anyway. i'm having an unexpectedly busy end of year so hopefully i'll catch yall in a couple of weeks. wishing all happy holidays and a happy new year!!! eat well and be close with loved ones 🎄💖

i hope so!!! i just have a bunch of deadlines bundled together... but i'm good otherwise thank u 🥲 how's the end of year going for you??

he brings them together by virtue of being the fulcrum otherwise it’s just business at arms length and a contract to murder the national security director while quietly and murderously pining. thank u yj for triangulating (when are we never triangulating)

it’s definitely yj’s influence. og hj is a little scary and aloof to me!!! he has an ~aura~ of unapproachability. he only ever got to face off other evil psychos like himself after all. anyway as much as i ship hj/yh by itself u made me realise yj is indeed the secret sauce in this relationship

thank goodness the decree only lasted three hours!!!

(also sorry for the spotty replies lately i've just been having a crazy busy couple of weeks ;~;b)

lol yes that's also pretty much the way i see their dynamic in the current timeline too... in fact is that not the way hj is with almost everyone, i just really enjoy his brand of annoying flirty trolling + last minute bastard heroics

btw did you not visit s korea recently i hope you didn't get caught in the whole martial law fuss too much??? gosh

YES LMAO yh is always so antagonistic in an OTT way to hj like WHY ARE YOU RISING TO HIS OBVIOUS PROVOCATIONS. i wanna see more of the og timeline too!!! 🥺 yj wasn't even there so was hj trying to adopt angry cat yh instead... is that why he helped him build his guild... many questions

I'M SO BEHIND ON ALL OF THE LORE

exactly!!!

that's valid. they most likely murdered someone together in that timeline. maybe more

but i’m out here specifically shipping hyunjae/yoohyun by my lonesome IT HAS ALL OF 2 WORKS ON AO3!!!!! is it bc this arm of the 3some DOESN’T DEVELOP AT ALL!!!!! maybe i need to make time for the novel to find out..... anyway keep me posted on ur thoughts about this series, it is massive fun

anyway there’s a character that appears later on that sort of addresses this, i wonder if you’ll be into them too?? yoohyun being straight up depicted as monstrous is definitely my fave part of all of this and i can’t wait to see how that plays out. you def get a lot of ot3 food in later chapters

oh yeah omg. that reveal about the timeline being written over and there being a copy of yoohyun out there blew my mind. and i really enjoy hyunjae always referring to yoojin as his “belonging” like way to dehumanise him but also… yoojin doesn’t gaf about his own safety that way in the first place…

YAY i'm so glad you're continuing with this!! i'm actually all caught up, it's so funny like way funnier than i expected it to be and it just gets more tropey with every chapter. is there anything specific you're into or legit the entire harem concept???

i kid you not. they win the race and hug, he slinks to the floor and collapses in rin's arms, everyone rushes to the pool and he closes his eyes with a contented smile... WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO THINK

i genuinely feel sorry for anyone who hadn't experienced free! fandom in its heyday where everybody was wanking because of attachment issues triggered by the themes of the show itself. one of tumblr's golden eras, to be sure