#tkem fanart

[kitkatsudon]

meanwhile, in another universe…

#I had to #tkem #gonjo #lee gon #jo yeong #barbie #barbenheimer #yeong wanted to go and see barbie but didn’t know how to ask #gon then saw the memes and brought it up #he asked which one yeong would want to see… and with yeong’s silence he instantly knew #so gon dragged him to barbie under threat of beheading #i think that taeeul would see oppenheimer #shinjae would see both #eunseob would take eunbi and kkabi to see barbie and be shocked at some of the things they talk about #nari would go with taeeul to see oppenheimer #seungah would have her whole day timetabled so she could see both #koo seoryeong would say that she was going to see oppenheimer and then sneak into barbie #fanart #art

[kokobopam]

From now on, you are the Unbreakable Sword

I couldn’t find fanart of my faves, so I did it myself.  I hope you like it and please don’t repost

#the king eternal monarch #tkem #jo yeong #jo eun seob #jo eun sup #the king: eternal monarch #woo do hwan #kdrama #fanart #tkem fanart #my art #더킹: 영원의 군주 #pamberilioart

[sadviper]

Soooo....@rain-hat, @drivingsideways33 - remember back in one of your fics, you guys were discussing preppy older, bespectacled Jo Yeong living the married life? I’m afraid I forgot the preppy, sweater-vest part; I ended up copying the Jo Yeong screencap that @rain-hat recently reblogged. And uhm. He looks like someone’s dad. =___=;;; Which, iirc per the fic, IS TRUE?? But.

#the king eternal monarch #tkem #jo yeong #aged up #nerd dad #fanart

[sleepingweirdosstuff]

Another finished wip of 2020.

Woo Do Hwan as Jo yeong in The King: Eternal Monarch.

#woodohwan #joyeong #tkem #the king eternal monarch #art #drawing #fanart #digitalart #portrait #illustration #artist #cute

[smylealong]

I have long debated whether or not I should write this, but @rain-hat​ convinced me that I should. So here I am, penning this diss meta about The King: The Enternal Monarch. Starting off with the disclaimer that I love this show. This is the show that introduced me to the wonderful Woo Do Hwan and for that I can never be thankful enough. But I have issues with the show, and I will enumerate them here. Brace yourselves for a tirade.It’s long, so putting a “keep reading”.

 1)    Manpasikjeok: Let’s start with the basis of the series. The Manpasikjeok. The series never delves into what the Manpasikjeok is. It’s a flute, yes. But it doesn’t delve into the background of this all-powerful plot device. I understand that the Manpasikjeok is a part of the Korean folklore and thus, probably the makers did not feel the need to delve deeper. But for non-Korean viewers like me, it was very confusing. So, before I speak about the details of what exactly bothered me about the flute, I will present the story itself.

After the death of his father King Munnu, King Sinmun of the Silla Dynasty heard the rumors of an island floating toward the temple that he had built in the honor of his father. A fortuneteller told Sinmun that the late King had become a sea dragon and his loyal General, Kim Yu-shin, had become a heavenly god. The fortuneteller also said that if he were to visit the island, he would get an incredible gift. When Sinmun went in search of this floating island, it looked like it had a turtle’s head and a bamboo tree on its back. In the mornings, the bamboo looked to be split into two while at night, it would join. After braving through seven days of storm, the King reached the island. There the sea dragon told him to make a flute out of the bamboo tree. This flute was said to provide magical properties. When the flute was played, enemy forces would retreat, and diseases were cured. Also, the magic flute would bring rainfall if there was a drought and stop the rains in floods. Ever since then, the bamboo flute was called ‘Manpasikjeok,’ meaning a flute that calms down ten thousand waves and it became a national treasure. This is the folktale.

 If I am to nitpick, time travel and parallel universes are not mentioned in the folktale. But that is something I am willing to let slide, because you need something to make the story work and the makers chose a mythical object from the folklore. People do it all the time, so I am not going to penalize the makers for it. What I am going to diss them for is the way they spoke about the spirit of the flute. Was it a demon? A spirit? A god? What? Why did it not allow Lee Lim to age? If time passes differently for the owner of the flute as Lee Lim claims, why did Gon’s time seem normal for the most part? The only difference in time seemed to be when the portal was opened and time stopped. So, before Gon opened the portal, time did not stop for Lee Lim. Why then did he not age?

2)      Post series events (part I): Which brings me to the second problem I have with the series. Post-series events. I understand Ta Eul retaining her memories of the alternate timeline because, she was in the portal and thus, remained untouched by the effects of the changed timeline. Fair. I get Gon retaining memories, because he was the owner of the flute. Granted. Why did Jo Yeong retain the memories when everyone else forgot about it? The only explanation I have is that it was because he was in the past timeline when the timeline changed? But the show never bothers to give an explanation for it. Also, if the events in altered timeline happened almost exactly as they did in the original timeline, then Yeong came to Republic of Korea. If Yeong came to Republic of Korea, then he met Jo Eun Sup. As did Gon. Why then did Eun Sup not recognize Gon at the end? Why does Yeong say that Eun Sup will not remember him? Is it because Yeong retained memories from the altered timeline and hence believed Gon when he said that he was going to the other world? Then, it stands to reason that Yeong did not go to Republic of Korea. Then things changed! They did not go exactly the way it happened in the series. Ah! My head hurts.

 3)      Corea and Korea: They are parallel worlds. I get it. But at times, they were nigh indistinguishable. This is @rain-hat​’s input and I agree with it completely. Why are the people in Corea dressed like Westerners and why are we not seeing more Hanboks? Why are court ladies the only ones dressed in traditional garb? Also, what is the official religion of Corea?

 4)      The characters: This is going to be a long one, so brace yourselves. I have issues with the characters. I’m going for bullet points, because I have LOT TO SAY.

 ·       Kang Shin-jae: Other than messing with him in all possible ways, what was the purpose of this character. As my editor once said, you must ask yourself what purpose does a character serve to the overall story? The litmus test of it being, if the said character is removed from the equation, does it impact the overarching plot of the story in any significant way? And much as I love this character, I’m sorry to say, his removal would not have impacted the story in any way. Yes, I’m aware that even Meyong Seung-ah does not pass this litmus test, but she does not occupy nearly as much screen time as Shin-jae. I wish they had utilized the character more than just use him as a material to evoke emotions.

·       Koo Seo Ryeong: She is portrayed as a villain/b*tch. Why? Because she has political ambitions and is a woman who is not above playing the ruthless game that the men around her seem to be playing? She is a woman who has clawed her way to the top in a man’s world. Can we please stop demonizing women like this?

·       Jo Yeong: Yes. Surprise, I know. He is the reason I (and many others) kept watching the show. The man who stole the show, the one who carried the show. A startlingly pretty face backed by a phenomenal performance, Jo Yeong is a treat. BUT, for a character as spectacular as Yeong, he was not utilized enough. I wish the show had actually given him something to do when he was in Korea. They wasted a talent like Woo Do Hwan.

·       Jeong Ta-eul: I loved Ta-eul when she first came on screen. Badass, no nonsense, tough as nails cop in her thirties as out leading lady? HELL YEAH! But then she meets Lee Gon and all the things that I loved about her seemed to evaporate. She became a cry baby and I just could not handle that. K-dramas, can you please stop turning the badass female leads into a prop for the leading man’s “bravery and heroism”. (Fervently hoping Nine Tails doesn’t do that, because I love Jo Bo ah’s character there).

·       Lee Gon: Oh, I hate this character with a passion. TKEM gave me SLS like no other drama before or since. I sincerely want to ask Lee Min Ho; just how many versions of Gu Jun Pyo are we going to see from him? Rich, powerful, privileged man who does whatever he wants? I’m getting really tired of it. I like Lee Min Ho, but really, you need to branch out, dude.

5)      Post series events (part II): Speaking of Lee Gon, my man, you posses the all powerful tool to travel through parallel universes and time, and you use it to go on dates? WHAT THE F***? AAAHHGHHKSJJGFHVJHMDSYFHJVHKJNSKLJHG. Lee Lim was right. You’re WASTING it. Ugh. Personally, I felt as though the entire romance plot could have been done away with.

6)      JoGon: The series teased heavily about this relationship and the fandom lapped it up. Beautiful fanart and fanfics emerged. But, I have issues and no, it’s not because they’re a same sex couple. My issue comes from the power dynamics of the couple. It is skewed beyond belief. The dynamic works perfectly when it is a king-bodyguard relationship. But the second it becomes a romance, there’s problem. All the power in the relationship is with Gon and Yeong has almost no agency in the relationship. And I love Jo Yeong too much to subject him to a relationship like that.

7)      Product Placement: Yes, it was tough, but there was a series somewhere between all those product placements.

In closing, this series had the potential to be so much more. Yet, it failed. Spectacularly. I liked and enjoyed this series, but I have so many issues. SO MANY. Do you have any issues you would like to add? Please feel free.

#tkem meta #tkem

[akoreiden]

Wow! It's really pretty. Goodluck to you. 🙏🖤 Repost @johnnyleeart • • • • • • 환상의 섬 Jeju Island 비행기 다음날로 미뤄져서 제주에서 마무리하게된 그림입니다 ㅎ핳 🤣 Drawing in Jeju travel . . I participate in 'Kimgoeun' drawing challenge!! . . #하늘보리_드로잉_챌린지 #하늘보리 #김고은 #팬아트 #드로잉 #캐릭터 #캐릭터디자인 #컨셉아트 #일러스트레이션 #그림 #아트 #kimgoeun #fanart #kdrama #conceptart #character #characterdesign #art #illustration #visdev #digitalart #procreate #characterart #goblin #tkem #thekingeternalmonarch #도깨비 #더킹영원의군주 #웅진식품 #artwork @ggonekim @arjenia @woongjinfood https://www.instagram.com/p/CDq_L8QF2GA/?igshid=1bstd15mv5wtc

#하늘보리_드로잉_챌린지 #하늘보리 #김고은 #팬아트 #드로잉 #캐릭터 #캐릭터디자인 #컨셉아트 #일러스트레이션 #그림 #아트 #kimgoeun #fanart #kdrama #conceptart #character #characterdesign #art #illustration #visdev #digitalart #procreate #characterart #goblin #tkem #thekingeternalmonarch #도깨비 #더킹영원의군주 #웅진식품 #artwork

[kokobopam]

No matter what kind of a door opens before us in life. And even if the moments we share make us sad at times. I wish to be able to love tirelessly

The finale was beautiful and I’m so happy they get to be together and spend their lives traveling through time and space

#I have so much love for this show and it's characters #I wanted to draw something happy to remember it #also their ending reminded me so much of doctor who #but less sad thank god #the king eternal monarch #the king: eternal monarch #tkem #jung tae eul #jeong tae eul #lee gon #my art #fanart #tkem fanart #lee minho #kim goeun #더 킹: 영원의 군주

[kokobopam]

I do, I do have a dream Seing you again

The King: Eternal Monarch - a study in hugs this is my way of dealing with emotions

#forgive me while I continue to cry #I want to make a series out of this #and draw lee gon and tae eul #but I don't know if my heart could take it #have this for now #I'm not ready for the finale #but I'll come back in 11 hours to talk about it when it airs #the king eternal monarch #the king: eternal monarch #tkem #jo yeong #jo eun seob #jo eun sup #woo do hwan #fanart #tkem fanart #my art #sketch #kdrama #lee gon #kang shin jae

[kitkatsudon]

scrolling back through my camera roll and I forgot I had THIS!! I posted it on instagram when I drew it, and though the trend is very much over, it’s probably my favourite Gonjo piece so I’m going to post it here too ✨☺️✨

#I just think it’s cute ok #gonjo #tkem #jo yeong #lee gon #go for it nakamura #fanart #this was back in the brief period of time where I could be bothered with coloured lineart

[kokobopam]

It’s been an hour since I watched episode 15 of TKEM and I have so many thoughts and feelings that my head might explode. I don’t think I’ll be able to write anything coherent until I calm down (and most likely I’ll end up drawing fanart becase I not really good with words) but I just wanted to say this first: I consider this show a work of art. A masterpiece combining a thoughtful narrative with well written (and lovable) characters. 

And secondly: this episode hurt so bad, in a foretold kind of way. Like I knew it was going to be painfull but I didn’t expect to be sobbing on almost every scene. Even the happier ones (or because of them) I couldn’t shake the feeling of inebitable downfall.

At this point I’m just begging for a happy enging. I dont know if my heart could take it otherwise. 

#I'm sorry if this is wrongly worded #I'm a mess right now #I might even break the rule of -only fanart blog- to reblog and discuss posts with other fans #I need a suport group #we all need #the king eternal monarch #tkem #also hi #I'm Pam and I'm watching this 12 hours behind because I'm from argentina

[sadviper]

2020 Creator Wrap: Favorite Works

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 (or so) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

Succumbing to peer pressure, haha, thank you @rain-hat, @smylealong, @ibelongtomousse, @macgyver-sheriff, @avauntus for tagging me~

It seems the common refrain is that this was the year everyone exploded into massive creative productivity after years of nothing, which is the exact same story for myself. I had read all the strategies of course: write 5 min a day, 1 sketch a day, don’t think about quality, do *something* just to keep the spark alive, etc etc, but it just got worse and worse. Honestly, I had been feeling so dire about it that I had made up my mind to stop trying anymore, because it was so depressing to try and fail so many times that it was much better to not hope at all.

Buuuuut.....then quarantine and telework happened, and woooah, guess what, all I needed was LOTS of time and space to myself where I’m not wasting it in an office checking emails and doing random training to fill all the downtime!!!

Much thanks to the serendipity that had me stumbling into @rain-hat , reading her early JY/KSR fics, and her encouraging me to go ahead and write that office yearly budget oneshot for TKEM (who writes BUDGET fics?? Who reads them???? lol). That’s not in my list here because it was very new and awkward, it was definitely the ball that got everything rolling.

Cut for super long-winded rambling:

1) Before There Was Zero (TKEM)

This was my first big fanfic in my life, and my most popular, and it absolutely gushed out of me in this massive torrent of *I MUST WRITE* where I would walk around at lunchtime giggling to myself, and type on my phone as I went, or wake up at 1am to scrawl something in a notebook in the dark because I couldn’t stop the words from coming. (How I miss that feeling now! ;__;) Actually, it also is the 2nd fully complete long-form story I had ever completed as well, so...lots of milestones here.

Looking back, it clearly was the product of my years of bottled up silence, where I stewed and dragged myself to the office every day wondering if I was going to calcify in a bureaucracy for the rest of my life (yes). But even as an office drone, I learned a lot of valuable lessons in how to manage, what leadership actually is at the worker bee level, the types of games white-collar workers play, and how to be a decent co-worker (and by extension, a decent human being--I don’t believe it’s possible to separate work life and private life. All your personas are you). It wasn’t all a waste after all!

Somehow I connected my day-to-day to the faceless, long-suffering Royal guardsmen in TKEM, headed by the utterly gorgeous, devastating, thoroughly underutilized, comedic prop military action star Jo Yeong, and thought--yeah! :D

2) Nil Desperandum (TKEM)

My biggest fic by far, full novel length at this point, massive in scope, I don’t even know how I came up with it based on the 10 collective seconds of screen time that Jeong Tae-ra and tyrant Jin got as a joke, but I was clearly still on that dam-gushing-pent-up-creative-high because this idea was fighting me when I was in the middle of writing “Before There Was Zero”.

I actually figured out the title while watching “Call the Midwives” where one of the peppy, indefatigable British nurses said to never despair, and I thought, yes, that’s it. All the horrible things I put my tyrantverse characters through, it was only so that when I save them at the end, it will be completely worth it. It’s a bit more violent (nothing beyond My Country levels tho) and quite emotionally dark, but I also tried to inject a lot of friendship, humor, and love into it as well, because there must always be hope.

For My Country fandom friends who didn’t realize, the tyrant!Yeong in this fic is essentially modernAU!Seon-ho, and I lifted Sung-rok entirely from My Country to be tyrant!Yeong’s second-in-command and loyal-superstar-extraordinaire. Writing them in this modern AU, and seeing the positive reception to Sung-rok’s grouchy, dogged devotion was the start of my love spiral for Sung-rok. <3 <3

3) The Veritable Records of King Taejo (My Country)

Going to cheat and lump 3 fics (soon to be 4) into one link. I rested a little bit after “Nil Desperandum” because I had completely emptied myself out at that point, just a husk of an author shell. Then I started poking out oneshots! Each one got progressively harder to write, lol, the creative gas tank was running out of juice, so I had to really start figuring out new strategies as a writer to keep going. One magic tool was coercing recruiting @rain-hat to beta for me, and WOW, THE BEST???? Who would’ve thought it’d be FUN to be edited!!! <3 Due to her efforts, I could avoid the “no beta we die like Liaodong” tag, hahaha.

I grew up watching cop shows, lawyer shows, monster-of-the-day shows, endless procedurals-- so I was super miffed that the drama would imply that Seon-ho spent YEARS just single-mindedly chasing private armies??! No! I want more family and friends development for this sad, dramatic whump child! I want him to be smarter than the show, inherently brilliant despite the stupid he descends into, and be recognized as such by the people who do recognize his value! And I want them all to be happy with no pointless death!

Also, the 4th WIP is now a Sung-rok lovefest written as an ode to his awesomeness, has stretched to 47K+ words, and is being an absolute royal pain to finish. ;__; All the ease and creative fervor from earlier? GONE. I’m a lone salmon flopping upstream on a ladder. I might get eaten before I finish laying my eggs. Any one have tips to get over this?

4) First Translation of Woo Do Hwan Japanese Interviews

More firsts! So much thanks to @ibelongtomousse to inspiring and encouraging me to do some real translating after talking to her about her sublime TKEM fics and translations thereof, and @staidwaters from emerging from the Internet depths to boost/correct my neophyte efforts! I’m now chomping at the bit to do more, even though I may ultimately discover that these interviews have absolutely nothing interesting to say, lol. But my first priority is simply to get better at the language, and 2nd priority is to soak in the words (and photos) of Woo Do Hwan, hahahah. Also, as far as I can tell, no one is filling this niche, so I guess I’ll keep going??

5) Fanart!

I started drawing again! As a procrastination tactic from writing oneshots, but it still was really nice to see that I hadn’t lost the touch entirely. I feel like I’ve mentioned this here and there, but writing wasn’t my first interest--drawing was. Animals first, then people once I discovered anime/manga. I went all into drawing comics, only to face the hard reality that I didn’t know how to tell a story end-to-end. Hence how I started trying to write. Along the way, things happened--I got RSI and had to stop drawing/writing for awhile. I discovered that pictures are NOT worth a thousand words, esp when it comes to long-form comics; my preferred tools of trade (dip pens) ended up exacerbating my RSI problems; then once I got a handle on my RSI, I found I could type faster than I can ever draw, and so here I am. I saw what @convenientalias was doing with their My Country werewolf fic though, so I am excited to try that for my Sung-rok WIP? :D

I think I’m the last hold out among artist/writer friends in answering this wrap-up, hope you enjoyed reading!

#meme #fic meta #2020 accomplishments

[kokobopam]

Please, writers in the TKEM fandom, I’m begging you to write a fanfic about Lee Gon and Jo Yeong as teenagers (or young adults) going on advenures. I can even make fanart for it!

#I say adventures #but I mean Lee Gon sneaking out of the palace and Yo Yeong following him to make sure he stays out of trouble #they get into trouble of course #but they also have so much fun #someone write this please #I need it in my life #but I suck with words #tkem #the king eternal monarch