Bitch-Ass Hoe

The void

[shadowybananabread]

Once again, I'm here talking about Weak Hero Class...

I've been re-watching Season 1, and it's becoming easier to see from the beginning why Sieun and Suho would inevitably become close, while Beomseok was never going to share the same relationship with either of them.

If you really watch how Suho and Sieun interact in the beginning, they become close because of how brutally honest they are. This is especially one of Sieun's most endearing qualities, and is something that draws most of the characters all the way to Season 2 to him (even Seong Je and Baek Jin are fascinated by Sieun because of how bold he is).

In fact, he is so honest that he is actually unimpressed with Suho and his charisma at first (e.g. his reaction after the baseball team fight).

However, Sieun also quickly recognizes that Suho has a hard life. After watching him work his delivery job, he studies in the dark to give him time to rest. When they eat together, Sieun asks Suho why he sleeps at school, and learns that he is committed to finishing high school because of his grandmother.

Later, while helping Suho at his restaurant, Sieun asks him if he has multiple jobs, and asks him, "Isn't it hard?" This is one of the few times we really see Suho in a vulnerable moment, as it seems to catch him off guard. Was there anyone else who had ever asked him that before? He turns away and says, "It is what it is," then opens up that he actually has yet another job as a mover on weekends.

At that moment, it clicked for Suho that Sieun wanted to know him. That he was curious about his life and his thoughts, and understood that he was struggling to make ends meet. Suho is also comfortable enough to jokingly ask if he respects him more now; he knows that Sieun is not looking down on him or feeling sorry for him - he is simply being sincere in his desire to get to know him.

Meanwhile, Beomseok becomes interested in Suho after hearing how popular he is, and after hearing rumors of him being an MMA fighter. Even though we see him desperately wanting to be Suho's friend, we don't actually see Beomseok asking him questions about his life, and truly wanting to know him in the way that Sieun does. Later on, we actually see Beomseok use his economic struggles against him after confronting his old school bullies ("Do you want me to pay your wages?"). Due to his own insecurities, he is unable to comprehend that someone as confident and charismatic as Suho could be struggling through hardship too. This clearly hits a nerve with Suho and is a major turning point in Suho and Beomseok's friendship.

May add more to this later, but these are my thoughts on one of many reasons why this trio faced the fate that they did.

[suhosieun]

it’s genuinely wild how often weak hero gets reduced to "bromance,” like the story is just about a particularly intense friendship and not something far more complicated, far more intimate. this isn't just shippers projecting. this isn't just wishful thinking. you don’t need the director and cast members repeatedly claiming that suho and sieun are each other's first love to interpret that on your own. the narrative already tells you—quietly, devastatingly, and with absolute clarity.

the queer subtext isn’t subtle. it’s not hidden in glances or throwaway lines. it’s built into the structure of their relationship, in every decision they make. suho knew beomseok had tampered with his bike. that wasn’t just bullying; it was a premeditated act of violence. he knew what kind of danger he was walking into when he went to the ring, and he went anyway. alone. outnumbered. no illusions. he knew he could die. but he went. because they hurt sieun. because sieun got hurt for him.

that’s their language. not confession, but action. not sentiment, but sacrifice. die for each other. kill for each other.

and sieun, who had always been defined by his discipline, his detachment, his spotless academic record? he lets himself spiral. he got expelled. stopped eating. stopped sleeping. stopped going to cram school. when he found out suho was in critical condition, he froze in the middle of the street and didn’t move, even with a car speeding toward him. as if life without suho wasn’t a life worth returning to.

he came back from a coma asking for suho, looking for him. suho was already in one because of him. they revolve around each other like twin stars caught in gravity’s pull—self-destructive, unstoppable, and impossibly close. love doesn’t always look like romance, but that doesn’t make it less real. or less queer.

so no, it’s not just a bromance. and if that’s all you see—if you can watch all of that and not feel the weight of what’s being said without words? then i'm sorry, but you’ve missed the entire point.

[belsmultifandommess]

Naksu, queen of self awareness lol

[pariztexas-deactivated20210721]

The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[t51bpowerarmor]

[closet-keys]

[id: tweet by buffalocialism reading “if you have so many prisoners that you have to deny them the right to vote because they would significantly impact election results, the main substantive problem is that you live in a police state”]

[tactical-necromancy]

[daloy-politsey-deactivated20171]

Some facts:

1) Black Americans created jazz. 2) Jewish Americans created comic books. 3) These things are said to be the only original American art forms.

[thelordfool]

4) black Americans invented rock and roll.

[swanboulet]

5) Black AND Jewish Americans created musical theatre. 

[iwonthepageant]

[mxlxdroit]

Black Americans also created blues music, which forms the basis for rock and roll and therefore most popular music today!

[nonomella-deactivated20171016]

Coraline is a masterfully made film, an amazing piece of art that i would never ever ever show to a child oh my god are you kidding me

[cthullhu-deactivated20170910]

Nothing wrong with a good dose of sheer terror at a young age

[whatthecurtains]

“It was a story, I learned when people began to read it, that children experienced as an adventure, but which gave adults nightmares. It’s the strangest book I’ve written”

-Neil Gaiman on Coraline

[greenbryn]

@nightlovechild

[lierdumoa]

This is a legit psychology phenomenon tho like there’s a stop motion version of Alice and Wonderland that adults find viscerally horrifying, but children think is nbd. It’s like in that ‘toy story’ period of development kids are all kind of high key convinced that their stuffed animals lead secret lives when they’re not looking and that they’re sleeping on top of a child-eating monster every night so they see a movie like Coraline and are just like “Ah, yes. A validation of my normal everyday worldview. Same thing happened to me last Tuesday night. I told mommy and she just smiled and nodded.”

[wahbegan]

Stephen King had this whole spiel i found really interesting about this phenomenon about how kids have like their own culture and their own literally a different way of viewing and interpreting the world with its own rules that’s like secret and removed from adult culture and that you just kinda forget ever existed as you grow up it’s apparently why he writes about kids so much

[12drakon]

An open-ended puzzle often gives parents math anxiety while their kids just happily play with it, explore, and learn. I’ve seen it so many times in math circles. We warn folks about it.

[gokuma]

Neil Gaiman also said that the difference in reactions stems from the fact in “Coraline” adults see a child in danger - while children see themselves facing danger and winning

[sometimesrosy]

i never saw so much push back from adults towards YA literature as when middle aged women started reading The Hunger Games. They were horrified that kids would be given such harsh stories, and I kept trying to point out the NECESSITY of confronting these hard issues in a safe fictional environment.

[jewishdragon]

Also, in an interview, he said that Coraline was partially based on a story his not yet 6 year old daughter would tell him 

SAGAL: No. I mean, for example, your incredibly successful young adult novel “Coraline” is about a young girl in house in which there’s a hole in the wall that leads to a very mysterious and very evil world. So when you were a kid, is that what you imagined?

GAIMAN: When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn’t be a brick wall. So I’d sidle over to the door and I’d pull it open.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: And it was always a brick wall.

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: But it was one of those things that as I grew older, I carried it with me and I thought, I want to send somebody through that door. And when I came to write a story for my daughter Holly, at the time she was a 4 or 5-year-old girl. She’d come home from nursery. She’d seen me writing all day. So she’d come and climb on my lap and dictate stories to me. And it’d always be about small girls named Holly.

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: Who would come home to normally find their mother had been kidnapped by a witch and replaced by evil people who wanted to kill her and she’d have to go off and escape. And I thought, great, what a fun kid.

[wetwareproblem]

“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.” - G. K. Chesterton

[pinkmisspiggy]

being touchstarved makes u absolutely buckwild when someone does smth simple like .share a chair with u

[pinkmisspiggy]

like having someone touch your hand with the tips of their fingers shouldn’t feel like So Much it shouldn’t feel like your whole body is going into anaphylactic shock but here we are. here we are.

[pinkmisspiggy]

ok 2 many of u relate

[kaijuhearmenow]

Someone gave me a compliment and reached out and squeezed my hand and I fell in love and couldn’t speak for several minutes

[felesrubrum]

I was just gonna type this in the tags but I have to say this.

Growing up in North America is surreal.  Every tiny little blip of physical affection is deemed as sexual interest. Boys aren’t allowed to hug eachother because “that’s gay.” Girls can’t hold hands because “are they going out?” And GOD FORBID a female friend hugs a male friend.

Having lived in the Netherlands, and reading up about shit like this, Canadians and Americans are starving. 

I went to Japan for a school trip in 2012. I went to a highschool there. There were boys hugging, lounging on those blue gym floor mats, holding hands, trowing their arms around eachother. I was startled by how shocked I was.

This mentality of “if you’re touching you must have sexual interest in the other person” is so fucking disgusting. Hug your friends. Hold hands with them. Touch their hands when you want to reassure them.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[furr]

the prophecy

[omgcheckplease]

What is the history and the future of The Couch?

[omgcheckplease]

[8bitstickmod]

Student: How do I get the sum of two numbers?

Teacher:

[rickolette-deactivated20190517]

Someone in ten years won’t be able to explain this post to fucking anyone

[thedorkyscorpio]

Trump should be impeached immediately and today I’m calling on Congress to hold him accountable. #NeedToImpeach http://thndr.me/sLzZKR

[iwouldservehim]

Otabek: I actually genuinely appreciate you and see you as an equal

Yuri:

[thedankest]

[omgcheckplease]

2017 Inktobers for the OG SMH members.

Check, Please! (@ngoziu)

[classicmeevs]

When your mom makes food and she’s like “who’s hungry!”

[marciabrady]

This episode, which aired twelve years ago as of 2017, saved The Suite Life of Zack and Cody from being cancelled and made Esteban a more featured regular.