#charms-posts

[charms-cat]

SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON

Casting

Making famous rapper Choi Seunghyun/TOP play a failed rapper is some perfectly ironic casting 😂

(I know it wasn't intentional. I just thought it was funny)

Fuck Myunggi

Junhee! Kick him to the curb and keep him there! That guy is definitely gonna be a deadbeat dad.

(And, not to get too moral policing here, but it was cruel of her to keep the baby when she knew she was in heavy debt. No child should be born in poverty)

EDIT: somebody misunderstood what I meant by the above paragraph. They thought it was "classist. Every child deserves to live. If the mother decides to have a child, then it's her choice. It's wrong to tell a mother that she should've gotten rid of her baby just bcs she can't provide a perfect life for her child" (not verbatim, but this was the gist). They removed their replies, so let me clarify for anyone else who's confused.

Children are expensive. They will need things or want other things. They might lose a school book or rip their coat or catch an illness or want a toy. All things that need to be fixed, and all of them cost money. And I just don't think it's something children need to be worried about. You might give them an allowance to teach them financial responsibility, but no child should be worried about the income of a household. They shouldn't fear losing or ruining anything bcs they already know that replacing it will be a financial strain on their family. They shouldn't fear the resulting medical care of (being born with/experiencing) poor health bcs they know it'll be (heavier) debt for their family. Children should only worry about childish things, not the potential collapse of their family.

It is not classist to not want a child to be born in poverty. You don't need to provide a "perfect" life for your child. But you wanting a child is not a reason for them to suffer the effects of the life you're currently living.

TLDR; if you can't be comfortable with your child being a little clumsy or careless or sick bcs any of those might be a financial strain, then you shouldn't have children.

I get that Junho didn't want to admit that his brother was the sociopathic Front Man, but he could've just said, "I saw his face but didn't recognise him." People's lives are at stake here, you pig. Smh cops are just useless.

In Junhee's case, we can only hope that she has other friends who'll help her with the baby. Her debt is most likely in the millions, and she already lost both her parents. I'm sure you can ask any parent and they'll tell you that a newborn needs lots of attention. So either she'll need to outsource that vital childcare while she works (bcs I doubt a government check would be enough for both of them) or she needs work that allows her to bring her baby.

STOP KEEPING VITAL INFO TO YOURSELVES FFS

And Jungbae, oh my God. Five seconds to just say "(Youngil) killed someone" and Gihun might've known to be on alert around him. It doesn't take a detective to work out that, "Hey, this guy is going kinda crazy. He might kill us if he needs to. Maybe I should tell someone." Buddy, even if you think he only turned to murder out of a need for survival, he still can't be trusted.

TRAITOR

Y'all I fucking knew that ship captain Park was Suspicious, with a capital S!

+ they made it a point that Wooseok said "which of you got drunk and spilled the intel?" Only to later show him drinking and spilling intel

The very moment he was questioning Wooseok in that restaurant and saying shit like, "I didn't believe him at first," and, most importantly, "so everything (Junho) told me was true?" He was on my impostor radar. Idk how to explain it too well. Like, yeah, I believe Junho would've told him some stuff but telling him "everything"? or enough for him to make a sudden turn from "this is baloney" to "I 100% believe you and in no way do I think all these men are just part of the same cuckoo conspiracy group."

Also, now that it's confirmed that he's a measly fucking rat, I just wanna circle back to the fisherman who said that he was given "leftover bait" by some guy. Who would just have that shit on hand? Fisherman captain Park. Who was "interested" in the drones and how good surveillance is these days? Captain fucking Park. Bastard.

Gyeongseok and Noeul

Do we think Gyeongseok (the dad) is still alive? I think so since they focused on his character but haven't really expanded on his story line + I didn't see a corpse and he wasn't shot in the head so it's pretty suspect + Noeul avoided shooting him in the first game too (for his hair flying. yall, was he supposed to control the wind??) and I'm pretty sure she's the soldier (that shot him) since she was also the only one connected to him outside the game

Add. Note: I really hoped that Noeul had a chance to shoot those rapist bastards during the shootout. Y'know, disguise it as a "why would the players do this? 😔" moment

Death flags 🏴

Hyunju, those fake friends didn't deserve you 😭. I love her. She's been a boss all season.

Gihun saying he'll outlive Jungbae was probably the biggest death flag I've seen so far. But I thought for sure that old guy (10B won in debt) and that shaman were gonna die. I mean,,, telling other people they're gonna die (and you're gonna live) is an ironic death flag.

EDIT: just gonna add that Jungbae also said, "we're both gonna make it out of here" to Gihun + he was the only person to know the "true nature" of the antagonist so that's three different death flags for him 😭

Side note: I found out that the actor for said old guy (Song Youngchang) is a convicted sex offender/rapist. Maybe that's why I wanna see him die so badly.

Hyunju! And Daeho

And I feel sorry for Daeho. I thought he was lil too peppy for a soldier and I was right(?) The guy's never seen live combat.

I just know that your wife, who would've died to bring a life into this world, would be fucking disappointed

HWANG INHO YOU BASTARD

God. The worst part of the whole plan was the fact that they actually got so fucking close, if only they hadn't let that bitch join their ranks

[rainintheevening]

Enjoyed everyone's comments on the last one so much, here's another.

[yardsards]

surrounding myself with a bubble of diversity and self love and body positivity online and then being exposed to normies who actually care about conventional beauty standards feels so fucking bizarre. like you people just live like this??? are you not tired???

[blood-starved-beast]

love how all the Nyx kids we know are losers. They're all some flavor of dork and all are vaguely pathetic.

Except for Charon. Dude is living the High life swimming in dough and even got a boyfriend locked in. So much rizz that even Aphrodite is noticing. King shit.

[spoopdeedoop]

she bench on my trio

[charrchan]

Miku!! :)

[shripscapi]

Jon Snow with the letter from Ramsay. This was the second half of a commission, done to match Dany!

[poobirdy]

a lil something sweet for the bingqiu/binggeyuan zine 🔥🥒

[breegadey]

kabru the homewrecker

[newttxt]

pls read the zosan fic “utilities included” and enjoy sanji making his own life as miserable as possible in plain view of his new roommate

from ch. 1 of utilities included (mind the tags and rating)

masterpost

[cupcakeruth]

I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone talking about it much here, but apparently the Fairly OddParents reboot has revealed adult Poof (now known as Periwinkle) !!

Plus, he’s voiced by Eric Bauza

Original Twitter post here

[charms-cat]

Kaos fandom, how are we feeling about the complete removal of the "Rape (Kidnapping) of Persephone"?

It's totally fair that they don't want to imply she was raped, but the complete removal of her being kidnapped, or at least forced into an arranged marriage, takes away some nuance to her relationship with Hades. Sort of like wanting to paint their marriage as "good" to Zeus/Hera's "bad".

IMO it would've made for a more interesting background to find out that Persephone was in an arranged marriage with Hades, but that they learned to love each other over time. After all, Hades had already been shown to listen to and respect her (though his guilty conscience won out); Persephone had also been shown to have a high, if not an equal, amount of power to Hades.

Idk how it'd be in the show, but Hera in the myths was also forced to marry Zeus. So the Hades/Persephone relationship could've been an interesting parallel to Zeus/Hera, where they both have similar starts and yet starkly different outcomes. Or, if Hera had willingly married Zeus, Hades/Persephone could've been an interesting contrast. I.e., bad beginning ended up being a good marriage vs. Good beginning ended up being a bad marriage.

As it is, the way Persephone debunked her kidnapping seemed almost... haughty to the audience. In a "why would you even think that? I can't even eat pomegranates" kind of way. Idk maybe I'm just reading too much into it

[charms-cat]

Tbf I think it's harder for movie-only audiences since I think the movie changed multiple circumstances specifically to make Snow look like a good person (though it's also true that a lot of his rancid thoughts stayed inside his head) and the movie also downplayed the cruelty of the Capitol itself

I honestly hope the directors of the new Hunger Games movies use unknown or lesser known actors. The movie is already highly anticipated, so we don't have to worry about audience engagement. Plus, it should be about the message, not the actors. Suzanne doesn't publish a book unless she has something to say, and movies are ways to get messages out to the masses, but the problem is, it goes over a lot of people's heads because they focus too much on the action sequences or the romances and the actors and not at all about the message it's trying to convey. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was a story showing that Snow, despite being loved and having the chance to do good, he still chose to betray, lie to and step on everyone who was there for him. His commentary in the book is literally sociopathic. He really doesn't care for anyone, and at the end of the day, he's a bitter and cold old man. When the movie came out, people made thirst traps of Snow and even excused the things he did because he was hot, and yes, Tom Blyth is attractive, but that doesn't take away from Snow being an absolute monster. So, I think we should all make a vow to actually listen to and focus on the story and the message Suzanne is trying to convey instead of focusing on the games themselves or potential romances.

[the-strangest-heart]

literally nothing is funnier to me than the idea of el telling hopper that she and mike broke up and him being like “oh. sorry kid. a great decision tbh, but sorry” and then throwing himself a little party, and then like a month later will’s like “dad meet my boyfriend” and hopper just sits down and takes several very deep breaths because mike wheeler is somehow his future son in law again what the fuck

[forecast0ctopus]

she was putting the moves on this man like crazy

[jaxsterrapp]

tadc charm designs lol