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Spoilers for the Season 3 Teaser trailer~
The faces that huddle around the box have gone from distressed to panicked as Player 120 and 149 take charge, pushing to the front of the group and leaning over the casket. As they try to rouse Gi-hun, In-ho feels the same icy panic that lines their faces shoot down his spine.
“What’s happening?” He barks at the Officer.
On the screen, one of the pink soldiers approaches the group. At first they resist, yelling at the guards but a pointed firearm is enough to force them to warily withdraw. Once they back away, the triangle-masked guard kneels down by the coffin and reaches in. After a moment they pull away and take out their radio. In-ho stares at the Officer impatiently as the other man listens to the guard’s report.
The Officer looks up at him when the radio clicks off.
“Player 456 isn’t breathing, sir.”
Bookmarked by pinkbeatles
28 Mar 2026
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dreamy, bittersweet, and fairytale-like <3
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In fall of 2009 Rosa showed up at Jake's apartment unannounced to propose marriage. Which was weird for a number of reasons, primarily because Jake had no idea she even knew where he lived.
"No seriously," he said, once he stopped laughing. "Why're you here."
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "One thousand push-ups."
"Cool," Jake said. "Let me get my coat."
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thank you for the gifts, please forget i exist by art_is_dead
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)
08 Aug 2025
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It takes Hwang In-ho only a month to insert himself back into Seong Gi-hun's life, whether the man wanted it or not.
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Seong Gi-hun receives a series of letters and gifts to himself (and subsequently the baby) from Hwang In-ho for months after winning the games and escaping the island with a duffle bag in one hand and Jin-ae cradled in his other. -
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જ⁀➴ ♡
SeongGihun456 (6:26 PM)
its okay, no worries, im down for anything
meet tonight at 9:30?H_INHO132 (6:28 PM)
That's a bit late for a date, no?SeongGihun456 (6:29 PM)
LOL
heres the motel im staying at
7065 Spring Side RD room 14H_INHO132 (6:31 PM)
A motel? And why the LOL?━━━
Inho is a lonely, rich, middle-aged man. He has everything anyone could ever want. You name it, he has it.
But he feels empty.
Over a decade after his divorce, he still longs for a partner. In a tipsy, softened haze, he opens the dating app he installed and starts setting up his profile.
Gihun, on the other hand, is reckless and in his late twenties.
He’s been using the app for hookups for years. After a particularly messy one, he scrolls mindlessly for his next thrill and stumbles across Inho’s profile. Something about it feels charming.
Both men swipe right for very different reasons.
Their awkward conversation continues in Inho’s apartment.
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Gi-hun could have done what it took to save himself if he thought that was necessary for the child's survival. In-ho realizes this, and in anticipation of Gi-hun's intention to sacrifice himself, presents his proposal without the full context. No matter the outcome, part of Gi-hun has to die.
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Mike, who, for some reason, was staring at Will with a small frown, and then, without any sort of warning, said, “wait, you still like me though, right?”
Will blinked.
Dustin choked on his soda while El immediately started smacking his back with a worried look on her face. Lucas’ eyebrows were so high on his forehead that they looked like they would launch right off, and Max squinted so hard that there was a deep crease in the bridge of her nose.
“What?” Will finally said.
Mike huffed like he did whenever he was annoyed. “I mean, it just - you keep talking about Lucas’ arms - “
“Lucas’ arms?” Both Will and Max repeated.
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After Will's confession, he kind of figured things would go back to normal, and for the most part, it has.
He just wants to know why the hell Mike keeps talking about Will's crush on him.
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"I hate you." Gi-hun says between sniffs. “I hate you.”
In-ho drops the gun, pulls his arm and takes him into a hug. Gi-hun doesn't hug him back, but rests his forehead on his shoulder. "I hate you."
"I know." He runs his fingers through Gi-hun's hair; it really is growing back. "I know."
“I hate you.” His tears dampen In-ho's shirt but he doesn't care. He doesn't dare to let him go.
“Shh… I know.”
The island was destroyed. All that's left are two winners who are learning to deal with the burden of survival.
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“Am I dead?”
The question is calm, almost curious, as if he’s asking about the weather.
In-ho’s breath clouds in front of him. He meets Gi-hun’s eyes—those ridiculous, stubborn eyes—and for once doesn’t lie.
“Yes,” he says, the word scraping out like gravel. “You didn’t… make it off the island.”In-ho escapes the island with the baby, hiding in a remote coastal house haunted by guilt and eerie signs: moving toys, familiar songs on a broken turntable, gunpowder scents. Then Gi-hun appears—translucent, confused, calling him Young-il. A haunting born of regret, a fragile companionship neither can let go, and one final message that sends In-ho searching for answers.
aka: a S3 fix-it with a happy ending (i promise)
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21 Dec 2025
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this is so good read it then reread it okay?
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"Gi-hun..."
"What the hell are you doing here?"
"I —" In-ho, maskless, standing in the rain, swallowed down his throat the last shred of dignity and forced himself to hold eye contact, "I haven't been able to stop thinking about you."
The games are over. Again, Gi-hun won. The first ever two-time winner. But if it was Gi-hun who insisted on chasing after the Front Man back in 2021. This time it was In-ho who found it impossible to let Gi-hun go.
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A stressed, overworked band director and a reluctant, tightly-wound psych teacher never planned to orbit each other—until a simple favor after school forces their worlds to collide. What begins as a broken printer and an awkward introduction turns into something quieter, warmer, and far more dangerous: a slow-burn unraveling neither of them is prepared for.
It’s the little things that do it.
The routine brushes of hands when passing papers.
The late-night texts that start with logistics and end with something softer.
The lingering conversations in empty hallways long after the final bell.As the band prepares for competition and the semester grows heavier, those small moments begin to echo—pulling them closer, loosening their defenses, and blurring the line between obligation and something achingly tender.
Two teachers. One unexpected connection. And a slow, steady unwinding of the hearts they’ve both tried so hard to protect.
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When In-ho wakes up in a void of destruction after suffering a fatal accident, he's convinced that he's finally died and gone to hell. In-ho had never been a particularly devout man but he figures it is a suitable punishment for the multitude and severity of his sins.
However, he’s all the more surprised when a mysterious figure presents him an offer he cannot possibly refuse:
Go back in time to the start of the 37th Squid Game. Change the ending.
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Aka the one where In-ho actually gets his shit together.
(somewhat of an arcane inspired squid game au.)Series
- Part 1 of arcane inspired squid game au
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Suddenly, finally, In-ho moves. He raises his gloved hands and there is a slight tremor to them when he pulls the gloves out one hand at a time. He flexes his fingers and Gi-hun sees the blood under his nails, the blue veins on his pale wrist as the sleeve of the coat hikes down.
In-ho reaches for him, and Gi-hun braces for the attack, but what comes next is infinitely worse: a gentle touch.
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Gi-hun finally has the chance to confront the Frontman but nothing goes as planned.
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- Part 1 of Fake Hope
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VIPs kind of get whatever they want, here- so when one of them orders to have Gi-hun for a night, In-ho has to comply.
Gi-hun doesn't get the memo.
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"Is that really all I am to you?" Gi-hun asked. "A horse?"
In-ho looked at him, really looked at him — and gosh, did he want to lie, spitting cruel things at Gi-hun. "No," he said, eventually, the painful truth, "you know that, Gi-hun. You know what you are to me."
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Inho cannot believe they are having this conversation. “No they’re not.”
“They are!”
“They’re not.”
“Fine. Gayeong-ah, is Uncle Inho stinky?”
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Gi-hun was supposed to die on that island. His elimination was the only thing that stood between Jun-hee and the finish line, and he was ready to die so that she and her baby could live. He lost himself to those games. It was the death that he deserved.
But, at the last minute, the Front Man steps in. The game ends. The island is blown to bits. And Gi-hun is sent back to his miserable life. Only now, he has a baby and her injured, traumatized mother relying on him.
Death is no longer an option, at least not until Jun-hee gets back on her feet. This leaves Gi-hun drowning in guilt, screaming into an endless sea of shame and confusion, and the only person who can hear his cries is the same person that pulled him into the darkness.
In-ho has been hiding in the dark for years. Since becoming the Front Man, he hasn’t let anyone get too close, not even Jun-ho. Life is easier when no one can see him. But when Gi-hun stumbles into the darkness, beaten down by the same system that ate In-ho alive, In-ho takes a chance and reveals himself.
What starts as a quest for mutual understanding quickly spirals into a secret exploration of their twisted attraction. But nothing can stay hidden in the shadows forever.
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The first day after the end of it all was the hardest day In-ho could remember in nearly ten years.
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Bookmarked by pinkbeatles
14 Sep 2025
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I’m gonna cry and throw up. time to read it again
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“My cooking is fine.”
“It’s not Gihun’s.” Junho smirked in that way that made it clear he knew exactly what he was doing.
“Besides, you don’t even like the dumplings. You just like—”
“Don’t. Finish. That. Sentence.”
Junho grinned wider but kept walking.
Inho could have dragged him home, but the truth was… Gihun’s dumplings were better. And maybe—just maybe—it had been a while since he’d seen the man himself.
Not that it mattered.
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Or After school, Junho insists on going to Gihun-hyung’s restaurant, not just for the dumplings but to watch his hyung, Inho, crumble like cookie dough under the sight of his crush—and to play matchmaker along the way.
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14 Sep 2025
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I love little terror junho <3