Bookworm. Fangirl.

[loganstonegibbskinney]

Beautiful Seo in Guk as Myul Mang Doom at Your Service (2021)

[dreamingsnowflake2013]

A chaebol male lead gives a zero star review on the most popular kdrama "how to catch a chaebol" strategy...

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[dramashii]

She will be staying here for the moment. She has been receiving a troublesome amount of attention. I was concerned.

PERFECT CROWN (2026) | Ep 3

[lipglossanon]

[kay-i]

The King of Darkness, the Queen of Light

[catchymemes]

[samwwise]

lord of the rings really was lightning in a bottle. it shouldn’t have worked but by god it did. peter jackson, who had no filmmaking education and was mostly known for making low budget splatter movies, had no business going out and changing the movie industry like that but he did. return of the king showed up at the oscars and became one of the most awarded movies of all time. to this day it holds the record for the highest clean sweep. hollywood will keep trying to recreate that magic with bigger budgets and high profile actors and they will keep failing. i look at the state of these blockbusters where everything is smoothed over by soulless cgi and actors are acting opposite tennis balls and they will never hold a candle to the pure heart and soul and craft of the lord of the rings. every single person involved in that project loved being part of it and it fucking shows. i’m so thankful the stars aligned the way they did for these movies to happen like that.

[dovewithscales]

Lord of the Rings worked precisely because everyone loved the story and the work and each other. The Hobbits are actually still besties in real life, so the love between them on screen is real. Viggo Mortensen bought and kept the horse that saves Aragorn's life. This man broke more than one finger insisting on doing real sword fights with real (unsharpened) swords.

The only kinda janky CGI in the entire movie is in there because Orlando Bloom broke a rib trying to actually jump onto a running horse and they ran out of time for him to heal and try again.

Andy Serkis scrambled around in a stream in New Zealand in winter. rather than do anything on a green screen. Christopher Lee was Ian McKellan's real life hero. The way Gandalf felt about Saruman until his betrayal. Ian McKellan loved the source material so much he walked around with a copy of the books on set and made script changes to quote it more often. Peter Jackson became a director because he wanted to make Lord of the Rings. This was his childhood dream.

And most importantly, the production executives gave him a buttload of money and shut the fuck up and let him do anything he wanted with it. Which is their job. The most successful thing about Lord of the Rings is that the execs kept their mouths shut and didn't get in the way of art.

[evendia]

As the Phantom has said to the managers of the Opera: "Your place is in an office, not the arts."

We should blast that message to all the studio execs in the world.

[freeshavacado]

you can only reblog this today

[evendia]

LOL, happy birthday to me on this non-existent day then. 🤡✨

[baijingting]

PURSUIT OF JADE 逐玉 (2026)

[lexiblake25]

Can't believe this was removed from the show 😭

[evendia]

Can't believe that was too spicy when a few other shows cruise their way through sexual innuendo in every episode (looking at you Affinity). Chinese censorship is just ridiculous.

[hheartsdramas]

is he a green flag?

contestant: xie zheng

pro: gets along great with your baby sister and your pseudo-parent neighbors

pro: finds ways to contribute to the household

con: apparently forgot to mention that he's rich enough he could buy your household and your entire town

pro: shares similar interests with you

con: the similar interests are beating and stabbing people

con: apparently forgot to mention that he's good at beating and stabbing people because he's a famous general

pro: super duper proud to be your husband

pro: deeply deeply deeply attracted to you

con: apparently forgot to mention that he saved your life that one time by taking your top off while you were unconscious

pro: your safety is his #1 priority

con: concerning self-harm tendencies and refuses to seek help for it

con: such deep-seated abandonment issues that the thought of you leaving him literally makes him vomit blood

verdict: not a green flag 🚩

thank god he's pretty.

[evendia]

Compared to the unhinged psychopath he's the greenest of green flags, c'mon. 😂

[xiaolanhua]

Pursuit of Jade ‧ 逐玉 ‧ 2026 dir. Zeng Qing Jie ‧ Ep. 27

[whattheforce]

I love them!

[evendia]

Yeah, that was hot. 💯

[dangermousie]

I have to say, I am finding this storyline fascinating because it's an example of my favorite dynamic - monster in love. Because there is no doubt Qi Min loves her as much as he can love someone and he risked his life and scuppered his plans temporarily to save her BUT HE IS STILL A MONSTER. Loving someone doesn't make him any less psychotic and also, because he's been so messed up from childhood, his way of loving is the opposite of one anyone can want; he loves her more than his life, he's also textbook abusive. If a person is a monster, it's going to bleed over into every relationship. All these things can coexist and I love that narrative being allowed.

The way it intercuts with her saving him back when.

In a lot of ways, they are a dark mirror to the mains - she saved a hot male stranger (only this is not OK or even redeemable), guy has severe issues from childhood and latches onto her because she is the first person to show him warmth and not for ulterior motives knowing his identity (but he's a psycho so it only leads to horrors for her) etc etc.

Like he normally kills people for breaking cups but here, she had a knife to stab him in the water and he still clings:

That is the most mini line imaginable:

[evendia]

You know it would help if you'd actually TAG the name of this drama. Why is that so hard? I had to go through reblogs to find out it's from the Cdrama Pursuit of Jade or Chasing Jade.

🙄

[luke-thompsons]

WAKE UP DEAD MAN : A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2025), dir. Rian Johnson

[alicentsgf]

no you do not need to hold fictional characters "accountable". they are not real.

[alicentsgf]

[kasiopea-star-wars]

Hello, there. Just to let you know- I'm alive🙂 I'm working hard on my comic, gathering all parts, making necessary corrections, changing some expressions I wasn't happy with. The book has 311 pages for now😲I refreshed my old illustration for a cover. Anyway, stay tuned :)

[yuanyyyy]

Your chains are still mine. You will sing for me..!