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I didn't like this drawing at the final but here you have it. He loves him in all of his versions <3

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In-ho every other minute of the series:

In-ho the second Gi-hun compliments him:

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Painter Gihun au 🎨

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GODTIER PHOTOSHOOT

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Manchild (feat. Gi-hun's harem)

Inspired by my friend @midnight--sadness with an ask saying that Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild" fits Gi-hun's harem so well.

Now, I cannot edit videos LMAO that's why I'm putting gifs and lyrics down here. Maybe you can pretend it's a video???

But if anyone here knows how to edit/make videos, by all means, use this as an inspiration! :)

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You said your phone was broken, just forgot to charge it

Whole outfit you're wearing, God, I hope it's ironic

Did you just say you're finished? Didn't know we started

It's all just so familiar, baby, what do you call it?

Stupid Or is it slow? Maybe it's useless? But there's a cuter word for it, I know

Man-child Why you always come a-running to me? Fuck my life Won't you let an innocent woman be? Never heard of self-care

Half your brain just ain't there Man-child Why you always come a-running, taking all my loving from me?

Why so sexy if so dumb?

And how survive the Earth so long?

If I'm not there, it won't get done

I choose to blame your mom

Oh, I like my boys playing hard to get And I like my men all incompetent And I swear they choose me, I'm not choosing them

Amen, hey, men

Oh, I like my boys playing hard to get (Play hard to get) And I like my men all incompetent (Incompetent) And I swear they choose me, I'm not choosing them (Not choosing them)

Amen (Amen), hey, men (Hey, men)

Man-child Why you always come a-running to me? (Always come a-running to me) Fuck my life Won't you let an innocent woman be? (Amen)

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“I'll take the kid.”

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I think that with Gihun and Sangwoo, the fandom tends to forget some very important storytelling rules. And those are:

When you have an intelligent character (Sangwoo), you need to make them deeply flawed/human in order to have a story otherwise there's no story.

And that when you have a character that isn't booksmart (Gihun), that doesn't mean they're not smart in their own little ways. For example, street smart, creative and/or emotionally intelligent.

In a lot of ways, Gihun is smarter than Sangwoo. As you mentioned, in Dalgona, it was thanks to Saebyeok's clue and the gamemakers' hint (knowledge) that made Sangwoo pass while Gihun's creativity saved his life.

In Tug of War, Sangwoo wanted a physically strong team but it was Il-nam's street smartness that gave them the advantage.

And Gihun is more emotionally intelligent than Sangwoo as s1 showed us.

Yes, Sangwoo is a very smart man there's no doubt about it. But he's also very flawed. In conclusion, hdh understood the assignment when it came to those two. God, he was doing so well, what happened to this man?!

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yes, omg, anon you make such amazing points!!

i think s1 makes a very clear point of showing that sangwoo's intelligence wouldn't be enough to get him to the final game and that gihun was right when he said that they became finalists bc of the ppl in their team who helped them.

and also thank you for saying that in many ways gihun is more intelligent than sangwoo. i feel like im in the trenches sometimes defending that gihun is in fact intelligent, he just isnt the type book smart that sangwoo is. like yeah, maybe gihun didnt go to a fancy college and yes he did attend technical high school but he's also observant and so emotionally intelligent and street smart.

just 10/10 ask, anon!!!

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I think someone has talked about this already but the fandom glosses over how EASY that CGI baby was 😭 For a show that can definetley brag about being realistic in it's other aspects it was such a strange choice, I don't think anyone would've minded if Jun-hee died after giving birth anyways.

Firstly, lets talk about the birth itself. Jun-hee had contractions for a good 10 minutes before her water broke and she went into labour immediatley after that, and her labour lasted like 5 minutes??? And listen, I know that short labours exist, but they're SO rare to the point where it's obvious that her having the easiest birth in the universe was purely for the plot.

Secondly, lets talk about the babies itself. Do you know why new mothers prefer to have visitors when the baby is atleast a few weeks old? For a plethora of reasons, ofcourse, but one of them is because newborn babies are eating constantly, like, breastfeed babies specifically need to be feed every 2-4 hours on average. Jun-hee did breastfeed, but only once from what we're shown. I'm unsure on whether a baby would actually starve to death from being fed so little since I can't find anything about it online, but the baby would definetley let everyone know that they aren't being fed enough, and that brings me to my third point.

THAT BABY BARELY CRIED! Genuinly, I could count how much she cried on one hand! Once again, the baby is used purely for the plot, she basically only cried in immediate danger (when Gi-hun was carrying her in jump-rope, when the O voters wanted to kill her, when Myung-gi was dangling her off the edge in SSG, ect...)

Onto my fouth point, did that baby just not piss and shit??? She only had a jacket covering her, no diapers, was she just pooping and peeing freely? Well, considering that she was actively being starved, I guess she wouldn't be going to the bathroom too much 🙄 But still? I read a fic in which Jun-hee just washed her off in the bathroom whenever she an accident, but that dosen't explain the jacket. Did Jun-hee also wash off the jacket? Is it even safe for babies to wear wet clothing?

To end this off, i'm not a mom, I hope to be one in the future which is why I was actually excited for the baby plotline at first, since I thought that it could really expand Jun-hee's character before her imminent death, but it's so painfully obvious that the baby was just a plot device to wrap up Gi-hun's character rather then Jun-hee's. I still love Jun-hee, Gi-hun and the baby but come on writers 💔

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Gihun's harem preforming tricks with their dicks, like the helicopter, to impress Gihun. Meanwhile, Gihun just spreads his legs and the harem is in awe and giving him a standing ovation.

this ask forced me to google what the helicopter is and i dont quite understand the logistics of it (is the guy just on top and then starts turning?) but i completely see the vision!!! 🙌

they do everything and anything to impress gihun, meanwhile gihun just has to spread his legs and they're falling over themselves to reach him first.... the gihussy's power 😌🥴

i also know that at least one of them pulls a muscle and the other one throws out his back bc, lets be real, the median age of the harem is like 43 and most of them dont even work out ndjfvkmejdfv the night is ending with someone in the emergency room for sure

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that russian roulette scene is the sexiest scene of entire sg season. we have a couple literally having sex but nothing can top salesman putting the tip of the gun in his mouth and gihun saying to him "i dont care how you became their dog" while both of them eyefucking each other. i hope one day there'll be script worthy enough of gy and jj's talent and insane chemistry 🙏🏻

"nothing can top salesman" you're absolutely right, anon!!! 🙏 im just kidding, sorry nrfkvmfmjdf

but yeah that scene oh my god it literally changed lives (mine).... like who was i before i saw gong yoo and lee jungjae eyefucking while russian roulette? and that gun move will literally go down in history idec the salesman could have turned around a kissed a guy and it still wouldnt as gay as him putting that revolver in his mouth and pulling the trigger ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ddakhun, you'll always be famous!!! 😌

my babe @rhubarbspring pointed out that gong yoo would be an amazing choice for jj's new movie and like you say, anon, we need a script worthy of their chemistry!

so let's manifest gong yoo in jj's new movie 🙌💞

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squid game and the fandom machine: when critique collapses into spectacle

what always stays with me about squid game is how differently it was received compared to other cinematic works with equally heavy themes. when parasite, directed by bong joon-ho, was released, it was immediately treated as masterful, a piece of art to analyze, something to discuss in terms of symbolism, politics, class dynamics. with squid game, the reaction was almost inverted. yes, people acknowledged it was excellent, but what stuck in the cultural memory first were the memes, the ships, the halloween costumes, the edits, the aesthetics. it became fandom before it was allowed to be seen as serious art.

in my personal opinion, that’s the strange irony. because if you look at squid game across all three seasons, it’s doing work that is just as pointed, just as intelligent, and at times even more emotionally brutal than parasite. it never loses sight of its notions, humanity crushed by poverty, morality eroded by systems designed to humiliate and exploit, and the way capitalism thrives on spectacle.

season one made the perfect narrative. gi-hun was not a hero in the traditional sense, he was flawed, selfish at times, yet carrying a conscience that other characters lacked. through him, we saw how ordinary people, workers, immigrants, students, were stripped down to pawns in a system dressed up as fair. the games themselves weren’t simply violent twists, but also metaphors. childhood games turned lethal to remind us how innocence and joy are both commodified and dismantled under capitalism. ali’s death, sae-byeok and ji-yeong’s short-lived bond, sang-woo’s downfall, these were portrayals of how class, debt, and pressure warp human choices.

then came season two, which widened the scope. this was where the show began to really interrogate complicity. we learned more about the mechanics of the games, the men behind the masks, the vips watching from their gilded seats. what hit harder was realizing how expansive the system was, how suffering itself had become an international economy. the season essentially asked, who benefits from all this? and who chooses to look away? it’s in this season that the irony of the audience becomes impossible to ignore. people were tweeting their “favorite games” and debating “who would survive?,” while the actual text of the show was critiquing that very impulse.

season three delivered the most damning turn, reckoning. gi-hun, who once barely survived, now carries the trauma of the games into the open world. the games themselves no longer shock him or us, we know the format, but what unsettles is what comes after. what is survival worth when it costs your humanity? how do you live with the memory of having been both victim and participant in such cruelty? season three forced us to stop asking “who will win?” and instead ask “what does it mean to keep living when the world is built this way?” it also turned the mirror directly onto its viewers. the vips, the wealthy spectators, were no longer just characters, they were allegories for the capitalistic system. and the question became unavoidable, are we watching squid game as critique, or as spectacle?

and this is why it’s so frustrating that squid game was flattened into fandom in a way parasite never was. people didn’t dress up as the parks and kims for halloween. they didn’t turn parasite into a quiz about “which character are you?” parasite was allowed to remain art. squid game was turned into pop culture shorthand. and the irony is that the show foresaw this, it knew it would be spectacle by the second and third season, and it folded that into its critique.

that doesn’t mean fandom engagement is bad. fandom is a form of love, one that i personally partake in on a regular basis. but it’s telling that squid game, one of the most brilliant and most devastating critiques of capitalism in popular media, was digested into tracksuits and memes first. the very notions and ideas the show critiques happened to the show itself.

and yet, if you give it the same critical attention that was given to parasite, you see the artistry in every detail. the bright, pastel-colored sets that make bloodshed grotesque instead of thrilling. the way each season builds on the last, moving from survival, to complicity, to reckoning. the way even minor characters are given humanity before they’re taken from us. the way seong gi-hun’s arc refuses easy answers, he’s not triumphant by the end in the conventional sense, but his conclusion was perfectly cohesive with the overarching message of the show.

squid game belongs in the same conversation as the most serious works of korean cinema. its global accessibility shouldn’t cheapen it. if anything, it’s proof that art this unflinching and this devastating can reach the populace on a massive scale. it is not merely viral television, it is art, and it deserves to be remembered as such.

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gihun so done with inho's shenanigans

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Faith, in the End

Chapter 19 - Absolution - is up now

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"i love the idea of the games becoming public knowledge but i also dont talk much abt it bc it feels like too much wishful thinking," frontman!gihun is a thing that exists in the fandom, since when is realism an issue. We got an entire genre of post-canon fix-it of Inho and Gihun raising Junhee's baby together! Like Gihun would get over the games and be cool with being around Inho after a couple weeks like it's a cold or something! We need to free our minds!

"the public thinks its sooo romantic…." waiting for the backlash against Nexflix for putting the LGBTQ tag on the Inevitable Squid Game True Crime Documentary like they did with 'Dahmer'. Upon asked to comment Gihun answers with an email saying “why did they do that? were gay people running the games? sorry to heard that if true”

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waaaaait, are you a fellow front man gihun hater??? 👀

also, this actually reminded me that i once read a fic where the games become public knoweldge and inho gets his ass thrown in jail! it's "crawling back to you" by JodyJuliana!!! is really good, i def recommend 💞

and you're totally right, honestly, i need to let canon go and think abt what is important - old man yaoi 🙏

GIHUN NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S LGBTQ+ ABT HIS STORY ENDJCFVKMNJDKFVMNFJ he's be so disappointed to hear the gay ppl were running the games bc now its just another reason for them to be discriminated against, he could never predict that the biggest homo there was actually his rival, hwang inho.

someone interviews inho in prison abt the documentary and he says that it was very well made, that bh did a good job with him and that jj was specacular as gihun... keep in mind that the documentary played as if gihun and inho were really in love and separated by their ideologies.

meanwhile, gihun is fuming bc he's NOT in love with the front man, what is wrong with people???? did he have a puppy crush on youngil? yes of course but now he knows who he is truly and doesnt care abt him (gihun is lying btw).

but the section of the public who isnt crashing out over two men being in love, is shipping them so hard its embarassing. inho gets a bunch of letters in prison abt how they are rooting for him and gihun and that they are so brave for being so open abt their love 🫶

you might be wondering, isnt inho a murderer? yes, he is. and ppl know this. but the documentary placed a lot of emphasis on his tortured heart and how he was a dead man walking before gihun's love ressurected him.

(also, damn, they put an lgbtq+ tag on the dahmer documentary??? 😭😭😭😭)

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"My world is empty without you, Seong Gi-hun. We are meant to fall together."

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Chapter Seventeen - “last chance”

Rating: Explicit

Fandom: Squid Game

Pairing:  Hwang Inho | Front Man/Seong Gihun

Summary:  

It was always going to end this way.