@dramaphilosophy.bsky.social
For archival purposes. Everything else is an extra passing cloud of obsession. No follow-for-follow games. May in fact never check out follow notifications, well, at least after all the unpacking is finally done.
Man in a judge office raising arms and legs while seated in a leather chair beside a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude
A moral redemption arc is woefully not enough. Does bookworm-nim (because this ought to be a proper phrase) Moon Yoo-seok have a book attitude redemption arc in store? Aha! Maybe there's an Easter Egg revealing that the Janus character has completed One Hundred Years of Solitude at the age of five.
20.12.2025 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@jyqe.bsky.social *sniffle* So nice to be online here at the same time as an old friend! I've been spending much more time than usual away from social media other than blog sites. Read a ton more fiction books than usual too. Thanks for reposting. We need to spread the message around.
20.12.2025 14:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One of Korea's blind judges, a Seoul National University alum, at work. Their counterparts exist in other countries. Many parts of ex-judge-written legal procedural #ProBono feel fanciful or absurd, but the bit about that solid yet underestimated competency is real.
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#Spoiler
Most Creative
#WhatAWonderfulWorld 👩🦰=👨💻💗=(👥👥)=❤️🩹👨⚕️
After years of blanks, a compelling candidate for Best Storytelling emerged at the last moment. At best, there were only compelling episodes and otherwise great productions marred by bothering flaws in the past few years. Thanks, triplets.
Three guys of very different ages wearing identical baseball caps and hooded sweatshirts, all in gray shades, as they stand before a green chalkboard.
H Universe Awards '25
Potential Lifesaver
#Adolescence 🙋=🥪
Geekiest
#LawAndTheCity 👩🏻💼🧑🏻💼🧑🏻💼👩🏻💼🧑🏻💼
Most Meaningful Character
Ae-soon in #WhenLifeGivesYouTangerines 👵🏻📚→👩🏻📚→👧🏻📚
Most Thought-Provoking, Best Storytelling, technical awards
#TheTripleEchoOfTime 🧗♂️≤≥👴≤≥👦
Best Finale
#Severance 👩🏻🤝👨🏼👫🏼
#kdrama #cdrama
Woman in ponytail turning around in a wide expanse of snow as she holds a long and thin biscuit stick
Dutch Golden Age painting Girl With A Pearl Earring, but through what you would rightly imagine as the lens of classic Hong Kong cinema.
Also, ( #spoiler) as seen from the perspective of her aged, grieving husband from the future.
#scifi #TheTripleEchoOfTime #cdrama
Woman in ponytail and holding a transparent umbrella in a snowy night
Wifey checks in on her three husbands' time-travel game, casually tosses a few pieces around and exits. Game later (i.e. #spoiler ) spits out the trio of selves and declares her the victor. Female middle age has never been more badass.
#scifi #TheTripleEchoOfTime #cdrama
The brain-computer meshing provides an explanatory basis for the usual soul transmigration tropes. Still, it would been great if they could brainstorm non-tropey ways to achieve the same desired outcomes.
08.12.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Back view of a woman exiting a dark place. The entire picture is monochrome except for the logo.
A hand touching a tiny tomato growing in a pot. The entire picture is monochrome except for the tomato and the logo.
Dystopian science fiction intensifies soul transmigration romance in the #cdrama 2099. Loving the use of the visual effect from the film classic Schindler's List.
08.12.2025 14:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
n #LGIEF and #GenieMakeAWish, the heroines' gain of (#spoiler) immense ✨power could have been more satisfactory if they had actively sought it, Miaomiao through persistent self-cultivation and Ka-young through haranguing with godly beings the way her granny did.
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Poster of a young Korean woman played by Bae Suzy holding a welding gun and a magical lamp.
Genie KES made a 👎 wish: Eg. Fixing a kid's violent tendency by cutting her.
Genie KES made a 👍 wish: Sassy, fabulously wealthy FL who outsmarts ML and (#spoiler) gains his respect + ✨power. A world of difference from typical Cinderellas thought to be safer viewership bets.
#GenieMakeAWish #kdrama
Cartoon character in a translucent popup window in front of a black particle cloud in an eerie dark space
A glitching popup window showing an empty ancient room, a question mark and characters for Werewolf or Wolf Person
A guy in ancient garb (Cheng Yi's character in The Journey of Legend) floating above a bed
#TheJourneyofLegend / Go To The Mountains And Sea would have been H's cup pf tea if it were told entirely from the perspective of the nasty writing system punishing the hard work-skipping fanfic author.
Alas, H has to settle for the official account role-playing the system: m.weibo.cn/u/7999309456
Cheng Yi's character in The Journey of Legend flying out of a window onto a busy ancient street
#HeavenlyEverAfter 's Heaven Support Center director is the one hollering at this other scene in #TheJourneyofLegend. Soul transmigrant Mingming should have made a pit stop in his soul orientation session. People, they never change! Flying off buildings just because they're in fantasy realm.
14.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cheng Yi's character in soul transmigration cdrama The Journey of Legend falling onto a cart of cabbage
Cheng Yi's character in soul transmigration cdrama The Journey of Legend staring scandalized at shreds of cabbages
Cabbage merchant from Netflix's live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender
Cabbage Wreckage Trauma Trigger!!! The hollers of the long-suffering vegetables merchant all the way from #AvatarTheLastAirbender can be heard in #TheJourneyofLegend / Go To The Mountains & Sea. Why, the poor mister with no combat skills may be in a martial arts-dream break from his daily grind too.
14.09.2025 15:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenwriters need constructive feedback, but also kindness. #ADreamWithinADream #cdrama
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A guy protectively hugging a woman, behind whom are long sticks stuck into a graffiti-filled wall in the nighttime in What A Wonderful World (2025).
These spears in #cdrama What A Wonderful World (ft #ZhaoLiying) must have been refashioned from incomplete Time Sticks and auto-summoned from the TVA in #Loki as the same-body inter-selves romance would register a deviation monitor spike even higher than the Lokis' romance across different bodies.
23.07.2025 09:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Content of https://shushbang.tumblr.com/post/788622991025160193/the-gi-huns-failure-to-save-all-starfish
The full unsolicited literary reference for #SquidGame.
09.07.2025 19:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Re-coverage of a starfish rescue mission. For the sake of clarity of plot relevance and for the addition of a real-world observation. #SquidGame3 #Player456
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Poster showing Yumi (heroine of the series) and her writer cell and love cell, all surrounded by memos
Painting style-poster of characters in Yin Fang and Zhao Liying's What A Wonderful World (2025).
Animation-drama hybrid Yumi's Cells (ft #KimGoEun) and (cdrama #spoiler ahead) split-personalities self-romance drama What A Wonderful World (ft #ZhaoLiying) declare in their different ways, "There's only ONE protagonist!"
Then they stare at each other.
Disagreeing most with #3. The nature of repetition should tie in with the mechanism of violence perpetuation in late-stage capitalism and societal degeneration, and repeated simple lines has nothing to do with that mechanism. Evil can take on many more guises. Obvious CGI undermines spectacle.
08.07.2025 16:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 03.
"[The] treatment of repeated dialogue, character archetypes, and CGI as mere “flaws” evinces a superficial engagement with the medium’s formal strategies. Repetition and spectacle function narratively to underscore cyclical violence and social desensitization[...]"
So we're unfair to #SquidGame3?
2.
"[T]his post is like someone trying to write an art-house film about a reality show. You took a brutal, complex narrative and turned it into an inspirational, pastel-colored, starfish-throwing daydream. It’s like trying to turn Game of Thrones into a bedtime story about dragons and lost love."
AI roasting of the thoughts on #SquidGame
1.
"Gi-hun is not your personal activist hero. He’s a pawn in a game. The sooner we all realize that, the better. Activism is not a starfish rescue mission; it’s not about slinging metaphors around hoping someone’s going to catch on."
A youthful looking man (Ryu Deok-hwan 류덕환) gaping and pointing at something as he stands before verdant trees in bright sunlight. Splendid screenshot from JTBC drama Heavenly Ever After 천국보다 아름다운.
In related news, where's this secret, hopefully for H's sake organic heaven on Earth that has de-aged 1987-er #RyuDeokhwan so much in #HeavenlyEverAfter it looks like he's dispatched some 2007-er son to role-play a remake of High School King of Savvy set in the drama industry?
23.06.2025 21:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cognitive de-aging is really supported by the article as the authors also conducted studies suggesting that a stimulating environment reversed DNA methylation changes in old mice.
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The heaven in #HeavenlyEverAfter physically de-ages souls who opt for younger appearances. Here's how its fiery hell can cognitively de-age souls, maybe provided they have sufficient stress tolerance. An unnoticed silver lining by mischievous King Yeomra.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Employing AI to protect rather than undermine content creators
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...
Because H's #severance chip isn't working, the two shows are happily colliding again. The #LGIEF duet featuring Cyndi Wang and zither music plays in the mind on recollection of this scene.
In a chaotic world
you fixed your gaze on me
that was the scene of my rebirth
Will the typical consumer complete their own exit someday as they follow self-rescue missions from one show to another? Ha! Book idea here, Ricken.
#Severance #LGIEF
AI: This image shows a surreal and symbolic moment, likely tied to a metaphorical or dreamlike narrative. Two figures, one dressed in white and the other in red, are stepping through a doorway. The doorway itself appears to be embedded in an unusual, stretched, fabric-like surface that resembles a stage curtain or a distorted wall. Grass or greenery is visible beneath their feet, contrasting with the artificial blue backdrop and stark, empty ground. This suggests the doorway leads to a natural or alternate space beyond the surreal setting. The scene has a mysterious, unsettling, and almost theatrical quality, blending elements of reality and illusion. The name "Christopher Walken" is seen on the right, which indicates this is from a title sequence or credits, likely for a series or film. The stylized design adds to the atmosphere of intrigue and abstraction.
AI: The image depicts a surreal and symbolic scene. A child is stepping out of an open wardrobe, reaching out toward an adult figure standing beside it. The adult figure appears dressed in traditional or fantasy-inspired attire, with flowing robes and intricate details, suggesting a historical or otherworldly context. The background is abstract, with faint, scattered patterns resembling text or brushstrokes on a pale surface, giving the setting an ethereal, dreamlike quality. The scene conveys a sense of transition, discovery, or connection, as if the wardrobe represents a portal or a link between two realms.
Self-reconciliation across geographies and genres.
This is Inception. Ziqi ( #DingYuXi ) rescues himself from his soul prison of sorts in #LGIEF but wakes up months later as Mark S. ( #AdamScott ) in #Severance inside another soul prison, from which he must rescue himself again. Never easy.
