I'm tired (I keep making these posts past midnight, which means they're technically posted the next day... T_T) but I still want to make a blog post... so here it is. I think I kind of want to make a monthly goals post, too, like what I did for
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Despite wanting to, I didn't end up doing craft stuff this week-end, either... I didn't even do that much webdev today, although I thought about it the whole time, lol. I was thinking to myself earlier today, it's been a while since I was this fixated on something. Mostly, it feels like the only thing I want to talk about or think about, which makes it difficult to focus on other things. @_@ I do have to do at least a little bit of work stuff tomorrow... I'll be strong...
Because I'd reposted my old
い〜やい〜やい〜や Manishiki redraws/parodies on tumblr, I got to thinking about that ship again, and I decided to check if people were posting in the tag. I did find people posting about it, which was fun (it was even more fun seeing people who were like "check out this crazy rarepair idea nobody would ever think or care about") but it did make me realize that it's apparently been long enough that now people don't even remember what the ship is "supposed" to be called, lol. I guess the last time I hosted the ship week was over four years ago now, which is kind of wild to think about... I remember back then, it was basically me, a friend I'd dragged into it, and one Chinese artist on pixiv who made up like 90% of the tag there. They were so excited when I started the ship week to try and get more people into it... and now it's like we're back to square one again, although the pixiv tag has gotten much beefier (largely thanks to the effort of one or two artists who also got super obsessed with them.) It's not a bad thing, just kind of made it hit how much time has passed.
The release of
Give and Take in Pokémas feels like it was just yesterday... even though we're literally getting Z-A in only a few months. Crazy!!!
I don't really think about getting older much, in general. It's just not something that's often on my mind for whatever reason. But sometimes you stumble upon something, or find yourself reminiscing about a previous time, and it's like, damn, that was so long ago... Did you know that Sherlock BBC turned 15 last month? That one really surprised me and I'm not even sure why.
Actually, speaking of TV shows, maybe I'll talk about Squid Game a little, since we finished it yesterday.
Using details rather than a cut, that way if people click on the entry to comment they won't risk getting spoiled.
I actually really enjoyed Season 3. The ending was really good, although the very last part did feel a tiny bit rushed to me; I wish they'd added a little more runtime, or maybe another episode, so the post-Squid Game stuff had more room to breathe. It was something I'd really enjoyed in Season 1.
Hmm... Maybe I'll talk about the stuff I didn't like first, to get it out of the way. I was really disappointed that we didn't end up learning that much about the Front Man!!! Apparently, the director had implied that we'd get more backstory for him, but really all we got was a few shots that sort of explained how and why Il-nam picked him as his right hand man/successor. I also found Myung-gi's later characterization kind of incomprehensible, to be honest... In the last game, he double-crosses the morons he pretended to ally himself with, explaining he wants to save his baby (and explicitly revealing that it's his baby) and then in the end he tells Gi-hun that actually he wants to kill the baby to get the money all to himself??? I don't super mind it from a Watsonian perspective, because obviously people who are being forced to more or less kill each other for money over the course of less than a week are going to snap under the pressure and behave in ways that don't make sense, but from a Doylist one, I don't fully get the intent... At the same time, I would have been so fucking mad if he'd won with or without the baby, lol. His death was cool, though. (I guess that heel turn does kind of make sense when you consider the fact that he did pick staying in the last vote...)
Speaking of being mad, we were all so angry that the annoying old guy kept surviving lmaoooo. When Gi-hun was hesitating to slice his throat, I kept wishing he'd do it... but of course there was no way. Even when he strangled Dae-ho, it was only after Dae-ho started attacking him and he had to act out of self-defense. Actually, Dae-ho revealing he wasn't actually a marine was kind of a let-down, too... It was my first theory, but the idea that he had PTSD was more interesting to me in the end... (Looking into it now that I'm writing this post, apparently he was actually assigned to Social Services after deemed unfit to serve in the military. That's at least a little more interesting.)
If I had one last "criticism", it would be that the social commentary felt really thick during the last game, but it's kind of to be expected with Squid Game, so I didn't really mind it that much. Pettily, I was sad that In-ho only ended up keeping the baby for six months, only to hand it to his brother, lol. It makes sense, but my dreams of mommy In-ho were so cruelly dashed...
I'm rambling way too much, wahhh, but there were a lot of things I liked. Obviously, all the deaths sucked, but I thought they were all earned pretty well. Hyun-ju being killed by Myung-gi was such a blow, I was genuinely devastated, she was one of my favorite characters. Yong-sik's death was so sad :( As soon as he and his mom switched I knew he was going to die during that game, man. There was no way he was killing anybody. I genuinely think his mom would have done better than he did lol. Crazy what a CGI baby will do to your brain. (We kept joking about the baby being CGI the whole time, but man, it was a lot. Obviously they couldn't use an actual newborn baby, but it was soooo uncanny. I wouldn't really put it as something I didn't like, though, because it was kind of fun, and it didn't look too bad at certain angles.)
Even though I wish it had been longer, I really love the post-Squid Game bit showing where everyone was at. No-eul especially getting to see Gyeong-seok & his daughter alive and well and then finding out her own daughter might be alive after being given back her will to live thanks to Gi-hun made me so happy... That and Cheol getting to reunite with his mother, I may or may not have teared up. I also loved In-ho giving Gi-hun's daughter his leftover money (and his uniform ??? that part was low-key messed up LMFAO but it's In-ho so what can you expect.) It was a very shippy and tasty scene, though clearly the best one in that regard was In-ho calling Gi-hun into his quarters and not only giving him a weapon but revealing his face to him... So fucking gay, man. The implication that he was potentially considering taking him in as his Front Man is staggering??? There was no way Gi-hun would have agreed but man. I will daydream about that AU... Just a little bit... (Actually, an AU where Gi-hun agrees and then pretends to go along with In-ho so he can dismantle the Squid Game from the inside and backstab him would be so fucking good...)
I wish we could have gotten a hint of how Jun-ho would handle taking care of a baby lol. In my ideal world he's raising her with Kim...
Gi-hun is so cool. My wet cat of a man... He never stopped being wet even though he was trying his best not to be... I liked the bits where he was so psychologically broken he didn't do anything except sit handcuffed to a bedpost... That was kind of sexy. If you ask me.
I should write more 457 fic...This post took an unexpected turn LMFAO but oh well. Such are the highs and lows of blogging. I need to go to sleep... Tomorrow, I'll do some craft stuff. This is a promise to myself. Maybe I'll even post some pictures here later!! 💪💪💪
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