#extra ordinary you

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

The plot of Extraordinary You is so wild and I love it

1. Girl realizes she's a minor character in a comic book

2. Girl realizes she's in an unrequited love with an asshole trope

3. Instead of trying to fix the asshole or giving in to the plot and hoping for the best, girl creates herself a sentient, second boyfriend option through sheer force of will

Where else can you get something that insane?

#extraordinary you #extra ordinary you #eun dan oh

[tokkiheart]

What are you top five k-dramas?

First of all, thank you so very much for the ask! 💜

Second of all, top 5? Ouch. That’s going to be hard. Hmmm…

W: Two Worlds Apart

Romance Is A Bonus Book

Happiness

Shopaholic Louis (aka Shopping King Louie)

Extra-Ordinary You

If you want a breakdown as to why…

W: Two Worlds Apart

Let’s be honest, it’s not a secret that I LOVE this show. I write fanfic for it, I re-watch it a lot, I think about it a lot and I will reblog any gifs that I find of it.

This show introduced me to who I like to call my primary bias - Lee Jong Suk! 💜 It also introduced me to Han Hyo Joo!

This show isn’t perfect, but I love it. Flaws and all 💜

It’s extremely hard to pin down why I love this show, I just do! The premise of the show is fun to me, I love the idea of winding up in your favorite book or book series. I love the romance, the chemistry, the cute fluff moments, the really cool special effects, etc. This show is just really fun and interesting to watch and I’m always noticing new and cool things about it!

Romance Is A Bonus Book

Another Lee Jong Suk drama! I had to limit myself to just two otherwise the vast majority of this would have been Lee Jong Suk dramas lol

Anyway, if (for whatever reason) I can’t rewatch W, then I’m more than likely watching this drama, which is why I put it in the 2nd place spot on this list.

Though I tend to prefer my romantic K-Dramas more on the fantasy side of things, this is a drama that’s a little more grounded in reality that I can enjoy (mostly reality aside from the telepathy moment which I think is a reference/call-back to LJS’s role in I Can Hear Your Voice).

Watching this drama gives me the exact vibe of curling up with a good book in a cozy reading nook with a blanket and a hot beverage. Which, I think was very much the intention considering the way each episode ends.

In my opinion, this drama is very much a book lover’s drama. As someone who loves to read and write and practically lived in the library as a kid, this drama just brings me back to those feelings. It’s just… cozy. It’s warm, fluffy and comforting to me and I love to come back to it again and again when I just need the comforting vibes.

Happiness

A surprise on this list. Trust me when I say that I never expected to one day have a show on this sort of list that would have zombies in it, a zombie apocalypse or anything even remotely horror-genre-like.

I had been on the fence about watching this show for awhile. It looked good, on top of that it has Han Hyo Joo and Park Hyung Sik, but the zombie thing was a turn off for me because I don’t really do horror and I don’t like zombies because (to me) they’re among the more… grotesque fictional monsters. Granted, malicious ghost possessions are also up there. There’s something about watching a body move in ways that it shouldn’t that makes me sick to my stomach.

Anyway, a wonderful tumblr mutual turned friend ended up telling me that I should go ahead and watch it because I was going to love it. They were not wrong! Forever thankful to them for giving me that lil push to watch it! 💜

This show’s version of zombies are less scary and a lot more human, so I wasn’t repulsed by them. More importantly though is the wonderful slow-burn romance going on at the same time between the main characters, there’s also a found family theme and fluff resulting from all of that!

I’m putting this in the third spot on this list because I have watched it fewer times than the first two and it’s definitely a “have to be in the mood for” thing because rewatching it in full means suffering through the rest of the insufferable residents in their apartment building 💔

Shopaholic Louis/Shopping King Louie

A very cute drama about a 3rd gen chaebol heir who gets amnesia, lost in an unfamiliar city and relying heavily on a country girl who is also new to the city. He’s absolutely smitten with her at first sight and he’s just a sweet puppy of a boy who follows her around and wants to lavish her with things they can’t afford in their current state lol

This show is big on fluff! How could it not end up on this list? I really loved this show, Seo In Guk is so cute in this and the romance is equally cute and innocent 💜

The antagonists are largely incompetent, so it makes things low-stakes, but it makes for just a really nice fluff watch in my opinion!

Extra-Ordinary You

The only high school drama on this list, but that’s okay!

I love this show! Even though this ended up down at the bottom of this list, it’s really only because I find Baek Kyung insufferable lol

Anyway, I adore the cute romance in this show! Ha-ru is just an adorable soft boi and I adore him with my whole heart. This show is 100% why Rowoon ended up becoming a bias lol

This drama reminds me a lot of W in some ways, which is probably why I’m working on a fic mashing the two together or something lol

#ask #anon ask #thanks anon! #w two worlds #romance is a bonus book #tvn happiness #shopping king louis #extra ordinary you #always happy to answer asks!

[hopeswriting]

tsuna is the patron saint of the mundane, of the normal and common place, of the average and unimpressive. he's the unshakable believer of that being enough in and of itself, of that being fulfilling and fundamental to achieve happiness. and he's the unyielding protector and defender of the beauty and love and kindness within the ordinary, of the holy and divine and sacred within it, and of them being worth fighting for.

tsuna's the guy who makes the ordinary extraordinary from the sheer way he holds it so very close to his heart like it's the most precious thing in the world, and it's the thing about him i, for one, love him most for

#katekyo hitman reborn #khr #khr text post #sawada tsunayoshi #this is why he's THE painstakingly average teenage boy btw. that's the point #and why amano went the extra mile and made him /below/ average and 'dame' #and made it so he still went on to achieve all he did throughout the manga #and made it so he still ended up loved so wholly and unconditionally by so many people #and made it a point to show that was all thanks to things he /already/ had within him all along long before reborn showed up in his life #and made it a point to show he remained the same in that respect to the very end of the manga #and then of course he /keeps/ remaining the same even as he goes on to become vongola decimo #and i like to think that once he gains full confidence in the choices he makes and the things he feels and the stands he takes etc #and still there's mafiosi calling him weak and naive for being soft and kind and merciful and /loving/ with voices full of disdain #tsuna just goes 'you live like this? you've only ever been living like this? #is this what you really think life is all about? what it can only be about? what it /should/ be about?' #except he says it with actual genuine pity for them lol #anyway. tsuna said there's happiness and love and meaning to be found in the mundane and ordinary #and to be fought for and protected because they deserve to be #and he was RIGHT about it!!! <3

[caleohateclub]

“Why am I always looking at you? When I don’t even know who I am.” “My every moment is you. Even in my last scene, I’ll remember you” “Please stay by my side even on my last page”

valgracecore

#sorry im insane and sad #valgrace #jason grace #leo valdez #heroes of olympus #hoo #leo x jason #jason x leo #toa #trials of apollo #apparently these are extra ordinary you quotes btu wow i do not remember these in the show

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of my fave things about teaching is that I’m NOT a counselor and I don’t have to get into the weeds with a student but also I’m part of their life every day and i see when they’re struggling and I can ask how them how they’re doing and make sure that they know I see them on a steady, daily basis and it will be healing for both of us

#I teach a student who hit a wall a few weeks ago and just refused to go to school and was just all around struggling with his mental health #and this is not a kid who wants to talk to me about it or would even know how and I also know he has people where he can #But I’ve just tried to make sure that There’s a little extra contact and a few more questions and just a little bit more #and obviously I am not the cause of his doing better but overall I know that it helps #while still being such a subtle and ordinary human exchange that doesn’t force either of us to go to extreme lengths #like man I really LOVE that space and living in it #and just being a (hopefully) stable place for the kids to be seen in a small but consistent way #teaching tag #something about holding them in the safety of manners while also modeling what that looks like for them #it’s so gratifying to me and it helps me too! #like yes we should greet each other! We should ask how we’re doing! we should exchange pleasantries #and it’s important to me that that happens without getting personal sometimes or overly involved #pleasantries don’t have to be cold things and you can be seen and validated by a momentary kind glance as much as by someone digging #into your soul #it can be light and life-giving at the same time #it can be fun! #I’m sorry I’m rambling and over-saying this but it’s Saturday #!!!!!!

[all-of-the-good-ones-are-taken]

Stray Kids (스트레이 키즈) | Neverending Story (끝나지 않을 이야기) (2019)

#stray kids #skz #스트레이키즈 #스트레이 키즈 #neverending story #the story that won't end #끝나지 않을 이야기 #extraordinary you ost #ost #어쩌다 발견한 하루 ost #2019 #extraordinary you #extra-ordinary you ost #extra-ordinary you #어쩌다 발견한 하루 #kdrama ost #kim hyeyoon #김혜윤 #rowoon #sf9 #로운 #suddenly one day #suddenly one day ost #music #song of the day #the korean link in the caption contains spoilers for the show this song is from just a heads-up #absolutely wacky wild premise for a show and i don't actually remember if i liked it but i don't think it was terrible? #anyway i heard this song today and accidentally made a whole playlist of boyband ballads of this ilk #Youtube

[tlgtw]

Malenia's Remembrance Decoder, For-Realz Version

Thankfully from the crash testing of the earlier version of my Malenia's Remembrance Explainer thingy, I was able to locate and fix the significant mistakes in it that managed to completely fly over my head.

Especially with what my phrasing was for the bottom two lines, I feel confident enough now that no other changes will be necessary for what has indeed proven itself to be the most emotionally charged topic that shall likely ever to be covered for the show.

When ERwSET 3 actually comes out, I expect that this slide will be unchanged from how it's currently planned.

This can be treated now as the real version of it.

I am releasing it early still primarily for promotion, of course, but since this thing is indeed designed to accommodate use as a weapon as well, for arguing. Here's a couple extra notes that won't appear in Episode 3 itself:

Conjunctive adverbs are conjunctions. They're not still adverbs.

[Fixed:] If the person you're arguing with says that the explicit past tense for the line "suffered afflictions from birth" is mistranslated. (It isn't.) Tell them to read the rest of the passage and tell you what tense the verbs for Miquella and Malenia's afflictions are.

(By the by, they are in past tense.)

So as you wish! Copy and paste it to Reddit, or Youtube, or Discord, or anywhere. And whatever the response you get is. When you're then asked "Yeah, so who's the smart alek supposed to have made this thing?"

Send them me.

#erwset #elden ring #elden ring lore #some of you will perhaps notice the obvious fury behind those extra notes #I apologize for it. But your senses are right. #I am irrationally infuriated about this single topic. Solely because it is about other people getting their grammar wrong. #something that is itself. for obvious reasons. the most ordinary thing in the universe. it is not a big deal to get your grammar wrong. #especially fucking highschool level grammar. which this is. #malenia blade of miquella #miquella the unalloyed #empyrean

[eorzeashan]

Reverse City spoilers but this guy owns my Mihile's whole ass. He doesn't even have a face but he moved me in this story so much. Sad author guy who put his entire soul into his books but also needed the courage of another human being to have the will to live. Kind of boring in his own way but he was so cool-- 'we're all sad lonely pathetic outcasts who want to see our next sunset' theme got me ok

Not to mention there's something really intriguing about isekai'ing a guy from the normal world to this alien one while the PC is from a fantasy world, so you're technically both isekai protags but reversed as well

#ok tag rambling time #listen. Mihile as the token radiant knight that authors and nerds dream of and never think could be real #isekai stories always feature the ordinary guy ending up with the extraordinary fantasy heroine #in this case. i think you can see where i'm going #the hero of fantasy...dammit it's g'raha tia again #but Barr got INSPIRED to live and write his best book because of the Hero #and i think. he wrote an extra embellished romance scene in there #fate stay night headassery abounds? I hc they fucked. and fucked nasty #if you're an average author from the taxpaying dimension and saw a beautiful knight of fairytale legend #come to know me by accident and we save each other #no one would be able to stop me. no one wou #maplestory #reverse city spoilers #also camping with a homeless guy is its own kind of rizz #IDK his appeal is from his grunginess maybe he stinks so what!!!! everyone in maple is so radiant the stink would make him more attractive #im right. just so you know. #LITERALLY NO ONE KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT BUT I HAVE TO SAY

[k-nonsense]

(Old ranking - go to my blog for updated rankings)

My rankings/reviews of all the k dramas I have seen so far (up to 21 now). I bolded the 3 new dramas I’ve added (Goblin is no longer in last place). I would highly recommend any show I gave a C grade or higher.

1) Hometown Cha Cha Cha: It’s an absolute masterpiece and delight. I want to live in that fictional community forever. Grade: A+(Netflix)

2) Her Private Life: Super funny and charming. The romantic leads have incredible chemistry. The premise is so good! Might be the most rewatchable of all the k dramas I’ve seen so far. Grade: A (Netflix)

3) Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung: Great strong female lead. Very good messages. Couldn’t stop watching. The most adorable prince I’ve ever seen 💜Cha Eunwoo💜 Grade: A (Netflix)

4)Business Proposal: It’s got every trope you can think of and it does them all to perfection. It’s so good and will make you feel all the good feels. Plus it’s hilarious. Grade: A (Netflix)

5)Sh**ting Stars: Probably the biggest turnaround of any show I’ve seen (The “Africa” part was so bad). However it turned out to be one of the funniest and swooniest KDramas out there. There are 5 couples and you will cheer for all of them. Grade: A- (Viki)

6)Strong Woman Do Bong Soon: The main couple is absolutely everything! Just fast forward through pretty much every side plot (they are not important) and you’ll love it. Grade: A- (Viki)

7)So I Married the Anti-Fan: It’s campy, fluffy, goodness, with a fierce female lead and a K-pop star enemy/love interest. Fastest binge of my life. Grade: A- (Viki)

8)Start-Up: Exceptional acting, compelling storylines, intriguing plot twists, great cinematography, intense love triangle. It’s just all around high quality. Grade: B+ (Netflix)

9)Run On: Cute, fun, silly and pretty light. I especially loved the supporting cast. Strange storyline but it was a fun easy ride. Grade: B+ (Netflix)

10)Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo: A bad-ass yet vulnerable female lead. The main couple just had a lot of fun together. Refreshing. Grade: B+ (Viki)

11)Shopping King Louie: Adorable! Luis is too cute. I love it how he bops along like a penguin and his cute little screams at bugs. And Bok Sil is the warmest character, you just have to root for her. So many light fluffy feels for this show but it does drag a bit in the second half. Grade B (Viki)

12)Fight For My Way: Such lovable leads. Love the fierce female lead and adorable himbo male lead. It’s like a coming of age story but for 30 year olds. Storyline was ok. Second couple was skippable. Grade: B (Viki)

13)What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim: More PSJ is always a good thing. This drama did all the tropes in ways that didn’t always feel fresh, but it was so romantic and hilarious. A true classic. Grade: B (Viki)

14)Touch Your Heart: If you can just stick it out through the first few very shaky episodes, you will enjoy this adorable, fluffy, series. Grade: B- (Netflix)

15)Doom at Your Service: It was sometimes real sad yet ultimately a heart warming mystical story. Grade: B- (Viki)

16)True Beauty: Fun teen drama however, it’s a little too “antsy teen” for me. Cha Eunwoo though💜 Grade: C+ (Viki)

17)Crash Landing On You: The first half is GREAT but the second half is way too melodramatic for my taste. It’s a very interesting storyline, the main couple has insane chemistry, and there are very lovable side characters. Grade: C+ (Netflix)

18)My Secret Romance: The story of a total screw up female lead falling for a manipulative, gaslighting, hottie. It was problematic yet fun? So 🤷‍♀️ Grade: D+ (Netflix)

19)Our Beloved Summer: I LOVED V’s “Christmas Tree” OST however I struggled to keep watching. Boring storyline but great acting. Grade: D+ (Netflix)

20)Goblin: The age gap is too disturbing for me, like call the police disturbing. However, the Grim Reaper who is one of the most adorable characters I’ve ever seen. Grade: D- (Viki)

21)Extra-Ordinary You: So here’s the thing, I was obsessing over this drama for the first few episodes because the premise was brilliant. It was a funny parody of a teen romance where the female protagonist became self aware and empowered. However it changed around episode 10 and became the exact antsy teen romance it started out critiquing. The codependency and melodrama ultimately made this series pretty hard to watch. I honestly feel the writers betrayed their characters. Grade: D- (Viki).

Currently Watching: Alchemy of Souls (and LOVING it), Extraordinary Attorney Woo (will be ranked so high/Kang Tae Oh😍), My Love From the Star (I’m uneasy about the Goblin vibes), Suspicious Partner (so many episodes), I Am Not a Robot (seems fun), Today’s Webtoon (not sure if I’ll finish).

What are your thoughts on these shows? Do you agree or disagree with my rankings? Did you feel Extra-Ordinary You was a huge letdown? Was King Louie the actual cutest? Do you like CEO or himbo PSJ better? How are you liking the ongoing dramas? Are you also loving Alchemy of the Souls? Are you cheering for attorney Woo as much as I am? Are you excited for Kang Tae Oh finally being the main love interest? What should I put on my watchlist next?

#Elle watches k dramas #Elle ranks k dramas #k drama recommendations #shopping king louie #fight for my way #extra-ordinary you #alchemy of souls #extraordinary attorney woo #my love from the star #hometown cha cha cha #her private life #rookie historian goo hae ryung #business proposal #sh**ting stars #strong woman do bong soon #so i married the anti fan #start up #run on #weightlifiting fairy kim bok joo #what’s wrong with secretary kim #touch your heart #doom at your service #true beauty #crash landing on you #my secret romance #goblin #our beloved summer

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

So this actor (Lee Tae-ri) has always reminded me of Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) from High School Musical since I saw him in Extra-ordinary You:

THIS OUTFIT IN Destined with You IS SO RYAN!

#random stupidity #but honestly he's ryan guys #Is there any overlap between high school musical and kdrama fans? #I guess we'll find out #high school musical #ryan evans #destined with you #extra-ordinary you #extraordinary you #Lucas Grabeel #Lee Tae-ri #but like he specifically reminds me of Ryan not the actor himself

[tokkiheart]

Birthday Drama List

So my birthday is today, so to celebrate I wanted to release a list of K-Dramas with birthday scenes or are set during someone’s birthday…or the birthday was in some way pivotal/important part of the plot.

I very definitely didn’t use this list as an excuse to re-watch some of these shows lol

This is going to end up being a short list as my lists are always limited to the K-Dramas that I’ve seen so far. I may have missed some dramas that had birthday scenes that fit the criteria of this list and missed, so this may end up being a post that I return to and update as time goes on.

Doom At Your Service

“My birthday doesn’t always come. My birthday crosses over the century and leaps over destiny. So make a wish before it’s too late.” - Myul Mang (Doom)

First drama to pop into my head when making this list was this favorite of mine. ❤️ The events of this drama take place during Doom/Myul Mang’s birthday. He’s told by his mother figure/fellow god-like entity to go grant someone else’s wish on his birthday and the person whose wish he ends up deciding he wants to grant is Tak Dong Kyung because she’s wishing for/thinking the same thing as he is - for the world to end.

His birthday is a vague time frame, which seems to span most of the show (I think about the full 100 days of the contract), so you can really consider this to just be a drama about the embodiment of doom falling in love on his birthday lol

Goblin: The Great & Lonely God

Coming in next on my list is Goblin. I honestly need to rewatch this show because I don’t remember how many of the female lead’s birthdays we see in it. For this show, the female lead’s birthday is significant within the context of the show as deadly danger looms around her around certain birthday ages.

I stand in solidarity with the main female lead character, we could form a tragic birthday club.

Anyway, outside of her actual birthday, there’s a lot of lighting of candles and things to blow out so as to summon the Goblin. So, birthday vibes I guess?

Hotel Del Luna

In this drama the male lead, Chan Seong, was essentially sold by his father to the female lead (Man-wol) in order to save himself so he could continue to raise Chan Seong. Growing up, Chan Seong’s birthdays are celebrated by Man-wol by sending him evening primroses as a reminder of the promise his father had made as well as a card, this is something that is continued up to his important birthday when she meets him in person to give him a completely new and different gift than usual - the ability to see ghosts.

Extra-ordinary You

While none of the main characters in the drama celebrate any birthdays (that I remember), the male lead of the comic book they’re extras in does. Nam-jun has a big birthday bash where Dan-oh, Ha-ru and Do-hwa attempt to change the story.

Business Proposal

Within the first episode or two of this drama, the female lead (Ha-ri) celebrates her birthday. Her parents don’t really do anything special for it and the guy she has had a long-time crush on gives her tickets to a concert for a group she was only interested in because of him, telling her to go with a guy she likes.

This sets up her for using the tickets for a date with Kang Tae-moo.

There's also an episode in which Ha-ri's best friend celebrates her birthday as well.

Tale of the Nine-Tailed

This is a drama that I recently started watching and actually haven’t finished watching yet, but the show starts off with one of the female lead's birthdays, a pivotal one as her family ends up in a car crash and her parents go missing. With this entry, we have found yet another character who can join the tragic birthday club lol

Reply 1997

Bit of a last minute addition to this list because I remembered the first male lead getting coupons for his birthday from his best friend/crush, which is a regular thing and he’s known for using them to great effect.

#kdramas #kdrama #kdrama recs #kdrama recommendations #birthday #tragic birthday club #doom at your service #hotel del luna #goblin the lonely and great god #guardian the lonely and great god #tale of the nine tailed #business proposal #extra ordinary you #extraordinary you #reply 1997

[boyduvet]

nobody appreciates donna tartt's accent the way me and my friend I haven't seen in nearly two years do by the way

#im so sorry to people to whom her accent is ordinary you will think me so so silly for this #its the‚ the extra h in white especially #so cool? #borrower blogging #the secret history #donna tartt #(listening to her tsh audiobook reading for context)

[albatris]

in my latest escapade in just randomly throwing cat traits at the rentalcar vampires. why do cats do the clicky chattery noise and do vampires do that

#like i know why they do it but why do they do it??? #why clicky. #ive joked b4 about nat making the clicky noise when he sees something he wants to hunt and quinn just being like #no!! we have food at home!! #i think its just a funny visual #in the car with ur friend n you drive past some guy repairing a traffic light n ur friend is just like. chkkhkhkchhkckehhehkkkchk #also idk things like purring and being extra snuggly and such that are just very Vampirey Traits r stuff alex has mostly #taught itself to hide so its nice to have alex in situations where its comfy enough to purr or show excitement n contentedness #in a way that comes naturally #however alex dressed in like full proper fancy suit and all prim and proper like its way to work or somethin making clicky noises is #also fucking funny #like nat is fine nat is a gremlin but the vampires who r just. ordinary people. or people who have fancy office jobs #cllkckckkdkfkkch

[lgbtally4ever]

Rowoon…Just because he’s beautiful!

My Seoham …don’t be jealous. YOU are still #1 in my heart ♥️ and mind!!

#rowoon #woonie #beautiful man #extra -ordinary you #kdrama actor

[crazylele1]

One thing I don’t understand about Extra-ordinary You is that so many characters figure out that they’re in a manhwa but none of them even think to try and find a way to the world of the writer

#extra-ordinary you #extraordinary you

[paishachi]

orv and w: two worlds have a similar premise but orv has done it in a more grand and efficient manner

#orv #w: two worlds #kdrama #heck even including extra ordinary you but these kdrama have vibes of a well written fanfiction #maybe because these two are more focused on romance although i have only watched kdrama... might be different in webtoon #man i have to start reading orv again #yakhuli tag