#a psa

Half the dishes are covered covered in mayonnaise.

“It’s not even the good mayonnaise!”

Billy is ready to drive 500 miles for a bottle of hot sauce. Any hot sauce. Desperate times.

All Max wants is introduce garlic to her mom’s friends.

“Oh, wow. This garlic is so spicy!”

They’re going out of their god damn minds.

There is absolutely no ethnic food. No Mexican. No Chinese. No Thai. No Moroccan. No Mediterranean.

At this point, they’ll settle for a crispy crust pizza with red pepper flakes. Or pesto instead of red sauce.

No red pepper flakes in Hawkins.

“We might have some paprika, hold on!”

“Is pesto… like presto chango?”

“They must mean preggo, the pasta sauce, right?”

They sob.

His coworkers at the pool think he’s making shit up when he tells them about Turkish coffee with spices like cardamom and ginger. That he’s into weird nerdy crap or is just trying to pull one over on them.

Max misses the spicy hummus from the Lebanese place her and Billy used to walk by on their way home from school. He always flirted with the manager and that’s how they got it and walked home stuffing their faces in triumph.

They. Miss. Seafood.

They haven’t had crab, halibut, or snapper in a year.

No crab legs on the pier drowning in Cajun seasoning.

No poached halibut with lemon and fennel. Hell, Max would take dill at this point!

“Fried Halibut tacos with salsa verde?”

“I hate you, Billy stop.”

No snapper Barbados. Or piccata. Or veracruzana.

Kearny Mesa.

They both almost cry.

They’d kill for some dim sum. Or chicken and pork soup dumplings.

Or the how boba tea always hit the spot on a hot day when they were running around outside, just anywhere to be out of the house.

This is a PSA. Hikaru no Go (2020) is now available to stream on Prime Video. You should watch it.

But Caity, you may ask. Why should I watch this Chinese live action drama based on the popular turn-of-the-millenium Japanese manga and anime of the same name? The answer, my friends, is because it is fucking phenomenal.

Hikaru no Go is my favorite sports anime. It was one of the first manga I ever read. When I own a home someday and have bookshelves, it is one of the only manga series I wish to own in its entirety in print. The story is deeply compelling, moving, funny, relatable. It truly has something I haven't found in another animanga in twenty years.

And the Chinese live action adaptation takes that perfect, beautiful source material and creates something equally perfect and beautiful (if not more so? feels blasphemous to say, but boy howdy I'm not NOT saying it).

The way in which the original Japanese story—the characters, the culture, the game of go—is translated into Chinese is really masterfully executed. The story is incredibly faithful to the original, and when it does differ, it does so in really creative, thoughtful ways that really work.

The actors fucking nail it. Honestly all of them, but I'm looking at the kids in the first two episodes in particular. Blown away by the performances of a couple of ten-year-olds. Kids have a bright future ahead of them, damn.

This show has the budget. If y'all know me at all, you know I'll enjoy a low-budget wuxia flick because it's a good time, but damn, if I had standards, they would be met and exceeded by this show. The hair, the makeup, the costumes, the effects (there is an effect every time the "ghost" is on screen where he is partially translucent. It is perfectly executed and incredibly impressive, at least to my layman eyes). The very first opening credits scene is super beautiful, the end credits are beautiful, it's all just so pretty and polished and feels good on my eye holes.

Honestly, I cannot gush enough about this show. It ranks up with Nirvana in Fire in my heart (which I do not say lightly, considering I went through my entire list and lowered the ratings I'd given each show accordingly after I first watched nif so that the 10 weighed more heavily).

tl;dr: If you liked the hikago animanga, you should watch this show. If you never read/watched hikago, you should watch this show. If you did not like hikago, you should watch this show. Please watch this show, I am begging you.

This artist genuinely draws wonderfully but gave in to ai slop. Please check the tags of what you're reblogging and liking, AI works are a serious drag: it's got environmental issues and it's art theft. (Poster mentioned in tags)

I hate the idea of a call out post, but we absolutely do NOT need AI in fandom. I don't care if this is considered rude or unkind. Understand how this impacts so many people.

Don't harass the poster - just unlike, unfollow, unreblog and block them before moving on.

To the poster: your traditional art is LOVELY! I can't understand why you put your wips into a generator, it changes it completely, it takes away everything that's youand turns into into someone else piece. That someone else's style is stolen, and everything about this is lazy and unethical. You are literally better than this.