some kind of madness

it's rotten work. especially to me, especially if it's you.

[madspirits]

currently looking for more partners to write on discord. my name is max, they/them, 25+, preference for queer ships. i love things that are plot driven. here for the angst, horror, d/s, drama, AUs, supernatural, fluff, any combination. i like to lightly plot before jumping into a dynamic. i like to hash out new plots when old threads die. minors dni. wants below.

wanted fandoms: killing eve, yellowjackets, the magicians, red white & royal blue, legacies, harry potter (fuck TERFs), umbrella academy

the usual suspects: sophie thatcher, courtney eaton, jenny boyd, charles melton, nico tortorella, matt bomer, sophia bush, ella purnell, avan jogia, priscilla quintana, hale appleman, victoria pedretti

wanted opposites: sadie sink, jonathan bailey, ella purnell, nicholas galitzine, shay mitchell

wanted plots: here

OCs: (under construction)

writing samples: weird mafia AU, IT knockoff with OCs, 50 shades with an agoraphobic loner, supernatural bullshit

[aimeegbbs]

[noahreids]

Mary & George Official Teaser | Julianne Moore & Nicholas Galitzine

[shanehollandered]

#’i guess we’ll just have to play an honest game’ #he says #whilst cheating #and looking stupidly ridiculously smug over it

[the-semicolonoscopy]

This show needed more Card Sharp Quentin.

[pinkskylne]

best believe something like this will happen next season

[cchaosstude]

Taylor Zakhar Perez for PORT Magazine

[gruntsandpoetry]

You and your first year boys. What is your obsession with the flavor of the month?

[miwtual]

(insp)

[yrsonpurpose]

"naïve romantic" oh it's so over for me when mary & george is released

[yourstrullyme]

"binge-worthy show" man fuck that

i want my shows one episode followed by a whole ass week of going a little insane over it with the people on my phone, writing fics theorizing and going over every single scene through amazing gifs and meta, before the next ep drops and the cicle begins anew

[takashi0]

speak louder

[hinochi-darenimo]

It's also contributing to the overall stagnation of writing. Binging isn't conducive to analysis.

[fiora-miriel]

Binging and whole season drops also seem to be a bit hard on fandoms and fan content creation.

Looking at eg. House of the Dragon last year, which spaced out 10 episodes over 10 weeks (that is 2 1/2 months) and the fandom content production and fandom discussions over multiple platforms were so high! It gave fans time to speculate, to produce and to wait for. It held the anticipation high and invigorated the fandom over a long time.

But Netflix (or other streaming services) when they drop a whole season in one go? I feel yes, many fans will watch it. But the vibe is very different. And there will be discussions and fan content, but I feel it is not necessarily good for a fandom in the long run. The built-up does not carry these fandoms as long for "casual" fans and will not bring the same influx of new fans and new content to those fandoms. And that is sad for fan spaces in my opinion.

[orlissa]

It's not just fandom. When I teach popular culture, I also mention how binge culture is destroying the social function of shows.

In the traditional broadcasting structure, you have an episode a week at a set time - you sit down and you watch it, maybe make a family thing out of it. The next day you go to work, and your coworkers have seen the episode too, and you talk about it - because a tv show is a safe topic (not political, not too personal), so you have something to bond over/socialize.

But when a whole season drops at the same time... You either force yourself to binge it, turning your schedule upside down, or you watch it in bits, risking to fall behind. Say a popular show drops a season on a Saturday. On Monday at work, there will be people who haven't started it, people who are half-through, people who have finieshed it... Mix with the fear-of-spoilers culture, suddenly this point of bonding becomes restricted, even eradicated.

[stele3]

It’s also destroying show production. These days if a season isn’t binged in the first week — fully, completed, watched all the way through in THE FIRST WEEK — it doesn’t get renewed. There’s no opportunity for shows to grow legs and catch on. Netflix would’ve canceled The X-Files. Netflix would’ve canceled so many classic shows that were allowed to find their audience gradually.

[gruntsandpoetry]

2x11 // 2x12

[userlindley]

because no matter how far you go, no matter how evil you become... apparently I can't be the one to stop you.

LEGACIES (2018-2022), "I Can't Be the One to Stop You"

Premiered December 16th, 2 years ago.

[kimevening]

I just imagine.. On holidays, Alex takes a nap next to him, and Henry reads his favorite book

[swearphil]

And the voices that implore, "You should be doing more" To you, I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it

[madspirits]

kind of want to do a smutty slowburn messy exes plot on discord. m/m or f/f or NB muses preferred, 21+. character A got their heart obliterated by character B, either out of fear or commitment issues or some misunderstanding. character B still shows up for the occasional angry hookup, and character A proceeds to consensually torture them every time as quiet stoic revenge. i'm talking keeping them on edge for hours, bickering, d/s themes, soft praise, light bondage, all the yearning.

i would play character A, with my top choices being courtney eaton, shay mitchell, jonathan bailey or nicholas galitzine. would love to plot further and would like to talk kinks/preferences before we start. like if any of this appeals and i'll reach out!

[mothmansboywife]

I am unfortunately just like other guys. I like trashy horror, dog poems, cannibalism as a metaphor for obsessive devotion, religious imagery, people who use my name in a sentence, academic validation, lying for fun, being bisexual and bleeding out in the snow.

[mothmansboywife]

eh.

[ngalitzine]

#buttons by the pussycat dolls playing in the distance