Stories abound @storiesabound - Tumblr Blog

every week Absolute Value of Romance kills me with a severe case of secondhand embarrassment and every week it's absolutely worth it

#dear god i had to get up and take a wheezing/laughing walk around the living room after the whole constipation reveal #my lungs are fit to burst and that's not an exaggeration #absolute value of romance #kdrama

moonlightsdream

🍴 Yummy Yummy Yummy 宴遇永安 (2025) — Episode. 04

#she is everything to me #a feast in yong'an

bumblebeebats

I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

#why isn't this slow burn cartoonishly fast

rrredgi

Me about The Character:

#I had forgotten how exquisitely funny mr. knightley is #especially when it comes to frank churchill #book quotes #emma

jexversea

i love how fanny is really skilled in swindling because she already lying so many times to her mother about belle and the fact that she also skilled in painting, and could make a perfect lettering for forgery. like, it makes total sense and doesn't come from nowhere.

and i love her bonding with fagin and how fagin treat her as equal and accepted her. i just love their interaction and i know fagin is really close to change her fake company as fagin and daughter.

dragonsareawesome123

Sneed defending Jack from accusations of criminal activity

The Artful Dodger (2023-) 1x04 // 2x02

+

#i adored season 2 so much!#the aspect ratio threw me off a little in the beginning but oh the characterization <3 #*chef's kiss* as we used to say in these parts #the artful dodger

muchcelebrated

TRAILER IS OUT

#we back baby!#the artful dodger

catsofyore

Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.

#omg them is brothers!#cats

moonlightsdream

🍴Yummy Yummy Yummy 宴遇永安 (2025) — Episode. 31

#don't you just love it when two people in love are both lovey-dovey and buddy-buddy #宴遇永安

my man shen gongcai got elbowed across the cranium by villain no.2 so hard he managed to resolve the whole ancestor conundrum

#listen do i have notes? yes #did i also find it absurdly fucking funny? also yes #like of all the ways to resolve that hjsfgjfd #very well. blunt force trauma it is.#宴遇永安 #a feast in yong'an #yummy yummy yummy

rumiroo

Jicai is just so fiercely protective of her family and friends. She took a massive risk to help this woman she had just met and became friends with. But she can't bring herself to put her family in danger.

It was okay to be reckless when they first arrived here and played by their own rules since they figured they would just return home eventually. But now that the Shen's are trapped in this timeline, it's no longer safe to stand out. To survive, they must comply with the rules and the laws of the times. And must bow their heads to higher authority or risk losing their lives. And Jicai understands the danger much better than her family seems to. So, no wonder she's hesitant about harbouring someone who might bring trouble to their doorsteps.

So she tries to harden her heart and drive her away. She tries to be cold and unfeeling and put her family first, but ultimately, she can't really do it. That's just not the type of person she is. Lin Yan understands that about her perfectly.

And sure enough, she goes back to get her friend.

He's so proud of his girl!!!😭😭😭 It kills me that he knows how good jicai is. How kind and generous is her soul and just how wonderful she is as a person. How fiercely protective she is of her family and really, anyone she considers her family. To be loved by jicai would be the most wonderful thing. And he absolutely knows it.

#just so well done i am a fan #that's how you write realistic well-rounded characters #a feast in yong'an

The thing about Yummy Yummy Yummy A Feast in Yong'an is that it has been such a refreshing surprise. There is not a single one-dimensional character in the ensemble cast.

From major to minor, all the characters are penned with an authenticity and tenderness that is honestly rare in the present drama landscape. Despite it being a vibrant rom-com with a slice of time-travel and family shenanigans, when it comes to emotional interplay between various characters, the style of writing is so understated and natural that you gradually find yourself invested in them all.

The romance too doesn't spring from instant attraction (a tiresome trope done to death) but takes its time without compromising the overall pace. The dialogue between the leads doesn't feel forced, there is no sign of therapy-speak whenever confidences are shared, and even when the most worn-out tropes of the genre are employed like falling and catching, accidental kissing, they are executed in such a muted, unpretentious style that it actually heightens the effect and gives you some major butterflies.

There is a gentle, unhurried unfolding of friendship and fondness, respect and love, with some delectable angst thrown in for good measure between the leads. and oh. I just adore it when a slow-burn is handled with such care and is done so right.

#a feast in yong'an #yummy yummy yummy #i was feeling bored by everything else that is on right now that this drama truly came as a curveball and is feeding me so well so far #i am invested in everything be it the princess and censor pei; yangyang and the flat-earthers; even the parents' relationship #and the romance of course #but heavens above whomst is translating these cdrama titles and what is their vendetta against both the Chinese and English languages #宴遇永安

friend put on the frankenstein audiobook narrated by dan stevens as we work in the living room, and now i am a weeping, sniffing mess

#we are 1.5 hours in and i have shed honest-to-god tears at five separate points #i read the book as a child and had clean forgot how the book is just riddled with a deep sense of grief #to which add the masterful (fucking masterful i repeat) narration by dan stevens and i am in flat despair #just sitting with my laptop my eyes red #like wtf my guy how is he so good at all the voices and nuances in those voices??#i need to check out if there are any other audiobooks he has done (preferably way less sad)

The way The Double's background score is absolute fire?!?!

#like damn i was not prepared for it to be this good #and xue fangfei's leitmotif (idk what it's officially titled) is.. i don't know how to quite describe it but it's Haunting with a capital H #i am on episode 3 and loving how they're really leaning into the dramatic #like they are committed to the slow mos and swelling music #except (Except!) the one death scene so far which had the opposite effect on me than intended #because the sudden keeling over while sort of twirling made me crack up i am sorry!!!!#the double #s watches the double