#necessary binging

[streetqueenofmars]

So, I need to talk about why Worf and Jadzia Dax are one of the best couples in all of pop culture but to do that I need to lay the groundwork of explaining some trends that the writers of Deep Space 9 completely avoid.

I don't know if anyone else feels this way but for me I find that popular culture has a crippling inability to write couples in stable relationships. It's a problem not just in genre fiction but even into the broader culture. Whether it's rom-coms, fantasy novels, sci-fi TV or superheroes movies you have writers who are very interested in a couple falling in love and trying to win each other but then seem to lose interest after think.

Think about this way, we've all seen plenty of movies where a couple spend the whole movie trying to get together and it ends with them together. But how many films have you seen where the main love interests are in an established steady relationship? Married? Engaged? Hell, have even been dating long term?? It's rare, I can't tell whether most writers are just more interested in couples getting together than staying together or if writers don't think that audiences would be as interested in a stable couple navigating their relationship.

This is what leads to writers breaking up couples in shows or in movie sequels. They set up a couple, spend a lot of time getting them together, but then once they get them together they don't know what to do with them so they either break them up through contrived means or they kill one of them.

As someone who's been in a happy steady relationship for some time and is also a writer I can tell you first hand that this stems entirely from a lack of imagination. There are so many stories you can tell with couples in long term relationships that you can't tell with couple trying to get together. Shrek 2, The Mummy Returns, the Thin Man films and a few other examples demonstrate all the narrative potential that it feels like most writers waste.

The relationship between Worf and Jadzia Dax feels like the best proof I've seen in a long long time. The writers of Deep Space 9 use the format of episodic television to truly flesh put their relationship. We see them start as friends, see them realize how much they have in common, see it get more serious, see them commit to getting married, get married and for half a glorious season we see them live as a married couple. We see them fight but navigate it, we see them balance professional responsibilities with their devotion to each other, we see them figure out what a future together looks like and we see their love never waver, but mature.

The best example of this is the season six episode 'Change of Heart'. It's not only one of the most romantic episodes of anything I've ever seen but it's one of the most romantic things I've seen period. So much of the episode is just us spending time with the couple and letting their natural chemistry sparkle. So that when the plot stuff does happen you are INVESTED. And Worf's whole bedside monologue where he talks about how he realized that if Jadzia was ever in danger he would put the Galaxy at risk to save her? I was IN TEARS!!!

It's the kind of mature storytelling that I WISH we could see more of. Instead of contriving ways to break up your romantic couples to start them all over again it's so much interesting to try and figure out what their lives together look like and what kinds of conflicts or stories are unique to couples that you can't tell otherwise.

#Worf x Jadzia #star trek #deep space 9 #deep space nine #ds9 #necessary binging #startrekds9 #star trek deep space nine #star trek deep space 9 #star trek worf #jadzia dax #romance #romantic #amwriting #writer #writer problems #Shrek 2 #the mummy returns #the thin man

[urostakako]

what i really liked about the culling game was how apocalyptic it all seemed like in the very beginning when itadori clapped once and the curse rocketed out of the water. the idea that they were all surviving this kind of post-apocalyptic japan. it disappointed me a lot when that didnt remain the vibe of the rest of the arc. then it just became too boring with seemingly aimless fights

#vibes are very necessary in my honest opinion. disregarding the pacing entirely #i guess in a binge itd probably be better but the fact remains that the vibes werent there and that lowk broke the deal for me #its actually been a very long while since i said anything about jjk im scaring myself #hanancouldyounot

[boinin]

Gagamaru summing up my feelings about chapter 226 🤷‍♀️

#blue lock #bllk #bllk manga #bllk manga spoilers #blue lock spoilers #blue lock manga spoilers #gagamaru gin #irl stuff has me too busy to do any detailed analyses 🥲 #chp 226 is one of those chaps that's necessary and will read fine when bingeing/rereading the series #but it's flat when you're week to week #that said art was 🔥🔥🔥 #isagi was more demented than usual 🧩 #also time for barou to smoke everybody by the looks of it

[crownedwille]

if young royals season 2 has a million fans i'm one of them. if young royals season 2 has ten fans, then i am one of them. if young royals season 2 has only one fan then that is me. if young royals season 2 has no fans, then that means i am no longer on earth. if the world is against young royals season 2 then i am against the world

#i just felt the need to make this meme lmao #i love season 2 so much like i'm hyperfixaxing specifically on that one #season one is beautiful and great obviously and has a certain magic to it and i get why so many love that season #but maybe bc there was so much hype around that first season i wanna give some love to season 2 #people who didn't like s2: i'm so sorry you didn't get it #and who complain about the lack of wilmon intimacy scenes and how much we get of sara and august: die mad about it i guess #no literally you didn't get it #i personally love to see wilhelm and simon separately and see them make mistakes and pine after one another #i also love their not so sweet moments when we get fights between them - both scenes in ep 5 of both seasons - they're so good #painful but necessary and they're also so good at those moments when they're not being tender and happy with each other #the conflict and arguments aren't cheap and annoying how it often can be in shows to create drama between a couple #but that's not the case with them and when it's actually important and necessary i love conflict #bc we're coming out on the other side then #it's about the growth #all the conflict was so important this season so we could get to that ending #alright that just went a little into another direction #anyway that doesn't mean you can't prefer season 1 but objectively s2 is at least just as good #maybe i'm biased bc i didn't get obsessed with yr until after s2 came out and basically binged them both together #and wasn't immediately into the show when s1 came out like almost everyone else seemed to be #young royals #yrtalk

[deans-asscot]

God the post Heartstopper crash is REAL

#like i already went through this after season 1 but ooof #a part of me wishes they would slowly release each ep but also the binge is necessary as well #heartstopper #mine

[twinprime]

do u guys know that tweet or post or whichever that talks abt how one day u just kind of wake up and stop having an ed. bc that’s like so wildly accurate for me like a couple weeks ago i just decided that the stomach pains and lack of nutrients was NOT it anymore and started eating protein and going to the gym and started counting calories to make sure i’m actually eating enough and ive literally never felt better… even just after a couple weeks of trying to eat what my body needs and not what my ed wants have made me feel so much happier and healthier and more beautiful.

#i saw a tiktok where someone was talking abt how harmful those ed tiktoks abt self control and shit are and talking abt the reality of eds #and how much better u will feel when you eat what u need and take care of urself and after starting to do that i see that she’s so right… #also granted my ed definitely wasn’t severe but i went from cycles of binge eating/not eating more than 1-2 small snacks every few days to #actually keeping track of what’s necessary for me to be healthy and i literally feel so good… :) #tw ed #strq.txt

[somelazyassartist]

I'm making a incredibly fucking thorough "which TAZ:B character are you" uQuiz (I am not nearly CLOSE to done though, I've basically just started and also have no idea if I'll even be able to finish it ever) but like. Griffin. Griffin why do you make so many npcs. There's like 300 of these fucking guys to have as result options. Do you know how long and drawn out this quiz is going to have to be to provide accurate results. I'm in hell (affectionate) (this is coming from someone who ALSO makes obscene amounts of characters for their projects I promise this is affectionate)

#when i say thorough i mean THOROUGH btw. i am scouring through the transcripts line by line to get all the characters i can find #and i think I'm still missing some!! fuck!! #but like. do y'all remember Templeton. or Mr Bing Bong. Craig. Unnamed 45 Year Old Man Who Wants Chicken Pweese. Joaquin's shithead brother. #and those are some of the more memorable ones (to me personally) i don't remember who the fuck half these people are #I'm gonna have to do a relisten of their scenes before i assign them answer results lmao #i don't remember a goddamn thing about Tharden or Haley or Kristoph lmao a relisten is for sure necessary before i can publish this quiz lol

[streetqueenofmars]

I've finished.

After *wanting* to watch this show since I was a kid and discovering Next Generation, putting it off all through college so I could give it my full attention and then watching for over three years I have finally finished Star Trek: Deep Space 9.

I confess not much of a television fan, at least not as much as I am a novel or film enthusiast. Television for me occupies a category of media like video games where the time commitment doesn't quite align with the potential gains. I've watched plenty of bad movies or read bad books, brushed them off, and moved on. But bad shows feel like more of a waste, they feel to me like I've lost something more that I can't quite brush off as easily.

But watching a series as good as DS9 is a reminder of the flip side, a bad show feels like more of a loss but there's nothing quite like finishing a really good show. Not only is DS9 good, but it's a good example of television as a medium. DS9 could only ever be a TV show and it makes the most out of the narrative potential unique to television. The best books could only be books, the best cinema could only be cinema and the best television could only be television.

It helps that of all the Star Trek shows I've seen DS9 has the best ending because it *feels* like an ending. The conclusion to numerous plot threads, character arcs but also the chance to look back on the journey and to really savor the sweet melancholy of farewell. It feels like the ending we get is the ending that was planned from the beginning and that we have been building towards over time.

"To the best crew any captain ever had! This may be the last time we're all together. But no matter what the future holds, no matter how far we travel, a part of us, a very important part, will always remain here, on Deep Space 9."

😭😭😭💜💜💜

#star trek #deep space 9 #deep space nine #ds9 #necessary binging #startrekds9 #star trek deep space 9 #what you leave behind

[mintmentos]

I’m sorry seven (7) epilogues?? What the hell is going to go down in this book??

#I’ve been on an era 2 binge and I’ve just bought the lost metal and that’s what I find in the contents? baffled #I’m gonna assume it’s all the different characters with at least one in the south of scadrial and maybe even one from kelsier or marsh? idk #but 7 feels like too many #I know it’s the end of an era (lol) but era 1 felt much bigger in scope but I’m pretty sure that only had one #saying that tho I feel like we’ve learnt a lot in this era so maybe it’s necessary idk #mistborn #the lost metal #brandon sanderson #kiera talks books

[lqnar]

somebody tell me why i have messed up my body from having an eating disorder for three years lol

#im actively practicing harm reduction but i feel like im dying #eating a small amount makes me feel like going to throw up #at the same time i can eat and eat and eat and not feel full #i think my pelvic floor muscles are. uh. struggling. bc of reason #i feel both weak from undereating and ill from eating #i think i average a shit to of calories this week bc of binges i had #that were objective binges but didn’t feel like binges tbh #i didn’t have a need to purge. like i knew i should have but i didn’t because it didn’y feel necessary #my heart is. yeah. um. i think it’s struggling #i should stop consuming caffeine is the tldr of my heart health atm #because i very rarely purge which is the other thing that destroys my heart #but yea. today i had 300 mg caffeine. i felt like shit

[namcelestial]

heyyy :)

[with intentions of rewatching the entirety of teen wolf]

#it's funny because unlike most people my connection to it started not as a teen but as an adult binge-watching it at peak covid shutdown #and THAT'S why i'm so attached to it #and despite my best efforts to not be stereotypical i DO love the pretty white boy every girl has a crush on in middle school dylan o'brien #he's just a good actor 😔 and funny and charming despite being chris evans same brand of armchair activism. and pretty :( #ANYWAY it's just so fun and mindless it doesn't try to be something it isn't for at least the first few seasons #there's just something to charming so homey about it #PLUS despite the absolute shitshow the movie is bound to be this will prepare me to watch it :) #p #ignore me #i wonder if there is a good like 500k word fic that rewrites the entire show that isn't written by a delusional freak bc i would read it #the delusional freak clause is necessary because too many people don't understand the characters and make connections that make no sense #like sterek i mean what is wrong with u people truly. u can have a little fun fruity tension without them fucking each other #BUT I DIGRESS

[heirhonkful]

Doctor Who rant, feel free to ignore lol

Doctor Who always gets real bad when it tries to do “plot” stuff. I like it better as a weekly adventure show, that seems to be its strong suit. I just don’t understand how anyone could have liked the past few seasons. Jodie Whittaker deserved so much better than to be part of probably what is the worst written part of DW.

It’s like they literally went out of their way to ruin anything that made DW interesting and compelling by trying to add weird, stupid, kind of “chosen one” story. The best part of The Doctor is that they’re just a person - and also an almost immortal alien lol, but just a person, it could be anyone with that box, The Doctor isn’t supposed to be super important and stuff. That kinda feels like where DW fails the most, is trying to make The Doctor to be some kind of incredible superhero or something as opposed to a person who just gets into adventures with their friends.

That’s why these last few seasons were just so much worse. And it sucks even more because so many chuds and idiots are going to blame it on The Doctor being a woman or something like that, as opposed to a complete destruction of the character and their backstory. I wonder how in the world they’ll fix it, I don’t know if they even can.

#just a little rant #I love Doctor who so much but watching the Chibnall stuff just felt like a chore and was often straight up painful lmao #not to mention The Flux #what even was that??? #nothing made sense and things just happened out of nowhere #I need to rewatch it and try to chart what happens because when I binged it the first time with a friend it just #oh man #it just didn’t make any sense whatsoever #like there was some snake guy going around turning people to snakes for no reason #there was the dumb plot about the Doctor’s psudeo-mom trying to escape to another universe??? #why was any of it necessary at all? #weird crystal guy and his sister #and omg the scene revealing her also made no sense #a thing beeping in the living room and the two people are like “no let’s just ignore it #and then crystal dude shows up or something and the lady was his sister the whole time???? why what?? who are these people?? #it’s been a minute since I watched it so I don’t remember everything but my friend and I talk about it all the time lol

[calekinnieplus]

The only reason why I didn't lash out against him last time was because of the annoying things that could come as a consequence of my actions.

Moreover, if he really wanted to, he could use some of his influence to directly affect my parent's guild.

But if that were to happen...

Let's just say I knew many ways to get rid of some stray dogs that didn't know their place. Though, at the expense of some dire consequence that I don't want to go through.

Let's just hope he's not stupid enough to push me there...

Well damn?? That came out of nowhere, what the hell, man? I thought you were a writer bro T^T

#vertigone rambles #binging the author's pov #the author's pov #the author's pov spoilers #chapter 15 #tap #tapov #are the tags even necessary at this point? #the fandom is so scarce in these parts T^T

[mosasaura]

scavengers reign spoilers is too long for my lazy ass to type so im gonna tag em sr spoilers instead, should you wish to blacklist

#likewise if i tag plain scav reign stuff itll just be sr #i already reblogged a few gifsets earlier this week/last week but yk #i need to watch the last 3 episodes still...! i'll be able to re binge the series today and tomorrow #usually i wouldnt think to mention but 1) i want to convince people to watch this #and 2) the gore/body horror trigger warnings u see about the series are necessary for every episode #i used to be so good at tagging things on here then i graduated from highschool #ill try again LOL

[streetwiseangel]

the wealth disparity is literally what causes disordered eating on such a mass scale prove me wrong

#rationing yourself while your roommate orders in for the 12th time this week #using food as the only reward for undesirable but necessary behaviors #going broke because you moved to a new city and restaurants/cafes are some of the only otherwise accessible first meeting places #having an interest in cooking but no time to try and fail and no patience to use up all your perishables in time #regularly creating a negative association with cooking or eating all together #but since you need it to live and your body will send painful hunger cues when you push too far #you finally cave and eat processed garbage #too much of it because you’re kind of starving now #and reinforce the negative association when you feel bad immediately after #wrapped nice and neat isn’t it #at the end of the day plenty of people are going into debt over binge eating because it’s hahahard to keep up with trends #insta famous chefs and popups and delivery service exclusives #meanwhile restaurant employees the delivery drivers and the consumers all suffer #for a few ubereats and doordash execs to rake in cash so they can vacation while the world plummets into health and climate catastrophe #I’m normal about this