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red-dia · 1 year

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It feels like the pacing for this arc and past arcs after the “Phos Goes to the Moon” arc starts to go faster and faster so there is a lot to be desired in between. It feels like the story goes from A to Z without putting in the other letters in between. I really wanted to see how the Gems would react to becoming Lunarians, because their fast acceptance was something I just can’t understand why it was so easy to undergo such a drastic transformation without any qualms. There were also interactions I wanted between some characters that did not happen or were written in an unsatisfying way that felt like the nuance in them just disappears.

I understand that time skips with the length of decades to centuries to millennia means that Gems can change drastically, especially in the setting of the Moon, where the Lunarian world allows the Gems to have more freedom to find themselves and find their own resolutions. Now I just have to hope and pray “The Party at the End” book added in with the special edition Vol 12 preorder will give me some answers and explanations. But part of me also is expecting mostly Cairnmea content in it per usual.

I dunno, part of me feels like Ichikawa is going through both burn out for this series and also wanting to move onto other projects aside from HNK, considering she works with Nintendo and is a character designer for Pokémon.

Agreed to a lot of this; the thing that bothers me the most is that there's so many characters that seem like they're set up to get some kind of development, and then the story kinda leaves it hanging, and for a while I had assumed there would be conflicts and resolutions and closure, but these issues dropped off the face of the earth....

The shift from the gems being hunted for sport for their entire existence only to be integrated among the lunarians, and nobody has hard feelings about it, everybody is happy to have left the earth where they've lived forever, everybody just kinda 👍 their way though it, fine we are lunarians now, okay we can restore dead gems because we changed our minds this is fine actually, whatever happened to Ghost and Lapis though, or whatever complex situation Rutile & Padparadscha had, or whatever are the ramifications of dusted gems coming back to life only to find almost everything they knew is gone and they have to live a new way of life without ever having asked for this :/

Not saying she shouldn't have done it at all, but the lack of extra time to introduce it made it feel pretty ooc to me. Especially given that "everybody has to die at some point" has been admitted as a plot point for a long time, so rushing it wasn't necessary at all. It also feels like there's a lot of missed opportunities...

That's not even mentioning things like the admirabilis, or earth stuff like the ice floes, but i'm still holding onto the hope there might be some more answers for that in the upcoming chapters. I'm also waiting to see if there's interesting stuff in the vol 12 booklet (though i'm not getting my hands on it, so i'm not sure if anything will be shared), but i'm not expecting much either though, but at least it might be fun!

+ regarding ichikawa being burned out, i'm not sure. I do think hnk is important to her because she put a lot of effort into it even when it's not necessary (cf artbooks, updated pages for manga releases, etc). If i had to guess, either she 1. happened to have a different vision of the story and she's fine with that, and/or decided on a deadline (ch108?) and eventually realized she was running late and had to scrap things/rush the story a bit and couldnt say everything she wanted to. The second option seems doesn't seem unlikely to me since hnk can only go so far with 20 pages per month, and she's trying to supplement it with additional material.

Either way yeah, i don't exactly know how hard hnk is on her since she takes hiatuses pretty liberally when she's working on other projects. A hiatus is still pretty different from a finished series though, so you may be onto something if she is trying to diversify her line of work...?

#TUMBLRS EDITOR DELETED CHUNKS OF TEXT LIKE 3 TIMES i had to rewrite. sorry the last part is a bit tldr but violence&hatred for this websute #i hadn't talked about hnk for a while whoa.... pretty much my thoughts on anything ever since the gems arrived on the moon #disclaimer a lot of what i'm saying pertains to my own enjoyment etc etc i don't write a lot so i'm not qualified to speak too much on it #asks

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obligatoryidolblog · 2 years

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Crybaby (On the Phone) - Chan, Stray Kids Drabble

Genre: angst

Pairing: Chan/Female!Reader

Warnings: none

Summary: Based on the song Crybaby (On the Phone) by Mom Jeans. I will be doing a series of drabbles based on this group's discography.

A/N: I've not written in ages, so don't expect much. This is super short for my usual writing, and kinda shit, but I had the slightest bit of inspiration, so here we go, I guess. I love Mom Jeans. so I will be writing several stories based on their music, as I find the lyrics super inspiring. I don't expect anyone will actually read them, but hey, here we are.

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“Hey, where’s _____,” Chan heard filter through the noise of the party around him.

The question wasn’t directed at him. Why would it be? You weren’t his anymore. A clammy palm distantly tightened around a silent phone. Swallowing, he felt himself push to his feet, shoving his way out of the crowded frat house and into the crisp cold of the night air. No invading questions here. No one to remind him.

No one to witness his shame.

Taking a deep breath, feeling his head spin from the shots he’d downed earlier in the night, Chan lifted the back screen to his face. Trying to bring it into focus, he sighed at the many notifications, none from you. He knew you wouldn’t contact him. You’d ‘moved on,’ leaving him alone, lost in the misery that had driven you away in the end.

The ever-present tears welled up, as he once more opened his contacts, finger hovering over your name. You weren’t going to answer, he knew that. You hadn’t answered since that night. The moment he pulled away from your apartment with all his belongings stuffed into Felix’s SUV, you’d erased him from your life. The image of your silhouette in the doorway as you closed the door in finality haunted his every moment.

Swiping to close the contacts, he quickly tapped on the text app, and opened the one-sided conversation he’d been having with your number. Pausing, he collected his scattered, alcohol soaked thoughts as much as he could, then typed.

“i miss you”

The text sent, and he watched again as no bubble indicating a response was underway popped up. Swallowing thickly, he dropped to sit on the steps leading up to the noisy frat house, and distantly he heard someone laughing wildly. Shaking his head in a futile attempt to clear his thoughts, he inhaled the cold air and gave in again to the need to hear your voice.

Tears blurring his eyes again, he called, hearing the ringing of your phone. It was almost a comfort to know that he could at least still hear the proof that his calls were going through to your phone. That you would have to acknowledge in some way that he still lived. That he still loved you. That he was in pain, and missed you. Even if it was just through seeing his name on your screen.

Finally, voicemail picked up. Sniffling back the sound of tears, attempting in vain to hide how pathetic and unlovable he was in that moment, he listened to the robotic voice ask him to leave his message after the beep.

Inhaling, he mumbled, “Sorry, I know you said not to call, but…”

Chan attempted to control the waver in his voice, remembering your harsh words, telling him to move on, not to cry, that you were done with him. Luckily, voicemail couldn’t show the tears streaming down his face.

“I just wanted to say I’m sorry. For whatever, I don’t even know what the hell I did wrong, _____,” he went on, his voice raising, becoming more frantic as the alcohol-fused emotion became evident in his tone.

“I just… I miss you,” he finished lamely, the emotion draining from him.

You wouldn’t listen to it. He knew that, somewhere deep inside. You’d cut him out of your life with precision. Jabbing at the screen, he ended the call, then threw the phone with all his might, dropping his head into his hands. All he wanted was some closure, but he knew it wasn’t coming. You were gone, and he was left alone, just a crybaby on the fucking phone.

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pemprika · 1 year

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Hello, my goodness it's been a very long time since I've last read HNK. I thought it ended already until I saw your tags on the newest chapters. So I went to look it up and was in utter disbelief to find out the last time I'd read it was December 2020?! I'd missed out on everything from the hiatus to the return to its near end??? Well. Thank you for reminding me of the story! I wanted to ask what your thoughts were on the latest two chapters, and if you think the story is wrapping up in a way that stays true to its essence. Admittedly, I feel for Phos and I dislike when characters like them don't get some form of closure, a sort of peace they're allowed to have after dealing with such loss/tragedy/etc.

** hnk spoilers ch 98-99

omg!! i'm happy to hear you decided to pick it up again! it's been one emotional roller coaster since the series returned from its hiatus... and i think it might just wrap up within a volume's worth of chapters...(not ready™)

i assume you're talking about ch 98-99! the pacing of the last few chapters has been fast for me, so i feel like i still haven't properly digested everything.... but i still love it.

i don't have much to say about it honestly.. i think it pretty much ended up how i envisioned phos' ending would be like-- left isolated all alone on earth for all eternity, though, i didn't expect the subtle hopeful turn of events from the latest developments in ch 99. i loved the little rock conversing with phos-- their presence and simple perspective really helped phos put their troubles into a broader pov.

it doesn't make it hurt any less now that phos has finally realized all the mistakes they've made and the changes they can't reverse, but it feels like phos can at least accept their own flaws and consequences in this new lifetime of theirs. judging by how the direction of the recent chapter went, i do suspect that ichikawa has some sort of hopeful, introspective ending saved for phos. her past works always tended to be very open-ended, so i feel like she'll do the same for hnk, but i agree, it would be rlly nice to see her wrap up some bows on loose ends and give a proper, peaceful closure for phos.

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