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k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

didn't expect my favorite kdrama of the year to come so late but i can't stop thinking about the magic of light shop 💡🎄

screencaps from LIGHT SHOP (2024): youngji lies in a pink hospital bed with a bandage wrapped around her head and gentle morning light spilling into the room. she looks at the christmas tree across from her and says, "But the light was really pretty."

a shot of the mini christmas tree in her room, there is a star on top and colorful baubles decorating it.

an outside shot of the light shop covered in snow. there is a small christmas tree in the window next to other bright lights.

inside the brightly lit light shop, wonyoung and yoohee sit together under a string of colorful christmas lights. beside them on the floor sits a dog with red reindeer antlers.

December 21, 2024 at 4:50 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

a spark in the dark #lightshop #kdrama 💡

screencaps from LIGHT SHOP (2024): ji-young stands outside the glass door of the light shop dressed in all white.

sun-hae sleeps sitting upright at her computer, her shadow behind her held tightly by an unseen presence.

sung-sik's shadow reveals the back of his head is missing. he touches the wound, a cigarette hanging from his lips.

in the light shop, hye-won slowly reaches for a bright bulb. her hair is wet.

December 13, 2024 at 5:19 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

how does pinterest see u? ✨
- hobby
- love language
- song lyrics
- comfort quote

stacked notebooks and a pencil beside a lamp.

lyrics from Conan Gray's "Movies": Falling in love with a damn fantasy / That's so me, so me

a drawing of two red deck chairs with "I love every small thing we do" written underneath them

December 10, 2024 at 2:37 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

vcy vs The Missing Year

December 10, 2024 at 2:34 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

when he tells her about the 1st time his dad hit him & she tells him about an abusive teacher & it cuts to their present selves comforting their childhood selves. she plays w him in the street, he throws a football at the teacher. let me get revenge for you. let me help. let me warm the bad memories

present day xiaole sitting on the stairs with child kai, their feet are bare because she told him that being closer to the earth, touching it, helps you feel better.

present day kai sits with child xiaole on the football pitch she waited for her father on the day he never came home.

December 3, 2024 at 11:01 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

i chose to be numb, she chose to pretend.

a close up of xiaole and kai's hands as he leans up and lights her cigarette from under her bed.

she lies on her bed with her cigarette dangling close to him on the floor.

a close up of their hands as he gently reaches for the cigarette and takes it from her.

under her bed, he smokes her cigarette. his bright blue hair complements her blue dress.

December 3, 2024 at 10:53 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

负负得正 / Land of Broken Hearts (2024) had a lot of fleabag-esque moments where it felt like in the whole universe, only kai & xiaole understood each other. existed on the same weird wavelength. insanely romantic.

screencaps from LAND OF BROKEN HEARTS (2024): the room is bathed in pink light with bubbles floating around Kai and Xiaole as they sit next to each other on the sofa and watch tv. Xiaole looks off to the side and asks, "Are they (...)"

"(...) your friends?" She points off camera.

He slides closer to her and follows her gaze. "You can see them too?" he asks.

The camera cuts to a group of grey aliens with bright blue eyes filming them and making bubbles appear using a bubble machine. She counts them to prove she can see them too, "One, two, three, four, five, six (...)"

December 3, 2024 at 10:46 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

THE WAY I GASPED!!! Truly the most gorgeous shades of blue 🥹💙🩵 feel warm just looking at these pics. we have a lil sun this morning (and a touch of snow)

picture of a deck covered in frost, bright blue skies overhead.

November 22, 2024 at 10:22 AM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

it's true i am fighting demons rn

screencaps from WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, laszlo explains that "Throughout time, humans have confused demonic possession (...)"

nandor adds, "Like when a frost ghoul poisons your soul and they call it the 'winter blahs.'"

November 21, 2024 at 5:54 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

might just be my fav tv moment of the year btw (which is very predictable if you know about my years long love affair w the madwoman in the attic trope)

sofia stands in her parents room, in front of the yellow wallpaper with her arms dramatically out stretched as she tosses her father's belongings on the bed. she is wearing a bright red coat with fur trim around the neck.

she lights three cigarettes in her mouth.

and watches with a bright smile as the room burns.

her back to the camera, she watches her father's house burn.

November 21, 2024 at 5:26 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

The Hangman (costume department @ the penguin, u have my heart forever)

screencaps from THE PENGUIN, sofia gigante (cristin milioti) wears a little black dress with a bright red scarf draped around her neck and louboutin heels with the classic red sole to match.

November 21, 2024 at 5:18 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

“It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

November 19, 2024 at 8:42 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

yellow like the dress she was wearing the night she was betrayed by her father, yellow like the wallpaper in her mother's room, the one she kept seeing on the walls of her cell, the one she kept peeling until there was nothing left, until she was guilty too...

in arkham, sofia imagines her cell covered in the yellow wallpaper from her mother's bedroom. she peels at the paint until more of it is revealed.

wearing a yellow dress covered in black flowers the night she was arrested, she stresses, "He is punishing me for something he did."

in the yellow gown, she says, "Well, my father locked me away in a dungeon"

her back to the camera as she continues to peel at the wall, ARKHAM STATE HOSPITAL is clear on her orange and white uniform.

November 19, 2024 at 8:39 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

still thinking about this dress

screencaps from THE PENGUIN, sofia gigante (cristin milioti) wears a long yellow satin dress with sparkly earrings and a matching chain that drapes down her cleavage.

a closer look at her make up, heavily lined eyeliner and red lipstick.

she is seen smoking through the window, the flame matching the golden hues of her dress and the dimly lit room behind her.

she stands in front of a window, bathed in golden light from the sunrise with a satisfied smile on her face.

November 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

Wanna switch for a bit 🙂‍↕️

November 18, 2024 at 10:47 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

sometimes u just can't make a dream last!!!!!

screencap from jeongnyeon: the star is born, jeongnyeon reads a letter from jooran, it says, "To me, you were my dream, my longing (...)"

November 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

LONG LIVE ALL THE MOUNTAINS WE MOVED, I HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE FIGHTING DRAGONS WITH YOU!!! 🐉✨ #kdrama #jeongnyeon_thestarisborn

screencaps from jeongnyeon: the star is born, jeongnyeon and the cast get in a circle with all their hands in the middle, jeongnyeon exclaims, "All right, let's have the time of our lives out there!"

a close up of all their hands on top of each other in the circle

they all raise their hands in the air and shout, "The time of our lives!"

jeongnyeon hugs youngseo and she giggles.

November 18, 2024 at 4:24 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

don't regret. remember.
i'll remember everything for us.

screencap from PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019), in a portrait, héloïse holds open a book to reveal page 28, the page marianne drew a nude self portrait.

screencap from jeongnyeon: the star is born, jooran sends jeongnyeon a letter to wish her luck in the new production and signs it off with a pressed forget me not flower.

November 18, 2024 at 4:20 PM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

or whatever!!!!!!

screenshot of recent lastfm scrobbles, it's all GOOD LUCK, BABE! by chappell roan

November 17, 2024 at 11:37 AM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

ANYWAY IT'S FINE!!!!!! IT'S COOL!!!!!!! 5 stars simply for breaking my heart every single week in the best and worst ways

jooran holds jeongnyeon's hand and says, "Goodbye, Jeongnyeon. (...)"

November 17, 2024 at 11:31 AM

k.

@cicelyalaska.bsky.social

jooran knowing she can't change her own reality but living for the hope that jeongnyeon can keep living how she wants to live. love who she wants to love. be who she is. for both of them. she'll carry the burden if it means jeongnyeon can be happy.