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I did feel a little bit lost in those years.

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my gift for @anironsidh for the @phandomgiftexchange!! i had so much fun with this i've been itching to draw something cute and domestic :) hope you enjoy!!

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franktensils appreciation

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조선로코 녹두전 (2019)

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i thought I couldn't love kang tae oh more after watching run on and extraordinary attorney woo... But he proved me wrong

Prince Neungyang, King Injo later on

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Musings on The Tale of Nokdu and the subversion of the narrative

Putting spoilers under the cut, due to information regarding the ending.

It has been more than three years since I watched The Tale of Nokdu, and I still find myself thinking about it from time to time. Not just due to the ways the show played with gender, the romance or the lovely leads.

No, what keeps me thinking of The Tale of Nokdu now and again is the way it subverted the narratives we expect.

Here, we have a king's son who has been deprived of his birthright. It is his role to fight to claim the throne, or die trying.

There, we have a heroine who lost her entire family to an unfair purge. It is her role to gain her revenge and justice at long last, or die trying.

In a story like this there should be two possible outcomes: Glory or Tragedy.

Our hero and heroine are expected to fight until the end for their righteous goals. They will either triumph over evil for a happy ending or perish in the process. Either option would be satisfying for the audience, although in different ways. When we see a story of this nature, we expect the story might go in one of these directions.

Yet in The Tale of Nokdu, it does not.

Our hero and heroine do fight to achieve their goals, they try their hardest and they are prepared to sacrifice themselves, yet there is a point in the narrative when they realise that they cannot win.

They have to make a choice at that point, and they choose to give up, thereby walking away from their doomed narrative.

Nokdu neither gains his father's love nor his throne. Dong Joo does not achieve her long sought revenge. In the end, the villain wins and begins a new reign over the kingdom.

It should be an unsatisfying ending by all rights yet it's not. Nokdu and Dong Joo will live out their lives happily and simply with their chosen found family and if they are lucky they will be forgotten by history.

The ending is so satisfying precisely because it is the best choice they could possibly make, it's a rejection of the idea that failure is unacceptable and that glory must be achieved.

It's a subversion of the narrative that I would like to see more often.

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Recently saw a translation of KTO's interview on Twitter that says "KTO's favorite nickname is Young-woo's husband" but actually there are SO MANY CONTEXTS MISSING

What he actually said is that he really enjoyed a meme calling him 'HYL' (Husband of Young-woo Later on) which is a parody of his previous drama, 'The Tale of Nokdu'

KTO was a gentle second lead in the romcom history drama (at least we thought he'd be)

Then in the middle of the series he suddenly turned out to be

A psychopath villain which is based on a real king of Joseon, King Injo. KTO immediately got quite famous after this scene since it was such a twist (not just because gentle second lead turned into a scary villain, but because real Injo is such a terrible king/father and most koreans hate him to guts lol so ppl who loved him as the gentle second lead were so devastated that he was actually King Injo lmao) and had so much impact.

Anyways, this korean subtitle revealing his identity in this famous scene says "Prince Neungyang, King Injo Later on" and it became a meme when a korean eaw fan made this

"Lee Jun-ho, Husband of Young-woo Later on"

with the exact history drama style subtitle lol and korean eaw fans started calling this meme and also nicknamed Jun-ho as HYL. So that's why KTO said this is his favorite nickname 🤣

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The tale of Nokdu is about loyalty, cross dressing, and taking steps to avoid your fate to ultimately cause it to happen.

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia abbreviation always feels like an Italian man answering the question 'how do you drink your tea?'

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You know how to do that? Yeah, it's a brick-based medium.

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"Mac and Dennis" episode title cards

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many on here need to be learning this lesson

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griddles 🍳

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hungry and bored does anyone wanna drink my blood or swear their fealty to me or make me a stouffer's oven lasagna

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for a 6'4 cis man Dan Howell looks remarkably transmasc