GUARDS!! console me

Nothing says self love like making fanart for your own fanfic. It’s rough AF I know ^^; I figured I better put it out there before I lose my nerve.

Title: ASIAN DILF TAKES HUGE LOAD

Chapters: 6/?

Rating: E

Pairings: Gi-hun/Multiple

Summary: Alternate universe where Gi-hun is a pornstar, and In-ho develops a porn addiction. Romance ensues. Also, porn is illegal in South Korea.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62986183/chapters/161303335

Fascinated by the way Hwang In-ho was living despite winning the 28th squid game. And the books. Lacanian philosophy of desire. Picasso, Magritte, Van Gogh, Monet. Catcher in the Rye. Camus and Nietzsche. Like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a weird hooded cloak.

There’s been investigations into what some of these books are since the first season aired. Most of the ones on his desk have been identified, but the ones on the shelf in the first gif are really blurry.

I posted abt this on the squid game subreddit but not too much traction lol.

I believe the book on the far right is Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor based on other images I’ve seen of the spine of the Penguin Classic edition of that. I was able to identify the fifth from the left as Vivian Maier Self-Portraits.

I’d never heard of Vivian Maier before, but I looked into her after finding the book. She was a nanny who photographed as a hobby but never shared any of her photos. Someone bought all of her film/prints in a storage unit auction because either 1) in her old age she forgot or was unable to pay for it or 2) she had passed away and had no family/will. She died in 2009 and this book was published in 2013 but I couldn’t find info on when the photos were purchased. Anyway thought that was a uniquely sad anti-capitalist story.

Nothing I can think of re: The Professor, other than it was also published posthumously.

Also for the desk books… I don’t think the dark blue one to the right of Catcher in the Rye had been identified. The black one next to that that says Campus Life(?) on the spine seems like it could be a journal or something but who knows. The book to the left of Catcher seems like it could be part of a series (number 11 on it) of I’m guessing art/art history books. The picture in the spine is of Holbein’s The Ambassadors, which if you’re not familiar with it, has this bonkers stretched out skull on it. Guessing the book deals in perspective? lol.

Anyway thought I’d post this here in case anyone else is as weirdly obsessive about this as I am?

The book with Holbein on the spine is Lacan's Seminar Book 11: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis [x]

Fascinated by the way Hwang In-ho was living despite winning the 28th squid game. And the books. Lacanian philosophy of desire. Picasso, Magritte, Van Gogh, Monet. Catcher in the Rye. Camus and Nietzsche. Like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a weird hooded cloak.

There’s been investigations into what some of these books are since the first season aired. Most of the ones on his desk have been identified, but the ones on the shelf in the first gif are really blurry.

I posted abt this on the squid game subreddit but not too much traction lol.

I believe the book on the far right is Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor based on other images I’ve seen of the spine of the Penguin Classic edition of that. I was able to identify the fifth from the left as Vivian Maier Self-Portraits.

I’d never heard of Vivian Maier before, but I looked into her after finding the book. She was a nanny who photographed as a hobby but never shared any of her photos. Someone bought all of her film/prints in a storage unit auction because either 1) in her old age she forgot or was unable to pay for it or 2) she had passed away and had no family/will. She died in 2009 and this book was published in 2013 but I couldn’t find info on when the photos were purchased. Anyway thought that was a uniquely sad anti-capitalist story.

Nothing I can think of re: The Professor, other than it was also published posthumously.

Also for the desk books… I don’t think the dark blue one to the right of Catcher in the Rye had been identified. The black one next to that that says Campus Life(?) on the spine seems like it could be a journal or something but who knows. The book to the left of Catcher seems like it could be part of a series (number 11 on it) of I’m guessing art/art history books. The picture in the spine is of Holbein’s The Ambassadors, which if you’re not familiar with it, has this bonkers stretched out skull on it. Guessing the book deals in perspective? lol.

Anyway thought I’d post this here in case anyone else is as weirdly obsessive about this as I am?

My Korean is almost non-existent lol but I recognized the word on the second book to the left. I know it means "Hell," and it's also the title of episode 2 in season 1. When I googled "지옥 novel," the first thing that came up was "Hell," a novel by Henri Barbusse... which is about an unnamed narrator who spies on other people through a peephole. From the Wikipedia page:

Now, I can't see the writer's name, so I'm not 100% sure that the "지옥" book on In-ho's desk is really Barbusse's "Hell." But the plot... An unmarried and friendless man spying on other people... That's Frontman.

So, I’m insane lol. But I googled some more, and now I have confirmation that it is indeed the Korean translation of Barbusse’s “Hell”

(source)

‼️‼️‼️ omg thank you this is AMAZING. *checks one more off the list*

Fascinated by the way Hwang In-ho was living despite winning the 28th squid game. And the books. Lacanian philosophy of desire. Picasso, Magritte, Van Gogh, Monet. Catcher in the Rye. Camus and Nietzsche. Like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a weird hooded cloak.

There’s been investigations into what some of these books are since the first season aired. Most of the ones on his desk have been identified, but the ones on the shelf in the first gif are really blurry.

I posted abt this on the squid game subreddit but not too much traction lol.

I believe the book on the far right is Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor based on other images I’ve seen of the spine of the Penguin Classic edition of that. I was able to identify the fifth from the left as Vivian Maier Self-Portraits.

I’d never heard of Vivian Maier before, but I looked into her after finding the book. She was a nanny who photographed as a hobby but never shared any of her photos. Someone bought all of her film/prints in a storage unit auction because either 1) in her old age she forgot or was unable to pay for it or 2) she had passed away and had no family/will. She died in 2009 and this book was published in 2013 but I couldn’t find info on when the photos were purchased. Anyway thought that was a uniquely sad anti-capitalist story.

Nothing I can think of re: The Professor, other than it was also published posthumously.

Also for the desk books… I don’t think the dark blue one to the right of Catcher in the Rye had been identified. The black one next to that that says Campus Life(?) on the spine seems like it could be a journal or something but who knows. The book to the left of Catcher seems like it could be part of a series (number 11 on it) of I’m guessing art/art history books. The picture in the spine is of Holbein’s The Ambassadors, which if you’re not familiar with it, has this bonkers stretched out skull on it. Guessing the book deals in perspective? lol.

Anyway thought I’d post this here in case anyone else is as weirdly obsessive about this as I am?