#twenty five twenty one spoilers

[jayteacups]

bc the writer did seungwan dirty

(in reference to this post)

exactly, they screwed her over so bad 😭😭 i made a post on this a while back, actually. idk if you’ve seen it but I still stand by everything I said.

Seungwan her arc and character meant and still means so much to me, trying to shoe-horn in a love interest for her upset me more than anything else in the finale tbh. Like what do you MEAN she ends up only finding happiness in life when Yijin’s brother comes back bc he is now old enough to date 🤢 like HELLO I have never seen more blatant character assassination and disrespect to a character arc in my LIFE omg. I refuse to believe that is canon. The Ji Seungwan I know would NEVER. In my mind she’s off making change and fighting for the welfare of students and the youth and dating Yeji too because Seungwan is not into men let’s be honest here

#none of the women in this show are straight bc i said so #heedo and yurim?? literally enemies to lovers slow burn with a secret identity pen pals sideplot and are constantly obsessed with each other #coach yang? in those flashbacks she was giving heedo’s mum major hearteyes #seungwan? literally yeji’s girlfriend #twenty five twenty one #twenty five twenty one spoilers #25 21 #25 21 spoilers #ji seungwan

[sugaftrm]

is love all play going to give me what 2521 didn’t — closure?

#i just started OK #on episode 1! #the little fountain scene happened and I can’t help but make parallels #god please help me heal from the ending of 2521 #love all play #twenty five twenty one spoilers

[leahdrawsstuff]

I started to work on Twenty Five Twenty One fanart like a month ago but I keep pushing off finishing it because I really just want it to be perfect

I cannot explain how much that show means to me; I know it was very popular bc it’s just well written and well acted, but I have personal attachment to it because a lot of the events in the show reflected my own life and experiences

Through watching this show I was able to achieve catharsis for something I had been struggling with for years lol. I have never had a piece of media help me in my personal life this much. And I’m really trying to convey that through my art

#not art #yet… lol #rare personal post #the breakup scene and apology scene broke me and put me back together again #its lowkey embarassing like yeah the 90s fencing kdrama helped me finally process my relationship trauma 🧍 #twenty five twenty one #twenty five twenty one spoilers #fanart #25 21 spoilers #25 21

[hotgirlsoobin]

Memories are a museum of Love

About You, the 1975 // 20th Century Girl, 20세기 소녀 (2022) — dir. Bang WooRi // Sarah Lewarn // Boygenius, me & my dog // Twenty Five Twenty One (2022) dir. Jung Ji-Hyun // @/bakwaaas

#hi i just realized that i will remember him forveer and will continue to see his face maybe not forever but quite a while so i made this ok #web weaves #web weaving #parallels #web weaving literature #poetry #words #webweaving #about you #the 1975 #20th century girl #twenty five twenty one #25 21 spoilers #lyrics #kdramas #nushtext

[razerathane]

"I'll destroy you."

#tekken #tekken 8 #hwoarang #bandai namco #bamco #literally no spoilers here! #everything except the gameplay footage and alt angle special intro face is from already released trailers #gameplay / alt angle footage is from a close friend who captured that stuff on my request in the beta #hwo fans I beg u #pick him in the char select screen then dont choose p2 for 10 seconds and he starts bouncing like that #he was the only char in the beta that moved after selection #and as for the last gif with the finger wiggle in the gameplay #activate heat (2+3 aka triangle + x simultaneously) and then hit bb (back back) on the d-pad right after to cancel the heat attack #he'll do the little scene and then NOT do the attack move and taunt instead #we have waited TWENTY FIVE YEARS FOR A TAUNT FAM #but also #do that heat cancel for EVERY character... every single one has a taunt #this has been a psa #*mygifs

[todayisafridaynight]

no ones ever gonna understand how much i love daigo doin this stupid shit after dissolving the tojo

#snap chats #is this a gaiden spoiler. its been like five months catch up you nerds #ANYWAYYYYY NOO I LOVE HIM ....... this whole bit is like four seconds long but i love it so much #i just reminded myself i should probably make gaiden/y8 videos for daigo.. i'll make it a JP/ENG comp or somethn.. one day #not soon tho like its barely anything since he's not in those games Long At All but still. im lazy 💀 #excuse me while i gush about daigo for twenty minutes now because hehee HE'S SO CUTE I CAN'T GET OVER IT #this is literally the middle aged equivalent of going yippee like YOU CAN TELL HE'S SO RELIEVED IT'S SO CUTE #got the energy of a student with crippling anxiety after they somehow get through giving a presentation without throwing up #AND his lil smile ......... thank you gaiden you made me wanna eat drywall with daigo's sad puppy dog eyes about kiryu #and then immediately made up for it a minute later #sorry i keep scrolling up to look at him and i love him so much. what if i threw up #i dont like using babygirl lightly but this is actually the most Babygirl frame of him ever ive decided #thats my boy .... i love my boy so much ..... he's so cute ... come so far in life congratulations king ..... ily ... #him lookin up at the sky for a minute just to breathe i know he thankin god for the fact he somehow isnt dead yet #im gonna ignore the fact all of this was for naught so i dont bash my head against a wall anyway stan daigo #im gonna be sick i love him so much #if i redraw this later shut up. i love him... #this is why i try not to look at cutscenes anymore cause when i do i feel my brain being put in a microwave and start to melt #its not my fault i love my guys so much .... ok bye i have work to do .... #and then when i finish that work i can go back to loving my guys YAAAAAY !!!!!!!

[dramarants]

going through the 20th century girl tag to move on and appreciate all the great moments only to find out ppl would rather yijin died than not end up with heedo

#20th century girl #twenty five twenty one #20th century girl spoilers #spoilers #maybe I'm in a weird mood but I can't scroll any more asldkfj #I get why ppl say the movie did it better: pacing + showing aftermath + believable #even though the sadder ending was a surprise they set us up for it and have proper closure to the characters #and while I still have some gripes (what happened to the brother how did woonho diedoes the squad not stay in touch where are they all now) #overall it was solid #but idk if 25 21 pulled a 'he died' I'd be so pissed - it's lazy and thoughtless and not marrying your first love is realistic #their final scenes together were soooo good it's just the reason for parting was unbelievable & present day scenes left us with more qs #but to be like 'yijin and heedo were soulmates and their breakup is unthinkable so... #'instead of growing and moving ahead after all his struggles to establish himself and support his family he should just DIE' #like this 20th c girl ending is so much more heartbreaking imo sldkfjasdlldgfkj #watching him smile at sunrise all hopeful for a future with you he'll never have 22 years later is SO MUCH WORSE #idk I'm glad bora is shown smiling and cherishing what they had rather than mourning (tho she has every right too) but it still doesn't... #...feel like closure to me. but there really is no good parting when it comes to death huh #show me people can treasure their youth and still find happiness and fulfillment in unexpected ways down the line!! #there's a beautiful piece of 90s nostalgia media still waiting in the wings for us I just know it #just don't know how much I can take my heart being ripped to shreds in the meantime 😅 #ranting

[angelicdevil24]

Mayans Spoilers

So....

Angel and Ez never found out Miguel was their brother

Miguel never found out the real reason why his mother died

Emily never found out why Miguel tried to kill her

Angel never found out Luisa was killed

They killed off a pregnant woman

Letty hates MCs but joined one apparently?

Everyone else in the club presumably died

I’m probably missing a lot more things but my brain feels liquified after watching this

I should’ve never given this show a second chance after they killed Coco

#elgin I hope to fight you in a dark alley one day #out of a main cast of what twenty something people #only five make it out alive? #crazy #mayans mc #mayans fx #mayans spoilers

[neverforever09]

2521 Rant#1

I still don’t get the ending for 2521 and yes, I’m still obessing over this beautiful show that, unfortunately, has a BS ending. It was just that kind of show. I’m at a loss when looking at the final episodes. Like 3+ re-runs later and this shitshow is still not adding up. I’m still confused - are these the same characters we’ve been seeing built up for the last 13 episodes? [Character regression might be a thing, but there is a galaxy-sized gap between ep 1-13 Baekdo and ep 14-16 Baekdo...]

These writers expect us to somehow believe that Heedo, the girl who;

-has never given up on anything in her goddam life (even the relatively less monumental stuff like Yeji, Full House, the sword Yijin gave her, training at nights, ....etc)

-has fought tooth and nail for basically every relationship in her life 

-survived on a bunch of 4 year old cassettes of Yijin talking about school and life + 1 voicemail over the 6 months she and Yijin were apart

-was able to understand and forgive her mother for the same shit that she is scared Yijin will pull on her (my money is on ‘this boy would definitely get therapy and spend the rest of his life cogniscnent and careful of not putting Heedo through that because he’s seen Heedo cry enough times over that to know that’s line he will not cross)

THIS GIRL, you expect us to believe she just gives up? ..... on Yijin?

And Yijin. Aish. This guys ghosts everyone, he ghosted Yurim every few episodes, everyone except Heedo. When he went to his uncle’s place, the only person from Seoul he kept in touch with was Heedo. Even when he was knee deep in cigarettes and pain, he still picked up the phone to tell this girl he’d be there in time for Full House V15. The last thing he did before he high-tailed his ass out of town was leaving Heedo a sword at her home.  This guy who has done his fair share of fighting for the things he wants. This guy who understands Heedo’s fear of being left alone, of being left behind. This guy who has found Heedo again and again in the most coincedental of ways (so screw the realism arguement, if you were going for realism, make it consistent). This guy who was losing his shit after being ignored by Heedo for a day, so much that “hate” didn’t even begin to describe how he felt about it. The guy who looked at Heedo and said “I love you, in every way.” Bro, you’re telling me that he just let her walk away? 

The Heedo I know would have barfed out all of her feelings over Yijin’s attractive coats in that pure, honest way of hers. The Yijin I know would have considered Heedo’s feelings in the decisions he made and he would have listened to Heedo when she said she wanted to share his pain. The pair I had watched blossom over 13 wonderful episodes would have done anything, literally anything other than the BS that was shoved down our throats for the sake of adhering to their desired ending. 

Well, I’m just really confused here. There are a lot of gaps. Not just Minchae’s father. But in the characters themselves. Accepting the existence of the father of Heedo’s kid who is apparently not Yijin is like trying to accept that the Earth is flat. 

If I wanted to watch this sad, wacky crap that is apparently ‘realistic’, I would have just looked out the window at the snow on top of the lush green grass in April after it was like 20 degrees less than 24 hours ago....

#2521 #25 21 spoilers #baek yi jin #na hee do #twenty five twenty one #it was SO close to being this amazing show but the ending .......

[kimbapisnotsushi]

if your reaction to finding out ash becomes world champion after twenty-five years is being mad about spoilers/hating the current team and series and not pure unadulterated unbridled joy and pride and tears over his entire journey then I DO NOT TRUST YOU

#WHY ARE YOU TAKING IT SO SERIOUSLY #i can’t believe ppl saw ash BECOMING WORLD CHAMPION and went #‘unrealistic’ #‘his team sucks and isn’t good enough’ #‘i hate the current animation/series’ #‘spoilers omg’ #WE HAVE BEEN RUNNING FOR TWENTY FIVE YEARS #WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING #IT’S NOT ONE OF THE COMPETITIVE RANKED TOURNAMENTS IT’S A KIDS’ SHOW IN WHICH THE PROTAG HAS BEEN TEN FOREVER #HE DESERVES IT HE DESERVES IT SO MUCH #and i LOVE that he was allowed to take his experience from alola and kalos over #sou says stuff #pokemon

[jayteacups]

There’s something so poetic about Heedo and Yurim’s relationship.

You can’t deny it whether you ship them romantically or not (I mean I certainly do, but that’s not the point). Think about it. Heedo’s main motivation to improve her fencing skills is to become Yurim’s rival, who she unknowingly beat all those years ago and was, in a way, one of Yurim’s motivations to become so good at fencing in the first place. Heedo knew Yurim’s moves inside and out after studying her matches for so long because she looked up to her. They were online pen pals without knowing each other’s true identity, always supporting each other unconditionally even when they loathed each other in real life. Their bond as online friends was so strong Yurim was convinced they’d recognise each other upon first sight (and the irony of her being the one to spot Heedo first and run away in fear). Both of them knew what it is like to have the entire nation turn against you for something you can’t control (when Heedo won a gold on a supposed ‘bad call’ and when Yurim changed her nationality and left Team Korea). The fact that when Yurim was being harassed by reporters at school after the news of her leaving is released, she called Heedo. Not Jiwoong, her actual boyfriend who she’s been dating for some time. No, she calls Heedo for help, and it is Heedo that hatches an overly convoluted plan to help Yurim escape the press.

Both of them suffered immense pressure to perform for their respective teams after Yurim left, acutely aware of how lonely it is at the top. Yurim ghosted Heedo’s emails and pulling away because the pressure gets to her first, because she feels like she can’t be open with Heedo any more, and Heedo refuses to see Yurim when the opportunity to meet up before the Madrid match arises, because the pressure’s getting to her head, too. Both of their words being cruelly twisted by the media in the lead up to this match to fuel a petty and twisted rivalry that they had both left behind at that point in the story. The Madrid match itself, where both of their emotions were running so high you could feel it in every footstep and every scream, because they both wanted to win so desperately, because they’ve both shed blood sweat and tears to get this far, because they both know what this match means to the other person too. And if you look at the way they score - almost always, it’s one point after the other, or simultaneous touches after simultaneous touches. They’re always neck and neck. They’re equals in every way; they are rivals to the end and there is no question about it. You can see the pressure getting to them, how riled up Heedo gets - she even disagrees with the referee at one point where Yurim is awarded the touch, the first time Heedo is ever shown to do this on screen, if I remember correctly. It’s an interesting callback to Yurim’s protests during their match in the Asian Games; everything is coming full circle, and yet everything has changed at the same time.

Then, there’s the aftermath of the Madrid match. Heedo is awarded the winning point. She’s won the gold, she’s ‘avenged’ South Korea by beating Yurim, the ‘traitor to the nation’. And yet - when she takes off her mask, she’s crying, and it’s so clear that it’s not just tears of joy. Everything comes to the surface in that moment; all the grief and sadness they’ve endured to get to this point and all the happy moments they’ve shared. Heedo’s thinking of it all, and in that moment, she is completely and utterly overcome. Yurim’s reaction follows, perfectly mirroring Heedo’s. When they hug instead of traditionally saluting each other, I almost cried, it’s just such a powerful moment. ‘Only we know how hard it was for us.’ And it’s true - only they know what the other has gone through. And many years later, Yurim is the only one out of their friendship group who shows up at the press conference after Heedo’s final match. And even after a long and fruitful career, Heedo was most honoured to be Yurim’s rival (and equal) above everything else she’s achieved. Three gold medals fencing for Korea, and what shes most honoured and grateful for is to fence alongside and against Yurim. Because for Heedo, everything changed when Yurim won gold for the first time when they were still high schoolers - she was more desperate than ever to get out of her slump just to become a fencer worthy of rivalling Yurim. And on her way up the ranks as a child and teen, before the main events of the show, Yurim always looked to see how she did in tournaments. She scorned Heedo for being reputationless when Heedo joins their high school team, and yet all this time, Ko Yurim never forgot Na Heedo’s name. Their beautiful, poetic relationship truly is the heart and soul of the show.

#twenty five twenty one #heerim #na heedo #ko yurim #I don’t think I’ve been this passionate about something other than aot for AGES #um idk what this post is - it’s just unhinged ramblings of me talking about heerim sorry lol #enjoy ig #25 21 #25 21 spoilers

[dosa-sambhar]

How will i heal from the pains of life that 2521 showed. I don't think I'll ever be brave enough to go through what the characters in 2521 went through

#twenty five twenty one #desi kids #desi #desi weddings #lol #midnights taylor swift #desiblr #desi aesthetic #bollywood #kdrama #tvn 2521 #25 21 #25 21 spoilers #nam joo hyuk #kim taeri #baek yi jin #na hee do #son seungwan #ji wooung

[kdramaxoxo]

I just started Twenty Five Twenty One and I can already tell I’m gonna be obsessed with the couple. But I’ve heard they don’t get a happy ending, so now I’m wondering how badly I’m going to injure myself if I watch. From your perspective, was this a bittersweet-but-ultimately-appropriate type of sad ending or an audience betrayal situation? I’m scared!

--SPOILERS--

That's actually a great question anon! I think of Twenty Five Twenty One as a combination of coming of age, slice-of-life and as a sports drama. So while there is a good romance story (or two!!) one not having a super happy ending isn't a deal breaker for me. 

If I'm honest, I'm waaaaaay more into the friendship between the leading ladies so none of the ending stuff really bothered me? Plus I mean, Kim Tae Ri is just *chef's kiss.* It's really fun and well done, so I feel like there's a lot more pluses to it than minuses.

I can't guess how sad you'll be but I do think it's worth a watch!

#twenty five twenty one #kdrama #and i'll admit i'm the only person on the planet that doesn't love nam ji hyuk #i never have understood why people are so into him #but i'm sorry to my mutuals who love him!!! #if he could just USE HIS EYES when he acts #ok everyone who just stopped liking me at this moment...i am SO SORRY :P #spoilers

[sergeantsporks]

Wait does this mean you need more names for the Gilded AU?

IF YOU THINK I'M GOING TO KEEP TRACK OF TWENTY-FIVE NEW GRIMWALKERS' NAMES, DEATHS, AND PERSONALITIES, AS WELL AS THE TWENTY-FIVE I'VE ALREADY GOT, YOU'RE INSANE

#absolUTELY not we are keeping the twenty five we've got and that's all the grimwalkers there were in this universe #i don't even have a grasp on all of the ones i have lol #twenty five characters? i'll do that. fifty is too many #toh #the owl house #asks #toh spoilers

[binktops]

the people defending or uhm actually-ing (not a verb but i don’t care) the ending of 2521 are either so jaded by life it’s depressing and don’t know how to have hope anymore or are desperately trying to cling onto the idea their beloved show got what it deserved.

#spoiler alert you can enjoy a show and still be critical of it #my solace is the last 2-3 epsiodes don’t negate 13 episodes of perfection #no need to make up fallacies to cope with how bad it fell off though #twenty five twenty one #2521 #i swore i wasn’t gonna be mad about 2521 ending anymore but look at where we are 😭😭

[kamillenteeart]

THEY 💔

#25 21 spoilers #tvn 2521 #korean drama #korean #drama #baek yi jin #na hee do #twenty five twenty one