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“He would not fucking say that” except its the badly written source material so he did, in fact, say that

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Real court transcript

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okay Rook goes crazy for a non-binary name though

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im just tagging the moots i know who write @khepiari @truegoist @mistyheartrbs @mad228228 if any of yall would be willing to beta read a kpop demon hunters oneshot pls lmk!!

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Something the AI text boom has made me realize is that "no information" is significantly better than "wrong information."

I just saw Doordash AI describe a gallon of blue cheese dressing as a "sweet and refreshing beverage concentrate."

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you're cute and it's tuesday

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It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

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This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

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honestly this issue inspired me to write fanfiction

i just watched Kpop Demon Hunters on Netflix and I, predictably, have a few thoughts. Firstly, I wanna say, the animation is great and really fun, and so is the music. So I didn't not enjoy it! It was a fun movie. Buuuuut

Genuine question: what was the message?What was it trying to communicate? Because it seems like the message would be to not hide yourself from others, especially your friends, to accept even the parts of you that aren't "socially acceptable". But it... doesn't really work on a larger scale in the movies itself.

We learn that demons (or at least some? it's unclear) are regular people who made the proverbial "deal with the devil"—and don't make me get into the Christian symbolism of the story, the post would be wayyyyy too long—and acted selfishly, self-servingly, perhaps even cruelly, and have to now live with that shame forever and be manipulated with it. But the story doesn't really seem interested in exploring that in a wider theme, we only get that from one single (hot love interest) character.

The story humanises them for us, tells us that there is at least some of them who deserve to be redeemed and to stay on Earth with humans; it shows us Rumi questioning the foundations her shame was based on in the scene with Celine, understanding that the (demon-hunting) system is not as good as she always believed—and then leaves that all behind.

The very next scene Rumi decides (off-screen, we don't really see how or why or when she changed her mind) that she still needs to go out there and complete her task, rebuild the Honmoon with the others to keep all the demons out. Jinu gets to redeem himself only through an act of sacrifice that kills him, he doesn't get to live with that redemption. The demons are cast out and the Honmoon is recreated—not the Golden one, though: it glimmers with different colours, but we are never truly told how or why it is different from the Golden one. From what we see, it still keeps the demons out, but allows Rumi to be the exception and live proudly with herself.

And that just. fails as a message, I wanna say? If what we were supposed to get is acceptance of yourself despite/for your differences, why is Rumi the only one who is allowed to keep existing as "different"? She is part-demon, sure, but also part-human + the exception, so still socially acceptable enough to keep living. What about all the ones that were fully demon (despite having been human)? They aren't accepted back into society. They aren't forgiven, the system is not torn down to rehabilitate or accommodate or accept them. The creatures that were not "socially acceptable" enough still deserve—according to what we see in the movie itself—to be cast out forever.

Also: we are told that the problem with demons is that they eat souls, or perhaps that they take souls so they can feed their king. I think it sort of falls into the issue a lot of movies about acceptance of entity-deemed-dangerous fall into, which is the problem that, well, Demon Hunters + people do have a good reason to be scared of demons. And, well, Jinu is also a demon, so logically he should also pose the same danger—unless, again, only some demons are previously-human demons and they don't actually eat souls, but nothing like that is ever implied; or unless Jinu is, for some reason, the only one who was previously human, but a) we are never given any indication of that, b) would be kinda dumb?why would there only be one person who made a "deal with the devil"?—but that is never addressed. He deserves redemption regardless of the actual danger he could pose, and he is the only one we see as deserving of redemption.

Honestly, I think a better ending mightier been finding out that demons don't actually eat souls for themselves but only to feed Gwi-hna—maybe presented as a primordial entity, ontologically evil and dedicated to chaos—, and therefore once It is defeated all demons could be free and accepted into regular society happily, maybe the souls eaten even reunited with their bodies and come back alive. Perhaps they still need the Honmoon to keep Gwi-hna out, but I feel like this way the theme of acceptance would have worked better within the story itself, because just saying that one person deserves to be themselves openly and everyone else should be cast out is kinda weird and a confused message in the movie itself.

But idk, maybe I am going too "queer anarchism, anticapitalism, tear down the whole system" leftist here? or I missed some stuff, I only watched it once. But pleaseee if you understand and had the same thought tell me, because I feel like I'm the only one here within my friend group + the tumblr posts I see that see this.

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apropos to nothing, here are some quotes from the directors of K-Pop Demon Hunters that I think are vital context for interpreting Rumi and Jinu's relationship

from an interview with Slate

from an interview on CartoonBrew

there's also this except from this article (not an interview with the directors) which adds a lot of thematic context to Jinu's sacrifice;

(and this is just my personal opinion on Jinu's ending, but I also feel like a lot of people are sleeping on the fact that Jinu orchestrated the Takedown/reveal sequence that forcibly outed Rumi's demon patterns. Incredibly fucked up thing for him to do. I would not have forgiven him for that if he'd survived and officially gotten together with Rumi at the end without doing something to make up for that)

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get my girl some platforms...

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pucker up (based off this)

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fuck it, yurifies your huntrix

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