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Learn about consents in any place and in every place irrespective of who is saying that. Excluding their profession as well. Respect consent.
Okay! I need to repost this because not showering is utterly disgusting! When we started to associate using mirror is a sign of women? Like there's a logic!
Botanical line art
I opened a side Instagram account to post my arts and my study pictures. Currently, I have 329 followers in my main Instagram account. I opted to open a new account because if people don't know you they will only like your pictures if they are good. I need that to improve my work. I never in my life have any kind of professional help in my sketching. I used to draw every day just because I liked it, my art. That's all. If people likes your pictures because just they know you then you won't improve.
Here's, my work/ art of the day.
Truth.
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them and their response is “you’re safe with me” - that’s intimacy.”
— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I'm gonna spam the timeline with secret forest posts!
Could you analyze the scene from ep.12 (the one with the stairs)? It's one of my favorites because defines very well the relationship between Shi-mok and Han Yeo-jin. 😗
Aha, yes!
The stairwell scene is interesting because it’s one of the few scenes in the entire show that’s solely devoted to relationship building, as opposed to having something to do with the case. Relationships obviously develop over the course of the show, but most of it happens in the background/over small details, subtle moments. The stairwell scene stands out because it’s so completely in our face about Shi-mok and Yeo-jin, in a way that stood to highlight how far our favorite duo have come in their relationship despite the setbacks of the first half of the season.
In this Youtube video, you can see one of Shi-mok’s pain episodes in S1 juxtaposed with the stairwell scene in S2. The very first time we see Shi-mok deal with his pain is in S1E6, after he comes back from speaking with his mother. It’s implied that the headache is triggered from his interaction with his mother, who is clearly a source of deep trauma and emotional repression for him, and he deals with the aftermath of his pain alone.
In that scene, he spills an entire bottle of water as he collapses, and he wakes alone to the same puddle of water next to him. No one was there to see him go through his pain, and no one is there to clean up the water for him. He trudges to get a paper towel roll and mops up what he can.
The sheer sense of loneliness and isolation we get from this dialogue-less scene is immense. We’re told throughout the series, in brief subtle moments, that the core of Shi-mok’s emotional state is defined by his isolation. His pain isolated him from his parents and his classmates; his surgery isolates him from the entirety of human society. The only reason Shi-mok seems to be able to deal with his situation is because of his work, the relentless pursuit of justice that seems to anchor him to his identity, and the fact that his lobotomy eliminated the worst of his emotions. Otherwise, I can’t imagine any person actually enduring his situation for the entirety of their adulthood.
Towards the beginning of S1, Shi-mok tells Jung-bon flatly, “You’re right. I don’t have anyone beside me, and I never will.” Jung-bon, who doesn’t know about his condition, would clearly interpret this as Shi-mok refusing to develop a relationship that might alleviate his isolation. But for the viewer who knows about Shi-mok’s condition, it’s clear that he’s simply resigned to the idea of his solitude. He doesn’t expect companionship because of his inability to connect to his emotions, and I think this expectation might have more to do with the other person not accepting his condition than his own lack of desire for connection.
So this is where Shi-mok begins: alone and resigned to being alone.
S1 is spent proving to Shi-mok that he doesn’t have to do the work alone; Yeo-jin is not only a good partner but also a unique conduit for his deeply dormant emotional state. Without crossing the line or breaching his boundaries, she gently points out that he actually can tap into a deeper recess of himself and interact with other people in a way that is meaningful.
At first, he seems almost disturbed by her suggestions that he can feel and act out emotions, but over the course of S1, he reaches a place where he actually does tap into a part of himself that he might not have engaged with for a good part of his life. So Shi-mok’s emotional development over S1 is not just about his fight for justice, but also about him relearning his ability to connect with people.
If S1 is spent with Shi-mok learning about his ability to connect, I think S2 then leads naturally to him learning about his desire to connect. His resignation to his solitude in S1 means he never thinks of friendships, relationships, or human connections as a possibility in his personal life, so naturally, he never seems to ask himself if he wants it in the first place. It makes sense that S1 thus addresses the issue of him realizing that the possibility exists at all, but it never gets far enough to show Shi-mok actively desiring that human connection.
Shi-mok at the beginning of S2 is in a similar place as the beginning of S1, in that he is fairly alone and isolated due to his exile to Tongryeong. It doesn’t seem like he’s kept in regular contact with anyone, not even Yeo-jin, and he clearly hasn’t made any personal connections in his new district office. Yet unlike S1, when this just seemed like a part of his character, Shi-mok in his isolation feels deeply unhappy. We’re given shots of him alone in a hotel room because he’s unable to find a place to stay in Seoul, of him watching families and couples run past his car at a rest stop. They’re very subtle moments, but I think they amount to Shi-mok having a deeper awareness of his own isolation, and perhaps the possibility that he doesn’t actually want to live in such solitude.
And of course, when he sees Yeo-jin again in S2, he is also noticeably different.
S2 is all about Shi-mok reaching out first, even as Yeo-jin draws back further and further due to her own personal emotional arc. Since we’ve discussed all of those moments to death already, there’s something more specific I want to look at: Shi-mok making his personal preferences known.
These are also small moments, hardly relevant to the major plot at hand, but in multiple scenes, Shi-mok openly voices his (food) preferences and Yeo-jin listens. In S2E2, Yeo-jin asks him if he wants to eat stir-fried octopus or hot pot, and Shi-mok, without making the usual polite deferrals or simply ordering on his own, tells her that he wants stir-fried octopus. This repeats in S2E16 (he asks for soju, not makgeolli), and of course, during the stairwell scene In E12.
I think among all the moments in the stairwell scene, I was most surprised when Yeo-jin offers to buy Shi-mok a can of cola for his headache, and he simply accepts the offer. It’s not exactly a personal preference, per se, but it places Shi-mok in a position where he has to decide what he wants. Unlike other acts of care by Yeo-jin (buying him food in S1E6, getting him chamomile tea in S1E12, ordering him another round of cabbage in S2E12), in this particular moment, Shi-mok actually has to actively say whether or not he wants what Yeo-jin is offering. In all of her other moments, Yeo-jin just does the thing — she takes him by the arm to buy him dinner, she shows up at his door with the tea, she orders the cabbage without him asking — but in this particular one, Shi-mok has to agree to receive her kindness.
And he does, without a moment’s hesitation.
Knowing Shi-mok and the way he uses politeness as a barrier and defense mechanism, it would have been natural for him to politely refuse or even simply put up the pretense of hesitation. But much like their dinner scene in S2E2, he doesn’t put up any of those pretenses around Yeo-jin. It shows us clearly that Shi-mok recognizes her kindness for what it is, is grateful for it, and wants it.
The stairwell scene in S2 is a neat piece of writing work, since it gives us a clear moment of personal connection directly following a scene where Shi-mok and Yeo-jin are forced, again, to be on opposite sides. It’s a moment of reconciliation, when both sides (esp. Yeo-jin) have to admit that their personal care for each other transcend the confrontations of being on opposite sides, and it’s also a moment calling back to earlier moments of connection in S1 that serve as the basis of their relationship. After this scene, something significant changes between them — both of them seem to implicitly agree that their partnership is most important and that they’re willing to prioritize their work together before any of the petty politics dividing them.
But it also gives us a significant moment of Shi-mok’s own emotional development, since we see how he is no longer just realizing the possibility of his connection to other people, especially Yeo-jin. He’s making his own (small, small, baby steps) approach to these connections on his end. He’s showing that he does actually have certain desires, preferences, that he is willing to share them with Yeo-jin, and that he’s willing to work on his end to build on whatever connection he has with other people. He’s no longer resigned to his isolation or even just realizing the possibility of potential personal relationships; he’s actively working to build on the one he has, the one that he’s deemed most important.
When you wish to get a drama with no romance and then ships hard the main protagonist. Believe me it's karma!!!!
I say I watch it for plot but really I watch it for Yeo-jin making sure Si-mok doesn’t keel over from starvation or stupidity
05.05.2021
Day 1/11 of productivity, here's my notes on medical diagnostics. The topics are histology and Immuno histochemistry protocol for tissue embedding of lung carcinoma.
The subject is pretty interesting and at the same time it's gross!
And meet miss ipu 😌
Song suggestion:
A study with me video 😌 with Korean music in the background.
Tips & Tricks:
Now days I study with background musics and they really helped me with concentration. ❤
A recent read, just sharing it. It's good.
Study tips for growing
Try pomodoro method if you have concentration problem or cannot study for longer hours. This will break your work into small doable portions.
Highlighter is an important part if you are reading research papers, I personally prefer pink highlighter in my PDFs.
Creating a to-do list but put only 3 things to do everyday. I use in built to- do app in my laptop, there's some great apps out for mobile phones.
If you want your notes to look to aesthetic then make it as original as possible, don't run for aesthetics, run for content.
This are some of the tips I came up with on my own that works wonderful for me. Hope this will help you too :)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/COUaZBHADxk/?igshid=1li1mgwm96wpe
"Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof you've been ruined"
source: Pinterest
"What a privilege, it was to matter to you"--------
BeauTaplin//Privilege
"Name one hero who was happy"-
Heroes are warriors whose hands are painted red with the blood of thousand of innocent people. Maybe that's why they turned mad. Maybe that's why they never got a happy ending.
A review:
Most of the series that represents the lgbt community specially in animes, they are for women made by women(Only the weird ones). This is a movie Doukyusei based on Manga written by Asumiko Nakamura. This shows the love story of Rihito Sajō & Hikaru Kusakabe. They come closer during the choir practice and started to develop feelings for each other, after their confession they started to go out and that was followed by various problems faced in a relationship- miscommunication etc.
This is special because it describes the feelings of two people, their troubles without forcefully physical relationship ( which is quiet common in yaoi manga). They grow up so is their love.
It's beautiful.
An Edwardian Era Steve is all I need
every so often i get the impulse to paint another old-timey portrait so here’s an edwardian-era steve🎩
Taylor swift songs and emotions:
Hey guys, this is my go to Miss Taylor Swift songs according to my moods or type of emotion I am feeling at that moment of the day or night. I’m doing this as Taylor released the new song and I need a Taylor Swift song marathon.
When I’m feeling like falling in love: Call it what you want, I think he knows, Lover, London Boy, King of My Heart, Gorgeous, Paper Rings, Love Story(Taylor’s Version), Enchanted.
Mystery and murder vibes: No body, no crimes.
Feeling like I’m the Queen: ME, You need to calm down, I did something bad, Blank Space, END GAME, Look What You Made Me Do, Ready For It?, I Forgot That You Existed, We are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Shake It Off, Bad Blood.
When I want to cry or need a vent out session: Wildest Dreams, Cruel Summer, Exile, Cardigan, August, Delicate, Back to December, Champagne Problems.
Sometimes when I’m kind of feeling empty: 22, The Archer, It’s Nice to have a Friend, Mirror Ball, Mad Woman, Tolerate It, Gold Rush, The 1, ‘tis the damn season, illicit affairs.
When I know I’m doing Fine despite of all troubles: Long story short, Willow, Dorothea, Soon you’ll get better, Marjorie.
Suggest me songs that are your favourite :)
P.S : I was listening to Back to December while reading December Rain- a manhua. I cried a lot.
"If it's all in my head tell me now
Tell me I've got it wrong somehow
I know my love should be celebrated "- Taylor Swift
Together they are complete :)
Si Mok can see her face. (x)
Yet before it all happens, we both jump into the ocean As we're going deeper under the blue water his heart still beats in vivid red But the depth of the ocean is a secret nobody can tell Nobody including myself.
0328 조승우님, 생일 축하합니다! スンウさんお誕生日おめでとうございました！
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제54회 백상예술대상 TV부문 남자 최우수 연기상 ‘비밀의 숲’ 조승우 배우님 정말 축하합니다~! 第54回百想芸術大賞、TV部門男性最優秀演技賞 「秘密の森」チョ・スンウさん、本当におめでとうございました! はちゃめちゃに素敵でした…もうめっちょすき!!!
Recently watched “비밀의 숲” (“Secret Forest”) or “Stranger” as it’s called on Netflix.
Love these two.
Can't get over them 😥
비밀의숲 ( 여진 , 시목 ）
Hiiii !!!, 14th of strangers episode what a ride!! Do you by any chance know where can I find the piano background music .. this was there even in s1 . I just love it
This episode was a ride!! I know that Spotify has a lot of playlists with the ost for the show.
Here are two playlists that I listen to a lot! The first one has some of the instrumental from season one!
thinking about si-mok/ yeo-jin's first kiss & body language ;_; (pardon the sketch)
“Doggedly chasing after the truth, and marching towards what’s right is a never-ending process.”
Stranger S2 (2020) - Finale
Tune to listen 🎧✨
12.12.20 winter study🍁: it's hot chocolate time. My final exams for Masters are starting from 28th December To 13 th January. I should study as much as possible but my body isn't cooperating right now. So I'm busy but not panicking.
Yesterday and today was all about listening to Evermore album.🎧 I'll tried to study more in the upcoming days ! Here's a song recommendation for you guys. Wishing you Merry Christmas weeks ahead ✨