Ever Bethany

i need to figure out how I want to write out Korean names, this is getting ridiculous



Oh honey, I take back all the mean things I ever implied about you.

I mean, the things I actually said, about your acting, and That Show in which you started your acting career, are still accurate, and I'm pretty sure I still don't know if you should keep on being cast as a romantic lead since you show so little chemistry with cute big-eyed girls (and I can hardly Google a name like yours and the big question with any trust in the results) BUT

I had kind of assumed you were in a boy-band because you look like ^ [that] ^ and can sing a little, though I'd never heard any of your music.
I also kind of assumed the same was true of why you were cast in dramas in the first place.

But now we're hanging out together in WGM reruns (is it a re-run if I'm pulling them up on the internet?) I was starting to see that charisma that got you into trouble in the first place. If I were to connect with any character from one of your shows, I'd say I totally see Baek Eun Jo in you--that is, Seung Jo's mini-me, who is a little less chilly, a little more emotive, and FREAKING ADORABLE



*cough*
'm all right. Just a little babo-noona moment there.

[I really am becoming an aunt-person overnight, it's kind of scary. I gave my sister my leather jacket last night because she looks better in it.]

Anyway, back to you, Hyun Joong.

When I actually realized I was so wrong about you, though, was when I heard you and the boys singing a capella.
This does say something about me, but even more about you, because if you sound that good on reality-tv-steady-cam A CA-BLOODY-PELLA well

let's just say I will never ever ever ever ever dismiss your talent out of ignorance again.

Being adorable in a kind of bent way in personality helps your case with me a lot, yeah, but that was around from the beginning and I was not won over despite being amused until that moment.


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This has been Letters to Superstars, a new segment in which Bethany publicly airs things she wishes to tell uberfamous people she will never get to talk to in person. Since most of the people she has these sorts of intense bursts of interest over don't speak English as their first language, she figures she's at least safe from them being embarrassed about it, though they will no doubt become private entries after a couple of years...