FOUR MASTERLISTS BELOW. 👏🏾READ 👏🏾THEM + FANFICTION MASTERLIST.

Two masterlists are about TVD, one is about chemistry in shows in general, the other is about miscellaneous TV shows. List of fanfic is at the end.

Pro-tip. You can search tags: zalrb.tumblr.com/tagged/_____so if you want to see posts about stelena or bonkai or bangel etc in particular episode like 3x05 just type: zalrb.tumblr.com/tagged/stelena 3x05 etc. etc. just put the ship name before the episode number.

Stelena et al. Masterlist

I’ve been getting a lot of asks recently about my opinions on things I’ve spoken about before at great length, usually anons asking me to respond to what DErs have said. It’s fine, I’m flattered, but I’m going to post this masterlist and will ask you all to refer to the list before sending certain asks like, what do you say to DErs who say Stefan doesn’t challenge Elena, what do you to say to DErs who say Stelena is abusive etc., it’s all in this list. There are also posts on Stefan, Damon and Elena as individual characters and posts on friendship dynamics and how TVD deals with vampirism. I will be happy to do any follow-ups or discuss if my views from a particular post has changed (which is bound to happen at times, people’s opinions change or evolve). Please reblog so it can circulate.

Chemistry Masterlist

A good chunk of my posts about chemistry such as, which ships I think have chemistry, which ships I think don’t, what platonic chemistry looks like, how to observe romantic chemistry etc. can be found in this list. Please reblog so it can circulate.

Bonnie Bennett et al. Masterlist

This is a masterlist of all my noteworthy Bonnie Bennett posts --- about her antiblack treatment (if you feel the urge to ask me ‘why did the writers have Bonnie’ the answer is antiblack racism, read the posts in the list), about why I ship Bonkai, about why I don’t ship Bamon and why I don’t ship Bonenzo, what I think of Beremy, what I think of Stefonnie, it’s all here. Please reblog so it can circulate.

General TV Masterlist

(a semi-regularly updated list of my OTPs)

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There are posts about various shows including Merlin (Merthur posts mostly), The Borgias (Cesare and Lucrezia), Game of Thrones (Sansa Stark Defense Squad, Jonsa, Anti-Daenerys, Anti-Jonerys and general GoT stuff), The Handmaid’s Tale, Gossip Girl (Dair and anti-Chair, plus other posts), Teen Wolf, The OC, Star Trek Disco, FRIENDS (everyone is trash not just Ross), The Office (pro Pam and Jim FYI), Parks and Rec, and Kdramas in this masterlist as well as posts like “favourite quotes from OTPs” “favourite comedic roasts” etc.

Fanfiction Masterlist

https://zalrb.tumblr.com/post/125782932450/list-of-fan-fiction

These lists will all be updated regularly to semi-regularly.

I'm not going to lie, I had to think about this for a second. Belly. I hate Belly more.

WELL

The thing is, I could see the show doing that so it's not even about the plot lines, it's about the absurdity of it all, the show doesn't lean into the chaos, it doesn't have the momentum and the pacing for it so it's just unhinged things passively happening.

Uh, I haven't watched it in a realllllly long time and as a kid my favourites were just based on actors I had a crush on like Clooney, although lbr I'd still ride for Doug lmao, or who I thought looked comforting, like for whatever reason I really liked Abby's look as a kid

Now I'm just watching ER. Young George Clooney was a problem.

WELL

Lollllll. Man, I had the biggest crush on Clooney as a kid watching ER.

Well firstly, a lot of Grey's storylines are if not lifted from ER, ER did it first and I concede that there are certain things that most if not every medical drama/show will do, like a patient attacking hospital staff but there are very specific storylines like George and the bus

is pretty much Dennis and the train

Carter goes to "Africa" and breaks up with Abby, Arizona goes to "Africa" and breaks up with Callie etc.

and while I don't necessarily believe that something that comes first and inspires a bunch of things that come after it means that it's automatically better than the things that come after especially because things can be improved upon, but ER is so seminal in a way that I just don't think any medical drama can really surpass it.

but more specifically, for me, the best of Grey's are the first two seasons, and then it's mediocre with maybe a couple of stand out episodes per season and then it's just bad, but even when Grey's is at its best with compelling soap-y TV with bombs in body cavities and Addison showing up to Seattle Grace and sentimental cases (the elderly couple where the wife was dying and she and her husband knew but they both told Meredith not to tell the other and she lied and said she didn't so they could go to Venice, they get me with every rewatch), I don't think it balances medicine and character as well as the best seasons of ER where the tension and the suspense of the hospital feels both grounded in reality but also dramatic, like with The Pitt, I understand it as a day in the life of ER medical staff, I watched Doctor Mike (lol) on YouTube review it and when he reviewed episode 2 of The Pitt he was like omg I feel like I'm on a shift rn, it just keeps going, this happens all the time, it's too real, which I understand there's a place for but as a viewer I personally find it moderately compelling, with ER, the actors, the production, the music, everything makes me feel like I'm on these cases with the doctors, that it's really happening but it's not monotonous, I'm getting an adrenaline rush, I'm feeling for the patients, it's heartstopping TV in a way that Grey's simply isn't.

Yeah, the two of them together just has me like, you don't have the right vibe for this. It isn't as bad as I've seen with other sibling dynamics but you two do not have a sibling vibe

oh lord.

PLL 3x19 Review - As Per Anon Request

Glasses! But no glasses. I hate his eyes.

I was like, Aria's outfit is OK today and then I saw the boots

I mean sure.

I guess. I don't know if anything will seem more ridiculous to me than Mona sending messages through the radio at the exact right time or messages being passed to Emily via milk carton.

"Why's Ezra's mom calling me? We're not friends." No, you're a sixteen year old girl, Aria.

Spencer, you didn't even cut the stem off the carrot before putting it in the blender?

I don't know, man, Spencer and Glasses who isn't wearing glasses have an energy.

"STOP QUOTING MONA." "That's Winston Churchill." Same scene:

But Glasses matches Spencer energy. Way more compelling than whatever Spoby is.

LMAO Strip Quiz? Omg, it should've been them.

"You're his father, right?" Yeah but I need space. Dickwad.

"Well for starters, I have a police record." CRIME IS IN THE BLOOD. IT'S IN THE BLOOOOOOOOD.

I'm so over this storyline.

I just feel like they would've been more interesting

Spencer taking off her bra first is a bold move though because then there's really nowhere else to go but her pants and then presumably her top before her underwear. You know, if they played this out all the way.

"That hasn't changed but you have!" Actually, Spencer is acting exactly like she always has. I get that she's meant to be out of control but she's not that different from what she's usually like except that she looks sickly now.

"YOU DON'T HAVE A MONOPOLY ON PAIN SPENCER" when did it become about this? Spencer's not acting nearly as out of control as she should be for Emily to get this way.

"THIS IS THE NEW ME." You're legit not that different. The first time you and Toby broke up or whatever, you kissed Wren. You've taken shortcuts with work before i.e. stealing your sister's essay. Like you're not being Spiral Matt Saracen who actually did a 180 for a few episodes

Aria should be more freaked out that her adult boyfriend has a son.

"I never ASKED you for your help." Every time I see Caleb he's angry about something.

Like he CONSTANTLY looks at Hanna crazy

it's hilarious because he's talking about how he went looking for A out of love for her. Can you LOOK like you love her? Like, you two are the Forwood of PLL, look at her like Tyler would look at Caroline.

Hair!

Of COURSE Wren is here.

Look at Tyler trying to act vulnerable.

How the hell did he end up in foster care?

Aria having narrative weird sort of tension with two brothers and she's NOT the Elena of PLL? Please.

Lmao, this is not heartwarming. Caleb was living in vents because you couldn't get your shit together and he somehow ended up in foster care and you also abandoned him with a babysitter when he was 6. AND you showed up late to this coffee date. You're a terrible person, Caleb's Uncle-Daddy.

The thing about Hair's hair is it's updated 90s white boy heartthrob hair

and that's why Hair's hair hairs.

All of the men have crazy ass eyes on this show but his hair is hairing

I like how Flashback Loser Hair's hair is just Caleb's hair.

Why is Glasses built like Clark Kent.

Lmao Spencer screaming at Mona is so funny because conceptually, I understand why Spencer is having a break but I'm still like ... ... Toby?

ELENA???

And for no other reason than he reads and is there.

This stresses my millennial ass out because if this was Final Destination she'd be decapitated

Emily, hurry UP.

WHAT THEY'RE PLAYING BONES BY MS MR? THE ONE GOOD MUSIC CHOICE THEY'VE MADE.

So. Let me get this straight. HAIR IS IN THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE HE WAS IN AN ELEVATOR THAT DROPPED. AND ARIA GETS NOTHING??? NOTHING?????? NOTHING?????????? N O T H I N G ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Oh, she will never stop pissing me off.

HE'S IN A NECK BRACE GODDAMMIT.

And his hair still hairs. Damon could never.

Aria's STUPID fucking boots. Go. HOME.

I don't think you understand, I got my hair braided today and my braider wanted to talk about PLL since I'm watching it now and I just kept ranting about how Aria pisses me off. Oh no! She's stuck in her own bedroom! Stuck in her own basement! Wahhhh! FUCK. OFF.

Also how could Hair just disappear in a crowded as hospital in 20 seconds? Because A is a supernatural entity.

It's a shame she didn't come back for the last few episodes.

But is he diabolical enough to be Frollo?

Not them saying she cancelled it when she already recorded it and posted it but got negative traction from early viewers that she tried to quietly delete it.