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[grishaxverse]

The boy falling first trope always hits harder

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guys hear me out here

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I MANIFESTED THIS

[jakegyllenhaalsteeth]

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like daughter in law like mother in law

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they’re happily married ever after BECAUSE I SAID SO

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I have a type I fear

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sir una everlasting

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WB giving me cinderkai and warnette soon

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WB can do the funniest thing by casting him as paris anderson

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warner bros adapting aaron warner is so poetic to me

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HEAR ME OUT ON THIS

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don’t let anyone tell you pursuit of jade drawbacks aren’t real because why did I just finish cinder and imagine tian xiwei and zhang linghe the entire time?????

(artwork: frostbite.studios)

[cyrjovie]

Xie Zheng, any chance he gets: I'm married *divorce letter is in his hand* this? Ignore it. I'm married. My wife sent me these candies, the only sweets I eat. Sui Yuanqing has my wife's sister, I'm going to save her at the risk of my own life and 1,000 of my men, but our lives are only at risk if we fail, and we won't because I WILL save my wife's sister. *pauses for a few moments* Have I told you about my incredible wife and her sister?

Fan Changyu, at least a few times a day: I'm looking for my husband. *divorce letter in bag* don't look at that. My Yan Zheng is too good at martial arts to die in battle, so I'm going to find him, make sure he's okay, and then see about bringing him home. Have I mentioned he married into my family and is very smart and handsome and good at martial arts?

[fierce-little-miana]

Pursuit of Jade is actually really good at making you understand that for a normal person (reading not a noble) getting entangled in matter of states and standing up for themselves is a real threat for their safety and the safety of the people around them. Changyu’s village and the town next to it were attacked and their people massacred because Changyu ‘dared’ to counter the plan of one guy and caught his eyes while he noticed she had a connection to the Marquis of Wu’an (something she doesn’t even know!!!!). And it is also good at reminding you that normal civilians that are collateral damages in the nobles plans/quarrels are people with hopes and dreams who did not ask for this!!!!

[officialdietcoke]

one of the things i admire most about obsession is the deliberate denial of any kind of optimistic ending, as well as the method by which that is executed. i’m thinking, specifically, of how the musical cues are utilized to pull multiple bait-and-switches on the audience: the way the music swells when bear is explaining the wish to ian and asking for his help; when bear puts the gun in his mouth; and when he takes the oxycodone.

obviously, if ian wishes away bear’s initial wish, that’s a happy ending! if bear dies in the bathroom and we cut to black, the audience can hold onto the hope that the wish breaking allows nikki to go back to her life before!

but those endings, especially the latter, would be dishonest. i appreciate that the film makes us sit in nikki’s anguish instead, bc i appreciate that it understands that she was equally affected by this, if not more so! an ending that bleak is honest to the concept and to the consequences inherent to the concept and i think it shows a great deal of respect for nikki. it’s an acknowledgement that nikki experienced something deeply violating and now has to somehow learn how to cope with it.

[officialdietcoke]

WAIT i just realized it’s even more bleak than i originally thought bc nikki used her one wish to make bear love her and now can’t even make one to undo everything that’s happened to her

[write-on-world]

[big-blog-of-cheese-day]

[ccorinthian]

Sometimes you gotta get down to brass tacks