Osozaki no Himawari 遅咲きのヒマワリ ~ボクの人生、リニューアル~

Sometimes the most beautiful tales come from unexpected and highly overlooked corners …

Well I’m in love … Osozaki no Himawari has recently ended airing in Japan and what a little lovely, underrated, charming drama this is. Lots of beautiful landscape shots and very good cast and characters.

[fan fic] Frontal Attack (Faith) NC17

Set after MARKED, BELONGING and HOMECOMING, Eun-Soo uses the Daejang’s favourite way of attack to get what she wants WARNING NC17!!

[fan fic] HOMECOMING (Faith)

Set after MARKED and BELONGING 🙂

[fan fic] BELONGING (FAITH)

I seem to make it a trademark with Faith fan fics to have one word titles LOL

This little fic takes place directly after MARKED – General rating. Choi Young and Eun-Soo return to the palace.

‘you have a lot to discuss’ – a Goryeo euphemism for making out?

[fan fic] MARKED (Faith)

Set directly after the ending of episode 24. Slightly M (for mature – not too graphic :P)

[fan fic] Believing (FAITH)

Smoked too many cigarettes today, cried too many times so I’m exhausted. Written after I have re-watched the last ep RAW. After the live streaming, my mind was too jumbled, too exhausted to form any coherent thoughts, but now I’m calmer, more collected. Something I couldn’t forget though was Choi Young’s voice over while Eun Soo went back through the gate. So I wrote the following.

Beware vignette contains spoilers for the last minutes of EP24 of Faith

[fan fic] Memory (FAITH vignette)

Wrote this for today’s word prompt of NaNoWriMo

Memory

She asked me to forget about her. She made me promise to forget about her, that I should live well when she is gone. But how can I do this when every day, every hour, every breath is still filled with memories of her?

When I walk through the palace halls, I can hear her voice in the distance.

When I come across our pagoda in the RoyalGardens, I can see her standing inside waiting for me.

How can I live well when I know that we are not only divided by distance but also by time and space as well?

I remember that she once asked me if I cannot go with her. I did not answer her although I wanted to answer her in the affirmative. I wanted to shout, yes, I want to go with you. I want to see your world, your Heavens again. But I remained silent. I knew the King needed me. The nation needed me. That the king counted on me to keep his enemies at bay. What I didn’t count on was the fact that I needed you more. That every memory of you makes me both miserable and happy at the same time.

Imja are you there? Can you – by some heavenly intervention – hear my words?

No, of course not. I’m just a memory to you, just as you are a memory to me. When you think of me, in your place, I will already be long gone. Just a memory in the annals of history. A memory inside your heart.

 

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‘Please stay with me when I do this’ FAITH ep23

What can I write which is not already written about this episode? An episode that picked up even more speed than the two episodes before and which – given it was the one before last – should have felt rushed with all the things happening and unravelling, but surprisingly it didn’t.
It felt as if we were in these rooms, breathing the same air as our OTPs, seeing what they see, and hearing what they hear. What an amazing episode.

Keeping the Faith

12 weeks … 12 weeks where those who watched Faith laughed, smiled, cried, shouted and got angry. Today and tomorrow there will be the last two eps and what a finale it will be. Will we be happy seeing our favourite OTP getting their well deserved HEA? Or will our hearts be torn out and all will end in tears? Up till now this little drama series with all its flaws was immaculate as it took us on a journey to 14th century Korea, made us fall in love with characters that evolved and grew throughout the series, made us cry for characters that were killed off. If it ends in tears, this series still is an enjoyment, if it ends in a Happily Ever After than it will be doubly so. Let’s have Faith that the staff and writers will give this drama an ending which it deserves.
Keep the faith 🙂

‘I would be living, but living like the walking dead’

Faith ep 22 …

So near and yet so far. Only two more eps to go and in a span of two hours (two eps) the whole drama has turned around on its head. And I’m a loss for words. I feel numb and desolate, my heart and mind aches for these two ppl as well as the tough choices they are still facing ahead. Only one drama/series has reduced me to such an extent and that was the epic love story of Aeryn Sun and John Crichton in Farscape, and they even were dysfunctional to a huge extent. Here in FAITH, we have a couple that is destined to be, it MUST be, because they are so functional, so compatible, so wonderful together.