So I just started watching Goblin, aka Gaurdian: The Lonely and Great God.
SPOILER ALERT?
I'm iterally less than halfway through ep 1 and.....but....like......so,.. you mean to tell me everybody dies? Like.....everybody? They're like, ok, we want you to meet characters 1 through 57. Now watch as we massacre them. And you know that cute little kid you instantly adored who devoted his life to Señor Goblin, let's whack him too just for giggles and shits. Isnt this fun? Aren't we having FUN?!
In the same vein as BL/Non BL Fight Club, I want to have a FASHION OFF!
Kim Shin (Goblin) vs. Cha Joo Ik (Doom At Your Service)
Look I am sucker for a turtleneck, sweater and a coat! Don’t get me started on how I stan a suit. I’m putting up four images of both from the show, one collage and I’ll let y’all sound off in the comments. Of course I’ll pick my fav and give ‘em a little runway music too!
Cha Joo Ik (Lee Soo Hyuk) Doom At Your Service
Kim Shin (Gong Yoo) Goblin aka Guardian: The Great and Lonely God
Winner: This is so hard for me y’all!!!!!! Ugh, I’m taking Kim Shin, but only by a hair!
💔😔 It's Okay to Not Be Okay - now THIS SHOW will have your heart breaking but it's sooo good. The show talked a lot about autism, mental health, and trauma. But it did it in such a poetic and well played out way. The actors portrayed their characters perfectly. I also loved the message of learning to lean on others even if you're the person everyone leans on 😭. The show also had a duality with connecting the children stories Go Moon Young wrote and their actual lives. Overall, this show has so many amazing elements that blended very well to make an awesome heartwarming story.
🌹😈 Flower of Evil - This show so good I forgot that these actors were acting lol. Lee Joon-gi did an amazing job portraying a character with antisocial personality disorder/hints of schizophrenia. His subtle facial expressions with his emotions peaking through were 🤌🏾. I loved how we could see him learning what love is and how to recognize his emotions that he's never felt before
🏃♂️💨 Run On - the narrative was very well written in that each character was very different in what they provided for the show. The female lead was driven for her goals, the male lead was introverted at times but learnt how to stand up for what he believed in. The second leads were wonderful as well, I love their relationship 🥺💜. The story was just so funny and refreshing to watch.
😈❤ Goblin - The story was so well written. The journey of learning the Goblin's story and people being reincarnated was so amazing. The actors were perfect and the funny moments made the show so enjoyable!
Here is a list of all my favorite whumpy Kdramas. The higher the stars the more I enjoyed the show, the better the whump. I graded them based on my own tastes, especially for the ML. I’m not a fan of surface-level whump and I love recovery. Also a huge fan of mental whump. I added images to all my faves! No descriptions yet, but might add them in later.
This will also be updated as I find new ones. Date Updated: 2/6/21.
***Memories of the Alhambra
***Flower of Evil
***The K2
**Kill me Heal me
**It’s okay, that’s love
**While you were sleeping
**Two Weeks
**The King Eternal Monarch
**Duel
*Healer
*I Hear Your Voice
*Crash Landing on you
*Falling for innocence
Less whumpy others...
True Beauty
Descendants of the Sun
Hyde, Jekyll, Me
Secret Garden
Train
The Kingdom
Doctor Stranger
My Holo Love
Vagabond
Cain & Abel
My Shy Boss
Suspicious partner (not until the very end)
My Secret Romance
The legend of the blue sea
W
Strong woman Do Bong Soon
Neighborhood Hero
Bad guys
The scholar who walks the night
The tale of the nine-tailed fox
Just between lovers
What’s wrong with secretary Kim
Her Private Life
Dramas I couldn’t get into and don’t recommend...
Rugal
It’s okay to not be okay
I am not a robot
Melting me softly
Gaurdian the great and lonely god
Memorist
Zombie detective
He is psychometric
Clean with Passion for now
Thirty but Seventeen
I have a ton of recommendations I hope u dont mind ty 🌻
First I'd like to reccomend some books :
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo
A skinful of shadows by Frances Hardinge
A face like glass by Frances Hardinge
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by V.E Shwabb
And now some movie recs :
Little Forest ( Korean movie , 2018 ) (my comfort film ) (available on dra*ma*cool )
Tune in for Love ( Korean Movie , 2019 ) ( a feel good rom com ) ( Netflix )
Jab We Met ( hindi film , translates to when we met , I dont rem which year ) ( Netflix )
Dear Zindagi ( hindi film , translates to dear life , I think 2018 ) (highly recommend and about mental health ) ( Netflix )
Some TV shows !!:
Brooklyn Nine Nine (amazing show I'm in love with them I binge watched this in 2 weeks ) (american tv sitcom)
Shadow and Bone ( American tv show )
( both on Netflix )
Some kdramas !! :
All kdramas available on dr*ama*cool for free
Hotel Del Luna ( Netflix)
Goblin / Gaurdian: The great and lonely god (netflix )
Weightlifting fairy kim Bok joo ( netflix )
Touch your Heart ( Netflix)
Chicago Typewriter ( Netflix)
Navillera ( Netflix)
Beyond Evil ( dr*ama*cool)
Moon Lovers ( dr*ama*cool)
Extraordinary You ( Netflix)
It's okay to not be okay (Netflix)
Strong Woman Do Bong Soon ( Netflix)
Sorry for the long ask hehe
Let me know if u have seen any of these or are planning to watch / read any of them!!
Have a nice day ♡
i’ve read none of the books u listed (I did watch some episodes of marie kondo’s show on netflix tho) but i’ll keep them in mind!! and omg little forest is one of my fave movies ever it’s so dear to my heart 💕 i started b99 last year but never finished it,, it was fun and i liked the characters but at the end i do not care abt cops 😊 shadow and bone looks sexy so i might watch it (after i finish hxh lol) i LOVE weighlifting fairy kim bok joo it’s so cute!!! and i never finished goblin, it’s okay to not be okay and strong woman do bong soon :/// my issue with kdramas is that i always end up dropping them bc the episodes r too long (especially since i like watching stuff when i eat,,, my meals don’t last 55 minutes shvhjd)
Most of what im about to prattle about is self reflection and my connection to my deity. It will detail a couple of deliberations i have had with worship and communication as well as well-intended observations.
As a side-note; personal relationship with who(m) you worship is a custom fit balance. No one person will have the same experiences when working with any -even well known major- deities.
I will talk about my latent struggles.
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In the beginning, i felt disappointment, defeat, jealousy, envy, anger, and frustration. I still feel those emotions today when i see the level and rate of communication and connection that people have had with their chosen god or goddess.
Do people really heat their voices? Do they really get such strong signs? Do they really have such vivid discussions? Or are they pretending?
Perhaps i do it incorrectly. Maybe the god/goddess doesnt like me. Maybe im not faithful enough. Perhaps the deity is busy with more loyal and zealous followers. Should i consider that they just dont exist at all?
Whenever i meditate, when i pray, reach out to the heavens and earth, when i seek the messengers and psycophants and demons and angels, i try to hear what the others hear. I try to see what they see. What they have expirienced.
But, it is always the same dribble. I only hear the constant chatter or fizz of white noise inside of my head. The same thing i have always heard, the awful din inside that only gets louder when i write.
As a writer and aspiring author, i can hear, see, taste, feel, and experience all the tribulations and joys my characters experience. I am no god. I am lonely. I always have been and watching these people live their lives in a series of scenes has always lulled me into contentedness. My book characters have offered me company in the most dark and lonely of times.
So, when i really started practicing witchcraft, i expected more than what i can imagine. More than blank pages and words. I wanted to feel the presence of an angel, of a demon, of a deity. I wanted to hear their voice as clear as i hear another's. I wanted to feel their touch as a physical sensation. I want to see their form come to me as a friend or neighbor visiting me at my home.
"Expand your mind and reach out to touch the metaphysical" im doing it..?
"Feel the change in the air" i feel.. something.
"Listen to the voices of the gods, what are they saying?" I dont hear any gods its fucking TJ rambling on about the injustices of the world while Steele tries to talk him out of burning his forearm with his lit cigarette. I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere... Ill try again... NOPE! Now its Yarrow the fawn sobbing in a tree because of racial prejudices of the dwarven city disallowing Fae folk from entering the grounds.
Where is my God? All i hear is Nimini yapping and griping about how Industry is a causing an imbalance in peoples souls.
Why cant i hear my god? Why cant i talk to Hades? Why cant i dine with Brigid? Where is Inanna? Jesus? Rudianos? Ares? Lucifer?? Why cant i hear and see you guys as i see Millie or Riri or Monkeypaw or Mikael?
Whenever i lay my tarot, whenever i pray, its the same thing. I feel the same sensations as i would if had sat down to write a few thousand words.
I cant hear my gods as others do. I dont hear the voice of omnipotent gaurdians or great calamitous evil. Not from a god. Not from a deity.
So, what does that mean for me spiritually? I feel like a rusty anchor left forgotten at the bottom of sea when it comes to my faith. Am i this "low frequency" type where i just bring people down?
Sometimes i wonder. Sometimes i wonder if my stories and my words and universes are actually incarnations of these constructs; of gods. I say this because, many of the gods and goddesses symbolize and represent human psyche. The gods are anthropomorphised ideas given context and barrings...
So, maybe my character archetypes are parallel to these constructs?
Maybe i *have* been praying wrong the whole time. Maybe the length of which i worship isnt chanting and kneeling before an altar. Maybe my salvation isn't on the sanctified holy grounds of these religions.
Perhaps for me to honor my gods and goddesses i am to sit before my discipline. Face the stark white of the blank page and focus. To close my eyes, stretch my hands, listen to the awful din and juat write what its saying.
But im a witch. Shouldnt i be more than that? More than a pencil pusher? More than a typist?
"Listen to voice of the gods, what do they say?"
Not a god. They are people and beings. They are the voices that tell stories. They speak of forests and creatures. They protest the corruption and struggle with personal evils. They protect their loved ones and run in cowardice... They may not be gods but they are whom to which i connect.
For, i cannot hear or taste or feel or see the light of those gods. Im not familiar with any voice in relation to that name. I dont believe in those priests or that church. I have no connection to the altar or the prayer mat.
I feel my characters' presence along with me more than any god or goddess of any pantheon. I hope thats okay. I hope that is forgivable...