#MIN-CHUL.

[piliyi]

❝ you look like a nice person who likes to help people in need. ❞ minchul hehe

it’s a strange thing to be seen. he was so desperate for it as a child, for someone to look at him and see in him the things he read about in the early hours of each morning, surrounded by other children his age — be good, be kind, be charitable, help your fellows even when you can’t help yourself. shed tears only for others, never for yourself. and he wanted to be good, and kind, but more than anything, he wanted to be told this is what he was. often, he wondered if the other children were half as hungry. 

“ …are you making fun of me? ” he twists in his seat, pulling the thick, woven blanket more securely around his middle. his gaze drifts naturally from the tv screen to lock with tooru’s, eyes searching. curious.

“ …or flirting with me? sorry. sometimes i can’t tell. ”

[xiaolanhua]

Love Next Door 엄마 친구 아들 (2024) Dir. Yoo Je Won – Ep. 10

[nunafilms]

I have no right to be a father, do I? Gosh, I have a beautiful daughter, but I've never bought you a nice outfit. I couldn't even send you any allowance when you were studying overseas.

LOVE NEXT DOOR 엄마 친구 아들 (2024)

[mangodelorean]

Out-of-context screenshots | A Virtuous Business, Episodes 03-04

[manawari]

Solo Leveling men + Flowers

Choi Jong-in / Red Rose

meaning: love, passion, pride, beauty, & victory.

Baek Yoon-ho / Tiger Lily

meaning: courage, strength, confidence, wealth, & prosperity.

Yoo Jin-ho / Sunflower

meaning: loyalty, happiness, positivity, & admiration.

Min Byung-gyu / Dandelion

meaning: hope, healing, resilience, innocence, & transformation.

Sung Jin-woo / Daffodil

meaning: rebirth, new beginnings, hope, joy, and good luck.

Woo Jin-chul / Hydrangea

meaning: perseverance, determination, gratitude, grace, & beauty.

Eun-seok / Delphinium

meaning: big hearted, dignity, grace, cheerfulness, & goodwill

Liu Zhigang / Gladiolus

meaning: strength, faithfulness, moral integrity, remembrance, & endurance.

Go Gun-hee / Poppy

meaning: sacrifice, remembrance, endurance, & peace.

Sung Il-hwan / Protea

meaning: strength, courage, resilience, encouragement, & power.

Ma Dong-wook / Iris

meaning: hope, wisdom, trust, & valour

Lennart Niemann / Mayflower

meaning: hope, fertility, new beginnings, & boundaries/protection.

Thomas Andre / Alstroemeria

meaning: friendship, love, strength & devotion.

Goto Ryuji / Purple Clematis

meaning: royalty, power, & luxury.

[stormdragon23]

My Top Solo Leveling Ships

Wanted to talk a little about them, so I'll just list three main reasons why I like them otherwise this post will be endless. There are a lot of other ships I like, but these are the main ones

It's a little unhinged, but that shouldn't be new

1. ChoiBaek

This shouldn't be a surprise

They are aware of the other's intentions without needing to tell each other. They both read other people and each other very well. The only reason they don't get along is because when both of them want the same thing (recruiting Sung Jin-Woo, a gate in the area, etc), they are both very willing to fight for what they want and use their perceptiveness to their advantage. One of them doesn't mind having his thoughts being known while the other minds a lot

They both want their guild become stronger but not at the expense of their members. They have the same morals, but the actions they take because of their morals are different. Baek Yoon-Ho wants to make his guild stronger by focusing on what his members need as individuals (paying them more, training new recruits with stronger and more experienced members, etc). Choi Jong-In wants to make his guild stronger by focusing on improving how the teams work together (hunting in a orderly way to minimize injuries as much as possible, taking a leadership role to make sure none of the members are falling behind, making sure the teams are adequately prepared, etc). Both of them care a lot about other people, though they don’t make it obvious to others

Both know the other is strong (Choi Jong-In defends Baek Yoon-Ho when Sung Jin-Woo thinks Yoon-Ho is struggling during the Jeju sparring match while Baek Yoon-Ho is aware of Choi Jong-In's strength during the Jeju Raid) but tend to underestimate themselves (Baek Yoon-Ho believing he wouldn't have been able to win against the Japanese S-Ranks when he held out for a while on his own against two of them, and Choi Jong-In seeing his title as "a joke" after comparing himself to Sung Jin-Woo when he always has to limit how much of his powers he actually uses because of the people around him or the environment he is in)

This got long anyways... sorry. The others are shorter

2. SungPark

I wanted to see them more than the main couple

They are both selfless to the point where they make sure others are alright before taking care of themselves

They both want their family to be safe and happy and make taking care of their children their priority. Park Kyung-Hye tells her son it's okay for him to be a hunter, even though it's the reason why Sung Il-Hwan is gone, and she understands that it's something both her husband and son feel like they need to do

The way Kyung-Hye kept waiting for her husband to return home and knew the exact moment when he wouldn't be coming back Ripped my heart to SHREDS-

They were so in love laskdjfasdlf

3. MinLee

AKA younger!SungPark

Both of them have similar trauma, so they're able to help each other, especially since they're both retired

Even they have trauma, they have put their fears aside to help people more. Both participate in the last Jeju raid despite Min Byung-Gyu being traumatized from the last one and Lee Ju-Hee being traumatized from her previous raids

The way Lee Ju-Hee hardly showed up after she told Sung Jin-Woo she was retiring and Min Byung-Gyu barely being mentioned besides his trip to Japan before the Jeju Raid? There's so much potential for them to actually meet-

I see them as the "bunny couple"

4. ChulWoo

This was actually one of the first ships I really got into

The way Woo Jin-Chul knew Sung Jin-Woo from the beginning and was watching Sung Jin-Woo get stronger without realizing it at first

The way Woo Jin-Chul looked at Sung Jin-Woo in the new timeline when he remembered the previous timeline-

Honestly, in my opinion, Sung Jin-Woo had more potential with Woo Jin-Chul than Cha Hae-in. Like, Sung Jin-Woo avenging Go Gun-Hee not just for his sake but for Woo Jin-Chul? Sung Jin-Woo actually trying to not give Jin-Chul a headache but failing? I love their dynamic

5. HeeSeok

This is probably the most cracked ship out of these, but it's cute

Both of them have a caring, almost parent-like nature (Park Hee-Jin looking after Han Song-Yi during the Red Gate and Eun-Seok looking after and warning Min Byung-Gyu during the third Jeju Raid)

It's actually possible for them to have known each other despite it not being stated in canon (Eun-Seok was a member of the Fiend Guild, and Park Hee-Jin could have been a member of the Fiend Guild as well before leaving for White Tiger. The game might change this part about Park Hee-Jin, but I'll stick with it for now)

The way Eun-Seok wears a scarf with his hunter's outfit, and then Park Hee-Jin gets stuck in a frost Red Gate? And Park Hee-Jin looks somewhat okay despite it being cold, so it seems like both are fine in cold environments

Actually, in my monarch/ruler AU, Frost Monarch!Eun-Seok could be the reason Park Hee-Jin gets stuck there in that Red Gate...hmm

Feel free to ask for more of my thoughts and talk about your own below

[aria-baerose]

[kdramamilfs]

Perfect Family (2024), episode 11

[itagakimizuki]

EVILIVE (2023) ep 9

[piliyi]

❛ you're not by yourself, alright? i'm right here with you. ❜ (tender)toomin...

min-chul was just a child the first time he experienced a loss so permanent as to be remembered. it was a story he’d heard countless of times in his earliest days at the church— both from other kids, older than him at the time, and the kind, soft-eyed sisters tasked with their care— and though no one told him the truth for many more years to come, he had always, for a reason unbeknownst to a child who had no true way of knowing, likened their stories to himself. even then, he felt it; that he had been born abandoned, alone, perched on a doorstep, reliant on strangers’ short-lived kindnesses, and that it was how it had to be.

the truth, then, when he learned it one mundane afternoon years later— spilled from the lips of a boy several years his senior in a fit of misplaced resentment-fueled rage— didn’t come as that big of a surprise.

“ that’s, ” not a lie, obviously, but— the emotion that flits across his expression is easy to miss, and he averts his gaze, intentional in his avoidance, but not intending to be cruel. he doesn’t know what it means, for tooru to offer him these words, to placate or to possess? he told min-chul once that he can’t feel emotions, none of the rage, offense, mistrust most other humans do, and min-chul never lets himself forget, never lets himself be lulled, so what can it mean, for tooru to promise him this now? 

he wonders if tooru himself knows. 

—reckons that he must. 

“ i - i know, ” he says at last, as sure of this as he is of most other things, admission pressing heavily against the shell of his heart. it’s a scary thing, he thinks— still focused on something far, far away— to not be by yourself. “ i see you. ”

[stuff-diary]

Hierarchy

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Hierarchy (2024, South Korea)

Director: Bae Hyeon Jin

Writer: Chu Hye Mi

Mini-review:

Oof, what a disappointment. I feel like this wanted to be one of those transgressive teen shows we get in the West, but then it didn't have the guts to go all the way and ended up being like any other kdrama about the rich and the poor. And even then, it's just not good at that either. The writing leaves a lot to be desired, and it gets more boring with every episode. The acting is also all over the place; some of the actors do a solid job, but most of them are mediocre or downright terrible. Tbh, there are two things that save this drama from disaster: firstly, the director adds a lot of style and flair to the proceedings; secondly, sometimes it's fun to see a bunch of super pretty people all together in one place. But still, there are a lot of shows where you can find those things with much better quality. I wouldn't recommend Hierarchy, unless you really love someone in the cast...

[sylvaridreams]

life hack if your friends are annoying and embarrassing enough in public you can walk out and stick then with the tab, minsec doesn't want you to know this but nothing can stop you from doing it. real winners quit.

[manawari]

Solo Leveling Boyband Au: internet shenanigans pt 4

[stormdragon23]

Monarch/Ruler Successors AU

This is just my personal headcanons on this AU since I have my own take

Kind of a mashup of others' ideas honestly, plus a couple of my own though I think they came from one person in particular

Very subject to change as I read Ragnarok. And when I'm finally able to play the game

Monarchs:

Choi Jong-In as The Monarch of Destruction, the King of Dragons

Baek Yoon-Ho as The Monarch of Fangs, the King of Beasts

Hwang Dong-Soo as The Monarch of the Iron Body, the King of Monstrous Humanoids

Kang Tae-Shik as The Monarch of Transfiguration, the King of Demonic Spectres

Eun-Seok as The Monarch of Frost, the King of the Snow Folk

Lim Tae-Gyu as The Monarch of the Beginning, the King of Giants

Goto Ryuji as The Monarch of White Flames, the King of Demons

Park Hee-Jin as The Monarch of Plagues, the Queen of Insects

Ruler Vessels:

Cha Hae-In

Min Byung-Gyu

Thomas Andre

Liu Zhigang

Christopher Reed > Lennart Niermann

Sung Il-Hwan

Go Gunhee > Woo Jin-Chul

Siddharth Bachchan (Don't have a pic for him, but that's not my fault)

Open to questions. Because I don't know what else to say

[somanykdramas]

LOVE NEXT DOOR

GENRES: Drama, Romance, Comedy

SUMMARY: There are some loves that span decades, outlast tragedy, and thrive in second chances.

THIS SHOW HAS EVERYTHING: Online cooking, South Pole missions, black belt EMTs, mud flats, superheroes, adorable children, pine sodas, durian candies, friendship-strengthening bracken, confident romance, mid-age friendships, hometown pride, and finding yourself in the chaos of life.

HOT TAKE: This show should just be called 'Acts of Service: The Best Friend-To-Romance Hour.'

I have never seen so many green-flag beaus in one k-drama in all my years of watching. Even the one guy who they tried to pin as the 'villain' was really only just selfish and eventually came around to realize he was 100% at fault.

This show has great pacing, believable sets and character motivations, and will cause you to happy-cry in the best way through nearly every episode.

[aria-baerose]