I'm about to re-watch the finale with my mum, a first-time watcher. Ofc, I made sure she has tissues.

Update 1: FUCK, I'M THE ONE WHO NEEDS TISSUES

Update 2: my mum didn't believe he was dead. But I'm a terrible person, so I convinced her he really died. And then she cried.

My job here is done. Another person has fallen victim to this show's finale.

killugon date at the park in the summer, drawn for @ov-rwhelmed for the greed island server summer exchange!! :D

@netflix

See the thing is, you read HtN and like yeah, obviously lobotomizing yourself so a dead girl’s soul doesn’t get cannibalized is completely fucking wild and you probably have to love someone at least a little to do that, but Harrow has spent the whole book having tension with Ianthe and fervently claiming to be in love with the Body— and then you get to Act V and Harrow is literally weeping wailing feral about Gideon, constructing Prince!Gideon AUs (which, she doesn’t know about Gideon’s paternity!! She is simply drawing upon a (romantic!!!) genre trope!!!) and role reversal AUs and fucking coffee shop AUs about Gideon, and she’s refusing to go back to her own body, and Abigail and Magnus and Dulcie so obviously and completely believe that Harrow is in love with Gideon because they directly compare them to Abigail and Magnus, and she says she’s saving the last dance. Agh!!! Aggghhhhh!!!!!!

[ID: a drawing of wander from wander over yonder. he's looking up to the side and smiling, standing with one hand holding the brim of his hat. end ID]

spoon!

I really like to make fun of Cale for learning life changing information on accident. He’s always like “how did this happen, who could have done something that lead to this?”

Brother, you did!

I'm gonna lose my mind over THIS SCENE FOR A MOMENT.

"You always were the more cowardly of the bunch." And as he turns away you can see the grin split across his face. He KNOWS what he did.

"Don't you dare turn your back on me!"

That turn around. That freaking grin. THE BLIND AND SCARRED EYE. He knew exactly what he was doing and ENJOYED clapping back at Peng for once.

AND THEN THE WARRIORS TEAMING UP TOGETHER AND PENG RUNNING OFF TO NOT SHOW FOR THE REST OF THE SPECIAL??? I WANTED MACAQUE AND MEI FIGHTING SIDE-BY-SIDE AND DAMN DID I GET IT!!!

this scene in s1e3 when the team realizes dale is the most babygirl in the entire county

It's that first tear falling onto Chenyi's face.

It's Ai Di wearing a rainbow sweater with the word 'BEST' on it - because Chenyi is the best for him and he wants to be the best for Chenyi.

It's Zongyi's sister and father piling food into his bowl, and him offering it to them too, feeding their love to each other.

It's Zongyi's father asking if he's tried any alcohol yet and suggesting they have a beer together (this is where I actually lost it).

It's the way Zerui can't remember Zongyi, whereas Ai Di just wants to forget Chenyi.

And Zongyi, with diminished short term memory, is waiting for Zerui to come to him to remember their history, whereas Chenyi, with only partial memories of the past, is chasing down Ai Di to remember theirs.

I wish I had a friendship like Shawn and Gus 💕

What has L done?

I mean off the top of my head he did illegally imprison 3 people and actively torture one of them but honestly I find the mouth noises he keeps making a bigger offence against me personally

Quick doodle of The Babiest Boy™

Ok crazy thought. Hear me out. What if Yos and Tae are just Mek and Boss from My Engineer.

What if Tae is pining just as hard but Yos only ever complains about his hair getting messed up and the dressing room being too small for two people etc etc and so Tae has resigned himself to stolen touches (aka unhinged behavior - dude wtf that move with the nut... the HAND HOLDING?) and distracting himself with girls (who can't hold a candle to Yos so they never hold his attention for longer than five minutes) and commited to debuting as a duo because then they're tied together permanently and Yos can't run off to some uni after graduation and leave Tae behind.

What then.

one drama queen telling another drama queen to be less dramatic

I have a couple more shows on my watchlist and once that's done i think i'll be taking a (probably brief) break from asian dramas to focus on some of the other dozen watchlists i have (anime maybe? i might skip jojo and try daiya no ace again- we'll see though)

I'm hitting the 300 dramas mark soon (that's 300 completed mind you, not counting movies, and not counting things i've dropped) so i'll probably write something later in the year too reflecting on both the shows that've come out this year and the ones i've watched

For now i thought i'd jot down a couple notes about the currently airing shows i'm keeping up with since i haven't had time to do that in a while. I'll be doing this in the order I watch them in.

Middleman's Love- ngl I'm solely watching this for King and Uea. I know some of you like this show but the main couple just don't work for me and the side couple are only mildly more interesting. I'll keep watching it to the end but it's a skim watch.

Twins- A great example of how silly is fine when it's enjoyable. I fucking adore this show right now. This has volleyball in it and I'm a haikyuu!! fan before i'm a person so of course i was going to watch this show no matter how dumb it is but it's great. I'm having a blast. I like the family dynamics, I like Sprite, I like how they're committing to the 'slow' part of 'slow burn', I like all the stupid hijinks, I like that I can watch this show and be like "oh he's a Setter, like Kageyama!", I just like it. Poor First though, doing all this work of unlearning his hatred for Zee for no damn good reason.

My Dear Gangster Oppa- This one used to be first on my list but after the dumb breakup last week, it's dropped down. I hate the noble idiocy trope as @lurkingshan calls it. It's stupid, it's annoying and I don't think this week's episode made up for it. Shame really, I was quite enjoying this show at first. The chemistry's good and cliches are fine when they're enjoyable. If it wasn't ending next week, I would drop it.

Last Twilight- Saving the best for last because a) it's a heavier show with more to think about than any of the above and b) youtube's interface annoys me.Tbh I only started watching this in the hopes that it might rewrite my current reflex of wincing everytime I see Jimmy's face in a gifset but it's such an excellent show. Aof's directing and storytelling is excellent as usual and he really does deserve credit for how handles his actors. Watching JimmySea in this and then vv is like whiplash.

ps. Pit Babe- i'm not invested in keeping up with this show and my desire to do so depends on factors such as the amount of free time I have and how reluctant I am to use youtube to watch Last Twilight. It seems to have inklings of an interesting plot + obviously it's fandom history cuz of the a/b/o but the way they only half lean into the omegaverse aspects of it without explaining anything makes me wonder what people who aren't familiar with the concept of omegaverse think about this show and how they understand it. Like it has to be confusing without context, right? Mostly, i'm just watching for Nut Supanut and Nut Supanut only though it remains to be seen whether my affection for him will eventually be worn down by how annoying his character is. I swear, if it were played by anyone else or if I cared about the main characters to any extent, I'd find Way insufferable. But so far, i'm supporting all his wrongs. Especially when he looks so damn pretty doing it.

the thing about Camlann is that if you told me that there was a queer post-apocalyptic Arthuriana AU podcast and Gwen and Morgan had unbelievable sexual tension I'd be like "I mean I'm not against it but that sounds a bit on the nose" but I must inform you it slaps harder than anything has slapped before