Part 1 of a 3-part series on K-pop drama. Foreword by everyone’s hero, D_S: This isn’t anime, but K-pop is close enough. Also, these opinions are all Sapphi’s or whatever, but fuck it, she’s convinced me. So I want to make it clear that I explicitly agree with everything she says here, has said in ... Read more
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