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Sea Study (1881) by Claude Monet

Josef Bsharah

fanfic writers are so fucking awesome man. they write novel length fics that are sometimes even better than some published bestselling books written by professional writers. like fanfic writers are professional writers to me and they gift us their masterpieces for free. they give us something we can look forward to after a long day. something from which we can seek comfort when life is hard. something that can be our own little getaway. in a world of capitalism, despite everything, they give us all of these for free. like holy fuck. shout out to every fanfic writer. I wish all fanfic writers a very ‘I love you with all my heart and soul. I thank you from the bottom of my heart’

AU where Jun-ho finds his brother’s island and just starts living there so he can be close to In-ho and keep an eye on In-ho at the same time, despite the many attempts In-ho made to try to get him out. (Jun-ho’s too stubborn and just keeps coming back.)

also Jun-ho has his own YouTube channel where he does food ASMR from the arena where the games are played. turns out the guards like him (they call him the Nicer Hwang) and enable his behavior / YouTube channel too.

In-ho is losing his mind.

““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

In-ho is really pushing his luck during this scene because

Jun-ho only has one bullet left

Jun-ho does not know it’s In-ho behind the mask

Jun-ho is cornered, he most likely thinks he'll die here, and it will make a lot more sense for Jun-ho to aim for the head or the heart, instead of the shoulder, and kill In-ho with that one bullet he has left.

yes, Jun-ho ends up only shooting him on his shoulder. but the point is that Jun-ho doesn't know it's his brother when he shoots him. so there's a very real possibility of him ending up killing In-ho here.

imagine the angst, what will happen if Jun-ho actually aims for In-ho's head or In-ho's heart and realizes belatedly it's In-ho he killed.