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heated rivalry has an interesting genre dissonance thing that i've been trying to put my finger on for a while

it's to do with how it's perceived in the mainstream as being revolutionary for breaking conventions in the romance genre, while people who have any familiarity with pwp fic at all know it's completely conventional by the standards of that genre

so in effect, the revolutionary thing about it is not the story itself, it's the fact that it's being adapted for television, where the depiction of loving and intimate gay relationships that's so commonplace in fic is unrecognisable in the current media landscape

cool that it's specifically the transposition of genre that's revelatory

#heated rivalry #an interesting downstream dissonance is that it drew two kind of unconventional creatives to it even though the story is ultra-palatable #just because the genre is subversive #and thank god it did

as much as i am currently brain rotted for heated rivalry i gotta say the first episode was a tough sell. there's just such an abrupt gear shift between shane and ilya barely knowing each other and them suddenly developing intense physical chemistry out of nowhere in the gym... like they have basically no dynamic at that point so it's really jarring

i get that it's supposed to be purely physical chemistry at this point, but it's like it's only established in that one scene rather than coming from their actual dynamic. it feels like a better first episode would have shown that tension being driven by their interactions especially on the ice... like the intensity of them directly competing against each other at the same level could have really made it feel real. but i guess that's part of what you lose by not being able adapt the hockey games because of budget constraints

#heated rivalry #this kind of gear shift happens multiple times and it's sooo lazy every time #the one i really hate is the bathroom scene at the awards show or wherever #where it's like they're in the middle of arguing and take a handbrake turn into being sexy #a very transparent pwp manoeuvre #i alsooo think the other thing about the lack of hockey is that shane's character doesn't really work as well #because you don't get the payoff of his neuroticism and perfectionism so the way he's shown is kinda unbalanced #you lose the core of what's initially attractive and compelling about him before ilya has got to know him

tess-mercer

ok. This is so hurting my #brand but those little twunks are surprisingly good actors and no show has truly been About fucking on camera with no plot except multi chap white collar sports au fanfic style raw dogging like I actually do have to applaud its existence this has reset the balance in the universe since heartstoppers aired, except for like bitches in 2014 who read stucky. i say this completely seriously. Now more than ever we deserve simulated pornography for the masses provided by the canadian media tax credit

#exactly this #i was watching it going. this is kind of revolutionary actually #porn for men already exists. it's porn. true porn for women is only just starting to be made #and it's bridgerton and fifty shades of grey and heated rivalry #where the balance between emotional and sexual fulfilment is just important as the imagery #it actually is a really interesting shift in the media landscape imo

The concept of Guillermo del Toro writing a feminist adaptation of Frankenstein with an expanded role for Elizabeth, only to completely ignore the themes of Mary Shelley's work by writing an ending where the monster forgives Victor... Del Toro I was rooting for you

#Frankenstein #Frankenstein (2025)

There's no way Doug Jones wasn't the movement coach for Jacob Elordi on Frankenstein. I see those fluttery fingers

#Frankenstein #Frankenstein (2025)

scarlett and thomas in tosab book 3 make me think of the severance post about how fixed natures manifest as different traits based on the environment they're in. the mccain grit runs through them both, but for scarlett it's been twisted by her experiences of loss and ostracisation into a ruthless competence that's allowed her to survive. meanwhile, for thomas, who was forced into a highly supervised environment with strong incentives to work hard, it's been shaped into an extreme perseverance and diligence that's made him one of the most valuable resources of the faith houses. interesting that it's the same inner strength that's making scarlett a fearsome outlaw as is making thomas an industrious slave

#tosab #the outlaws scarlett and browne #that severance post is a masterpiece #i'm coming back to this i got some actual analysis to get to when life slows down a lil bit

trying to figure out why jonathan stroud stories stick in my mind like nothing else... i've been walking around with scarlett and albert in the back of my mind for like two weeks

i'm wondering if it's the combination of competence and complexity. the competence is the initial draw and then the fact that they have layers to them is what makes them stick

#literally living rent free #it's the same with lockwood and co #pausing the liveblog while life gets in the way for a little bit

onto tosab book 3 and (spoilers) i'm rly enjoying mallory as a new addition to their group, kipps style. it's so funny that no one trusts him so they keep asking albert to read his mind. albert should just start piping up any time mallory says anything like he's doing the vanity fair lie detector test

#tosab #the outlaws scarlett and browne

the really interesting thing about scarlett in tosab book 2 is that she's like a version of lockwood where you get way more of a window into her internal strife. both of them are extremely traumatised over the loss of a younger sibling that they perceive to be their fault. but for scarlett, you get explicitly shown her trauma from her perspective, you have access to her POV during the events of the series, and you have a second POV character who through his heightened sensitivity can penetrate her defenses more effectively than lucy could with lockwood. through this you get way more insights into the involuntary nature of her guardedness and the coping mechanisms she's relying on. it's like stroud kept thinking about lockwood after the end of lockwood and co and wanted to explore the nature of his trauma through a character where it's more transparent what's going on

#tosab #the outlaws scarlett and browne #lockwood and co #lucy🤝albert🤝attraction to the toughness of guarded people eventually giving way to genuine frustration that they won't let you in

one of my favourite things scarlett does is keep forgetting people are telepaths, she just keeps thinking about them while they're in the same room as her lmao. it was already funny with albert in book 1 and it's even funnier with mallory in book 2. there's a bit where she's plotting her escape while mallory is standing right next to her, forgetting a) he's an extremely powerful telekinetic and nothing she's thinking of will work, and b) she may as well be saying her plans out loud to him

#tosab #the outlaws scarlett and browne #i actually laughed out loud because i also forgot that he was a telepath #the whole time i was like girl. none of this will work he's literally got telekinetic powers.#and then mallory pipes up like 'please don't do that' and i was like OH YEAH AND HE READS MINDS

reading tosab book 2. a second cool shift in this is the realisation that scarlett's cuss-box and prayer mat are not religious attachments. before i said i thought her approach to prayer was funny in how she uses it to let herself off for things. but seeing her gamble, it becomes really clear that it's not that she's not taking an idiosyncratic approach to religion. she is just drowning in guilt and all of these things are attempts to represent it physically (the weight of the cuss-box), ward it away (the altruism and prayer absolving her of further blame), or numb it (the gambling) to keep herself afloat :(

#it's like lockwood and co where we (and lucy) slowly become aware that a lot of lockwood's quirks are in fact maladaptive coping mechanisms #tosab #the outlaws scarlett and browne

there's a fun shift halfway through tosab where you realise albert's been zoning out and distant because he's been reading scarlett's mind the whole time lmao. also fun that when it's albert's POV from that point on you get his perspective AND scarlett's. backdoor third person omniscience

#tosab #the outlaws scarlett and browne

it's really cool how you can trace the genesis of ideas in tosab back to where they started in lockwood and co. in l&co lucy and the skull are basically conversing telepathically and it opens up a whole new interesting mode of communication. scarlett and albert is a fuller exploration of that that's a bit more fleshed out. a natural progression of ideas

#the outlaws scarlett and browne #lockwood and co #i'm halfway through tosab no spoilers

finally reading the outlaws scarlett and browne and i'm already obsessed with this girl's grasp of religion. she sits down on her prayer roll after a long day of pillaging and murdering and her prayer is just "nothing I did today was my fault, amen"

#the outlaws scarlett and browne #tosab

just an absolute cacophony of bad takes in the tag for the homestuck pilot. people saying the excessive swearing is true to the comic when it's obviously much more unnatural and tastelessly done. people saying the characterisation is accurate. do any of you have eyes or ears. no wonder hussie is phoning it in, he's correctly predicted that none of his fans can tell the difference

#homestuck pilot #one of my more incendiary takes #i've missed the boat by like... a month or something i know i've been busy

z0n1x

i feelllll like they changed up daves dialogue style quite a bit for time its just hard to convey daves whole thing without longer drawn out dialogue so they made him more expressive and made him use more slang and curses to try and get the same point across but i dont think it really worked!

#homestuck pilot

delusionalbartender

Does he not concern himself with the contents of this bottle of AJ?

What if its piss?

What if someone put piss in his apple juice at the factory?

What if monster howie mandel peed in the bottle and resealed it? You dont think monster howie mandel has the power to do something as simple as reseal a bottle?

Anyways

#notmydave

The real dave would never let his guard down in the face of faux apple juice

#homestuck pilot

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