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rughydrangea · 3 months

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Sejak 8

This show has officially hit "I'm just screaming the whole episode" status. Would I have loved for their first make-out session to be before he knows she's a woman? I mean, sure, but the way this scene shook out was basically perfect, as the waves of understanding wash across JJS's face and Hee Soo fully gives in to the part of her heart she's been trying to deny for three years. It's just so deliciously complex and contradictory, for both of them, their desire and love for each other woven through all those layers of deception and betrayal and scheming.

On the subject of betrayal, though... Like many people on this website, I agree that Yi In plans to make his nephew his heir and is working to discover who killed his brother. It's become increasingly obvious, but I kind of clocked it from the time jump, when it's established that in spite of a decently well-populated inner court, the man doesn't have a single child. If he had been sincere in stealing the throne for himself, surely his first priority would be to have his own son, which could then leave him free to dispose of his nephew, who living is always going to be a threat to his rule.

Now, I have nothing against the nephew. It's just that, as I have established, I think usurpation is quite sexy (unless a man is trying to usurp a woman, which is why Stephen of Blois can get fucked), and I would have loved for Yi In to be a true usurper. Monarchy is all bullshit anyway, right? To me, usurpation is like an acknowledgement that it's bullshit: if the occupant of the throne is solely determined through mistakes of nature, why shouldn't humans be able to seize destiny in their hands and take what they want? If the only qualification is being born to a certain parent at the right time, then why not just change that rule to suit your own intention? Especially when nature more often than not gets it wrong: it's hard to respect the legitimacy of Grand Prince Munseong, given that he is the heir of a man who clearly never should have been king.

But no, clearly we have to have Yi In be a noble leading man, so even if he does some bad things, it's in service of a worthy and legitimate goal. I don't hate it, I just liked it more for that one enchanted episode where it seemed like he might go full anti-hero. As it is, I guess I'll have to settle for him being a super-complicated and conflicted man played by an incredible actor, poor me!

(It's true that it hasn't been established for sure that Yi In took the throne for noble reasons, but to me that does very much look like where it's going.)

#no i really do love this show i just love usurpers more lol #yi bang won and kim deokman you are the only people who have ever understood me #also this is why i am alone on my island of not liking the princess's man because i was rooting for sejo!#i will always love a character who knows what they want and takes it #probably because i so indecisive myself tbh #sejak #my commentary #captivating the king

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suyangdraws · 2 months

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Coming soon some doodles from my OC furry version!!!

Please don't share this image yet, only do it when the drawing is ready!

#god sejo #god sejo the wolf #art wip #wip #work in progress #suyangdraws #suyang draws

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elderflowergin · 2 years

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Spoilers for Bloody Heart, beneath the cut:

A couple of observations at the end of episode 14:- The substance of power and the appearance of it: From around episode 12 or so, Bloody Heart shows us the rituals of the Queen Dowager taking regency, the formality of it, the changes in her robes, which are all in stark contrast with what she can actually do as regent. it's fascinating that despite using treachery, oppression and violence, the Queen Dowager still has administrative roadblocks thrown up at almost every point. Different parts of the palace machinery are under the control of different political power centres; this made it that much harder for her to take total control early on. Lee Tae no doubt relied on this peculiar lack of power that he himself is privy to as King; there was only so much damage she could do, and everything else would take an excess of time and resources to overcome. She can threaten some officials (the head scholar) and push others into difficult corners (Minister Cho because of Yeon-hee) but she can't possibly assume control over everyone at once and sustain it for a period of time, and what time-limited damage she did do - wholesale murder and political assassination - turned out to be an asset to Lee Tae.

In some sense, it endorses Park Gye-won's view of politics, of a diffusion of power from the centre and limits to the royal family's power. From a principled position, it's hard to find fault with Councillor Park's desire to push the right sort of royal behaviour - Lee Tae grieves that his bookish father was forced into royal life and Councillor Park does not empathise; to him, that's the price paid for being a royal. You live a life of unimaginable luxury? In return, you have to step up and do the right thing and make difficult choices.

(ETA: This show explores power in such a nuanced way - be it in the harem or in the court; the way it is used, perceived and divided between power brokers is so interesting, because it echoes the same sort of discussions we had about democracies in post-colonial era - checks and balances, the limits of power, the institutions that guard the norms, the need for a figurehead. I think it's interesting that Queen Dowager compared herself to King Sejo, but she, like Yeon-hee, was circumscribed by her position and status. Could she conceivably pivot to being a lone reformer? After completely decimating the institutions and norms around her, after a lifetime of having Councillor Park protect her?)

Lee Tae/Lady Park: Lee Tae and Lady Park have been on the same page for some time, but there were fissures from the beginning. Early on, Lee Tae wonders aloud to Eunuch Jung about Consort Park's secrecy; he's clearly troubled when Lady Park is attacked by trained assassins and she and Councillor Park both claim they're just bandits (they're protecting different things, but both of them understand that telling Lee Tae something is the Joseon-era equivalent of shooting a gun: you don't put your finger on the trigger unless you want your weapon to fire).

Lady Park chose early on to be by Lee Tae's side and help him be a good king, opting to keep the issue of her late, defamed father in wait for the time being. Lee Tae shows glimpses of goodness which I think appeal to Lady Park. But Lady Park's always been driven by doing what's right, what's principled, rather than following the custom. Lee Tae makes the correct noises, but by episode 14 it's clear that his priority is to disempower the competing elements in his court, and not the welfare of his people; who, after all, would leave his palace in complete terror and chaos as part of a long-range plan to consolidate his own power? Someone who prioritises power over the good of the people. I would like to see what he does with power once he has it.

The show, I think, wants us to see Lady Park as the heroine, but it does an even-handed job of showing that Lee Tae's not the automatic villain; it takes the effort to display Tae's increasing interest in his subjects, which makes me wonder what Lee Tae would have been like if Councillor Park had truly taken him under his wing, without assessing him as inadequate from the outset. Ultimately, Lee Tae's about ends over means; Lady Park, however, has been the means to an end before and she won't let it happen under her watch yet again. It will be interesting to see how that shakes out in the final episodes.

The kids: it's the children for me, the kids who did the right thing in the wake of the horrors around them (I use the word "kids" loosely to describe youngsters in their late teens/early twenties, which I assume all three of them were):

Three young people - a monk, a royal inspector, a former slave turned court lady - from different walks of life, each of whom carried out acts of heroism that the most of the adults around them could not; all of whom had opportunities to escape, and chose to stay on in the palace and do the right thing. There was Ttonggeum, sweet, beautiful Ttonggeum who came back to the same palace Consort Park tried to get her out of (twice!!!) - who spat in Mistress Cho's face, endured torture and never gave up her beloved Lady Park till the end. There was Siwol, Eunuch Jung's entire world, the boy-monk who returns to the palace to buy his father and the King sufficient time to return. And finally, Councillor Park's lovely, principled son Inspector Park Namsan; the young man who has watched as the palace fell apart under the same sort of terror his father vowed never to see again; who watches as his father is jailed and his mother begs the Queen Dowager for his life. The upright boy who pulls himself together and puts an appeal to the Queen Dowager, completely alone in his quest because everyone else in the Three Offices has been compromised or threatened in some way. He's well aware that he could be put to death for his appeals, but he'll do it, because someone has to. What does Lee Tae's grab for expanded powers mean in a world like that? He's alive to Siwol's sacrifice, but what is the point of that sacrifice if Lee Tae doesn't use his power to rebuild the sort of world that is safe for the Siwols and the Ttonggeums? I don't think Consort Park can let that go quite so easily, even if it takes generations to build that sort of system.

Bloody Heart is a gorgeous show with so many beautiful scene sets, but one in particular will be seared in my brain: Councillor Park, walking through the blood of his murdered compatriots once again; watching as their heads line the pathway; cutting his way through eight armed guards to place a sword against the throat of his one-time lover. The regret, the horror of having made the worst miscalculation possible; the knowledge that the woman he loves and adores (adored) was responsible for all of it. If I were the Queen Dowager, I'd be thinking of that lovely line from My Country: The New Age - your sword still feels affectionate, and clearly it does; he draws only the barest hint of blood and she throws him into prison instead of having him executed as one would. But when she asks if things might have been different if she had trusted him more, he says no. I don't think he's blaming her, even; I think he knows he's put her in a position where the twisting of her mind was inevitable, and that it'd be used as a tool to compromise his Joseon, which is the real heartbreak for Park Gye-won - playing the loves of his life against each other.

#bloody heart spoilers #gin text posts #queen dowager compares herself to king sejo at one point #which is fascinating because okay valid?#but mama what was your platform?#where was your manifesto #other than wanting to be a ruler for the abandoned #wrecking joseon because your boyfriend loves her #does not count #bloody heart

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k-star-holic · 1 year

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⁇ Schrup ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ !

#Kim Hye-soo #Chungha #Ye Ju #Seoul Air Base #Sejo of Joseon #GLOW

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lima-norte · 2 months

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Neha Narula: La evangelista de las criptomonedas en el Senado de EE. UU.

¿Quién es Neha Narula? Neha Narula es una investigadora del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts – MIT que se ha convertido en una voz líder en el mundo de las criptomonedas. Su charla Tecnología, Entretenimiento, Diseño / TED de 2016 sobre el futuro del dinero la catapultó a la fama, y desde entonces ha sido invitada a hablar en eventos de todo el mundo, incluido el Senado de los Estados…

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lyrics724 · 1 year

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Kafanska pjevačica

[Tekst pjesme “Kafanska pjevačica”] [Strofa 1] U sred dana sretoh je Nije ličila na sebe Noćas, reče, sanjala sam tebe Bez šljokica i bez šminke Jedva je prepoznah ja Imala je lice djeteta[Refren] Crno vino, crne oči Tu mi pjesmu pjevala Dok me je u oči gledala Kafanska pjevačica Moju dušu uzela Da je dijete ne bi umjela Crno vino, crne oči Tu mi pjesmu pjevala Dok me je u oči gledala Kafanska…

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dangermousie · 4 months

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I love the whole narrative of Jinhan grabbing the throne, AU So Hyeon transforming into AU Sejo.

The irony is that the grasping minister of war and that whole coterie and his mad brother drove a man who would happily been a loyal assistant into this - he was willing to be executed by his brother, but he has no such attachment to his nephew and why should he sit there offering his neck to the king's in-laws? Not to mention that yes, he's much more able to govern a place, than a small boy. He kept asking for outs - for a way to coexist, and they kept driving and driving him off a cliff, and ultimately transformed their fevered fantasies of his treason into reality.

God, I love him and his lying tongue!!! The way he responds to the minister of war aaaaaa

OMG if you gotta perjure yourself, go all in! He wasn't bad because he was incapable, he wasn't bad because he didn't want to. And now guess what? Gloves are off. Loved that he bribed the court lady too (by being sincere, pathetic and hot....mmmm)

Ahahahah this is epic!

Shortly thereafter:

FUCKING MARRY ME I ADORE YOU!!!!!

The thing is, it's not as painless for him as the caps make it seem - he DOES want to do it the proper way, and he offers the minister repeated outs again - from working with him to even at the end offering to spare his life if he repents. But the thing that I love is he's idealistic, but he's not stupid. When pushed into the corner he will not die due to benevolence.

And this duality is seen with the former queen:

That's a hell of a non-answer, isn't it?

But ultimately, he spares the kid's life on condition queen becomes a nun - and grading on a royal family curve, this is very benevolent; if the other faction won, they'd never be half as kind to him.

#kdrama #jo jung suk #sejak #sejak: charmed deceit #captivating the king

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relastoriessimmer · 2 months

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Isabel sigue dándole vueltas al asunto, decide pedir co sejo a su madre quien se preocupa por la situación, que su hija sea objeto de tales intereses...

Pero le aconseja ver dentro de ella y descubrir cuáles son sus sentimientos y esperar a ver cuales son los sentimientos de él.

#ts4 #relasimmer #simblr #sims4 #sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #the sims 4 #ts4cc #s4cc #sims4cc #los sims 4 era de la magia legacy

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strixcattus · 4 months

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Conlang Year Days 24 & 25

Returning with the verb list just in time for the end of the month (and of the stage where the proto-forms are still proto-forms, it seems...). Good to have it out of the way before I have to start messing with them—most of the forms I tested my sound changes on are verbs, actually, since I had the ability to make new verbs that certain changes would apply to.

Most of these verbs aren't time travel–specific. There's a lot more to do in this world that isn't dependent on time travel than that is, after all.

As before, remember that these forms are generally written as they'd be in IPA, so [j] is represented by the letter J. It won't be for much longer.

Day 24: Transitive Verbs

*teji: To eat *mina: To drink *noda: To follow/to track *kapolo: To cook *zono: To kill *koki: To see *sidimo: To find *ziti: To repair (time travellers need to do this often—see *sejo and *zuda) *sejo: To break (something) *niji: To prevent (something) from existing *jotila: To form a new timeline (with object) (linear-time languages usually see the word "splinter" used to the same end) *jadi: To create *paliso: To copy *sidu: To know *dedi: To help *kazo: To hold

Day 25: Intransitive Verbs

*dako: To speak *lijo: To walk *pajo: To fly *jupi: To travel through time *majemi: To travel ("hop") between universes *zatu: To die *miju: To sleep *koja: To dream *naji: To exist *zuda: To make a mistake *deta: To breathe *sadaki: To cry *pati: To sit *lejeta: To bleed

#conlang #time travel conlang #conlang year

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drivingsideways · 1 year

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What's so great about Sejong? He's kind of an uggo tbh no disrespect.

you come into * my * house and-

ok, you know WHAT

*rolls up sleeves *

If you and I had been parented by Yi Bang-won, we would have DIED before reaching the tender age of 12, considering that Yi Bang won had no compunctions in killing off children related to him, but our baby boy SURVIVED multiple purges to become King, most likely because Yi Bang won thought he was clever but lacked the ambition or fire to be a threat to his own power. However, in this Yi Bang won was FOOLED, because despite being paralyzed by a very justified fear of his PSYCHOTIC FATHER , who basically idk chopped off entire branches from the family tree and who eventually not so subtly suggested that his OWN SON and HEIR that he’d CHOSEN personally, OFF himself, it turns out that Yi Do is a bit of a chip off the old block minus the murder-gene. [Note to self: The murder gene skipped a generation, hiii King Sejo] . Time catches up with all villains, and Yi Do made the first decision that made me go crazy for him- and it was just to SURVIVE his father, and like? The way he does it? He’s so CLEVER about it, is the thing- he gives his father the thing he wants when he says I’ll let you control the military and be advised by you in all matters of state, but it was only to get the thing he wants- the thing that he knows will enable him to build his Joseon. I’ll never forget Yi Bang won’s contemptuous little expression when Yi Do says, “I want to gather scholars together,” and Yi Bang won snorts and says, sure, go ahead, make a little building, and that little building, my friends, is the Jiphyeonjeon, or the Hall of Worthies. And of course, Yi Bang won, who sees the world as a thing to be conquered, would never understand his son’s vision; or have the patience to see it through because that would require, idk, humility? Whatever, he’s DYING, goodbye child murderer, thanks for the land and tax reform and introduction of id cards aka surveillance state, I GUESS.

Skip forward and we have THE GREATEST GLOW UP IN MODERN CINEMATIC HISTORY when Song Joong-ki morphs into Han Suk-kyu with his crinkly eyes and odd barks of laughter, as the older Yi-do/Sejong. And *this * Sejong? A brilliant, mercurial, tormented insomniac, who has no TIME to PLAY when MYSTERIOUS ENEMIES are picking off his people one by one, and stopping him from playing HIS GREATEST GAMBLE, the introduction of a native script that would set his people free. Going up against HISTORY, as several people say over and over; he’s going to overturn the established socio-political order and he’s going to do it while cussing you out like a commoner. The balls on this man? Pure steel.

It’s not just that he’s lonely because of his position, and everything that entails- which includes a physical isolation quite unique to it- it’s also that he’s the smartest man in every room he walks into, and that is it’s own special kind of loneliness. To understand the world that well, to be able to see beyond the surface, to be burdened with purpose, is to consign yourself to a private hell. And how he struggles! GOD. It’s not just his father’s legacy that torments him- what if Yi Bang won had been right after all, and why shouldn’t he use his power in the way he’s expected to- but the person he’s still answering to is his younger self- the scared, shamed child who hid behind giant sudokus, unable to confront his father or mitigate the misery of those whose lives Bang won ruined. See, someone as clever as him: he can the paths branching out in front of him; he can see the game board ten, twenty, fifty moves from now- he knows the things he’s capable of.

And yet? He chooses the path of least harm, even when it increases the probability that he’ll lose. He’s so good. Even in his darkest hours, in the face of incalculable loss, he won’t take the succor , however momentary, that exercising his absolute power as King would surely give him. Instead, he chooses the hard way: the way of persuasion. But it’s not just the power of ideas in abstract; he’s very pragmatical about his tactics. I love that his wins come because he can read people- Lee Shin jeok, for eg, and even Jo Mal Saeng. He schemes AND plots AND negotiates AND persuades and he’s so clever and funny and RIGHT for it.

One of the most moving scenes in the show is where he’s bidding farewell to So-yi, his beloved comrade, and gives her a command that is also a blessing :Live in joy, that’s translated as. Sejong himself has been cut off from that joy for nearly his entire life by then, because duty and responsibility and all consuming purpose have taken precedence over everything else; it takes him till the end to be certain in his own mind that all of those were in fact, born from love, and not as he had feared, the little worm that his father had bequeathed him, and that nestles in the heart of all people. I love that in the end, he comes to this very beautiful conclusion: do the work, enjoy the wildflowers and the blue sky, because that’s all we can do, in hope and love, and the future will take care of its own.

Tl;dr I am getting those Sejong the Great booty shorts even as I type this.

#TwDR blogging #certified hottie Sejong the Great (1397-1450)#eta: i almost want to blaze this post #because what else is tumblr useful for #if not to get the girls thirsting for Sejong

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meredith511 · 1 year

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Hello! Since you've been talking about Under the Queen's Umbrella I was curious: are there any kdramas you enjoy and recommend which actually adhere really well to the social conventions and practices of the rule they're set in?

Hello! Sorry for the late response 😅

Anything aired before 2010 is really good! Both Authentic Historical dramas or factional ones, they are entertaining and have a basic system of the era they take as time background. The following lists are my favorite dramas of all.

1. 대왕세종(The Great King, Sejong/2008)

Factinal drama. You may find this one having similar themes of Under the Queen's unbrella because Sejong was the one who became the King by 'Choosing the Wise' policy (the only one, actually) but more logical and staying in the context and entertaining and didn't cross the line for the audience to question everything. Moreover, the writing is really brilliant, but it has a lot of inaccuracies.

2. 장희빈

장희빈(SBS/1995) / 장희빈(KBS/2002)

The first one aired on SBS is more messy than the latter because it was based on an unofficial document whose writers are unknown and the costumes are not matched with the timeline. The latter one is more accurate in the sense of the costumes and the characterization but also a bit biased.

3. 대왕의 길(King of the wind/1998)

This is probably the last Authentic Historical drama aired in MBC and praised highly.

4. 용의 눈물 (Tears of the Dragon/1996~1998)

This one has 159 episodes, but it was a normal thing when it came to historical dramas in the 2000s. When people talk about what is like the authentic historical drama, this one is the top of the list.

5. 명성황후(The Last Empress/2001-2002)

I hesitate to recommend this one becaue althought it's one of my favorite drama and she's one of my favorite queens in Joseon, this drama whitewashed Empress Min and downplayed Gojong's political game but its costume and the power sturggle in the palace is legit fascinating.

and some good shows after 2010, after 2010, factional and Au historical dramas have dominated so there are lots inaccuracies in the story but still, they kept the basic things in the era and some of them has really good story.

6. 공주의 남자(Princess's man/2011)

Another fave of my own. This is based on myths about Sejo's unknown daughter but really well captured the events about Sejo's coup.

7. 삼총사(The Three Musketeers/2014)

This one is factional historical drama along with Princess's man, but it's really good drama, so I put on the list because I really recommend it.

8. 사도(The throne/2015)

It is a historical movie, and its accuracy is on point.

#answers #korean historical dramas

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xsejoo · 1 year

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#idk #SoundCloud

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k-star-holic · 2 years

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'Schrup' mun sang-min, Danger Kim Hye-soo

#The Concubine #Sons #Ponseti method #Kim Hye-soo #Danger #Sejo of Joseon

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lima-norte · 3 months

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Bitcoin: Febrero histórico marca un nuevo capítulo, análisis para los interesados

Febrero de 2024 ha quedado grabado en la historia de Bitcoin como su mejor mes desde su creación en 2009. Con un crecimiento del 47%, el precio de la criptomoneda ha superado récords anteriores y ha generado un renovado interés en este activo digital. Un mes sin precedentes: El rally de febrero ha sido impulsado por una serie de factores, incluyendo la creciente adopción institucional, la…

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lyrics724 · 1 year

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A jesam te volio

[Tekst pjesme “A jesam te volio”] [Strofa 1] Nije mi do tebe stalo I ne trepnem kad to kažem A u sebi glas čujem Mili Bože, kako lažem[Refren] A jesam te jesam, jesam volio I nisam te nisam još prebolio I opet bih, opet tebi dao sve Samo da si kraj mene A jesam te jesam, jesam volio I nisam te nisam još prebolio I opet bih opet tebi dao sve Samo da sam kraj tebe[Strofa 2] Bolje mi je sad bez…

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indiejeannie · 1 year

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Piano/vocal recording of "Rain" from the SHELTER collection. Released on #BreakupDay, this song is about learning to face the pain of a relationship gone bad. The video features this video features rain and nature footage curated partially through an AI algorithm. (The song is also available on Spotify, YouTube Music, iTunes, Apple Music, Google Play, and more.) Music & Lyrics © 2020 Jeannie Novak Sound Recording ℗ 2021 Jeannie Novak Engineered by Sejo Navajas at 4th Street Recording Studio (Santa Monica, CA)

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