#fantasty - romance - drama - philosophy - symbolism

[kalena-henden]

I posted 8,639 times in 2021

69 posts created (1%)

8570 posts reblogged (99%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 124.2 posts.

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#doom at your service - 1051 posts

#hometown cha cha cha - 946 posts

#shadow and bone - 766 posts

#kim seon ho - 607 posts

#shin min ah - 469 posts

#queen of the south - 441 posts

#doommates - 380 posts

#btvs - 363 posts

#lol - 354 posts

#jeresa - 298 posts

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#i thought it was because bryan is the third man and already has a deep connection with the debris that cannot be severed

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

If Hometown Cha Cha Cha doesn’t end with Hyejin x Dusik married and playing with their kid on the Gongjin beach, then what is the point.

156 notes • Posted 2021-09-21 01:17:39 GMT

#4

From Doommates to Bloommates

There’s a lot of wonderful symbolism in Doom at Your Service. I’ve really enjoyed reading everyone’s theories on the red string of fate, whether Myul Mang and Dong Kyung will be deities or humans together, and if this is at least partly a story written by her friend (ita the parallels between mm/dk and the ill-fated loved triangle are getting strong). 

There is a theory which I haven’t seen exactly yet. That the Flower the Goddess is waiting to bloom is actually Dong Kyung, who has been living in a suspended state of survival until her terminal illness brought doom into her life which awakens how much she truly wants to live. There are many reasons for Dong Kyung to be the Flower. First, she is human and therefore meant to be part of the Goddess’s garden. Second, she brought the flowers back to life in Myul Mang’s world. Third, like the potted plant, she has not been growing in life. For a long time, she has been taking care of everyone else but not herself. She has also stunted her emotions to survive which is most prominent in not allowing herself to cry or feel the true impact of what has happened to her over the years. We get a literal representation of this emotional state in two visuals: the ocean which cries for Dong Kyung and the marble which represents Dong Kyung’s frozen ocean of tears she can’t shed herself. One of the main things that needs to happen for Dong Kyung to grow and bloom into the Flower she was meant to become is to fully accept her emotions and eventually let herself cry so she can truly live. She’s not going to get there with smooth sailing. She needs obstacles to push at her defenses and bring her walls down. There is more pain to come.

There is another big hint that Dong Kyung is the Flower in both the titles and the marketing of the show. First, let’s look at the titles.

Here in the black and white garden of the Goddess we see Myul Mang the Butterfly fly in (see far right column). 

After Myul Mang and Dong Kyung shake to seal their contract, they are enveloped in the red string of fate which births a large flower bringing a full range of colors (aka emotions) into the world.

At the end of the titles, the butterfly comes to rest in the bloom of the flower as the camera pans out to show a spectacularly colorful garden sunset with a man and woman holding hands (both whom look similar to our two main couples). This is the endgame: the butterfly and flower are meant to be together just like the romantic couple.

This pretty clearly shows that Myul Mang is butterfly and Dong Kyung is the flower. 

Furthermore, in the latest TVN twitter posts for their big kiss both in the text and video of the tweet they have 4 emojis to represent the moment:

Flower + Butterfly + Rain + Kiss = Dong Kyung and Myual Mang kiss in the rain

They started off wanting to bring the world doom but they will end it wanting to watch it bloom. They’re going from Doommates to Bloommates.

157 notes • Posted 2021-06-01 05:07:07 GMT

#3

When Hyejin drunk kissed Dusik, she immediately felt the need to run around town with a huge grin on her face screaming “Chief Hong! Dusikie Oppa!” When Hyejin realized her feelings for Dusik, she couldn’t run to him fast enough with a happy smile on her face. Now that they are together, we’ve seen in the previews, Hyejin will be running into Dusik’s arms many times with a beaming smile. For someone who is generally reserved, it’s so wonderful to see Hyejin unable to contain her unadulterated joy at being in love with Dusik.

183 notes • Posted 2021-09-29 19:22:38 GMT

#2

Hyejin ran around town screaming “DUSIKIE OPPA!” after she drunk kissed Dusik | Hometown Cha Cha Cha 1.05

226 notes • Posted 2021-09-15 19:03:31 GMT

#1

Shadow and Bone Trailer

241 notes • Posted 2021-03-30 02:16:45 GMT

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