#Geumhoo

[randomficqueen]

Random BL icons

A small mix of BL icons for everyone's taste. I have been half obsessed with several of them so I needed to share something about it here for the memory. I confess that I still have some left to read, but we're on it.

[iamavillainandtodayismydayoff]

Taming the Tiger💗

The Poetry!😭 The Art!😭😭 The Beauty!😭😭😭

There are some stories that get etched in your heart forever and whenever you go back to read them its always the same feelings, same love and same tears... for me TTT will be one and only! BWAT's storylines and character designs will always be my fav but TTT is something else!!! It has some cliche tropes which i usually dislike like Amnesia and Minor Minunderstandings but they are handled so well that I don't even mind~ The poetic writing and the developing love of these two had me in tears for a long long time😭😭😭

Anh Geumhoo and Beom with their beautiful story will have a special place in my heart!!!💗

[ororosmunroe]

Is anyone reading Taming The Tiger (Eyes Clouded by The Tiger)????

It’s on Lenzhin now and i’m dying to talk about it with someone. 

[strwbrrybxn]

You can't tell me they are not the cutest couple around 😤

Just look at them 😤

[saezurumurmurs]

Geum-Hoo-ah!

Look at him in full seduction mode… Beom stands no chance.

[ororosmunroe]

Yes! This irked me so bad!

I love the intimacy of language. English just isn’t built to handle stuff like this in such short succinct fashion.

Geumhoo calling “Beom-ah” denotes closeness that break social norms (noble and commoner) and I feel missed an opportunity here.

They could’ve been put a translator note to explain???

Anyways, Geumhoo is so gone on Beom lol.

NOOOO WHY DOES LEZHIN REMOVE THE HONORIFICS???

GEUMHU CALLS BEOM AS BEOM-A IN THE ORIGINAL AS GEUMHU IS SO AFFECTIONATE OF HIM 😭

[iamavillainandtodayismydayoff]

Never seen a prettier man than Ahn Geumhoo🤤

Going through my picture gallery... I am falling for this man again~ UGH ITS TIME TO RE READ TAMING THE TIGER AND SUFFER LETS GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[strwbrrybxn]

I am so in love with beom and geum-hoo. you can't tell me they're not perfect 😭

[ororosmunroe]

I’m just going on a rant because Taming the Tiger (korean manhwa) is the moment and yet it’s being slept on.

In terms of spicy/story telling, I have very basic wants/standards.

Consent. 

It has to be there. 

The bar is hell ya’ll. 

Get it together. 

Both mains have to have an actual personality. 

I gotta either root for you in some way at an individual level. 

Being a dickhead AND boring in 2022? Pass. Pick a struggle.

It can’t just be about the get down. You gotta give me something else. Give me a plot line to laugh at, to cry about, to love and hate. Make me feel something. 

Taming The Tiger is a period webtoon, let’s just get that out of the way. If that’s not your flavor...still read it because it’s that good. It gives you everything, without being cluttered. 

Taming The Tiger has not only continuous enthusiastic consent but also checking in on your partner during the deed (again, the bar is in hell but let’s normalize that in writing please???) 

But moving on from the spicy bits...it talks about real shit. Social class and  discrimination. Homophobia. The hope and push for equality at many intersections. 

Beom (the tall brown character) is constantly discriminated because of his social status (he’s a butcher, he deals with blood/killing which is seen as unclean and is considered the lowest of statuses). It’s constantly noted that he has “foreign” features, something akin to westerners/foreigners. Basically his features don’t align with your typical Korean citizen. He has been attacked for his features. And it has gotten to the point where he actively avoids people (especially in the dark due to his unique eyes). 

Beom is blocked access in many aspects. He cannot get proper clothing. He is expected to interact with others in a certain way. Geumhoo knows this and he can’t stand it. He asks his teacher (who is a dark skinned woman) if the future that she told him about...the one where there are no nobles or commoners could happen in his life time. That in that time, could they, two men..be accepted. 

Geumhoo allows 0% disrespect when it comes to Beom. Consistently. And I’ll be honest it’s the thing that saved this webcomic for me. Especially when it comes to Geumhoo’s former love, SeonWoo (fyi I hate the dude he’s an asshole).  

I continued with this webtoon because he is always thinking about Beom. He is always thinking about a future with Beom. Marriage with Beom. ANOTHER LIFETIME WITH BEOM. As long as it’s with Beom, he’s good. 

And neither one of them has said that they loved each other (which kills me but it makes sense). Geumhoo KNOWS Beom wants to say it. But he also knows that if they say it that will put an even bigger target on their backs. Geumhoo got enemies because he lives a reckless life...and his uncle wants him dead.

There is a line where he’s talking to himself, and to paraphrase, “Don’t Worry Beom. I’ll become fiercer/more powerful. So even if you do say it...no one will be able to do anything about it. No one will take my spring away.”

Bruh. 

Geumhoo is about that life. He is fight first ask questions/forgiveness later. I love and hate that about him. 

The power dynamic aside...Beom is allowed (and encouraged) to essentially do what he wants. It’s even noted by other servants that he is different from the rest of them given how Geumhoo dotes on him (but fringe benefits happen they become cool with it...for the most part). His asks are humble because he was never allowed for much. It drives Geumhoo crazy and wishes to teach him what greed/ambition is. He wants Beom to be able to stand 10 toes down and be too much. 

But just as Geumhoo wants to teach him greed/ambition Beom passively re teaches Geumhoo vulnerability. Warmth. Kindness.  

They balance each other out and at the same time enable each other (they’re both unhinged but only when it comes certain situations). 

They have both being through such terrible things that they are terrified to lose the other. Yet they still do everything to bring each other happiness even at the risk of getting hurt/dying or just flat out being separated. 

They are the ride or die couple. 

Their biggest problem is communication (which seems to just be the trend in fiction). They (rarely) fight, but forgive easily. 

Their relationship is so healthy (despite the bits of unhinged), wholesome, and real that out of all the comics I’ve read they are at the very top of favorite couples. It needs to be talked about more. 

[ororosmunroe]

Geumhoo loves Beom so much 🥹

I cannot believe that series is already almost over like bruh??? Wtf???? I need 100 chapters AT LEAST. And that’s not including side stories.

[ororosmunroe]

I love how Geumhoo really didn’t think of marriage at all and then he meets Beom and in 2 or 3 episodes is like…I’m betrothed.

[ororosmunroe]

Obviously there are more…sea friendly…ways to read the comic but trust me those translations aren’t that girl. Trust me they’ll make you want to buy the official chapters.

Lezhin is way behind Bomtoon but the translations are *chefs kiss* for the most part. It’s the general limitations of the English language  that annoy me and it’s  not the translators fault.

Geumhoo (the nobleman) refers to Beom (the butcher) as “Beom-ah” (the level of affection of someone dear/close) but the Lezhin translation doesn’t include that and it makes me sad.