#save me ocn

[frances-and-the-moon]

So! I am compiling a list of all K-dramas/K-movies with Bromance (+ BLs w/ ratings), divided by genre/trope. If you want to help me out in this long-ass task feel free to add them/categorize them in the replies! :)

(Ratings are personal)

Merciless Evil Devil From Hell group (aka Morally Dubious Men):

The Merciless (K-Movie); - 9/10

Beyond Evil; - 10/10

The Devil Judge; - 9/10

Strangers From Hell; - 9/10

Evilive. - 8/10

Homoerotic Antagonism that develops into the I Would Die For You Trope:

The Guest (OCN); - 8/10

The Worst of Evil; - 10/10

Alchemy of Souls (Go Wong/Jang Uk); - ?/10

Friendship/Bromance that develops into the I Would Die For You Trope:

Bloodhounds; - 8/10

Weak Hero Class 1; - 10/10

D.P. - 9/10

To add & categorize bc I haven't watched them yet:

Bad And Crazy;

Stand By Me;

Through the Darkness;

Tunnel;

Save Me;

Goblin;

My Country: The New Age

Actual BLs I've watched:

Kinnporsche; - 8/10 (so far the most "grown-up")

To My Star; - 8/10

The Eighth Sense; - 8/10

You make me Dance; - 7/10

My Personal Weatherman; - 8/10

Night Flight (movie); - 7/10

White Night (movie, 2012); - 8/10

Method (movie); - 8/10

Only Friends; - 7/10

BLs I haven't watched yet:

Bump-Up Business;

[introspectivememories]

timber save me au, my beloved

[oddbiscuit]

I love that it's been nearly five years since I watched OCN's save me and I STILL think about Woo Dohwan as Seok Dongcheol. They just don't make characters like that anymore. There's something so special about how willing he is to help people. All self-preservation aside, he's jumping in to save people, but he's not stupid. As much as he says 'I'm all about guts' he's still pretty fucking smart. He realizes which situation requires tact and deliberation and which situation requires quick instincts. I think what makes him different is that he's capable of playing the slow, smarter game but also completely willing to throw all logic out the window if the situation requires it- because at the end of the day people come first for him.

And boy oh boy do I love characters that are good people at the heart of it. When even hell itself cannot eradicate the goodness of a person. Loss may have misshapen or disfigured their heart, but it cannot beat the love out of it- and that's the essence of Dongcheol to me.

[cashmere-caveman]

is there a gif set somewhere of that scene in ocn's save me where sang-hwan and dong-chul lie on the ground after beating the shit out of each other and dong-chul says "dont come looking for me again." and when sang-hwan asks why he answers "it hurts to look at u" bc !!!! i have been thinking abt this since yesterday. objectively insane scene.

what if we used to be best friends but then i refused to testify on ur behalf in court bc my dad was up for re election as governor and asked me to stay out of this bc he didnt want to get involved in any scandals so u went to prison for a thing that wasnt ur fault and ur only living relative who gave a shit abt u, ur grandma, died alone and as a direct result of my actions while u were in prison and then when u got out i avoided u everywhere bc i was ashamed but then i tried to make amends after all even though u really werent in the mood for that bc u have no reason left to trust me after i abandoned u and fucked u over out of filial piety and then u said u dont wanna see me again bc it hurts to look at me but later we find out that u actually keep a polaroid of us w our friends in ur locker at work 😳 and we were both boys 😳

[convenientalias]

Which is my favorite Kdrama network?

When I'm bored I like to list and categorize things. Today I've decided to discover, statistically, which Korean drama network is my favorite based on shows I've watched.

Including both shows I've completed and shows I've dropped bc in this case, the shows I don't like are relevant.

Using my ratings from MyDramaList :) which means however I felt the first time I finished watching a show, basically. Not including networks where I've only watched one show (e.g., Disney+, Wavve, Channel A).

JTBC:

Agency--Dropped

Beyond Evil--6

Itaewon Class--Dropped

My Country the New Age--10

Private Lives--Dropped

Reflection of You--Dropped

Sisyphus: The Myth--Dropped

I can't believe this network produced My Country the New Age when everything else I've watched by them has been a flop for me. Beyond Evil came the closest to breaking the curse but even then. Itaewon Class is one of my least favorite shows I've ever tried to watch; I've forgotten most of the details now but a bad taste lingers.

KBS:

White Christmas--10

Mad Dog--8

The King's Affection--10

River Where the Moon Rises--Dropped

Should I have given River Where the Moon Rises more of a chance? Bc apparently this network only makes bangers.

MBC:

Extraordinary You--7

Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung--9

The Veil--7

Idk what to say about this one. RHGH is pretty damn good but I think I would probs like it less watching it now than I did in 2019, newish to kdramas and ready to love anything. But it's a fave regardless, and Extraordinary You and The Veil are both fairly watchable. A serviceable network.

MBN:

Perfect Marriage Revenge--Dropped

Sponsor--Dropped

A network to watch a few episodes with the desire to see dogblood plots, and then leave.

Netflix:

Bloodhounds--8

My Holo Love--Dropped

Gyeongseong Creature--Dropped

Song of Bandits--8

The Silent Sea--7

It's Netflix. I don't know that they're ever going to make a real favorite for me but they're fairly competent.

OCN:

Save Me--8

Duel--Dropped

A Superior Day--Dropped

Apparently it takes Seo Ye-ji and Woo Do-hwan's powers combined to make me finish a show by this network. You'd think it would be easier bc they seem to enjoy angst and whump, but I think they pour it on a little too thick.

SBS:

Doctor Stranger--Dropped

Lovers of the Red Sky--8

Revenant--9

The King: Eternal Monarch--7

The Killing Vote--Dropped

Remember: War of the Son--Dropped

Honestly I might come back to at least one of these dropped shows. Their track record on plots is okay, but their actors are really good.

TVN:

100 Days My Prince--Dropped

Alchemy of Souls--9

Bad and Crazy--Dropped

Circle: Two Worlds Connected--9

Confession--6

Devil Judge--9

Eve--8

Flower of Evil--10

Hotel del Luna--Dropped

It's Okay to Not Be Okay--8

Mine--8

Mr. Sunshine--8

Our Blooming Youth--Dropped

Pandora: Beneath the Paradise--Dropped

Psychopath Diary--9

Tale of the Nine-Tailed--Dropped

Clearly I just start the most show by them. Do they make the most shows? I don't know. Good concepts and good cinematic quality on most of these shows, with just a few exceptions. Pretty solid network.

Viki:

Color Rush--8

I Picked Up a Star On the Road--6

Where Your Eyes Linger--8

You Make Me Dance--6

Mixed bag.

The takeaways:

I should probably watch more KBS. On my to-watch list, that translates to Youth of May, the Bridal Mask, Hwarang, the Bloody Heart, and Orange Marmalade. So mostly historical dramas, which is a pity bc apparently I also like their thrillers.

Really, though, my to-watch list at this point has a ton of SBS and MBC on it for some reason, at least with shows that have already come out. According to my stats so far, my odds are pretty mixed on liking them or not.

Somehow, one feels, I will actually end up watching more TVN instead... but that has yet to materialize. (except the one kdrama I'm currently watching is a TVN drama. so.)

Did I really learn anything? No. and on that note, good night.

[incarnateirony]

Another baffling, sociopathic point about shealyn bonds

I was with her for many, many, MANY years. Do you know how many of those years she made even a single post even tangentially related to the superbowl? Or even football in general? From first fling to leaving her? From like 2008 to 2021?

0.

0 years.

0 years of her life did she care about sportsball.

she cared so little about it that after watching one year of superbowl it, like the many parts of myself i separated from and divided from to attune to her fancies, that she seemed bothered, so it was packed away, like the many parts of herself that were packed away. it is not a fluke that it was within a year of leaving her that i found my own apotheosis and reached the highest attainable grade. Literally everything had been put on pause to attune to her delusions.

And now? Now that she's realizing the superbowl is important? Like, for stupid roleplay reasons she's belatedly assembling into mythological reasons, if only for partial reasons? Oh, no. Today, she's gonna drop exactly one post to tell us how unbothered she is by the superbowl she opted to take in, this year, specifically.

Only this year.

No other fuckin years.

Just this year.

This year, she suddenly cared.

About who? What? Did she think Kansas City winning would protect her? Sis I got news for you.

No, hon.

Kansas City winning just means the entire world dumped onto the triune sigil of erected and commanded servitors based upon me pulled from your illusional headspace and retranscribed and sigiled into their own beings to collect the attention of the masses.

The reason you suddenly cared about football today is that every single corner of your mind is being eroded for and to it.

But not to the sport, or the event. No, to the spirit within.

You're mine mine mine mine mine, bitch.

All that did was sign the death warrants for everyone around you between here and September. So yeah, cool, KC won, would have been neat if you had half a year of spellwork behind that. OH WAIT

What an insufferably dumb cunt, performatively trying to stick her foot into my and his ring only to celebrate the birth of her worst nightmares, quite literally. Put out a couple offerings, sweetheart. Oh wait, they won't be able to smell it over the bazillion americans already doing it. my entire block is a BBQ. Where's the BEEF bitch. No, don't show me your ass. 1. that's pork and 2. that's really unhealthy fat percentage pork, if I slapped your ass on a pan I'd get nothing but grease. Where's the fuckin BEEF?

Your mother and father will both be dead by September.

Thank yourself.

No, don't try to blame it on randomosity when it happens, like when I gave you a week of fog to save a life and you still let your spider get crushed under your ego and my broken rib. Your similar stubbornness is signing their warrant, and frankly has, without a termination of the contract it's subtitled to. But most specifically, you verbally offered your father up in the middle of a flow I could only redirect to try to save him, and instead crashed a plane instead of killing him, because you're so goddamn smug you don't care, but now, neither do I, so next time, he goes, then the one saved purely by our mercy goes, and that's how this goes.

You had no interest in seeing past the fog, and so your spider died. And still, you have no interest in looking at the truth you already know, and you will sacrifice others to maintain your lies and barbie dreamhouse.

I liked Brian. I genuinely did. If he was a person divorced from any relation to Shealyn bonds, we'd invite him to the cosmic pub. But her stain is so deep and so profound, and so readily sacrificial to everyone around her, I don't know if we could even bring him in ocne he ends or if he just ends up reduced like most sacrifices. Then I'll have to deal with explaining to the remnants of Brian Bonds why he's in my head, and what a sociopathic lunatic his daughter became, and why fragments of her grandfather are also in there. At least there'll be a family reunion.

I couldn't stand Cindy, but I enjoyed Brian. A genuinely good soul. But Shealyn doesn't care. More fuel for the vagina fire. The unfillable cosmic gap of attention whoring, the pure need to have essentially sold herself to satan and still fucked up and signed the wrong contract. Yeah, he'll be real proud, Shealyn.

They barely accepted, in general "I love my family regardless" means, your queer relationships, which I was also the open door to them knowing. But sure, daddy will take real good that your need for cosmic cock sent him into a thousand shards reaped by your ex husband's apotheosis in the afterlife, I'm sure that won't bother him while he floats next to the husk of your reconstituted grandfather.

Oh, and mommy dearest.

You. Signed. To. Me.

Like you understand I've already had to explain to what's left of your grandfather why he's here and why you don't care, yea?

oh you probably didn't explain that to mark

sorry mark, she had us reap her grandfather about a decade ago, and just assumed amidst all of this there would be no penalties

it's christmas and we're in tartarus

apotheosis is a bitch, shealyn.

Grandfather is gone. I don't care what you manage to conveniently tell yourself the one time you try to show up at a place and hear him in your schizophrenic voices. Grandfather is gone, and it is your fault, and there are more hostages to take.

We do not care about redeeming you now. That is not an option. We only want to see what level of monster you are.

I know what monster I am, but I know the reasons I fight for.

Do you?

Hello, Darlin.

Goodbye, Darlin.

I, like the lead pick of the chiefs, am not afraid to be the villain. As he said, there's a certain power with that. I've already been hated. You can Hate at me all you want, but you can't Stop me. Transfering from the Ravens was only new Resolve. You don't have that kind of resolve.

Like you have/had one option to stop me, but we intentionally left your psychological anchor to that in the skeleton of you as we move on, and so you cling, and show yourself once we dust out the rest of us. A bird caging monster that doesn't care if her own family's blood runs on the floor until it is erased.

So be it.

You thought you had mercy from him before? Consider that sacrificed too. Your thoughtless sacrifice of others even when given ample chance and knowing message dictates your equal treatment.

Your grandfather was claimed by us as a favor. You seemed to forget that.

It's Christmas.

And we're in Tartarus.

I told you. This game would be different from any other.

It's a carnival, and we're in Tartarus--Mardis Gras; hey, you American fool--have you ever googled when the European season of fools is? I'm going to give you a spoiler.

We're in overtime.

Your ex husband has already claimed the false shadow of your Fool King. What do you think will happen?

Deadpool, comin' at you live, real real wild. DEADPOOL! AND WOLVERINE! LIKE BROTHERS! IT JUST FEELS RIGHT.

You tatted my name on your titties, bitch. He can hit it, but you're still a borrow. And you're starting to notice I can take you back whenever I want.

[1liv]

[s4pphoiduser]

one thing about woo dohwan is he will put his whole pussy into every role like he's behind on rent and drowning in debt!! and he's so sexy for that!!

[waitingforminjae]

I don't think any show had its second lead so thoroughly take over the main lead other than save me, other shows have love triangles where the sl has a better personality than ml? that's nothing compared to wdh being the centre of charisma at the starting fight of the show while literally standing behind taecyeon

LITERALLYYYYYYYYYYYY like there's a reason when I looked at Save Me's awards section on Wikipedia the only thing there was a nomination for Woo Do Hwan 😌 and that's bc he managed to convey 1938496070 different emotions just sitting there trying not to cry but still crying while eating black bean noodles

[frances-and-the-moon]

"feminine urge" this "masculine urge" that but what about the "mentally unstable urge" to watch the same 4 or 5 crime k-drama shows you've been watching since 2005

[daqueen-yihwa]

Hellbound giving me Save Me flashbacks

[worldofiotnbo]

Seo Yea Ji Christmas Icons

please LIKE/REBLOG if you SAVE/USE

[whatlovelykdramas]

Almost done with Save Me and Sang Mi’s dad has gotten so brainwashed that he now thinks that the “Spiritual Father’s” dick has special spirit cleansing properties 🤢

[soleshows]

currently watching save me ep.7 and i trust about 6 people in this whole godforsaken town

[g1g1l]

Dongcheol and Sangmi in an Alternate Universe where both of them are born into well off families and goes to the same college.