Small secret for two to share

I'm not immune to propaganda 😔

my new mental rotisserie chickens (absolutely basted in "yuri so doomed it almost ends the world" spice)

if you watched this show as a kid then you were gay.

I've been reading the Percy Jackson books for the first time over the past two weeks! Just finished "The Battle of the Labyrinth" last night (which btw is my favorite of the series so far!!)

I have now gained a new obsession but it might not be what you think

every day this app surprises me anew because what do you mean there's an active sisters grimm fandom in the year of our lord 2024. *banging on the walls* LET ME IN

I'm glad ppl are excited about the live action but I hate netflix and their addiction to needing a cast that's all conventionally attractive and picture perfect. Like we can all make up reasons for why they've removed Sanji's eyebrows and little whisker beard, or removed Usopp's long nose, but it's so clear to me they removed those things because they are not conventionally attractive traits and they want an attractive main cast.

This is no fault of the actors ofc they don't control this shit, but god forbid the common person look at an uncanny facial feature that adds character/meaning and go "ew that looks weird and ugly I don't like that."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"simon and marcia should be besties" SO true. They have so much in common

- stubborn to a fault, occasionally doing things just to spite the people who said they couldn't

- dramatic dressers with an eye for quality

- decided to become EOW, so there, at a very young age

- talented wizards, but also willing to put in the work

- but this random jumped up Heap boy whose only achievement in life is having six brothers is getting THEIR apprenticeship ANYWAY

- I must make him my mortal enemy

- oh no he's kinda just. a nice kid

- oh no. the horrors

YEAH LITERALLY. I need a fic of marcia looking at simon and seeing herself I rlly do. They r so similar

Here some doodles of John Keats that I did a while ago

And Gosh I know I’m late but for real is this fandom still alive? (Please feel free to pc me I’m in desperate need of mutuals ;)

quick sketch of Renwick (he/they), the not-cat nestor gave me today :]

love these guys

Had a fun AU idea hear me out: what if instead of hating everything his parents did and getting into cooking, Arven instead got really into their research topics in a bid for their attention. Do you think they would’ve appreciated him a bit more? I could see it going either way... either they would get really overly attached to him ( “No one else understands our work” ) or they would be at canon levels of detachment idk. I’m just envisioning a scenario in which Arven got to stay in Area Zero because, hear me out (again):

What if Arven was the one who lost his life in the accident? And then, suppose the professors, riddled with grief and guilt, maybe make that lab assistant they now need... and maybe they make it look like their son, you know, since they’re still grieving, and then maybe they can’t stand to have him still working with them because it’s overwhelming, so they send him back to Paldea in order to live the life he never got to live... And they don’t think they deserve to go back to Paldea for what they’ve done, so they sequester themselves in their lab...

Just could be interesting, is all >:3 ( And also the idea of AI!Arven having to carry around like 20 fucking million terra orbs kind of cracks me up)

We all assign Lilith as the Philip parallel when analyzing the similarities between the clawthorne sisters and the wittebane brothers. But have we stopped to consider for a moment that Belos saw Lilith as the Caleb in her situation? An older sibling who makes a selfish decision (in Philip's eyes) and betrays their younger sibling, leaving them a monster outcast from society??

We as the audience know just how different those situations were, but from Belos' pov...

I'm not saying Lilith was seen as so disposable and worthless by Belos, not just bc she was a witch, but because she was a Clawthorne whom Belos saw as a mirror of Caleb...but that's exactly what I'm saying and I'm realizing that Belos must've hated Lilith's guts more than we thought

Halloween 2008 - Halloween 2023

My first cosplay vs. my latest cosplay ❤️

(full body pic under the cut)