THANK YOU 🥹 ive only made two and whether it's recency bias or normal bias, I think the hyunjin one is my favorite! But I already have ideas for more id like to do. So far I've only used stuff I've gotten as freebies (like lomos and also for some reason I keep getting random photobook pages) and that I already had like old stationery or duplicate books. It's fun to try to figure something out just using what I've got. I have some pepero boxes, some karma stuff, and a maxident page that I'm excited to use! I also really want to get my old polaroid snap to start working again so I can take pictures of my Good photobooks and make lil polaroids to use but I fear it may be dead for real

Like asking me to pick my favorite child 😩 I mean I really wanna be good and answer the question properly but uh...

Gods Menu mv was my first skz exposure and watching it feels really nostalgic for that reason. I'm super fond of the ones that are more cinematic like Cinema (hah) and Escape especially. I have to be careful with Cinema tho bc i almost always cry lol. I like Christmas Evel because it's just pure fun, and I LOVE any of the street versions because watching them just goof around and be silly is so goooood, like it's oddly heartwarming yknow?

But actually, I think I might have an answer now that ive been thinking about it. JJAM. It's skz's particular brand of weird, super catchy and fun to watch, and it has that bit that gives each racha their moment to shine. So I think JJAM. What I'd consider my personal favorite is constantly changing but JJAM is definitely one that I would show someone if they wanted to know what skz is like!

I have... never seen one.

Okay listen, I looooove that play and one of the reasons I love Shakespeare in general is the lack of stage direction (which I'm sure is not just him but probably just a thing of that era, idk). The fact that the play never indicates how a thing should be said or done and even leaves most of the action to implication means that I can imagine ANYTHING!! It's my oyster! I can make this part a raging tirade one day and a heartbroken whimper the next and no matter what, I'm not WRONG because there's nothing in the text that says I can't, and that's SO MUCH FUN. Every time I read it, it's a little different. Watching a performance is a lot of fun too, and I absolutely want to see the ways that other people interpret the text because it's always fascinating to me, but I guess for that reason I've never really been bothered to go watch a bunch of them. Well, for the film versions anyway, the main reason I've never seen it on stage is just that I haven't had the chance yet. I do OH MY GOD I just remembered. I have watched a film adaptation of Hamlet and I got too excited to talk about the text and forgot it.

Okay so I guess by default my favorite is the 1964 Russian film directed by Grigori Kozintsev (I had to look that up) but I'm not mad about that in the slightest because at least visually it's fucking STUNNING. It's black and white of course which helps but the atmosphere is borderline spooky, like quite somber overall but with these really sick high contrast shots. The absolute best part was the ghost of the king walking in slow motion, silhouetted completely black against the sky. Jesus. I don't even remember the performance especially well (it's been years) but I will never forget that one shot. It had some other neat bits I remember like a shot of Hamlet's feet walking up stairs as he did one of the soliloquys. I have to watch it again soon, it really is incredible.

Massive shoutout to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and the film version (1990) for being my favorite spin-off and the thing that got me into hamlet originally (full disclosure, it was a fanfic, but I'll say it was rgad) and another to Sarah Bernhardt, who in 1900 became the first actor (not first woman, first actor PERIOD) to play Hamlet on film.

And little post script for the adaptations I plan on watching eventually: Ophelia with Daisy Ridley, and the German silent film version starring Asta Nielsen which was actually based on some dude's academic assertion that Hamlet is Actually For Real A Woman based on the fact that he uh [checks notes] is hysterical and in love with Horatio. Baby, he can do that shit as a man, too, but I do love how Asta looks as this little haunted doll of a boy.

THANK YOU. Role play type skzcodes are so funny bc they're goofy as hell but they always spawn the most serious aus (skz family, I'm looking at you).

Favorite dynamics... it's hard because I like so many different flavors. Joseon au caught me with the rival swordsmen thing, I love the idea of disliking a guy but the forced proximity has you realizing that maybe he's not so bad... or at least he's a guy you could bang and then go straight back to bickering with. Like it's casual, but it's kind of not, but it's also nothing because he's a jerk, and I definitely don't think about when he's gone at all.

I also really love the idea of a developing crush, like going through the stages of grief but it's about the mortifying ordeal of being in love, and there's a bit of flirting, a bit of will-they-won't-they back and forth. I LOVE confessions ahhh 🖤

I also wanna shout out platonic ships with a really sweet hyung/dongsaeng dynamic, it's so easy to come by with skz because they're just like that so often and I eat it uppp. I kinda hate teasing wips that are in absolutely no state to share properly but I have one with Minho being worlds best hyung to both felix and seungmin and thinking about it gives me ALL of the warm fuzzies.

(Thank you again for joseon au encouragement, you get a kiss 🖤)