just realized in both my sweet mobster and her private life both MLs get super into what the FL loves (being a photographer/fansite for deokmi, being a kids' content creator for eunha) and support them unconditionally 🥺
I've just finished Her Private Life and I really enjoyed it. (Love the middle bit the best - when they're first getting together)
What got me onboard was the deconstruction and study of fandom/fangirling culture in Korea and its positive and negative effects
Love the open communication in the relationship
Vulnerability
Both ready to apologize for what they done wrong
Trust
The miscommunication trope only lasts for like 5mins cause they act like decent adults that actually talk things over for clarification.
Loving and supportive of each other's hobbies
Both have common sense!! Good at deduction! (eg. Ryan figuring out the identity of Road to Sian because the handwriting, Dukmi spotting the single stroke canvas and realizing that Ryan has difficulty drawing etc)
Seeing these values in shows is so refreshing.
(Though I am gonna day that I did not expect the big interconnected dump of childhood trauma in ep15)
[I'm new to kdramas so if you have recommendations that fall into this category
ok i lied i'm now rewatching her private life atm and forgot how much i loved ryan gold bc my man (albeit mistakenly) thought deok-mi and seon-joo were secretly dating and went above and beyond to stop them from being outed, even agreeing to fake date deok-mi. he's a true ally 🏳️🌈
"Noo I didn't mean to do that!🥺 He may have gouged my eye out, never apologized for it and grinned at the memory of bullying me, but he didn't deserve to die!
Aemond after Aegon made fun of him in a brothel:
"Fuck the fact that we're on the same team, fuck the fact that he insisted to have me on his council because I'm his brother, fuck the fact that this would doom our cause, this asshole has to die."
"well, the premonition i'm having is us, old, and we sit on park benches, tripping teenagers on floaty things with our canes." "i'm better at it than you." "of course."