DEW Thoughts

Like - I genuinely don't know most of the new stars and I don't keep track at all of what's airing or coming up. Even when I see something come out, I can't muster any enthusiasm to check it out tbh.

But then - we are at the second half of October and there hasn't been a single kdrama I loved this year, not truly (Ioved first half of tangerines but when it switched to daughter's life, lost interest.) I used to have a dozen+ kdramas I adored per year, easy. Last year there was ONE (When the Phone Rings) or maybe one and a half since Goryeo Khitan War finished in the beginning of 2024.

Proper adult melo is pretty much dead as a genre. So is proper or even fusion sageuk for adults (the few they make, like The Murky River or that gonzo thing with back tattoos do not feel like sageuks; nor do they have the run time to develop anything.) It's all procedurals, sageuks that are for tweens and involve modern people playing dress ups, shrill romcoms, and Disney and Netflix making kdramas into basically American shows with Korean actors (when I don't care for American shows for a reason, that does me little good) and aborted short seasons (with a tendency for multiple seasons sometimes.)

It makes me think of how it was with jdramas for me. Pretty much nobody on tumblr knows this since it was long before tumblr time, but I got into dramas via twdramas and jdramas. With regard to jdramas, I used to devour them, keep track of airings and upcomings, know the actors etc. And then 15 or so years ago that stopped because they stopped making romances and other type of stuff I loved and did other stuff instead. So I drifted. And never came back. I will still occasionally watch and enjoy a particular jdrama, but in terms of keeping track of them or any active interest in them that's gone. And it's really really sad this is the way kdramas are going for me too.

Meanwhile, some guard on duty just trying to do his job:

When he says that while wiping her blood off her mouth omg.

Combusting...

I love when she can finally relax.

MMMMM YES YES YES

He’s claiming it’s to fight NK but all his listed complaints are about the opposition and being impeached. Head of his own party spoke out against this.

To me it reads like a coup (source - lived through one elsewhere plus common sense) and I think best case scenario he gets talked down, mid scenario is the whole place might explode like Georgia (and worst case back to dictatorship times.)

The world has gone mad.

By now, this character irritates me by just breathing.

I mean the way she looks at every part of his face...

And he catches her and she is utterly unashamed and he's now staring at her eyes and mouth mmmm

He's shy and she's not hahaha

Seriously, love them. He got her a perfect egg.

And wants good luck with her noodles too.

Vamp Daddy is DISCOVERING DESIRES AND MMMMMM