Ah yes. This is so true! I can remember clear as day when Voldemort bridal-carried Harry across the threshold of Hogwarts, black robes billowing around him as Harry draped over his arms like a doll. There was so much tension in that scene! Such contrast, with Voldemort decked out in Death Eater black, and Harry in pure, virginal white. You could cut the subtext with a knife. I was on the edge of my seat.
And then, remember when Voldemort turned to the other Death Eaters and said “Forget the elf, we have what we need?” Remember when Harry woke up with Voldemort hovering above him with lush pillow lips, wearing more hairspray than a disney prince? Remember when Voldemort cried in the trailers, his hand a-trembling as he delicately reached out? Remember how Harry said, with a breathless catch to his voice, “I need someone to show me my place in all this?”
Remember?
Even now, I’m shook.
😂😂😂
Ohhhh yes! So many REYLO VIBES!!!!
Clearly this post belongs on my blog as I post anything with a reylo vibe.
So thanks for this wonderful recommendation. Harry and Voldemort 😍
All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns.
But when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above. The Goblin King agrees to let Käthe go—for a price. The life of a maiden must be given to the land, in accordance with the old laws. A life for a life, he says. Without sacrifice, nothing good can grow. Without death, there can be no rebirth. In exchange for her sister’s freedom, Liesl offers her hand in marriage to the Goblin King. He accepts.
Down in the Underground, Liesl discovers that the Goblin King still inspires her—musically, physically, emotionally. Yet even as her talent blossoms, Liesl’s life is slowly fading away, the price she paid for becoming the Goblin King’s bride. As the two of them grow closer, they must learn just what it is they are each willing to sacrifice: her life, her music, or the end of the world.
I really like this book. It reads a little bit like Labyrinth fan fiction. Of course it features original characters. But the author is actually pretty upfront about it.
“He said he’d give me what I wanted. Hae Soo, you said so too. You said Wang So would give me this gift.”
In that moment when So believes that Hae Soo has been toying with him, that she has made fun of him and betrayed his trust, something inside him breaks. The look he gives her is completely numb except for two emotions – accusation and pain. It must hurt him so much more because just mere minutes ago he was experiencing such happiness, only to fall into the deepest pits of misery now. And all Hae Soo wants to do is to stop him, help him, tell him she didn’t do this to him, but she can’t and So wouldn’t probably let her right now, so utterly numb with pain he is. It must have taken him every ounce of his strength and willpower to take down the mask, untying the strings out of sheer, stubborn pride as his lips quiver and eyes shimmer with unshed tears and shame. It’s the second time we see So without his mask, but the first time during the day. There is no steam or darkness obscuring the view, instead, the rays od sunshine are merciless and unflattering to him as they finally reveal how raw and pronounced it really is. As if the light made it even worse after it’s been covered for so long under the darkness of his mask.
When the mask comes off he protects himself with an armor of numbness and indifference (Never had so many people seen his scar and it must be unbearable for someone so proud and self-conscious like So – you can see how utterly exposed and vulnerable he feels.), but it cracks more and more with each averted gaze and disgusted look until it shatters completely. First comes expectation, then confusion, then a lost look and then sheer anguish and pain as his heart shatters, until finally his self-preservation instinct kicks in and he hides it all under a wry smile (it’s directed at himself, for being so stupid to hope even for a second they they could accept him) and a mask of nonchanlance, false bravado and cynism, but it’s almost frightening how transparent that facade is, ready to shatter under the weight of too much scrutiny. And it does shatter the moment So notices the look in HS’s eyes – he looks down at her with so much coldness and defiance, as if he was daring her to look away, to show how disgusted she is with him, but she never does, she never looks away from him, she never wavers. What So sees in her eyes rattles him, shakes him and breaks him even more than his siblings’ reaction – IT’S ACCEPTANCE, COMPASSION AND SYMPATHY BECAUSE SHE CARES ABOUT HIM, BECAUSE SHE IS SUFFERING WITH HIM, BECAUSE SHE CAN’T BEAR TO SEE HIM HURTING SO MUCH. IT MAKES HIM GASP IN SHOCK AND STUMBLE AS THE SHEER FORCE OF WHAT HE SEES THERE SENDS HIM REELING BACK. With her he can’t control himself, he is utterly confused and helpless and all he can think about is to get away from it – from her, from the emotions she inspires in him.
His siblings reaction is terrible from our modern point of view, but understandable and expected in the era they live. They are not cruel or evil, well most of them are not, Eun might be just too trusting and naive, but not evil.It’s caused by the way they’ve been brought up – SUPERSTITIONS HAVE LITERALLY RULED THE LIVES OF KOREANS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS – and they have been virtually breastfed these superstitions and prejudices – so their utter shock is understandable. Still, I love how Moo sticks up for So and is ready to fight for him, and Baek Ah as well (he averted his gaze as the first one, never even looking at So’s scar and I think it’s because he couldn’t bear to watch his brother’s pain and humiliation).
Look no further! I recently started this blog to help all starved Reylos to find media (fiction, art, podcasts, comics,…) that have a REYLO vibe.
My blog features villains, monsters, aliens, robots, wizards and of course ROMANCE!
Do you have recommendations? Submit or contact me! I would love to find new media through this blog.
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So @unashamedreylo recently asked for movie recommendations with REYLO vibes.
People responded with awesome suggestions and I’m gonna tag all of you. 😉
I know and love most of those movies. Give me a little time and I’ll feature each of them separately. I’ll also tag you in those posts if you don’t mind.
I created this blog so we can recommend stuff to each other and also because I want to feature lesser known pieces of media. I hope you’ll find something new and interesting on my blog.
Can you guys think of others films (other than P&P) that have Reylo parallels/vibes?
Hi @unashamedreylo ! Looks like I have exactly what you are looking for.
I have recently started a blog that features mainly all kinds of media with a REYLO vibe.
Although TLJ is so close and the dry spell is almost over we need to prepare ourselves for the time after Episode 8. 😉
The blog is new and there is not much content yet but I have tons of stuff to post in the future.
Also I would love to feature other people’s recommendations. So please submit or contact me.
It would be really awesome if you could give me a signal boost.
You’re right @fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains , this is what I was looking for! Nice job ;)People made some amazing recommendations answering to my post, I’m sure they’d love to see it feature on your blog.
Can you guys think of others films (other than P&P) that have Reylo parallels/vibes?
Hi @unashamedreylo ! Looks like I have exactly what you are looking for.
I have recently started a blog that features mainly all kinds of media with a REYLO vibe.
Although TLJ is so close and the dry spell is almost over we need to prepare ourselves for the time after Episode 8. 😉
The blog is new and there is not much content yet but I have tons of stuff to post in the future.
Also I would love to feature other people’s recommendations. So please submit or contact me.
It would be really awesome if you could give me a signal boost.
THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE by Katherine Arden
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.
After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.
And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.
As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.
Monsters and Villains 