i needed a sideblog for all my fandom feelings

sadie. ever-evolving fan stuff, but currently stuck on the hunger games. i love meta and deep dives and whatever else strikes my fancy. i follow from my main

[stormyoceans]

WE'RE NOT DELUSIONAL IN THIS HOUSE BUT THIS ENTIRE LAST SEGMENT WAS JUST JIMMYSEA RUNNING WITH THE SCRIPT AND HAVING THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES AND I WOULD BE WILLING TO BET ON IT

[eggsaladstain]

anyways i just love the way kpop demon hunters stayed true to its roots in korean/asian culture, especially around the core theme of community vs individualism

the fact that it's not a single chosen one but a group of three

the fact that the honmoon is not powered by the hunters themselves but by the energy and love of the fans

the fact that gwi-ma turns people into demons by promising that he is the only one who can help them when he is in fact reliant on his army of demons to collect souls for him

the fact that "your idol" is about surrendering yourself to a single higher power while "golden" is about soaring to new heights together

the fact that gwi-ma preys on people's individual insecurities and shame to get inside their heads while rumi, mira, and zoey set them free in the end by encouraging them to embrace their differences and reminding them that they're not alone

the fact that you can see the audience cheering individually and even pushing into each other to get closer to the stage during "your idol"

while they're linking arms and cheering together and hugging during "what it feels like"

i have not seen the live action lilo and stitch but it feels like that movie sits on the opposite end of the spectrum from kpop demon hunters as a case study for how to tell a story in way that is culturally authentic and still resonates with a broader audience

and i think given that the core theme of the movie is all about community over individualism, the ending, particularly as it relates to rumi and jinu's budding romance, is really the perfect culmination of that broader theme

rumi and jinu's connection has all the hallmarks of that all-encompassing, all-consuming, borderline co-dependent first love where you keep your relationship a secret and sneak out of the house to meet up and feel like the other person is the ONLY person who really gets you

i'm the only one who can understand you, i'm the only one who will love you is the kind of thing that sounds romantic when you're 16 until you get older and realize how toxic it actually is and i love that the movie counters that in "what it sounds like" with rumi realizing that she had that love and support all along from her girls, and later, from the fans who continue to cheer them on through their comeback

it's about connection and sisterhood and love and sharing your fears and lifting each other up and becoming stronger and better together

and as compelling as i found rumi/jinu and as much as i would like to see their relationship explored more in a sequel/series, i just really love that this movie, which is clearly targeted at young women, ends on the message that romantic love is not the end all be all, that friendship is just as important if not more so than a romantic partner, that single women can lead successful, fulfilling lives, that true happiness and freedom start from within

it's crazy that this message still seems revolutionary in 2025 but given the current state of the world, it feels more necessary than ever

[redstonedust]

watching sinners with an inflation calculator open in a second tab so i can understand just what kinda money the smokestack twins are throwing around. nerdiest possible movie experience i think.

[tbqtalks]

Okay coming out of lurking for this because among the many great features of Sinners is you don't actually have to go outside of the movie to understand what kind of money they're throwing around. The movie tells you itself.

In the scene where Smoke teaches the young girl how to negotiate, they're standing in front of of a cafe. The shot of them negotiating is framed so that you see a sign in the cafe window advertising a Ham and Eggs breakfast - in other words, a full meal - for 25 cents. The editing makes sure to put that sign back into frame whenever the question of the value of money arises in their discussion.

Smoke offers her 10 cents a minute and asks if that works for her. She says yes. He says no, it does not and tells her to negotiate higher. The 25 cent sign is framed in the shot when he tells her no, reminding us *why* it's not a good value.

She comes back with 50 cents - which the sign has informed us is the cost of *two* meals. Smoke tells her that's too much and counters with 20, which is just under a full meal but we now know that's a fairly respectable price because we just got the high/low contrast of 10 being too little and 50 being too much.

The negotiation ends with her getting 20 cents per minute and we now know 1) 25 cents is the cost of a filling meal in this environment 2) This girl only needs to do five minutes of work to be able to feed herself for a over day (20 cents per minute times five is a dollar, which is four meals) 3) Smoke has the kind of money to throw around that over a day's worth of food for someone can be to him - as it is to our modern eyes - mere pocket change and 4) Smoke's the kind of person who can both be a violent gangster but also care about teaching this girl how to look out for herself so that one day maybe she too can throw over a day's worth of food around like pocket change.

Combined with 5) you can now use that 25 cents = a meal to do the math every other time money gets mentioned in the movie to understand just how much cash the Smoke Stack boys are dealing with.

And that's just ONE detail which, thanks to props (Hannah Beachler), editing (Michael P Shawver), and cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw), told you almost everything you needed to know about how finances work in this environment. This movie is unfair to all other films in how fucking good it is.

[violentlyfeverish]

wu suo wei driving back after seeing chi cheng kiss wang shuo... chilling. i keep thinking about it. him fighting back tears, refusing to let himself feel hurt and saying "at least the trip wasn't wasted," that he "made it just in time," THANKING chi cheng so he could stop himself from trully falling (in denial that he already had) and the cold exterior he adopts after the fact... truly one of the most defining scenes for his character imo, one that cemented just how persevering he's been after yue yue left him, after struggling his whole life to be a filial son and refusing to let himself dwell on setbacks like when he tells chi cheng he sold the house and deflects from acknowledging just how devastating it is

[lesbianposts]

he spoke in english and i died, take responsibility man

[respectthepetty]

Whoever is running the Gaga account deserves a raise.

[babyangelsky]

Oh I loved that finale so much

The conversation Thap has with his dad was definitely one of the highlights for me, and I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it was one of the most well-done, grounded parental reconciliations I've seen in a very long while. Certainly one of the best that have ever come out of a GMMTV show.

This a show that was consistently so careful and thoughtful about its portrayal of relationships the between people and their nuances and it did it all the way through. Sometimes--a lot of the time even--there isn't one big Incident or Event that you can point at to explain why a relationship fractures and say "this is why things are the way they are". Sometimes it's just...people being the way they are and making the choices they make, not out of malice, but because they genuinely believe it's the best course.

Thap's dad isn't a bad man or a bad father. He's a human being with his own insecurities that did his best to raise his son and it's huge that he not only apologized for being hard on Thap, but that he admitted those insecurities to him, that he allowed himself to come to that conversation from such vulnerable place.

It was so real and so human and honestly such a healing thing to watch. Like, I've had those kinds of conversations with my mom. I'm pretty sure we've had almost that exact same conversation. There's so much love and understanding that comes from a parent and child being able to speak to each other like two human beings who aren't perfect but genuinely want to try to know each other and hear each other.

And I'm just so glad that we got that moment for Thap and his dad.

[stormyoceans]

THEY'RE ALL SO STUPID I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

[dana-sculy]

"Any old Warder can protect you from a Trolloc. But the right one, he can protect you from yourself."

[koibini]

Shaoyou can accept Hua Yong stalking him for over a decade and premeditating their meet-cute but he draws the line at Shen Wenlang

[jungcougar]

pretty much sums up their communication skills

[tlematimun]

oh, i will be cruel to you. it will stop your breath, how cruel i can be. but you understand, don’t you? i am a demanding creature. i am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. but i am your servant. when you starve i will feed you; when you are sick i will tend you. i crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, i am debased. for you alone i will be weak.

- deathless, catherynne m. valente

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[orchisailsa]

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