#and cry?

[anti-anticheese]

[helianthus21]

you know at which point Han-seo really made Vincenzo his brother bc he lets it slide when Han-seo orders "korean pizza"

[grosslyoversimplifiedpolitics]

[ID: yes he will get cuddles, yeah he might freak out, and cry?, why I'd never!]

[spaceseinensam]

I know I joke a lot about Beowulf and that he's dumb and a himbo and has massive pecs, but rn, at the end of my thesis which includes parts of Beowulf, I have to say I really feel a sort of melancholic kinship for this man. He's regarded by everyone as a classic hero, even by the people in the story, but I can't help but think he's not as classic as we like to believe. He's not humble in any way during his first fights, he's boasting about his strength, daring himself to defeat Grendel without weapons. When Grendel's mother comes to revenge her son his first idea is to run to the lake (?) she lives in to jump in and fight her underwater. He wins in both fights but they make him look so impulsive, battle-hungry even, and not at all like the man you imagine when I say "classic hero". He had to fight even more after this, his entire life is basically ruled by fighting and then he becomes king and grows old and when we see him again he's way over 50, an aging man, who, when faced with the threat of the dragon, feels like he has to do what he always did, fight it. He doesn't even consider sending someone else, because it's always been him, right? It always had to be him who defeats the monsters. And he goes to fight the dragon and the narration already knows that it's his last fight and it's such a sad feeling, seeing this old man, the once young and bragging Beowulf, go to meet his end.

And when he finally lays there dying after dealing the final blow to the dragon with the help of Wiglaf (which, wow, the heroic hero needs direct help defeating his final foe) there's no one else there, and so he gives his rings and with them his kingdom to this young man, the only one who didn't falter and run away after being faced with the dragon (perhaps a new 'Beowulf' in the making?), and then he just dies, a simple man. He doesn't have a wife or children or even close friends he can call out to while dying, he's only ever had fighting, because that it what made him, and now fighting was his ultimate end, because he just had to face one more monster.

And idk, that just makes me feel for him so much. Yeah, he still got sorta inhuman strength as a heroic trait, he always defeats his enemies, when he turns king he of course is a just and good king, but to me, Beowulf is more than just a "classic hero", he is a man born into a world that sees 'being good at fighting' as his highest quality and so he just does that, to the point where he throws himself at any danger or monster he comes across, because he has to, right? If he couldn't fight it, what would be his worth? And it feels so tragic that he ultimately dies alone (Wiglaf doesn't count imo) because no one could keep up with him. Heroism made him what he is, and it made him lonely.

Idk, just my thoughts, I now have to finish my thesis haha

[the-marshes-of-lorraine]

Do you ever think about the fact that when Kang ji-woon got drunk in the vacation episode, his inhibitions went down and literally the first thing he did was give Eun ha-won a smooch

[littleladymab]

just finished reading harrow the ninth so you know what that means

[owldee]

like...do you ever think about how korrasami is the wlw legacy you always knew it could be and how it’s paved the way for everything since and how insignificant all the past fandom bullshit was compared to what it will always be known as and that it was ALL FUCKING WORTH IT