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Ji Ho Joon and Seo Jae Yoon + kisses 

Anyway we had a nice bit of public claiming - Sig's repeated 'oh my god, oh my god, oh my god' was gold. And I liked the post-credits confession - it hadn't even occurred to me (but then I can be a bit dense).

It's interesting because all the way through I've been thinking that Mame's soundtrack choices have been rather good only for aninstrumental of Itsy Bitsy Spider to pop up over Sky in his bit. Weird.

I'm enjoying this so much more than Mame's last - maybe because Leo and Fiat just didn't seem as compatible as Payu and Rain do. Plus 90% of their problems could have been solved by using their words - Payu and Rain have good communication and vastly superior chemistry.

SPOILER ALERT

There’s a Gothic literary trope (in the original sense of the word trope) purportedly originating in the 18th century European romantics, called 

metonymy 

“Metonymy is a subtype of metaphor, in which something (like rain) is used to stand for (or model/represent) something else (like sorrow).”

These days it’s less common in genre books than it is in the film industry, which loves to use metonymy as a shorthand, for example:

the dark grittiness of noir settings reflecting the personality of the main detective character (see Blade Runner),

or the way a messy room reflects an unstable emotional state (see Cherry Magic)

or the way it often rains during scenes of parting (The Untamed) or at a funeral.

or the sunrise in the background at the dawn of new love or beginning fo a new relationship stage (ITSAY) 

similarly sunset when a relationship is coming to and end or coming to its ultimate conclusion

In other words, when someone is sad, the setting reflects this with rain. When someone is happy, with sunshine. And so forth.

A classic example is “The Fall of the House of Usher" a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, in which the titular house is cracking and crumbling down, moldy and decayed, because of the moral turpitude of the house’s owner. This is also a foreshadow of the horrors that are about to unfold.

In BL metonymy is used a lot. 

1000 Stars 

Oxygen 

Why R U? 

Here’s a post about my... 

Favorite Uses of Metonymy In BL

See You After Quarantine? is a Japan/Taiwan crossover BL set during COVID-19 and I am both extremely excited and extremely nervous about what this could be.

@absolutebl I will continue to be yours news everything Gaga, though this is also on Viki depending on where you are! Which is awesome.

dfgkjldf THE FIRST TWO EPISODES COME OUT TOMORROW WHAT?