#go to a live cha

[bourdonbleu]

Excuse me but. ThAt'S iLlEgAl.

What do you mean my man CEJ spent years alone in an eerily silent place, surrounded by bones and scraps of flesh that used to be his comrades. What do you mean my good dude has to have ASMR videos playing at all times because he might as well go insane if left alone in silence for more than a minute. What do you mean he spent months - years maybe - whispering the names of his dead peers again and again and again and -

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE SPENT SO LONG WITH SILENCE FILLED ONLY BY HIS OWN WHISPERS HE FORGOT HUMAN LANGUAGE AND THE ONLY WORD HE UNDERSTOOD WAS 'NEED'. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HIS FIRST RESPONSE TO SOMEONE NEEDING HIM IS TO REACH FOR HIS SPEAR BECAUSE WHY WOULD ANYONE NEED HIM IF NOT FOR KILLING

I AM SICK AND TIRED AND I NEED MY GOOD PAL CEJ TO CATCH A. GOD. DAMN. BREAK!

[ezralva]

Gege is still recovering and goes on extended hiatus but turns out was secretly drawing and now releasing this new official art of Yuuji and Choso! 😭 they look so relax and happy, outside having picnic together! Choso is napping on the rattan mattress while smiling and Yuuji is waving at the cameraman. Between them two cans of beverage. The left one a can of tea and the other one written either Pokka or Ponka? (Pokka Sapporo is a JP's manufacturer of canned and bottled beverages)

This is an official art by Gege Akutami that will be made into lenticular bookmark as natsucomi freebie in (participating) bookstores coming July

[i0099z]

THIS FUCKING SCENE. AT THE END OF EP5. I FUCKING LOVE THIS SCENE. i really don't like a lot of things about kyung jun but then again, i can't help but remember that he might be a mf but he's also like the other kids— he's scared to die. anyway, this one was a pretty vulnerable scene and something about seeing such an aggressive character crumble like that is so so real to me

[murasaki-cha]

*after the reveal when Lee Sayoung wouldn't talk to him*

Cha Euijae: Lee Sayoung

Cha Euijae: my boy

Cha Euijae: my precious

Cha Euijae: my everything

Cha Euijae: my one and my only

Cha Euijae: I am getting REAL tired of your bullshit you fuc-

[evilmenenjoyer]

my name is such a relatable show to me because literally every single character is either clearly in love with choi mujin or completely obsessed with him to the point where it takes over their lives. like yeah me too.

[torchlitinthedesert]

I fell down a Beatles-Jimi Hendrix rabbit hole (Jimi and his manager living in Ringo’s flat! Linda being Jimi’s favourite photographer!) and I’m charmed by what a cheerleader Paul was for Jimi, right from the beginning.

He first saw him on 25 October 1966, when the Jimi Hendrix Experience played the Scotch of St James club. Chas Chandler, Jimi’s manager, was trying to get him noticed in London. So he set up this private showcase at a very hip club, and invited agent Dick Katz to come along. Chas remembered:

Paul McCartney was also sitting at our table and leant over to say he hoped Dick had Jimi signed up as he would be a giant.”

A month later, Experience played the Bag o’Nails club. Word had got around: as rock musician Terry Reid remembered, “We were all hanging out in Carnaby Street, at the Bag O’Nails - Keith, Mick Jagger, Brian (Jones) comes skipping through, like, all happy about something. Paul McCartney walks in. Jeff Beck walks in. Jimmy Page. I thought, ‘What’s this? A bloody convention or something?’”

The performance was overwhelming - for the band as well as the audience. Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience bass player, remembered: “Afterwards, in the dressing room, Lennon walked in, which freaked me out. He was saying, ‘Fuckin’ grand.’ He loved it, but I was like 20 years old, John Lennon had walked into our dressing room and said ‘That’s grand, lads.’ And then McCartney walked in and that freaked me out even more.”

John was a fan, too.Mike Nesmith of The Monkees remembers: “I was having dinner in London with John Lennon, Eric Clapton and a group of people. In the middle of dinner John produced this portable tape player and requested that the restaurant turn down the piped-in music. He then proceeded to play ‘Hey Joe’ on his recorder saying, ‘You guys gotta check this out.’ Everyone was reverential…” (The Monkees became big Hendrix fans, and later booked him as a support act on tour. It didn’t go well.)

On 25 February 1967, Paul reviewed Jimi for the Melody Maker’s “Blind Date” column, where pop stars reviewed singles without being told who the artist was:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience went on to play the Saville Theatre, run by Brian Epstein, who also hosted a first night party for them. (Noel Redding remembers Paul rushing to open the door for them.)

Paul’s own favourite Jimi Hendrix story is at the Saville: Jimi playing the title track of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:

It’s still obviously a shining memory for me, because I admired him so much anyway, he was so accomplished. To think that that album had meant so much to him as to actually do it by the Sunday night, three days after the release. He must have been so into it, because normally it might take a day for rehearsal and then you might wonder whether you’d put it in, but he just opened with it. It’s a pretty major compliment in anyone’s book. I put that down as one of the great honours of my career.

More generally, they were hanging out and having a good time. Roger Mayer, Jimi’s guitar engineer, recalls Paul regularly dropping in to see Jimi at his flat or in the studio. And journalist Sharon Lawrence remembers:

the delight in Jimi’s voice as he recounted how he’d admired a custom-made jacket McCartney was wearing and that the Beatle had insisted Jimi should have it. ‘It even had his initials inside!’

But Jimi and the Experience still had to crack the US. As Jimi put it:

Paul McCartney was the big bad Beatle, the beautiful cat who got us the gig at the Monterey Pop Festival. That was our start in America.

Chas Chandler went into more detail:

You gotta remember how huge the Beatles were in them days. They were just a colossus. And when the Mamas and the Papas and John Phillips and them come up with the Monterey thing, they asked Paul to be part of the board that was set up in front and would guarantee the Monterey festival. Paul just basically said, ‘I’ll join the board at Monterey if the Jimi Hendrix Experience are on the show’. That was his condition on joining it.

Around the same time, Paul invited Jimi to take part in another project. Jimi explained:

We were supposed to be on The Magical Mystery Tour. The Beatles used to come and see us sometimes, like at certain concerts like the Saville Theatre, and Paul McCartney told me about this little scene he had. They were planning to do a film and he wanted us to be in this film. We weren’t known then when McCartney asked us. He was trying to help us, but we got a nice break before they got the movie together.

This means Paul nearly got the dream combo of a band, a bus, and Jimi Hendrix. He would have been so happy.

Paul and Jimi did work together once, on Mike McCartney’s McGough & McGear album (1968). Jimi was also friends with Linda, his favourite photographer (he wanted her pictures on the cover of Electric Ladyland, and was angry when the record company substituted the cover with all the naked ladies.)

Jimi and Paul at the launch party for Mary Hopkin’s album Postcard, 13 February 1969. This seems to be the only photograph of Jimi and Paul together - which is strange, given that they were friends, and that Linda loved both of them. Maybe Paul is sitting on an unreleased archive of pictures?

And there’s one more near miss, this time with Jimi asking Paul. A telegram sent on 21 October 1969 invites Paul to join Jimi and jazz trumpeter Miles Davis on a new recording. Peter Brown, curses be upon him, sent a reply that Paul was on holiday - he and Linda were in Scotland, retreating from Paul Is Dead and the breakup - and Brown seems not to have passed the message on. Maybe it wouldn’t have happened (Miles withdrew from the session with Jimi - allegedly over fees). Still, even if the message didn’t get through, it’s very sweet to think of Hendrix offering Paul a helping hand when he was at his lowest.

[evilkaeya]

[twinklingwatermellon]

ELLY'S TOP TEN K-DRAMAS (with songs to match!)

(an updated version of this post can be found here)

10. Would You Like A Cup of Coffee? (2021)

Centers around Kang Go-bi and the regulars of 2Dae Coffee. Coziest show ever.

Song for this drama: Slow Down

9. Our Beloved Summer (2022)

Former high school/college sweethearts Ung and Yeon-su are brought back together by work five years after breaking up. My favorite OST!

Song for this drama: skinny dipping

8. The Matchmakers (2023)

A royal decree to marry off old maidens forces uptight prince Gyeongwoonjae and professional matchmaker Soon Deok to join forces. Prettiest show you've ever seen.

Song for this drama: Caught In A Blue

7. Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022)

Woo Young-Woo navigates her career, life changes, and love as a rookie at Hanbada Law Firm and a woman on the autism spectrum. Young-Woo is a darling, and her boy is the greenest flag ever.

Song for this drama: pov

6. Familiar Wife (2018)

A married couple who have fallen out of love get to see each other in a new light after the husband, Ju-hyeok, goes back in time and changes their history. You've never rooted this hard for such an infuriating man.

Song for this drama: No One Knows

5. Castaway Diva (2023)

After 15 years stranded on a desert island, Seo Mok-ha pursues her dream of becoming a singer while searching for the boy who helped her escape her abusive father. Despite the horrors, this show will make you believe there is good in the world.

Song for this drama: Sweet Chamomile

4. Hometown Cha Cha Cha (2021)

Yoon Hye-jin moves to a seaside town to open a dental clinic and finds the home she always wanted amidst its colorful residents. So funny and the male lead is basically the perfect man.

Song for this drama: Apple Pie

3. Crash Landing On You (2019-2020)

After a freak accident lands her in North Korea, Yoon Se-ri must rely on the soldier who saved her life in order to survive, stay hidden, and get back to South Korea. Rips you apart in the best possible way.

Song for this drama: If I Never Knew You

2. Live Up To Your Name (2017)

Renowned acupuncturist Heo Im falls 400 years through time and lands in Seoul, where his life and fate intertwine with cardiac surgeon Choi Yeon Kyung. Beautiful, unmatched chemistry.

Song for this drama: epiphany

1. Twinkling Watermelon (2023)

Ha Eun Gyeol is mysteriously sent back in time, where he meets his parents as teenagers and discovers he didn't know as much about them as he thought he did. Peak family feels, peak soft couple, and peak enemies to lovers.

Song for this drama: Long Live

[katabay]

What are your favourite Hellblazer comics?

generally, the whole Vertigo run, but if I had to get specific, Mike Carey's Hellblazer run is one I think about a lot. and #84, ofc

[talentforlying]

thinking about john's multitude of short-lived, often quickly-abandoned apartments for some reason, so a couple details:

although you might expect to find a very wizard-y interior to any place he's currently living at — you know, grimoires, skulls, dust, clutter, etc. — his flats actually tend to be fairly spartan in terms of decor; they've even been accused of looking modern, here and there. he just moves too frequently to really settle in & accrue Things, and has so often had to simply up & leave everything he currently owned behind (with very little chance of getting any of it back) that he no longer attaches much meaning to household objects.

besides the consistent presence of at least one bookshelf with at least 12 books on it, and a sad sprig of garden sage that miraculously hasn't died yet, the one exception to his lack of personal touch is his extensive collection of records + tapes, all of which he has repeatedly & methodically tracked down and bought / bid / traded / stolen / threatened for / blackmailed for / simply taken back whenever an enterprising landlord or new tenant left him the opportunity to do so. his record player itself has never needed to be taken back, since it has always mysteriously vanished from whatever flat he's leaving and mysteriously appeared wherever he's staying; it's convenient like that. his 10th anniversary walkman, however, frequently goes missing, only to turn up again later in a place he KNOWS he checked when he's least expecting it.

lack of home decor isn't to say he doesn't own much, mind: the bulk of his personal possessions — assorted occult paraphernalia, blackmail documentation, miscellaneous crap from his mucous membrane days, and anything he is able to take with him from past flats — are usually stored off-site, in a secure location that can't easily be tied back to him. this guy's been accused of being a satanic killer on multiple occasions, he knows better than to keep all the real shit out where anyone can just swan in and see it.

currently, this storage location (which i lovingly call occult shit central) is an abandoned inner london storefront + adjoining flat that was formerly his old friend ray monde's shop and home, called brick-a-brac antiques. it's decidedly cozier than the last place, (in that there are chairs, plural,) and has fewer bear traps laid out in anticipation of unlucky thieves; in fact, if a person were to visit without already knowing where constantine actually lives, it'd be easy to mistake it as his expectedly-wizardy flat. it's not an ideal location for an occult shit central, too close to the heart of the city and too close to people to avoid drumming up suspicion should constantine attempt any sort of ritual inside, but until chas finally quits ducking the paperwork and signs over his storage lot (which he may or may not be dragging his feet on out of pure resentment for having to do it at all) ray's place is the best option there is.

constantine's previous (and future) storage location was a lock-up in streatham that chas had been letting him use (see: all but surrendered to him entirely) since he got out of ravenscar, but after constantine's sister died, john decided he was done with magic and, in a spontaneous fit of rage, burnt the place down with everything but a few necessities still inside. he regretted this later, when he inevitably returned to the occult scene after just over a year away, and spent a lot of time calling in favors / hypnotizing arson inspectors to try and put together an inventory of everything he'd lost.

in the nearly 20 years since the fire, he's managed to replace or find substitutes for about 2/3 of what he had (occult-wise), and gather enough fresh dirt / do enough favors / orchestrate enough compromising situations to accumulate a little over 1/4 of the political / interpersonal power he once maintained. ( the lack of success in the latter being, in part, because people now in power aren't as familiar with his name & reputation as they once were; in part because people just don't believe in magic as much as they used to, or were otherwise bought by hell / heaven / other parties a LONG time ago; and in part because he's come to absolutely fucking despise most politicians / people in power more than he is willing to work with them, or more than he is able to plausibly believe they won't try to drop him at the first opportunity. )

you would be hard-pressed to find a landlady/landlord that speaks kindly of this man. if he wasn't kicked out for suspicious smells / disturbing noises / sudden infestations / suspected satanic activity, then it's likely that he abruptly up and disappeared in the middle of the night, with no warning and no rent. (on a few occasions, this vanishing act also coincided conspicuously with a gruesome death on the premises, sometimes of the landlady/landlord themselves, although no one's ever been able to prove anything.) frankly it's . . . magic, that people still rent to him.

due to these aforementioned bad ends, he's incredibly lucky if he gets enough time or leeway to take any sort of furniture with him from one place to the next. however, there is one incredibly comfy, wing-backed, sapphire-blue armchair that's miraculously managed to survive every move in the last ten or so years without being reported stolen — even though it has survived every move because it has, in fact, been stolen in the dead of night nearly every single time, by john and at least one of his buddies.

[bourdonbleu]

Finished binge-reading every available chapters of The hunter's gonna lay low (latest chapter available is currently ch289) and these three bangers appeared one after the other in my shuffle

When I tell you I wept

[pain-suffering-even]

various headcanons that i forgot aren't actually canon

just the koreans cause if i did everyone at once, we would be here forever

Jongin and Yoonho were both part of the Fiend Guild, and that's where their rivalry started, by competing for vice guildmaster

Jongin rescued a cat from Jeju during their first raid and smuggled her back in his cape. Her name is Kiwi. He had to get a new cape because she uses his old one to sleep

Byungyu and Yoonho are childhood friends. Byungyu would always defend Yoonho, because he was so much of a softie and a crybaby as a kid

Yoonho has like. A bajillion animals at home. At some point when he's walking his dogs during a hot summer, he goes topless, and the picture reaches the papers so fast. It gets brought up in almost every single argument with Jongin

Taegyu will eat sour candy until his mouth bleeds and it sends Byungyu insane

Eunseok was an S rank assassin part of the Fame Guild, and was best friends with Byungyu and Haein

Haein was first vice of the Fame Guild before Jongin created the Hunter's Guild and stole her (he promised her no paperwork if she joined, and she was sold)

Hwang Dongsu used to be part of the Knights Guild. He joined, thinking as an S ranker he would immediately become the guild leader. When that didn't happen, he began searching overseas, where Thomas Andre ran into him and picked him up

Byungyu felt too guilty to dedicate himself to one guild, and so he freelances for a high price, so this way he can help more people instead of being tied down. It made it easier to retire, too. The running joke is that he wants to join the Hunters Association

Taegyu and Dongwook had a healthy rivalry between the Fiend and Fame guild. They don't know where Jongin and Yoonho learned to be rivals like that

The Fiend Guild used to be no. 1 until Jongin rose to the top by recruiting Haein and gathering a lot of attention by being a guild leader as a mage

Taegyu and Jongin still talk often. Jongin always makes fun of Taegyu for being ancient and forgotten and Taegyu calls him an arrogant brat. They would die for one another

Just before he became no. 1, Jongin had a really bad fight with Hwang Dongsu. It wasn't unusual, because most other S rankers despise him, since he was blatantly power hungry and bloodthirsty. Because Jongin lost, he ended up leaving Taegyu and the Fiend Guild and created his own guild in an attempt to prove his strength

Jongin despises Yoonho for hiring Hwang Dongsu's brother, Dongsuk, because he still holds a grudge

Jinchul doesn't like Taegyu very much, because he kept trying to bribe him to join the Fiend Guild. They're ok now, especially now that the Fiend Guild isn't no. 1, but Jinchul avoids Taegyu still

Go Gunhee used to pretend actually entertaining the idea of letting Jinchul join a guild until Jinchul told him it was causing problems on his end (Thomas got sad Gunhee said no and Jinchul was terrified that sadness would turn to anger)

During the holidays, Yoonho always takes his dogs and one cat back home with him. Byungyu also goes, so it's become a sort of yearly roadtrip for them. Yoonho usually asks Taegyu or Haein to pet-sit the rest of his animals while he's away

Haein likes fast food restaurants. Neither Jongin nor Dongwook understand why, but she drags them there all the same

Jinchul appreciates Byungyu and Haein, since they always mediate Yoonho and Jongin whenever he isn't around to stop them. It doesn't always work, but at least they tried

Haein doesn't know Jinchul is the origin for her nickname, The Dancer, because he was creating her hunter profile and was mesmerized by the way she fought. He mentioned it to Go Gunhee, and it kinda spiraled from there

[i0099z]

night has come has a great concept. it's fascinating, but i think after spending an hour on the tag, i can totally understand why so many people dislike it's ending. it's a very revenge based plot and there was little to no foreshadowing about park sehun which is strange. its a good thing they aren't actually dead but the ending is still awful and also.. how tf does it work????? where are these kid's parents??? i think if they had switched up the ending, it could've been better

[somerandommanga]

Romantic Opener best wingman ever 👍😎

Again with this???!!! Could you stop interrupting your speeches mid-sentence, Lee Sa-young?!!!

[lemonflavouredspatula]

just got käärijä tickets for london, feeling totally normal about it

[lattesqueeze]

it’s snowing :)