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this is why youth bls are so important

"from now on, can i call you orange?"

holy moly was this series super refreshing to my brain. it's been a hot minute since i've just indulged in a harmless high school bl and boy was this a good choice!! i wanted to watch this one for a while and feel so satisfied with how it was delivered! 💚🍊
"i don't know why i said that. maybe because i never wanted to go back to the way we were ... but what i really want is that he feels the same way that i do."
oh jeez were they cute as hell!! i thought their relationship the whole way through was just my goal in life. they were so adorable and awkward! the ko "neung" and "song" dynamic was so iconic, i loved it! ko song being smitten with ko neung from the beginning was so touching to see. my man was whipped the entire time. i am a sucker for hardcore angst so was a bit sad that we didn't really milk the angst like i hoped but it was still so freaking sad and i felt every emotion in their voices and eyes. i am super impressed with progress's diversity in acting. really reminds me of fellow gmmtv actors like book, junior, pond, auo and people like that. one minute, they're all bubbly and laughing, the next they are the prettiest crier i have ever seen #prettyboycriersupremacy. at a specific time in the series (the beginning of episode 3), there is a wide shot of ko neung and ko song outside their houses. to me, the sun coated ko neung's house in a beautiful glow but ko song's house was gloomy and cloudy. this ties into the dynamic of grumpy x sunshine - even though ko song is such a sweetheart!! i just really liked that detail because it entails dynamics like the sun and the moon WHICH THEY DO REFERENCE BY THE WAY!! i appreciate that the angst is at a minimum because they are just school kids - not any major problems occurred for them that they could sort out 💖. ko neung and song will become my new personality for the next two weeks 🍊🥹.

"am i wrong to choose my dream? this is my future" / "didn't you say i would be a part of your future?"

you know how i was just talking about how the angst was at a minimum. so, stratch that! oh, this hurt more than a bloody bullet. oh young love! i will always admire ko song for going after his dream because i have to agree, ko neung was being a bit selfish...but they made up so it's all good 😁. honestly, it is so scary to me that i might lose contact with my close friends as we grow up and navigate life so i can understand why ko neung had the reaction he did. i mean come on though, your man was going TO MED SCHOOL!! he doesn't have time to rest honey. honestly...ko song is too good for ko neung??!! like, they were super cute and first and i really enjoy ko neung's silliness and awkwardness around ko song. as it went on however, he became unnecessarily selfish and jealous (like baby, the senior is called senior for a reason...he would've been a p3dophile) and whilst honey was trying to complete, again, MED SCHOOL, he wanted to be clingy and expect the most. whoops, did i just rant a little...
but like, you see how it is an unbalanced relationship to me.

however, there was this.. 🔽
"there's no star for me. i'm not good enough to be a star."

im SO FUCKING SORRY??!! i didn't even have to move my face for tears to start rolling down my face. being a schoolkid - i am willing to bet - is one of the toughest experiences of a regular person's life. oh what i would GIVE for this to be essentially redone to add in their teenage struggles and emotions. we eventually ended up with loose leads that led nowhere at the end. yes, we saw rekindlement in ko song and his dad's relationship but uhm no actual meaning talk displaying their feelings or anything. okay 👌! this scene was so good and i felt really connected to ko neung. then we never brought that side of him to our screen again. okay! i just felt like this could've been so much more! although, it definitely made me cry.
"everyone has to go on their own path to grow up."
this is a really important line to me. to me, it just summarises that everything has a meaning. everyone is different and therefore has different dreams, abilities, interests and beliefs. so therefore, people find their people but also lose people they thought were theirs. just over 6 months ago, i lost a best friend of mine. she didn't die, please oh my lord i realise how this sounds. we just grew into different people and suddenly, we didn't connect like we did anymore. this line really told my inner self "hey, it's okay! it's not your fault. it's not her fault. you're still kids, you still need to grow to understand these things". i mean, sometimes people get to 50 and still have no idea what anything means. i guarantee i will die not knowing what anything meant in the long run - or even short run. but what is the use of being born if we're just going to waste it on things and people that do not benefit us and make us happy. you can never rely on other people to guide your life. it's yours for a reason! carpe diem!!!!

anyway, this series was overall so adorable to watch! i had such a fun time with fresh faces and i wish them all the best for the future 💚. however, since it was just a quick, easy watch, i didn't feel super connected to it like i do with other things. and as i said, definitely could've been developed into something that held much more meaning had it been expanded on.

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i was sat every WEEK

i stumbled across this masterpiece on bloody youtube shorts and man was that a good choice. i had found it just a few day after eps 1+2 had aired so i was quite early to it!! i was able to through both the pleasure and the agony of having to wait each week for something this good. the fact that the director of this series also directed the great "love in the big city", i was SAT for this one! the story was interesting but now i look back on it, i don't really remember how any of it linked together but it wasn't a disaster and i really appreciated the acting. i'm sorry but seo i do is SO FINE, i had to rewind at some points because i was distracted. his nose is so beautiful. anyway - the chemistry between seo i do and chu tae jeong was INSANE!!! i was giggling and tossing in a dang heatwave mind you, because they wanted to touch each other's lips when they thought the other was sleeping. i'm so not ready to move on. of course they had to fall under the sad sad reality of 8, 20 minute, episodes - aka giving us next to nothing about anything. this is why i can sympathise that the storyline for me had gaps and felt rushed since it had to be but i loved the way it was executed and shot so i'm not really complaining. i don't remember a lot of things after a series anyway...
THEY RETIRED ON THE FAROE ISLANDS! i can't survive with them. and tae jeong still remembered about buying i do's painting. i'm officially emotionally attached to this series and these characters. this is now a sensitive but joyous topic for me

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this was a HUGE step up from pitbabe

i still love pitbabe but it eventually lacked a sort of something but GBYFD never bored me!! it always kept me on the hook and i always was jumping to the next episode. their acting was amazing and they were able to portray every emotion. pavel's acting especially made me cry with his sister (character) and the final ep. the story definitely had a stronger backbone than pit babe, although i did get lost on the whole relative thing and in the end forgot everything but i was still gripped!! pavelpooh will never bore me 💚

okay, i kind of feel like i need to say they were let down here by the way the story then turned. i was super invested with the storyline at first. it was serious and eerie and supernatural - all the things i enjoy from time to time!! however, as it went on, the story started drifting towards the romance department and essentially forgot about the story and decided to throw a bunch of nonsense at it. i was super confused when bom was revealed as the killer AND related to thup - like what?? they never even explored that storyline anyway. why did atikhun specifically need thup for the ritual if it could've just been anybody born on saturday. the premise and idea of it is so so good and i HEAVILY f'ed with it up until around the time King's dad started getting involved and it all just seeped through cracks and eventually became romance.
i still appreciate the acting of all the actors and i think they did an amazing job!! i became connected to the characters.

its a shame that in the end the plot was a whole bunch of nonsense but i will never say i didn't enjoy the acting! i loved them so much, give them back 💚

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i am happily married to this show. forever.

somehow, i always find my way back to this series. i've said this before but this series navigates love in every kind of way soso beautifully im still stunned.

"myung-ha, you don't have to go through everything by yourself anymore."

this shows the kind of love that surrounds the average person - the love of support. the fact that 29 year old tae myung-ha had forms of depression and ended up drowning himself but then regretted it at the last second and begged to stay in death shows that we should all be given chances - and give life a chance to improve and to find love in all forms.

"i want to stay. i want to stay. with yeo-woon"

this shows the intense affection - and eventually love - myung-ha possesses for yeo-woon and how experiencing life through his younger self helped him learn to love and find happiness in the small things. he at first rejected yeo-woon but started to fall for him. every time i watch the scene of them on the rooftop and myung-ha says "i love you cha yeo-woon" under his breath, i still giggle. one of my favourite bits.

"but cha yeo-woon is still unhappy / that's just life / but being fated to live that kind of life, is just so unfair."

i love this scene. it shows not only the perspective of myung-ha on love and society, it depicts the savage way some people are just left alone and don't get their happy ending. they are pushed away and are forgotten. this series brings the idea of including everybody and finding your own unexpected happy ending.

as i've said before - this series is not about a game. i love to think of it as the game is a message to its viewers about the events and roads of life. the "system errors" that myung-ha experiences pop up when events in any human being's life happens - the first i love you, the tragedy of picking between people, feeling rejection and loneliness.
the fact that this concept was all to make tae myung-ha love himself and find happiness breaks me everytime - it was never about cha yeo-woon (no offence, he's still so adorable and so key to the story).

"and i died like that on that day. but i regretted it at the last minute. regretting everything."

"i wish that i would disappear"

these are spoken by 29 year old tae myung-ha, who shows strong signs of depression and ends up drowning himself, though regretting it at the last minute. this shows a darker side to the human mind - that it can twist and turn against it's own body if it experiences unpleasant emotions and events. for tae myung-ha, being alone and rejected by his mother is enough to be gone. he is then given a chance to enjoy life again and find that happiness that had disappeared. it sends a message that even if the darkest of tunnels, you can still find a light.
i love this series with everything because not only are cha yeo-woon and tae myung-ha SO ADORABLE, it discusses every form of love: romantic, platonic, relative - everything. it also has darker topics as shown by senior tae myung-ha who is entirely alone and abandoned.

dare i say best kbl i've ever seen and probably will ever see. yes, i do dare.

"senior. i get it now why you like the sea. im starting to like it too."

it was never about the sea...👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

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