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Love the steady recontextualisation that takes place in Flower of Evil. At first you think Ji-won’s trust in Hyun-soo is because she’s perhaps naïve or is in denial and just wants to believe in him. The circumstantial evidence consistently mounts against Hyun-soo, but she still seems to believe him innocent to the point of stubbornness.

But as you see more of their history, you start to realise that he has in no way “fooled” her. Every instance of him “faking” being the family man is actually just… him learning the relevant social cues because he wants his family to like him. And he may wrap it all up in justifications that he needs her as camouflage but, the fact remains, as someone living under an assumed identity? He did not have to marry a cop. He chose to do that. So it follows that all his practising smiling, his observation notebooks, they’re him making an effort to bridge the gap and learn to show the affection he wants to be in the relationship, despite him not realising himself that his feelings are genuine.

But Ji-won liked him long before he had learned these cues. Back when to the surface observer he was off-putting and abrasive, she saw the kindness in his actions rather than in his expressions and his distancing. She liked him for him. And yeah, she appreciates him making the effort, but that wasn’t why she fell for him.

When it comes to their relationship, she’s not the unreliable narrator here; he is.

#flower of evil

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area man discovers he has been in love with his wife who he has been dating for 14 years and is the mother of his child the entire time

#flower of evil

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dailyasiandramas’ sunday throwback ★ [WEEK 10]

FLOWER OF EVIL 악의 꽃 [2020] Dir. Kim Chul Gyu, Yoon Jong Ho

#missing this show hours #flower of evil

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idk this is probably the best panel sequence in the series just in my opinion

#hell yeah this is peak #dungeon meshi #izutsumi #laios touden

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Dead boy detectives??? Got a show?? On netflix?? How did I not hear a single word abt this?

#bro i have to watch it. i read some of their comics. i wuv them. #the actors do look old af tho lol #these are supposed to be my children why are they adults #gi talks #dead boy detectives

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THE BEAR ↳ Natalie following Donna's recipes.

#mommy issues the show #the bear

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@pscentral event 26: minimalism

Best part of my day, like, 10 minutes ago, I made Nat an omelette. Yeah. You love taking care of people.

#sydney adamu #the bear

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#p #fashion

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Locking in seconds before doing the most insane thing possible

#laios touden #dungeon meshi

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  — Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

[text ID: It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.]

#a paixao segundo gh #clarice lispector #words

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Do I even have to say anything? Colleen's shoujo videos are what helped me get into shoujo when i decided last year that i had had my fill of shounen. Don't be completely fooled by the title, while they do talk abt the new stuff coming out, it is still through a very insightful look going into the background of anime making and the producers behind the industry.

#and this is the last recommendation from me. i finally cleared my youtube watch later list. #gi talks #shoujo

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I usually enjoy the seasonal anime recommendations of Mother's Basement on youtube (even tho I do think his recs are very shounen centric and he often dislikes or disregards shoujo or yuri shows), but tbh his video for the spring season is totally ridiculous to me lol

#he recs train to the end of the world and that was enough to turn me off. that anime is trash. #the rest of the recs are ok but nothing great. and he really hypes them up way more than any of those deserve smh. #he did rec a couple shows that i do think are great tho... so not totally bad. but still. #gi talks #gi talks animanga

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SOUSOU NO FRIEREN (2023-)

#sousou no frieren #frieren #q

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Yeah, go watch that and remember how 2014 was a fucking amazing year for anime istg

Just watched a video of a guy recapping 2014 anime and he had the gal to remind me of mf Pupa

#gi talks

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"Magi season 2, a sinbad spin off. I loved sinbad 😍 i didn't watch that shit."

Just watched a video of a guy recapping 2014 anime and he had the gal to remind me of mf Pupa

#lmao this guy is hilarious #gi talks

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Just watched a video of a guy recapping 2014 anime and he had the gal to remind me of mf Pupa

#i had wiped that from my mind #gi talks #pupa

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All of my pieces for the first week of Funguary!

#oh fuck yeah funky fungi fun guys <3 #art #characters