ranboo and tubbo: friendly competition! :D

wilbur and quackity: ...........yes..... "friendly competition"......... :]

Answer wisely, 8uckaroo.

sometimes i feel like im in the dnp fandom all over again 

it's just me and my 20 comfort characters against the world

Well hi! So first I am going to apologize for any and all grammar mistakes I will probably make on this, but I did not learn English natively and to be honest I did not get the best scores at school.

Anygays, I wanted to thank you for recommending The devil judge, I'm loving it, I was not going to pick it up bc i got bored with Jinyoung previous drama but that's other story.

So I actually wanted to ask if this is something that happens a lot in dramas or if it's a current trend in Korean dramas? Bl-ish plot, I would recommend for you to watch at distance spring is greener if you have not, that one is a queer story adapted and we'll changed to be more "attractive" and the LGBTQ+ element was "removed" but you still spend all the time watching the two boys having more chemistry with eachother than with the female leads 😂 and I don't know I feel like I will become a kdrama fan if this bromance thing is a recurring plot.

Hi! Well it seems to me that your English is better than mine. 

I am so GLAD you are liking Devil Judge! 

You Ahgase tangential? I watched Jinyoung’s one about the goat (I think that was Korea trying to do Japanese-style cinema) and then I watched When My Love Blooms which was a pretty typical romantic K-drama (a bit slow for me) and then He Is Psychometric, which was fine. (I like police procedurals.) But of the ones of his I’ve seen, Devil Judge is certainly his best role. 

So I guess the tongue-in-cheek term we use these days for this coded gay (everything but the kiss) romantic plot (because that is what it is) is bromance? Could be queerbaiting. (Technically, queerbaiting suggests they are intentionally gunning for marketing dollars from the queer community and I’m not confident that’s in play here. However.... 

I actually wanted to ask if this is something that happens a lot in dramas or if it's a current trend in Korean dramas? 

It doesn’t happen a lot - in my personal experience with K-dramas. But that experience with regards to non-BL is only about 100 het romances (mostly, I mean I watched Stranger but who hasn’t?). I would think bromances are more likely to show up in fantasy, historicals, and crime K-dramas - where “buddy cop” archetypes can be the central motivating emotional core via a “plutonic” friendship. 

You named the only other current obvious bromance (in the way that Untamed and Word of Honor were obviously gay romances just censored) that I can pull off the top of my head right away: At A Distance Spring is Green. In which the girl character was laughably unnecessary (and frankly a little embarrassing to watch be shoehorned in.) 

Prior to these two, we had The Boy Next Door (2017) and that weird subplot one with the Japanese exchange student I can never remember the name of: 

It’s definitely possible there are others. There A LOT of K-dramas I’ve not seen. But unless @heretherebedork tells me it’s worth it, I tend to avoid bromances. (Although Devil Judge is my fault, I picked it up because I was intersted in the Judge Dredd dystopian angle + Jinyoung. The bromance was an unexpected pleasure.) 

Run On had a gay side character but he was given no screen time. Otherwise Korea seems to segregate their gay love into those few queer movies they’ve done over the years and... BL. 

Which honestly, BL marketed as BL knowingly, didn’t really happen for Korea until last year (Where Your Eyes Linger, Mr Heart). They have Strongberry and other queer indie stuff, but that’s not really part of Hallyu the way the new stuff has been. 

I actually worry a bit about how popular Devil Judge is, because Korea may take it as license to produce more bromances. Especially knowing how popular Word of Honor and Untamed were with international audiences. Why wouldn’t they do that style (but not historical)? And if they don’t have to make it gay and it still sells? They probably won’t make it gay. 

Korean production houses are very savvy and they pay close attention to what is profitable in pop media produced by the surrounding nations, and yeah, that very much includes China. 

Which I why we gotta help Light On Me become a big success. If it does well, Korea might keep doing honest BL. If it doesn’t, they might follow China’s example just without the actual censorship excuse. 

That’s the stuff of nightmares. 

On noes, now I’ve given them ideas. 

So. . . memories huh.

I think it’s been established that memories is where all the Jikook content comes from now 😶.

(They’re so loud and for whattttttt)

hehehe hi @gosh-its-3am-again

We always see a lot in Memories because KM aren't "fan service" or some weird gimmick/performance. When there is behind-the-scenes footage, we see them together working, goofing off, being sweet to one another, getting annoyed... all the little things of life. It's one of my fav things about the mass amount of footage that BH release. There are many reasons why the amount of content is too much, but when we get to see their lovely relationship (whatever it is... *chokes*) I can't complain. The more behind footage there is, the more KM footage there is. That's always been the case, and each year we see more and more.

Love is so life affirming. When you see two people light up each other's eyes like that—light up each other's lives—it fills you with warm, gooey feelings.

I need to be hatefucked so hard I forget my own name

More israeli bullsh*t incoming

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sirens-sound-northern-israel-rocket-attack-79260540

“However, several witnesses in the border area in south Lebanon said two rockets landed in an Israeli community across the border, followed by multiple artillery shells that were fired from Israel. The Israeli shells landed in an area between the Lebanese villages of Marjayoun and Khiam, they said, adding it was not clear where the rockets were fired from.” Lol whenever it’s Arabs shooting they’ll count every bullet casing but Israel can rain hell and nobody will even try to count the shelling.

“The rocket fire is believed by Israeli authorities to have been launched by Palestinian groups based in Lebanon and not the militant Hezbollah group. However, it’s unlikely that Palestinian groups could operate without Hezbollah’s consent.” Israel will pull the randomest sh*t out of their ass to blame Palestinians for.

““Israel has the right to defend itself against such attacks," he told reporters in Washington, adding that the U.S. would remain engaged with partners “in the region in an effort to de-escalate the situation.” Aw yeah Israel always has the right. Does Lebanon not have the right to send rockets after they killed one of our own in May? Or do Arabs not have the right to self-defense? Eat sh*t.

okay so my last few pieces of art have been Huaisang looking vaguely threatening and eery, let's see what my brain comes up with next

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Huaisang looking vaguely threatening and eery it is then

Remember the kids' show "Reading Rainbow"? It was hosted by Levar Burton and its tagline was "The More You Know!". So, this is a roundabout way of bringing up the BS mv moments you were discussing here from Memories 2020. Looking at the endearing/complete support JK gave to JM during the mv shoot gives a new context to the very enthusiastic cheering on by JK of JM's performance during the group's reaction to the mv release. Do you remember how he shouted (screamed?!) "JIMIN" about a hundred times while they watched it? Well, nothing happens in a vacuum and it seems JK's response was simply an extremely lovely continuation of showing JM (and everyone!) how great he thought his performance was. The more we know, eh?! Cheers!

Oh my god, @loraliepaddock ! You came to make us all cry. I remember Reading Rainbow of course ❤️. This is such wonderful context. JK's maturity in this relationship (whatever it is) is something that doesn't get enough respect. It was beautiful watching him be so attentive in those clips, and now we have the icing on the cake.

thinkin bout mean dom nanami who coos at you when you keep whimpering n babbling and sobbing as you get off on his thigh while he's working 🥺

i'm gonna cry please don't look at me

he knows you want him. he can see it in the way you greedily grind against his thighs as you hold him closer to you, whining about how you want all of him. it's amusing to see you like this, all pouty and needy just for his cock.

but instead of giving you what you want, he grabs you by your nape, forcing your teary eyes to look right at him. there's a smirk splayed across his face when he feels the way your cunt throbs on his thigh.

"aw, is my angel crying? all because she didn't get my cock? what a pitiful little thing." he rolls his eyes as he slaps the fat of your ass, making you yelp from the sudden shock. but you know better, you know that he's enjoying it as much as you are. and soon enough, he'll succumb to your desires.

Tablo:  Throughout the entire time (3 years) it took to resolve the controversy, [Hye Jung, Tablo's wife] never once made it seem like she was experiencing any hardships.  

Host:  Even though it was probably really difficult for her.

Tablo:  Yes, it was probably even more difficult for her than for me.  Much more difficult.  But she always said, "It's okay, it's okay."

But, we did have one conflict.

We were eating together, and because I always had this troubled look on my face, the atmosphere while we were eating wasn't very good.

Suddenly, Hye Jung-ie slammed her spoon on the table.

"Hurry up and cry.  Just hurry up and cry.  Cry as much as you want," she said.

And at those words, I really cried.

She told me to just cry it all out now and put an end to all of it.  She told me, "You're not someone who can't beat this.  You're stronger than this."

So, like a child, I cried and cried.

Host:  Did she not cry with you?

Tablo:  She didn't cry then, but when the whole controversy was resolved, one day, I asked her, "It was hard, wasn't it?"  And then she started crying really hard.  She had held it all in.  Even though she'd been wanting to cry, she thought it would, as a result, make me weaker.

A sign that im desperate: *watch Beyond Evil behind the scenes from beginning to end with no understanding of anything*

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/4/israeli-artillery-shells-lebanon-after-rockets-fired-over-border

Israeli medics distributed images of a brush fire and said they treated four people suffering “stress symptoms”. It was not immediately clear whether Lebanon had any casualties. [...]

Lebanon has been run by a caretaker administration for nearly a year while its currency has collapsed, jobs have vanished and banks have frozen accounts in what lenders have called one of the most severe financial crises of modern times.

Anybody else see the unbelievable disparity?

تنہائیوں کے ساز پہ بجتا ہے دیپ راگ

جس دم ہوائے شب سے سُلگتی ہے چاندنی

tanhae'yon k saz pe bajta hai deep-raag

jiss dum huwa-e-shab se sulagti hai chandnj

really hate that i’m interrupting my lore posting to discuss minx asking bad if he would rail skeppy but i suppose that’s a normal experience around here

Yeah, you remember how I said Bakugou bites people?

I was thinking about how that was a cat like thing so here we have

Cat-suki Headcanons

I’ve decided that he kneads people too. Like dough.

If he’s comfortable he will grab their hand and just start pressing into it and ‘kneading it’

But it’s not only hands. He will do it to people’s stomach, cheeks, anywhere he can get his hands on. He kneads Kiri’s hands often, or his cheeks. Will also roughly yank and press down on Deku’s cheeks too.

He grooms people. Will stop and fluff the back of Mina’s hair if it’s a bit flat, or wil grumble and button Denki’s vest properly. Just ticking them up a bit, even when he doesn’t give two shits about his uniform.

He definitely does the head butting thing. When he’s sitting beside someone he’s comfortable with, he’ll knock their heads together. Or just bump his head against their arm if they’re both sitting down.

Instead of scratching to leave marks, he’ll write on people. Little ‘Bakugou💥’ on arms or legs, or ‘Bakugou was here’ in the corner of their books or the tag of their clothes. He left an orange ‘B’ sticker on one of Jirou’s guitars, and nearly all of Sero’s jeans have an orange explosion on the cuffs.

He does the slow blink too. Of Class 1A Todoroki (or Shinsou perhaps) is the first one to recognize it for what it is and he nearly cried

Tell me why I found myself crying several times while watching this 😫😭

G'mornin