Not Today

 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. 

 Sitting here watching someone's dog and I can't decide what I want to watch since I only have my lappy with me.   I found a thing that discussed the original novel behind ROP and it's interesting that the Zhiwei character seems like she was at least as ruthless as Ning Yi.  Bc in the drama version of ROP, they wove a certain ridiculous idealism into Zhiwei's character that allowed her to be offended far too much at the things Ning Yi did. And furthermore, led to the ridiculous ending where she decided she couldn't live with the trail of death that she and Ning Yi wrought.  Despite the fact that most of those deaths were due to others trying to kill THEM and those others often killed innocents who were in the way. Like Shaoning for example.

But don't let facts get in the way of your tragic ending. :B

I said I understood and even accepted the ending, but tbh, I like the idea of a Zhiwei who gave no fucks right along with Ning Yi. I also saw some promo pictures that highly implied Zhiwei and Ning Yi marrying after the latter became emperor, so I wonder whose ass they pulled that ending out of. 

Aaaaanyway lol.  As I've been catching up on everything Chen Kun lately I watched the Mojin movie the other day. It was aight. Nothing amazing. Visuals were good but it was very short on plot and there was absolutely ZERO excuse for Chen Kun and Shu Qi's characters not to kiss at the end please.  I was also highly amused at the first flashback where all the dumb commie kids pulled down those old statues and got eaten alive by demonic insects. 8D  In things that should happen IRL.

I found Chongqing Hotpot on YT though and like Mojin, I've been wanting to see that for awhile too. It seems like a dark?? comedy of sorts and believe it or not, as hot as Chen Kun is, he's also quite funny. 

I wanted to try Psych Hunter but it looks like my only real choice is those pirate sites bc it's not on YT and it's only available for IQIYI VIP.  My gosh it's so annoying though whenever I go to shoutboxes on MDL and have to watch a bunch of dumb girlies bitching about female characters in dramas. Like, just say you hate women and go.  No one ever ranks on the annoying male characters as if there's not any. They are always saying the female characters are in the way of their perceived bromance lmao, like sorry to inform you, but guys can be close close best friends and still be into girls. sTUpid incels.

Twitter is so boring mid-afternoon my time like everyone's asleep. One of the many things I hate about stan twt is when ppl defend their fave by dragging the person's fave who's dragging THEIR fave. As if that makes it better or makes any kind of difference. Been constantly seeing Chanyeol fans drag Chen in response to presumably Chen fans dragging him and it's like????  Kay. Now you're a trash idiot too yay. I also don't understand why PCY fans have to insist that his ~scandal~ was definitely not true. It's like the Jim Jones nonsense with Suga. The best way to shut these idiots up is just say you don't care. I don't care if PCY cheated on his girlfriend with every hot girl in Seoul. I seriously do not.  I don't care that Suga used a sample of a Jim Jones sermon. I still have that copy on my hard drive and listen to it all the time. 

These are not real problems, you weirdos. Where PCY sticks his dick has no affect on your life. Jim Jones is dead. A sample of him saying some random verse in the Bible won't hurt you. If you didn't know who was saying it, you'd be none the wiser. Knowing changes nothing except in your stupid head. 

I saw some quote from Suga that was so wise. THe gist of it was something like, most of your problems are in your head. He was talking about himself like, he realized that most of his perceived problems were in his head and that's exactly right. Too many people let foolish shit get to them.

 Lol i'm back. But I'm done with Kpop so anyone happening upon this journal, just forget everything that comes before this post bc i don't care anymore. I'm still a fan of some random solo artists and sorta girl groups, but I really don't care about boygroups any longer. EXO is ruined for me thanks to the traitors who joined another group and all the stupid fans who supported them so bye bye lah. I briefly considered going back to BTS since I love Suga still, but nah, that group is ruined for me too bc they no longer make the music that made me listen to them. Now, rapline gets hardly any lines, esp Sope, and their vocalists are still trash af. I liked BE for the most part and I guess it's good that they're not pots and pans like most boygroups out there but nah, I only like Suga and Hobi. 

Anyway.

Decided more or less to go back to an older fandom: Cpop and Chinese entertainment in general. Of course, the ifandom for it is as dumb as ever but just in a different way. The landscape has massively shifted from being focused on Taiwan and Hong Kong to the mainland, but that's not all that surprising when you consider the political situation. The CCP has way more power than it did 10-12 years ago, which is when I first got into it. HK is basically irrelevant now on their own. And Taiwan is not much better. Stars in both places have to work in the Mainland in order to have work at all.

I'm not a fan of how this went down necessarily, but at the same time, I won't lie that dramas and movies being higher quality and more available means that I get to watch more of them. Bc I'm not just done with Kpop, I'm done with Korean dramas as well. I watched a buttload in 2016 and 2017 and just got sick of how a lot of them were the same stupid romcoms.  Japanese dramas I will still watch occasionally if I find an interesting one that's been subbed. Bc Japan has the problem of wanting to keep all their shit out of gaijin hands. 

Reopening this so i can rant about things that are too annoying to rant about on TWitter. And Cpop Twitter is really stupid and annoying bc they're all newbs who got into it through either Yixing or other Chinese EXO members, or survival shows, OR that stupid Untamed drama. Don't get me started on the faux BL in Cdramas that fujoshis are ridiculously obsessed with lmao. They're such misogynists bc the only thing they want is no women. The dramas themselves could EASILY be construed as simple friendship only. Censors won't allow anything else so that's literally all they are. There's more "romance" in American buddy cop movies. But yeah, it gives MALE actors an easy way to get coin and popularity as they then move onto bigger and better things lmao. They even have a slang for it: going out to sea. That's all it is to them.

Dumb girlies.

My other rant is how much i fucking hate Yixing stans. I don't dislike him personally. But his STANS seem to think he's God's gift to Cpop and his music is showstopping never been done before when it is literally NOT. There are several Cpop artists who have been doing what he's doing for longer. Like Gong for example. They think mixing hiphop and electro beats with Chinese traditional music is new. They also think he can rap. I can't stand they asses. I have to refrain from dragging Yixing bc he doesn't really deserve it but ye gods his fans are insufferable.