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Apr. 13th, 2022 07:56 am
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 Suho's album was indeed really good. Way better than his first one. Liked every song a lot, except I think Moment was a bit boring lol but yeah. My new philosophy wrt EXO is to stan the solos of all non-traitor members.  That's the only way I can avoid the traitors without completely trashing EXO. Though, if they release another album and Chen is in it, I'll probably listen. He's honestly the only member i LEGIT care about anymore. 

In other news, I finished King In Love finally. I won't really go back on my dislike of the CP bc i thought he was honestly a selfish asshole and just bc he did some ok things at the end doesn't really change that. At least Rin and San got to be together, i think that's all i cared about lol.  Speaking of that kind of investment, I had this weird realization the other night when I was watching Sword Snow Stride that part of why I really like it, other than it's unusually funny for a wuxia/xianxia, is that I /don't/ have any investment in any certain character, narrative, or couple. So it's like oddly UN stressful to watch. 

Now, you'd probably generally equate investment with engrossing, but it doesn't seem like that's the case bc i've been totally engrossed in watching SSS, i'm just not invested in any specific aspect of the show. It makes sense in my head lol. I mean, just compare it to King In Love that I just finished. I was VERY invested in 1. Rin and San being together as a couple and 2. Rin and San not dying. Both of those things were very in doubt at different times, which = more stressful to watch. 

My question is kinda whether investment is just a personal thing that depends on the person and the show, or if there is some kind of secret manipulation these shows engage in to create that level of stressful investment lol. Not sure, but i really like SSS for not having that. To a certain extent, ToTC had that too bc i felt sure that Su Mo would complete his mission and more or less live. I wasn't invested in him and the girl though or even the kingdom coming back. 

ANYWAY lol.  I also finished Lotus Palace, the first full length i read from Jeannie LIn. The ending was kinda funny, but it worked. Now that i know the plot of the second book, i like how she kinda set it up with a few hints in this one. The feeling of reading a romance Cdrama with the addition of sexytimes, i like it. Speaking of that, rating her sex scenes, she mostly does a good job i'd say. Sex scenes in romance novels are so controversial bc sometimes they're incredibly absurd in tihe language used is massively cringe. But other than the unforgivable use of the term "organ" she did a good job. Tbh, it's more offensive when authors use ridiculous language for the girl's parts lol and she didn't do that. 

That's about it. I feel like I'm really juggling my dramas lately lol. AND I want to start Tomorrow, which is ongoing so i will be prevented from binging but i have to start it soon bc they release 2 eps per week but it goes into May 20th or smth. 

jah

Apr. 8th, 2022 08:16 am
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 Hah so Lay finally left SM. Well, his contract expired, but he sure couldn't wait to get it out there on the 10th anniversary lol. Despite him and SM both being all, but he's still part of EXO uwu. THey're so shameless. So ig he's just gonna keep pretending he's part of EXO for whatever reason. I wish some of the Korean members would leave to really tear things up, but who tf knows. The group is still ruined for me thanks to the traitors. I never did listen to their last mini or whatever before traitor 1 and PCY went to the military. Currently, I really only care about Chen, who is coming back pretty soon. Suho's new mini looks a bit interesting though, i'll probably check that out. At this point, the only way i can avoid the traitors is to avoid the group, so I just listen to solo stuff from the other members.

Forcing myself to listen to something besides Show Luo today lol. Release Radar singles mainly, and maybe a couple of EPs. Have been watching some random Show stuff lately too. Mainly tour clips and some dance version MVs. He had some kinda TV appearance a few months back and performed some stuff. A new album is definitely coming bc he never just releases singles. And the lyrics from Trap Game very strongly imply a comeback, but they even do more than that lol. It was very much a fuck the haters kinda song.  Which is kinda funny and will probs have ppl calling him arrogant, but ig TG in particular did good when it came out. To me, his "scandal" is just a personal thing. I mean, ppl are free to leave or whatever, but his fans that stay and still want to hear his music and whatnot, they shouldn't be persecuted either bc personal failings are not the same as criminal behavior.

AND WE SURE GOT A LOT OF IFANS WHO SUPPORT ACTUAL CRIMINALS *coughseungricough*

But anyway lol. 

I did highkey forget that Show can play a bunch of instruments, like the drums, guitar, piano, etc lol. I saw some tour clips with that. Ugh i really hope the new album is coming soon. 

Last night I watched more of King in Love and the cat drama. The former is ok but gosh dang i can't stand that crown prince. He's super selfish and annoying. Cat drama looks like the cat will finally admit that he's a cat lol. I really need to finish some shit so i can quit being annoyed at having to choose. 
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 The two biggest Kpop fandoms, or well, used to be the two biggest, i just witnessed some examples of their stupidity. First of all, EXO lmao. Their fandom is clearly literally made up of nothing but solo fans who hate every other member. I went to some old accts i used to follow, who were PCY fans, but they were also Sehun fans bc they liked SC and all of that, well guess what?  Now they hate everyone except PCY. So basically, if any fan of any other member says even the slightest negative thing about PCY they go all ballistic and attack whoever that member is. I mean, i'm sorry HOW DERANGED IS THIS. It's completely and absurdly deranged. Meanwhile, you got Sehun fans running around calling PCY a cheater at every opportunity and look at my last post, who cares? Who cares if he really cheated? How is that your business?  WEIRDOS.

Then, in the other corner competing for the mental illness champion of the year, we have BTS fans trending a hashtag about how BTS is bigger than the rest of Kpop, which on the surface is nbd, but if you look at all the quotes, what they're celebrating is that only BTS has the rights to the golden gate of Western acceptance and not the rest of lowly Kpop as fucking IF Western pop is better than Kpop lmao don't make me laugh. I've noticed that in that fandom though. They are very Western centric and they pride themselves on always saying that BTS has transcended the lowly level of other Asian pop and made it into the vaunted and celebrated superior Western sphere, the implication naturally being that anything Western is superior than anything Asian. 

It's actually really gross and one of many reasons i hate that fandom.   OH and here, this is rich, they're also tryna say that the hashtag isn't xenophobic bc Koreans also used it and said BTS is above Kpop. Yeah lol i've seen Knetz comments a lot of them have a sugoi amount of internalized racism where they TOO believe Western music is superior and BTS gaining Western attention is a sign that they're BETTER than other Korean music. This is not a good defense, sorry. 

In other news, Deng Lun was convicted of tax evasion so idk what will happen to the new Ni Ni drama. Ffffffffff. I was lowkey looking forward to that.  Maybe they can refilm his parts and replace him with someone I actually like, like Bai Jingting lmao. 

Also saw some Pann post where Knetz were complaining about the age gap in some drama. I looked it i up and it's fucking FOUR YEARS. FOUR!!  That's literally a freshman and senior in university kinda thing. Y'all age gap pearl clutchers are getting WAY out of hand. 

but whyyyy

Mar. 13th, 2022 01:41 pm
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 Lol i gotta say, I find it really weird and dumb that PCY stans on Twitter are so strongly focused on insisting that he didn't cheat on his alleged gf or whatever it was she accused him of, assuming that his girl was real in the first place. There's really no proof either way from a neutral POV. But these stans are out there angrily grabbing every post about that and insisting that it's not true. To me, this is the wrong way to go about this lol. i mean, putting aside for a second that the people who are so offended by PCY cheating on a gf or having hordes of ONS women and all of that, those people are highkey dumb too. 

But my question for both camps is why do you care? You don't know PCY, you will never know him IRL, you will never be his friend, much less his girlfriend, why do you care what he does in his private life? Like, is that why you're a fan bc you believe him to be someone who closely follows your own moral code? Bc that is WEIRD lmfao. I stan people for some combo usually of their looks and talent, sometimes personality if it's in any way relevant, but a lot of the times it's not bc i don't have time to check out everything they do offscreen or away from music yk?

So I could not care less if my faves are dating 500 women at once or have no concept of a monogamous relationship. I really don't care. It's not my business, they're not my friends, and as long as it doesn't badly affect their career, i just don't care. Hell, even if i did care, it wouldn't make any difference right?  I don't care who else wants to stan them and who doesn't. Some people have zero good reason to not like someone. It might be something they personally believe in, but makes zero sense to anyone else.

Y'all need to quit policing everyone else's morality, and especially in fandom spaces because that's not even real life. For example, I don't like Wang Yibo. I don't like him bc he's bad actor and he has a fanbase of annoying af fujoshis whom i can't stand and he was in that stupid wuxia that all the ifans love so much bc hits all their fave fetishizing notes. The fact that he's a bad actor is less important than all the latter stuff, which I totally blame him for. SO it doesn't matter what else he does, I will always dislike him for those reasons. And idc if you think they're irrational, i will still dislike him even if you argue against any of the points i just said.

Point is, if there's people who don't like PCY bc they think he's a cheating womanizer, unless PCY HIMSELF comes out and strictly and explicitly says that he's neither one of those things, those people will always dislike him. Your insistence that he never did this that and the other will not get through to them.  That's why i say that the best method is to not care. Because if you're out here arguing madly that he didn't do those things, what you're saying is that you care about whether he did or not and your standom is based on those things. If you don't care, then you're free. If other people want to dislike him for any reason, that's their business. 

You wouldn't go to the park and set your picnic down next to the only pile of dog shit, so why are you so focused on and obsessed with the stuff you can't control? Namely, other people and the things that offend them. Find another spot in the park lmao. 
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 If I can put down the rather large list of dramas I'm eyeing to start whenever I manage to finish Rise of Phoenixes, Lost in 1949, and The Four mainly. I've also started Longest Day in Chang'an, but I can only watch one tense historical at a time and ROP won that round. So at the top of my list right now are:

- The Lost Tomb 2 (with Hou Minghao and Cheng Yi)

- Martial Universe (with Yang Yang)

- You're My Hero (DOTS ripoff with Bai Jingting)

- In a Class of Her Own (with Wang Ruichang)

- Noble Aspirations (with Li Yifeng and Mao Zijun)

- Dance of the Storm (with William Chan)

- Romance of Hua Rong (with Yuan Hao and Ian Yi)

- Age of Legends (with William Chan)

- Destiny of White Snake (with Ren Jialun and Mao Zijun)

- Guardians of the Tomb (with Ian Yi and Evan Ma)

- Secret of Three Kingdoms (Ma Tianyu)

- Psych Hunter (with Hou Minghao)


I feel like I'm forgetting something lol. Well yeah, there are a few other Republican-era dramas that I've been eyeing but don't have big feelings for yet.   I don't have any super strong preferences since I'm just gonna miss Chen Kun and his next big drama isn't coming out until next year.   Those are obviously all Chinese dramas. I have no Korean ones or even Japanese ones I'm strongly interested in right now. Psych Hunter and The Lost Tomb 2 are kinda catching my attention when i looked through the photos. They look pretty action-y. I guess it will depend on what I'm in the mood for when I decide to start something else lol.

In other news...it's so pathetic how traitor #1 is a grown-ass man and is constantly begging and whining about whether his (mostly female and younger) fans will stay with him after enlistment. I for one hope they don't. Why should they be loyal when you couldn't be? Just enlist and disappear. I'm looking forward to 2 years without having to hear from your whiny ass.