she's yawesome

currently watching: my royal nemesis, ashes to crown, zhan zhao adventures

[pdove]

[asterparfait]

happy week 2...

[jangman-wol]

IF I’M ON FIRE, YOU’LL BE MADE OF ASHES TOO.

HOTEL DEL LUNA (2019)

[justplaggin]

the love i have for this show knows no bounds

[parkchanwoohoo]

I don’t believe in astrology but one time when I was in college I was complaining about how dumb astrology was and after a while someone on the train went “Shut the hell up and let people have fun you Capricorn sun, Virgo moon bitch” and I was like what the fuck

Then I went home and looked it up and they were right so I don’t say anything anymore

[flygoing]

laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!

[chastittie]

i trusted you

[flygoing]

Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people

[meltesh28]

jeongnyeon ep 8 studies...

this show is so good. its so good it's all i can think about these days

[yaylikeawon]

they white truck of doomed us in 2026... my god. this got me screaming at the screen but also i love how it showed up first by almost hitting segye and then driving away like. every kdrama watcher would absolutely know immediately in that moment what that truck means and what's about to happen later. genuinely diabolical and i kind of love that when the "white truck of doom" has a reputation for being a lazy plot device. kang hyun joo said if you know you know and since you know you're all going to suffer ✌️✌️ if i were writing a kdrama i would absolutely pull the same bullshit on my audience ✌️✌️ i gave you lovey dovey moments and now you're going to sit here and pay the toll with pain and angst ✌️✌️ you are going to sit here and WATCH as danshim falls back to a world that stole her agency and segye's life is completely dismantled ✌️✌️ haha yay ✌️✌️

[cryptotheism]

Your biting criticisms, particularly stuff like the ben shapiro article you wrote a bit ago and a few times over asks where you go in on some ancient individual is always not just insightful but really hilariously written. You’re very good at lampooning something cleverly, how do you pull that off without it just being “this sucks[depressing]” or “this sucks[joking on itbut no deeper analysis]”?

I think a lot of it is like, criticizing something on its own terms. If I don't like something, that doesn't make it bad. It doesn't matter how much I want it to be bad, I have structure an argument.

You have to look at different artistic choices, and evaluate why they were made. And you have to point out when they work! It makes the flaws stand out more! Nothing is wholly bad or wholly good, you have to give roses and lashes where they are due.

You can't just say shit sucks! Explain why! What was it trying to do? Why did it fail? What led to that failure?

[mmleepmlorp]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

"this fic uses em dashes, so it must be ai-generated" real humans use em dashes.

"this fic has long paragraphs with overly described details and scenes, so it must be ai-generated" real humans can write like this.

“this fic only has short paragraphs, so it must be ai-generated” real humans can prefer short paragraphs for their works.

"this fic has inconsistencies, so it must be ai-generated" real humans make errors and mistakes. that's why we have this thing called plot holes. sometimes writers are tired and they don't remember what they wrote in the last sentences or paragraphs, let alone chapters.

"this fic sounds robotic and unnatural, so it must be ai-generated" not every writer writes in their native language. sometimes they can sound 'robotic and unnatural' if they wrote in their second or third or fourth language (and kudos to them).

"this fic has a prompt left in it that the author forgot to delete, so it must be ai-generated" the 'prompt' the author accidentally left in their fic could actually be a part of an outline that was meant only for them, so they could keep track of what they would write.

"this author posts too often, no human writes this fast, so they must use ai" 1.) you don't know how fast someone can or can't write, how much time a person has in a day or how motivated/skilled they are. 2.) the frequent updates you see could be something that has already been finished and sitting in the author's drafts for god knows how long. just because it's recently posted doesn't always mean it's recently written.

my point? no, you can never know if a fanfic is 'ai-generated'. unless the author says they use ai, you're just assuming, suspecting and witch hunting. chances are that you're not going to 'stop ai fics from being created', you're just going to wrongly accuse genuine writers of using ai and ruin their day at best, make them want to quit writing or sharing their works at worst.

[yaylikeawon]

watching ashes to crown as a qiao chu novel reader is genuinely so painful, as is the burden to bear for all book fans watching adaptations

just a bullet list of things i liked and things that stabbed me repeatedly

it has an aesthetic and by god it will stick to it. the red foregrounds, the blue backgrounds. the red everywhere. i love a good color scheme and an obvious aesthetic. the sets are gorgeous too. the setting has character!

which is unfortunate because the opening throws you into the usual 'royalty, throne, palace, capital city, desert frontier' schtick that fails to distinguish its world building in these first six episodes from the millions of palace dramas that have come before it

the decision to cut out a good third of the novel that would have given all the world and character building that this show desperately needs. literally why did the show open on what should have been the crux of the first arc!!! these scenes don't hit because we have nothing to build up!!! which is truly unfortunate because that entire rebellion and chu zhao working her way through to save the heir was so good in the book!!!!!

it's frustrating because cdl and zyr do have chemistry!!! they have tension and rapport. they are giving in the scenes they have with each other which is far more than i expected after they drastically changed xie yanlai's character. he got the same treatment as the poj male lead. defanged, smoothed over, and green flagged to their detriment

exposition land. this drama does not trust its audience's intelligence. and you know what? they're right not to. the correlation between declining attention span and shit media literacy to scripts written for five year olds and scenes filmed just to get viral on shorts is real and a nightmare and we're living in it. this is a problem for all dramas these days and not just ashes to crown

are we only six episodes in and have so much more to go? yes. could things improve from here once they find more solid footing? possibly! will i keep watching? yeah. it's not as brain dead of a drama as veil of shadows (the lowest bar to clear) and it's not as meandering long and draggy as zhan zhao adventures

chu zhao talking to another version of herself that's a representation of her hatred and resentment is actually kind of cool and i like that they put this spin in the drama.

wang rui cheng is kind of eating as xiao xun and thank god for that because we need everyone in this cast to step up and start entertaining.

[captainjoongki]

he continues to be peak 2010s entertainment

[tanoraqui]

“I asked chatgpt” well I journeyed to Rivendell to seek council of Elrond Half-Elven, wise among men and wizards alike, and he invited me to a meeting with representatives of all the free peoples of Middle Earth. It turns out that my trouble is but part of the trouble of all the world, the origins of which lie in earlier, grander ages—but none of us stand alone!

[yu-me-mii]

∅  lee dohyun // chungmyung

✧･ﾟ:*  soft icon edits *:･ﾟ✧*

[shipsandtea]

Do you wanna play mermaids? Yay. Okay so my tail is light blue and I have ice powers. And I live in the Arctic sea and watch British sailors die horrible deaths while trying to find the Northwest Passage.

[yaylikeawon]

tbh i can suspend my disbelief for a romcom any day, especially a fantasy romcom, so I'm not that bothered by the tuxedo mask effect of "guy who wears only half a mask and is completely unrecognizable". but then i rewatched ep 2 and saw that the first time we see segye's past self we actually get an up close look at his face without the mask

it shows that he has two??? different colored eyes??? (and also the burn scar that's like right underneath) but then in subsequent episodes we just see him with two.... brown eyes???

literally squinting at the screen like is he actually wearing a blue contact or am i just color blind. AM I JUST COLOR BLIND? IS IT JUST A TRICK OF LIGHT??? i mean if it's not i clearly did not remember this detail at all nor does it affect my enjoyment of the drama but i am kind of laughing about it now. they said he's hot enough that we as the audience would be distracted and they were right