#howevuh

[shaanks]

babe im definitely taking a bite out of you next week

Pwommie? You’re welcome to I love bites, howevuh...you have been warned...

[wullu]

Detective Park Doo-Man: Did you see his face? What did he look like?

Schoolgirl: Well... kind of plain.

Detective Park Doo-Man: In what way?

Schoolgirl: Just... ordinary

Memories of Murder by Bong Joon Ho (2003)

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

yea no idk how i went from writin bout the magic system focusim round their deaths, to cannibalism commited by fiends, and then to ppl who can actually see reapers and fiends

[river-bottom-nightmare]

benoit blanc voice: batman....the batman. see, i knew there was a reason the mystery surroundin’ that man compelled me so. especially with the question of his true identuhty bein’ so recently debated.

if you'd be so kind to puhmit me a moment, i'd like to elaborate and, ah.. take yuh on a ride down the rains my train of thought has rolled along.

now most recently, durin’ a holiday gala the mayuh of gotham so kindly held, bruce wayne was in attendance, which is, of cawse, a regular occurence.

howevuh, somethin’...unexpected reared its head durin’ this purticuluh event. wayne had sipped on one too many glasses of champagne, if yuh know what i mean, though he’s been less prone tuh doin’ so ever since he took in a ward.

but nontheless, he was stumblin’ around quite confusedly durin’ this gala, and at one point, tripped on a table leg and had tuh, ah....bend ovuh tuh steady himself, thereby highlightin’ a significant portion of his backside previously covered by his clothin’.

now, if yuh follow along with the exploits of the batman, yuh’ll notice that a cuhple months ago, a stah’struck fan batman rescued from a muggin’ caught a picture of batman as he was leavin’, having ensured her safety. 

and lo an’ behold, the curve a’ that round buttock matched perfectly the curve a’ the suit pants along the be-hind of one mistuh bruce wayne.

if you’ll follow my line a’ thought just a touch fuhthuh....wayne recently took in a ward, richard grayson, who belonged to a travellin’ circus before he was orphaned. not so long aftuh the fact, batman appeuhs with a new child sidekick......one who can puhform the quadruple suhmuhrsault that the grayson family was so famuhs for.

....now, i may be in a city with anthropomorphic bats an’ penguins and a lady who’s half plant, but i do believe two plus two still equals foah. which now begs the question...

why would bruce wayne...or the batman, if i should be so bold...wear such tight fittin’ clothin’ in both a’ his personas if he knows that the butts do, indeed, match?

[eljesala]

Little Nightmares 1 & 2 Biggest Question

While LN fans are so intricate with their speculations, sharing theories and such, there’s one question that no one, no one at all who seemed to be bothered to ever ask...

Where the hell do all the children come from?

Like, obviously, the LN universe is fucked up as it is shown, and judging from the ruins, the vicinity looking like apocalyptic remains, etc. it obviously had been like this for a really long time.

HOWEVUH-

We see children, if not alive, their fresh remains. We come across kids here and there, especially in the comics and in the first game.

Which begs the question, as to who dafuq is bearing children in that godforsaken realm?

Lay it out on me, shower me with your theories, guesses, I don’t care if you think it sounds stupid, because I don’t have the slightest clue where the hell do all the children fucking came from. And I’m not asking the process specifically.

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

The only ah say the only mistake ah evuh made was to appoint a sniveling little weasel like you Secretary of Defense.  Howevuh ah say howevuh, that is a mistake, I am happy to say, that ah don't have to live with.  Mistuh Weasel as say Mistuh Weasel yaw fiuhed, fiuhed that is.

Foghorn Leghorn

[spine-buster]

GIVE UP THE GREEN BLAZER RATTHEW, YOU DID NOT JUST WIN THE MASTERS

Howevuh, we love the dark periwinkle / faded medium blue shirt from earlier in the day 💖 STICK WITH PASTEL-ISH HUES BOO

He needs Tan from Queer Eye to help him

[reasonablespeculation]

It's easier to see her than the one who called the paparazzi, it makes people feel good about Sebastian. With my experience in fandons, I think he knew, both well dressed, matching clothes, which is a sign he knew. There is an article that talks about how hollywood couples work. I'll try to find it.

First of all I’m so sorry to everyone who’s tired of this debate. Without information that we’ll never have I don’t think it’s possible to say for sure either way.

You’re absolutely right that some people are attached to a certain image of Seb and will never believe that he would call paps.

HOWEVUH. I don’t think the clothing is a strong piece of evidence. He’s been papped a bunch of times wearing sweaty gym clothes, some of the pap pics with Margo they both look like they were knocked on the head stripped naked and thrown into a secondhand stores donation bin and they just put on anything they could find so they could escape.

[wullu]

First few episodes in, I had a feeling that Flower of Evil could become a part of my 'fave dramas of all time' list but I didnt want to raise my hopes cause you can never fucking tell when a drama decides to turn on you and let you down.   

Anyway, no worries here cause Ep 16 just cemented FOE’s place on that list. 

I will be honest, I came for the thriller and deception aspects of this drama. But I ended up staying for the romance. As the drama went on, some of the logical aspects of the plot confused me but the emotional satisfaction I got from the romance made up for everything. I swear to god, it really did.

Some thinky thoughts under the cut for why it pinged all the right buttons for me. Strap yourselves in. It’s a long and passionate and somewhat confused essay about why I loved Flower of Evil and why I rated it 10/10

Ep 16 was polarising for a lot of people and I understand why. In some ways, it upended all the previous episodes.

The amnesiac reset was not easy to watch, especially since it put Ji Won in even more agony than before. How much did she need to suffer before the fruits of her love were realized? Howevuh, the way I saw it, the amnesia reset established a few things that I believed the drama has stayed true to, all the way from the start to the finish.

Here is the thing, names carry so much baggage. When children are named after a much beloved and deceased relative, it can be one of two things. One, it is a way to honour an important part of your life but also allow the child to be a fully realized person. The second,  the name becomes a prison when it is given to you without any choice in the matter and where you are not allowed to be you.           

For Hyun Soo, the name Baek Hee Seong has all these memories and emotions attached to it and while his feelings were not any less real, they are tainted by the foundation they began on. The foundation being a deception.

For Ji Won, his name really doesn't matter. Because at the end, she doesnt view him as Baek Hee Seong or Do Hyun Soo. For Ji Won, he is her chagiya, her person, her husband. And for Eun Ha also, it doesn't matter if her father is Baek Hee Seong or Do Hyun Soo. He’s her father first and foremost and her most favourite person in the whole world. 

Both Ji Won and Eun Ha accept him for the person he is and the role he plays in their lives. 

But for Hyun Soo, Baek Hee Seong will always be the constant reminder of the very thing that ripped apart the fabric of his family life. That’s not the kind of baggage you want to bring to your relationship. Ji Won remembers so many of the good times they had together .But for Hyun Soo, those moments didn’t feel like his because they weren’t attached to his name. It is Hyun Soo more than anyone else that needs the distinction between the two names. Baek Hee Seong was his life for 15 years and it is also the most horrible reminder of how he hurt Ji Won (a person he loves more than anything else in the world) and Eun Ha by having them become a part of his deception. And he also knows first hand what it means to live with an axe over your head, always ready to drop.

15 years ago, Baek Hee Seong was a chance at a better life, a way to escape the shackles of his father. But over time, the thing he thought would set him free dragged not just him down, but also Ji Won and Eun Ha. More than a physical thing, I consider the amnesia plot point to be a thematic reset. Do Hyun Soo links him to his father, but at the same time, it also links him to his sister (one of the good things in his life). 

In ep 13/14, he asks Ji Won why must he suffer all of this? Why must he experience all this pain? 

And if you further follow this line of thought, you can see why he’s so angry.    

Why must he adopt another persona to adapt to the world? Why wont the world adapt to him being Do Hyun Soo instead? These are very valid questions. Our society is very big on ‘being yourself’, but at the same time, society contradicts itself by also saying you can only be you and acceptable by conforming to a very limited sphere of uniqueness. Hyun Soo knows the fallout of this firsthand.

Ji Won has given him all of her from the start. But he has only given her Baek Hee Seong. By going back to being Do Hyun Soo, he reclaims all the emotions he felt in the preceding 15 years and attaches them to his real self. People said that he was just like his father and a psychopath. But he gets to prove everyone wrong. 

He’s capable of love, he’s capable of empathy and emotion and he’s also capable of being loved. He achieves all these things in spite of the legacy of his father’s name and his own name. He is loved just as he is. 

Just as Ji Won submitted to the mortifying ordeal of being known, so is Hyun Soo now. He wants to show Ji Won all the original parts of him and love her as Do Hyun Soo   And isn’t that the realest indication of a loving relationship? Someone knowing you for being you and still loving you. 

And as for Ji Won, time and time again she has made it clear that her happiness lies in Hyun Soo’s happiness. If he isn't happy, she cannot be happy. Does it make her seem sacrificial? Yes. Did she have a choice in it? Also yes. And she made her choice. No one else made it for her. She’s given so much of herself to this relationship, but I don't think there is any other way she would have it. In that way, Ji Won has a very singular sense of perspective. It’s the exact kind of tunnel vision, which when you encounter it in real life, feels extremely annoying and unhealthy, and while in a drama, it is also unhealthy, on the flip side, it’s also grand and tragic and heartfelt. 

Because she loved him so deeply and truly, in return Hyun Soo tried to do for her all the things that made her happy. And in many ways, it is the same reaction a child has to unstable parental figure. They do the things that they think will make the person happy. Except here, Ji Won has been one of the most stable presences in his life. Ji Won loved him when he did all the little things for her. 

But she also continued to love him even when the exterior began to chip away and the relationship started to destruct. And that is Hyun Soo’s lesson for learning that he doesn't have to be anything other than himself to be loved by Ji Won. She may trip up on his name and call him Hee Seong from time to time, but she loves him for being her chagiya. 

Strip away all the extraneous details of this drama and you will see that at the heart of it, this was always going to be a love story that was much larger than the two individuals in it. 

Ji Won begins pulling away only in the end because while she wants him to be happy, it finally becomes too much to bear. It’s not that she cannot stand seeing him happy. And it is not that she does not love him or is angry with him. It’s the sickening knowledge that perhaps, all her love wasn’t enough and that the damage that others have wrought was too lasting and could not be fixed.

The amnesia reset was a chance for a do-over, and it is not often that you  get one. The first time, Hyun Soo came to her as Baek Hee Seong and that too by sheer coincidence and lettuce be clear, Ji Won’s enduring perseverance as well. The second time, he came to her through intention and intuition, and as Do Hyun Soo. And this is the one that counts. He does not remember creating a life with her but he remembers the way she made him feel. The amnesia reset made him go back but it didn’t change the core of who he was. 

So what do we see in the final scene? That in fact, more than anything else, it is Ji Won’s love and the prospect of losing it that sent Hyun Soo off the rails and at the same time, it's her love and the the safety and comfort of her presence that brought him back. And it was the same for Ji Won as well. His potential loss of his love sent her crashing but at the same time, his love also grounded her and raised her up if you will. 

The evidence of her love was in all the emotions his body remembered. And the evidence of his love was in the way he came back to her and in the way despite all his statements to the contrary, the most emotion he showed was when they both broke down together in the car.  

So, Ji Won needed to see that her love was always enough and Hyun Soo had to realize that he was worthy of it and that he deserved it and that he loved her as well. That the past 15 years weren't some ridiculous fluke. 

He didn't have to be Baek Hee Seong to be loved or love Ji Won. He just had to be who he always was, Do Hyun Soo. 

[wullu]

why is south korean television allergic to anything less than one hour episodes is what i want to know 😑😑😑