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Sealioning […] is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[9] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[10] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki, which The Independent called "the most apt description of Twitter you'll ever see".

Although I'm a regular reader of David Malki's Wondermark, and interested in the taxonomy of trolling, I've somehow managed to miss this word. Here's the 9/19/2014 comic:

Wiktionary has an entry for sealioning. There's as yet no entry in Merriam-Webster's (though the list it among the Words We're Watching) or the OED.

There are more historical details in the Know Your Meme entry.

And the most recent Wondermark — "Limit Your Scream Time" — is again relevant to scrolling social media…

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Transformative Works and Cultures has released Issue No. 47, a special issue on Gaming Fandom guest edited by Hayley McCullough and Ashley P. Jones.

Essays in this issue explore fan creativity in gaming fandoms and discuss a number of fan-made works and productions, including fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, mods, and fan-made games.

Each issue includes articles representing theory, fannish meta, and book reviews, such as:

We accept submissions for our general issues on a rolling basis. We particularly invite fans to submit Symposium articles.

TWC’s issues in progress include:

We accept submissions for our general issues on a rolling basis. The general issue is always released on September 15.

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I answered some questions I got on an ask game I posted here.

Cassandra Cain

How I feel about this character. She's one of my favourite DC characters, and one I consider amongst the best yet tragically most underused in the franchise. Her original run was superb (even if it declined in quality overtime, its final arc and her character development remains better and shows more promise than most of what DC's done outside its flagship heroes.
All the people I ship romantically with this character. So many women LMAO. I'm not kidding. Way too many. I have a WIP called "Five women Cassandra Cain slept with after breaking up with the love of her life" and containing myself or even picking just five was a struggle. Kate Kane, Barbara Gordon (in an unrequited love way tbf), Stephanie Brown, Rose Wilson, Diana, Onyx, Brenda Miller… Name me a female character I can see as at least a little bit queer and there's at least a 50/50 chance I can picture them together.
My non-romantic OTP for this character. In canon, Barbara. In my own imagines where I can totally see them becoming best friends, Mia Dearden. Oh, and Tai'Darshan.
My unpopular opinion about this character. Bruce is no better with her than with his other charges, and certainly no "girl dad." And I see Stephcass as doomed and incompatible, in the end.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon. In my wildest dreams, her corruption(-then-return) arc would've like. Actually good lmao.

Frodo

How I feel about this character. I've only read LOTR once, a few years ago (in newsletter format, when Dracula Daily and its imitators were all the rage). I can't say I have in-depth thoughts about him (or about much about the saga), but I liked him, more than I expected. I once talked about seeing similarities between him and my first original protagonist, actually.
All the people I ship romantically with this character. I don't strictly ship it myself (to me shipping requires actively seeking out the ship, fanworks, etc.), but it's easy to see why people like Frodo/Sam. Though if I were incline to shipping something with Frodo, I think Frodo/Gollum is where it's at lol. I love a good dark-mirror pairing.
My non-romantic OTP for this character. Golum, for the same reason.
My unpopular opinion about this character. Well, the LOTR fans I've met in person have all gone on about how Frodo isn't All That Great and Samwise is The REAL (Sole) Hero of LOTR, or a much better and character, and I disagree with that. Sam is admirable in many fronts, but I find Frodo very aspirational and, frankly, more interesting.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon. I can't think of anything. The one change I always want to do to LOTR is basically "hey what about putting more, and more relevant, women in here?", so I guess that's what I would've done with his companions lol. Or with Frodo himself. Bring in Frodelia.

Willow Rosenberg

How I feel about this character. Willow is a character I sometimes saw myself reflected in a bit too much for my liking, in ways that maybe aren't obvious at first sight, which could be uncomfortable sometimes LOL. That said, with every rewatch I've done since I first watched the show, I've found myself loving her more and more. I'd consider her one of my top favourite characters in the entire 'verse. This could mean I'm winning the self-esteem war xD
All the people I ship romantically with this character. Tara, Faith, Kennedy, Kendra, Buffy, Amy, Anya… I'd probably add more women to the list if I had the show more recent LOL.
My non-romantic OTP for this character. Buffy. And although I'm saying this a bit begrudgingly because I do have my issues with the guy (though not as many/not the same as other people's), Xander LOL. Their scene in the season 6 finale always made me sob.
My unpopular opinion about this character. I don't even know where to begin LOL. I feel Willow, like many others in this 'verse, is a very polarising character, so every opinion seems fair game. I think liking Killow/Wennedy (?) is relatively unpopular, though.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon. I have seen people say they wish the show had done more with her Jewish faith. On the one hand, I think it could've been interesting to explore something like that vis a vis paganism, but honestly she never felt all that observant to me and I don't know that I'd believe any ~crisis of faith stuff with her, on that front. But that could've been interesting too, showing her reject cultural and religious practices, etc.

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Current Music: Ghost - Mary On A Cross

rogueslayer452

++ We finally got the teaser trailer for Dune Messiah (yes, it's titled Dune: Part Three, but it's adapting Dune Messiah instead of part of the first book like the first two movies and therefore I will call it as such). First, this music in this trailer is phenomenal, just like with the previous trailers for these films it really demonstrates the grand scale of how epic this story is. Secondly, even just seeing little bits has me very, very stoked, especially the mentioning of Ghanima and Leto II's names. I may have some nitpicks with Denis Villeneuve's creative choices here and there throughout these movies, but it doesn't lessen my excitement to see this one. If he manages to get this right, the reactions to it are going to be very interesting, indeed.

++ Felicia Day will crowdfund for a movie spin-off of her webseries, The Guild.

Again, a pleasantly unexpected surprise announcement that totally caught me off guard! The Guild remains one of my favorite first ever webseries that I watched, and I even have the DVDs that were later made available to purchase because I adored it so much. I know that there was a musical stage reading that was done of The Guild with Felicia recently, so naturally this would be the next step. I hope the crowdfunding will be successful so she can make this happen.

++ Girl From Nowhere is a Thai mystery thriller drama that I've recently gotten into. It's an anthology centering around a mysterious girl named Nanno who transfers to different private schools each episode to expose the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty. It's utterly fascinating. Nanno, who is quickly revealed to the audience as a mysterious immortal entity, is delightfully unhinged, even more so in the second season, and I like that the acts of revenge are done as a way for characters to experience karma of their wrongdoings. Although the drama premiered in 2018 and has two seasons, Girl From Nowhere: The Reset just recently premiered as a re-imagined reboot of the franchise, theorized to be set in an alternate universe with another girl as Nanno, this time played by Becky Armstrong (known mostly from being paired with Freen Sarocha in various Thai GL dramas). I have only just discovered this drama franchise, so I like both actresses who play Nanno. In general, this drama is dark and twisted, but in a fascinating way that I do so enjoy.

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Music: Fiona Apple - Limp

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For a few months last year, I set up a weekly planning/review system related to my writing habits. I'm not totally sure when I stopped, but I think it might have been because I've internalised a lot of what I was learning. My goal was to teach myself to write more often, so I'd start the week's planning with "write 8 times this week" with the understanding that 15 minutes puttering around a project counts as a writing session (can be brainstorming, writing, editing, organising my notes if my brain struggles with the other things, so the project at least stays familiar in my head). I wish I could sustain like 4h writing marathons, but at this current point in my life, logistics and health stuff means longer sessions are just not happening. That's why I've been exploring whether writing more often can work for me.

As part of the planning, one of the questions I was told to write the answer for is "What are the obstacles?" That's something I always consider now. For example, if I have family visiting, am travelling, or preparing for a stressful presentation, whatever, it's going to affect my focus. So how am I going to mitigate that? Maybe it's fairer to plan for 5 sessions after all. Or maybe I should assume a session's length of 5 minutes is fair for that week, even if that means just spending 5 minutes rereading what I wrote before to keep the story alive in my head. Maybe both, maybe something else. Preparing and writing down the mitigations as part of the planning really helped me because I don't always think straight in the middle of it all.

Anyway, two obstacles I nearly always ended up writing down are:

Can't make myself focus
Can't make myself start

Like, I have a very good system for writing in the morning, it's part of my routine, but later in the day nearly always felt like bodyslamming against a wall. In the end, the solutions that turned out to be effective were the same for both. And after a while, I just printed them out so I have a poster with the list beside my computer! (Not that I always remember to look at it 🥲 but after a couple of days of sighing and doing nothing, my eyes will usually land on it and I'll go, oh!! Who knew!!!!!).

Anyway, here are the tips I landed on to mitigate this in a way that works well with my brain:

Sanctuary mindset
Deep breaths, 3-5 times
Quiet music with no lyrics. If that's not enough, same but with headphones.
Separate computer profile for writing
Wifi off

( Digging a bit more into the details and also why I think this works well for my specific brain and issues )

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In part 1 of this post, "The (ir)reality of the MingKwai typewriter" (10/17/25) and many preceding, related posts (see "Selected readings" and the links to which they lead), we saw what a boondoggle and fiasco the Chinese typewriter (especially Lin Yutang's MingKwai) was. Yet people are still glorifying and extolling the clumsy, clunky, cumbersome Chinese typewriter as though it were leading the IT revolution (when the reality is quite the contrary). So much hype and sensationalism about the retrograde Chinese typewriter!

The following bilibili video, although in Chinese, will show how complicated and expensive to replicate such a device is:

Remarks by Xinyi Ye:

I just saw this behind-the-scenes video of HTX Studio's Chinese typewriter production. In another interview video, HTX said their studio was experiencing a financial deficit last year [when they made the video attempting to replicate Lin Yutang's MingKwai]. Probably not as bad as what happened to Lin Yutang [who went bankrupt building the MingKwai], but again shows how much investment goes into doing something like this!

It behooves all those who preach the gospel of the MingKwai and related Chinese typewriters to read and take to heart the scholarly critiques in the bibliography below.

Selected readings

"The (ir)reality of the MingKwai typewriter" (10/17/25)
"Chinese Typewriter" (6/30/09)
"Chinese typewriter, part 2" (4/17/11) — with memorable photos
"The many myths about the Chinese typewriter" (9/7/25)
"Chinese typewriter redux" (11/5/16) — this and the preceding two posts all talk about my favorite M. C. Hammer performance, "Chinese Typewriter Dance" ("U Can't Touch This")
"Another chapter in the history of the Chinese typewriter" (8/14/21)
"The many myths about the Chinese typewriter" (9/7/25)
"The impact of phonetic inputting on Chinese languages" (12/9/19)
"The Chinese Computer: Competition or Cooperation?" (3/1/26) — David Moser's lengthy critique of hypography, QWERTY, and other mistaken notions related to Chinese typing.
"Triple review of books on characters and computers" (8/23/24) — by J. Marshall Unger

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ysabetwordsmith

This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...

* Posted "Tutorials" on

getting_started.

* Posted "Gaming" on

girlgamers.

* Posted "Ostara" on

goddessfolk.

* Posted "Birdfeeding" on

birdfeeding.

Current Mood: busy

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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted and commented on

bnha_fans.

Commented on

add_a_writer.

Commented on

joicon.

Commented on

getyourwordsout.

Commented on

anime_manga.

Commented on

booknook.

Edit: Also signal-boosting

newcomers /

the_great_tumblr_purge where

soc_puppet has been posting helpful Dreamwidth tutorials, since the latest Tumblr hiccup (that TPTB since temporarily reverted) caused another surge of new people popping by Dreamwidth :)

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This is a reproduction of a post I already made on Tumblr, but with that platform's future once again uncertain, I figured it'd be good to copy over here, as well.

Together with figuring out what to even post, one of the things that sucks about moving social media and/or blogging platforms is not knowing if there will be enough activity for you at the new place. Be it from old friends, new friends, or interactive communities, there’s a lot of ways you could find activity at a new place, but finding at least two of those categories can be tricky in itself.

Luckily, Dreamwidth has a few shortcuts for you already!

Adding new people to your reading page and finding new friends:

addme: Straight up a place to find new “mutuals” on Dreamwidth, with no particular focus; a good place to start!

addme_fandom: Same as above, but with a specific fandom focus! Interested in a particular fandom right now and want more people to talk about it with? Here’s a good place to find fellow fans!

findingfriends: Similar to the addme communities but with a more in-depth approach, including things like posting style and what sort of interactions you’re looking for. Takes more brain power than the addme comms, but I imagine that the connections result in a higher level of compatibility.

Newcomers' Introduction and Friending Meme: A very in-depth adding meme, hosted by

newcomers! Includes a spot near the top for other platforms you're on, so it might be useful for finding Tumblr mutuals.

fandomcalendar: This is a community dedicated to announcing fandom events, which can include fandom-specific friending memes. (I’ll be linking this one again later, as well.)

Getting started on Dreamwidth:

newcomers: A community dedicated specifically to helping Dreamwdth newcomers find their way around on a new site! I believe it was launched around the time Cohost was being shut down, so a lot of the people there now are Cohost “refugees”, but it’s still a good place to start.

the_great_tumblr_purge: A community dedicated specifically to Tumblr refugees, started around the time of the new content restrictions in 2018. If you've got questions specific to being former Tumblr user, this might be a good place to ask them, though Newcomers is also happy to help.

dw_news: The official Dreamwidth news community. I highly recommend following this one and the next one, which will help you keep up with what’s going on around Dreamwidth. DW News typically only posts a few times a year, but maybe that’ll change if a bunch of new users come by...

dw_maintenance: Keep up with the mechanical goings-on at Dreamwidth! If there’s a planned site outage or if DW is updating code, you can find out more here; if there’s something funky going on at Dreamwidth but the site is generally still usable, it’s also a good place to check.

dw_advocacy: Want to know more about how Dreamwidth is fighting for our rights? Follow this community to keep tabs on what bad bills Dreamwidth and NetChoice are battling, and if there's anything you can do to help!

Things to do on Dreamwidth:

dw_community_promo: The official Dreamwidth community for promoting Dreamwidth communities! People will promote new communities here, as well as events going on in established communities. A good place to find out about new things in general.

followfriday: A place to share links to check out once a week. Did you find a cool community that you want more people to know about? Link it in the comments here! The host,

ysabetwordsmith, shares a themed post every week with posts, events, and communities related to said theme.

justcreate: A place where you can talk about things you’re working on. There’s a weekly check-in/reporting post, but sometimes people also organize body doubling sessions and other productivity-boosting things.

queerly_beloved: An anti-exclusionist queer space to get together and talk about all things queer, including intersectional matters. Hosts a weekly recommendations thread, but more and other content is very welcome!

allbingo: Do you like filling out bingo cards for just about anything? This community is for all things bingo cards, fandom related and otherwise! Put together a bingo card for making mood themes, post topics, or even bird watching (featuring your local feathered friends), and share your results!

Fandom things to do on Dreamwidth:

fandomcalendar: I linked this above, and I’m linking it again: Want to know about fandom events that are going on at Dreamwidth? This is a good place to do it! It’ll also fill up your reading page in a hurry; you might be surprised at how many events are going on at Dreamwidth, or are at least connected there!

fictional_fans: A community for all fans and fandoms. If you’ve got a post you want to make about fandom in general, or a specific fandom that doesn’t have its own community, this might be a good place to check out.

fandom_on_dw: Pretty much the same as above, honestly, but it’s good that there’s more than one place that hosts this kind of thing!

Anything else?

Search Interests: Individuals and communities can have lists of things they’re “interested in”. If more than one person has that thing listed, it may turn into a hyperlink that you can click to find other accounts with! You can also use the Search Interests function pretty much the same way. Simply type “cats” into the search bar, hit enter, and a bunch of accounts that have “cats” listed as an interest will pop up! Click through the various tabs at the top to separate accounts out into individual users, communities, and more.

The Latest Things Page: Literally the latest things posted publicly anywhere on Dreamwidth. There’s a list of commonly used tags at the top, if you want to narrow things down at all, but in the mean time, it can be pretty neat to see what J. Random Dreamwidth User just posted about! This is about the closest Dreamwidth gets to surfing random tags on Tumblr.

The Explore Tab: Useful links for Dreamwidth in general. In addition to linking to the Latest Things Page, it can take you to a random account, the FAQ page, and more! Worth checking out if you’re feeling lost.

Most Useful Communities list, as curated by

ysabetwordsmith; this has a lot of other options that I either didn't know about, or didn't feel like I had room to include; this post is already longer than I like to go without a cut tag or two 😅

The comments on this post: People in this community are pretty helpful, and that includes sharing their own suggestions in the comments! If you have something specific you're looking for, you might even ask for help here; who knows, we might just have a good lead for you!

And that’s all I can think of at the moment! This should help you get started at least, and help fill out your reading page a bit.

james_davis_nicoll

Would it be possible to "Wrongfully Attributed" added to my entry?

skygiants

Because Becky Mahoney and I know each other, I boosted a Bluesky giveaway for her upcoming vampire novel Thrall (coming out next month!) in the spirit of friendship and then was somewhat surprised to discover that I had in fact won the giveaway -- surprised but delighted, obviously, since I've loved all of her previous books even when they weren't LUCY CENTRIC DRACULA RIFFS!! focused around a COLLEGE PIRATE RADIO STATION!!!

The central character of Thrall is Lucy Easting, who has just transferred into beautiful, isolated, mountainside Rollins University from community college, in a bid to get away from her stressed and depressed mother and live a life she's excited about for a change.

Alas! her first college party results in a couple of neck puncture marks, a marked tendency to experience severe migraines in sunlight, and a tragic susceptibility to the ominous vampire voice in her head that occasionally takes over her consciousness and directs her towards uncharacteristic action.

Fortunately! the college is full of prospective allies who are willing to take a chance on Lucy despite her regrettable thrall situation, including but not limited to the host of the local college late-night radio show, who has been a target of the vampire since her sophomore year and has been using the airwaves to try and fight back; Lucy's RA, a determined young woman with very nice arms, who came to the school to investigate after a terrible fate befell her high school ex-boyfriend Jonathan; and the very nice, normal party host who has no previous vampire experience but feels just terrible about the whole situation and is not about to relinquish responsibility for sorting the situation out! it was her party!!

It's a really charming book on a number of levels, but my favorite thing about it as a Dracula riff specifically is how much it's thematically invested in Lucy as a side character -- the narrative is consistently very clear that the vampire is not particularly interested in Lucy; he's obsessed with Athena the radio show host and everything else he's doing is part of his elaborate cat-and-mouse game with her, including incidentally overturning Lucy's life as a by-the-by -- and how Lucy makes the book her own story anyway by sheer force of determination not to be cut out of it. Lucy's energy really drives the book: she wants to live, and she wants to live a life on her own terms, and she's not about to let one horrible encounter take that away from her.

Also, I think it's not a huge spoiler ( but I guess is technically a mild one: lesbians! )

chez_jae

Moon Child by J.R. Rain

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Monday night I completed Moon Child, book 4 in JR Rain’s “Vampire for Hire” urban fantasy series. The main character is vampire PI Samantha “Sam” Moon.

Samantha’s son, Anthony, is dying. She knows she has the ability to save him, but at what cost? Faced with an impossible decision, Sam puts her faith in the strange medallion in her possession-- one that is rumored to reverse vampirism. However, someone, something else wants that same medallion and will stop at nothing to get it. Samantha has precious few options, and she’s running out of time.

This book focused more on Samantha’s dilemma in connection with Anthony, rather than on any case she was investigating. It also leaned heavily into her relationships—with her children, her ex-husband, werewolf Kingsley Fulcrum, vampire wannabe Fang, actual vampire Detective Hanner, and the mortal detective she’s befriended. Sam loses faith in some of them and puts her faith in others. It added depth to the story.

Two items did bother me:
( Spoilers )

Favorite lines:
♦ What would happen if I broke in? Would a wart appear on my nose? Would a she-devil manifest in a swirl of black smoke to drag me down to hell? Would Lady Gaga apparate and give me a make-over?
♦ The man looked like a gnome or something out of Xanth.

Eerie and engrossing, five stars.

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Current Music: Stars at Avalanche

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Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed
Pairings/Characters: Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian & Jiang Yanli, Jiang Cheng/Nie Huaisang (background), Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji (background), Lan Xichen, Jin Zixuan, Meng Yao, Wen Zhuliu
Rating: R for Graphic Depictions of Violence and Major Character Death
Length: 133,987 words
Creator Link:

meyari
Themes: Siblings, Time Travel Fix-It, Women Being Awesome, Trauma & Recovery

Summary: As the Jianghu collapses around Jiang Cheng's ears, his borrowed core begins to fail. Wei Wuxian has one final trick up his sleeve, though the only person who can use it is the one person who has no core of his own: Jiang Cheng. Time travel may be impossible for everyone else, but Jiang Cheng has one slender, delicate chance to save the entire world. Of course he has to take it no matter what the cost might be.

Reccer's Notes: As soon as I saw this month's theme, I thought of this story. While time travel fix-its and core reveal fix-its are both common in the fandom, this story handles both tropes in ways I haven't seen any other story do. It also features amazing original characters, including several badass women of the Meishan Yu sect, and gives Jiang Yanli one of the best storylines I've ever seen. The rating is because there's still a war, and some characters still die, but it's a far different war, and they are far different deaths.

I do feel like I have to provide a caveat that this could use a serious line edit, by which I mean there is a grammatical or spelling error in nearly every sentence. It really says something that, despite this, I couldn't put the story down, and devoured all 100K+ words of it in the space of two nights.

Fanwork Links: Moments of Revelation (please note that this is archive-locked to AO3-registered users)

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Hello again! With Tumblr's latest brush with implosion, it seems the tutorial writing bug has bitten me again. Today, I'm finally going to talk about uploading and sharing images on Dreamwidth!

Dreamwidth has given all users a certain amount of image storage to use: Free users get 500 MB, Paid users get 1.5 GB, and Premium Paid users get 3 GB.

There's two ways to upload images directly to Dreamwidth.

The first option has a fair number of steps, but it's the one I know the most about and the one I'm best able to help with.

( Option One )

The second option is to post an image by email, which I have to admit I haven't tried myself yet.

For Option Two, the first thing you need to know here is that it's possible to post to Dreamwidth by email; IIRC, it was

silvercat17 who made the tutorial I used to get that set up, but I can't seem to locate it at the moment 😩 I'll edit this post to add in a link if that changes, though! In the mean time, you can check out Dreamwidth's official FAQ entries about how to get it set up over here. If you post an entry by email, you can attach an image as a file to the email, and it will automatically be uploaded to Dreamwidth and included in the post! It won't necessarily have any particular title or description included, though, so you may want to visit Manage Images to edit that.

And those are the basics of uploading images to Dreamwidth! Culturally, Dreamwidth users tend to either share larger images as a thumbnail, or to put them under a cut (Dreamwidth's "Read More"), but otherwise this should cover what you need to know.

But maybe I'm wrong about that! Feel free to ask any questions in the comments of this post, and I'll do my best to clear things up (and then edit the post to include the information). You can also check Dreamwidth's official Media FAQ and see if your question is answered there.

bluapapilio

"Survive! Gwanggong! /
Survive! Obsessive Gong!"

[NovelUpdates Page]

[Ch. 11-15] [Ch. 16-25]

Chapter 26: So the pin to get into Seon-woo's house is Seung-hyeon's father's memorial day?

So Seon-woo had to go with the amnesia excuse and Seung-hyeon bought it. I'm curious how this will change their dynamic since Seon-woo won't have to lie anymore to him. At least not about stuff he should know about like family.

Chapter 27:

Watching Seung-hyeon nod in understanding at such a half-baked excuse, Seon-woo suddenly understood why drama writers were so obsessed with amnesia plots. It must be so damn convenient—just sweep all the messy, inexplicable developments under the rug with a single line: He lost his memory. No need to explain, just let the trope carry it. It was in that moment Seon-woo found himself silently nodding in agreement: There’s a reason clichés are clichés.

So accurate.

Alright, Seung-hyeon has offered his help and will not take Seon-woo's hostility towards him seriously now that he knows Seon-woo doesn't even remember why he dislikes him.

Seung-hyeon is even helping Seon-woo get away from Eun-jae lol

Chapter 28: So Seung-hyeon is trying to keep Eun-jae away from Seon-woo because he doesn't think he's Seon-woo's usual type and his interest is a side-effect of the amnesia.

And yet, even though it all sounded perfectly reasonable, there was something about it that left Seon-woo unsettled. It was probably the distinct impression that Gwak Seung-hyeon was deliberately trying to keep him and Eun-jae apart.

Yeah, because they're both going after you I think haha except he thinks Seung-hyeon is after Eun-jae because of the game's premise.

Chapter 29: True to his word, Seung-hyeon is keeping Eun-jae away, but Eun-jae is sneaky and manages to give his lunch to Seon-woo and give a dinner invitation.

Chapter 30: Chicken feet 😭

Lmao Seung-hyeon followed Eun-jae and Seon-woo to dinner.

Chapter 31: Seon-woo assuming that Eun-jae just likes food a lot. *smh*

Welp, Seon-woo tried to ask Seung-hyeon to get him out of going to the movies with Eun-jae but the system interfered. He's generally uncomfortable not just with the crowd but how far the system will push this as a date.

Chapter 32: WTF is with the movies playing?? Adultery is Fun? And no wonder Seon-woo hates movie theaters with what happened the last time he went to one.

You mean they could've picked Dino Buddies’ Great Adventure: The Movie from the start but Eun-jae tried to make them watch trashy romance?

Well half a text message made it through and apparently Seung-hyeon is tracking Seon-woo so he showed up.

Chapter 33: Seung-hyeon said he only tracked him because of the text, but didn't he use it to find them at that restaurant before?

With how much Seung-hyeon and Eun-jae bicker not many would think they like each other. Though some might say they bicker like an old married couple, it doesn't come across like that.

Chapter 34: The system is actively trying to hurt him, it's reacting to his thoughts constantly now!

Eun-jae's sourness is annoying, Seun-woo didn't even want to be there, Seung-hyeon was the only thing that saved it from being a disaster.

Chapter 35: Seon-woo did the right thing by picking up Eun-jae only for the system to turn around and try to force him to push Eun-jae down. :( I hope Seung-hyeon calls and interrupts or something... And why is Eun-jae so messed up?

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