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Idk, but I imagine a Batman-type ending for Little Women. Maybe with Injoo dying for her sisters (we all know she would do it without hesitation). But after a while we are shown In Kyung traveling to Singapore, and in the distance she can see her big sister, under a new identity, having lunch at a fancy restaurant with her sexy new husband (yes, Choi do il, I have blind hopes). They look at each other, do a Bruce Wayne/Alfred nod, and walk away. The cameras turn off. Credits appear. The best kdrama of the year is over.

[poppystuffs]

I like this idea and I support this idea.

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Ways to say “Approximately”

Don’t we all want to enrich our vocabulary? Well, here is your chance to do it. Approximately is an adverb meaning not precisely but close to the exact number or amount. Here are 13 different ways to say “approximately”.

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Verbs that Change Meaning with Infinitive and Gerund

Are you still struggling to remember after which verb or phrase to use an infinitive or gerund? In a small number of cases you can use both infinitive and -ing after some verbs, but did you know that there is a group of verbs that change meaning with infinitive or gerund? In this lesson, we will look at eight such verbs:

Remember

Forget

Regret

Go on

Need

Try

Stop

Mean

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Words to describe facial expressions

Absent: preoccupied 

Agonized: as if in pain or tormented

Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire

Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

Beatific: blissful

Black: angry or sad, or hostile

Bleak: hopeless

Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern

Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent

Brooding: anxious and gloomy

Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

Cheeky: cocky, insolent

Cheerless: sad

Choleric: hot-tempered, irate

Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings

Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor

Despondent: depressed or discouraged

Doleful: sad or afflicted

Dour: stern or obstinate

Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

Ecstatic: delighted or entranced

Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible

Fixed: concentrated or immobile

Gazing: staring intently

Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive

Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion

Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic

Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness

Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty

Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism

Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant

Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit

Jeering: insulting or mocking

Languid: lazy or weak

Leering: sexually suggestive

Mild: easygoing

Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful

Pained: affected with discomfort or pain

Peering: with curiosity or suspicion

Peeved: annoyed

Pleading: seeking apology or assistance

Quizzical: questioning or confused

Radiant: bright, happy

Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident

Sardonic: mocking

Sour: unpleasant

Sullen: resentful

Vacant: blank or stupid looking

Wan: pale, sickly

Wary: cautious or cunning

Wide eyed: frightened or surprised

Withering: devastating

Wrathful: indignant or vengeful

Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

[kdrama-mental]

How others oppas do it // How Yijin does it

[kdrama-mental]

"The times" in 25/21

On 25/21 they keep mentioning "the times" and it caught my attention. We first started the drama with people wearing masks. We have Heedo's daughter being a teenager in these covid "times".

Then they show us the time of youth of Heedo and Yijin. The Korean IMF crisis is present, causing many problems in the "adult world", as Heedo puts it. She says that those issues have nothing to do with her because she is young, and she has nothing to lose.

But what happens next? The life and dreams of our Heedo are crushed when, because of these problems in the adult world (the IMF crisis), her fencing team is cut from the school budget. At the same time, we have Yijin and everything that he had to go through due to this economic crisis; his father went bankrupt, his family had to split up, and he has to deal with the people who lost money because of his father. After all, young people are not exempt from these problems of the “adult world”. Isn't that sad? We have our dreams, plans, and ideals for the future; why does all of that always have to be affected by "the world of adults"?

Even so, our heroine, far from getting depressed and taking this difficulty as an end to her dreams. She tries in different ways (some a bit risky lol) to get back on the path of her dreams. I think Heedo is very inspiring. She has a passion and dedication to achieve her dreams that we should all copy, right?

Finally, we see how her efforts are rewarded, the opportunity to compete for being in the national team arrives for her. As the couch herself said, it's all because she didn't give up.

I think this will be a motivation for Heedo's daughter and for us as well. Even if we see that our dreams and plans are crushed because of “the times” and “the problems of the adult world”, we shouldn't give up. After all, the Chinese word for crisis also means opportunity, and we don't know when "the times" will open a window for us.

[kdrama-mental]

Same vibes?

Same vibes.

[kdrama-mental]

Why is it that 25/21 feels like watching a Studio Ghibli movie?

It gives me the same vibes as Ocean Waves, From up on poppy hill and my absolute favorite: Whisper of the heart.

[kdrama-mental]

I love that they've told us their backstories; and that they show how in a small town, with friendly and closer residents, you can also feel loneliness.

[poppystuffs]

True

[kdrama-mental]

She's receiving it now, Sir.

[kdrama-mental]

I guess she did read that George Bataille's Erotism book

Savage Hyejin 😂

[kdrama-mental]

I hope they aren't showing us these cute scenes of them looking like a family, and then not making Dusik and Hyejin getting married and having children.

[poppystuffs]

I'm really hoping they show them being parentssssssss

[kdrama-mental]

I love how, when Ji PD first appeared, everyone was like: NOOOOO, NOT A CRINGY LOVE TRIANGLE AGAIN, PLEASE

And now Ji PD himself comes and say "I have studied trigonometry functions in school. Love triangles aren’t for me"

Literally, best kdrama line ever

[poppystuffs]

Real

[kdrama-mental]

did he just tell her to read george bataille's erotism?

like I'm just agahshsgssgsgshs 🌚

[poppystuffs]

Now I'm intrigued

[kdrama-mental]

She's receiving it now, Sir.