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insphoeration · 5 years

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KDRAMA RECS

(In no particular order)

Have watched multiple times with no shame:

A Korean Odessey (Also known as, Hwayugi)

So Mi (played by Oh Yeon Seo) has the ability to see ghosts which causes her to get wrapped up with Devil King Woo (played by Cha Seung Won) and mischievous god, Son Oh Gong (played by Lee Seung Gi). As a child So Mi is tricked by Son Oh Gong into making a deal which would only benefit him. 25 years later, So Mi is the only one who can stop the apocalypse, but she can’t do it alone.

Basically one of the best drama’s I have ever watched. A really interesting plot based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West. Really interesting and complex characters as well as decent special effects. While being a romance, this drama follows the stories of the other major players involved, making you fall in love with all of them. This story is a modern spin, so it takes place in modern times while also bringing history and legends into the mix, really entertaining, especially if you’re not a fan of historical drama’s like me.

Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Comedy, Horror

Where I Watched: Netflix

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

Bong Soon (played by Park Bo Young) is born with super human strength, which can only be used for good. An Min Hyuk (played by Park Hyung Sik) is the CEO of a gaming company with a target on his back. Min Hyuk finds out about Bong Soon’s strength and hires her to be his body guard, despite her finding her strength a burden. Together they are able to keep Min Hyuk safe as well as Bong Soon’s community which is being terrorised by a murderer/kidnapper.

Fair warning: because of the mature themes of kidnapping and murder thrown in throughout by the main antagonist, this Drama may be triggering to some people. However if you skip past those parts, this drama is really cute. The thing that made me fall in love with the two main characters was not their romance but the friendship that came before it. A lot of people will tell you this drama is the poster child for second lead syndrome but I really liked it regardless.

Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Action, Romantic comedy

Where I Watched: Netflix

My ID is Gangnam Beauty (Or just Gangnam Beauty)

Based of the webtoon of the same name, Gangnam Beauty centres around chemistry major, Kang Mi Rae (played by Im Soo- Hyang) who underwent plastic surgery, tired of being bullied for her looks. Fellow classmate Hyun Soo A (played by Jo Woo Ri) continuously fights Mi Rae for a position she already has. Only Do Kyung Seok (played by Astro’s Cha Eun Woo) see’s Soo A for who she really is.

This one is also one of my favourites that I always find myself coming back to. Mi Rae starts off pretty insecure but as the drama progresses she starts seeing people for more that her looks as well as grows to stop being ashamed about the fact that she got surgery. And Eun Woo’s acting phenomenal because he doesn’t even resemble Eun Woo with how smiley he is in real life compared to his tsundere character.

Genre: Coming of Age, Romantic Comedy

Where I Watched: Viki.com

School 2015 (Also known as Who Are You?: School 2015)

Another potential trigger warning: the main character gets bullied so bad she attempts suicide which is the thing that really throws the whole story into gear.

Go Eun Byeol and Lee Eun Bi (played by Kim So Hyun) are identical twin sisters separated at birth, while Eun Byeol is cold in nature she is popular and well liked by her peers. Eun Bi however, is like a mother figure to the other kids living at the orphanage, and often stands up for others, she is bullied at school to the point of attempting suicide, which coincides with her sisters disappearance. Eun Bi, with no memory is mistaken for Eun Byeol and is taken to live life as her sister.

This drama was crazy and kept driving me crazy, first of all the antagonist is only a high school student and yet one of the most sinister characters ever written. And while most people think Strong Woman has second lead syndrome, School 2015 almost killed me with second lead syndrome and I’m still not over it. But I still love this drama and I think it’s worth the watch.

Genre: Teen, Mystery, Coming of Age

Where I watched: Youtube

W: Two Worlds

Surgical resident, Oh Yeon Joo (played by Han Hyo Joo) is sucked into the webtoon; W, written by her father. This complicates the storyline of the webtoon’s main character Kyung Chul (played by Lee Jong Suk) as the two get involved.

Wow. Another one of my favourites and the drama to kick start my love affair with Lee Jong Suk. The series as a whole is so original and interesting but every episode leaves you wanting more, Lee Jong Suk’s charcter is so insanely complex my heart really felt for him. And Han Hyo Joo’s acting is marvellous, you coulod truly see the pain her character felt at certain times Fun fact: this drama about a webtoon is based on the webtoon of the same name. (Inception?)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Suspense, Thriller

Where I watched: viki.com

While You Were Sleeping

Nam Hong Joo (played by Bae Suzy) has the ability to see visions, usually bad, in her sleep. She teams up with prosecutor Jung Jae Chan (Played be Lee Jong Suk), and later police officer Han Woo Tak (played by Jung Hae In), to help the people plagued in her dreams.

The first episode had me in all types of confusion but looking back on it, it was actually done really well, introducing characters and the overall plot. What I really likes about this drama was that it had me on the edge of my seat nearly the whole time, and every episode amounted to something bigger. Unfortunately this series does come with a decent about onf second lead syndrome, but not like School: 2015 or Cheese in the Trap where you’re kind of mad at the main character for choosing the wrong person but like Strong Woman Do Bong Soon and Sassy Go Go, you fall in love with both leads and you just want the second lead to also have a happy ending.

Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Thriller, Legal Drama

Where I watched: Viki.com

Descendants of the Sun

Brought together by unfortunate circumstance, Korean special forces Captian Yoo Shi Jin (played by Song Jong Ki), and Surgeon Kang Mi Yeon (played by Song Hye Kyo) have to work together to protect the people they love. Set in the fictional country of Uruk, Yoo’s Alpha team and Kang’s medical team learn a lot about themselves and what life is like on another side of the world.

I’m not going to lie, I put this off for so long because I thought I wasn’t going to like it but I actually ended up loving it. This is in most part due to Song Jong Ki’s charter, when I heard he was in the military I was like ugh it’s going to be one of those tough guy gets softened up by the girl drama’s but on a much larger scale, but boy was I wrong. Yoo Shi Jin is a responsible and hardworking Captain that cares about the people around him, almost to a fault, but he’s hilarious and light hearted at the same time. And at some point the bromance got me more than the main romance. There is a reason this drama is so popular and often referred to as iconic. Go watch it! Another fun fact: Song Jong Ki and Song Hye Kyo got married in October of 2017.

Genre: Romance, Melodrama, Action

Where I Watched: Viki.com

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Jo

A coming-of-age story about a group of college athletes who are fighting for their dreams, experiencing and finding love in the process.

Sorry I couldn’t come up with a good summary, the overall story is a bit hard to explain. I liked this drama although I didn’t love it. It’s cute and funny and it also deals with important topics like mental health on top of physical health. The one this that rubbed me the wrong way with this drama is the ‘thing’ between Bok Jo and the second male lead, simply because their age gap was far too large to ignore. But skipping through damn near all of his scenes, I enjoyed it.

Genre: Coming of Age, Sports, Romantic Comedy

Where I watched: Viki.com

Honourable Mentions:

Reply 1997

Coming of Age story that deals with a lot of important topics like friendship, sex, relationships, family and honestly just growing up.

Cute but another one where the second lead rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it’s because he played the evil guy in Hwayugi and I can’t see him as anything else but his whole thing was weird. I don’t want to spoil it but I genuinely cannot believe people thought his character was sane not to mention a good match for the main.

He is Psychometric

Lee Ahn has the ability to see the past of whatever he touches, he uses his ability to help a police officer and prosecutor solve the mystery of the fire that killed his parents

I honestly only watched this for Jinyoung okay, and while I was impressed with the acting by all the actors, the story would slow down right before it hit you in the face, so overall kind of all over the place.

EUN JI SOO DESERVED BETTER

The Heirs

Typical poor girl falls for a rich guy drama (kind of a classic)

One of my first Drama’s, you could really feel the chemistry between the two main leads, and the character of Kim Tan was so passionate it was captivating

Doctors

Medical drama based on a former delinquent who ends up being a surgeon and her mentor

Another drama with a weird age gap

Park Shin Hye is a badass.

#kdrama #kdrama recommendations #kdrama review #weightlifiting fairy kim bok joo #strong woman do bong soon #while you were sleeping #w:two worlds #school 2015 #my id is gangnam beauty #descendants of the sun #hwayugi #korean odessey #reply 1997 #he is psychometric #the heirs #doctors

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furiouslyinsensible · 5 years

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ASTROPHYSICS STUDENT FALLS IN LOVE WITH A HISTORY STUDENT / kieren m.

in response to the gorgeous HISTORY STUDENT FALLS IN LOVE WITH AN ASTRO-PHYSICS STUDENT by @boykeats.

#mine #poetry #this is like. sub-par but whatever #it's SUMMER bitches

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s0dafucker · 5 years

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unrivaled tenderness:

- 'who would i be if i had not loved you / how would i know what love is' what would i do (falsettos), william finn

- 'we should hold each other more while we are still alive, even if it hurts.' holdfast, robin beth schaer

- 'it was never that i didn't want you. it was never, ever that.' heaven help us, bexless

- 'they just want to be one / walk off into the sun / they're not kissing, they're not fucking / they're just having fun' twin fantasy (those boys), car seat headrest

- 'tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. these, our bodies, possessed by light. tell me we'll never get used to it.' scheherazade, richard siken

- when elisa and the fish man first meet and they look at each other through the glass with their hands pressed against it, just sort of studying each other (the shape of water (2017), dir. guillermo del toro)

- 'i just think about my baby / i'm so full of love i could barely eat' work song, hozier

- 'i would have come for you. and if i couldn't walk, i'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together- knives drawn, pistols blazing. because that's what we do. we never stop fighting.' crooked kingdom, leigh bardugo

- 'you say my name and i want to knit my bones into your bones, smooth away the boundaries of our heartbeats.' history student falls in love with astro-physics student, keaton st. james

- 'the correct question is may I kiss you,' he says, and bertrand is halfway through a disbelieving laugh when he finishes, 'and the answer is yes. yes, i wish you had asked sooner.' failed plots, aesoleucian

#theres so many more but these are just the things that stick in my head when im trying to sleep #mine #writing #ig?#its abt writing

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astrofireworks · 7 years

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astro witch coven au (sanha)

au masterlist

The very last one to tumble into the Astro coven

Part-timed at the SF9 coven for a while

So sometimes you have specialised covens like the VIXX coven (in charms and talismans) and the Snuper coven (in healing)

and sometimes you have hodgepodge covens who have one specialist for whatever you need like a one-stop shop

such as Bangtan and Astro (where you can get potions, herbs and charms in the same house – which makes it endlessly easy for harried house-witches in each of their neighbourhoods to pick up stuff they need)

another such example is SF9

and at that point in time SF9 suddenly had a boom of magical people in their neighbourhood

so they had a lot of orders and stuff pouring in so Youngbin decided to hire some smol part-timers

i.e., excited young witches eager to flex their magical fingers and put their powers to good use to earn some pocket money

and so this is how smol Chani and Sanha, with their bright eyes and nimble fingers and penchant for mischief, end up part-timing for SF9

earned a little pocket money, earned a lot of experience

Chani mainly worked with the potion masters Zuho and Hwiyoung and with the gardening witch Dawon

Sanha spent most of his time with Youngbin, Jaeyoon and Inseong in the charms room after magic school, preparing different sets of crystals for spells they needed to do

Happiness charm? A bottle cap inscribed with ‘happiness’ in Inseong’s neat script, two crystals and three leaves

Calming charm? A hairclip that Jaeyoon’s scribbled on in white paint marker, a bottle of distilled water and four crystals

Cooling crystals? A small blue crystal and a thin copper wire

Sanha’s got it mostly in his head, but anything he doesn’t know, he consults a small manual written in Youngbin’s messy scrawl and prepares the sets for them

Very nimble fingers and can pack things really well and fast!!! Bless Sanha

Occasionally when the three weren’t as busy, Sanha skipped downstairs to help Taeyang and Rowoon with small errands like delivery

Helped Rowoon, a frost witch, deliver ice bags to people around the neighbourhood

Or sometimes helped Taeyang, an elemental witch, package stuff he spins out of thin air and label them for customers

Sometimes messed up the names and stuff but Taeyang sorted them out eventually

also earned a lot of exasperation and fondness

Sanha really is a pure bean he just needs the right goading to turn into a lil shit

Like that time Dawon was napping in his greenhouse

Sanha and Taeyang releasing tiny butterflies made out of thin copper wires charmed to fly for less than an hour into the air

Dawon nearly panicking because he thought they were eating up his children

Or that time Sanha ‘accidentally’ swapped out Jaeyoon’s dry-erase markers for permanent ones

And Jaeyoon usually uses them to note a list of charms and clients on his arm for easy reference so he can erase them later

Cue Jaeyoon walking around the whole day being grumpy because Chani and Sanha charmed his ink to stay on for 24 hours

Carried onto the Astro coven ohohoho I have so many stories from the Sanha-MJ vs Bin prank war

Bin loves pranking Sanha it’s hilarious

Like that one beetle incident

And also that shouting charm incident

Filed under Bin’s profile if you’re interested

More to come

But yes and so like this, business eventually settled into a steady rhythm

until Sanha’s dad decided to move them halfway across the country

rip Sanha’s after-school money-making means

But Sanha has to adjust to a new magic school and make new friends and stuff so the first month or so he doesn’t really have the time to go out and part-time anyway

Ok a bit more about the magic school system

I realise I’ve never gone into this with much detail rip but now I’ve gone into it with too much detail

Me: I need to publish Sanha’s profile asap

Also me: ok but first you need to rewrite the laws of physics in each single AU you have

But basically you go to school for basic magic stuff like learning the theories and learning what different branches of magic there are

imagine Hogwarts but in a house and with like 10 magical kids at differing magical levels and ages

so they all learn the theory portion together in the mornings

and occasionally instead of magical theory they cover actual stuff they need for national exams because I mean ??? they still need qualifications just in case they want to go into something non-magical

but because they’re all of differing magical levels and different magical backgrounds, they spend the second half of the day either Shadowing their parents’ magic business or if their parents worked in a non-magical line, Shadowing a specialist coven

and this ‘specialist’ coven they Shadow usually falls in line with their interest

like how Chani was interested in botany and spent his Shadow time with the botany witch coven Honeyst (after which he went to Dawon’s greenhouse to learn more while earning pocket-money)

and this is the route the rest of Astro took too, with Eunwoo’s training in the Snuper coven and Rocky helping out in his cousin’s potions room and Bin living nearly full-time in the VIXX coven

and eventually in their later years they either fade out of theory entirely and just work in their specialist line or continue with national exams and go into non-magical lines

Sanha’s parents chose the non-magical line and work in entertainment, which doesn’t really require much of their magic but is largely enjoyable for them all the same

And so Sanha’s left with the choice to either specialise or go non-magical like his parents

But he knows deep down that he does want to do magic so that’s that

And so he has to specialise

I mean, he was thinking of specialising in charms with SF9 but since he’s moved halfway across the country he can no longer do so

And so he flounders around looking for help

Until one day Chani calls to tell him to knock on the door of the Astro coven to look for a place because while a lot of covens would love to have Sanha, the only Charmers there are in the neighbourhood are the VIXX coven and the Astro coven

And while VIXX is an established specialist coven, after Bin left, N’s been swamped with new students looking to create charms and talismans too

And not to worry!!! Because apparently Dawon knows a blood ritualist in that coven and apparently they’re all very nice and looking for some help

So Sanha marches up to the Astro coven door and rings the first magical doorbell he sees (MJ’s) and introduces himself

Sanha shouting: “HI I’M SANHA I’D LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CHARMS AND MAGIC”

Jinjin, hauling this idiot in because who the hell shouts about this in the middle of the street????

Rocky, coven leader, sizing this beanpole up

Tol smol

Skinny

Easily startled

Lil bit dumb

Not sure if he wants to take him but-

MJ bursting into the kitchen where Rocky and Jinjin have Sanha sat down

“HELLO YES PLS TAKE THEM ONE OF OUR OLD NEIGHBOURS CALLED AND SAID HE’S A SWEETHEART”

temporarily forgets that Rockjin have no idea about KNK’s extensive immigration history

also comes to regret this statement many incidents of Sanha Talks Shit & Gets Hit™ later

Jinjin dragging Binu out of their second floor cave to evaluate this young son

Eunwoo peering into Sanha’s eyes and agreeing immediately because Sanha looks so pure and cute he can’t help it he’s weak

Binnie giving Sanha a couple of trinkets and asking him to sort them into charm sets for him

Sanha doing well so far until he comes across a dead beetle and yelps

Binnie’s eyes twinkling

“yES ROCKY I’M VERY SURE I WANT THIS ONE”

rip Sanha

Rocky, incredulous,

Instant best friends with MJ

Plays so well with MJ Bin gets alarmed because

He can prank MJ and he can prank Sanha but

Both at once???? He’ll admit he’s a little alarmed

Can talk to MJ about nothing for ages

Although MJ can’t talk for ages

He’s old, forgive him – he tires easily

Also that one time he talked about nothing to MJ and managed to turn the entire house purple and KNK’s coven house black

Incredible

And long story short, Rocky was the one who agreed that Sanha move in with them and train under all of them in the end

But if you ask him now lmao he’ll deny it to his death

He personally feels that Sanha is truly one of the most powerful witches he’ll ever meet and have the opportunity to apprentice

Although all he’s asked Sanha to do so far in his apprenticeship is fetching potion ingredients

Something Sanha is Actually Terrible at

Comes out into the garden with a list of different herbs Rocky wants found within two hours

One and a half hours of searching and talking to Chani and Dawon on speakerphone later he’s only found basil and it’s only because Jinjin was collecting some for dinner later

Jinjin sighing and slowly sifting through the list with Sanha

Papa!Jinjin slowly teaching his son how to differentiate between plants

belleaves (non-spiky leaves, brownish-green, edible) and balleaves (also non-spiky leaves, greenish-brown, to be strained out of the potion at the end of brewing)

Rohas (space violet, five-petalled, strong smell, used in Healing aromatherapy potion brews) and Roahs (vivid plum, five-petalled, slightly sweeter and milder smell, used in Calming aromatherapy potion brews)

English parsley and Chinese parsley (for fun because Jinjin sends Sanha out to collect herbs for dinner sometimes)

Sanha struggling through himself when it comes to non-agricultural potion ingredients like feathers and stuff

Tries to ask Bin but then Bin starts asking him to help him collect other stuff too so he just kind of panics and runs away

Bin being mildly confused because didn’t Sanha prefer making charm sets anyway

He does, but he also prefers seeing Rocky’s proud beam when Sanha comes to him, exhausted and covered in whatever it took to catch that one pigeon to get that one singular feather off its back

Rocky raising his hand to pat Sanha on the shoulder

Rocky also letting Sanha sit in the Potions room (out-of-bounds to MJ and Bin after that One Incident with Magical Water Balloons) and complete tasks Bin’s set him

As long as he keeps a 2m radius from his cauldron, that is

Sorry Sanha

Because no matter how talented Sanha is, he’s still a Grade A Idiot

Like that one time Sanha nearly knocked over Rocky’s prized cauldron and Rocky got so mad about it

he slipped a potion into Sanha’s flask that made his skin purple for a week

and it was really funny bc Sanha usually flops around outside in the garden helping Jinjin because he’s mostly tasked to collect potions ingredients after he finishes assembling charm sets for Bin

but then with purple skin he was too afraid to go out of the house to even go to school lest Humans see him

so he just kind of whined at the window at Jinjin and MJ until Jinjin personally begged Rocky to either give Sanha back his regular skin colour or to give him something else to do

needless to say Sanha probably will never go near the cauldron ever again

wahahah i’m finally done with astro’s profiles it’s drabble time

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tsanasreads · 6 years

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The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict is a fictionalised account of the life of Mileva Marić, who was Albert Einstein's first wife. It's based partly on historical records and letters sent between the couple, but also includes a dollop of conjecture, as the author notes in her afterword.

A vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the greatest scientists in history. What secrets may have lurked in the shadows of Albert Einstein’s fame? His first wife, Mileva “Mitza” Marić, was more than the devoted mother of their three children—she was also a brilliant physicist in her own right, and her contributions to the special theory of relativity have been hotly debated for more than a century. In 1896, the extraordinarily gifted Mileva is the only woman studying physics at an elite school in Zürich. There, she falls for charismatic fellow student Albert Einstein, who promises to treat her as an equal in both love and science. But as Albert’s fame grows, so too does Mileva’s worry that her light will be lost in her husband’s shadow forever. A literary historical in the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein reveals a complicated partnership that is as fascinating as it is troubling.

This book caught my eye because— well why wouldn't it? As a woman and as an (astro-) physicist myself, why wouldn't I be interested in reading about a lesser-known woman who was so close to some of the most fundamental progressions in physics a century ago? And while I don't generally read non-fiction outside of work, this was a novelised account, so it didn't count as non-fiction, right? That's not to say I didn't have some problems with it. First off, I didn't like the first person narrator voice of Mileva. I thought that as a woman in the same field — albeit more than a century later — I should at least have something in common with her. But aside from her professed love of physics I couldn't find any commonalities. I was also surprised at how much discussion of hair and appearance there was from someone who I would have expected to not care about those things beyond what was strictly necessary as mandated by society. I did not connect with the character at all, although I do admit I became invested in her plight as I read further. That investment mainly paid off in making me want to shout at the page and tell her not to make certain poor decisions. That said, I was a bit disappointed to read, in the afterword, that the story was more fictional than I had hoped (some of the less consequential and/or more mysterious events were made up/extrapolated). This of course includes all the private interactions with Albert that weren't referenced in their letters to each other. Which brings me to the most controversial part of this book: Albert's treatment of Mileva. The way the author writes it, there were a lot of red flags in the beginning, but I can see how they were easy to overlook in a state of youthful inexperience. That didn't stop me being angry at Albert on Mileva's behalf, especially when he grew resentful of her for both being a housewife and daring to want to be more than a housewife. Those interactions, while somewhat upsetting, were the more interestingly written part of the book. The other thing that bothered me, fiction aside, were some of the descriptions of physics. I generally didn't find them to be that great. I mean, the first description of special relativity was terrible, although the second one (when it came up again later) was an improvement. It was disappointing since it ought to have been quite central to the story. Some of the general physics chatter was superficial enough to not feel actively wrong, but... well, not everyone can be everything, but it was still disappointing. Perhaps this book is best taken as historical fiction and not read for the physics aspects. As I said, I didn't find the characterisation of the protagonist very satisfying (and I didn't find her voice at all believable at first), but others might not have the same issues. It was overall an interesting read and I can imagine a passable Hollywood movie being made of it. I recommend it to readers that find the premise interesting, but with the caveats discussed above. 3.5 / 5 stars First published: 2016, Sourcebooks Series: no Format read: eARC Source: Publisher via Netgalley Content imported from Blogger http://ift.tt/2DbtOFD. If you would like to leave a comment, please do so at the aforementioned link.

#3.5 stars #Historical #marie benedict #science #books #reviews #book reviews

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