I don't even like arson, how did I get so many of them
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aint no way this is a bromance. look at my baby looking at saint like this! too gay to be just friendship.
they're so fucked up and they're so in love. that's it ✨️.
#good point#toxic romantic besties#i need them to make this explicit#they don't need to be endgame they just need to be#high school frenemy
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Since when do you celebrate a goal in a team sport with your friend in the audience instead of with your teammates who helped you make that goal?? That's rude and antisocial.
SaintShin were always fucked up. We were just too busy awwing at the cuteness to see it.
#high school frenemy#well#i did say they were holding on too tight#and that their closeness did not feel age appropriate#but now i think it's more than that#it's not just that they were too close#it's that they were too close to the exclusion of everyone else#that's the red flag that was already there that a “break up” could go very badly#in that sense chadjen's presence is really important#it gives them a chance to be healthier if they reconcile#except he's leaving#plus the narrative very clearly puts him in the same category as chingching#meaning he gets sheltered and protected and not part of “us against the world”#but i have hope that they'll see that that's not fair#since he was watching shin's back and it seems like he did it effectively#even if shin didn't get it#chadjen is no more a child than those boys who fight the physical fights with shin#some marks of maturity will be off but it's not the same as being a small child#the twin expressions with chingching were cute but also kind of uncomfortable#lol i guess i'm not stepping back from this show#i'm a lost cause
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Do you want to do it this way? What do you mean? That you would quit school. Yeah, I'm serious. I won't go back to school. You’ll never see me again. Are you trying to annoy me?
HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY | EP8
#i need to step away from this show but omg the acting#what if i just stop watching and stick to lovely gifs like these#and possibly write some fic where kru jan is smarter
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Is it really that impossible to tell a seven year old "he hit me hard on purpose and broke my leg"? How sheltered does she need to be? Isn't it good for her to know violence has consequences?
I guess it wouldn't change much, since even adults heard that whole story and told them to make up, instead of idk, trying to help Saint find a place in another school?? Or at least another class? Of course they should care about him finishing school, but he can be dangerous to Shin in the long run if they fall back into whatever the hell they had. I fully believe they shouldn't get close again without literal couples therapy.
#high school frenemy#ugh i really need to step away from this show#just#men are not invulnerable#being beaten badly by some you love who is obsessed with you#because they thought you were leaving them#does that not ring a bell?#do you try to reconcile women who went through this with their husbands?#no you fucking do not#i'm thrilled that saint is trying#but either they both get therapy or him changing will have to benefit someone else in the future and not shin
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Maybe the reason Shin hasn't really processed is that his mom did support him in working through being upset about what Saint did, but she didn't think to support him through missing Saint despite it, because clearly he shouldn't, now that he sees Saint's true nature. But that's not how it works, is it? He feels how he feels, and he needs help through that.
#if only those teachers wised up#but sung doesn't care enough and jan seems to still be charmed by saint's new serious demeanor#high school frenemy
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I’m sorry but Shin is also such a lost cause cuz wdym you ignore every single call from your friends, but when Saint call you then you pick up!? Why didn’t you block his number already!? Like you supposed be mad at this guy. And wdym you’re more mad that he just disappeared after the incident then that he broke your leg!?
#yupppp#i was shocked that he didn't block saint's number#or that he unblocked it#honestly did no one think to treat this as an abusive ex situation and put him in therapy for it?#it was an obsessive friendship#that's what the flashbacks were telling us#again what was wrong with shin's mom that he was so vulnerable to it? that feeling loved like that charmed him enough#so much that he still misses it
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High School Frenemy can't be a BL because if it was a BL, Saint would be the scariest stalking violent ex coming in with puppy eyes saying he's changed.
What Shin doesn't get is that if Saint had stuck around, he would be benefiting from the horrible thing he did to Shin, and there would be nothing to guarantee he wouldn't do it again, since it worked out for him. Any apology would have been hollow in that case. Saint himself wouldn't even know if he really was sorry; he'd be sorry when he said it, but would he be secretly glad later? It's funny to me that Shin didn't believe Saint was sorry because he disappeared, because that was honestly the only acceptable course of action if he was sorry.
#should he have apologized first anyway? yes#but the love shin was missing#it wasn't saint's place to give it anymore#high school frenemy
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Shin missed feeling loved by Saint, and now he does. Maybe that'll heal something in him. Hell, maybe Saint following him around at school can even be excused by Saint seeing that he hadn't healed. Maybe he reasonably thought Shin would be better off without him, but when he saw that Shin was not okay, he realized it didn't work and tried the other approach. Maybe. But that still doesn't make him a safe person to be loved by. He hurt Shin that badly because he couldn't stand Shin leaving him, so what will he do if Shin wants to leave again? Getting himself out of the habit of violence is a good start, but it's not enough. I don't know how to combat that level of selfishness, but at the very least he has to not put anyone in the position of being his entire world again. He has to have more people and things in his life that he loves. He can't just sleep through it and only wake up when Shin is involved and then trust himself not to be that selfish again.
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Resigning from school is not enough. You need to give up on a more important thing.
HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY | EP7
#this scene worked so well#specifically because we knew perfectly well what saint meant#what the most important thing that he would give up would be#what the scene gave us is shin finding out#even though shin being the center of saint's universe was a big part of what put them in that situation#so it's not actually a good thing that should soften him up#but it actually is crazy that he didn't know#op thanks for making these#also i've never seen nani's face make so many different expressions in such a short time#actually i haven't seen him make any of these particular expressions period
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How is it that I'm even more convinced now that Saint is in love with Shin but I ship them even less than I did in the beginning (which was not at all)?
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The way it absolutely seems romantic only makes it worse. This is the kind of guy you need professional help to break up with safely.
Oh wow, Saint is a serious red flag, isn't he? Shin is right, he really hasn't changed.
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Oh wow, Saint is a serious red flag, isn't he? Shin is right, he really hasn't changed.
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"When will Nani do a role where the fandom doesn't hope for him to kiss a guy?" Wrong question. When will Nani do a role where he actually kisses a guy?
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Chapter 2 is up! In which Tibet finally figures out what Jean's deal is.
Rated Explicit, check the updated tags for warnings.
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I'm very sure Chadjen has partly been a stand-in for Saint in Shin's life, and I find that very interesting. Shin has friends who fight for him, but he doesn't smile for them the way he smiles for the friend who loves him openly and takes care of him. He doesn't miss Saint protecting him, he misses their loving relationship.
#also cuteness#baby saint and chadjen are both very cute#saint is really starting to figure him out#he's been bringing out the puppy eyes#high school frenemy#and the smiles!
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Wondering if maybe the blame game will be a bit of a theme in the series. We've seen it repeat with Jeng and Sung, but even when the case is much more clear-cut (which I expect it to be with Saint/Shin), finding who to blame is just not enough. Shin is in a lot of emotional pain because he hasn't properly processed a big traumatic event. Keeping away from Saint didn't help, it just delayed processing the event. Hating Saint doesn't help, because the whole reason it's so traumatic is that he loves Saint. Just identifying who's at fault and even punishing them doesn't fix the emotional consequences. You need to process and you need to get support from loved ones while doing it.
Which makes me wonder what's wrong with Shin's mom. The normal explanation is that she just didn't know how to help, or she was caught up in the blame game as well. But from the flashbacks, I would guess she wasn't very available for support in the first place, because Shin and Saint behave a lot like kids who raised each other while their parents weren't paying attention.
Did she try to replace Saint, at least? Give the love he wasn't there to give anymore? It's lucky that Chadjen came into the picture eventually.
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So, EvePeeta are girlfriends, right? 👀
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