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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · 11d

n #LGIEF and #GenieMakeAWish, the heroines' gain of (#spoiler) immense ✨power could have been more satisfactory if they had actively sought it, Miaomiao through persistent self-cultivation and Ka-young through haranguing with godly beings the way her granny did.

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The Writer Behind Genie, Make a Wish on Its Explosive Ending

Hoping for jaw-dropping action and epic cameos? Your wish is her command.

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · 11d

Genie KES made a 👎 wish: Eg. Fixing a kid's violent tendency by cutting her.

Genie KES made a 👍 wish: Sassy, fabulously wealthy FL who outsmarts ML and (#spoiler) gains his respect + ✨power. A world of difference from typical Cinderellas thought to be safer viewership bets.

#GenieMakeAWish #kdrama

Poster of a young Korean woman played by Bae Suzy holding a welding gun and a magical lamp.

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 14

#TheJourneyofLegend / Go To The Mountains And Sea would have been H's cup pf tea if it were told entirely from the perspective of the nasty writing system punishing the hard work-skipping fanfic author.

Alas, H has to settle for the official account role-playing the system: m.weibo.cn/u/7999309456

A guy in ancient garb (Cheng Yi's character in The Journey of Legend) floating above a bed

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 14

#HeavenlyEverAfter 's Heaven Support Center director is the one hollering at this other scene in #TheJourneyofLegend. Soul transmigrant Mingming should have made a pit stop in his soul orientation session. People, they never change! Flying off buildings just because they're in fantasy realm.

Cheng Yi's character in The Journey of Legend flying out of a window onto a busy ancient street

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 14

Cabbage Wreckage Trauma Trigger!!! The hollers of the long-suffering vegetables merchant all the way from #AvatarTheLastAirbender can be heard in #TheJourneyofLegend / Go To The Mountains & Sea. Why, the poor mister with no combat skills may be in a martial arts-dream break from his daily grind too.

Cheng Yi's character in soul transmigration cdrama The Journey of Legend falling onto a cart of cabbage

Cheng Yi's character in soul transmigration cdrama The Journey of Legend staring scandalized at shreds of cabbages

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Screenwriters need constructive feedback, but also kindness. #ADreamWithinADream #cdrama

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Blossoms Journey Among Tau Fibrils

Element Transformation Bubble: Characters bewildered by their increasingly erratic Golden Beads-dynasty costume drama world find an evasive newcomer in their midst. Their persistent investigation...

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 23

These spears in #cdrama What A Wonderful World (ft #ZhaoLiying) must have been refashioned from incomplete Time Sticks and auto-summoned from the TVA in #Loki as the same-body inter-selves romance would register a deviation monitor spike even higher than the Lokis' romance across different bodies.

A guy protectively hugging a woman, behind whom are long sticks stuck into a graffiti-filled wall in the nighttime in What A Wonderful World (2025).

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 9

The full unsolicited literary reference for #SquidGame.

Content of https://shushbang.tumblr.com/post/788622991025160193/the-gi-huns-failure-to-save-all-starfish

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Re-coverage of a starfish rescue mission. For the sake of clarity of plot relevance and for the addition of a real-world observation. #SquidGame3 #Player456

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shush!

The 🌈 — Gi-hun's failure to save all starfish along the endless shores of time ultimately does not stop him from (SPOILER) saving the lone baby starfish he can save. And though he's unable to witness...

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 8

Animation-drama hybrid Yumi's Cells (ft #KimGoEun) and (cdrama #spoiler ahead) split-personalities self-romance drama What A Wonderful World (ft #ZhaoLiying) declare in their different ways, "There's only ONE protagonist!"

Then they stare at each other.

Poster showing Yumi (heroine of the series) and her writer cell and love cell, all surrounded by memos

Painting style-poster of characters in Yin Fang and Zhao Liying's What A Wonderful World (2025).

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 8

Disagreeing most with #3. The nature of repetition should tie in with the mechanism of violence perpetuation in late-stage capitalism and societal degeneration, and repeated simple lines has nothing to do with that mechanism. Evil can take on many more guises. Obvious CGI undermines spectacle.

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 8

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"[The] treatment of repeated dialogue, character archetypes, and CGI as mere “flaws” evinces a superficial engagement with the medium’s formal strategies. Repetition and spectacle function narratively to underscore cyclical violence and social desensitization[...]"
So we're unfair to #SquidGame3?

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 1

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"[T]his post is like someone trying to write an art-house film about a reality show. You took a brutal, complex narrative and turned it into an inspirational, pastel-colored, starfish-throwing daydream. It’s like trying to turn Game of Thrones into a bedtime story about dragons and lost love."

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 1

AI roasting of the thoughts on #SquidGame

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"Gi-hun is not your personal activist hero. He’s a pawn in a game. The sooner we all realize that, the better. Activism is not a starfish rescue mission; it’s not about slinging metaphors around hoping someone’s going to catch on."

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 23

In related news, where's this secret, hopefully for H's sake organic heaven on Earth that has de-aged 1987-er #RyuDeokhwan so much in #HeavenlyEverAfter it looks like he's dispatched some 2007-er son to role-play a remake of High School King of Savvy set in the drama industry?

A youthful looking man (Ryu Deok-hwan 류덕환) gaping and pointing at something as he stands before verdant trees in bright sunlight. Splendid screenshot from JTBC drama Heavenly Ever After 천국보다 아름다운.

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 23

Cognitive de-aging is really supported by the article as the authors also conducted studies suggesting that a stimulating environment reversed DNA methylation changes in old mice.

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 23

The heaven in #HeavenlyEverAfter physically de-ages souls who opt for younger appearances. Here's how its fiery hell can cognitively de-age souls, maybe provided they have sufficient stress tolerance. An unnoticed silver lining by mischievous King Yeomra.

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Environmental enrichment preserves a young DNA methylation landscape in the aged mouse hippocampus - Nature Communications

Decline of brain function during aging is associated with epigenetic changes, including DNA methylation. Here the authors provide evidence that environmental enrichment delays age-related DNA methylat...

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Mar 29

Employing AI to protect rather than undermine content creators

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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

New approach punishes AI companies that ignore “no crawl” directives.

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Mar 29

Because H's #severance chip isn't working, the two shows are happily colliding again. The #LGIEF duet featuring Cyndi Wang and zither music plays in the mind on recollection of this scene.

In a chaotic world
you fixed your gaze on me
that was the scene of my rebirth

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Feb 1

Will the typical consumer complete their own exit someday as they follow self-rescue missions from one show to another? Ha! Book idea here, Ricken.

#Severance #LGIEF

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Feb 1

Self-reconciliation across geographies and genres.

This is Inception. Ziqi ( #DingYuXi ) rescues himself from his soul prison of sorts in #LGIEF but wakes up months later as Mark S. ( #AdamScott ) in #Severance inside another soul prison, from which he must rescue himself again. Never easy.

AI: This image shows a surreal and symbolic moment, likely tied to a metaphorical or dreamlike narrative. Two figures, one dressed in white and the other in red, are stepping through a doorway. The doorway itself appears to be embedded in an unusual, stretched, fabric-like surface that resembles a stage curtain or a distorted wall.

Grass or greenery is visible beneath their feet, contrasting with the artificial blue backdrop and stark, empty ground. This suggests the doorway leads to a natural or alternate space beyond the surreal setting. The scene has a mysterious, unsettling, and almost theatrical quality, blending elements of reality and illusion.

The name "Christopher Walken" is seen on the right, which indicates this is from a title sequence or credits, likely for a series or film. The stylized design adds to the atmosphere of intrigue and abstraction.

AI: The image depicts a surreal and symbolic scene. A child is stepping out of an open wardrobe, reaching out toward an adult figure standing beside it. The adult figure appears dressed in traditional or fantasy-inspired attire, with flowing robes and intricate details, suggesting a historical or otherworldly context.

The background is abstract, with faint, scattered patterns resembling text or brushstrokes on a pale surface, giving the setting an ethereal, dreamlike quality. The scene conveys a sense of transition, discovery, or connection, as if the wardrobe represents a portal or a link between two realms.

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jan 31

No veggie farm in sight? Experience numbers-harvesting therapy delivered by @thecodingtrain.com with the help of art programming library p5.js. No head implant required. Don't tell Milchick.

#mdrlumon #severance
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Simulation of Macrodata Refinement Team's work screen

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Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jan 14

Gameland laying a demon trap with the help of layered, colorful traditional embroidery arts

#LGIEF #EstherYu

Rónghuā (velvet flowers) and yúnjiān (a type of patterned garment accessories on the shoulder areas) on Esther Yu's bridal wear in Eternal Night Star River / Love Game in Eastern Fantasy

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jan 11

H Universe Awards 2024

Potential Lifesaver Award
Baby Reindeer

Most Meaningful Character
Squid Game 2's Hyun-ju

Most Thought-Provoking Series
Hellbound 2

Best Finale
LGIEF

Geekiest Series
Avatar: The Last Airbender

Best Aesthetics
Blossoms Shanghai

Best Music
What Comes After Love

Netflix's Baby Reindeer poster, in which a woman with shut eyes clutches her hands at a table top. On the table top is a glass trapping a man.

Of Dough Pops and Dichromatic Panes ♔ @dramaphilosophy.bsky.social · Jan 9

Too few folks are highlighting the scifi background of the Lost Tomb franchise. Tibetan Sea Flower is H's favorite show of 2024.

Had a wonderful time looking up information on cave biogeography, even though the show doesn't draw on the discipline.