actually a better question: why don't people love kai SHIPS... every single kai ship is top tier... earth-shattering ground-breaking never been done before...gumz sookai, noona-play yeonkai, "hyung is so pretty" bomkai, "kai has me" tyunning
to the discouraged writers i've seen on my tl in this current discourse about low engagement... i promise that there IS a happy medium between writing for external validation & writing for yourself, but it also is unfortunately a lot closer to the latter than the former
i wonder how it feels to be the oldest member of a group with a narrative so heavily centered on themes of youth and loss of youth and the tragedy slash beauty of growing into an adult
do you know how meaningful it is to me that the first thing kai did when having to wear beomgyu’s jeans is ask him if they’re big enough for his ass to fit into
do u ever wonder what beomgyu's hyung looks like. like is there just a slightly more mature slightly less polished version of beomgyu walking around in the world going to an office and being beautifully normal
im gonna be honest i get super bad vibes from the tiktok of bang pd and ryan tedder talking about big they think the song will chart before the song's even been recorded
quarter life was SO good and SO criminally undercooked, it was a sin not giving that song an extra 30 seconds to breathe!!! there was nothing beyond that runtime but corporate greed, i’m sad, no anthemic rock song can reach its full potential in TWO MINUTES TWENTY NINE SECONDS
my biggest fandom pet peeve is when one ship has a good day and stans of other ships feel the need to talk over the fun about how that ship sucks or generally co-opt the moment, like why must you be so insecure! just be quiet and wait for your day, it will come around again!
no haloes
❖ bg hasn't had a heat since his last boyfriend broke his heart. the last thing he expects when he hires an alpha is for his ex to show up at his door.
❖ omegaverse, exes to lovers 🔞
❖ 27k, 1/2?
🔗
limitless
𝄢 yj falls for soogyu, but they're very together - and very off limits.
𝄢 choi line, pining, poly negotiations, developing relationship, falling in love
𝄢 27k 🔞
𝄢 for
@txtpolyfest
🔗:
real talk kai is of course a gracious angel but this is the kind of anecdote that makes me so sad about kai’s experience as a visibly biracial idol and the otherization he deals with constantly
the crew members on the flight spoke to kai in english and in the past, in order to not humiliate them, he’d reply in english too
🐧 they were considerate and spoke in english so i thought i should reply in english too
@TXT_members
@TXT_bighit
i am sick of these twenty-somethings doing "youth" concepts in school uniforms, ready for the photoshoot where the idols are figuring out how to get their new ikea couch home to their first grown-up apartment because they don't wanna pay the delivery fee. that's Youth
antichrist: sick day 🔞
🌡 sb and hk get sick and get closer.
🌡 a little slice of life with a side of smut (cw: illness)
🌡 14k, sookai, background ot5
🔗:
can’t believe i just saw someone thanking bighit for their “good judgment” in not debuting those older trainees when in the exact same live we heard stories about how bh staff wouldn’t let the boys eat and all their trainee pictures are of them falling asleep from overexhaustion
One more thing about this… sorry i’m insane… the way soob has this full body laugh that he does whenever he’s Really Laughing… and in this clip, he only does it after he turns around and looks at gyu’s face and sees that they’re sharing this laughter together
this put me off too, how dare you complain about gyu wearing a band shirt for aesthetics (as if all musicians aren’t dressed by stylists in music videos…) but then not bother to look further into the actual bands he DOES say he’s passionate about and blame translation issues
how tf does a mv with aesthetics like this one lead to such raggedy ass stage costumes for their Big American Late Night Show Appearance…… if only they had done pastel velvet a la choom… sigh i guess america doesn’t deserve them in velvet anyway
this is your monthly reminder that adults have interests too and if you want to shame people for being 25+ and still participating in fandom i guess you’re agreeing to just roll over and d!e when you hit 26
woman next to me on the train is reading an academic paper on heart disease, i am about to pull out my laptop and write a steamy omegaverse fic. an awkward four hours are ahead of us
what was the thought process behind putting the large ones closest to the camera so that the small ones look even smaller. Why would they do this to us
-it's fun slutty club music!!!
-the choreo is so fab, it's kind of camp? i'm here for it
-gyu's solo was perfect. Thank you hybe for FINALLY harnessing his power
-the feature was...random i'll leave it at that
-it's repetitive, curious if the ot5 version has a fun 2nd verse
no matter how popular your fic is, one day the attention will die down, and you will be left alone with just you and your work. what matters is that it's a net positive in YOUR life that the fic exists, and that is what will carry you through the disappointment of low engagement
hard agree but also i am begging. pleading. with people to just start leaving comments. if you love a fic so much you wish you could kudos it twice. just post a comment saying “i love this fic so much im back trying to kudos it again.” it’s so easy and means so much to a writer
one of the very first people who ever reached out to me and told me they loved my fics was
@HWALUCINATE
and today she gave me my very own handmade 1026 PAGE COPY of antichrist and i don’t even have the words to express how grateful i am!!!! LOOK AT THIS it’s a REAL BOOK
ok something i’ve been thinking about re: concepts and promotion strategies is that i think the light concept and the fact that bighit chose to lead with it as the first concept drop shows that the team learned a big lesson from the response to temptation vs freefall
cw: SA // i’ve been in the position of having a man rape me and then go on a public campaign to win sympathy for how much he suffered as a result of raping me and let me tell you. People are very quick to forgive a man who does not deserve it if he’s loud enough about it
this recurrent rethoric of men doing horrible things in most cases harmful to women and then victimizing themselves seeking compassion is soooo dangerous
vegas, three times
▪️gyu meets soob at a roulette table in las vegas, and the longest night of his life begins.
▪️time loops, butterfly effect, is it fate? maybe
▪️violence, smut 🔞
▪️for
@soogyufest
▪️40k
also. there’s nothing wrong with being disappointed with an idol and choosing to back away from them or unstan… it’s not the end of the world and it’s not a personal betrayal. just do what feels right for you and save your anger for the real problems in the world
me when i wanna look slutty for my boyfriend/me when i wanna look silly for my boyfriend/me when i wanna look cute for my boyfriend/me when my boyfriend makes me literally the happiest person in the world and i can’t hold it in anymore
ok did not expect that tweet to blow up but my non-joking take on this is that we are not the media we enjoy and i will never judge someone on an ethical level for enjoying a piece of art even if it’s not my taste. It’s truly okay to like art that has bad shit in it, i promise