#never ending darling

[cloudy-gift]

"My Never ending Darling~" I hate the dude, but he is such a good villain!

This manhwa is so good wtf, the PLOT- the characters- the action, the horror, one of the best manhwas so original and refreshing to see.

[the-reincarnated-princess]

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Propaganda:

Ha-im: She's taking up arms against her boyfriend, who's been torturing, killing, erasing her memories and cloning her anew for YEARS

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Propaganda;

Louis and Lestat: In the original book Lestat literally turns a 5 year old little girl into a vampire to trap Louis in their loveless, abusive relationship, because he knows Louis will worry about Lestat (whom Louis now recognizes as a remorseless monster who sees humans as nothing but food) using this child (Claudia) as a tool and creating the most evil and messed up surrogate child of all time. (He was right, btw, bc she grows into a woman trapped forever in a child's body and hates them both for it. but this isn't about Claudia.)

In the TV series, Lestat is a white devil offering aid, sympathy, and love to a gay, closeted black man in the 1900s. He offers him company, capital, a friend who sees him as an 'equal' Once he turns him into a vampire, his desire to possess and control Louis becomes apparent. He displays TEXTBOOK narcissistic and abusive partner behaviors, apologies for how awful he was, promises to change, makes romantic gestures to try and smooth things over. They start having an 'open relationship' where Lestat loses it over Louis taking advantage of being able to see other people. Lestat writes a love song for him and sends Louis a recording sung by the woman he's having an affair with; Louis confronts him at the singer's apartment and they have angry sex in her bed.

Late in the TV series, they get in another fight, and Lestat literally drops Louis out of the sky and leaves him paralyzed, with Claudia (in this adaptation, a young woman who is more like a sister/mother to Louis) to nurse him back to health and re-teach him how to walk. Louis still takes him back.

In both the book and the TV series, Claudia convinces Louis that the only way they can be free is to kill Lestat. In both, they poison him, slit his throat, and dump his body in a swamp. In the TV version, Louis sobs over Lestat's dead body, refusing to allow Claudia to burn him and ensure he can't come back from it. (Spoilers: he gets better. and he's pissed about it! He follows them to Europe.) Their gay divorce drama eventually results in the destruction of an entire enclave of over 400 vampires in Paris and the death of their surrogate daughter.

Ha-im and Geunhu: The whole premise of the story is that Geunhu keeps killing and cloning Ha-im in order to make their relationship perfect. Once Ha-im finds out, that still doesn’t stop him from repeatedly killing her and trying to wipe her memories.

[bl3ssed-cursxd]

its so funny how the author of never ending darling on webtoon created the webtoon based off a dream they had LMAOFJA

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[horrorvillaintourney]

Round 1B, Match Ten: Geunhu Ji (Never-Ending Darling) vs. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)

PROPAGANDA FOR GEUNHU JI:

"He repeatedly kills and clones his girlfriend every time she does something he is unhappy about and he uses his cloning technology to influence everyone in power with promises of immortality."

PROPAGANDA FOR HANNIBAL:

"I can’t believe he wasn’t on the list because Antony Hopkins? Hello? Iconic cannibal with *taste* [...] (I like Mads too but Hopkins is just his own man and he’s awesome)"

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Never-Ending Darling:

It is written so well like- every episode would make you want even moreeee. And don't get me started about cliff hangers---Overall a good read.

Survival Log:

Ssamsson, a streamer with 3 million subscribers, starts live streaming in a deserted island with five other streamers. To find catchier material, the group explores the island deeper and deeper and faces an old bunker. With curiosity and fear filling the air, the ATTACK has begun!

[flapjacs]

Never Ending Darling finally ended :0

So fucking good

10/10 would recommend

[simonespeaks]

how did geunhu even pull ha-im in the first place? bc even if you ignore him murdering her at least 2x a week, he’s still a terrible boyfriend. they’ve been together for years and he didn’t know basic shit like what her favorite food is. yeonji had to tell him to comfort ha-im while she cried; like he genuinely doesn’t know how to be remotely decent it’s crazy.

[cloudy-gift]

The (Future) couple that I'm cheering for!

...and Ha-im Yun's crazy ex's reaction to that

[the-reincarnated-princess]

[sumire182]

In the end, you see yourself just waiting for better days.

[most-screwed-by-writers-tourney]

Propaganda:

Makishima and Kogami: It's hard to explain without spoiling anything, but they're represented as exact opposites, and one is ready to sacrifice everything to kill the other. Despite his deep hatred for him, his passion for his pursuit made them a pretty popular and engaging ship. Even past his death, his ghost continues to haunt his thoughts, which he seems to accept with very little upset.

Ha-im and Geunhu: The whole premise of the story is that Geunhu keeps killing and cloning Ha-im in order to make their relationship perfect. Once Ha-im finds out, that still doesn’t stop him from repeatedly killing her and trying to wipe her memories.

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

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