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lurkingshan · 1 year

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10 Characters and 10 Fandoms

Rules: name 10 of your favourite characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people to do the same. Tagged by @negrowhat.

Thanks for the tag, Eboni! I decided to 1) keep this to Asian drama characters only because that is the focus of this blog and also the list gets way too long if include western shows too; 2) force myself to choose only one character for each show which you should know truly pained me in some instances.

So, in no particular order:

Lan Wangji - MDZS/The Untamed

If you can see my icon, this one can’t be a surprise. I’m a total sucker for an emotionally repressed but utterly loyal and devoted character, and bonus points if their communication style is so subtle that a tiny facial twitch can send me into conniptions. Lan Wangji was created in a lab for me, basically.

Kakei Shiro - Kinou nani tabeta

New favorite coming in hot! But see what I said above about emotional repression mixed with devotion? Yeah. YEAH. I am obsessed with the way this man draws mental boundaries to self-regulate his emotions and protect himself. And the moments when his depth of feeling breaks through are just *chefs kiss*. I lost my shit every time he let one of these smiles loose.

Teh - I Told Sunset About You

And now for something completely different! Teh has never repressed an emotion in his life and I love that for him. This is one of the messiest characters I have ever loved with my whole entire heart. He loves deeply and obsessively, he is passionate and mercurial in the extreme, and he is just as likely to crush you as he is to make your heart soar. In the category of emotional intensity he is unbeatable.

Yoon Sae Bom - Happiness

I LOVE THIS WOMAN. She is just as likely to patiently listen and give you devastatingly accurate life advice as she is to get frustrated and push you off a building. She’ll keep you guessing but she always has your back. She cares for children, the elderly, and gentle weirdos but she has no patience for assholes engaging in tomfoolery. And if anyone needs a good ass kicking she is always ready and willing.

Xiao Qi - Monarch Industry

Now that we’re talking about ass kicking, I would be remiss not to mention this man. An absolute king of Getting Shit Done. He is walking competence porn. He commands entire armies on his strength of character alone, and at the same time he is thoroughly kind and patient with his loved ones. His moral clarity never wavers. He is loyal to the core and if you’re one of his people he will protect you and give you so many chances to do the right thing. And if you’re in a bind you can bet he’s gonna show up at exactly the right moment to help. I want to be him when I grow up.

Lee Ik Jun - Hospital Playlist

Swoon. A talented surgeon, a loving father, a devoted friend, a patient lover, an all star vocalist, an actual comedian. What a man. #1 on the if I ever entertained the idea of marrying a man list.

Choi Yuna - Semantic Error

Still swooning over here. #1 on the if only I was into women list. She just oozes cool in every direction. She is a loyal friend but she will absolutely mock you when you deserve it. She clearly has her shit together and knows how to fix yours, too.

Choi Taek - Reply 1988

Taekie is all about the contradictions. He’s a loner genius but also a devoted friend and loving son. A total sweetheart with seemingly zero social skills who will suddenly shock you by being a bold closer when it comes to romance. A deeply wounded lost little boy but also A Man when and where it counts. PROTECT HIM AT ALL COSTS.

Tian - Khun Chai

He’s just so good, y’all. One of the kindest characters I have ever encountered in fiction. Truly a cinnamon roll, too good and too pure for this world. Wants nothing more from life than to stay in the country with his boyfriend and adopted children reading and writing and occasionally visiting with his fam.

Goo Se Ra - Into the Ring

Listen this woman is absolutely unhinged. Ran for office for the money. Couldn’t care less about your dumb little power struggles but will absolutely blow shit up if it helps her get ahead. All the fervor of Leslie Knope with none of the competence. I’m obsessed with her.

I am cutting myself off at 10 but I could keep going all day (Shi De, Pat, Frame, Alan, Shin Woo you are still my beloveds!!!) Tagging @troubled-mind @skamskada @lanwuxianfromlotuspier @midnight-sun16 @waitmyturtles @wen-kexing-apologist @gillianthecat @respectthepetty @chicademartinica @dangermousie if you want to play! Just ignore if you don’t. :)

#tag game #favorite characters #the untamed #what did you eat yesterday #i told sunset about you #happiness #monarch industry #hospital playlist #semantic error #reply 1988 #khun chai #into the ring #shan shouts into the void

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naipan · 1 month

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History Goes to War in the Holy Land

Israel’s leading historian, Benny Morris, long exposed his country’s sins. Then he began to hold the Palestinians to account. His erstwhile admirers aren’t happy about it.

By Elliot Kaufman

March 29, 2024

The dogs of the neighborhood perk up to greet me at Benny Morris’s front gate in this middle-of-nowhere town in central Israel. The great historian, shaggy-haired, in T-shirt, open flannel and socks, has recently returned home from the U.K., where the barking did not cease.

He was there to debate a hard-line anti-Israel scholar and speak at the London School of Economics, where some students tried and failed to shut down his lecture with droning, preplanned slogans. “You’re actually quite boring,” Mr. Morris, 75, told them, at which point he was called a racist, doubtless in the expectation that he, a liberal, would be cowed by the slur. He wasn’t. “I’d rather be a racist than a bore,” he replied.

Mr. Morris was once the toast of the campuses. “I was sort of a symbol on the left,” he says on his back porch. “I don’t want to say ‘icon.’ ” If he won’t, I will. Mr. Morris was foremost among the “New Historians” who shook Israel in the 1980s and seemed to triumph in the 1990s with their revisionist accounts of the Arab-Israeli conflict. His 1988 book, “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-49,” was a landmark in Israel’s self-criticism and understanding. That same year, Mr. Morris spent 19 days in Israeli military prison for refusing to serve on reserve duty in the West Bank.

How did he go from there to the shouting match at LSE? To many on the left, Mr. Morris says, “I seem to have turned anti-Palestinian in the year 2000,” when Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Bill Clinton offered a two-state solution and Yasser Arafat rejected it. “I thought this was a terrible decision by the Palestinians, and I wrote that.” When the Palestinians, in response to the offer of peace and statehood, then launched a wave of terrorism and suicide bombings unlike any before it, Mr. Morris disapproved of that, too. “I began to write journalism against the Palestinians, their decisions and policies,” he says, “and this was considered treachery.”

Mr. Morris was suddenly out of step “because people always forgive the Palestinians, who don’t take responsibility,” he says. “It’s accepted that they are the victim and therefore can do whatever they like.” Mr. Morris doesn’t contest the claim of victimhood but sees it on both sides. “Righteous Victims” is the title of his 1999 history of the conflict.

Israel is viewed as “all-powerful vis-à-vis the Palestinians,” he says. “But as we see it, we are surrounded by the Muslim world, organized in some way by Iran, and the West is turning its back on us. So we see ourselves as the underdog.” Try that on a college campus. “Now, the Palestinians are the underdog, and the underdog is always right, even if it does the wrong things,” he says, “like Oct. 7.”

The West hasn’t reckoned with Oct. 7. Not the massacre itself, which is at once too hard to fathom and too easy to condemn, but the broad support for it among Palestinians. “They were joyous in the West Bank and Gaza Strip when 1,200 Jews were killed and 250 were taken hostage,” Mr. Morris says. Palestinian support for the atrocities has remained constant, at over 70%, in opinion polls.

Mr. Morris tries to see it from their point of view: “700,000 Palestinians had become refugees as a result of Israel and its victory in ’48. They’d been living under occupation since ’67. I understand their desire for revenge and to see Israel disappear or very badly hurt.”

But that’s too easy. “In addition to those history-based grievances, there is Muslim antisemitism, terrorism and a level of barbarism, which for Israelis felt like more than revenge for bad things we’ve done,” he says. “It was a sick ideology and sick people carrying out murder and rape in the name of that ideology.”

Mr. Morris stresses the costs of that Palestinian decision. “There was never destruction like what has happened in Gaza over the past five months in any of Israel’s wars.” In 1967, “Israel conquered the West Bank with almost no houses being destroyed,” he says, “and the same applies in ’56 in the Gaza Strip, and the same applies in ’48. Israel didn’t have the firepower to cause such devastation. This is totally new.”

He doubts the scale of the suffering will move Palestinian nationalists. “Probably they’ll look back to Oct. 7 as a sort of minor victory over Zionism and disregard the casualties which they paid as a result,” he says. That’s the historical pattern.

“Not only has each of their big decisions made life worse for their people, but they ensure that each time the idea of a two-state solution is proposed, less of Palestine is offered to them,” Mr. Morris says. “In 1937, Palestinians were supposed to get 70% of Palestine or more.” The Zionists were willing to work with the plan, but the Arabs rejected it and chose violence. “Then, in 1947, the Palestinians were supposed to get 45% of Palestine,” with much of Israel’s more than 50% comprising desert. The Zionists accepted the partition, and, again, the Palestinians chose violence.

“And then in the Barak-Clinton things,” in 2000, “the Palestinians were supposed to get 21%, 22% of Palestine.” Instead they launched the second intifada. “Next time,” Mr. Morris predicts, “they’ll probably get 15%. Each time they’re given less of Palestine as a result of being defeated in their efforts to get all of Palestine.”

Mr. Morris says 1947 was the best chance for peace, but the Arabs instead tried to block and then crush the new Jewish state. Though they came to see the war as the nakba, or catastrophe, and as the final stage of a Zionist invasion, at the time “they thought they were going to win,” Mr. Morris says. “They have a problem explaining to themselves why they lost the war with twice as many Arabs as Jews—100 times as many if you include the Arab states.”

One day, Mr. Morris admits, the Palestinian strategy could work. “Somebody coming from Mars would say, ‘The Arabs have the numbers. They have the potential for much greater economic and military power, so they’re going to win here if they persist in their resistance.’ ”

Mr. Morris lets that hang in the air. “And yet, one never knows,” he says. “Unusual things happen here. Peace might also break out, which would be even more unusual.”

Especially now. “Over the decades,” Mr. Morris says, “left and center in Israel were willing to go for a two-state solution.” Oct. 7 has accelerated the process of convincing those Israelis they were misguided. “Israelis today don’t want to look at the two-state solution. Most Israelis fear Hamas would take over the West Bank”—a fear Mr. Morris says is amply justified by Hamas’s popularity—“and that it would be a springboard for attacks on Israel, as the Gaza Strip was.”

If Oct. 7 pushed Israelis further away from a deal, “internationally, Oct. 7 put the two-state solution back on the table,” he observes. “It had been removed from the table. Nobody cared about it. Nobody talked about it. Now it’s back on the agenda.”

Thus Mr. Morris says the massacre worked. “The terrorism told the international community that a solution must be found, otherwise this will keep going on and on.” As if to punctuate his point, the sound of distant Israeli bombing in Gaza makes its way to us. “But,” he says, “I don’t think anyone can impose a two-state solution, because the Arabs don’t want it and the Jews don’t want it.”

It wouldn’t work, anyway. “Palestinians might tactically agree to a two-state solution, but it would never be enough for them. Because they need more territory than the West Bank and Gaza, especially to absorb refugees from Lebanon and Syria. They’re too big.” They would also need Jordan, as he advocated in “One State, Two States” (2009), or the rest of Israel, as they have always demanded.

The Oct. 7 attack also succeeded by undermining Israeli-Saudi rapprochement, Mr. Morris says, but Iran shouldn’t get away with that. “Israel should have used this war to destroy the Iranian nuclear project, and I hope we still will. But this guy, [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, is incompetent,” he says. “I don’t know if the word ‘weakling’ is right, but he’s cowardly in relation to taking big decisions.”

Mr. Morris adds that “Western public opinion over the past 20 years has gradually seen Israel in Netanyahu’s image, which has cast a pall over the Jewish state.” Israel has suffered a “major turn” in global public opinion, he says, “and it’s largely, in my view, because of Netanyahu.”

Yet when I ask about the Netanyahu position that is now drawing President Biden’s ire, the determination to invade Hamas’s last stronghold in Rafah, Mr. Morris’s answer is instructive. “The Israeli public, myself included, thinks that we’ve begun the job and we must finish the job. We must destroy Hamas, and that will include taking Rafah,” he says. “In this, Netanyahu is right and in this, most Israelis agree.”

Perhaps Mr. Biden has misread Israelis. “If you like Cicero, think of Carthage,” Mr. Morris says. “Hamas must be destroyed after what it did. We can’t allow that on our southern border, in addition to having Hezbollah on our northern border and Iran, God knows where—we just can’t.”

Mr. Morris prefers to see the Palestinian movement on its own terms. Thomas Friedman’s writing in the New York Times about the Palestinian “dream of independence in their homeland in a state next to Israel” earns a chuckle. “I think the Palestinians regard the Zionist enterprise and the state of Israel which emerged from it as illegitimate, a robber state,” Mr. Morris says, “and that the Jews have no right to it. This, I think, all Palestinians believe.”

The real conflict “boils down to whether the Jews were right and had the right to come here and settle here and establish a sovereign state,” he says. “It’s not so much about Israeli behavior at any given point in time.”

Mr. Morris made his name exposing the dark side of Israel’s founding, but at the end of the day, “I’m a Zionist—I use the word,” he says. “I believe that the Jews had a right to establish a state here. The Arabs had a right because they were indigenous here, and the Jews had a right because they were here many, many years before the Arabs and always looked to this land as theirs.”

He puts Israel in context: “The Arabs had Arabia, and then another 24 states which emerged afterward. And the Jews have this little sliver of territory which used to belong to us. There’s something fair about that,” no matter how often it is denounced as a world-historical injustice.

While “most of the Arabs up to the 20th century understood that this had been the Jews’ land,” Palestinians have radicalized in their denial of Jewish history. “When Clinton mentioned the ancient Jewish temple at Camp David in 2000, Arafat said, ‘What temple?’ ” Mr. Morris recounts. “He basically argued there was no connection of the Jews to the Holy Land at all.”

This is also the claim today from Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat’s successor, who told the United Nations in 2023, “They dug everywhere and they could not find anything.”

Mr. Morris will criticize the Palestinians in moral terms, but he isn’t sure he knows what’s in their interest better than they do. When I ask what a true friend of the Palestinians would advise, he is conflicted. “A true friend might say, ‘Stop killing Israelis and you’ll get a deal and you’ll get the West Bank,’ ” he says. “But maybe a true friend, another one, would say, ‘The West Bank isn’t really enough for the Palestinians. The Jews stole Palestine from you. Just fight on, lose as many people as you can, kill as many Israelis as you can. You’ll ultimately get the rest.’ ”

When I ask what a true friend of Israel would say right now, Mr. Morris doesn’t hesitate. “Finish off Hamas,” he replies.

Even if one has problems with Israel—occupation, settlements?

“Get rid of Hamas.”

Mr. Kaufman is the Journal’s letters editor.

#benny morris #israel #palestine #current events #october 7 #Gaza

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zalrb · 6 months

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Are there any instances where uve shipped a mc with their friend over their intended love interest?

*dramas have entered the chat*

Hwi and Seon-ho

I mean, they were all friends in Reply 1988 and you had to guess who she ended up with but she didn't end up with the friend me and THE REST OF THE WORLD wanted her to end up with. like COME. ON. SHE KEPT BEING KNOCKED OVER BY THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE BUS SO HE GOT UP AND ACTED AS HER FUCKING SHIELD

and this scene is iconic

Soo Ji and Shi Hyun in Tempted. Tempted was a remake of Dangerous Liaisons/Cruel Intentions so they're basically supposed to be a version of Sebastian/Isabelle or Sebastian/Kathryn which means they were supposed to be toxic and he was supposed to fall in love with his mark i.e. the real love story of the show but I was like how can I take the real love story seriously WHEN THIS IS THEM?

and that's the THING with Woo Do Hwan. If I see him in a drama I know it's going to be some bullshit. I know I'm going to end up shipping him with the person or PEOPLE I'm not supposed to be shipping him with.

Like in TKEM. I wasn't as intense about this one because he's had better chemistry with other leads and I didn't finish it because it was fucking awful but I was like I don't care about the main couple, I care about YOU and either of the leads so it could be Gon who is his best friend and his king

or Tae-Eul who is the female lead and the love interest of the best friend.

Either one of them but not Gon and Tae-Eul together.

Which also happened with the couple in Temperature of Love. I was like either Jung Woo and Jung Seon who were, like, sort of friends, Jung Woo was trying to be his, like, benefactor/friend

or Jung Woo and Hyun Soo but the actual couple was supposed to be Hyun Soo and Jung Seon.

Non dramas ... depending on how you look at it, Merlin and Arthur but, like, I don't consider them and I do consider them at the same time

preteen Zal would be upset if I didn't mention Chloe and Clark because as a preteen I was all about that Chloe and Clark life

Besides the love triangle in True Beauty, the love triangle in Deadly Class has been the only time where I've been like all three of you should be together it would WORK

but if all three of you can't be together then I'm sorry, Marcus, it should be Saya and Maria

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heesulovebot · 1 year

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8 shows to get to know me

my bae sufa @heart-ming didn’t tag me but let’s just say they did teehee. i literally mostly watched kdramas before i started bls so this list will admittedly be kdrama centric 🫣 in chronological order (i think):

that 70s show: has this show aged well? no. but there are still so many iconic moments that it holds a special place in my heart. twelve year old me would race home after school to watch re-runs. twelve year old me also thought peak romance was eric and donna dancing to abba’s fernando in the drive way in front of the vista cruiser 😭😭

reply 1988: i never thought reply ‘97 could be topped (esp after the disappointment of ‘94) but reply ‘88 knocked it out of the ball park completely. i loved every single character sm, it rlly felt like home :’) and rip to those who had sls but i’m different 💅🏼 (jk i usually have a chronic case of sls dsjkfnksjd but everything in this drama made sense, esp deok seon and taek). who else was there for soompi forum user @ packmule using colour-theory, dialogue, and frame analysis to guess who the husband was before the show finished airing???? packmule on soompi forums u will always be famous xoxo

my mister: the grip this show had on me should be studied like. i made my first fandom sideblog for this show?????? i wrote my first fanfic for this show??????? dskjfnkdjnsk the scene in which park dong hoon sits in his living room after everything is finished and then bursts out in tears and then the background music cuts off and we just hear him sOBBING in silence...... i will never recover, i fear

2gether: speaking of shows that had a grip on me ksdjfnkdsjnf i gotta be real and add this to the list since y’all who have been following me since this era bore witness to my absolute obsession. i def can objectively say that 2gether is not a good show but tine and watine remain a special place in my heart forever ♡

ofcc & cherry magic: LOL I’M CHEATING AND PUTTING THESE TWO TOGETHER but they’re both about gay salarymen so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idk there’s just an underlying sadness to both these fluffy jbls that i fuck with heavy

i told sunset about you: no matter how much beef i have with p’meen, p’boss has done nothing wrong in his life ever and itsay tehohaew remain my babies. y’all alrdy know itsay had me in tears weekly (i still remember watching ep 4 during class time ((covid college core)) and then my prof started saying something after i finished the ep and i BURST into tears and haven’t recovered since tbh)

to my star 1&2: god daseul invented cinema and romance, actually. this show (s2 particularly) had me on twitter spaces talking about jiwoo and seojun’s depth and complexity for 8+ hours 💀 i literally could write an entire thesis on it—have probably, if u combine my tumblr tags and tweets 😭😭😭 tms surpassed my 2gether rewatches (which @phukaoapologist & @pranpat can attest that is A LOT), and will always remain that bitch

the glory: every girliepop has a lil’ bit of blood lust in them. sometimes u need a cute lil’ revenge drama on ur list and a man that would tell you that he’d kill for you xo

tagging!: @nonkul @itoldsunset @phukaoapologist @pranpat @earthpirapat @dirhwangdaseul @ohmybitna @jaehwany @junghaesin @fordallan @deshimango @kinnkittisawasd @freensrcha @jiustian i’ll only tag a few since i bet a lot of ppl have alrdy done this but if u want to and i didn’t tag you consider urself tagged ♡

#tag game #tbh i haven't rewatched my mister in a minute and i'm sure there are shows i enjoyed more but it's solely on the list because of t #the GRIP it had on me like i was insane sdkjfnksjdnf

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lamyaasfaraini · 4 months

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Perdrakoran berdasarkan genre. Yg di tandai hijau itu berarti cuma nonton bbrp ep dan ngga lanjut. Action & crime jg salah satu yg mayan sering jd pilihan, diantara list diatas paling fav sih Flower of evil seruuu bgt. Historical emg jarang2 jg, beneran pipilih deh kaya moon lovers, mr. Queen, kingdom, mr. Sunshine (belom tamat ini wkwk). Ngga masuk di list deh ih.. Slice of life, fav bgt selalu deep alur ceritanya tuh bahkan bikin baper dan heartwarming aja gt, khusus waikiki itumah komedi bgt cuy ketawa2nya sampe bengek lah. Genre fantasi super jarang bgt dijadiin pilihan sih, entah knp kaya kurang cocok aja di aku. Romance, butuh bgt disaat pgn genre yg light gapake mikir, romansa yg perfect. Biasanya aku nonton genre ini jadi penetralisir abis nonton yg tegang, serius atau sedih2an. Nah genre romance bisa bikin happy, dari visualnya dll deh.

Begitulah ttg Perdrakoran yg udah ku mulai dari jaman aku SMP gt ya? Dulu ada drakor tayang di TV 7 (skrg mah trans 7), judulnya Glass shoes main lead nya So Ji sub yg skrg makin tua makin ganteng yaampoonn! Ceritanya msh khas drama jadul atau sinetron indo yg baik ditindas, yg jahat ya jahat bgtt. Dah ngga usum lah itu cerita kek gt, saat itu nontonnya jg cape tp seru aja gt haha. Trus di indosiar makin banyak lah kaya Princess hour, janggeum (fav ibuku). Fullhouse, omg ini drakor iconic bgt mulai dr sini baru tau ada drama yg ngga bikin lelah hati nontonnya, per ep nya terhibur terus, konfliknya light bgt, jengkel ada aja tp ep berikutnya udah on track lagi dan episodenya ngga banyak. Pertama kali nonton drakor yg ngga bikin cape yaa itu, akhirnya mulai deh bermunculan tipe genre yg kek gt romcom gt yaa ttg kawin kontrak lah dari benci jadi cinta lah, si kaya cinta si miskin, bos yg suka pegawainya dan macem2 lainnya.

Belom lagi jalur2 harom kaya dvd bajakan, 1 ep = 1 cd kebayang kan kalo ada 20 ep cd nya jadi 20 haha ribeeett dulumah. Belom lg kalo kualitas cd nya jelek dahlah nontonnya jg jd macet2an banyak distraksi bgt. Akhirnya tahun2 berikutnya mulai deh berubah jadi file (ttp donlot jalur harom), jadi lebih ringkes bisa pake media lebih kecil yaitu flashdisk haha. Tukeran fd minta sama kawan2, udah tau caranya mah lsg donlot sendiri aja.

2010 atau 2011 gt mulai suka reality show korea, drakor ttp jalan tp reality show jg jadi ngikutin. Running Man! Yaampun ini bukan suka lg tapi kecanduan, ngakak bgt nontonnya beneran hiburan dikala mumet kuliah. Awalnya aku nonton di yutub sama bestie smp/sma ku kami memang sefrekuensi ttg yg bikin ngakak mah. Kalo ngga salah saat itu udah berjalan brp puluh ep gt trus aku mulai ngikutin dr ep 1. Serunya ya member RM nya superlucu trus bintang tamunya jg jd tau karakter lain mreka, ya ada idol grup, aktor, atlet. Kdg aku tau idol grup itu ya dari RM hahaha. Selain RM, mulai suka sama reality show lain kaya appa eodiga, superman return dan msh bnyk lagi lahhh.. Nah malah skrg udah gapernah ngikutin reality show nih, skrg di Netflix lg gandrung single inferno aja ngga aku ikutin hehe.

Perdrakoran ini ternyata belom menular ke suamiku nih. Disaat suami2 org nobar drakor kaya Reply 1988 yaa genre slice of life lah gt. Seru kayanya kalo ngedrakor bareng suami haha. Baru terpengaruh series barat aja selama ini, blio blg "aku gapernah nonton series, semenjak sama kamu jadi suka" apalagi semenjak ada netflix blio lebih explor seleranya sendiri dan rekomenin ke aku. Biasanya yaa aku yg rekomenin. Kalo koreaan sih blio ngikutin filmnya, dan suka.. Genre nya jg thriller gt kan. Aku coba2 deh cekokin drakornya, Kingdom dan Jirisan blio nonton tp ngga tamat huft. Skrg gpp belom suka, one day okeeeh hahaha ambis bgt

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Season 1, Episode 1

"Pilot"

Pop culture references and jokes explained in order of appearance! Follow along as you watch the episode (spoilers!).

The episode opens with There She Goes by The La's. The song is commonly associated with the show.

Joey, the guy hitting on Lorelai says "Just passing through on my way to Hartford" to which she replies “You’re a regular Jack Kerouac”.

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. His 1957 novel On the Road is based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. He does not seem to get the joke!

Later, Lorelai pulls a lot of makeup out of her bag and Rory remarks “RuPaul doesn’t need this much makeup”.

RuPaul, of course, being the famous American drag queen who would later go on to produce, host and judge RuPaul's Drag Race.

Macy Gray, is an American R&B and soul singer and actress. The CD they are reffering to is of the album On How Life Is (1999).

The theme song of the show is Where You Lead a song written in 1970 by Carole King with lyricist Toni Stern, introduced on King's iconic 1971 album Tapestry. The version of the song used is a duet with Carole's daughter, Louise Goffin.

The class is reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel by American author Mark Twain published in 1884. It is considered one of the Great American Novels by many.

Rory looks at the plaid skirt her mother gave her and says "I'm gonna be in a Britney Spears video?". Britney Spears wears a schoolgirl uniform in the music video of ...Baby One More Time. The outfit is considered to be one of Spears's most iconic looks as well as amongst the hallmarks of pop culture!

Small line, but Lorelai remarks "There are several chapters from a Stephen King novel I'd reenact before I'd resort to that option", the option being asking her parents for money. Stephen King, nicknamed the "King of Horror" is an American author. The genres of his novels include horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy.

When Dean is standing next to her silent, Rory exclaims "God! You're like Ruth Gordon just standing there with the tannis root. Make a noise". In their first interaction, Dean catches the reference and replies "Rosemary's Baby". Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on Ira Levin's 1967 novel of the same name. The actress Ruth Gordon plays Minnie Castevet.

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. Madame Bovary is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856.

Lorelai tells Rory “You’ll have to walk faster than that. You’re gonna have to turn into freaking Flo-Jo to get away from me!”

Florence Joyner also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete and the fastest recorded woman of all time. She set world records in 1988 for the 100m and 200m. During the late 1980s, she became a popular figure due to both her record-setting athleticism and eclectic personal style.

While they’re in a fight, Lorelai jokes “Aw, you’re not gonna give me the mommy dearest treatment forever, are ya?”

The phrase "mommy dearest" is most commonly associated with the 1981 film Mommie Dearest, which is based on the 1978 autobiography of the same name written by Christina Crawford. The book and film detail Christina's difficult and allegedly abusive relationship with her mother, actress Joan Crawford. Since the film's release, the phrase "mommy dearest" has become a popular way to describe a difficult or controlling mother.

Nick at Nite (stylized as nick@nite) is an American night time programming block broadcast by the American cable channel Nickelodeon.

The episode closes with the song My Little Corner of The World sang by Kit Pongetti.

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buddydollysims2 · 2 years

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Hi hi! I was tagged by @nigmos to list my favorite movies 18 days ago (I swear it was only 2 days ago last time I looked! 😱 time goes by so fast!) so here they are!

I think I’ve done some variation of the favorite movies tag once or twice before, but some of my picks are different now, because when I really think about what I consider to be my favorite movies, they’re the movies I’ve watched over and over and generally refer to as my “comfort” movies. I realize looking at this list that most, if not all, of these may be odd to refer to as “comfort” movies, but I’ll explain below. Feel free to skip! (because I go into A LOT of detail). replies welcome and encouraged! Tags also below the cut.

1. Beetlejuice / 1988 / Director: Tim Burton I love this movie so much it’s hard to explain, but I’ll try to keep it short: I used to consider The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993 / Director: Henry Selick) my favorite movie because I used to watch it all the time with my dad, but as I got older I found it less comforting and didn’t really agree with it as much, though I still think it’s pretty good. Beetlejuice, on the other hand, I also used to watch all the time with my dad, but I didn’t understand it when I was younger, I just liked the imagery and aesthetics. As I got older, I understood it more, and I really like the story and what the movie has to say, both very obviously in the script and in subtext and general implications. Lydia and Delia are both iconic, the portrayals of death and the afterlife are a lot of fun, and it’s just good all around. Every time I catch it on TV, I drop everything and watch it (Even though I have a physical copy of it that I can watch whenever I want).

2. Interview with the Vampire / 1994 / Director: Neil Jordan My mom used to read the book this movie is based on to me as a bedtime story. It’s one of her favorite books and movies, and when she showed me the movie version when I was little I was just completely enamored with it, even though I, again, didn’t really understand it until I was older. I’ve since read the book on my own several times (it’s my one of my favorite novels, oops.) and I think this is a pretty faithful adaptation, and just a good film in its own right. You don’t need to read the book to understand it, and it drags at times, but it has a lot to offer! I watch it at least a few times a year and even get cravings for it when I’m feeling down.

3. Corpse Bride / 2005 / Director: Tim Burton Another one I used to watch with my dad all the time. I think it’s a really beautiful story too, and I appreciate it more and more every time I watch it. One time when I was really depressed I watched it two times right in a row and cried both times (at/about the ending). No kidding. It’s good shit.

4. Sweeney Todd / 2007 / Director: Tim Burton I think I was around 10 when I first saw this movie. I was pretty close to my cousin around this time and her older brother played the soundtrack in his car when we’d all hang out, and we were both VERY into the movie—until Twilight (2008 / Director: Catherine Hardwicke) came out and she flaked on me and liked Twilight more, lol. I was immature about it at the time, but I’m over it now; we just have different tastes and that’s okay! I can watch it whenever I want with my bestie @pinacoladasims now, because she likes it just as much as I do. :)

5. Silent Hill / 2006 / Director: Christophe Gans Another one I was introduced to by a cousin. I used to watch this one all the time with my mom. I didn’t play any of the games it’s based on until much later, but they’re even better, and I’m so glad my cousin introduced this movie to me! It’s not the best one on this list, but I still go back to it from time to time.

6. The Grudge 2 / 2006 / Takashi Shimizu This is another one I used to watch all the time with my mom. Its the second in the Americanized version of the Ju-On movies, which I’ve also seen, but I still like the American movies just a little bit better. I played the DVD of this movie on repeat one time when I had stomach flu and couldn’t stop puking. Its pretty cemented in my memory because of that, along with the taste of Sprite and 7-up.

FINAL THOUGHTS: My parents are both horror junkies, if you can’t tell, and my taste in movies has been HEAVILY influenced by that. My dad’s favorite director is Tim Burton, so I’ve seen a lot of his stuff as a consequence. I know he’s problematic in a lot of ways, but I do like his movies a lot. Ditto for Johnny Depp; good actor, less than spotless record. I think it’s okay to like things made by problematic people as long as you’re aware of it and what you’re putting in your own head. Anne Rice (author of the Interview with the Vampire novel), isn’t perfect either, and neither is her work, but nonetheless, I still like it very much.

That’s all! Thanks again to @nigmos for tagging me! I tag @pinacoladasims of course, @simnostalgia, @s1ndle, @oceansidegraveyard, @fireflowersims, @penig, @furbyq, @nervosims, @kristallisims, @brokendoll-simblr, @vipercanyon, and whoever else sees this and wants to do it; just say I tagged you & tag me in your post so I can see your faves too! I know some of y’all have alt blogs, so feel free to do the tags on those if you want to keep them off your simblrs. And if you’ve already been tagged to do this recently, feel free to skip! Have fun!

#buddydolly #not sims #tag post #favorite movies #beetlejuice #interview with the vampire #corpse bride #sweeney todd #silent hill #the grudge 2

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dorama-icons · 1 year

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oi amor tudo bem? podeira fazer icons de reply 1988? amei o blog ♥️

Oi, anon!! Estou ok e você? Postei mais alguns icons, espero que goste. Não sei se chegou a ver, mas tem icons que fiz anos atrás: x e x.

Fico feliz em saber que gostou do blog ♥️

#reply 1988 #reply 1988 icons #dorama icons

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aylinaliens · 2 years

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5, 28, 42, 52

5: K-Drama OTP(s)?

oh wow okay this is so hard 😭 i’ll just give you my top five OTP(s).

Woo Youngwoo + Lee Junho (Extraordinary Attorney Woo)

Seo Bom + Jung Yihyun (Happiness)

Oh Mi Joo + Ki Seon Gyeom (Run On)

Goo Se Ra + Gong Myung (Into the Ring)

Go Bok Shil + Louis (Shopping King Louis)

28: Favorite K-Drama friendship?

I was going to pick Dong Geurami + Woo Youngwoo or Shin Hari + Jin Youngseo because ldslkdk THEM but I think I’ll go with the Ssangmundong Gang from Reply 1988 instead. I love them so much it hurts

42: Favorite K-Drama kiss scene?

listen YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT MY #1 IS

but before EAW my favorite kiss scene was a toss up between:

the first kiss between goo sera + gong myung (literally still screaming years later)

the iconic make out on top of the piano in swdbs (they were insane for this)

and finally the even more iconic kiss in her private life (these two were on another level)

52: Favorite male lead character?

another hard one because i have so many favs…hm…obviously junho is my #1 at the moment. min hyuk and seon gyeom are a close 2nd and 3rd. those three are my emotional support whipped dorks

Asian Drama Asks

#kdrama ask game #kay answers #kdrama #i OBVIOUSLY have a type 😳 i love that all of my answers are literally from coming from the same five dramas. i’m sorry i can’t help it jsjj

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kdramaxoxo · 2 years

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Hi!! Just wanna say I love your blog. I was wondering if you can recommend some shows that have wholesome male friendships? or shows that focus on family and friendship in general?

Awww thanks so much for the blog love! :)

I'll admit that I pay much closer attention to female friendships but let me see what I can do *rolls up sleeves*

K-dramas with Wholesome Male Friendships:

Run On: Y'all know I love this slice of life rom com for so many reasons, but you might not know that Kang Tae Oh's character (the painter) is like one of my dream boys. He's super loving, passionate and honestly an amazing friend! When the male lead moves into his apartment they are both seriously cute together and when his gay bestie confesses he's like "let's hug!" *SOB* There are also great female friendships!

Reply 1988: This coming of age classic is a must watch. It's all about the friendships in a small neighborhood and the different relationships they all have with one another. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it (though the episodes are annoyingly long lol). It also features a lot of family moments and super interesting historical elements.

Hospital Playlist: I’m starting to see a theme here where any show that has found family friendships tends to include some great male friendships. But seriously this show has some of the funniest most brilliant characters and a TON of great friendship moments between a group of four men and one women who have been friends for years.

Laughter In Waikiki: A group of friends run a boarding house/homestay in this super silly comedy. You have to really be ready for some ridiculous set ups, but it’s actually a super fun watch and the guys are always sharing funny moments together.

Chicago Typewriter: One of my favorite dramas of all time, this fantasy romance features one of my favorite friendships: A writer and a ghost who has moved into his house. You’ll LOVE the ghost so so much (it’s what made me love Go Kyung Pyo!

Extraordinary You: Yes, I know...this drama is on literally every list I make but like: Haru and Lee Do Hwa are the cutest together! I absolutely love them so much (platonically and romantically) and this is the hill I’ll die on.

Goblin: This fantasy romance has what I think is one of the most iconic male friendships in any kdrama. The Goblin and Grim Reaper are frenemies that live together and this bickering couple is hilarious to watch. Some of the funniest gifs I’ve ever seen on tumblr are of these two.

Light On Me: This super cute and fluffy boy’s love takes place in a high school and features a group of four friends just trying to figure stuff out. Shi Won is the comedic relief but also a Very Good Friend. Honestly this bl is a lot more than just a romance - it’s a light coming of age and one of my favorite bls ever.

Reunited Worlds: This k-drama is super underrated in my opinion. It’s a fantasy romance about a high schooler who has a mysterious accident. 12 years later he returns to visit his friends who are all much older and trying to figure out their lives. He brings literal sunshine and wholesome healing pretty much everywhere he goes (yay Yeo Jin Goo!!) and it’s got a noon romance too!

Still Seventeen (Thirty but Seventeen): This romance with found family has a special place in my heart. I know the premise freaked everyone out but hear me out: It’s not creepy okay I promise! The Male lead and his nephew have a lovely relationship AND his nephew and his friends are super fun and wholesome too.

Enjoy!

#kdrama #kdrama recommendations #kdrama recs #male frienships #run on #i love a list #ask #goblin #it's been a while since that has been on one of my lists!#extraordinary you #hospital playlist

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