#and that phrasing lives rent-free in my head now

[dropthedemiurge]

Some language comments for Gray Shelter [Episode 5], just like I promised!

"Do whatever/however you want to. (literally: 'Do it the way your heart desires') You do things how you want to anyway."

"I'm sorry" - the translation is correct, it's just it's funny how Yoondae's level of apology to his friend he just lashed out at last time + he wants to ask him for HELP, and all he says is: 미안 (mian). The most informal and short way of apologizing possible. He's so teenager-minded still.

Even when he asks "Can I leave my stuff in your dad's warehouse?" it comes out grammatically more of a demand, like 'Let me do that'. Yoondae is talking like someone who has a lot of walls and doesn't reach out to people, he doesn't talk kindly but he's honest and straightforward and he cries easily but he's very angry about it.

I especially love his facial expression, even when he's at his most miserable, he'll make it everyone else's problem, as if being pitiful is the worst thing that could happen to him. "I have no one else I could ask for help but you >:(("

Fun fact about Korean's sentence structure, when you quote someone or express your thoughts, you put your sentence this way: "quoted phrase" and then + "that's what they said/what i thought/etc". So oftentimes, I see Kdramas use that trick when characters say a phrase... and then take it back with "that's someone else's thoughts" or "that's what you thought I'd say, right? LMAO". It's funny how the translators' way of transferring this was using the word "Sike!" xD

"It wasn't a mistake to me." "If it wasn't a mistake, then [what]? Since you started talking [about it], let me ask you. So what if it wasn't a mistake? What do you want to achieve with me?" "Can I do anything about it? In the past or now, you're the one who runs away and avoids me. I asked you, can I make a decision (do I have any choices)?" "You made the move but you want me to decide? Fine, then. Let sleep together once and end it once and for all. Go wash up first. I don't have time, I only left office for a short time."

The way they both care about each other but their dialogues and words are very sharp and bitter almost all the time, especially here, aaaah. That's the contrast that hooked me for all these 5 episodes. Soohyuk doesn't swear but he's talking to Yoondae very harshly and emotionless here, and for Yoondae harsh talk is the default, it's like Soohyuk is lowering his manners to talk on his level, to provoke him (or maybe that's also how he distances himself from the discovery that Yoondae has feelings for him).

And Yoondae is holding back his frustration and tears, but he understands the way such words were aimed to hurt him, so instead of lashing out back at Soohyuk, as he probably wants him to, he swallows and unusually calmly, almost softly says: "Let's talk when you can be honest. Because I will shut up and wait for you."

And it makes Soohyuk stand there in shock and contemplate.

I'll add next scenes in READ MORE since this post is getting long!

Here's the moment when the boss asks their youngest employee to write something more 'trendy' for their marketing text xD It's very true that trends in Korea come and go very quickly, they also love to invent new terms and phrases all the time. Like "MZ slang", there are many phrases, and the one trendy phrase the boss uses as the example is 킹받네 (king-pad-nae) which literally written as 'receive the king' but means "I got angry" - but with a teasing/playful subtext, like friends could say each other 'ah you're so cute, it makes me angry'.

If I'm not wrong, this phrase was widely used like 1-2 years ago and not really in its trendy peak as well right now but kudos to boss to even learning it xD And it's funny how translator chose to (I assume) use "[living in my head] rent-free" phrase as a substitute. Another fun fact, they ended up using some trendy lingo in their ad that translator gave us as "no cap!" but that part of phone msg was so blurry, I couldn't see which exact Korean phrase they ended up using x)

"Hyung, if you have any ask for help, say so. For you, 2 million... No, I'll try to give you until 3 million won in any way."

Can I just say that we had this character for one moment and I'm so not ready to let him go, I want Jeongwan to have his own storyline and everything and he's too sweet and also caring for strangers/his colleagues, and so he stole the spotlight for me xD

Yoondae said there's no food at home. But also, as you can see, there is: beer, water, rice that you can cook in the microwave, kimchi for a side dish and some other microwaved food. According to my Korean friends, typical Korean person (poor like student) can survive if they have rice, kimchi and also ramyeon. That's their the most basic food. Just a fun fact. xD

Also he was on his third can of beer, and he already made a drunken longing call on the verge of tears to Soohyuk, lying about being hurt and bringing trouble just so he'd return home. "Is that okay with you?" - just shoot me, please. :')

"I called [the cleaning service/you] to tell you to stop it [sleeping outside of home]" "Let's have that dinner [that I promised you] today. Wait for me."

After days, Yoondae was ready to give up, he "tricked" Soohyuk to return home just so he could tell him he'll move out and stop pushing any talk. And then, Soohyuk brought up the dinner (the feelings) that he kept avoiding. No wonder Yoondae looked so struck and confused. It just gave him his hopes back (and viewers too, but we probably should've known better with this kind of series haha)

Interesting cultural context: they are getting samgyeopsal - grilled meat, chosen by Soohyuk because Yoongdae said there wasn't anything he wanted to eat. And usually, the youngest one has to set the cutlery and grill meat, out of respect for the seniors. And here we see that Soohyuk is the one choosing the place, menu and even grilling the meat and pouring soju for Yoondae.

Once again, it shows that despite Yoondae's emotions and pleads, he is not mature enough, he is not ready to focus on other people. We know he can't plan his own future, he doesn't know what to do, and we see where their relationship stands now - Yoondae is still more of a burden than an equal partner to Soohyuk, and Soohyuk is more of a parent.

Even when they drink soju (in Korean drinking etiquette usually you don't drink alone, you toast together and drink together), notice how they don't even clink their glasses together, then Soohyuk is the only one drinking and Yoondae wants to follow him but puts the glass back. He's taking a shot later, when Soohyuk grills the meat again. They are totally unsynchronized at this point of their lives, and it's painful to watch.

"I said he [my father] was dead because that's the truth/reality for me. There was no other [hidden] meaning. I didn't plan to lie to you."

"I moved out completely. If I don't organize my life starting from doing this, then I don't think I'll be able to live like all the other [normal] people."

The fact that Yoondae started thinking about improving his life (the word 'organizing'), immediately made Soohyuk stop in surprise. So he started asking what does the normal life like others mean to him, hopeful to find that equal adult footing from Yoondae... but Yoondae's thoughts stopped there. And Soohyuk offered his own goal and life meaning: "to have a place to go back to, that's enough for me".

Here's when Yoondae thoughtfully agreed with him: "It's important to have a home", and took the meat tongs from Soohyuk, saying how high-maintenance he is. Yoondae embraced that realization, he took the responsibility (even a small cultural gesture) and even though Yoondae nagged him, Soohyuk smirked. Because it wasn't a completely hopeless situation. And Yoondae proved it, by saying how eating like this and going home together is his normal life as well. (and yet they were still unsynchronized until the very end! we can't have happy ending yet)

AND HERE IS WHERE I HAVE TO MAKE A SECOND POST! Because tumblr only allows 30 images in one, and I can't stop screenshotting the last conversation so I'm going to make another post that you can find in 'gray shelter comments' or 'dropthemeta' tags (upd. or here's the link to the post!)^^

#gray shelter comments #gray shelter #gray current #dropthemeta #kbl #korean bl #kactors #grey shelter #bl series #soohyuk x yoondae #language details #language #korean language #korea #korean culture #things you didn't notice

[himboblackdragon]

—This wine... —All you need to worry about is drinking it.

Love between Fairy and Devil || Ep 28

#love between fairy and devil #cang lan jue #dongfang qingcang #circ gifs #cdramasource #someone put the last action as 'gracefully spits out drink' #and that phrasing lives rent-free in my head now #man said NO WAY IN HELL

[kcamberart]

entei ball oc

#im sorry i'll log off now #''leshawna ball oc'' is a phrase that lives rent free in my head #wip #work in progress #i swear this is the start of a full model i just thought the face looked hilarious on its own

[epicswagdivorceguy1]

finding out what the circle of willis is AFTER getting into awful hospital is really giving me a trip. that's just willis my friend willis to me. that's just a little guy

i also found out that he's living in my brain

#i'm losing it looking at pictures of the circle of willis #my brain is hardwired now to recognize those shapes as willis #there be a little guy in my brain #look. i know he was based on something i just didn't look into it i thought he was... nondescript veins... or something #even though bogleech is more creative than that lmao #me seeing medical illustrations of the circle of willis: wow! that's some good awful hospital fanart! #taking the phrase ''lives rent free in my head'' to an extreme #sorry i have so many jokes to make about this #how do i sleep at night knowing willis from awful hospital is living in my brain #awful hospital #awful hospital: seriously the worst ever #willis awful hospital

[sacha-da-1]

Okay we talk a lot about how f*cked up the actual story in Scherzo is, and quite rightly, but I feel like we don’t talk enough about the absolute f*ck storm that is the tale of the king that gets told in there. That sh*t gets WILD.

#absolutely horrifying #extreme mental damage #ten out of ten #f*ck storm is a phrase now apparently #guess it’s a step up from hell storm #do other people say hell storm? where did i even get that one from #whatever #yeah but that horrific story lives in my head rent free a little too often #scherzo #doctor who big finish #big finish

[sailermoon]

lord sesshomaru am i serving cunt ??!

#phrases that are gonna live rent free in my head now

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel. Deferential palms cool its flushed facade, and before it stretches a short dazzling beach. Lately it has become a summer resort of notable and fashionable people; a decade ago it was almost deserted after its English clientele went north in April. Now, many bungalows cluster near it, but when this story begins only the cupolas of a dozen old villas rotted like water lilies among the massed pines between Gausse's Hotel des Etrangers and Cannes, five miles away.

The hotel and its bright tan prayer rug of a beach were one. In the early morning the distant image of Cannes, the pink and cream of old fortifications, the purple Alp that bounded Italy, were cast across the water and lay quavering in the ripples and rings sent up by sea-plants through the clear shallows. Before eight a man came down to the beach in a blue bathrobe and with much preliminary application to his person of the chilly water, and much grunting and loud breathing, floundered a minute in the sea. When he had gone, beach and bay were quiet for an hour. Merchantmen crawled westward on the horizon; bus boys shouted in the hotel court; the dew dried upon the pines. In another hour the horns of motors began to blow down from the winding road along the low range of the Maures, which separates the littoral from the true Provencal France.

f. scott fitzgerald, tender is the night

#finished sandman so needed another bedtime reread #(i can't read new books for bedtime stories bc the chance is too high i will get curious and want to keep reading) #and we're back here again... #possibly my favorite opening paragraphs to a novel ever. certainly very near the top of the list at least #'deferential palms cool its flushed facade' is a phrase that lives in my head rent-free and has for over a decade now #it's so lovely and visually evocative and also like #an incredible bit of like. thematic scene-setting #and then: #the villas rotting like water lilies #the bright tan prayer rug of the beach #that entire second paragraph second sentence about the reflections in the water #the ungraceful comedic interlude of our early morning swimmer #the merchantmen and the bus boys and the dew #ugh. fucking scott.... #tender is the night

[magentagalaxies]

BREAKING NEWS

SCOTT THOMPSON TALKED ABOUT ME ON HIS BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

(i got an email from bruce today about the documentary we're working on and in the email he said he had a really nice chat with scott about my project this morning. so scott didn't just talk about me on his birthday, he had a really nice chat about the project i'm working on meaning my "presence" made him have a positive moment on his birthday hello i am screaming what is my life)

#bruce also began this email with ''hello young hero'' and i want people to exclusively address me like that now lmao #bruce legit just types like that. every new email contains at least one new phrase that lives in my head rent free #i love my friends. especially when those friends are bruce mcculloch and scott thompson

[starsnheroes]

It's too hot here. I hate it.

Good timezone to you. I'll be in my drafts and asks.

I started the Expanse (space shows i love; i need space aus; liking it so far only at ep 2, can't fucking see it too well until i get my new glasses im that blind y'all i have no distance vision at all. cant read the subs/cc so i have to have the tv up louder). I am also continuing to read comics, west coast avengers time continues.

I am around for chatting (in general) and plotting (greer/pepper/clint/liandra), mutuals if you want my discord you know where to find me.

#mun; izzy speaks #hi im a chatty cat. the children yearn for the mines. i disappear into the void whence i came. #that seems to be the phrases of the week. #are these images of greer living rent free in my head? yes. ye they are. i am attached to them now.

[glittercleric]

Good at bunnying...

#that phrase is gonna live in my head rent free now

[nanowatzophina]

Behold. The power lesbians.

These are my current dnd character’s moms. I’m very happy with how they look so now you all get to see it.

#art #dnd #space dnd #alien lesbians #the bat and the squid #I honestly made one of the moms a bat alien cuz i thought it’d be a fun twist on the phrase #a bird may love a fish but where would they live? #ever after lives in my head rent free #legit watched it five times in a row once #now these tags are getting a little personal #enjoy

[unicarcass]

thinking abt vinesauce reminds me of when we were still in high school and our sleep schedule was a wreck bc we needed all the Secret Night Time we could get to actually destress and live a little and not go fucking berserk

anyway i stayed up til 4am bc i had a "ok just one more video..." moment and ended up watching vinnys full sauce stream of le fantabulous gam on a school night during final exam season

i didnt fall asleep at school that day despite having to wake up at 6am but i sure as fuck couldnt think about the actual tests with sausages and the shamrock kings ass fresh in my mind

#corpse.exe #i think abt this stream and go back to rewatch it every now and then it lives in my head rent free #in THE realest form of the phrase #i love le fantabulous gam its modern dadaism to me

[levil0vesyou]

shout-out to tma and hlvrai for making me say the phrase "i'm a big guy" with confidence

#like it's genuinely done so much for me both in terms of body positivity and gender affirmation #phrase lives in my head rent free now #half life but the ai is self aware #the magnus archives #martin blackwood #gordon feetman #(i'm tagging him like this so he's not in main fandom's gordo's tag) #mine

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

julius caesar but i've never watched it

...either the play or the actual man. I am not a time-travelling voyeur. Why does that give Doctor Who vibes? I haven't watched that either.

Anyway, happy Ides of March, tumblr. I am about as enthusiastic about the celebration as Neil Gaiman is, but here we are. Doing what I do worst, making a summary of things I have no authority to summarise... WAHOO LET'S GO. Whatever it is I know about the play:

Caesar was vibing sometime around the '40s. 0040s, not 1940s.

He has a wife named Calpurnia. A maggot wants to be her because and I quote 'no one ever listens to me either'.

She tells him not to go to some kind of coronation or speech or something on the Ides. He's like nah wifey 'sall gucci.

I regret saying that sentence. As did Caesar, because he went and got stabbed in 44. Spoiler alert.

People ship Mark Antony with Caesar but some ship Brutus and Caesar. *youtuber voice* Comment below with your favourite ship.

Don't do it I don't want to know. Anyway, he's also married to Cleopatra, who is killed by snake venom that may not have been snake venom or something.

Idk they were cute. They had a kid that ran away and Asterix and Obelix had to take care of him. Caesarian?

WAIT IS A C-SECTION CALLED A CAESARIAN BECAUSE YOU CUT IT OPEN AND CAESAR WAS STABBED? WHAT?

There is a soothsayer. He tries to soothwarn Caesar.

Caesar does not soothlisten. Caesar is a lil bitch.

On the Ides of March, Caesar goes up to the soothsayer who is lurking on the steps of the maybe-coronation place. He soothsays The Ides of March are come!

The soothsayer soothsighs and soothsays Aye, Caesar, but not gone.

The senators, otherwise known as the soothslayers, have been plotting for a while. Brutus is a very dear friend of Caesar. He thinks Caesar slays.

But the other senators convince him this is what's best for Rome. So he thinks Caesar should be slayed.

So now the soothslayers at the maybe-coronation gather around Caesar and start stabbing him. Et tu, Brute? and all that (though I remember something about that phrase not meaning the same thing as it does in popular context...).

The soothslayers are a bit extra. Like bro. One stab to the heart would have soothsufficed.

Anyway, Caesar is soothslayed like the soothsayer soothsaid.

There is a funeral thing. The People of Rome are cranky.

A maggot once said Moots, maggots, countrymen! and it lives rent-free in my head.

Anyway what Mark Antony actually says is a whole ass speech. FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN, LEND ME YOUR EARS. I COME TO BURY CAESAR, NOT TO PRAISE HIM! THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES AFTER THEM, THE GOOD IS INTERR'D WITH THEIR BONES (I THINK I HAVEN'T HEARD THE SPEECH IN A WHILE OK) SO LET IT BE WITH CAESAR.

So he gives the soothspeech and everyone is emotional. IF YOU HAVE TEARS, PREPARE TO SHED THEM NOW. Damn bro. It's like playing villain music just as the camera focuses on the villain.

Anyway then there is a lot of chaos and blah blah blah Mark Antony does some stuff Caesar's adoptive son Octavian does some stuff.

There's some bloke named Augustus who may or may not be Octavian (if he was sorry for the deadname Auggy my bad).

Brutus is killed? Or he kills Mark Antony? One of them die.

They were totally not fighting over who was a better lover to Caesar.

Roman Republic gone byebye as I say to Roxie. Roman Empire starts. The end.

Er.

That was a thing. I rather like summarising my homeboy Shakespeare haven't read him in a while and I only read his comedies. Maybe I should do more in honour of the Globe Theatre Maggots.

Happy Ides. Please don't soothslay me. I've been a good Maggot Prince to you, haven't I?

*runs just in soothcase*

#prophetic queue #good omens mascot #weirdly specific but ok #asmi #maggots #ides of march #julius ceaser #caesar #hellsite #we should totally just stab caesar #soothsayer #and the soothslayers #now that's a play i wanna see ok #the ides of march #are come #brutus #et tu brute #mark antony #shakespeare #tumblr culture #im getting educated against my will

[1-up-chump]

SO im supposed to clear up those mortal kombat asks but spiderman brainrot real, I'll get to them but first i need to get this out of my head.

(IMSOSORRYICOULDNTFINDGOODGIFSSOHAVESTATICIMAGESPLZFORGIVE)

The spider-men reacting to you calling them "friend shaped"

Miles:

He's all smiles, he knows he's the "friendly neighborhood spiderman" but being referred to as "shaped" like a friend just flatters him in a way that makes him think about it the whole day.

Gwen:

Laughs a bit awkwardly but dont be fooled, she's flattered being called "friend shaped" she just doesn't know how to respond to it at the moment. It makes her day.

Peter b:

"No u"

He's flattered but he's THE friendly neighborhood spiderman so its "obvious" but really, he definitely calls you "friend shaped" in return. And now its totally a thing between you two.

Hobie:

Hobie smiles and appreciates the compliment, on the inside though he's dancing because you genuinely did make his day with that. What with all the fighting, both the establishment and super villains (which are basically the same thing, in his eyes)

pavitr:

You opened up a whole new phrase to him and now he won't stop calling himself nor you "friend shaped". He loved it so much you may or may not regret it but he's just really happy.

Miguel:

Despite appearing like he brushes off your compliment, he thinks about it later in the day and smiles fondly on it. Trying to not let his walls down for his sake and everyone else's, but you found a way to crawl inside his heart and live rent free. Much to his annoyance when lyla points out he's being awfully happy around you.

#spiderman #spiderverse #miles Morales #spider gwen #gwen stacy #peter b parker #hobie brown #pavitr prabhakar #miguel o'hara #x reader #xreader