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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Get to know me #KDrama edition • First KDrama: Mr Sunshine • Fav current watch KDrama: Our Sticky Love (support Ha Young!) • Fav 2026 KDrama: In Your Radiant Season (Lee Sung-kyung!) • Fav all time KDrama: My Mister (IU!!!) • Fav KDrama Character: Oh Hae-young (Another Miss Oh)-Seo Hyun-jin!!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yesterday a Korean-American friend gifted me a box of apples & I said, "Oh no, do you have to apologize for something?" Then he said, "Oh no, why did you think that?" Then I knew...I've watched far too many K-dramas. (The word for apple and apology are homonyms, pronounced "sagwa")

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Imagine if Jennifer Lawrence said she was proud that her family had been farmers for many generations, only to have someone dig up that her great-grandfather was a slave-owner, which she did not know. Is she somehow negligent for not knowing a fact that had not been passed down to her?

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Korean netizens cancel culture is so freaking petty. They try to shoot down Queen IU's drama due to missteps on the production design team and now they're going after this talented actress for impurities in her ancestry? It's kind of sickening. Hope these complainers get a taste of karma someday

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just started it and am all in! Thanks for the rec

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Some initial thoughts on #SeeYouatWorkTomorrow 1. Didn't realize Park Ji-hyun could be this adorable--guess she'd never been given the chance to show this side as a FL 2. Is Seo In-Gil only taking roles where he seems robotic now? 3. Love the supporting cast, esp Kang Mina who deserves FL roles too!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Nana is absolutely hilarious in this! Wish she'd have more chances to flex her comedic skills

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We're going to be in Portland Thursday night (7/2) + all day Friday (7/3) & would love to grab coffee w you if you're around! We're trying to follow your model of integrating your own story alongside the songs on the album by telling our stories on the way! No worries if you're not available!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Inspired by the book on Sufjan Stevens' album Carrie & Lowell written so insightfully & poignantly by @jmayward.bsky.social a few of us are going on a tour of some of the OR locations mentioned on the album, inc: Eugene, sea lion caves in Florence, & hitting Tillamook Forest on the 4th of July!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The scene in 97 where the FL is singing along at the HOT concert is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Her emotional dynamics are brilliant! But I agree that 88 is far far better

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I love the first two so much it must mean I need to read the third one!!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

One of the sweetest and most moving expressions of care and affection that I've ever seen in a drama! #WeAreAllTryingHere

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Wow I literally just posted very similar sentiments!!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I've been watching We Are All Trying Here because it's by my favorite Kdrama writer...but it's felt like a bit of a slog TBH. (Netflix calls it warm & healing--not so far!) Except when Go Youn-Jung comes onto the screen. She is LUMINOUS. She is the perfect example of "banjjak-banjjak" to my mind!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The High Princess the world needs but probably doesn't deserve (and I mean IU)...

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This was a surprisingly great show! Looking forward to more from this family!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I have the exact same tradition!!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Amazing from start to finish!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

You're right--those were both really good, though APOYM was pretty melancholy too! But the two leads were absolutely wonderful in that one!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#StillShining should have been named Spectacularly Shitty Timing. Even when a show is sad, you should feel grateful that you'd been able to experience the story. I don't feel grateful. I will probably avoid writer Lee Sook-yun dramas in the future. Acting was amazing, though! PS Kim Min-ju = Tzuyu

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The prize was getting to think back on so many favorites thanks to your fun invitation! Thanks for all the ways you inspire the drama community here!! I really enjoy following your quick takes on both the latest and older shows.

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I'm not on Bluesky enough to keep up with the delightful new chingu challenge from the drama queen @devotedtodrama.bsky.social so I'm just posting it all at once, but I look forward to following the daily updates of others as I can!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

As I've been watching the wonderful character-driven Kdrama Still Shining, I keep thinking that the male lead Jinyoung could be siblings with the delightful young actress Park So-yi...they look so much alike to me and both are incredibly talented too!!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I thought the beginning of this show was wonderful too, but I just kept waiting for something bad to happen. I wish that sometimes a show could just work through normal relational ups and downs without having to introduce some external conflict to provide the drama (ie serial killer, death, etc)

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Ok that's a helpful assessment! I admittedly do not speak Korean but I've watched about 300 dramas and it just feels weird the way they're interpreting a phrase that I know means one thing, but perhaps I'm missing out on the variety of ways that phrase could be used by native speakers or something!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Still in the first half and enjoying some of the ways that it plays with many of the reasons why people are drawn to romance Kdramas in the first place (watching the discovery of people's romantic feelings/butterflies). My main issue is that the subtitles seem terribly inaccurate. Is this only me?

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I was absolutely not expecting to love a sports drama, especially one about the obscure sport of folk wrestling but "Like Flowers in Sand" was amazing!! Same with "Love All Play" and badminton!!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Watching episode 5, I was like, this actress has charm to burn! She can do so much with the smallest gestures and she seems so disarmingly genuine in every role! I'm in the club too!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Wow that's an epic couple! Thank you

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A true life Kdrama romance--Shin Mina and Kim Woo-bin getting married!! May they continue to live out the happiness they've known through the past decade of supporting each other through difficult times...

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Sometimes I just fast forward past all the scenes that don't include the lead characters. For example:

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Close to the whole oeuvre collected, read, and deeply admired. Assessment: reliably superb. But I do understand the sentiment of the OP as I've had the same experience with other authors who have fans of which I am not one (ie LM Bujold whose sci-fi I don't love but whose fantasy I find impeccable!)

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Not even their best album, but still perfect. (Also Joshua Tree and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me)

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

My copy arrived today! Looking forward to diving into this after the long wait

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In St Paul & missed @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social by one day! Keep up the good work brother Matt from your old Fuller buddy...

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

"King of Assyria.. Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?" Nahum 3.18-19

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My Youth keeps making me feel anxious!! I wish that there wasn't so much angst!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

On a theological level, I think that a work like John Peckham's "Divine Attributes" has made some helpful corrections/ adjustments to the overstatements of classical theology!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Ordered & looking forward to reading!!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Thank you for these updates!!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I was glad that your post started me checking for this--it looks like a great combo! Grim Reaper meets Weightlifting Fairy!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Just saw that it's up on Hulu in the US

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I think this is going to be one of my favorites of 2025 from just one episode. Cast is on point with fast character development; script is insightful, hilarious, and intriguing; and the filmmaking feels top notch. What a comeback for Lee Jong suk!!

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Greg Stump @gregstump.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The Predatory Wasp hits me at a pretty deep place

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