Sydney Rose, 'We Hug Now' / Fernando Pessoa, 'The Book Of Disquiet' / Richard Siken, 'Boot Theory' /

Now back to the Squid Game.

Interesting that's it a team us vs them.

As narrator Gihun says the rules are simple.

What? They are not simple. They are multifaceted. You have to hop on one foot until you become the inspector royal. Anything goes physically wise as you have to stay in a poorly drawn squid.* That fact they don't have permanent squid lines, also implies they (Gihun and Sangwoo, and Jungbae) grew up in proverty. They use dirt and a stick to draw one out.

And the way you win is by going through the squid head. So you tap a small hole to win with your foot.

We do get some good foreshadowing and Gihun character establishing moments.

Child Gihun to Child Sangwoo "look it's your mom" in a physical altercation. Where Sangwoo is such a mama's boy that he looked away. Sneaky Gihun takes that distraction to become the inspector royale.

Why that phrase though? Maybe a nice play on words related to a battle royale type situation?

Nice, nice establishing the two people most important to Sangwoo.

And establishing Gihun's quick thinking, guile hero street cred.

I love baby Gihun tucking in his shirt. And then just one word "Go". Already a little leader at heart, so bossy.

And the music is really ramping up with the white shirt tear. Gihun, your mom will be angry at you.

Maybe how 🤔 the innocence of childhood games will be teared up, hollowed out, and corrupted for the VIPs sick source of entertainment.

I mean white is symbolically linked to purity, innocence, cleanliness, and new beginnings. Put a white light through a prism, you will get the visible color spectrum.

Baby Gihun is so agile. Where did this grace, go?

Baby Sangwoo it's okay, you did your best.

Interesting word choice of victory. Surely saying yes!! Or something else would suffice.

Maybe Ilnam really want this game to be the it factor. As it has everything he needs for this game to make list.

Or as I call it the let's make childhood games deadly for my wealthy clients, commit various crimes against humanity, and be a general evil person list. Instead of going to therapy or going into any other hobbies not murder related.

Us vs them mentality, all you need is squid drawn courtyard, and you can play it in a group or solo. Most importantly, it being physical means the VIPS have their gladiatorial arena fight for the grand finale.

I am sure, no important foreshadowing is happening here. Right? Right?

And the final end to the intro, the symbols forever tied to the organization is underneath their feet. Ready to pounce on them at their most vulnerable. So, they can be consumed.

So at the end of this series, this memory will be ruined, tarnished, in pieces to Gihun. Great way to start this. 👍

I like a nice title intro of a show that I cannot make out.

Did Sang-woo ever have his glasses again after he returns to the games in S1? If not, does that mean he wore contacts for games 2-6, or that he flat-out couldn't see for shit for games 2-6?

Either way, I feel like more Sang-woo analysis of his behavior in the games should take into account that either: a) this man was partially blind for the remainder of S1 after he returns to the games, or b) this man thought he'd be 'smart' by wearing contacts instead of his glasses when he returned to the games, only to then spend multiple days either burning his eyes out wearing the same contacts for 5 days straight, or was partially blind for the remainder of S1 after he took them out the first night and realized he still had four games left that he now had to play while only partially able to see.

And you know what, I might be ready to kill people, too, after a few days of living with a decision that seemed so smart in the moment had turned out to in fact be that bad of A Mistake.

doomed siblings 😭😭 an edit of them to alex g is going to hurt EVERY time

LMAO this is so good

Has someone already done this? XD

Sorry this isn't super high quality but I've slept like 5h and uni keeps me from spending more than a few hours on drawing each week :(

i hope that in 2025 u get to take more walks, read more books, connect with more people whom u love and who love u, achieve ur goals (even if ur goals are having no goals and just living in the moment), exercise fun hobbies, move from a place of self-direction, and weave together a beguiling assortment of beautiful little moments. remember that no feeling lasts forever. love u

Hey friendly reminder to love and cherish Green Day

so cuteeee

hi i feel really fucking mentally sick for some reason tonight do u have any fluffier sangihun hcs 💗 (sending this to multiple moots i swear im not like a hijacked bot lol)

yes of course my dear moot!!! I hope these make you feel better.

--Sangihun Fluffy Headcanons

-imagine sangwoo and gihun sleepy daysss. they just lay in bed glued together. They don't talk, just lay peacefully.

-okay but with all of this talk about them getting dressed in the bathroom together, what about when they are not in the games and they dress each other. idk i just find a cute image in gi hun putting on sangwoos shoes or sangwoo buttoning gihuns shirt.

-also i thought of a cute thing about if their moms lowkey knew about them. honestly they would support. i think sang woos mom would not push but kind of want them to be together so bad. she probably has said some weird vague shit about accepting sangwoo for who he is and that he should stay close friends with gihun forever. mal-soon however is tired of their bs. she aint going to do a thing if they aint going to do a thing, ya know?

-imagine their dates too!! i don't think they would do anything too extravagant. I imagine a lot of the dates are things they wanted to do together as kids but they were either vaguely or fully meant for couples or people who were crushing on each other.

-also them sharing things if they live together??? they only know whos clothes are whos by size but everything is pretty much put together. also sang woo teases gihun about his stupid dad clothes. its okay though because gihun bullies him back about the business smarty pants shit he wears.

these photos are LETHAL i was losing my mind when i first saw them