How Can You Tell

okay i'm clearly on a journey through fandom memory lane but it really is wild to me that a random norwegian teen drama cracked the code on how to perfectly market and promote a show in the age of social media and NO ONE ELSE (besides the countries trying to create their own version of the same show ig) has emulated it?????????? like?????????? legitimate social media profiles for your characters????????? with posts and instagram stories from them that fit within the plot as well as offering a fun little extra insight into the characters/friendships/relationships?????? groundbreaking. i had instagram notifications turned on for FICITONAL CHARACTERS. one of your characters wants to be a director??? here's his real youtube channel with a video he made for his boyfriend's birthday full of never before seen clips that don't exist on the show?!?!?!?!?! unbelievable. you want your show to be immersive??? you want the audience to feel like they're living within the pov of your main character?? drop a clip/sneak peek in real time as it's supposed to happen in the episode so your audience is thinking about it 24/7. genius!!!!!! like can you imagine if circa 2018 everything didn't move to full season dumps and instead shows that aired on a weekly basis and incorporated even one of these things became the norm??????? we were robbed of what could've been

Listen, sometimes a ship is less about wanting them to kiss or have sex or whatever, and more about needing them to be so endlessly intertwined and connected to the point where they might as well be one creature.

Was listening to the Dungeon Meshi opening a normal amount and had the urge to draw Friederick and his one (1) party Member, Elxian again ( @revoleotion ).

[ID: a digital drawing of Friederick and Elxian, two OCs. Friederick is a gnome with light skin and brown hair in a bun, wearing sailors clothing and is holding a harpoon. Elm's fire is hovering over his head. Elxian, a pale elf with blue hair is standing behind him with his eyes closed and singing. She's wearing a simple blue top and a golden pearl necklace. /End ID]

every single day I think about how the DA2 male love interests had their queerness erased in a straight romance because the writers feared that the straight girlies would find it off-putting to romance a queer guy

but yeah sure custom fem!hawke/fenris is suuuuuch an underrated ship 🥺🥺

not gonna do it but the urge to respond to everyone going "man why wasn't varric dateable :(((" with "HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND HE HAS!! A GIRLFRIEND!!"

the template would later branch out to any negative word, but the original naming scheme for sith lords was darth + a negative word starting with 'in', with the front cut off. e.g. Darth (In)vader, Darth (In)sidious, etc. in a return to tradition, my star wars property centres the fearsome Darth Cestuous

there were better days