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so it turns out that time actually does go by faster as you get older. just like how adults told me it would when i was younger. pisses me off

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Always the writer, never the reader.

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realtor whose entire career is just selling (and re-selling and re-selling) the same haunted house

it transpires this is a longstanding con, in which the house (which is hugely haunted) is an active participant

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so seong-ah was a shaman child forced to perform rituals since she was a little girl for her parents' "happiness" and gyeon-u was a cursed child forced to perform rituals since he was a little boy for his family's "safety" and they were both abandoned by their parents. they're only 18 and none of them ever had a normal life when all they want is to help and protect people around them. let the kids live!!!

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HEAD OVER HEELS (2025) text posts (1/2)

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HEAD OVER HEELS (2025) text posts (1/2)

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let us pray that our love (ao3) has a swift surgery (maintenance) and that she recovers well (we can bookmark things again)

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1D OMEGAVERSE NONCON was what took out AO3

so, we all suffered through ao3’s recent downtime:

so i got curious, because i was bookmarking things when the site went down and wouldn’t it be funny if i was the one who broke it lmao (😔no it wasn’t me but i helped)

https://archiveofourown.org/bookmarks/2147483647 is this

absolutely iconic 10/10 no notes good job team 😂

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You started it.

HEAD OVER HEELS 견우와 선녀 (2025)

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You want to know why I follow you around? Kids should be protected by adults, but you protect yourself. That's why I want to be nice to you. Can I do that? Is it pity? It's friendship.

HEAD OVER HEELS 견우와 선녀 (2025)

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You want to know why I follow you around? Kids should be protected by adults, but you protect yourself. That's why I want to be nice to you. Can I do that? Is it pity? It's friendship.

HEAD OVER HEELS 견우와 선녀 (2025)

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This was so hilarious...

But also that really derails all their plans because hello TEEN PARENTS

Because yeah - no college for her, and no athletics for him.

Just makes me want to call my own parents now...

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Geum-myeong is so annoying and I so get her. She’s me, I’m her (when I was a bit younger). I even talked the same way to my parents and regretted it every time.

Ep. 8 had me bawling probably just as much as ep. 6. It’s the dad traveling from far away and waiting for hours just to see his daughter, it’s him waving goodbye from the bus and seeing her as a little kid, it’s the mom and dad willing to sacrifice everything to make their daughter’s dreams come true. It’s how Geum-myeong understands all of this and bursts into tears whenever she thinks of them.

It’s how both Aesun and Gwansik keep asking Geum-myeong whether she really really wants to study abroad because she lied before saying she didn’t care. How Aesun keeps pressuring her to answer because it’s not something she can dismiss, her daughter must have everything she wants.

It’s how Geum-myeong’s dream is actually Aesun’s dream because they’re the same and the whole metaphor about swallowing the dreams and soaring high.

Also how Aesun fulfilled her mother’s dreams (seeing her daughter go to college and succeed, getting a pearl necklace) and Geum-myeong achieved Aesun’s dreams (going to college, studying abroad, flying on a plane).

I keep thinking about my own parents and what they’ve done for me and it makes me cry even more.

I like how, when you finish the fourth episode in the volume, it feels like all the weight and meaning of them come crashing down anew.

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gwangshik swimming across the ocean to get to aesun lives in my head rent free but the build up to that scene is why it's so powerful. how it's pointed out that everything he's done since he was 10 has been for her, to give her a life she wanted and how he's literally leaving the island only because he thinks it's what she wants and he doesn't want to stand in her way but we see that losing her makes living seem futile to him. how we are led to think aesun cares about a career and education and that's why she's considering marrying that sleazy man but we learn it actually doesn't matter but love matters to her, a love she thinks she can't have since she doesn't want to stand in gwangshik's way, how he was her home but she was losing it because she couldn't be with him. we learn that she was never settling for him, she truly loved him and would have given up everything else to be with him just like he would do the same.

it's the way this show raises the question of what we choose in a partner and for the both of them, love mattered the most.

had I been a bystander watching their tearful reunion I would have been in tears because I woukd have felt the longing, the angst, the love. it's just so beautiful.

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Ae-sunie and her kind fool. I cant remember the last time the first 4 episodes of a drama had me bawling like a kid. They're definitely getting a very special place in my heart after this drama ends.

They're so... sweet. Poverty can make you a monster but they've remained so innocent and warm-hearted, I'm gonna cry again fuck.

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OMG this epic sequence, of her heavily pregnant, running full tilt at the owner cursing him out on the crowded quay and the way it intercuts to all the times she ran to protect GS from childhood on from anyone who tried to mistreat him and I dunno, I just love them so.

Heh

This is amazing. And she concludes this by kicking him ahahaha

I adore them. Also, this drama reminds me more than anything of a Jorge Amado novel or similar in vibe and I cannot imagine a higher praise.

Oooof, his finger still doesn't bend...