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5 Times Peter Made Tony Laugh Out Loud, Spider-man, Avengers, Iron Man, by grilledcheesing
5 Times Peter Pretended To Be Tougher Than He Was, ditto by grilledcheesing
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Have been rather immersed in K-drama for a few months now, and current obsession is Are you human too?. I watch all the clips from KBS on Youtube when they are released, despite not understanding any Korean, and watch it on Viu later when it's subbed. Then again a lot of the dialogue is pretty straightforward so you can make a guess? Also there are recaps on Dramabeans. I think a bit part of my fascination comes from the fact that I still can't quite predict how it will end: whether it's going for "ok, a robot-human romance is definitely doable, let's handwave all the side-concerns" (which I secretly root for, heh), or "robot Nam Shin will sacrifice himself (or get sacrificed, because he's a robot) and then human Nam Shin will find redemption, etc, etc" which is a much more teeth-gnashing ending and I will be justified in scoffing at K-dramas, all over again. Or something else. I look forward to finding out. Let's hope it's not a human-robot mind-meld.
I do tend to get a bit bored by K-dramas, especially the slice-of-life types. They are lovely for the first few episodes (even if they're really good), and then I get restless. The ones that draw my attention most are the ones that give me some interesting myth-making, especially ones that make some (tenuous) connection to folklore. That's probably why I loved Goblin so much, but this doesn't explain my antipathy to other fantasy dramas...
Back to book meme, and since it's the first of the month:
This is hard. I didn't read much as a child, shockingly enough. I read all my textbooks over and over again, because that was what was available. I borrowed books from schoolmates in the morning and read them under the table, and returned them before school ended. So my reading material depended on what my friends and schoolmates had. Quite a bit of Enid Blyton? Then it was:
I am David by Anne Holm.
It was my sister's textbook for her secondary school literature class. I can't remember how I came to be reading it - I read it in secret because it was hers, when I was 11? It blew my mind. I distinctly remember that it was the first book that took me right out of my comfort zone and dropped me in a world that was totally different and frightening and not obviously survivable. I remember being nonplussed at David's god and prayers. I rolled my eyes at his fascination with the little girl*. I still remember reading the words "the eyes of an old, old man..." with a shiver down my spine. I re-read it over and over at that time, though I haven't read it again for over twenty years. Bits of the book still come back to me now and then, which is a sobering reminder of how much your past clings to you.
*Much later, this affected my enjoyment of Charlie Brown and his red-headed crush for so long, sigh.
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5 Times Peter Pretended To Be Tougher Than He Was, ditto by grilledcheesing
***
Have been rather immersed in K-drama for a few months now, and current obsession is Are you human too?. I watch all the clips from KBS on Youtube when they are released, despite not understanding any Korean, and watch it on Viu later when it's subbed. Then again a lot of the dialogue is pretty straightforward so you can make a guess? Also there are recaps on Dramabeans. I think a bit part of my fascination comes from the fact that I still can't quite predict how it will end: whether it's going for "ok, a robot-human romance is definitely doable, let's handwave all the side-concerns" (which I secretly root for, heh), or "robot Nam Shin will sacrifice himself (or get sacrificed, because he's a robot) and then human Nam Shin will find redemption, etc, etc" which is a much more teeth-gnashing ending and I will be justified in scoffing at K-dramas, all over again. Or something else. I look forward to finding out. Let's hope it's not a human-robot mind-meld.
I do tend to get a bit bored by K-dramas, especially the slice-of-life types. They are lovely for the first few episodes (even if they're really good), and then I get restless. The ones that draw my attention most are the ones that give me some interesting myth-making, especially ones that make some (tenuous) connection to folklore. That's probably why I loved Goblin so much, but this doesn't explain my antipathy to other fantasy dramas...
Back to book meme, and since it's the first of the month:
This is hard. I didn't read much as a child, shockingly enough. I read all my textbooks over and over again, because that was what was available. I borrowed books from schoolmates in the morning and read them under the table, and returned them before school ended. So my reading material depended on what my friends and schoolmates had. Quite a bit of Enid Blyton? Then it was:
I am David by Anne Holm.
It was my sister's textbook for her secondary school literature class. I can't remember how I came to be reading it - I read it in secret because it was hers, when I was 11? It blew my mind. I distinctly remember that it was the first book that took me right out of my comfort zone and dropped me in a world that was totally different and frightening and not obviously survivable. I remember being nonplussed at David's god and prayers. I rolled my eyes at his fascination with the little girl*. I still remember reading the words "the eyes of an old, old man..." with a shiver down my spine. I re-read it over and over at that time, though I haven't read it again for over twenty years. Bits of the book still come back to me now and then, which is a sobering reminder of how much your past clings to you.
*Much later, this affected my enjoyment of Charlie Brown and his red-headed crush for so long, sigh.
This entry was originally posted at https://issenllo.dreamwidth.org/78053.html. Comment either here or there.