loving someone isn't always fighting, sometimes it is just doing what is right.

Her relationsship advice to Mackenzie was so nice and shows how much she learned and grow during the last months. And Iove her fumbling with the ring - the ring, who is with her the whole season, even when she and Max are fighting, when she is with Simon, when everything seems lost, she keeps the ring Max gave her. And it is such a nice circle to close the season, when Max said to her it wouldn't make her invissible. They are talking about superpowers. A thing Zoey allready has, feeling alone with it and Max also struggles not to can hear her thoughts. I think it is a great twist that Max can now also hear heartsong and it doesn't came out of the blue. When I think about it, it makes so much sense. Max's heartsongs are always kind of special. They were more touchy than others, except for Mitch's but they are all 3 connected to each other. And it brings so many possibilities for a 3rd season.

And save the best for the last: CLARKEMAN ENDGAME!!!!

The love you could see in both eyes, what they said, their bodylanguage, it was just perfect. I am so over the moon and I am so in love with Zoey's heartsong. She looked so happy and in love. And I am so happy and in love with that episode, that show, that season, these characters, the music.

#zoey clarke #zoey's extraordinary playlist #jane levy #skylar astin #max richman #max x zoey #zoey x max #clarkeman #zomax #zoey's extraordinary goodbye #always team max

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alright here are my post S15 thoughts!

- This season was... weird. I enjoyed a lot of it -- I really liked the callbacks/homages to the older seasons, bringing back beloved characters, etc. But I felt like the writers just leaned on the whole “Chuck is fucking with the boys” thing too hard and made too many ~wacky episodes/moments~. My perfect last season of the show would’ve been more serious “return to form” instead of going crazy with everything.

- It’s disappointing that we didn’t get more insight into Castiel’s feelings about Chuck and how he turned into a bad guy. And it even seemed like they retconned God being the father of all Angels and changed it to Arch-Angels only?? He stopped saying “my/our father” and when talking to Michael or whoever he would only say “your father”. We got to see how Cas felt about Chuck back in S5 when they would talk about how God abandoned them. But now that God basically became evil, Cas has nothing to actually say about it???

- Cas’ death was beautiful and sad and also kind of annoying. I wish he would’ve died in a more higher stakes situation -- I mean we know Dean can kill Death because he did it before. So I would’ve preferred Cas dying in the battle against Chuck or something instead of dying to save Dean from Death. But his speech to Dean was SO PERFECT. I was glad all of Dean’s self-hatred and the weight he carries was finally addressed in that I felt like in that moment Cas helped him let it go and gave him the strength to not feel hopeless going up against Chuck.

- Chuck as a villain was both awesome and awful. It made sense in a way that the boys had nothing left to fight but God himself, and Chuck got downright creepy at times. He was great at being both a loveable and hateable character. HOWEVER it also felt really... honestly, bad lol as in like dark and depressing I mean.... the fact that friggin GOD was after Sam and Dean. It made the show feel almost pointless and hopeless. But the final battle was great though. They thought they were up against THE worst thing possible but then they lost Amara on their side. Then they lost Billie on their side. Then they lost Michael. AND THEY STILL WON!!!!!! They beat Chuck down and made him human, left him to suffer after being the ultimate powerful being after billions of years. It was a perfect storybook ending for that pathetic little writer lmao

- Jack becoming God was so nice. I love that he fixed Heaven and everything. And since Bobby said Cas helped, I’m assuming Jack fixed the Empty too and let some souls go into heaven?? Like maybe he freed the souls and let them go to where they belonged -- so demons who turned good got into heaven and angels that went bad went to hell. Or maybe he just brought Cas back alive, IDK lol

- I don’t feel like the relationship between Jack and Dean was truly repaired though before the end. Dean’s speech to Jack in the car didn’t satisfy me. He thanked him for his sacrifice but he never reconciled that he DID consider Jack family. And we know he fucking did, he still called Jack his kid even after he killed Mary!!!!!!!!

- I DID NOT LIKE THE FINALE. I mean it was both sad and heart breaking and also nice to see the boys in Heaven. I enjoyed most of the episode for what it was. But as the series finale, I did NOT LIKE IT. I would’ve been WAY HAPPIER if 15x19 was the ending. At least leave it open ended. Because that was a fucking lame ass way for Dean to go out. And while I understand he had to go out fighting because that’s what he always wanted, it shouldn’t have to been to a rando vamp so soon after the final battle.

- My heart broken that this show is over, but you really can’t complain after 15 seasons lol That’s triple the amount most shows get. SPN is something truly special and although, it got wackier and wackier the longer it was on, I’m glad it didn’t end after S5. The good the later seasons brought outweigh the bad IMO. SPN is great. And I don’t know how to end this... so I guess I’m done now. Bye. Sorry for possibly spamming the Supernatural tag with my liveblogging LOL <3

#supernatural #season 15 #final thoughts

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spiders-hth-is-an-outlier · 3 years

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Okay start us out with those Magicians Opinions!

the first character i ever fell in love with: LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT QUENTIN COLDWATER. Okay, but yeah, they really introduced him in a way that worked-worked for me – that whole opening sequence that cuts between Quentin being tense and closed-off and miserable in this hollow, almost angry way in the office of the hospital, and Quentin trying to act normal at a party, making wan jokes while the misery and the anger leaks out of him and makes him just so unpalatable to be around – I mean, Jason Ralph just takes the character by the throat instantly and Goes There. I remember thinking as I was watching it that this was the first “anxious nerd dude” character I'd ever seen who wasn't being framed as actually funny/weird/charming/vulnerable/the clear audience stand-in, but framed as if he were a real person who's really eaten up by depression and self-loathing, and just as off-putting as that is in real life. I vividly remember just having that reaction of, “Oh. This is about someone who's really hanging on by his fingernails, not just Hollywood Depressed,” and latching on so hard, because I needed to see that so much, and I needed to root for him to find his reason, not in spite of but because as a character he was resistant to being liked by other people, by the audience. It's not loveable and charming, to hate yourself, to find your life barely tolerable. It's not a position from which it's easy to see your way forward, and to me Quentin is the most honest expression of that reality that I had ever seen in genre tv. So like, I get why some people didn't like him in first season – he's intentionally tough to like – but I was ultra-invested from minute one, and literally everything he ever said or did made me love him more.

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not: I think I was kind of intrigued by Fen early on – I liked the idea that she was this naive fairy-tale girl who was going to have this harsh awakening when her Destined Prince turned out to be a real person who couldn't fulfill her fantasies, who was going to have to figure out who she was beyond “going to marry the king someday.” That seemed like an interesting arc, and here and there they were kind of doing it – I love the realpolitik she occasionally comes out with, particularly that one scene on the boat when she's like, “The dipshits from my hometown are going to execute me because of you, so sticking with you is kind of my only option and that's just happening.” But then...I don't know, she's really irritating, and they got this weird thing in their heads where her problem is that Eliot sucks, instead of that being The Girl Who Will Marry the King Someday is a sucky role to be forced into making a real life out of, and I just gave up trying to like her eventually.

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not: I liked Penny/Kady all right, until they started doing the weird thing where “in Doomed Love with Penny” was Kady's only emotional arc, like – they actually had her say that all she ever cared about was being Penny's girlfriend, and that's the kind of thing that kind of retroactively ruins the pairing for me.

my ultimate favorite character™: So after everything I said up top – it's actually Eliot. That snuck up on me! And my love for Quentin never went away, not by any means, but. God, Eliot.

prettiest character: If I try to take an objective stance, I'd say it's probably Margo? Like, she's just unearthly beautiful. But there's something about Jason Ralph's goddamn face that – I don't know, it just enthralls me; he does okay-ish at playing Normal-Looking for TV, but also if I look at him for too long it kind of hurts, he's so stupidly gorgeous.

my most hated character: Hyman. And I thought we were supposed to hate Hyman, but then season 5 allegedly happened, and everyone was like, aw, Hyman's okay! But – no he's not? He's obviously not okay? He deeply sucks? Ugh, season 5.

my OTP: Hi, I'm Milo, and welcome to my Tumblr. But yeah, it's Quentin/Eliot, canonical soulmates and The Ditch I Will Die In.

my NOTP: You know, they kind of wore me down to the point of “fine, what the fuck ever,” but I still don't support Margo/Josh. It's bad, it's a bad relationship, it was a bad idea.

favorite episode: I really love Be the Penny, but the actual answer is Escape From the Happy Place. I feel allegiance to Be the Penny, I have not a negative word to say about it, but Escape from the Happy Place is just a level beyond, it's astonishingly good.

saddest death: This question is a microaggression and I will not stand for it.

favorite season: I'm about to break your brain, but – it's 4! It's season 4! I fucking love the first ten episodes of s4! I love the Monster, I love Bad News Bear, I love Hard Glossy Armor, I love fucking Santa Claus. I think s4 has this great propulsive energy where the rest of the series has always been plagued by a tendency to kind of throw everything at the wall and see if anything sticks, the stakes are clear, the external villain and the emotional stuff work together for once, everyone's performances are so strong. The collapse at the end feels so appalling to me in part because I was totally on the ride for most of the season.

least favorite season: I mean, it's season 5, but it didn't have to be. I was never going to get over Quentin's death, per se, but I think there were ways to structure the next season that would've been workable, and honestly there are things about s5 that I do like. I watched most of 5 feeling like it was – messy, but messy in the same way that s2 was messy, the same way The Magicians has always been a little messy, and it wasn't until the end when I really just threw up my hands and was like, okay, I get it, there was never a plan, none of this was going anywhere. God, the last couple of episodes still frustrate me so much, because right up until that point, there was still time to salvage a lot of character work, but nope!

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate: So I don't hate her, and in fact I came to kind of like her eventually, but I did actively hate Julia for a long, long time. Just. Like, she really – pushes my buttons in a very specific way, and if she were a real person I would absolutely love myself by having as little contact as possible with Julia, but because everyone except me loves her so much, I really kind of forced myself to delve into her and try to see what people liked about her, and I do think it was a pretty successful project. I would definitely say at this point that I appreciate Julia as a character, and I have a pretty good sense of what Stuff she activates in me that produces that ruffled reaction, which has allowed me to go beyond Julia Sucks Actually to This Character Is Not Really For Me. I love and support the 98% of fandom who like Julia! In my way, I love and support Julia! But kind of like – a sibling you're sort of forced to into a relationship with, that you love even though they drive you crazy and you're not too sure you will really ever like them.

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: The Monster. I mean, it's not that I wanted a redemption arc for him or anything (although @portraitofemmy has always been onto something with the idea that if the Monster is essentially a child, allowing Quentin to save the world by parenting him would've been a pretty clever payoff for long-term arcs), he's just the kind of villain that is just endlessly fun to watch.

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: I mean, that's a pretty succinct summary of the entire Eliot Waugh Experience.

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship: With the caveat that I still don't believe in guilt because these are just imaginary people in imaginary stories, I definitely still think there's a great romantic tragedy right there for the taking with Eliot/Seb. I wouldn't say the show should have done it, because that would obviously have been just a very different direction than they intended to go, but as a non-canonical ship, I think it's so potentially rich, and someday I'm going to have time to go back to that story I was writing about them, whether or not anyone else ever gives a shit about it.

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship: I never could figure out what people's issue was with Julia/Penny23, they seemed to make each other happy. He was a sweet, supportive dude, and I like their little Wild Thornberrys Interdimensional Adventurers family at the end, although I wish they'd done it on purpose, because “guess what life-changing thing is happening to Julia's body without her consent this week!” was not a well the writers needed to go back to, in my opinion. But I like the idea that Julia ends up with a good guy and a magic kid and is off doing quests and shit, the whole shebang, I thought that was a nice ending. For whatever that's worth, and I imagine that from the perspective of a real Julia fan, my opinion at this point is not worth much!

#the magicians

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mfk-archived · 5 years

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ok friends sit down as I talk about my most beloved franchise on the face of the Earth:

B-PROJECT

I think it's super obvious by now that B-Project (Kodou*Ambitious, Zecchou*Emotion, and Kaikan Everyday ((even tho I don't play it oof))) is....very special to me

But like,, I never gave an exact reason why? I just scream about it in the tags

Well, this is going to be a post about some of the small and big things i absolutely about my 14 idol boys and their super cute A&R!

This is long so uhh have fun reading! 💕

•The characters: they're so unique and individually stick out in their own ways. Goushi and his temper, Momotaro and his mom habits, Mikado and his nerdiness, it goes on.

It's just so great. After you know them a bit you feel yourself get attached (I've seen it happen thrice) and you want to know more about them. The extroverts aren't all the same and they don't have the same habits (i.e. Yuuta is a literal puppy but Haruhi has a social swag that makes him different) Same with the introverts!

They're pretty realistic in some of their reactions as well. Miroku tries to be perfect and it doesn't work bc it's too good so Kento needs to teach him charm. Ryuji is genuinely surprised when Tsubasa shows concern for him and Tomohisa. There's a few examples but they all make the characters more loveable.

The music: you look me dead in the eyes and tell me that NONE–not a single note out of the 50+ songs–of the B-Project songs are even DECENT. I dare you. I will fight you.

↓one of my personal favorites

The music is just...beyond me. They really know how to hit you in the Zecchou emotions

One song like lonely fangs can hype you up to where you feel like you can climb mountains and well, discover a new world Whereas another song like love☆revolu can make you feel like you're in a romantic getaway and the wind is blowing you in the right path

The seiyuus do a fantabulous job at singing and keeping their character simultaneously too (cough happy ending cough)

Also the songs are just straight up bops like???? please listen to them

When you really give it a chance, it feels like you're a part of their world and you can just jam out

The MC, Tsubasa Sumisora: This one is more aimed towards the anime since she isn't present in the games(?)

I've seen people throw serious shade at Tsubasa for 'getting in the way of their yaoi.' Gonna be real for a good moment:

Shut the fuck up.

If that's all you care about when watching B-Pro then guess what, you ain't getting it. This is about them wanting to make it big. Not getting it on. Go away.

Tsubasa is just an absolute joy and a sweetheart. Not only does she genuinely care for the boys (^see point abt Ryuji being surprised by it), she tries her diddly darn hardest at her job

After Yashamaru leaves she keeps herself together and doesn't let his threats shake her up. she gives it her all to get the boys to the top

Shes also very pretty as well. Her design is simple but she sticks out in her own way to me <3 she can be dramatic at times (more in S1) but I take it as that she was still adjusting to her job

The seiyuus/voice actors:I'll keep this one short. If I could hug these guys I really, really would

They're just the best and I'm so thankful that they make the liveshows happen and give the fans a fun time performing

They really do a superb job voicing the boys and singing the songs. B-Pro wouldn't be possible w/o these guys they're the really MVPs

Also they give us silly things like this:

Toyonaga is always just,,,,the crazy one it cracks me up while Kato is just as handsome and stylish. Hanae is a sweetie sjdjdj

I love that they're all friends and stuff

Small random things: its almost over i promise

The respect Tsubasa gets in the workplace and from the boys

The subtle, not in your face ship fanservice. (@anime-music-ships knows what I mean hehe)

THE FANSERVICE IN GENERAL—they literally spoon feed us I'm 😫😭😭🙏🏽💕❤️❤️✨

The SSR cards/CGs: they're BEAUTIFUL holy shiiiiiit

Each group's 'theme', their color schemes and outfits are just 💋 MUAH BEAUTIFUL

The boys' friendships and how they all get along well

Kitakore's super cliche but so romantic backstory

The fact Kento wore JEAN SHORTS for his debut

THANK YOU UTAKO YUKIHIRO FOR DESIGNING THESE BAD BOYS ✨✨🙏🏽😭

there's a lot I love but my brain don't work so good so uhhh let's wrap it up shall we?

Look, this franchise means a hell of a lot to me and I just wanted to manifest my thoughts into one long post

It's not that popular in the west and I kind of wish it was. But at the same time it feels like MY thing—the thing that makes me feel like, well, ME

It's just a big bundle of good things that can make you smile when you're sad or dance when you're bored

It might be kind of an underdog within the idol community (at least IMO) but I will always love it with open arms

These boys are more than just crafts to please a female audience

They are my friends Jk, they're wonderful beings and a group with loads of potential

*sticks pinky in the air* for B-Project ❤️

tagging some b-pro friends bc why not SHARE THE LOVE:

@wishiwasfictionaltoo @scarletlion94 @colaloli @sutekihappiness @itarucchi @trulipan

#b project kaikan everyday #b project zecchou emotion #b project kodou ambitious #b project #idol anime #long post #nana's last braincells #finally posting this in celebration for the new albums!!!!#had this written since june #💕♥️❤️!!

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summer 2019 anime sum-up

lmao i realized i never did this and posted the fall season b4 this.... oops

kimetsu no yaiba: tbh started out kinda meh. and now it’s turned into one of the new big shounens. i was not expecting that. nearing the end got rly good and i was rly looking forward to more episodes! tanjiro gets cooler and cooler! animation is rly nice (thanks ufotable) and the way tanjiro’s water is animated. like. aesthetic asf. it’s so good. i love black-haired emo dude and zenitsu (my spirit animal) and ofc nezuko she is adorable im c r y. side note: the hashira? i think they’re called? some of the ugliest fkn characters i’ve seen in ages like flame boy? stone boy? i HATE them. and the gem dude too like man get a new tattoo artist on god.... he needs it.,,,,,,and inosuke is so pretty it’s unfair

dr stone: ok man dr stone rly went off. tbh. i’ve always been a whore for chemistry since reading the flavia de luce series (btw, i want more books of) and watching this just tickles my noodle brain in a good way... who needs prozac when i get a shitton of serotonin from watching senku dick around.... (btw what is going on with what’s his face and the girl. yuzuriha????? i can’t remember. i love senku don’t get me wrong but i need their perspective too... bc i hate lion dude... so much.... dick....) again i will repeat that i am a whore for chemistry so i get oFF on this. backgrounds are amazing/ animation so nice n clean (most o the time lmao). i thought i would hate the black n white haired trickster boi and ms yellow ponytail and suika but no! dr stone is such a good show that they are now great, loveable characters. also i am senku and chrome’s whore so jfc. man, i love the explanations of all the chemistry shabang, but some things i think would be better if explained! like senku doing physical labour at the beginning- ex. making all those pots and building that shit by hisself. i know he weak af. yes he smart but like. construction? difficult. pottery? even for me the artist . difficult. and that shed of his was filled to the brim. HOW. anyways, i love this so much i am crying constantly

just realized i didnt need to write about dr stone. oh well.

danmachi 2: wtf yo. haruhime is so pretty but not a fan of her personality! bell still cute af and still don’t rly like aiz! animation good as always, and my god i shit myself whenever the argonaut theme starts up bc that is ? one of the best pieces of non-sawano hiroyuki pieces i’ve ever heard? addicted to it. and the opening! love the dynamics, the brief ‘rain’ scenes like when mikoto slashes the raindrops and just her motion basically? as an animator that is what i aspire to accomplish because i just love that. tiny little scene.

arifureta: this would have been so much better had they dragged out mc’s op-ifying process! made him suffer more! i explained this briefly in my ‘first thoughts’ post for this season, but story-wise and pacing-wise his power-up could have been so much more deserved and gratifying. think shield hero- loser suffers, gets angry, slowly builds up power in an epic payoff! would have been so epic too. and also if they’d made his gained powers less.... crazy nerfed. again: HE SHOULD HAVE SUFFERED MORE AND THIS WOULD HAVE MADE A BETTER SHOW. harem thoughts: yue- meh. sucky char honestly. shea- my fav girl, she is a great character don’t judge- sexy and love her personality and love her character design and love how much fanservice she gets lol. panty flash ftw. dragon girl- discount darkness honestly , tho nice design. and mermaid girl- yuck, annoying, DO NOT like the ‘papa’ trope! (ahem sao.) it’s gross. also just fuck mc’s classmates honestly- paladin dude sucks ass, healer girl OOF that last episode ruined her, samurai girl is ok i guess. hate ai-sensei too like shut UPP annoying ass HOEEEEE (postscript: opening=very epic too)

kanata no astra: plot twist? check. trillion well-done plot twists? check. this was done very well. i am so happy. all those plot twists and turns would usually suck in any regular anime- but this was written with GODLIKE ability. thank you, lerche. legit, this was such an enjoyable ride, i eagerly awaited each new ep! typically i hate space-related stuff but like! survival stuff gets my goat.... like this was good- (tho maybe more technical-stuff in the survival theme would make it so cooler) what shocked me the most: (spoilers alert) didn’t end up hating quitterie or funi. (tho the puppet made me want to strangle smth) luca’s gender had rly confused me but i’d decided on him being a boy- so basically that reveal left me like WHOA. i died. did luca rly have to show emo boy their tity tho... kanata losing his arm gave me the yeeeks, charce being the traitor was made sO WELL into a surprise even tho i’d kinda already suspected him<- like that was just fucking amazing writing there. gj. and ares the princess! ok man! shocked! AND also the whole clone thing, just fucked me right up. up the ass. like there are probably more plot twist layers in this than a fkn ogre has.... anyway shrek aside, yun?’s character arc was very pleasing, i think that was done very well! and the ending made me UwU like BRO? goals tbh. yeah this is a hidden gem and is just so good, so well-written overall.

cop craft: didn’t have high expectations. i am now,,, quite,,, shocked &,,, blown away. sweetheart this is a good fucking show. so why @ livechart.me DOES IT HAVE 7.40 STARS WHEN FKN ARIFURETA HAS 7.72. can someone explain this to me? i’m outraged. LIVID. matoba and tilarna were amazing characters btw! loved their dynamic! briefly i thought it might get romantic! nope, it didn’t, so it’s all good. actions scenes were epic, tilarna’s design and outfits were so much nicer than i thought they’d be like. she is so cute. and the op- man, if that is not such a bopper vibe then idk what is. i could watch it forever. it deserves so much more than what it’s got rn.

naka no hito genome: (serious question: is this considered some sort of isekai?) genome gave me btooom vibes honestly but like- this is SO much better than btooom and most game/trap/ kinda shows. fkn BOP of an op, especially the sequence at the end with short clips of each character in action (nutt). paka-san was a good boy and he deserves irl merch. i fell in LOve with all the characters (bubble boy= hot, akatsuki= ok meh actually kinda boring, karin= hot and i want her to punch me, ruromori= beautiful 12/10 would let her stalk me, sleepy eyes boy= baby + dazai vibes and hot af, twin boy= also hot, onigasaki= hot and love him so much, and loli girl= her light grenades got annoying but nice char design) anyways yeah more of this would be epic. i wanna see sakura and her twin reunite, and how they get out basically! also animation quality was very good which is surprising considering it’s a silver link anime.

kono yo no hate de koi wo utau shoujo yu-no: i include the whole title bc this is a good anime. (also livechart.me why 7.27 stars i will fuck you up) only meh part of this is the return to earth from dela granto bc that was like a culture shock and honestly at that point i’d forgotten a lot about what had happened on earth and didn’t care as much. btw, f ayumi and f the other brown-haired oneesan. mio and kanna ftw. obvs i didn’t understand the sayless x takuya thing like dumbass horny teenager . why u gotta creampie the worst girl. u have mio. bruh. (tho mio x ‘oyabi!’ boy is a great ship) also, takuya’s mom? keiko-san? idk if you’ve noticed but that’s literally my name so yeah just glad to finally have some keiko representation. altogether goodass anime. the time travel/ rezero esque reset thing almost got me but this was done well. so no problems. both ops very good. first song was bae, second also bae (just realized it’s by konomi suzuki, one of my waifu idols, so yea nice) and ed2 also so pretty! also yu-no’s design was rly pretty, the outfit colours, and her pigtails rly suited her :)

granbelm: sorry this is the last one lol this was a long ass post! other than the fact i dont rly like mecha this was good.... action, CHARACTER designs aesthetic asf, honestly rly pretty ok. i liked the cast, very diverse and more depth than most shows of this ilk. op was nicely choreographed- especially the part where the girls’ faces are contorted by their gems, showing their magical girl side. nicely done. mangetsu didn’t end up being that bad a char, and honestly? suigetsu is best girl and deserved better. and the ending too- like, bro, that made me kinda sad. some off points: anna’s mom was a little unrealistic as a mom like woman- please learn to control your child, and, white-haired girl’s sister should have played a bigger part, based on how her parts in the opening were emphasized! (quick note- blue girl, love her, great bad guy, when she dumped anna made me so happy honestly, she is beautiful, and i couldn’t actually decide who i wanted to win between her and suigetsu....)

hope u enjoyed this bad review. pls share ur opinions w/ me on some of of these more controversial shows. thank.

#anime #review #anime review #textpost #long post #dr stone #danmachi #kimetsu no yaiba #demon slayer

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marvelousmaam · 5 years

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Daily DC positivity #6

Let’s talk about ART!

Have you ever opened your latest acquirement and just stared for a very long time at this one page or one panel thinking ‘DAMN! This is why I read comics!’ ?

You probably have because you’re here, you’re reading this and right now you’re remembering one specific time that you were in awe just like that. Isn’t it true?

Of course we’re not only talking DC here this applies to most comic publishers (if not all), seeing that many artists work for more than one company that’s pretty obvious… But here’s the thing: I don’t care much for any other publishers - even Marvel has never held the same magic as DC and then there’s the fact that I barely read any comics other than Bat-related. This is nothing but a personal choice and opinion, I’m not saying that one company or character is better than others, okay?

But let’s get on and talk about some of my favorite artists (in no specific order):

Matt Wagner

He’s got a very distinguishable style. It isn’t perfect by no means but it’s beautiful in its very own way and very clean.

His Batman poses are striking, the Bat looks like a real powerhouse AND he excels at transferring his characters movements on paper. His panels don’t look stiff or crowded but the storyline unfolds just like watching a movie. Also, and this is important to me, the combatant moves are pretty realistic. He does beautiful cover art too.

For me his work is like a perfect combination of a Batman we usually only get to see in animated form, the 1960’s Batman tv-series and modern Bats.

Paul Gulacy

Old-school yes but have you see the fuckin detail? It’s like each character comes alive. There’s real people looking at you right from those pages. Do I really need to say more? His 90s LOTDK comics are iconic. We’re talking “Prey” and “Terror” dear people. These are essentials when reading Modern Age Batman. (Also his Gordon looks like my late stepdad and that’s pretty cool…)

Klaus Janson

Another old-school artist. He’s best known for his work with Frank Miller and he’s worked on the Knightfall saga and much more. In my eyes his most interesting work up to this day is “Gothic”. The detail is pretty amazing but what really makes him interesting is his take on Gotham’s architecture. He sets the scene like no one else I can think of right now.

Jim Lee

You knew this was coming, didn’t you fellow comic book lover? Jim Lee is like a really big name by now. Take one look at the Hush saga and you know why he’s hit it big. THIS is what Batman is supposed to look like. Grim, dark, powerhouse-build, dangerous, animalistic and still somehow there’s something very human about Jim Lee’s Bats. His works are detailed where detail is needed but draw not too much attention to anything remotely less important even though there’s a lot going on in the backgrounds. What I’ve been disappointed in though was his generic body formula for all females… too bad really.

Greg Capullo

Currently that is one VERY big name when it’s DC talk, just think Metal, the whole New 52 era and then you should have an idea why he’s on this list. His art is just like his style suggests: gritty, dark - metal. It’s hard and brash and bold and sometimes crazy but always A+ style. I don’t think I’ve seen him do art that falls far from this concept. But it works.

Lee Bermejo

Beware friends, you might get the shock of your lives. Because Lee Bermejo just so happens to be able to capture a character’s soul. You will probably not have seen much more realistic art, if ever. His covers are a highlight and he’s also the guy who gave us a frontal view of Bruce’s dick. Yes… his penis… not his adoptive son. And again: Lee Bermejo’s art is realistic, so if you were hoping for a horse’s schlong you will be disappointed. :)

Joelle Jones

I am sad to say that she’s the only woman to have made my list, seeing that Yasmine Putri as cover artist didn’t really qualify. But Joelle Jones has done some beautiful work and her Catwoman is a highlight.

Her art reminds me of a feminine take of old-school artists and I DO like me some pretty girls to look at just like handsome guys. Her Selina is beautiful, catlike, seductive, fierce and strong. Joelle Jones does facial expressions like she’s never done anything else and you know what a character is thinking or feeling just by looking at them. I can’t think of many artists who manage to portray expressions like that.

Dexter Soy

Last but definitely NOT least. You probably knew this was coming. I’m a fangirl. Not only a bitch for Jason Todd but I’m a real sucker for Dexter Soy’s art. I love his take on many a character. Just look at Artemis in all her glory. She’s magnificent. A real amazon. Look at her body. That’s how I want my superhero girls portrayed. That’s IT, okay? She’s allowed to have female attributes (no question there) but why aren’t there more artists unafraid to give us physically strong women who look their part?

And then there’s Soy’s Red Hood. I fell in love with Jason all over again. He’s broody, sad, hurt, loveable, sort of shy and self conscious, a true friend (to people who deserve it). All of this is conveyed in Dexter Soy’s Jason. And I’ve come to adopt this version of Jay as MY Jay. Seriously, have you seen him in casual sportswear? Good lord have mercy on my single ass...

Well, these are MY absolute favorites. There are MANY more fabulous artists out there but these were the people I actually thought of first. That being said. Don’t hold back! ;)

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Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

In this remake of the Pang Brothers’ own Thai film of the same name, Joe (Nicolas Cage) is a killer for hire with 4 simple rules:

1. Don’t ask questions. 2. Don’t take an interest in people outside of work. 3. Erase every trace. 4. Know when to get out.

On his latest job in Bangkok however, his heart begins to warm for Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), his hired local help, and a pharmacy worker named Fon (Charlie Yeung). As he completes his contracts, he also must struggle with this newfound conflict between his feelings, and his code.

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Hi. I’m sorry I wrote so much but I just have so much to say again OTL.

Okay to be honest, I wasn’t looking forward to watching this. I’d only read poor reviews, and from the description, his look, and because Saturn Films movies are really hit or miss, I just wasn’t interested. But! I was pleasantly surprised by the ending and it changed how I felt about and enjoyed the film a lot, although it was really rough going most of the time.

-my one brain cell: ghost rider.

Frankly I found every character pretty boring, and it took way too long for things to get interesting. The whole point of the movie is that Joe breaks his code of not getting involved emotionally with others, which does happen over the course of the story, but it’s really not executed well and I struggled to really care about Joe. The transition from unfeeling assassin to Joe caring for Kong in particular feels too sudden, and there isn’t really any build up to it. The viewer isn’t shown Joe struggling at all really with his emotions vs. His code, so it feels like a very random decision for him to take on Kong as an apprentice, rather than because he cares for him. It also doesn’t help that Kong is a snarky asshole for most of the film, and I kind of hated him lol. All he did was annoy Joe, and not in a loveable way. Why Joe would come to care for him I’m not really sure, and it’s not like the film shows us why at all.

I rolled my eyes at Joe’s romance with Fon because I was a bit scared their language barrier would make the relationship super cringey, but I have to admit they were cute. All of their scenes together had barely any dialogue, and it really allowed their chemistry to shine. I think they really sold that they liked each other a lot and it was sweet. It was much easier to see why he was breaking his code for Fon than Kong. However, like I said I found both of them pretty boring as we got so little information about who they were aside from how they were connected to Joe, so I didn’t really get to come to like them like Joe was.

Back to Joe’s emotional struggles being super unfulfilling, I found Nic’s performance to be really lacking. Now because we weren’t given any scenes in the movie to actually see Joe being at conflict with himself, I’m inclined to believe it was more because of the direction he was given rather than his own acting choices, but man was he wooden. Until Joe met Fon I thought this movie was just another instance of Cage deciding to act terribly for whatever reason, but then the scenes with Fon were really nice. I know he’s supposed to be an unfeeling assassin, but the whole point of the movie is that he gives in to his feelings!!!! How is the viewer supposed to believe he comes to care for these people when we’re given the impression that he has no capacity for feelings at all??? I think the way they handled all that really did a disservice to the ending, which I'm gunna go more into under a spoiler cut at the end because this review isn’t long enough already.

So! Things I really enjoyed: the view. All of the nighttime shots of the city and more rural areas were beautiful. The daytime scenes at the end of the film were just as nice as well. Every outdoor shot was so colourful and saturated and really gave the feeling of a lively city, and I loved the contrast of that to the soft lighting and muted colours of Joe’s place.

The assassination scenes were already really cool! Joe used a different methods for each target that were all really fun to watch, and they were set up really well I my opinion.

Also I just have to say it..... this movie was lowkey ASMR??? Idk how many of you like ASMR but I do, and this movie had a weird amount of instances where I was like, is this.... on purpose?? Is this happening?? Folley team A+. Nic spoke so softly, there was tons of ambient city/outdoor noises, quiet scenes where objects with classic ASMR triggers were being handled and had audio to match...... it created a weirdly calming mood sometimes for an assassin movie lmao.

Because I’m crazy and have a problem, I made a video compilation of a lot of the ASMR-y parts??? Some of the sounds also had action movie background music so I didn’t include them all but....

Enjoy this Nicolas Cage ASMR?

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Overall this movie was better than I was anticipating. The kills were really cool, the action scenes were fun, and it was beautiful to look it. But the characters were all rather boring, and I found it difficult to care about what was happening to them when we were given so little about them to care for. I actually think a second watch after interpreting the ending how I did would make the movie more enjoyable.

Rating:

Spoiler cut for me talking about the ending!!! I think the ending is cool enough I don’t wanna spoil it if you don’t want to read it. ^^

Alright so now on to how I thought the ending could have been better lol. I feel like too many of my reviews where I have issues like this turn into essays but I just have to explain my thinking so I’m sorry this is super long again.

So like I said, Joe coming across as an unfeeling assassin who discovers he can feel I think really did a disservice to the ending. I’m probably going waaaaay too deep into what purpose the ending was supposed to serve, but this is art and this is my interpretation! Lol. After seeing the ending and sitting on it for a bit, what it told me was that Joe wasn’t unfeeling, but actually a guy with a lot of feelings, and that the code was there to help him avoid hurting himself and others. Killing himself at the end painted quite the tragic picture of Joe hating what breaking his code had done to the people he had come to care for so much, he would rather die than deal with how it would effect his life thereafter. It was a really great instance of the movie finally showing Joe’s struggles, and I dearly wish we got more of that throughout the movie. Because we never saw Joe’s inner conflicts, it made the ending not shocking because we now see how deeply Joe’s feelings and decisions affected him after a bunch of emotional build up, but shocking because it didn’t really seem to fit with the character we were shown the whole film.

Ahhh it was just frustrating that I spent all the movie finding Joe such a boring character when we could have had a build up to the ending that would have made it a lot more impactful, and Joe more interesting. Apparently there is an alternate ending which from reading the Wiki summary, idk if it would have made the movie better or worse if I had seen that ending first instead.

#bangkok dangerous #nicolas cage #review #movie review #zoinks i wrote an essay again sorry!!!! but man i just rly needed to explain my feelings abt the ending #so much squandered potential :(#yes i spent too much time making that asmr video and i have a problem

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lapsa-lapsa · 6 years

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Rob James-Collier: Oh, You Handsome Devil!

As Downton Abbey's hot gay villain, Rob James-Collier finds love -- and redemption.

AARON HICKLIN

THU, 2013-01-03 09:04

Photography by David Bailey

Styling by Julian Ganio

Last March, when The New Yorker’s Ian Crouch declared an “epidemic of Downton Abbey fever,” he wasn’t wrong. The show has been nothing short of a phenomenon, a runaway success for dowdy old PBS, far outpacing in ratings that other popular period drama, Mad Men. It’s a classic tale of love and fortune with a fundamental mystery at its core, namely: How can something this schlocky be this good? Maybe it has something to do with its formula, equal parts high class to high camp (yes, Dame Maggie Smith, we’re looking at you); or its bucolic English setting; or, more likely, its blatant appeal to our closeted hankering for a butler fully versed in the art of decanting vintage port. After all is said and done, who has not wished that they, too, could be in the position to declare, like the Dowager Countess with her imperious mix of disdain and perplexity, “What is a week-end?”

Indeed, what is a weekend without Downton Abbey to cozy up with on Sunday nights? And here it is, back again to keep winter from the door—season 3, and with it the Roaring Twenties to blow away the agony of war and the insult of rationing. Expect flappers and the Charleston, and a Marcel wave or two.

Let me come clean: I haven’t seen a preview of season 3 -- in my home that would be cheating; it’s what we still call appointment TV -- but I have it on great authority that this is the season in which that villainous gay footman-turned-valet, Thomas Barrow, experiences the tender love that his poor, neglected heart so craves and needs. It’s about time. His dalliance with the Duke of Crowborough in the opening episode of season 1 turned out to be a tease. He ended season 2 in the arms of the Dowager Countess, twirling around the dance floor at the Christmas party like a neuter content to spend his prime escorting ladies of a certain age to the ball.

We should have known that creator and writer Julian Fellowes would not disappoint. Season 3 is where it all changes for young Thomas. And for us, too. Although there clearly were gay men in Edwardian England, they’ve been in scant supply on television. There was, of course, Sebastian and Charles in Brideshead Revisited, whose “naughtiness [was] high on the catalogue of grave sins,” as Evelyn Waugh wrote, but they merely hinted at what happened when the lights were off. Thomas promises to go somewhat further. It’s what makes Downton Abbey feel, well, modern.

No one, of course, is more excited by this turn of events than Rob James-Collier, the actor who secured the role of Thomas with the understanding that it was a one-season deal. “My agent said, ‘Listen, you’ve got the part that everyone in town wants—he’s a villain, he’s a great role, the only bad thing is that he dies at the end of the first series,’ ” recalls James-Collier. But Thomas clicked with the audience, and his on-screen chemistry with his maid counterpart, O’Brien (a wonderfully surly Siobhan Finneran), was irresistible. “I gave it 110 percent, and after the first couple of episodes, Liz, the producer, came to me and said, ‘We want you to stay on. Will you?’ And I was, like, ‘Fuck, yeah.’ ”

We are in Bloomsbury, London, sitting in a tiny French patisserie hardly big enough to contain James-Collier’s boundless energy. When he walks in, he immediately begins by quoting lines from articles of mine that he’s found online. It’s discombobulating. Research is my job. At another point, he puts me on the phone with a friend summoned to serve as a character reference. I feel like a luckless audience member at a comedy show, plucked from the front row as a volunteer for a gag. When I accidentally insert a “Smith” into his surname (it’s that damn hyphenate), he is gleeful as hell. “Aaron has got my name wrong, and he’s now floundering, trying to think of it,” he dictates into my recorder.

That double-barreled name, incidentally, was not his choice. He grew up in Salford, near Manchester, as plain Rob Collier, and might have stayed that way had actors union Equity not intervened to avoid confusion with another Rob Collier. “I said, ‘Can I have Rob James Collier, and they said, ‘Yeah, if you hyphenate it,’ and I said, ‘Well, can I have Rob-James Collier?’ and they said -- and this is true -- ‘No, you have to hyphenate the James and the Collier.’ ” He wasn’t happy. In England, hyphenated surnames are for posh people. “I was, like, ‘That sounds like someone from the aristocracy, as if I’m being somebody I’m not.’ But they insisted,” he recalls ruefully. In Britain, still today, there’s little more disreputable than the man or woman who puts on the airs and graces of the upper class.

I went to school with boys like James-Collier. You probably did, too. They are the entertainers and comedians, who laugh at their own pratfalls. What they lack in confidence they make up for in banter. It’s no surprise to hear that James-Collier is the joker on set, and the one with the loudest mouth. “Most actors are really shy and insular creatures,” he explains. “I’ve just always been a dick.” He remembers his first day at acting class (he found it by consulting the Yellow Pages), and realizing that he’d liberated himself. “We were doing these warm-up exercises, running around doing crazy things with our voices, and, rather than feeling stupid, I just felt that I’d come home,” he says. He was working as a marketing assistant at the time, “listening to Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon -- great album, bad album to listen to if you’re in a rut, ticking away the hours that make up a dull day.” Watching Ricky Gervais’s masterwork, The Office, compounded his sense of futility. “It was my office,” he says. “I thought, I can’t do this for the rest of my life, surely?”

Oddly, that is the same dilemma facing Thomas Barrow, shackled to servitude as a footman at Downton Abbey, always looking for an opportunity to elevate his station in life -- and failing. His pitiful efforts to establish a black market in rationed goods during season 2 spoke volumes about the limitations confronting Britain’s working class in the Edwardian era. It’s moments like those that save Downton Abbey from being merely an exercise in sumptuous costume porn.

If you grew up in Britain, as I did, the world of Downton Abbey is a familiar one, conjured in an endless parade of finely wrought television shows, which we send across the oceans like telegraphs from our gilded past. Some of them, like 1981’s 11-hour miniseries, Brideshead Revisited, which introduced Jeremy Irons to the world, or 1995’s six-episode serialization of Pride and Prejudice, which did the same for Colin Firth, strike gold. Few, however, receive quite the rapturous reception of Downton Abbey. The reason, perhaps, is fairly simple: Although Downton wears the clothes (and production values) of quality drama, it has the soul of a soap opera. As my boyfriend likes to say, it’s very efficient, meaning that things happen at lightning speed. Resolutions come thick and swift, which is all part of the pleasure.

Fellowes himself takes credit for modernizing the format by borrowing his style from U.S. shows like The West Wing, but it’s also that the concerns of the show are discernibly our concerns, albeit in Edwardian costume. For James-Collier, “Downton Abbey is a workplace like any other. You’re going to get cliques of people who don’t like each other -- Thomas and O’Brien versus Bates and Anna -- and you’re going to get people who really love doing their jobs and people who are bitter and feel they’re just a number. It’s about relationships in the workplace environment, and people can identify with that because the same problems and political conflicts you have in work today were relevant back then.”

Coincidentally or otherwise, almost all the actors who play servants in Downton Abbey got their start in English soap operas -- gritty exercises in social realism, fully rooted in working-class culture. The oldest of those shows, Coronation Street -- set in Manchester -- has run continuously for 52 years, and nurtured generations of acting talent. James-Collier arrived on the series in 2006, as “loveable rogue” Liam Connor, and stayed for two years before deciding he wanted to take on a different kind of challenge.

“It’s a great, brilliant show, but you have to make a decision,” he says. “I’m not knocking anyone for going that way [of soap operas] -- you can get security, and God knows we need that, but I think you’re limited then in terms of your options as an actor.” After Coronation Street, he was out of work for 15 months, waiting for the right thing to come along. “I watched people who had left these kinds of shows and had seen what happened,” he says. “So I knew you had to literally put the shutters down and just pray and hope that something would come along, and when the wolves were near the door, Downton Abbey came.”

James-Collier has joked that his character’s sexuality became so muted in season 2 that he called up Fellowes and asked, “Am I still gay?” Yes, it turns out. In season 3, we get to see Thomas outed in a powerful sequence of episodes that James-Collier considers the best acting of his career. “It’s the series where we really comes to grips with Thomas’s sexuality and the impact being gay must have had on him, in Edwardian times,” he says. “If you’re including a gay character, there’s an onus and responsibility to at least show what the impact of the time will be on him, and of him on that time. Thankfully we’ve done that, and I’m so proud that I’ve been used to tell that tale.”

A confrontation between Thomas and the butler, Mr. Carson, proves to be a high point, and one that confers uncommon dignity on the footman. “It’s a lovely, beautiful moment,” says James-Collier, clearly delighted by the opportunity to redeem his character. “If you were gay in those times, the fact that you’re even functioning, how you’re not completely fucked up by that, is beyond me.”

Although not gay in real life, he says he has empathy for misfits and outsiders, perhaps because of his own atypical route to acting. Even now it’s clear that he can’t quite believe that he’s earned his place as an actor. He recalls sitting opposite Maggie Smith during the first read-through (“a proper pinch-yourself moment”) and feeling that everything out of his mouth sounded like wooden splinters. It can’t be easy playing the least lovable character on the show. When she arrived on set, guest star Shirley MacLaine greeted him with the words, “It’s you -- the evil one! Why are you so evil?” The answers, apparently, are all in season 3. “With O’Brien and Thomas, you’ve got these two forces, and it’s a kind of paradox -- they work for this great house that keeps them off the streets and from starving, and yet they absolutely despise the system they’re in, because there’s no other option,” he says. “In a weird way Thomas wants to bring down the system, but if he did he’d be putting himself out of a job and a home.”

As he was talking, I remembered something: My own grandmother, now 92, had started her working life “in service” as they say, at the age of 14, still a child herself. That would have been in the 1930s -- the same era as Julian Fellowes other big country–house hit, Gosford Park, for which he won a best original screenplay Oscar in 2002. At the time my grandmother went into service, her father was ill and her mother was struggling to hold things together. “It was an awful wrench to leave my sisters and brothers at home, but it was one less pair of shoes under the table,” she explains when I ask about her experiences. My grandmother, a country girl, didn’t work in the big house (as one of her sisters did), but for a doctor’s family, where she was excruciatingly lonely.

“I think that’s the reason I got married so young -- to get out of it,” she says. “I did all the cooking and all the cleaning, and had one half day off a week, and a whole day off once a month.”

“No weekends, then?” I ask.

“Oh, there were no weekends,” she says, conjuring Maggie Smith’s glorious bafflement in season 1. It is to Downton Abbey’s credit that this stark double meaning isn’t entirely lost on the audience, or that the disparity between those upstairs and those downstairs isn’t varnished into oblivion. It’s left to us to imagine how people of O’Brien’s resourcefulness or Thomas’s ambition would fare in our own age, but one thing’s certain—they wouldn’t be spending their weekends polishing the silver.

https://www.out.com/entertainment/television/2013/01/03/rob-james-collier-downton-abbey

#robert james collier #thomas barrow #downton abbey #interview

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iloveyoursmile94 · 7 years

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Beauty and the Beast Novelization Review (Spoilers from the start and throughout)

Originally I wasn’t going to purchase the novel until after I had seen the film. However, I was just too excited and I am glad I bought it as I was more than impressed with the book. I loved Beast in the original, but this novel made me love Beast even more. Although there are quite a few changes and new things added (all of which I liked very much) it seems the live action Beauty and the Beast will stay faithful to the original 1991 version. There are quite a few lines and scenes that have been taken from the original movie which give a lovely feeling of nostalgia.

Elizabeth Rudnick, who is the author of the novelization, has done a wonderful job of allowing us to see into the minds of Belle, Beast and even Gaston and Le Fou, which gives so much more depth to the characters as well as enabling us to see their reasoning for what they do and their emotions. The book flows nicely and is very well written in such a way that it makes it very easy to visualise how this will look on screen. It is obvious to see where each song will come in as some lyrics sneak there way into the book as well as the description.

Even though I enjoyed the whole book, the parts which really stood out for me (and the ones which I am most excited to see in the film) were:

The Prologue How this part is written suggests that we will not have a stained glass window sequence. Despite this a lot of the dialogue in the original sequence is used in this version of the Prologue. What I really like about this version of the Prologue is we see so much more of what the Prince like was before he was cursed. We see him interact with his servants, guests and most importantly the beggar woman. As well as there is a very vivid description of his transformation into the beast (I loved this bit!) which I am really looking forward to seeing on screen. It also answers a lot of questions about the curse, which is a lot more tragic than the original. In this version, when the last petal falls all the staff die and actually do become inanimate objects as well as any memories of the castle and staff are erased from the outside world. Even from those who love them.

Belle We get to see a lot more of Belle’s life in the village before she meets the Beast. From the original this is something I always wanted to know more about. Some bits are the same such as here interactions with Gaston, her Father and some of the villages, but we also get to see why she is such an outsider. In this version this is not only because of her love of books, it is also that she is an inventor (not her Father). There is also a really lovely section, which we see in the trailer, were Belle is teaching a young girl to read. This is frowned on in the village and causes quite a stir in the village. But surprisingly, who defends here? Gaston!

Gaston This brings me on to Gaston. He is very well written and from what I have seen in the clips from the movie, Luke Evans does a fantastic job at playing him. He starts off as this loveable rogue, but he really becomes quite the nasty and unscrupulously villain in the end. As I said he defends Belle about teaching the girl to read, but we might have guessed, it is all for his own ego. I know a lot of people have said they can’t understand why (in this version) how Belle can be so dismissive as he seems to do so much for her. However I can. Although his actions seem to be for her, we get glimpses of his thoughts in the novel and everything really is just a show for either Belle to fall in love with him, or for the villages to worship him. He is actually quite manipulative, especially when he leaves Maurice to die in the forest (in order for Belle to marry him because without her Father, she has no one to take care of her) and when Maurice returns, forces Le Fou to lie about it all and convince the villages that Maurice is crazy. I think this Gaston has a lot more depth and it is great to see his character arc.

Le Fou Speaking of character arc, I was very impressed with Le Fou and again I think Josh Gad is going to be wonderful in the movie. Le Fou has so much more depth in this version and in the novel we get to see some of his thoughts and how conflicted he is with Gaston. At the start he is all over Gaston, but there are times, for example when Gaston leaves Maurice in the forest, where Le Fou really disagrees and wants to let him go. But my favourite bit is in the castle during the mob scene. Gaston leaves Le Fou to die and that just does it for him. He later saves Mrs Potts from shattering and ‘betrays’ Gaston by telling Belle where Gaston is and stating that he’s tired of being ‘treated as an object’ (I liked the pun :P). This character arc was one of my favourites from the novel and I always felt that Le Fou in the original deserved a little more depth of character, so it was satisfying reading this.

Battle on the Turrets It is very similar to the original version and we get to hear some of Gaston’s most poignant lines, which gave me goose bumps! The Beast is pretty badly injured a few times and his desperation to get to Belle and Belle to him is just heart wrenching. Overall this just had me on edge the whole time!

Transformations Another reason I brought the novel was because I had read a few things about the new transformation scene which did concern me. This is my most favourite scene in the whole movie (as well as favourite scene from Disney films) and if this was screwed up it would just ruin the whole thing for me. However, my concerns were laid to rest. It was as moving, tragic (even more so when I think about it) and beautiful as the original. I have never been brought to tears by a book, but I just welled up like a baby. I was so relieved and happy at the scene is written exactly how I imagined it to be and if the book is as close to the film as it lets on, this scene is going to be breath-taking. When Beast is dying many of the lines in the scene are the same as the animation, but we also get to see the servants and how they are affected by Beasts death. This part makes the scene even more tragic. Slowly they start to die and become inanimate objects. Cadenza starts to play to try and keep himself alive, Mrs Potts and Chip are so desperate to find one another so they are together when they die and Lumiere trying to keep Cogsworth speaking is just... all the feels :( . Anyway Belle finally says ‘I love you’ just as the last petal falls. Now this is a little different because Agathe (who is the beggar woman in the village, turns out to be the Enchantress!) magic’s the rose back to life and the Beast. The Beast is enveloped by gold dust and in interview on YouTube Bill Condon mentions something about rose petals being used in the transformation scene as well ( Here is the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhB_P6Mq9xA&feature=youtu.be

he mentions it at 0.16 ). So I imagine this will look very beautiful. Similar to the animation he rises into the air and there are a lot of bright lights. Belle and the Princes kiss is described so romantically and then servants become human again and the castle returned to its former glory.

Overall there are some other really nice touches such as :

- Belle and Beast bonding over books and memories as well as over family (Both losing their mothers and Beast having an abusive Father). There is a very moving scene when Beast and Belle (using the Atlas from the trailer) go back to where Belle lived originally with her Mom and Dad, where she discovers how her mother died. - Obviously the Ballroom scene. This is described beautifully in the book. - The dog (piano seat) is also in the book and most likely the movie also, except he belongs to Cadenza and Madame de Garderobe - Jean the Potter, who lives in the village and is always looking for something, but can’t remember, turns out to be Mrs Potts’ husband and Chips Father. We find this out when they are reunited when the curse is broken (As part of the curse was fall the villages, even those who has loved ones, to forget about the castle and everyone inside.)

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask! :D

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catherinejimenez · 7 years

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2016: ON THE TOP OF MY LIST

Last year, I’ve watched more than 10 Korean dramas and there’s this 4 particular dramas that really catches my heart.

Disclaimer: This blog post might contain spoilers so if you haven’t watched the dramas that I will be mentioning here, I hope you can forgive me :)

W-TWO WORLDS

Synopsis: W-Two worlds is a fantasy-romance about a man and a woman living in different worlds. Yeon Joo is a doctor living in the real world and her father is the author of the most popular webtoon, W. And Kang Chul is the lead character of that webtoon. Things becomes complicated when Yeon Joo’s father decides to kill Kang Chul and Yeon Joo gets pulled into the comic world and met Kang Chul.

I was able to watch this drama because of a friend who keeps on telling me that there’s a drama that she’s really into. I wasn’t interested at first because I’m still not yet done with Game of Throne’s season 4. But after few weeks of convincing me, I started to watch the drama and the story began.

It wouldn’t be much to say that it was love at first episode for me with W. The first few episodes of the drama were good but a little dy. But after few more episodes I started to like W. It’s a great fantasy story, a lots of twist and turns. You can’t never be comfortable because you just never know what’s going to happen next. I love the whole concept of a character having to learn he’s from a work of fiction. It’s unbelievable and devastating for the person involved.

What I liked about W-Two Worlds?

Aside from the drama’s bold storytelling, the execution of the two worlds is really my favorite. A serious kudos to the whole production team,because they managed the transition of the two worlds so skillfully.

A cute OTP. Yeon Joo and Kang Chul is really cute together. They can turn the serious scenes into romantic one real quick. One of my favorite scene of them is during the time that Yeon Joo confessed her love to Kang Chul. Before, Yeon Joo randomly says those words to him but he’s not affected at all (It’s her way to go back to the real world). This time, it’s different, he got swayed by Yeon Joos confession.

Overall, W-Two worlds was fun and crazy ride. With action packed fantasy story. It’s highly recommended if you’re a fan of those kind of genres.

MOONLIGHT DRAWN BY CLOUDS (LOVE IN THE MOONLIGHT)

I have to tell you this guys, I really really love this one. Seriously. This drama reminds me all over again why I fell in love with traditional dramas. It wasted no time in grabbing my heart and hold onto it really tight for the entire 18 episodes.

One of the things that comes to my mind when I think of MDBC, aside from Park Bo Gums sweetness, is that this drama is really well made. From the execution of scenes to the delivering of lines, everything.

Yeong (Park Bo Gum’s character) was my favorite among the cast of the show. Yeong’s character is full of charm and you couldn’t resist it I’m telling you. One of my favorite scene of him is during the confession and first kiss on Episode 7. The way Yeong approaches into confession and eventually to his first kiss scene to Ra On got me so kilig. Ugh. This boy makes my heart wobble, seriously. Another one is in Episode 14, when he comes face to face with Ra On in the secret meeting place. I won’t forget his “I will never forgive you” line before walking to Ra On and grabbed her in his arms. I never thought those words could be so romantic. I still haven’t moved on from that.

If there’s a leading man who’s really charming and handsome there should be a better half who has the same characteristics as him which really suits for Kim Yoo Jung. She’s one of the child actresses who’s really grown up so beautiful and talented. I can still remember her, portraying the role of young Yeon-O in Moon embracing the sun (which is my all time favorite drama). I really like Kim Yoo Jung as Ra On, she’s really natural. She’s funny without looking like she’s trying hard. Kim Yoo Jung consistently looks like she’s being herself.

The cast really suits the drama. Aside from the leads, Kwak Dong Yun really catches my attention. His cool but caring friend role is loveable (I’m so kinikilig while typing this one.) Special shout out to the Princess and Master Jung’s loveline. I also enjoyed their love story, even though it’s mostly played for comedy afterall, they are the reason why Ra On and Yeong met.

GOBLIN: THE LONELY & GREAT GOD

Goblin made me speechless and fall in love in less than a few minutes. As someone who watched many dramas and (I can say) can predict almost everything that’ll happen next, this drama made me laugh, cry & cringe when I didn’t expect I would.

Synopsis: Goblin is about a general way back in Goryeo, who got killed out of jealousy by the King. Because of his desperate wish for revenge, God gave him the chance to become goblin, a creature with immortal life and superpowers.

Goblin is really unpredictable. This drama made me cry, laugh out loud, cringe (Paulit ulit ako haha) and so much more. This drama caught me offguard. It’s so fun to watch and that’s not even all. It makes you think about so many things especially God, good and bad, death, your deeds, you past and so on. It’s really a drama for everyone. It has everything you could wish for: Romance, comedy, poetry, drama and so much more. There’s something about this drama that was really addicting.

Why I like Goblin a lot?

Aside from the unique pairing of Goblin and Eun Tak, the bromance between Goblin and Grim Reaper is really enjoyable. The way they annoy each other is such a riot. Lol One of my favorite funny moments of these two is when they are trying to learn how to use cellphone. Deok Hwa, a younger servant of Goblin, told them the basics on using phone. He said, they should go first to the appstore to download apps then suddenly Goblin started to wear his coat. I was laughing so hard during that scene.

Goblin and Eun Tak’s loveteam is a breath of fresh air. It’s an unusual pair because of the age difference but the chemistry of the two is really cute.They’re not the typical clingy couple but there’s something in them that will make you love them.

Grim Reaper and Sunny’s amazing lovestory. I really love the concept of their relationship. Grim reaper being innocent about impressing girls is so adorable. I think fellow KDrama fans will agree on me that they are another example of second lead syndrome. I seriously hoped that they could make another drama together.

WEIGHTLIFTING FAIRY KIM BOK JOO

One word to begin with….. Sweeeeg!

Synopsis: Kim Bok Joo is a weightlifting athlete in a sports university. Her seemingly ordinary life becomes interrupted as she reunited with her elementary schoolmate, Joon Hyung who’s currently an athlete of the swimming team.

WLFKBJ possibly one of the underrated dramas last 2016. I love almost everything about this drama because it really shows the charm and trials of the youths. I seriously wish I could just fill this blog post with only heart emoticons. This drama makes my heart so full and I’m loving it so freaking much. WLFKBJ feels so raw, real and beautiful with more resemblance to life and less of fiction. From the moment I saw the preview online, I felt like this show would really fits my taste.

Here’s the main things that made this show works for me:

The people and stories feels real and relatable. While dramaland is full of shows with fantastical and unusual set-ups, this drama’s charm lies in just how ordinary it’s setting is and how ordinary its characters are.

Lee Sung Kyung as Kim Bok Joo. Oh my God I love her. At first I will admit that I found Bok Joo’s acting a bit exaggerated and her body movements so unnatural but once I accepted that Bok Joo really is a person who walks weird and who really couldn’t help crumpling her face into a pout on a regular basis, I grew to love her. I seriously can relate to Bok Joo, from dealing with self-image, to crushing on boys, to finding meaning in what she does. Maybe because Bok Joo is relatable, I often find myself in her.

Nam Joo Hyuk as Joon Hyung. I Honestly prays to God to have my own Joon Hyung. I just love how he cares so much for Bok Joo even before they become a couple. Which leads to my next favorite thing, Joon Hyung Sweetness. I love it. I love that Bok Joo doesn’t need to be anything or anyone other than herself, to inspire this kind of loyalty, affection and head-over-heels love from him. The two of them shared an amazing amount of chemistry in this show. The skinship feels so natural and easy, I feel like they’ve cuddled a lot before and I’m completely blown away. These two is consistently cute together.

The Friendship of Bok Joo, Seon Ok and Nan Hee.I love that no matter what came between them, they remain as good friends. I seriously can see my friends on them. (Shoutout to my squad. Love you. Ewww Haha) So endearing and yes, full of SWAG!

So far, WLFKBJ is my most loved drama. I don’t know when will I get over because it only sets another standard for me to look at on the coming dramas this year.

The Dramas that I’ve mentioned above is highly recommended I’m assuring you all you won’t regret watching them.Goodnight, Good Morning and SWEEEG!

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pnwangel · 7 years

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Confessions from a broken me.

I’m in that sad mood that happens every once in a while. 1. K- I hope you realize one day that I wasn’t being the bad guy and I was just trying to help. I hope you know that I would’ve done anything for you. You were one of my closest friends and I’m not sorry for what I said but I’m sorry we ended up the way we did. 2. Z- I hope one day you really understand the shit you pulled and how it was YOU who ruined our friendship not ME. Family is my first priority. And I hope you realize I would’ve done anything for and to protect you. You were one of my best friends and I hope it really fucks with you. 3. A- I loved you. I loved you since I first met you in 5th grade. I would’ve risked everything just so you would be safe. You were my world and the first person I fell in love with. I can’t change you, but I can change the outcome and how my heart breaks. To let you go will be hard, but I am tired of being last, I’m tired of it only being a sexual connection, I’m tired of fighting and wanting someone who doesn’t want me. I can’t do it anymore and I know you’ll understand because you’ve already forgotten how you felt about me and how I felt about you. I understand and it’s okay. We’re 1200 miles from each other, I was crazy to think it would ever work out. 4. B- B. My love my light. You were the second person I truly, genuinely fell in love with. I am so sorry I broke you, broke your heart, ruined you, hurt and betrayed you. I am a god awful person and I don’t know why taking me back was even a good idea but you did and it happened again. First it was everything with your mom. The juice, the mis-communication, the betrayal, the lies, the blaming me phone call, your senior night, the ban on us together even talking, there was never an I forgive you and I’m sorry for blaming you. It was her opinion and I had to choose the bestfriend or the love of my life. I thought it was the right thing to do by telling her what was said and what happened. Then it was the brokenness I tried to keep myself away from. It wasn't you that caused it, it was your mom. I didn’t think I’d lose the man I could only previously picture in a movie as the “perfect man”. You were by far the best thing that has ever happened to me. I was scared to fall in love again after everything that happened previous to you and I and I was able to let down my wall for you. I let my guard down and I fell for you harder than I’ve fell before. Hell I still love you. I won’t ever be able to not love you. We gave it another shot and it was great the first two weeks, but when I came back over to your house it still felt like I was the odd man out. I wasn’t welcomed and I knew it. I could tell. I wouldn’t be welcomed back in your house and I figured it was easier for the both of us if I just let you go and moved on. Little did I know a year later I would still be crying over it and you. It was the single hardest decision I’ve had to make. I told you I still loved you and as it is true, we can’t do it again. We both agreed we are better off friends than not anything at all. Hearing you tell me how badly I broke your heart just makes my heart hurt. I never wanted to hurt you, but I did. I hurt you in more ways than I even knew. I am so sorry. So from me to you. I hope you find someone who treats you the way you deserve because you deserve the world and one day you’re going to find a girl who will make your darkest days brighter than the sun. She will be your best friend and you will make memories you can’t even begin to imagine right now. You’re going to be the best boyfriend, husband and father to your wife and kids someday and I pray you find the right person to do that with. You have a free spirit and a kind soul only people see in fictional characters. You are one of the good ones. You are going to do so many amazing things with your life and I can only hope you will be happy with everything you do. I hope someone can make you happier than I ever saw you or made you. I’ll always love you but it starts with goodbye. Goodbye B. I hope your life brings you all the joy you could ever imagine. A part of me will always love you, but I need to move on and start my new chapter. Thankyou for all the amazing memories and for the endless joy you brought me. You’re one amazing man and I wish you nothing but the best. 5. ME- You’re strong, beautiful, smart, independent, caring, helpful, trustworthy, loveable, and overall someone people are drawn to. Don’t ever forget that.

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