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IU (Overview)

💕 I just finished the natal reading for IU and I wanted to see if I’d have enough content to make an ‘overview’ so here we are! I think ‘overviews’ are generally a bit shorter focused outlook on the planets. More cohesively put together, there’s more synergy and it’s a lot less linear than ‘inner planet natal reading’ . I won’t be touching on the aspects as much but I might bring them up. I feel like this space should be for planets/signs only as it’ll bring focus onto the better traits/qualities of those a lot more.💕

Okumaya devam et

dangermousie

I love that they both stand up for each other - the way they won't let the other be hit by the cop - and it's so telling his protection is physical and hers is verbal and AAAAAA I LOVE THEM SO

Heh.

lurkingshan

I am all caught up and I really love this drama. Multi-generational family epics never seem to be super popular on here, but I gobble them up every single time, especially when they're this well made.

I love the generations of mothers and daughters in this story. Each mother-daughter pair has a complex relationship, love and respect and resentment all tangled up. The way they hurt each other but also give each other a reason to strive feels so real. Each mother wants her daughter to live a better life than her own, and every daughter wants to realize that dream while also struggling with the pressure. I appreciate the time the drama spends on these relationships, and how the memory of Ae-sun's mother in particular propels so much of her choices that reverberate through her own daughter's life.

I love the romance, especially because it's not all shiny and happy. This is a love story between two impoverished kids doing their best to survive and build the life they want for themselves with very little means to actually do so. Their loyalty to each other and their bond forged in the hardships of their early years gives them a strong foundation to weather life's various storms. It's not a story about a passionate affair or destined soulmates; it's two regular people who chose each other to be teammates for whatever life throws at them. I find that kind of love just as moving as the swoony variety, if not more. The steadfast nature of their commitment, and the way they choose to protect each other every time, is touching.

I love the sense of community in this story, as well, and especially the group of haenyeos that look after Ae-sun after her mother's death. They don't have much power as impoverished women themselves, but they try to do what they can to protect and help her and honor her mother's wishes. And the drama doesn't shy away from the ugly parts of this kind of small and small-minded community, either, and all the shame and social stigma heaped on a woman of Ae-sun's (lack of) status. In her youth, Gwan-sik is truly the only thing standing between her and ruin, and people are cruel to her for no reason other than they can be. Even so, most of them are not painted as evil, but rather as flawed humans who are also struggling and misplacing their rage and anxiety. It's an empathetic portrayal of a lot of complex class and social dynamics, and it's really well done.

dangermousie

I love this so much - because she wants for her daughter to have more and he will back her up. But it's also so realistic that he loves her and he is willing to go to bat/back her up (he does make sure his daughter AND his sister have trikes after this) but it doesn't occur to him per se until she points out. Because why would it? He's a 1960s male villager - he is loving and upright but he doesn't think the way she does because he's not her.

How can she not love him? OOOOOOHHHHHHH (But also, it's credit to PBG's acting but also the writing that while GS comes across as a very very good man, he doesn't feel too-good-to-be-true or unrealistic. He's no prince charming; he's not very educated, cannot tell a compliment or have an intellectual discussion really, he's actually not much of a talker at all and yet...)

There is a Russian saying about a really dependable man "behind him like behind a stone wall" and when he said that, it made me think of it.

Aaaaaa OMG dyinggggggg

And off they go for some good time (honestly, it's pretty impressive they don't have five kids running around by now.)

But it's the morning scene that gets me - not just the trikes but the way he moves tables to sit with the "lessers" - not the men or the matriarch but his wife, mom, daughter and sister (and also, how realistic that it's the women - his mom and grandma, that keep enforcing all the subjugation of women stuff) but also - the peas stuff! The kid asks for more peas and there aren't any on her mom's plate and when he pivots, he also gives his peas - but not to his daughter, to Ae Sun for HER to give to their kid - because he's not planning to play some peasant version of Lord Bountiful - the girl asked her mom so he's going to make sure Ae Sun can satisfy her daughter - her daughter asked for it from the mom so from the mom she should have (and also, she can have some for herself too, if she wants.)

herorder

when life gives you tangerines might be the best kdramas of all time and ive only seen four episodes like the cinematography, the representation of what it means to be a women through different time periods, one of the best love stories ive ever seen like wow…