Beanies are the best! That's all I have to say really.
Here ends my post.

I concur with @cloggie. Beanies are awesome!

Thank you beanies for making drama watching more fun than what it actually is 🤗

Even as a part-time lurker, I've managed to participate in temporary communities revolving around particular shows, and the information and insights that fellow viewers provide really do greatly enhance the viewing experience. This is especially true of the more divisive shows and the reasons given for liking or disliking them. It's interesting to see what people look for in their dramas, what preconceptions they bring, and how the show might or might not change their minds.

Yikes. Where does one even start.

Lifelong, i've always watched (mostly) English tv shows by myself, meaning, i don't really discuss the various likes and dislikes about them with anyone and/or try to know more about the cast or the show itself either on the internet or via general chit chat with people (GOT is the only exception). However, with K-Dramas, this is the first that i've sought online information about the dramas, its actors and reading other people's reviews and posts via youtube and similar websites, than just watching these shows myself. And it's been quite good so far. While, i've been a beanie for just few days, i look forward to reading the recaps and the posts here, and maybe in time, i too will become more engaged in the community and further these meaningful interactions. Offline, I'm still not participatory but who knows that may change in the near future:-) Thank you!

My only one: dramabeans!
Where I live right now looks so anti-dramas 😂😂😂😂😂
But I thank you, guys, for saving me!!!!

On the other hand, some dramas can give me a community within themselves, that even though it is fiction, it supplies me values, struggles, humor and compassion that is not easy to find in real life.
So, even though it is for a short period of time every time, it is worth for me, every time when it is done right.

thats one of the BESTEST theme ever... am so excited to read everyone's write ups...

this totm is gonna be the sweetest love letter / the biggest shoutout to all beanies ever

Beanies made me realize that funny, snarky people can also be nice!! It’s amazing how much I connect with people who I have never met. Thank you DB for creating this community and beanies for keeping me sane :)

The problem with this theme is there is too much to write about. Do you write about the overall awesome community of Beans? Do you write about the madness awesomeness of the A Poem a Day days with the ships, the island, and everyone's concern for a small alligator? How about the rabbit community and the way group watches have allowed Beanies to share their love/hate/snark with other likeminded or reluctant Beans? (Shout out to the ISWAK gang, and one cannot leave out @kimbapnoona's amazing real time translations of Meteor Garden and Put Your Head on My Shoulder. Simply amazing to witness.) Or do you write about how you now have friends from all over the world? Though I'm still not convinced Australia is real. There's been poetry, music parties, gif stories (who can forget the epic adventure of the Errand Boys), the Love, February prompt, and so much more. Well, this got a bit mushy for my taste, so I'll let you dumblings figure out what to write, and I'll sit back and read.

People say that making friends once one is out of school is hard, but now I know that it is only when they have not found the right community.

Watching and discussing dramas with Beanies make great dramas better, and terrible dramas funner. Thank you Beanies for being AWESOME (in Veronica Park's voice....see, no one else would get this but you!)

This calls for perhaps my most serious piece of writing here yet. Ahem.

I LOVE BEANIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSAHKDJGDBNkdvdhdnskkd

*finger hearts*

I won't know where to start or where to end so here is a compressed version: common interests with beanies led to lots of conversation, somehow it shifted to kpop & the convo place shifted to other platforms where beans could live chat. The community slowly grew & is now scattered in various forms & sizes (according to the topic of interest: music, drama, movie, food, sports, OPPAs 😉) across multiple social media platforms. And all of this has led to many happy beanie meet ups too & so much more.

Basically (HUGE)thanks to DB for making this all happen
You & the beans are the best!!!! 😎
The Jewels in the Internet 🤧 (if I manage to write up, this'll be the title of my article)

Where else would I find a community which will embrace a serial murdery mode of transportation?

I may never be able to reform my smashing ways because I need the paycheck to fuel and sustain me (cuz like you, a truck's gotta eat) but thank you Beanies for providing a place for my mental salvage.

Tag me if you need a ride. It is much safer than walking.

I'm bad at writing so I have never tried to submit anything for Theme of The Month.

I just want to say Dramabeans is my Happy Place. I am the sort who likes a light-hearted approach when it comes to raving or ranting so this is where I feel most comfortable.

This is the best theme ever! I am so ready to read everyone's entries! I wouldn't even know where to start with this one cuz there is so much to say, so I'll stay away hehheh!

Good luck to the ones who write in! I am ready to smile, laugh and cry reading all the stories! *finger hearts*

I think that I write a love letter to the Beanie community about once a disaster. That averages out to like every other month. So....I think its pretty well covered on my end how I feel about beanieland and db.

Should i talk about the last empress community?? Hahaahah i still have screenshots...

I'm ready to "LIKE" every post and comment.

This might be a little bit sacrilege to the name of Dramabeans (sowwy), but the Dramafever community was my community for a good while. I was intensely involved in and devoted to the King of Savvy recaps that were done here (such a fun time), but I've mostly been a long-time, occasional, lurker on Dramabeans. I was pretty involved with Dramafever though, involved to the point of being a volunteer for them, first taking part in their video dramaclub that they uploaded to YouTube (and have no way of getting copies of those videos) and then later in written dramaclubs for the website. (Thank goodness there's a site that was basically just copy-pastaing every recap and article, etc. from Dramafever to their site, so we were able to go in and download copies for ourselves.)

Let me tell you, we were GUTTED at the demise of Dramafever. That place was bloody special to us. And then AT&T comes in and is like 'Do you love this thing? We'Re hERe To kIlL THe thINgS yOu LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE!!!!!!!'

I've never submitted anything for Dramabeans before, but I kind of want to write about Dramafever and what it meant to a lot of people.

Because I'm still not over it.

I’m just here to cheer at the SPECIAL LABOR INSPECTOR JO header 😊

And to say that I look forward to reading everyone’s posts. Hwaiting!

So I've got a topic picked out to write about and submit, but somebody else needs to write about the MySoju days. I can't be the only person on here who was around back then during the wild wild west of Asian drama viewing here in the....west, lol. I wasn't involved in any communities then, but I know they must have existed, and I would love to read about what they were like.

Dramabeans ❤️ I still can remember how this blog gave me my very first favourite Korean drama ever - Dal Ja’s spring. It was the drama I saw that made me want to read more about. Javabeans publishing recaps of every episode as we waited for fansubbing sites to release softsubs. And The rest was history.

Though I’ve participated in many other drama social platforms, (I simply love to talk about dramas I love with everyone else), dramabeans is now my favourite online hang out place. Though I’ve visited this site for several years as a lurker, I’m fairly new to interacting with beanies and leaving comments/posting walls. But this space immediately felt home to me once I started being active. And it’s all thanks to all welcoming beanies and awesome recap minions! I do miss javabeans and girlfriday, but I love that you’re all still here keeping this blog alive and making it so homey for everyone especially to newbies like me. Love you all! 🤗

Love the dramabean family ❤❤
Everyone is so welcoming and it never fails to make me smile!
Thank you to girlfriday and java beans for creating this site and all the lovely minions doing an amazing job recapping and working behind the scenes!!! 🤗❤

I've really enjoyed being a part of the community and seeing how much the website has grown! Excited to see what will happen in the future 😊