Belated happy birthday, Bitches!
I started this blog on December 29, 2017 and this is our fifth year! Thank you all for accompanying me on this journey! It wouldn’t have been this much fun without you.
I’m sorry I’m late. I had a little medical emergency that required a stay at the hospital but thanks to the wonderful doctors and nurses, I’m on the road to recovery. I guess this bitch and this blog won’t expire soon.
I remember shortly after I started this blog, I declared the Universal Rights of Kdrama Addicts. I started with 10, then added 5 more a couple years later. I’ll add one more this year.
We have the following rights and privileges.
1. the Right to appropriate Korean words and use them liberally in conversations with non-Korean friends. Like this, “Yaa! Unnie! Mianhe but I cannot kaja to study hall with you because it’s bulgeum (TGIF), guerrigo oppa and I are eating chi-maek at the pojangmacha.”
2. the Right to high speed Internet. LTE or 4G.
3. the Right to binge-watch a drama until 5am on a workday.
4. the Right to ship ourselves with the leading man. Who the heck is Jun Ji-Hyun? This is us asking our sweetie a serious question, “Do Min Joon, how many babies should we have?”
5. the Right to curse out, blacklist, and hunt down the stupid writer(s) of stupid makjang plots and stupid open-endings. (Can’t you tell how traumatized I am?)
6. the Right to fast-forward through boring scenes, pause kissing scenes, and/or repeat our favorite scene a thousand times.
#pert
gif credit: jischangwook’s tumblr
7. the Right to discuss and obsess over the minutiae of kdrama with fellow kdrama fans.
8. the Right to watch kdrama in private while riding public transportation without fear of censure or opprobrium from nosy passengers looking over our shoulders.
9. the Right to fast and free subs. (Pfffffttt to you two, Dramafever and Viki. RIP, Dramafever.)
When are the subs up??!!
10. the Right to visit the land of fairy tales, Seoul, South Korea, to follow the footsteps of our favorite characters, and to search for our own Prince Charming.
11. the Right to listen to the OST the whole day and belt out the song without knowing the lyrics.
12. the Right to use epithets and sobriquets for characters instead of their actual names (because all the unusual Korean names are messing up my auto-correct features).
For instance, instead of trying to remember the name of the second male lead in “Start Up,” I just called him Con Artist/Fake Good Guy/Mr Guy Smiley.
Or that second male lead in “Hotel Del Luna,” I called him Captain Firefly.
13. the Right to feel maudlin and cry with the heroine.
14. the Right to use this guy as yardstick for all romantic boyfriends, real and unreal.
Introducing Xiao Nai. BMOC. Protective guy. Chinese, not Korean. Uber-hacker. CEO. Personal umbrella. Mr. “I’m worried you’ll catch a cold.”
15. the Right to believe in frivolous but romantic scenes.
Yes. Because a shower of cannellini beans are deadly. (You should have just pulled her out of “harm’s” way, Kyungsoo Do.)
Today I’ll add one more.
16. The Right to analyze kiss scenes in non-lascivious manner.
Lol. Just watch me. I’ll post one pretty soon.
Happy Happy 5th Birthday to my forever k/c/j-drama home! 🎂🎂🎂
So thankful and grateful for this blog because I received a lot of knowledge, friends and most of all joy here. My life won’t be complete anymore without BOD. ☺️
Cheers to many more Queen! 🥂 🥂🥂
Kamsahamnida! 😘🙇🏻♀️
Thank you God, to your doctor and the hospital staff that took care of you. ❤️
Waaaaaaa!!! I get a gift on our birthday too. sweet!!! 🥰🥰🥰
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary/Birthday @pkml3!! It’s been a great ride with you and may there be many more happy years of exercising our 16 rights. 🥰 😉 😝
I’m glad to know you’re well and able to blog and watch dramas. I knew something was up because you were supposed to touch down and maybe do that rewatch with us. Also, you missed the time for a couple of threads LOL.
I’ll be interested to know what you’ll be watching in Jan 2023. I’ve put down my list on some thread or other. But I’m always willing to add to it!!! 🤪
Happy birthday to this space filled with people using their beautiful brains! And thankful you’re on the road to recovery. Take your time, we will be here waiting patiently for any little scraps you dole out 😉
I do so hope your medical emergency occurred at a time to best meet your insurance deductible.
Happy birthday to the blog I discovered just after I began my kdrama journey with CLOY nearly 3 years ago. It’s been fun—and educational! Here’s to many more years and dramas!
@pm3 I hope you’re healing and getting stronger every day!
get well soon, @pm3! praying for a smooth and uneventful recovery!
Happy Birthday BOD!! So thankful for your blog PM3 and the community that it has created. Best wishes to you and your good health!!
Get well soon @packmule3! Hope your hospital stay wasn’t too dramatic. And your attending was easy on the eyes 😂. Happy 5th birthday to BoD! My drama watching has been all the better for the laughs and camaraderie shared here. My current status is “marooned on Jeju Island” with hip priest CEW (he spoke Italian in Ep1 🥰) and hybrid demon slayer Kim NamGil. Starting the year on Shallow Island 🏝️.
So sorry to learn you were under the weather but I’m glad that with excellent care you are getting well. Only good health to you and yours in this new year.
And on a better note, happy birthday to BOD, your wonderful creation that brings joy to us all. This ahjumma sometimes BB visits the superficial islands and has enjoyed the clip showing a favorite actor, Ji Chang Wook.i be may be old but I’m not dead(lol).
Thank you so much for giving all of us a safe place to discuss our favorite Dramas and to learn about so much more. Wishing you good health and great Dramas to please your soul.🎉🙏🎂
Kalimera, Happy New Year and Happy 5th Anniversaty to B.o.D. @Packmule3!
You created a protected space where we can communicate with respect about what we think about a k-drama and in the meantime we have become chigu-s with each other and we cherish everyone around here.
I am glad to learn that you are feeling better and you’ve got good care from the doctors and nurses! Please take care of yourself! It is great to hear from you and have you back! I wish you the best with lots of Health and Love! Here are the cookies you like!🍪🍪🍪🍪
P.S. I have sent you an email one week ago… ❣
Happy BoD blog anniversary and a happy new year to packmul3 and everyone here!
@packmule3 Sorry to know you were unwell; good that you are recovering.
Thank you for creating, maintaining and nurturing this wonderful blog which has given me countless hours of happy reading, entertaining dramas and virtual friendships over the last four years since I discovered this blog🙏
Wishing you and all of us BoD-ers many more glorious drama discussions in the future! (Yaay to more kiss scene analysis😘😘, and dare I hope, hickey analysis too, Love O2O style😜😜🤣🤣)
Testing receipt of notification email. I will usually be notified when anyone posts here but I didn’t get a single email to tell me that 8 others have posted after me.
Gwaenchanayo, @Packmule3? I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a medical scare, and glad to learn you’re on the mend. Thank goodness you’ve been in good hands. Any drama-worthy doctors appear at your bedside?
@birdie007, how practical of you to worry about the timing of a medical emergency in relation to the insurance deductible. Seems you’ve got some experience in this matter. It’s such a consideration in the USA, isn’t it?
Happy Anniversary, Bitches over Dramas! Because you share your time, effort, and brainpower with us, we get to enjoy this special community and better appreciate the dramas we discuss. Thank you, @Packmule3…gamsahaeyo!
Happy birthday BOD! Thank you for making my drama watching experience so much more enjoyable & I’m Thankful you’re getting better @packmule. Wish you a quicker recovery💫
Happy Birthday! May everyone enjoy fangirling and bitching over drama in perpetuity!
Speedy recovery!
@Packmule3 – wishing you a speedy recovery!
Happy birthday – I am laughing happily at this manifesto! Wonderful.
Thank you for creating and leading a wonderful community which brings great joy, new insights and friends.
Happy birthday to all in this community. You’ve brought something special to the last year and a half.
Good Morning and Happy Birthday to this community. You have brought so much to so many.
Blimey, a hospital stay? I hope that whatever it was is now sorted out with a minimum of discomfort and bother. And a maximum of good looking medics. I suppose your work colleagues will tease you that you’ll do anything to get some extra days off during the Holidays. Rest up and spoil yourself for a while.
Take care.
@pkml3, I’m sorry to report that once again I am no longer getting email notifications when Bitches post in the thread that I asked to be notified on.
I guess you may have to fiddle some with those set up switches! 😁
@GB,
WordPress or Jetpack must have updated some features while I was gone bec I was also encountering issues with uploading pictures and almost all of @Welmaris’ posts went directly to spam box.
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Happy anniversary @pm3!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed being part of this blog and reading so many awesome analysis and reactions and predictions and lamentations and swooning etc. and especially your take on the dramas and how to watch them. Thank you for setting this up, it made my drama watching more fun, more in depth and meaningful.
Lastly, to good health and love for you. Glad you are on the mend!
I am glad that you are recovering. Rest lots and get well soon.
Happy Birthday to BOD and congratulations to you for managing it so well.
I do enjoy reading your takes and am amazed by the time you spend on putting things together with love.
Speedy recovery.
@pkml3, I didn’t know that you’d replied LOL. Thanks for acknowledging my ‘plight’! I guess I’ll have to get around it for now.
I hope it can somehow get resolved soon (especially before our rewatch time on Saturday!!)
Happiest of birthdays to you- don’t know what I would of done w/out this the last couple of years. It’s been like girls night out which I’ve been missing so much. You have a great community of us unnie bitches that will always follow your 16pt Universal KDA R & P Guidelines! I have even used posts as references (like why I put a yellow umbrella on my book cover🤣) glad you are feeling better & thank you so much for taking care of us all 💜💜
Wow! Five years! Happy anniversary @PM3. I’m so glad I found this blog. Keep on sharing, shining and inspiring!
@pm3 best wishes for a speedy recovery and healthy 2023 and to echo @nrllee – I hope you had your own Dr. Romantic anticipating your every need in the hospital. (Notice I’m not wishing upon you any of those romantic fools from that other hospital drama that shall not be named)
Happy 5th birthday BOD!!! And also Happy and blessed new year greetings to all
our chingus!!!
Speedy recovery @PM3!!! Feel better soon. And watch as much k/c dramas while in recovery! LOL!
@PM3 – Love the new additions to the BOD bill of rights! Since I am not actively watching dramas right now, can I have the right to JOMO and have a drama hiatus and come back from time to time and be warmly welcomed? I know I am but just want to call it out for others, just in case. 💗💗💗
Best of health, love and family in 2023, BOD!!!
#Good Twin, I couldn’t resist and please forgive me @packmule3, that other hospital drama could be named Voldemort. Good news for us BODers is that there will be a Dr.Romantic3 with the wonderful ahjussi Jan Suk-kyu and the gorgeous Ahn Hyo-seop.Hoping that this drama aids in @pm3’s continued recovery.
Happy 5th @pm3!!! Wishing you a speedy recovery and good vibes for 2023.
Thanks for creating a space full of wonderful people who know so much and are talented with words, details, and so much more.
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Happy birthday, BOD!
@pm3, I hope you are recovering well. Thank you for 5 years of intelligent and fun drama dissections!
Annyeong 🐇
Happy Birthday/anniversary to BOD @PM3
I stumbled upon this blog the year TKEM came out – so that’s 2020. and my life has never been the same 💗 That’s also about the same time i started getting into Kdramas more. funny enough, my drama life began with “boys over flowers” haha Lee Min Ho!!! yes! my Oppa forever! haha
Love reading you @pm3 and everyone here. reading your greetings made me smile and feel good to be part of this community.
@pm3 rest well, feel better and here’s to a healthy 2023 for all of us
@Janey what a great idea for one of our rights! Happy JOMO-ing and welcome back!!! LOL
Everyone, your words and appreciation reflect what I feel as well! Thanks too for being part of this blog. It’s great to be here because of you!
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@pkml3, I’m pleased to report that the notifications for this thread is working now. God bless you and all who pass through here!
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Happy Birthday BOD! I came across this blog during TKEM days and watching Kdrama has never been the same! Thank you so much!
Get well soon @pm3!
Happy Birthday! I often read your comments. I love your sense of observation and analysis. Excuse me for my English; it is rusty. I am an Italian ajumma.
Hi there @jaemini, on behalf of @packmule3, welcome to BOD! I’m a Singaporean ahjumma LOL. I hope to see you on our BOD threads. 😁 ☺️ 😃
Buena Serra @jaemini, Am thrilled that you have joined us from Italia. I’m from New York and love that this blog is including people from New countries. @packmule3 has created an international community that loves K Dramas and other Asian content. I hope you continue to enjoy this wonderful place.
Kalimera @Jaemini and welcome on BOD!
I am from Greece and we are neighbours! I do hope to see you more on BOD threads!
Happy Belated Birthday @BOD. Love great discussion on dramas and enjoy this wonderful space that you have built. IT is far better the previous one and thanks to you stopping all the rodents who would attack our words and twist them.
I don’t know if this is the correct topic, but I want thank you everybody for welcome.