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Sun-jae, standing at the front of the crowd

Being taller than almost every person there

What a jerk

i know that the college-era timeline had to end poorly because we need the drama of it, but i would've loved to see everyone inform past im sol that sun-jae was her boyfriend after old im sol left back to present day.

and if i'm being really indulgent, cue kim tae-sung and baek in-hyuk not being to handle sun-jae's pining ass and decide to go on a mission to 'recover her memory.'

In-hyuk and Tae-sung at the premiere for Lovely Runner: The Movie starring Sun-jae and they are both bawling their eyes out and have no idea why.

gathering data in preparation for our last Monday

i don't know what ep 15 is going to be about, but why does the preview make it look like tae-sung is straight up going to launch a case against sun-jae because he thinks he kidnapped her.

What if people don't even get mad over his dating rumors? They're like "Thank God this guy is finally dating someone. We thought he had no love life."

my unpopular opinion about lovely runner is that i think that sun-jae actually killed himself in the original timeline, and that he was only murdered in the second timeline.

read below, for my analysis!

if you look at the sun-jae perspectives in the first timelines (i.e. before im sol came back to the future from the second try after her successful running away from the kidnapper), he's clearly miserable. He clearly hates being an idol, he doesn't seem to get on with his bandmates (i love that when im sol changed the timeline, baek in-hyuk and sun-jae became close friends again; they have good friend chemistry, and their relationship is genuinely sweet), and he definitely feels tremendous guilt over what happened to sol (he definitely internalized what she said in the hospital).

if we look at the murderer, the way that sun-jae would've died, which is being pushed off the balcony into the swimming pool, would become way more difficult, and harder to pull off. we didn't get the best look at that corpse, but there were virtually no signs of struggle. dude is kind of smiling, or it is more contentment (this could just be me not understanding facial expressions or byeon woo seok breaking character as a dead guy) if you look at ep 9, then we see that the killer would struggle against sun-jae, who's pretty broad and taller than the killer. even if the killer had the element of surprise, he'd still have to get sun-jae knocked down, which he couldn't do in ep 9 even with sun-jae still not expecting it, and then drag him to the balcony and push him off. also from what we see about this killer (which is practically nothing as far as i know; why does he even want to kill sol? is he like a serial killer who just kills random people, and then sol and sun-jae just happen to escape?) , but given that the murder that is confirmed is done by knife stabbing, it seems like just throwing him off the balcony is not usually his MO. people also stab themselves to commit suicide.

also if you look at his final interaction with sol from his perspective, he's suddenly onslaught with all of the guilt and self-hatred that he had dealt with fifteen years ago along with his current problems. he loves her no doubt, but he's also wracked with guilt over what he feels is his fault in putting her in a wheelchair, and also some despair over the fact that she doesn't remember. When all of those feelings smash together, who wouldn't fall into such deep despair that they'd consider something?

why is byeon woo seok the worst fake dead guy.

I'm curious let's go

all the second hand embarassment was worth it for that twist.

that being said, this entire show from sun jae's perspective is definitely a came back wrong/monkey's paw shit.

you move in, and develop a crush on the girl next door. despite having a face that looks like yours and being as tall as a fucking tree, she is somehow oblivious to your existence. then, she randomly comes in and hugs you during the middle of swim practice, proclaiming her love while you just stand here cuz fuck how is this real. now however, the girl you have a crush on is acting really fucking weird, and keeps making weird predictions that are surprisingly true and weirdly invasive. she also keeps randomly following you and also appears to be

this is a really odd thing to consider with atla, but for a show that loves taking liberal scoops of hinduism, buddhism and south and east asian cultures for its worldbuilding, atla is really weird about letting its characters practice religion.

everything in atla is people taking about spirituality, defining themselves with spirituality, yet nobody engages it in the context of belief. we are given the concept of worshipped beings in the atla universe; tui and la and agni for example. but none of these gods are ever seen as gods that the characters hold belief in. we barely get a framework of belief with the earth kingdom (the earth kingdom is examined politically and never religiously in the series) which would actually be interesting because so many cultures did have a god or goddess of the earth. the water tribe goes into cultural rituals, but only for an episode. we know nothing about air nation religious practices beyond nonviolence bad and vegetarianism. even the fire nation is practically a blank slate.

it's almost like the creators were nervous at the idea of letting the characters practice a religion, even a created religion that's foreign to the majority of their (most likely christian) audience. the weddings are very christian-coded (you're telling me that the FIRE nation wouldn't have a hindu-style marriage which literally involves FIRE), and the characters are never seen worshipping or participating in cultural festivals beyond the usual 'oohh fireworks and food' type thing. normally i wouldn't care, speaking as a former kid who did spend religious festivals like that, but if you're going to put characters forward that practice eastern religions and then have them interact in the most surface level way possible, what's even the point?

there's baiting and then there's whatever this is.

So here I was

enjoying the details of Oma and Shu in the LA: how Shu has a very Chinese-inspired hanfu outfit and Oma has a very Indian-inspired sari outfit and I realized—

—wait.

Wait.

Shu has a long blue scarf.

Well, well well.

—

edited to correct Shu's outfit misidentification.

man, all you zutara guys are way better at this shipping thing than me. i read through like ninety different metas about the symbolism of the colors associated between the two, the fact that the two of them are the emotional story arc of ATLA, and how their romance falls more into the canon themes of the franchise.....

and then i'm here like, he took lightning for her and she was aang's mom in an episode. i'm sold.

this is strictly between christian denominations ex. anglican and catholic

reblog with your answer and your religion

this is strictly between christian denominations ex. anglican and catholic

reblog with your answer and your religion

hunger games and tbosas didn't imprint themselves on me the way that they did for many people, but it did make me wonder what the population was like for panem. oh god. where do i start with this. all of district 12 can somehow cram themselves into one waiting area so this lady can read names out of a bowl. that bowl was not full. how little people are there in this expanse of country. appalachia today has like millions of people living there. can you imagine cramming the entire of new york city into one waiting area so this one lady can pull names out of a fucking bowl. that's ignoring the other population in new york state. california has like 58 million people. televise or digitize that shit. how horrible were the conditions of panem that they can fucking herd an entire district into one waiting area when today you can barely fit an eighth of a small city into four football stadiums.

Manuscripts don't burn.

7+8 = 15

20+40+15 = 75

pray for Israeli and Palestine sides

i do.

the hoo books are a bit iffy at times, but i will never forget when I first read calypso is ranting about francis drake and his elizabeth and I legitimately thought that rick riordan implied that francis drake was in love with queen elizabeth I.