#they drive me INSANE

[zara2148]

No, but on a rewatch it is SO SIGNIFICANT that In-ho flashes back to Il-nam telling him why he played the games after (presumably) watching Gi-hun's final bet with the old man.

(The editing seems to suggest that In-ho was quick to enter from some shadowy corner after Gi-hun left.)

(And worth noting that in this combined sequence of past and present, BOTH Gi-hun and In-ho are questioning why Il-nam joined the games. Men with shared trauma who are really asking the man behind the trauma "why WOULD you willing suffer through this?")

Anyway, it's almost like it's foreshadowing a growing obsession with a certain man that will give In-ho his own reason to re-enter the games. I know a second season wasn't planned at this point, but it's neat how that just all falls together.

Especially because I got to wonder what's going through In-ho's head here as he's just staring out the window/at himself after closing Il-nam's eyes.

I think he's meant to be looking at the area where the unhoused man was, but the focus on In-ho's reflection also seems to suggest that he can't see beyond himself to the good in others.

Even standing in the same spot, he can't see in the world what Gi-hun did. And In-ho is quick to turn away from it.

[salty-autistic-writer]

Imagine you dislocated your shoulder by slipping on pumpkin guts and you touched a corpse and you are scared that you are cursed, but your boyfriend comes to the hospital as fast as possible, takes care of you, fluffs your pillow, asks "How's that?", sleeps on the couch to keep you company, brings you breakfast in the morning, with his big biteable arms on display, and he comes to the graveyard with you to listen to you talking to a dead guy, looking at you with so much love in his eyes. And you love him. And he loves you. So much, that he can't stand the thought of losing you. So instead of taking the next step with you, he takes a step away from you. And the silence he leaves behind is so loud, that you need to distract yourself by always being busy, always moving, always doing something. If you are not working or working out or sleeping, you are baking. If you are not baking because you are staring at the cake rising in the oven, you glance at your phone. And you hope. For a sign. For a word. For something that tells you this isn't the end.

[beguilingcorpse]

imagine you are palamedes sextus. you spend twelve years exchanging letters with a woman who is seven years your senior. you become the heir to your house just to meet her as an equal. you love her to the point of invention. you both know that her time spent alive has an expiration date sooner than most, and so one day you decide to propose to her - even though you know that she can spend the rest of her life with you but you can’t with her, even though there are imperial rules forbidding interhouse marriages between necromancers, even though you’re here and she’s there and you’ve never even met in person - but you want her to spend her days with someone who cares about her. but you’re so young, only nineteen, and there are still all of those reasons listed above, and so she turns you down. but it isn’t because she doesn’t want to say yes. and then over the next year the letters come fewer and farther apart. and then you’re both invited to the emperor’s house - both of you, together, physically in the same place for the first time - and you show up and she’s here. and it’s like she doesn’t know you. she doesn’t spare you a glance. and you’re still so tender with her - you can’t help it, there’s care baked into you, and you can’t resist helping her, loving her, going so far as to kiss her knuckles in front of company - but still. she doesn’t acknowledge anything that happened between you. she’s moved on. she must have, because she’s spending all this time with the cavalier from the ninth - who is, by the way, two years younger than you, and that doesn’t escape your notice because nothing does - and what can you do? what are you supposed to do?

you tell your cavalier that you’re glad she’s spending time with someone who makes her laugh.

[markofcastiel]

Jensen making the joke of the century and then looking shy af

[bunnydoobles]

look at this cute family

they make me so ill.... /vpos

[smollkittykat]

it's the two armchairs in the deancave.

it's the "what about Cas?"

it's the movie he made him watch.

it's the imitation of one of that movie's characters that follows.

It's the defiance of everything he ever believed to be true for one human, right?

It's the "this is Castiel." to an almost forgotten mother that told him that angels would always watch over him.

It's freeing his brother he can't stand from a place worse than hell.

It's seeing resemblence in a monster he was taught to hate.

It's the mixtapes of songs his mother fell in love to.

It's learning to smile.

It's the "don't ever change."

It's the first unanswered call in 15 years with his hands in his hair and sobbing on the ground.

It's the declaration of desperation, to do anything to keep the man he loves safe.

It's throwing his life away on a normal hunt to see him again.

[skylar-325]

CXS DREAMS OF LU GUANG❓AND LU GUANG SMILED LIKE HE'S USED TO IT ⁉️

[tategaminu]

The way I hyper focused on this and got it done even if I couldn't see the screen through my tears

[cupidskissx]

Max I-don’t-think-too-much Verstappen meet Charles I-don’t-think-anymore Leclerc

x

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

5x1 | 7x4

[burquillos]

Vol 42 cover got me crazy about Izuku's scars again

[blackbatofel]

Bruce being grumpy because he needs to leave Clark's side while he's injured.

Then the moment he's back by his side, he acts like this:

He needs to be there to take care of his husband, okay??

(Superman/Batman #75)

[altades]

can we talk about can we just talk about them can we can we i'm please

ww seeing the worst most terrifyng parts of vash and still staying by his side i ahhhhh

[ego-sun-deus-fractus]

There's a high chance that Naomi Solace is not much of an active parent but some of y'all are not ready for that conversation.

It would also explain why he's not mad at Apollo when he is turned mortal despite him being quite the absent parent.

And also as to why he has a big ass tattoo at the age of 15.

[carlisle06art]

Even the Avatar needs help with her make-up

[desomniis]

Pre-wedding photoshoot for their very gay, Ferrari-themed, wedding