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passionforfiction · 4 months

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Arthdal Chronicles

The first season of this fantasy story hits close to home. It depicts the cruelty and greed of villages that have the resources, food and technology to take advantage of others. The story doesn't waist time, the first episode starts with the Arthdal leaders asking the Neanthals to become part of their power. The Arthdal are afraid of the peaceful but strong Neanthals and pretend to negotiate, knowing they are not interested. And what do they do? The Arthdal leaders trick their own people and kill the Neanthals in order to take their lands. Asa Hon learns this when she is in the middle of the attack, and in order to safe Neanthal children, she leaves with a child and Ragaz, with whom she later has children with.

Arthdal continues to annihilate weaker villages, taking them as slaves for hard labor. It is Tagon, an Itgu in hiding, that makes all this possible for Arthdal. And even though he is loved by the village as a hero, his father and other leaders are trying to find ways of killing him, including making Mihol's daughter, Teaelha, into a spy. Even though Tagon is cruel, there is an innocence to his longing to be loved and accepted by the people. His relationship with Teaelha is of a love stronger than their ties to their families and interests. And even though we don't like what he does, some times we do wish him success in his endeavors and fight against the Arthdal leaders for power.

But it is the story of the Wahan Tribe that reminds us that Tagon and all Arthdal are cruel and greedy people that have no respect for others. This is a peaceful tribe in a far away land. They are more like Neanthals in their believes but they are also prejudice against Itgus like Eunseom, whose mother leaves him there before she dies. Eunseom's only true friend is Tanya, the daughter of the priestess and scientist of the village.

It is almost impossible to reach the place but Tagon and the Arthdal leaders find the way to reach the land, it takes them 10 years to reach it and less time to destroy it and take its people as prisoners and slaves. Here we see the struggle of these people who get separated, sold into slavery and fight with each other and their enslavers in order to survive. But it also shows the Wahan people mesmerized by the innovations and way of life in this civilized village.

Tanya ties Eunseom to her by naming him her dream and he will do anything to save her, but destiny takes them into two different paths. These two characters are also very naive, their innocence and sense of justice is what makes others follow them. They both want to forge a world where everyone is equal, no prejudice against people that are different, everyone on equal standing.

Tanya's relationship with Saya is a sad one at best. She is using Saya while Saya genuinely likes her. And even though, at some point she sees him as a friend and cares about him, she still uses his affection towards her. But she is not the only one using Saya, so is Tagon who separated him from his mother when he was a child and Teaelha who became his caregiver for Tagon. Still, Saya is not stupid and he knows how to play the game.

This first half ends with the downfall of the rule of the Arthdal leaders: Daekan, White Mountain, and Hae tribes; giving way to Tagon's rule under the name of Aramun; which damages the relationship he had with Teaelha. Tanya is now the high priest while Eunseom becomes a god for the Ago tribe and starts unifying weak tribes to end fights among them and focus on fighting against their common oppressor.

The second season starts 8 years after the final events of the first one. And the fighting is no longer centered on colonialism, but on taking down a threatening force that is not letting them continue with their expansion of territories. I have heard of people wondering why the change of actors for critical characters. I wouldn't have minded seeing the same actors since they are excellent ones and we got used to them. But I didn't mind the changes, I think that these new actors, brought some darkness to the characters that had been innocent and naive in the first season. They have learned to play the game and they are using what they have learned for their gain.

Tagon and Teaelha are no longer the close couple they had been, but they still love each other and have a son that unites them. Theirs is a tragic and powerful love story, tainted by the struggle for power.

In this half, we see Tagon's fall, and the rise of the ideology that drove Tanya and Eunseom into battle. But we are left with an open ending that promises more blood and restlessness. Saya wants Arthdal for his own since he can't have Tanya's love; and Teaelha wants to take Arthdal back as she promised Tagon; while Eunseom struggles to make Arthdal the land he and Tanya had envisioned.

It is the bloody story of a civilization in this fantasy world that reflects the truth about the history of our world so full of tyranny, blood and inequality.

It is not a story with clear lines and we will switch sides as their goals become twisted, but so is the story of rulers in the past and the present. This is a fantasy story, but it also criticizes what makes a country a country - it's bloody history of greedy men.

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k-star-holic · 8 months

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Play 'Toccata' for Son Sook with 'The Gloria'

Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com

#Son Sook #Spin-off #Song Hye-kyo #Play #Toccata

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artverso · 1 year

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Ryan Sook - Superman & Spawn

#ryan sook #superman son of kal el #spawn

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amethysttribble · 4 months

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My darlings keep SUFFERING for the sake of this ungrateful COUNTRY and there’s no end in sight because Soo Won’s a BITCH T_T

#I know that’s not strictly true #I know soo won is trying (said through gritted teeth)#Lili’s grateful #(and perfect)#Tae Jun’s grateful #(and delightful)#scores of common folks are grateful #and the Wind Tribe has does nothing wrong ever #but I’m just— JOO DOH #LYE SOOK #leave my babies alone!!#yona keeps getting g hurt and beating herself up and I’m so sad for her!#someone please give my darling daughter and my dear sons a break #akatsuki no yona #Tribble post

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soo-won · 7 months

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Hi Lumen, I love your AnY posts so much! I hope I can hear your opinions about the relationship between Hak and Kye-sook. I think it is not simply an enemy...

Thank you so much for the question OMG! And I'm glad you like my posts too :')

Keishuk and Hak's dynamic is something I LOVE to get lost in thoughts about because everytime they interact you can feel the electricity in the air, you know? There is something extremely engaging about them imo. And outside of the fact I crack ship them because I think their interactions are very hot, I have a lot to say about them!

The thing about them is they're the same pole of a magnet. Like it's because they're actually extremely similar that they have this constant animosity towards each other. There is real hatred on Hak's end, understandably, and Keishuk clearly looked at Hak with contempt until recently. But there is this thing about them where they also understand each other in a way? Because they went throught the same thing. The Lord they pledged loyalty to was murdered by the opposite faction and they started to live following their child, the only thing Il and Yuhon left behind, dedicating their whole life to protect them and what they fight for, and dreaming of getting back what was stolen from them. They're both haunted by their powerlessness and the fear to fail to protect what matters to them and especially Yona and Suwon. And it's these shared feelings, directed in opposite directions that makes their relationship what it is. I think they both ended up being aware of these similarities in the other even if not consciously. Also they both easily get extremely anxious and tend to act emotionaly because of it (and that's what differentiates them the most from Yona and Suwon, too.)

Thinking about them together requires to think about Keishuk on his own, because it's only after understanding that Keishuk is driven by the constant need of to have things go according to his plans, because as a disabled man this is his only way of fighting and protecting, that I think you can start seeing the connections with Hak. Keishuk was shaped by the feeling he needs to be useful, that can also be seen in Hak especially early on in the manga.

And that's where it's also fun to imagine what represented Hak to Keishuk before the coup. A pawn with so much potential that is unusable because of his attachment to Il. A man with the strength Keishuk doesn't have, a strength he lacked when Yuhon was being murdered before his eyes, and that Hak uses to serve his murderer. To be honest I don't think Keishuk cared that much about Hak and it seems he barely knew about him before the coup, but I like to imagine he saw him as a waste. However, Suwon had given up the hope of ever having Hak on his side, but Keishuk never forgot, and Keishuk is not burdened by any complex feelings towards Hak like Suwon or Judo are, so the idea of someday managing to control and use him for Suwon's and by extension Kouka's sake is something he maybe always kept in the back of his mind ( we still don't know what was Coup Crew's plan irt Yona and Hak if they hadnt caught Suwon red-handed after all).

Throughout the series, Hak comes to want to protect Kouka and fight for his country of his own volition, whether Yona asks him to or not. Which makes him share something more with Keishuk. Hak, in his willingness to become a pawn to protect Kouka, becomes in Keishuk's eyes a proxy in a way, even though Hak fights for his own reasons. Keishuk can't fight on a battlefield anymore, but Hak, who shares a common goal and a similar way of seeing himself as disposable, becomes a weapon. Hak becomes the sword or the shield Keishuk can wield to protect Suwon.

And it makes their relationship very ironic. They are opposed and enemies by the fact they serve two person that are supposed to be at odds with each other, but when these two persons enter an alliance and walk in the same direction, then it makes Keishuk and Hak simply share the same feelings and protect what the other cares for. Aka Keishuk becoming "protective" of Yona and the dragons (even if it's not out of sympathy) and Hak protecting Suwon.

In no way does it mean they become friends or that they do this for each other, though. Hak and Keishuk are in a constant battle of compromise and Hak is very much aware that Keishuk won't hesitate to take from him and use him and his friends if he sees it fit. And Keishuk is aware that he has to tread carefully if he wants to use them longer. But I find all this super interesting! They're fated enemies in a way, so to see them kinda forced to work together despite all the spite they have for each other is fun.

Lastly, something that I'm obsessed with when it comes to Keishuk and Hak is how they're connected by their respective relationship with Suwon. I already wrote a long post about Keishuk and Yona as foils in relation to Suwon, but I think the same can be said of Keishuk and Hak, even if obviously the way they do so differ.

Keishuk's presence in this scene is anime exclusive, so everyone is free to consider it canon or not. Personally I'm in love with it and I think it adds a lot of depth to Keishuk and his feelings towards Hak and Suwon so it's canon to me lmao. This scene shows a Keishuk that feels pride in knowing the "real Suwon" that Hak is ignorant about, and he taunts him about it. Like "Look, /I/ am his right-hand man, and he didn't chose you. /I/ know his suffering and you don't know anything."

And the thing is...yeah. Keishuk is not wrong here, and it brings into light an aspect of Suwon and Hak's relationship that is often only implied, aka the fact Suwon didn't trust and rely on Hak, when Hak /wanted/ to be the person Suwon would depend on. But the Suwon Keishuk knows is not "the real Suwon" either. The truth is both Keishuk and Hak know a part of Suwon that the other don't, and I find this deeply fascinating.

This is reenforced by the fact that Hak didn't even know of Keishuk's existence just like how he was ignorant of the dark parts of Suwon's life, or how Keishuk and Hak were physically assigned to two distinct symbolic places (Yonhi's mansion and Hiryuu Castle). They were totally separated, literally and in Suwon's heart.

Hak knows nothing of the Suwon at Yonhi's mansion that planned the coup for 10 years alongside Keishuk and many others. He knew nothing of Suwon's resentments, of the truth behind his grand and distant goal or the way he is resolved to discard anything to achieve his goals, even what Hak cares for. Keishuk was and is still undeniably Suwon's closest ally (despite the distance between them but Suwon and Keishuk deserve their own post lmao), and despite their differences they share the same goal and ideologies like they do with no one else. They share the same pain of losing Yuhon and the anger and feeling of injustice that came with it, and the same afront of Il's rule. But likewise, Keishuk doesn't know the depth of the bond Suwon shared with Hak, and the truth in the time they spent together. Keishuk only pragmatically saw Hak as someone that will try to kill Suwon someday, as he understands very well where he comes from, underestimating(among other things) the importance Suwon and Hak hold for each other and the depth of their trust.

That's where the Sen Province arc is interesting as well. This arc is notable for many things, but one of them is the complete absence of Suwon and the fact the troops are basically led by both Keishuk and Hak. I just said that Keishuk and Hak were completely separated by what they know of Suwon, yet what this arc highlights is that they both know him extremely well. In the end, they grew up and studied with the same Suwon, and this common knowledge of him connects them. Like to remember something as a specific counter-strategy Suwon likes is proof of the amount of time they both spent separately with Suwon and their fondness for him. It's because this moment makes Keishuk acknowledge that Hak does know Suwon well that he starts being interested in using him furthermore.

All that being said, I also just really love whenever they taunt each other. I think it's delicious like, look at that. There is just something whenever they share a page and I'm obsessed with it. Suwon and Yona kinda stay polite with each other (more or less) but Keishuk and Hak don't give a shit like that and it's refreshing. Despite everything I've said above, the part that makes them not stand each other's ass and rile each other is an essential of their dynamic and I eat it up. There is almost a sort of competitiveness? and it's very fun. I never want them to like each other it's so much better this way.

Alas now Keishuk has to be polite with Hak for political schemes reasons and I'm sad because I miss those times very much </3.

TDLR : They're not friends they're not enemies but a secret third thing.

(Bonus: fun hakyona / keiwon parallel and i ship neither but it's endearing)

#is that secret third thing sexual? maybe.#akayona thoughts #akayona #hak son #hak #keishuk #kye-sook #the sen province arc is above all a keihak arc to me i need the world to know that.#you have no idea how excited i am for these voice dramas and why #'lumen can you not make everything about Suwon?' No. Next question.#I'm so sorry if you wanted just my general opinion and not smth like that. i saw the opportunity and grabbed it like my life depending on i #thank you so much for the question bc it made me reminisce everything i love about keishuk <3 he's everything to me #keishuk is the better overprotective sidekick bc hak could never pull keishuk's 'HIYAH!'#keihak propaganda #i feel like i forgot a lot of things...but basically it's that deep to me i come up w new things about them every few months.

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angrypaperearthquake-tbbb-main · 1 year

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Yona of the Dawn: Chapter 200 ~ My Favorite Bits (SPOILERS)

Hak is sharp

This conversation 🤣

Always the play-boy 😏

The fact that he didn’t recognize Hak’s voice BUGS me 🥴 Y’all have been together for soooooo long.

I feel like this is the start of a joke. A government official, a soldier, and a genius pretty boy walk into a bar...

These two idiots 🙃

Hak 🥺

Sooooooo, you’re going to die, right? Asking for a friend.

Yes girl! Show them who’s boss!

Death would be too easy

Jae-Ha, the number one HakYona shipper

Cut from the same cloth 🤣

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

SEE, she even realized it was Hak’s voice. Jae-Ha your best friend points are slipping

She wants to protect Hak so badly 😭😭😭

Uh oh, watch out, rage Hak coming through!!!

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dyingenigma · 2 years

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Son Suk Ku for Esquire Korea July Issue 2022

#son suk ku #son seok koo #son sook koo #kdrama #esquire korea #esquire magazine #korean drama #korean dramas #my liberation diary #jtbc my liberation notes #my liberation notes #first ever cover #asian dramas #d.p #dailyflicks #dailyasiandramas

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iqmmir · 2 months

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Accidentally thouhght about ak*y*na . Kills myse

#.mimiming ❜#why is it censored? because i decided that it would be for the best #soowon................ *looks into distance*#im thr biggest soowon fan ever that man is my Son (he is older than me)#i hate hate hateee how the fandom treats him #which is why i have the tag filtered #if you hate him at least do it right #'he manipulated and USED yona' he was like. seven when his father was killed by yona's father #his mother stopped viewing him as a child all the adults pushed him to become a replacement of his father #'We could not protect Yu Hon. We will not let Soo Won be harmed'#and please if soowon didnt kill il i would have #big fan of soowon guys.#imagine growing up and being pushed to become A Certain Way ever since you are like. Five #imagine seeing your mother die in front of you #imagine seeing your cousin getting love and attention from her father. the man who killed your father the man who keeps you chained #the man who is supposed to be your guardian treating you like you are scum #i think i would like il a lot more if he just. looked at soowon as soowon #not as son of yuhon #and yona and hak being probably the only ones who ever did that? it must have been painful #even kye sook.. he does see soowon as a friend and as soowon but ultimately he wants soowon to Become something #Become King .#whatever..kills myself

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sunnymimis · 5 months

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TONEGAWA x OGBAEM MAFIA 🐍 Kozo and Tae-yong belong to @burukaji! The others belong to me!

#mi-sook hong #sung-ho kim #byung-chul park #chun-hwa han #qiang yu #han-jae kang #ji-hoon hong #tae-yong cheong #seong-nam lee #in-sik son #deok-su jeong #guozhi zhao #fengge tan #kozo sasaki #ji-hoon fanboying over kozo as he deserves kfjsdfjsdk

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mymoviemania-75th-cannes · 2 years

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Un Certain Regard:

Retour à Séoul (2022) Return to Seoul (All the People I'll Never Be), directed by Davy Chou.

Ji-Min Park as Frédérique Benoît AKA Freddie; Oh Kwang-rok 오광록 as Freddie's Korean Father; Guka Han as Tena; Kim Sun-young 김선영 as Korean Aunt; Yoann Zimmer as Maxime; Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as André; Hur Ouk-Sook 허옥숙 as Grandmother; Son Seung-Beom ad Dongwan, the Francophone Friend; Kim Dong Seok as Jiwan; Emeline Briffaud as Lucie; Lim Cheol-Hyun as Kay-Kay; Régine Vial as Mme Benoît (Régine Vial Goldberg); Choi Cho-woo 최초우 as Korean Birth Mother.

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passionforfiction · 10 months

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When My Love Blooms

I must admit this story is one of those where I don't connect fully with the characters.

Yoon Ji Soo is a divorced woman with a son in a boarding school (sponsored through scholarship). Her ex-husband is vigilant, looking for a moment she falls and he can fight for full custody of their son. She lost her job and keeps taking odd jobs to make ends meet. And her son hides how he is bullied at school to protect his mother.

Han Jae Hyun just stepped out of prison after 4 years paying for his father-in-law's white collar crimes. He returns to a loveless marriage where his wife has taken a lover in a desperate move to feel human connection. His son is at a boarding school, bullying his way through middle school.

What do Yoon Ji Soo and Han Jae Hyun have in common? Their past. And we learn about their story through flashbacks that take us back to the early 90s when college students protested and fought for justice. But Han Jae Hyun has changed and their current situations are not ideal.

I feel for the young Yoon Ji Soo and Han Jae Hyun. Their innocent love, their beliefs and fights for justice. . . That future that crumbled to pieces when her father imposed his ambition over the happiness of his child. . . Their youthful story was beautiful, but the people they became were so full of grayish spots, their decisions, their relationships with their children. . . It's hard for me to fully sympathize with them whole heartedly. They are realistic characters, imperfect, people that make decisions based on their selfish desires, sometimes forgetting their children and how their actions affect them.

It was a good series, it wrapped things nicely at the end, but even then, I wasn't completely happy for them. I always felt bad for Lee Young Min because he loved his mother and even when she said she loved him, he always got the short end of the stick. Even at the end, we don't know what happened to him, and I think that this is the main reason why I can't be completely happy for this couple as grownups.

Anyway, is not a bad story. I think it is good because it made me question things. It made those characters feel real, 3-dimentional.

Poster from AsianWiki - https://asianwiki.com/When_My_Love_Blooms

#when my love blooms #korean drama #yoo ji tae #lee bo young #jin young #jeon so nee #park shi yeon #kim young hoon #jang gwang #ko woo rim #moon sung keun #park min su #son sook #nam myung ryul

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