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I need to stop collecting villains to satiate my need to psychoanalyse all of their horrible decision making, collect their unreasonably attractive voices and just stop love-hating/romanticising their harmful stupid asshole personalities.

rudjedet

*grabs tumblr by the face* hey, hey look at me. whatever you do, we are NOT pivoting to "well Hatshepsut COULD be trans because she never said she WASN’T" after we spent years undoing the whole thing where people shoehorn modern gender frameworks into the perception of ancient historical figures whose culture didn't have this framework. we are NOT going to use "don't put words in the ancients' mouths" as an excuse to say "it could still be true because she never said it was false". Hatshepsut - and before her several other female kings like Sobekneferu and Tawosret - only referred to herself with masculine pronouns when she grammatically had to, while she used feminine pronouns everywhere else she could, indicating that she likely didn’t consider herself as anything other than a woman per the ancient Egyptian constructs of such.

sophiesblogworld

Drama so good it has people on social media asking for a spin off with the adventures of Dansim and the Prince. Personally I would eat this up

liveasbutterflies

Please help me, Grandfather.

My Royal Nemesis 멋진신세계 (2026)

theillusioninspector

loisbreelxnd

my royal nemesis as text posts

pahnfond

MY ROYAL NEMESIS | 멋진신세계 (2026) — EP.07

hheartsdramas

it delights me the way cha se gye is always a little pissed off at himself for getting soft over seo ri. like he sees himself doing these ridiculous corny romantic things and falling for this ridiculous possibly insane woman but he can’t help himself, and he’s so irritated about it. it’s a tiny thing but makes so much sense for a guy who has viewed every relationship he’s ever had as transactional and values his asshole-ish reputation. even as he’s starting to let himself enjoy it and enjoy her, his moments of “wtf am i doing” honestly make the transition from stone cold ceo to the most lovesick idiot you’ve seen in your life way more believable than in a lot of other chaebol romances.

and it somehow extra works because seo ri doesn’t instantly become the adoring girlfriend. she’s wary af still so when he does some romantic shit she’s not automatically swooning. she’s similarly going “what am i doing falling for this guy” but can’t help herself, either. so then there they both are, pissed off at themselves and each other for feeling the way they do, and it brings them closer together every time.

it’s just all so delicious!

asocial-skye

every episode of my royal nemesis is a rom-com for forty minutes intercut with ten minutes of the most devastating historical romance you've seen and ten minutes of psychological thriller brought to you by a cousin/brother with an unnatural fixation on the main leads.

cardaminegreen

My Royal Nemesis said ‘fuck manic pixie dreamgirls, we gonna give you real crazy’ and I love them for it.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a weirder FL than Kang Dan-Sim/ Shin Seo-Ri. She’s like a really fucking strange bird. Not like the ‘bit weird but actually really sexy and cute’. But seriously nuts without any vanity that prevents the batshittery from coming out.

Her dowdy outfits that mix toddler with granny chic. Her rage and her freakouts. Her strange walk. Her stage-y performative laugh. Her (mostly misplaced) smugness. Her egocentrism. Her superstitions.

And that’s how you know it’s real love.

A secretly status-conscious chaebol heir falling for what seems to be an unemployed 24/7 method actor who perpetually shows up as a Joseon royal consort, always tries to close weird nonsensical deals, doesn’t know what a credit card is, who has embarrassed him in public numerous times, and will with 99% likelihood absolutely not be an asset to his business which means meant everything to him?

10/10 adore.

fake-married-my-dead-fiance

Mood.

is there a fanfic on ao3 where specifically it's about Iida being a jock without his glasses??? i have niche interest and i KNOW someone in this wide world must've wrote one (or several) fics about this

drop the recs pls and tq :P