#mantis kdrama

[gosiksmallspace]

They were lovers in a different universe and they don't even realize 😭😭😭😭😭

[goyurim]

Thanks for the tag @theimpossibleness!!

Last song: never gonna give you up by rick astley

Currently watching: i took a break from kdramas bc i became very anxious about. life in general and everything has become really frustrating so a friend suggested watching this anime called life lessons with uramichi oniisan and it's just. really funny but in a dark, twisted, existential crisis kinda way and it's exactly what i needed rn

Currently reading (thanks for the suggestion Jo!): i'm always reading like 20 books at once so the ones i can remember off the top of my head are: sea of monsters (pjo book 2 by rick riordan), jane eyre by charlotte bronte, except for palestine by marc lamont hill, invisible women by caroline criado-perez, winner's curse by marie rutkoski, zero to one by peter thiel, inglorious empire by shashi tharoor and probably like 3746378 others

Spicy/sweet/savoury/sour: i agree with jo it's supposed to be savoury, spicy, sweet, then sour. that is the correct order

Relationship status: this question should be omitted. for my sanity

Current obsession: korean skincare. it's weird i've never been into beauty products or anything before but ever since i moved to this new place my skin has become abysmal and nothing i tried worked until i decided to check out k-beauty stuff. and i am blown away?? by just? how much research has gone into this industry like this stuff Works (and it's melanin friendly!) and i've looked into it so much that at this point i could change my phd topic from cardiovascular science to dermatology and no one would notice

Favourite colour: this is a tough one. i would say PINK without hesitation but that sounds unfair to other colours when there are so many beautiful colours in the world. like have you seen purple. or orange when the sun sets?? omg when the sky is orange and blue together like that is such a powerful combo. but then there's also green which is so soothing. but have you considered dark brown eyes. how gorgeous they are. i saw a colleague's deep red nails yesterday and she described them as cherry mocha and i was positive that that is my new favourite colour. but did you know that butterflies can see five primary colours. and mantis shrimp can see 12???? in that case we're all colourblind like maybe i can't even see the colour that i'll most likely like

Favourite animal: unicorns seem lovely

i'll tag: @what-breaks-my-heart @fierycavalier @lingering-sunrise @tinyleia @wullu @myromanholidays @xumoonhao maybe? like. if you wanna

[tobeornottotc]

COLOR RUSH EP 1 AND 2- OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS

Wow Wow Wow. The thrill and pleasure, I have just received from watching Color Rush episode 1 and 2, whilst learning about this new trope with the color verse world that I've never heard of before. It is intriguing to see a soulmate au done this way, it's cute, you're meant to be excited and soft when they meet, it's meant to be happiness and love and longing. But what we get with the Korean Bl Color Rush is far from that, there's angst, drama, fear and exhilaration from the idea that our couple might be a danger to each other instead of actually saving each other.

With hints to themes of losing control like madness and obsession and the psychological toll being a mono ( having neurological colour blindness and has dampened emotions). First of all, there are clues of books laid around like the one a side character was reading Macbeth. That's a worrying hint to what this show is exploring. It's going to show the frightening aspect of a mono's dependence on their probe to see colour, the addicting, obsessive, hunger once they have a colour rush.

It's dangerous especially with how Yeon Woo explains it, people have killed for this feeling, people have chosen to break the law, and people have died to prevent themselves from doing something awful to their probes. It's beautiful to see Yeon Woo meet his person, but it's scary to think that it's going to cause him to spiral and lose himself even more. Something he's trying so hard to avoid.  This connection whilst fated is not a glamorous one, it's shockingly filled with angst and disturbances, but it's brilliant, and it's keeping me on my toes.

In episode 2, we see another hint to this dangerous connection forming the praying mantis;  how a female survives by eating the head of her male lover after they get together. It's obviously another resemblance to our soulmate connection's theme and reality. What do we do when we're falling for a couple that may very well need to be separated for both to stay mentally sane and rational? We see the effects on Yeon Woo again, like hit after hit of a drug he's started to demand and lose his temper because of his fear of losing the feeling when he sees colours because of Han.

It's just brilliant, Korea has done it again they've chosen an ambitious plot, and they've taken BLs to a new level. The issue? This should be like every other Kdrama and have one-hour episodes and it breaks my heart that it's 15 minutes and only 8 episodes. But for now, the 15 minutes don't feel like a disadvantage. Still, I can't help but moan about the fact that this could be one of the best deep, angsty, emotional bl dramas if given more time to shine and work on its plot. Then again, sometimes having long runtimes can make a show laggier and include extra scenes that aren't needed. We'll see how that turns out with this drama. With Korean Bls though, it's been the latter; we want more minutes, we want more episodes, we want more of this because it's terrific to see honestly.

It's not just the unique soulmate AU, Color Rush seems to have. It has a plot hinting to the mystery about missing people, including our main character's mum who's been missing for quite a while. Also, she's not the only one; many Monos are going missing. This is intriguing, who's targeting these monos a probe bent on revenge? Another mono who's gone crazy and wants everyone to be unhappy because they didn't find their probe? What could it possibly be? Or did they all just run away because they knew they were being taken down into a darker hole because of their need to depend on their probe no matter how hard they try to prevent it? Are they being experimented on by some weird company?

I'm so interested and ready to see where this show takes us. I rarely write so much for the first episode of a drama, but this BL is already screaming meta, depth, love and angst that can be broken down and looked into. I'm so excited, and I cannot wait to go on this journey and watch this story get stronger and stronger. Thank you Korea for always choosing ambitious exciting and unique plots, this is why we need more Bls in Korea, we need this, we need to see this more, we need to know these storylines more, and we don't want it to stop. Just get better and better each year. Color Rush is a fantastic beginning to 2021. And I can't wait to see where it takes us.

[gaylittleinnkeepers]

fun facts of today :)

random fun facts tell me what’s ur fave

- rose and juleka love each other fuck you

- newt and tina do too

- praying mantis females eat the males after mating (fucking lesbian power move)

- stick insect females don’t actually need males to reproduce: they can lay eggs AND hatch live babies, who are also females. talk about feminism.

- girls are hot sorry i don’t make the rules

- love alarm will wrench out your heart, rip it apart, and stitch it back together only to trip over and hurl it into the sea

- wattpad is literally one of the worst websites in the world but like. still so popular. anyway i have a wattpad go follow @-azziebeans-

- index laws suck shit

- drink water despite popular believe it is healthy

- sapphics will make you cry at some point in your life

- death is inevitable so say “fuck it” and do all the shit you said you wanted to

- i love you <333