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@perioddramasource: Period Drama Appreciation Week 2024

day one | favourite period drama

R O M E 2 0 0 5 - 2 0 0 7 (created by John Milius, William J. MacDonald and Bruno Heller)

[d0ttt]

Scott! What did you say to her?!

Alternative title: Jo beats the shit out of Scott

Idk, just wanted to draw these two XD

-DOT

[qiu-yan]

imagine that you're jiang cheng and you have a meeting at jinlintai to pick up jin ling / discuss jin ling's educational plans / etc etc.. you arrive earlier than expected, so they tell you that lianfang-zun is still busy with his sworn brothers. that's okay though, you can spend the time feeding the koi in the koi pond with jin ling.

looks like jin guangshan is also busy which is alright because you don't want to talk to him and wait holy shit did chifeng-zun just kick lianfang-zun down the stairs????? huh?????????

maybe it's time to go back to lotus pier

[nano30cm]

ain't they cute?

[imswansong]

It’s kind of ridiculous how the Evilive subs (or the ones I’ve seen at least) censor everything the characters say and water them down. Like why would you have Doyoung say “jerk” when he actually called Dongsoo a son of a bitch? Why have him say “we could’ve remained friends” when he actually said “we could’ve stayed together until the end”?

[evansbby]

my opinion on the Blake lively situation

[mengyan]

watching ajtl is like being told that you will be kicked down the stairs of a 500 story building, accepting that you will be kicked down the stairs of a 500 story building, then getting kicked down the stairs of a 500 story building, screaming crying and throwing up while tumbling all the way down, and finally arriving at the bottom to get a pat on the shoulder and a bandaid that says "congratulations for surviving" 😊

[love-geeky-fangirl]

Teen dramas really had me believing that NYU is a community college and Yale and Princeton are backup schools huh

[xoangel-dust]

Random Duncney Headcanons:

*might be a bit OOC and unrealistic but idc*

Duncan gets out of jail 3 years after the ending of All stars on good behavior

Courtney was assigned as his lawyer in the case to get him out of jail.

Having nowhere to go Duncan after getting out of jail he begs Courtney to stay with her for a little while (she reluctantly allows him to since she has a spare bedroom)

While being a felon Duncan has a hard time getting a job so he has to get his GED

Since she’s a lawyer now Courtney isn’t home too much so Duncan (who doesn’t have a job yet) cleans her entire apartment while she’s working.

Courtney still has their pet Raccoon Brittany

Duncan fails his first GED test but Courtney helps him pass the second time around

Duncan still calls Courtney Princess

Geoff and DJ jokingly call Duncan Courtney’s “house husband”

At first Courtney barely talks to Duncan but she gets used to having him around (he does get a part time job)

He gets back on his feet after about 10 months(she while she wont admit it doesn’t want Duncan to leave)

Duncan who has always wanted to be a mechanic starts working at a local auto repair shop and decides to take a few engineering classes at a community college that’s 20 minutes away from Courtney’s apartment.

Of course he does this after an argument with Courtney (she refuses to allow him to bum off of her)

She had to take him shopping for new clothes after he got out of jail, he jokingly said they were on a date.

After a year and 4 months they’re practically living together and get a long a lot more than what they used to but not without their usual issues resurfacing.

Duncan does become an engineer after graduating and lands a job at a major car manufacturer

Courtney becomes a big time lawyer

Courtney bought Duncan a nice suit (she surprised him with it he protested to wear it but liked her kind gesture) and she gets him to go out with her to a fancy restaurant

They’ve been staying together for 2 years now and during another heated argument Duncan asks Courtney to marry him (he’d been tucking money aside in a shoe box for months to get a ring he knows she’d love he doesn’t trust banks )

[kexing]

my top rated drama being a gl

[sweatycoffeeexpert]

Rating K dramas:

The penthouse: 1000000/10 the plot twists were everything😍. They were super shocking! And the plot itself was just *chef's kiss*

Night has come: 10000000/10 I loved how it's horror AND a little bit of romance at the same time

Marry my husband: 100/10 I already read the webtoon but the drama is even better😍

A shop for killers: 11122223/10 because I love how they portrayed the female lead (Jeong Jian) as a badass😍😍😍😍

[xaz-fr]

Is the currently drama around skins/accents that people don't sign up for them so people can't fill them and thus buy the blueprints? Idk I haven't been paying attention.

Make accents.

People like dressing their dragons. Unless you're well known or the art is insanely good skinscents are a harder sell because they're more expensive. More people have 500g laying around than 800g (or can accumulate the remaining they need quicker). Most people do NOT have thousands of gems or millions of treasure laying around.

This is an old anecdotal statistic but a lot of the playerbase doesn't even have even a million treasure in their vault, or they consider that to be a lot of money. Idk if that's still the norm but I know for a long while it was. And like having 500g is a lot for many many players.

This is not 'don't charge what your art is worth' or 'don't do limited runs to make people sign up for accents'. This is 'other than the wealthy most players are poor like most new accent makers too' so filling your first skincent order is harder than an accent because most people don't have 800g to send you to help you buy a skin BP.

And I am beggggging people to remember how to make accents. I love accents. Please make more actual accents and not accents with so much extra stuff it turns into a skincent. Take off wing coverage, remove some of that drapery, go easy on the amount of jewelry. A lot of people love dressing their dragons and would love your first foray into accents to accentuate it!

[corpsentry]

there’s something so epic about hetero chinese period dramas and i think one part of it is that there is absolutely nowhere in the narrative i could exist.

lately i’ve been on a western media detox— i’ve cleaned english language music out of my playlists and have never been able to stomach western dramas anyway, so that part is easy— which might seem funny, because if i’m in singapore and i hate it and i won’t touch american music then what’s left? the answer is the false binarism of chinese period dramas, at least for me. the badly written ones are misogynistic and stupid and the better ones are less of those things, but regardless the world that emerges is clean-cut and easy to parse. there’s someone to root for and someone to hate. there’s a girl and a boy. there’s the comedy and the drama, the sheer thick drama, the music that signals to you precisely how to feel before the scene even starts going

try to jam a fifth culture transnational transgender they/them with 2 mental illness and 1 autoimmune disease into this world and it simply doesn’t work. and that’s kinda epic lolzers! it’s like watching high fantasy, or super hardcore sci-if. it both represents a simulacrum of the real world and is so far from the reality you know that you understand it as a hypothetical universe, one that disincludes you on principle. i exclude myself from the story and in doing so fangfei from moyuyunjian’s steely gaze becomes all the more important. i give so many shits and laugh and yell and spectate. but i am safe from the eyes of its inhabitants. if i entered the story it would break. so i sit outside of it, clapping by myself

in other news, we gave up on mysterious lotus casebook 16 episodes in. there are many character archetypes in these shows that i can no longer stand; the salacious sexy seductive supervillain lady is not necessarily one of them but the way they did miss ‘this man didn’t even Look at me when all men fall at my knees so i hated him’ ‘no one is allowed to steal buttchin from me’ jiao was way up there. surely a woman can have multiple personality traits and yet you would think from this drama that that is not at all true. and the strange harem that grew around li lianhua despite his absolute loser attitude— like i get it, he’s the gintoki of this show, that’s hot, but the way the women who were into him were written made me want to Eat Horse. it bothered me that di feisheng and lianhua’s homo as fuck dynamic was so intriguing and them + fang duobing was a winning trio but all the women in the show were written like complete fucking ass, and one of the big antagonists being a woman, the stakes throughout were not only lost to me but also Pissed Me Off. also, that case about the corpse flowers dragged on forever and all my pocky wilted

I Just Think, women deserve better in these damn stories. make them slutty as hell, sure, but make them other things too and i mean this in the most generous sense. slutty and proud. slutty and weird. slutty and oblivious. literally anything at all so they don’t come out cardboard flat from all angles. this is why i have a personal vendetta against the ditzy clueless female protagonist as well because if everything stems from the fact that she doesn’t know shit it’s like please someone Please tell her shit i’m on my hands and knees begging. give her more to chew on she’s dying of boredom over there

this is why i liked the so called antagonist of blossoms in adversity best (spoilers ahead). he was cruel as hell to huazhi and gu yanxi’s only parental figure. he was paranoid and selfish and lonely and craved a son’s love from the one person he couldn’t hold onto. in the end he is pushed further and further by huazhi, who won’t give in, to isolate yanxi from the people he loves and to lash out at those people as a way of punishing yanxi. and when he dies it’s because of his own distrust, his own negligent parenting, his absent cruelty from decades of insomnia and lack of faith in his people. but he cries for yanxi, and there’s something so human about that. to think of evil not as a first principle but rather an adjective for a verb that is set in motion by other events. to be honest, i haven’t seen such thoughtful writing in any chinese period drama before or after that and i strongly suspect i will never see such writing again in this genre but man, it was so fucking good (spoilers end).

in the meantime, i’ve dragged my mother to moyuyunjian/the double for the return casting of liu xiening and wang xingyue who are Eating so hard. they’ve got wang xingyue done up with the sluttiest makeup and liu xiening is breaking my heart with her pout and her Sassy Mean constitution and this is a revenge story, yes, but it’s a double revenge story. it’s a grief story. and fangfei is carrying more on her shoulders than lingbuyi imo, and doing so with much more grace too. her step mom’s a dick but she’s a smart, 5d chess playing dick who wears hot shades of green so i’m personally interested enough to keep watching (something lotus casebook DID NOT accomplish with their epic female antagonist…. mein gotte). and the princess too. unhinged as hell but god, so charismatic. and beautiful, with scary big eyes and the sweetest head tilt. fun fun fun! that’s fun character writing right there. the comedy might be too straightforward for my tastes but everything else is kind of hot and sexy And after the coming of age ceremony when jiangli appeared amidst the flowers i felt my throat close up even though we saw her for all of one (1) episode). i was like yes. they got me alright. i Care now

really that’s all that matters isn’t it. we want stories about people we care for. we want to give a shit. why else would we listen to the stories of other people. we are looking for us and the people we love in them

oh also moyuyunjian soundtrack goes hard as hell i love a little three step waltz. here’s a pic from the ‘gym’ for ur time. guten night