She literally waited until she landed a new gig to drag that cold dead "RUMOR" back into the spotlight and to me that says everything about how she views her own work and her readers as just tools to be used when convenient🤣
I didn’t believe the Chicago timeline theory but DYK calling a reader interpretation a “rumor” two months after the epilogue is so manipulative lol. A small group believed in it. & I honestly think a handful of them made multiple accounts to push it. You all know how they were jumping me for calling them out & they called me an illiterate fake Ian supporter LOL. Calling it a “rumor” gives T* stans author-approved ammo to lump Jo stans w that small minority of pushy timeline ppl.
She already inserted a panel making fun of the dream theory (I'll avoid bringing up her old tweets lol) & now she’s calling out another interpretation. Different incidents, same behavior: she targets Jo stans while leaving fandom chaos alone when it benefits her. The timing gives it away. She stayed quiet while fandom wars kept WS loud through sales, votes, arguments & engagement. A day after her guest appearance was announced & suddenly a reader interpretation needed public correction. A theory that was mentioned weeks ago. She redirected blame instead of answering for the plot holes, the rushed ending, Ian’s missing internal work & how badly composed the final stretch was. She turned a reader interpretation into a “rumor” so the conversation could move away from the writing & back onto readers. Certain readers.
She keeps catering to the side that flatters her. T* stans glazed her even after she gave them a weak endgame, so they'll get fed. Jo readers questioned the writing, the time skip, T*’s protected accountability & Jo’s role being built up more than eg, so they get scolded.
Most interpretations gave her ending more credit than she deserved. Readers saw recognizable landmarks & tried to believe there was intention behind them. Her response admits there wasn’t. She didn’t prepare the ending carefully, then acted offended that readers tried to find meaning in what she put on the page. She told readers to interpret freely when ambiguity kept people invested (I can't find the tweet but it occasionally floats around). Once the interpretations stopped flattering her, she called them rumors & told paying readers to move on & get a hobby. Contempt, ego & retaliation are not clarification. Jo stans should stop funding an author who uses their support for engagement, then turns around & talks down to them for reading critically.
It makes so much sense that someone as sweet as you would write something as lovely as Love Tractor 🥺 and Pillow Talk was such a beautiful take on the novel’s little delicate details. always gonna support you!
시옌 작가님 기부 인증 올리신 거 보고
저도 현재 하고 있는 기부처 모아봤어요.
대학생 때도 1-2만원 씩은 기부하다가
이후에 금전적으로 너무 어려워져서 중단한 적이 있었는데요.
다시 기부를 하게 된다면 절대 중단하지 말자고 결심했던 게
벌써 9년이나 됐다니 정말 감사한 일이네요☺️☺️
TJ and everything related to him has all the hallmarks of bad writing.
There's the classic tell-don't-show like how TJ is supposedly a great gangster yet he did nothing but talk, intimidate some random NPC, sleep with women, and still basically a low level grunt throughout the whole series.
His gang plot is full of plot holes and illogical resolutions like this whole wedding massacre arc she's trying so hard to fix. The big bosses were basically retired Asian parents association because all they did was being homophobic, gossiping, attending a funeral and going to a wedding. Then the lights at the wedding full of supposedly important gangsters turned off and oops everyone is dead now.
Then there's Chiwoon, the ever useful dues ex machina showing up only when the plot needs to push TJ or TJ Ian agenda, doing all the gang biddings for TJ, taking unsolicited pictures of Ian for TJ to caress, and having a GPS on Ian that only worked when Ian went to meet Jo at a random gas station in the middle of the night and not when he was being assaulted in his apartment or killing a man.
Even TJ's emotional and core
romance plot lines were snubbed so badly, like wdym Chiwoon had to hand-feed TJ the epiphany that Ian mattered, all the emotional baggage he had with Ian gone with a 2 years time skip and the fucker just tattooed yw aka "years wasted" on his body as the answer to his doormat saying ily.
If you don't like TJ's aesthetic, everything about and surrounds him becomes so dumb and inexcusably bad.
revealing it. They sneaked inside, he turned off the lights, and magic happened. They killed EVERY ENEMY, easy right? Those people were bad😣 TJ and his besties good👍 Why? Coz Doyak wants us to think so. She also wants us to think she's some badass w that kindergarten writing😭
I REREAD FLASHLIGHT AND NOW I'M NOT OKAY
AARON AND YUJIN RUINED ME😩
PLEASE. WHEN. IS. IT. COMING. BACK.
I WOULD FIGHT A BEAR FOR AN EARLY RETURN😭
#Flashlight#플래시라이트
jo has self-respect. he knows what he wants and what he deserves. do people really think that would include taking back the person he loves/d after he lied about not going back to someone only to do exactly that and basically play house with him for two years? i don't think so
though i hate it im choosing to believe the endgame is exactly what she explicitly showed as the ones together and it's ian and that bum. for me the ending is not complex but straight up shit ❤ i respect the other interpretations but i don't share the same thoughts and that's ok
"let go of what doesn’t belong to you, let go of what’s not clinging to stay, let go of what doesn’t hold onto you, let go of anyone and anything that doesn’t make your life better, when you let go you make space for what’s best for you to enter into your life."
#WetSand
let go of what doesn’t belong to you, let go of what’s not clinging to stay, let go of what doesn’t hold onto you, let go of anyone and anything that doesn’t make your life better, when you let go you make space for what’s best for you to enter into your life.
and second, spent two years sleeping with him, only to now, once he’s “healed,” suddenly be ready to be with Jo… and Jo, like some “faithful dog,” would just say: “oh yes, of course, let’s be together.” Sorry, but that’s not Jo. 5/11