Jiang Junior

how do you have a tom host but no tom contestants 😭😭😭

blejie?

what's the shipname for the lovepair? MablePangjie?

Among most youth culture, margnalised groups or other circumstances that might have people living on the outskirts of society become reliant on solidarity. Any group with limited means, learn to live on limited consumption. That is how humans, as social animals, survive. In the world of sub-culture, a new wave of punk has emerged, now concerned with for example the climate crisis and economic instability as the wealth gap widens in many countries. What you consider punk is punk, as it is one of its derivatives, one of the derivatives that was able to intergrate modern activism. However more than one branch grew from punk, and none of them grew perfectly straight. Visual kei as it grew from taking inspiration from Glam Rock to Emo did not retain those same political values. However it is a branch nonetheless.

I think I understand what you mean and I admire your spirit, I felt the same way as a teen. However I do feel like I should mention that what you cite as punk views are quite revisionist. Gatekeep what we call punk today if you like, but the history of punk is not as ideologically pure as tiktok punks like to make it out to be. Yes anti-establishment is a long standing punk tradition and much of punk culture thrived amongst economically disadvantaged classes, thus the way many high fashion brands made their affiliations to punk was quite inauthentic. However punk, as most sub-cultures at the time, were relatively superficial, a cultural phenomenon people engaged with rather than wrote and memorised manifestos for. Some people who were a part of the punk scene in the 1970s were also just aimlessly violent and macho, as any group of boys in the 1970s might've been. Certains bands made it big, certain styles influenced others, some artists made a lot of money through what is canonically referred to as punk and went on to collaborate with huge brands. The j-punk styles we see here do derive from that original subculture, it has its place under the broader umbrella of an academic analysis of punk fashion, therefore it is not unreasonable for it to be labelled as such by fashion students. Your assessment is correct in that there is more to punk than metal studs and dark clothing, however for you to say metal studs and dark clothing exist in a vacuum if they are not accompanied by a set of hyper specific values that were only reiterated as such 40 years after the fact... well you have much left to see

what is it about their styles that seem out of place to you?

Look into j-punk/goth-punk(ゴスパンク)/visual kei, what they refer to with the term punk may not be what you're used to but as far as j-punk/what japanese people refer to as punk goes, it's not too far off for a cheap imitation (think brands like SiXH, h.NAOTO, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons Black, Putumayo, old Westwood and McQueen). This is 'what is left' of punk today, it's not exactly about the culture, Mods and Rockers are no longer beating each other to a pulp in the streets over what bands they should or shouldn't listen to, to a fashion student like Sumiura it's about the designers that were worshipped during the noughties.

Bad acting/chemistry but personally, I don't dislike the student shortfilm project/script written in one sitting format.

I find it very crude the way Armin keeps mentioning the future like a fortuneteller without so much of an explanation. He does so completely without tact or planning, and it doesn't serve him, or anyone for that matter. He's lucky it doesn't completely put people off, in reality he'd be labelled as delusional. It also hides his personality, he may already know the people he's meeting but they don't know him, how can they get to know him when he acts like this?

Ngl Shoma the ML is kind of mid, and irl I would say Ogata Kotori deserves better, but the story is very sweet and pleasant to watch nonetheless. I am completely captured by Yanai Yumena's beauty, I hope she gets more main romance roles in the future, I will be watching Yuru Camp for sure!

lovely, very japanese in cadence and not particuliarly deep, but the chemistry and aesthetics are there

The prolonged nudity/nudity tags are kinda unnecessary on this. You just see a guy step out of the shower and sleep shirtless once.

They should have titled this The Bodhisattva and his Dog, the tale made for a beautiful parallel and I kind like that it ended the way it did. Just the right amount of fucked up where nothing is technically violent but it still hurts good. People who don't have siblings can have a strange perceptions of how sibling relationships work, so when it comes to China I have to admit, I'm a bit forgiving. The danger of adaptations like these is that it can excuse the responsibility of the caregiver: the younger brother is the one forcing himself onto his caregiver, but they try to avoid this by asking why did the bodhisattva pretend to be unconscious, why was he so indulgent, why did he kiss him back?

thank youu!

Where was this filmed/where does this take place?

I don't understand why Hua Yong kept playing captive for so long and to this extent. I'm sure Sheng Shaoyou would have been willing to be topped by Hua Yong at this point had Hua Yong played his cards right, if not for himself and how Hua Yong's hormones affect his body, he'd do it for his father's sake... but he keeps leaning into being the defenseless submissive omega role, even going so far as to say he's willing to remove his glands? That doesn't make any sense, Hua Yong is just as much of a top as Sheng Shaoyou, if not more, and as in love as he may be, he is just as unwilling to bottom, otherwise he would have done it by now.

I think you misunderstand me, as a socialist, when I say communist propaganda, I say it teasingly, but not as an insult or critique. In fact my critique is the opposite: this series is much more nuanced and realistic than the idealised films about the 1920s-1930s that were made during the 1960s-1970s, which isn't a bad thing in of itself, however to ultimately go back to praising fillial piety and to be so forgiving of landlords are pre-revolutionary ideals that I do not allign myself with and did not expect from a series with this synopsis. Yes, the landlords would've felt it an injustice for the work of their ancestors to be redistributed without compensation, however the feudalist system is wrong, and it was inhumane for children to be left to starve, the shift had to be made.

I was watching this for the communist propaganda, who let Confuscius take the reins?? It is good to acknowledge the inevitable imperfections of grassroots movements and the difficulty of mobilising groups of workers who have not had the privilege of accessing literacy, it is true that these people were and are sceptical of the intellectual class. It is also good to criticise landlords not by dehumanising them, but holding them accountable for what they owe their renters, and setting them on equal footing as their countrymen by acknowledging they are driven by the same things we all are. However to go so far as to have Ning Xuexiang forgiven by his daughter who was left to be gang raped by bandits for merely some land deeds?? Are we not swinging the pendula too far in the other direction?

I know I'm late to the party but gosh I wish women's bars like Anthea Bar were real 😭

The world of omegaverse is not quite a world of humanity, it reinvents and instrumentalises very animal characteristics and very human social class dynamics. It is neither a reflection of modern values, future values or even past values. It creates new rules and breaks those too.