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I have a way. But I don’t know if it’ll work. It’ll work.
Is this string solid enough? It’s not an ordinary string. It’s Shaoshang string. That’s where my name comes from. In that case, I’ll leave this to you.
Love Like The Galaxy 星汉灿烂 | episode 12
Back!
Rediscovered Tumblr after a while again.
Been busy trying to have a work/life balance during this COVID period.
But.....we all need a time and place to relax.
And it's time to look at catching up on dramas again, especially now I am back to watching C-dramas as well.
But seriously, how good is Woo Young Woo?
He Zhaojun
I have been seeing a lot of hate for He Zhaojun here. I have seen people blame her for what happened to her family to some even saying that she deserved what was coming to her. But I have a few things to say to that. Some things I would like people to consider before piling hate on her. Spoilers ahead, so kept under the cut.
Yes to this. The characters in this drama piece are in their teens. Or least 21 years old like Ling Bu Yi. She might have been a hateful character but she had to grow up really quick.
She was really traumatised during her wedding day and had to listen to her 'husband' spew hateful words, killing her family and even torturing her own nanny. Now she is left alone, with only her younger brother. She knows she needs to look for protection and someone who will be the complete opposite of Prince Xiao, Ah Yao.
I think she has changed. She is more cautious and discerning of other people's character. She is one of the few (if only one) who didn't think SS had a good deal in getting engaged to LBY.
I do hope she and Ah Yao can make the best of their marriage. They need to learn about each other again because they are not the same people anymore.
My Thoughts on Cheng Shaoshang & Ling Buyi (First 24 Episodes )(*contains spoiler*)
So if a Byronic hero and a female Harry Potter were a couple…
Well that seems to be a crazy fanfiction idea but this is real.
So the female lead, Cheng Shaoshang (Niaoniao), had been left behind by her parents who had to go to a military expedition, and thus she had been brought up by abusive family members. Since she had nobody but herself to depend on, she learnt only one thing. How to survive. When finally her parents came back to home after 15 years she thought her life would be different, but then her mother started giving her a hard time under the disguise of parental education and she no longer believes that there will be someone who really cares about and protects her. Her only aim is to escape her mother’s clutches and strict manners and be free enough to do what she wishes. Which leads her to make very heartbreaking choices.
And the male lead, General Ling Buyi (Zhisheng), has a tragic backstory. His mother’s family had been massacred because of a treacherous act in the army, his mother went insane to the point where she no longer knows her own son, his father who thought his son and his wife also died in the massacre, got married with his cousin and didn’t divorce her even after he found out his son and his wife were alive. So basically he loathes his father too much that he even goes against him in front of the strangers (I must remind you this is Confucian society) and turned into a war machine even though he used to have hemaphobia when he was a kid. This tells you enough what kind of person whom he turned into. He seeks justice -but more like revenge- and tries to find the mastermind behind the massacre.
She learns how to be cunning and street smart, he learns how to be ruthless and cold as ice.
Ling Buyi fell for first and then harder. He was in this for the long haul however he lost his chance. Because he is too late to confess his feelings. Also she doesn’t know him and finds fim a little scary. She clearly states that she doesn’t want to live in a violent and suffocating environment, has no desire to carry more responsibilites so being a militarist’s wife is not even a desirable choice. And he knows this. So that’s why he is out of the picture. But is he really?
The thing is although she wants to stay away from responsibilites and harshness because of the way she was brought up, the same reason causes her to listen to the voice of conscience. She can not tolerate any injustice or bullying. Also since she has strong survival skills, she is excellent at making the right choices under fatal circumstances. She is born to lead and yet to see this simple truth.
So this is deifinitely not a smooth sailing. They are kindred spirits but she needs to realise this by herself: what she really wants, with whom she will walk on the road she chooses, who she is. As for him, he already knows what he wants but I think we’ll see how much he needs someone to fight for him as well.
I am gonna write “My Top Ten OTP Scenes” below.
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Yes. Crazily watching and rewatching this now.
“Shaoshang, I’ve decided that you’re the one. You will be the only one for me in the future. If you wish to cancel the marriage, you can request His Majesty to do so. I, Ling Buy, will never cancel the marriage. Even if His Majesty were to punish me for it. I will never do it.” “Who said I was going to do it? I wont cancel the marriage.”
Love Like The Galaxy 星汉灿烂 | episode 28
“Shaoshang, I’ve decided that you’re the one. You will be the only one for me in the future. If you wish to cancel the marriage, you can request His Majesty to do so. I, Ling Buy, will never cancel the marriage. Even if His Majesty were to punish me for it. I will never do it.” “Who said I was going to do it? I wont cancel the marriage.”
Love Like The Galaxy 星汉灿烂 | episode 28
In case anyone isn't familiar with Luo Yunxi yet, the man who is the perfect embodiment of our Shizun, Chu Wanning, here's what we 2HA stans get to look forward to when he's in action:
Just imagining how amazing he will be once they give him a worthy CG Tianwen is shorting out all my brain circuits. No matter how the show turns out, I really will always be grateful that Luo Yunxi said yes to this role. If nothing else the FMV resulting from it are gonna be fantastic.
(clip via Twitter @fenqxins, original source in vid)
Ballet training...
Okay, just felt that I should make this a post because I have no self-control and would answer it whenever I see it being addressed in the tags, so … it’ll be easier for me to copy and paste.
About that one scene in “The Romance of Tiger and Rose” where Han Shuo nearly forces Qian Qian.
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传闻中的陈芊芊 thoughts
i haven’t been very active lately but i just came on to say, i binged on the romance of tiger and rose / 传闻中的陈芊芊 and have 2 eps left and i love it SO SO MUCH. i was expecting some pure crack but beyond that, i really ended up catching much feels for it?
and i think beyond the outlandish hilarity of some of the scenes and the cheeky meta, it’s actually a pretty decent drama with its plot and character motivations largely dictated by logic. i have to commend the scriptwriter nan zhen 南镇 for the entire set up of the drama (and it’s her original script!!! which is so rare in the industry nowadays run over by book adaptations - i mean i love those too but i still think it’s an easy way out for production companies when they adapt books with established fan bases). it’s actually really clever of her because all plot holes/flaws in world building can easily be attributed to xiaoqian’s lousy scriptwriting abilities?
i really did become quite impressed with the plot as the episodes progressed haha. the conflict and plot thickens as xiaoqian, now as qianqian, with the mindset that she’s not part of this story at all and that she’s interacting with a bunch of characters on paper, continues to engineer plot machinations trying to steer the plot in the right direction to get to the end so she can return back to the real world. and you slowly see how that just devolves into complete chaos and plot twists when surprise! she IS part of the story, she IS interacting with these characters and they are influenced by what she says and does! so you have her original male lead hanshuo, destined for the female lead chuchu, falling in love instead with her and changing his entire plan because of that. you have chuchu, the original female lead, slowly growing more unhinged as she perceives qianqian’s actions and words as callous and uncaring and outrightly antagonistic towards herself and as her resentment builds when everyone seems to shower affection and attention on qianqian still.
adding on to that is, how xiaoqian as a scriptwriter views and perceives her characters? some characters like hanshuo, she clearly constructed with much care and love, as seen by how she knows exactly how to make hanshuo happy and doesn’t want to upset him in the initial episodes (which caused him to fall for her like a devoted puppy). yet it seems like she either didn’t grasp fully their character motivations/personality/how their character is moulded by their backgrounds? which is why she probably didn’t see how the inherent difference with which her mother treats qianqian vs chuchu would lead to jealousy and resentment seeping in and poisoning chuchu’s heart. and her visualising han shuo as a murderous calculating career-driven male lead aka the male lead of eastern palace clearly runs contrary to how he is total putty and has barely hurt a fly ever since he fell in love with qianqian.
and there are characters too like her mother that she originally clearly just wrote in as characters to steer the plot forward, and in-world, she is clearly stricken when she realises how they have emotions and hidden depths beyond what she fathomed - like when her and her mother had that semi HTHT after she stole the dragon bone and her mum stayed by her bedchamber to watch over her all night. and another example would be su ziying - she’s so happy to see him when he appears as in that moment she’s viewing him from the lens of the scriptwriter of this story and she knows he’s going to push the plot forward. but seeing him and his actions actually playing out - she gets irritated by what he does and also his actions actually do end up affecting her, because she is in the story too!!!
and moving on from that, as the plot further progresses, another spanner is thrown into the mix when she realises that male lead is really really in love with her! and would give up everything for her! and… she too is in love with him!! and this changes things too because while initially all her actions were to push the plot to move forward the way she originally wrote it so that she can head back, now she’s actively trying to push back against the flow of events, as she’s now emotionally invested in this and doesn’t want the male lead to die as per her original script.
the play out of all these was really really entertaining and gripping to watch?? i was legitimately bowled over by how affected i was when all the angst came in, because it really felt like it made sense amidst all the crack and was well set up? and throughout it all, the actions of all the main players in the plot made sense and were logical, even the secondary leads chuchu and peiheng. haha idek if i’m ascribing too much credit to this whole plot, maybe it’s really just meant to be a cracky fun time and i’m too into it HAHA.
there’s also the set up of huayuan city being a matriarchal society where basically the roles of women and men are reversed. it is really v trippy!!! and An Experience to see scenes like men being harrassed by women, people tittering at other men for not being covered up enough in public, wares that can increase your chances of birthing a female heir being peddled on the streets. initially i was kind of apprehensive as to how it was going to play out. now at ep 22 where they’ve gone to xuanhu city which is patriarchal the conversation regarding gender roles and gender equality is continuing!! but i shall reserve my thoughts and comments till the entire arc plays out.
but beyond all that, the drama is just so much fun fun funnnnn!!!! i loveddddd seeing how this drama about a scriptwriter getting stuck in her own script had scenes interspersed with storytellers on the street retelling qianqian’s exploits and qianqian’s regular meetups with the storytellers/opera writers to discuss how the plot of the drama was going or even the scene where hanshuo and peiheng went to the opera house for their male lead showdown and the opera characters were there saying all the rude things they wanted to say to each other. such fun meta?? breaking the fourth wall?? satire?? idek LOL i just know i enjoyed it thoroughly
and lastly, apart from all the thinky thinky stuff, i’m thoroughly charmed by the otp HAHA. i loveeeee qianqian so much and zhao lusi is soo effortlessly adorable and natural and charming in this role that i can totally see why everyone from han shuo to her mother is enamoured by her. i actually am really curious also to see how qianqian before xiaoqian transmigrated into her body was like - seeing how her servant didn’t seem to have any whiplash from an extreme change in personality suggest that maybe qianqian wasn’t all that different from xiaoqian?? and probably might not have been that spoilt/callous/havoc-wreaking as everyone perceives her to be?
and han shuo too is SO entertaining and funny and darling - when he first came to huayuan city he’s all “i’m cunning and smart and i’m going to MANIPULATE EVERYBODY for my/xuan hu city’s benefit” and “i want chen qianqian to die with ten thousand arrows through her heart!! i want her to be stabbed by knives three thousand times!! not a single time less!!!” and “do you think i don’t dare to kill you?!”. then he falls in love with her and instantly he’s all puppy eyes and utter devotion. IT’S DELICIOUS. ding yuxi really makes staring at your FL like she’s the only one in the world an art form. and as one comment on a bilibili mv said regarding han shuo’s supposed bloodlust, “han shuo, up to this point you’ve only killed one horse” HAHA
(keep in mind that it’s not even that han shuo ordered the killing of this horse, it was his subordinate that killed it on his behalf, and han shuo was Not Happy about it after that!)
together the otp are even more adorable!!! it’s teeth rotting fluff but yet it comes off very earnest and adorable without being cloying. i was literally clutching my heart and grinning at the screen dopily at some scenes. and even though the otp dynamic and character setups are not really the same, the way the two of them bicker and act like children around each other kind of remind me of yongqi and xiaoyanzi from hzgg for some reason lol.
and apart from the otp, there are a whole host of supporting characters that are really very funny and adorable and entertaining to watch haha. special shoutout to both han shuo and qianqian’s subordinates who are HILARIOUS and plain Done with their masters’ nonsense (especially bai ji who really just wants to get shit done okay!! but his master just keeps on wanting to fall in love and date!!) there’s also qianqian’s older sister yuanyuan who is disabled and on a wheelchair, and with a sad yet somehow hilarious penchant for writing multiple drafts of her will. and her otp, su mu, a courtesan (yes the courtesans in this city are all male).
honestly i’m not sure where i’m going with this, i just briefly scanned through what i’ve written so far and lol seems like paragraphs of illogical incoherent rambling. I’m sorry it’s 5am over here i’m not really thinking straight T_T i just have a lot of feels for this drama okay ;_____;
Cyberbullying is justice...
…and other lessons from Revenge Note (Webdrama 2017).
This is a review of a drama that I am watching currently. I got sucked in via Youtube recommendations, and it made me think, particularly in light of recent events around cyberbullying. I hope you can read through till the end.
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What does a member of the royal family, a member of a kpop group, and the average teenager have in common?
Cyberbullying.
Sulli’s suicide is said to be her escape from depression, created in no small part by the endless criticism of faceless commentators. Meghan Markle recently gave an interview where she could barely hold on to her composure, talking about how she was first pregnant, then a new mother while the press tore her apart. I’ve been a new mom, and fending off criticism is practically a feature of new motherhood. My heart ached to think of her every imagined weakness and shortcoming being amplified and echoed back to her.
Some say that cyberbullying can simply be switched off. A recent article in Singapore’s Straits Times has a faceless “netizen” offering celebrities this simple exit - just don’t get onto social media if you can’t “get used to it.” That position denies three things - the celebrities’ right to promote, their right to respectful conversation, and the wrongness of being cruel with words.
Which is where this drama review begins. Revenge Note is a web-drama, starring young actors and k-pop performers. On the surface, it seems to have nothing to say. In many ways, the plot is pure wish-fulfillment. A klutzy teenaged girl begins the first year of high school. She gains the attention of her high school hottie classmate and of her brother’s best friend - who just happens to be a rising kpop-star. High school social life is not all unicorns and rainbows, and the characters in this world are from a predictable range of queens, gangsters and awful teachers.
What’s different about this high school fairy tale is that Ho Goo Hee (the first two syllables of her name, Ho Gu, sounds like the term for a pushover) has a mysterious app, called Revenge Note. She is a pushover, yielding to the people who push her around. Even her mom favors her smart elder brother over her. One day, something bad happens to her, and the app mysteriously appears on her phone. It prompts her: “Will you be a Revenge Queen?”. It’s a digital, dark fairy godmother, almost as if Maleficent were an algorithm. All she needs is a name, even if it’s an internet handle, and the app sends a message to the target. Each time she enters one, havoc is wreaked upon the person’s life, and eventually they are brought to justice. The punishment is always in a poetically similar way to the original offence. One day the target is Goo Hee’s bullies. Another, it’s an act of justice, exposing the pervert school teacher who is threatening her friend.
It seemed like more teenaged wish fulfillment to me. After all, if you find yourself in highschool, where social mores are sharpened by razor blade netizen tongues, then certainly there ought to be an app for countering that.
Yet, as the show progresses, we see that Go Hee is herself turning into judge and jury. Three times, we see her hesitate before she hits the submit button, three times, she asks herself if she should not wield her power to execute the offender. Once, she comes very close to entering the wrong name.
This is where this little web drama went from fun to smart, from comedy to commentary. In the beginning, it made you root for Go Hee - clearly, eliminating the bullies is to be lauded. Then it showed that one human being can have too much power, and his or her judgement may not reflect the truth of the matter. It clearly illustrates, that the judgement of a single person is not equal to justice.
Therein lies the thoughtful message of this well-written story - the root of cyberbullying is an individual’s outraged sense of justice. It is not the deliberate pursuit of “hate” that creates cyberbullies, it is instead an emotionally volatile response to an observed offense. “Hate”, as it is often characterized, is a potent concept, but strangely too simplistic. Instead, the online commenter believes that lines were crossed. He/she loves justice, and therefore there is no wrong in punishing the offender.
This reaction chain leaves no room for due process, no space for empathy, no ideals of mercy, no consideration of reformation. These are all things that need time, and space. On the internet, there is neither time nor space. Responses are instant, emotionally driven, and amplified to an incredible volume. Human beings at the other end of this loudspeaker can choose to go deaf or listen and be excoriated. There is no turning it off, because one does not need to hear a sonic wave to feel the impact. The earth shakes when millions of others listen, and respond, and join the deafening chorus.
The Revenge Note is a frightening tool. It’s similar to another incarnation fo the fairy godmother, the genie, who takes your wishes literally. As you say, master. It is absolute, irreversible, and vulnerable to any turn of phrase.
So what’s the lesson of Revenge Note? I am at the 9th of 12 episodes. I am not sure where it is going with the power that Go Hee now wields. I hope it ends with Go Hee discarding Revenge Note, and relying on her empathy, her friends, and her family to help her get through high school. You know, those old, slow things that seem to have little power.
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Something to ponder.
Rejected Cartoons
Repeat after me:
KPOP GROUPS DONT NEED THE WEST TO BE SUCCESSFUL
KPOP GROUPS DONT NEED TO THE WEST TO BE SUCCESSFUL
if your favorite group doesn’t make it as big in the west as blackpink or bts, it doesn’t matter. Your groups will continue to grow and be successful without them. Having success in Korea is what matters in the long run. This western kpop fad probably won’t last long anyway.
Yes it’s great to see your groups succeed outside of Korea but it’s not necessary. This is kpop as in korean music. Not everything revolves around the west. I’m tired of seeing kpop fans stress about their idols learning English and push them to try to appeal to the western market. If they choose to do that, great. But don’t try to force them to do that. It’s not necessary.
You don’t have to get upset or jealous at other groups for succeeding internationally. Just focus on supporting your groups no matter what. Korea is kpop’s biggest market. That’s what most kpop companies care about anyway.
WORD.
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a compilation of kyungsoo’s “oho” lines in 100 days my prince
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