#tale of tail

[morning-star222]

[goosegorl723]

[awakefor48hours]

[ID: the Gotta Be One of My Favorite meme, an image of a man standing in front of a car, looking to his left, and holding his folded hands up to his chest.

The top of the image has text that's been edited to say "Shout out to physically affectionate m/f platonic friendship fr 🤞🏿" And the bottom text says "Gotta be one of my favorite genders."

Throughout the meme are 14 images include:

Hooty stretching around Lilith for a hug from The Owl House

Vanessa and Finral from Black Clover high-fiving.

Steven and Peridot from Steven Universe sitting together in the cockpit of the gem drill.

Nobara and Yuji from Jujutsu Kaisen holding hands.

Jesse putting a hand on Lake's shoulder in Infinity Train.

Sprig on Anne's head from Amphibia.

Luz resting her head on Hunter's should from The Owl House

Ochako grabbing Tenya's shoulders from My Hero Academia

Willow and Gus from The Owl House linking arms

Jaune hugging Ruby from RWBY

Douxie putting his hand on Claire's shoulder from The Tales of Arcadia

Gray patting Lucy's head from Fairy Tail

Norma and Barney hugging from Dead End Paranormal Park

Bow holding Adora's face from She Ra and the Princess of Power

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[scarefox]

that's what social media is made for:

so I can see Lee Dong Wook hula-hoop in the middle of the night

(x)

[bakariiin]

some of my fairy tail doodles

which character should i do next?

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Thomas Sully (1783-1872) "Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire" (1843) Oil on canvas Located in the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, United States

[tls123]

TALE OF THE NINE TAILED — episode eight / nine inspired by and for @helianthus21

[yesdramas]

TALE OF THE NINE-TAILED 1938 구미호뎐 1938 — 2023, dir. Kang Shin Hyo

[yohankang]

- What’s with the horse? - The mermaid asked for a ride.

(Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938, ep. 4)

[fantazi13]

my love for Wendy is back🥰

I just forgot how much of an angelic child this is

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

I started watching Kdramas this year and I do a lot of literature analysis in my normal life, so I found it really fun to find the tropes that were unique to this genre/culture that were different than what I find in Hollywood TV/movies and novels. I started with Alchemy of Souls and I was kind of amused looking back, because I never thought the SML had a chance with the FL but if I had known how strong the "they met as children and therefore DESTINY" trope is, I probably would have thought they would get together for sure!

Here are some of the unique tropes I've noticed:

-Leads meet as children and therefore DESTINY (What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, 100 Days My Prince, It's Okay to Not be Okay, Castaway Diva, The King's Affection, Sh**ting Stars, Destined with You, subverted in Alchemy of Souls)

-Reincarnation, which happens a ton but of course for the same reason Western media is littered with Chosen One/Saviour plots (played with in Alchemy of Souls and Extraordinary You, straight in Destined with You, Tale of the Nine Tailed, Moon in the Day, My Demon, The Story of Park's Marriage Contract... so many)

-Guy (usually) buys the girl shoes and then puts them on her. They also usually make a joke about her running away. (Tale of the Nine Tailed, 100 Days My Prince, Extraordinary You, Castaway Diva, King the Land, subverted in The King's Affection and The Forbidden Marriage)

-Guy (usually) gives/brings the girl an umbrella to protect her from the rain. I LOVE THIS TROPE, symbolism for protection and shelter gets me (straight in My Lovely Liar, King the Land, Tale of the Nine Tailed, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, subverted/played with in Alchemy of Souls, Business Proposal, Doom at Your Service, Castaway Diva)

-Not sure if this would count as a trope, but unique to the genre because we don't have formal speech in English and especially not in Canada where I live (we've basically started just going first name with everyone) I love it so much when the main characters use informal terms with each other for the first time. The subtitles don't always translate this well, but I know what the honorifics sound like and I'm all, "She didn't use "Mr." that time it's serious now!!!"

Anyway, are there more? I'm probably not catching them all!

Edit: Definitely some sort of trope around characters finding wild ginseng to solve a problem.

(I've only been watching Korean dramas by the way, I'm sure some of these tropes are shared by other dramas from China and Thailand. I just found the comparison with English language TV interesting.)

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

[assassin1513]

⚜️The dreaming Fairy Castles ⚜️

[prinz-myshkin]

Once, the sorcerers student stole the head of Orion. Every night the great hunter would make his trek through the heavens, ending it with a bath in the lake where he would wash his body after the hunt. The sorcerers student, coveting his brilliance for himself contrived a plot to take it. He gathered spring herbs and burned them one evening, along with wood and car tires creating a thick smog that lay itself as fog over the lake. When the constellation knelt to cleanse himself in the waters he did not see the man standing on the shore, and as he bent to dive, his head was plucked from his neck.

[wisesnail]

Here comes the first portrait of 2024! I really had fun painting this Lee Yeon from Tale Of The Nine Tailed - I hope you like it! <:

Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble and Threadless

[haeyeongs]

LEE DONG WOOK as Lee Yeon in TALE OF THE NINE-TAILED (2020)

Happy holidays and happy new year @inafieldofdaisies! I hope 2024 brings you lots of happiness ✨