Author: LT
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Amor fati: Dark’s inevitable Season 2
Dark is what would happen if the Grimm brothers met Einstein arguing with Nietzsche and decided to write a modern-day fairytale on eternal recurrence.
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Everything Changed When The Strongest Delivery Man Nation Attacked
A guest post by Sicarius, the Queen of Melonia Wherein Her Royal Highness, Sicarius, the one and only Queen of Melonia recounts the tale of the formation of her Queendom; an excerpt of which was recently distributed with permission by the Kingdom of Dramabeans, thus averting war. “How have dramas shaped, changed, or influenced your…
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Comfort Food
Comfort Food is a reprinting of a post I wrote for Dramabeans last year as part of their Food theme.
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Trapped: A story of HIStory 3
This year’s HIStory series, Trapped, is sexy and sweet and fun as a romance but struggles as an action drama.
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I kill pot plants
Korean dramas (as well as many of their Taiwanese and Chinese counterparts) have a woman problem. A big one.
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Very very happy if you died
They’ve adapted the wonderful manwha Happy If You Died and I’d be happy to die if I could go back in time and stop them.
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Always the second male lead
My Name is Jisoo and I am worthy of love. I wrote that on a post-it note on my mirror and look at it everyday If I read it often enough, maybe I’ll believe it’s true. I am deserving of love! I don’t mean it in a creepy Incel way, of course. I’m not angry…
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Dame Holly doesn’t wear the hat so much anymore
This blog has always been a bit thematically slapdash. That’s not surprising, since it was created as an addendum to my Twitter account. I wanted to talk climate science and sometimes Twitter just wasn’t enough. But in the last year or so, my tweets and posts on climate have faltered quite a lot. Parts of…
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My Year in KDrama: 2018
It was January. Summer. A blinding hot summer. The sweat dripped down my unexpectedly-designer outfits as I walked to the bus stop. I was suffering from a small bout of amnesia caused by my trauma over the ending of a show called Black. Had it finished in 2017? 2018? I couldn’t remember. It was a…
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I’m Not a Pot Plant
Earlier in the year I was watching Shut Up Flower Boy Band. In the middle of an argument between the male lead and the second male lead about the female lead’s living arrangements, I realised their argument would still work if they substituted the word ‘Pot Plant’ for her name. “Why is my Pot Plant…