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I aint never had nothin like that, but I HAVE had - god how to say wo getting doxxy - like an illness that usually puts people out BAD for 2 weeks like not a common illness but not rare - and i got like the 1 in 10,000 level sick with it though and it took me like 2 years to finally start getting over it.... and it was HORRIBLE. and I am just a total p***y. I cry, I whine, I moan, I beg for drugs, and I cry some more. I don't do pain well. So I admire your inner fortitude.

The nurse had to slap me in the face to get me to hold still for a spinal tap

I didn't have much fun watching L&P, I was not a fan. But I know a lot of people loved it so much its like in their eternal top 5.

His character there wasn't green flag? It seemed green-flag to me. Help me remember, what did he do that made him red-flag in that?

I'm a massive red-flag lover, so maybe whatever he did was so tame compared to what I'm used to that it didn't even register to me.

I'm on ep 3 now, and I just have to say.

I was not a fan of L&P... I feel like a lot of Arthur Chen fans fell in love with him by watching L&P and I did not. And I thought he was good in WDBTD but not like make me swoon super excellent or anything.

But damn he killin this role. This is the best acting I've ever seen from him so far.

My beloved ex was a sailor and one of the toughest people I ever met, and he had tourettes... and he would laugh all the time, even when he was nervous or angry or injured. So sometimes he'd be feeling threatened or intimidated by someone and sense danger, and he'd start laughing this laugh and I'd be like "oh shit, it's on. he's about to clean the floor with that guy's face." One time a really drunk mean bastard kicked our front door down off the hinges, he must have weighed like 250 pounds (My bf only weighed like 175). Scared the crap out of us. We had been chillin in bed at the time, so BF was wearing nothing but a sarong tied around his waist. He sprang out of bed and started giggling like a maniac and then literally picked the guy up and threw him down a flight of stairs.

One of my kids is like this... every time they seriously injure themselves, they start laughing and it scares the shit out of me. My lil toughie.

Im only on ep 2 trying to get back into this, and I think this is the best performance I've seen from Arthur Chen probably. So I'm encouraged

yasss that's good to hear

I didn't like her in that either... I didn't hate her in it, but I was so much more invested in lusi and yu ning by the end of that one. And that wasn't exactly all on Dilraba either, because I really am not a Leo Wu fan. He ok, but he don't excite me.

Lollll

"Ya!" ? One of the funniest korean words to me is "omca" For "moms bank card"🤣

I tried twice to get into YAMG but I can't do esports and gaming themed romances. I heard she really clicked with her ML in that one tho, people really raved abt it. I'm sad I can't find it interesting as a topic or i'd def check out her performance in it.

> It's just that the kiss on the last ep is so shy lmao.

oh no, gotdangit dilraba, don't do this to me AGAIN.

ARTHUR! DO SOMETHING HERE 🤣🤣😭!!! Make that ice queen kiss you like she means it!!!!

I'm not a Dilraba fan at all, but I did for some reason like her in ELOD. I think the vibe she gives off is usually too aloof for romances. I don't usually sense any chemistry with her ML costars. Someone here said I should check out Love Designer because she did good kiss scenes in that one (I think she usually doesn't). So I watched ALL of Love Designer in like 3-4 days (I had a 3-day weekend and I binged it), and I went in feeling fair about giving her a shot, because I don't ALWAYS dislike her.

And I didn't like it, and I didn't like her in it. gahhhh

But imo, I just think she's often mis-cast. I don't think she should be playing innocent roles or cutsey roles like Lusi. But I do like her in this because I think it matches her vibe well.... someone powerful, detached, above it all, and idly curious.

I really hope Arthur Chen doesn't let her screw up the kiss scenes. He has to just GO FOR IT.

But is it hater? Is it jealousy? No. It's not an all or nothing thing for me with her. And any actor or actress, chinese or korean, who skimps out on kiss scenes, I will tend to avoid if I've been burned too many times. I don't think actors and actresses should be in romances if they aren't comfortable kissing like they're on fire for eachother. To me, that's the whole point of a romance drama. But I know not everyone feels that way.

It's also cool to learn words in written mandarin for foods. Because I know how to read and write "pork" and now every time I go into a restaurant that has chinese somewhere I can be like "that says pork" and impress my friends it's fun.

go here and check this page out:

hanzicraft dot com/lists/frequency

it helps a lot. another page i use a lot:

strokeorder dot com

I like the way korean sounds better too EXCEPT that young female trendy accent they've been doing for a few years that sounds like they have marbles and peanut butter in their mouths when they talk. If an FL has that s-korean "valley girl" accent I drop the show, I can't take it. What's worse, my aunt still watches k-dramas, so they're still always on at home, and now the young MEN are sometimes doing a light version of that accent too, aughhhhh!

My aunt can't get past the sound of Chinese, she calls it "shurshurshur" lol And it did take me some time to get over it. Now the only language that I can't manage to watch a show because it's too weird is Thai.

I WAS teaching myself Korean, i can still read it and write it and got stuck on verb conjugations. But now that I never watch k-dramas anymore, I started picking up mandarin!

I've seen lessee...about 230 chinese dramas now, so if you average each ep to about half hr, and conservatively guess that each show has 24 eps, that's very roughly about 2500 hours of chinese immersion?
And can pick out quite a bit now, but I do idly and lazily teach myself mandarin writing as I go also, dunno if that makes a difference.

But like the ones that "appear" first are at about 500-1000 hours of immersion, ones like

fun cai = let go
fun cai wa = let me go

(funny how those are easily the first phrases you learn when you watch c-dramas lollll)

wo ai ni = I love you
wo xi huan ni = i like you
she bu she = Is that not so (lit. is-not-is)
wo zhi dao = i know
wo zhi dao le = I know that
wo bu zhi dao = I don't know
wo bu zhi dao le - I don't know that
Ren = man
Lao ren = You there, men, you men there, hey somebody
yi - er- set = one two three
hao = good
mao = cat
gou = dog
ke ai = cute
chi fan = eat rice (which often just means "eat your dinner")
sha = kill
sha le = killed
sha le wo = (you will/did) k*ll me
sha le ni = (I will/did) k*ll you
sha gua = silly melon (but means silly girl, sillyhead, silly thing)

picking out words comes slower, but sentence structure is ridiculously easier than korean.

i see it, ty <3

also can someone tell me where the opening scene takes place? the whole town is jacked up and on fire and evrrybody dead and wounded... where... how.... what is going on

literally nothing else interesting to watch rn, so I'm going to try starting this in earnest this time, but wondering how many eps drop per day, I'm trying to figure out if I need to pace myself or not

The only thing i think k-dramas have over other dramas from around the world is their humor. Their "funny" is actually FUNNY AF. But c-dramas are better than other international dramas because
*better costumes and worldbuilding and style
*better fantasy
*more willing to take risks
*put out tons and tons of content so there's something for everybody
*cater to so many different kinds of tastes in what is "hot" (red flag, gray flag, green flag, toxic, healthy, unrequitted, borderline incesty, obsessive, shy and sweet, fluff, supernatural, mental illness, school, business, historical, juvenile, mature)
*not prudes about spice or craziness
*better lowkey humor
*better fight scenes
*BETTER CHEESE/GOOD-BAD
*Better episode structure and better release calendars
*faster at getting a show filmed, edited, and in the can
*less sleazy, corrupting, and gratuitous than western shows

afiac, c-dramas are the finest entertainment on the planet right now, and it looks like it's gonna stay that way for a long time, unless skorea gets their heads outta their asses and starts pumping out creative and risk taking content to try to compete.

so ironic that c-dramas are notorious for having to pass chinese censors, but k-dramas actually are way stricter in actual practice.