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Favorite Ship Dynamic: Sensitive Seme + Tortured Uke
I would like to thank @absolutebl for perfectly phrasing this dynamic in this post because it's an absolute favorite of mine. I love seeing someone who's been through the wringer finally get taken care of and loved by someone who adores them, I eat it up every single time.
To quote them directly, this dynamic consists of: An older sensitive sweetheart sunshine seme and a tortured dark scared tsundere uke.
Some of my favorite examples of this are:
King and Uea in Bed Friend
♡ gif by @heretherebedork from this set
Alan and Jeff in Pit Babe
♡ gif by @firstmix from this set
Prapai and Sky in Love in the Air
♡ gif by @nooowestayandgetcaught from this set
Runner Up: Black Cat + Golden Retriever
This dynamic is a very close second for me so I'm including it. It's just so fun. It brings me so much joy to see an aloof black cat of a person be loved to within an inch of their life by their golden retriever boyfriend who has zero chill about loving them.
Your mouth so stoic, yet reassuring, said, "I won't take long, okay?"
But then your longing, fear-filled eyes confirmed it be our last goodbye.
Please, I pray to you,
let there be truth inside your lie.
I know I say this with every new bl, but this kiss was absolute fire🔥. Im charred. The rain forest setting🥺, after they've resolved how the stay together long distance🥲. Ye -effen- Chan 😭 Korea coming in HOT once again. What a beautiful ending 😍
Not because it was a superior or even unique story, but because of ^THIS GUY! Yoon Do Jin as Ye Chan! I LOVED HIM! He played his role to perfection and even if Yul didn’t fall in love 💕 with him, I think, most of the people watching, DID!
He was a manly, country-bumpkin, farmer, who didn’t care about gender—he fell in love and THAT WAS THAT, for him. It was full steam ahead, after that realization, and nothing was going to stop him!
It wasn’t one of the greatest stories, but it was a simple, sweet story, with very few conflicts, and the few conflicts were pretty quickly resolved. It was typically short, but each episode, and the series, itself, felt complete.
Definitely, watch it. Come for the story, stay for Ye Chan to triumph in the end!
D.P - Ahn Jun Ho x Han Ho Yul
Beyond Evil - Lee Dong Sik x Han Joo Won
Navillera - Shim Deok Chul x Lee Chae Rok
Racket Boys - The Squad (Hae Kang, Yoon Dam, Woo Chan, Yong Tae, Se Yoon, Han Sol)
At a Distance, Spring is Green - Yeo Joon x Nam Soo Hyun
Police University - Kang Sun Ho x Jo Joon Wok x Noh Bum Tae
Ship that you have as an OTP 🌹 - One OTP? No, I do not roll that way. Have a few.
- Dong Ha x Ji Yeon (Witch’s Romance)
- Man Weol x Chan Seong (Hotel Del Luna)
- Cindy x Happiness (and Seung Chan if he brings her aforementioned happiness) (The Producers)
- Dong Gu x Yoon Ah, Du Shik x Soo Ah, bb Sol x Happiness (Laughter in Waikiki) but also the 6 of them being friends thats my OTP as well. Or OT6 +bb.
- Yul x Ha Kyung (Chief Kim)
- Ship that you’re indifferent to 😑 - I liked Shim Cheong and Dam Ryeong (The Legend of The Blue Sea) when they were all historical and mermaid-y. I couldn't care less about them in the modern era tho. I mean, they were cute but like oats also is nice when you are hungry no?
- The second pair from HDL, the ghost bellboy and the schoolgirl intern. Once again, individually, okay only but together, the human equivalent of a yawn.
Ship that is unpopular but you still like: 💘-
In terms of actual canon ships, I really like:
Ok Da Jung and Nam Jung Gi from Ms Temper and Nam Jung Gi - They had a very nice mutual respect thing going on and Jung Gi really grew a spine after coming into contact with Da Jung and doing some much needed growing up and idk, standing up for himself. This is not a drama I see recommended often, or even mentioned at all but I do really like it and like them. Also Woo Joo x Da Jung’s admiration and approval tbh. They were so fucking cute.
Ship that pisses you off: 💣 -
- Cracks knuckles. It would def have to be Man Weol x Chung Myeong. The rage it makes me feel. ofc I am not angry at people who ship it cos you know, it is what it is, but omg, the fact that it got so much storyline and contributed to Man Weol’s suffering and was supposed to be something I was supposed to sympathize with? NO THANK YOU.
- Gang Tae x Mun Yeong - any affection I felt for them was cos the actors did a good job but omg the thought of them gives me hives, even more in hindsight. It’s not like ppl dont deserve love and being happy but those two deserved some serious therapy and healing before they could even the beautiful relationship the drama wanted to showcase them as.
Besides the ones below, 1973 was also the year of The Holy Mountain, Day for Night, Mean Streets, Badlands, La Planete Sauvage, Paper Moon, Scenes from a Marriage, Amarcord, Oh Lucky Man, American Graffiti, Enter the Dragon, The Sting, The Exorcist...
✳️✳️✳️ 1973: The Spirit Of The Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) - one of the most beautiful Spanish films of all time.
It’s 1940, and six-year-old Anna lives with her family in an isolated Castilian village. A mobile cinema truck bring Frankenstein to the village.
Quiet, symbolic and deeply moving.
The trailer.
✳️✳️✳️ 1973: The Last Detail, written by Robert Towne, with Jack Nicholson at his peak and with cameos by Gilda Radner, Nancy Allen and Carol Kane. 9/10
“Welcome to the wonderful world of pussy, kid..”
Going to watch the few other Hal Ashby films again.
✳️✳️✳️ 1973: Critically-acclaimed Robert Altman’s anachronistic neo-noir The Long Goodbye, with chain smoking Elliott Gould as unconvincing and bumbling Philip Marlowe.
Also, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first movie appearance.
✳️✳️✳️ 1973! I don’t know why I haven’t revisited Don’t Look Now for at least 15 years: I always considered it to be Nicolas Roeg’s best film, but it’s actually one of the greatest films I ever saw! Cinematically, emotionally, with extraordinary sound editing (The first 8 min.! The dressing / undressing scene!)..
With Renato Scarpa as the police inspector: ”AH! MIS-ter BAX-ter!”
Simply perfect!
✳️✳️✳️ 1973: In La Grande Bouffe four friends, Marcello, Ugo, Michel and Philippe (played by Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret) decide to binge-eat themselves to death on fine cuisine. A decadent and perverted food and sex orgy, full of excess and anarchy that doesn’t end until the last one shits himself to death. But why?
Bon appétit!
✳️✳️✳️ 1973: Honest cop and whistleblower Serpico fights obsessively against systemic corruption at the New York Police Department.
With Who’s Who of the time in small parts: Hank Garrett, ‘The Mailman’ from ‘Three days of the Condor’, Jack Kehoe, Midnight Run’s ‘Jerry’, James Tolkan as Steiger, M. Emmet Walsh, F. Murray Abraham, John Randolph, Allan Rich ...
✳️✳️✳️ 1973 / First watch - The Wicker Man, a British folk horror number about a Christian copper vs. a Scottish village of pagan heathens. With younger Christopher Lee in a hippie drag.
It had a unique way of combing folk songs, sung by the characters, nearly like a strange musical.
✳️✳️✳️ 1973: Westworld, the robots malfunction and revolt at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park. Yul Brynner as the original Terminator. 3/10.
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Queen of Hearts, a complex erotic drama by Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy. An illicit affair between gorgeous Trine Dyrholm and her stepson Gustav Lindh (From Riders of Justice!). Shockingly explicit sex and unexpected third act reverse expectations and sympathies.
Best film of the week!
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Jackie Chan’s 1985 Police Story, a “broadly” choreographed slapstick / martial arts film. With young and chubby-faced Maggie Cheung, before she became world-class gorgeous.
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This isn't a rental car - it's privately owned.
How come I’ve never seen David Byrne’s True Stories before? Written by Ned Ryerson himself. Kooky characters in small town Vernon, TX. inspired by actual supermarket tabloid stories. Like Nashville for the 80′s..
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Crimes and Misdemeanors, a classic Woody Allen nihilist drama with a dual storyline that still holds its power.
“The eyes of God are always watching us” .
Toddler Dylan Farrow appears in a cameo at the wedding, and a distinct sub-plot has Allen wooing his teenage niece by taking her to see old movies and buying her art books... So, yuck to that part.
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“It’s good to be king.”
Mel Brooks’ 40 year old class-conscience History of the world, Part 1 - narrated by Orson Welles, with cameos by John Hurt as Jesus and Hugh Hefner, who also supplied the harem of vestal virgins. While ‘The Meaning of Life’ which came 2 years later was about philosophy, this was about history.
But everybody had such pearly white teeth.
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I started watching Jojo Rabbit 3 times before I could finish this pretentious Holocaust comedy of revisionist Nazi-chic cuteness. A ten-year-old Hitler Youth boy finds out that his mother, Scarlett Johansson, is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Kitschy, cowardly and lazy. This is not ‘The Great Dictator’ or ‘The Producers’, or even ‘Look who’s back’. It’s Hitler 101 explained to 10 year olds who never heard of him.
I wonder how they got the rights to The Beatles and Bowie songs.
Also, Hitler was not a smoker. 2/10. (Photo above)
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Picked up a random Apple’s TV series, Home before dark, about a 9 year old girl playing a journalist. I tried to get into it, and saw 2.5 episodes, but it was so ordinary, and soul-less, and full of teenager flick cliches, that I had to quit. Even the Jason Robards quotes from ‘All the President’s Men’ couldn’t help it. PASS!
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✳️✳️✳️ Woodward and Bernstein X 2
So, prompted by the series above, I watched All the President's Men again (for the 10? time). What a masterful film! Romancing investigative journalism never looked so good.
With a script by William Goldman, cinematography by Gordon Willis, and Robert Walden playing Donald Segretti.
The sparse score by Michael Small, who was Pakula’s go-to composer (and which I already mentioned here earlier)! Compared to his Parallax View theme.
True fact: Frank Wills, the black security guard who discovered the break-in, was fired without explanation a few days later. He was out of work for three years until he played himself (one day's work) in this film, and never had a full-time job again, until his death in 2000, at the age of 52.
✳️✳️✳️ Also, All the President's Men Revisited, a 2012 documentary featuring all the players, and just before Trump, so they all could comfortably predict that Watergate will happen again, but none of them realized how terribly soon it will be.
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The company Men is about 3 senior executives trying to survive during the financial crisis of 2010 after getting fired, downsized, becoming redundant.
The Corporate-speak sounded fake, and Ben Affleck is not a good actor, so it wasn’t too engaging. 3/10
SeonYul going from the formality of the university and the place where everyone expected something from him, expected him to be the smartest in the room and the one with the biggest dreams and the best plans, to be the son of a rich man with connections, the one to watch and the one to beat. He literally turned in a blank test and turned down a chance at a dream because he doesn't seem himself there anymore.
What does he see in himself?
He sees the way people look at him and the way people seem to fit in where he doesn't. He sees people living their dreams and comfortable lives and how he can't. He sees sleepless nights and heavy rain. He sees darkness and a figure watching him with suspicion. He sees the world as something that hurts and leaves him alone and disappoints him.
Yechan represents a part of the world he hasn't believed in for a long time, the innocence of living a dream and the brightness of the world that he's long been living without. He is a simpler life but also a happier life, a life where it still felt real to dream and real to hope for happiness.
Times Lee Chan physically attacks me with his face ❤️❤️❤️
For @yul-seu ❤️❤️
Listen listen listen. Dino and me......We got a complicated relationship.
In the words of one of my favorite Youtubers: “We dont look at him”
But just because i refuse to acknowledge his existence because he is too dangerous to me an due to the fact that I CANT LOOK AT HIM. Doesnt mean that you all can sleep on him. He is our amazing, hardworking, (hot) and talented maknae ❤️❤️❤️
I mean wut?
Bonus: When Chan’s effin thighs attacked me
Now if you will excuse me. I’m going to go cry in the corner because my son is growing up.
Send me a member of BTS, Monsta X, Seventeen, Infinite, SF9, Pentagon, B.A.P, or EXO and I’ll make a post about how all the times they attack me physically!