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a shark apologist in several fandoms

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"George, contrary to what the movies would have you believe, sharks rarely attack humans." (aka the only good line in RAN). Posts about Criminal Case, Pokemon, and Nancy Drew. (Really, whatever I'm interested in.) I'm sharkyena_queen on Instagram, sharkyenaqueenm on TikTok, and SharkGirlNirea on Archive of Our Own.

Look I know I already said this before but I feel like it really just dawned on me how much of a madlad Jinu is to wait until Gwi-ma was desperate and starving only to go and basically try to pull an uno reverse card on him. Like, that's really what he did.

I can only imagine what the other SjB were thinking when Jinu laid out his plan.

“Alright, so after Gwi-Ma publicly executes someone and is ranting to us, I’m going to start playing a diss track as I dramatically make my way through the crowd, and then I’m going to talk to him and then you’ll walk up behind me in formation from where I’m going to plant you exactly in the crowd, and then we’re going to float up to him, and then when I give the signal, we’re going to pose, and then when he inevitably laughs at us, I’ll snap my fingers, and we’re going to glamour ourselves, and then—“

Like how many times did they rehearse that

And sometimes, when those kinds of thoughts are heavy in her mind, Rumi ends up at her laptop, watching videos in the gloom of an early morning where she can't be so easily discovered by her friends. She types 사자 보이즈 and watches as videos from variety shows and interviews load on the results page. Jinu's face is almost always front and center in the thumbnails.

Click.

There is no sincerity in the way the Saja Boys answer questions from overeager reporters. Beneath the alluring smiles and false stories, there are demons who are working hard to prepare a feast for their master. She watches Jinu talk, though — slippery like a snake with his false charm, playing his part so cautiously. She knows what that's like, maybe now more than ever.

Lying, putting on appearances... hoping that it will all pay off in the end and you can be just a little less unhappy.

It makes her heart ache, as she brushes her fingers across the screen. All she can see is the indecisive, nervous man who had taken her extended hand; the pain in his expression when he'd wanted nothing more than to believe in her; how soft his eyes had looked when they smiled back at her. Her patterns ache miserably.

They light up across her skin as she leans in and kisses the small, pixelated version of him on her screen.

He just talks beneath her lips, a phantom, unaware of where he would be days after this video ends.

The following silence is punctuated by a soft groan, and she rubs her temples. "... What the hell am I doing?"

On her screen the interviewer asks: "And what's something about you that your fans don't know?"

"Well," Jinu says, looking caught off-guard despite himself, "I'm... a cat dad?"

Bathed in the glow of his colors, Rumi laughs, surprised by the sound as it leaves her.

Absolutely diabolical that the lyrics to What It Sounds Like include the verse:

We're shattering the silence, we're rising, defiant, Shouting in the quiet, "You're not alone". We listened to the demons, we let them get between us. But none of us are out here on our own

Be we just saw that Celine has been left very much on her own

Anonymous asked:

rumi being able to predict where jinu lands because he laughs as he teleports...boi was not taking the fact that he could legiterally die seriously 😭 (and we love him for it!)

It's a reasonable assumption, but I don't tend to think she could predict it because he laughed--I like to think it was because his pose was very unbelievable compared to the rest of the attacks he'd done, so she guessed it was a bluff, and then guessed (correctly) that he would probably aim for the side of her that's open and unguarded, aka her back.

It's something that was really interesting in 0.25 speed as well, actually! Most of Jinu and Rumi's back-and-forth I needed to watch on 0.25 to really understand the flow of the action and each individual attack, because they were moving so fast. But you hit that pose and it slows way down compared to all his other attacks... because he's posing, not attacking.

Look at how wide fuckin open he is, not guarding himself well at all, arms out, chest easily cleaveable, poised to strike in the direction her sword will be swinging at him--she swings that sword and he's dead immediately. Compare to Rumi, who in her position is much better set up to block any swings from his claws--either with her forearm or with her sword. She's much better protected than him, because she's actually fighting to follow through on this beat.

I think Jinu laughing is a fun little detail, but ultimately, him laughing doesn't really give Rumi much more information than she already knows--which is that he's moving through this fight with an annoying amount of laid-back-ness. I mean, he already had his whole "I need my face to steal your fans" comment, and he's grinning for like half the fight--laughter doesn't mean anything specific or sneaky at this point, it's just a continuation of that attitude.

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A tense silence drapes across the hollowed out earth, as palpable as its cold sting. Then — lights bursts like capillaries and paint his world red, staining everything with color and filling the ridges and grooves with shadows. Music warbles to life as though coming from an old misshapen vinyl record; it churns out a beat marred by hatred, by contempt, and he recognizes it just well enough that it sends a chill down his spine. Hushed voices laced with venom sing, “Takedown, takedown-” With hands still bracing his body upright, Jinu wills himself to look over his shoulder. Dressed in sequin-lined costumes, Mira and Zoey stand side-by-side and chant in pitch-perfected unity, their hooded eyes marked with disdain as they drink in the sight of him, of his half-clothed form swaying with pitiful exhaustion. Overhead, the backing track reeks of mockery. “Takedown, down, down, down.” A single useless word ekes out from his lips: “What?” “It’s a takedown,” they tell him, in sync as their bodies launch forward to meet his.

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