I have a shiny new Fan Wall substitue, a Bluesky account, as @lordcobol, of course.

I think it's set up so that anyone can see it even without a Bluesky account. Just browse to
https://bsky.app/profile/lordcobol.bsky.social
to see my screenies that would have gone to my fan wall, except 😢😭

Beanies, I’ve been thinking about breakup songs lately. (Don’t worry, my husband and I are doing great!) I don’t know about y’all, but I LOVE breakup songs. Almost every kind of breakup song - I’d-do-anything-to-get-you-back songs, I’m-better-off-without-you songs, I-hope-you-fall-in-love-with-someone-as-terrible-as-you songs, I’m-trying-to-move-on-after-having-my-heart-broken songs, and especially I’m-amazing-and-this-is-your-loss songs. Sometimes it will fall neatly into one of these categories, sometimes they blend most or all of them, sometimes it’s another one entirely, but I always think they are interesting. Maybe it’s because I’ve never been broken up with? 😅

The absolutely savage ones are my favorite, but right now I’m obsessed with Highlight’s “Whatever”. It’s upbeat and super catchy and is basically about a man who discovers that his partner is cheating on him and is so sick of their lies and nonsense that he tells them to just do whatever they want. He’s gotten rid of the part of him that loved them, he says they wouldn’t even know him anymore, so will they just get out of the way? (This last bit is my favorite 😂) Obviously he’s talking a big game and I’m sure he’s hurting at the same time, but I love to see him stand up to them.

Hit me with your favorite kpop breakup songs! What kinds of breakup songs do you like? Any particularly fun/savage ones I should know about?

Highlights of Archiving My Wall Week 3

My Hyung wrote a script that downloaded my entire wall (it is 10GB and 3306 permalinks), so I’ve mostly been breezing through screenshotting stuff, trying to get past gatewall crashes and saving other people’s walls when they will load.
Shoutout to @mary for making her script available for everyone, though, 🫰

I have one thread that I have been reloading every other hour, kicking myself for not saving it before the servers got overloaded, and praying that I get lucky to be able to save it before D-Day: https://www.dramabeans.com/members/obsessedmuch/activity/6141/
It is, as far as I know, the second longest fanwall thread after @cozybook’s 1000 comment thread from last year, so I get why it won’t load BUT if anyone is successful, please let me know lmao.

Pages 29-1

- Screenshot Spamming every week after the Original (and only) Tale of the Nine Tailed (and rewatched it like twice a week because of live and group and solo watches haha)
I was supposed to write an Essay on that Show…

- Actually, speaking of
ESSAYS I MEANT TO/STILL MEAN TO WRITE AND HAVEN’T YET

➤ Tale of the Nine Tailed (there’s probably notes somewhere but it’s been a while I may have also just drafted it in my head that happens a lot, there are many others like this...)
➤ Welcome to Samdalri (notes no draft)
➤ Link: Eat Love Kill (this is actually drafted, I’ve drafted this like three times lmao, the final draft is currently at 4735 words)

- The change in how I posted about New Years over the last 8 is some drama worthy character development but I also just did not post for 2021 NY at all and between 2020-2021 you can really see my rate of posting drop, which hmmmm 👀:

2017 – 65 pages
2018 – 33 pages
2019 – 29 pages
2020 – 16 pages
2021 – 11 pages
2022 – 5 pages
2023 – 6 pages (thanks My Dearest lol)
2024 – less than 1 page
2025 – 1 post

- The Blue Camaro SS that showed up in like 3-4 dramas circa 2021 I MISS HER WHERE IS SHE I WANT HER BACK 💙

- We’ve had subway and we’ve had that fluffy green sweater and we’ve had kopiko till our ears bleed dry Bring Back Repeated (Good*) Car PPLS PLEASE
(*not EVs or Smart Cars I’m tired of EVs and Smart Cars)

- Velocirapt0r was and is still an IW because “rapt0r” is an IW and no I still do not know why.

- Hot x Hot from River Where the Moon Rises (still the only good part of that show AND the writing of them was dumb so they weren’t even that good It was just chemistry and potential)
((kdramas biggest flaw is that they’re always too obsessed with being kdramas)

- “Justification? I’ll have to make something up” (Vinnie quote)
Sic: kdrama writers everywhere

- I love how annoyed I was at Vincenzo like the entire time watching it but ESPECIALLY for its misuse of guns lmao

(Page 98 ish)

- How did Hwayugi and INAR come out at the same time wtf they do NOT occupy the same space or era in my brain

- Sincerely, Truck of Doom...

In Taiwanese drama news, I was irrationally happy to discover this week that the writers of Someday or One Day and Rainless Love in a Godless Land have a new drama coming out this year staring the lead actor from Oh No! Here Comes Trouble.

Roberta Flack, soul and R&B icon behind Killing Me Softly, dies aged 88

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/24/roberta-flack-soul-and-rb-icon-behind-killing-me-softly-dies-aged-88

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Who was it recommended me Just Dance? Was it you, @pickleddragon?(i woukd go and check but it’s a minor miracle I could even load this page)

Anyway I watched it and it was really lovely (and bonus, didn’t have 1.5 hour long episodes!), so thank you very much for the excellent recommendation.

Announcements! Announcements!! Announcements!!!
Due to the sad and unfortunate death of Kim sae-ron, it came to our notice that the bullies had turned their target to Kim soo- hyun, blaming him for their death.
If you check his Insta handle, under his comments, international fans from Nigeria, Brazil and South Africa have taken it upon themselves to defend and report any bullies who dared to touch a single strand of his hair and it is so beautiful.
It is now a international resolution to encourage and defend any actor or actress being picked on by these nincompoops. To be sincere, I am tired of K-netz and I'm camping on Ji chang-wook's insta handle, anyone who dares to touch my baby will be chewed properly and spit out.
Please, I beg of you all beanies, let's do the little we can to help them. I'll prefer sending the love and support now than sending wreaths to their funeral.

I don't know if the rest of their colleagues show their support to these bullied ones privately but at times, this kind of help should be public to show them that they are not alone and they are loved.
Please check on your oppas and unnis, as I'm not losing anyone of them unless by old age.

Purrrr-fect Together

The Cat Who Saved Books: A Novel
by Sosuke Natsukawa

HarperVia, 2021
ISBN 978-0-06-322784-2 (Int’l)

This would make a great Kdrama. I could see L in a dual role. ;)

For Sageuk Geeks

Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty (Sillok) – searchable in hangeul
https://sillok.history.go.kr/eslk/

The full English translation, begun in 2012, is expected to be finished in 2033.

General Introduction to the Veritable Records of King Sejong (sample in English)
https://sillok.history.go.kr/eslk/record/recordView.do

Searchable by entry and various dates (above) and by classified index (below).
https://sillok.history.go.kr/eslk/index/classIndexView.do

An excerpt from the extensive background information on the entire Sillok as well as the Sillok Translation Project:

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Korea's birthrate has risen...but still below 1.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-27/south-korea-birthrate-rises-first-time-nine-years/104988062

What makes it a B -grade drama? Musings sparked by the C-drama Everlasting Longing
There are many facets to a drama. Production, Script, Direction, Art Direction, Actors are all areas that I consider important. I do not require a drama to be excellent in every facet though for me to consider it ‘A’ grade. I doubt that perfection is ever possible, but also scripting and continuity issues seem to be endemic in C-dramas in a way that make me suspect that they are never a priority to creators. (And no doubt censorship issues make continuity perfection an impossibility)
Everlasting Longing seemed to be a solid B drama for me. The standard script continuity/repetition issue is the ML/FL declares that they never want to see the ML/FL ever again. Followed by the next scene in a completely different place where the ML/FL dramatically leaves. (Why didn’t they just leave after saying they were going to leave the first time? Because of course it allows the script to draw out/repeat the emotion of leaving) The Art direction was at times woeful. They did not spend money on the supporting actors wigs,or the sets (mostly soundstage sets, with bad cgi). The production was tolerable There were real human extras. They did have horses, (but spent only basic money most horse scenes only showed the actor sitting on the horse pretending to ride, and it was often the exact same horse for multiple people) The fight choreography was basic, to the point where I ffd some fights. In a good A grade fight scene, the fight can be admired as dance and acrobatical skill. Everlasting Longing looked like someone had choreographed the main conflict points, but not given the leads anyone any time to practice. So there was no elegance or flow, and became artificial.. TBC

Sigh R.I.P. Michelle Trachtenberg
So young

First thing first, I apologise @Angelshadows50 for not being able to keep my words. When you asked if I could use Mary’s tool to save beanies’ fanwalls, I happily agreed to help, simply because I had the resource to do so (My job requires me to sit in front of the computer most of the time, so I can run the script while still doing my work).

But now, upon seeing some people not happy with their fanwalls saved by someone else, I respect their wish and I hence have decided to stop doing so. I only saved beanies’ fanwalls when they asked me to do so. For the record, for the two beanies that have made their standpoint clear on their fanwall (Elinor and Seon-ha), I didn’t save their fanwalls even when asked, before they made their statements, and I’m never going to do so under any circumstance.

But the fact that Seon-ha, in addition to posting on her fanwall, posted her statement under my comment in Elinor’s post too, where I offered my perspective on why someone might save others’ fanwalls, isn’t right, and is redundant. I don’t think I derseve such act.

So, although I have no objection to anyone saving my fanwall or others’, I see no reason for me to keep spending my precious time doing a controversial thing.

Angelshadows, I know you mean well, and so do I. But I don’t think it’s worth it. This is the first time I’ve spoken in this manner on here, because I often retreat when I can, and avoid conflicts by all means possible. But when it comes to dignity, then I won’t let people think lowly of me, and I’ll make sure I’ll do what I need to do (or probably shouldn’t do) from my end. Then to each their own.

So, I’m sorry again for not keeping my words to you ❤️

Tbh I am still somewhat in denial about the disappearance of the Fanwall. Like K-dramas the Fanwall was also very intensely emotionally engaging for me. We have had so many happy, some sad, few sour but all extremely satisfying interactions. It is amazing to connect with so many Beanies from all over the world. I have learned a lot from the Beans over at the Wall. Thank you for the memories. Let us meet on the other side (soon to be the only side) of the site more often and hang out. 😊❤🥰

Anyone else also not receiving notifications when someone mentions you?
(@db-staff)

@marcusnyc20 Bong-soo, Yep, the passing of the Fanwall really is in some ways like the sinking of the Titanic. But mainly it is a lesson in impermanence and the transitory nature of existence. I am grateful that I got to meet so many kind and lovely Beanies here on DB. Our personal fanwalls may be evanescing, but the rest of the website is still here.

As you had proposed, I was going to post a nice rendition of "Nearer My God To Thee," which I believe is what the ship's musicians were playing as she slipped beneath the waves. But then I remembered a song that is much more apropos… Stay tuned.

I am really surprised that you first posted on your fanwall in 2021. It seemed that we were yakking about sageuks far longer than that... Oh, wait. We were – in recap threads, and maybe in Open Thread, too. *facepalm*

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Fare thee well, oh faithful Fanwall

015B: “Now Goodbye” (ijen annyeong -- 이젠 안녕)
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/015b-ijen-annyeong-english
Includes link to music.

This song is one of my very favorite examples of old-school Kpop. Immensely moving even to someone who doesn’t speak Korean, it has cropped up over the years in various Kdramas. The two that immediately come to mind are:

The behind-the-scenes special episode of COFFEE PRINCE (2007)
https://dramabeans.com/2007/08/coffee-prince-behind-the-scenes-special/

and THREE DADS, ONE MOM (2005).
https://dramabeans.com/2008/04/three-dads-one-mom/

As the Fanwall drifts off into the sunset in Beanie collective memory, I came to realize that this piece is more apropos than the last music played by the musicians aboard the sinking Titanic, especially as there is uncertainty as to which exact versions of “Autumn” and “Nearer My God to Thee” were performed.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/last-song/

Ijen annyeong, Dear Fanwall! Ya done good.

I am trying to save my things from the fan wall but I can't have all that on my own server so is doing it oldfashionally but am so tired now . So tired.

I simply have to sleep now. If someone wants to download all my stuff, please do. I know I will miss some of it but ai need to sleep.

@midnight, I just stumbled across a tidbit on kishotenketsu that you might find interesting, and it wasn't on my fanwall. Enjoy!

https://dramabeans.com/2020/07/drama-viewership-ratings-for-the-week-of-july-6-12-2020/#comment-3690017