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please stop trying to convince me the cause is righteous and convince me the tactics are effective
Enemies with Benefits - Episode 1
Even when I'm not drunk, I still want to do this.
JINGJING YU as WINE WAYTHAKA episode 1 of ENEMIES WITH BENEFITS

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Why are you zoning out?
JANHAE PLOYSHOMPOO as LAL LALLALIN and JINGJING YU as WINE VETAKA official trailer of ENEMIES WITH BENEFITS (premiering on May 3rd)
TONGARI BOUSHI NO ATELIER (2026) episode 03 ✴ brushbuddy created by shirahama kamome
O Lord you know I have been so good these many years about not getting involved with People Being Wrong on the Internet, why must you test me with a topic that I have specific knowledge in.
Welcome to another round of W2 Tells You What You Should See, where W2 (me) tries to sell you (you) on something you should be watching. Today's choice: 琅琊榜/Nirvana in Fire.
Nirvana in Fire is a 2015 historical series best described as either a complicated succession drama set in the premodern Chinese imperial palace, or the story of a man who didn't die a decade ago and has decided to make it everyone else's problem.
And really, I almost feel silly giving my glib little summary, because Nirvana in Fire is so well-known of a property. It's a classic for a reason, and that reason is that it's legitimately very good. This show is what happens when you adapt a solid story, get a bunch of very talented actors, and throw a huge amount of money at it. It's incredibly popular and highly acclaimed, and it earned all of the hype.
Still, while I bet there are few people adjacent to c-drama stuff who've never heard of Nirvana in Fire, I'm sure there are plenty who haven't watched it. After all, it looks like one of those slow, serious shows with a lot of ponderous talking and no joy. If that's the impression you've been given, I could imagine looking at the 54-episode commitment and saying, I don't need that in my life.
I am here to tell you you're wrong. It is a banger of a show. It's tense. It's funny. It's heartbreaking. It’s exceptionally clever. It’s jaw-droppingly stupid. It’s romantic. It’s tragic. It has smart plots and bizarre subplots. And that's not even touching the thing with the yeti.
So in case you're one of those people who's heard of Nirvana in Fire, but has put off watching it for one reason or another, I'm here with five reasons I think you should try it.
1. Epic Shit
Did you like the Lord of the Rings? More specifically, did you really like the second Peter Jackson film? Great, then you're all set for this.
I guess I could have called this Game of Thrones without the dragons, but that's not actually the vibe at all. Game of Thrones is much more sensational and salacious, with all the blood and butts and what-not. The Tolkien comparison is more apt, I think, because Nirvana in Fire is equally about as wholesome as you can get in a property where dudes are still getting stabbed all the time.
This is a show about vengeance. And yeah, justice for the fallen, sure, that's fine too. But mostly it's about a bunch of good people joining forces to make sure the bastards who did wrong pay, with their lives as necesary.
The problem, though, is that these bastards are incredibly powerful, which means that a pure brute-force approach isn't going to work. Accordingly, this quickly becomes a story about the power of smart teamwork to exact retribution on some people who can (and did!) legally get away with murder -- and our heroes are some of the people with their necks most on the line if anything goes wrong.
Don't let the Middle Earth comparison fool you into thinking this is all epic swordfights. It's not. (I mean, for one thing, as well-funded as this project is, it doesn't have Peter Jackson Money.) The vast majority of the tension in the show comes from dialogue and slow, terrible realizations. The fight scenes are almost a relief from the nail-biting intensity of intimate conversations about getting a letter from somebody's ex-wife or returning a book.
All told, the show has that incredible almost-RPG vibe of going through all the little subquests and cutscenes you find along the way to defeat the final boss. The plot carefully unravels a multi-tendriled mystery told to you by people in incredible costumes. It doesn't get much more epic than that.
(Nirvana in Fire is also a cautionary tale about how you should be very careful with who gets invited to your birthday party.)
please do yourself a favor & watch this rock climbing–themed drag king/burlesque performance set to “roxanne” by the police with all the lyrics but “rox” edited out
via @edithwigglesandgiggles on instagram

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The thing about art is that it's not a one-sided relationship.
I mean, it can be, you can stand in front of a piece of art and go "ok, make me feel things, tell me the point of you", but it's going to be a generally limiting and unsatisfying experience.
And it's not necessarily innate or easy, the ability to really engage with something, to consider both what it seems to be saying and what it is about yourself that brings you to that interpretation. It takes practice, and a lot of thought. Our immediate response is not always the truest one. Real reflection takes time.
But it opens things up, in both our internal and external worlds, taking the time to reflect and engage. It's not about like or dislike, though examining why you react the way you do is part of the equation and can tell you a lot about yourself. It's about decentering yourself to focus on someone else's vision and/or perspective, to really think about what pieces of their inner world they are showing us and why, while also knowing that you will bring a piece of yourself to the experience that is uniquely you, and no one else will ever see it the exact same way. That's such a beautiful thing.
It's not bad to not always know what to think...but it's not great to assume that that equals there being nothing to think about.
Like all relationships, how we engage with art can be simple, complex, funny, sad, frustrating, all the things. But it's not going to really work if we aren't willing to play a part.
Burnout Syndrome is one of those shows that is going to absolutely haunt me. Did I like it? Not a relevant question! Am I going to be thinking about it for years? 100%
Do you remember when you first saw my painting at my place? My painting moved you to the point where you had to ask me how I did it. BURNOUT SYNDROME THE SERIES | E09
I think the biggest betrayal that Koh committed by feeding Jira’s art into his AI was that Jira thought Koh truly understood and valued his art, and by doing this Koh proved that he really, really, didn’t.
A thing that AI evangelists consistently miss is that if you actually like to draw/paint, the process is part of the point and the experience of using AI, especially once you’ve gotten past the Wonder of Technology, is pretty dang boring. Putting in a prompt, watching it load, have the results be eh, ok, but let’s try again, and then repeat until you get something that’s close enough except for this this and this, so now you have to go and edit it, and there went hours that you’ll never get back and the salespeople are telling you how much easier this is so much fun, why would anyone. ever. complain.
So it’s wild but not surprising that Koh apparently thought Jira’s reaction would be Hooray, now instead of carefully making all my own choices for every single aspect of my art, I can let a computer mush my previous pieces together and pick which slightly wrong (because it’s just not going to match what’s in my head) options I like best. Yayyyy
And another thing, AI is at its most impressive when A) you can’t draw B) you want 100 slightly different versions of the same thing C) you don’t want to make something specific, D) and this most important, you’re never looking at the output any larger than 500x500 dpi on a screen. So while Koh was all excited and impressed with himself, I sure wasn’t.
Anyways Koh is lucky Jira didn’t burn his house down
when i was a kid, you would constantly hear about how important it is not to talk shit about your jobs online, because your employer could find your posts. as a teenager this seemed extremely obvious and I kinda wrote it off as one of those common sense things old people didn't realize were Extremely Obvious to anyone born after aol. who would be stupid enough to talk shit about their jobs on a public platform?? and then i got a job. and ohhhhh my god. oh my god.

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@alxina you know what I think...
This book has really been rattling around in my brain for a while now huh