🎃october media roundup + thoughts
Nov. 2nd, 2021 02:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bad month but i found a new too-perfect bb kpop boy to love so i guess that counts as a win.
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📽 movies
- bad genius — â‘â‘â‘â‘â‘
- ⟲ lagaan — â‘â‘â‘â‘â‘
- ⟲ kabhi khushi kabhi gham — â‘â‘â‘
bag genius
objectively is it a five star watch? debatable. did i enjoy it a LOT? hell yeah. the whole concept of running a cheating scam based on your academic prowess and roping in another fellow academic into it is just. WOW. my morals were all over the place w this movie and that's how you know it was a good one. were all of the characters sort of bad people? well, yeah, but that's what made them compelling to me. esp given their levels of believing they were still doing the right thing and now realizing how messed up it was. i was so Stressed™ by the time the final heist came up — which again!!! academics mixed with heists is EXACTLY my niche w/o me even knowing that. yeah. i enjoyed this one a lot (although admittedly the ending was a little too anticlimatic for me i'd have loved to see this morally ambiguous plot to leave me at a morally ambiguous ending tbh)
📺 shows/dramas
- house of secrets — â‘â‘â‘
- hometown cha cha cha — â‘â‘â‘â‘
let's talk about the two pieces of media i did watch —
house of secrets
oh this one messed me up real good. i HATE watching psych thrillers just for this reason — it feels like it can happen irl and it terrifies me. and now i watch this documentary of one the worst type of psych thrillers coming to life. i lost sleep over this for a few days ngl. i won't go into the gruesome details but this documentary was related to the mass suicide of the burari family in delhi, india and trust me when i say it was fcked up. i couldn't objectively rate it bc at the end of the day it was a documentary, but i gave it a three despite being very well curated simply because it terrified the hell out of me and it was just not a good experience. so many trigger warnings required here. i liked that they used this as a way to also give social commentary on the taboo over therapy/treatment in asian countries, though!
hometown cha cha cha
for the sake of my sanity, let's not talk about kim seonho and his scandal. as an actor, i ABSOLUTELY adore shin min ah and kim seon ho and so when i heard they were in a drama together, i was like I. NEED. TO. WATCH. and to be fair the first 12-ish episodes didn't disappoint. i loved their characters, and the progression and the people of the village — it was just a very comforting drama for me and the source of my happiness weekly. the last four episodes — i just think not everyone needs an upsetting past and in hong dusik's case i really would've done away w it because there were SO MANY PLOTHOLES in that history it actually took AWAY from the drama instead of adding to it. it was heading into 5 star territory, and this made it drop to 2.5-3 star. the only reason i gave it a 4 was bc the actors saved the drama and the first 12 episodes. no regrets but honestly if they took away the whole hong dusik plot and just made him someone who realized he didn't wanna be in a capitalistic world and hence he came back to his village i'd have been so happy. it was a delight to watch them on screen though <3
anyways yeah i thoroughly enjoyed tmap, treasure is SO PRECIOUS they went into my ult list SO QUICK. mashi i'll do anything for you !!!! anyways can't wait for more content since i've wiped out almost everything.
🎧 music
scrobbles: 840 â–² 230
artists: 43 â–¼ 38
artists: 43 â–¼ 38
top tracks:
- going crazy: treasure (104)
- slowmotion: treasure (66)
- rock with you: seventeen (28)
- i love you: treasure (28)
- beautiful: treasure (26)
- boy: treasure (24)
- come to me: treasure (23)
- xoxo: somi (21)
- orange: treasure (21)
- anymore: somi (16)
top artists
- treasure (300)
- nct dream (159)
- bts (82)
- seventeen (69)
- txt (56)
lol this is a nightmare i don't even have commentary to go along w it. enjoy me #losing_it this month over treasure, replaying mots:7 for the feels, falling in love with attacca and somi's new album. love how dream's stil there regardless. anyways i listened to music SO MUCH this month? this is what happens in midterm season lol.
📚 reading
💻 writing
wrote dream exchange fic and that's about how far it goes. also realized i really wanna write mashikyu. excited to see where that leads me :]
💌 misc thoughts
see you next month maybe, idk if i'll have the energy to keep doing this, you can see how half arsed this one was because i'm just so tired that i have no coherent thoughts.
