I wonder how Bridgerton S2 is doing in the ratings. I know it’s not as universally beloved as the first season due to having less emphasis on sex (sex was actually a overarching plot point in the first season), and that show has to cost a fortune in costumes alone.
According to Wikipedia it crushed the ratings as the most watched English language show on Netflix.
Bridgeton is absolutely laser focused on an extremely lucrative but underserved (in TV and movies anyway) market.
I'm honestly shocked no one thought to do this before.
Like yeah, Outlander is there but that's a slightly different adjacent market.
Bridgerton is lighthearted Outlander. Outlander but your never really upset by the turns of events because they are all trite rich people nonsense instead of super serious life or death or turn of world events things. Which makes it an easy watch. It never is trying to say anything, at least not textually, or be dramatic in anything but a silly way. It's escapism. And it is nice to just have people not be racists for once.
But yeah, I didn't watch season 1. I've been watching season 2 with Jebustina and it is a good time. The sex scenes in season 2 were pretty tame.
Overall I like Outlander better, but this is a fun diversion.
In the spirit of pointless pedantry, I feel like they are actually related but ultimately entirely distinct genres. My experience with women's literature is that there's like your all lighthearted sexy books and your darker sexy books. A distinguishing feature imo of the second being the presence of sexual violence. (I'm sure someone's written some long dissertation on this) And they seem to hit different needs, if not necessarily different audiences. Bridgerton is the first, Outlander is the second and both are a blend of their genres with historical fiction.
I just find it interesting because both are afaik incredibly popular styles of literature but they've never really gotten much attention in TV and movies. At least, not with the appropriate amount of smuttiness. I guess non-streaming TV couldn't get away with that much sex unless you were HBO.
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I wonder how Bridgerton S2 is doing in the ratings. I know it’s not as universally beloved as the first season due to having less emphasis on sex (sex was actually a overarching plot point in the first season), and that show has to cost a fortune in costumes alone.
According to Wikipedia it crushed the ratings as the most watched English language show on Netflix.
Bridgeton is absolutely laser focused on an extremely lucrative but underserved (in TV and movies anyway) market.
I'm honestly shocked no one thought to do this before.
Like yeah, Outlander is there but that's a slightly different adjacent market.
Bridgerton is lighthearted Outlander. Outlander but your never really upset by the turns of events because they are all trite rich people nonsense instead of super serious life or death or turn of world events things. Which makes it an easy watch. It never is trying to say anything, at least not textually, or be dramatic in anything but a silly way. It's escapism. And it is nice to just have people not be racists for once.
But yeah, I didn't watch season 1. I've been watching season 2 with Jebustina and it is a good time. The sex scenes in season 2 were pretty tame.
Overall I like Outlander better, but this is a fun diversion.
In the spirit of pointless pedantry, I feel like they are actually related but ultimately entirely distinct genres. My experience with women's literature is that there's like your all lighthearted sexy books and your darker sexy books. A distinguishing feature imo of the second being the presence of sexual violence. (I'm sure someone's written some long dissertation on this) And they seem to hit different needs, if not necessarily different audiences. Bridgerton is the first, Outlander is the second and both are a blend of their genres with historical fiction.
I just find it interesting because both are afaik incredibly popular styles of literature but they've never really gotten much attention in TV and movies. At least, not with the appropriate amount of smuttiness. I guess non-streaming TV couldn't get away with that much sex unless you were HBO.
I don't think they are totally distinct genres. Jebustina reads this stuff all the time and the tone can vary pretty widely, even in a book.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
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I wonder how Bridgerton S2 is doing in the ratings. I know it’s not as universally beloved as the first season due to having less emphasis on sex (sex was actually a overarching plot point in the first season), and that show has to cost a fortune in costumes alone.
According to Wikipedia it crushed the ratings as the most watched English language show on Netflix.
Bridgeton is absolutely laser focused on an extremely lucrative but underserved (in TV and movies anyway) market.
I'm honestly shocked no one thought to do this before.
Like yeah, Outlander is there but that's a slightly different adjacent market.
Bridgerton is lighthearted Outlander. Outlander but your never really upset by the turns of events because they are all trite rich people nonsense instead of super serious life or death or turn of world events things. Which makes it an easy watch. It never is trying to say anything, at least not textually, or be dramatic in anything but a silly way. It's escapism. And it is nice to just have people not be racists for once.
But yeah, I didn't watch season 1. I've been watching season 2 with Jebustina and it is a good time. The sex scenes in season 2 were pretty tame.
Overall I like Outlander better, but this is a fun diversion.
In the spirit of pointless pedantry, I feel like they are actually related but ultimately entirely distinct genres. My experience with women's literature is that there's like your all lighthearted sexy books and your darker sexy books. A distinguishing feature imo of the second being the presence of sexual violence. (I'm sure someone's written some long dissertation on this) And they seem to hit different needs, if not necessarily different audiences. Bridgerton is the first, Outlander is the second and both are a blend of their genres with historical fiction.
I just find it interesting because both are afaik incredibly popular styles of literature but they've never really gotten much attention in TV and movies. At least, not with the appropriate amount of smuttiness. I guess non-streaming TV couldn't get away with that much sex unless you were HBO.
I don't think they are totally distinct genres. Jebustina reads this stuff all the time and the tone can vary pretty widely, even in a book.
i mean..... If you want i can show you my fursona.
I wonder how Bridgerton S2 is doing in the ratings. I know it’s not as universally beloved as the first season due to having less emphasis on sex (sex was actually a overarching plot point in the first season), and that show has to cost a fortune in costumes alone.
We are like 3 episodes into S2 and loving it.
S1 was the best romance drama I've ever watched and usually I'm meh about those. S2 is still better than rolling the dice on anything else not sucking.
One of my favorite scenes in S2 was Daphne
going off on her mom for constantly meddling and prodding her children into marriages without teaching them anything about sexuality or being in a healthy relationship. Daphne took being bad at sex really personally, and rightfully so I think.
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The DOTA cartoon had a decent first season but the second was weak to me; inconsistent characters and too many twists out of nowhere to resolve problems. There's no guarantee that Arcane's going to have a second season as strong as the first.
I mostly liked it, but it felt like they disregarded most of the little characterization there is in the game.
Also, it didn't have my favorite hero, Enchantress, which actually makes it the worst thing ever automatically.
I am on the phone but the GF has some ties to drag. One of her best friends got together with their husband thanks to Ginger Minge. Also a lot of stuff in the south and such with minority drag folks that I think gets missed in the conversation especially in the West Coast.
It's interesting and though it has baggage it also does help folks too. More so thoughts if I wasn't phone typing.
Yeah, man. I'm super glad to be off the morning shift and back working evenings. It's quiet, I do my own thing, I can listen to music or podcasts or play my Switch all night.
Of course, that all depends on nothing on the network breaking, but it's been p good the last few months. Nothing catastrophic, haha.
(We did lose contact with a small community earlier tonight, but a tech was already in the area traveling, so it got sorted in a couple hours).
A strategy game in which you attempt to bring about the apocalypse, by moving covert agents through a complex fantasy world to accomplish a wide range of schemes, plots and rituals. You start the game by bribing guards and infiltrating minor farming communities and slowly build up your forces until you are bringing about ice ages, eradicating entire nations with plague, summoning volcanoes and commanding city-devouring snake-gods.
You play a set of agents and corrupted heroes against the forces of good, the rulers and heroes of humanity, lead by the Chosen One. They may be stronger than you, and could eliminate your agents with ease, but you have the advantage of secrecy, and humans are easily turned one against each other. Why fight a war against a unified empire when you could shatter in into civil war and clean up the pieces with orcish hordes?
I cannot believe [chat] has not found this game already.
There’s a part of me that’s sad that I would having a real hard time writing “I know that you know that I know” psychological warfare stuff because “controlling artificer who puts up a façade of being The Best Mom even as she works to undermine and spy on and enslave her own son” is a more unique idea than “nihilistic asshole who believes that it’s a moral good to punish the world for its sins and leveling the playing field by reducing everything to ash” because megalomaniacal world-destroying villains are a dime a dozen
I wonder how Bridgerton S2 is doing in the ratings. I know it’s not as universally beloved as the first season due to having less emphasis on sex (sex was actually a overarching plot point in the first season), and that show has to cost a fortune in costumes alone.
According to Wikipedia it crushed the ratings as the most watched English language show on Netflix.
Bridgeton is absolutely laser focused on an extremely lucrative but underserved (in TV and movies anyway) market.
I'm honestly shocked no one thought to do this before.
Like yeah, Outlander is there but that's a slightly different adjacent market.
Bridgerton is lighthearted Outlander. Outlander but your never really upset by the turns of events because they are all trite rich people nonsense instead of super serious life or death or turn of world events things. Which makes it an easy watch. It never is trying to say anything, at least not textually, or be dramatic in anything but a silly way. It's escapism. And it is nice to just have people not be racists for once.
But yeah, I didn't watch season 1. I've been watching season 2 with Jebustina and it is a good time. The sex scenes in season 2 were pretty tame.
Overall I like Outlander better, but this is a fun diversion.
In the spirit of pointless pedantry, I feel like they are actually related but ultimately entirely distinct genres. My experience with women's literature is that there's like your all lighthearted sexy books and your darker sexy books. A distinguishing feature imo of the second being the presence of sexual violence. (I'm sure someone's written some long dissertation on this) And they seem to hit different needs, if not necessarily different audiences. Bridgerton is the first, Outlander is the second and both are a blend of their genres with historical fiction.
I just find it interesting because both are afaik incredibly popular styles of literature but they've never really gotten much attention in TV and movies. At least, not with the appropriate amount of smuttiness. I guess non-streaming TV couldn't get away with that much sex unless you were HBO.
I don't think they are totally distinct genres. Jebustina reads this stuff all the time and the tone can vary pretty widely, even in a book.
i mean..... If you want i can show you my fursona.
I will look at anyone's fursona.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
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There’s a part of me that’s sad that I would having a real hard time writing “I know that you know that I know” psychological warfare stuff because “controlling artificer who puts up a façade of being The Best Mom even as she works to undermine and spy on and enslave her own son” is a more unique idea than “nihilistic asshole who believes that it’s a moral good to punish the world for its sins and leveling the playing field by reducing everything to ash” because megalomaniacal world-destroying villains are a dime a dozen
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In the spirit of pointless pedantry, I feel like they are actually related but ultimately entirely distinct genres. My experience with women's literature is that there's like your all lighthearted sexy books and your darker sexy books. A distinguishing feature imo of the second being the presence of sexual violence. (I'm sure someone's written some long dissertation on this) And they seem to hit different needs, if not necessarily different audiences. Bridgerton is the first, Outlander is the second and both are a blend of their genres with historical fiction.
I just find it interesting because both are afaik incredibly popular styles of literature but they've never really gotten much attention in TV and movies. At least, not with the appropriate amount of smuttiness. I guess non-streaming TV couldn't get away with that much sex unless you were HBO.
i'm no big-city furry but I can tell you one thing........ there's a lot of people who make it even more weird. And that's lovely, i love that.
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I don't think they are totally distinct genres. Jebustina reads this stuff all the time and the tone can vary pretty widely, even in a book.
but they're listening to every word I say
i mean..... If you want i can show you my fursona.
Check out my site, the Bismuth Heart | My Twitter
Check out my site, the Bismuth Heart | My Twitter
One of my favorite scenes in S2 was Daphne
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Martinis are for squares, man!
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So that means in this “live service” Halo they will have put out only two new maps by time it’s first anniversary rolls around
I’m sorry but if I’m head of first party at Xbox I don’t know how you tolerate this
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The Eagles couldn't even find the exit at a Californian Holiday Inn.
This is a good plan. Just have them play "The Last Resort" and Gotham will be clearing out before the end of the first verse.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I mostly liked it, but it felt like they disregarded most of the little characterization there is in the game.
Also, it didn't have my favorite hero, Enchantress, which actually makes it the worst thing ever automatically.
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It's interesting and though it has baggage it also does help folks too. More so thoughts if I wasn't phone typing.
Ok I had to look this up because I'm like wait, as a drag queen?? --but no, she was invited to go on and be pro-lgbt and remind people to vote etc etc
I wonder if she's a fan of the show and was super excited or if it was just kind of a fun random excursion
Hell yeah.
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I'm happy with Spellfist's dorky-ass FGC terminology.
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They better make a sequel.
Yeah, man. I'm super glad to be off the morning shift and back working evenings. It's quiet, I do my own thing, I can listen to music or podcasts or play my Switch all night.
Of course, that all depends on nothing on the network breaking, but it's been p good the last few months. Nothing catastrophic, haha.
(We did lose contact with a small community earlier tonight, but a tech was already in the area traveling, so it got sorted in a couple hours).
That movie is the platonic ideal of ‘I don’t like this but I have a fully formed picture in my head of people cheering at that scene’
I cannot believe [chat] has not found this game already.
I will look at anyone's fursona.
but they're listening to every word I say
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It's good! Don't look up anything about it!
come forth, FURSONA!