Mel.

Lit, literary criticism, and translation, with a side of everything else. Currently learning: Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Melayu, and French.

[Mel. @readthegalaxy]

I have said that reading Hong Lou Meng and Wuthering Heights in my formative years = what I can only politely call fucked up expectations about love.

Add to that Dorothy L. Sayers’ glorious mystery novels and you’ve got IRREVOCABLY fucked up expectations about love.

[Andrew Kerslake @kerslake_andrew]

If the world is made from language, watch how the meanings change or are made to change.

[Mel. @readthegalaxy]

Nothing much happens when Juran shows up. Nothing except Juran looking for Jeongnyeon at the beach, watching the sunrise together, and telling Jeongnyeon to talk to Yeongseo instead of running away and creating a misunderstanding. Because that’s what Juran did so many years ago.

[Mel. @readthegalaxy]

Twitter recaps are so good that I feel like I’ve watched all of Jeongnyeon (A Star is Born). And I have so many thoughts.

First of all, all-woman theatre troupes? Plays within a drama?? MY RIVAL IS THE ONE WHO GETS ME trope?? EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE GENTLE SUNBAE???

[Mel. @readthegalaxy]

Juran is the first love who got (or was taken) away, the one with whom their time was cut short. In a way, Jeongnyeon and Yeongseo both have Juran as a quiet thread dividing and yet running between them.

[Mel. @readthegalaxy]

@chowleen I expected nothing less :D

[Mel. @readthegalaxy]

@evalanguages Ugh, me too! I love watching relaxing vlogs, but I haven’t found any that I enjoy in French.

[Mel. @readthegalaxy]

Looked at the number “7” and tried to say it in French, but my mind cycled through 일곱 and なな before it went “…sept”.

[Mel. @readthegalaxy]

@lindiebee For sure! The amount of vocabulary I picked up naturally watching Korean vlogs is no joke. (I discovered Yuzutangerine’s YT channel and had a blast.) I’ve had a little more difficulty finding Japanese and French vlogs that have a similar calm, bookish vibe…

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

Need someone to remake this

[xenia 💚 @soupsizedocean]

Young Girl Reading Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1770) vs. my sibling reading bnha doomed yaoi on ao3 on their way to prom (2024)