SQUID GAME "O X"

sweethearts

Sydney Rose, 'We Hug Now' / Fernando Pessoa, 'The Book of Disquiet' / Richard Siken, 'Boot Theory' / Richard Siken, 'Seaside Improvisation' / Osamu Dazai, 'No Longer Human / Richard Siken, 'Straw House, Straw Dog'

so, when they're all sitting together and sharing their names in the fourth episode, ali reveals that he's been under the assumption that gi-hun's name is ssangmun-dong.

which means that whenever gi-hun started praising sang-woo by calling him the pride of ssangmun-dong, he thought... oh, i need to sit down for this...

Chat, what did we think was going on in Gihun’s head in s2e1 when he got back to his hotel and found the recruiter/the salesman waiting for him?

As soon as he comes in and sees him looking at the calendar, his expression is tense and scared. A second later it relaxes and he goes about his business, toweling himself off from the rain like he isn’t at all concerned about the gun in the other’s mind.

Did he expect the Frontman to have stepped out of his nightmares? Does he see the recruiter/the salesman drinking his lil yogurt with a straw and decide he isn’t a threat?

I think something else is happening; something I think about a lot with Gihun. I think he thinks the recruiter/the salesman cannot kill him.

I think one of the manifestations of his trauma, one of the adaptive delusions he’s embraced to keep himself afloat through all the grief and guilt and misery, is that the games can’t kill him. Not until he’s done with them.

I think he thinks he’s destined to end the games and ignores any fear or common sense of his own mortality.

Because if he cannot end the games, it means the hundreds of deaths, including those of Saebyeok and Sangwoo, are meaningless.

I think he physically cannot accept that nor his own powerlessness, and that he’s been driven to a point where fear of death cannot reach him past his dedication to his mission.

I think we see this delusion really calcify in the scene where he plays roulette with the recruiter/the salesman, and I love that that’s how the season presents Gihun’s current mindset.

Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

Kiss.

Please tell me someone gets the reference.

sang-woo during tug of war

gihun and jungbae happy and safe

He’s my best friend, best of all best friends, do you have a best friend too? It tickles in my tummy, he’s so yummy, yummy - you should get a best friend too!

Or in other words: Sangihun summer sweethearts

@der1r3ye5 thanks for preaching the Sangihun life style with me, this is for you xD

@der1r3ye5

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