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Toxic Homoerotic Kdramas Ranked

You can see the full list with explanations here.

These are ranked by levels of toxicity and romance — this list is not correlated with being the best overall show (that would be Beyond Evil) or closest to canon (probably Chief Kim or The Devil Judge).

Please send more recs my way!

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kang yohan giving kim gaon the look™

episode 3 — episode 10

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I'm irreparably wrecked

Ga On-ah. THE DEVIL JUDGE (2021) Ju Won-ah. BEYOND EVIL (2021)

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You are in his DMs, I’m currently slamming him against various flat surfaces. We are not the same.

THE DEVIL JUDGE

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ALL OF MY HYPERFIXATION ALL AT ONCE. now just add willgraham to this collection

That moment, I decided to die. Beyond Evil / The Devil Judge / The Merciless

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any time I’m distressed I just imagine men grinding on each other and I’m not saying it’s replaced therapy but.

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I was just reading George Orwell's 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language" and it's crazy how well it holds up.

I strongly encourage you to read the whole essay, but here are some of the highlights.

Orwell argues with remarkable clarity that the Englush language "becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."

He discusses five passages that exemplify his meaning, representing five various "mental vices" from which he believes we suffer. He notes that all five passages most egregiously have in common two qualities: (1) staleness of imagery; (2) lack of precision.

This, he characterizes as a "mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence", which he finds is especially rampant in political writing.

Specifically, he laments the use of:

dying metaphors ("worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves")

operators/verbal false limbs (making simple verbs unnecessarily into phrases with passive voice: e.g. "render inoperative" or "give grounds for")

pretentious diction (scientific or foreign words used only to "dress up" writing)

meaningless words (he controversially states, "the word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable'.")

Orwell then gives an example of a good English sentence, and how it would look translated into "modern English of the worst sort":

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

-- Ecclesiastes

Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.

-- Orwell's parodic translation

He goes on to state:

[M]odern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.

And:

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in.

He applies this commentary with disgust to political communication:

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker’s spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. 

(Not unlike the feeling many of us get when watching modern politicians bloviating, I would argue!)

Orwell additionally notes that many of the atrocities that we commit politically can be defended "only by arguments...too brutal for most people to face...Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness."

Strikingly, he adds:

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity...But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

And, later:

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is to surrender to them...Probably it is better to put off using words as long as possible and get one’s meanings as clear as one can through pictures and sensations. 

He provides us, then, with several rules to abide by -- note that the final rule offers a caveat that sometimes, these rules need be broken!

i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do. iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active. v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Of course, Orwell is mainly concerned here with language as a tool for clear and truthful expression, and he dealt predominantly with political writing. I'm curious whether some literary-minded folks would disagree with some of his rules here. I find, though, that I tend to agree with him even in the realm of writing more broadly -- clarity, and the use of effective and novel metaphors in its service, do seem to me to be what characterizes good and meaningful writing.

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recreate mizumono, but with this one.

BEE DAGGER !!

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Translation Masterlist

(This post will be updated as I go).

Beyond Evil A Word from the Author The Characters Character Life

Author's notes + Lee Dongsik, Han Juwon, Park Jeongje, Nam Sangbae, Yu Jaei, Oh Jihwa, Oh Jihun, Kang Jinmuk, Do Haewon, Lee Changjin, Han Kihwan

Episodes

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

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(Inspo is this post!)

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i finished beyond evil last night the ending made me feel crazy the acts of love in this show run so deep it hurts everyone involved

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the way this screams jwds for me

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If I had a nickel for every K-drama I saw where a highly determined detective with a fixation on a cold case had to team up with an eccentric cop that he thinks murdered one of their own family members 10+ years ago (but who is actually trying to solve that murder themselves) and where one of the partners is heavily autistic-coded, is very rich, and shamelessly breaks into the other partner’s home on multiple occasions, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird (and delightful) that it happened twice.

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If the ship doesn’t have high obsession & ‘ high codependency.. do I even want it?

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if I had a nickel everytime a handsome cannibalistic surgeon calls his murder tableau art and classical music plays in the background when he performs his art wearing a plastic suit and falls for someone who thinks is straight and openly makes cannibalistic jokes, I would have two, which is not a lot. but still a lot. bonus points if he is terribly lonely in this world and the only person who can probably understand him thinks of violent thoughts for a living. added bonus points if they eat meat on their first date.

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that one scene wherever there's three people on Hannibal's table

Honestlyyyy I’m so delighted that Severance of all shows gave us representation of the specific queer experience of thinking you might be getting invited into a threesome and then discovering you’re instead going to hear about Christianity

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but can he make me human roses like hannibal lecter did?