Not Today

 Long time no see DW lol. Gonna put this here to not clog up my LJ and whatnot. Actually, there's no rhyme or reason what I put here or there. 8D.  But so, i watch and have watched a LOT of Asian dramas over the years. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese. iT'S MOstly Chinese these days and I haven't watched a Taiwan in years now. But as many different genres as i'm willing to try, the modern romance drama has just GOT to be the most difficult shit to get right. I won't even touch medical, so that's not a thing. 

By modern romance i mean a drama set in modern times where the romance is more or less the main goal and there are not any extra genres like crime, action, comedy, mild fantasy/sci-fi, etc. And I don't mean /friendship/ dramas where there might be romance, but it's mainly about the friendship of a group of guys and gals.  Upon looking over my entire drama list, I can only find about five that I actually finished and enjoyed. They all had one thing in common: they were either Japanese dramas, or they starred Vic Zhou. 

So my question to myself is WHY the heck I keep tryna watch them when they suck so bad. I actually used to watch Taiwan ones when they were popular, but most of them sucked as well. It seems like only Japan can get the modern romance drama right. I think the main reason they do is bc they're short. No one wants to watch 40 or even 20 episodes of melodramatic nonsense. 

Sadly, part of why I watch or try to watch the Chinese ones is that inevitably, it's the only way i can hear a favorite actor's real voice. Supposedly, that's changing, but not fast enough. Right now I have two on my list in Moonlight with Ding Yuxi and Win the Future with Chen Kun. DY is super cute and his character in that drama is hilarious, but everything else about it is super annoying, and mainly that's the FL. 

Chen Kun is one of my top favorite actors EVER, but i'm struggling to enjoy the appropriately acronym-ed WTF. The subject matter is just so boring and just when you think less things could happen, even LESS happens. 

So I'm super mad that I'm still considering watching She and Her Perfect Husband with Xu Kai and Love At Night with my newest crush Liu Xueyi. Bc they are prolly long and i will prolly hate them by episode 10 or so. 

UGH.

i AM JUST SURE they could do a better job of making these dramas interesting. And they could start by halving the amount of episodes. 

 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. 

 New albums and whatnot bc i like to take a break on the new stuff at the end of each month to reply things lol. So I listened to the new minis from Moon Byul, Whee In, and BamBam, plus Durdn, Co Shu Nie, and The Cheserasera, oh and fromis-9.  Mamamoo girls are solid as always, but i think i liked Whee In's album more than MB's, plus I liked MB's previous album better i think. BamBam is probably my favorite GOT7 soloist at this point though. Him and maybe Youngjae. 

Apparently that's all i have to say about music lmao. Well, i was poking around on stan Twt the accts i remember and whatnot and ye gods Lay stans super super annoy me. They act like he's some special snowflake who had to work harder than everyone else somehow like please. He actually had some entertainment experience from when he was a kid even. Honestly, no one in Chinaline had any kind of particularly hard time except maybe Yifan bc he spent a lot of time in Canada and whatnot, but that gave him the extra benefit of knowing multiple languages. But they act like Lay makes the most unique music and should get extra kudos just bc he didn't leave the group.

First, stop fucking fooling yourself. He did TOO leave the group. Just bc he didn't walk out on his contract like LuTaoFan, he did leave the group. He obviously worked out some kinda backdoor deal with SM to technically stay in EXO while doing his own thing. He, like a former moot said, did indeed get the best of both worlds. It doesn't matter that certain fans hate him, bc that happens no matter what you do. Kfans had already started hating on him after Tao left. He wasn't gonna win with them no matter what. But, by staying with EXO, he gets to save his moolah and pat himself on the back for not being a traitor or whatever like the other three lol please. 

Second, his hip-hop Chinese traditional EDM fusion is 100% NOT new. If you've been around Cpop for longer than EXO has been in existence, you would freaking know that. Gong and Tai Yi are two excellent examples and there are many more. 

Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly have any beef with Lay other than his strong CCP support that goes above and beyond most other celebs, but my gosh i can't stand his fans. They are truly annoying and ignorant. That's why i was laughing when they were beefing with WYB fans, like overrated celebs with stupid fans, y'all deserve each other.