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leekimdramas · 5 months

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Castaway Diva Review (more like a rant)

If I was written by someone it would be this writer with how many bad choices I make in life.

Mok Ha has a dream to meet her favourite singer Ran Joo but after trying to run away from her father and see her Mok Ha ends up on a deserted island.

After 15 years she gets rescued and finally gets a chance to make her dreams come true.

I loved the first two episodes, the young actors did an amazing job and the story seemed really interesting but after that, the drama little by little fell apart.

First, we get Mok Ha on the island (that makes sense looking at the title) but we only get to see snippets of her on the island and after one episode we are in Seoul.

We also get very quickly through her adapting to the environment. You say she needs a driver's licence? Got that and not even half a day passed.

I also don't think Park Eun Bin's acting was the best in this drama... In a lot of early scenes, she reminds me of her previous character Attorney Woo.

I love her acting in other dramas but this wasn't really her role.

Her relationship with her idol Ran Joo was also very icky. It was always shown that Ran Joo is above Mok Ha. Whenever she gets mad it's Mokha's fault. Whenever she's in a bad mood she'll take it out on Mokha.

And in the last two episodes, it gets better but at the same time, it took so long for them to get on the same level that I don't care anymore. At this point, I don't even want to see Mok Ha with Ran Joo.

Ran Joo was the true Diva in the show and again it works with the title but I didn't really care much for her character.

Her relationship with the company's president didn't make sense to me. One second they're angry and another she's at his home and they're both almost kissing????

Then we made another mistake and signed Mokha with Ran Joo's company... The same one that screwed her over many times. This could have been a great plot for some kind of competition between the companies but nope.

The abusive father story was probably the only one that was interesting for me, but it was also predictable and I don't think it needed that much time.

Also, has nobody noticed a really weird/icky thing when Mok Ha talked about her abusive father and was like: "Maybe it's okay because he didn't lead a happy life" or something along those words. What????

I really enjoyed the friendship between Mokha, Bo Geol and Woo Hak. They were saving the drama for me, also I need to add their parents.

I was not keen on romance as I did not feel any chemistry between characters (probably a very unpopular opinion) but for me, they always have been friends and will be.

Not really a fan of the friends-to-lovers trope anyway but there are instances when it's done good, not this one though.

Overall, this drama for me was more of a background noise than anything else.

As I saw one comment it didn't seem like Mok Ha was the main character as she was always pushed aside. I think they just had too many sub-plots and barely focused on the career aspect.

5/10

#kdrama #castaway diva #review

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spartanarcheress · 5 years

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no one in my family being able to criticize me without resorting to passive aggressiveness is ~*fUn*~

#i dunno why i keep getting excited for family gatherings #they always suck by the time everyones drunk #got treated to my oldest brother stayibg late and hearing my mom go very in depth abt what a white moderate old lady she is #i dont have a shred of the patience he has talking to her abt that shit and how only president trump is for the jews #also i honestly was lowkey traumatized by my childhood and my brothers so #hearing them laughing abt all the fun experiences they had before shit went into mental illness hell #and whenever i bring up something its just like oh yeah we all actually hated playing that game lol #like damn sorry i was born later than yall and our parents made bad fucking financial decisions #AND ANOTHER THING #my neice was complaining about having to learn spanish songs in choir and her mom was like yeah #its hispanic heritage montg dude u gotta respect the heritage #and my mok got this fucking face #like i remember her saying how fucking awful it was dora had spanish in it and how i regurgitated those thoughts in school #and how utterly awful it was #in conclusion to these godawful tag rants #i will never be able to be my true self around my family and thats something we'll have to deal with #maybe once in thirties i can finally manage being the lesbian sjw rich auntie i know is in me around them....

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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Anonymous asked: Great to see you back and posting again. I know you have a very British sense of humour and so I was wondering if you ever saw American comedian Dave Chappelle’s special ‘The Closer’ on Netflix? I don’t know if that is, as you Brits might put it, ‘your cup of tea’ but it has caused a huge flashpoint in the culture wars against wokedom here in the US. Appreciate your thoughts as a cultured outsider.

All humour is ‘my cup of tea’. I’m not sniffy where I get my sip of laughter brew. It can be drunk from many cups. I enjoy the literary ironic humour of PG Wodehouse, Anthony Powell, and Evelyn Waugh for example to other literary comic writing from Douglas Adams to Tom Sharpe. All very British I know.

But I also grew up in a family saturated on generations of Cambridge Footlights humour (Cambridge University’s famed comedy club) that partly spawned Beyond the Fringe, Monty Python, Not the Nine O’Clock News, Fry & Laurie etc. John Oliver also cut his teeth at Cambridge at the Footlights before he went over the pond to better things. I used to go to the ‘smokers’ (stand up comedy nights) as often as I could when I was a student there. I’ve gone to the odd comedy show but these days I may just listen to an audio especially when I am travelling a lot as I am on a plane for my work. But I love British comedy of Armando Ianucci and Richard Curtis & Ben Elton (the guys behind the Blackadder series) to new faces like Evelyn Mok (a Swedish-Chinese third culture kid).

But I enjoy comedy in other languages for example in France I’ve relied on French friends here in Paris to take me to comedy shows to see Blanche Gardin, Florence Foresti, and Yacine Belhousse for example. And I’ve gone to great lengths to see Eddie Izzard - one of my favourites from behind the bars of my english girls’ boarding school days - do gigs in French.

I also love American humour. As I said, I’m not sniffy about which nation’s humour is better. It’s such a silly waste of time. If it makes you laugh then that’s as pure as it gets. Sure, I don’t like the mainstream canned laughter TV shows that you often see but then we have the same in the UK. But I love 30 Rock, Parks & Recreation, Brooklyn 99, Rick & Morty, Community etc. With stand ups I’ve enjoyed comedians who make you think whilst you’re spilling your guts out such as George Carlin and Bill Hicks. And of course I’ve also liked Dave Chappelle.

I got more than a few asks in my inbox about Dave Chappelle’s comedy special ‘The Closer’ and what I made of it. I really don’t want to focus on the toxic politics of this whole drama but focus instead on the nature of humour instead.

I did watch it on a plane on my lap top. I think the air stewardess in my business class flight thought I needed a sedative because I got a severe case of the giggles. I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud out of respect to the sleeping passengers near me. I just couldn’t help myself. I wet my knickers laughing so hard. Oh, was that too much information? Hmmm.

Overall I loved the show. The one part that did give me pause was when he told the heartfelt and tragic story of his transexual friend, Daphne, who took her own life because of either issues in her life or because of online bullying from her own trans community. He made that story funny and ultimately bittersweet. It would be inhuman not to relate to Chappelle’s pain in losing a friend and also the life story of Daphne herself. That whole story was very loving, compassionate, poignant. Oh and also very funny.

And yet in the fall out of the show, no one has talked about that. About Daphne in particular. Chappelle did more to humanise the transexual community to the mainstream with that one story than the shrill rantings of the transexual extreme activists.

Dave Chappelle. Arguably one of America’s greatest living comedian. Hilarious and humane, brutal and true. It’s true I don’t get all the cultural references but what I love about Chapelle is his craft. This is an artist committed to his craft. He is a master at it. He himself said he laughs at the jokes of racist stand up comedians because he may not agree with the content he does respect the craft.

Do I agree with his politics or his views? No, not always. He can say cutting things about women, about white people, about the LGBT people, and just about everyone else. He makes fun of everyone. What is the problem here? It’s just jokes. Damn funny ones too.

I’m sure I don’t agree with his politics. But I don’t have to but I can laugh at his jokes because they are so beautifully crafted and have a ring of truth, otherwise it wouldn’t be funny.

Humour has been on the minds of thinkers for centuries. As Peter McGraw and Joel Warner explain in their insightful book, The Humor Code: A global search for what makes things funny, “Plato and Aristotle contemplated the meaning of comedy while laying the foundations of Western philosophy… Charles Darwin looked for the seeds of laughter in the joyful cries of tickled chimpanzees. Sigmund Freud sought the underlying motivations behind jokes in the nooks and crannies of our unconscious.”

We tend to see comedy through the romantic lens of the one-off inspired comic whose unique view of the world is entertaining. But the focus on the individual witty voice misses the gigantic, political nature of the task of comedy. Comedy isn’t just a bit of fun.

We don’t laugh at things unless they cause us very serious problems at other points in life. We can see this in the standard category of jokes: about relationships, family, sex, money, impotence, bowel movements, identity etc. We laugh most readily around things that in other ways are very distressing. A good joke invariably has a relationship with darkness, anxiety and pain.

I’ve always valued humour in people as a precious gift. I love having a laugh and even more if it’s at my expense because I firmly believe humour should be an equal opportunity offender. Moreover what I love about enjoying a good joke is that one the singular properties of certain comedy when done well is the freedom to explore ideas in an unconventional or counter-intuitive way, to subvert society’s norms.

No one does that better than a comedian. No one does it better than Dave Chappelle. As the great George Carlin put it, “I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.“

Being British we’re always raised to enjoy making fun of ourselves and we enjoy nothing more than to see the self-righteous smug and the boorish taken down a peg or two. It’s just who we are. Most other Europeans are the same. I’m very sure this true elsewhere too if my many travels and experience of living in other cultures is anything to go by.

However I didn’t know the real importance of dark humour until I actually served in the British army and found humour as a form of therapy to deal with stress and situations of life and death with my army brothers and sisters. Our shared jokes were so extremely off colour and un-PC that we would dare not repeat them in polite and respectable company. But that kind of shared humour served a crucial importance as any soldier will tell you. By mocking dangerous things or the situations you might find yourself with others, humour can embolden us.

Dark humour helpfully paints what is potentially very frightening as deeply absurd and ridiculous.This was often when we junior officers would look at each other in confused bewilderment at the thinking and decision making of some of our clueless senior officers before we would lead our soldiers on a battlefield mission in Afghanistan.

The comic perspective fills a central need of every society; it enables us to cope much better with our own follies and disappointments, our troubles around work and love and our difficulties enduring ourselves. Comedy is waiting to be reframed as a central tool behind the creation of a better world.

Comedy offers us a way of having a better time around things which, otherwise, can feel pretty disastrous. Ideally, in the utopia, comedy and its therapeutic potential wouldn’t be left to chance. Humour would be deliberately cultivated as a benign response to a range of entrenched difficulties. Previously, certain countries had an elaborate carnival season devoted to enforced comic activities. For a brief time, the weak could boss around the powerful, priests and nuns were supposed to hold obscene rituals in their churches, serious people were required to get drunk and throw bags of flour over each other’s heads. Humour wasn’t just left to those who felt so inclined: it was a kind of duty.

One of the most enduring theories of humour arrived courtesy of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes. It asserts that humour is ostensibly about mocking the weak and exerting superiority. While this is clearly the function of some comedy – anyone who has flinched at a comic’s lame attempt to poke fun at, for example, disability will attest to this – it’s a relentlessly bleak and far from complete explanation of the purpose of humour. It’s better for a comedian to punch up then down.

It’s a charge that has been leveled at Dave Chappelle for his many jokes about different groups who have invested a great deal in their identity and also exert their own social and political power. But does he really do that? I don’t think so.

The mainstream media critics publicly hated his comedy special, but the ordinary audience overwhelmingly loved it (if rotten tomatoes metric score of 96% approval is anything to go by). It’s clear that many in the mainstream media had not really watched the show or gave an accurate account. Indeed the mainstream cultural critics in the US and in the UK prevented its readers from knowing that a debate was even happening, let alone what it is really about. If the argument about gender theory is mentioned at all, it is dismissed as a bunch of “anti-trans” bigots - aka “TERFs” - hurting a beleaguered and tiny minority, for some inconceivable, but surely awful, reason.

One of my favourite conservative writers (and who happens gay), Andrew Sullivan, also happens to be a leading scholarly authority on a little known British conservative philosopher, Michael Oakeshott, who was a huge influence in my thinking, Sullivan put it really well, as he always does:

“Chappelle’s final Netflix special, The Closer, is a classic. Far from being outdated, it’s slightly ahead of its time, as the pushback against wokeness gains traction. It is extremely funny, a bit meta, monumentally mischievous, and I sat with another homo through the whole thing, stoned, laughing our asses off — especially when he made fun of us. The way the elite media portrays us, you’d think every member of the BLT community is so fragile we cannot laugh at ourselves. It doesn’t occur to them that, for many of us, Chappelle is a breath of honest air, doing what every comic should do: take aim at every suffocating piety of the powers that be - including the increasingly weird 2SLGBTQQIA+ mafia - and detonating them all.

The Closer is, in fact, a humanely brilliant indictment of elite culture at this moment in time: a brutal exposure of its identitarian monomania, its denial of reality, and its ruthless tactics of personal and public destruction. It marks a real moment: a punching up against the powerful, especially those who pretend they aren’t. Bigoted? Please. Anyone who can watch this special and think Chappelle is homophobic or transphobic is either stupendously dumb or a touchy fanatic. He is no more transphobic than J.K. Rowling, i.e. not at all, and the full set masterfully proves it to anyone with eyes and ears.“

It’s hugely reassuring to see the ‘powerful’ laughing at themselves - in this case the LGBTQ+ community’s more shrill and self-righteous social justice warrior activists that brook no public criticism of their conduct against women and other critics who don’t have the power to fight back. It is a trusim to say that finding oneself comical is a token of maturity. It means being able to see one’s faults, without being too defensive about them.This, I argue, was one of the messages of Chappelle’s comedy show.

The thing that intimidates us isn’t actually power. It’s power that looks like it’s going to be inhumane: insensitive, unkind power. So we’re intently interested in things that reveal a mature, kindly sort of power.

Humour often provides a mechanism whereby the powerless (or at least the less powerful) can give constructive but pointed feedback to the powerful. Whether the powerful - in Chappelle’s view that would be the trans and social just warrior crowd - can take social commentary masked as a joke says a lot about their level of maturity.

Humour, as one neuroscientist friend of mine put it, is a form of psychological processing, a coping mechanism that helps people to deal with complex and contradictory messages, a response to conflict and confusion in our brain. Humour that is in bad taste or cruelly targeted at particular groups may generate conflict, but humour is also our way of working through difficult subjects or feelings. In this sense the comedian’s role is not validate our feelings but to make us think.

As a classicist, I may be speaking outside my lane when I talk about medieval history (I would suggest pinging @oldshrewsburyian who is an actual medieval historian and the kind of professor who cares about her profession in these cynically consumer driven times (she also infectiously shares my love of bollywood and historical detective fiction). But as I understand it in olden days, the idea of the court jester – in effect an officially licensed and salaried comic – was built on the importance of humour to the mental health of the powerful. Even if in the council room or around the dinner high table, the leading people didn’t feel much like joking, the jester was required to make barbed, witty and perhaps mocking remarks to deflate pomposity and restore sane perspective. Of course a lot has changed. These days the high table may not be occupied by the feudal elites anymore but by an outwardly more egalitarian society.

Who can disagree with the fact that all of us - leftist, conservative, revolutionary, traditonalist, straight, gay, lesbian, bi, trans, colour, and creed - are not in need of our self important egos and the pompous bubbles they inhabit from being burst open from time to time?

If we live in a world where everyone demands equality, in other words to sit at the same high table, then we also sign up to be equally ‘offended’ by the court jester, however fair or unfair it may feel.

The shrill of cancelling a comedian is not the answer if we find a joke offensive. We have the right to protest because that is the flipside to our right to free speech. We can protest by...not laughing. It really is that simple.

I’ll end by saying you won’t get very far in life if you don’t learn how to laugh at yourself. So much of life will pass you by if you don’t stop and see how absurd one can be. I’ve always lived by that and those are the kind of friends I like to surround myself with. Because only self-centred narcissists take themselves seriously.

Thanks for your question.

#question #ask #comedy #dave chappelle #chappelle #netflex #the closer #stand up comedy #humour #culture #society

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arabella111 · 2 years

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hi arabella im sorry for this whole rant but im so pissed of at everything and i feel like ur the only one i can talk to.

i am on verge of crying every time that i look myself in the mirror or opening my camera.. literally i cant anymore with my looks everytime i see a pretty girl i want to cry and im sooo jealous and ik thats shitty of me and i dont want to be like that but its like i have become one of those girls that constantly look for validation for their looks.. the fact that other ppl have also experienced this ( the other anons ) made me feel a bit better abt me bc im literally the same.

when i was young but when i say young ppl would tell me how pretty i am, what a nice body i have, ppl would tell my mok to get me to model, strangers would say how pretty i am then suddenly all this stopped and i dont know what to do.. the fact that as u said to another anon that my assumptions changed thats why makes me feel better bc its not that i am actually ugly but sometimes when im wondering and i think that i wasnt all that when i was little and i might have gotten the compliments bc i was little which is worse bc that means i always have been ugly and i dont like that bc i want to have my own thing and beauty since i was born not go through a whole ass manifesting journey for get a few compliments yk? like rn i feel so average and nothing compared to some other pretty girls like i dont get ANY male attention like nothing and im not ever kver exadeginf and when i say something good abt myself or yk like do jokes atleast im hot and stuff my 'friends' are like 😬.. and if i like a guy im considered iut of his league.. and if i rlly am pretty which im def nkt all that like close to megan fox and all these beautiful women im just there and i get sooo disgusted looking at my pictures and im the mirror..

and what annoys me THE MOST is that i wasnt born already all that and thats what i want not just manifest it and i dont want to revise either and another problem is like i have a few good traits like small nose,clear skin but im still..that.. and ik i have to work on sc and shit but yeah..

and i dont feel guilty abt manifesting other things like intelligence which i always was considered by others dumb but i always thought that beauty was the only thing rhat i had and it proving me wrong is a bid deal to me.. and i dont want tk be called pretty just to feel better yk?.

and the same thing also goes for my body like i had rhis hourglass figure and now i have ir 'sometimes' and i have literally the flatest ass loll and yeah thats it ig im sorry for all this lol :/

it's ok baby, see all you need to do is change your assumptions about yourself that's it. it's okay if you don't believe those assumptions. just persist in them and know they are already yours. you might think it's hard, but trust me, it isn't. you don't have to work your ass off anyways. just call yourself pretty everyday. think of yourself as a goddess. you know your thoughts create your reality right? main reason why you have been living a shitty life is because you assumed so. so why not change your assumptions? what you want is already yours. acknowledge your power. you can change your life in seconds if you want to. all you need is belief in your power.

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ilevyakult · 4 years

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Play as Mok to run around the small land of Mahjik and help those in need!

Mahjik is a very VERY SHORT and simple puzzle game featuring cute little friends in a very tiny world.

Made with Môsi, a tiny game engine by sg, I ran into bugs here and there but it's quite a neat tool to use!!

Warning: minor profanity!

This is just me ranting so it’s okay if you don’t want to read it, thankyou for checking this post out (ノ*°▽°*) I hope you enjoy the game

I came across this game engine and I was simply messing out with it, I did not plan to make an actuall game at all lmao. But I done did it, I really made a game! Σ(°△°|||)︴I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time and I’m really happy at how the game turns out to be. I pulled an all nighter just to complete this tiny game and spent several days fixing bugs and errors, some of the bugs are from the game engine itself so I worked hard to fixed it ( ; ω ; ) I tried to make the game end and restart after that but turns out the engine don’t have a way to do that so I apologize for that. (｡•́︿•̀｡)

After all, I want to extend my thanks to my bros ( they gave me ideas and theme for this game, they’re also the main inspiration for the characters ), to all of the people who gave me feedbacks to help improving it and to YOU ( yes you ) for reading this long rant of mine and for playing this game!! Truely, thankyou!! ☆ ～('▽^人)

oh and yes, the doll is a reference to Emma from Identity V

#Mahjik #mosi #pixel art #pixel game #game #prototype #milia draws

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crownedcroweprince · 5 years

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14. How is your relationship with your family?

Una’to doesn’t get along with his family at all. He only really has his biological brother, and a half sister that he stays in contact with from the Bajhiri clan. Even then, he doesn’t see his half sister as a sibling as they were raised very differently. Kaede doesn’t particularly have a family to speak of. She has a biological family that she’s missing from, but was taken in my an Elezen noble, and raised by them. She loves them very much. I’m still figuring stuff out for her. Och is on good terms with her branch of the Kha that she infiltrated/was born into, and with her Moks mother and the larger Moks tribe, despite having a bit of a rebellious phase right now and ending up in Eorzea. Tului and his brother Toloui were kicked from their tribe until they learn to be less awful. So far they’ve just abused this to annoy others on their travels.

About the mun under the cut.

Thank you for the ask @final-aria-fantasy.

[FFXIV Asks]

It’s really not that great. I get along with one cousin, my maternal grandparents, my older brother, and a paternal second cousin mostly.

My mom is complicated. I still kind of love her, but after everything she has done, and the things she didn’t do for my siblings and I growing up, it makes it hard. Especially since I have some things that trigger me thanks to her now.

My dad is transphobic and generally an all around ass. My second cousin and I rant to each other about how awful he is towards anyone who isn’t cis or male.

Then I have a younger brother that I never have gotten along well with. He fell down the stairs when we were kids, and after he hit his head and was knocked out, tiny toddler me went to my mother, looked at her, to him, back to her and asked, “Is it dead yet?”. So I think that story sums up our relationship the best.

Weirdness all around and in bounds.

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awellboiledicicle · 6 months

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Having really bad dyslexia means my brain is constantly doing like five times the work for normal ass communication

And for what

No one is impressed. I'm getting no good job smooches.

Add in my adhd and bpd and I'm basically running a mental marathon to be a person most the time

And no good job anythings.

"What you want a medal for existing?"

Yes bc my brain and body are against me!! Fuck

#mok rant #donit reblarg

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approximatelytoo · 7 years

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i’m not going to say the writers of this show didn’t do KSH a disservice because they did; so much wasted potential there. but even so, i’ve never once thought of ga eun as a weak character or less than hwa gun.

strength doesn’t only have one form. crying doesn’t make you weak. of course she is going to seem helpless because she is at a disadvantage politically, socially, economically compared to hwa gun, who is dae mok’s granddaughter. i swear this is like cho chang and sansa stark all over again. i repeat, strength doesn’t only have one form.

how much courage do you need to witness the death of your father, pick yourself up to say goodbye to your first love who is seemingly abandoning you when you’re at you’re most vulnerable, and then step up as a leader? just take a step back and think about the story from the perspective of a teenager who was raised on peace, who only wanted to study and be free on her own terms instead of being involved in all this shit.

but hey, she’s still weak for wanting to help despite not having much ammunition am i right lmao (like having pretty much a mini army at your disposal *cough hwagun cough*)

then there’s hwa gun. the fact that so many people think she’s a better character is just... alarming to me. sure, she’s more exciting i guess, because she kinda stirs shit up wherever she goes, and creates more ~drama~. but she actively traps herself in a toxic relationship. i wouldn’t call her evil, but she’s selfish and has a one-track mind, which is a pretty terrifying combination in a teenage girl.

i think most of the arguments i’ve seen for her case are that she does so much for the crown prince. maybe it’s just me, but i just can’t root for a love as destructive as hers. what kind of message is it sending out to girls? that by being obsessive, doing everything in your power to make sure he has what he wants (yeah i don’t think she thinks he’ll make a good king, she just loves him so she wants to help him get the crown. luckily in this premise he’s actually probably going to make a decent king), making him the centre of your life and rotating all of your actions around him, it’ll make him love you back? that somehow you’re more justified or deserve to get that love?

no.

it doesn’t work that way in real life. it’s unfair, yeah, but love is unfair. it doesn’t make sense and there doesn’t have to be reasons. so while i feel bad for hwa gun (because unrequited love is a bitch), her clinging on to him isn’t a healthy thing to do, and certainly not something that should be supported.

so yeah, this has been a rant. it’s just a drama but social critique is still valid imo. man i don’t think i’ll ever do this again. this is bloody draining wtf how do you guys do this and with pictures and gifs arranged so neatly and shit

also i really hope KSH doesn’t get bashed for any of this. i never understood why people bashed actors/actresses when they’re literally just acting out the script written by the writers.

#ruler: master of the mask

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