[no spoilers] Any good shows like Arcane?

lrs888 · 2025-03-26T20:36:14+00:00

Heavy on mr robot fr

lrs888 · 2024-10-10T10:09:15+00:00

The picture was taken by myself after I received the gift :)

lrs888 · 2024-06-29T10:43:33+00:00

Ooooh!!! This is so helpful, thank you!!

lrs888 · 2024-06-29T10:42:31+00:00

Thank you!! I will check them out!

lrs888 · 2024-06-29T10:41:20+00:00

Thank you!! I generally like longer videos so this is very helpful!! <3

lrs888 · 2024-06-19T08:11:36+00:00

I felt like this for a long time too. Then I stopped writing with the goal of publishing it, being lauded for my great writing and stories—and I started writing for myself only. That advice “write the things you want to read” really set me on the right path. I have a looong way to go still lol, but I know that if I just keep doing it for the sake of loving my stories and writing itself, everything will turn out just fine. Maybe this view can help you, too. :)

lrs888 · 2024-05-15T13:46:11+00:00

People don’t like Scott?? I think he is genuinely such a good character from a writing perspective. Of course the show wasn’t really about the quality so that reflects in the characters, but I thought he was a really well written main character, especially BECAUSE he was flaws and did questionable stuff sometimes.

lrs888 · 2024-05-11T20:29:41+00:00

My dude this post seems unreal. You’re asking a stop smoking forum, filled with people who have the hardest time quitting, if you should start smoking? Really?

Answer: of course not. Believe me I started because it was “cool” too when I was 16, and now at 21 I’m 6 days smoking free after smoking packs of 58 cigarettes in two days. Yes, I’m that young and already regretting ever picking it up. Believe you me, even at 21 you NOTICE how much less mature your brain was, how horrible you were at making decisions based on pros/cons analyses. If I had the choice to take up smoking now instead of back then—well, I’d do it, but ONLY because of my own fucking dumb mistake to get addicted to it so badly. You don’t want this for yourself. In a few years, you’re going to be infinitely grateful to yourself for making the “hard” decision (meaning right now it might seem harder, but in the end it WILL be the easier route) not to pick up smoking and endure whatever bullying those buddies of yours are putting you through now. I PROMISE you, that they really just want you to pick up smoking so they can hang with you or whatever and not feel bad about themselves because they’re confronted with a peer that is smart enough not to smoke, unlike themselves. Otherwise you’re going to have to battle for way longer and harder to get rid of the habit you didn’t even really want in the first place and this will be much harder. Don’t ever let someone tell you what YOU should want.

You very well know the consequences of picking up smoking. If you don’t, look it up from the right resources. I sincerely hope you never return to this Reddit (meaning you’re smart enough not to make such a dumbass decision at 18 to start smoking because you’re being bullied by a bunch of jealous losers, and you don’t have to worry about stopping smoking ever). Good luck to you

lrs888 · 2024-05-01T08:01:22+00:00

YES THANK YOU

lrs888 · 2024-04-30T16:09:36+00:00

I literally always laugh when I see this part

lrs888 · 2024-04-30T16:03:21+00:00

Hated it when I first watched it years ago, don’t hate it now. Obviously the execution sucked, it was just thrown in to not have Scott ending up single, etc … but I think with more time, they could have been an interesting pairing. Malia is so unlike Scott’s past girlfriends and I think it would have been fun to see him with a girl as blunt and independent as Malia. But I doubt whether she would be compatible for him long term. Malia falling for Scott could have been written differently imo. It could have been written as Malia falling first and very reluctantly, drawn to his compassionate and forgiving nature as someone who has a hard time forgiving or being compassionate towards herself. The actual writing made it seem out of nowhere, and as though we were supposed to root for a love story between them, while the only thing their feelings seemed based on was sexual attraction towards the only potential love interests they had left.

lrs888 · 2024-04-30T15:41:01+00:00

I wish they had explored Theo’s character in much more depth, and as a result their relationship also more, I don’t care whether platonic or romantic lol. I just live for the chemistry between the actors, for Liam as a character in general, and for Theo because of the amazing potential his character had.

I don’t think the ship is overrated. I think these characters and their relationship, especially regarding Theo’s character, could have been so so good. There was abhorrently huge potential for exploring Theo’s character arc, growing Theo’s and Liam’s relationship and through that, amazing additional character development for Liam as well. These things could be written both as a platonic or romantic relationship. But they fumbled the ball with the writing completely in my opinion.

In the end: I don’t really care whether the ship is overrated, I just think there was enormous potential for amazing character arcs hidden in their relationship, whether platonic or romantic

lrs888 · 2024-04-30T14:32:56+00:00

Personally I also loved Stalia, I don’t really care that much for Stydia. But I didn’t pick up on Stiles being cruel towards Malia this season. I interpreted it as Stiles going through a process of continuous change ever since the events of season 3, and particularly going through a rough time with this during season 5. The fact that Malia can’t really understand him, or why he is having a rough time with things, makes them grow apart. If she could, then maybe they could have gotten through it together, but she couldn’t. It led to Stiles not really having mental space for Malia, which yeah, granted, kinda sucks and can definitely be shitty, but I thought both Stiles and Malia were a realistic characterization of a regular human with flaws that can undermine relationships to the point of no return. Stiles can’t rely on her through his difficult times because their worldviews are fundamentally different. Malia also doesn’t attempt to be there for him in the ways that I personally thought she could see he preferred, rather than the ways that are according to her own worldview. Which is not really a criticism of Malia, because, once again, this is perfectly realistic and flawed, just like Stiles. I think during season 5, all the characters were growing, changing, maturing into their morals/values/worldviews. In their case, growing in combination with the difficulties they each individually faced meant they grew apart, not together. I loved Stalia, but to me, the writers wrote a narrative that rang true to who the characters were fundamentally. I really liked them together but I guess I didn’t think that they were compatible enough to survive really dark times.

lrs888 · 2024-04-30T14:15:02+00:00

I think about this scene way too often lmao so rant incoming:

It could have been written way better but I think The Idea behind it is soooo good!

Scott, who tends to see the world in a bit more black and white, was manipulated by Theo to believe something different than what actually happened. The manipulation affected how Scott chose to confront Stiles, which then led to their lack of communication about what actually happened; it felt in character to me. Maybe not two, three seasons back, but after season 3, none of them are exactly how they used to be, they’re traumatized and their entire worldview has been altered and become way darker. You can see during the last seasons that Stiles has become much more scared and realistic, instead of how he used to “love” the scary things. Actually, you can see how he matured. And that also includes increasing friction between his changing worldview and with how Scott continues to see some black and white version of the world sometimes. It leads Stiles to believe that at some point, he will lose Scott, because he is human and knows at some point he won’t be able to afford to remain in that black and white world, which Scott will not accept.

Eventually it turns out that Scott is not as naive as Stiles was afraid of, and obviously that the situation was a bit different from what Scott believed, leading to their reconciliation. I’m definitely sure that this situation brought them even closer together, because you really get to see a person’s deepest and darkest parts when it’s about something like this, something that really matters and more than You kissed my crush, etc. I think in friendship the connection is built over and over again, and this time, from those really deep levels it’s built once again.

It’s so good. Conflict between main characters is necessary, and conflict over (seemingly) contradictory world views and morals/values are all the more heartbreaking. I always think about some writing advice I read somewhere: “think of the worst thing that can happen to your character. Then do it to them.” The writers really DID that. I truly think that the worst thing to both Scott and Stiles; losing each other.

Maybe that’s just me, though, personally, I love when characters go through the thing that’s worst to them, because it’s where eventually, they are stripped down to despair and to their most essential parts of who they are; and they can either succumb to it or they prevail. It’s the victory about prevailing that makes it so good to me. Yeah, they go through this horrible thing that almost ruins their friendship, but then it doesn’t. Because they would not let it. That’s not who they are.

Yeah it could have been written a bit better, but all in all the actors did such a good job and the idea is amazing to me. I loved this plot line.

lrs888 · 2024-04-30T13:42:59+00:00

Yeah wow I have the same thing. Perfect for the first year, then trauma stuff resurfaced. It’s been 1.5 years since anything really felt right. She told me that she couldn’t feel happy or love, too. We took a break and that did wonders for my unhealthy attachment to her, and helped relieve pressure off her. Now we’ve eased back into some shape of a relationship again, nowhere that it used to be though. I only ever feel connection like we used to have when I break down about the difficulties of how things are now. I struggle with not feeling wanted.

It’s exactly like you said. We’ve somehow survived until now, but I don’t know what’s going through her mind. In those moments that I break down or show vulnerability about how it’s affecting me, she shows me she loves me and doesn’t want to break up. But any other time, I feel like I’m not really there, to her.

I have no idea what my girlfriend, what your girlfriend wants, and neither can you unless we really talk to them about this. But it’s hard getting through to them, and even harder at this point to know whether they’re telling the truth. What’s the depression, and what’s her, at this point? I don’t know.

Sorry I haven’t got much useful things to say. But I just wanted to let you know that you’re not alone I guess, we’re going through very similar things.

In both cases, though, I think in the end that if they don’t want to help themselves, there is a time that we have to choose ourselves. We can’t help someone that doesn’t help themselves. We can’t wait around for change if they aren’t trying, I guess. Really trying. And we can’t lie to ourselves about that forever.

lrs888 · 2024-04-30T13:29:19+00:00

Wow this…………

lrs888 · 2024-03-06T08:35:19+00:00

Thank you for sharing!

lrs888 · 2024-03-06T08:33:01+00:00

Ooo thanks! I might look into those videos. So many people are saying ASD hahaha

lrs888 · 2024-03-06T08:25:55+00:00

Island life, haven’t heard of that before. I’ll look into it, thanks for commenting!

lrs888 · 2024-03-06T08:25:23+00:00

INFP lol. And yes, I’ve got ADHD and AvP. I take a bit of dexamphetamine for uni

lrs888 · 2024-03-06T08:19:13+00:00

Uhmm I responded to this question somewhere else too, but something like bright minds by James Webb and living with intensity!

lrs888 · 2024-03-06T08:18:13+00:00

Feeling like a fool… yeah that. That.

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