#ko so young

[phosphophylight-of-my-life]

oshi no ko aqua is such a fun character bc by most counts he's a more than decent guy.

in his first life he regularly visited hospital inpatients who had no visitors. he was genuinely happy and excited to help Ai deliver her babies, because he wants her to be happy on her own terms. he saves Akane simply because he can, and gets angry at the staff on her behalf. he doesn't stop at saving her life and spends sleepless nights turning around her public image. at that point there was nothing in it for him to keep akane around, she was just a person he was able to help and wanted to help.

by most counts he's a pretty decent guy who steps up when people need him most, except. except he's also a guy who really wants to kill his dad and that makes him manipulate people somewhat often and this is somehow not entirely at odds with his instinct to help others

[peppermint-moss]

reached another $8 in ko-fi donations! tysm!! Here's the storyboard for my needletail amv! C: (audio is 'my die young' by penny parker)

commission info || tip jar (ko-fi)

[gayanimebitches]

spit facts, old man in a 17 yr olds body!!!!!!!!

[mishkakagehishka]

I just . Repeating "characters are tools" you end up erasing so much about arashi's character and motivations and interactions with other characters if you avoid using her pronouns aka avoid showing she's transgender. It's on the same level of frustration with the translators i had when i saw they had Mika speaking standard English, there's a LOT that gets lost if you don't show those little things.

[splinteredsoul]

Beat (1997)

dir. Kim Sung-su

[bigbarabelly]

Bb Ko and his dads waaaaa

[thetoaddaddy]

we all like to pretend that Jiraiya would be someone’s rock and in most cases he is. But the second he’s in that delivery room he’s one of those gets too emotionally rushed and faints. He’s a big guy so hopefully they move somethings out the way :/

[ice-diameta]

It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020)

“A fairy tale isn’t a hallucinogen that gives us hopes and dreams. It’s a stimulant that makes us face reality. So I hope you all read a lot of fairy tales and wake up from your dreams. … The moment you realize that and accept your reality, Everybody Be Happy. Happy Happy.”

Do you agree with this quote?

I’d been neglecting this as a wip since March and only finished it recently😅 This quote is from It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, probably my favorite K-drama ever. What I liked most about this show was its interpretation of fairy tales and how they correlated with the plot of the show. I personally think it’s an even better crossover with fairy tales compared to the Once Upon a Time series🤭

Another quote from this show that I feel personally rn is “... He may have only done it just once, but I can’t ever forget that.” Even in a period of time filled with bad memories, there is a single good memory in your heart that you could never forget.

[celiaelise]

Watched the first 2 episodes of "It's Okay To Not Be Okay". (recommended to me by my mother who watches a lot of kdramas) I like the fairytale themes, and children's books and mental health/developmental disabilities are both topics I'm interested in!

But I have to say, while I am TRYING to suspend my disbelief. That man should absolutely get a restraining order. She 1. attempted a murder right in front of him, 2. assaulted him w a knife, (didn't mean to but he did get hurt and she didn't seem that sorry) 3. was generally just really weird and up in his personal space and making creepy comments, 4. attempted a SECOND murder right in front of him, and VERBALLY EXPRESSED her disappointment when the man is only injured. 5. FOLLOWED HIM TO HIS NEW JOB IN A DIFFERENT CITY

Like. I actually DO think Ko Moon-young is a very sympathetic character, and I can see the justification for a lot of the shit she's done, but. If it were ME in Moon Gang-tae's shoes, I would be Taking Action. Running, hiding, calling for help, contacting my attorney, etc. (Though idk if he's, like, undocumented, in a way? bc he ran off with his brother as a kid? So maybe he can't take her to court.) Like, you've just acquired a stalker who has repeatedly demonstrated herself to be capable of violence!!! This is NOT A DRILL!!!

I mentioned my thoughts to my mom, and she was like, "yeah but she's he's First Love 🥺 You can't control who you fall in love with." Absolutely not!!! If your First Love attempts murder in front of you TWICE and then TRACKS YOU DOWN to a new job in a new city??? I would say that is probably some sort of red flag! I think that might make me not be in love with someone anymore! 🤷🏻‍♀️ Plus, he even SAID his memories of her were specifically bad memories!!!

[regaleur]

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[laderniereseancedecedrique]

PROJECT WOLF HUNTING (2022)

De dangereux criminels se sont échappés de la prison de Manille et montent dans un cargo partant à Busan : une émeute s'y réveille entre eux, durant la traversée en plein océan Pacifique en trois jours.

[onenakedfarmer]

Watching

PROJECT WOLF HUNTING Kim Hong-sun Korea, 2022

[blackvahana]

[braceletofteeth]

tag someone you want to know and/or some of your besties.

I was tagged by @fourth-quartet 😊 Thank you!!

favourite colour: Gray but I'm currently in a brown phase

last song: I've got recently reacquainted with Beginner by AKB48 😄

last series: The Kidnapping Day. It was a lot more wholesome than the name suggests.

last movie: Saw X (surprisingly also a lot more wholesome than you'd expect????)

sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet :3

currently watching:

Koisenu Futari

Chains of Heart

The Golden Girls (season 1)

Love in the Air (2nd rewatch)

other stuff I watched this year: Not listing all of it here (I've never watched so much stuff as I did in 2023), but I'll mention the ones that I enjoyed watching the most from each month so far (*not including rewatches):

JAN: Wednesday

FEB: GAP

MAR: Not Me

APR: Tick, Tick... Boom!

MAY: Utsukushii Kare

JUN: Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938

JUL: Takin' Over The Asylum

AUG: Marry My Dead Body

SEP: Utsukushii Kare: Eternal

OCT: The Sandman

shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: I barely remember the ones I watched till the very end 🤡 But ok, let me see...

Eve (dropped after one episode; Rich People and their Rich People Problems™, I think was the reason)

A few straight GMMTV shows that I didn't really catch the name (I. Well. I just. I just couldn't make myself give a fuck, ok 😔)

+ Currently deliberating whether or not I should drop Chains of Heart. All the subtitles I've found are lacking in terms of coherence, and the story itself is already not the most straightforward, so I can only hope I'm understanding what's going on at all? 😀 And I'm also not feeling the main couple from either the present nor the past (? I suspect they are the same (but I may never know))... HOWEVER, I like the acting of the main, and the Thai scenario that is not Bangkok for once. That's always refreshing. And sometimes the cinematography is pretty too... Decisions, decisions...

currently listening to: Back for More by TXT & Anitta (I went after the link for it and distractedly searched for "banger" instead of the title 😆)

currently reading: Codename Villanelle (it's a small book but I'm. ..struggle)

current obsession: I'm not obsessing over anything at the moment 😟☹😫 Have been too busy with mundane adult life problems (therefore, as you can imagine, I'm just about going up the walls here :))

tagging: @eatprayworm @thisautistic @hyp-no-tic @visualtaehyun hi 👋

[emesismedic]

Idk man it's just that this song suits them so much if hurts

I'm working on an animatics & comic so yeh

[verygoodcomments]

oh yes on the topic of submissions...

i had one from someone in my inbox from YONKS ago that tumblr is not letting me post for some reason. that person also sent me an ask about whether i could provide links to the videos/places i found the comments on (i would just answer their ask but it explicitly references their submission which, again, tumblr won't let me post... and also it was from ages ago) so let me answer that here

unless i think that mentioning the source amplifies the comment, or provides some humorous context, i usually don't do that as a general rule. if someone asks for the comment source and i still remember what it was, i'll tell them, but i don't tend to mention it explicitly on the post itself

i don't tend to redact pfps or usernames (to give some form of credit to the authors of the comments, sometimes they make the comment better, they're already public on the internet & usually posted on videos by youtubers exponentially more popular than my blog & usually post obscure comments i had to scroll for quite a while to find anyway, it's fun when someone recognizes their own username, etc etc), so this is an alternate method of security against people trying to be weirdos to the featured commenters. most of my posts come from youtube, which doesn't even have a direct messaging system anymore, which is simultaneously why i feel fairly comfortable leaving pfps/usernames unredacted on these comments and why i feel it's better if i try not to provide TOO many context hints at least in the actual text of the post. just on the off chance some bitter weirdo wants to try being a bitter weirdo, you know? and if someone goes all the way out of their way to try and track these comments down explicitly to bully these people, then at this point, it kinda seems like redacting that stuff wouldn't have helped anyway. while i definitely do not condone harassing anyone from here, i also... don't think it'd exactly be My fault there, and entirely the fault of this hypothetical extremely brainrotted rando. this has, to my knowledge, never once happened, but just putting that out there

i do give little hints or context notes in the tags on occasion, under the general assumption that anyone following this blog knows that this is a place of comment appreciation, an art gallery of Internet Humans. usually it only extends to mentioning the youtuber or what type of video it was, but as a general statement. this is the other part of my philosophy here: i enjoy hunting for comments as a sort of peoplewatching-esque hobby and i think other people should try it out (so long as they have the self-restraint to NOT reply to people even if they make you mad. it's never worth it man.). i also think it'd be a fun treat for someone to only get a hint, figure out what video it was, and then go on their own hunt and see the comments in the wild. i often skip over Loads that don't quite make the cut so you'll probably find something else fun in there

does that make sense? it does to me. anyway if anyone ever wants to know where i found a comment just ask and i'll tell you, so long as i remember. fair warning, the older the post the comment is on, the more likely i am to have forgotten what specific video it was. i usually at least have a vague idea of the original poster and/or the content/topic of the video but sometimes i don't