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Its been a year, since alchemy of souls, that i havent been this HOOKED and EXCITED by à kdrama...

God LORD PLEASE give us a HAPPY END - i am dreaming i know-

Moving (2023) is killing it with every aspect of the show. The supernatural elements and slice of life is blended seamlessly. Each main romance is endearing, from cute puppy love to agents falling in love despite their missions to a tough ordinary woman loving a softhearted monster.

The family dynamics is the main highlight of the show, the different ways a parent protects their children from what they inherit from them. On one hand, you have the Jang family who are glad that Huisoo will never get hurt because she inherited her father's powers. Contrasting the Kim family where Mihyun's daily concern is to keep Bongseok grounded and safe away from harm, preventing him from becoming like his father. And then you have the complete opposite with Ganghoon who has to hide his powers to protect his autistic father. You see these three kids navigating through their uniqueness with each other.

Even the villain is one of the best antagonist in kdrama to date, Frank has an interesting background that even as you hate the danger he poses to the protagonists, you start feeling a sense of pity as you watch him deal with parents who would go to hell and back just to protect their children and see him confront his own past of being abandoned by his own.

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seo woojin thoughts — contd.

For all his cynicism in the beginning, Woojin has always been someone who looks for the good in people. Not to say he doesn’t have a jaded world view— which he obviously does because of all he’s been through— but he still believes in hope. If he did not, he wouldn’t have made it as far as he did.

It’s a little ironic, because even when he tries to be distrusting towards people, he can’t help but look for that someone he can put his faith in. Hyunjun was that person to him in med school, but he betrayed him. And then comes Kim Sabu, giving him a last ray of hope and pretty much turns his life around by bringing him to Doldam.

Woojin appreciates the good in his life that much more because only he knows how difficult it has been for him to reach the point he is now. If someone shows him kindness, he gives the double of it back. His capacity to love despite everything is what makes him my favorite character, I love him </3

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I liked dr romantic but I had a hard time connecting with the younger leads. I never really liked them, one is too arrogant and the other is rage personified. I didn't feel any chemistry between them too.

So when I heard s2 had different younger leads I was interested. I am so glad I gave it a chance because s2 was much better. I loved the new characters, the chemistry was great, the music was so much better.

Seo woo jin's character was much more compelling and deep, his trauma, him trying to survive but still trying to follow a decent path. I honestly loved him from the first minute.

Cha eun jae was very likable but the dozing off part was a bit off putting to me. But her heart was in the right place and she was open to learning and correcting her mistakes. Which is huge btw.

Yoon Areum was such a sunshine among all the drama. And I loved how they gave her a romance arc rather than making her a comic relief. She was sweet, considerate but also a bit too nosy.

And lastly the bone doctor, bae moon jung. He lived in his own world and seemed like one of the most chill person to ever worked in doldam. He does find himself entangeld with the lives of the new recruits (thanks to kim sabu) which results in a sweet bromance.

I have liked the core staff in doldam in S1, and in S2 it carried further, they came together like a family. And I love how they are shown as extremely skilled (due to them working with high number of trauma cases). No one is clumsy or incompetent and the mistakes felt very human very real.

All in all I liked s1 but I really loved s2. Now I am watching s3 and I am enjoying it as well.

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KING THE LAND 킹더랜드 (2023) dir. Im Hyun Wook

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"It's fine that you work hard, but please don't hurt yourself. Your blood is my blood and your delicate bones are also mine."

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😱😭😭😭

me watching ep 9 previews: cool, we are going to have some good whump scenes.

me after ep 9: no, no, no, no. take it back! take it back! it's his hand! IT'S HIS HAND! HE IS A SURGEON! HOW DARE YOU! *sobbing intensifies*

me after ep 10: *dead*

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This season we have seen subtle signs of how alike woojin and kim sabu are. And it peaked on ep9 with the whole self sacrificial actions he makes.

Woojin doesnt see much fault in it since patients are number one priorty to him. But the people around him are getting more and more worried, scared and possibly anxious (in cha eun jaes case).

And I think this was a wake-up call for kim sabu. When it was him he didn't care as long as he could save the patient(s). But now it is someone else putting themselves in danger for the same thing and this time it's kim sabu who has to watch them get hurt. He is experiencing the horrors of (nearly) loosing someone because they followed the same path as him.

Because they disregarded their lives when a patient's is on the line.

Because they acted recklessly to save someone elses life.

Because they got seriously hurt doing so.

Because even if they lived they might not be able to continue their profession.

It's a nightmare situation to him.

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their engagement was so simple yet so beautiful, no corny stuff just them and their loving stares

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I cried tearfull of joy and love😭💖

THIS SCENE WAS EVERYTHING — eunjae's surprise and elation, woojin's eyes so full of love ㅠ

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So you see me as a potential bride? No.

Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow (2022)

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AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH THE HANDS! 😭

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😭😭😭

BITCH...

Let there be peace on Earth until December 10 at least… 1 Month.  Amen.

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#alchemy of souls

#december is coming

#my heart will beat again

I'm sorry but I just need to take a moment to scream about why Mu-deok / Naksu / Cho Yeong's character and the romance between her and Uk makes me go absolutely feral.

She's just so clever and calculating and determined. Like Uk has literally been trying for years and years to get his gate of energy open. When he finally meets Naksu, someone who's actually willing to open it for him, it's at a time where she's trapped in a weak body and doesn't have the power to do so. But she doesn't let that deter her. She's just like alright let's poison his ass instead, and it works. Just like that, she gets his gate open with minimal effort on her part (minus the torture lol).

Then there's the incident where she throws filthy water on the crown prince and pisses him off to the point that he's ready to fight them all. She gets everyone out of trouble by putting on a remorseful servant act and offering to drink the water. She also immediately clocks the prince as someone who is arrogant and therefore weak to flattery, and proceeds to follow him out and sweet talk him to death. And that works too. The prince ends up leaving that encounter being pleased and amused by her when just minutes ago he wanted to slice and dice her for daring to dirty him. She knew exactly how to act and what to say to get what she wanted.

When the crown prince threatens to destroy her birg egg charm, Naksu tricks him into thinking she doesn't care about it and causes him to throw it away, which ensures that she can get it back even if Uk loses his last duel. She is also the true mastermind behind the duel between Uk and the crown prince, which she arranged because Uk was demotivated due to Park Jin's usual bullshit. She also set up the ten duels between Uk and the other mages, which helped Uk improve by leaps and bounds since he was able to memorize and utilize his opponents tactics, which again is exactly what she wanted.

It's wild how so many pivotal events in the show were orchestrated by her. She's literally just so damn manipulative and I love it. Time and time again, she flawlessly manipulates both people and situations to achieve her desired outcome.

She's also extremely hardworking. It's clear how ruthlessly efficient she is by the way she absolutely dominates the Songrim servant test despite the fact that she's in a physically weak body. Her body is probably the weakest of all the other competitors, but she still completes every task faster and better than all of them. This is probably because she grew up on her own in a desolate place, and therefore had to develop the skills necessary to survive. Compared to Uk who's never had to cook, clean, do his own laundry, and even has people running his baths for him, Naksu is practically a survivalist.

And like you would think that someone with these traits would also have a healthy sense of self-preservation, right? WRONG.

Maybe I'm just watching the wrong shows and reading the wrong books, but usually when I see characters who are smart and cunning and know how to fend for themselves, their priorities tend to be their own safety. But Naksu literally does not give a flying fuck about her well-being. When she discovers that she can't draw her sword and thinks she'll be powerless forever, her first instinct is to just kill herself. She heads straight for the lake and jumps in. She also shrugs off being brutally tortured by Park Jin, saying she expected worse. When Jang Uk loses control during training and is about to impale her, she doesn't even try to move out of the way even though she could.

She's highly self-serving but also paradoxically has zero self-preservation, and that's why I find her character so fascinating. And it's demonstrated that the reason she's like this is that she's so goal-oriented. What Naksu cares about isn't her life, but her goals—which are getting her power back and avenging her family. If she has to lay down her life to do that, then so be it, because her safety isn't nearly as important to her as achieving her goals.

This is why the romance between her and Uk is so fucking immaculate, because he's like that too. Even though people see him as a helpless troublemaker, Uk is also very crafty and perceptive. All it took was Mudeok looking him in the eyes and swinging a crab leg at him for him to instantly figure out that she's a soul-shifter and that she's actually Naksu. He then immediately uses that knowledge to try and blackmail her into being his master. He got Heo Yeom drunk so that he could carry him and copy his breathing technique, and he even had the foresight to bribe Ju-wol in advance so that Mu-deok's identity would be protected if anyone came looking for her. He also knows how to use people's perception of him as weak to get himself out of trouble. Just like his master / maid, he's cunning, but he's also reckless and isn't all that concerned with his own safety. He literally wasn't the slightest bit upset when Naksu poisoned him. He could have easily died, and he didn't even care, he was just happy his gate of energy was finally open.

Both Naksu and Uk are people who are driven by their goals and will pursue them relentlessly without really caring if it costs them their lives. And those same people people who were once willing to do anything for the sake of their own ambitions, gave up on their goals for each other. For almost the entire show, Naksu and Uk risked so much and schemed their hearts out to get what they wanted, only for both of them to choose to be powerless in the end. The most powerful, notorious assassin in Daeho and the literal King's Star who's supposed to have a great destiny gave up their power to run away and live a simple life with each other. How can I not lose my mind over them!!!

And it's like not only did they give up their powers for each other, they also did it for the sake of the people around them. Uk wanted to save everyone that was trapped in the ice stone, and despite the fact that Naksu kept on telling herself she could let them all die, she wanted to save them too. Episode 19 Uk and Naksu are nowhere near as self-seeking as they were in episode 1, and it's partly because of each other. The way they were both instrumental to the other's growth is just 😫😫😫

And also the way that they understand and support each other. Like when Uk first tells Naksu his plan to take the barrier down, she's immediately like wtf no you could literally die, lets think of something else. Of course she wouldn't want to watch the love of her life possibly kill himself right in front of her, but that's exactly what she does. Even though she's scared that what he's about to do could cost him his life and the thought of that is so unbearable to her that she even gave up her power, she still ends up encouraging him to do it. Because she understands his "its better to die than do nothing" mentality because that's also her mentality. And Uk also understands her and the impact her upbringing has had on her. He's so considerate of her and showers her with affection without crossing any lines because he knows she's not used to it.

And let's not even talk about that moment after the barrier is destroyed and both of them have well and truly lost their chance at power, and Naksu literally fucking smiles and says it's fine because they're together. The ruthless, cold-hearted assassin who was willing to kill them both to get her power back is content being totally powerless and trapped in a weak body because Uk is with her. She once said that she'd rather die than live that way, but now she actively chooses to live that way because she loves Uk and desires him more than power 😭😭😭😭😭

December needs to come quick because I'm losing my mind over here

(Also I'm so sorry this ended up being so long I didn't mean to write this much lmaooooo)

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Miss them😮‍💨

never getting over this promo pic/poster like i’m serious

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Tom and Jerry relationships in dramas

Fight For My Way

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

Hometown Cha Cha Cha

True Beauty

So I Married The Anti Fan

Doom At Your Service

Suspicious Partner

Our Beloved Summer

Mr Queen

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

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The kdrama's circle😒🤣

*watches a stressful mystery, thriller, crime show*

Damn I need something light and fluffy now

*watches fluffy rom coms*

That was really fluffy, I need bloodshed

*repeats endless cycle*

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Our little xiao lanhua🤣

i love xiao lanhua. not only does she poison people’s wine but she also bribes flowers for their pollen so she can knock people unconscious. she’s an absolute menace