So in an unprecedented turn of events, one of the girls who joined in my Joyful Darling's 2016 Birthday Support decided that she didn't want to keep majority of the goods and would be leaving them for me.
After talking it out with her, she said "I just wanted Dongwoo to have a good birthday :)" and I swear I have never felt so selfish as a Woohyun stan.
There are nice and supportive fans out there but then there's this girl who joins a birthday project just because she knows that the fansites can afford better gifts for her bias with the money used.
Because she was leaving a good portion of the goods to me (basically everything besdies from the EMW sticker and 2 of the A4 posters), I decided to cover for her domestic shipping cost as a "thank you" and as compensation for her paying for the initial cost of the set plus the EMS, which was decided by weight.
I'm quite thankful, of course, both for her generosity and for the fact that now I actually have more fansite goods to add to my very small Dongwoo collection. The only other Dongwoo group order I joined was my own for Spring Rain's "That Summer Concert 3" set. While I know that there have been repeated complications regarding Spring Rain's failure to send out goods, I threw caution to the wind because I would have been personally picking up the goods from her at the concert venue. Her set back then did not include anything like photocards or polaroids, I don't think?
A quick review on the fansite: JD was very sweet throughout the whole process. She kept me relatively updated in terms of the production of the goods, moreso than other fansites now that I think of it (although it was probably because these were taking so long). I didn't mind that she was attending schedules while ignoring my 1 or 2 DMs since she was keeping us updated through Instagram.
Anyways! Onto the goods (which once again are depicted in shitty lighting because apparently the only time I have to do anything is late at night).
These postcards are quite pretty and while my camera couldn't pick it up, the picture quality of the postcards is superb. All of the photos taken the event on the top right (I can't quite remember the date but it was definitely one of those general concerts in which lots of Kpop acts perform at) seem to be super white washed, even with other fansites, so that would be my only complaint in terms of quality.
The polaroids are definitely my favorite things from this set. The quality is like an actual polaroid photo, in which the center photo is super shiny and prone to fingerprints. Polaroids from other sets that I've gotten (Vavavoom/Honeytree) are made of a different material that's hard to explain, but they felt more like those plastic-y photocards rather than polaroids?
The center photo is so pretty because there's a really nice contrast between Dongwoo's outfit, his skin (which is edited heavily but) and his hair.
After talking it out with her, she said "I just wanted Dongwoo to have a good birthday :)" and I swear I have never felt so selfish as a Woohyun stan.
There are nice and supportive fans out there but then there's this girl who joins a birthday project just because she knows that the fansites can afford better gifts for her bias with the money used.
Because she was leaving a good portion of the goods to me (basically everything besdies from the EMW sticker and 2 of the A4 posters), I decided to cover for her domestic shipping cost as a "thank you" and as compensation for her paying for the initial cost of the set plus the EMS, which was decided by weight.
I'm quite thankful, of course, both for her generosity and for the fact that now I actually have more fansite goods to add to my very small Dongwoo collection. The only other Dongwoo group order I joined was my own for Spring Rain's "That Summer Concert 3" set. While I know that there have been repeated complications regarding Spring Rain's failure to send out goods, I threw caution to the wind because I would have been personally picking up the goods from her at the concert venue. Her set back then did not include anything like photocards or polaroids, I don't think?
A quick review on the fansite: JD was very sweet throughout the whole process. She kept me relatively updated in terms of the production of the goods, moreso than other fansites now that I think of it (although it was probably because these were taking so long). I didn't mind that she was attending schedules while ignoring my 1 or 2 DMs since she was keeping us updated through Instagram.
Anyways! Onto the goods (which once again are depicted in shitty lighting because apparently the only time I have to do anything is late at night).
These postcards are quite pretty and while my camera couldn't pick it up, the picture quality of the postcards is superb. All of the photos taken the event on the top right (I can't quite remember the date but it was definitely one of those general concerts in which lots of Kpop acts perform at) seem to be super white washed, even with other fansites, so that would be my only complaint in terms of quality.
The polaroids are definitely my favorite things from this set. The quality is like an actual polaroid photo, in which the center photo is super shiny and prone to fingerprints. Polaroids from other sets that I've gotten (Vavavoom/Honeytree) are made of a different material that's hard to explain, but they felt more like those plastic-y photocards rather than polaroids?
The center photo is so pretty because there's a really nice contrast between Dongwoo's outfit, his skin (which is edited heavily but) and his hair.
These are the fanart postcards, which I think are useless in its intent since I'm just going to put them away into a postcard binder, but I appreciate the thought! They're really cute and I might use one to write a birthday card to one of my IRL best friends who stans double biases with Dongwoo and Sungjong (I swear I didn't nag her into stanning Infinite, it came naturally when she saw me laughing over their Knowing Brothers episode and decided to watch the rest with me).
I am now a proud owner of 12 Dongwoo photocards! Most of the pictures are from 'The Eye' era forward, although I do see 2 'Infinite Effect' era photocards too.
What's really cute is that if you flip the photocards over and order them accordingly, they spell out "Happy Dongwoo" which is a really cute addition considering most fansites just have a blank back.
JD included 3 A4 posters but luckily I got to keep 1 out of the 3. It's a picture of Dongwoo at the airport and I never truly realized how often Dongwoo goes makeup free! I was always conscious of the fact that he was one of the members who was less "high maintenance" in terms of cosmetics but even at official schedules in front of fans, we rarely see him sport eyeshadow.
I believe that this is an A2 sized poster? It's huge and once again, my room's lighting fails me. This photo was taken at the Fanmeeting in March when Dongwoo sported that bright teal color (and I'm pretty sure he only had that hair for like, what, 2 weeks?). The photo quality leaves a little to be desired since his face is a little blurry/out of focus, but the coloring/editing of the poster is wonderful.
Final Ratings and Thoughts:
Quantity of Goods (in regards to price paid): 8/10
Since I technically didn't "pay" for these goods, I'm thankful for what I have! I know I didn't receive all of the goods, but I had to file through this A set to take photos for the girl so she can pick and choose what she'd like to receive. The A2 poster was an unexpected addition since I usually only receive A2 posters in B sets or higher. Receiving 3 A4 posters (theoretically) was also nice. JD was actually really fair, now that I think of it. We were given a pretty good amount of photos for $10, but I do wish that we got stickers or more EMW stickers.
Quality of Goods (in regards to price paid): 6/10
JD was never my favorite Dongwoo fansite in terms of photo quality (that goes to Spring Rain, even though she has a shitty rep as a fansite), so some of the angles for the photos are weird. She didn't use a lot of "eye-contact" pictures, which I know that lots of fans specifically search for (think Honeytree and Made in L), and the sharpness of some of the photos came out weird too.
Overall: 7/10
I didn't pay for this (like I said multiple times), which meant that I originally didn't have an incentive to buy it. But seeing how things have turned out, maybe I'll treat myself to more Dongwoo goods in the future. Seeing how pretty some of these pictures were (I'm still thinking about how pretty that one polaroid was) makes me wonder how the photobook would've turned out!
I wouldn't mind opening another GO for Joyful Darling, so maybe in the future you can expect to see another form from me :)
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