ALSO. I KNOW IM GOING HAM ABOUT AMATONORMATIVITY RIGHT NOW. BUT THE AGENCY OF WOMEN IS ALSO SUCH A BIG THING THAT I AM ALSO THINKING ABOUT.
like!! The thing that gets all of them out is Jeha’s refusal to see chaerin as a romantic object. The insistence that chaerin and huisu are NOT in fact interchangeable even if they’re in the same body/running the same story because. Fundamentally. They are different people. And ALSO because. You cannot love an object like a person. And a fictional character can never be anything but an object.
but also! The way it acknowledges that not only is it fucked up to be put in a romance story and then forced to play along for a happy ending (I can and am making allegorical comparisons to real life here) it’s also. Fucked up to have the person you were in love with replaced with someone who is not the same amount of real person as you and ALSO completely dependent on you for their happiness.
hm the! Interconnectedness of misogyny and amatonormativity and the insistence that women can be and are social currency (if you have read Ace by Angela Chen: chapter five and the deconstruction of performative sexuality wrt male gender roles and incel culture DOES apply here!) as well as the idea that you can ‘win’ life by achieving a heterosexual marriage (your romantic life is also social currency) and the way that that concept is so carefully thematically decimated.
You bolted out of bed, a cold sweat coating your entire body. Your chest rose and fell as you took deep breaths attempting to calm yourself, reminding yourself that what you had just experienced was simply a nightmare, nothing more. Jeha sat up beside you, hands resting on your shoulders as he spoke softly, none of his words being heard initially.
How could they when you were so far gone? When did this become a nightly occurrence?
“Match my breathing,” he whispered, finally being heard and causing you to breathe with him as he placed your hand on his bare chest. “There you go.”
You stayed silent, eyes dropping as the panic left your body replaced by tiredness. When was the last time you’d even been able to sleep for an entire night without waking after seeing a far too realistic death of Jeha in your dream?
“I can’t stop seeing-” you began voice cracking before your bodyguard turned lover pulled you tightly against his frame.
“I’m here. I’m fine. And I will be here with you,” he declared. “Nothing is going to change that.”
Out of curiosity what are y’all’s go-to comfort kdramas?? Not in the sense the drama itself has comfort, but that it’s comforting to y’all~ Could be from any year and genre ♪( ´▽`)
Mine are Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, W: Two Worlds, & The K2!! (˶╹̆ ▿╹̆˵)و✧♡
this scene after encountering the drow Araj in Moonrise Towers is so good, watching Astarion open up and their relationship deepen ahhhh 🥲 @chrissymodi-frost
which tragic character from ancient greek literature are you?
antigone
you are antigone, from the theban plays by sophocles. you are bold, unwavering in your morals and your passion, an unstoppable force of nature. but when you go head-to-head with an immovable object, your ideals can lead you to self-destruction. you are stubbornly resilient and fearless to a fault, and aren't afraid to stand alone in the face of death. antigone, in your quest for justice, don't forget: you are allowed to step back, to love life a little, to be young once more before soldiering on to the very very end. be selfish in your fierceness, just once.