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randomwriteronline · 3 years

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Skull Kid doesn’t move from where they sit; they say: “Wolf,” with a loud enough voice for the living breathing people around them to hear, but don’t make any effort to remove themself from where they are playing with the feathers of Wild’s Snowquill headdress.

Legend looks up from his mending to check his sorroundings. The moment he lays eyes on the excessively large dog he deflates without a noise.

“Hey,” he nonchalantly tells the beast with a greeting nod.

“It’s gonna eat you,” Skull Kid tells him without any particular emotion in their voice. The veteran gives a quiet ‘Boom!’ - a quick way he has taken up for saying he knows that’s a lie, to which the pest replies: “Yes it will. It’s going to bite off your foot and eat it.”

“No he won’t,” Wild assures them. “That’s my wolf, and he likes us too much to eat us.”

The wooden head snaps and turns completely around like some kind of owl: “IT’S THE WOLF?!” they yell while the three of them startle in place at the spook that gives them, the wolf itself assuming a defensive stance.

“Don’t scare him!” Four tries.

But the doll child has already shambled incomprehensibly to stand on four limbs like a some kind of turtle racoon and is dashing with a horrendous skittering gait towards the animal, who looks less than thrilled at the turn of events. Luckily for him the menace is detained by the Hero of the Minish, who manages to wrap his arms around the thin wooden chest and pull them upwards - though, despite the kid being about as light as a small bowl of grapes, sadly their heights match and he can’t swing them into the air, but only dig his heels in the ground and hope that stops them from crawling further.

While the smithy wrestles with the imp as they wriggle restlessly in his grip, Wild runs to protect the fierce animal: "He said don’t scare him!” he chastises them. “You’re making his fur go gray for the fright!”

Skull Kid, ignoring him, gives up all of a sudden and leans into Four completely, head turning towards his cheek: “Can I pet it?”

“Not if you run straight at him on all fours like a gods-damned Wallmaster you can’t,” Legend’s quick sharp tongue answers for both of the other heroes (and for Wolfie too, he’s certain).

Champion and blacksmith, while agreeing, share a quick conversation of glances; finally, Four sighs while a bark-like face nuzzles further into his own.

“You won’t skitter to him like that?” he asks. “You won’t scare him more?”

The kid nods.

“You promise?” Four insists.

“I promise.”

“Then, alright, you can.” and he carefully releases them.

Skull Kid wraps their arms around his neck and kisses his cheek so tenderly despite the lack of actual lips that it takes the smithy thirty seconds to process it; with a little ‘thank you Mouse’ they then turn and run as least derangedly as their excitement allows over to the large canine, hands outstretched to encounter the humid nose at the end of the long snout.

They instead fall into the thick, soft fur of the wolf’s neck, who turned just in time not to have those little fingers stick themselves in his teeth. The little imp sinks into it after a moment, hugging the animal’s large head with overjoyed giggles.

“You like the fur?” Wild asks.

There’s a confused mumbling as Skull Kid rubs their head against Wolfie, some kind of soft-soft-soft-sounding mantra as they scratch the animal’s ears and run their hands on its back. They lean into the strong shoulder so far and so bossily that they begin sliding off Wolfie, catching themself just to repeat it all over again; the wolf seems almost... Used, to this kind of mannerism, apparently not reacting in the slightest if only to lift his head slightly to get out of the child’s trajectory as they affectionately rub against him like a weird bipedal cat - though the wagging of his tail does betray just how much he enjoys this.

He sniffs gently at the wooden head and gifts it a small lick as a kiss. The kid gasps in awe, eyes glimmering and a large grin crawling all over their face. The little hands run into the wide brimmed hat and produce a stick.

“It’s for you,” they offer. “It’s a nice stick, no?”

Wolfie takes a few sniffs. Then he bites it softly and gnaws it a little.

Wild eyes his tail as it wags happily and smirks trying to imagine the farmer in place of the wolf - who is currently glaring at him, by the way. Glaring at all three of them, like he will actually bite the asscheeks off of their backsides himself if they say anything on the matter at any given time to anybody else.

“Does he like it?” Skull Kid asks as they go back to petting him.

The growl that comes from the furred throat makes them giggle while also discouraging Wild and Legend from making any remarks.

It falls on Four to snicker heartily: “He likes it, alright.”

The child grins wider and lets their face bury back inside the soft matted fur, pulling gently at it with their little hands. Softly, they begin shaking as they attempt to climb on top of the animal - at which point Legend quickly stands and tries to pry them off with little effort. At the very least he finds out that the shaking is caused by bursts of enthusiastic purring.

“Let go, come on,” he insists, “You can’t ride him like you’d ride a horse, he’s not built for that! You’re going to break his back if you sit on it!”

Some kind of howling ‘mrrrap!’ escapes the imp, sounding like a protest.

“I know you’re light, but that doesn’t change anything!”

“Gold’s right, you know.” Four interrupts them. He grabs the wooden arm and pulls it down, succeeding where the veteran is failing and guiding Skull Kid towards the rear: “You need to sit near his tail, on the hipbones. Pat here - you should feel them. Most of the other bones are too thin to hold somebody up, but those ones are bigger and stronger, and won’t have a problem.”

“They won’t?”

“They won’t,” he assures them laughing, “He holds me up just fine when I sit on there, and you weigh even less than me.”

Skull Kid lets him sit them up on Wolfie, who immediately takes them for a trotting spin as soon as they are secured on his back.

Legend gently hits the back of the smithy’s head: “How come they listen to you and nobody else?” he demands to know, his tone grumbly while he looks at the pest have the time of their life.

Four smiles: “Because I’m their favorite,” he answers smugly.

“My friend is my favorite!” Skull Kid corrects. Wolfie turns back so they can lean closer to the smith with a sharp grin: “But you’re very nice,” they add, and bonk his forehead with a smooch.

“And we aren’t?” the veteran insists.

“No.”

He glares at them: “You’re a pest.”

“And I’ll kiss the wolf!” they reply, completely ignoring the point of the veteran’s affirmation to change the subject instead.

Wild looks at the imp lean down towards the furred snout and runs to them: “Noo, don’t kiss the wolf,” he warns as he tries to contain the round head in his hands to keep it from getting mauled,“He doesn’t like that. Wind- Sea almost got his face bitten for this, so don’t you try it.”

“I’m going to.”

“No you aren’t. I told you, he’s really selective! He only accepts kisses from pretty girls. Now, are you a boy?”

“No.”

It’s not necessarily a surprise, but it still catches him off guard.

“... Are you a girl?”

“No.”

“Ah, darn,” the cook snaps his fingers in fake disappointment: “So close.”

“I see you forgot they would need to be pretty too.” Legend reminds him.

A twig-like arm points at him: “Shut the up,” grumbles Skull Kid.

They are met with laughter.

“Shut up! You’re Stinky!” they growl at him, “You don’t know what wolves think is pretty! And he doesn’t know I’m not a girl, so I can kiss him still.”

“Well maybe he didn’t before, but he did hear you say you’re not a girl right now, you... Are aware of that, right?” Four points out, amused but not necessarily in a malicious manner.

Skull Kid frowns with their entire face, giving the impression that the wooden cogs of their little head are planning a murder while giving a cat-ish growl.

Then they stick out their tongue in defiance and dive head first into the snout.

There’s a loud CROCK!, a short scream, several curses against the gods, the oracles and all that has some sort of power in this world, and Skull Kid begins giggling while Twilight’s sturdy hands hold them up and check the bitemark.

“Want part of ‘don’t kiss the wolf, it will bite you’ didn’t you get?!” he chastises them as they keep laughing. “I don’t see what’s so funny about this! It was stupid, and it was irresponsible, and would it have killed you to wait until I turned back to normal for that?”

“But I wanted to kiss a wolf,” the child replies with all the naturalness in the world. The amber oozing from the injuries is covering them up already.

“Then you should have found another one!”

Skull Kid is moved around in the rancher’s hands like a large empty sack as he checks again if the bite cut too deep into the bark shell, sighing in relief as the imp giggles all fine and full of mischief with little orange dots glimmering on their head like weird misplaced freckles.

“They know?” Legend distracts him, eyes blown out of his skull.

Before the farmer can answer, Four cuts in: “When did you tell them?”, immediately followed by Wild as he grumbles: “And what made you think that was a good idea?”

“I’m good at keeping secrets,” Skull Kid objects.

Twilight slithers his palm under their hat and pats the wooden head: “They knew already,” he replies. “They just thought there was another wolf.”

“And I’m good at keeping secrets.” the imp insists.

“They met you as a wolf before?” Wild asks.

“We... Played tag together,” Twilight explains evasively, “And they led me to the sword, which turned me back to normal the first time I came around.”

Little hands pull at his hair and take his attention back to the vaguely ferret shaped creature wiggling in his grasp; he turns to find wide blind eyes gazing straight into his soul, and he mentally pats himself on the back when he manages not to recoil in fright at the mere sudden sight of it.

The round head tilts: “You lied,” they say cheerily.

That does confuse him.

Luckily, Skull Kid does not let him think about it: “You told me nobody else knew, but they do know. So you lied!”

“It was to make sure you wouldn’t tell anyone.”

“I wouldn’t have told anyone anyways! I’m good at keeping secrets.”

“Oh yeah?” Legend probes. “How many secrets do you know?”

“None. Or maybe I got told some but I forgot.”

“Wait a minute-” Twilight interrupts them: “-That’s the same thing you said to me! How many secrets do you actually know?”

The kid smiles wide and sharp.

“If I knew any secrets and told you so, then they wouldn’t be that secret anymore, no?” they argue with the wit of the fae.

Four smiles at their words, and the other three bregrudgingly agree.

The child giggles and settles in a comfier position in the rancher’s hands: “See,” they gloat, all proud of themself for being such a clever little thing (and quite honestly they deserve to be): “I’m good at keeping secrets.”

The veteran hums: “I’ll be the judge of that,” he grumbles. “For now, I’ll only trust you as far as I can throw you.”

The statement intrigues Skull Kid greatly, if their sudden thoughtful look is any indication. Scratching at their mouth, they begin musing: “I’m very light, I think you could throw me really far.”

“Bet you wouldn’t clear a hundred feet,” Wild smirks.

The challenge makes the little head perk up and Twilight’s blood pressure rise.

“Deal,” Legend accepts, going in to grab the child, but the farmer stands up as quickly as he can and holds them in the air with glare like death as he stops him right there: “Nobody is hurling the kid through the air!”

"But I wanna see how far Stinky can make me go," the imp squeaks.

"Well I don't!"

"Oh, right," Four nonchalantly intervenes to change the subject before it all degenerates somehow: "There's still the whole 'Stinky' thing to get sorted out."

The cook turns to Legend: "Right - you need to kiss their-"

"-The head, yes, yes, I remember that," the other finishes for him. "I don't care though, I think I'll just let it stick."

"If you don't change it back I'm giving you a worse one," Skull Kid threatens.

"Oh yeah? Like what?"

There is a pause as the child thinks.

"Tamér putén."

Legend snorts. Then, as soon as he fully realizes what he has just heard, he folds in on his stomach and begins laughing hysterically, half wheezing and half howling as hard as he can, genuine mirth erupting from him so hard that soon tears are about to spill and the other heroes are almost a little scared.

Twilight turns to Skull Kid with furrowed eyebrows and concern in his voice: "What does that mean?"

"I think it was something very vulgar," Four theorizes while Wild gently pats the veteran's back so that he doesn't choke on air while crouched on the floor with his face in his hands.

The imp just shrugs: "An adult yelled it at me," they just say.

"Definitely vulgar." the cook concludes.

Legend coughs a couple of times and finally regains some kind of composure despite his frame still shaking from sparse chuckles. When he rises to his feet he holds the blind head in his hands and with an earnestness that feels out of place for him he lands a kiss right on top of it between giggles, making the kid flush - or at least that would be the effect if they had any blood within them - and flap their ears excitedly as their grin widens.

"Never call me like that again," he tries to sound threatening as he keeps laughing, a finger pressing against the wooden nose; their only reply is an enthusiastic purr.

His face soon dives back in his palm to contain his hilarity: "That's it," he cackles, "That's it, the moment I was missing even with all my travels! I’m done, I’ve had it all! I've lived an honest to the Goddesses completely full life! After a 10-year-old threatened to permanently change my name to 'Whore Be Your Mother', I've officially gone through everything!"

“Change it to what!” the other three immediately exclaim in different flavors of incredulity mixed with wild amusement, genuinely baffled surprise, and the beginnings of what is very possibly an aneurysm.

#tloz #linked universe #skullkid #Skull kid #legend lu #wild lu #four lu #twilight lu #wolfie lu #random writing #little gremlin skull kid strikes again #as a side effect of this fic unfortunately French exists in the zelda universe now #W O W OK SO AHAH!#THIS WAS READY BEFORE THAT LAST UPDATE BUT IT WAS TOO LATE IN THE NIGHT FOR ME TO PUBLISH IT #BREAKING NEWS! I HAVE. HORRENDOUS TIMING APPARENTLY #unfortunately i dont think i will ever manage to include the update anywhere else in the series because sk would have to just.#fuck off for an unspecified amount of time and then come back with no reason #so if sk will ever find out it will be in an epilogue to these or smth #but yea!!!! fucked up that twilight fucking GETTING GOT AGAIN happened right after i finished this!!!!#(twilight Fucking Dies Again) me: oh no! (publishes this) anyways

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pascalslittlebrat · 3 years

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Fic Writer Review

Thanks for the tag @anaaaispunk 💜 sorry it took me a few days to do this love

1. How many works do you have on Tumblr?

30 works (i’m including every chapter of a series bc those count ok)

2. What are your top 5 fics by notes?

What You Want-Din Djarin (572 notes)

Say My Name- Din Djarin (539 notes)

Late Night Temptations- Sugar daddy!PP (415 notes)

KW Part1- The Incident SK!PP(414 notes)

Do It for Me- Javier Peña (367 notes)

3. What’s your total Tumblr word count?

A lot lol sorry bby’s I’m tired and have no energy to do math on my day off.

4. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes! I try to respond to every single one because I truly appreciate all the love and support I get on all my works💜

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Surprisingly, the What Hurts the Most Epilogue. It made me grin like a fool writing it.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Wish You the Best

7. Do you write crossovers?

I have not, but it would be cool to🤔

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

😂😂😂I’m sorry this made me laugh so hard. Yes I have on KW and anytime I’ve written RPF

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I like to think I write a nice mixture of soft and needy,desperate, rough smut.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of. But if I find out I have, just hope I don’t. None of us put the time and work into our fics for someone to steal it.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have not.

12. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

All time fav ship? Anytime I write the grumpy rough one being weak for the soft one.

13. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

The WIPs I started to add onto me and @mothandpidgeon sugar daddy Pedro collection and all the good smutty prompts in my inbox that I want to get to but can’t 😭

14. What are your writing strengths?

umm if you ask me, I think I have none we’re own worst critics right?😂 but I know people tell me I’m good at making you feel what I write, like bringing out emotions whether good or bad.

15. What are your writing weaknesses?

I get super excited about things and start them but then it takes me forever to finish anything because my job is very mentally draining and I just don’t have energy most days which sucks. So it just takes me forever to even get work out.

16. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I think it’s cool when people can add their own touch to it and give diversity.

17. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

lol Twilight, don’t judge me

18. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Honestly? Hermoso , my first time writing Pero and I was in a super soft place and it just makes me happy when I read it. And Deception, I know I haven’t posted it yet but the shit I have prepared for this series. Y’all aren’t ready💜

No pressure tags: @mothandpidgeon @wordsnwhiskey @starlightmornings @ezrasbirdie @danniburgh and anyone else that would like to!

#tag game

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lalaneii · 4 years

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CRASH LANDING ON YOU - Ep. 4 Epilogue

"𝑬𝒙𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒆. 𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒖𝒔?" ~ Ri Jeong-Hyeok 📸

I wasn't planning on making an entire separate post for this, but I really wanted to somehow include these thoughts in my way-too-long previous post 😂 (can you tell I'm a Lit student, lol ✌)

💭 I'm seriously just l i v i n g for these Epilogues at the end of each episode. Each one is so special and adds so much to the story. And 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 one, man 🥺🥺🥺

The thing is, Se-Ri is in no way a damsel-in-distress type of character💃

It's not that she's in need of constant rescuing, unable to save or defend herself. She totally is. She is strong and brave and an absolute go-getter.

(I mean, she's ready to jump off of a mountain trying to paraglide back home, for goodness sake 😂)

But I think her biggest crux is that she has always been so alone.

We've seen that she has practically no relationship with her family and she doesn't seem to have anything resembling a REAL connection with anyone back in South Korea.

She has built this impressive life and filled it with all kinds of things that never made her feel any less alone.

And I think that is a weight that sometimes threatens to drown her.

She has all these walls up around her (when she is in SK) and she has taught herself how to stand alone and face everything head-on without ever letting herself lean on anyone else, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 she's never had anyone else.

But I think she hates it and she's struggling because of it. She doesn't want to live if this is how she has to live.

So I think that, when Ri finds all these different ways of guiding her to safety (both in the market and on the bridge in Switzerland), this safety isn't only something material or physical. It's an emotional sense of security in another person, someone other than herself.

He shows her that she's not an island, floating around and having to uphold herself. It's like he's coaxing her out of that loneliness she's so trapped in. When he guides her to himself in both instances, he manages to bring her to a connectedness that she has spent her whole life wishing for. He lifts that weight she's struggling under by entering it with her ♡ 💭

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foxymoxynoona · 2 years

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saw ur doin a little epilogue for meadow… but ifnu have the tome and like energy cna u di a not so little epologue for it? huhuhuhu im going to miss wen and jk :( im sk attached to this story…i really want to see them be the best leaders of sk have ever seen huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu and just jk being a very protective yet an equal alpha to wens and how hell be a dad to their daughthwr…i cnat even imagine how beautiful she will be as she grows older being a mix breed of two beautiful individuals…dont even care what kind will she be once she shifts…. foxyyyy what did u do to me im blabbing m my heart out hu hi huhuhuhu and what about otto whats up w that dog will we finally know whats the heck he really is?!!!! haha ill yoongi find a partner finslly? is the deer private group really goodmpeople???!

30 yr old reader pt 2 that havent even read the last chap

huhuhu

Awww, seriously, it makes me so happy to know you're attached to them! It's funny you mention wanting to know so much more because writing the last chapter was that sense of "oh no, I could write a whole nother book just about this part of their lives" lol. I think you'll enjoy the epilogue a lot even though it may not answer every questoin here, but a lot of them! It's about 1/3 done right now but I'll wait to finish it up until I see what questions people still have coming out of this last chapter...

#asks #meadow #anonymous

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readingraebow · 4 years

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It Section Ten

Chapters 22 - Epilogue

1. What happens when Bill faces It in 1958? He starts reciting the lines that help with his stutter and It is taunting him all the while. Then he meets the Turtle, who is the creator of the universe, and realizes the existence of the Other who is the next step up from the Turtle. So there are those two and It, who is the destroyer of worlds. (So is this supposed to be a religious allegory? It is the Devil, the Other is God and the Turtle is Jesus? Something like that?) Anyway, then Bill eventually ends up "latching onto It's tongue with his mind" and hangs on long enough that he injures It quite a lot. And eventually he does yell his stutter lines without stuttering and It finally sends Bill back to his body. Back in the world, the spider is quite injured and his web starts falling down and Bill says they need to be sure that It is dead but they don't and everyone says they can feel It dying. But, well, It is only injured and they leave It to fight another day.

2. What happens when Bill faces It in 1985? So things start as before and Bill ends up in the mind space with It but he somehow misses the tongue so Richie starts yelling at the spider with his Irish cop voice and he ~locks in like Bill did before so he doesn't miss the tongue. So Bill and Richie are both ~locked in with It this time, hurting it. But then It is smarter this time and won't allow what happened last time to happen this time. So he somehow shakes Richie off and Richie starts loosing his hold on the tongue.

3. What happens to Eddie when he hears Richie's distress call? When Richie loses the tongue, he calls for someone to help. Eddie hears this and pulls out his inhaler. He believes in the same "magic" from when he was a child and he shoots the inhaler straight into the spider's eye. This works and hurts the spider and then Eddie ends up with his arm in the spider's mouth so shoots the inhaler straight down Its throat. Well, the spider ends up just biting off Eddie's whole arm. The inhaler works in hurting It but It also kills Eddie =/

4. What happens when Bill and Richie follow It to Its layer? They finally manage to kill It. They both reach into the flesh of It and are hurting it but Bill crushes Its heart and It, finally, dies. Richie, however, ends up unconscious and Bill has to carry him out of the layer back to Ben, who killed all of Its spider eggs. But It is finally dead and that's when all of Derry begins to crash down around It.

5. What happens when the Losers come out of the sewer in 1958?Stan finds a broken bottle and cuts the hands of each of the seven. So they do a ~blood brothers kind of thing. And they each swear to come back and finish It off if It isn't really dead. And Bill realizes that never again are all seven of them together. Four of them are often together, sometimes five. A few times six and sometimes groups of two or three. But never again are all seven of them together.

6. What happens to each of the Losers, this time including Mike, as soon as they each return to their lives after Derry?They start forgetting again, this time including Mike. Mike calls Richie and at first, Richie lets it go to the machine because he doesn't know who Mike is. Then Mike asks him Stan's last name and Richie can't remember and Mike only does because he looks it up in his address book. Even Bill starts forgetting and can't remember Eddie's last name. And, eventually, the names even fade from Mike's address book. They have really killed It this time and there's no need for any of them to ever come back to Derry. And there's no need for them to remember each other or what happened there. So they all forget.

7. How does Bill revive Audra? Bill and Audra were staying at Mike's house until he was discharged from the hospital and Audra had been catatonic since they pulled her out of It's layer. Bill had been watching her for days but with absolutely no change. There was nothing physically wrong with her, her mind just wasn't present. So Bill has a crazy idea but it's the last thing he can think to do. So when Mike says he's going to be discharged from the hospital, Bill takes Silver and sticks Audra on the bike behind him. He's just about to pull her hands around his waist when she puts them there herself. It's the first voluntary movement she's done in days. So Bill rides and Audra wakes up and comes back to him.

8. What did you think of this novel? So *cue no one's surprise* I hated this book. I think it was a good idea and, at the base of it, was a good story. But it was just waaaay too long and repetitive. I spent most of the timing having to force myself to read it because I just dreaded it so. I just really did not enjoy this experience at all. I have always been really hit or miss with Stephen King and this was a huge miss for me. I probably should've just stuck with the movies and not even tried the book since I really prefer the movies? At least, the mini series from the 90s since I've yet to see the new ones. (I will definitely be doing that now but they already look better than this book.) I guess, I just like that filmmakers cut out all the unnecessary crap and actually make this a good story. Because it is a good story. I just think SK executed it rather horribly. *sigh*

Section Ten Reading Journal

Okay. So I don’t really have much more to say about this book except that I’m so glad it’s finally done. Part of me is sorry for picking this book, and putting all of you through this, but I also know this is the only way I would’ve ever read it. So I guess I’m glad I’ve finally read it and I’m not left wondering? But, wow, was it hard to get through.

I really did not enjoy this last section. It felt too long and drawn out (but what part of this book didn’t?) and it felt like there was a lot of unnecessary cleanup work at the end. I honesty don’t care what happened to Derry during the fall of It. I found those sections boring and I was already so fed up with this book that reading them was just another instance of “will you get on with it already????”

I didn’t like that the timeline moved back and forth between the past and present so confusingly. I kind of hate that this book wasn’t written with a linear timeline, particularly because of this section. And being lost in the mind with It and “biting his tongue” just seemed so stupid to me???? This was probably the least frightening horror novel I have ever read. You had a spider and instead you made the death take place inside some other world. That-- that is so stupid.

And I don’t even want to talk about (or think about ever again) the child orgy. Why is that even in this book in the first place? That was completely unnecessary. Most of this book was unnecessary.

Okay I’m going to quit ranting now because if I don’t, I will never stop. I hated so many things about this book. I wish it would’ve just stuck with Pennywise haunting them as children and as adults and cut all the unnecessary crap. Because this was a tough book to get through. And I just honestly can’t believe I’m FINALLY done reading it because it felt like it would never end. And I kind of can’t believe that I never have to read this again and I can finally read literally anything else. What a blissful, glorious day.

#trcbooks #choice: it #reader's choice reading list

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kaoarika · 5 years

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As a follow up to this post, it’s my command to finish it with my thoughts of "Favorite Part”’s last chapter.

(I think this could wait until the ENG fan translation is completed, but... you know, my feels are all raw right now).

And the thing is, it proved me wrong with my worries, and the finale felt satisfying in the way the message of the webtoon was all about in the first place.

The way to accept oneself is a long and hard way.

We are somehow expected to live by what the society tells us to live for, their norms and what not. And, in a way, they influence us in the worst way possible.

Well, I speak as a westerner... I cannot imagine how hard it could be for more conservative Asian countries, like South Korea, were people have their standards of beauty even more screwed up than we do and there’s little to nothing body positivity in media than in western countries do have (which isn’t much more better, especially as yours truly lives in Mexico... but...).

As I have been talking about “Favorite Part” as a whole, this series is too special to me. Especially as an adult.

Sure, you can find more body positivity in western works where creators try to give us more diversed physical-looking characters as main characters. But it’s definitely strange in eastern works. And while I love stuff like Gintodo’s “Pattissiere-san to Ojou-sama”, or Hirama Kaname’s “Pochamani”, there’s actually a very few which deal with self-love and acceptance (like the afforementioned “Pochamani” or Ikuemi Ryo’s “Cousin”, although it’s been a while since I’ve read it, and it gets a bit more complicated there) where everything isn’t so easy as we are tied up to what society dictate us to act or live with.

And Tarly’s "Favorite Part” doesn’t start pretty.

Woojoo isn’t likeable at first, nor she looks pretty, as she is living with how the society perceived her, and making her think that her standards in men are wrong because she is fat, in a way others seem to think, “lol, she doesn’t deserve to be with a hot guy”.

And she does a lot of mistakes in the way. and it isn’t until she meets Hanbyeol (and after Minwoo’s accident) that she realizes that she needs to see herself in a better light.

But when I speak about “self-love”, I also have to bring “acceptance”.

Similar to Woojoo, Hanbyeol also has a certain type of taste that may qualify him as a “chubby chaser” (hence the quotations marks) and that society perceives as wrong or they make him look as a pervert, just because he likes chubby gals instead of slimmer ones. Especially when he is this tall, handsome, and slim guy.

The thing is, these are their preferences in what they find attractive in other people. What they find superficially attractive, at best. And, after the prologue, they kinda want to change that to prove that they can find love in someone else outside their preferences... except it just doesn’t work that simple, and they just end up hurting themselves due to high expectations of “moving on” from these.

I’m not sure if I can explain it right now well, but... okay... I’m trying, lol.

So, in the final chapters, they accept that these are their preferences (their weaknesses, if you may refer them to such), that they don’t have to live up with what society tells them to. Besides, they like each other, isn’t that enough already? They each have something that each other likes too much, and, besides that, they have a wonderful friendship, so, what? It’s just a part of a whole package.

From what I understand from the comments (and this could be taken with a grain of salt at the moment I’m writing this, sorry m(_-_)m, as I could be VERY wrong until I have an ENG TL at hand ), the last conversation they have seems to be something (?) along the lines of “I love you the way you are, but I wouldn’t have an issue if you suddenly (decided to) physically change(d), because I already love you and that wouldn’t change a bit in our relationship”.

And the sweet thing is that, I think Woojoo remembers that she kinda felt “attracted” to Hanbyeol when he was fat. Perhaps it wasn’t that he had a pretty face (ymmv! I found him cute!) or a slim body (qualifying him to be a “flower boy”), but he was a nice companion and a friend - someone she quite enjoyed her time with in the start (with all the “dates” they had), and the mixed feelings she had afterwards he confessed to her that he liked her because “she was someone genuine/real” just were surreal to her because no one ever told her that before, so, what to feel with that, though?. He was genuinely the first man who treated her as a woman.

So, perhaps... I think the sudden image of him being overweight crossing her mind is just... if it happened again, it wouldn’t change her feelings at all, she realized - because that’s how she first met him. She loves him and that’s what matters. He loves her and that’s what matters.

As someone pointed out in the comments some chapters ago, Woojoo (Universe/Microcosmos) finally realized that she fell in love of the one star (Hanbyeol) important to her.

The epilogue shows us a scene a couple of years later, I guess, with Woojoo finally being what she wanted to be... but also, and more importantly, showing us that she doesn’t need to hide her preferences (I mean, we ALL can appreciate who looks pretty) and weaknesses, and simply laughing it off in a more positive light. And, the important thing, she looks happy. Sure, still overweight (!!!!) but, happy.

My shipper heart is a bit... broken in the sense that I wish Hanbyeol also appeared in there (in a passing by mention), lol, but... FP was more Woojoo’s story, so concluding things with her being a total 180° version of the initial shy and pitiful girl who had a crush on a classmate who didn’t even know her name is, amazing.

But, you know... it’s also a bit open to interpretation on their relationship. I want to believe they are still together at that point in time and that she accepting her weaknesses is the same as a bunch who can appreciate a cute guy or girl even if they are in a relationship, you know? Perhaps, Hanbyeol is doing his military service (highly possible due to they living in SK? and he being in his early 20s) or continuing his education, too... And, tbh, I think it would be plain unfair if they were no more because it was a LONG WAY these two had to go to become an item at the end... So, hopefully it isn’t like that?

Also, even though I appreciate Hanbyeol and Woojoo both holding hands, etc... (it was symbolic in sense, I admit) I WISH I HAD ANOTHER KISS, GOSH, TARLY, WAS THAT TOO MUCH TOO ASK??? (I MEAN, I ALSO SUCK IN DRAWING KISS SCENES, BUT THE FANSERVICE IS TOO MUCH TO GIVE IN!!!)

But even if it’s going to be difficult to say the series goodbye (and so, not having another thing that I LOVED too much to follow weekly anymore), I think with the ENG fan translation*, I can fall in love of the characters and the story again. But now in a sense that there is not going to be a language barrier anymore to enjoy it, so I can appreciate it even more. :)

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(*) That and... (or?) a potential ENG license by LINE, but, lmao, I still don’t bet too high on that.

#kao's ramblings #Favorite Part #spoilerish spoilers

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