Who Needs Oxygen When You Got Oxyjin

HER

It is here.

I CAN’T WAIT TO GET MY COPY (in a month probably)

THE ALBUM IS FUCKING GOOD I CANT.

Jinx and Ekko are like Past Lives or La La Land because they get together but in another life

Our Unwritten Seoul 미지의 서울 (2025) Dir. Park Shin Woo – Ep. 4

i love the blues <3

When Life Gives You Tangerines

This drama is so unique in it's storytelling. I'm watching it with my mom and I told her that I love how the pacing isn't in any order whatsoever. It feels natural, almost like being told by memory. And memories aren't always in chronological order.

It reminds me of sitting with my grandma in the garden, asking her stories about her childhood, starting from when she was a little girl to when she had my mom and my uncles, to her own siblings, then to her marriage. It leaves me with the same fluttery feelings, all warm and joyful. Yet the drama also offers so many perspective about life, about how people become when they grow up. As kids, we had big dreams and even bigger ambitions, but then as adults, we just try to do our best. Sometimes we fail but we try to make do and give ourselves a little bit of grace. Because this is our first life, everything is a first time.

The episodes just wreck me every. single. time. I don't think there's ever been an episode where I didn't cry. So many of it is just being grateful to my parents. I know I'm luckier than most, and I know that sometimes I'm a brat who doesn't appreciate it enough. But I know that nobody else would love me as much as they do and no amount of gratitude would ever surpass everything they did for me. Oh my God this is turning out to be so sappy. But I think that's exactly what the drama wants us to realize, that life goes on and always goes on. Don't have too many regrets. Tell your parents you love them. Find a partner who would treat you right, who would be your ally and your friend, someone you'd want by your side even if the whole world comes crashing down. And love yourself deeply(!!). When you do all this, everything just follows.

Needless to say I love this drama. I believe it's one of those that'll stick with me for a very long time.

My guess on the meaning of the movie ladybird. (Because I haven't slept and I've been thinking about this and it's 5 am)

Christina created her own persona "ladybird " where she can escape her mother's and the world's rules and expectations for her. She, as ladybird can be and do anything.

However, in doing so, she builds walls to protect herself using and absorbing the same abusive personality traits her mother has. Re-purposing those abusive traits makes her a part of the cycle and is the main ironic theme of the story.

This backfires, however, because she becomes the person she's trying to defend herself from. She becomes, in a way, her own abuser. That's not to say her mother had no part in it bc she was part of the cycle too.

The ending of the movie was to show how she became her own person, a part of her family and love for her mother, and a part of her own story too. Showing the two versions of herself can coexist in the usage of her name as a metaphor.

The only thing I didn't like was that the mother seemed to only feel regret about her actions and never seemed to truly attempt to fix her patterns of abuse.

Idk. That's just my take on it.

This film will forever break my heart. One of the best hitman and the child bits ever.

“Who the fuck are you?  Why did you come all the way here for her?” “I’m her next-door neighbor.”

Now that would've made an interesting musical number

the high school musical x challenger connection has made my week

Jennifer's body 🩸

Something else about Sinners (yeah I’m never gonna shut up about this) is the way black people and vampires are portrayed as sharing similar lifestyles. This is really emphasized when Pearline sings Pale Pale Moon. The lyrics talks about black people working all day in the Jim Crow South and the only time they have a semblance of freedom is under moonlight. Pearline even says that she doesn’t want the sun to shine and she doesn’t care if it never shines again because under the pale moon they can sing and they’re free!!!!