Every time I think dramas can't give me an even worse bad parent, I get surprised

OK, suppose it's your wife's death anniversary. You:

a. Feel mildly sad but not too bad - it's been 15 years or so
b. Grieve and do memorial rites
c. Beat up and slap your kid, screaming how it's all his fault his Mom is dead and how you hate him and wish he died. P.S. The kid would have been 10 years old max when his Mom got hit by a speeding driver due to pushing her son out of the way of the car.

If you picked (a) or (b), congrats - you are a normal person. If you picked (c), you are hero's father in Endless Love.



WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE! And apparently it's an annual household tradition?!?! I don't plan to get killed by a car saving Baby Mousie, but I assure you if that happened, and my husband behaved 1/10 as badly as this guy, I'd freaking haunt his ass and make his life a misery until he stopped. WTF! Ugh. I want this father to die already. I am sure there are other speeding drivers in Taiwan, can't one of them run the old man over?

( In case you want visual evidence, caps from the scene in question )

OK, Mousie, breathe.

And now some other caps from ep 3 which are not rage-inducing.



( Shippy cuteness and other stuff )

Every time I think dramas can't give me an even worse bad parent, I get surprised

OK, suppose it's your wife's death anniversary. You:

a. Feel mildly sad but not too bad - it's been 15 years or so
b. Grieve and do memorial rites
c. Beat up and slap your kid, screaming how it's all his fault his Mom is dead and how you hate him and wish he died. P.S. The kid would have been 10 years old max when his Mom got hit by a speeding driver due to pushing her son out of the way of the car.

If you picked (a) or (b), congrats - you are a normal person. If you picked (c), you are hero's father in Endless Love.



WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE! And apparently it's an annual household tradition?!?! I don't plan to get killed by a car saving Baby Mousie, but I assure you if that happened, and my husband behaved 1/10 as badly as this guy, I'd freaking haunt his ass and make his life a misery until he stopped. WTF! Ugh. I want this father to die already. I am sure there are other speeding drivers in Taiwan, can't one of them run the old man over?

( In case you want visual evidence, caps from the scene in question )

OK, Mousie, breathe.

And now some other caps from ep 3 which are not rage-inducing.



( Shippy cuteness and other stuff )

Every time I think dramas can't give me an even worse bad parent, I get surprised

OK, suppose it's your wife's death anniversary. You:

a. Feel mildly sad but not too bad - it's been 15 years or so
b. Grieve and do memorial rites
c. Beat up and slap your kid, screaming how it's all his fault his Mom is dead and how you hate him and wish he died. P.S. The kid would have been 10 years old max when his Mom got hit by a speeding driver due to pushing her son out of the way of the car.

If you picked (a) or (b), congrats - you are a normal person. If you picked (c), you are hero's father in Endless Love.



WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE! And apparently it's an annual household tradition?!?! I don't plan to get killed by a car saving Baby Mousie, but I assure you if that happened, and my husband behaved 1/10 as badly as this guy, I'd freaking haunt his ass and make his life a misery until he stopped. WTF! Ugh. I want this father to die already. I am sure there are other speeding drivers in Taiwan, can't one of them run the old man over?

( In case you want visual evidence, caps from the scene in question )

OK, Mousie, breathe.

And now some other caps from ep 3 which are not rage-inducing.



( Shippy cuteness and other stuff )

So, Dream High ep 7

So pretty, yet so smack-worthy. Ugh:



I am not going to get into the whole Jin Gook thing (mostly) because I need subs to figure out whether I want to kill him or just maim him so a lot of this is about Jason/Pil Sook because ADORABLE.

I apologize for the cap quality being a little blurry - I used CEO raws as it was all I could find at the time.

( Hooray for karaoke )

So, Dream High ep 7

So pretty, yet so smack-worthy. Ugh:



I am not going to get into the whole Jin Gook thing (mostly) because I need subs to figure out whether I want to kill him or just maim him so a lot of this is about Jason/Pil Sook because ADORABLE.

I apologize for the cap quality being a little blurry - I used CEO raws as it was all I could find at the time.

( Hooray for karaoke )

So, Dream High ep 7

So pretty, yet so smack-worthy. Ugh:



I am not going to get into the whole Jin Gook thing (mostly) because I need subs to figure out whether I want to kill him or just maim him so a lot of this is about Jason/Pil Sook because ADORABLE.

I apologize for the cap quality being a little blurry - I used CEO raws as it was all I could find at the time.

( Hooray for karaoke )

Oh, Jezebel - warning, abortion-related rant

Good God!

There is an article on Jezebel purporting to debate whether abortions should be legal after fetal viability date (i.e. is it OK to abort where, if there was a birth, the resulting baby would be able to live, either by himself or with help of machines).

WHAT THE HELL?!?!

While I have complicated feelings on abortion, I do believe that some abortions should be legal - if you know the fetus is non-viable, for example, it seems insane to force a woman to go through full gestation and birth only to deliver a corpse or someone who'd survive for 15 minutes outside the womb. I think those should be OK at any time. I think abortions for pregnancies which are result of rape or incest, or pose a severe health risk to the mother, are also OK. And, unlike pro-lifers, I don't happen to believe life begins at conception, so much as I find them personally morally repugnant absent criteria above, I believe first-trimester abortions should be legal across the board.

BUT. You know what all of the above have in common? NONE OF THEM ARE PERFORMED WHEN THE FETUS IS VIABLE OUTSIDE THE WOMB! Either the fetus in question is inviable period (due to severe defects) or they are performed before the fetus is viable.

If you perform an abortion on a viable-outside-the-womb fetus, you know what that is? That's right, murder. Now, sometimes murder is excusable (in the aforementioned 'you can only save the mother or the child, pick' scenario), but that is not what Jezebel is talking about. The article was arguing 'shouldn't women have choice all the way? Shouldn't they have more time to decide? Why do they have to carry it for an additional month when they want it out now etc etc." BARF. When a fetus is independently viable, it's a person and you don't get to kill a person merely because it's convenient. I am a libertarian, I am all for personal freedoms, but only when they don't impinge on freedoms of others, in this case the freaking live infant. Once that fetus becomes a person, it has rights, a right of not being murdered being one of them. I mean, I like to sleep in every morning but that doesn't mean I can go off and strangle my infant because I have to get up at 7am every day due to her and this is inconvenient! I can't throw her under a bus because taking care of a child is stressful and I hate it (for the record, I don't but this is a hypothetical) or it may cost me a career opportunity or lower my standard of living. You can't just get rid of a person to better yourself.

Seriously, Jezebel. WTF.

Oh, Jezebel - warning, abortion-related rant

Good God!

There is an article on Jezebel purporting to debate whether abortions should be legal after fetal viability date (i.e. is it OK to abort where, if there was a birth, the resulting baby would be able to live, either by himself or with help of machines).

WHAT THE HELL?!?!

While I have complicated feelings on abortion, I do believe that some abortions should be legal - if you know the fetus is non-viable, for example, it seems insane to force a woman to go through full gestation and birth only to deliver a corpse or someone who'd survive for 15 minutes outside the womb. I think those should be OK at any time. I think abortions for pregnancies which are result of rape or incest, or pose a severe health risk to the mother, are also OK. And, unlike pro-lifers, I don't happen to believe life begins at conception, so much as I find them personally morally repugnant absent criteria above, I believe first-trimester abortions should be legal across the board.

BUT. You know what all of the above have in common? NONE OF THEM ARE PERFORMED WHEN THE FETUS IS VIABLE OUTSIDE THE WOMB! Either the fetus in question is inviable period (due to severe defects) or they are performed before the fetus is viable.

If you perform an abortion on a viable-outside-the-womb fetus, you know what that is? That's right, murder. Now, sometimes murder is excusable (in the aforementioned 'you can only save the mother or the child, pick' scenario), but that is not what Jezebel is talking about. The article was arguing 'shouldn't women have choice all the way? Shouldn't they have more time to decide? Why do they have to carry it for an additional month when they want it out now etc etc." BARF. When a fetus is independently viable, it's a person and you don't get to kill a person merely because it's convenient. I am a libertarian, I am all for personal freedoms, but only when they don't impinge on freedoms of others, in this case the freaking live infant. Once that fetus becomes a person, it has rights, a right of not being murdered being one of them. I mean, I like to sleep in every morning but that doesn't mean I can go off and strangle my infant because I have to get up at 7am every day due to her and this is inconvenient! I can't throw her under a bus because taking care of a child is stressful and I hate it (for the record, I don't but this is a hypothetical) or it may cost me a career opportunity or lower my standard of living. You can't just get rid of a person to better yourself.

Seriously, Jezebel. WTF.

Oh, Jezebel - warning, abortion-related rant

Good God!

There is an article on Jezebel purporting to debate whether abortions should be legal after fetal viability date (i.e. is it OK to abort where, if there was a birth, the resulting baby would be able to live, either by himself or with help of machines).

WHAT THE HELL?!?!

While I have complicated feelings on abortion, I do believe that some abortions should be legal - if you know the fetus is non-viable, for example, it seems insane to force a woman to go through full gestation and birth only to deliver a corpse or someone who'd survive for 15 minutes outside the womb. I think those should be OK at any time. I think abortions for pregnancies which are result of rape or incest, or pose a severe health risk to the mother, are also OK. And, unlike pro-lifers, I don't happen to believe life begins at conception, so much as I find them personally morally repugnant absent criteria above, I believe first-trimester abortions should be legal across the board.

BUT. You know what all of the above have in common? NONE OF THEM ARE PERFORMED WHEN THE FETUS IS VIABLE OUTSIDE THE WOMB! Either the fetus in question is inviable period (due to severe defects) or they are performed before the fetus is viable.

If you perform an abortion on a viable-outside-the-womb fetus, you know what that is? That's right, murder. Now, sometimes murder is excusable (in the aforementioned 'you can only save the mother or the child, pick' scenario), but that is not what Jezebel is talking about. The article was arguing 'shouldn't women have choice all the way? Shouldn't they have more time to decide? Why do they have to carry it for an additional month when they want it out now etc etc." BARF. When a fetus is independently viable, it's a person and you don't get to kill a person merely because it's convenient. I am a libertarian, I am all for personal freedoms, but only when they don't impinge on freedoms of others, in this case the freaking live infant. Once that fetus becomes a person, it has rights, a right of not being murdered being one of them. I mean, I like to sleep in every morning but that doesn't mean I can go off and strangle my infant because I have to get up at 7am every day due to her and this is inconvenient! I can't throw her under a bus because taking care of a child is stressful and I hate it (for the record, I don't but this is a hypothetical) or it may cost me a career opportunity or lower my standard of living. You can't just get rid of a person to better yourself.

Seriously, Jezebel. WTF.

Paradise Ranch ep 1 - shock of the century

I have just watched ep 1 of Paradise Ranch and, shock of shocks, I really liked it!



Yeah, I know. I know. Changmin is still not my thing looks-wise (feed him, SM!) and I can't say he is an acting prodigy (though compared to his bandmate Yunho, he is better, but then anyone would be), not to mention I can't unsee those awful dude ranch promo pics but somehow I am weirdly charmed by the drama and its vibe.

I think because somehow it comes across as a Taiwanese drama which has mysteriously been cast with Koreans, down to the leads which are charming even if they can't act too well, deliciously warm weather (so nice during this nasty cold winter), the sweetly romantic vibe, and the inexplicable adorableness of it all. Twdramas are the only kind of dramas where I love the romcom genre.

So yes, I love my twdramas to bits and this feels like a twdrama so there it is...it's deliciously relaxing candy.

Is it objectively good? No, but I am enjoying it anyway and will be watching ep 2 for sure.

Paradise Ranch ep 1 - shock of the century

I have just watched ep 1 of Paradise Ranch and, shock of shocks, I really liked it!



Yeah, I know. I know. Changmin is still not my thing looks-wise (feed him, SM!) and I can't say he is an acting prodigy (though compared to his bandmate Yunho, he is better, but then anyone would be), not to mention I can't unsee those awful dude ranch promo pics but somehow I am weirdly charmed by the drama and its vibe.

I think because somehow it comes across as a Taiwanese drama which has mysteriously been cast with Koreans, down to the leads which are charming even if they can't act too well, deliciously warm weather (so nice during this nasty cold winter), the sweetly romantic vibe, and the inexplicable adorableness of it all. Twdramas are the only kind of dramas where I love the romcom genre.

So yes, I love my twdramas to bits and this feels like a twdrama so there it is...it's deliciously relaxing candy.

Is it objectively good? No, but I am enjoying it anyway and will be watching ep 2 for sure.

Paradise Ranch ep 1 - shock of the century

I have just watched ep 1 of Paradise Ranch and, shock of shocks, I really liked it!



Yeah, I know. I know. Changmin is still not my thing looks-wise (feed him, SM!) and I can't say he is an acting prodigy (though compared to his bandmate Yunho, he is better, but then anyone would be), not to mention I can't unsee those awful dude ranch promo pics but somehow I am weirdly charmed by the drama and its vibe.

I think because somehow it comes across as a Taiwanese drama which has mysteriously been cast with Koreans, down to the leads which are charming even if they can't act too well, deliciously warm weather (so nice during this nasty cold winter), the sweetly romantic vibe, and the inexplicable adorableness of it all. Twdramas are the only kind of dramas where I love the romcom genre.

So yes, I love my twdramas to bits and this feels like a twdrama so there it is...it's deliciously relaxing candy.

Is it objectively good? No, but I am enjoying it anyway and will be watching ep 2 for sure.

Now that is what I am talking about

You know, I really need a Dream High icon at this rate.

Anyway, behind the cut is my fave scene from ep 7 and it involves Hyemi and Jin Gook, though not really Hyemi/Jin Gook, if you get my meaning.



What do you do if a guy who's been awesome to you and whom you are beginning to develop a thing for is ditching you to join your archnemesis in order to work out daddy issues? Well, if you are Hyemi? You kick him.

You go, girl! I think I was especially pleased with that because I spent most of the ep wanting to do the same as I watched Jin Gook ride that emo train for all it was worth.

( Scene behind the cut: mmmmmmmmmmmm I approve. Kick him again and harder! )

Now that is what I am talking about

You know, I really need a Dream High icon at this rate.

Anyway, behind the cut is my fave scene from ep 7 and it involves Hyemi and Jin Gook, though not really Hyemi/Jin Gook, if you get my meaning.



What do you do if a guy who's been awesome to you and whom you are beginning to develop a thing for is ditching you to join your archnemesis in order to work out daddy issues? Well, if you are Hyemi? You kick him.

You go, girl! I think I was especially pleased with that because I spent most of the ep wanting to do the same as I watched Jin Gook ride that emo train for all it was worth.

( Scene behind the cut: mmmmmmmmmmmm I approve. Kick him again and harder! )

Now that is what I am talking about

You know, I really need a Dream High icon at this rate.

Anyway, behind the cut is my fave scene from ep 7 and it involves Hyemi and Jin Gook, though not really Hyemi/Jin Gook, if you get my meaning.



What do you do if a guy who's been awesome to you and whom you are beginning to develop a thing for is ditching you to join your archnemesis in order to work out daddy issues? Well, if you are Hyemi? You kick him.

You go, girl! I think I was especially pleased with that because I spent most of the ep wanting to do the same as I watched Jin Gook ride that emo train for all it was worth.

( Scene behind the cut: mmmmmmmmmmmm I approve. Kick him again and harder! )