#Beyond the Circle

[seanmorroww]

Osamu Kitajima - "Fading Sky"

Beyond the Circle [CyberOctave, 1996]

[padderley14]

In My Opinion of Ted Dekker

In My Opinion,Ted Dekker is one of the best Christian fiction authors today.

In my opinion, Ted Dekker is one of the best Christian fiction authors today. His books always keep me riveted. I have never read a book by Ted Dekker that I didn’t like. More than that, though, he always weaves some sort of biblical truth woven into his stories. This is especially true of his series- Beyond the Circle. The first book is The 49th Mystic came out in May 2018 and the second book,…

[kataraavatara]

just remembered Nesta got SA’d doing a mission on the Inner Circle’s behalf and it’s STILL not enough

[plein-air-on-gorkhon]

image description: a color study from pathologic 2 in the pale blues and reds of sunrise. an enormous bull blocks the rails, followed by ominous glowing eyed executors, having derailed the train that would carry artemy burakh home

color corrected version!

[faerie-mafuyu-official]

>I possess regret for what has been done.

Then find her and apologize

...I don't know how to find her, and it is unwise, as it might hurt her. She will be happier never hearing from me again.

[akakumoeteru]

Wei Ying...

[i-lavabean]

Tide and Bone scribbles

[courtofcrescent]

Will we ever see the Ruler's 'other' side? I enjoy puppy, but sometimes the cold angy people appeal to me...👀

Greetings, Eighth Anon!

Well... MC is stuck with him till death do them part, whether they like it or not. If Mallory does have that other side, your MC may have the best front row seat 👀

Thank you for the ask! 🩶

[han-ban-bam]

dreams or reality u decide my dears

(( @beyondbendingsky shared some thoughts, and I was Compelled to put them into motion 💖🙏 ))

[vindicated-truth]

There's a remarkable thoughtfulness on Kim Sujin's part as a writer in ensuring that the right person arrests the right perpetrator—made especially relevant and impactful due to the nature of the relationship between them.

For Lee Changjin, it was his former wife and head of Team One of the Violent Crimes Unit, Oh Jihwa, who arrested him. He killed the Chief of Munju Police Station, the Chief of Manyang Substation, and the serial killer that had been silently terrorizing Munju all these years, all under her watch. It's only fitting that she—the most virtuous cop in the show—arrest the man who is formerly her husband whose ambition blinded him enough to dare to terrorize her area of responsibility.

For Kang Jinmook, it was Han Joowon who arrested him, with Lee Dongsik silently watching from afar. Han Joowon, the elite detective from Foreign Affairs who got himself transferred to Manyang substation all to follow up on what happened to the woman he used in a sting operation, who finally brought justice to her and a semblance of absolution for himself in his thoughtless mistake of using her to solve the case.

(It could not have been Dongsik, not when the irony isn’t lost in how he, too, had a hand in Kang Minjeong's death, no matter how indirect or inadvertent, if only because due to his thoughtless actions, they lost the very small window to save her while she was buried alive.)

For Park Jeongje, it was Han Joowon who arrested him. Han Joowon, the partner of Lee Dongsik, the partner of the man whom Jeongje has loved for 30 years as a loyal friend, even as he was struggling with the fact that he couldn't face how he might have had a hand in the pain and sorrow Dongsik had endured for 21 years in the first place. Han Joowon, the man whom Jeongje has now asked to love Dongsik in his stead, now that he finally owns up to his culpability in Dongsik's suffering.

(It could not have been Dongsik—not when he is too angry and too hurt to forgive Jeongje, precisely because he loved him, too.)

For Do Haewon, it was Lee Dongsik who arrested her. Lee Dongsik, who suffered greatly in her hand in manipulating evidence so that he was wrongfully accused and branded as a suspect for 21 years. Lee Dongsik, who lost his dearest friend, because Do Haewon, in what masquerades as excessive and overzealous love for her son, ended up breaking him instead. Lee Dongsik, who lost so many more of the people he had tried so hard to protect just because Do Haewon could not take on the responsibility to let her own son face justice, too.

And finally, for Han Kihwan, it could not have been anyone else but Lee Dongsik who arrested him. Lee Dongsik, the one who suffered the most in Han Kihwan's thoughtless decision to turn away from and cast away Yuyeon's body, who is the very reason everyone who ever suffered for the past 21 years struggled so hard and so long for justice. Lee Dongsik, who lost his sister, his father, his surrogate daughter, his surrogate father—and indirectly his mother, and his best friend—all because the most powerful policeman in the country could not face his own accountability in a crime of his own doing.

(It could not have been Joowon, because Joowon knows this is not his arrest to make, not his justice to enforce. More than anyone in the show, it's Dongsik who deserves to enact this justice for everyone they have lost, but most importantly: for his sister, Lee Yuyeon.)

And here, the most important arrest of all:

For Lee Dongsik, it could not have been anyone else but Han Joowon who arrested him. Han Joowon, his partner, the son of the man who killed his sister, who brought hell upon himself just so he can bring down his own father, who singlehandedly brought justice when the justice system has failed Dongsik, over and over again:

His partner, Han Joowon, the one person, the only person, Dongsik can ever surrender himself to: completely, wholeheartedly, and without regret.

His partner, Han Joowon, the one person who destroyed his own life to save Dongsik.

[frick-yes-dragons]

what did they put in the water that made these bitches so transgender and in love and where can I get some

[tanoraqui]

the thing is... JK Rowling did write the books. She certainly did write the books, which was the pivotal first step.

However, here is an incomplete list of people who meant more to my experience of reading and enjoying the Harry Potter books than JKR ever did:

My grandmother, who read them because she loved to read and because she wanted to understand what the hell her granddaughter - whom she'd recently moved 3,000 in part to live near - spent 90% of her time talking about; who passed away this past fall.

My other grandmother, who read them for more or less the same reason except without the cross-country move; who passed away in 2014. It was in her honor that I bought the current set of books I own.

The uncle-shaped family friend who always listened to me expound on my latest theories for the next book, and told me his own like an equal in intellectual debate

That one writer on Mugglenet's fanfiction archive who wrote a crack soap opera fic in which Professor McGonagall got pregnant from Crookshanks, and the children were cat-human hybrids whom they called "kiddens." That haunts me to this day.

Honestly, collectively every single person who wrote content, be it recordkeeping, fic, or analysis, for MuggleNet circa 2005-2008. Some people spent their internet-childhoods on Neopets or Club Penguin; I read every single page on MuggleNet.com.

The summer camp counselor who'd read HBP when I hadn't yet, and who responded to my positively tsundere attitude toward spoilers by telling me straight-faced that Harry started dating Luna [not Ginny]. A) The fucking audacity! she lied right to my annoying 10yo face! B) I got to experience the giddiness of finding out what happened twice, once then and again later when I read the book! Thank you, Natalie(?) from Y-Camp!

The two friends with whom I went to the DH midnight release party at my local secondhand bookstore, in closet cosplay. We were all in the first 5 people to get our books, and we promptly started reading them while standing outside the bookstore, in the light coming through the front window. 1 of them was parentally required to go to bed but the other and I stayed up all night reading, until we finished the books sometime mid-morning.

My dad, specifically when he (still) tells the story of having to make a "walk of shame" (his words) back to the bookstore the next afternoon, to ask if they had the broom we'd accidentally left behind.

The tourists from America, England, France and China who were all waiting in line at the Platform 9 3/4 overpriced photo op in King's Cross Station the same time I was, in the summer of 2013, which unironically made me feel more spiritually connected with humanity as a whole than possibly any other experience in my life. Like, this is embarrassing. It's a pure tourist trap. Yet people from LITERALLY all around the world had all made the same journey I had to be there, just because we all loved the same books. and that's...really special.

...you know? So, JKR is doing real harm to the trans community now, and will continue to do more and maybe even worse in the future; and I am so, so sympathetic and angry about that. I have no intention of giving her money or any other support ever again, nor of encouraging anyone else to do so.

But all her present vitriol is only drops in the lake of my warm memories. I don't let them give me a falsely rosy view of her, but nor will I let her poison them. And I encourage others to let themselves find the same balance, if they can.

[faerie-mafuyu-official]

*teleports you to the bush Rin is at*

I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE.

[ghastlybirdie]

N-no… no this is not comedy

[fixaidea]

Can't get over how Chief Nam had Dongsik's number saved as 'my Dongsik'. :,( He really did become something of a stand-in dad for him.

[i-lavabean]

POV one of your only friends just did the scariest thing you've seen all evening