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"T: Oh no, I was physically blessed and healthy despite everything, so compared to your childhood, Sora—
T: Wait, right, these things aren't to be compared with anyone else."
happy elements if you don't elaborate on that
NO RIGHT I GOT HUNG UP ON THAT TOO. LIKE WHAT?????? SORA LORE DROP WITH NO ELABORATION??????????????
happyele was sora a sick child is that why he was a hikikomori. did sora have some disability. DOES sora have some disability. happyele listen to me. the thought alone makes me so sad omfg not ONLY did sora feel like an alien bc of his perception of the world being different due to synesthesia but now ur telling me, if going by tsumugis words, he wasnt "physically blessed and healthy" ?!?!?!?!?!?!??! BC THEN THERES AN EVEN SMALLER LIKELIHOOD OF HIM BEING ABLE TO HANG OUT WITH THE OTHER KIDS WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER EVEN IF HE AND THE KIDS WANTED TO im going thru it so bad
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the nhs be like
me in march: hi i have moved here from australia, i have been on testosterone since 2018 on a 3-monthly injection and i have a letter from my aussie gp to verify this and that i have been linked in with a psych and endo since then too and i just need a prescription continuation of my treatment. my next shot is due in june and i cant be late
gp: ok :) i have to make a referral to the nearest gender clinic and theyll be in touch and i'll send them the letter from the aussie gp
me: ok thanks
gender clinic a week later: hi we got your referral + letter but we need some more info
me: okay heres some more info
gender clinic: no thats not enough info we need your entire history including your Diagnosis TM from the psych as a letter + recent bloods arent enough. but once we get those we can streamline you through as a review patient so youre not on the waitlist
me after a fuss between me and the aussie gp due to email troubles: ok heres all the documents they have on my file im about a month overdue i need my shot asap
gender gp: thanks we will be in touch asap
*silence for over a month*
me: hey when am i going to be seen to? im nearly 2 months overdue for my t shot
gender clinic: weve had a high amount of referrals and youre on the waitlist so youre just gonna have to wait
me: :}
*another month of silence*
gender clinic: hi so thank you for sending those documents over, since you have already been on hrt since 2018 you dont actually need our services so we're discharging you and we're gonna write a letter to your gp explaining this and that she can prescribe the dose as recommended on our website
me:.....okay well....what do i have to do now?
gender clinic: im gonna write up a letter to send to your gp and they will be in contact with you to arrange an appointment and you can get your hrt easily like that
me: *on the brink of having a mental fucking breakdown cuz of being 3 months overdue for my hrt and all of the hormonal and physical changes that have left me feeling unbearably distressed and anxious and su1cidal and all the other fucking stressors that have come from this* okay......thanks :}
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━━ ˟ ⊰🍁THE CREAKING OF THE SWING paired excellently with the void wind's curtain, the sounds of distant play a forgotten melody in this park's state. The rusted merry-go-round, the swings that had only two remaining in function, the unmoving spring riders that had turned from a jovial sight into a haunting display, the teeter totter condemned nearby.
It's empty here.
None come to visit or to play because they enjoy this place, they come here to be alone or to write obscenities upon the rotted wood of the picnic tables. Its beauty had outlived its usefulness, left to die and run an obsolete course as the introduction of other, more entertaining, concepts shifted into view. No one cared about this place because they didn't have to care about it ; what memories were held here don't amount to anything because this wasn't their home, this wasn't their happiest place on earth, this wasn't their entire world...
Swing's motion stops, head tilted down to stare at phone, dreading each message that passes the screen. What once was a man who would happily run amok with the others now wanted no one near him ; he desired nothing, hated the idea of being touched, wanted to disappear into the obscurity of this diseased park and crumble into nothingness.
You're not alone, Niwa.
Foot kicked harshly at the dirt, sending an abundance of dirt flung into the air. A thousand people could scream his name right now and he'd feel alone, he's coming to realize. Why is that? Why is that? Because a thousand people amount to only a skin deep view of who he was as a person. Chains had started to leave imprint on his hands as pale skin turned paper white against his grip. 507 names were what mattered and now they were forever silenced, four names were especially important and now they could never say his name again, and now...it's just Niwa.
It's just Niwa Hisahide.
The more he awakens into this modern world, the more he's coming to realize how utterly alone he's feeling. This world isn't his world. This world isn't his world. This world ISN'T HIS WORLD! He doesn't understand it, he can't... Every time he enters a conversation, he feels himself slip down, as though he climbs a mountain made entirely of soap while he's drenched in water.
Eyes watch his phone light up, dull expression worn like a glove today. Just push through it... A few more hours, just a few, push through it...and then... Head hits against chain, pressing palm further into rigid surface, though by now it's numbed to the pinch. And then what? What would happen?
Another harsh kick to the dirt, geta striking rock that stopped foot in place, a deep sigh purged from him as he stood from the swing to bend down to pick it up, staring... ❝ I can never return home. ❞ Tatarasuna is gone. His older brother and his sister-in-law were gone. This new world feels hollow. For the first time, he's feeling completely alone and he doubts anyone can comprehend it, understand it, know how that actually feels.
The only world he knew taken from him so suddenly, the broken hearts that he could have mourned with already moving on with their lives in someplace he cannot find, his chance to find his family gone because he wasn't awake, all because of a stupid heart that wasn't worth all the effort they put into it. The heart that survived when everyone else perished -- the heart that should have given out yet refused to. When he awakened, the media swarmed him the second his wheelchair had exited that hospital, his mind and body reeling in anguish as they bombarded him with questions, flashes blinding this eyes, throwing around facts he barely had time to comprehend inside the walls of privacy -- to say he broke down into tears would be an understatement ; the media shamed him, called him weak, elaborated on this further to say he wasn't fit to take over Tatarasuna in place of his father and that he'd sell the land...yet the parcels that continued to fill his mailbox and consistently shove forth their demands went unanswered, man unable to acknowledge that they were probably right, afraid to prove them right -- that he's too weak...that the land that was granted to him by his family should be sold off...
The home he lives in was a mockery of what he once loved. The electricity, the modern devices, the way he feels fear every time he awakens. With a pained scream, he throws the rock, hard, the resounding and thunderous CLANG as it strikes the fox shaped spring rider as hollow yet verbose as he feels. ❝ Why couldn't it have just been me?! Why did it have to be everyone else?! WHY?! ❞ 509 lives should still be here -- 509 lives...when it could -- no, should have been one.
It's a menagerie inside himself, emotions bubbling like tar to encase whatever falls inside it, preserving it for others to witness in full view. Meaningless and meaningful, rational and irrational. If only this wasn't so complicated, linked to so many problems coursing around him at once, then he could untangle it himself, yet deep down, he knows Diluc is right, which hurts worse than he'd like to admit: he needs a professional to deal with this mess ; one person, not even every person he knew, could reach him at this far down of a hole dug.
Legs collapse beneath him, buckling knees striking dirt first with hands to follow, head lowered to stare blankly at nothing but dirt, what he'd become king of. From there, he does not move.
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I’ve seen the discussion about Sympathy for Mr Vengeance in one of your previous posts, and I’m tempted to put in my two cents if I may. It’s actually one of my “homing-pigeon” movies too (and, coincidentally, the day I sent you that ask I was considering rewatching it for the third time – and I eventually did). I can’t quite put my finger on it but there’s just something so compelling about both the story and the aesthetic of this movie.
(Cont’d) And maybe I’m wrong but it seems to me there’s an interesting interplay between the two. Like, the constant focus on the aesthetic aspect creates some kind of an emotional distance but at the same time gives a certain symbolism to the story, a universal feel. Indeed, it’s a bit like a Greek tragedy
(Cont’d 2) Also, Ryu is probably the most enigmatic movie character I’ve ever seen. He seems to have a very unusual way of thinking, a logic that is fascinatingly mysterious. Again, I still can’t pinpoint how this impression is created, but that’s the feeling I get every time. (Sorry for being so vague; this has turned out to be frustratingly hard to put into words even though I’ve been thinking about it for quite a while)
oh god, yeah--i also love sympathy for mr. vengeance in that it absolutely is a tragedy. there’s something so . . . captivating about this entire movie too, in the way that it’s filmed and the colors and the gloomy atmosphere and yet, at least in the beginning, it doesn’t feel like all hope is lost.
but i don’t even know if that’s an appropriate way to describe the beginning of the movie--because even when i say things like gloomy and hope, that doesn’t seem to quite fit sympathy for mr. vengeance. there’s just something kinda . . . idk, it just sticks. like humidity? that’s the best way i can describe it--like, when it gets so humid that you can literally feel the press of the water in the air against your skin, and it feels unpleasant, and maybe a fan provides some temporary comfort, but you know that as soon as you turn the fan off, you’ll feel the oppressive heat again.
like, that’s how the movie feels to me. humid, which doesn’t mean that it’s a bad movie--it just means that it sort of clings to the audience.
also, the aesthetic. god, yes, i love the aesthetic of the movie--again, the colors! ryu’s bright green hair and the red roses and the grey concrete and yeong mi’s bright orange tank top . . . the shot of yeong mi and ryu on yeong mi’s bed (you know the one, where yeong mi kisses ryu’s cheek, and ryu’s just kinda drifting) . . . that has to be one of my favorite shots.
which gets us to ryu . . . oh, my precious ryu . . . he really is perhaps one of the most interesting characters in the park chan wook universe. i love him so much. i agree with you in that i also don’t know what it is about ryu that makes me so insane about him. he’s just . . . i have so much affection for him, as well as a lot of sadness about him, because something something he’s a good person and things just . . . [gestures vaguely]
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