#*anon

At Kitakyushu, three years ago. I was the one who found your notebook. Between the two of us—I guess it really was destiny.

LOVE DESIGN (2025) | EP 3

Oh. Wow. That's surprising.

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damn haven't you got any trust in my deranging? you should have by now, this is quality derangement

but besides that, it's a series made with so much care, on every aspect. from the production to the writing to the casting to the acting. it's beautifully artistic, the writing is solidly tied up, the are no loose ends (even if you might think so when things stay pending from a season to another, they WILL be addressed). the acting is amazing.

do you like sci-fi? do you like good stories and well rounded characters? do you like to see men's butts? do you like beautiful cinematography? do you like writing that will blow your tits clean off?

Law school is really fun! Being a lawyer is (usually) not.

CW Network Parody Song sums up the points pretty well, but here’s the longer version:

It’s a very stressful and often very unpleasant job, no matter what area of law you go into

Seriously, being a lawyer means your entire job is to get yelled at for many hours every day, and having to be brave enough to stand your ground and yell right back. Yes, even if you do [x area of law] - and yes, even if you never see the inside of a courtroom. It’s a very aggressive and often mean profession.

You’ll be so deep in student debt, the only people who attend your funeral will be your creditors.

Law actually pays really poorly in comparison to the amount of work you do + your student loans. Almost every other profession requiring a doctoral degree pays MUCH better per hour than most legal jobs, factoring in your loan repayments.

The job market notoriously really sucks. It’s very hard to get a good job as a lawyer, even if you go to a great law school. It’s a crazy hustle culture with new grads searching for months and often fighting for scraps.

Due to ~21st century efficiency~ you’re expected to have a work-product and billed hour output that is basically impossible to achieve. You’ll agonize over every hour you don’t spend working, and then agonize some more about your billables. Several of my peers have been admitted to the hospital before due to extreme stress and exhaustion making us dangerously ill.

At least a fourth of the people I know who did everything right - went to a fancy high-ranked school, passed the bar, and got an excellent job right out of school - stopped practicing within the first three years because they were so miserable. In other law schools, it’s probably at least a third of the school.

Unsurprisingly, we have the highest suicide rate of any profession per capita - by a very wide margin. And let’s not talk about the alcoholism issue (something like 75-80% of attorneys)

To enjoy and be successful in the legal profession, you have to be someone who really, REALLY, *REALLY* needs to win at everything. Even in transactional law - you’re always trying to beat someone and “win” at the deal. And so you’ll inevitably become a bit of a dick, even if you don’t want to be. It’s not like morally abhorrent or anything, but you have to accept that you’ll eventually become a little insufferable to be around.

…and I say all of that as somebody who genuinely loves my job and loves being a lawyer. And who practices in a relatively lowkey, low-stress field of law, working for some of my favorite people on the planet.

Now, if you read all of that and said “fuck you! That’s all totally worth the feeling of winning a case/achieving an outcome and sticking it to the man!” then congrats - you’re the rare person who probably should go to law school.

with pleasure!

i wrote a little abot about jate in "the candidate" here if you want to read it. not a big fan of that episode in terms of jate bc physically injuring a woman character so that the man character can realize Things is well, obiously sexist, but also extremely lazy and boring writing. basically in that episode kate is used to make us audience understand that the mib is lying to jack (the mib and charles widmore are paralleled in that episode) so kate being harmed is what makes jack understand that they don't have plot armor (so to speak) as he thought they had (bc he believed the mib's words). so kate in pain is used so that jack can "snap out of it" and where "it" stands for "believing every word the mib says and never questioning him because ???".

the thing i was interested to see, though, is how much of a crybaby kate is. YES, OF COURSE, I KNOW she got shot in the shoulder, it's not a boo-boo but i think it was necessary to see a version of kate that's more vulnerable and that doesn't simply shrug things off of her. and in that state of vulnerability she still looks for jack who, let's all remember, was actually her ex-fiancé, lol.

i don't agree with the motivation, but i think we did need to see a kate without plot (and hero's love) armor to make her feel more human and relatable after the cardboard cutout that she had sadly been for almost two seasons.

as far as "the end" is concerned, in part I i liked that kate started being angry at jack but i disliked the usual skate obsession LOST writers had. having sawyer and kate make flirty jokes after sun, jin and sayid died just because in the flash-forward the writers wanted to bait the viewers and make us think that kate was gonna "wake up" thanks to sawyer was poor taste.

luckily, in part II we're finally done with the love triangle shit and i've appreciated that, at least, they didn't write kate and jack in an unnecessary over-sentimental, pathetic way.

jack has made up his mind and kate is mad at him. however, she doesn't try to persuade him, she is honest with him and that last "i love you" was also a last plea to make him leave with her but it didn't work. jack left her and didn't look back. and she was so livid she jumped off that cliff without even thinking out of rage.

this might seem bleak but it's not bc kate was fundamentally wrong. as much as i'm pro "let the island sink" the writers were smart enough to conveniently remind us that other people lived on the island. other people like rose and bernard, OUR rose and bernard. people who need thst island to live. so no, jack couldn't let the island sink because the island wasn't just suffering, it was also a place of love and freedom for other people. love and freedom being the reason why jack decides to do what he then proceeds to do. he had to put the cork back on otherwise people would've died and kate and the others wouldn't have been able to leave.

so yeah it was bittersweet but i really appreciated how the romantic love story served to frame a bigger story about Love (with no labels nor adjective) and Freedom. is that fucking tragic? of course it is but jate is a tragic love story from the beginning so, sadly, the happy ending wasn't meant for them.

You wanna kill him, huh? You wanna leave me without a husband?

You wanna leave little Mike without a dad? You wanna do that?

@clara--a

seems like they're a dime a dozen on this website, actually.

you can't start a conversation without some prong-tailed asshole telling you that they eat babies for breakfast and shit sulfur or whatever.