#a killer paradox spoilers

[srdcovka]

lee tang fullfiling his personal goals and gaining confidence after becoming a professional murderer is so funny

#thank u for giving choi woo shik a good haircut #i hate that son suk ku is playing a cop but i'll take what i can get ig #he looks good w beard or whatever 🙄 #also oh my god why are all the women in this dead or minor characters it annoys me #a killer paradox #a killer paradox spoilers

[catrlarbeno]

I can't believe that lee tang and jang nangam interacted for three minutes in the entire tv show

#a killer paradox #a killer paradox spoilers #lee tang #jang nangam #choi woosik #son sukku #opening my google doc rn #they should have kissed with tongue or smth

[wouriqueen]

I kind of really enjoy how in the end Tang doesn't encounter a big change in personality and just keeps on going with the flow.

His first big, thought-out, independent decision was not getting on that boat and instead going back to save Roh Bin and finish things up himself. But he fails to do both. Second big decision is trying to end himself - and he actually pulls the trigger. But that fails too. Third one was to wait in southern Asia for the police to catch up to him. And they do - but Nan Kam did not denounce him so his record is clean !

So he just goes back to going with the flow aka the path Roh Bin and his strange powers have drawn up for him LOL

Oh well. He hasn't changed but he's gained a direction at least haha. Good for him (?)

#we need more sad useless powerless protagonists #I wouldn't have thought of that for vigilante murderer but this works ! #a killer paradox #my posts #a killer paradox spoilers

[drrav3nb]

So you think you're God? You've never killed someone before...It's not easy to kill. Until you get used to it.

#a killer paradox #son sukku #choi wooshik #kdrama #kdramaedit #korean drama #kdramadaily #kdramanetwork #kdrama netflix #netflixedit #netflix #kdramagifs #asiandramanet #asiandramasource #kdramasource #spoilers in the tags #the 1st half of this show was amazing but the 2nd not so much imo #i feel it lost focus once the ex-cop got introduced and Lee Tang became a secondary character instead of the main protagonist #plus it stopped focusing on the cat and mouse chase between Lee Tang and Jang Nan-gam - which is the best part of the show #the ending teases a possible sequel so I hope if that does happen they focus on their relationship and their dynamic

[we-will-fall-in-hell-together]

can i just say everytime the transition between old and young chong took place, i was so astounded cause it's done so well in fact all the transitions were delicious scrumptious and gnawable !!!

#a killer paradox #can i just say i have so many thoughts but i genuinely lack the mental capacity to comprehend them about this show #so many DILFS god the show was yummy #a killer paradox spoiler #son sukku #choi wooshik

[greenteabelle]

on episode 4 of a killer paradox and wow i have ideas

like , a grim reaper au where jang nangam is the grim reaoer who's tired of being sent out to reap lee tang's soul , who just can't seem to die .

one day , he's supposed to get hit by a delivery truck , so jang nangam is just standing by the road , waiting . then just a split second before lee tang crosses the road , he bends down to tie his loose shoelaces and the truck just whizzes right past him .

on another day , lee tang is supposed to get mugged by some rando and die , so jang nangam is looking down at the alleyway from the rooftop of a building . then the mugger trips over his groceries and just drops dead ( imagine if it's fresh fish lee tang was excited to try to make sashimi out of when he got home ) .

then on yet another day , lee tang genuinely tries to jump off a building because he's sick and tired of having near-death experiences every other day .

then .

he lands on a discarded mattress .

idk if i want lee tang to be able to see jang nangam or no , because either way it would be so funny . imagine you almost see your life flash before your eyes and you're thanking whatever god you believe in , only to look up and see a 40-year-old man fall to his knees in despair .

#also i'm hoping that this drama doesn't have a tumblr fandom like most dramas #idk what crimes i would commit if i got spoilers from a reblog or reply #lee tang is genuinely so funny to me like he's trying his best #jang nangam is also trying his best to not lose his goddamn mind #they fill me with joy #a killer paradox #lee tang #choi wooshik #jang nangam #son sukku

[leekimdramas]

A Killer Paradox Review

Did I just watch this drama because Son Suk Ku looks hot? Yes, I did.

Lee Tang is a university student who works part-time at a convenience store. But one night he gets assaulted by a man and as Tang defends himself, he kills the man.

I think the start of the drama was quite silly: Tang's killing relied on luck every time and it was interesting to see how he would get away this time.

But it did frustrate me a bit because he was an idiot and thank goodness there was someone to help him.

The second half of the drama focuses on a previous killer exactly like Tang and I get why everyone lost interest.

Plus it was more serious which is understandable because Tang grew as a killer but shifting focus did not work for one of the reasons...

There is never really a point where you want to root for the police or even Tang.

In this kind of series, the viewers are usually made to root for the 'bad guy' in this case Tang but even if he died I would not care.

He was shown mostly as a silent character, he's just there to kill.

We get to see his mind in the beginning when he just killed someone and how he is dealing with it. After that, we don't get much of that.

The police officer, Nan Gam did not do a lot. He was one of the police officers who was always a few steps behind and was the only one who believed that there was more to the murders.

To add, he is the one who gets his fists talking first which is annoying.

I guess the only character I understood and enjoyed seeing on screen was Roh Bin, the helper. He had an interesting backstory and was very smart.

To sum it up, it's an okay drama. I have to agree with all the people who said it fell flat in the second half of it.

There were also two nudity scenes. It was also for like two seconds, so my question is - why??

I think it would have been better it if was a film. Or maybe make people more invested in characters instead of showing a new one (though I have to say his story was interesting).

7.5/10

#a killer paradox #kdrama #review #spoiler free

[love-me-a-lotta-whump]

살인자o난감 - A Killer Paradox - Whump List - 🇰🇷

Whumpee: 이탕 (Lee Tang) played by 최우식 (Choi Woo Shik)

Synopsis: The story follows Lee Tang, an ordinary college student, who gets into an argument with a customer during a part-time job at a convenience store at night. He is attacked and unconsciously swings a hammer, killing his attacker. Suffering from guilt and fear of murder, Lee Tang learns one day that the person he killed was a serial killer and slowly realizes that he has a supernatural ability to identify bad people. He soon becomes a dark hero who punishes people who committed unethical evils in the past. (MDL)

Genre/Tags: Thriller, Cop/Crime, Little to No Romance, Vigilante, Superpower, Trauma, On the Run, Constant Emotional/Mental Whump, Beaten

Watch On: Netflix (Original), DramaCool, KissAsian

⚠️ CAUTION: attempted s**cide at 38:00 in ep. 1.02⚠️

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW

1.01 : slapped, beaten, (flashbacks/present day: bullied, scared, kicked, fighting back, scared), panicked, fell, visual/audible hallucinations, crying, (imagination: in handcuffs, scared, manhandled) ::: anxious, paranoid ::: anxious, crying ::: anxious ::: visual/audible/tactile hallucinations

1.02 : woke up with blood on his face ::: anxious ::: stressed, threatened ::: implies he hasn’t eaten in 4 days ::: attempting s**cide multiple times, concern for him, manhandled, punched in the stomach, fell to his knees, groaning, holding his stomach, isolating himself ::: emotional ::: woke up with blood on his face, stressed

1.03 : anxious ::: stressed ::: nearly hit by a moped, fell, hurt his arm, concern for him, groaning ::: in an ambulance, cut lip, holding his arm ::: arm treated in the hospital ::: arm in a sling ::: anxious ::: (flashbacks: beaten, fought, beaten, fought, collapsed) ::: (flashbacks: unconscious, helped to walk, laid on the floor of his apartment) ::: concern for him

1.04 : (flashbacks: homeless ::: asleep) ::: (flashbacks: unconscious, helped to walk, laid on the floor of his apartment)

1.05 : (nightmare: visual/audible hallucinations) ::: anxious ::: visual hallucinations, scared, chased, tripped, scared

1.06 : (nightmare: choked out) ::: thrown over a table, kicked, hit repeatedly, held down with a hand over his mouth, stumbling ::: bloody mouth, crying

1.07 : crying ::: emotional

1.08 : at gunpoint, shot at, fought, at gunpoint, concerned for someone, scared, emotional, crying, at gunpoint, nearly stabbed, saved ::: at gunpoint, shaking, fell to his knees, sobbing, shaking, in a burning building, scared, crying ::: anxious ::: held by police

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#whump #asian whump #whump list #whumplist #asianwhump #kdrama #kwhump #a killer paradox #살인자o난감

[anfie-in-the-box]

X-tra Dark Cream & Dark Cream Week

Notes

This time there's only one work I wrote for Dark Cream Week. But what a work that is! (Well, if I haven't messed it up like I think I did.) Be warned that it contains heavy spoilers for Turns, twists, and paradoxes!

Or does it? Only time will tell!

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Eclipse

Dream doesn’t get enough sleep. These days he actually needs it to function properly, so weak he has become, as if withering away. As if dying. So far from the guardian he'd used to be, yet less naive, more experienced. Was his suffering worth it? Dream doesn’t know the answer. What he does know is that he also needs to eat, keenly aware of how brittle his bones have become underneath the liquid negativity that ruins him just as much as both negativity and positivity around. He's endlessly balancing on the thin line in between, that fleeting moment when love turns into grief, trust into betrayal, hope into despair. Then and only then his pain fades, though does not disappear completely, and there's no getting used to it. 

Dream's drowsing when his chest starts hurting so suddenly and so unnaturally he screams, the sound echoing through the Anti-Void, his sight blurry. Dream screams and screams, too afraid to check the only thing that could be wrong with him. It hurts so much, but he can't do it alone, can't make himself see his sentence. He sits up, pulls his legs to his chest, and waits for Cross to return with food that now might go to waste. 

Dream's not sure how long it takes Cross to get back. Dream doesn’t even see or hear him coming, consumed by piercing pain in his chest and overwhelming terror; not trembling, not moving, not crying. Not screaming anymore, either. He just doesn't want to die, he wants the pain to stop, but doesn't know how to express it. Do his pleas even matter? They never did. 

Cross must recognise something is wrong immediately, and when he gently touches Dream's shoulder, Dream finally manages to snap out of it. “I was waiting for you,” Dream whispers, his voice hoarse after who knows how much time of screaming. “I wanted to be with you when I…” 

Cross’ distress flares, and he asks, urgently, “What happened?” 

Dream whispers even quieter, “I think the curse has taken all of my soul. It hurts so much.” Cross looks taken aback, his worry turning into fear. The emotions soothe the pain a little, and Dream sighs and resolves to continue, “I just want you here. So you could call our family. So you all could be there when I…”

“Don't!” Cross shouts, obviously louder than intended, and his voice echoes through the Anti-Void. He keeps on in a more steady tone, “Let's see your soul first, okay? We've done it so many times already. Let it be just a normal check-up.”

“Okay,” Dream whispers. Cross’ determination has always made him stronger in a way no amount of positivity ever could. They're so lucky to have each other. 

Dream summons his soul, gasping and shutting his socket from pain and fear of the unknown. He doesn't want to die, and seeing his whole soul corrupted feels like it would solidify his death sentence. He's not ready. He wants a happy ending for Cross and Nightmare, Killer and Ccino. And there'd be no happiness for his beloved family if he died. He doesn't want to leave them. It hurts so much to think about, the same way his chest hurts from corruption. 

Dream finally opens his good socket. 

It's the most peculiar, the most mesmerising sight he's ever seen.

His soul is indeed fully black, seemingly rotten to the core. But despite the corruption, there is a gentle, warm golden light around the black apple, the same way it always used to be, only a little brighter because of the contrast of the glow and the apple itself. 

“What?..” Dream mouths without a sound, too afraid to make it worse. “It's like an eclipse,” Cross murmurs, awe and fear mixed in his voice. Then he adds, “We definitely need Nightmare.” 

“We need Nightmare,” Dream repeats, only registering his brother's name and a specific sound of a portal opening. He lets Cross help him stand up and lead him through the portal, his soul disappearing into his ribcage because he loses any semblance of control. 

Dream manages to focus on the world around him only when the door slams loudly, someone — his big brother, it's his big brother's voice, changed so much yet familiar, comforting, — Nightmare hurries to him, asking Cross, “What is it? Why are you two in different kinds of pain?” 

Oh. Dream has forgotten about the pain in his chest as soon as he saw Cross coming back to him. It hurts still, but now that there's hope… 

Cross suggests they sit in the living room, and so they do, Cross gently helping Dream onto his favourite armchair. Then, he asks Dream to show his soul once again. The pain lessens somewhat. 

It's less of a shock for the second time, but just as mesmerising. Cross was right when he said it looked like an eclipse. Dream's soul used to shine like a sun, then it got cursed and slowly glowed more and more faintly, but now that it has gotten fully corrupted (at least from the outside), it still glows. Can it be that there's still a part of the apple that was able to fight off the curse, to stay as pure as it used to be?.. 

The twins were never supposed to have souls anyway. Who knows how they work. Who knows if Dream has a chance.

“That's why you two are hurting so much,” Nightmare speaks quietly, barely a whisper. “That's why you're so afraid. Oh Dream…” 

“I don't want to die,” Dream replies. 

“I don't want to lose you,” Nightmare says. 

“We don't want to lose you,” Cross adds.

“But the glow!” Dream exclaims in a sudden burst of energy. “It's like an eclipse! It means we still have time, right? It's not forever, right?..” 

Nightmare looks him in the socket and sighs, “I don't know. No eclipse is eternal, that is true. But how this one will end, I do not know. I only know you are our sunshine, and we won't let go that easily. We'll find a way.”

Dream nods slowly. “Can I… Can I sleep here for a bit? It hurts less when I'm with you, I think.” He asks hesitantly. Nightmare and Cross both take his hands and lead him to Nightmare's bedroom.

“I'll continue researching the nature of souls, and Cross will be with you. When Killer comes back, I will send him to find the Underhelpers. They'd never give a proper answer, but a hint might be just enough. And we already know that who seeks will always find. You will be saved, little brother.”

Dream falls asleep, and when he wakes up, everything will change once again. 

After all, the eclipses are not forever. 

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Credits

Undertale © Toby Fox

Dreamtale © jokublog

Cross © xtaleunderverse

Shattered © galacii-gallery

Dark Cream and Dark Cream Week © zu-is-here

X-tra Dark Cream © me (anfie / anfie-in-the-box)

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Notes

I'm very tired, and a little anxious to post this. So just... Thanks for reading, and take care 🌻

#anfie writes #x-tra dark cream #dark cream week #dream!sans #shattered!dream #cross!sans #nightmare!sans #passive!nightmare #utmv

[pharrell-the-formation]

The long-awaited (by me) “Underground Blossom” was released today. I played, enjoyed it and want to write down some of my thoughts regarding everything shown there.

🔴 If it’s not already obvious, achtung: there are spoilers everywhere, so continue to read at our own risk! 🔴

🦜It seems that Harvey actually remained enlightened for much longer than people in fandom previously assumed. UB doesn’t shy away from metaphors, but the fact that Harvey actually replaced Laura’s parent and somehow successfully handled responsibilities of caring for a human child, as well as the fact that other, non-important children also saw the parrot precisely as an anthropomorphic bird in a suit, quite directly illustrates that this guy all this time, throughout the girl’s growing up, really was like that, and not just a normal pet parrot. I believe in this version of a story: Harvey the Hotel worker, Harvey the confidant of Mr. Owl, Harvey the Eilander family killer did not die and was not reborn, descending along the wheel of Samsara to the level of an animal. Enlightened ones simply know how to temporarily change their form to an animal-like one, and this is precisely what he did, perhaps in order to hide from the same embittered escaped corrupt souls or for some other reason. Mr Crow did something similar in “Cube Escape: Paradox,” if my memory serves me right, turning into the more familiar for us form of a crow. This would explain why Vanderboom depicted our anthropomorphic protagonist in one of her drawings as a pet parrot in a cage. And also the fact that he retains his completely human mind in animal form (demonstrated when solving puzzles in “Harvey’s box”) can be explained this way.

💧I still adhere to the idea, that Rose in this game was not really eager to resurrect Albert. This idea is rather based on my personal preferences, because Rose, who renounced her father, appeals to me as a character much more, so here I ask you not to treat this exact point as a full-fledged theory regarding canon events. Let's discard my old partially-hypothesis-partially-AU about “The past within” and “Underground blossom” being different timelines (like something similar that has already been shown before - in the Bob’s fate, where in some games he dies or commits suicide, and in “The White Door” forgets Laura and begins to live a normal life). It is clearly not the case; now it is more than clear that one game is directly connected to the other. However, here's what could happen: Miss Vanderboom receives a letter from recently deceased Albert, along with a mission to bring him back to life. Initially, she is interested in this and actively works on the task, but at some point something clicks in her and the understanding comes that it is better to leave a possibly dangerous person where he cannot harm anyone. Perhaps getting closer to her cousins ​​had an impact. So, Rose no longer wants to carry out this ritual, and this automatically calls everything into question, because even though she in the Past may have completed her part of the work, now, without her desire in the Present, she from the Future may not complete hers. A paradox. Albert's soul, of course, did not appreciate the joke and wants to make sure that his daughter does what she should, whether she wants it or not. When Harvey begins to visit to her, she already understands perfectly well that her father will not give up so easily. She understands that he will most likely try to harm her or her daughter. She understands that she may have to make very serious sacrifices so that Laura, the most precious thing she has left, does not suffer at the hands of her grandfather - and disappears from her life. Afterall, She will be better off with Harvey.

🌳 I'm still sticking to my Naraka theory. Rose somehow managed to preserve her humanity even in this form, and she thanks her old friend for all the help, and by giving her beloved daughter a piece of her soul - the petals - she helps her start living from scratch, now not suffering from psychological problems so much. I don’t know how literally the final level should be taken and how much the girl’s return to life depended on the mother (after all, in “Seasons” everything was presented kind of differently), but I think you can perceive it as you like.

To sum it up, I just want to say that “Undergroung Blossom” left me feeling incredibly warm and.. cozy? An impression that I honestly never expected from a game in this series, full of darkness, suffering and all sorts of devilry. Despite the fact that there are such things too, the theme of family and sincere care for someone dear to you runs like a red thread throughout the entire story. And all this is consolidated with such a bright ending, after which even Rose’s terrible posthumous fate is ultimately not viewed as critically as before, which... I can’t. It’s wholesome. As wholesome as Rusty lake game can be.

#rusty lake #cube escape #underground blossom #other games from the series are mentioned #laura vanderboom #rose vanderboom #albert vanderboom #harvey the parrot

[talenlee]

Can a Bird Love A Falcon

Since last year’s Locked Tomb readings got me nostalgic and retrospective, it was only a matter of time before I retreated back to earliest media of my post-cult life, the stuff that stands tall in my mind as some of my first lessons in how to be normal. So I picked the thing with a bunch of PTSD and existential horror.

Let’s talk about the Rachel/Tobias ship.

Spoiler Warning: If you’re ever planning on reading the Animorphs story, this article is going to spoil some events that happen in the last half of it. And since this is about Animorphs I guess Content Warning for war death trauma body integrity horror uh mind control uh cannibalism uh what’s the term for beating someone to death with one of your own severed limbs, that.

That.

Animorphs is a lot.

There’s not a lot of romantic material in Animorphs, but it’s there. It’s almost expertly defined in negative space – the way that actual teenagers consider and tease at the idea of boyfriend-girlfriend-joyfriend stuff without saying it, without any of it being explicit. Like nobody sits down and makes a list of reasons to want to date someone, it’s often just about emotional reactions to momentary stimuli, things that imprint on the brain and are being tested out bit by bit. It’s hard to grapple with for me to get in the right mind space, but remembering the Animorphs characters are, like, fourteen and not Anime-Fourteen but fourteen fourteen is pretty big in explaining how and why they react to things.

In that space, though, there’s the sorta-maybe-hey-thinking-about-it-do-they-kiss romance of Rachel and Tobias. Rachel is a girl repeatedly described as being hot, by her cousin, a tall, blonde girl who also is hiding the instincts of a violent warrior, a girl thrown into a war and commanded to be an adult, and she actually takes to it well. Like, in a different framing device, Rachel is the antagonist of a teen serial killer story. Tobias, by contrast, is what you might these days consider something of a droopy sadboy – floppy hair, skinny, no friends, unappreciated, bounced between abusive carers that aren’t properly parents, and then at the end of the very first story he turns into a hawk, never* to turn back again.

Oh and he’s also secretly an alien prince, but don’t worry, nobody ever tells him that.

It’s not even like it’s a complicated ship, in a lot of ways. As a loser of a boy, it was really just the shape of the most standard fantasy possible: What if there was the hottest girl in the world, who for reasons beyond both your control, had reason to hang out with you, become emotionally invested in you, and then from there, ha ha, you got ’em! You’re basically married at that point as long as no circumstances change the status quo where you get to hang around her regularly!

And then, thanks to you trying too hard and being too awesome, you have to leave your old life behind, embracing a new life, a new reality where none of your responsibilities persisted, your bad family were gone, and you have a reason to be socially connected with four extremely cool people who were probably not really your friends to start with. Oh and one of them is really hot and can kill everyone who bothers you. I mean beats up everyone. I mean she can protect you with her big, strong arms that are also fuzzy because she is a bear, and when she’s not a bear she’s basically Genius Barbie.

From her perspective, she can pick who she likes but instead of a boy who has Conventional Interests and connects to her life, she gets a boyfriend who is a secret. Also, he’s paradoxically, dangerous and very safe; they’re not sexually compatible in terms of their bodies, it’s very hard to argue that Tobias is interested in her because of her body and how their bodies relate. As a romantic partner, Tobias has to be interested in her for herself. At the same time, he’s a goddamn hawk, and hawks are really cool and badass and scary, and she can have him cruising around on her shoulder like she’s a pirate.

I obviously liked this ship as a kid because both of the halves were hot. It wasn’t just that Rachel was gorgeous but also that Tobias looked really good for kissing, and that meant they’d both have a fun time kissing, right? Obviously? This is a very straight way to consider ships, especially ships where I both wanted to be and kiss Tobias. Because again, he was hot. Right?

The canon of Animorphs actually deep-sixes the ship, early and late. There’s a middle period where the ship can happen, but there’s an after and a before, and the before is ‘when Tobias and Rachel barely know each other.’ They do eventually get a chance to do more conventional ship stuff – like holding hands and kissing – but that’s See, and I know you might not remember this: Rachel dies. Her last book is her relating her story, in her dying moments, to a god-figure, and there we get one of the enduring quotes of the series:

“You were brave, you were strong, you were good. You mattered.”

And before that quote, Rachel, reflecting on that moment, says that Tobias would not have let her get into the position where she was dying. He wouldn’t, because he loved her. And that’s some nice ship material but it would be nicer if it wasn’t happening as a character is dying.

Now you might think, hang on, this is a het ship. That’s not what I normally talk about around here! And you might be surprised, but consider this. This is a woman, and the lover who she cannot touch, who she cannot embrace, because there is a wrongness to it. The body of that lover does not properly align with their identity. The girl is positioned forever stand at a love that expresses itself through mostly, not expressing itself.

An eagle and a girl, is that not, itself, yuri?

Okay, I know it’s not. Personally, I have very little patience for ‘ah, two unrelated things is yuri’ jokes because it’s a wheelie everyone pops but also because, like, yeah, maybe it’s great to capture all the metaphorical ways we’ve suppressed women’s relatoinships but also maybe you could have them like hold hands and say they’re interested in one another. Like, that’s an option. Imagine if more yuri felt they could do that, even. What a world.

But anyway, thing is, Tobias, as a character, is a figure Important To The 90s Trans community, along with other such icons as Bugs Bunny and Ranma Saotome. There’s a fairly common thread through Tobias’ narrated books where he reflects on a determined tragedy (who he has been told he has to be) and the freedom of change (as being able to freely choose an identity and presentation through morphing). Applegate has been pretty clear that whatever vision of the characters’ sexuality and gender relationships work for you are effectively canon – they’re characters shared through the experience of reading and all that.

I’m not saying every nonbinary or trans kid from the 90s will respond to ‘Thermals’ and ‘Cinnabunzzzzz’ but a bunch will and it’s a trend worth noting.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

#Animorphs #Media

[emeraldgreaves]

I'd love to hear more about Take Your Daughter to Work Day for the finish your fics friday, please?

send me a fic title so i can add five sentences and ramble about it

“Because we could change it. We could steal some schematics and leave them in a conference room right now, and just let someone find them.” “How would you guarantee that they use them?” “I don’t know, we’d think of something.” “I have,” Sarissa says sharply. “Think about it, Gwen. Really, properly consider it. You would need to convince multiple people— Riel Syndran, chiefly, never mind our own parents—to divert their resources to publicly constructing defenses when Haven is already being rocked by major political turmoil—” “So we tell them to wait a few months.” “And why do we know how long to wait? How do we justify that information?”

in which gwen and sarissa clash over how much to interfere with their parents’ present. discussion of time travel genre beats, spoilers for terry pratchett’s night watch, and why i’m in wip-of-a-wip purgatory with this fic under the cut!

brief au context: there’s a scenario post on the shoh blog from like four years ago about how the ROs would react to their child from the future coming back, and i think that’s fun, so. fic.

one of the direct inspirations for this fic is terry pratchett’s night watch, in which sam vimes goes back in time to the very start of his police career to stop a serial killer and has to preserve the chain of events started by a citizen revolution. my main structural takeaway was the causal chain, or, the list of cause-and-effect events stretching from the past to the points in the present.

narratively, three things have to happen (examples from night watch): (1) the villain has to break the chain, forcing the protagonist to fix it (e.g. the night watch villain murdered young vimes’ original mentor, forcing him to step into that role) (2) the protagonist must also be tempted to break the chain, but ultimately upholds it for the greater good (Vimes repeatedly debating whether he could jumpstart some of the changes that make his present more stable) (3) the self-fulfilling paradox to preserve the chain (vimes being his own mentor)

so this is me taking a stab at (2). however. i do not know what the causal chain looks like because we haven’t finished the main game, so (1) and (3) are kind of in limbo. and therefore: purgatory!

usually i would just make an educated guess and move forward, but this fic will necessarily involve the difficult choices that go into preserving major endgame canon events, so there are gaps in my outline that i simply do not have the information to fill. on the plus side, it does mean i potentially get a burst of inspiration at the end of every month—the reveals at the beginning and end of ch7 were major for determining exactly when to set this. so for now i just daydream about the girls vs remembering there’s no cable car in past haven and they have to walk??? two hours??? to get across town???

#emerald writes #take your daughter to work day #jazz if you are reading this. sarissa <3

[countlessscreamingargonauts]

2 episodes left of Paradox Killer. Spoilers below the cut.

I'm wondering. Is it moral to kill serial killers? Is it moral to be a vigilante killer if you have spidey like senses when there's an uncaught serial killer running around? Sure, there's the whole "Law and Order" for murderers too, but honestly. Isn't Tang doing the city of Daejeon a favor?

#Killer Paradox #KDrama

[coffeestainedcamera]

Anyways, time to obsessively theory-craft while waiting on ep 3! Heavy spoilers, obv!

Okay, so I'm not sure Lu Guang is in the clear yet. We had that poster where only Cheng Xiaoshi and Qiao Ling are wearing black formal clothes, but he isn't. Almost like they might be attending his funeral? Not too sure if this was part of the misdirection about his death before the air date, though. But then again, the crew sure loves emotionally devastating us viewers, so they might very well kill him off and have a season about Cheng Xiaoshi and Qiao Ling trying to save him. Our girl is in the know about the photo time travel and the superpowered killer now, so it'd not be surprising for her to be a co-lead. And we did have that ending sequence where she's the mission control, even though Lu Guang normally serves in that role.

I'm still not entirely sure that the killer will be responsible for offing him, though. They're in this for fun, so I think that they'd love to keep toying with the most powerful opponents they've gone up against yet. I do suspect they'll try to steal Lu Guang's powers, if they weren't bluffing about the matter in the season 1 finale. From there, I think that fate will be the other main villain, as he previously told Cheng Xiaoshi that death is an unchangeable node. So maybe if the killer doesn't want to end him, the universe will keep setting up bad ends to prevent a time paradox. Maybe it's punishment for potentially trying to save Cheng Xiaoshi from death in the other timeline. Not too sure how many times he lost him before the current timeline, but it'd explain the aggressive protectiveness. And maybe this talk of him being too mature for his age is a hint that he's been time traveling a while now.

Additional items of interest about the killer:

They say their powers are photo-related too, and we do see the Officer die after that lawyer steals a photo of him. Not lying about possession, then.

Most likely pushed him off the roof, and the manner of death overall reminds me of Emma. It's a clear taunt to the leads.

The last person who held the photo was the creepy kid, although it'd be a little too unsubtle. Maybe the crew is misdirecting us again?

The killer's manner of speaking in the russian subs for the post-stabbing confrontation is very informal. The vocab used is more likely to be used in a conversation between friends than acquaintances. They use ты/informal you with Cheng Xiaoshi upon an early meeting, which can be considered impolite/overfamiliar. It fits with their "do you wanna be friends with me, and only me?" schtick.

This stalker-ish moment is why I'm not completely discounting the possibility that they may off Lu Guang. He's an obstacle to Cheng Xiaoshi's attention, but offing him would make him mad. For preserving this "friendship", they might not do it.

It's very interesting that the russian subs for the main confrontation scene avoided gendered conjugations of words (and s1 has not back-added them, so I don't really have a comparison point). Can't comment on how faithful this is to the original voiceovers, but this ambiguity is very interesting indeed. Definitely preserves the feeling of basically anyone being a suspect for now.

Anyways, there's still a ton of missing puzzle pieces so uh. That's about it. Oh, and quick explainer of my understanding of the misdirection around Lu Guang's "death":

Two guys in critical condition at around the same time

Both go into the operating room

We begin cutting between these concurrent events, like when we had that scene of luring the killer to the photo studio

We never see their faces, and both are in bad enough condition that either could flatline

The killer didn't go at Lu Guang's throat at any point, so he shouldn't have the neck injuries

The man getting defibbed has neck injuries, therefore it's someone else

But of course, I was too shocked in the moment to think of any of this lol.

#text post #television #link click #link click spoilers #donghua

[dutifullyangryblizzard]

A killer paradox - much needed portrayal of the other side.

I honestly didn't dive in with a lot of expectations but I loved the series and I can't figure out why to be very honest. Its totally unrealistic but the tension and the chase is palpable. The casting is so on point and btw so spoilers alerts coz I ain't giving any spoilers here.

If you are into dramas that make you feel tense but at ease and you love the chase but not the heaviness this is for you. Its not realistic by any means but it kinda makes you feel like if we're lucky enough .. it should be enough to get away with murder if you catch my drift.

I lost sleep coz of this, so if you go to school or you work I don't recommend watch this at night or during the week..maybe take the weekend and you will not regret it.

I have no idea why the ratings are at the 7.6 right now. I am not going below a solid 8.5. Its a lovely drama that you can catch on Netflix.

Plus I have developed huge crushes on the leads. <3

Lemme know what y'all thought about this.

#a killer paradox #kdrama #dark humor #drama review #drama recommendation

[ask-paradox-and-friends]

NEW WHEEL TORINAMENT!

I SPIN THE WHEEL AND THE GOD KILLERS HAVE TO FIGHT IN 1V1S FULL POWER AGAINST THE OTHER SIDE!

SO IF ITS DEMON SLAYER ONE MATCHUP WOULD BE AKAZA VS PARADOX ID COMP ALL THE AKAZAS I KNOW ON TUMBLR LIKE @koyuki-the-flower 's VERSION! AND GUVE PARADOX HIS FULL POWER (BLESSING AND VÖLUNDR INCLUDED) SPOILER THERE WILL BE MIGHT BE ONE SIDED MATCHUPS.