Tiny Gays!!!!

being a true whitaker fan means that you are required to be a santos defender. it's what he would want.

still can’t believe santos and whitaker are roommates, like it’s a thing that’s actually going to happen and there will definitely be a scene where they call each other trinity and dennis. it feels like something a writer on ao3 would come up with but its actually a bunch of writers maximizing their joint tv vet realness.

sangwoo worrying over gihun <3

Why is the pride of Ssang-mun Dong, the great Doo Sang-woo of SNU, here? Rolling around in this shit hole with a dimwit like me?

sangihun comfort sangihun comfort sangihun comfort sangihun comfort

little sang-woo crying his eyes out because he thinks he's dying (he has a cold) and gi-hun reassuring him and holding him "i'm going to infect you, hyung" "shh.. you already would have done so."

sang-woo getting absolutely abysmal headaches and gi-hun kissing his forehead trying to "kiss the headaches away" and sang-woo pretends it works so he can get more kisses

in high school: gi-hun getting into a bad fight at school like the rebellious little shit he was, later knocking on sang-woo's window with bruises. sang-woo calls him a fucking idiot while icing his wounds

baby sangihun kissing each other's bandaids when they'd scrape their knees

young sang-woo being afraid of thunderstorms because of their loudness and struggling to sleep and gi-hun attempting to make him feel better

💗💗💗💗

on the pitt and its writing

I actually cannot get over how the pitt is so good at like. trusting its viewers to catch onto things while fully not giving any information at all. I don't know if I explained that correctly. but we literally are not told a single thing unless it's immediately relevant to the story or one of the characters.

we don't learn about mckay's ankle monitor until it goes off, and we never even learn why it's there because it's not immediately relevant to anything going on. we don't learn the details of why langdon needs the pills, only that the pills stem from something that happened to him. abbot's prosthetic is never mentioned until the very end because, shit, dude, he's probably in so much pain after that shift he needed to take it off to relax. nothing is explained because the characters know what they've gone through and they don't feel the need to talk about it, or it's not necessary for them to talk about it. and when we learn about stuff from the environment or the way the characters are acting, like with princess and perlah's friendship and javadi's insistence on being taken seriously and literally everything between collins and robby. it's all storytelling through implication and sometimes it's really obvious (like with javadi) and sometimes it's not (like with langdon) and sometimes it's just really good for setting up character reveals (like with santos).

this show is kind of a masterclass on the perfect balance of showing and telling, and it knows exactly when to use one, the other, or neither. and somehow it works every time???? jesus christ I need the writers team to win everything during the upcoming awards season.

Specific sensory experiences I think Gihun would find triggering from his time in the games:

- Hearing the endless ticking of a clock. Imagine it wearing on him with each soft sound, filling him with panic as the seconds pass by, convincing his nervous system that something awful will happen when time is up.

- Losing his footing. Have you ever walked on glass or ice or another slick surface, especially on your socks? It’s easy to slip. He also lost his footing during tug of war and was hanging off the edge for a terrifying moment, so I think that moment of adrenaline when he slips would be hard to recover from.

mi-nyeo was the epitome of gaslight gatekeep girlboss. she made a promise and she stuck to it.

Please tell me this hasn’t been done yet