Kill that baby!

Any book that starts that way can't be all bad :) SMeyer should have paid attention.

Yes, as you can tell, I got my hands on Acheron. There better be loads of angst, is all I am sayin'. Cursed at birth is a good start, so let's hope Kenyon keeps this up.

In other news, I completely lost any interest in finishing Iljimae, even ( Read more... )

I found this absolutely incredible MV for Hong Gil Dong (it's a shippy one for Gil Dong/Yi Nok).

I am swooning all over the place and have already watched it five times...

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I have been thinking while walking today, about Iljimae and Hong Gil Dong and its approach to outsider protagonists and societies and class. (None of the below is spoilery, btw).

Iljimae follows a traditional (and beloved) trope in having its protagonist being someone who is unjustly displaced from his proper place in society. He is not an ( Read more... )

Ok, so Powerful Opponents ended ( Read more... )

Things that make me happy:

1. Daemul isn’t scrapped. The air date has been pushed to October, which I can deal with. Hopefully they will iron things out by then.

2. The fangirls in the JJH thread on soompi. They are discussing possible kissing scenes in Antique and are torn between horror (oh noez! Their oppa might be kissing another guy!) and ( Read more... )

I have decided that it was about time for me to update and expand my favorite kdrama primer (which I first did some month ago). Not only were there a bunch of kdramas I wanted to add to the list, but I wanted to rearrange the order of some of the dramas on the list already (except for the first three or so, the placement of the other ones within ( Read more... )

Am on volume 4 of Vampire Knight. How anyone could not like Zero/Yuki together after this, I don’t know. Or, more importantly, while I can see not shipping them, the thought of anyone shipping Kaname/Yuki is mildly disturbing. Kaname is getting creepier and creepier by the volume. If you’ve been reading my LJ, you know I like alpha guys in fiction ( Read more... )

Just finished Hong Gil Dong.


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