Good morning, beanies.

Hope all is well with your world, wherever you may find yourself.

I am loving Run On, the sweet couple interactions help take my mind off our jagged political landscape. Im Shi wan is magical with his ability to emote without a change in expression❤

happy friday beanies!

drama updates:
started run on with a friend yesterday (ACSDGHJFKL gotta calm down) but ANYWAY, love the vibes of the show SO MUCH, and i’ll def continue it (hopefully with my friend OKAY IM GOING TO SHUT UP) probably gonna watch ITR eps this weekend, i’m in love with nana, that’s it.

and for r88…
watching ep 17 today, and i’m debating when to watch ep 18, because i know that i’ll be super sad for the rest of the day— no matter how many times i watch that episode, i’ll cry, and cry, and cry. it’s looking like saturday night right now, and i just— damn it, i don’t want to watch it because of how sad it makes me, but i have to do it for junghwan T_T

my friend’s also started r88 and is team JH, i’m trying to get her jump ship before she gets her heart broken AHJSK

i am truly so sad that this rewatch is coming to an end. it always feels the same after i finish it, i know i can rewatch again, but i just love it so much. i remember the first time i finished r88, i was afraid that my love for it would fade, that it would just be a phase or something. it’s been about a year since i watched it, but i know in my heart that there’s something about it i’ll cherish for a very, very, long time.

life updates:
getting back to school has been EVENTFUL, but nothing compared to what’s happening in the US. class was going on when a student announced to us what was happening in DC, and right before it ended, we were informed that those crazed supporters had entered the capitol. the rest of the day was really scary and just plain… disheartening i guess.

i mention often on the OTs that when there’s a drama i feel super strongly about, i have no words for it. that’s just a reaction i have to when i feel really strongly or passionate about something?? so the whole wednesday and thursday morning was just… utterly tiring, and quite depressing. the somewhat decent part was that school teachers kinda checked in with us to see how we were feeling, but they’re not allowed to speak about politics (bc blah blah blah may upset opinions and could result in them getting fired.)

which… SUCKS, because this isn’t even political, it’s about RACISM. no disrespect to my teachers, disrespect to the school administration, and the government. it really just sucks that your teachers can’t say, “this is racism, and it’s not okay” because i feel like my school doesn’t even care about me as a POC then. where i live is supposed to be super progressive too, i don’t even want to imagine what it would be like if i lived somewhere that wasn’t… sigh

i’ve run out of my words for now, so all i want to say is to any beanies near the dc area, stay safe. to those that are worried for the future, i am too. i don’t know if i can really say everything will be okay, but nevertheless, i do wish you guys hope for the future. for anything personal you’re going through, i hope that things will get easier < 3

love and hwaiting,
shachi

Happy friday, Beanies ❤️

It turns out my brother has become a big Running Man fan while I was away and we've been watching his suggested episodes while doing menial tasks at home. We also watched the Hwarang special of 2D1N and ep7 of Mr. Queen. I don't think I've laughed this much in a long while and it feels so good.

My Youtube suggestions included clips of Chung-myung's story in Hotel Del Luna, and boy, am I late to the Lee Do-hyun train! The boy is so gorgeous with expressive eyes and a voice that hits all the right spots. Then bam, I realized that he played young Joon-ho in Prison Playbook! No wonder Je-hee had a crush haha. Too bad Sweet Home is not my cup of tea, though 18 Again is already on my list.

Anyway, gotta catch up on the latest episodes of Run On that I've been saving for the weekend. I'm so excited!

Happy 2nd OT of the year 2021 Beanies!

Nothing but Run On is making me look forward to mid week! Should definitely go back to the dramas I've put on hold during the holiday buuuut I keep coming back to Run On and their promo videos on YT!

Hoping for a great weekend for everybody!

Christmas holidays this year were... Decided against traveling to see my family because: covid, and here we stayed, with covid restrictions and pissing rain for 15 straight days. Holiday without being able to do pretty much anything outside after the year we've had was just a bit much. Fortunately, the sun came out some days ago! The air is crispy cold and you can see the snow on the hills. Went hiking in the nearest hill with the kids and all the drudgery was forgotten. Love the way you can tell seasons apart here, and they're all so pretty! (when it's not raining, I mean, which kind of happens a lot, but, hey, it's what makes this place so green).
So, Beanies, hope 2021 treats all of us nicely, let's all have a pretty January!

Little Boy - 1915k is very near. woah . wow.

1975k can be - 19 January . Momentum was always on and now the real strength is appearing. wow

Happy Friday everyone.
Thanks to everyone responding to my last OT post. I was totally clueless about managing my finances and I learnt a lot from that ❤️
I was wondering what do you guys watch on Fridays?
With the Wed-Thu, Sat-Sun drama timings and Netflix blessing us with subbed episodes the same day, I hardly have anything to watch on Fridays.

So I'm not new to k dramas and have been in the scene since 2012 but my drama watching was very sporadic. I used to watch a few dramas take a break of 2 3 years and rinse repeat. Since the past year my drama watching was going almost without a break and even started live watching dramas like IONTBO and start up. I thought in some ways it was easy than binging coz I filled the rest of the week with other dramas. I liked those 2 dramas but was never obsessive over them other than checking DB for recaps. Maybe live watching was not for me as I was not liking the dramas as much as I should.
And then came Run On. I became obsessed. I stopped watching all the new dramas on my long watchlist. My week now revolves around the drama. Friday reading comments on fan walls saturday sunday reading WWW monday tuesday rewatching the previous weeks episodes wednesday and thursday eagerly waiting for the episodes. I've fallen in love with this drama. I hope that this continues and drama not dash my expectations. Oh drama what have you done to me!!
P. S : my level was upgraded to jang gu rae last week. This is fate...:-P

Hi beanies, I’m in and out today, on the run unexpectedly with a change in schedule. But I had to say that I love Lovestruck in the City. It’s so refreshing, got a hippie tone to it, and Jae-Won and Eun-o (aka Sun-a) oils be a real fling-go-haywire couple (or not). Mixed signals. Male/female interpretations on different levels. Of course massive relationship confusion. It is reminiscent of The Producers with IU which was amazing. Hope you all have a great weekend, dark clouds will pass! ❤️Owl

This week i was rewatching-binging healer and I'm so sad because ji chang wook is so AMAZING in this drama especially in comparison to his recent ones. Now it feels like he just tries to look pretty on camera and in general his acting and the projects he chooses are so disappointing. Waiting for another project that is actually good

Happy Friday, Beanies! Finally, the Christmas break is coming to an end and things will finally return to normal by Monday. So looking forward to this, as are my kids. Well, as normal a concept as permitted by covid. But all things come to an end, this too shall pass.

I felt this week's episodes of Run On was a tad more boring and uneventful than earlier episodes but next week's promo is looking really exciting. Mayhaps we'll have another drunken, or even sober, kiss?
I really like how every character seem to grow their own links to each other instead of just being someone's significant other or best friend. It gives them greater depth and brings so much more perspective to the show. My entire week basically consists of longing for Run On.

Also, binged Bridgerton over the course of two days and came to several conclusions. I may not be knowledgable enough to know where the clothing's gone wrong, but I don't even need to. It's all Moulin Rouge meets Harlequin in synthetic fabric. Second, I think even my worst harlequin books have male leads with greater emotional range. The Duke was a terribly written character. Third, the show was stolen completely by lady Bridgerton and the Queen but not to the point I'll watch a second season.

I cannot remember the k-drama from a few years ago about an obsessive fan stalking a celebrity. I only have cursory knowledge of that part of pop culture but a week after the HB/SYJ news I can conclude that they are nearly insane.

The shipping culture is strange to begin with but not hard to fathom. They believe they have a property interest in them as a couple. They act like they were the matchmakers and biggest supporters "who brought them together." They found great pleasure and pride when the news broke. They continue to give gifts, applauds and posts on SNS. Like the couple's friends, endorsers and colleagues, they are cheering them on but pushing themselves to the front of the line.

But after 7 days, they want more. Even though SYJ 1-1-21 post (where she acknowledges fan interest in them) showed her still in the early stages of dating (due to busy 2020 schedules), fans want MORE details. They have spent more time investigating, speculating and assuming for the past two years they want their work "rewarded" with daily updates to immediate baby news like they are close friends of the couple.

No wonder Korean celebrity public dating is a toxic environment. A certain segment of the public is trying to direct their fairy tale story on to real people. They are addicted to any scrap of information or rumor. They have greater expectations at this moment than the actual couple. Strange.

Happy Friday Beanies! Trying to get through the workday when my brain is already mush. It has been a very long week.

Are any 2D1N and/or kpop fans interested in Ravi's online fan concert? https://www.kavecon.com/info/34

I haven't been to an online concert, but this seems like a good chance to support a 2D1N member. 😃

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

We have earned it after this week.😩Apparently I missed a coup on the capital and a Dramabeans blackout, and I have not even been gone for a week! Many virtual hugs to Beanies who feel mentally affected, American or not.❤️

This week has not been the best for me either. Grandma 1 tested positive and my mother had a short contact with her earlier this week. The tracing center fortunately deems it a low risk contact, but we are of course extra careful and wary now whenever we feel even slightly off or need to go outside, no matter how rarely that happens.

Grandma 2 has an abnormal high heart rate and should go to the hospital for examinations and possible treatment, but she refuses to deteriorate and die in a hospital. For that reason she wants to start with palliative care at home and spend the remaining days of her life there. She has been a ticking time bomb for decades and still managed to live a long life, so she accepts what her body is telling her and the family respects and supports that decision. Euthanasia is legal here, but of course the medical world has to consent as well.

Grandma 2 has been far from the best grandmother, and we barely spoke to her and most of the relatives on her side of the family. Still, it feels weird to feel sad and yet not sad enough about the fact that she might leave us this year. When it rains it pours, obviously. My phone is almost dead at the ancient age of 3 and other equipment broke down too. I hope to have new ones by next week, but with my current job rhythm and covid measures I have no idea when I will go buy them.

There is a slight light at the end of the tunnel, though. I had my first internship evaluation of sorts this week and that cleared up a lot of the fog at work. I spend more than half of my weeks in formation with little time for practice on the job as a result. According to the internship rulebook the formations are spread out over the year and need to be balanced well with work practice, so I began to question my time management and working pace. It turns out that the pandemic forced them to move up most of the formation deadlines to the first half or even quarter of the internship, but they neglected to mention that it also lowered their expectations on the practical part. I feel a bit less guilty about all the unfinished work now.🤦‍♀️

Even better, I smartly saved up my study leave days for January, so I scheduled them all on work practice days whenever I am not in formation. I hope it will give me some extra sleep, breathing room, and downtime on evenings and weekends. We also concluded that one big rotten chapter I still do not get. I have a month to teach myself to understand it, but for now I am saving my energy on all the other chapters that are smaller and not as hard to deal with.🙏

Let us have better weeks from now on! 💪

So I haven't propped this much, but at the end of last year the Dramas Over Flowers mob asked me to be on their Forest of Secrets 2/Stranger 2 deep dive podcast and of course I agreed. Mind you we recorded at midnight after I'd been up since 4:30 so I barely remember recording it at all.

But one of the things we discussed near the end was the references to Crime and Punishment in FoS and how the concept of a special morality for certain people was embodied in some of its characters. Crime and Punishment canvasses a particular moral position that there is no good and evil, there is simply those that act and those that don't. And that those who have the courage to act - men like Napolean (only men, of course, it is Russian literature) - are therefore immune from prosecution or judgement. This is to say that Napolean's acts aren't forgiven because they're right, they're forgiven because he's Napolean.

More importantly, the main crimes committed in C&P (and in Forest of Secrets 2) were committed by men who wanted to believe that they were Napolean, somehow above normal questions of morality and above also normal consequences of their actions. In both texts they were wrong because a person's actions are always judged and judge-able no matter who they are or how above normal humanity they think they are.

And so those who think that somehow the evil deeds of venal men are merely fascinating anthropological studies that they can study from afar as if they are the crimes of Napolean, well, they are just as sociopathic and as compromised as those who do them believing they are above the law. The deeds of men like Trump are not to be seen from afar as fascinating but to be decried as morally bankrupt and downright criminal.

This is a coup. Not a football game. Concentrating on the score is to miss the point of the game. And how you swing a bat does not matter. Who you swing that bat at is.

Even Napolean saw justice for his crimes in the end.

Wow, 2021 has been a long year...

It's my b-day this coming week so I bought some Korean food and soju. I'm just gonna binge some dramas and relax over the weekend.

Hope you have a wonderful, safe, and relaxing weekend!

So. 2021.
I was pulled over by the cops and it was terrifying.
Someone stole 1k from my bank account. Which I should be able to get back just not right away.
1 of my friends has a premie baby with serious health issues that she just brought home from the hospital. I signed up for the meal train before learning about the 1k and that Im overdrawn on my accounts. My dad says he can lend me the money to buy dinner for my friends since Im overdrawn. He doesnt remember how banks work so I have to drive down there and back to get the money into my accou t to put it in HER account before the banks close. My dad decides now--at this time sensitive moment--is the time to figure it out so I pull over to give him my bank info and over an hour later he calls me back. Hes on the phone chatting with his brother. Its now too late for me to make it to ky and back and get dinner for my friends.
Another friends mom died and she had no insurance so not only can she not have a funeral for her mom she cant even mourn because she has to figure out how to pay for this. Shes set up a gofundme that ai cant contribute to because someone stole 1k from me.
And the sitting us president tried to overthrow the government.
Didnt we collectively agree 2021 was going to be better? Because its not.
To make this drama related: playful kiss is no iswak but its better than people (including me) give it credit for. To make this db specific egads yelled at me in my dream last night. But shes already apologized for her dreamself being a meanie.
Im going to eat cake and cry a little bit.

Hello Beanies! Happy Friday, and I hope you're all well.

It has been a strange, strange week so far. I don't want to go into too much detail, but I think it's safe to say that this latest season of America has definitely jumped the shark.

I just finished watching Bridgerton, and I hope I'm not alone in thinking it was kind of a train wreck? I so love all those Regency period dramas, but this one just left me disappointed. Sigh.

I miss having a drama to look forward to. I miss Kairos 😭.

Our Italian-Korean mafia is hitting the streets this February. Please be good Show!

https://www.soompi.com/article/1447000wpp/song-joong-ki-jeon-yeo-bin-2pms-taecyeon-and-more-hold-script-reading-for-upcoming-drama

Fellow Beanies, I need help! I just binged watched Modern Farmer over the weekend, and I was wondering what happened to Park Min-Woo?! I read that he was in a pretty bad motorcycle accident in 2016. Maybe he left the industry after his accident and his military service.