Story time with me but not a fancy fun one like beanies’ with gifs. 😁

Since I have a drama slump I decided to go back and recount all the kdramas I love. My Ajusshi moved me to indescribable levels. It’s a gem and I added it to my small list of ultimate favorite drama list. There is just a handful of dramas I love so much that I can overlook their weaknesses. One such drama is Beautiful Mind. Okay so I’m 99% sure that no one else loves BM as much as I do. I ADORE this drama. Yes, it had its flaws but it just hit all the right notes for me. It was my first encounter with all the leads and thus I became a fan of PSD, JH, and YHM. I was so obsessed with the drama when it was airing. Every other word out of my mouth was related to BM and my beloved wifi couple. I camped at Soompi and read every single post there. Posted about it 24/7. It was a severe case of kdrama obsession. And then it ended (don’t get me started on the episode cut). So you’d think it was over, right? NOPE. Idk if I should feel embarrassed but I rewatched it 4 times in the span of two months and refused to watch anything else. Then I rewatched it with Spanish subs because why not? But it didn’t end there!

A few months after it aired I saw some kfans on Twitter where making a fanbook for BM. With my limited Korean I tried to figure out what they were talking about. Then I mustered up the courage to ask! Gosh, if my understanding is limited, my writing skills are a mess! But I took out my dictionary and asked what it was about. The kfan was super nice, thankfully (she was also happily surprised that an international fan noticed their project). 😭 So pretty much it was going to be a book with fanfics, a comic, fanart, and a photocard. I complimented her/them on their work based on the samples they had tweeted and envied kfans who were going to get ahold of it. So I moved on….for a few days until I decided I needed the book! Cue another session with my dictionary. I asked if she would ship it to the US. Yup! But then came the dilemma of how I was going to pay for it. PayPal. (As you may imagine my dictionary never abandoned my side for days.) We had difficulties figuring PayPal out and yes I had a long Twitter conversation with her ALL in Korean. My brain was fried by the time we figured it out. And tada! Two weeks later I received my package!! And she sent me 2 extra photocards! So my little BM fanbook is such a treasure for me. Not only because it’s about one of my favorite dramas but also because of all the effort I had to go through to get my hands on it. The comic is super cute and very in tune with the characters. The fanfics are longggg. I don’t understand them entirely but I got the gist of them. One day my Korean will be 100% and I’ll understand them though! …Or maybe one day I’ll find someone to translate it for me Haha. And the fanart! Gosh its gorgeous.

So yes. This has got to be the drama I went completely bonkers for and when I look back I just shake my head and laugh at myself. But meh. It was worth it.

Sidenote: I ended up learning that in Korea they make these type of fanbooks for different shows, games, original stories and all the different fandoms get together and have a little festival of sorts. They each have their own little booth where they sell their creations. I saw pictures of it and I thought it was really neat. The Lee Young Oh in me wondered how legal it was because sometimes, such as was the case with the BM fanbook, the characters aren’t their original works obviously.🙊 But they had it on a college campus so maybe it’s okay. Who knows lol.