Intertwinded

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So I know SHJ doesn't look like he'd be an omega - 198cm tall blond CEO stereotype of a man that he is (or seems to be when we first get to know him).

But therein lies his tragedy.

Because clearly he is one of those omegas who didn't present and would be a 'null' for most of the series, and only start presenting after the climax/ending of the novel.

Like this is word-of-god canon, that the reason SHJ didn't feel inclined to sex or romance during most of the duration of the novel (until he met Yoojin (his alpha)) was because he could subconciously feel the chains of CM's contract constraining him.

In omegaverse, surely this would manifest as him never feeling comfortable or safe enough to manifest his second gender. Which is a trope that is more usually found with omegas instead of alphas. So he goes through life in all the omegaverse worlds as an unpresented null who 'publicly presents' as whichever gender is most advantageous for him in that society.

Now comes a few of the actual omega traits he displays in canon:

"I was always domestic, just didn't have a family before" (Note: these are actual canon words that he confesses in canon eventually)

He is forced to be alpha male by circumstances, but he wants to be the world's most ultra promax housewife meow meow (🛐 @saurberry) when allowed to live his best life. He knits for Yoojin, cooks for Yoojin and the kids, as a gift only asks the kids for better kitchen tools because 'Han Yoojin-gun is overworking him day and night in the kitchen sob sob'

He steals and keeps random items from Yoojin / Yoojin's house in his inventory at all times (to sniff??? to remind himself of his alpha???). Including a spatula, laundry basket, i think there was a mug as well? Note he also always carries a few yarns of the pink yarn~ that was Yoojin's very first gift to him. And uses it to make things for Yoojin.

HE IS CANONICALLY THE PRINCESS OF THE HJYJ DUO!! They joke about Yoojin being the princess to be rescued in their early emotionally shallow era, but when things get real - SHJ is the princess and Yoojin is the prince!!! SHJ wants to be YJ's princess, but isn't sure if he is and then the climax of the novel involves Yoojin affirming that HJ is his princess!!! This is not an exaggeration. "I have come to save you, my princess!" <- actual canon quote from Yoojin to Hyunjae

After a Certain Point in the Side Stories, he starts actively calling himself Han Yoojin's (61st) WIFE. Including in front of people who are not Yoojin. (Yoojin, his alpha, unfortunately has a harem 😔) Note: the word he uses for himself is the feminine gendered word for spouse, not a gender-neutral term. It's WIFE and he is very clear about that. I don't think he calls himself Yoojin's husband even once.

He actively wants and desires to be pampered! His bucket list items include sleeping on Song Taewon's (his other alpha) and Han Yoojin's arm pillows. Yes, this is indeed canon. (Bucketlist Extra)

In conclusion: omega. Clearly he's an omega. Yoojin giving birth to all those kids is just that world's first known instance of alphapreg. ☺️ (Or it can be omega x omega. I would like 2k26 to be the year of omeguri)

Let us not discriminate against too tall and too big-dicked omegas! Vote omega SHJ today!

Want to wake up like an astronaut? Now you can! Check out the Artemis II astronauts' wake-up songs on Spotify.

These songs were chosen by the astronauts for each day of the mission. To end each sleep period aboard Orion, the Mission Control Center at our Johnson Space Center in Houston sends out a special song to the crew. This continues a tradition that reaches back decades to the Gemini VI mission in 1965.

Let's set aside the fact that Pillowfort is a ghost town that's perpetually about six weeks away from bankruptcy. Hand-wringing about "note stealing" notwithstanding, the actual problem with Tumblr's new interaction model is that second-order engagements (e.g, commented reblogs of commented reblogs, replies to commented reblogs, etc.) are now very difficult for the author of a reblog chain's root post to even be aware of, much less meaningfully interact with.

Pillowfort's "solution" to this problem is to be so institutionally gunshy about anyone ever having an interaction they didn't explicitly opt into that most types of second-order engagement are simply not permitted at all.

- It was buggy. Tags not showing up for an OP past even an empty reblog did not appear to be intended (or at least, it was not mentioned in the announcement), and is a MAJOR problem. Specifically, it undoes the major update from around 5 years ago which was heavily praised by the userbase (one of few tumblr updates to actually be widely well recieved) which allowed a poster to see tags in their activity feed. If this was the only problem, they could have launched a bug fix. Same goes for not being able to turn off reblogs.

- Userbase unity? Well, maybe. Specifically - the userbase had a swift, harsh, and overbearing response to this update. Most of the complaints were the same: this will exacerbate harassment, this will disrupt the flow of communication, this will make it impossible for someone to maintain their posts. Big names in the tumblr ecosystem came down hard, fast, and with significant concern: if this stays in place, I will have to leave - this place will not do what I need it to do. Much of the userbase said the same, sharing alternate blog hosting sites and doing the thing we always do when this ship looks like sinking. Additionally, their replies and feedback forms were obviously being flooded. This put real pressure on their workers in the office, which puts financial pressure on the company. I think the most disrupting tactic though, was going offsite. I checked out their instagram and twitter comments; they were flooded. This is something we Don't Usually Do when we're just whining about the newest change. Usually we stay here to complain but we make do with the change. This, I think, is the thing that signified people weren't just whining but were actually for real pissed. And then of course...

- Five hours before the roll-back announcement, an article drops. That kind of bad press is the nail in the coffin for a dying company like tumblr. I imagine several concerned meetings somewhere in those five hours.