Not Today

 But LJ is down right now so here I am. Just noticed someone reblogged my Killer Healer photo compilation with a tag essay about how bad the show supposedly was lol like ok, it wasn't perfect, but it what it was a superior shounen ai that wasn't overly pandering and featured two MEN and not one who was basically a woman like so many of the female writers do. The ones with the internalized misogyny lmao. BL fans mostly have mush for brains ngl. I can't believe how many people were actually romanticizing the awful twisted relationship between the opera singer and that nasty director dude who killed and manipulated so many people and basically tortured the opera guy until he died. There was ZERO reason to like that relationship. It was toxic and abusive. 

Netflix needs to remove that Word of Honor splash from my homepage. I have NO interest.

Anyway, def prob gonna watch Inuyashiki next.  Places to watch:

https://fulltube.online/inuyashiki-2018/

 https://kissasians.org/detail/inuyashiki/  ;

I see it's on Japanese Netflix, but I got rid of my VPN so i can't switch regions and who knows if it would have subs anyway.  I really hate how hard Japanese stuff is to find and I always end up regretting tryna get into it again lmao. But fffffffffffffff I've stanned Sato Takeru since I first saw him in the first Kenshin movie that's almost 10 years wow. He was already remarkably mature as an actor I thought back then, but even more now, it will be so interesting to see him in the last two Kenshin movies. It's funny though bc i spent the last 10 years kinda looking out for his appearance in dramas and I did watch Bitter Blood when it came out but like...he really hasn't been in many dramas at ALL. Not since Kenshin anyway.  Only like sixish?

But he's done a lot of movies.   And ofc I mean five Kenshin movies lol. I'd like to see him in more cop stuff like Bitter Blood though slkdfjldk. That was so funny even though it was pretty simplistic. But like, Kame has been in a lot of stuff like that and I feel like Sato should be too.  Don't ask it's bc when I first saw him, I really thought for half a second until I saw his name that he was Kame's brother. I still feel like they have similar features but not as much as I did lmao. 

In Kpop nonsense lol there was an article that said HYBE tried to buy SM last year and i SNORTED. That would have been so funny. Now that I'm on the outside, I find the stupid egg obsession with hating on BTS to be ridiculous. Ofc, not to say that BTS fans are in any way smarter about their discourse but still. Eggs are coming from a dumb place considering SM has destroyed the cohesive fandom and the group with their hybrid mockery attempt at a BTS group appealing to the West. So they deserve it. 

I think my favorite thing about this site is the random icon option when you post, otherwise it's frankly quite shitty in every way.  People loved to complain about every new thing Livejournal did all the time, but this site is essentially what an old, unupdated LIvejournal looks like.  It seemed like there used to be more icon slots too, but now you have to pay and it's like hahah yeah right.  Oh the other thing I love is this skull mood theme and the one where it has a coffee.

So I'm almost done with Goblin, one more episode to go.  I honestly can't believe people were complaining about the girl's acting, like seriously?  She was absolutely great.  You really felt the weight of her emotions in every scene.  And since i'm one of those jerks who largely ignores the female characters, that coming from me is very rare.  The last few episodes I was seriously getting confused on who remembered what lol.  But probably my favorite part, other than that hilariously gay scene where the Reaper tries to hide the Goblin from Duk Hwa, is where he tells Sunny his name is Wang Yeo.  It was subtle, but it felt like the hardest thing he'd ever had to say.  There's some fine acting in this show, honestly.  All the mains are truly fantastic and I can rarely seriously say that about any show.  There's always someone overacting like fuck.

Still pressing on with Wu Xin.  That commander cracks me up bc he makes the most ridiculous faces.  Speaking of overacting...lool.  Main guy though has some abs damn.  I feel like I've seen the Yue Ya girl in something before.  Waiting for Mike D'Angelo to show up, I haven't seen him in a minute.

Saw an article about fans hating Junno from KAT-TUN for I guess leaving and going solo and ugh that whole thing frustrates me so much.  On one hand, I can understand bc it's like, wow, you knew KT was hanging by a thread and then you just bailed anyway.  PLUS, not even to change your path, but to release solo music.  And honestly, his solo music so far has been really sub-par.  I thought when he had solos with KT that his voice was pretty strong, but his solos have shown so far that it's not.  I like Junno a lot and lowkey want him to succeed, but I'm not pretending these singles have been good and honestly, leaving and then making a U-turn on music was kinda shitty.

Was perusing AKP yesterday and saw some article about D-list celebs namedropping BTS or whatever and their fans eating it up.  Tbh, in all my years of following Asian music, I have NEVER understood why other fans are so jonesing for them to get recognition here.  Like, just stop.  It won't happen.  They'll get recognition as a curiosity, nothing more.   Americans have no tolerance for foreign acts and they especially seem to have something against Asians.  Plus the celebrity culture is totally different here.  If the choice is being recognize as a curiosity or not recognized at all, I'd choose the latter.