I JUST FINISHED ATLA FOR THE FIRST TIME AND LET ME TELL YOU

I JUST FINISHED ATLA FOR THE FIRST TIME AND LET ME TELL YOU

IT IS PHENOMENAL

I can't believe I never got to watch this before, but I've been blessed now

I'm going to start it again

crash landing on you: a summary

Can my favorite stabby bros stop giving me grief

okay so where’s the au where jo yeong and jo eun-seob are twins, their parents stayed together, and then had another pair of twins years later? they’re absolute polar opposites and are always asked if their parents divorced and each one raised one twin (no, they just grew up like that). acquaintances of yeong will meet eun-seob and just think ???? meanwhile eun-seob’s friends will meet yeong and be like woah... your brother is so cool and hot (to which eun-seob will always go, we’re identical twins so thank you for the indirect compliment ha!). the two of them have a handful of identity-switch stories (yeong taking eun-seob’s driving test for him because he’s sick of eun-seob failing every time and asking him for rides everywhere, eun-seob dressing as yeong in order to sabotage a date yeong wanted to get out of). the younger twins think yeong is cooler but eun-seob is more fun. they always act annoyed by the other but in reality they would take a bullet for each other, NO ONE gets to talk to him that way only I DO!

basically the potential is all there and I am absolutely living for it

No one told me this was going to make me cry so much

I'm only on the second episode but

This plot is just genius

I'm guessing we only see each customer for one or two episodes each

But even in that short time we see their stories, relate to them, feel for them

Kang-bae and Weol-ju too

The feeling of failure, the feeling of loneliness, these are things we relate to all too well

These feelings hurt, they're scary, but seeing these characters find hope and healing is why we watch these types of dramas

They might be fictional, but for real people, they're comforting

So for anyone out there who's hurting right now, I hope your 쌍갑포차 is on its way to a street corner near you, and that your own Kang-bae, Weol-ju, and Gwi come to lift you up

I hope you find your own hope and healing just like them

Felt that poor guy trying to get a job at the hotel way too much

How he felt useless and pathetic for not being able to provide for himself, much less his girlfriend

He just wanted to know why he didn't get the job

Didn't want revenge

Didn't want the job

Didn't want his girlfriend back if it meant he still was unemployed

Just wanted to know why he'd been rejected

Such a small, simple request

As someone who measures my worth by what I do, watching it made me very sad

This situation with the world has not been kind to that tendency of mine

At least he had a happy ending though

I can be happy for that