#stuff i read

Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Squid Game (TV 2021) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hwang Inho | Front Man/Seong Gihun, Hwang Inho | Front Man & Seong Gihun Characters: Hwang Inho | Front Man (Squid Game), Seong Gihun, Hwang Junho (Squid Game), Oh Ilnam, Jang Deoksu, Cho Sangwoo, Hwang Inho | Front Man's Father (Squid Game), Hwang Inho | Front Man's Stepmother Additional Tags: Teacher-Student Relationship, Age Difference, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Toxic Hwang Inho | Front Man (Squid Game), Possessive Hwang Inho | Front Man (Squid Game), Jealous Hwang Inho | Front Man (Squid Game), Hwang Inho | Front Man is Obsessed with Seong Gihun, Pathetic Hwang Inho | Front Man (Squid Game), POV Hwang Inho | Front Man (Squid Game), DILF Seong Gihun, Bisexual Seong Gihun, Bisexual Hwang Inho | Front Man (Squid Game), Alternate Universe - College/University, Past Cho Sangwoo/Seong Gihun, Minor Cho Sangwoo/Seong Gihun, Mentioned Hwang Inho | Front Man's Wife (Squid Game), Eventual Smut, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Interpretation of a Happy Ending, Betaed, Stalker Hwang Inho, lowkey lol, they match freaks Summary:

23-year-old Hwang In-ho is going to college to pursue his Criminal Justice major to eventually become a police officer. To fill out his schedule, he enrolls in a class he thinks will be an easy A - Sociology 201: Societal Inequality with Professor Seong Gi-hun.

After first impressions of the 40-year-old man, In-ho was less than thrilled for the rest of the semester. Despite the man's open and friendly demeanor, In-ho could tell there was more about the older man than what met the eye, and, before he knew it, In-ho found himself wanting to know more and more about his mysterious professor.

What was supposed to be his easiest class quickly occupied his full attention.

well. I didn't gauge this properly at all. I ran out of reading material.

The Middle by WhoIPretended2B (the newest chapter while waiting at the airport)

Buzzer Beater series by mcshrug (hollanov)

Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka -- had been working on this one for a while

Will This Make You Happy by Tanya Bush -- this felt unfinished. Like instead of just one year of baking it should have been two or three because it felt like there was no real conclusion at the end of the book. I kind of thought she should have broken up with The Boyfriend and tried dating The Crush but it turns out she's now married to The Boyfriend?? hm. Memoirs are weird.

Kingdom Come by cheesewithmy -- I think this is a deleted Deancas fic and I can't remember how it came to be on my phone but it was one of the things I still had downloaded and I read a bunch of it after I finished all my other reading material.

I'm so happy when reading trackers consider rereads because what if I just say I read 100 books but it's because I reread AFTG once a month. 😎

Thinking back on this bullshit year

Don’t call it a wrap up (because that’s too much pressure). I should do these every quarter; an entire year is too much to try to remember. But, I'm going to try to keep it simple: just some stuff that was meaningful to me this year.

Thank you for the tags on books and movies/shows, @run-for-chamo-miles!

Stuff I Watched: Sketch, which was a great exploration of why it's healthy to like horror and sadness; Heated Rivalry, because of course; and I honestly don't remember if I watched anything else but kids' movies. My mind is a sieve.

Stuff I Read: Natasha Pulley, with greatest honors going to The Mars House, the Watchmaker of Filigree Street and Pepperharrow (which gets a place of honor for making me go into the pantry to sob hysterically at the end), and the Kingdoms; Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell (I put off reading it but I loved it); Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland.

Stuff I Wrote: When That Light Hits the Sky, which has one chapter to go but has been deeply meaningful for me to work on since it grapples with depression in a way that has been cathartic for me to write (even if it does mean it's difficult for me to write, too); Soap Operetta, which was so much fun to write and made me laugh so many times; Six of One, which was fun because I got to share with you and you guys got really into it; and my first/only(?) fandom hop with an explicit Mars House fic. I'm really proud of all of these things!

Stuff I Did: Went back to therapy (this has been really big); hung out with fandom friends; got back into journaling and filled up three notebooks in five months; beta'ed some really, really good stuff. I tried to work less, and only semi-succeeded. Got really depressed, got un-depressed. Got really anxious, got less anxious. Went to the beach, went to the woods, went camping. Saw some great shows: Brahms x Radiohead, Rilo Kiley, Hot Water Music. Went to some protests, donated some money.

What. A. Year. In many ways, it feels like we've been put through the wringer, but I've also had such incredible moments of connection and closeness that have meant the world to me. 2026, keep bringing us together in community and solidarity. Please do right by us.

And now I'm going to tag people, but if you see this, feel tagged to say goodbye to 2025 however you like:

BUT I'm kinda obsessed with how much I've absorbed via fanon about Thuringwethil Vs how little is actually written about her and the fact she's this enigma who can be anything you want really.

Because of fan art I do find it hard not to see her as a pretty slight Gothic lady with bat wings BUT, she could be something horrific! I mean, she can (presumably) change shape if she's one of the Maiar anyway but still, just let your imagination run wild!

Also...was she skinned alive? Or at least her physical form killed first THEN skinned. Idk it seems implicit that her bat-wing cloak was seized via the means of skinning.

Does she have the opportunity retake physical form/go back to Middle Earth but says "fuck that shit" while saluting Sauron with the middle finger? I mean, I'd not be in a hurry to take another form if my wings got clipped and my dumbass line manager got humiliated by a big dog.