My squee this week was for the MLs in Our Unwritten Seoul. Both actors really delivered on their characters.

***SPOILERS***

Squee #1: The moment that Mi Ji put her head on Ho Soo's back when he was piggybacking her at the end of ep 6. His smile was 🫠

Squee #2: When Se Jin told Mi Rae that he liked the rumors about them. The moment was so charged. How will Mi Rae respond?!

Looking forward to this week's eps!! 😍

Squee #1: I met a deer on my morning run!
Squee #2: RM, V, Jung Kook and Jimin are finally free again!
No squee: Turns out, the guy who made a lovely song about suicidal depression hated the military about as much as ARMY thought he did.

"Good night, Mi Ji."

The childhood flashbacks in Our Unwritten Seoul, especially the scenes at the top of the mountain. Loved every minute of that. I didn't really squee with the present day stuff, even if I do really like them.

Other stuff:
- Ripe for the Picking (jdrama, blame Netflix for this horrendous title). About a 32-year old woman who is frustrated by her lack of sexual experience, who ends up connecting with a shy copy repairman. The romance between these two is quite frankly some of the sweetest, most gentle, I've seen in a long time. It just feels so real too, it's often awkward, but also often effortlessly funny. Also, their hugs are the sweetest, I'm not even kidding when I say they nearly made me cry. There's just something so beautiful about watching shy people fall in love (and I need more of that).

It’s not exactly a squee but more of an “am I hallucinating right now?” I can report that the LOCAL noon news in my small US-midwestern city just told me, with pictures, that Jimin and Jong Kook of BTS have left the army but that Suga is still serving and will delay the group’s return to performing. I wonder what the local newscasters thought as they had to pronounce the names 😂 This story took precedence over news of local massive tornado cleanup, the story that followed. Korea, I believe your dreams of global domination are now complete 🙆🏼

@joanna @cliosservant1846 @miso2019 @mazarin

Continuing my really exciting journey through Legend of Zang Hai 🥰😘

I'm at the point wherein I've lost count of which episode I am at specifically, because all I'm caring about and really got my focus on is the happenings of each of the episodes as they take place. However, I do remember one specific moment/scene in Ep. 11 that was just * chef's kiss * And I remember it specifically being from Ep. 11 because I was gushing about it to someone else before this post lol

Episode 11 THAT BATH HOUSE SCENE * cue incoherent squeeing *
The intensity-- yet quiet storm beginning to stir-- the nuances, the veiled words and meanings, the emotional acting between the 2 actors.... I mean, that major scene in Ep. 7 already gripped me and hooked me in, but this bath house scene in Ep. 11 has gotten me ON. THE FREAKING FLOOR 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 And that's just the half of it-- the acting in the scene-- I haven't even mentioned the visuals of that scene which are also a visual treat 😍😍 IYKYK

Hooray! I’m currently abroad (squeee!), and as it turns out, the regional offerings on Viki are different here (wheeeee!), which finally gave me the chance to watch MISSION POSSIBLE (yaaaaaay!)! Albeit only a movie-length intermezzo, I enjoyed watching 🔥Kim Young-kwang🔥 (wooohooo!) in a lead role, especially after his definitely-too-short cameo (sigh!)in THE HAUNTED PALACE (huzzaaaa!) recently.
It was so. 👏 Much. 👏 FUN! 👏 Him and FL Lee Sun-bin were really good in both comedy and action scenes. I was laughing out loud many times. 😆 Exactly what I needed…
Kudos to @hopefulromantic for this recommendation! 🫰👏🥳

PS: anybody knows what’s up with that rumored drama-version sequel…? 🤔

I'm watching an oldie which was on my list and it so happens that Kocowa has just added it to its catalogue.
I'm talking about Attic Cat (2003. Wow!)
It's so hooking that I have watched seven episodes in a day.
I'm enjoying the main couple relationship: complicity, bantering, bickering, jealousy... They are a lovely mess.

Rewatching Destined With You, and Rowoon following the FL like a lost duckling is making me squee. Different kind of squee, but I also squeed in horror watching Adventure by Accident 4 - does Kian ever wash his hands before communal meals??? Ew.

I've found my next saguek: First Night With the Duke.

I'm squeeing about Taecyeon's smexy look at Heroine at the end of episode 1 of Night with Duke. 🪭😊 This guy is not going to let his seductress go. 😁

As promised, tagging @isagc with news of LYN safely arriving to Rome, Italy and currently prancing around Colosseum like a happy kid)))
https://x.com/Bigsislilred/status/1932892175400120820

Oh, there's also Gong Jun, hi!
https://x.com/lalawolf_pook/status/1932846344059953617

A group of c-fansites followed him (if yall ever though I'm the one taking fangirling too seriously), but also there were local fans too (mostly from diaspora and those who speak Mandarin). Screams "ge, you're so hot in TPOB!" made him happy)))

P.S. A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM got licensed today! We are totally getting it in few weeks^^

Less squeeeee, more whoah!/i> 😳:

To think that this was one of the most demanding roles of his career seems obvious (I guess double roles are especially difficult to play!), but I didn’t expect this to be as hard on him as he describes here. Sounds as if it was both rewarding - but mostly really challenging. Hoping he will get to play enjoyable roles in the future.
(… anyone else also noticed that he regained his strength in truly imogi-style fashion? 😅🌊🐉)

I am now watching Yumi's Cells for the first time. I just finished season 1 and started season 2. My squee cane at the visit to Yumi's clubs, Gong Yoo's fan club with photos of him as Goblin. Daebak!! There have been other references in the series but Gong Yoo is my bias so this one was my favorite so far. I had to rewind and rewatch the few second segment a few times 😄

I'm not squeeing, I'm laughing like crazy because I have just seen Taecyeon aged up, with a grey beard. 😂
#First Night with the Duke 2, about half way

I just finally finished watching MELO MOVIE. My first squee is for the most precious, sweet, adorable, Choi Woo Shik. He absolutely lights up the screen whenever he appears. Second squee is for Lee Jun Young, (he has had such a busy year!) who ALMOST stole the show from Woo Shik. He was amazing as the 2nd ML. Honorable mentions to Kim Jae Wook, (he worked hard to not be a hottie!!) and Jeon So Nee (2nd FL, that I was not familiar with) were also amazing. I have to admit that I am just not a Park Bo Young fan, as hard as I try to be. She and Woo Shik were sweet together, but I just didn't feel the romance and I find I feel that way often with her characters (maybe more in Strong Girl BS - but come on, with Park Hyung Sik!!). Wondering how I will feel about her in Our Unwritten Seoul when I give in and start watching.
I worked very hard to stick with this drama and it really wasn't until episode 6 that I finally was hooked. All of the characters were so thoughtfully written and portrayed and it did make me have a lot of feelings. So, I'm glad that i finished it!

Oh my, Namkooong Min looks so... soft? in Uri Movie. It is not that I want to squee aloud, it is more for a small private inner squee. 😊

Going to squee here about how much I love The Woks of Life web/blog site. Just finished making dumplings from their <The Only Dumpling Recipe You Will Ever Need.
Still learning, still adjusting to available ingredients and altitude (2,000 meters). Must share that after a morning working in the garden how great it is to treat a tired old body to some delish dumplings fresh from the air-fryer.
Life is good. Enjoy yourself.

A huge squee for Our Unwritten Seoul Episode 7!!!!
Right? Wasn't it so good?

I was inner-squeeing the whole second episode 2 of Uri Movie, because I really loved the slow pace, the lingering in the moment, the perspectives of our leads, the camera work... and then, then they introduced Dad (plus he is played by Kwon Haehyo!) and my heart stopped... because I saw me, a person whose close family member was dying... with no hope for recovery... and the memories flooded me ...the constant fears of the (very known) future and yet trying not to let it show...
And I get Dad's NO to Female's Lead request to leave the hospital... because he doesn't want her to shorten her life even by a second... (even if I get her point of view).