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oh i left this out - i'm never a big fan of flashbacks because i j want to see the current progression & a happy ending, esp. because s1 ended on such a high note & i want to continue from there, but yeah!! i'll likely let s2 marinate first if it'll focus on flashbacks. i might die of frustration if not

first time i read an author's note & i understand why i always skip out on it. the 100% hetero aside because while i know general bi/panphobia & the weird manner conservative asians treat/view queers, aka as if we were freaks in a circus, i don't understand "locker room culture" but men have always shocked me with how much they love/"pretend" to be sexual with other men yet swear up & down they're not gay, so whatever
but ughhh, the next season will be a lot of flashbacks huh... like i understand the importance of the background story because we need to know why ian is THIS obsessed with baek eunsan + i hope the author shows how important ian was to baek eunsan & how impacted he was when ian left, but i feel this would bite the author back after they officially stated baek eunsan "was" 100% hetero... which again, could j be an odd way a non-queer person fetishises the concept of "i'm straight but you're my exception" or j an odd perception of the conservative nations, so maybe the author would still add that ian was v important to eunsan but that's it...?
j a disclaimer: you can care VERY much about someone & not have romantic feelings for them, but this shit a romantic yearning slop yaoi, so!