How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.
As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.
The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.
He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.
He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.
Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.
I'm honestly not sure if I feel more anxious last week, when the warning had me braced for something bad to happen, or this week now that I know it's a horror theme 😬
I know this is the same warning that they put up last week but I'm still nervous
HATE IT! HATE IT! HATE IT!
THERE IS A DUDE WITH A CHAINSAW NOW
Mood
Hongjoong is so real for coming out and then immediately hiding back in the locker. UNLESS he's the traitor and is hiding something. @flickums is convinced he is and all I've heard for the past week is how sus he is so I will be watching.
A bit of improv from Jongho. Just what they need after witnessing a brutal murder and finding out they're being hunted for sport
I love whoever captions their videos
I love that Hongjoong is staying at the back so he can make sure everyone is okay. UNLESS it's so they can't see him doing suspicious things
And Jongho is taking the lead because he gives no fucks. I still think about how unbothered he was by the zombies in the zombie episode
Okay, this really is like an escape room. Only with more murder?
LOL Seonghwa has the lowest bounty on his head out of all of them. Even making how much their lives are worth a competiton. I wonder whose is the highest. I'd guess Hongjoong as the ringleader?
Wow Mingi is locked in! No time for comparing stats they've got clues to find. I have to say him and San are doing pretty well considering they hate horror. And Seonghwa has perked up now that they're not in immediate danger.
THEY'RE GOING TO EAT THE DUDE'S SON?
Poor Seonghwa is really going through it
Dealing with cannibals who don't particularly want to kill/eat him compared to everyone else
Wooyoung kissing men. Fork found in kitchen.
DON'T SPLIT UP HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN A HORROR MOVIE?
Mingi not happy about getting the basement mission and totally understandable
This is a terrible idea for a team. You've got two people who hate horror/get scared easily, a man who probably zoned out while they were getting instructions so is just following along, and Wooyoung. BUT we do have woosansang together which pleases me
Now they're arguing over who has to search the body bags to find the key they need
I was literally just about to say you've got all the competent people on one team, and then Hongjoong realised they were walking in the wrong direction so maybe not
Oh, you just know Yunho has been dying to do that this whole time
Maybe this is why his bounty was the lowest
I feel like Jongho has done escape rooms before
I was just about to hit pause and take a screenshot of Hongjoong looking all cute while he was concentrating and then he did this 😂
WHY DID YOU ANSWER THE PHONE?
GAH AND ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER. I guess I'll see you all again next week.
I have tagged this post with both tags (#wanteez and #wanteezspoilers) but in case some of you just reopened Tumblr and forgot about the new episode, I’m keeping it triple safe so you can skip. It’s all under the cut. It goes without saying, that heavy spoilers are incoming.
Don’t expect something amazing, I’m most likely rehashing the obvious here.
I’ll go over the plot of the episode, picking up quotes and small elements here and there, mainly so you don’t have to watch the episode itself to follow along. I’m placing everything chronologically. Then I’ll go over my initial theories, why they don’t work anymore, and what I think will come next.
The Introduction
First of all, the roles don’t matter all that much. They’re an excuse to give the guys a first scenario: the heist. They don’t pay attention to their roles except for the introductory role-play, however, because I’ll be calling them by their roles and I realize it’ll be difficult if y’all don’t know who’s who, here are the given roles: Hongjoong is Hook, the captain. Seonghwa is Broker, the broker. Yunho is Mr. Bob, the planner. Yeosang is Freeze, the hacker. San is Mammoth, the field leader. Mingi is Opener, the lock expert. Wooyoung is Alright, the driver. Jongho is Sweeper, the expert stealer, the pickpocket.
We know they’re a group of thieves, on a mission to retrieve (for themselves, not out of moral superiority) the famous and mysterious Dragon’s Tears & Snot, worth 10 billion Won, that was found in the residence of a certain “Chairman Kim” (Freezer even jokes that Chairman Kim could be a certain Kim Hongjoong…) Chairman Kim plans on taking the Dragon’s Tears & Snot out of Korea tomorrow, therefore now is their time to try and steal it. Only problem? They have been stored at a closed police station for the night, hidden away from their, now, known location. gasp
Opener: “Didn’t we promise each other we wouldn’t go to a police station?” He’s offended, shocked, betrayed…? They’ll have to bypass an entire, new, security system installed for the occasion. The task ahead is arduous. Thankfully though, Mr. Ross Bob is here with a plan of the building, we have clear indications of where to go. Freezer will hack into the camera system (oh oh OH he’s doing it right now!), Opener will… open the gates, Broker will bring the protective case for the jewels, Alright will be in charge of the escape route, Sweeper and Mammoth will take care of security? Inside? The building? That leaves Mr. Bob with his trusted map and Hook… will be captaining, I guess.
Except there’s another, tiny little catch.
Hook: “We typically all work alone.” Promising. (He adds that this is the first time they gather in a while. Promising x2)
So that’s the setup behind that entire episode and, despite the title screen and preview logo spoiling the massive plot twist we’ll see later on (and let’s be honest, with how excited I personally was when I first watched it, I completely missed them), it looks like a cool, “a bunch of doofus try and sneakily break in” type of episode with, as we could imagine, a few hurdles with the real tension building once they have to escape.
From now on, it’s worth taking into consideration that, while I love them, they’re not the most consistent actors out there. They’ll often forget their own roles and drop the act completely, something we see often in this episode. This is far, FAR from a criticism, in fact I believe this makes this special uniquely theirs in all the right ways. I’m a fan of Going Seventeen, and they’ve mastered the Horror Special. I don’t need Ateez to do that. They’re not a second act, they have their own personalities and seeing them create their own atmosphere out of the material they were given is fantastic.
Despite all that, I’ll keep all their actions within the boundaries set by their characters. Therefore, I will not point out San forgetting the role he was given, that was him being a forgetful actor, not his character trying to trick people.
That being said, most of my theories are based on my own yearly rewatch of GoSe Horror Specials. In fact, once I’m done with this, I’ll go back to swallowing Ego, Grudge and Trap whole. UNTIL THEN.
Breaking in
They’re not even in the building yet, the act has already been dropped. While Opener is trying to unlock the gate they all loudly break into a cheerful Gwenchana, and of course the Ding Ding Dings are included. Now, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense they feel safe enough to be loud: Freezer took care of the cameras, they’re aware of heavy security but, if they had the cameras already handled, they would know nobody’s inside. However, Mr. Bob and Sweeper disprove that literally 11 seconds later when they ask the group to keep quiet so, whatever I guess.
Broker: “We’re thieves. We have to be quiet.” Sure. Moving on.
Mr. Bob keeps reminding the viewers that they, in fact, have never checked the cameras once lol. “Isn’t it lax?”
Mammoth: “It seems nobody’s there.” Huh. First clue something’s not right. They literally just waltzed in.
Mr. Bob?: “Freezer, are you sure you checked properly?”
Hook: “He deactivated everything” Okey.
They discuss the location of the jewelry and the route they have to follow to get there.
Sweeper: “Do we all move together?”. 8 Makes 1 Team, of course we do. They decide, to read some finer detail? (I don’t know, not sure they do either) To do so, they use one of the building’s floor plan.
Hook notices what looks like dried blood on the glass and metal frame. Mammoth thinks it’s rust. So rust it is then. (on glass though?)
Mammoth wants to check the place out. Hook’s first instinct is that nothing wrong. Still, they check it out.
They notice a camera (mounted on the wall, good quality too). They notice a big 8 painted in red.
Mammoth: “What if they knew we were coming?”
Hook: “Did our information get leaked?”
Either Mammoth (most likely) or Mr Bob: “Hey, I think our intel got leaked”
Freezer: “It’s too quiet. Isn’t that weird?”
Mammoth: “Something feels off right now”
Accessing the Jewels
They finally make their way to the second floor, where they need to go to find the key that will give them access to the Tears & Snot.
Freezer: “Everything is suspicious”
In their search for the room where the key is located, they open the door to an office with six suspiciously evident paintings.
They don’t linger. They’re task oriented, they leave immediately. (They don’t even see the paintings.)
Under the guidance of Mr. Bob, they finally make it to their destination. First obstacle they face: lasers. More precisely, laser parkour. Mr. Bob accurately points out that the key they need is on the other side of that parkour.
Freezer: “I’m a hacker. I should’ve hacked this.” Yes. Yes you should’ve. (Is this the right moment to point it out though?) (Also he still hacks it, after going through 90% of the parkour)
I have to insist, once again, on how painfully loud they are. They’re laughing, they’re screaming. Literally yelling over Sweeper shushing them up. Sneaky, sneaky thieves. They finally get the key they needed, but before leaving, Broker makes sure to lock Opener in the room the key was in.
Hook: “Hey, I caught the criminal!”
Mr. Bob points out Opener has the key. Fail of epic proportions. The criminal now roams free.
They leave, walking through the lasers they just lost limbs to.
Hook: “It’s going too smoothly”
Mr. Bob: “Guys, don’t you think it’s a little too quiet?”
Hook: “It’s too simple.”
Mr. Bob: “They said there were going to be a lot of security guards. Why aren’t there any?”
Hook: “Did someone take care of them on our way here?”
Hook: “What if there’s really a spy among us?”
Opener: “I told you, there totally is”
They finally arrive in the auditorium. The safe stands in the middle of the room, cannot be missed. Second obstacle: they need the passcode for it. Broker suggests it’s 1117. Got the ref?
They don’t know where to go. Let’s look around. Separate into teams? No, move together. 8 Makes 1 Team remember? (Still can’t guess the code to the safe?)
Freezer tries to lock Opener in a small room inside the auditorium. Another fail. Opener cannot be stopped.
Hook offers to go in room 206 (the one with the paintings). No? Let’s check the map again.
Freezer offers to go the the Head of security office.
Hook spots something. A suspiciously placed metal frame. What if…? Eureka! The map fits perfectly, revealing the passcode hidden all this time. We have a 0, a 1, a 2, and a 4. Can you guess the code? 1024? Why such a random number? No no, it was written right there. It’s 0124. The safe is open.
Alright: “Won’t something get triggered if we touch it?”
The Hunt.
Yeah so an alarm goes off a few seconds after the jewels are picked up.
“All Hunters! The prey have entered the forest! The exciting hunting game begins now! Get your weapons ready. Ready…?”
The different reactions
Panic ensues. Sweeper runs straight out of the auditorium, and pushes a man, rushing in, out of the way. Off camera, he’s convinced to come back in and stay with the group.
He asks them who they are.
Freezer? : “We came to steal the jewels!”
Alright: “Don’t tell him!”
Freezer: “We’re security guards!”
The man tells them they can’t stay here. “They’re coming!!!” Who? “The Hunters!” What happens when you get caught? You die. Simple as that. They have chainsaws and sickles. Discretion is key. (…)
The man tells them he came here with his son. They also came to steal the jewels. They also didn’t come alone, except everyone else in their group is dead already. “Where is your son?” No time, let’s move.
They move across the corridor. Pass the stairs one by one? 8 Makes 1 Team.
Freezer needs to pee.
We finally learn more. The man’s name is Kim Dae Do. His son, So Do. The son was caught, he’s being dragged someplace else. Why do they need to help him? Well, So Do is the only one that knows how to get out of there.
The team starts hiding in lockers for no particular reason. Even Dae Do is surprised and asks them what they’re doing. Quickly enough though, a yell resonates in the distance. “Save me!”
Time to hide. Two per lockers. Hook, Alright and Mammoth are all together. Hook is pulled out and shoved in the same locker as Opener. No matter what happens, they cannot come out. We’re good now, Dae Do can hide.
A Hunter, hidden behind a pig mask, covered in a bloody plastic tarp with a bloody knife in his hands enters the scene. In the room, he scrapes all the lockers our boys are in, opening none. Inside, they’re terrified. Alright flinches away, Broker looks on the verge of tears and Mr. Bob looks away. Opener tries his best not to make any noise, holding the locker closed.
Pig: “Where did he go?”
In the last locker left unchecked.
Dae Do makes a noise.
Dae Do is no more.
Wait, there’s more.
Not all that much, but in the preview for the horror special we got at the end of Wanteez #45, we see the boys running away in the stairs, then hiding in some sort of office.
My initial theories and thoughts.
1. How many hunters?
The most obvious answer here is six. The hunter we see at the end of the episode wears a pig mask. In room 206, where the paintings are, one of the paintings is of a menacing looking pig. As such, I believed we’ll face a Cat Rabbit Hunter, the Pig Hunter, a Bull Hunter, an Dino Hunter, an Iguana Hunter, and a Squirrel? Lizard? Hunter. The last one isn’t clear and I cannot help but see a squirrel. I’ll go with Squirrel. There might be a seventh one, either Chairman Kim or whoever, but six is the safest bet.
(I’ve been told it’s not a cat but a rabbit, out goes unexposed theory that San or Wooyoung are potential accomplices, in comes my theory that Seonghwa might be. He hasn’t had much screentime, it tracks 👍)
2. Did the Pig see them?
Yes. (I’m fully putting this here so I can come back to it later)
3. They’ll be separated in pairs.
It made the most sense. With the amount of Hunters we have, it also fits perfectly. A Hunter per pair, and two extra to make sure nobody survives. (They may be outside, they may be inside, we don’t know.) They had been so adamant throughout the entire episode about not being separated that being forced away from each other felt like a good continuation from the end of that ep. And that’s the magical thing about specials, the entire “let’s separate them” part can be glossed over. Just pick back up once they’re all on their floors (yes because 4 different floors also worked perfectly here)
4. Nobody knew a thing.
In the excitement of my initial watch of this episode, my leading theory was that the boys had no idea this was a horror episode. Some reactions led me to believe they were surprised by the events rather than acting a potential character.
Jongho runs away and has to be brought back inside the auditorium. We can only imagine how that would look within the story: Running straight towards a killer, being caught by a man you don’t know and convinced to bring them back to your team.
Hongjoong is forced out of his locker and pushed into Mingi’s because they have to be in pairs for the story to progress. Or, not knowing how relevant that could be, he just went into the first locker he found, which makes sense, a killer is coming, who cares? Just go in.
5. Kim So Do
He’s dead. Pig enters the scene with an already bloody knife. And while I’m willing to admit that this is a stylistic choice to add another level of fear (for the boys, not us, the knife is blurred), I’ll just go ahead and add this as a story element.
(Insert image here)
Another clue is the screams. I believed they came from Pig himself. There are slight variations that align with the movements Pig makes (like banging on the doors), and when he enters the room, he drops the “Save Me” as he now believes he found them. Those aren’t screams to draw a father to his dying son, those are there to create tension and fear in the boys.
6. Is there a spy?
I didn’t believe there was a spy. I believed the idea was brought by curiosity, boredom, or at least, the staff planting the idea in someone’s head to create tension during the heist. A member acting a little weird, a way to make them believe the escape will be tough, a justification for making the way up to the jewel a little bit easier. But a spy, within the context of a horror episode, seemed to unlikely to me.
7. Do they survive?
I didn’t think so. This was heavily influenced by my many, many rewatches of Going Seventeen Horror Specials (where, and please don’t be surprised, nobody survives). While the team isn’t outnumbered by the Hunters, the Hunters have a few massive advantages: they know the place, they potentially have immediate access to security cameras and dissimulated cameras here and there, they’ve potentially done it quite a few times and therefore, have more experience. Also, chainsaws and sickles.
My one exception, is that maybe a single member makes it out alive.
8. Potential plot
Hook hears about the reappearance of jewels worth 10 billion Won. Problem, there’s too much security implemented around the jewels for him to break in alone. He builds a team of trusted companions and together, they plan the heist of their career.
The building is abandoned. It looks like a trap, because it is a trap. The jewels leave the country the next day, they had no time to properly prepare. More than one team is trying their hand at this heist. It. Is. A. Trap.
A member of that other team, Dae Do, manages to escape the Hunters. While escaping, he runs into our group of not-so-sneaky thieves. He warns them, hides them, but dies doing so, as he’s caught by Pig. The other hunters arrive, but it’s to easy. There’s no hunt going on. The boys are separated, each on a floor, and they must find a way to escape.
Except there’s none. They have no weapons and six killers afters them. Maybe some of the guys die immediately, before even leaving the lockers. But the likely outcome is that none of them survives?
Maybe Yeosang uses his angelic powers to have both Jongho and San sacrifice themselves for him. San being the last wall to protect his survival. Hell, he tried to lock Mingi up, maybe he’ll push one or two of them into the Hunters’ arms to save himself.
Either way, no happy ending to be found.
There are A LOT of issues with all that I just wrote.
1. How many hunters?
Still six, I haven’t changed my mind on that one.
2. Did the Hunter see them?
Again, yes. I didn’t catch it at first but the lockers are so well designed.
There are bullet holes and bigger holes created by a bigger weapon (money’s on at least one axe), and these hole are always well placed: We’re aiming to kill, straight for the head, with a few entry wounds in the upper and lower torso to debilitate or accidentally kill (we actually see that happen when Pig stabs Dae Do the very first time). So of course he sees them, the mask is not completely obstructing his view. In fact, I fully believe that at this very moment, Mr. Bob makes eye contact with Pig, and this is why he looks away so worryingly. He knows. `
3. They’ll be separated in pairs.
No they won’t. First of all, even with the ability to skip the arrival of the other Hunters, it seems too forceful. Having one team per stairs still leaves two hunters with 4 people on two different levels. It’s too amateur. Plus, in the little preview we had at the end of Wanteez #45, you see them all run away in what looks like the aftermath of the locker room, running away together. They eventually end up in what could very much be the Head of Security office, which is in the basement of the building. They could access the first floor from the secondary staircase on the far left-hand side of the building, then rush across the corridor to get back to the main staircase and up the upper floors.
(The text in yellow in B1 indicates the Head of Security office. On the far left-hand side is the secondary staircase that links B1 to 4F)
If not, at least an office in the lower floors. Either way, 8 Makes 1 Team, they stay together for as long as possible. At some point Hook and Alright could end up being isolated from the rest of the team (there is a scene where we only see them running), but no immediate separation at least.
4. Nobody knew a thing.
Yeah okay they knew lol. Jongho potentially runs away for comedic effect or to get the screentime he desires (for both, he did it for both.) It doesn’t really make sense within the context of the story but honestly who cares, it’s funny, we get to enjoy him a little bit more and there’s so much going on that unless you’re an absolute idiot (hi) you overlook these types of details quite easily.
Hongjoong was previously told about the lockers. They all were. That’s why Yeosang counts them when he enters the room and why they’re all so quick to go in. It’s not because it makes sense to hide: there’s no noise, no indication the Hunters will enter the room, and Dae Do hasn’t yet told them to do so. In fact, hiding at this point in time makes more noise than staying out in the open. The queue to hide was the “Save Me”, which would cover enough of the noises made to make sense. Hongjoong simply forgot that they had to be two per lockers for the cinematography.
Furthermore, we have Hook pointing out the blood back when they first entered the building. Why blood? It’s not fresh at all, it’s dried out and more brown/black than red. Most people would see dirt there and wouldn’t point that out at all.
Moreover, Hook is also the one that unlocks the final code. Hongjoong was probably given a clue by staff beforehand in case they got stuck there which, knowing Ateez, was the only possible solution. They’re stuck to each other, of course none of them would think to break away from the group to look at a random metal plate on the wall. Let alone link the stains on the map to the ones on the metal.
Finally, the many, many, MANY comments about how it’s weird that nobody's there, that it's too easy... Guys please. Have some faith in us. We had the title screen on our side.
5. Kim So Do
So Do never existed. Dae Do is a Hunter.
First of all, where was the group that arrived first? (It doesn’t exist)
If they died before our group arrived, why haven’t we heard Dae Do or heard the Hunters looking for him. Have they let him live all this time just to trap our boys? (With how loud our boys were?)
Why did we trigger the alarm by taking the jewels but not them? Did a Hunter take the time to replace the jewels just in case our group arrived in the meantime? (While the last theory is technically possible, it looks straight up ridiculous. Plus why would the Hunters take the time to drag So Do to another location without the dad?!)
Why does So Do know how to escape, but nobody else does? They’re tricking the team. The entrance is right there. Maybe it’s locked, but it’s glass. The doors are flimsy. Made to be protected with a metallic door. You can escape through there. But it’s too easy. So, there’s danger. It looks accessible but it’s not an accessible exit. Something will happen. Only my son knows how to get out of there alive.
And of course Dae Do is in on it. First of all, he appears out of nowhere. Alarm goes off, boom, let’s go to the exact place the Hunters know someone will be? He guides them straight to a trap. The point is to terrify them. And obviously, Pig knows in which exact room to go in the entire floor. The room with the precise amount of lockers for everyone to hide in comfortably. Show them how serious this is. Show them how far the Hunters will go. Kill someone in front of them.
Sorry to pull the old “If I don’t see it, I don’t believe it” but I didn’t see the murder, therefore I don’t believe it happened. We see something. Something theatrical. Something terrifying to witness. But no guarantee that the knife actually goes in. (in both instances) I think Dae Do is a Hunter who’s goal was to guide them and put them in full prey mode. They’re stuck in their little lockers, they have made direct eye contact with each other, they’re terrified… Their fright is entertainment. Moving Dae Do’s body out of there is easy: it’s not a dead body. It leaves enough time for the actual hunt to happen, and adds an eerie feeling to the whole situation: both Pig and Dae Do are gone way too fast for Pig to have regular human strength, he becomes even more terrifying now.
The “Save Me!” are Dae Do’s cue to get into position. While it’s good for the image it creates, I don’t believe Pig is staring at the camera in this screenshot. He’s looking at Dae Do’s locker. That’s why he didn’t check the locker closest to his position first. He already knew Dae Do was in there.
6. Is there a spy?
No, there’s no spy.
There’s a Hunter though. The most obvious pick would be Hook: he’s the one who got the intel (he brings the prey to the hunt), he points out the blood to create tension (it doesn’t work), he finds how to crack the code (to finally start the game). He points out they usually work all alone. He says they haven’t gathered in a while. Who knows what he was up to during all this time?
He asks if their intel has been leaked. How? He was the only one who knew before their little meeting. Even though Opener talked about it first, he’s the one planting doubt in everybody’s mind about there being a spy. Him going into Mammoth and Alright’s locker could very much be him choosing his preys. We do see him isolated with Alright in the little teaser at the end of Wanteez #45
Hell, if he turns out to be “Chairman Kim” like Freezer joked about, it would be hilarious.
He is captaining them, leading them straight to their own death.
Of course, there could be more than one accomplice. Freezer would be the obvious pick because of how nonchalant he was but I think it’s Yeosang trying a bit too hard with his character lol. But it would somehow justify the random “I need to pee” comment. Code?
7/8. Do they survive? Potential plot(s)
As I said, huge fan of Going Seventeen. So I naturally want most of them to die. It brings a nice conclusion to a developed but limited story, with few loose ends to tie up. Secret society, bored rich men, protected by the government. Kill them all now, find a new team, rinse and repeat. Plus we could potentially imagine pre-existing tension that could put the whole system in danger if one of them decides to betray the rest of the group, so killing them all serves as a nice escape route.
To point 7, I believe they’ll all die except for the accomplice. For the sake of simplicity: Hook. He brings the amount of Hunters potentially all the way up to 7 (if he’s not part of the original 6), which would give us the perfect amount of murderers for the perfect amount of victims.
But as I’ve said also, I want them to put their own little touch to these horror specials. So I have an idea that’s a little bit more out there. Completely unrealistic, maybe even a bit boring, but it could be funny to see how they build to that reveal.
They all survive. It was a trap set up by the police to play with the thieves they’ve been tracking for so long. A form of revenge for all the trouble they’ve been put through. The jewels were stolen. They’re in Broker’s hands. They broke in. What if it was filmed? What if Freezer is an accomplice, but to the police. He keeps hacking and tracking them, as pointed out early in the episode. He says it’s his pervy hobby or something, but what if he’s an informant? He’s quite forceful about them stealing the jewels when doubt clouds them at the last second. What if they spend an hour, maybe two with cuts, running around an abandoned police station, where they promised each other never to end up in, as per Opener, terrified for their lives… for nothing? They were never in danger. There is no danger. Only a few policemen having fun with the criminals they hate so much.
Bonus Hook and Mammoth if you've made it all the way through
I’m actually struggling to figure out what I want to say, which is very unlike me when it comes to Ateez.
As all the members have pointed out over the past few days this anniversary is a big one, because if they’d decided not to re-sign their contracts there would be no more Ateez today. It’s honestly too sad to think about so I’m not going to.
I feel like I’ve already spoken a lot about how I became an atiny back in 2020, and how getting involved in the fandom got me out of a pretty bad slump I was in. I don’t want to repeat myself and bore anyone.
So let me talk about a more recent development instead.
For those who don’t know (I’ll keep this part brief) the song that got me into Ateez was Wonderland after a friend sent it to me because she thought I’d like it. Here’s the mv in case any of my non-Atiny mutuals are curious about them
Fast forward to this year. Actually, no, fast forward to last year.
My sister and I generally meet up once or twice a year and one of those times is for Halloween. I wouldn’t really call it a party but we play spooky board games, watch a spooky film and eat spooky snacks.
Last year she asked me to make a playlist for this not-quite party and I seized the opportunity to do some covert ops. I snuck some spooky kpop into the playlist.
Nothing really came of it.
I did the same thing at Christmas where, again, she asked me to make a playlist. She liked Christmas EveL by Stray Kids. Progress.
This year we had a midsummer barbecue and again I was on playlist duty. And this time something changed.
After the party she sent me a message saying she was fully obsessed with one of the songs and couldn’t stop listening to it. Guess what the song was
I guess getting into Ateez via Wonderland is genetic.
After that I got her to listen to all the solo songs without telling her who sang what just to see what she thought (Legacy is her fave although she now also loves Roar) and then I made her a playlist of every Ateez song (Wonderland is still her fave closely followed by Bouncy)
Then she started wanting to know about Yeosang because she loved Legacy. I think the moment that confirmed him as her bias was when he nearly got arrested at his own concert after wandering off to look for lemonade. San and Wooyoung have now also joined her bias line because her husband is also a catboy.
She loves Aniteez and has 3 of the plushies already (Jjongbear, Wooyongyang and Sandeoki) as well as a bunch of merch.
We were meant to go to a cupsleeve together this month but there was a storm so she couldn’t make it. She didn come to a kpop market with me though and got to meet all my kpop kids (who I also met because of Ateez). And we’re going to a cupsleeve in her city next month and a Christmas kpop market.
It’s just been really nice to have a shared interest with her again and we’re now hanging out more often. I’m actually heading down to hers this afternoon for the annual Halloween not-party
It’ll be nice to spend at least some of Ateez day with her and I’m sure we will watch some content later.
This was way longer than I planned when I started it
TLDR: Thanks Ateez for helping me get closer to my sister
The line delivery, the acting, the fact that I can hear this without sound, the way they’re treating it as though this is a murder trial, and Mr. Electric’s reaction to this are part of what makes this scene hilarious
Last of all, Margaery brought her before the wizened white-haired doll of a woman at the head of the table. “I am honored to present my grandmother the Lady Olenna, widow to the late Luthor Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden, whose memory is a comfort to us all.”
The old woman smelled of rosewater. Why, she’s just the littlest bit of a thing. There was nothing the least bit thorny about her. “Kiss me, child,” Lady Olenna said, tugging at Sansa’s wrist with a soft spotted hand. “It is so kind of you to sup with me and my foolish flock of hens.”
