Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

ange

@actofwhimsy.bsky.social

55 followers 26 following 1.9K posts

she/her. late 30s. made in 🇮🇹. most ardent admirer of fresh produce. i dunno.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · Sep 1

📌 Stuff, things (including, but not limited to):

📺 tv, mostly asian dramas (especially BL/GL/QLs 🌈);
📚 lit & poetry;
🎬 films;
🐈 cats;
🌱 mental health;
🔀 aroaceness; Notion; food;
🪫 occasional grumbles about this mortal coil.

Screenshot from the first episode of variety series #BasedOn2Stories. Actor Sea Tawinan, wearing a white and blue striped shirt, is clutching his right cheek with his right hand and saying: "I'm a repetitive person." He's extremely relatable.

1 6

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 22m

#MystiqueInTheMirror "Do you think ghosts are real?" Yes, and you should be nice and polite to them!

Always a bit wary of horror and mental illness, and this first episode felt a bit heavy-handed for my taste, but I dig some of the visuals.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Thai BL drama series Mystique in the Mirror. A young man is sitting on a bed in a darkly lit room. He's holding his head between his hands, his expression scared. Someone's hand is on his right shoulder.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Thai BL drama series Mystique in the Mirror. Close up of a notebook. The writing is all in Thai, no closed captions, and there are some drawings of an old man in a mirror. The mirror is colored in red.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Thai BL drama series Mystique in the Mirror. Someone is blurredly peeking from behind the glass door of a shower.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1h

The dermatologist complimented me profusely on my ferritin 😂.

Don't let anyone tell you you need to eat animal products to boost your iron levels! ✌️

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 3h

In my defense, I didn't know you were going to post this when I said yes. 😂

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 4h

Bullet 5 😂😂😂.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly, what a great time to be alive and have so many fun and lovely jdramas available to stream legally!!! I'm so happy.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 4h

#JustABitEspers Good luck with not falling in love, my dude.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Japanese drama series Just a Bit Espers. Close up of a woman in her late thirties (Miyazaki Aoi) lying on her side in a bed. She's wearing pink pajamas.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Japanese drama series Just a Bit Espers. Close up of a woman in her late thirties (Miyazaki Aoi) who is smiling brightly at someone. She has light brown shoulder length hair with a fringe. Her smile is of the highest wattage.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Japanese drama series Just a Bit Espers. Medium close up of a woman in her late thirties (Miyazaki Aoi) who is smiling brightly and waving at someone. She has light brown shoulder length hair with a fringe. She's wearing a yellow top.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Japanese drama series Just a Bit Espers. Close up of a woman in her late thirties (Miyazaki Aoi) who is smelling flowers. She has light brown shoulder length hair with a fringe. A gentle smile is on her face.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 4h

"Small efforts add up to save the world."

Had a lot of fun with the first episode of #JustABitEspers! Great cast, engaging characters, entertaining plot (funny and extremely sad at the same time). I can't wait to watch more.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Japanese drama series Just a Bit Espers. Close up of a red-and-blue pill on a white ceramic dish.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Japanese drama series Just a Bit Espers. A wide shot of cars and people in traffic. Everything is motion blurry. Only a man is in focus, standing. The image conveys loneliness.

1 3

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 4h

#JustABitEspers This random extra is just like me.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Japanese drama series Just a Bit Espers. A man is touching another man on the shoulder. The closed captions read: "I want to snuggle my cat."

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 5h

#JustABitEspers The name of the company is already sending me.

⚠️ Content warning for suicide in the first few minutes.

Screenshot from episode 1 of Japanese drama series Just a Bit Espers. It's an email app. The message includes the name of a company, which is NONAMARE (meaning: Do not love).

1 2

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 5h

(Yes, I am post therapy. Yes, it shows. 🫡)

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 5h

Even if you believe yourself to be unlovable, to be a burden, remember that that's just your opinion (a single one!), and that opinion is skewed and biased against yourself. Have faith in others, in the people *you* love, even if you are unable to have faith in yourself.

1 1 5

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 5h

Saw a post earlier today by some developer who built an "AI companion so you have a space to vent without feeling like a burden", and it made me so, so sad.

So, for anyone who needs it: trust the people in your life to love you, to care enough about you that you will never be a burden to them.

1 5 11

Reposted by ange

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 5d

My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.

21 200 1.1K

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 10h

Weeeeell???

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 12h

"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."

📚💙 Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day; translated by Deborah Smith (The Overlook Press, 2022), 71%.

Photo of an excerpt on a Kobo device. The excerpt, from the novel Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah, was later highlighted in orange. It reads:

"In the past, people were vaguely fearful of photographs, believing the camera's exact reproduction of their own image would steal their souls. Not only did these images survive for much longer than their subjects, they were also endowed with an aura of magic the subjects lacked. A superstition, but one whose traces can still be felt today. People sense that the photograph captures an uncanny moment in the"

Continues from previous:

"interstices of reality, enhancing reality's eeriness, the root of which is unknown, and fixing that moment in place like a death mask. Photography differs from the art of painting in that capturing or exposing such a moment happens neither at the will of the photographer nor the one who is photographed. What is photographed is a ghost moment, clothed in matter. Photography is the dream of comprehensive meaning. Each object has parts of itself that are invisible. This territory, which neither the photographer nor the subject can govern, constitutes the secret kept by the object. Unrelated to the intention of either photographer or subject, within the magic of photography dwells a still, quiet shock. Try to imagine our house one day when we ourselves are no more. Somewhere in that house is the ghost of us, which will pass alone in front of a blind mirror, revealing our own blurred image."

1 1

Reposted by ange

james tom @jamestomxo.bsky.social · 23h

"AI companion" just get a tamagotchi like a normal person

3 330 920

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 12h

The way you focused on Emi and New whereas I was dying at Pat and Emi 😂.

They're never leaving uni, Lilli! Which sounds like a nightmare to me.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

#ThenYouTryMakingIt "Since then, there's only been this version of me who played the ideal girl."

I always know that when Kaho is in a drama her character WILL break my heart.

Screenshot from episode 2 of Japanese drama series Then You Try Making It! A thirty-something woman with a pink bob is looking down and thinking "Am I actually... quite the lonesome individual?"

Screenshot from episode 2 of Japanese drama series Then You Try Making It! Two people whose backs are to the camera. They're in a park, the man is wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and white trousers, the woman a dark blue t-shirt and a white skirt. The closed captions read: "I remember feeling lonely even when we were together."

Screenshot from episode 2 of Japanese drama series Then You Try Making It! A thirty-something woman with a pink bob and wearing a bright yellow sweater is looking down, smiling sadly. The closed captions read: "And somewhere along the way, I've lost sight of who I truly am."

Screenshot from episode 2 of Japanese drama series Then You Try Making It! A thirty-something woman with a pink bob wearing a red sweater. She's in the foreground and her back is to the camera. In the background, three more people are chatting away, looking happy. The body language of the woman with the pink bob conveys sadness and loneliness.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh boy. 😟 I hope your day takes a better turn. 🌷

1 2

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

He is, he is so funny! (That scene on the stairs! 😂) And the rest of the characters complement him and one another.

1 1

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

(The original title is a banger. Shame the international one is what it is 😭.)

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

#FriendshitForever I still cannot believe we're getting Pat and Emi together as toxically terrible friends. 🎉

[Official Trailer] Friendshit Forever เพื่อนสนิท พิษสหาย

YouTube video by GMMTV OFFICIAL

www.youtube.com

2 2

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

This time last year I was having my mind rearranged by the drama adaptation of #LoveInTheBigCity. Big oof. Both a reread and a rewatch are in order, I think.

Screenshot from the Korean drama series Love in the Big City. The inside of a freezer. Close up of a bag of blueberries and three packs of Marlboro stacked on top of each other.

Screenshot from the Korean drama series Love in the Big City. Two men in a studio apartment whose slow dancing turned into a hug. There are some Wong Kar-wai vibes in the blocking, framing, and coloring.

Screenshot from the Korean drama series Love in the Big City. A wide shot of two people on a hill: a woman lying down with her head on a man's lap, he's looking down at her. There are some trees on their right.

Screenshot from the Korean drama series Love in the Big City. Two young men on a ferry boat. They're slightly out of focus, and one of them is kissing the other on his temple. The image conveys familiarity and comfort, but also a bit of sadness.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

What 15 years of friendship look like.

Partial screenshot of an iMessage conversation. It goes:
Person 1: Hello!!
Person 2: No
Person 1: Fineeeeeee

Reposted by ange

Daniel Cuello @danielcuello.com · Dec 2

Secondo voi come si chiamano? Di chi o cosa stanno parlando?

6 2 6