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why the fuck would inho wait SIX MONTHS to give the baby to junho 😭 did he try to raise it himself at first and somewhere along the line, after 6 months of being a single dad to an infant, went “hell nah this one is going to junho” 💀

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Jacqueline Harpman, 'I Who Have Never Known Men'

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Second Take | Official Trailer [ENG SUBS]

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Second Take | Preview Clip

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its wild to me that people love a silly crack fic i blasted out in like two weeks 😂 i should really write an epilogue to that thang

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I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.

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Link to original

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nichelle nichols in truck turner (1974)

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I love themmmm

this would actually get me to watch BFQOTY again

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It was only a matter of time till someone asked...

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support graphic content creators, do you know how long it takes for photoshop to even open ?

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“I can fix him” this “I can make him worse” that Pathetic. I can love him so much that it changes the course of the entire narrative.

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I had to spend 3.5 hours on the train and bus to get to the nearest cinema to see Ne Zha 2. Totally worth it! Nearly all characters are my favorite, yet Shen Gongbao stands first this time because of how much character development the writers have created for him throughout the story. And I still think it super cute that they had him have a speech impediment, it’s not often you see a villain who stutters, like a real dangerous cunning villain, not some buffoon.

(Painted in Clip Studio Paint, as usual.)

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the hold gihun has on people need to be studied like that dude has people genuinely mourning

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I've been thinking about your speculation that Netflix interfered with S3. If it's true and it does sound likely, I think it's because of the American spin-off they seem to be planning, and it may be the reason why there's so little of Hwang Bros in S3. It's because they want the storyline to be explored in the spin-off. Just thought of this and idk what to think lol.... ;_;

so i work in writing (albeit in a wildly different field) but the same is true, every single word of my writing gets reviewed and commented on and adjusted per need. scripted tv does go through editing and adjustments but in a different way, review boards will decide whats appropriate to show and stakeholders will input what they want to include, and occasionally there will be a project or open ending that needs to be inserted. for arguably the most popular tv show in the whole world with an audience of millions, squid game definitely had a lot of editing. sg1 was probably the free-est season creatively because it wasnt expected to be popular, but after snowballing into something huge im absolutely certain that there were 100 cooks in that writers room all trying to adjust things. the conclusion/s3 is always the biggest thing, and i think hdh kept a lot of his vision in the last season as eps 1-3 were great, and some of the messaging that resonated felt like him (e.g. people being willing to sacrifice a baby for money/entertainment, not seeing the humanity in others when they have something to gain/seeing themselves as so far above others that theyre not worth considering among others) but there were quite a few character journies and scenes that felt like they had been perfected and then edited 20 more times until it wasnt good any more. writers know what i mean lmao. and the sg america twist felt very "netflix wants to promote the next season of this" like, the cash cow is milked dry in korea so welcome to America! it felt like it undermined the other characters deaths and came out of nowhere as a shock twist (which is very much more netflix than it is hdh)

there were also storylines that were set up so richly in s2 (inhun and hwang bros specifically) that just did not get explored in s3! after all that youngil stuff and there was only the reveal scene and thats it? and gihun didnt say ANYTHING? no history about inho? no confrontation with junho? it just felt like a lot of doors were opened and idk if theyll use sg america to explore them. if they're trying to appeal to americans they might be aiming for the part of the market that hasnt watched squid game 1-3 (the insurmountable 1 inch barrier of subtitles) so they might just do all fresh characters. idk i liked part of the season but i feel like gihun was barely in it, so some of the emotional beats i was waiting for just didnt happen :/

tbh im not gonna watch any squid game that isnt from director hwangs brain so sg america will be missing me x

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