thefourthvine | I am up for auction! Okay, my work is.

I am up for auction at

help_japan. This is one of those "Who knows if anyone will want this, but, hey, someone might!" type auctions, because what I am offering is: a review.

Yes! If you were looking for a bewildered review by someone who probably knows absolutely nothing about your fandom and may not be able to identify any of the characters by the end, never mind at the beginning, I am here for you. I will review any English-language (English subtitles also acceptable), Netflixable (if it will be Netflixable eventually, and you're willing to wait, that's fine) movie or TV episode you choose. I am not expecting kindness, either. I will totally watch Spock's Brain for charity.

Things to note: Whatever you pick for me can't have child death or animal harm in it. (It is okay if they're endangered, as long as it is clear they're fine in the end. And if it's just a tiny thing in an otherwise safe movie or episode - horses die in battle or whatever - I will deal.) Also, I can totally promise to write a review about whatever you want me to watch, but I can't promise to like it. I might! But I might not. And in any case I will almost certainly be poking fun at whatever it is. (See the TOS review below - I really do love TOS. But that doesn't mean I'm always nice to it.) Just something to keep in mind.

Some of my previous reviews, so you can decide if this is something you might wish to spend your charity donation currency unit of choice on: Anchors Aweigh, Star Trek TOS: Journey to Babel, and, as a total blast from the past, The Fast and the Furious.

If this sounds like your cup of tea, YAY! Bid at my thread.

ETA: K-drama partisans may wish to read the DW comments!

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TEMPTING.

Which one were you thinking of?

I'm totally flexible. The first episode of IRIS presents interesting possibilities, because of the mud-wrestling and how clearly Sa Woo and Hyun Joon are in gay gay special forces love, but then again something like Boys Over Flowers or My Lovely Samsoon gives a lot more room for gender role commentary. Or you could just toss TFV off the deep end and do something like Coffee Prince. So, yes, clearly I need help on many levels.

I just want to say that this comment is simultaneously enthralling and confusing. I 100% approve of gay gay special forces love! And, um, I am REALLY curious about what parts of Coffee Prince constitute tossing me off the deep end.

Either way, k-drama sounds like a fascinating field of study!

I aim to please. Also to get you to watch a k-drama, because I really want to see what you'd make of the genre's conventions. See, when I said "the deep end," I really kind of meant "the crack end." IRIS is a good starter k-drama, because it's pretty much a spy thriller, with all the recognizable elements thereof, it's reasonably well-done, and it's on the realistic-ish side, provided that you like your reality with lots of amnesia and car accidents.

Whereas in Coffee Prince, Han Kyul, a wealthy playboy whose family wants him to marry, hires Eun Chan, a poor tomboyish ~~farm girl~~ delivery girl who he mistakes for a boy, to be his fake gay lover and a barista at his all-male-staffed coffee shop. And then it gets crackier. Not for the faint at heart.

Coffee Prince was my first Kdrama. I totally support getting TFV to watch it.

Or one of the fluff pieces like Mary Stayed Out All Night or You're Beautiful (. . . omg, I *want* that!). YAB probably wouldn't be a good starter drama, but here are so many wonderful WTF moments in that series. And crossdressing! Always a plus in my book.

It was my first k-drama too! And then I inflicted it upon all my classmates and the year below us! The entirety of the juniors and senior girls at my school all watched it at lunch on someone's laptop.

I would totally support TFV reviewing it.

Coffee Prince really spoiled me when it came to kdramas.

I really love how they handled the crossdressing, and Han Kyul's struggles to accept his 'homosexuality.' And how much do I love that there were emotional consequences? A *lot.*

Maybe TFV could review the episode with the Best Love Confession Ever.

YES, EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES! I am in fact a huge fan of this idea and willing to throw some money in the pot, should it be plausible.

How much? Because we've already got a pledged total of $75, and it's starting to look like this could happen.

How much is everyone else offering?

Mostly $25, except for me, because if they're paying me extra money to be on call then I'm going to spend it on something awesome. (I'm paying $40)

Three people (including me) have offered USD$25, with one offer of USD$40. Also, I think we have enough people at this party that it's time we got a room; I've put up a post on my journal where we can thrash out donations and pick a drama/episode (Coffee Prince seems to be the lead runner).

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anenko - 2011-03-14 22:59 (UTC) - Expand

Say $15? This is a bad month for more then that. What's the current high bid? (I'm on my phone and only get email)

jamethiel - 2011-03-15 01:22 (UTC) - Expand

So few crossdressing stories bother with the emotional aftermath. And in most of the dramas I've seen, the main guy almost immediately figures out that the pretty new boy in his life is actually a girl. The guys who do have to struggle with their sexual identity (Nakatsu in Hana Kimi, Jeremy in You're Beautiful) are there as comic relief.

Sungkyunkwan Scandal is supposed to be really good, too.

Oh man. Now I'm having flashbacks to doing the exact same thing - six girls huddled around a computer monitor - with My Sassy Girl freshman year of high school. I feel old.

Also, I'm asking everyone who's interested in bidding to go here so we can thrash out the details. Thanks!

. . . I think I need this first episode of IRIS you speak of here.

This is an idea which makes me deeply, deeply happy. Sadly, I can only commit about $25 to it, and I don't think that's more than a drop in the bucket of what would be needed to win this auction.

EVERYONE needs the first episode of IRIS. Fortunately, it, like all the k-dramas I mentioned, is available streaming on Drama Fever.

That's about my maximum commitment too, which I why I wanted to reach out to other people. We cannot be the only two people who want to see what happens when TFV reviews a korean soap opera.

Ooh, thanks for the link! This means I can watch the rest of Queen Seondeok whose broadcast here got sadly interrupted by an unrelated earthquake (Christchurch) and the destruction of my TV three weeks ago.

I am, as this implies, more a fan of the historical k-dramas than those in more modern settings. On the other hand, IRIS looks intriguing too! I could throw US$25 into the pot too if it'd help.

(Oh curses, they don't stream outside North America. Oh well, I'll find some other source. Anyway my offer stands.)

*cough* are you a member of jdramas on lj? They have everything for download

I WILL PLEDGE $40 to get TFV to watch Coffee Prince. Because that would be so, SO AWESOME

Ooh, I am now, thank you! <clicky-clicky>

Yay! I've set up an organizational post over at my journal so we can sort out pledge and drama details, and also probably fangirl a lot; Could you head over there and confirm your pledge?

Ack. Sorry for the unhelpful link; I didn't realize it wasn't international.

I'm asking everyone who's interested in bidding to go here to confirm their pledge and suggest dramas, so if you want to make your case for Queen Seondeok, now's your chance!

No prob, if you hadn't posted it I wouldn't have commented and jamethiel wouldn't have posted that other option, so it all worked out. :-)

Fortunately, we seem to have a lot of drops! I'm asking everyone who's interested to head over here to confirm their pledge, suggest dramas, and also probably squee a lot.