#huh nam jun

[1liv]

[estelle-sim]

The wedding night

[coreancitizen]

What Sam Soon has under her bridal robe: the see-through clothing that brought Lieutenant Jung much consternation in the previous episode.

What Lieutenant Jung has under his groom's robe: Courtesy of Season 2 of "Sweet Home" LOL!

Bonus: Some wedding night shenanigans from the newlyweds!

[skyasma]

The Crow Platoon, more like

Compassionate Rizzers Old (or) Wholesome youngins

[yikes-all-over]

That's some gay shit. Good for them

Are you dating anyone, Sarge? A lot of our boys are seeing someone on the down low, you know what I'm saying? Are you? I can't. Unless you start dating. I can't wreck the chain of command. I feel no need for it. Is it because you couldn't find the right person?"

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics South Korea roster

Archery

Je-Deok Kim (Seoul)

Woo-Jin Kim (Okcheon Gun)

Woo-Seok Lee (Incheon)

Hun-Young Jeon (Incheon)

Si-Hyeon Lim (Gangneung)

Su-Hyeon Nam (Suncheon)

Athletics

Jangwoo Kim (Seoul)

Byeong-Gwang Choe (Seoul)

Sang-Hyeok Woo (Daejeon)

Badminton

Hyeok-Jin Jeon (Ulsan)

Min-Hyuk Kang (Suwon)

Seung-Jae Seo (Buan Gun)

Won-Ho Kim (Suwon)

Ga-Eun Kim (Suwon)

Se-Young An (Gwangju)

Ha-Na Baek (Gimcheon)

So-Hee Lee (Ulsan)

So-Yeong Kim (Incheon)

Hee-Yong Kong (Jincheon Gun)

Yoo-Jung Chae (Suwon)

Na-Eun Jeong (Seoul)

Boxing

Ae-Ji Im (Hwasun Gun)

Yeon-Ji Oh (Gunsan)

Breakdancing

Hong-Yul Kim (Seoul)

Climbing

Eun-Cheol Shin (Seoul)

Dohyun Lee (Seoul)

Chae-Hyun Seo (Seoul)

Cycling

Eu-Ro Kim (Seoul)

Min-Ji Song (Seoul)

Diving

Jaegyeong Yi (Ulsan)

Jung-Whi Shin (Seoul)

Ha-Ram Woo (Busan)

Yeong-Taek Kim (Incheon)

Na-Hyun Kim (Seoul)

Su-Ji Kim (Changwon)

Equestrian

Young-Shik Hwang (Osan)

Fencing

Jae-Won Kim (Seoul)

Tae-Gyu Ha (Seoul)

Bon-Gil Gu (Daegu)

Sang-Uk Oh (Daejeon)

Sang-Won Park (Daejeon)

Gyeong-Dong Do (Yeongcheon)

Se-Ra Song (Geumsan Gun)

Hye-In Lee (Ulsan)

Young-Mi Kang (Incheon)

In-Jeong Choi (Geumsan Gun)

Ji-Su Yoon (Busan)

Sebin Choi (Suwon)

Ha-Young Jeon (Daejeon)

Eun-Hye Jeon (Daejeon)

Golf

Joo-Hyung Kim (Seoul)

Byeong-Hun An (Orlando, Florida)

Hee-Young Yang (Orlando, Florida)

Hyo-Joo Kim (Wonju)

Jin-Young Ko (Frisco, Texas)

Gymnastics

Jun-Ho Lee (Seoul)

Woong Hur (Seoul)

Sung-Hyun Ryu (Seoul)

Seo-Jeong Yeo (Yongin)

Do-Hyun Eom (Seoul)

Da-Yeong Lee (Seoul)

Yun-Seo Lee (Seoul)

Sol-Yi Shin (Chungju)

Handball

Bitna Woo (Seoul)

Eunseo Kang (Seoul)

Ji-Yeon Jeon (Samcheok)

Da-Young Kim (Busan)

Jin-Mi Shin (Seoul)

Ji-Young Song (Gwangmyeong)

Eun-Joo Shin (Incheon)

Eun-Hee Ryu (Incheon)

Jin-Hui Jeong (Seoul)

Sae-Young Park (Seoul)

Mi-Seul Han (Sokcho)

Eun-Hye Kang (Seoul)

Kyung-Min Kang (Incheon)

Bo-Eun Gim (Samcheok)

Judo

Won-Jin Kim (Cheorwon Gun)

Ba-Ul An (Anyang)

Joon-Hwan Lee (Gumi)

Ju-Yeop Han (Seoul)

Min-Jong Kim (Seoul)

Hye-Kyeong Lee (Ulsan)

Ye-Rin Jung (Daegu)

Mi-Mi Huh (Tokyo, Japan)

Ji-Su Kim (Himeji, Japan)

Hyun-Ji Yoon (Cheorwon Gun)

Ha-Jun Kim (Busan)

Pentathlon

Woong-Tae Jung (Gwangju)

Changwan Seo (Yeongam)

Sunwoo Kim (Seoul)

Seung-Min Seong (Daegu)

Sailing

Jee-Min Ha (Busan)

Shooting

Daehan Choe (Changwon)

Min-Su Kim (Seoul)

Ha-Jun Park (Yangyang Gun)

Won-Ho Lee (Busan)

Yeong-Jae Cho (Chuncheon)

Jong-Ho Song (Seoul)

Eun-Seo Lee (Seoul)

Kook-Hee Jang (Seoul)

Ji-Hyeon Keum (Ulsan)

Ha-Na Im (Wonju)

Ye-Ji Kim (Danyang Gun)

Ye-Jin Oh (Hacheon-Ri)

Ji-In Yang (Namwon)

Gee-Eun Kang (Seoul)

Bo-Na Lee (Seoul)

Swimming

Dong-Yeol Choi (Seoul)

Min-Seop Kim (Seoul)

Yeonghyeon Kim (Seoul)

Ji-Hun Kim (Seoul)

Yu-Chan Ji (Gwangju)

Sun-Woo Hwang (Suwon)

Woo-Min Kim (Busan)

Ju-Ho Lee (Seoul)

Sung-Jae Cho (Ansan)

Ho-Joon Lee (Seoul)

Yoo-Yeon Lee (Anyang)

Jae-Hoon Yang (Jinhae)

Yoonseo Hur (Seoul)

Ri-Young Lee (Seoul)

Yeon-Kyung Hur (Seoul)

Eunji Lee (Seoul)

Seo-Yeong Kim (Suwon)

Table tennis

Dae-Seong Cho (Seoul)

Woo-Jin Jang (Sokcho)

Jong-Hoon Lim (Busan)

Ji-Hee Jeon (Seoul)

Yu-Bin Shin (Suwon)

Eun-Hye Lee (Seoul)

Taekwondo

Tae-Joon Park (Ulsan)

Geon-Woo Seo (Seoul)

Yu-Jin Kim (Danyang Gun)

Da-Bin Lee (Ulsan)

Weightlifting

Joo-Hyo Bak (Goyang)

Dong-Ju Yu (Sunchang Gun)

Yeon-Hak Jang (Asan)

Su-Hyeon Kim (Suwon)

Hye-Jeong Park (Ansan)

Wrestling

Seung-Jun Kim (Seoul)

Seung-Chan Lee (Seoul)

Hanbit Lee (Seoul)

[chososheart]

SPOILER

What opinion would Eren have on each character and who would he think that had worse death on squid game

uuu interestinggg, tysm for asking <33

spoilers for: squid game, and aot chapter 139 if you squint

CW: death ig

okok, imma go from least favorites, to favorites. And then I’ll talk ab their deaths.

Cho Sang-woo: at the beginning of the series, he liked sang-woo and rooted for him. He excused some of his behavior with him “just being calculated.” He grew to dislike him when he traded his humanity for money and abused of other people’s kindness.

Oh Il-nam: Eren kinda thought he was a bit fishy at the start, but that’s just bc of all the phycological thrillers he watches. He knew he would be important but completely forgot about it when he ‘died’. He was kinda shocked to see him alive, but not too much. Like, he didn’t gasp or anything.

In-ho: thinks he has a superiority complex and doesn’t like it. “Oh just because your mask is different you think you all that, huh?” He guessed it was the stepdad of Gi-hun’s daughter under that mask at first. Made a whole theory ab it too. He’s so dumb😖😖

Jang Deok-su: doesn’t like him one bit. The second he saw how he treated sae-byeok, he disliked him. He knows the game is about survival, but he still doesn’t like the way he abused of his power and strength.

The Salesman: thinks he’s hot LMAOO. Definitely quirked an eyebrow when he said, “you can use your body to pay up.” Doesn’t really think anything of him. Yeah, he’s shitty for luring people in, but that’s all he knows about his character.

Han Mi-nyeo: finds her annoying, he had to double check that bathroom scene when she went to smoke bc “ain’t no mf way.” Constantly asked if she truly had an unnamed child, or if it was just her being…her. Although he cringes a lot when she’s on screen, he can’t help but laugh too, she’s funny, he’ll giver her that.

Ji-yeong: liked how chill her character was, in comparison with everyone else.

Hwang Jun-ho: if someone made Eren’s anxiety skyrocket in this show, it was this mf💀 when he first followed the van that took the mc to the game, he kept yelling at the tv “call for backup, don’t go alone. Tell them where you are.” His legs would tremor every time he’d take that damn mask off. But he overall, liked that he decided to listen to the ‘crazy man’ (mc) and go out of his way, to not only help him, but gather as much evidence as possible, even if he put his life at risk.

Seong Gi-hun: didn’t like him at first, actually, he fucking hated his guts. Doesn’t like where his priorities are—considering he missed his daughter’s birth; and didn’t like that he, at his old age, leached off his mom and dared to have any kind of attitude towards her. He slowly warmed up to his character after seeing how kind and helpful to others he was, for example, II-nam, sae-byeok, Ali, etc. He liked his development, and that he truly felt the heaviness and cost of having all that money under his possession. Got pissed when he prioritized other people rather than his family, again.

Kang Sae-byeok: oh boy. He has a lil crush on her, but don’t we all? Her character kinda, KINDA, if you squint a little, reminds him of Mikasa—just some parts of it. Everything she did for her family, how she always kept her guard up, and how tough she was, reminds him of her. Especially how protective she was. He loved it when she reminded the mc to not stoop down to sang-woo’s level. Cried again bc her kindness was taken advantage of by the man she let live.

Abdul Ali: he likes him the most because he has a few qualities that remind him of Armin. The way he’s respectful and kind, but gets fucked over for it, is something he watched happen way too many times with his best friend. It had him sobbing how he almost won, but his kindness made him blindly trust sang-woo. He was so close and he had a family, who he cared so much about, waiting for him at home. basically, sacrificed himself for them but ended up dying without ever getting to explain anything… sound familiar? sorry :(

Who Eren thinks had the saddest deaths:

(from least to most)

Sang-woo: Eren took sang-woo’s suicide at the end as a “way of running away because he knew he’d leave empty-handed.” do I need to say more? he sees him as a traitor.

Il-nam: eh, it was obvious, look at him. He didn’t really care but, he liked how he was proven wrong (ab the whole homeless man, people’s kindness, thing, blah, blah, blah.) as he died.

Jun-ho: “HE’S NOT DEAD!!” Is what Eren screams every time you bring him up💀 he has this whole theory on how in-ho (conceited mask man) purposely shot him in the shoulder so that he wouldn’t die, just like how jun-ho shot in-ho in the shoulder too, and he’s fine!! He’s fully convinced that after he fell in the water, he just swam back to shore🤩🤩 he thinks he’s gonna make an appearance in season two, and help the mc.

Deok-su: He said, “fucking finally.” Was tired of, not only seeing mi-nyeo get humiliated by him but of seeing ppl having to sleep with one eye open😖

Mi-nyeo: liked how she died with style and how she took deok-su with her LMAOO. Didn’t really care, he was too focused on the game.

Ji-yeong: he knew she was gonna die eventually, but he didn’t know it was gonna be so soon and that he’d cry from it. Her sacrifice was what got to him. He understands. *wink* *wink*

Ali: didn’t cry bc of how shocked he was. Didn’t think Sang-woo was capable of doing that. Every time he thinks about him, he just thinks of him going where he agreed to meet up with sang-woo and looking around for him😖😖 he’s so innocent.

Sang-byeok: this one made him bawl. Probably because of the build-up. He knew it was gonna happen soon. The fact that it was sang-woo didn’t make it any better. When she was trying to get Gi-hun to promise to care for her brother, he could barely see the tv anymore due to his blurry vision.

—

anyways, here’s some bts pics to lighten the mood <33

rest in pieces🙏🏽🙏🏽

!! how eren watched squid game, and his favorite movies/genre !!

!! eren, mikasa, and armin in squid game !!

[gingerbravecookie]

Aight,, someone on the comments for the new preview for kingdom ( their name was an symbol so I can't really say who they are,, sorry- ) translated the names and also gave us the most recognized roles of the ( by now ) voice cast of the game ! Man,, they really weren't lying when Devsis said that they were voice actors of the finest caliber, huh- ?

( list under the cut due to lenght )

Vampire Cookie;; Jung Jae-hun

voice roles;;

- Kimi Ni Todoke: Kazehaya

- One Piece: Trafalgar Law

- One Punch Man: Speed-O-Sonic

- Zootopia: Nick Wilde

Clover Cookie;; Kim Myung-jun

- Haikyuu: Oikawa

- Sonic X: Shadow the Hedgehog

voice roles;;

- Tower of God: Bam

- Haikyuu: Takeda

- We Bare Bears: Panda

- LOL: Kayn

GingerBrave;; Yang Jung-hwa

voice roles;;

- Keroro: Keroro

- Ranma 1/2: Female Ranma

- Detective Connan: Vermouth

- Tower of God: Rachel

- One Piece: Boa Hancock

- Shugo Chara: Hoshina Utau

- Haikyuu: Hinata

- Fate / Stay Night: Saber

- Mystic Messenger: Jaehee Kang

Madeleine Cookie;; Nam Do-hyung

voice roles;;

- The God of High School: Jin Mori

- Mickey Mouse: Mickey Mouse

- Miraculous: The Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir: Adrien Agreste / Cat Noir

- Marvel's Spider-Man: Spider-Man

- One Piece: Sabo

- Fairy Tail: Natsu

- Destiny 2: Ghost

- LOL: Jayce / Rakan

- Geneshin Impact: Childe

Angel Cookie;; Jo Kyung-yi

voice roles;;

- My Love Story !!: Yamato

- Hyouka: Chitanda

- One Piece: Shirahoshi

- Cells at Work !: Platelet

- Kemono Friends: Common Raccoon

- Pinkfong ( unespecified )

Cherry Cookie;; Kang Eun-ae

voice roles;;

- BNHA: Toga Himiko

- Ace Attorney: Maya Fey

- Weathering With You: Natsumi

Muscle Cookie;; Si Young-jun

voice roles;;

- Keroro: Giroro

- Naruto: Might Guy

- Dragon Ball: Mr. Satan

- Kirby Right Back at Ya !: King Dedede

- One Piece: Kaido

- Toriko: Mansam

- LOL: Volibear

Sparkling Cookie;; Kim Young-sun

voice roles;;

- Naruto: Sasuke

- TMNT: Leonardo

- Death Note: Yagami Light

- Layton Series: Hershel Layton

- Ben 10: Benjamin Kirby Tennyson

- One Punch Man: Saitama

- One Piece: Sanji

- Fate / Stay Night: Emiya Shirou

- Pokémon / Pocket Monsters: James

- Princess Mononoke: Ashitaka

- Spirited Away: Haku

- Howl's Moving Castle: Howl

- Mystic Messenger: 707

Ninja Cookie;; Kim Hye-sung

voice roles;;

- One Piece: Shanks / Emporio Ivankov

- Mr. Osomatsu: Todomatsu Matsuno

- Cyberpunk 2077: V

- Overwatch: Genji

( dammit Youtube,, why don't ya let me copy-paste comments this hurt to write- )

[baenxietydad]

@davidhatter

Ah, so they don't avoid their in-laws at all costs. That's good for Martha and Sam! Could not be him and So-yeon's parents-- especially after the whole 'they kidnapped my son' thing.

It was a little weird to him that David didn't seem to ever know what was going on with his sister, considering even if he didn't f--king ASK his own sister told him all of her business. Maybe that was more normal? Mu-yeol wasn't sure how A. human families; and B. western families worked. He knew he and his sister were closer than most human Korean siblings he ever knew because in fairy culture there was absolutely no gender essentialism in terms of 'girl interests' and 'boy interests.' They did everything together, the twins did everything together, they all four had mutual friends, and when they were all old enough to actually hangout together they all four did.

The Bae siblings were all four close, and to lesser extent you could add their cousins in there even now with Mu-yeol in England, Won-shik in Seoul, and Su-mi and Jun-ha home in Daegu. Jun-ha and both of his partners worked part-time in the city, both of Su-mi's partners did, and Su-mi sent her children to human school, so everyone had phones now like Mu-yeol and Nam-min did. The family WhatsApp chat was always going.

The years between him leaving Korea and phones equipped with wifi and WhatsApp had been rough. Getting any kind of communication between Korea and Swynlake, aigoo, so difficult. Smartphones and WhatsApp changed everything.

It wasn't the same as seeing them in person, and getting to see everyone a couple years ago only made him miss them more. Still, talking to each other at least every other day in the group chat was the norm. Mu-yeol and Su-mi called each other personally at least every third day, four days was unheard of.

Though, David never spoke about his siblings with any animosity. Maybe it was more normal for siblings to only check in now and then. The only other human friends he had with siblings were Ting-Ting and Jun, who were, crucially also from recent East Asian immigrant backgrounds; and maybe more importantly, also took on some of the job of raising them.

...huh. If he had a fiver for every time he had a friend who took care of their siblings he'd only have fifteen pounds but it's weird it's happened three times, right?

"Ah, we're aware of Christmas in the hollow because of the proximity to town but we don't--" Mu-yeol's cheeks flushed. He hated -- no, seriously, hated -- reminding people he was a fairy. It was easy for him to talk about being Korean. Not so easy to talk about being a fairy even if both things were equally obvious just looking at him. "Fairies have different names for months and seasons. They call winter 'slumber' in this hollow because for a lot of spring hollow fairies there's less work to do. Uh. Spring holl-- that's what Enchantra's hollow is considered. You have spring and winter hollows and fairies. Anyway. They celebrate the start of slumber with a big four-day festival from the 22nd-25th."

Aish, why did talking about being a fairy literally make his heart rate increase like this? What kind of messed up fight or flight response was that?

"I've got Christmas presents for the relevant people of course. When in Rome or whatever you say." He sipped at his tea, then shook his head before explaining the next bit. "Christmas isn't culturally the same in human Korea either and it doesn't exist in hollows there at all. While all fairies here for centuries have interacted with Christian (at least culturally so) humans, Christianity came to Korea much later and it's a minority of the population. The aspects of fairy society back home that evidence human interaction pull from Buddhist, Confucian, and different shaman traditions, right? Koreans generally treat Christmas like Valentine's Day, But There's Snow."

"Our big family-oriented holidays are Seollal and Chuseok. So nobody's working out whose got custody of the sister that lives in the woods on December 25th." Mu-yeol said, trusting he'd gather that one legend (a fellow person who lived in the woods) was recognizing another.

Square One || Hatfish

[yourfriendlyneighborhoodjesus]

So I just learned that apparently in the book for at a distance spring is green Nam Soo-hyun and Yeo Juns brother date!!????? huh? Why does that feel so random 😭

[avauntus]

2020 favs: (short) fic recs

I am stealing this idea from @macgyver-sheriff, who has no clue who I am, but whose post I saw go across my dash. Thank you! 👋

Would you like some recs for the holiday season? - I too would like to share love for my favorite things I read that were written this year! <3

I’m going to do this in two parts - the short fics (10k or less, generally one-shot), and another post for the long or series fics I loved this year (it’s 2020, I figure we can use too much of a good thing?)

( @staidwaters - I’m ‘disqualifying’ your works because I’m biased, sorry! Look away! Unless you want recs!) 

"Congratulations, Get Rich" (9,238 words) by Attila (The Untamed - modern AU)

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year, which means Wei Wuxian has to get all of his bad decisions out of the way tonight.

Lan Wangji, Lan Xichen, Jiang Cheng, Mianmian are all so screamingly perfect as modern versions of themselves in this, and it is KNOCK DOWN HILLARIOUS. Wei Wuxian is just a screaming queer disaster (affectionate) - as he should be.

Excerpt:

After a long beat, Lan Xichen sinks gracelessly into the chair Lan Wangji had been sitting in earlier. “I just want to be absolutely clear,” he says delicately, “that you are currently under the impression that my brother has no romantic feelings for you. That is what you’re saying to me right now, yes?”

“Yes?” Wei Wuxian says, feeling desperately confused. “Obviously? Why?”

“Because at least one of you is very stupid, and I’m trying to figure out who,” Lan Xichen tells him, sounding distracted. It’s the rudest thing Wei Wuxian has ever heard him say, and his mouth drops open slightly.

“caved to the careless” (6,708 words) by ilgaksu (The Untamed/MDZS - Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen)

Love is a choice you make - like this, and this, and this.

Have you ever read a writer whose work is so distinctly itself that you can feel yourself slipping in time even as you keep going? That’s not very articulate, but it’s the best way I can describe everything of ilgaksu’s I’ve read. Their fics are the same emotional register as having the breath knocked out of you after a fall. This was the first one I read, and I think it ends well-- with what Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen find along the path-- but it’s still heavy. Discussions of canon-compliant character death and grief/mourning here.

Excerpt:

He pauses. Until this very moment, he was unsure who to ask for. He has heard the rumours of the Yiling Patriarch’s ongoing residence here, about Zewu-jun’s seclusion: he’s dead, but even the dead are not free from gossip. But he remembers a courtyard, nearly two decades ago, and the weight of eyes some might have called angry in their intensity. He remembers those same eyes, and how for the wear of the intervening years, they had kept the same essence: longing, yearning, a kind of small unspoken grief.

Song Lan had a dream once. A dream of a sect, bound not by blood, but by a shared belief in the right path. So many things are only an inheritance: shame is one of them.  

Love is a choice. Love is a choice, and you choose until you can’t.

“I am here,” he decides, carving the words into the dirt, every stroke of every character resolute, “To meet with Hanguang-jun. Please show this one the way to go.”  

“Green River Running” (8,169 words) by @rain-hat (Love in the Moonlight - post-canon AU)

5+1: Kim Byeong-yeon returns to the land of the living.

I skimmed through Love in the Moonlight during my quarantine summer (distinguishable from my “quarantine spring” or “quarantine fall” only by fireworks), and immediately upon finishing, thought: “Psht, they killed off their best character.” And then, something happened that never happens -- I went on ao3 and found the exact thing I was looking for, written far  better than I could have imagined. Kim Byeong-yeon is such a quiet yet powerfully subversive presence and the progression here is so masterfully done. This is true of all of rainhat’s work’s I’ve read, but this is a fine example-- I really treasure the warm humanism of them.

Excerpt:

People needed helping hands even more than they needed sympathetic ears, though. Over the last year, Hong Gyeong-rae and Byeong-yeon had built houses and planted crops side by side; negotiating with moneylenders here, helping small-folk secure their stores against bandits there. There was nothing courtly about Byeong-yeon’s capacity for labour, or his expectation of reward. Wherever he went, he worked from dawn to dusk, ate the food he was given, and slept under a roof if he was offered one.

It suited him, Hong Gyeong-rae thought, even though there was something outlandish about his gentle speech and palace manners in the midst of it all. But to behave in any other way would be untrue to his upbringing; nor was he the sort of man to whom it would occur to try. And after all, most people liked to be treated with courtesy; it did not come across as mockery from this solemn, severely dressed young man, who seemed to find no task too big or too small. Hong Gyeong-rae had seen him argue tax law with local councillors and stand up to highwaymen armed with nothing but a knife and staff. But he watched cooking pots for women who had to run to the fields to tide over the day’s labour, too; he wrote letters for them, and tolerated their fractious children and spoon-fed their bedridden elders, if that was what was called for.

“The Veritable Records of King Taejo: Year 2, Entry 208“ (9,857 words) by @sadviper (My Country: the New Age - Nam Seon-ho & Hwang Sung-rok slice-of-life)

Hwang Sung-rok eats his way to the bottom of a real estate scam, and Seon-ho and Yeon help (a little).

No one is out here doing it like SadViper. This is technically part of a series, but they can all be read separately. I did not realize I needed to see more of Nam Seon-ho in all his “type-A government official glory” until Viper started sketching him out for us, and as a bonus, we get to see Yeon, and Sung-rok as the world’s surliest caretaker (but don’t call him that). I have an authorial fallacy where I always think stories have to have some grand “plot” -- a “Maltese Falcon” to pull the reader along-- the genius of Viper’s work is she shows us exactly how interesting and important the day-by-day tiny choices and connections we make are, with an impeccable background of historical research to ground you in the setting.

Excerpt:

Nam Seon-ho was his master now. He was a strange one. He was a traitor, for helping the escaped Liaodong soldiers, but not, because he managed to wiggle his way back into Yi Seong-gye’s favor and was now a sixth-ranked inspector with the privilege of having personal audiences with the King. He was temperamental and belligerent from being the son of a slave mother and a lifetime subject of Lord Nam’s fantastic parenting philosophy. He was afflicted with perpetual guilt. And he was also one of the hardest working and most desperate people Sung-rok had ever known.

It was a terrible combination. He was not merely a disaster waiting to happen, but a disaster perambulating on two legs at the edge of a chasm. If Sung-rok intended to stay in service for long, he needed to find a way to cool down some of Seon-ho’s intensity, even though admittedly, it was what drew him to Seon-ho in the first place.

Thoughts like these plagued Sung-rok for a while. It was one thing to know a person; it was quite another thing to try to change them.

“Orison” (4,975 words) by @gravelghosts​ (aeli_kindara) (Supernatural 15x18 coda)

Cas says, I love you.

So! This rips my heart out, every time. All the times Dean imagines himself together with Cas...and then he imagines himself, if not happy, then thriving.

Jack: “What is the point...if everyone I care about is going to leave?”

Castiel: “The point is that they were here at all and you got to know them, you... When they're gone, it will hurt, but that hurt will remind you of how much you loved them.”

Excerpt:

The thing Dean tries to do is: listen.

Happiness isn’t in the having. It’s in just — being. It’s in just saying it, Cas tells him, and Dean’s whole heart is screaming, No, but he shuts his mouth. He listens. He listens like his life fucking depends on it, which it does, in more ways than one.

“Sky Full of Song” (6,632 words) by @drivingsideways (Supernatural, finale 15x20 fix-it, Dean/Cas)

Or: The One in which Cas ghosted Dean.

Look. Look. If Cas(tiel) can yank Dean Winchester out of Hell, celestial-scream at him not once but twice, burn out a woman’s eyes like an utter clown before thinking “Huh, an Earthly vessel, guess that’s not just bullshit, then,” and when they finally work it out, Dean greets them with a knife to the chest and THEN they’ll spend twelve years misunderstanding each other and bickering, you had better believe these two are going to be disasters even in Heaven. Drivingsideways gives us all of that dynamic, with the found family of Jack and Mary as facilitators, and the happy resolution, which of course includes a true form “roughly the size of your Chrysler Building.” <3

Excerpt:

The thing is, Castiel doesn’t want Dean to feel obligated.

Dean has a streak of self-sacrifice that's as wide as the Caspian Sea, and Castiel doesn't want to be any more of a chore or obligation than they have been to Dean for all the long years of their—brotherhood.

Castiel had shocked Dean, to the core of him, with their confession, and Castiel had seen the swirling confusion, the fear, the panic, the shit what do I say, what do I do—how do I stop him—

So, no, Castiel would not be paying a visit anytime soon.

Of course, if Dean evinced an interest in meeting them, then Castiel would not stay away.

Castiel isn't that cruel.

(They have, on occasion, been exactly that cruel, but they are trying to outgrow it.)

Dean is still their friend.

Dean knows how to reach them, if he wants to.

(see? disasters. haha)

“The Rough” (3,267 words) by anactoria (Supernatural, finale -15x20- ‘fix-it’)

 Heaven can absolutely fucking wait.

Rec’ed for the concept more than the style (this is dialogue-heavy, as a lot of 15x20 fix-its tend towards), but I *love* this course-correction: After kicking around Heaven, Dean and Cas return to Earth to take their place as urban legends among the hunter community. Just for a while.

Excerpt:

But it isn’t life. That’s the thing. It’s awesome, but it isn’t life; life’s a hard, painful, infuriating mess, and Dean only got halfway through his own, and he feels cheated. For all he held it together for Sammy at the end, for all he tried to take Cas’s big moment-of-happiness speech on board, he feels cheated.

There’s supposed to be peace at the end. When you’re done.

Dean wasn’t done.

[1liv]

[estelle-sim]

I can't fix him but I can f-

[coreancitizen]

My "The Matchmakers" ship is finally sailing!

Omigosh, I've been rooting for this couple ever since Lieutenant Handsome tried to arrest the cross-dressing, erotic-novel-writing Maiden Sam Soon!

[scatteredfangirling]

Four Continents 2020 - Men’s FS: Group 4

My heart is soft at Keegan watching Nam’s FS before his group’s warmup - and the HUG !

Post will update as the event goes on

Keegan Messing

ouch that solo quad toe landing was rough - double hands down

keegan pls hold it together

i am a sucker for knee choreo

that’s an...interesting sit spin position - has he done that before?

full butt landing on that triple... sigh

wait he was supposed to combo that jump ??? oh rip where is the emergency combo gonna be

there are so many split jumps in the house tonight

a hydroplane ?? dude keegan who r u ??

this was rough - he really fought for it at the end though

Yuma Kagiyama

Yuma just looks so tiny but I know he’s so powerful (he’s the japanese junior champion and earned bronze at japanese senior nationals this season)

so far so good - he’s been as clean as a whistle

really beautiful triple axel combo

yuma is overall really technically sound - can’t wait for him to grow into the performance aspect a little more

okay, we’re seeing some of that in the choreo and step sequences, now that he’s not focusing on jumps

awwww his cute little happy nod when he finished!

Junhwan Cha

JUUUUUN !!! my favorite mushroom boy

this instrumental is dramatic

good start with the quad toe

clean quad sal !! give it to us jun (please podium pls pls)

triple axel combo goot

oh wow the timing on that solo triple axel is so emphatic, i love

god i’m getting goosebumps

i love his layback ina bauer - it’s just so elegant, it’s nothing fancy in terms of crazy flexibility, but it’s just so nice

wow the crowd is really going nuts at every jump

his spread eagle with the port au bras armssss

wow - he really made this happen back at home

i’m so proud of him !! i’m not crying at all

Yuzuru Hanyu

god celery seimei here we go (someone said yuzu nctzen confirmed in my group chat and i lost it)

i love seimei but i really hope this season is the last time i see it for comps

that first quad was so tilted - bruh

okay we’re back on track with the quad sal

i will never get over his backcounter entry on the 3A (like i will still compare other axels to that in ten years time)

ahh yes, the seimei step sequence sexy catwalks (i’m sorry i have no other way of phrasing it)

another tilted quad - oof and then a fall on quad toe

this was a rollercoaster jump wise - i guess that’s what we get for enjoying a flawless chopin earlier

it doesn’t matter if yuzuru’s kinda “meh” about this performance, it will still rain poohs

lmao literally that one point from the fall prevented him from breaking 300 total

on another note, i completely forgot that we truncated the men’s free by 30s so i thought i was hallucinating how temporally close together yuzu’s jumps were

Boyang Jin

go boyang go !!

the distance of his quad lutz always scares tf out of me - he stuck that landing though

oopsy popped salchow to a double

dude he’s popcorning so hard - what are you doing boyanggg, please get your head on straight

not a fan of the stand-still choreo

okay, there we go, the jumps are back

he’s back in the game and fighting for it

this wasn’t his best run, and he knows it

it wasn’t a disaster, but there were just too many mental breaks :(

Jason Brown

Ready for Jason to hit me with those lines and mega GOEs on his triples

Triple axel combo, check

man group 4 is really just popcorning everywhere huh (then again i’ll take a popcorn party over a splatfest any day)

group 4 also just wants to kill me with all the pretty layback ina bauers

i haven’t seen jason’s spirals in so long, but i fall in love with them all over again every time

that’s such a nice biellman spin position

that dramatique ending pose though

and his “happy with it” smile :) !!

So in conclusion...

Yuzu finally won 4CC for the first time ever, Jason 2nd place !! heck yeah !! and tiny yuma in 3rd

[bitchofdarkness]

Heo Nam-jun in upcoming show Your Honor (2024)