-sees by @javabeans-

-immediately starts crying without even reading-

-stifles my sobs long enough to see through the tears so I can read-

-starts crying harder-

Javabeansssss!!!
I missed you! Thank you for writing this! It means a lot to go back to the origin story of the site I love so so much! 😍

You have done so well with DB! Congratulations!

@javabeans, thank you for creating this community where so many of us have found friends. To be able to both squee and have an intelligent and civil conversation about dramas was something I didn't know I needed, but I really really did. I hope you and @girlfriday will be able to have a larger presence on the site again soon. Your voices, your sass, and insights are very much missed.

Thank you for this wonderful write up javabeans. And thank you for creating dramabeans, and for not letting it shut down. I found dramas and dramabeans during what was a difficult time for me, and I relied greatly on this site to get me through that time. Now this little corner of the internet is my second home and I love it, and the beanie community, dearly. Many of my friendships here have translated into real life friendships, albeit long distance ones since we are spread out all over the world. So yes - thank you! We hope to see you back here again, one day. :)

When your tweet popped up on my timeline, I knew I had to drop everything and read your post.

Thank you for creating this community, javabeans! It's been a safe place online, when everywhere else felt toxic and depressing. Thank you for keeping it alive despite the odds. And thank you for posting. You and your posts (and girlfriday's too!) are very much missed around here. T___T But no pressure! Come back when you can. <3

I have missed your voice. Thank you for writing this.

I have missed you and your writing so much. Thanks for writing this!
T T I hope you always find this a happy place to come back to or to visit. <3

Like others I just want to add my thanks.
I found dramas and then this site at a time when I really needed it.
I was late to dramas and dramabeans and had such fun discovering all the content. It felt like a treasure trove.
This is especially true when discovering a drama like Healer or Reply 1997. The context, humor (seriously you and girlfriday make me laugh) , and just the shared joy added so much to the experience.

Thank you.

@javabeans we miss you. Thank you for taking the time to write this and for putting so much love and effort into this site. We love you!

I knew this last one would be special! Thank you @javabeans for starting this little haven for us. I think you made this place strong enough to withstand tsunamis, and I hope some of that snark that your are known for will never be extinguished and that you do visit and maybe do a podcast now and then? Thank you. I am so grateful to have found this site.

Thank you @javabeans for Dramabeans! 수고했어! 😊

Miss you.

I miss you guys so much. As I looked back over my life (not that I'm nearing the end), I realized that there aren't that many things that I consider to be prominent, yet my years spent reading through Dramabeans is one of them. Your podcasts got me through a difficult time in my life when I would spend the late (or early) hours working away, while everyone else would be sleeping. I was so miserable but you two kept me laughing.

Even though I have less time to devote to kdramas, I still find myself back at DB, checking "What we're watching" to see if you two are watching anything. I also hope to see you two back, even if it's for a "hello". You dropping in was a pleasant surprise. 😊

Thank you @javabeans for creating this space, allowing enthusiastic drama watchers to gather and share opinions.

Dramabeans is part of my youth. I discovered dramas when I was in University and coincidentally learned the existence of Dramabeans. A place for recaps and drama updates. My 1st registered comment is in 2012, but I am quite certain I have been lurking on this site way earlier than that..pretty sure I was stalking Baker King updates here and maybe some other old dramas 🤣.

My drama watching will not be the same without Dramabeans. I relied heavily on recaps when streaming dramas was not the norm. The memories of clubbox, HJ Split, fansites, WithS2subs, bittorrent, DC++ etc2 is still fresh in memory. Drama watching has changed so much in recent years, Dramabeans has changed along the way. People come and go, but the sense of community and togetherness remains.

To many more years Dramabeans! 💜

😭😭😭😭 You And Girlfriday were my first connection to the fandoms in 2010. You taught me so much about Korean culture, interpretation and writing, period. I was able to take some of the stuff I learned from watching dramas and reading the recaps into my own career. I felt so connected to you two as fellow drama watchers, writers and critics that I would almost fan girl squeeeee when I knew ya’ll were going to be recapping a series. Reading your recaps was like watching the show all over again with a close friend. *sniffs* Because, like you, I didn’t really have anyone outside the internet that I could get excited about it with. You two would point out a small, awesome moment in an episode and I’d be screaming by myself in my room like, “YES!! YES SOMEONE ELSE GETS IT!!” LOL I reaaalllyy miss yours’ and Girlfriday’s writing, so I dearly hope one day you two will be able to do as you hoped and start contributing back into the community again. I miss your voices. Best of luck and love to you in this season of your life Javabeans, and the same towards Girlfriday too! I hope to read something new from you soon! Until then, I’ll keep up with your wine induced drama binges on Twitter 😜

🥰💕💕💕

As with many others, Dramabeans helped me during one of darkest times of my life. Ever grateful to you, Javabeans for creating and keeping this site running, and to girlfriday, headsno2, gummimochi, and all the current minions and beanies for bringing a little light to the lives of all the readers like me.

Thanks for the update, javabeans. And thank you for finding a way to make dramabeans continue even with your stepping back for RL reasons. It would have been easy (easier, less time-consuming, or . . .) to let the blog go due to changes in your life, but the effort to find a way for dramabeans survive is not lost on many of us beanies. You created this community and worked hard behind the scenes to allow it to continue. if anything is underestimated in this world it is the behind the scenes work that goes into what is seen on the surface. Much appreciation, and wishes for good things for you always. ♥owl

Thank you for this special place that's Dramabeans. In hope you will come back to us soon.

I... I’m sorry, am I supposed to comment anything coherent between my sons?

Because.. that’s not happening, and I’m sorry that I don’t have better words in return to the beautiful ones I have just had the utmost pleasure of reading.

Thank you, @javabeans. For being you, for sharing your story, for giving us this wonderful place. Thank you. I’ve missed your writing so very much.

Javabeans! thank you for dramabeans, for this community-- this place of so many meanings for so many of us. 🖤❤

JB! That took me to memory lane with mega to YouTube in 10parts!

Thank you for creating this community! I miss a lot of contents from back then but the DB today has been fun and amazing as well! Hope to see you around soon 💜

Javabeans!!!!!! 😭😭😭 My only regret was that I wasn't an active participant of your blog when you used to live and breathe this community. I really took that for granted. Thank you for everything you have done for the Dramabeans community!

I still clearly remember those times you had made me fall for Dal Ja's Spring because of your passion for it. You had filled those waiting gaps for subs (that you also helped translating) with your recaps on the blog. The rest was history.

Those clubbox, megaupload, d-addicts torrent links, hjsplit, YouTube only allowing 10min max each video were really good great golden years. We really did used to go great lengths just to watch Korean dramas TT____TT

Again, thank you so much. And please, let us know how we can be of assistance to you especially financially-wise. If there is a way we can donate to the site, please let us know! We cannot be always on the receiving end. We have to give back to the community ^_^

Still waiting for that day you and girlfriday will be back.

Thank you for keeping this site going.
We miss you @javabeans
Love, February.

Crying in public reading this omg 😭 was there in your early days and stayed on through your best - 2011-2015 as you’d put it - and though I’m no longer a regular (RL consumes, as you know) I’m glad I made this my home during my high school and college years. Thanks for the love and community and great writing, JB ❤️

Oh Javabeans!
I love you & Gf. Love to see your writing after so long, it's still you. (Expanding on that later on...)

I was holding myself back but the concluding para... ;_; *sniff*

Thank YOU both..
Thank you so much for creating this amazing place. I don't...have proper words to express but all i can say is thank you very much!!! ^^

Hope your rl will be great & i too hope that one day you'll be back <3

thank you @javabeans, for everything you, girlfriday, and your team of amazing minions have done for us by creating and maintaining this lovely site.

thank you @javabeans for sharing your heart with us :) i'd been told that there'd usually be one more post to round up TOTM submissions and yours truly is such a welcome one for all here! thanks for all that you and @girlfriday have done to create this great space and community for us kdrama fans to gather and discuss and share and get to know each other. it's not the same without you both!

@javabeans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @#$%^&!!!!!! I miss you so much!

Dramabeans is my first and now only blog which I participate in. When I first started kdramas around 2010, it was to me a new, fascinating but strange world. Reading the recaps, comments and JB & GF sharing Korean culture and insights helped me immensely.

At that time, there other blogs like Softy's, Thundie's Prattle, Dangermousie and a few which I cannot remember the names. Over many became inactive and new ones came about. I'm not sure however if anyone noticed, there are now hardly any blogs which does recaps, features and has an active online community like Dramabeans.

I can only imagine how difficult it must be to keep a site like this running. Even if one can monetize it, the returns probably won't justify the time and effort put into it.

What attracted me to Dramabeans and why do I stay a beanie all these years?
- javabeans, girlfriday and their minion recappers. I can't find the same brand of humor and snark elsewhere. I prized laughter a lot so thank you DB for bring that smile and often, side splitting laughter to my life.
- @mary - I haven't fully figured what you do, mary but I know it's got to do with IT, running of the site and a Botslayer. We definitely can't do without you!
- beanies
I have taste that don't always go with the majority. DB is the only place that allows minority voices and don't tell you to shut up just because you got nothing positive to say about a drama or actor. Like I can't deal with 100 comments on how great an actor Lee Min Ho is or has to agree that he is the best because no other views can be tolerated.
Sure, things get hot sometimes and fanwars threaten to flare up very occasionally but this community somehow effectively self-police.
Most importantly, Beanies is the most interesting, warmest and funniest community I've seen.

Looking forward to you and girlfriday popping by or coming back. To more good years Dramabeans!

Before Dramabeans, I have never felt part of a community. I've always watched and enjoyed media on my own. And I had never even thought of commenting about anything online. Thanks to Dramabeans I have found a part of my online voice! I have found my people, who know and like much of the same things I do too. Who make me not feel like the only one, because we are never the only one. I've been given the privilege to share my thoughts and writings here, while gaining some confidence that I was lacking. I could go on, but the point is: Thank you @javabeans. You created a space for somemone like me to also share her voice! I wish you the best in your career and hope to be here when you return. Fighting!

**hugs @javabeans I miss you! Thank you for creating this site, rather this community!

I haven't really cried that hard with Theme of The Month posts but this one is special.

Thank you for making DB a place where people like me can be at home, @javabeans! This site will always have a special place in my heart.

Through this site you have created such a wonderful, caring, and thoughtful community. I have met so many beautiful people with whom I can share both intelligent conversation and incoherent fangirling with over the captivating world of dramas. Thank you so much for your passion and giving us this little corner of the internet. We miss you @javabeans!

Thank you Javabeans for creating such an intelligent, funny, fun and dare I say nice corner of the Internet. We miss you!

Ah a wave of excitement spread through me when I saw Javabeans as the poster.

Dramabeans has been synonymous with my entire dramawatching experience. I doubt both at almost exactly the same time.
And although I only first used DB as a way to read recaps and fill in anything I missed in translation (and that's how I missed the Healer Craze despite it happening within weeks of me finding kdrama), and I only starting commenting a year and 2/3rds after getting into this world, there is no way for me to think of kdramas and everything they are and everything they come with without also thinking of Dramabeans and thus also Javabeans and Girlfriday.
Your recaps were just as fun as the dramas sometimes.
And then I got more into the community and now we're here.
Thanks for all the years Javabeans and for sharing your story in full!!!!!

.... And I'm thankful for you dan DB ! (to say the least)

javabeans!!! It is so wonderful to read a post from you!

I add my heartfelt thanks to the ones expressed here by our fellow Beanies. Dramabeans is truly a site like no other. Not only do I thank you for creating this space for us, but also for finding a way for Dramabeans to continue. The drama-watching experience wouldn't be the same without it!

I miss you and girlfriday very, very much but I am hopeful that we will see both of you around here in the not too distant future. In the meantime, I send you good wishes in all your endeavors. Many thanks once again!

@javabeans thank you so much for sharing this. Your discussions in your podcasts about characters, character arcs plus what viewers want, were so interesting and useful to me as a writer, that it might have taught me more than most writing courses. Plus it was about kdrama which I love!

So I owe you a huge debt of gratitude for all the work you've done here. I cannot thank you enough for sharing your views on dramas plus creating this amazing community.

(okay, now I'm crying)

Like with so many others, dramabeans was this safe place I found during a rough patch in my life when I found it hard to be honest about any of what I was feeling, but here I could be utterly transparent about my drama thoughts and squees and somehow that just made everything better. I also found myself again, here, as Cocoa. I discovered parts of myself I had forgotten, buried in the everyday busyness of life. I started dramas in 2010, but didn’t discover DB until prolly 2015-2016~ I still remember the night in 2017 that I finally started commenting after a long day at work when I just wanted life stuff to shut up and talk about dramas instead.

Thank you for creating this space, thank you for not giving up on it. It means so very much to so many of us.

Javabeans!!!! 😘😘😘😘😘😘

And thank you for creating my virtual home. 😘

Dear @javabeans thank you for creating this wonderful DB. Really love to see @javabeans and @girlfriday dropped by sometimes. DB is one of the site I visit every day. Love to have a place to discussing drama.

Ugh... memories!!! Major nistalgia rushing in

Thank you, Dramabeans. I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't found a home for my love of kdramas. Exploded, most likely, all over, they'd still be finding bits and pieces....

This is a magical place. Thank you for creating it, thank you loving it enough to let go.

(Hugs and kisses)

I’ve been reading Javabeans since I was a first-year in Uni from halfway across the world (Brunei/Australia) in 2006/2007 and found such peace in reading about a world I was just getting to know and love. Countless recaps, essays and reviews later, I am still here! Even if I am less of a drama addict these days, I count on the reviews here to decide what to watch next hehe. I’ve never commented or interacted before but I just wanted to say thank you for colouring my youth and helping me put words to the FEELS, Javabeans! <3

You and GF are sorely missed, JB.
I can't find enough words to express how thankful I am to have chanced upon Dramabeans while I was looking for recaps for Dalja's Spring, which was one of the early kdramas that I watched in my way younger years. Since then DB was--and still--is my main go-to in checking which dramas shall I give my 16++ hours of devoted watching or not. I also used to comment a lot here (using diff aliases--lol--this was before the registration thingy existed) but now I'm fine lurking as I enjoy reading through some well thought-out comments/insights from other beanies.
Anyway, thanks again for gracing us with your presence thru this piece and I wish you (and GF) all the best! Hope to meet you both again here sometime (^-^,)

How do you explain to the people surrounding you that you’re crying for someone you’ve never met? I loved this piece, loved your story and love love love dramabeans. And... the story of the making of dramabeans is similar to my discovery of it which makes me feel validated and feel connected to you?! (So cool!) we miss you @javabeans and @girlfriday but im so glad you’re at a place we’re you’re comfortable and where you’re looking back thinking that was the best you could do and feel proud of it. I hope you enjoy your new careers and hope to see you here! THANK YOU SO MUCH for creating this wonderful, heartwarming and insightful platform. From someone who is now experiencing a sorta quarter life crisis, this piece helps me put stuff into perspective and I think Ill come and read it back again from time to time!

I discovered this website on 2007/08 and have logged on almost daily since then.
Thank you for creating a non-toxic space where k-drama lovers drop in, particularly those of us who've never been to Korea and sometimes needed a breakdown of the meaning of things (the podcasts were awesome).
Hope to have you and girlfriday back more regularly down the line, as your voice and humour is missed :-)