#i could go on more about being stagetrained

[ilovemylawyer]

I haven't been able to check ao3 in a FATTT minute and I was finally able to catch up on your fics 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 really good stuff, your writing is incredibly superb my friend...your birthday fic got me thinking, if Dongsoo had known about Doyoung's birthday in advance, what do you think he would've got him? If anything, since he could afford whatever he wants. Would he have planned something in advance? Or still let Doyoung decide what he wanted to do the day of???? And since you asked...what are your favorite Bae Na Ra YouTube videos? I got curious and had to go look for myself, he can act AND sing. I hope he gets cast in more dramas...

hihi!!!! thanks so much for reading+coming here!! u are so kind!!!!! i hope it was fun to catch up :D <3 always always more to come <3

GREAT QUESTION. so hard to answer tho. in my quick sdy bday fic i was going for smth like... 'its dy's bday, hds hasn't had the time to put any thought into it, and is comfortable doing (close to what he sees as) the bare minimum'... KIND OF. i enjoyed not giving him the time to actually think on it because that makes it MUCH simpler for him. much much easier. IF he was given lets say a month notice... gah... what would he do... i want to say activity/party wise it would still be pretty lowkey, even if only for dy's sake. i'd say he'd pour over choosing the perfect present than organizing a celebration. but wtf would he give to dy... my HEART wants to lean towards something nice and sentimental (like a ring) but i fear that is not at all realistic. if they're still going together in 10 years and dy has yet to buy a baseball team, ds might take the initiative and do that for him. earlier on though it would have to be something Nice and Sweet enough but not TOO perfect/intimate because ds' denial is such a huge piece of him. whatever dy gets though, literally even if its a rock from the ground or a coupon clipping, i think he would just be happy to be given something specially chosen out for him by ds...

A DS->DY PRESENT IS HARD. i am not sure if i have an answer to this that i can be satisfied with right now... for dy's 2025 birthday fic, i will aim to solve this...

and re: letting dy decide what to do. that was insanely fun to write. that in itself is part of ds' gift to him, and he is the one who suffers most from it. even tho it would make more sense to feel more at ease when things are out of your hands, hds has um 'control issues' major style and i loved making him suffer through some of the outing. i don't think dy understood that his leash being loosened was part of his present AT ALL tho. more like a punishment than anything. this is a reading (OF MY OWN INTERPRETATION OF MY OWN WRITING...) that requires a throughline of 'ds is what dy wants most in the world' ... so he would've been satisfied even just with his midnight handie... he already has everything he needs (han dongsoo...)...

(GIGGLES PROFUSELY) bae nara.... hehehe... thank u for indulging me i have had a handful of tabs of his open for weeks now...

i will start with my favorite. THIS is one of the clips of him from his performance as 'raptor' in a musical called 'it rains cats and dogs' in which he plays A DOG. yeah thats right. HE IS A DOG. he is styled exactly to my personal taste... all black... fingerless gloves... a long kind of janky coat... boots... a facial scar... he pets and is pet by his costar. his expression when he starts singing in this is... O_o....!!! i am just so thankful that there is visual moving evidence that this happened and i am grateful that my eyes have seen it.

THIS is a short clip of him thanking the audience after a performance of the evil dead musical he is in. he is covered in beautiful fake blood. his OOC/nonacting, but still-on-stage voice is so great to hear. but he has to turn away to cry (and scream) because he's so happy to be there... its a struggle and he takes a minute but he pulls of his farewell/thanks and he is just so great to. look at. the angle of this one is also spectacular.

HERE you can see him twirl around in a crazy fur coat+bandana(which you can also watch him tug down his face in the first few frames)... he has guns and once again fingerless gloves... heavy undereye makeup... just breathtaking...

speedrun: dance practice (for the musical kinky boots) in athletic kneehighs+heels .... shaking ass, laughing about feeling nauseous, talking way too fast ... drag ....

i was about to start linking just about every single video of him so i will cut myself off. he's just great. he's great in DP2, and i think it is really special and beautiful that his first ever onscreen role is a trans woman <3 he is going to be in the upcoming second season of 'weak hero class one' which i have not seen, but i will watch szn1 and 2 for him :] i really hope he continues to get offers for dramas, and i would DIE to see him in a movie one day.

one last spiel and then i'm done because i've been at this for over an hour and i have a hakyun movie waiting for me. i bring him up because he is relevant to what i am about to preach. starting off as a stage actor and becoming an onscreen actor gives you SUCH a major noticeable boost. you have to learn how to convince a living breathing audience that is watching you perform live before you're ever stuck in front of a camera, and most of my favorite actors made this theatre to screen transition. shin hakyun (HDS) was also originally stage trained, and it shows! it always shows! i love to DEATH a man who has gone from the stage to the screen and bae nara is no exception.

he is the perfectest choice in the whole world for ohjae <3 thank you bae nara for starring as slayer of the century in kdrama of the century evilive 악인전기. how could i ever repay you...?