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@wintryclover
This would be a place where i'd put my thoughts and reviews, i can change my mind if i learn and read more things, but i want to practice writing things down!
im more used to twitter so bear with me :,D i wanna share things i like
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failed at escaping from responsibilities
kinda wanna gush about my reading list system because i really like it. i used to use notion to keep track but it had the disadvantage of not having covers and having a paid subscription to save more data so its not good in the long run. right now im using obsidian and it's so versatile. it saves my files as a markdown file and stores it locally in my device, so even if obsidian ceases to exist my data is still saved.
I managed to figure out how to code it so that all the features i missed in notion is still here. i can sort it with whether im reading it, already read it, or gave up reading. i could sort my personal ratings from 5-1. i could sort whether or not im still tracking it. AND!! i can add covers by just pasting the image address link (this is especially helpful when you read a billion manhwas with the same name). it makes me excited to read more!!
"The Dark Lord's Confession"
Ongoing
i can imagine shipping ryu jaekwan with soleum but i cant imagine shipping choi and soleum without jaekwan, he needs to be there or else they'd invent sacrifice olympics
Stuck between the urge to finish gsgw (on chapter 260.1) and reading gsgw fics....
The people have spoken!! I'll finish gsgw before reading any more fics :D
For those wondering, HERE are the recommendations my beloved mutual and Good Friend gave me in a Tumblr post! Fun reads! (My fav is no.2!! Very interesting & I love the characterisations!!) (I am falling so deeply into the gsgw hole don't send help <3)
Other fics I've read so far are:
1. as we fade in the dark by 52hz (nitillia) 1/1 Chapters
[G] [Gen]
[Agent Choi / Kim Soleum]
2. Workplace aliens by 52hz (nitillia) 1/1 Chapters
[G] [Gen]
[Kim Soleum & Lee Jaheon]
3. under the weather by 52hz (nitilia), Inkstainedbones 1/1 Chapters
[G] [Gen]
[Agent Choi / Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum]
4. a truth to hide by 52hz (nitilia) 1/1 Chapters
[G] [Gen]
[Go Yeongeun & Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum & Ryu Jaekwan] [Kim Soleum & Lee Jaheon] [Baek Saheon & Kim Soleum]
The ones I PLAN to read are :
- strings that tie to you by 52hz (nitillia) 4/4 Chapters
[G] [Gen]
[Agent Choi/Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi/Ryu Jaekwan] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum & Ryu Jaekwan] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi & Ryu Jaekwan]
- (Un)Fullfilled Wish: Talk Show Host by S_LikesFanfics 8/? Chapters
[M] [M/M]
[Braun/Kim Soleum] [Kim Soleum & Yongyong]
- workplace monologues by 52hz (nitilia) 1/1 Chapters
[G] [Gen]
[Agent Choi & Kim Soleum]
- through the glass by 52hz (nitilia) 1/1 Chapters
[G] [Gen]
[Agent Choi/ Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi & Ryu Jaekwan] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum] [Kim Soleum & Ryu Jaekwan]
- Quit Your Job, Join Our Government Agency by CalicoColors 2/2 Chapters
[T] [Gen]
[Agent Choi & Kim Soleum & Ryu Jaekwan] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum] [Kim Soleum & Ryu Jaekwan]
- worn out faces by 52hz (nitilia) 5/? Chapters
[T] [Gen]
[Agent Choi/Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum] [Kim Soleum & Lee Jaheon]
- How to Take Care of Your Kim Soleum series by Lu_Cien 2/4 Parts
- the office sweetheart by aynchent 1/1 Chapters
[G] [Gen]
[Kim Soleum & Go Yeongeun] [Kim Soleum & Daydream Employees] [Kim Soleum & Group D] [Kim Soleum & Braun] [Kim Soleum & J3]
- got dropped in a ghost story, still gotta address the elephant (lizard) in the room by pendwelling, whywhyallnametaken 1/1 Chapters
[G] [Gen, M/M]
[Kim Soleum/Lee Jaheon] [Eun Haje & Kim Soleum & Lee Jaheon & Park Minseong] [Kim Soleum & Lee Jaheon]
- Intus, Alius by Bennu 1/1 Chapters
[M] [M/M]
[Lee Jaheon/Kim Soleum]
- rawhide by aynchent 2/2 Chapters
[T] [Gen]
[Baek Saheon & Go Yeongeun & Kim Soleum] [Baek Saheon & Kim Soleum] [Go Yeongeun & Kim Soleum] [Braun & Kim Soleum]
- Drunken Coward by HAPP13unni 1/1 Chapters
[G] [Gen]
[Kim Soleum & Everyone] [Kim Soleum & D-Squad] [Kim Soleum & Baek Saheon] [Kim Soleum & Go Yeongeun] [Kim Soleum & Team Turtle-Snake] [Kim Soleum & Braun]
- Speak Your Truth by Frill 7/7 Chapters
[T] [Gen]
[Kim Soleum & Everyone]
- Close Reading by Anonymous 4/? Chapters
[T] [Gen]
[Kim Soleum & Everyone]
- A Travel Back Home by coalmori 7/? Chapters
[Not Rated] [M/M, Other]
[Agent Choi & Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi & Ryu Jaekwan]
- every story is a name by rinovellas 5/5 Chapters
[T] [Gen]
[Agent Choi/Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum]
- Intruder by ArangDot 7/? Chapters
[M]
[Kim Soleum & Everyone] [Baek Saheon & Kim Soleum] [Braun & Kim Soleum] [Agent Choi & Kim Soleum & Ryu Jaekwan] [Eun Haje & Kim Soleum & Lee Jaheon & Park Minseong] [Kim Soleum & Lee Jaheon] [Go Yeongeun & Kang Yihak & Kim Soleum & Lee Seonghae]
I think.. that's all? If I missed some I'll add them later !
Tagging: @wintryclover @mccromy since you guys asked! :D <3
Saw a Convo on my dash about how Braun has never said anything negative about Go Youngeun, had a fleeting suspicion so I checked every single Braun line (things to do when you have a deadline) and...
Braun has never said anything negative about any woman ever!
nothing couldve prepared me from how gay braunsol interactions are, whenever i read, i always feel like im interupting an intimate moment, get a room you two
i think it's sort of isolating to be aroacespec, people already dont take aroace as a real thing, and then you add the spectrum in the mix and its just exhausting saying the same things over and over again. i dont want to keep explaining and defending what i am, but if i dont, i feel like im tricking my loved ones by being someone im not. my love is different from yours, but it's still love
its kind of the reason why i find comfort in hirano. you didn't expect it, nothing is really said explicitly, but it's so reminiscent to what i feel. i once talked to someone in a comic club about such good aroace rep hirakagi is, and they said "ah,, but didnt they end up together?" and my heart felt a little crushed, they didnt mean any harm, but i felt more and more alien, its so dumb
"Oh people in this fandom just defend the toxicity of it because its queer!" I don't know about anybody else but the reason why i get such a visceral reaction to people going "oh, it glorifies SA! oh, this character did this and that so obviously they're toxic!!" about ALNST is because? yes?? obviously this is a toxic relationship in a fucked up situation??? its supposed to explore the nitty and the gritty of human nature? None of the characters in Alien Stage are good people because they're not meant to be good people in healthy relationships. They're people that are constantly pulled apart from each other, that are constantly facing the stress of being treated like objects, who have no idea what the fuck they're doing and they hurt each other because of course they do.
Zombie Stage may not be in the same setting (though the Kpop industry obviously dehumanized and sexualized Mizi like an object and pulled her apart from Sua in similar ways to the og alnst universe) and Sua's actions aren't justifiable but thats the point. Obsession has always been a part of Sua's character, her whole universe revolves around Mizi. Hell, obsession has always been the main component of Mizisua, or have you people forgotten "My God, My Universe" already?? Obsession is such a huge theme in all of the alnst relationships, from Hyuluka to Ivantill to just Mizi and her suitors in anakt garden. The actions of the character: they're not justifiable things that someone can just do, of course not. But thats the whole point of Alien Stage and people just treat it like its a flaw of the show and not the core of it?? its like with greek mythology: the gods embody the flaws and the very nature of humans, thats why they're such horrible, greedy, disgusting, lustful beings. Its the whole point of it! Its not meant to be a digestible, non-problematic, happy and healthy fucking show. Its a deep and complicated exploration of many facets of human nature, and the reason why i get so mad when people just dismiss it/some of its characters due to the explorations of the disgusting horrible things they do as "oh Ivan is nothing more than an obsessed SA'er" and "Sua kisses Mizi while she can do nothing about it" is because yes those are things they do but there is so much more going on, and i need you to not reduce them to this one singular action and look, rather, at the wider themes those actions explore/accuse/emulate. And I'm not defending the non-con, because it's non-con, and if they were real people and not fictional characters, I wouldn't be sitting here going "Okay, but what does the SA tell us about their environment, what does it tell us about the nature of their characters and the way they interpret love and obsession as one in the same?" like a literature teacher, because rapists deserve nothing less than torture. But they are fictional characters, and none of their actions are real, so we can ask ourselves those questions. Because they're not just doing that with no reason (which btw, I hate that in shows/movies/media, when there's just an SA scene to make us feel bad and then its not?? explored?? at all? and just dismissed as if it was nothing/doesn't show us anything about any character and is just a 'thing that happened to character once' for shock value) there is character exploration to be done here, theres philosophical thinking to happen, it tells us something (about their environment, about them, about humanity and its downsides and good sides). And people are just DISMISSING all of it! And it pisses me off so much, because they're not treating the show like the show that it is. Its just so crazy to me that people actively criticize the show… For executing the whole point of the show extremely well?? People's allergies to complex and highly flawed character is always mind boggling to me because they associate understanding with forgiving when NO these are undeniably terrible actions. But is it interesting to see how and why someone might be driven to that point? YES! Its not glorifying it, its dissecting it in a fandom made lab.
I just want to see ONE good and productive conversation about the alnst extended universe for once in my life.
i dont like the way people use "bare minimum" in people's actions in relationships. Bare minimum implies it's a universal standard, something every relationship should already have at its core. But the way people use it diminishes the effort and thought people put into their actions. Most of the times the action isn't the bare minimum, the bare minimum was the thought behind it. It's the fact that you listened to your partner enough to know that they would love this gesture. That's the bare minimum. It's doing things not because "its what a partner should do" but because you genuinely love your partner and the effort is worth it. Not everyone would like the same gestures, because every person is different. People use the word bare minimum to mean that it's the least they should have done, and as a blueprint to what you should do without considering your unique relationship when it isn't like that at all. the word gets thrown around so much it makes me a little upset on how small it makes the gesture of love seem
Name - Yuuyake Trip / Nightfall Travelers: Leave Only Footprints
Status - Ongoing
Author - Tomohi
Genre's - Mystery, Slice of Life
Ivey's Comment - I ADORE this manga. the art is beautiful, especially with the architecture of the town. Great world-building, I love the mysterys of the ghost stories and how they're solved revealing the mundane behind the haunted location stories. The main characters, Amemura and Ninamori, are so sweet together. There's also an underlying mystery hinted at that Amemura may be like a ghost of some sort. Such a great series I can't wait till Volume 3 releases!
i was really surpised while reading hirano to kagiura because i thought itd be like typical cute romance like sasaki to miyano and im right!! but it also!! describes my feelings as being part of aroacespec so well, whenever im reading romance i never think im going to be represented like that and it made me really happy!! hirano obviously cares about kagiura a lot, and it wont be a typical romance, but the love is there
i feel like agent choi is the home ec first crush type of guy u get me
