Beanie level: Loan shark with a heart of gold

THis one as part of discussion about tropes and their overturning

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Iron family ep 32
Even the business connections are patching up, even if the walking undad is still mainly focused on competition and money. Meanwhile, Kang-ju has found a place in the world where he can get the thing he has always been starved of. TLC.

Sweet Kang-ju Getting Comfortable Around Da-rim
Normally I hate the \”beautiful when angry\” trope. But he\’s so sweet! (And she\’s not really angry).
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Public Display of Cuteness
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(4 gif comments to follow)

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Because of Squid Game 2,
I really wanted to post the most haunting scene from \”The Simple-minded Murderer\”, where a rich man tut-tuts at a poor man, and, claiming to simply be a man of principle, condemns the poor man\’s family o starvation … by demanding that a sum of money is paid back on Christmas Eve as promised, and not later.
And then, to demonstrate that \”It\’s not the money, it\’s the principle,\” the rich man throws the paid amount into the fireplace.
I can\’t find that clip, but on this gif you see the farm hand title character,
Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd* anno 1982
, towards the end of the film, urged on by three Avenging Angels going towards that rich man\’s house.
Soundtrack: Verdi\’s Dies Irae (Day of Wrath).

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Small digression:
(*Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd, the actor, is the father of all male actors from Sweden, most of them with an international career. And his one daughter is a caster. Google that family, it\’s crazy).

The Triple-Minded proTAGonistas:
@IsaGC @claire2009 (Healer’s) @seeker (Cera) @Reply1988 @unaspirated @coffeprince4eva (RenOlshi) @DncingEmma @lapislazulii @sonai @Gikata @vienibenmio
@marysadanaga @sp2022 @darkcc @GhostofTim @zindigo @23new2kdrama

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    they are a controversial family but I commend their habit of reading 6 to 10 books to prepare for any role. I hope the love of reading is inherited by their next generation

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The Fan Walls will be taken down
For you: My old gif posts sorted by drama

Here\’s the link to my permalinks sorted after which K-drama they are about:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/175XI9pWuYkWLdBVr_LP9MIBI74t0TDfIAzj4wWBsByo/edit?usp=sharing
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They are taking down the Fan Walls and all my old discussions and gifs. I have been keeping a list of permalinks for my old posts, and so, if you are rewatching anything, or if there\’s something you might like to see, or a gif you want to download before it all gets taken down, then you are welcome.

I have Honestly been so happy sharing those moments with y\’all and I hadn\’t thought all those post would disappear like that.

I don\’t wanna go

Les Taguettes
@IsaGC @claire2009 (Healer’s) @seeker (Cera) @Reply1988 @unaspirated @coffeprince4eva (RenOlshi) @DncingEmma @lapislazulii @sonai @Gikata @vienibenmio
@marysadanaga @sp2022 @darkcc @GhostofTim @zindigo @23new2kdrama
and
@enriquequierecagar @turtuallySarcastic

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She is so Brave
And gives him so many chances to be nice. But no.
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Les Taguettes
@IsaGC @claire2009 (Healer’s) @seeker (Cera) @Reply1988 @unaspirated @coffeprince4eva (RenOlshi) @DncingEmma @lapislazulii @sonai @Gikata @vienibenmio
@marysadanaga @sp2022 @darkcc @GhostofTim @zindigo @23new2kdrama
@angelshadows50
PS
I am having serious troubles with Imgur, just saying.

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Heart Massage for Mice in Space❤️🚀👨🏻‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀🛰️🧑🏻‍⚕️🫀🐭

There\’s a clear theme for \”When the Stars Gossip\”🗣️🌟🌟 and that theme is of course LOVE, and therefore, the heartbeat even of a mouse is important. The scene is very intense.
For the squeamish who don\’t like mice and surgery, that may be hard to watch, and so I have simply decided to make an artistic rendering, where you don\’t have to see the mouse\’s head. And also, the blood seems less realistic.
But you will get a general idea. And you can see it is in space because of the way the blood drops move.
You never know when you may need to give a mouse massage!
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Les Mouse Massagettes
@IsaGC @claire2009 (Healer’s) @seeker (Cera) @Reply1988 @unaspirated @coffeprince4eva (RenOlshi) @DncingEmma @lapislazulii @sonai @Gikata @vienibenmio
@marysadanaga @sp2022 @darkcc @GhostofTim @zindigo @23new2kdrama
@angelshadows50

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    Omg, that went on forever and ever , very unnecessarily. Uck.

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    I liked the open-heart mouse surgery.

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    I actually enjoyed both the fruit flies and mouse surgery scenes. GHJ’s fixation and delight at the flies’ mating reminds me so much of the different scientists that I met. That single-minded pursuit and pure joy in seeing breakthroughs are beyond us non-scientists. GHJ conveys that crystal clear emotion so well. The mouse surgery on the other hand is very well shot and produced – just watching the single blood drop floating in the incubator is never a thing I’d imagine seeing in a drama – any drama not just k-drama. Yet, I totally understand how distressing those could be for some viewers.

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      I wrote a long answer, but of course there was an inappropriate word, because … well the subject.
      I was just saying that I don’t like fruit flies and definitely not when they are making more.
      But I liked the scene, it managed to be hilarious, cute, and disgusting at one time.
      Even more so the mouse scene – the whole cooperation, the hope, the happiness … and then how can I say it … the demonstration of the ML’s skills, nimblemess etcetera.

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        The inappropriate word thing is driving me nuts – I tried three times re-writing a post about Park Sung-hoo’s incident but in the end gave up.

        Back to those two scenes, your comment is spot on. It is less about the subject matter but how the delivery visualising the characters at play. I feel there is a kind of pureness in those two scenes that delight me.

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    Your GIF looks like an art piece.
    As I used to have to open the mouse abdomen to do perfusion fixation, I got to see (and feel) their heart beat, then their heart stop when a solution was irrigated through the heart to push all the blood out of the body 🙈 So actually that scene evoked a feeling a nostalgic for me 🙈

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      Thank you very much! I was quite proud of it, to be honest.
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      My daughter reacted with a short chortle-scoff, which was what I hoped to hear from her.
      With nostalgia as your companion, the sunny face of our FL (Obviously the commander, though the chaebol daughter is nice, too) will have been less funny and more touching for you, though it was both for a lot of us, – but more on the funny side.

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        I just love the chaebol daughter for no reason the first moment she was on the screen, but I know with Gong Hyojin in the picture, the chaebol heiress won’t be the end game for our ML.

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          She is sweet. She has half this sweetness, and half some chaotic, bulldozer-like and sexy … presence. Am I making that up, or am I right?
          Since she has obviously been lied to and let down many times, I hope she herself will find a new love or that an earlier thing that she was sad about was really a misunderstanding, so that there will be a happy and fulfilling end for her, too.
          He hasn’t promised her love but he has promised to be the stable force in her life. Obviously, he will end up being a friend at the most.

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Kha!, DK-Drama!
… it\’s an order. It\’s 4AM. 😠🥱😴💤
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Iron Family 29-30
Laundry Mum at Her Most Beautiful
The Unfairman being a only little less useful than a wiggly clothing rack with wheels.
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Could have given her car batteries some juice, though, and been more useful. But … More gifs longer down in this post.

Kang-ju has a Fortress of Women
Mainly Da-rim.
Auntie protect Kang-ju under his arm, in case his mother would attack there.
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This made me digress a bit, foot note longer down in this post.

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ToD: Trope of the Year 2025?
As Promised,
My favourite Truck of Doom
, with my favourite Loan Shark with a Heart of Gold.

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A White Truck of BOoooOOOMMmm!
Rolling around several times with the car doesn\’t really cut it.
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\”I Can Explain This!
(More from Marry My Husband)
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Well then, why don\’t you?
Always wasting time saying \”Please, wait, I can explain\” 🙄
It shouldn\’t take more than a few sentences to draw up the main picture. No need for all this suffering.
\”It was an arranged marriage. When I fell in love, even when I thought I had no chance, I broke the engangement\” Sorted! You\’re Welcome.

\”It\’s never right,\” she says.
It would still be a lame reason, even if she didn\’t use it as an excuse to do exactly what she says you can\’t ever do.
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Don\’t go! There\’s more in the comments.

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Iron Family
The Luggage Box

Can hardly wait for next episodes of this:
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Les Boxettes
@IsaGC @claire2009 (Healer’s) @seeker (Cera) @Reply1988 @unaspirated @coffeprince4eva (RenOlshi) @DncingEmma @lapislazulii @sonai @Gikata @vienibenmio
@marysadanaga @sp2022 @darkcc @GhostofTim @zindigo @23new2kdrama

Now I had made the groundwork I couldn\’t help thinking you might find
All Sorts of Stuff in an box like that …
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Which of these are funnier and why?
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(It\’s still from \”Marry My Husband\”)

Les Taguettes:
@IsaGC @claire2009 (Healer’s) @seeker (Cera) @Reply1988 @unaspirated @coffeprince4eva (RenOlshi) @DncingEmma @lapislazulii @sonai @Gikata @vienibenmio
@marysadanaga @sp2022 @darkcc @GhostofTim @zindigo @23new2kdrama

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Marry My Husband, Dear Beanies, forgive me,
I had to shout this to somebody, right at the start of ep 12

He says
\”I Can Explain!\”
… and then he goes on to not do that, even if the whole thing can be explained in three sentences, seriously:
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– It was an arranged marriage, we only ever did it for our families
– As soon as I saw a chance for actual love, I broke up.
– Believe me – no one was hurt.
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And then
She says this, and walks one-sidedly away …
Arrghhh! It\’s so dumb!
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Marry My Husband ep 1 – 11
There will be 11 gifs and a picture for starters.

Pocket Money from Father in Heaven
So nice to mark up Mr. Right like this.
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Probably My Favourite Person in this Show
Yoo Hee-Yeon jumping for joy, little sistering all over the place.😍
I really hope she will become happy in this drama. 🍀
Or else! 😠
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I know I always complain about comments on Viki, but this really takes the cake.
Even so much as to make other commenters notice. But really, it is bad:
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    Yeah. The comments got so unhinged I thought I was watching a different drama from them. Do they not know the premise of the show? Or the fact that the writer has actually written fleshed out characters who are not perfect – like people are in real life.

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      Now, autism is not a “one certain way to be”, and certainly not “un-intelligence” but funny thing is, that one feature that autism can include is an unbending feeling of justice and fairness.
      I don’t know that I have autism, but some things … well, I have felt really seen in some descriptions and had that “Yes, yes! And also this feeling … yes!” with some diagnosed autists – in our case the extremely uncomfortable feeling around wrong use of language. (Like, direct “translation” of English expressions and grammar, used uncritically in Danish. It makes me itch all over, like I was allergic).
      This just to say that I am not depreciating people with autism in general at all. It includes people I love and maybe myself.
      But it is a bit funny that this one-sided look at “This is illegal. Then you go to the police”-thing and not being able to let go of that – could be a sign that Kekela has exactly that neuro-spiciness that she is “accusing” our sweet, sweet Kang-jo of having.
      It doesn’t excuse how horribly s/he is.

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    it sounds similar to the blackpink fans in kpop community. some utter trash always shows up posting puke faces etc. they dont know how illiterate they sound

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    Perverts writing β€˜pervertic’ comments.

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    So, now I learned how to report comments.

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The good cover-up attempt:
SInging to cover up mention of Euak


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The bad cover-up attempt:
Sudden violence
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There’s a handful of gifs more to come. Juuust a minute.

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    Sorry, I ended up fangirling, or fanahjumming, again.

    Kang-ju Making Sure Mother in Law (hopefully) Eats Well:

    Dear God, grant me a child-in-law that looks at me like this.
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    Just Gotta Keep Trying: Mother?
    She can’t keep hating him.
    How can eating, chewing and smiling be so sweet?
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    (Fangirling fanahjumming, continued)

    Finally, Finally, Finally: SQUEEEEEEEEEE

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    A Magic Moment
    It’s not just that he gets ”the girl” ; It’s that someone finally shows Kang-ju that they love him. He needs that. He deserves that.
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    (PS: I have only heard the “made of stone” expression as being cold and maybe brave except for in Cinde-Freaking-Rella, where “just look at every girl as a stone” was the advice ML got from his father).

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    The Little Boy inside the Man

    They did that with Im Siwan in Run-on, too: Puts a young man in a huge suit so that he looks like a toddler who has been in Daddy’s closet. I think I have seen it more times, to emphasise the lower end of a relationship of patriarchal hierarchy, here: Tae-ungsomehow being Dad’s little boy after having been a man for far too long.
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    The Parent Trap

    I wonder if Tae-ung is planning to marry his chosen family to wealth, or if he just wants laundry-mum to get hers. In a respectable way, of course.

    The best evil justice plan I think is to make Unfairman take that emotional chance but consistently without admitting to love anyone, tripping himself up and losing it all because Laundry-mum gives up waiting and finds a better love.
    Muahahahaha!
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    Probably it will turn out better even for this narcissistic unloving toxic man.

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    (Fangirling fanahjumming, continued 2)

    Finally, Finally, Finally: Say it, Kang-ju! Hwaiting!

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    Brother from Another Mother (united by absence of the same Father )

    Let’s be real, here: Unfairman isn’t there for anybody he can’t use.
    But what will the relationship become between the not-brothers? Choi Tae-joon’s face is a cliffhanger of neutrality. Does he have the “you are trying to steal my girlfriend(s) and my father”-look?
    Or is it the “I am realising this man wasn’t there for my mum, nor for his wife, nor for her son – and he won’t ever be there for me?”- look? Is it the “This boy and me have more in common than me and this man who made my mother pregnant, threatened to kill her, and left her”-look?
    I would love for Tae-ung to Return from the Dark Side, and for everybody to be friends except Unfairman.
    The Close-up:
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    The Eye Contact
    Kang-ju looks tired rather than furious with Tae-ung – he seems to finally place his anger in the right place.
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    Notice in the first of these two gif, how Tae-ung’s movements are somehow shadowed through the glass by someone walking under him, half hidden.I could make up a meaning for that, something about the subconscious or not being honest, … but maybe someone just happened to pass by there. On the other hand, there are no one else there – it almost has to be scripted?

    My sisters who read my posts, those bros from other parents and coasts:
    @IsaGC @claire2009 (Healer’s) @seeker (Cera) @Reply1988 @jls943 (unaspirated) @coffeprince4eva (RenOlshi) @DncingEmma @lapislazulii @sonai @Gikata @vienibenmio
    @marysadanaga @sp2022 @darkcc @GhostofTim @zindigo @23new2kdrama

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Anyone out there knows what this fist-chin gesture means?
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Tomorrow, I will be posting this week\’s Iron Family gifs in their own post altogether. But before that I hope to know what this gesture, with his hand up to his chin, means?

Korean Language and Culture Tag List + The Usual Suspects
@Reply1988 @jls943 (unaspirated) @vienibenmio @elinor @coffeprince4eva @angelshadows50 @claire2009 (Healer’s) @seeker (Cera) @lapislazulii @welh640
@darwi @Gikata @marysadanaga @darkcc @GhostofTim
@IsaGC @DncingEmma @lapislazulii @sonai @sp2022 @darkcc @GhostofTim @zindigo @23new2kdrama

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When the phone rings …

Watch Out, He\’ll Grab the Barrel!
I\’m reduced to a five-year-old Punch & Judy Audience member, shouting out advice in vain to my screen.
In this case, I was sure that Daddy Paik would grab the barrel and turn it against Daddy Hong, who seems the least horrible parent except for that guy (Na Jin-Cheol) in the hospital.
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Why the Long Face?
Suddenly it seems to me everybody probably are siblings or something? 🤨🧐🔎
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Merry Gifmas
I am continuing my series of make as I go-along Judge from Hell gifs. This one because

It doesn\’t make sense!
If they are part of Hell, they are the opposition, so to speak, of Heaven and so, (no comparison except for \”opposition\”), not believing in God or Jesus is like if you were in the WW2 allied forces and thought Hitler was made up. Saying someone is a traitor for believing the enemy exists is nonsense.
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Actually, for this point exactly, don\’t trust me: Go to the great Literary Classics, more exact,
The very first chapter of The Master and Margarita.

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