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have you watched mojito the magic?

no i have not, that 2017 circa typical k romance might still be too much for me to handle i fear thou i love sung joon's visual in it so much it hurts 🥲

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i just made a tumblr and i stumbled across your account while searching for sungjoon gifs! the icon on your blog is an artwork by me actually, so i just wanted to say hi..!(?) and thank you so much for posting stuff i hope he gets on another thing soon !!

omg this might be a wild guess but were you 멸망 on twitter a while back and deactivated your account cause I remember following you and loving your (sungjoon) arts so much >< i'm sorry if you feel bothering that I use your artwork without crediting and if you're active anywhere now please let me know so i can credit you back <3333

thank you for your kind words >//< thou I thought i have abandoned this blog for almost half a year after call it love ended life's been so hard for me to multitask so... I too really wish he would have new casting news soon cause this drought is just too much T_T

#i'm alive omg

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I'm user @cinematropes on Instagram and wanted to let you know that your blog inspired me to watch call it love and enabled my obsession with haeaung and jun!

i'm so sorry for late answer and omg that's the sweetest thing i've heard all this long long week (or month(s)?) while i'm soullessly leading this life of extreme adulting instead of going on tumblr to perform some unhinged behaviors about my beloved drama and otp

thank you so much <3 i hope this drama and haesungxjun brings you as much joy as they did for me!!

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Do you have an Instagram acc?

sadly no :( sns outside tumblr are such scary places for me lmao

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some scattered thoughts before i pass out and crawl back to withdrawal mode 

i almost screamed when watching this scene like show please give me Haesung's pov i'd watch 16 episodes more of that 

maybe it's just me as a Haesung stan but giving out this scene in ep15 is so brutal cause i had been wondering the whole time what if show was told by her pov or there were more scenes where her pain and struggles were portrayed as explicit as Woojoo's 

there were times i found myself thinking while watching that typically Haesung and Woojoo would have been one character who was deeply wounded by her father's wrongs then grew up suffering and coping the way both characters chose to cope (continuously dating-failing while struggling to fulfill her role at home) 

but the writer deliberately chose to split this character into two extremes with nothing in between (and thankfully saving us from another frustrating love triangle): one focusing her whole being on love and the act of loving to distract herself from her broken family and to prove not every man is like his father vs. one putting everything on her shoulder and avoiding love as hard as she could because to her every man is just like her father 

it's never about which coping mechanism is right or healthy or worth rooting for

it's just that the show chose to put focus on the latter - Woojoo's way of coping and when the former was not given as much spotlight, dimensions and emotional depth she was more easily to be deemed unlikeable 

that's why moments like these keep me late at night thinking about how much Haesung must have felt and been through beneath her carefree and airy surface

#call it love #kim ye won #that was a smart writing choice thou #and props to kim ye won for OWN her character #talk about serving so much with so little

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hey just wanted to give you a little commentary from one gifmaker to another this coloring on this set 714658712180162560/lets-go-home (jun and haeseong holding hands) is pretty white washing... particularly for haeseong... i know call it love was an absolute pain to color but just somrthing to consider for future sets you may make there's lot of resources available for skintone coloring if you need any references in that way

oh hey no thank you for noticing and pointing it out for me cause i really did struggle with that gifset and was not quite satisfied with what came out, i'm always aware of and try as hard as i could to keep the skintone right when coloring particularly this show which is as you said painful to color, but i did fail with that one... thank you again i'll take serious notes for future sets

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yoon jun x hae sung’s aesthetic: being in one frame since day 1

#call it love #kdrama #kdrama gifs #kdrama edits #*mine #yoon jun x hae sung #*otp: how am i gonna handle her by myself #sung joon #kim ye won #here's my thesis on why my ship is endgame since ep1 #visual storytelling on textbook level we have no choice but to stan #and notice the way she's always the one who walks towards him inside the frame #she fell for him first and he let her in way before he had realized #this is cinema

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(I'm sorry for the long message in advance, pls don't hate me for this💕)

I mean the hand holding confession, yes. I want more for our girlie, it made me so sad 😭

And the proposal was kind of cute to me (ofc under condition he did the proper thing later on, which I like to believe he did) especially since it seemed so genuine and with Jun's anxiety, I got the impression he was scared to even suggest/talk about the wedding because he's still scared to do something wrong and lose Hyeseong.

They're perfect together, there is absolutely no doubt, I just wanted more from his confession for her sake, I really wanted more screen time of him contemplating his feelings in Hyeseong's absence and then spilling his heart out in the end. I hate myself for saying it like this because I love Jun so much and want him to be happy and not suffering, of course.

The thing is I also feel very protective of Hyeseong at the same time (probably because I spent my entire childhood wishing I had an older sister) and thinking about all the times she put herself out there and how vulnerable she was in those moments only to get rejected and then to get Jun's confession by hand holding...if you know what I mean 😭

But I guess that's what makes this couple and series so realistic in the end. Seeing them happy together was so heartwarming, I melted. And exactly what you said, it's in sync with Jun's character, that's him... It must have been hard for him to confess his feelings even to himself. We see him keeping so much inside throughout the entire show and almost never letting anything out. And Hyeseong sees him for who he is and understands him so well even when he doesn't talk much. She reads him like an open book. So all is perfect in the end. That's why they're so perfect together, perfect for each other.

Ok now I don't feel like anything should have been different, this is it, it's perfect 😭

pleaseee how can i hate you when this is me anytime I get your messages

no no no I totally get you!!!! Since ep11 after she confessed her feelings to Jun, Haesung has continuously put herself out there. Confessed, got rejected, confessed again, got shouted at, confessed more, admitted those ~ugly~ feelings and finally decided to give up. Of course yes, we got those sad faces from Jun and some "show don't tell' moments but its been one sided for so long for Haesung so I totally understand why it could be underwhelming at first when Jun gave his answer.

I guess the way show made their scenes so cute and realistic also made me totally forget how I also wanted Jun to suffer a bit more lmao. But so true as you already said everything was perfectly in sync with their characters and their romantic nature (~friends to lovers~). And coming from Jun I think the more awkward the more genuine his way of showing feelings is. There are also some subtle moments that I keep coming back to. When Haesung cried after Jun saying that was his answer, that thing was not one-sided anymore, he immediately showed signs of worry and hurt and care for a person now too significant to him. That speaks a lot to me.

And him walking towards her, first holding her hand for comfort, to make her stop crying, then locking their hands tight as a way of confirming their relationship. It's literally friends to lovers translated so beautifully into cinematic language. (*insert poetic cinema meme)

Only one thing I realized after rewatching their scenes for n-th times is how surprisingly little screentime did they have. And still they had me crying shaking throwing up crying and throwing up, pulling out my hair, spitting up blood, punching and kicking the air like THEIR POWER but like can we please get more of their marriage life i beg :<

#asks #why are you sorry i'm thankful that you came to me to pour all those feelings out *clutch chesst #i'm a mess again thinking about them #also awww i was so moved when you said that you feel protective of Haesung cause you never had a sister #i don't know how to explain but... but all hail sisterhood #call it love

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I read somewhere that "When you choose a life partner you're choosing your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 70 vacations, your retirement friend, career therapist, & someone whose day you'll hear about 18,000 times" and I really can't stress this enough.

#yoon jun x hae sung

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“I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine.” (Anita Brookner) – Yoon Jun x Hae Sung (Call It Love, 2023)

#call it love #kdrama #kdrama gifs #kdrama edits #*mine #sung joon #kim ye won #yoon jun x hae sung #*otp: how am i gonna handle her by myself #yoon jun ghostwrote this idc

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Yay! You did it (the text post)! 🥳

That final photo of Jun is also my fav scene, way ahead his love confession scene (which I wish was a bit more intense tbh 😭)

Thank you for writing the post 💕 I always enjoy reading your on point hashtags so this is such a lovely treat 🌷

uwu thank you for your support as always <333

(ugh i feel so exposed writing stuffs out loud just like that lmao I think I would have to fight through 1000 layers of self-censoring and self-loathing to reread it someday t_t)

do you mean the hand holding confession or Jun's propose? the former was so moving thou I love it really much, the latter was... idk I would have been hurt too if I was Haesung lmao but tbh it's quite in character and Jun was cute they were both so cute 😭😭 so I'd take what's given

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let’s go home

#call it love #kdrama #kdrama gifs #kdrama edits #*mine #sung joon #kim ye won #yoon jun x hae sung #*otp: how am i gonna handle her by myself #whoever let them dress in this beige tone couple outfit is a genius #this scene forever lives in my mind rent free

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Call this a Sim Haesung appreciation post, a love letter for JunxHaesung a ship I freakingly adore, a poor (self-projecting) character analysis or simply just a stream of consciousness too loud to be put in gif and tag form when you accidentally let yourself invest a little too much in a kdrama you were supposed to casually enjoy and move on.

And this wall of text is what happens when you feel like you might never totally move on, like you’ve been left alone to deal with these overwhelming emotions after all the fun and angst were gone, like finally your favorite characters and your ship got the ending they deserve and that you’ve hoped for them since day 1 but at the same time you are no longer able to watch more of them, like suddenly you realize you are Yoon Jun when Sim siblings moved out - only too bad you don’t have a Haesung to sometimes go eat together, walk home with and propose to. 

These feelings are too much and too personal to translate into gif language so in this essay I will... 

Sim Hae Sung, I fell in love with her right at the moment she was first introduced. There were no significant reasons, only because I'm always weak for eldest daughters in kdramas, especially those who are written (and often taken at face value) as some selfish irresponsible airhead girlies giving no shit about their family's business. Something about the big sisters refusing/ignoring roles that they are supposed to take on just because they were born first is so enraging to some and fascinating to others. I'm the latter. I myself am a (horrible) eldest daughter too, so sorry I can't help but relate. And that's it, that's probably the only trait I find relatable about Haesung. Sometimes we don’t need to relate much to like a character and as ~ cliché ~ as it gets, I love Haesung because she's so different from me.

Now let’s talk about a character I relate to the most: Yoon Jun - the black sheep of the family, a background-ish friend to his ever troublemaking Sim siblings, a land owner with a house too big and too quiet for his own, an introvert who can’t stand small talks with strangers and hates being uncomfortable but wants to live as rowdy a life as possible, a helper and comforter but never lets anyone know about his issues enough to comfort him, a supposed to be normal, calm and rational one in this unusual revenge melo whatsoever drama. 

It’s also easier (for me) to relate to Jun because if there’s a character that represents some objective third party kind of view in this show it’s definitely him. Confused, irritated, annoyed, lonely, helpless, surprised, dumbfounded, lonely again (x3), guilty, lonely x1000... then healed and finally at peace. To be honest, I did not realize that I reacted to most of happenings in this show through Jun’s pov until much later. I read someone on twitter said that the watching experience would be totally different depending on which Sim siblings’ povs you chose to start with. It’s such an obvious statement and still it hit me quite hard. Because if I chose none? Like I actually had to sit down and ponder for a moment. And it all came clear to me. I realized why I adore Haesung, care so much about her, hurt for her and want nothing but the best for her. Because I've watched it all through Jun’s eyes and felt along with him, that’s why and that’s crazy. (It might be self-projecting to some extent but who consumes medias without a single shot of self-projecting let’s be real.) 

She brings comfort, the old kind of comfort that you treasure because you know it’s hard-earned from the privilege of being close and understanding for years. She might be annoying to be around sometimes but her absence might be even much more annoying. She is an embarrassing mess that often speaks things and does thing she should not, but you also would get hurt seeing her embarrassed or getting ridiculed. She acted on her emotions, gives out her feelings too quick and too loud, which you think is crazy and would never do until one day it you have to face that if you wouldn’t the only emotion you are left with is the loneliness that you always fear. She puts you at ease, being with her you feel safe and comfortable enough to talk about heavy stuffs you hide from everyone else, then by her own way of comforting, often some light-hearted silly jokes, she makes you smile. She lets you be the kid you couldn’t be at your own home, the younger and softer self you find it hard to be even with/especially with your best friend. And you start to see what she rarely shows/others fail to notice, her pains, her burdens, the mature sides of her, the way she’s too been on survival mode for too long it broke her inside.

She is so many things that you already knew, thought you already knew, and still you want to know more, embrace more. 

And naturally comes the romance. So cozy and comforting. So simple yet no less significant.

I randomly came across a post about the opposite site of friends to lovers tropes here on tumblr, it goes like this: 

At first I thought hmm interesting I would love to see more of that. But the inner JunxHaesung in me jumped out and I remain a sucker for friends to lovers trope (ofc when done right!). Just like Jun, I prefer the comfortableness of long time knowing and understanding. I also think friends to lovers, in Jun and Haesung case, is more than just complicated history, overlaps and whatnot. It’s more about unlearn and relearn in order to rewrite their history. In that process, they definitely make as much effort as anyone from any kind of tropes to know more about each other on purpose. And that... that’s beautiful to me. That’s also why, to me, the sweetest scene of this little ship might not be the love confession but this one:

#kdrama: call it love #yoon jun x hae sung #aight imma head out #that's too much sharing for the day #i swear will never be able to move on #maybe the toxic relationship is the one i have with this show #help #call it love #sung joon #kim ye won

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that’s my answer

#call it love #kdrama #kdrama edits #kdrama gifs #*mine #sung joon #kim ye won #*yoon jun x hae sung #*otp: how am i gonna handle her by myself #WHAT IF I NEVER MOVE ONE

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Only you know that I'm a kid. Maybe it's because I'm tall. I must not look it. – No, it's because you have a nice voice. It's really low, and even sounds sexy. And your broad shoulders. Those play a big role. call it love (2023)

#call it love #kdrama #kdrama edits #kdrama gifs #*mine #sung joon #kim ye won #yoon jun x hae sung #*otp: how am i gonna handle her by myself #they are so insane for this

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ahhhhh their one year later!!! never going to be over it, who is doing it like them?!?

ikr!!!!!! i lost count of how many times i've rewatched their scenes and i'm still watching they 😭😭 pls i can't let them go

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this hurts 1000000x times more than any breakups (also this will be me still staying here crying shaking throwing up about jun x haesung decades later after yall move on)

#kdrama: call it love #trying to keep this blog rant free and gif only but my inner monologues are getting too loud #so please unfollow me if you find me annoyingly posting contents that you did not orginally follow me for #also if any of you know some good dramas with kim ye won please help this girl out with some recommendations cause i'm so down bad for her r