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inventedfangirling · 3 months

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My friends i watched love for love's sake and I swear i don't have a fckin clue where even to start.

I know a lot has been said about the show already and i know a LOT more would be said about in the future, but i just can't help adding my own two cents to one of the most thought-provoking, moving and brilliantly executed pieces of art i have ever seen.

I'm not gonna go on about just how much I loved Tae Myungha's character and how he is one of the most interesting people I've seen on screen in a long time. I'm not gonna talk about how unbelievably squishable Yeowoon is and how his duality totally ruined me that I need him to get into my pocket and NEVER leave. And oh I need him to put Myungha in his pocket while at it. I'm also not gonna talk about precious 'of course i'm gay, i've always liked girls, you don't know how to be loved' Sangwon is to me, cos if i start I can promise you I will most certainly never stop.

So for the sake of the rest of this post, I'm moving on. (NOT REALLY THO)

I just LOVE LOVE LOVE all the interpretations that people are coming up with, LOVE LOVE LOVE the show for filling in the gaps but LOVE it more for still leaving room for pretty thought-flowers to bloom around.

You know those artworks or puzzles that have something obvious hidden in a maze of confusion and haze until somebody points out the pattern, you zoom out and realize wow it was this clear all along?? That's a LOT of what watching the show felt like to me. The pattern being how inexplicably inter-connected Myungha and Yeowoon are. Not because they are each other's blorbos, but because why they are eo's blorbos. Why they don't care for each other from a sense of sympathy, but from empathy, despite not knowing the depth of their connections explicitly.

Eventhough we do see glimpses of it from the start, it only gets more clear later how Myungha and Yeowoon really are mirror versions of eo. How the first time Myungha sees Yeowoon he's stopping him from killing himself, and then we later find out that Myungha ends up killing himself. How both of it was triggered by a series of disappointments in life, starting with a troubling family and ending with a grandmother who passes away. Of how both of them seem to really have no one else to call their own in the world. Of leading very lonely depressing lives, that seem to never have a glimpse of hope. How both of them seem closed off, but inside they really are so fragile it hurts to perceive the depth of their feelings. It all comes and hits you once you've taken the whole show in and have gotten a few 1000 seconds to think about it.

We start off with myungha's character wanting to make his blorbo's character happy, and he's in it cos he cares about him, he doesn't have to think about himself. A 'pathetic' character experiencing a lot of pain, what's not to love, Myungha thinks, not realizing that it's his own mirror self that he is feeling so much for. Myungha sees Yeowoon's problems as someone from outside and is therefore able to objectively look at it, and approach it proactively, taking so many steps to help him, my favourite (and arguably most important) of which is the effort he puts in to help form yeowoon a friend circle. Something that he couldn't do for himself cos he never even considered a possibility of that. Why would anybody want to be around him? He ruins everything right?

And then to go on despite believing that, to falling in love, to deciding to choose to save both his grandma and yeowoon, finally FINALLY taking control into his hands even if for a bit to say what he wants, to spending the last few days together, to breaking up cos he just thinks the worst of himself, cos he doesn't know better. And then to the eternal darkness, where moments before leaving, just like in his real life, he realizes he wants in, he wants to live, he wants to love, but more importantly this time, he wants to try being loved. Even if it's difficult, he wants to try.

I love how eventhough the show is heavily Myungha focused, we get meaningful dynamics with multiple characters. Round eyed gasp inducing moments dont just belong to the two mains but also to sangwon whose line to myungha post the stalker incident just ruined me and really set the tone for whatever the show was later revealed to be all about.

I love how complicated the narrative got while still telling a more or less coherent story, how in hindsight, a lot of it makes even more sense now. How as Myungha gets closer to yeowoon his self-hating tendencies manifest in the form of debuffs and errors, because of his own brain's inability to perceive himself as somebody deserving love. His childhood trauma and the numerous rejections life has given him, because of the kind of person he turned out to be because of those rejections, all appear to stand in his way of happiness, as if he can't help being a bundle of sadness and a harbinger of problems. Even as he says he doesn't believe in destiny or fate. Or as we initially are made to believe in the game as, yeowoon's happiness, when in reality this was never about yeowoon at all. Yeowoon never existed in the first place and in "real" life, he never does.

I was blown away by how Myungha is in fact no longer in the mortal world but that fact doesn't hurt as much as that he would have to leave a world where he could finally feel happiness, feel loved, feel cared for, even if he consciously tried avoiding them. They still came to him, they still cared for him, they still fiercely wanted to protect him, (Cos he is just a tiny meow meow, who has been hurt a lot in his life, who wouldn't wanna caress and nurse him back to health HUH) just as much as he wanted to protect them.

And coming to the question of what's the game, where is it happening and who orchestrated it? It's definitely set in the afterlife or the limbo between life and the life after. It could be the author friend doing it, or the author friend has given myungha's brain the power to control the game OR of course the possibility that this has all been happening in myungha's head the whole time.

Whatever it is, the whole point has been to take Myungha from a person not wanting to live his life, feeling so devoid of love and happiness, to a journey of love and friendship, of the importance of fostering connections, of making efforts, of helping others, but equally of letting others help you, of putting your hand out and asking for that help. And in my head I love it most when I think of it as entirely Myungha orchestrated. Of it being a desperate cry of pain to himself, from himself, to save himself. Yeowoon and the game and the missions and all of it was for him to see himself in ways he never allowed himself to be seen as, to take care of himself in ways he never has, to love himself like he has never known to. To finally run towards himself, even if pathetic and sad, the Cha Yeowoon of the game, the person waiting at the end of the finishing line was the Tae Myungha in him all along.

You know that tumblr quote 'do it for her' but its about your future self, right? Myungha rooting for Yeowoon is sort of like that? When he's protecing him, he's protecting himself? When he's cheering for him, he's actually cheering and rooting for himself? When he's loving him, he makes space and place to love himself?

I just love the idea of a (self) love story.

Eitherway Yeowoon x Myungha supremacy.

Extreme(ly accurate?) Interpretations apart, Love for Love's Sake is truly one of the, if not THE finest (self) love story I might have ever seen.

As a person who avoids fics/books with mcd or shows with tragic endings, it felt absolutely revolutionary to me that my biggest joy and relief came from the fact that the main character is dead (the thought of myungha having to leave the game was too much to handle) and he gets to live in this game where he has a cute boyfriend, a supportive, caring friend group and his grandma back. it wasn't the game that was temporary or non-existent, it was actually his life outside. And that's not bad? Cos this is a story and Myungha isn't real, but as real as he is, he got his happy ending.

The show taught us to love, to see love, to be loved and to share that love. It told us that maybe the afterlife is a videogame simulation where we all get to live in friendship and love forever, with our blorbo and our friends. There are a lot worse lives to live. And I'm glad he found it in himself, enough love, courage and hope to write himself a better one :')

#love for love's sake #love supremacy zone #bless this show #tae myung ha #cha yeowoon #korean bl #myungha x yeowoon #kbl #already 2024 favourite #i'd be shocked if anything could beat it #this is ofc just my own interpretation #meta #love for love's sake meta #okbai i have to post it now or i will be writing for EVER

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drulalovescas · 1 year

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Gotham Knights is superior because with each passing episode they make Misha wear fewer and fewer clothes

#bless this show #they got misha collins onset and immediately decided to undress him #as they should #gotham knights #misha collins

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pondsphuwin · 7 months

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this whole exchange in the van on EP3 is why i love this show lmao

#''you called me a pornography!!!"#you cannot make this shit up #right after meredith's unhinged behavior at dinner too #and angie k going oooooofff #bless this show #rhoslc #real housewives #the real housewives of salt lake city

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veilder · 1 year

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Andor season finale was tonight and I'm just... Why is this the best thing Star Wars has ever produced? Why are the messages so poignant? The characters so real? The struggle so worth investing in? Why did everything slot into place so perfectly? Why did loose ends tie up in such satisfying ways? Why did it leave off at a perfect place with a great opportunity for more but not a need for it? Why why why is the question, but how seems more apt for a show that takes on such large ideas in such small but pointed ways. Bravo to this show and these actors and the production staff that made me care about Star Wars again. That gave us such poignant and quotable lines. The second season is in production and by goodness does it deserve that. But until then, I guess the only question left is... Why haven't more people watched it? 😭

#andor #star wars #season finale #spoiler free #bless this show #it was phenomenal #I've said it before and I'll say it again #but this is not just good Star Wars media #it's a good tv show period #round of applause to the writer and director and everyone behind the scenes for making all the right calls to make this work #y'all should be damn proud of what you've done!

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aparticularbandit · 2 months

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okay but junko and chisa in the dead people's theater while junko gives a recap of all the things is maybe the best version of exposition recap this series has ever done.

that was great.

please more junko snarking about canon events.

she may be evil but she makes points.

....

and then leave chisa there to counter her with hope.

#musings #bandit liveblogs #bandit liveblogs danganronpa #BLESS THIS SHOW

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t-he-art-of-beauty · 2 years

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Gates threatening to take his dreams away and let him live, out of love, but it’s the most inconceivable, cruel thing to Flint, who would rather die in firey battle, and Flint kills Gates for it. “I didn’t want this, I didn’t want this.” I wanted love, again, and someone to believe in the raging inferno that drives me, again, but you put yourself in between me and his memory instead.

(somehow living people are rarely as powerful motivators as dead ones. they might be enablers, but rarely reasons. they can argue for themselves. they can exist as grey areas, the entire complexity of life is still moving in their faces. when a person doesn’t have their own agenda anymore their grave becomes fertile soil for any ambition we want to carry into battle. they become the black to the white or the white to the black and they can’t even object, can’t check in, can’t ground you into realizing what you are doing.)

for him. for his memory. he would have wanted it. funny how Gates’ death must become another mark on the wall of sunk cost fallacy. just like every death flint carries on his shoulders. It all has to have been worth for something. They needed to die for something. I killed someone for something.

for something.

for someone.

for someone

for another one

and then there’s Silver. “Take it from me. There is always a way.” And Flint, still grieving for the man he hoped would share his dreams in a way similar to Thomas, sees light. Sees another one. Another enabler. Stupidly hopes Silver can take that place. Little does he know Silver will eventually end the chain. Little does he know Silver will turn the

someone

into

all of them

All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing.

(All of them will be for nothing. I will have done this to them for nothing. I will suffer all this guilt for nothing.)

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[image descriptions

image 1: screenshot from season 1, episode 8. close-up: flint holding gates head after he killed him. only his eyes are visible, looking to the side in sorrow, regret, confusion.

image 2: screenshot of text in a screenplay font: to exalt her memory with battles. and victories.

image 3: flint in season 4, episode 10, a closeup on flint, bald head, read beard, blood in his face, a pleading face full of conflicted emotions and desperation staring right into the camera]