All The Pretty Things

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[lianabrooks]

🖤 American Abroad 🖤 Bad Boy Loves The Good Girl 🖤 Kdramas 🖤 You Had Me At Hello 🖤 Secret Identities

Meet Iris Muhly, American star of the hit international TV show Shattered.

Just kidding. Ingenue Iris definitely acts in the show, but the vibe? Less ‘star’ and more ‘character the fans hate most’. Bad enough on a normal show. But on a show where fans literally vote to control the plot? A disaster bad enough to potentially kick her all the way out of Korea: her work visa expires the moment her contract does.

Arriving home on a freezing December night to find her agent in the process of moving a Jpop star into her apartment? Hardly a vote of confidence. And that’s before a package explodes on Iris, literally showering her in death threats.

If only the fans loved her enough to vote for her to stay. Heck, right now she’d settle for a place to stay tonight.

Or a vote (of confidence) from, say, Max Kang, hotter-than-hot lead villain in the cast of Shattered…

A dark, flirty paranormal romance full of forced proximity and fake relationships: the perfect read to chase away holiday blues.

READ THE OPENING PAGES BUY THE BOOK

[fullcravings]

Quick French Hot Chocolate (Chocolate Chaud)

[melonatures]

the best part of today's episode was when changyu put her hand under xie zheng's mouth to catch his blood as he spit it up

everyone wants to talk about kinks. well let's talk about 'em!!!!!

the other best part was when mr. high maintenance boyfriend started pouting about her mentioning divorce and she immediately hugs him tight to reassure and comfort him and swears never to leave him (twice! i don't speak the language but i can hear, and she said something that sounded like 'buheli' twice)

remember when she told grand tutor tao that yang zheng sometimes pulls a long face but she just likes him so damn much??? this is the dynamic she meant

the third best thing that happened was when xie zheng's bestie walked in on him shirtless and changyu stood in front of him as if to protect his modesty (and xie zheng looked like a surly little sourpuss), as if this isn't a military base full of men walking around half naked. extra hilarious cause they're in the infirmary, where he's supposed to be half naked. but the shot of changyu standing blocking the view while he's pulling on his shirt as someone walks in....i'm being fed.

[pangeen]

“ Nagaoka Tenmangu Shrine “ // えつよ

[pangur-and-grim]

fairly reliably when someone is mean and weird to you on Tumblr, you can look on their blog and all their recent posts will be about how unhappy they are in their interpersonal relationships and/or how frustrated they are that their creative venture hasn't found success. and it's like ohhhhh okay, I get it. you're clawing at other people because you're actively drowning. my sympathies, that sucks, but I'm not a lifeguard so carry on.

[c4tr0nac7]

[fattributes]

Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies

[dangermousie]

Things girls like:

flirting with handsome husband

talking to dead people

making soup

setting ministers on fire

[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[haohaode]

Pursuit of Jade 《逐玉》 (2026) ／ Ep. 02 + Ep. 07 Fan Changning counting to ten

[titsay]

[embroiderycrafts]

My first beaded project! by jam_sesh_13 on reddit.

[lianabrooks]

Do you like stabbing things, tying knots, or setting things on fire?

If so...

Stabbing: embroidery and sewing both allow a lot of stabbing with minimal negative consequence.

Knots: sailors knots, macrame, crochet, and knitting are all options.

Fire: cooking is a great way to play with fire.

[hellowearerats]

Gonna mix in some throwback rats 'cause I miss them.

[weeguttersnipe]

Oliver Platt in The Three Musketeers (English, 1993)

[little-red-cover]

✨️Pursuit of Jade Book Recs✨️

QOTD: Do you have any dramas you've watched recently that you've really enjoyed?

I have been (obviously) obsessed with Pursuit of Jade! After finishing the show I have been craving books that feel similar to fill the new hole in my soul.

I will also now forever be fan-casting Wenzhi as Zhang Linghe and Liewei as Ren Hao when I reread Daughter of the Moon Goddess. They just fit so well in my little brain 🫣

[thegreymoon]

Pursuit of Jade

Is this that princess??

Has she run away from home again?

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LMAO, of course she did 🤣🤣

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IKR???

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LOL, she found Fan Changyu 😅

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LMAO, he is so done 🤣🤣

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LOL, it's your wife!!

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Oh, sweetheart, if only you knew 😅

They all know him, just not by that name.

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Oh, god 😅

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This woman is so unbelievably pretty.

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GIRL!! COME OUT!!

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He'll still be pretty, even if he loses a limb or two!

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LOL, she has found Gongsun Yin!

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Aww, she got her sister at last!

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AND SHE FOUND HIM!

Also, it's his every dream come true, being sick again and being taken care of by her, LMAO.

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Oh, there is nothing he'd love more.

But, also, LMAO. Girl, he's richer than god. And also the fucking GENERAL.

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Hilarity 🤣🤣

Also, it's just occurred to me that absolutely everyone knows who he really is except for her. I'd be so pissed once I find out if I were her.

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Also, I just remembered. He and the Princess Royal are technically exes 😅😅

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I can't stop laughing 🤣🤣

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OH MY GOD 🤣🤣

The side-eye she gives him!! 🤣🤣 Also, the leverage she has now! She can make him move her right into Gongsun Yin's tent 🤣🤣