fairytales are true

[maychild]

MC'S BL WATCHLIST

(in order of most excited for bc honestly there are so many bl's coming out and i'm losing track) (also, all most links lead to legal streaming sites for all dramas so pls support these dramas legally every which way u can...)

~CURRENTLY WATCHING/OBSESSING OVER

THE SIGN -- this was a show i didn't really want to start until it finished its run, but then i started seeing gifs from the first two eps and was intrigued and literally couldn't wait until february when the show finished...idk, i do love the pain of keeping up with ongoing shows sometimes.

BIG DRAGON THE SERIES -- i...i dunno?? i heard it's vaguely kinnporsche-esque, but i'm not seeing it. a thai bl about two decidedly asshole-ish people trying to blackmail one another and having dubious sex bc of the drugging and attempted blackmail.

SHE LOVES TO COOK, AND SHE LOVES TO EAT -- a sweet, short sapphic jdrama about two women who are neighbors. one of them likes to cook a lot, but she only cooks small portions for herself, and the other woman loves to eat, so the woman who likes to cook invites the other woman to dinner one night and a beautiful friendship (and more?) forms...

BAD BUDDY -- thai bl about rival families a la Romeo/Juliet but Romeo/Romeo, i guess?? heard rave reviews about it. BINGED THREE EPS WHEN I SHOULD'VE BEEN SLEEPING???? no regrets tho (well...some regrets.)

THE TUXEDO -- thai BL about a tailor and super stuck up rich dude. the quality is...bad. it's nonsensical; there's absolutely no plot, and translations are horrible too, unfortunately. i don't have any expectations about this series and i'm only tuning in because the two main leads are attractive af. (the production and technical aspects are very reminiscent of vietnam BLs; sigh. i was hoping this would give me history 3: trapped vibes what with the suits and dapper men, but unfortunately that is the only good thing about this series: the men in suits.) i can see the potential for this series to be great, but they keep disappointing me. I also keep imagining a BL series like bad buddy but where they're both *rivals* in the tailoring business. like, i'd eat that sh*t up. having the damnedest time even finishing ep 1 bc, well, see above.

~ OTHERS IM INTERESTED IN CHECKING OUT

IN YOUR HEART -- a chinese bl?? which is unheard of now if u're familiar with chinese censorship on all things gay and el gee bee tee queue plus.

FIRST LOVE, AGAIN -- aka, First Love For Three Times, a six ep korean bl featuring reincarnation\

YOU'RE MY SKY -- thai BL about sports.

OH! BOARDING HOUSE -- k-bl about a dude whose mother owns a boarding house but suddenly leaves him in charge of said boarding house and some people in the boarding house develop crushes on him?? idk, landlords must not be evil over there in korea.

*this is a living post; updated december 2023

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

SERIOUS: NEW BOT SCAM ALERT

heya!

this right here?

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT REAL.

the "@staff" is just the bio text.

tumblr staff will not contact you through anything other than email or their official accounts, which will all have this badge:

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THIS OR SIMILAR ACCOUNTS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM IT.

report and block. i'd also appreciate it if you shared this post, bc that blog was JUST created and was already tagging a LOT of people, and i know not everyone has the scam-sensing instinct, even if this might seem obvious to some.

@staff @tumblr @support

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[hudapalestine]

From Starvation to Displacement💔🍉🇵🇸

Khan Younis: A City of Displacement and Hunger🇵🇸🍉

Khan Younis… a city overwhelmed by displacement, suffocating under the weight of tents and silent screams.Families fleeing from one danger into another, with nothing but broken dreams and borrowed blankets.

Children are starving. Mothers spend the day searching for crumbs. Fathers are shadows of themselves, carrying pain they can’t express. No clean water. No food. No medicine.

This is not a page from history — this is now. In Khan Younis. In the dust and mud, among torn tents and empty pots.

Hunger is the only language left. The cries are loud, even if the world has stopped listening.

Please, don’t turn away. Every share, every donation can help.

Donate to Help Feed & House Moataz and Hoda!, organized by Adam M

My name is Motaz, and my wife is Huda. We got married only three months before the war. We d… Adam M needs your support for Help Feed & Hous

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[maychild]

apropos of nothing but i do hate it when a supernatural/fantasy show or book or any type of media has supernatural beings who turn human at the end. often it feels like a cheap cop out to resolve issues that stem from the supernatural beings being themselves.

i feel like, because it often happens at the end, the media doesn’t delve into how traumatizing it must be erasing a huge part of themselves. also double trauma points if the supernatural being loses all their memories of being said creature.

(only humans could write powerful supernatural beings losing all their powers and memories and call that a “happy ending” like no, girl we’re not on the same page)

[evilgothbat]

best modern gothic films back to back

Frankenstein | Nosferatu | Dracula: A Love Tale

[kimmycup]

Like I don't think you guys comprehend what happened in Poland just now but everyone needs to be talking about it.

A random influencer decided he'll listen to an anti cancer song on loop. People liked it enough times he ended up listening for 9 days.

He raised 90 million in these 9 days, and then 160 million more over the last 10 hours, for a total of 250 million.

Hundreds and thousands of people signed up to donate marrow.

Hundreds of celebrities shaved their heads in solidarity.

The Foundation receiving this money had to create a special commission to figure out how to distribute the money.

The national TV stations got highjacked to stream this for hours because it was better news than anything happening in the world.

Because we broke and DOUBLED the world record for this kind of thing.

They raised about as much as the biggest running charity event in Poland did in a whole year with three decades of tradition and a goddamn army of people.

And they did it on a goddamn amateur set up in a shabby room sitting on folding chairs.

[kimmycup]

Little update: people keep donating despite the stream being over. We're at 280 million in the fight against cancer.

Łatwogang refuses to collab with companies that only reached out to him now because of popularity or give interviews. He said any medals people wanna give them should go to the doctors and nurses and the cancer patients.

Someone offered to renovate that shabby little flat for him as a thank you. He refused.

Someone counted up how many people appeared in that room during the whole thing - it was 319 total.

[belladonna-rx]

Love to hear it. Love news articles too.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/polish-nine-day-charity-stream-breaks-records-support-kids-with-cancer-2026-04-27/

Just love this headline phrasing.

Streamer crushes MrBeast charity record with $70 million raised for kids with cancer - Dexerto

Polish streamer Łatwogang’s charity livestream has raised over 203 million złoty for children with cancer, breaking the charity stream recor

[maychild]

lone star (1996)

i just finished watching this movie and i had to come on here and talk about it because it's a shame this movie isn't bigger. i know 1996 was a big year for movies and some lesser known gems are bound to get lost in the shuffle, but damn it, this was such a great movie and it deserves to be talked about more. it's defined as a neo-western but it's not big on action like most westerns; there are no big chase scenes, it's a much slower affair but the themes and the depictions of border town and the characters are superb. gdi, are the characters super well written and realistic. it's a masterpiece of a story, even tho it's slower paced and there are some storylines that never connect with each other, but are there to flesh out these characters.

the movie explores race, ethnicity, class, and history without being preachy. honestly, this was a movie with so many Black and Latine characters who, at least to me, didn't seem to be stereotypes, but messy people with a lot of traumas and histories between each other. john sayles' directing is so unique, and how he blends the present into the past via flashbacks is nothing short of masterful and genius. you think you know where the story is going and all the plot twists because of the foreshadowing, but once all the plot twists are revealed, the story becomes more about how certain characters are going to deal with these plot twists and fall outs. again, i can't harp enough on how these characters are so engaging and lovable and what made this 2hr and 15 min movie enjoyable for me.

i loved joe morton in the second terminator movie and the eureka series, but this movie is where he really shined as a character with a big chip on his shoulder regarding his father. honestly, the whole cast is wonderful: chris cooper as another dude with a chip on his shoulder regarding his father (played in flashbacks by a young matthew mcconaughey fresh off his dazed & confused debut); ron canada; tony plana, tony amendola, chandra wilson aka dr. bailey herself; kris kristofferson; and my favorite in this whole movie elizabeth peña, who plays pilar, the protagonist's love interest, with such warmth and heart and interiority. She and Sam are high school sweet hearts who have a forbidden love thing going on, but she's also lived a whole life without Sam. She's a widow with two kids and a fulfilling job as a teacher. (the ending might be a bit problematic for some, as naturally, the secrets all spill out and a major one impacts our two lovebirds).

the story is of a skeleton getting dug up and Sheriff Sam needing to figure out who killed a former Sheriff who nobody liked in this community. But the movie is so much more than this mystery--it's chock full of secrets, and tensions between characters in this border town. It's about fathers and grandfathers and legacies and betrayals and what it means to be human when others are mapping out arbitrary lines of demarcations that divide people.

this, according to the internet, is john sayles’ masterpiece, and i have to agree. it's streaming free on tubi right now in the U.S. and if you can watch it, i recommend it highly.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m not gonna platform this idiot but I saw somebody reblog a post from a radfem I think by accident. But the post claimed that men who hire prostitutes are “rapists who buy their victims silence”

I don’t think I need to explain to y’all why this is wrong but in case I do, buying a service from someone and following their rules as a client is not a breech of consent.

A lot of the danger that comes from being a prostitute has to do with its illegality. If a client breaks the rules and the service provider can’t file a complaint without risking imprisonment of themselves and/or their client, that’s not a safe work environment.

The idea that nobody would willingly sell sexual services unless they’re desperate is just false. There’s also a lot of other jobs people do when they’re desperate and they don’t like doing. For me it was working retail.

The difference between me pretending to be happy for clientele while working retail and someone pretending to be happy while selling sexual services to clients is that while I was working retail I at least theoretically had sick leave, health insurance, and a way to file a complaint if a customer assaulted me.

Sex work isn’t inherently any more degrading or miserable than any other kind of work. The issue is the lack of protection and workers rights.

[sandersstudies]

National Theatre is streaming their rendition of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde this week for free on YouTube. The production is a delight.

This show is one I constantly return to as a theatre educator for middle/high school, and it is MUCH better enjoyed when performed rather than on paper.

[sandersstudies]

Whatever the opposite of rolling in his grave is, Oscar Wilde is doing it

[sandersstudies]

I just found out they also have accessible BSL (British Sign Language) and audio description versions. The closed captioning has also been done correctly (a bare minimum many YouTube videos do not meet).

[tuulikannel]

[slident]

I’d like to add even more screenshots from it, since I, too, loved it!!!!

[kcyars99]

[galatially]

#i always think about how beautiful it was for ryan coogler to cast buddy guy as older sammie #i often think about how people like to espouse the idea that we are "so far removed" from jim crow and segregation when creatives like buddy are still alive #a lot of the activists and figures are still alive! #idk the fact that he's living proof of the continued effects of chattel slavery on black americans is so bittersweet because he remembers such atrocities but he's also able to bestow wisdom and history for art pieces like sinners

[saltedweather]

Ryan Coogler said in an interview, btw, that part of why he thought of Buddy Guy was because his uncle loved seeing him – he'd get dressed up and go see him play live when he got the chance.

[salemstitch]

Also...Ruby Bridges is only 71. Younger than my still living grandmother (I'm in my 40's). We are NOT that far removed from Jim Crow, especially in the American South.

[endlessly-ranting-antheia]

Everyone: I love that Heated Rivalry is a show about queer people falling in love. I wish there was a genre or other shows or something that were just about queer love. Too bad nobody else is making anything like that

Asian QL fans:

[princessnamora]

MAGGIE LAWSON as JULIET O'HARA Psych (2006-2014) ☆ Episode 1.15

[brokenroseinthedirt]

“I’m sick of this” me when I wake up in the morning

[abod-qg]

Hello my friends🫂🇵🇸

I would like to tell you At last, I married my beloved Esraa, and it was the happiest moment of my life 🤍

Now she is three months pregnant, and we dream of a baby who will fill our lives with joy. But the harsh reality around us has turned that happiness into constant worry 💔

We live in a worn-out tent that cannot protect us from the cold or the rain. During this sensitive time, my wife needs proper care, healthy food, clean drinking water, and vitamins so she and our baby can stay safe 🤰💧💊

I see fresh fruit in the markets every day, but I cannot afford to buy even the simplest things she needs 🍎😔

What hurts me the most is that I cannot provide for my pregnant wife and our unborn child. All I wish for is a safe pregnancy and a healthy baby in our arms 🤲

Donation link...... 🍉

Donate to Help the family of Israa and Abdullah in Gaza, organized by Maryam Awad

My name is Abdullah Al-Qassab. I am 27 years old, married to my beloved wife… Maryam Awad needs your support for Help the family of Israa an

If you can help, even a little, it would make a huge difference in our lives 🙏💗

Verified...,🇵🇸

(Vetted by gazavetters – my number on the list: 687)

[neodymiumcuilz]

Donate to a family in need from Gaza 🍉🍉

The occupation has announced that it will annihilate Gaza City – and they have been murdering the journalists who are bringing the truth to us...

People do not want to leave Gaza City, as they are starving, weakened, and know that once they leave they will never return – and they do not have a safe passage to the 'safe zones'.

People will be bombed and sniped either way... 123 people were killed within 24 hours, the death tolls are only increasing, the bombardments are ramping up – so global pressure and support must ramp up..

Very little food is being sold at exhorbant prices. The trickle of aid getting in is not enough – the airdrops that western and regional countries boast about are humiliating, they have killed people, and are filled with sand and mould...

Aid seekers have been shot, trampled, tear gassed... did you know that 1,600+ aid seekers have been killed in Gaza? They came with empty bullets, and got bullets instead... people have been kidnapped at these sites and held in detention... this isn't aid – its slaughter.

The trucks that are getting in get looted, and fave heavy constraints from the occupation. Our donations are helping people get food, and they are helping people not have to risk their lives...

Without a doubt, your donations are crucial, and a lack of donations can sent people to their deaths...

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who supports us in these difficult circumstances. 🌹🫶🇵🇸

Hello 

If you can afford to buy a cup of coffee, you can afford to help Mohammed Youssef ( @mokahaed ) and his family... he has five children – and they have been subjected to genocide and torture that no child should ever have to face... ever.

They are verified, number 88 on the @/gazavetters list ... and also verified here.

The last donation was 44 minutes ago as I write this.

"After our homes were completely destroyed, displacement number 14 has now been made from Al-Tuffah neighborhood in northern Gaza. My family of 27 and I do not own anything due to the sudden flight from the area. We do not even have the most basic necessities of life. No food, no clothing, no drink. I was not even able to bring a tent due to the urgent evacuation request from the area."

Could you imagine ?? please donate if you can...

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