a lil hopeless

I have a long list of dramas to watch but I'll always pick the one I found out about 5 seconds ago. Currently Watching: Pursuit of Jade

[liveasbutterflies]

I have come to report a grave offense.

Perfect Crown (21세기 대군부인) 2026

[xiuminscheeks]

me, still waiting for Extraordinary Attorney Woo season 2

[collegeshoto]

s1 ep2 of extraordinary attorney woo:

[did-someone-say-aliens]

when the cheesy yet powerfully masterful k-drama hits at 2:49 am

[greelin]

“why do you rb and add to your own posts” i’m talking to myself

[greelin]

this is just the equivalent of my internal dialogue

[thatkdramatho]

Can anyone recommend me where I can download Pursuit of Jade in HD so I can gif it? Please and thank you

[thatkdramatho]

fuck im gonna end up making poj gifsets aren't I

[hatchetfielddropout]

fan changyu: do you think i'm too violent 😔

xie zheng: who told you that 🤨 anyway do you want to beat up your ex in a dark alleyway 😊 do you want to kill your uncle instead of kidnapping him 😊

[gizkasparadise]

xie zheng: if i die you can marry whoever you want

xie zheng: but tell me their names and addresses first, no reason

[baeoh22]

Hey babe I forged you these dueling swords specifically based on your fighting style oh and I also christened them with my own blood so it was the first blood they shed, please marry me again

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Silliness aside, I love the little touches about class issues in Pursuit of Jade. It is very clear that the magistrate doesn't usually deal with people who know the law. He is used to doing whatever he wants because no one is literate enough to oppose him. And it royally pisses Xie Zheng off but only because he knows better.

Also the magistrate immediately turning nice when he sees someone in silk. All the rich people look so extremely out of place in Fan Changyu's neighborhood.

The pawn shop owner knew Fan Chengyu couldn't read that contract when she pawned her hairpin and took advantage of that.

It's funny that Xie Zheng has no idea what things cost and how little people live on but it's also terrifying that Xie Zheng has no idea what things cost and how little people live on because he is part of the ruling class. Money means almost nothing to him and it takes up most of Fan Changyu's mental energy.

Xie Zheng clearly has access to much better medicine than Fan Changyu and the money to pay for it. The thugs who cannot find jobs because of war. Everyone around Fan Changyu being excited to eat pig offal and tails while Xie Zheng cannot bring himself to eat it because he would never be offered such a labour intensive piece of an animal and it's gross to him. He has the luxury to find calories gross. It goes on and on

[da-man-si]

Changning: First of all, I don’t know what a “Marquis of Wu’an” is, but whatever or whoever he is, he’s got nothing on my jiefu.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

I can feel Xie Zheng making a list in his head of everyone whose careers he's going to destroy for the ultimate crime of being mean to his fake wife when he goes back to being absurdly powerful

[alipeeps]

I'm still so fucking hung up on the whole thing of Changyu mistaking the princess using the ben gong form of address for herself for Bengong being her name...

Not only do I love it and find it fascinating and funny from a linguistic standpoint... and I adore this kind of linguistic/translation quandry... like howwww do you translate a joke like this that is essentially untranslatable because the forms of address on which the joke relies don't exist in other languages?

But also... I love that it again highlights the so very different life that Changyu has lead... the chasm in knowledge and experience between a commoner of the time and those in government/in the palace.

Because of course she would never before have heard someone referring to themselves as ben gong. Why would she? That form is used exclusively by royalty. When would she ever have come into contact with royalty.

She when she hears someone saying "You saved ben gong. Ben gong thanks you." of course she's going to think the person is referring to themselves in the 3rd person and that their name is Bengong.

Why would it even remotely occur to her that they are actually saying (effectively) "You saved this princess. This princess thanks you."

[cyrjovie]

Xie Zheng: you can go marry someone else, have kids with them, live happily

Changyu: *processing*

Xie Zheng: over my dead body, of course, and not until then

[gizkasparadise]

grand tutor tao, sending hatemail to mr. zhao via war falcon: anyway, today i had tea with MY DAUGHTER-

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Fan Changyu: Yan Zheng doesn't even exist so we weren't even married

Xie Zheng (to anyone who will listen): MY WIFE, WHOM I MARRIED