#dongjae

[axis-eastshine]

[NOTICE]

On the 30th of May, 2024, it was revealed that Youngkwang and Karis has decided to leave the group. Eastshine will continue to operate as a 5-membered group. See: Eastshine Official Fancafe [TRANS.]

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We would like to inform you that EASTSHINE members YOUNGKWANG and KARIS concluded their official activities and terminated their contracts after sufficient discussion with us due to personal reasons.

We ask for your understanding to share this unfortante news with our fans, and we will give our full support for the future activites of EASTSHINE members.

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[kpopna]

East Shine فرقة من 8 فتيان هل تعرفهم؟؟؟؟

East Shine فرقة من 8 فتيان هل تعرفهم؟؟؟؟

 East Shine هي فرقة فتيان قادمة تحت TM Entertainment تتكون من Sunwook و Dongjae و Hyunjin و Hwanjun و Kyuhyun و Youngkwang و Kunhee و Goohyun. قد يتم الكشف عن المزيد من الأعضاء قريبًا. من المقرر ترسيمهم في عام 2023. اسم نادي المعجبين الخاص بفرقة  East Shine: _ الألوان الرسمية لفرقة  East Shine: _ حسابات  East Shine…

[feelrush]

as soon as they said that i won, everything i had gone through last night came back to me. it feels like i avenged her. i did what i could.

ha seok-jin and lee si-won, THE DEVIL'S PLAN (2023)

[bongdojin]

LEE JOON HYUK AS SEO DONGJAE Secret Forest 2, dir. Park Hyunsuk

[kalena-henden]

Dongjae, The Good or The Bastard | October 2024 ➳ Lee Joon Hyuk

[chinzillas]

𝘚𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳? Dongjae, the Good or the Bastard premiers on October 10th!

[fy-bsk]

230929 - KIM DONGJAE (@badregular) Instagram Story update with SEUNGKWAN

[muninnhuginn]

Thinking about Seo Dongjae’s arc and how Lee Changjoon factors into it.

Spoilers for both seasons of Stranger under the cut.

Both came from similar backgrounds in that they were ‘disadvantaged’ compared to their peers. Lee Changjoon didn’t come from a family as wealthy as the chaebols and Lee Yeonjae is explicitly said to have married ‘down’ when she married him instead of Kim Byunghyun. Seo Dongjae meanwhile wasn’t an alumni of a prestigious university and so doesn’t have the same connections as many of his colleagues. This pushes them both in different ways. Dongjae towards latching onto the nearest person he thinks he can use to give him a leg up. Changjoon towards the murky business of Hanjo and his father-in-law.

As season 1 progresses, Dongjae and Changjoon become more distant. We’re told that they used to be closer and have been growing apart over the course of the early episodes as Dongjae’s suspicion of his boss grows. Dongjae is still an opportunist though and so he returns back under Changjoon when given the chance. Ultimately, survival is what matters most for him and if it’s playing all sides that keeps him from being arrested that’s just what he’ll do.

Changjoon took Dongjae on to be his employee on the condition he stay away from Hanjo and his father-in-law. In retrospect, I’m inclined to believe this was his way of protecting Dongjae from their influence rather than because of worries Dongjae could ‘expose’ him. After all, Changjoon intended to expose Hanjo himself and so keeping Dongjae away from them doesn’t particularly help with this. If anything, he’s limiting potential information Dongjae can obtain to only the pieces more relevant to himself.

And, of course, Changjoon told Dongjae to not follow his path with his dying breaths. He could see the direction Dongjae was heading (and was already far enough down to have an arrest warrant out in his name) and knew where it had ended for him. Changjoon knew how how hard it is to extricate yourself once you’ve started down the corrupt route. But he also knew it wasn’t too late for Dongjae. Eunsoo proved that Dongjae couldn’t stomach being a killer.

Season two Dongjae, for all he’s still trying to make inroads and build connections in dubious ways, does show signs of growth. The fact he looked further into the Choi Bit and Park Gwangsu when Woo Taeha tried to draw him away from them is evidence of that. Looking further in this case would not endear him to the very person he wants to gain a promotion from. Also, it does seem like he was genuinely invested in his role in juvenile crimes, in even ‘simple’ bullying cases. And that in of itself helped him unlock the beach case. There was also how didn’t particularly socialise with others at his current office and mainly kept to himself which is a far cry from his early season 1 behaviour. Of course, the last point is somewhat weakened by the way he was most definitely networking outside of his station, but it adds to the sense of isolation and desperation present in everyone this season. His motivation skews increasingly towards his family and dissatisfaction with the whole system (though as a prosecutor he aims most of his ire at the police force).

There’s a part in the second season where Dongjae says something about how looking too deeply into places regardless of what everyone else wants can get you in trouble. And at the time the most obvious person it applies to is Simok (and also Eunsoo, but that stays silent) but in a number of ways it applies to Dongjae himself in this season. He’s probably lucky he was taken out by the culprit he was when you look at the other potential suspects. He has a lot of new powerful enemies. And those enemies are still future threats to him (as Lee Yeonjae demonstrates aptly). For a character so focused on survival historically, his choice should be clear when it comes to whether he speaks up or whether he chooses to stay silent. And yet, he’s shown enough growth that it isn’t clear anymore.

In the dream sequence in season 2, the subtext is pretty clear as to why each person appears. They’re all people who quite literally ‘lost their way or lost their life’. Changjoon (life/way - self-explanatory), Kang (strayed his way but chose to leave), Eunsoo (life, and also her way - though not in the corrupt sense, more how her revenge consumed her and she made self-destructive choices), Yoon (way, though importantly *not* his life). And Dongjae being there is partly to raise the potential he won’t make it, but most of all, it’s there to say that Dongjae hasn’t yet chosen his own path.

As of the season two finale, we don’t know which direction he’ll choose to go.

[yellowocaballero]

literally shrieking. i stumbled on ur 100k stephanie brown fic by complete chance, loved it, found your tumblr only to discover you are also READING ORV??? THE SERIES EVER????

god. have so much fun. have so so much fun. i cannot wait to see what you come up with for the series

HAHA YUP. I'm 80% through I swear to God I'll finish it. I just found out some choice facts about the Secretive Plotter and my brain is breaking. It's definitely The Most Thing Ever. Every time I open it it's like getting blasted by a fire hose of parental abandonment and alternate timelines.

I'm facing a problem I've had before, which my brain very much wants to write something for it, and I have plenty of ideas, but absolutely none of them are good. If the inevitable orv fic isn't incredible I'm committing seppuku. It feels stupid to have no good ideas for orv, which by the logic of orv can hold almost any idea there is, but hitting the characters right is fucking difficult and you have to hit a hard balance of hitting exactly like orv while also being better (or just differently) structured than orv. I don't want to write it just like orv, but if I don't then there's no point. Maybe likely nothing'll get written because I'll be too perfectionist about it.

Relatedly, now I'm reading a lot of other #gamer manwha. And I finally found another one which matches up to orv for me, which is SSS Class Suicide Hunter. It's not a hydraulic press to the skull like orv but in many ways it's better done. That was probably the hardest I've cried at a work of fiction since I was a teenager. I won't write fic for it, it's like painting on the Mona Lisa, but Jesus it's incredible. If you're an orv fan check it out. If you aren't hyper-familiar with Buddhist philosophy you'll miss a lot, though.

[suuho]

there’s this one seeming small, yet so poignant moment in secret forest season two, when we see dongjae listen to the same radio channel as simok, at the same time, while he enters his room in the prosecution dormitory, only for that to be directly followed by simok moving into the same dormitory, and finding himself looking out of the open window, across the yard to the dormitory building on the other side. the fact that this is rounded off by dongjae and simok appearing together, presumably the next day, at the same prison is just so intentionally well done, it blows my mind.

it immediately established a connection between two characters reluctant to engage with each other, now that they have been forced to, and sets simok’s emotional tone for the rest of the season in regards to dongjae’s kidnapping. which is quite literally the trigger for one of simok’s only emotional outbursts in the entire show, across thirty-two episodes. to do so with mere framing and visual language, which includes the intentional complimentary color-coding of simok and dongjae when they are working together, in just a single minute is genius. it works so well in connecting the two, and the payoff is remarkable in the last episodes, when they rescue dongjae and simok is visibly affected the entire time he is gone, arguably even more so than anyone else involved with the case.

[axis-eastshine]

'Embers'

EASTSHINE's debut album, 'Embers' was released on 16th November, 2023, consisting of 5 tracks; 4 full songs and one istrumental.

Their title track, 'Double down', corporates elements of rock and roll, pop, and funky lyrics to send a particular message: them trying to achieve their goals, dreams, and urging the listener to do the same and never give up. In this track, leader IEL collaborated with songwriter Lee Seungyeon to write the lyrics. An instrumental version is included on the album.

'No Matter What I Do' is a magically sounding dance track, which is about finding one's true self. The song does not have an MV, however, it was performed live on Music Bank and its dance practice can be found on youtube. IEL is the sole creditor for the lyrics on this track.

'Showtime' is about finding passion after being bored to an extent in which one loses their way. With a refreshing beat as a chorus, the song proposes a motivational message.

'Cloud' is a ballad that is directed towards Muscats (eastshine fans). It is a bittersweet melody about seeing your fans but not being able to fully reach them. IEL's stance: participated in both writing and composing, and he arranged the song himself.

writing credits can be found under komca official website

[petrichoraline]

as for now I really don't actively dislike anyone..when orbit started crying I was like yeah you know what they are humans and make mistakes..I understand why he didn't trust dongjae but still, calling out hyesungs number..he knew it was wrong after but he should've payed attention, that was so silly

[ohyangchon]

13, 16, and 8 on that fandom violence ask XD

Swinging a bat at a hornets' nest.gif

8- common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

The idea that "Shimok and Yeojin are the main characters in the narrative and everyone just lives in it", because yes, they are the main characters but Lee Sooyeon has set it up that EVERY single character they interact with (yes, even the side characters that only appear for 1 season) touch and shape them in different ways.

Heck, Shimok GRINS seeing Hosub again in S2 at the end! He remembers Hosub and feels comforted being posted there to someone he's perceived as a friend! You can't have them alone in their own universes, because both their characters are designed as vehicles that are molded by circumstances - yes, even Shimok, who slowly gets coaxed out of his shell by Yeojin and Jungbon, yes, the same Shimok who watched his beloved mentor he shared a complex push-and-pull and then his legacy with fall to his death, the same Shimok whose nemesis (Yeonjae) he then inherited as a pseudo-mother figure due to his mentor's death.

Both Shimok and Yeojin are shaped by the people around them - they drive the narrative and are passengers alike. This to me is why the character-driven writing is so intriguing to me, and why I love Lee Sooyeon's character design so deeply.

13 - worst blorbofication

I feel like by far is the woobification of Dongjae's actions begging for a redemption arc especially with the new Dongjae-centric drama coming up, which no. The whole point is that he plays all sides, gets away relatively scot-free, and keeps doing it until he hurtles into self-destruction. It's also why despite my adoration for Lee Sooyeon's characters and a 13 year obsession with the actor, I cannot see this being anything more than a closed loop.

I don't want him to be redeemed, because there isn't anything to redeem - he's an abusive, self-absorbed and opportunistic man designed to show the extremes people will go to for their own needs (in his, it's family, working in the bureau that primarily serves minors), and he can eat Yeojin's shoes for her breaking her ass to save him but I don't want him miraculously good after S2, I want him broken and questioning and very, very afraid.

16- you can't understand why so many people like this thing

Both Shimok and Yeojin are victims of this and I'll say this first, especially as a pair. People like to play amnesiacs about their orientation and how they function as a pair, and it's utterly irritating to me to see people write Yeojin as some sex-crazed horndog and Shimok as a brickwall or some sort of slow-burn friends-to-lovers thing when she actively fixes Shimok's "needs" - if you want romance, sure, but at some point you're removing so much of what the characters are that we're no longer watching the same show.

I know, shipping is a part of everyone's culture, etc, and I don't know. Asexual voices keep getting erased in this when people ask you to not try to write "fix-it" fics of a disabled man who has openly professed a lack of interest and his bisexual partner who had an entire season being visibly attracted to her female superior, and at some point it's less "I can't understand" than "you're literally just ignoring us". You can't be like "we're not being phobic :/" and then actively choke out queer voices when they're one of the most PROMINENT voices in your fandom.

Not to mention people (ace writers in the fandom) HAVE written them as platonic partners. We're not ignoring that because it's true! Not everything needs to be exaggerated romance-to-sex

[mellozelle]

The Devil's Plan, Review (Netflix, 2023)

I was curious of this show upon reading tweets about it. I'm only familiar with Ha Seok-jin as I've watched him in kdramas (and a few variety shows where he guested in).

I actually didn't expect that the games would be so well-crafted, and how it shows some of the human survival insticts in such shows. I do wish that some of the earlier main matches were individual games before it proceeds to somehow an alliance/team game by the end. I was kind of bummed that potential ace players were eliminated due to some bad lucks 🤧 and individual matches can really show each of the players possible strengths.

Overall, I enjoyed the shows as there are really mindblowing twists in it. It was kind of reminiscent of Liar Game (which I enjoyed before!!). Really looking forward if there would be news of a second season. Hoping for a much more intense strategies, alliances, and a lil bit of drama.

[SPOILER]

Congrats to Ha Seokjin!!! It was honestly well deserved after seeing how he played the game, fairly and logically. (And i dont know if it's because I was slightly bias for knowing him prior to the show, but I really did root for him hahaha)

Salute also to ORBIT, for also giving his best to all games, especially for stepping forward. His strategy may not have worked well but yea. His poker play was truly great!

To other casts also! I was on team Seokjin-Seewon-Dongjae-Guillaume who somehow ended up like an underdog team in the show.

[bongdojin]

LEE JOON HYUK as SEO DONGJAE Dongjae, The Good or The Bastard (2024)

[kalena-henden]

Dongjae, The Good or The Bastard (2024) ➳ Lee Joon Hyuk & Park Sung Woong