Handholding and staring gives me life

Currently on detective kdrama binge

[guzhuangheaven]

Legend of Ruyi + costumes (Ruyi’s purple pifeng)

[juliemolinaz]

I know we’re not going to get any more AOS content, but if we ever did, here are the 2 things I’d really want to see.

1) Yeong and Uk hunt down all of the relics. Each episode would be a case of the week and we’d get to see them bicker and argue while being their badass selves.

2) The turtle comes back and Go Won and his beloved pet turtle go on a road trip to find his Queen.

[bittergloss]

this man is living in a completely different drama where he and wook are exes about to reconcile by co-parenting a turtle

[2sweetforu]

Ruyi: i’m getting my bracelet fixed since it broke. I hope you don’t mind :)

Langhua: that’s fine :)

Langhua internally:

[yangsejongs]

this was so hot of him

[dramastream]

ALCHEMY OF SOULS: LIGHT AND SHADOW 2022┃Park Joon Hwa & Bae Hyun Jin

[gizkasparadise]

when the eulogy throws shade

[crookedfandomquill]

Bu Yeon: “Public sex? On our wedding night? You messed up little freak… I’m down for it, tho.”

[smittenskitten]

Prince Mu Ahn who recently became a teen dad, also known for his skill of being able to read his mother's mind from the movements of her eyebrows alone

[guzhuangheaven]

延禧攻略 the story of yanxi palace

Why are both of you like this…

[thepersona]

5 K-drama supporting actresses who deserve more love

The title speaks for itself. "No small roles, only small actors" they say. Here are some of my favorite actresses known for playing supporting / guest roles and where you might have seen them. List created in no particular order. Gifs not mine!

Potential spoilers for the following series: Extraordinary Attorney Woo; Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha; and Hotel Del Luna.

Lee Bong-ryun

I was inspired to write this post because of her recent stint as feminist-activist Attorney Ryu in Extraordinary Attorney Woo (ep. 12), but I first noticed her in Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, where she plays the warm but no-nonsense zone chief Yeo Hwa Jeong.

Other incredible work can be seen in Sweet Home (her eerie-vibe in the trailer alone was enough to make me give it a shot) and Run On.

Yeom Hye-ran

With her recent Best Supporting Actress win at this year's Baeksang Awards for The Uncanny Counter, offers should be pouring in for Yeom Hye-ran. I'm not even surprised anymore when I see her in a show since she can fit in practically anywhere. From the annoying aunt in Goblin and the battered wife in Dear My Friends, to the ruler of the underworld in Mystic Pop-Up bar and the superpowered healer from The Uncanny Counter, she definitely has the range.

Jin Kyung

I always mix up Jin Kyung with Lee El (whom I also love) because they carry a certain elegance and mystery that make them stand out no matter how little screen time they have. Currently featured as Tae Su-mi in Extraordinary Attorney Woo, she has been effective in making viewers speculate, sympathize, admire, and dislike her with the brief appearances she has made.

I've also enjoyed her work in Melancholia as Noh Jung-ah, Dr. Romantic as Nurse Oh Myung-shim, and Pinocchio as Song Cha-ok.

Seo Yi-sook

I paid more attention to Hotel Del Luna because I was constantly on the lookout for the next Mago shin sister. She plays six of them in this drama and they are so distinct from each other that you may forget they're played by the same person. Due to her charisma, gravelly voice, and amazing diction, she often gets cast as the CEO's antagonistic wife or a competent authority figure whom you're not too sure whose side she's on. Whatever it may be, she always makes it count. One hell of a singing voice too (watch her sing on JTBC's Hot Singers).

Other notable credits: Terius Behind Me; The World of the Married; Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol.

Cha Chung-hwa

Known to many fans as Court Lady Choi in Mr. Queen and one of the North Korean ahjummas in Crash Landing On You, I've come to appreciate not only Cha Chung-hwa's comedic timing but also her immense talent in subtle dramatic acting. While I initially wasn't the biggest fan of Nam-suk the town gossip in Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, I was impressed by her heartfelt portrayal of a grieving mother who uses gossip and humor as therapy. Other wonderful roles and guest appearances include: Hospital Playlist 2; Hotel Del Luna; and On the Verge of Insanity.

[hundredthousandtimes]

Ruyi’s second wedding dianzi

Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace 如懿传: Episode 48

[dramadaisies]

The king is honestly such an interesting character…

We’ve known from the start that he was complicit in his brother’s assassination and that should make us hate him. But at the end of the day, he really is a wise and worthy leader. The moral greyness of the character really speaks to the drama’s depth and it adds another layer to the competition between his own sons for the throne.

It’s also an interesting parallel to the queen, who is an advocate for the disenfranchised but is ultimately forced to hold her own children to society’s standards for the sake of their survival.

[therukurals]

“Being the emperor alone is such a waste of Your Majesty’s talents.”

[ID: 9 gifs from Chinese historical drama Love Like the Galaxy. The emperor in the first gif says “In the future, when Buyi and Shaoshang have many children and live a harmonious life, they will be grateful for my lies.” The empress and consort Yue who are on either side of him exchange a glance. The empress says “ Heng, you were the Majesty’s childhood sweetheart. What features of his attracted him to you?” Consort Yue says, “His Face.” It moves to a shot of the emperor looking smug and stroking his beard. Consort Yue says, “He used to be the most handsome man in Feng County.” The empress says, “In my opinion, he is the most shameless man right now!” It goes then to a zoomed out shot of the emperor with his wives. /END ID]

[guzhuangheaven]

Legend of Ruyi | Xiangjian gives no fucks and it’s glorious

You should not think because I favour you so much that you do not have to behave properly. 

Your Majesty, you have six palaces’ worth of concubines. Wherever you go, your subjects will bring in courtesans and song girls to entertain you. If you really feel I am so insolent, then there is always other people more willing to sycophant you. I take my leave. 

[saywhat-politics]

[contemplatingoutlander]

Young people need to vote in this election because the future of their ability to live in a democratic republic, to live on a planet that isn’t utterly destroyed by climate catastrophes, to have a right to bodily autonomy, to have a right to not have one group’s religious beliefs imposed on them by the state, to have a right not to go bankrupt with medical bills, to have a right not to fear their children will be killed in school by semiautomatic weapons, and to not spend their old age in poverty depends on it.

Much of the Republican Party wants to turn the U.S. into an an autocratic theocracy where there is one party rule. Many of them have admitted to this--this is NOT fearmongering. 

Get out and vote as if your future depends on it--because it does.

[cardassiangoodreads]

#don’t let the russian psyops convince you voting doesn’t matter

[baelpenrose]

Other thing worth noting: many democrats currently in office are from a generation of officeholders where political action and voting were seen as transactional relations between a representative and their constituents. There’s a reason they’ve been doing more progressive shit lately - it is vote buying, and it is testing to see if it gets young people out.

If you like student debt forgiveness, the build back better act, pandemic relief, etc, and getting back into the Paris accords and want more of that, they will see a big turnout that gives them an electoral curbstomp victory against the republicans as evidence that they should do more of that - because clearly, it gets them more votes. On the other hand, if republicans shred them in this election because the young do not come out, the analysis will be “young people do not actually care about politics and cannot be compelled to care, and are thus not a constituency worth attempting to curry favor with.”

One of the most effective things you can do for more left wing policies right now is actually voting because of that understanding of political power relationships.

[prosocialbehavior]

Don't let the all-American homegrown psyops and leftist perfectionists convince you that voting doesn't matter either!

The perfect is the enemy of the good, and I'd rather have ocelots ignoring me than leopards eating my face.

[yesdramas]

LOVE BETWEEN FAIRY AND DEVIL 苍兰诀 — 2022, dir. Yi Zheng