#kim was a piece of shit

[glitterizedocean]

Adrien chose death

[machinerot]

[solcarow]

desperately trying to fend off art block with hankim stupids

[daydreamerwonderkid]

You know ... people make a lot of jokes about Kim Dokja's painfully obvious lack of self preservation and him being an outright horrifically unreliable narrator.

But idk, man. Something about this entire sequence has got me thinking Dokja can also be a bit too honest about what he's actually thinking lol

Hey, Dokja.

Yeah, you. Buddy. Pal. Ol' friend of mine.

Can you at least pretend to be the tiniest bit less excited to have the literal shit get beaten out of you?

Dude, even Sangah is worried about you.

Get your shit together, man iswtfg lol

[its-your-mind]

what the fuck the novel was his dream and his dream was the novel and he used it to escape his life except he never bothered to dream himself into a happy ending. except the novel was just her desperate, half-conscious attempts to save him, to keep him alive for just one more day so he could read the next chapter she wrote. except it wasn’t ever just a novel at all because it was the millennia-long attempt of one person to finally meet the being that so desperately wanted a person with no history and no past to have a perfect future, a happy ending.

except that novel! was never actually the point! it was just the vehicle some version of themselves all used to get everyone to the start of the story that actually mattered, the story that wasn’t pre-ordained, the story where characters became companions and the reader became the protagonist and the dream of a happy ending for all of them was possible. all of them were there - the reader, the writer, the protagonist… but the reader was just the reader, the writer was a plagiarist, and the protagonist was only at the start of his journey. this story, the real story, the story that hadn’t been written yet, was about how when the world fell to ruin, the only person with the instruction manual on how to survive decided to sacrifice himself over, and over, and over, and… and they made it. they got to their happy ending. but before they did, they learned about the dream. his escape that became a reality. and he didn’t know, he didn’t understand what it was, and so he stepped back, and watched them walk away. because it was the story written for him that caused this much damage, and he had to atone.

but the people who he saved, who he walked with to the end, who turned from characters on his screen to friends and companions who fought beside him, cried when he was gone, screamed at him when he came back, laughed with him, loved him, lived through hell with him, survived because of him… they knew that the story that defined him was not the story that saved him, that he escaped to when it was all too much, but his own story, the story he forged himself. and so dozens of them chose to dive back into hell just to forcefully turn his attempt at an ending, a sentence that ended in a period, into a promise of more to come, a clause that ended in a comma.

and then? the plagiarist who was never a plagiarist at all, but the author who saved him, she sat down and wrote his story. the one he made by their side. they compiled their memories - the memories of the author and the protagonist and heroes and villains and gods and angels and demons and dragons and prophets - into a new novel. and they sent that novel out to the stars to be told, a literal shout into the void to tell him that he was LOVED. that he deserved HAPPINESS. that it was okay for him to REST. that they were waiting for him to come HOME. and they hoped that this story would reach him just as the first had. that he would find it, and he would read it, and it would be the thing that saved him, that kept him alive, and that eventually brought him back to them.

he had promised, after all, to be the first reader of her next novel.

[57sfinest]

What do you think about Evrart Claire? You mentioned you think about him in one of your tags I think.

okay i will first direct to you to trusted mutual @sydmarch for the most in-depth evrart thoughts with the appropriate warning for nsfw lmfaoo

but like. evrart is one of those characters where you have an initial knee-jerk reaction to them and then you kinda have to reevaluate after all is said and done because you get a LOT more context on them as you go.

most shallowly, you're meant to see evrart as the slimy "fantastically corrupt" union (mob) boss who sits in his office embezzling and making others do his dirty work (the hardies as his enforcement, you as his little errand dog, you get the point). however, a first point i want to make is that comparing a justified labor or civil rights advocate group to a "mob" is such a ubiquitous piece of capitalist/bigot rhetoric that it should automatically clue you in to the fact that something else is going on here. also taken in context with the fact that kortenaer poses as a scab to break the strike, further framing the union as a lazy, entitled, unreasonable splinter faction of stupid socialists-- obviously we know that the people who made this game are leftists, so it's not just Ough Unions Bad. there is Something Else Going On! because we are seeing this union strike filtered primarily through the lens of someone who is, consciously or not, a moralintern lackey! even at his most self-aware, calling himself the moralintern's bitch, harry does not have enough awareness of the world and his role in it to recognize how he is being manipulated by the various agendas at play here, and that affects our perception of it.

i think evrart presents as corrupt and weaselly on purpose! again syd has said a lot of this already & i've added some stuff in their tags, but i'll reiterate here for convenience. he is aware of the rhetoric people can use against him and he uses that to his advantage. he's using his personal reputation as misdirection. we see in dialogue that even joyce, an ultraliberal diehard capitalist who obviously dislikes the union, concedes that it was respectable in and of itself before the claires came in:

and we can infer that a lot of that might be because the union was *less effective before the claires took charge*. of course a capitalist will respect an ineffective labor union! but on top of this, the claires' open "corruption" give anti-union people an easy target for criticisms that serve to legitimize the union itself. oh, they say, well, the union is alright, it's just the claires that are ruining it. it's misdirection and it's genius. evrart's reputation isn't a concern if the union is doing its job, right? and here's another thing: i think people will trust open corruption more than they'll trust altruism that seems to good to be true. especially in a world with something like moralism, where this organization has killed millions and will kill *millions more* for a "greater good" that is literally just the status quo. if evrart's corruption is an open secret, as joyce puts it, people feel they can trust him *because* he's transparent about the bad things he supposedly does or supports or whatever. at least he's honest, right?

this makes the juxtaposition of evrart with joyce SUPER interesting, too. i think they both have that 'honest about their bad traits' way of going at people- joyce with her self-aware but relentless ultraliberalism, evrart with his intentionally misrepresented agendas. of the two, i think people tend to like joyce a lot more, despite her and evrart using pretty much the *same exact tactics*, and i think that tendency is largely explained by the intersection of gender and fatphobia and ingrained capitalist rhetoric, but i digress.

yes, the way evrart's little tasks are presented makes them *feel* slimy- you're evrart's peone, you're a little bitch dog running his errands to get a gun you never should have lost to begin with, he knows how to help and he's toying with you- but it's on purpose!! you can be joyce's little bitch dog too and it's not framed anywhere near as scummy. It Is On Purpose. because if evrart pretends to be the "socialist" mob boss, maybe it really does get martinaise the youth center, or enough money to, you know, fix the crumbling buildings that could kill the tenants at any moment. there are genuinely good things he is sincerely trying to accomplish. he is curating his image exactly as he needs it to be to get things done and that's partly why joyce hates him *so much*.

and of course this isn't to say that the claires never do anything wrong. contracting dros to kill the previous union head, for example. if i had to pin evrart's major sin, i think he's an "end justifies the means" type of guy. the other union head candidate needed to die for progress to be made. the fishing village will have to go so we can build martinaise up properly. some people, if not willingly cooperative- like harry- need to be used for their status regardless. we see the union at the opposite end of "for the greater good" as moralism: where moralism wants to stall the world, the union represents ruthless progression. why else the red-vs-blue juxtaposition of the union vs the moralintern and its financial interests? the red banners draped over shipping containers?

[zibah-ho]

everyone attending that ambani wedding should hang themselves so we can redistribute that wealth

[margarrivergod]

Jinx Ch 52 LETS GOO

so first off holy shit things have really settled since the last time i talked about jinx- we have more hinting towards the mystery of jaekyung’s past and the fact this was brought up by junmin, the fact he was hunting at knowing jaekyung when he was younger is so interesting? hell definitely be the key ti find out more about jaekyungs, potentially, traumatic past. plus the fact jaekyung FINALLY DIDNT WIN a match. I wish he actually lost and it wasn’t a tie but it took a hit to his ego all the same so it’s whatever. But also all the sabotaging?!?! like bro is this all part of a bigger scheme? cause i promise u i didn’t forgot the potential mafia shit we saw back in chapter 46, i think? (don’t quote me) so is junmin a part of this cause he wants revenge on jaekyung for whatever reason? possibly.

Also let all give a loud round of applause to coach for finally, and literally, smacking some sense into jaekyung. When i tell you i literally dropped my phone and started clapping and cheering!!! CAUSE FINALLY! I’ve been itching to hit the bastard from the getgo!

now i’m wondering if we’re finally getting closer to the chasing arc because when jaekyung was told where dan was he was absolutely shocked (or it seemed that way). Dans whereabouts are currently unknown but there are theories, He could possibly be with his grandma, there’s a possibility he quit or moved, or he did go to the other gym!! that could explain the shock factor but it wouldn’t make much sense cause doesn’t dan and jaekyung have a contract in place? unless i’m misremembering, then that means dan can’t just up and leave without breaching the contract. also i doubt dan would go to the other gym cause if his loyalty to jaekyung so my best guess is that he resigned (idk tho)

so many thoughts and so many theories, but i don’t have the time to write them all down rn. Till next time !

[cosmic-hoboandthehighlander]

Not looking forward to the phone call I’m going to get from my mother later for clapping back at her transphobic aunt in my Facebook comments. I feel sick; this is why I don’t defend myself or other trans people because I deal with lashback every time.

Fucking hate this state.

[eremin0109]

god the way I started simping for kim young kwang only to find out that if we met in real life he would probably be disgusted by the mere existence of my body type is just...yikes. why do men even.

[joanyio]

i know it will be cliche if uncle jung jinman is still alive but hear me out maybe this one time we’ll all love it

also im falling in love with kim hyejun all over again i need an edit of K in inspector koo with jian in a shop for killers they’re my new two characters from entirely different verses have to meet thing

[bluastro-yellow]

previously horrible now blank-slate amnesiac depressed suicidal human-dumpstefire disco cop and traumatized repressed occasional-power-tripper speedfreak moralist cop my beloveds

what a fucked up duo, do not separate them

[notsobeautifuldisaester]

Jieun Discourse

[Text since Ibispaint fucked up the quality]

First Pooh: Jieun did nothing wrong at all.

Second Pooh: Jieun's treatment of Bum was rude and ablest but Sangwoo has no right to kill her. Plus Sangwoo is guilty of the same things tenfold

Third Pooh: Jieun deserved to die bc she's a slut, annoying and was mean to Yoon Bum

[purple-velvet]

ME | Jisoo

[adelaidedrubman]

problem with writing hook, line, and sinker is it should be just a silly little romp in trope fic with a very short and basic plot but john and jessie won’t stop being inventing ways to be horrible to each other despite being in an alliance for once

[webnovel-liker]

I won't let self-hatred win. i won't let self-hatred win