@godotismissingx So I remembered slash dug up more (don't ask me why I've got all these links saved in my gdocs) /o\

(loooong post underneath the cut)

ahhhhhhh just remembered some meta about Prince Uian/Yi Bang-seok too, by @fatalism-and-villainy here and here, and by @wayvmunstersofallthings here, which I'm very glad to see!! I really love this post by @staidwaters with bts pics of the actors that contemplates a possible friendship between Hwi & the little prince in an AU.

Aside from bodashiri's timeline, @avauntus also created a very impressive timeline for their own fic, which I'm sure can be very helpful for others too. And this meta by @convenientalias about Hwi having his whole squad vs. Seon-ho only having Sung-rok is def a must-read!

(anyway, as you can tell, this is a work in progress and I will likely add more stuff if I find it or it suddenly pings my brain haha)

okay, so here's some more that I missed:

(more underneath the cut)

so there's even more!!

I very highly recommend watching and reading this beautiful, intelligent essay in vid form + accompanying textual meta by @nubreed73 about the horrors and trauma of war and the different treatment of bodies in relation to social position and how both Hwi & Seon-ho were nothing but weapons in the end for the powers that be. Thoughtful, poignant and absolutely heart-wrenching distillation of mctna's overarching theme of the senselessness of war (and, to an extent, of politics too)!!

alright, so @godotismissingx & @sadviper asked for some good Nam Jeon meta analysis here, which wasn't easy to find since he's the most hated character in the fandom lol.

(as usual, please mind the spoilers)

happy to now add @godotismissingx 's liveblog to the list too! You can find it in the tag 'godot watches' (eps. 1-2) or 'godot watches stuff' (eps. 3-16).

@laireshi did a translation of the iconic line "your sword still feels affectionate" & research on the word jeong and @radialarch found another instance of jeong for further (devastating) analysis and comparison, both of which are good additions to fatallist's post (which you can find above in my first reblog of godot's ask).

also you can find amazing meta about hwi's and seon-ho's respective fighting styles and how it corresponds to their characterization here by @nubreed73!!!!

@nubreed73 has started a livetweet thread for their mctna rewatch which you can find here.

and here is a very entertaining presentation about why everyone should watch mctna by @whenas-in-silks.

@ everyone:

I really wanted to reply to every comment in the notes individually, but since I ran out of spoons I'll just say - A BIG, BIG THANK YOU to all of you for being part of this tiny fandom and shaping it, no matter how small you think your contributions may be; without every single one of you there wouldn't be an MCTNA fandom in the first place and I wouldn't have been able to make this compilation at all. You are very welcome and, again, thanks for being in the fandom with me!! 😊💙💙💙

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: 나의 나라 | My Country: The New Age (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Nam Seon Ho/Taejong of Joseon, Nam Seon Ho/Seo Hwi, Han Hui Jae/Seo Hwi, Hwang Sung Rok & Nam Seon Ho, Nam Seon Ho/Other(s) Characters: Nam Seon Ho, Yi Bang Won, Seo Hwi, Han Hui Jae, Hwang Sung Rok, Nam Jeon, Seo Yeon (My Country: The New Age), Nam Minho Additional Tags: Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Forced Prostitution, Dubious Consent, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Slavery, Period-Typical Sexism, Period-Typical Homophobia, Suicidal Thoughts, Mentions of incest, Self-Hatred, Politics, Angst, Smut, War, Contracts, Whump, Canon Rewrite, kisaeng!Nam Seon Ho, Pining, Unrequited Love, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Kidnapping, Hurt/Comfort, Y'all are gonna hate me by the end of this, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, aight time for those smut tags, Kissing, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Blow Jobs, Power Dynamics, References to Ancient Korean Religion & Lore Series: Part 1 of Saudade Summary:

Saudade- (n.) a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved and then lost; “the love that remains”

When Seon-ho’s brother survived that fateful day, Nam Jeon sold him to Ihwaru in a fit of rage. Years later, an 18-year-old Seon-ho is now the most shamefully sought after kisaeng amongst Goryeo’s rotten upper class. His reputation reaches far and wide- even to the ears of the young nobleman, Yi Bang Won, who intends to find out the reason for these rumours himself. This leads to years of painful love, a relationship of convenience and something dark and twisted that seeks to consume them all.

OR

kisaeng!Seon-ho has to deal with his political ambitions colliding with his messy love life for many years down the road

Woo Do Hwan as Nam Seon Ho | Kim Dong Won as Hwang Sung Rok

My Country: The New Age (2019) Behind the Scenes (x)

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Bonus woo do hwan being concerned for the extra actor hyung he sparred with🥹:

Woo Do Hwan as Nam Seon Ho | Kim Dong Won as Hwang Sung Rok

My Country: The New Age (2019) Behind-the-Scenes (x)

A drawing I did of Great and Tyme from 4 Minutes for the Trick or Treat Exchange.

Mr Plankton

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to the Woo Do Hwan squad :) I've been entirely OFF Tumblr on purpose since thursday not to get spoiled and i've been binging it in 2 nights, but it was worth it lol :)

I don't want to spoil it for anyone though so let me know when i can freely reblog and shout at you about my feels and thoughts be in + or - ? Because AAAHHH i have thoughts ... and the thoughts are thoughting ... a lot ... in a lot of ways ... HUGS to you all !!!

So I watched Uprising (2024) on Netflix and it definitely has My Country: The New Age vibes. Same premise of slave and young noble besties who grew up together but ended up on opposing sides. It was fast paced and filled with fantastic swordfights, tragic but also unexpectedly funny with superb acting all around. It's also very um... look I'm not saying these movies are more than anything but friendship and brotherhood and betrayal of those two things but also why is there such tenderness in the interactions between our male leads?

Just LOOK at the way Jong-ryeo's fingers are touching Cheon-yeong's hand. You give me scenes like this:

And this:

AND THIS:

Ffs you have them tie each other's hands with a red cloth:

YOU GIVE ME THIS AND EXPECT ME NOT TO SHIP? I SHIP THEM OK??? Gang Dong-won and Park Jeong-min knocked it out of the park with the acting and also the fight choreo. Also shoutout to Jung Sung-il (who played the husband of the crazy villainess in The Glory) for his great cheekbones under all that facial hair and Japanese-ness. Also my girl Kim Shin-rok (best known for Ji-hwa in Beyond Evil) is also in here and she once again kicks ass.

Shipping aside it's a really solid movie with some amazing action sequences, a simple plot but with really gut-punching characters. Park Chan-wook had a hand in the script so you can expect some gore ala Tarantino. I enjoyed it a lot. No spoilers. Go watch it on Netflix.

"And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him." Revelation 12:9

@asiandramanet creators bingo: mythology + animation @userdramas creators bingo: animation + key frames

god grant me the strength to write my weird porn, the serenity to write my weird porn and the wisdom to write my weird porn

sorry to be negative on the dash but..... y'all need to be nicer to fanfic writers. we all know interactions are decreasing, and even during the nine months i've been on here, i've noticed a decrease.

tell writers you like their works. comment on their works, reblog their works.

some of you act so entitled, and idk if you've noticed but you're literally making writers miserable. it makes me so sad to see my mutuals deactivate because the joy of writing has been taken away from them by ungrateful readers who are constantly demanding more, more, more, to the point where people are experiencing burnout and anxiety because they can't keep up with the constant unrealistic demands.

reminder that even though it takes you five minutes to read 1k words it might've taken the writer hours to get the words down, proofread, edit, and make the perfect fic layout.

some of you complain that there are no "good" fics anymore, yet you do nothing for the fandom, do nothing to support writers and just hide behind anon and blank blogs, complaining about every little thing till you've driven all writers off this site.

it's so tiring. please be kinder. we're all trying our best here.

if you still don’t think reblogs matter then look at this post. i didn’t tag this at all and it’s currently at 1.3k notes. because my mutuals and followers reblogged it. and then their mutuals and followers reblogged it. and so on.

the only reason this post reached so many people is because of reblogs. imagine if you did the same to fics.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (x)

@asiandramanet creator bingo: antagonist (woo do hwan as ji sin) @userdramas creator bingo: black & white

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