Adding Dr. Dennis Whitaker To The List Of Men I Want To Put In A Jar And Shake

Any Sangwoo headcanons?👉🏻👈🏻

SANG-WOO?? ABSOLUTELY. MILLIONS. BILLIONS EVEN. i’m genuinely so glad i get this opportunity to talk abt him bc i feel kinda icky irl rn 😔

sang-woo HATES being late to things. being overly late to a function gives him a nauseous feeling (same)

he plays sudoku and he would ABSOLUTELY play other nytimes games.

he briefly tried contacts but he hated how they felt in his eyes so he gave them up

he would refuse to go to therapy because he sees it as wasted time in which he could be working instead.

his mother’s name is jang hye-ji

he regularly suffers from headaches/migraines. he also probably knocks himself out with ibuprofen.

PANICS when he’s sick. thinks he’s doomed, even when he’s got something small like a cold. partially because being sick makes him feel like he’s taking unnecessary time off and he’ll fall behind, but also because the sickness fucks with his head and makes him super delirious.

extremely good at locking tf in and not getting distracted when it comes to work. will literally eliminate any distractions. (that's why he and gi-hun lost contact. /j)

has to drink insane amounts of water after waking up otherwise his throat will be usually a pain in the ass all day. that's what smoking all FUCKING day and attempting suicide by carbon monoxide will do to you. hoe /aff

likes chocolate (milk and dark) but fucking hates white chocolate. (same. that is just pure projection) he likes his chocolate INSANELY bitter though.

not too much of a sweet tooth. too much sugar makes him sick. prefers umami and bitter foods.

(free this man from the clutches of chainsmoking please. how is he not dead.)

Bong Gi-hun (sequel to Cho Bong-woo) 🙏🏻❤️

john wells behind the camera: MORE DYKES!!! WE NEED MORE DYKES IN HERE!!!!!

dr john shen clocking in early as attending (after having been one for only 3 months) on this fucky ass day because there's an MCI and then once things start slowing down a kid comes in with measles and his parents are being unreasonable and while he deals with that he has to deal with those two old white men refusing to end their damn shifts and one of the day shift residents almost gets fucking arrested and there's an 18-year-old in custody in one of the rooms who will likely stay there all night with his sad mum and the day shift attending just showed a patient's father the fucking make-shift morgue and then right when they're about to close trauma a man's pelvic gets crushed and he has to stand there and listen to walsh and abbot argue over what is supposed to be his patient, really, and he can see the day shift attending dissociate for ten solid minutes and no one's even told him there are two rats still loose in his damn department and abbot calls him a nerd

ali + sang-woo | "i'm your man" - mitski

Managed to gif some of the instances where Beom-jun smiles/laughs and quickly cuts it off. I like that little detail about him.

SQUID GAME AND RELIGION

I MIGHT SOUND CRAZY BUT HEAR ME OUT.

the usage of religion and religious metaphors in squid game, particularly salvation is incredibly not touched on.

the first interaction gi-hun has with the salesman, religion is mentioned. “i don’t believe in jesus” then, when he was rescued, he too was untied by a religious person.

not only is this an inclusio of sorts, but it also shows themes of salvation. the salesman, in a way, serves as the “jehovah’s witness” of the games, seeking people out to save them. giving them an opportunity. if you think about it, thanos too, likely saw the salesman as some kind of angel, quite literally saving him from death (not for long lol) this is a contrast to the actual religious person saving him when he was tied down (and gagged by a credit card??) on the streets. a sort of figurative-to-literal parallel.

there’s also literally an episode called hell [01x02], showing how awful the characters lives are outside of the games. they’re all living in their own personal hells.

the games are their only form of salvation, similarly to how in christianity jesus christ is the only way to salvation and heaven, the games are seen to be these characters only hopes, only ways to “heaven”. the games too are framed as something simple, “just children’s games”, similarly to how believing in christ is seen as something easy and simple.

unfortunately 244 and 044 are also overlooked, but they both are important religious characters.

244 serves as kind of a foil to ji-yeong (who is, by the way, a character traumatized by religion, who ironically went out through sacrifice — biblically said to be one of the holiest methods of death)

and while we don’t know much about 044 in general, she is incredibly adamant on the belief on fate and that when and where you die are not up to you. once again, another common religious belief, believed through all religions.

(i make points mainly through christianity because i know the most about it, but other religions are brought up too — like 044’s shamanism. the concept of salvation is too, a general belief that runs through most religions.)