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The Butterfly

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The Butterfly

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WELCOME TO MY PAGE!This December The Butterfly will be celebrating the Christmas season.  Aside from pics of some of my favorite performers in holdiay wear, I've also written my letter to Santa.  In it are my wishes for Dramaland in 2025.

Whether you celebrate this holiday or not, I wish everyone all the love their hearts can hold.

Dear Santa,

Is it too much to ask for Gong Yoo to be in a wig and sword drama?

And could WDH  join him in that uber dark drama?

For Michelle Yeoh?  Just keep sending her great scripts.  She is practically perfect in every way.

For Ni Ni I hope for strong roles in drama/films and on sites available to me.  If you could have them released in 2025, that would be great.

Kdramas---For them to take it easy on the tropes and focus more on tight writing.  Not everyone has to have a childhood connection!

Cdramas---For the love of my sanity,  please send someone to teach the writers to  create badass female leads, who stay  badass instead of turning them into damsels in distress or window dressing.  No more sad endings unless they are organic to the story and no open endings ever for wig and sword dramas.  Also, could we ditch the ridiculous censors and rigid rules.  Lighten up already!

Jdramas-Fewer incompetent career women who easily become over emotional,  overwhelmed and/or behave childishly.  

For all three, remind them that women are about 50% of the population, not 10-30% as they are often represented.

Please make more quality Taiwanese, Filipino, and Thai dramas available on sites I use.  For that matter, we need legal sites that have huge inventories of films and dramas going back to silent films.  Too many old films and dramas are being lost to time.

Finally, for actors/actresses that get by on their looks, please sign them up for acting classes to show how effective it is to have more than one expression.  It's also okay to have a few wrinkles so that the face can move freely to show emotions.

Thanks, Santa!

Sincerely,

The Butterfly




                                   BIO                                                        

I started watching Asian dramas around February 2019.  Eternal Love (TMOPB) was my first drama and my first love.  I started searching voraciously for another Cdrama that would make me feel that way again.  Several months later I found Goblin and fell in love, this time with Kdramas.  Now I’m searching for another drama that will make me fall in love all over again.

I enjoy romance, character development, strong women, and good relationships whatever form they may take. I also like martial arts, fantasy, historicals, slice of life, Kaiju, silent films, and action dramas/movies.  In addition to Cdramas and Kdramas I also watch dramas/movies from  Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines.  I'm an omnivore when it comes to dramas and movies, I'll watch about anything from any time period.  Although I usually avoid toxic MLs, zombies, and anything labeled fluffy.

While I watch sad movies and dramas, I prefer happy endings.  I don’t care if it’s boy-girl, boy-boy, or girl-girl I want everyone to live happily every after.♡♡♡

My rating system explained, tongue in cheek.  

An addendum to understanding my ratings:  I rate pre-1990's kung fu and kaiju movies on a curve.  They were usually cheaply made for a niche audience.  I also give silent films from the 20's and 30's some leeway as they were breaking new ground in film storytelling and acting.  The dramas and movies that I've rated as 10's were the first in a particular genre that made me fall in love with it.  They were also from early in my drama watching life and would  be rated lower now.  They may not be perfect, but they hooked me into the drama and Asian movie life, so I left them at the 10's they are.

Eternal Love: https://mydramalist.com/profile/Schmetterling/reviews/54085
Goblin:  https://mydramalist.com/profile/Schmetterling/reviews/55235
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:  https://mydramalist.com/profile/Schmetterling/review/267935
Godzilla (1954):  https://mydramalist.com/profile/Schmetterling/review/145411


WATCHLIST EXPLAINED

CW: It stresses me out to try and keep track so I rarely use it.  

PTW:  So many dramas, so little time

 On Hold: It's not you, it's me     

Dropped:  Oh, yeah, it's you, not me 

This month I'll be watching fewer dramas and films while I'm baking, decorating, and visiting friends and family.



❤ MY FAVORITES ❤

MICHELLE YEOH
GONG YOO

WOO DO HWANNI NI


Come join us at the What's For Dinner Forum where we talk about all things food.  Just click the pics
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Thank you to the lovely and generous @Xingback who designed my PFP.





When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

-Jimi Hendrix

My March Martial Arts Madness Marathon 2024 results: 40 movies and reviews in 30 days!  Hi-yah!

https://mydramalist.com/list/1NkpMkWL

(Christmas cactus pic taken by The Butterfly)
I completed my Women Directors Marathon 2024
32 titles and reviews in August!

https://mydramalist.com/list/1NaO7nG4


October Monster Mash Marathon
31 spooky movies and 2 dramas, 33 reviews in a month!

https://mydramalist.com/list/3kPQaYO4


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