#ady an

[old-dramas]

I told you early on. Don't waste your time with a person like me.

Autumn’s Concerto (2009) 1.08

[dangermousie]

Do you want your heart wrecked? God, do I have a drama for you - The Outsiders (2004) pusher post.

Prepare to be shocked because The Outsiders doesn't have a single cliche so beloved by many older dramas: there is no over-the-top silliness (the story is pretty grim), nobody is in college or has terminal illness, and...*gasp* love is important and even the lynchpin of the main characters' lives, but the drama is not starry-eyed about it, and in fact wants you to seriously question whether it was better for protagonists to have never met, or were the highs worth all the appalling lows.

The story of The Outsiders centers around 4 characters: three lower-class boys, thug delinquents and best friends since childhood. And Yu Yen, a sheltered, unworldly upper-class pianist who ends up falling in love with Ah Hao, one of the three guys. The boys join the Triads and 'move up in the world' even as they are losing their souls, and Yu Yen also copes with the fall-out. I think The Outsiders is even more Yu Yen's story than it is Ah Hao's or anyone else's. It's her destruction, her growth that becomes the key.

I love, love, love, LOVE the impossible, incredibly messed-up and oh-so-doomed central OTP of Ah Hao and Yu Yen. I want to tell them to run and get away from each other, even as I cannot resist wishing they could work it out, even if I know they never can. The drama does something I have rarely see a drama do: it presents the viewer with this grand operatic love and then asks whether that is really worth it, whether it is really enough. Yu Yen and Ah Hao would indubitably have been better off if they had never met. Ah Hao joins the Triads to protect her, but Yu Yen gets irrevocably damaged as the result. And the secrets they keep from each other: out of guilt, out of love, out of protectiveness, out of dysfunction, or a myriad other reasons end up building a wall between them and for most of the second half we are watching people who cannot live without each other but cannot live with each other either. They keep hurting each other but they cannot, nor do they want to, break away.

While The Outsiders has an amazing love story, it is not a romance drama: it really is the story of the main characters' descent into hell, some self-made and some forced on them. Some of them emerge out of it and some do not. It is almost Greek tragedy like in making the characters' downfall based on their flaws (and sometimes what conventionally could be perceived as their strengths).

All the main characters are fleshed out: the difficult, impulsive Ah Hao whose world is dangerously black-and-white, who is oh-so-flawed but also irresistible (you can see why Yu Yen fell for his passion and his total absorption into whatever he is or does, but also see why this brings them tragedy). Yu Yen, who starts the story deceptively fragile and sheltered but develops into the strongest character of all: an internally locked-away, contained woman who is a trauma victim on the inside but will keep going despite that or despite anything else. Danzi, probably the most likeable of them all, the narrator of the story: introspective and intelligent, there to pick up the pieces. Ah Qi, the easy-going joker of the group, perhaps the least messed-up or affected by their life and his tough-as-nails street-smart girlfriend Hong Do.

The drama made me feverishly obsessed, made me bawl (yes, I got weepy for contract killer mobsters), made me swoon. It's incredibly good.

Also, I found darkeyedwolf's legendary pusher post for The Outsiders, aka my second fave twdrama beside Mars and one that will FUCK YOU UP!

A little taste from her review:

I really can't convey the twisted messed-up glory of the OTP. She can't leave him no matter what he does, because he does it all for her, and he can't blame her for any of the secrets and lies and scars, because it's his fault she's involved. They're madly in love (the kind of intense, everlasting, die-for-you love, which is not at all an exaggeration when you're dealing with the mob) but their lives would've been so much better if they'd never met. It almost hurts to ship them, because you know they should be apart for their own sakes, but you can't stop and neither can they. They don't know how to do anything but love each other.

[mademoiselle-red]

I recently got back into cdramas after a looooooong break and was feeling very nostalgic today so here are some pictures of my first xianxia idol drama blorbos:

I met them when I was 10.

Her name is Lin Yueru 林月如

His name is Li Xiaoyao 李逍遥

She’s the supporting female character, who did not get the guy. But I’ve shipped them since I was 10 so I don’t care.

The drama is called Chinese Paladin (2005)

And yes, most of you probably know the male lead Hu Ge as Mei Changsu from Nirvana in Fire, but he will always be 逍遥哥哥 xiaoyao gege for me

And she will always be my 月如姐姐 Yueru jiejie ❤️

[amarcia]

I've had this silly headcanon for a while that Anakin simply saw Padme give birth in his vision and got absolutely dramatic over it. "She will die!" "No Skywalker it always looks this way"

@jedijune 04 Cross-lineage mentorship

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

[mikhayhu]

"You've said before, Once you've had your hands on, you can't Let go."

[filmgifs]

MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993) Dir. Chris Columbus

[amikoroyaiart]

Prequel Jedi ladies 🥰

[skullz4supper]

bro forgot his contact lenses

[orientalld]

[dailyflicks]

GILDA (1946) Dir. Charles Vidor

[gffa]

Me: Listen, Star Wars, I've been on this rodeo before, you can't get me with surprise cameos-- The Acolyte: Hey.

Me: [SCREAMS] A YOUNGER KI-ADI-MUNDI???? FROM MY STAR WARS PREQUELS????

[veny-many]

I always wondered when I think about Jedi's mobility

Sorry Masters.

[dangermousie]

Do you love angst, trashiness and playboys redeemed and suffering for love?

OK, cdrama current landscape is like a desert after a nuclear strike but that doesn’t mean I cannot dig into the past when CCP was less interested in micromanaging entertainment unless it actually tried to get into politics (did you know that at one point there was a period drama! airing on TV! on which the leading role of Empress Cixi was played by a Japanese actress! And the world did not end! It’s wild how far c-ent has come and not in a good way; that frog has been boiling for a long time.)

Anyway, I present to you Four Women Conflict/Love Tribulations, a drama from 2011 starring Ady An, a huge fave, as a woman with the worst luck ever, Feng Shao Feng as a playboy who meets her because he’s being paid to seduce her but falls desperately for real, and her first love played by Mickey He. Taking place in the early years of the 20th century, misery for all, but so good!

Meet our heroine, as beautiful as she’s tormented. In ep 1 alone: her newly widowed stepmother sold her barely pubescent self into a brothel. But it’s OK because her childhood love rescued her and burned her stepmom to a crisp. A fast forward and she's a maid in some house and it doesn't look too horrific, so we'll see. Except the husband fancies her and the wife's reaction is "you can do anything you like outside but don't seduce the maids inside the house." Charming. Except he's still after her so she's ordered to be whipped by the jealous wife. Who then marries her off to some ugly moron with zero willpower or brain.  It gets better as she gets raped by her former master on her wedding night (who bullies her husband into letting him). And the raping thing turns into a systemic thing. This is all in ep 1,none of it would be allowed now. I am not saying abuse is a great thing but this all a hell of a lot more realistic fate for a beautiful lower class woman than the dim sugar confections try to show us nowadays.

When we finally meet the hero, he's having sex with a married woman. While being married himself, and not to her. On the grounds of a Buddhist monastery. Once again none of this would fly nowadays.

Meet heroine’s childhood love and stepmom crisper, played by young and scrumptious Mickey He (sexy demon dad in L&R). On brand, when we first meet heroine's childhood love as an adult, he's rescuing a bunch of women who've been captured by slavers.

By any laws of sanity, I should be shipping heroine with her childhood love and I do, madly, but I ship her with the hero also! I have no idea why but  maybe because even though I know in real life, a playboy will just give you a bad case of STDs and will never reform, it's so satisfying to watch the whole 'playboy redeemed by/suffering for/madly in love' scenario on screen. Plus, he's about the only character who appears to have an fun in this, and God knows, poor heroine needs someone who can show her some fun and also knows what he's doing in bed, too.

And here is where the plot gets going. We see playboy spread his love/STDs to another lady, a very rich one this time. After playboy and a rich banker lady finish banging, they have the following convo as interpreted by me:

Playboy: So, about that loan for my business? I mean, if you need more persuading, I can go all night. Friend-with-benefits/his moneylender: OK, loan. Fine. You get the loan the day you seduce Du Lanyun. Playboy: Am I supposed to know who she is? And since when are you pimping for me? Do you want a threesome or something? Are you into girl-on-girl action? Where do I sign up? Friend-with-benefits: Look, you are the only guy with a spoken part who's not in love with Ady An. We must remedy this pronto or else the universe will be destroyed. Also, my best friend's husband is cheating on my friend with her. Yeah, Lanyun has no interest in the guy, who apparently raped her and made her life hell, but sure, let's lash out at the victim. Playboy: I feel the sudden need of meeting a beautiful and pure woman who will redeem me and put me through hell in the name of love. Otherwise, where will this drama be? Friend-with-benefits: I promise I won't be jealous. This isn't an ironic foreshadowing, no siree. Oh, and her first love is Mickey He. Playboy: It's fun to see in how many dramas I can steal a woman's heart from Mickey He. I am in! Friend-with-benefits: And speaking of "in"...the bed is right there and I was never able to resist going for seconds. Playboy: If you close your eyes, I'll take you to heaven (actual quote, guys! Well, I suppose it's good to have self-confidence).

[amarcia]

Doodle dump from my sketchbook!! Some jedi requested on instagram!

ART LOG -> @404ama

[mikhayhu]

"You've told me before I just have to call for your name

and you'll come and rescue me, You're here. It's fine now"

[filmgifs]

101 DALMATIANS (1996) Dir. Stephen Herek