In Search of a New Drama Community & Friends

Hello! I'm J, a 23-year-old law graduate from Malaysia. I've been watching dramas since 2009 (I used to watch Chinese-dubbed K-dramas aired on my country's national tv channels at 8pm every weekday) and subsequently made Dramacool my go-to drama platform. I really enjoyed reading comments and engaging with fellow drama-goers on Dramacool as it had a HUGE community and I even made some friends there. Dramacool gave me a deep sense of belonging, but unfortunately, all good things eventually come to an end, and Dramacool, too, shut down permanently a few days ago :(

Devastated, I embarked on a journey to find a new platform where I could feel the same sense of belonging and somewhere I could find people with similar interests to interact with. I was delighted to find MDL, which also has a large community of drama-goers who actively interact and engage with each other. "This could be it", I excitedly thought to myself. So here I am, seeking to forge new friendships from scratch at MDL. 

I look forward to getting to know y'all better! Where you're from, what you majored in, what you do now, your all-time fav drama, fav genre, fav actor, 1st drama, what got you to watch your 1st drama, ANYTHING! 

Here are some (hopefully) fun facts about myself to get things started.

Fav dramas (coz I can't choose only one): 

• Mother
• Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (The ending ruined me. I still yearn for season 2 even after so many years)
• One Ordinary Day
• Mr. Queen
• The Best Story

 Fav genre: Rom-com (with happy endings, as I'm traumatised by Moon Lovers)

1st drama: Iljimae (starring Lee Joong Gi, I first watched this drama because they aired it on one of my country's national tv channels, and it was the beginning of my love story with Asian dramas)

1st BL: TharnType (experienced culture shock watching this one, but instead of turning away, I dived deeper into the wonderful world of BLs)

Fav actor: Joong Archen Aydin (My fav actor changes often, and Joong is my current obsession. Check out his latest drama, The Heart Killers, it will blow your mind hehe)

Fav actress: Shin Hye Sun (Her acting skills are something else. She consistently picks challenging characters to play (blind ballerina, violinist, etc. and she nails them EVERY SINGLE TIME!)

Hobbies: Crocheting and annoying my two cats :3 but I mainly spend my days watching Asian dramas (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai)

Welcome to the community!! My name is Shii, short for Shifa and I have been a drama watcher for about 8 years of my life now - I started with kdramas in 2016 since my friend recommended it to me. Currently, I'm still in university majoring in Psychology. Here are a few of my interests
(they're quite similar to your current tastes lol)

First kdrama: Boys over flowers
Favorite kdramas: He is Psychometric (crime/thriller, so so interesting), You're all surrounded (an underrated comedy mystery gem) and Crash landing on you (can never go wrong with a star-crossed lovers rom com)
Favorite actress: I loveee Park Shin-hye too! Have you seen her kdrama Sisyphus? I feel like it's kind of underrated since it was a pretty good watch for me and I enjoyed it! I also like Han Hyo-Joo (some of my favorites of hers include W and Happiness).

First bl: Love by Chance (also, I sincerely apologize for tharntype being your first bl, that must have been slightly traumatizing!!)
Currently watching: Heart killers (love itt omgg, firstkhao and joongdunk are killing their roles!), Fourever you (such a cute bl, you should check it out if you haven't already!)

what else? I also watch chinese dramas if that's your cup of tea - I have a preference for historical fantasies like Ashes of Love and The Untamed.