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just watched the pilot of When the Phone Rings.......women in STEM (sign language, telephone blackmail, emotional distress, manipulation)

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At this point Bael is just trying to get rid of Justitia. He can’t even find good reasons to anymore lol

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shima believes himself to be unlovable and evil and mean and terrible and so he feels disillusioned when he asks mitsumi why she liked him and she says that it's because he's kind and he helped her. Because shima doesnt believe himself to be kind! he wanted mitsumi to give him a reason he hadn't thought of, something complicated and ugly he hasnt shown anyone, even if she has no way of fully knowing. but what shima isnt able to understand is that his "facade" for better and for worse is an active effort he made to make mitsumi more comfortable and at peace that at the time deeply affected her and kept her moving forward!!! He thinks all those times where he was nice are all just a prettyboy facade thats shallow and fake but fails to realize how those moments are what made him and mitsumi connect in the first place...

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“what kind of person is kang bitna?”

“a bad judge, but a good person. she doesn’t let the strong push her around or walk over the weak. she may seem cold from the distance, but up close she’s very warm”

HAN DAON JUST KISS HER MY BOY!!!

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i loved one direction with an all-consuming force when i was younger. it hurts deeply to mourn someone you were a massive fan of as teenager, and became a peer of as an adult.

i know people change and grief is unsure or complicated when it’s attached to a fond memory or the feeling a person gave you and not tangibly the person themself. i can see many of you on here are struggling with that right now and i understand.

a few years ago i purchased a home that Liam previously owned. there were rumors the house was haunted. He assured me it was not, and i believed him. because i know the ghosts that haunt us aren’t tethered to buildings. They live in parts of us that are harder to reach and they go wherever we do.

as a parent, a fellow artist, and a fan, i simply cannot fathom this untimely loss. my heart goes out to his family, friends, and the fans. 💔

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A lot clicked for me when my mom said the reason she was so reactive towards me as a kid was that she assumed intent behind things I did, rather than recognizing my behaviors for being normal kid behaviors or normal autism behaviors. So I got treated as if I was an adult who was intentionally doing things to upset her. She'd react to me like I had the maturity and wherewithal to do things in a cruel or manipulative way, making her life harder, when I was just existing. Just trying to learn how to cope and be a person myself. When she told me this I stopped in my tracks trying to process. Why would anyone's default assumption be that a kid is trying to antagonize them instead of like, struggling with something they're experiencing? But she was also raised the exact same way, treated like everything she did carried the weight of adult responsibility, not seen as a kid.

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Koo Man-Do deserves to get his ass kicked, wdm this dumbass is out there telling HUMANS how to temporarily weaken demons ?????!!! If I were Justitia I’d have his tongue on a silver platter by the end of the day

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“Can’t you just be nice?”

Han Da On asking Justitia this after confessing to almost falling for her is ironic. He genuinely hasn’t realized he already fell, to some extent.

He’s conflicted, he doesn’t quite understand what Justitia being a demon truly encompasses and that scares him. And who can blame him? All most of us assume about demons is that they’re inherently evil, nothing more. He knows she’s the one behind the murderers yet he still holds onto the almost non-existent chance that she actually didn’t do it, he wants to believe that she’s a good person despite being a demon just because she’s done a few good deeds. He repeats “you’re good” not only to Justitia but to himself as well, he wants to believe it, he wants to convince himself of it, he just can’t help it because ultimately, he’s human and can only hope that she is one as well

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The Judge from Hell 지옥에서 온 판사 (2024) Dir. Park Jin Pyo – Ep. 7

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This would also explain why Justitia simply replicates what the sinners have already done

I think I read it in Good Omens, demons are not nearly as bad as humans — because demons have no imagination. Only humans can come up with creative ways on how to make their fellow living beings suffer in the most excruciating ways.

Watching this episode, I tend to agree. Humans don't need any supernatural motivation to put evil thoughts into action. 😞

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Best case scenario for this drama:

Daon and Kang Bitna become real partners, being unhinged and in love and murdering the sinners happily together forever amen, Bitna doesnt become some goodie-two-shoes but learns to care for /her/ circle of people, Daon gives up on being a righteous fighter for justice because he realises the human justice system sucks and sometimes you just gotta murder a guy for being an evil douche-bag.

Worst case scenario:

Daon is temporarily tempted to join Bitna due to his grief and anger but at the last moment he remembers his pinky promise with mom friend detective and decides to "be a good detective who obeys the law and brings the criminals to justice fairly and openly" and probably ends up killing Bitna (breaking her "you've never killed anyone ever" claim) or she gets herself killed to save him and then I flip a table out of annoyance.

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How ep 7 of The Judge from Hell has me feeling

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i need to get him pregnant

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Apothecary Diaries: World's sexiest man vs world's most asexual woman

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Skip & Loafer 64: Heartbreaker

We're back, I'm glad we took a little time last installment to let the school trip breathe but now we're largely dealing with what was set up before that. Cheri. The girl who came off as pretty manipulative before and this time ended up being very mean. Leading two guys on pretty openly and indulging in them being hurt by it. I will say, I like that we didn't take the road that would muddle the message here by having the guys be pushy or fighting each other or whatever. They just moved on.

But Mitsumi saw all of this. And wasn't just going to let it go. Prompting this very telling response from Cheri. And of course this leads to Mitsu deciding Cheri needs to be the latest recipient of the charm bomb.

All told, I think I see where this is headed and it's on brand for Skip & Loafer. A peaceful but real look at teenage struggles. And this one is one I've seen a fair few times, especially with queer youth, but it's poorly understood. The telling thing was the glimpse behind Cheri's very hard to read demeanor.

I get the feeling she feels unloved at home. Probably some degree of cold parents. A lot of young people who have experienced rejection respond by proactively seeking it. They act in ways they know are wrong and hurtful because they've learned all relationships get that way eventually. So why not be the one doing the hurting? Here's hoping she comes around, though for drama's sake I wouldn't necessarily mind seeing someone Mitsu can't charm.

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I almost fell for you.

I'm so excited about the upcoming episodes because episodes 5 and 6 are where Daon is finally starting to grasp the reality of what it means to be a Demon and what Kang Bitna aka Justitia is really capable of doing. It's one thing to know she's a demon, but to witness it firsthand has to be pretty life altering,

especially for Daon who admitted almost falling for Justitia (despite being stabbed by her and being told multiple times that she was indeed a demon, wdym almost boy lol).

Going back to my thoughts here on Justitia and Daon being id and superego respectively--it'd be really interesting to see Daon finding out what exactly is Justitia's mission and why is this so high-stakes for her. They might end up being allies eventually, begrudgingly, to punish the criminals, but I want to see how much of his morality is Daon ready to sacrifice for Justitia's survival and/or punishing the evil who trick the system.

p.s. the shift in his eyes from the last 4 episodes and to 5-6 is so evident and kinda sorta sad.

There was this spark before but in these two episodes it's like he doesn't really want to believe it's her doing all this, but he has enough evidence and he's bound by his sense of righteous justice. It's like the guy got this hope after many many years that there's this one person out there, she is crazy but also believes in getting to the truth, even if it comes from a child, but he is now having to crush that hope to ground because apparently this one person is incapable of feeling anything at all.

When he says "Why can't you pick a different hobby? One that doesn't involve murder?" imo it was more out of desperation than anger. Because oh he hates hates hates the idea of her being so irredeemable that he'd have to hate her and fight her and bring her to justice.

That glint is gone, the veil has lifted, and he is clearly feeling a lot of things.

SIGH. Idk where this is headed but I'm here for it.

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the genius of justitia/bitna looking first at daon and then at the victim's mother before her heart starts to violently beat to life in her chest — the fact that he is the first thread tying her to the beginnings of her humanity. daon is her anchor in this world: hate or love; he is the heat of all her emotions — the hurt in his gaze actually manages to halt her. make her hesitate. make her feel.

a demon disavows all emotion — but even the solemn-most of vows depart at the desperate anger in daon's face. this show might not be a love story but it is still a story about love — the lingering weight of a creature's conscience at the sight of daon's despairingly furious face.

the character development in this show is brilliant.