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[yuzuuu4]

4.4 spoilers 💫 is a cute crier

[boombams]

lets share.....

[k0ushii]

when you get too attached to the spy

[spiraling-blocks]

Good Friend doll to help me get through Part 3 TT~TT

Braun I miss you !!!! Soleum trying to talk to him immediately was so sweet... Soleum looking at his bag and finding out his boss wasn't talking about Braun being there.... Soleum.....

[fizzyjacuzzi]

If Kim Soleum is a character you can pull in a gacha game

(outfit shamelessly pulled from here and rough idea inspired by DIVINE)

[juniperllllll]

Saw this tweet and got inspired

[ohnogodpls]

Praise the Fluff

[rodyazov]

i love bullying baek saheon

[kirinkirinki]

Branch Office Mentions in parts 1 & 2

These were all I could find, feel free to add more if you remember!

ep 169, BSH: "(Heoun and GYE) went to the branch office!" "You know the branch office, right? In the regional area. There's been a lot of employees reassigned to here who used to be there recently, and it seems like a suspicious place (...)"

ep 274, J3: "Director Ho… I hear he was suddenly reassigned to main office as the director of development four years ago……. They say no one knew him…. There were only rumors... that he was at the branch office before that..."

ep 319, the orientation host: "Have you heard about the branch office?" "There's no place like it if you want to gain points, right? If you go to the branch office, rather than just be promoted, you can get to managerial roles."

[why-i]

ohhh a job for me!

ep 170, unknown employee to Jang Heoun: “You were assigned to a branch, weren’t you? They let you sign up for this from over there? Haven’t seen you in a while.” // “How’s the branch? Surviving over there?” // thoughts of other employees ‘I heard that it’s absolute hell in the branch offices.’

ep 216, Kwak Jekang: (about a person who called for rescue) [This caller will most likely be processed as working at a branch office for several years.] (kse narration) A branch office? The branch offices of Daydream Inc was a setting not described concretely in the wiki. [Well, isn’t that fine? He’d even get extra pay for getting assigned elsewhere.]

addition to ep 274: (kse's narration) Come to think of it, I remembered that the other Disaster Management Agency spy employees besides me were assigned to branches. Why a branch, of all places? There might be some connection between Director Ho and the Daydream branch. I should keep that in mind…

ep 306, unnamed researcher (to kse): “Judging from how no one here recognizes you, you must be from another branch. Field staff shouldn’t lecture researchers.”

ep 323, kse: “The supervisors were there, too. Even the team leader who came from the branch…” hooved security officer: Do not go to the branch.

also not sure if i should count these, but

ep 1, unknown employee at the orientation: “Uh, it sounds like we’re being exiled somewhere? Not the headquarters but a branch office? Are they trying to lure us in with fancy words…?”

ep 292, narration about BSH: So, including branches, it wouldn’t be strange if there were staff with masks Baek Saheon didn’t know yet…

[maganbee]

Braun @ baek Saheon lines

Just the book 2 ones but am I missing a line or something? 🤔 Feels like he just stopped insulting him at some point.

[My word, pestering my friend over something that happened six months ago. No one would blame you for being annoyed over his laziness, Mr. Roe Deer!]

[This man is a proper Grinch.]

[Hooh, Mr. Roe Deer, your ordinary ex-roommate actually has some drawing skills.]

[Hmm. It seems Mr. Roe Deer’s ordinary former roommate isn’t completely terrible at using his head after all!]

[Hm. His acting isn’t awkward, is it.]

[Surprisingly, it seems your ordinary ex-roommate isn't planning a double-cross!]

Admittedly I don't think Braun hates bsh or anything he only gets mad when he inconveniences kse but otherwise seems vaguely amused by him.

[maganbee]

Braun is overwhelmingly negative towards:

Lee Jaheon, Kwak Jekang, Director Ho, Blue Dragon Mascot, J3

I'd say pretty fair towards (gets mad about the stuff they do but will also find them funny or charming occasionally) :

Agent Choi, Baek Saheon.

[maganbee]

He didn't contaminate him when he went on the show (as far as I'm aware) he contaminated him when he went to check the bathroom stall KSE got disappeared in, he saw a big gloved hand that pushed him and was contaminated for most of the month kse was gone 😭

Braun just slapped 600mg of corruption into him for no damn reason.

[lethotep]

It's important to have at least two blorbos that fit into specific roles in your life

The blorbo you can look to in hard times, and ask yourself what they would do in a situation, and draw motivation from them on how to be better and stronger!

The blorbo you can look to in hard times, and remind yourself that no matter what happens, you probably aren't going to fuck your shit up as much as they did even if you actively tried

[most-adoptable-grown-man-contest]

Most Adoptable Grown Man Contest - Round 9 [FINALE]

Which grown man is THE MOST adoptable?

Martin Blackwood - The Magnus Archives

Kim Soleum - GDCG/GSGW

Voting ended onJul 19

Imma be honest. I did not predict this finale, like, at all. So...let's see how this goes!

This contest has been a wild ride over these past, like, 2 months and I'm so excited to see how the first contest of this blog ends!

[chill--cat]

There is a Kim Soleum for everyone to adopt!

Pick a Soleum, then vote to adopt your new son! All forms come with a free Rabbit Plushie

[samairuart]

Hualian golden hours

[eyesofeos]

Y’all I’m only 1 vol into Heaven Official’s Blessing but my heart hurts for Xie Lian so much. Wdym the nicest guy ever who has only ever wanted to help ppl has been hurt so many times that he doesn’t even feel physical pain anymore. Wdym when others get angry at him for getting hurt he says it’s fine when his hand is swelling up with lethal poison. Wdym he’s so used to others seeing him as nothing that he thinks of himself that way sometimes. And then Hua Cheng with his ‘I won’t put you down, it’s dirty’ treating Xie Lian as too pure and precious to sully his feet by stepping in the blood and corpses of the people he just killed for his sake. I get it I get why you guys are insane abt them

[thegreatyin]

big fan of when characters meet another version of themselves and their first instinct is to literally physically kill their doppelganger with their own two hands. which could mean absolutely nothing.

[ot3]

on one hand when people call qifrey and olruggio the girls' dads it doesn't bother me as much as it does for a lot of other characters, because credit where credit is due they are in fact raising those children right now. but also it does kind of piss me off in a different way than it does when like, people call's phoenix apollos dad. because the master-apprentice(s) relationship seems to be the default/primary unit of witch society... we are shown that the master and apprentice bond carries equal social/legal standing (or possibly higher!) to that of the immediate family. so like.... calling them their dads almost seems like kind of a downgrade by the setting's standards. isn't it interesting that this is a society structured in a way where you pretty much just hand your child over to someone else to raise for the remainder of their adolescence, and the child is legally entitled to choose who that person is. that's a neat interpersonal dynamic you're setting up there! it's got a different flavor to it!!! but i know people don't want different flavors of things. they want everything to be the same. [starts kicking rocks in the dirt] whatever... whatever... i don't even care

[ot3]

#like it's such a good degree of agency given to the children I can't really think of any real world equivalent to it#but also it sucks that even with that level of agency sometimes there's still horrible and abusive masters#but just the fact that the master has to put in SOME effort for the kids to just not choose a different master#like wow this world is beautiful children are treated as PEOPLE <333÷#the closest thing to real world could maybe be a boarding school comparison but not even that leaves the kids hands free to leave#it's so good these kids are encouraged to be independent and to grow and to choose for themselves#god it's so good

this is kind of just not true though. like that's obviously the idea behind it but it does not actually work that way in execution, which is suuuper important. i think that witch hat atelier goes pretty significantly out of its way with richeh, rili, and euini to show that masters actually Don't need to put in any amount of effort, and in fact can be actively abusive, while their apprentices still feel obliged to stay with them for reasons beyond 'i'm not allowed to leave'.

like here's the scene from the manga where qifrey talks to euini about this

im sad this interaction got cut from the anime because its soooooo so important... it establishes that the power dynamic between adults and children is such that the child still feels obliged to live and behave by the terms their guardian sets for them, and they're still going to be internalizing everything that is said to and about them by their authority figure. and then there's the fact that On Paper the policy of apprentices choosing their master means any child being subjected to this kind of emotional abuse is doing so "willingly", which provides a structural barrier to actually addressing that abuse, because the adults who do notice and care do not have any formal grounds on which to intervene.

it just adds so much texture to the whole dynamic because witch society is so rigid, conservative, and hierarchical. of couuuurseee their pedagogy is such that apprentices are going to end up internalizing mistreatment by their masters as a personal failing rather than harm being done to them. whatever independence can be said to be encouraged in these children by the laws of their society just kind of serves as a smokescreen for the fact that what they're ultimately expected to Choose to do with this independence is obey and conform.

[foxyjoy-art]

Happy Birthday Xie Lian!