Beanie level: Rooftop room dweller

Sharing because this just gave me a little boost of positivity.
My favorite is the 11 cows being potty trained.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-year-in-cheer-2/

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This year writing up an end of year list for anything just seems like too much effort. I wasn’t going to write up a best of music one, but these songs brought me such happiness I wanted to share them. Plus, I love reading the lists that Beanies have posted. It’s always fun to see if there is a artist in  common, but a different song choice.
Not going to go too in depth or count them out, just a list of the 2021 one songs that kept me company. Apologies for the long ramble.

SHINee: Marry You, Don’t Call Me, Area. 
SHINee was just a highlight. This CB was just the perfect dose of serotonin.

Taemin: Advice & Strings.
Advice was dramatic, catchy, and impeccable.  Perfect way for him to leave us before coming back to the next part of his career. Can not wait to see what he will do next.
Taemin and potentially SHINee being on a hiatus until he returns will leave a hole for sure. Maybe a certain Kwon Ji-yong will decide to help fill that void for me.

But there is always Key. His Hate That & Saturday Night have been staples recently.

Epik High: Rosario and Acceptance Speech

B.I: illa illa & Stay

AKMU: Nakka & Everest. 
This album is so great and know I’ll be listening to it through 2022 and having new favorites from it.

2pm: Make It

D.O: I’m Gonna Love You & Rose

Woodz: Waiting & Multiple

Lee Hi: Bye & Only
Her voice.

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After seeing some spoilers I’m not ready to watch the drama, but these actors have a lovely chemistry together.

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Just saw Betty White passed. That one hurts a little. As people are pointing out she had a long life, but lived it in a way that feels too short for the rest of us.

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    OMG! She was just days from turning 100!

    She will be missed.

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What are some dramas with a found/made family trope?

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    Some solid ones include Mixed-Up Investigation Agency (Evasive Inquiry Agency), Fermentation Family, Mad Dog and The Untamed.

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      No one here talks much about MIA. One of my top favourite.

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        It’s such a wonderful show, but as far as I know it’s never been legally available to watch anywhere – if it were, I think more folks would discover it.

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    Park Hye-run’s dramas tend to have this – Pinocchio, While You Were Sleeping, etc.

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    Yoo-na’s Street
    Shut Up Flower Boy Band
    30 But 17

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      Yas to Yoona’s Street! I wish more people would watch it.

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    I love Yoona’s Street, and Fermentation Family is in my good book.

    Bad Family in 2006 is a great addition to this list – so funny and heartwarming: https://mydramalist.com/545-bad-family

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    I second Jig’s recommendation of 30 but 17 and would like to add I Am Not a Robot too.

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    Be Melodramatic – the 3 girls and a brother
    Hometown Cha Cha Cha – Gongjin Family

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    The more recent ones that I can remember right now are IOTNBO (KMY and the Moon brothers) and Start Up (HJP and Halmeoni).

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Finally watched the first ep of You Are My Sprimg.
I knew about the serial killer, but still wasn\’t expecting it to be that creepy. Going to keep watching though, just not in the middle of the night

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I love Super M and hope for their sake the fans are more accepting this time.
Can\’t wait.

https://www.soompi.com/article/1505569wpp/sm-entertainment-announces-new-girl-group-with-boa-and-members-of-red-velvet-girls-generation-and-aespa

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I’m not watching Snowdrop, but am interested in all that is surrounding it. Also, just learning some tidbits of SK history.
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    I do wonder what the twist is in the next episode since JTBC seems to believe it will clear up any misunderstandings.

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I wish I had an ear for languages.  Especially with a genre that has different types of speech. But also when I see videos like this.Eric stops and Compliments Woodz on his speaking 2 or 3 times, you can see he is really impressed by it. It would be fun to hear what he hears.

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    He’s got good language skills, but besides that he is so articulate! I really enjoy listening to people as young as him expressing themselves fluently, maybe it’s because I’m a teacher 😂
    I already loved Woodz’s songs, but after watching the interview I started seeing him as a real artist

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Received my book planner from Little Inklings Design. It is almost too much as I do not want to add stress to my reading, but it is lovely. Also very happy it has a space to list dramas watched because I usually do not keep track.

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    I like that idea. I keep a small notebook and enter a drama or movie when I finish it. If I don’t finish it, it doesn’t get an entry.

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I’ve been reading the Twitter account that @leetennant posted. Apparently some brands are pulling out of the drama.
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    This grain company has now been inundated with orders. Apparently more than they’ve received in the last 10 years.

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      I really don’t think airing snowdrop is a good idea. I mean, come on, we’ve had successful representations of this painful event over and over again in dramaland. A notable mention will be Youth of May, Knetizens were just quiet and supported the drama meaning there was no distortions.

      Sponsors pulling out and Petitions getting up to 200k simply means there’s something wrong with the drama. Either they explain the drama to ease the suspicious minds of their viewers or they watch all their hard work hit the mud.

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I\’m listening to a new to me podcast called Daebak! A Kdrama podcast. Basically each ep seems to be a round table discussion and breakdown of a drama. I\’ve listened to and liked the My Ahjussi and Coffee Prince eps and now listening to the My Lovely Sam Soon ep.
They are talking about about the separation and time skip at the end and how it is such a common trope in K dramas.
One of the hosts brought up a point that they saw online about this trope. That, \”Korea suffers from a cultural trauma around separation.\”
I\’ll admit I never thought about that and now has me thinking about this trope more.

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There is a podcast I listen to called Fated Mates that focuses on romance books. The hosts this season have a series they are calling Trailblazer episodes. It\’s where they want to record the voices and stories of the people who helped make and shape the romance industry.
I listened to the Beverly Jenkins one earlier this evening and it is wonderful.
Now I\’m partway through the ep with Vincent Virga the author who wrote Gaywyck. I don\’t think I\’ve heard of this trilogy before, but it is the first m/m Gothic romance.
It is a really great conversation so far. He drops some great names and the stories are fun, charming, and also heartbreaking. It\’s a nice look into 70s publishing in New York too. Telegrams!
Anyway if anyone likes podcasts and likes listening to authors talk about the process of writing to publishing their works, especially from the 70s, 80s, and 90s I\’d recommend this series of episodes.
A link to the Vincent Virga ep:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ss2LE3ICyb5QQzRRV1ZRM?si=on7gOm3PQ0GrvqNTI2BACQ&utm_source=copy-link

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Looks like it is safe to start Happiness. I had wanted to, but then because of the subject matter and current time I wanted to wait and see.

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Spotify wrapped is here.

My top artist:

1. Tamin

2.SHINee

3. SuperM

4. G Dragon

5. Epik High

None of this surprises me, however it does surprise me that my top song was not Advice. It was my number two.
But I think my top song was because at the beginning of the year I needed something that was just FUN!

So my top song of 2022 was……
🤣

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    First time hearing this! 🤣 Love their swag
    PS: Advice is one of my songs of the year too. Pure art. And the lyrics, dang! Felt that in my bones this year

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      Taemin just keeps upping his game. Can’t wait to see what he does when he returns from the military.

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    Omg 😆😆😆 GD reminds me of in Little Women where Jo comments that Mr Brooke dances like “a grasshopper in a fit” 🤣. (At least, that’s how I remember it.)

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    Epik High is at the top of my list.

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I was looking at photos Of G Dragon at a Nike thing in Seoul.

I just want some new music. Hopefully 2022.

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I just looked at Dramas Over Flowers 2021 kdrama list. I\’ve only finished 7 current dramas.Which is such a small number and yet more than I thought. Lately I want to watch all the dramas, but for most of the year I\’ve only watched one or two current ones at a time at a time.
I could finish Nevertheless, but not sure I want to right now. At some point I do want to finish the handful of dramas I stalled on that were not really a drop.
Do think I am going to start She Would Never Know this weekend and maybe start and finish You Are My Spring before the year is done.
I think I will make thse my to be watched for this last month. It leaves room the Japanese dramas I\’ve been watching and maybe Nobody Knows too as a nice break from all the romance, but still has characters and a relationship at the core

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Every once in awhile I imagine a drama pairing that I\’d like to see.

I\’d love a romcom with Gong Yoo and Park Min Young. One where they can just be super charismatic and charming with good banter. That quick back and forth type of banter.

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Is anyone else looking forward to their Spotify Wrapped?
I\’m guessing my top artist is Taemin. And maybe Advice is my top song.

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    I always look forward to it.

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    I was just saying this to my family a few days ago. I’m really intrigued who my top artist will be. I can’t even guess for mine because I’ve been obsessed over several songs throughout the year.

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    My Spotify is the one that I mostly use when playing music for my kids on our stereo so I think there is a strong likelihood The Wiggles will heavily feature – although there is a possibility Henry will take the win as my two year old LOVES It’s You and will listen to it nonstop given a chance. My own listening cannot compete.

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    I love Spotify Wrapped! I’m pretty sure my top artist is 2PM. And On My Way (2PM) or Take Me Home (Ateez) as my top song.

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Just because it made me laugh.
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