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Guess what im trying to make folks

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cuddling doesn't have to be romantic

cuddling can be platonic.

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

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I mourn the characters that are forced to be in the wrong genre. Rip Itadori Yuuji, you were supposed to be a shoujo love interest. Rip Sung Hyunjae, you were meant to be that one slightly unsettling BL love interest. 😔🙏

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"Was I able to act like a senior, Rayne?"

Mashle: Magic and Muscles Second Season Episode Four - Max Land

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I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship

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hadn't realised I was reading That kind of comic

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One of my favourite things about the end of The S-Classes That I Raised novel (major spoilers ahead),

is the realisation that the reason why Yoojin and Hyunjae's relationship looks so much like a love story at times is because it actually, honestly is.

Like, we know that sctir is a novel about love since the beginning, that's not surprising. Yoojin's capability for loving monsters (both literal monsters and the human kind) and the power of that love is at the centre of the plot.

But by the time you get to the end, you realise - and the author confirms this themselves in their final Note - that Yoojin's relationship and love for 2 specific people was the true core of the story, and what allows him to save the world in the end:

One is, of course, Yoohyun.

And that love is absolute; you cannot say that it's inevitable, cause we know Yoojin had to make a choice when he was a child between Yoohyun and his parents, and he almost chose his parents, but from the moment he decided to love Yoohyun onward, then it was unconditional and eternal. It's the love of a brother, but also the love of a parent and a caretaker.

And the other person is Sung Hyunjae.

And that love is not unconditional nor inevitable or absolute at all. It's not something that can be taken for granted. We actually see, because of how it ended between them before the regression, and thanks to the White Bird's power of seeing possible futures, that there were so many timelines where Yoojin and Hyunjae would have never come to care about each other fully (tho they are always at least somewhat interested in each other, because their personalities are actually really compatible).

But the White Bird also sees that the only possible future where the world is saved is the one where they love and hold on to each other. And that is how the story goes!

So, just like a romance novel, the necessary end is the one where they both love each other and accept that love. And it's not easy to get there! It's a slow burn.

From meeting to getting to know each other, appreciating each other's skills and intelligence, finding out they have fun together but still not trusting each other, to working on building that trust.

They go from a strong but superficial mutual interest to actually caring about each other as people.

Yoojin has to go through the self-doubt of feeling inferior and fearing that Hyunjae will lose interest in him. Hyunjae has to learn to stop pushing Yoojin away because he doesn't know how to handle having someone he cares about so much, and also someone that cares about him, because nobody in the world (except in part Song Taewon) likes about Hyunjae as a person, he is only ever admired from afar.

And in the end, after going through ups and downs and a few "break-up arcs", they make it. They accept their own feelings and each other's feelings.

And that's when Yoojin makes the choice to use the power that the transcendents gave him at the very beginning of the novel, to save Hyunjae. Not the world. Not even Yoohyun! Just Sung Hyunjae!

Yeah, the whole "gather 50 S-Class people", the very thing that gives the novel its title. That is not a power that is used to save the world!! It was meant to, but Yoojin is "selfish", and he will always choose to save the people close to him first.

And being able to love someone so selfishly gives Yoojin ghw power to save the whole world, too. As a bonus! A reward. Just a side effect.

So yeah. Is it romantic love? No. Canonically, there's almost none romantic love in the whole novel.

But is it a love story?? Yeah. Absolutely it is.

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im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

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shopping

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kills me how han sooyoung is always the one both kim dokja and yoo joonghyuk look to when they want someone to kill them

kim dokja gets her to do that in the strongest sacrifice scenario, and of course when he becomes the 73rd demon king she has to be the one that starts it and yoo joonghyuk in the 1863rd turn, as well as in the museum during the epilogue always forcing the knife to her hand

but she ends the story by writing orv to save kim dokja... and inadvertently saves yoo joonghyuk as well

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i like to think that sung hyunjae’s house decor is just really fucking ugly. not because it’s like. badly arranged or messy. but because where there should be your typical rich person ‘famous painting on the wall’ type stuff there is instead some framed thing and when you get closer it’s just the fucking rosetta stone. and people will be like how do you even have that??

but anyone (anyone who is rich*) can get a painting. there’s famous art on every world. shj wants something new, something novel. something that is undeniably specific to earth. something that’s hard to get, regardless of whether he even likes it or not. because he’s also more interested in showing that he CAN get whatever he wants than actually WANTING anything.

his entire aesthetic also probably changes every month because once he gets bored of the items decorating his house they go off into a seseong guild closet somewhere

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yoojin is a pen biter

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Thinking about how being a caretaker/parent was Han Yoojin’s only form of coping when his parent’s died. How Han Yoojin used taking care of Han Yoohyun as his primary focus and goal in life.

Then Han Yoohyun left him, taking away his only coping strategy and sole motivation.

I really like Han Yoojin’s second life for his character development. While Han Yoohyun is his main priority, he’s no longer his only coping strategy and it’s good to see him expanding his horizons in not only being a caretaker for other people, but also forming genuine friendships outside of the people he takes care of.

Han Yoojin, they could never make me hate you :3

Side note but I’m now imagining that Peace is his therapy animal and therapy cat(??) Peace brings me great joy. (He probably should’ve actually gotten a therapy dog or something in his first life;;)

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Couldn’t get it out of my head so.

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i hate his ass (i love him so much unfortunately)

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one of the reasons i find jinjae so immensely compelling is that at points it feels like they took the "charming rich man falls in love with average woman" trope and applied it to two men in their 30s where one hates the other and its also an isekai story