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Blossom Ep 2 - Relationship Chart Recap

In which the question is posed: can fate be changed if you know what's going to happen?

The 3 girls growing up together flew by so fast that their identities confused me for a good long while.

They also did a fantastic job of choosing child actors with similar facial features.

As always, charts don’t spoil future eps. Check out #relrecap blossom for other episodes.

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Blossom ep 7ish or so: I do find the nice scholarly fellow in Blossom MUCH more appealing than the one in Kunning Palace. Why is that? Is it that he has more of a personality and isn't such a stick in the mud?

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Blossom Ep 1 - Relationship Chart Recap

There were too many young ladies and families to keep track of, trying out a recap to see if I can keep it straight.

Episode 1, in which we start over again. Again.

As always, charts don’t spoil future eps. Check out #relrecap blossom for other episodes later on.

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Could use some escapist reads — any danmei novel recs, ideally all published? I very much like mxtx (svsss is my fav) and 2ha, but wasn’t a fan of yuwu (remnants of filth).

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Pikmin Bounty 🥭🍓🍉🌱

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Su Rongqing generally looks like something he just ate is disagreeing with him.

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Update: I tried both and the hands down winner is The Princess Royal.

I found The Double disjointed and rushed, and didn’t feel anything for the characters after 2 episodes, so no more of that for me.

Vs. The Princess Royal was funny and engaging, and I really want to see how this second chance life turns out — their bickering and comfort/regret with each other is appealing to watch. The palace intrigue is rather obvious, but their interactions are fun. Plus the main guy does a really good bitchy face. I’m now on ep 6.

Should I watch The Double or The Princess Royal?

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Should I watch The Double or The Princess Royal?

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Book read: Poppy War, not my thing

I picked it up because the description was Asian-inspired fantasy. It wasn’t my thing, even the though the story and world building was interesting and I wanted to see what happened.

Most of it was very much a typical modern YA tone, with a chosen one-humble beginnings-badass when trained kind of story, and that was fine since I was mostly reading to see what happened to her. But it veered into horrific detailed war crime descriptions and I had this uncomfortable feeling throughout that it was China-centric/anti-Japan in spite of its fantasy setting. Sure enough, the end notes mention that the atrocities were lifted straight from the Rape of Nanking and other China/Japan tensions.

So, FYI.

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I enjoy all the tasty-looking Asian bento and lunch videos on YouTube but … ladies! I want to see you make them for yourselves, not your lame ass husband who’d never make such a nice thing for you at the crack of dawn. I don’t even want to tap on the video anymore if I see the word “husband” in the title.

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Character: a grade A asshole. but the actor... I love Lee Yi Kyung a lot

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Marry My Husband 1-8 random thoughts

Enjoying the show and all the gif sets about the hunky allowance man. And his self care makeover inspired by her.

I miss the cute cheeks Park Min Young used to have, but she’s still very charming. I could watch her in every romance until the end of time.

I appreciate that the deadbeat boyfriend/husband is randomly funny. It keeps the show from veering into pure frustration. Also the actors just really enjoyable to watch, he goes all in.

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I wish cdrama actresses and actors weren’t quite so skinny, it’s alarming how unhealthy they look — I thoroughly enjoyed Story of Kunning Palace but someone really needs to improve whatever’s driving the ML and FL to those ends. I had the same thought after Untamed too, in one of the BTS clips those poor boys were specifically told that they had to be extra thin to pull off the historical costumes.

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Story of Kunning Palace Ep 3 - Relationship Chart Recap

In which qins are favored.

Trying a new way of arranging events in different times. As always, charts don’t spoil future eps. Check the #relrecap kunning tag for previous episodes.

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Story of Kunning Palace Ep 2 - Relationship Chart Recap

In which Xuening decides to lay low and not repeat mistakes.

As always, charts don’t spoil future eps. Check the #relrecap kunning tag for previous episodes.

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Story of Kunning Palace Ep 1 - Relationship Chart Recap

In which I pretend the author thing isn't part of the story.

As always, charts don’t spoil future eps.

I'm still in the middle of watching the series, but I'm starting to get confused with all the different palace study buddies and people cropping up. So, we're back at the relationship chart recaps. Hope the way I'm representing future vs present doesn't bite me in later episodes.