Former high school swimmer. I just read the first chapter and I am stuck on the chapter saying the 400m individual medley is the hardest event in swimming. Do the majority of you think the same?
Because the events no one wanted to do when I was in high school were the 100 butterfly and the 500 freestyle; the entire reason I was even in the fly was because there was only one other event between it and the 500 so it served as a warm up. I was an endurance swimmer so I wouldn't call the 500 that difficult because someone counted for you. In the Olympics, this is the full mile and they still count for you.
But even in the Olympics, near no one looks good after two laps of Butterfly (Yes, Michael Phelps is an exception.) In high school, it's 50. Olympic-sized pools are 50 long so that's a 100. From my perspective, doing butterfly the entire time is the most difficult. With a medley, it's not only easier to count because you switch strokes but as they focus on different muscle groups, you get a bit of a break switching to another stroke.
Take it with a grain of salt. It's fiction, and the author is throwing out what they believed will be believable facts for us readers. Since most of the readers are not infact going to be swimmers of this caliber. Or swimmers at all. Just BL readers.
That said it will be close enough to the truth that it will be believable. They also just want to keep us riveted with out to much jargon and enough plot. Which I like, but you will have people like you who know that it's not quite true or so and be, "that information is wrong." And it still be ok.
True. I've once pondered the genetics of omegaverse when one of the MCs had two moms but him and his sibling were both male (men's genetics determine sex in most mammals.) It took me a couple months to stop occasionally going down rabbit holes of over thought.
A lot of people seem to have different opinions but the most common I've seen are 400 IM, 200 Fly and 200 Free
Yeah, let's leave the science and biology behind omegaverse. Let's shove that in it's dark corner where it belongs. We know it's fiction. We know it won't happen. But we just nodded and smile with delight that someone even was brave enough to think of it as a concept in the first place ...lol.
You know, I had been thinking for a while if they actually got to the "happy ending," they would have a boy first. ML will likely want a girl first but as the majority parent (because he totally would be,) it wouldn't take long for him to fall for a "mini me."
Maybe the gender-swapped version showed us what can be the ending. Full stop our angel is going to remain the driving force though.
Eugene: "If I jump from here, will you catch me?"
Alexis, internally: "How sick is he? Suggesting to jump off a balcony like that. And with a smile?"
...no? Just my voice screaming? This should be what's going through Alexis' head. Eugene is having bipolar episodes from being sick and his situation overall.
Let's see: pregnant with twins, plans a wedding in months, still not visibly pregnant...okay, we can believe that a bit.
Last chapter: five years later, twins are three years old...yeah, no, the youngest you could haven gotten away with would be four but five would have been better.
They're the same color as that ring. Mystery solved. Now f-ck off.
This is a man who doesn't know the meaning of the word no. If he can't be educated, he must be neutered.
Hyeolman: "I wish it had been Dana that had seen me."
Us ship builders slowly hammering nails:
It would have been better if the both of them were there because it will go straight over Dana's head but Nara could have made a small comment about him looking more like the dogs' owner than her and get some of those wheels turning. *sigh* All in good time, all in good time.
Mincheol's brain: "We have to prepare for survival. Body heat, check. Fire, check. Wa-"
Mincheol's body: "Yo, we safe enough. Check it out, bro."
Brain: "We need to get away from here for the moment. Go get water."
Body: "We're not that kind of thirsty. It can wait. Don't think so hard about it."
I wonder how long until he reaches that level in the heirarchy of needs.
I wanted to do something big for my mom's 50th. She said she was going to visit a friend like she always did that time of year and we could celebrate with her other friends with birthdays around the same time. (I don't care it's your friends' birthdays; I care that it's YOUR birthday!) She then guaranteed we would do something special for her 60th.
...she did the exact same thing. Thankfully, I didn't make reservations and such but I was ready to bake her a cake from scratch like I did for my dad's 50th. I don't know what's going to happen for her 70th. I may have to tie her to a tree.
"Is there a way..."
Me: "C-section, maybe. You know, if you're quick enough for the blood loss not to be equal to vaginal."
Doctor: "There is a medicine to terminate..."
Me: "Well, fire this guy. He knows damn well it's too late for that to work and not have the same likelihood of killing her. 99% sure Beatrice will want to go through with it and you're wasting your time but that's not the same amount of 'drama.' Talk to her, even if you won't like the answer."
It's so CUTE! They both want to propose and now we know for sure Leo has a ring (though it looks like it's for him more than it is for JJ.)
I've been imagining it since JJ got the ring. Whoever is proposed to is going to pout that they didn't get to do it first. I'm leaning more to JJ because Leo seems like he's going to get a cold. Based on the packed schedule, Leo better do it soon.
(Also leaning on the idea that Leo will get more than a cold and need to be hospitalized for our drama this time but who knows? We might just get the straight shot to the end game.)