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[talktomahand]

All I'm going to say is that it was definitely a choice to make episode 3 of Teach You a Lesson about a FALSE sexual assault allegation. As if that's the real issue we needed to address.

[talktomahand]

therapist: so what are you looking for in a relationship

me: someone who stares at the back of my head while i'm not looking and then immediately looks away

therapist:

me: i'm going to need you to have watched more kdramas before our next session

[talktomahand]

Bon Appétit, Your Majesty and Perfect Crown have both said the same quiet thing: the crown is not the happy ending. It never was.

There is no place for true romance within the strict structures of the palace and everything that comes with it. The happy ending only becomes possible once the couple steps away from it.

And I find that genuinely fascinating because for decades of fairy tales and romcoms, the whole point was the girl getting the prince and the crown. That was the dream. These shows are actively pushing back on that.

is this a genre shift or just a coincidence at this point?

[talktomahand]

Not the audacity of Prime Minister Min looking HURT and BETRAYED by being confronted with the consequences of his own actions? 💀

Bro, you tried to kill I-an. What did you think would happen?? 😭

[talktomahand]

I am still stuck on the confrontational scene between Min and I-an. His whole body language and facial expressions in this episode, tbh. It speaks volumes.

Prime Minister Min is the scariest kind of villain. Not because he's powerful. Because he's cornered and he knows it – and a cornered man who'd rather burn everything down than admit he was wrong is so much worse than someone with an actual plan.

[talktomahand]

wtf are Prime Minister Min's intentions? Like, I'm genuinely confused what he tries to accomplish with his scheming. To be fair, I think he also doesn't know anymore.

Does he even have a plan at this point or is he just vibing?!

[eloiscbridgerton]

HACKS 5.06 – Quik Scribbl

[talktomahand]

Prime Minister Min is the most accurate portrayal of a "Nice Guy" villain I've seen in ages, and I need to talk about it.

I know there are two episodes of Perfect Crown left and maybe there'll be a twist, but he is such a typical man. You know the type. The kind who only befriends a woman when he finds her attractive and sees that friendship as a means to get her into a relationship eventually. Now that Hui-ju is in love, his fragile ego couldn't take it and he had to enter his villain era.

I'm willing to eat my words if it all turns out to be a huge farce – but honestly, a lot of women know this story. We know this kind of man.

[talktomahand]

One take I have after watching episode 9 of Perfect Crown:

Why does Hui-ju have to kneel and beg her father to help? Like, I get that it's supposed to signal to everyone and her family how sincerely she cares for I-an, but I feel like her father gets away just too easily?? He's such a bad father and there'a barely any comeuppance for him so far.

[nicoyarobin]

[nyarlathotep-thecrawlingchaos]

Guys I'm WHEEZING—

[zaziki1412]

They did him dirty lmao

[nyarlathotep-thecrawlingchaos]

This picture is like the holy grail of unapologetic cunty behavior and OMFG I LOVE IT SO MUCH

Also imagine the massive stroke Zoro would have over this

[bloodraven55]

the greatest child in all of anime

[wearewatcher]

Yes it is, Ryan. Yes it is.

[consulships]

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

[literaryreference]

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

[morethanfantasy]

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