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No like.. Reading Steel Under Silk and being stuck with reading all the comments is insane because how are you gonna read nearly 80 chapters of a story that's still just ending out Part 1, about a man too caught up in his own self-hatred that he'd ruin his life and chance at freedom and happiness over and over for a chance at a murder-suicide so he can be remembered as someone who wasn't useless, and a man who is too caught up in his own self-hatred that he'd ruin the love someone holds for him and his own sense of morality over the chance of being seen as someone who isn't useless.

Okay just in case there's people on tumblr who were too little in 2016 to actually remember it yourself, I cannot stress enough that the clown sightings were a thing. That's not a bit that people just made up like pretending that people in camo are invisible. This is a real tweet from the time:

It makes sense since Yeonjo had ages to just sit and dwell and throw a tantrum and eventually accept things, but in some sort of way it is funny that Yeonjo can very maturely even in his dreams line out his feelings and approach the situation realistically and understand Hee-ryang isn't even necessarily at fault, even if his heart wants to think of him as at fault. But meanwhile Hee-ryang is still stuck in baby mode where even when reality is staring him in the face, he ignores it or outright thinks to himself that he's too petty to follow through.

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