Yall. What episode of INAR is Tilda introduced? My buddy watch continues and we’ve started watching the occasional ep in person and I want to plan on watching the Tilda of it all in person. So I can cackle. Because I am a good friend.
I am in the middle of (or rather the very beginning of as we’ve only watched one ep) a buddy watch with a day from church. We click play at the same time and chitchat during the ep. She said the first ep was….ok. The drama? I am not a robot. I am not sure how to continue this friendship.
Well, true, I was taking literary license with that statement. I don’t know what is keeping me from actually watching it. Oh, I know, the obvious supratentorial “human allergy” that doesn’t exist. 😂
Oh, definitely. Especially after trying to convince moms that their kids really don’t have a life threatening immune condition they are convinced they have. 😆
Bit of a spoiler but the fact that there’s no such thing as a human allergy is actually a plot point.
That does mean we still get the world’s most unprofessional doctor 😂
Do you know, Ally, it makes sense. I watched a Christmas movie once like 10 years ago about a children’s librarian and she (I don’t remember how to do italics but imagine them here for emphasis) held the book the WRONG WAY! Took me right out of the movie. I could never watch it again and every December I’m like (to myself) do you remember that horrible Christmas movie? What kind of children’s librarian holds a book like that? AND it wasn’t age appropriate! And who even were those kids? Like…go to a library movie people. Every December. Sanity isn’t one of my stronger personality traits.
I’ll always ride with Beans! Beanies for life! You can’t see it as this is a message board but I’m totally throwing up some very impressive make-believe bean inspired hand signs. It’s very hard core.
Not really. I’m hoping this buddy watch helps ignite the spark. I do love a buddy watch. I never finished Marry My Husband and I never even started Doctor Slump and I was looking forward to that because PSH is my first drama love. She’s my ult bias right up there with Rain. But I haven’t even started. And there are a few others I wanted to start but instead I hide under the blankets and watch true crime podcasts, royals conspiracies, and diddy updates.
^^ I love a buddy watch too. We are having a Fanwall Community Watch of Our Blooming Youth – two episodes per week. The first post for episodes 1-2 is up on midnight’s wall. A new post will be up thurs/fri every week on alternating Beanies walls for the next nine weeks. We all will be ery happy in cae you choose to join us for any or all posts. No pressure to continue or comment. You can just hang out with us if you so desire.
We watched ep 4 on Wednesday and she asked me if we should stay up all night to finish. I had to remind her that as delightful as that sounds she’s a mom and she has to be up at 5 to do mom things and teach a class to high schoolers. Did I laugh maniacally at the thought that if I had to wait she has to wait? Mwhahaha and all?
My drama slump is legit the slumpiest and life is lifeing HARD. My days, these days, are spent hiding under my blanket binge watching the Rotten Mango podcast. Oh my gosh so addictive! Buy also. The world is a horrible place and I’m going to stay under my blanket forever.
Day 11
One good thing
The last couple of years have been awful. Honestly, when I think about it it’s no wonder my depression is at an all time high (low?). But sometimes, one good thing is all I need to get me over the hump to give me the stamina to do all the not good things.
In December my car was stolen for the 4th time in 1.5 years. I had a rental that lasted for 1 month (have you tried asking your insurance company–nicely–to extend it? My ridiculous mechanic to me) and then it was walking back and forth work. It was bumming rides from people to get to various doctors appointments (I apparently almost had a heart attack/stroke,diabetes, burns, mental health, fractured bone in the back) I have a lot of doctors appointments. I was tired and frustrated and sad and mad and a whole host of other adjectives. I was bumming rides all of the time. I hate bumming rides. I hate asking for help. I decided I needed a car and I needed one now now now
Like seriously
Now.
One day I needed to go to the bank, I needed to go to the chiropractors, I needed to go to the pharmacy and a few other places. Uber is good if you’re going from a to b. Getting a ride is fine if you’re going from b to c. But if you’re going from a to h and you need to stop at each letter in between there’s no real way to get to all of those stops. So, for days I didn’t have my meds so I just wandered around in pain. So, I found a car that I wanted. I had my friend test drive it with me and 2 days later I had a car. No co-signer, just me.
I feel like I’m coming into my own.
I’m only 40. (Eyeroll)
Anyway.
Having this one good thing happen suddenly makes it feel like other good things are possible. And even if other good things is a reach, this one good thing feels like it will help me navigate the rest.
So, here’s to figuring it out.
Even if I have no idea what exactly it is.
Love, February
You got this, Isa!!
Even if you have to break some things down to into a few more steps compared to how others would do it, just so you can do it, and will help you to get that thing done that you NEED done, then do it that way. Take things one day at a time if you have to… But honestly, don’t compare— comparing yourself to others is a dumb and bottomless rabbit hole to go down that ultimately doesn’t end well.
And I totally get you— like, GET YOU— about the thing on bumming rides, because I am the same:
I have a physical condition that doesn’t allow me to drive. If I wanted to drive, I forcibly still could, but the work and the patience and the hassle for me to get to that point is just not worth it— most of which, I’d have to purchase a car and then fork out more money to get it modified for me.
Bumming rides feels like a hassle on most days, and on other days, it truly is a blessing, especially when the one you’re bumming off of is a super kind and sweet person and thinks of you asking them for rides is a way for them to bless and help you— like, are you for real???? 🥹
Day 7
So. I’ve broken a bone in my back. Just a tiny little thing running parallel to my spine. So small that there’s no reason to try to fix it. It fix itself. It just needs time. But that tiny little thing took. me. DOWN. For the last week I’ve been hobbling, hunched over like a crone, making it to the restroom maybe 75% of the time and honestly not doing a great job while I’m in there. Every step is accompanied by a swallowed scream, every shift (are you aware of how often we shift) now has a short, staccato, sucking in of the breath. I’m gasping literally all of the time. It’s a problem.
Yesterday morning I fell out of bed. It wasn’t a quick roll over one-time to many and now you’re on the ground. I slid slowly, inch by agonizing inch, until with a (not so silent) scream I was on the ground. I couldn’t move. It took me over an hour to move, and then another near hour to get up. I have rug burns on curious places from trying to stand. Getting on your knees is HARD.
While I was down there, crying, pleading, in pain I remembered my mother. My gosh yall. Typically when I think of her a handful of memories come, her teaching me how to read, reading together on a couch, that time she threw a chicken leg at my head and scream she hated me, the times she said she wished she had aborted me.
My therapist wants me to work on trust. Please insert the dryest, mockingyest heh you have in you right here.
Anyway. When I was 10 years old I lost my keys. I went home and knocked on the door hoping someone was home. The only person there was my mom. She was bedridden, not quite completely paralyzed but definitely not able to walk any distance. But I was her daughter and I was beating on the door and crying and pleading let me in. She threw herself out of her hospital bed and army crawled to the front door (her bedroom was the furthest from the front door) and she let me in. Did I mention she was blind? I don’t know how long it took her. I don’t remember. I remember her pulling herself up (how the actual f did she do that? Like…fr. was my mom superwoman?) and unlocking the door and I sat on the floor with her just inside our doorway and sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. And she held me. And she called me tootles. And we both realized that life would never be the same.
I remember the drugs. I remember the nastiness. But yesterday morning as I fought a pain that I could not overcome I remembered my mom. And she loved me.
Love, February
Ha. So. I don’t actually remember how to do Love February. I’m not sure I remember the formating. And it’s been so long since I’ve felt like a part of this community that I wasn’t sure it was right for me to participate. If it’s OK I may have one or two love February posts in me. If it’s not that’s OK too.
Some days….. some people…..
It might seem far fetched whenever we such things being portrayed in the dramas we watch, but the things the human body, mind, and soul can accomplish when we need it enough, when we WANT it enough…. It’s nothing short of a miracle. It’s not a joke when the grit and inner strength of a person— strength that we don’t think we ever had— comes to a head and the things that it propels us to accomplish is almost always beyond comprehension and understanding from a human— i.e. limited— understanding.
My prayers are with you, Isa, as you endeavour on this journey to recovery ♥️ Keep in mind that it is okay to take it easy, that it is okay to make yourself a priority, because it is when we, ourselves, are at 100% can we then be at 100% for those around us
Saying she should have undergone an abortion sounds like a hit phrase to say when a mother is angry. Maybe not all mothers do this, but my mom did it sometimes when I was young and talked back to her (and I think she now regrets it and many things she did when she was younger). It’s sad, but it’s real: what cruel things people say when they are angry.
Did I tell you when I was so sick the only person I thought of was my mom? How funny? The person I resented the most was the very person I thought of at crisis.
I feel this. My mom had drug problems when I was young and disabled when I was 9ish. I have like a year of having a mother. But when I’m sick and hurt my mom is who I want. Not necessarily *her* but the idea of a good mother. I think it’s normal. I’m sorry about your mother. Physical and emotional pain both suck.
Ok, I’ve started Marry My Husband. Thr first episode is depressing af. But I get its setting up everything else. I’ve never liked time travel dramas. Should I watch or drop?
The absolute gall of this family! She goes –alone–to thr hospital and learns she has cancer and all her stupid husband and his awful mother has to say is who’s going to cook now? He doesn’t work so all the money coming in is her income and he can’t pull his *ahem* out of her “friend” and come bring HER money to the hospital to pay her bills? He’s. So. Gross. And her friend looks her dead in the eye while she’s plotting her death “ill never leave you”
He’s using her insurance to buy that awful woman a bag?
I don’t know yall. These two absolutely deserve each other. I want her to go back in time and get her happiness and for them to be miserable together but I also want them to go to prison forever and ever and ever.
We’re 25 mins into the first ep and we’re doing the “let me put your shoes on for you you delicate flower” already? Is this a record?
Wait a minute! Is that my sweet girl from FMW being awful?! GASP.
GIRL. It’s 2013. Make some good investments, go get checked for Cancer every few years and f that jerk you married and his awful mama.
YES!
Oh my gosh this library/bookstore is doing things to my book loving heart and this floppy haired, glasses wearing boss guy is so handsome.
Oh, they really were best friends their entire lives. And she’s sleeping with her husband talking about die already. It
He did the look back! Swoon!
It’s no wonder she has no dang friends.
Dang it. I can’t hate her. She’s so cute. Oh look at her primping when our girl is getting yelled at for how she’s dressed! Ick I’ll overlook her cuteness. She’s a bad person. Yuck!
Oh. Interesting. I wonder if she’ll ever feel guilt or regret it? Like clearly she’s a fake friend and they both absolutely deserve every horrible thing but I think it’s one thing to do something in the moment and another to watch something play out. I wonder if knowing how awful the friend is will help her see how awful the friend is and that will help her sustain her anger to dump her awful fate on her former friend.
I really don’t like time travel. How much time travel is there though? I was assuming it would be maybe 1-4 times? The initial jump, maybe a jump to the future to see if things are better or worse at some point, back to the past again to fix and adjust and a final trip back to the future to pick up and start living her new life. I could handle that, but if this is one of those time travel dramas where were zipping back and forth every few mins per ep I can’t do it. My main problem is I can’t sit still and just…watch a drama. I have to do things with my hands. And it’s too difficult to try and do things with my hands and keep up with a million time lines!
I did really like the first ep as dark as it was. I loved how quickly she’s picking up on things and realizing that there has to be balance. I would have expected in a drama like this to have a few scenes where she’s relishing her future knowledge but I like that they didn’t swerve into something silly they go straight to the plot. But with as heavy as the first ep is I wonder if there’s any lightness in the drama?
My favorite drama is season 2 of It Started With a Kiss, and then Fight for My Way, Jealousy Incarnate, Another Oh Hae Young, A Gentleman’s Dignity, Chicago Typewriter, I’m Not a Robot, Dal-Jas SpringI could go on and on. The only recent thing I’ve managed to finish to the end was Castaway Diva. I love a Noona Romance oh my gosh. The Thai version of It Started With a Kiss. Kiss Me. I loved all of those but I think theblast time I really had *fun* with a drama, not just watching it but had fun with was when EVERYONE here on db was watching that incredibly cracktackular Emperor drama, and the most recent Boys Over Flowers adaptation and there were groups of us who couldn’t wait for the subs (I think subs were funky that year) would watch all together with one lone bean doing on the spot translating and then we’d all watch again later. And oh my lands, the great beanie ship war when there were a ton of beanies watching A Poem A Day and there was an insane ship war flooding the board but because it was db it was the gentlest most hilarious war that there ever has been. I still have the fanfic that that war spawned.
Maybe I’ve outgrown dramas. So much of my love of the dramas was wrapped up in my love of this community and I come here now and I don’t know anyone. All of the people that I knew back then seem to have…. grown up?and they’ve taken the friends that they made here and they’ve formed a new community. And I’m still here. Without a drama to watch, not really a part of the community anymore. And not really going anywhere with my life.
I’ve always been known (back when I was known) for epic overshares. So there we go.
What’s your favorite drama? What’s your catnip? I love the Noona romances and anything with adults. Which is a solid part of why I love noonas there aren’t candy’s looking for their prince charming there’s grown ass women looking (or not looking) for love and some guy comes and sweeps her off her hardworking feet. A grown up candy, if you will.
@seeker
Also, i have a well documented love hate relationship with the first 8 eps of Something in the Rain or (Pretty Noona who disappointed tf outta me)
Thank you so much for taking out time to respond. You sure had a lot of fun drama watching before. I do hope you get some new dramas you like and find some new friends on DB. 😅
My K-drama love started with Full House and hasn’t stopped since. For me I love all things K-dramas. While I discovered DB a long time ago, I couldn’t contribute and have started only recently. But have been a long time lurker and and loved both the old DB and new DB which has been an integral part of my drama watching experience.
Watch 🙂
If you fell for Mr.Glasses… and if you want some comeuppance for our (fascinating and well acted) villains, watch. 🙂
There will also come later a smexy HR manager, on a bike. 🏍 😉
You, friend, are speaking my language. I don’t know anyone’s name yet, but, I did feel like they were giving layers to the former friend. There’s a duality that I saw in that first ep. She can love and admire and want the best for her friend with her while heart, and be burning with jealousy and want everything the main character has. Both can be true at the same time. It’s like she’s walking on a balance beam, though, what tips her to the point where sleeping with her friends husband, wishing for her best friend to hurry up and die is more important than loving her friend?
As for that husband! Yuck. She says that she stayed with him because she was scared of leaving, of being alone. I wonder if he was ever physically abusive–we know he was abusive in every other way and we saw him shove her so hard she fell through the table and died. And he slammed her against the wall and raised his hand to her without making contact. So. Hmm.
Yall. What a day to be a fan. GOT7s 10 year anniversary and vromance FINALLY announcing a comeback! I hope they get some support this time. They are SO talented.
Well. I’ve started My Demon. I’m on ep 2 and my lands the end of the first episode was just…pretty. No idea whats happening but boy howdy. Pretty. And for once I’m not talking about the cast (although,obviously) it’s the cinematography and atmosphere and such . The wave coming over them? That was some little mermaid business.
Aw man do I need to drop it? I’m only 3 eps in and I’m not attached to anything or anyone. There’s already too much business boringness for my taste. I will drop this drama and go and watch heartstoppers for the 76th time NO PROBLEM.
Well, I finished Castaway Diva and I have a question. Why was there no girl power duet (or trio) with Mok-Ha, Morae (and Ran-Joo). It was begging for some girl power power rock ballad. I thought maybe we were getting there when we Morae and Mok-Ha were all fired up about their switched song and realized they had no real reason to be fighting and their collective rage puttered out into nothing. But then no girl power rock anthem AND then didn’t storm the CEOs penthouse and kick him in the shin either. Disappointed.
@zindigo is correct, they’re completely unrelated stories – they have in common only the fact of being short series with music and romance. I found #1 boring (with a side of annoyance at some of the side characters) but am enjoying everything about #2.
This is the reason I started watching them to begin with! And now they are being cruelly ripped away! Or, you know, just not made. Which is still cruel.
My first 3 dramas were: Coffee Prince, Boys Over Flowers and Heirs.
They are more than welcome to keep their Squid Games and Parasite. Give me more Something about 1%, Jealousy Incarnate, Another Oh Hae Young, Healer, W, and I’m more than ready for a new remake of It Started with a Kiss. Drama land? Are you listening?
Ohh! I had forgotten about Goong! There was a Thai remake of it but I just could not get into it. Even before the betrothal became a thing the fl refused to call the prince by his title even though she was the only one. Why? It was never explained but it certainly got on my nerves
The only minus point for me is the episode of the Arab prince, which as I knew about it beforehand and I just dislike all depictions of foreigners by Kdramas I just ff through all of his scenes.
I’m just mentioning this because 1. It’s longer than one scene, and 2. I know it’s a particularly sensitive subject for most Beanies.
But for myself, I always ff through foreigner scenes no matter the nationality, be it Arab, Indian, Italian, American, German. Doesn’t matter which. I dislike Koreans’ depiction and I ff through.
Most of my moots loved it, but after all my moots are Junho fans. I dropped it at episode 8 (I watched episode 9 and 10 in 20 minutes by ff), mainly because I couldn’t care about any characters, but I do agree it’s a fluffy sweet drama, if you can look aside all its flaws.
Strangely, I didn’t see is as fluff at all. To me it was a very solemn but sweet look at the hardships of today’s workers. And knowing your own worth, while still having to earn your bread. And wishing for a boss who although didn’t understand the hardships at first, but the minute it was explained to him, tried to rectify matters.
Anyways, I have been holding my tongue on a tight reign for the past few months 😄 Better enjoy whatever we wish without needing to defend and explain.
On to ep 11.
I still do not give a flying fig about Ran-Joos mom. Like. Less than 0 percent.
I LOVE the adopted dad. My gosh he’s the safe haven that family deserves after that evil father.
I take back every good thing I said about the CEO. He and Ran-joo are just too dang toxic together. How do you go back to a man who calls you trash and says that not only does he think so does everyone he does business with? Ran-Joo deserves soooooo much better.
Well. I’m finally getting back to Castaway Diva (I accidentally abandoned it on ep 6. The sing off just didn’t appeal and made me not want to watch. But I do want to finish so here we are)….is this drama telling me that this entire time (in the past) Ki-ho had a brother and a mother and they were all getting abused? I’ve never been a fan of oh…he has nice hands and I’ve lost my train of thought.
So veiny.
So this may not be the drama to fulfill my undying love of romance, skinship, and squee but I’m in ep 10 and several eps ago Ki-Ho announces that he still has feelings for Mok-ha and adds, “what kinda lunatic looks for someone for 15 years if they aren’t interested?” And I swooned. I swooned so freaking hard. Can they just…drop this storyline with the abusive father and the entertainment industry and just let these two puppies heal and fall in love? Because this may be the only drama I finish this year but it would totally be the best one.
Also. I super don’t go about Ran-Joos mom. Like not even the tiniest part of my soul cares about this. And finally I watch dramas to take my mind off of my aging parent not to be reminded of it. So…thanks for that.
What is the brother’s name? Woo-hak? Chae-un? When he broke down when Mok-ha left? Confessing to his dad that he tried not to fall for her when he knew that Ki-ho had? But that he couldn’t help it? How my heart broke precious boy. And she doesn’t even have a friend that I can ship him with. I hope he finds someone 🙁
And how did this drama make me want Ran-joo and her label head together again? Every time he shuffles in in his pj’s and stares at her all wistfully I’m like put a pin in it and go sleep with that man! He’s hot and the way he stares at her….2 eps left. I’d finish it now flif I didn’t have a doctors appointment in a few hours.
Woo-hak!! I love him to bits – that moment got to me as well. I knew Ki-ho and Mok-ha were end game, and wanted them to be but I’m hoping that Woo-hak eventually finds his own happy ending too, he’s such a precious, sensitive soul 💕
AND YES hahah the CEO, I blame it on the actor doing too good a job with the expressions but I’d also find myself momentarily slipping and then mentally slapping myself to be like ‘nO! remember what he did to Ran-joo!!’
Also yes the ‘what kind of lunatic looks for someone for 15 years if they aren’t interested’ is such a swoony line 🥰 I think it’s how matter of fact he was too that added to the swoon.
It’s this and it’s also that even when she hates him and wants nothing to do with him….the ceo is who Ran-joo goes to. When all of her chips are down and her back is against the wall and she had nowhere else to turn…she went to him. No questions asked. And he met her at the door, picked up her bags and brought her in. Their relationship is messy and deep and I think I love them? He’s awful but monsters need hugs?
One of my coworkers is interested in going and listen to this story!
So, yesterday I got a new coworker. My manager came to introduce her to me in my little cubicle and she looked around and said, “oh! You’re army!” to which I replied, “uh, NO! I am most certainly not!” I have hung up on my cubby shelves: Vromance, CNBlue, 2pm and Got7. I listed GOT7 and she was all, “OH! I like GOT7!” So I asked her if she knew about BamBams concert and she said she and her sister were thinking of it. So, new kpop friendly coworker who likes GOT7 and likes them enough that she’s interested in going to see BamBam. Squeee!
I’ll watch ep 6 tomorrow, but right now, as ever, I have *questions*. Questions like why did I think this was a fluffy drama? Why did I keep watching when the first ep was heinous abuse? Why was I surprised when the drama dropped its fun, light hearted couple of eps and slid into murdery nonsense. Why is this whole family lying to Ki-ho about who they are? Why won’t evil dad give it tf up? Is he bitter that he didn’t get to murder ki-ho so he’s hunting him to rectify the situation? And finally, who decided a mash up of frothy songs and murder and abuse was the dream juxtaposition?
All very good questions.
I am watching on for Park Eun-bin … but otherwise my heart is not in it.
Also why take out insurance and why attack the insurance agent just because he asked you to stay away from Ki-ho.
I saw it mentioned somewhere that people thought that the adult Mok-ha was more immature than the child Mok-ha. My thought is: OF COURSE she is. The first 15 years of her life she was in survival mode. Trying to stay alive while getting viciously beaten (and who knows what else) by her father. The next 15 years of her life she was in survival mode: deserted island edition. This is the first time in her entire life that she’s been free to just be. It makes total sense that she’s going to be immature for a minute, especially as she’s adjusting.
Now. I love romance. I love it. I love love. But I’m not sure I want that in this drama. She needs therapy to get through the first 39 years of her life. She needs to learn and understand what it means to be an adult. She survived alone for 15 years but her social and romance skills are that of a child.
Are one of these dudes Ki-ho? I hope he’s ok…..I think I want one of these puppies to be him. I love the thought of him being taken in and LOVED and cared for. After what his father put him through–after the beating her evil father gave him? He deserves all the things.
Well, it’s too the recaps for me. I’m looking at this sweetpeas sweet set up on her island and….did she earn her engineering degree while stranded here? Is her little island where every helpful good in the ocean goes to disappear? Where did she get all of those umbrellas?! I have so many questions.
This drama had me tearing up watching her hug her idol. Also, I cannot tell the brothers apart. They have the same pajamas, the same job and dang near the same hair!
I finally started Castaway–midway through the first ep and GOOD NIGHT this drama is dark af. I didn’t read anything about it, just remembered the chatter here a few weeks ago and thought to give it a go. I’m going to take a little break and clean my kitchen. Does it stay this level of dark or should I just drop now?
Busy PMR-ing. 🤣
Watched for about 15 mins till Wo-hak was standing on the road looking up to the “house” and remembered that gif.
Then thought better to wait till 6 and watch both together after PMR.
Has CD turned very dark?
@isa: I’m not a serial killer having just finished 5, I came back to say that for me it’s getting pretty dark again. I thought we were getting a Cinderella success story, why is it becoming a mystery? Fooey.
Man. I just hit play again and I’m ready to hit pause again! This stupid old gossipy man is going to get these kids killed. Mind your ding dang business, man! I love this little boy and I hope he’s OK. Dang it I love both of these kiddos and it’s only been 43 mins.
OK, where they going to let that evil man kill that little boy? How come not a single adult tried to help him? Tf? Also, her father was busting into her bedroom? Is he a molester on top of beating her? This is a lot for my first foray back into kdrama land. I’m going to need something fluffy like…immediately.
It doesn’t feel like a side / slice of darkness anymore.
I am enduring only for Park Eun-bin. She is magical but the Ki-ho’s father’s storyline is just too much.
I think I’ll try Castaway. It feels like it’s been literal years since I watched a drama that so many others were watching on the wall. Maybe the end of the slump is in sight
Hi!!! This is the first time I’ve been logged in on here in ages so nice to see you pop up. Hope you’re recovering well.
I will humbly recommend Perfect Marriage Revenge. It’s been the one I look forward to each week, the FL is pretty pitiful at first but the turn around is Awesome and satisfying
It seems like every woman in this drama (except for Xinxing and her friend) is evil, stupid, weak, or a combination. I was slowly won of by Xinxings mom and Anni is tolerable as long as she’s NOWHERE near Zhaoxun. I feel like they are trying to do the same to Tianyus mom. To that I say: no way Jose. But then they somehow made me ship Xinxing and Tianyu.
I’ve always thought that about Zhaoxun and Xinxing from Xinxings point of view. I never thought about how guilty he must feel. Her father’s decision wasn’t Zhaoxuns fault but he’d clearly feel guilty about it. I wonder if he’ll learn that her father visited Yucheng group before his drowning? I hope it lessens the guilt he feels. I can’t ship him with Xinxing (she and Tianyu are just too adorable). But I really hope Zhaoxun gets a happy ending.
Oh, thank you for thinking of me! I’m…ok. Recovery is much harder than I thought it would be. The same week I came home from the hospital my landlord raised my rent by almost 1000 dollars and I hadn’t gotten my car back yet (stolen). So I was trying to find a new apartment, healing, and just doing poorly really. I did find a new apartment and I’m supposed to move in the next couple of days and a couple more bombs fell into my lap including but not limited to being robbed and and an assault. Shrug. Im…as good as I ever am.
Thank you for checking on me. I miss the db community but the last couple of months have been a lot. Like…a. lot.
Oh my gosh, that IS a lot. I’m so sorry this has all crashed down on you. I know you’re very strong just by the way you’ve handled this crazy sh*t for the past many months but it’s SO MUCH to deal with. Sending you lots of healing power and good luck even though that seems hopelessly inadequate. I really do think of you and wish for the best for you.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 17, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Yall. What episode of INAR is Tilda introduced? My buddy watch continues and we’ve started watching the occasional ep in person and I want to plan on watching the Tilda of it all in person. So I can cackle. Because I am a good friend.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
March 17, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Oh LOL Tilda is in it for, like, 1 minute! Blink and you’ll miss her.
The Tilda phenomenon was one of the highlights of INAR for me, just the sheer randomness of it. I still have a tshirt that has #RememberJohnny on it!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 18, 2024 at 4:01 AM
She’s in it for a minute but her effects are felt for all time. Tilda! Also, I want that shirt.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 8, 2024 at 12:43 PM
I am in the middle of (or rather the very beginning of as we’ve only watched one ep) a buddy watch with a day from church. We click play at the same time and chitchat during the ep. She said the first ep was….ok. The drama? I am not a robot. I am not sure how to continue this friendship.
Ally
March 8, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Isa, I still haven’t gotten past the first episode either. 😂
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 8, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Ally! Watch it! It’s so good!
Ally
March 8, 2024 at 7:44 PM
I know. My mom rewatches this show a lot, and @leetennant won’t talk to me until I watch it. 😆
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
March 8, 2024 at 7:57 PM
If that was the case I wouldn’t have spoken to you for the last five (no wait, it’s six) years.
I am not silent but my secret judgement is ಠ_ಠ,
Ally
March 8, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Well, true, I was taking literary license with that statement. I don’t know what is keeping me from actually watching it. Oh, I know, the obvious supratentorial “human allergy” that doesn’t exist. 😂
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
March 8, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Is this your lawyer moment where the practising of Drama Immunology is too unrealistic for you to cope with?
Ally
March 8, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Oh, definitely. Especially after trying to convince moms that their kids really don’t have a life threatening immune condition they are convinced they have. 😆
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
March 8, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Bit of a spoiler but the fact that there’s no such thing as a human allergy is actually a plot point.
That does mean we still get the world’s most unprofessional doctor 😂
Ally
March 8, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Well, I figured as much. I also think I’d throw something at the tv before that happened.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 15, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Do you know, Ally, it makes sense. I watched a Christmas movie once like 10 years ago about a children’s librarian and she (I don’t remember how to do italics but imagine them here for emphasis) held the book the WRONG WAY! Took me right out of the movie. I could never watch it again and every December I’m like (to myself) do you remember that horrible Christmas movie? What kind of children’s librarian holds a book like that? AND it wasn’t age appropriate! And who even were those kids? Like…go to a library movie people. Every December. Sanity isn’t one of my stronger personality traits.
mmmmm
March 9, 2024 at 12:46 AM
It’s light and good. This one.
If she watches 4 eps and still don’t think it’s good, maybe you should consider cutting ties with her. 😂
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
March 9, 2024 at 4:10 AM
😅
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
March 9, 2024 at 10:10 AM
I know we should be encouraging you to have RL friends but Isa perhaps you’re just better off hanging out with Beanies. 😅😂
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 15, 2024 at 10:51 AM
I’ll always ride with Beans! Beanies for life! You can’t see it as this is a message board but I’m totally throwing up some very impressive make-believe bean inspired hand signs. It’s very hard core.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
March 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM
^^ 💯 same. 🎉🎊
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
March 15, 2024 at 10:55 AM
So any progress in drama watching!?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 15, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Not really. I’m hoping this buddy watch helps ignite the spark. I do love a buddy watch. I never finished Marry My Husband and I never even started Doctor Slump and I was looking forward to that because PSH is my first drama love. She’s my ult bias right up there with Rain. But I haven’t even started. And there are a few others I wanted to start but instead I hide under the blankets and watch true crime podcasts, royals conspiracies, and diddy updates.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
March 15, 2024 at 7:10 PM
^^ I love a buddy watch too. We are having a Fanwall Community Watch of Our Blooming Youth – two episodes per week. The first post for episodes 1-2 is up on midnight’s wall. A new post will be up thurs/fri every week on alternating Beanies walls for the next nine weeks. We all will be ery happy in cae you choose to join us for any or all posts. No pressure to continue or comment. You can just hang out with us if you so desire.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
March 15, 2024 at 7:11 PM
* very happy in case 😊
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 15, 2024 at 10:53 AM
We watched ep 4 on Wednesday and she asked me if we should stay up all night to finish. I had to remind her that as delightful as that sounds she’s a mom and she has to be up at 5 to do mom things and teach a class to high schoolers. Did I laugh maniacally at the thought that if I had to wait she has to wait? Mwhahaha and all?
parkchuna ❤️🍉
March 10, 2024 at 12:13 AM
😂
I’ve missed seeing you around Isa!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 15, 2024 at 10:50 AM
My drama slump is legit the slumpiest and life is lifeing HARD. My days, these days, are spent hiding under my blanket binge watching the Rotten Mango podcast. Oh my gosh so addictive! Buy also. The world is a horrible place and I’m going to stay under my blanket forever.
mmmmm
March 15, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Are you a cat meow?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
March 15, 2024 at 12:18 PM
I’m more of a chicken. Unless meow likes to hide under things then sign me up.
parkchuna ❤️🍉
March 16, 2024 at 2:23 AM
I understand the feeling Isa! I hope you’re warm and cozy under the blanket and will pop out once in a while to Beanland to say hello.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 11, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Day 11
One good thing
The last couple of years have been awful. Honestly, when I think about it it’s no wonder my depression is at an all time high (low?). But sometimes, one good thing is all I need to get me over the hump to give me the stamina to do all the not good things.
In December my car was stolen for the 4th time in 1.5 years. I had a rental that lasted for 1 month (have you tried asking your insurance company–nicely–to extend it? My ridiculous mechanic to me) and then it was walking back and forth work. It was bumming rides from people to get to various doctors appointments (I apparently almost had a heart attack/stroke,diabetes, burns, mental health, fractured bone in the back) I have a lot of doctors appointments. I was tired and frustrated and sad and mad and a whole host of other adjectives. I was bumming rides all of the time. I hate bumming rides. I hate asking for help. I decided I needed a car and I needed one now now now
Like seriously
Now.
One day I needed to go to the bank, I needed to go to the chiropractors, I needed to go to the pharmacy and a few other places. Uber is good if you’re going from a to b. Getting a ride is fine if you’re going from b to c. But if you’re going from a to h and you need to stop at each letter in between there’s no real way to get to all of those stops. So, for days I didn’t have my meds so I just wandered around in pain. So, I found a car that I wanted. I had my friend test drive it with me and 2 days later I had a car. No co-signer, just me.
I feel like I’m coming into my own.
I’m only 40. (Eyeroll)
Anyway.
Having this one good thing happen suddenly makes it feel like other good things are possible. And even if other good things is a reach, this one good thing feels like it will help me navigate the rest.
So, here’s to figuring it out.
Even if I have no idea what exactly it is.
Love, February
Bebe | Nessa❣️
February 11, 2024 at 7:44 PM
You got this, Isa!!
Even if you have to break some things down to into a few more steps compared to how others would do it, just so you can do it, and will help you to get that thing done that you NEED done, then do it that way. Take things one day at a time if you have to… But honestly, don’t compare— comparing yourself to others is a dumb and bottomless rabbit hole to go down that ultimately doesn’t end well.
And I totally get you— like, GET YOU— about the thing on bumming rides, because I am the same:
I have a physical condition that doesn’t allow me to drive. If I wanted to drive, I forcibly still could, but the work and the patience and the hassle for me to get to that point is just not worth it— most of which, I’d have to purchase a car and then fork out more money to get it modified for me.
Bumming rides feels like a hassle on most days, and on other days, it truly is a blessing, especially when the one you’re bumming off of is a super kind and sweet person and thinks of you asking them for rides is a way for them to bless and help you— like, are you for real???? 🥹
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
February 11, 2024 at 11:31 PM
So happy for you finally having ann experience that has brought you hope for more answered prayers in the future. Thank you for sharing, take care.
owl 🦉 🫰
February 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Bright spots and one good thing help us look forward. You’ve got this, isa!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 7, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Day 7
So. I’ve broken a bone in my back. Just a tiny little thing running parallel to my spine. So small that there’s no reason to try to fix it. It fix itself. It just needs time. But that tiny little thing took. me. DOWN. For the last week I’ve been hobbling, hunched over like a crone, making it to the restroom maybe 75% of the time and honestly not doing a great job while I’m in there. Every step is accompanied by a swallowed scream, every shift (are you aware of how often we shift) now has a short, staccato, sucking in of the breath. I’m gasping literally all of the time. It’s a problem.
Yesterday morning I fell out of bed. It wasn’t a quick roll over one-time to many and now you’re on the ground. I slid slowly, inch by agonizing inch, until with a (not so silent) scream I was on the ground. I couldn’t move. It took me over an hour to move, and then another near hour to get up. I have rug burns on curious places from trying to stand. Getting on your knees is HARD.
While I was down there, crying, pleading, in pain I remembered my mother. My gosh yall. Typically when I think of her a handful of memories come, her teaching me how to read, reading together on a couch, that time she threw a chicken leg at my head and scream she hated me, the times she said she wished she had aborted me.
My therapist wants me to work on trust. Please insert the dryest, mockingyest heh you have in you right here.
Anyway. When I was 10 years old I lost my keys. I went home and knocked on the door hoping someone was home. The only person there was my mom. She was bedridden, not quite completely paralyzed but definitely not able to walk any distance. But I was her daughter and I was beating on the door and crying and pleading let me in. She threw herself out of her hospital bed and army crawled to the front door (her bedroom was the furthest from the front door) and she let me in. Did I mention she was blind? I don’t know how long it took her. I don’t remember. I remember her pulling herself up (how the actual f did she do that? Like…fr. was my mom superwoman?) and unlocking the door and I sat on the floor with her just inside our doorway and sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. And she held me. And she called me tootles. And we both realized that life would never be the same.
I remember the drugs. I remember the nastiness. But yesterday morning as I fought a pain that I could not overcome I remembered my mom. And she loved me.
Love, February
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 7, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Ha. So. I don’t actually remember how to do Love February. I’m not sure I remember the formating. And it’s been so long since I’ve felt like a part of this community that I wasn’t sure it was right for me to participate. If it’s OK I may have one or two love February posts in me. If it’s not that’s OK too.
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
February 7, 2024 at 2:56 PM
My understanding is what you have written is perfect because these posts are about whatever feels right to share.
Bebe | Nessa❣️
February 7, 2024 at 6:50 PM
This 💯
mugyuljoie is preciousss
February 8, 2024 at 9:10 AM
I’m so glad you added something. I’m not here often and I look forward to your posts. Back pain is terrible and I’m so sorry.
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
February 7, 2024 at 2:57 PM
The pain felt so real I am so sorry you are dealing with this.
Healer’s
February 7, 2024 at 3:57 PM
I hope your pain will lessen soon.
kiara
February 7, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Feel better soon, isa /hugs.
Bebe | Nessa❣️
February 7, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Some days….. some people…..
It might seem far fetched whenever we such things being portrayed in the dramas we watch, but the things the human body, mind, and soul can accomplish when we need it enough, when we WANT it enough…. It’s nothing short of a miracle. It’s not a joke when the grit and inner strength of a person— strength that we don’t think we ever had— comes to a head and the things that it propels us to accomplish is almost always beyond comprehension and understanding from a human— i.e. limited— understanding.
My prayers are with you, Isa, as you endeavour on this journey to recovery ♥️ Keep in mind that it is okay to take it easy, that it is okay to make yourself a priority, because it is when we, ourselves, are at 100% can we then be at 100% for those around us
mmmmm
February 8, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Saying she should have undergone an abortion sounds like a hit phrase to say when a mother is angry. Maybe not all mothers do this, but my mom did it sometimes when I was young and talked back to her (and I think she now regrets it and many things she did when she was younger). It’s sad, but it’s real: what cruel things people say when they are angry.
Did I tell you when I was so sick the only person I thought of was my mom? How funny? The person I resented the most was the very person I thought of at crisis.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 8, 2024 at 11:52 AM
I feel this. My mom had drug problems when I was young and disabled when I was 9ish. I have like a year of having a mother. But when I’m sick and hurt my mom is who I want. Not necessarily *her* but the idea of a good mother. I think it’s normal. I’m sorry about your mother. Physical and emotional pain both suck.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 14, 2024 at 2:06 PM
I hope you feel better soon. Take care. You are stronger than you know. Stay blessed.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 4, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Ok, I’ve started Marry My Husband. Thr first episode is depressing af. But I get its setting up everything else. I’ve never liked time travel dramas. Should I watch or drop?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 4, 2024 at 7:56 PM
The absolute gall of this family! She goes –alone–to thr hospital and learns she has cancer and all her stupid husband and his awful mother has to say is who’s going to cook now? He doesn’t work so all the money coming in is her income and he can’t pull his *ahem* out of her “friend” and come bring HER money to the hospital to pay her bills? He’s. So. Gross. And her friend looks her dead in the eye while she’s plotting her death “ill never leave you”
He’s using her insurance to buy that awful woman a bag?
I don’t know yall. These two absolutely deserve each other. I want her to go back in time and get her happiness and for them to be miserable together but I also want them to go to prison forever and ever and ever.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 4, 2024 at 8:45 PM
We’re 25 mins into the first ep and we’re doing the “let me put your shoes on for you you delicate flower” already? Is this a record?
Wait a minute! Is that my sweet girl from FMW being awful?! GASP.
GIRL. It’s 2013. Make some good investments, go get checked for Cancer every few years and f that jerk you married and his awful mama.
YES!
Oh my gosh this library/bookstore is doing things to my book loving heart and this floppy haired, glasses wearing boss guy is so handsome.
Oh, they really were best friends their entire lives. And she’s sleeping with her husband talking about die already. It
He did the look back! Swoon!
It’s no wonder she has no dang friends.
Dang it. I can’t hate her. She’s so cute. Oh look at her primping when our girl is getting yelled at for how she’s dressed! Ick I’ll overlook her cuteness. She’s a bad person. Yuck!
Oh. Interesting. I wonder if she’ll ever feel guilt or regret it? Like clearly she’s a fake friend and they both absolutely deserve every horrible thing but I think it’s one thing to do something in the moment and another to watch something play out. I wonder if knowing how awful the friend is will help her see how awful the friend is and that will help her sustain her anger to dump her awful fate on her former friend.
Also. Hot boss guy. Is he also from the future?
DancingEmma
February 4, 2024 at 10:34 PM
If you don’t like TT, there is a lot that hinges on it so hard for you to continue.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 5, 2024 at 6:04 AM
I really don’t like time travel. How much time travel is there though? I was assuming it would be maybe 1-4 times? The initial jump, maybe a jump to the future to see if things are better or worse at some point, back to the past again to fix and adjust and a final trip back to the future to pick up and start living her new life. I could handle that, but if this is one of those time travel dramas where were zipping back and forth every few mins per ep I can’t do it. My main problem is I can’t sit still and just…watch a drama. I have to do things with my hands. And it’s too difficult to try and do things with my hands and keep up with a million time lines!
DancingEmma
February 5, 2024 at 6:25 AM
No zipping backwards and forwards so you don’t have to worry about that but flashbacks serve that purpose although no excessively.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 4, 2024 at 11:09 PM
It does get better, but you have to see if it agrees with you. 😊
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 5, 2024 at 5:58 AM
I did really like the first ep as dark as it was. I loved how quickly she’s picking up on things and realizing that there has to be balance. I would have expected in a drama like this to have a few scenes where she’s relishing her future knowledge but I like that they didn’t swerve into something silly they go straight to the plot. But with as heavy as the first ep is I wonder if there’s any lightness in the drama?
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 5, 2024 at 6:59 AM
I don’t think ANY current K-drama can be accused of “lightness” – dark, darker, darkest is the way to go. 😭
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 5, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Boooo!! That could be why I’m just not loving dramas these days. I watch for lightness
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 5, 2024 at 8:11 PM
So … what are your favorite dramas?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 7, 2024 at 2:11 PM
My favorite drama is season 2 of It Started With a Kiss, and then Fight for My Way, Jealousy Incarnate, Another Oh Hae Young, A Gentleman’s Dignity, Chicago Typewriter, I’m Not a Robot, Dal-Jas SpringI could go on and on. The only recent thing I’ve managed to finish to the end was Castaway Diva. I love a Noona Romance oh my gosh. The Thai version of It Started With a Kiss. Kiss Me. I loved all of those but I think theblast time I really had *fun* with a drama, not just watching it but had fun with was when EVERYONE here on db was watching that incredibly cracktackular Emperor drama, and the most recent Boys Over Flowers adaptation and there were groups of us who couldn’t wait for the subs (I think subs were funky that year) would watch all together with one lone bean doing on the spot translating and then we’d all watch again later. And oh my lands, the great beanie ship war when there were a ton of beanies watching A Poem A Day and there was an insane ship war flooding the board but because it was db it was the gentlest most hilarious war that there ever has been. I still have the fanfic that that war spawned.
Maybe I’ve outgrown dramas. So much of my love of the dramas was wrapped up in my love of this community and I come here now and I don’t know anyone. All of the people that I knew back then seem to have…. grown up?and they’ve taken the friends that they made here and they’ve formed a new community. And I’m still here. Without a drama to watch, not really a part of the community anymore. And not really going anywhere with my life.
I’ve always been known (back when I was known) for epic overshares. So there we go.
What’s your favorite drama? What’s your catnip? I love the Noona romances and anything with adults. Which is a solid part of why I love noonas there aren’t candy’s looking for their prince charming there’s grown ass women looking (or not looking) for love and some guy comes and sweeps her off her hardworking feet. A grown up candy, if you will.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 7, 2024 at 2:13 PM
@seeker
Also, i have a well documented love hate relationship with the first 8 eps of Something in the Rain or (Pretty Noona who disappointed tf outta me)
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 7, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Thank you so much for taking out time to respond. You sure had a lot of fun drama watching before. I do hope you get some new dramas you like and find some new friends on DB. 😅
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 7, 2024 at 7:49 PM
My K-drama love started with Full House and hasn’t stopped since. For me I love all things K-dramas. While I discovered DB a long time ago, I couldn’t contribute and have started only recently. But have been a long time lurker and and loved both the old DB and new DB which has been an integral part of my drama watching experience.
Dorotka
February 5, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Watch 🙂
If you fell for Mr.Glasses… and if you want some comeuppance for our (fascinating and well acted) villains, watch. 🙂
There will also come later a smexy HR manager, on a bike. 🏍 😉
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 5, 2024 at 5:54 AM
You, friend, are speaking my language. I don’t know anyone’s name yet, but, I did feel like they were giving layers to the former friend. There’s a duality that I saw in that first ep. She can love and admire and want the best for her friend with her while heart, and be burning with jealousy and want everything the main character has. Both can be true at the same time. It’s like she’s walking on a balance beam, though, what tips her to the point where sleeping with her friends husband, wishing for her best friend to hurry up and die is more important than loving her friend?
As for that husband! Yuck. She says that she stayed with him because she was scared of leaving, of being alone. I wonder if he was ever physically abusive–we know he was abusive in every other way and we saw him shove her so hard she fell through the table and died. And he slammed her against the wall and raised his hand to her without making contact. So. Hmm.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 1, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Now I just need saltnpaper to give me something new and I’ll be quite content.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
February 1, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Vromances new album is flat out gorg.e.ous. It’s only 3 songs but my gosh.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
January 15, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Yall. What a day to be a fan. GOT7s 10 year anniversary and vromance FINALLY announcing a comeback! I hope they get some support this time. They are SO talented.
tabong will tell DuDu couple that she loves them🍉
January 16, 2024 at 12:30 AM
💚💚💚
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
January 12, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Well. I’ve started My Demon. I’m on ep 2 and my lands the end of the first episode was just…pretty. No idea whats happening but boy howdy. Pretty. And for once I’m not talking about the cast (although,obviously) it’s the cinematography and atmosphere and such . The wave coming over them? That was some little mermaid business.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 12, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Well enjoy the … pretty. Sometimes that is enough. 🤣
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
January 12, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Aw man do I need to drop it? I’m only 3 eps in and I’m not attached to anything or anyone. There’s already too much business boringness for my taste. I will drop this drama and go and watch heartstoppers for the 76th time NO PROBLEM.
Anne18
January 13, 2024 at 3:11 AM
No… wait till end of episode 4 at least! There’s a surprise waiting for you 🤣🤣🤣
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 13, 2024 at 5:25 AM
4 episodes (in a 16 episodes) is generally a good rule of thumb to see if the drama fits your vibe. Sometimes it is also about timing.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 16, 2023 at 12:46 PM
Well, I finished Castaway Diva and I have a question. Why was there no girl power duet (or trio) with Mok-Ha, Morae (and Ran-Joo). It was begging for some girl power power rock ballad. I thought maybe we were getting there when we Morae and Mok-Ha were all fired up about their switched song and realized they had no real reason to be fighting and their collective rage puttered out into nothing. But then no girl power rock anthem AND then didn’t storm the CEOs penthouse and kick him in the shin either. Disappointed.
DK-Drama 🫘A+ for Effort👩🏻🎨🪁🌱
December 16, 2023 at 6:21 PM
@john wrote that story on his fanwall.
Because YES we would have liked to see those girl be on the same side!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 15, 2023 at 4:37 PM
So. Dramaland. Where are you hiding the sweet fluffy dramas? Sweet, fluffy, skinshippy and no murders or child abuse?
bbstl 🧹
December 15, 2023 at 6:55 PM
I hope they’re hiding in my Christmas Stocking …
zindigo
December 15, 2023 at 9:11 PM
Soundtrack #2 😏
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 15, 2023 at 11:11 PM
I’ll give it a spin. I guess this means I need to watch the first one. Not a hardship it’s cute.
zindigo
December 16, 2023 at 5:36 AM
Actually, they’re two separate dramas tied together by a “concept.” So you don’t have to watch #1, but I liked it, and it matches your criteria 🙂
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 16, 2023 at 9:20 AM
Well all right! I feel like I’ve read the blurb to 1 a zillion times and just wasn’t feeling it so if I can skip it, I will!
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
December 16, 2023 at 10:16 PM
@zindigo is correct, they’re completely unrelated stories – they have in common only the fact of being short series with music and romance. I found #1 boring (with a side of annoyance at some of the side characters) but am enjoying everything about #2.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
December 15, 2023 at 9:17 PM
Where is this Unicorn …. where …. where??
mmmmm
December 16, 2023 at 8:32 AM
It’s so ironic that such shows have become so increasingly rare in Kdramaland..
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 16, 2023 at 9:19 AM
This is the reason I started watching them to begin with! And now they are being cruelly ripped away! Or, you know, just not made. Which is still cruel.
mmmmm
December 16, 2023 at 9:59 AM
You’re right. Not everybody enters KDramaland with Squid Game or Parasite. I’m not one of those. I think my gateway Kdrama is Coffee Prince or Goong.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 16, 2023 at 12:42 PM
My first 3 dramas were: Coffee Prince, Boys Over Flowers and Heirs.
They are more than welcome to keep their Squid Games and Parasite. Give me more Something about 1%, Jealousy Incarnate, Another Oh Hae Young, Healer, W, and I’m more than ready for a new remake of It Started with a Kiss. Drama land? Are you listening?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 17, 2023 at 9:15 AM
Ohh! I had forgotten about Goong! There was a Thai remake of it but I just could not get into it. Even before the betrothal became a thing the fl refused to call the prince by his title even though she was the only one. Why? It was never explained but it certainly got on my nerves
Midnight
December 15, 2023 at 9:29 PM
In a giant hotel. Except DB is determined to hate it. It was the best show of 2023 for me.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 15, 2023 at 11:10 PM
King the land? I accidentally dropped that. I’ll finish it!
Midnight
December 16, 2023 at 1:18 AM
The only minus point for me is the episode of the Arab prince, which as I knew about it beforehand and I just dislike all depictions of foreigners by Kdramas I just ff through all of his scenes.
I’m just mentioning this because 1. It’s longer than one scene, and 2. I know it’s a particularly sensitive subject for most Beanies.
But for myself, I always ff through foreigner scenes no matter the nationality, be it Arab, Indian, Italian, American, German. Doesn’t matter which. I dislike Koreans’ depiction and I ff through.
But I loved everything else.
Eazal
December 16, 2023 at 3:29 AM
Most of my moots loved it, but after all my moots are Junho fans. I dropped it at episode 8 (I watched episode 9 and 10 in 20 minutes by ff), mainly because I couldn’t care about any characters, but I do agree it’s a fluffy sweet drama, if you can look aside all its flaws.
Midnight
December 16, 2023 at 4:17 AM
Strangely, I didn’t see is as fluff at all. To me it was a very solemn but sweet look at the hardships of today’s workers. And knowing your own worth, while still having to earn your bread. And wishing for a boss who although didn’t understand the hardships at first, but the minute it was explained to him, tried to rectify matters.
Anyways, I have been holding my tongue on a tight reign for the past few months 😄 Better enjoy whatever we wish without needing to defend and explain.
Unaspirated
December 16, 2023 at 5:29 AM
Yes, this. Beanies say they want a rom com without serial killers but I’m not convinced they actually do. More King the Land for us!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 15, 2023 at 1:42 PM
On to ep 11.
I still do not give a flying fig about Ran-Joos mom. Like. Less than 0 percent.
I LOVE the adopted dad. My gosh he’s the safe haven that family deserves after that evil father.
I take back every good thing I said about the CEO. He and Ran-joo are just too dang toxic together. How do you go back to a man who calls you trash and says that not only does he think so does everyone he does business with? Ran-Joo deserves soooooo much better.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 15, 2023 at 3:06 PM
I mean…did they really think Evil Dad would get the results, shrug, and then move on with his life? Of course he’s back and doing evil things!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 14, 2023 at 7:16 PM
Well. I’m finally getting back to Castaway Diva (I accidentally abandoned it on ep 6. The sing off just didn’t appeal and made me not want to watch. But I do want to finish so here we are)….is this drama telling me that this entire time (in the past) Ki-ho had a brother and a mother and they were all getting abused? I’ve never been a fan of oh…he has nice hands and I’ve lost my train of thought.
So veiny.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 14, 2023 at 11:01 PM
So this may not be the drama to fulfill my undying love of romance, skinship, and squee but I’m in ep 10 and several eps ago Ki-Ho announces that he still has feelings for Mok-ha and adds, “what kinda lunatic looks for someone for 15 years if they aren’t interested?” And I swooned. I swooned so freaking hard. Can they just…drop this storyline with the abusive father and the entertainment industry and just let these two puppies heal and fall in love? Because this may be the only drama I finish this year but it would totally be the best one.
Also. I super don’t go about Ran-Joos mom. Like not even the tiniest part of my soul cares about this. And finally I watch dramas to take my mind off of my aging parent not to be reminded of it. So…thanks for that.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 15, 2023 at 1:21 AM
What is the brother’s name? Woo-hak? Chae-un? When he broke down when Mok-ha left? Confessing to his dad that he tried not to fall for her when he knew that Ki-ho had? But that he couldn’t help it? How my heart broke precious boy. And she doesn’t even have a friend that I can ship him with. I hope he finds someone 🙁
And how did this drama make me want Ran-joo and her label head together again? Every time he shuffles in in his pj’s and stares at her all wistfully I’m like put a pin in it and go sleep with that man! He’s hot and the way he stares at her….2 eps left. I’d finish it now flif I didn’t have a doctors appointment in a few hours.
lapislazulii
December 15, 2023 at 2:57 AM
Woo-hak!! I love him to bits – that moment got to me as well. I knew Ki-ho and Mok-ha were end game, and wanted them to be but I’m hoping that Woo-hak eventually finds his own happy ending too, he’s such a precious, sensitive soul 💕
AND YES hahah the CEO, I blame it on the actor doing too good a job with the expressions but I’d also find myself momentarily slipping and then mentally slapping myself to be like ‘nO! remember what he did to Ran-joo!!’
Also yes the ‘what kind of lunatic looks for someone for 15 years if they aren’t interested’ is such a swoony line 🥰 I think it’s how matter of fact he was too that added to the swoon.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 15, 2023 at 10:13 AM
It’s this and it’s also that even when she hates him and wants nothing to do with him….the ceo is who Ran-joo goes to. When all of her chips are down and her back is against the wall and she had nowhere else to turn…she went to him. No questions asked. And he met her at the door, picked up her bags and brought her in. Their relationship is messy and deep and I think I love them? He’s awful but monsters need hugs?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 6, 2023 at 12:47 PM
BamBam is coming to Chicago–same theater that Jackson was in (maybe? Who cares!) and I’m thinking of going. Maybe maybe maybe…
Eazal
December 11, 2023 at 10:53 AM
Go!!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 13, 2023 at 4:04 PM
One of my coworkers is interested in going and listen to this story!
So, yesterday I got a new coworker. My manager came to introduce her to me in my little cubicle and she looked around and said, “oh! You’re army!” to which I replied, “uh, NO! I am most certainly not!” I have hung up on my cubby shelves: Vromance, CNBlue, 2pm and Got7. I listed GOT7 and she was all, “OH! I like GOT7!” So I asked her if she knew about BamBams concert and she said she and her sister were thinking of it. So, new kpop friendly coworker who likes GOT7 and likes them enough that she’s interested in going to see BamBam. Squeee!
Eazal
December 15, 2023 at 10:08 AM
These are some amazing news, Isa!!! I’m so happy for you!!!
And nothing against BTS and Army, but there are other (tiny in my case) fandoms out there, so I feel your pain, hehe.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 12, 2023 at 11:45 PM
I’ll watch ep 6 tomorrow, but right now, as ever, I have *questions*. Questions like why did I think this was a fluffy drama? Why did I keep watching when the first ep was heinous abuse? Why was I surprised when the drama dropped its fun, light hearted couple of eps and slid into murdery nonsense. Why is this whole family lying to Ki-ho about who they are? Why won’t evil dad give it tf up? Is he bitter that he didn’t get to murder ki-ho so he’s hunting him to rectify the situation? And finally, who decided a mash up of frothy songs and murder and abuse was the dream juxtaposition?
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
November 13, 2023 at 12:31 AM
All very good questions.
I am watching on for Park Eun-bin … but otherwise my heart is not in it.
Also why take out insurance and why attack the insurance agent just because he asked you to stay away from Ki-ho.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 12, 2023 at 7:12 PM
OK Diva, ep 3 here we go. I have bad feels already.
tabong will tell DuDu couple that she loves them🍉
November 12, 2023 at 7:18 PM
Ohhh, Isa. Long time no see!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 12, 2023 at 8:04 PM
The drama slump is real and life is dumb.
tabong will tell DuDu couple that she loves them🍉
November 12, 2023 at 9:39 PM
🙁 I hope Diva helps you with the drama slump at least.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 12, 2023 at 8:02 PM
I really want Ran-Joos pj’s. And for someone to punch President Lee in the face.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 12, 2023 at 8:36 PM
I saw it mentioned somewhere that people thought that the adult Mok-ha was more immature than the child Mok-ha. My thought is: OF COURSE she is. The first 15 years of her life she was in survival mode. Trying to stay alive while getting viciously beaten (and who knows what else) by her father. The next 15 years of her life she was in survival mode: deserted island edition. This is the first time in her entire life that she’s been free to just be. It makes total sense that she’s going to be immature for a minute, especially as she’s adjusting.
Now. I love romance. I love it. I love love. But I’m not sure I want that in this drama. She needs therapy to get through the first 39 years of her life. She needs to learn and understand what it means to be an adult. She survived alone for 15 years but her social and romance skills are that of a child.
Are one of these dudes Ki-ho? I hope he’s ok…..I think I want one of these puppies to be him. I love the thought of him being taken in and LOVED and cared for. After what his father put him through–after the beating her evil father gave him? He deserves all the things.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 11, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Well, it’s too the recaps for me. I’m looking at this sweetpeas sweet set up on her island and….did she earn her engineering degree while stranded here? Is her little island where every helpful good in the ocean goes to disappear? Where did she get all of those umbrellas?! I have so many questions.
bbstl 🧹
November 11, 2023 at 7:25 PM
I believe a pallet or perhaps an entire shipping container of umbrellas foundered upon the rocks of her island by the looks of things 🤣
jillian
November 11, 2023 at 7:33 PM
I think we are supposed to believe that various items washed ashore her little island.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 11, 2023 at 8:27 PM
This drama had me tearing up watching her hug her idol. Also, I cannot tell the brothers apart. They have the same pajamas, the same job and dang near the same hair!
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
November 11, 2023 at 8:29 PM
We had heard of plot armor … perhaps the new deal is plot umbrellas.
Also what is with these Treasure Hunts of different colored umbrellas.
For future reference I know Yumi’s Cells had a blue one.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 11, 2023 at 2:32 PM
I finally started Castaway–midway through the first ep and GOOD NIGHT this drama is dark af. I didn’t read anything about it, just remembered the chatter here a few weeks ago and thought to give it a go. I’m going to take a little break and clean my kitchen. Does it stay this level of dark or should I just drop now?
bbstl 🧹
November 11, 2023 at 2:43 PM
No, you can proceed without fear although there is something sinister lurking around the edges later is how I’d characterize it.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
November 11, 2023 at 6:35 PM
Beautifully said. 👏
bbstl 🧹
November 11, 2023 at 7:23 PM
@seeker, did you watch 5 yet? I fear I spoke too soon!
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
November 11, 2023 at 8:16 PM
Busy PMR-ing. 🤣
Watched for about 15 mins till Wo-hak was standing on the road looking up to the “house” and remembered that gif.
Then thought better to wait till 6 and watch both together after PMR.
Has CD turned very dark?
bbstl 🧹
November 12, 2023 at 9:38 AM
It’s certainly turning in that direction for me!
bbstl 🧹
November 11, 2023 at 6:05 PM
@isa: I’m not a serial killer having just finished 5, I came back to say that for me it’s getting pretty dark again. I thought we were getting a Cinderella success story, why is it becoming a mystery? Fooey.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 11, 2023 at 6:54 PM
Man. I just hit play again and I’m ready to hit pause again! This stupid old gossipy man is going to get these kids killed. Mind your ding dang business, man! I love this little boy and I hope he’s OK. Dang it I love both of these kiddos and it’s only been 43 mins.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 11, 2023 at 7:03 PM
OK, where they going to let that evil man kill that little boy? How come not a single adult tried to help him? Tf? Also, her father was busting into her bedroom? Is he a molester on top of beating her? This is a lot for my first foray back into kdrama land. I’m going to need something fluffy like…immediately.
bbstl 🧹
November 11, 2023 at 7:22 PM
We can offer you 2&3, it gets fluffy for a while! But I’m looking askance at 6 after watching 5 is all I’m saying 😬
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
November 12, 2023 at 10:01 AM
It doesn’t feel like a side / slice of darkness anymore.
I am enduring only for Park Eun-bin. She is magical but the Ki-ho’s father’s storyline is just too much.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
October 29, 2023 at 11:47 AM
I think I’ll try Castaway. It feels like it’s been literal years since I watched a drama that so many others were watching on the wall. Maybe the end of the slump is in sight
Ally
October 29, 2023 at 5:52 PM
You can’t go wrong with Park Eun Bin.
Katrina
November 12, 2023 at 10:35 PM
Hi!!! This is the first time I’ve been logged in on here in ages so nice to see you pop up. Hope you’re recovering well.
I will humbly recommend Perfect Marriage Revenge. It’s been the one I look forward to each week, the FL is pretty pitiful at first but the turn around is Awesome and satisfying
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 12, 2023 at 11:40 PM
Hey! It’s been awhile! I’m recovering. Slowly. Way slower than I ever thought possible. I may be going in reverse?
I have never been into dramas–any media, really–about couples that are already together. I’ll take a look, though.
Katrina
November 13, 2023 at 7:43 AM
Oh they’re not together
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 13, 2023 at 6:29 PM
It seems like every woman in this drama (except for Xinxing and her friend) is evil, stupid, weak, or a combination. I was slowly won of by Xinxings mom and Anni is tolerable as long as she’s NOWHERE near Zhaoxun. I feel like they are trying to do the same to Tianyus mom. To that I say: no way Jose. But then they somehow made me ship Xinxing and Tianyu.
I’ve always thought that about Zhaoxun and Xinxing from Xinxings point of view. I never thought about how guilty he must feel. Her father’s decision wasn’t Zhaoxuns fault but he’d clearly feel guilty about it. I wonder if he’ll learn that her father visited Yucheng group before his drowning? I hope it lessens the guilt he feels. I can’t ship him with Xinxing (she and Tianyu are just too adorable). But I really hope Zhaoxun gets a happy ending.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 13, 2023 at 7:41 PM
I do think for the most part all of these moms think they are doing what’s best for their kids. Maybe.
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
September 17, 2023 at 11:15 AM
Hi! Haven’t seen you for a bit. How are you doing? No worries if you don’t feel up to responding, but I’m thinking of you.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
October 15, 2023 at 8:01 PM
Oh, thank you for thinking of me! I’m…ok. Recovery is much harder than I thought it would be. The same week I came home from the hospital my landlord raised my rent by almost 1000 dollars and I hadn’t gotten my car back yet (stolen). So I was trying to find a new apartment, healing, and just doing poorly really. I did find a new apartment and I’m supposed to move in the next couple of days and a couple more bombs fell into my lap including but not limited to being robbed and and an assault. Shrug. Im…as good as I ever am.
Thank you for checking on me. I miss the db community but the last couple of months have been a lot. Like…a. lot.
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
October 15, 2023 at 8:22 PM
Oh my gosh, that IS a lot. I’m so sorry this has all crashed down on you. I know you’re very strong just by the way you’ve handled this crazy sh*t for the past many months but it’s SO MUCH to deal with. Sending you lots of healing power and good luck even though that seems hopelessly inadequate. I really do think of you and wish for the best for you.