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[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over
shipping a consensual, safe & sane pairing all the while i'm shaking my head in disapproval so the audience knows i still love wildly toxic abusive fictional dynamics
I liked LOVE IN THE CLOUDS, but I didn’t.
One of my main issues with the show was the script. I started noticing how very repetitive some dialogues were. Like, specially with the villains. Lord Hanfeng and Situ Ling said the same stuff over and over again, to themselves, to their sidekicks and to the characters. I GET IT, I GOT IT THE FIRST TIME. You don’t need to tell me your master plan or your feelings every time you are on screen. Also, this is very stupid but the amount of times all the characters said the name JI BOZAI, DEAR LORD, it was so annoying after I started paying attention.
Other issue was the storylines of certain characters and the connections to the bigger plot. I don’t think it was well executed, but because they were fun and charismatic, you stop paying attention to it.
The dynamics between Ji Bozai and Ming Yi were…I don’t know man. You know when you can see the potential of depths and intrigues and completions in two characters and the potential of their dynamics to be more violent and cunning, and embrace the lying and the betrayal? Like, they are both such a tragic characters, they are hurt, and they hurt others. The drama was so light and soft and understanding to them being point at, accused, violated, abused and more. Maybe I am much more resentful, but the story going from a revenge theme to a salvation plot because big bad villain/prophecy was a little to simple.
And I don’t know exactly why I feel this way. Maybe is the lack of world building and geopolitics that could have made the characters resentment more powerful, or the cut and editing that made things go more quickly and changing. I think this drama had so many interesting themes, specially about society, low and high classes, truth and delusion, and power connected to blood/family and pain. But too many characters started to drag the drama to the same discussions and never going more in depth to any of them.
Of the likes, I think the characters are great. Everyone is good at portray what they need to portray. They also are great at crying (ugly cry, desperate cry, happy cry, painful cry) and have good body chemistry. The fighting scenes are one of my favorites of all dramas, and the costumes and cgi effects were very pretty.
This is my very first finished Hou Minghao drama, finally. I started FOUR OF THIS WORKS, AND ABANDONED EVERY ONE OF THEM for issues like him not having enough screen time, nonsense storytelling, bad chemistry and overall, directors relying too much on his beautiful and intimidating face and aura instead of giving him things to work like his facial expressions, his comedic timing and his line delivery. I just don’t get why he isn't better used.
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writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.
searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.
I feel like I'm constantly shilling for them but BehindTheName.com, the only baby name site that doesn't feel like it's run by mommy bloggers, includes census-based graphs for dozens of countries/regions (though not all of them go back very far yet)
And you can expand them to see rank, number of babies, and percentage of babies and add a second name to compare. (in 1973 four percent of babies were named Jennifer! 1 in 25!!!)
Also this. Cursed.
@homoqueerjewhobbit what name did you search for your example, and what's going on with Moldova?
Those are the graphs for Samuel. They only have 1 year's data for Moldova right now, so that's why it's a straight line. Similarly, they only have 2 years for Mexico right now. The US goes back to 1880. I'm not sure how much of that is publicly available/translated records and how much of it is that it's like 1 or 2 guys maintaining a website of 27000 names and a finite amount of time to format and upload.
Here's the list of all of the countries/regions they have popularity statistics for if you want to nerd out on it!
You can't advertise BehindTheName for writers without mentioning the advanced search! You can search names based on cultural origin and usage, gender (including unisex), meaning, and even things like meter and number of syllables, or famous namesakes (you can also see a list of famous namesakes on every name's page, along with meaning, history, related names, alternate spellings in different languages, the above popularity graphs, and more).
I wouldn't even call BehindTheName a baby name site. They have a surname sister site and a random name generator with tons of variables to set that is very clearly intended to be used for fictional characters (iirc it can even generate a cause of death? I haven't looked at it in many years so it might have changed but these things predate generative AI so unless it's been forcefully enshittified it shouldn't be slop). Like, you can use it for baby names, but the website isn't explicitly intended for that purpose. This website caters to us.
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man where is that user who made those incredible masterposts about top form and the industry because i will die to know what they can say about DESIRE4 situation with the show, the group/idol plan and the conficlt between fanclubs
Honestly kudos to Kipuka and Seeky and the team for their full commitment to the concept, specifically the reactions and scenes with the phrase "I'm pregnant" involved. I genuinely admire them for saying it without flinching and all the other actors reacting, because I as a woman can not even fanthom saying those words.
Like, incredible things are happening on my mini screen
Man, people are pissed. And for the first time, I kind of get it.
I think advertising the show as having four main leads with two different couples and then giving one of them LESS THAN 10 MINUTES OF SCREENTIME is diabolical. The showrunners clearly missed the mark with wanting to keep them as a team rather than individual pairings without also adapting the story to those needs.
It's not like the actors didn't give their all to make it work with the crumbs they had. Even one episode mainly about them could have done so much for their story and the public reception. Being charismatic and a good actor is more of a curse than a blessing in this case.
But at the same time, I don't care much? Overall, the plot relies more on Hua Yong and Sheng Shaoyou anyway. As individuals going through so much, Gao Tu could have gotten lost in his relationship with Wenlang and vice versa. He is already being reduced to it because people can't read between the lines (or even the lines themselves).
even more lion king inspired superbat? more likely than you think...
roy and i have share appretation for ✨thighs✨
kiss me 🏹❤
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someone on tiktok comment how we have 3 episodes left and we havent had a kiss between shen wenlang and gao tu and someone commented we are not going to get one probably because it might potentially cancel seeky new drama if they see him kiss a man.....and valid reasoning but also... THAT'S WHERE YOU THINK THEY WOULD DREW THE LINE?
not the heat scene, not the constant potray of him being sick / horny bc of his health problem, not the scene in ep9 where he was being pinned by man, and least of all, the entire episode where he was having EXPLICIT MORNING SICKNESS, BOUGHT A PREGNANCY TEST, TOUCH HIS FREAKING BELLY AND HAD A CONSULT WITH A DOCTOR ABOUT HAVING SAID BABY
sorry gao tu but WHY THE FUCK the first thing you thought after wenlang ask "how is your sister?" would be "damn he wants his money asap" he is a millionarie he hasnt talked about your debt (im sure he even forgot it even it existed) !!!!
the way he has all mixed up the first time wenlang says something he actually meant and was truly concern by what was happening in gao tus life AND HE MISUNDERSTOOD AGAIN
pov: you turned into the wrong alleyway
Desire is proving to me that there is an entire subsection of people who never learned to differentiate between viewer knowledge and character knowledge and they're way more common than I thought.
Gao Tu, beloved and precious as he is, is also a fantastic liar who had been deceiving his very trusting friend Shen Wenlang as long as they've known each other by using suppressants and actively lying not just about his gender but also his romantic life and physical as well as mental health.
Shen Wenlang had no reason to doubt him. None. They've been friends forever and he's put a ton of trust into Gao Tu and their friendship! Heck, he can't even face liking him because he thinks he's taken!
Shen Wenlang is an asshole and the definition of tsundere but none of that is because he trusts Gao Tu not to be lying to him about so many things. And Gao Tu is not obviously an omega unless you're his doctor or Hua Yong, certified enigma and man who knows everything about everyone.
Gao Tu is precious and deserves the world but more than half the pain he's experiencing was caused by his own lies and is not Shen Wenlang's fault. Half the pain is because of how explicitly Shen Wenlang trusts him and always assumes he's telling the truth!
Anyway, while I look forward to Shen Wenlang having to prove himself trustworthy to Gao Tu i also wonder if Gao Tu will have to consider his own lies in this as well.