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whyoneartheven · 5 months
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there are so many "if this gets (insert number) notes i'll do something productive/good for me!" but has there ever been one where someone goes
if this gets 10k notes i'll slap myself in the face
i suppose i'm wondering
would people be so eager to reblog if it would cause something slightly unpleasant?
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wonwayne · 4 months
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cold season ☁️ lee heeseung
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pairing : bff!heeseung x gn!reader genre : fluff, comfort warnings : mentions of food word count : 0.6k
a/n : flirty heeseung with zero survival instinct comes to cuddle while you’re sick.
“you look so hot right now.”
you winced your eyes open to look incredulously up at your doe-eyed best friend. it’s too damn bright in this room, you thought, as your head continued pounding. there were more things about the condition of your room you were unhappy with at the moment: the suffocating humidity from you staying cooped up here with the doors closed for nearly three days straight; the mess of your bedside table, littered with tissues and soaked tea bags; and your own nightmarish appearance, violated by swollen eyes and hair matted by sweat. you felt somewhat sheepish, letting yourself be perceived by heeseung in this state, but you were also too relieved to see him to shoo him away — or register the undertone of his comment.
“yeah, that’s a 101 degree fever for you.” your voice was so nasal, you wondered if the words were actively coming out your nose.
heeseung pouted, taking your clammy hand in his cool ones. “have you eaten? want me to order soup?”
you shook your head weakly. “no need.”
“to eat? humanity has proved otherwise.”
you rolled your eyes, trying to slip your hand out of his grip, but he held on tight.
“chicken noodle would be a bit basic, wouldn’t it? maybe something spicier? gamjatang?” with his free hand, he was opening the delivery app on his phone. “when i had that nasty cold like a month ago, this place absolutely saved me—”
“i really appreciate the thought, hee, but i swear i’ve got no appetite.” you squeezed his hand this time, hoping that, like a chinese finger trap, he’d let you go because of it.
when he showed no signs of doing so, you added, “do you really want that nasty cold back? i’ve been quarantining for a reason, idiot.”
heeseung only chuckled at the nickname. “perfect, just ordered. should be coming in the next 20 minutes or so.”
“heeseung.” you used all the energy left in you not to sound pathetically silly.
“yes, darling?”
you frowned at his response. “you’re seriously calling me darling right now? when i look like this?”
“’course i am,” and he took your hand up to his lips for the softest, sweetest peck, “as i said, you look so incredibly hot.”
suddenly, you felt the urge to punch him for being so unserious. (and for making you blush from more than your heightened body temperature.) but instead, against your will, you found yourself tugging him by the hand with such raw, instant force that he lost his balance, falling over you onto the bed and narrowly missing the headboard.
on second thought, you hadn’t seized him with that much force — definitely not enough to trip him over. but before you could open your mouth to apologize, at least out of courtesy, heeseung was adjusting himself to lie parallel to you, hand still intertwined in yours.
“ah,” he sighed, turning onto his side and shifting closer to you so that his face was almost entirely buried in your neck, “your bed is insanely comfortable.”
you sniffled in faux disgust, sliding to the edge of the mattress as if you actually had a chance of escaping his embrace. much to your surprise, he pulled you right back into him by your waist.
“your white blood cells are so pissed at you right now,” you huffed, trying not to betray how flustered you were by his touch.
“okay, nerd,” he shot back, snuggling ever closer into your backside. “you know, i’m starting to regret ordering that gamjatang.”
“and why is that?”
“because now that i’m here, i’d never want to leave your side.”
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for-a-longlongtime · 8 months
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On Dieter, Goya's Black Paintings, and Pedro on Talk Art 
Alright y'all, it's Saturday evening, I have nothing better to do (I actually do but I don't feel like it), so welcome to my mini TED Talk about 'how to pay too much fucking attention to the Pedro cinematic universe'. None of this is new, and maybe everybody already knew about this, but I didn't... so here's a nerdy tangent courtesy of googling/wikipedia-ing.
I was reading a Dieter!fic (this one right here by @chaoticgeminate - go read her writing!) earlier today, which refers to the 'Saturn Devouring His Son' painting - that giant mural Dieter is working on in The Bubble:
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(his brush isn't even touching the wall tho, ha)
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The original 'Saturn' by Goya
The fic mentioned its part of 'The Black Paintings', so I got curious and started googling. I'm no art major or expert, so please allow me to just paraphraze the Wikipedia page. 'Saturn' is part of a group of 14 Goya paintings that are called Pinturas Negras/The Black Paintings. They "portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity" --this was late in Goya's life, and was connected to several illnesses he had experienced (and the fear of relapsing) and political turmoil in Spain at the time (post-Napolean war, changing Spanish government, etc.
Trivia fact 1: Goya actually made these paintings right on the walls of the Quinta del Sordo (so-called Deaf Man's villa) where he was staying -- so I love that Apatow had Dieter also paint right on the walls.
Trivia fact 2: while Goya was living in this villa, he actually became gravely ill (again) - not by a pandemic obviously, but it's hard to not link that loosely to the COVID period. He had never intended for these 'Black Paintings' to become public; "these paintings are as close to being hermetically private as any that have ever been produced in the history of Western art" (the murals were eventually transfered to canvas by other folks once he had moved out of the villa). Switching back to The Bubble -- I love how the tragic influence of Goya's illness(es) and art/things 'made at home away from the world, not intended for an audience' (so obviously, in a bubble) has that connection to the COVID experience and how many folks were suddenly homebound, along with the burden of illness in many ways (lord knows this all did a serious number on our mental health). In the movie, Dieter and the others do not want to go into isolation again, but that solitude is what eventually led him to painting on the walls in his room. This is not a 'grand discovery' of any kind, but I got a kick out of the parellels once I read up on it - and honestly makes me appreciate the movie a bit more, haha.
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Not happy about another quarantine period.
Alright, more hyperfocusing after the cut:
Some googling led me to a post from last year by @nicolethered (gifs in this post are hers), and she included screencaps of the walls of Dieter's room (during that drug scene), which I hadn't even noticed while watching the movie. Upon taking a closer look, I noticed they're outtakes from other pieces of Goya's Black Paintings! I thought that was really cool, they sure worked on the details with that set (there's one more that's shown in a different shot but I can't exactly figure out which outtake that is):
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First one is a mirror image from Two Old Men Eating Soup and the second one is basically Satan aka 'The Great He-Goat' from the Witches' Sabbath painting. Which IMO makes for fucking hilarious perfection a.k.a. trivia fact 3 -- because we all know about Dieter and his little emotional support goat, LOL. Excellent connection.
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*insert sound bit from Hot Ones interview* : "Just let me love you!"
Anywaaay there's more. The Bubble was shot during Feb 22, 2021 to April 16, 2021, right? Pedro has spoken about how his input in shaping Dieter was mostly regarding his outfits (the Crocs, the robe, etc). But then I suddenly remember the Talk Art interview he had done in 2018, and how he namechecks 'The Dog' by Goya - and lo, guess which painting is actually part of the 14 Black Paintings? Yeap - the dog! So I checked the podcast and he was asked, 'if you could be any painting, what painting would you be?' by Russell. Here is the painting, and below it is what he said on Talk Art:
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'The Drowning Dog' by Goya
"I think… it's a Goya. Yeah, old school. I think it's called 'Dog Buried in Sand' or something like that. It's so… I remember feeling it was such a visual representation of helplessness, in such a… come on, let's all admit that helplessness is a very recurring feeling for many of us, you know what I mean? When it comes to so many things. I guess… I was in Spain, in Madrid, and I was 20. And I went to the Goya museum. What's interesting about it is that the head of the dog is really quite small and sort of adorable, it looks like a stray mutt, and the painting - if I can remember it correctly - is very rectangular. There's so much above him, like the world just seems so big. It's quite incredible, isn't it? I know it's really sad, and sort of dark, and maybe I really like enjoy perceiving myself like..." (He gets interrupted by Russell, and then continues;) "Yeah, he's certainly not dying, it's sort of - it's a moment", (then interrupts himself with;) "Maybe he's totally dying, there's no way that dog is getting out of that. That dog is SO fucked. Anyway, that's the painting that represents my life". (All three of them burst out into laughing.)
If you're still reading this - I am impressed with your dedication to my silly little post, haha. Anyway, I just thought it was so striking that there basically is a straight line from the painting he mentioned in Talk Art to what Dieter is painting in the Bubble. Makes me wonder if perhaps he - or even Russell/Robert - had any input in that part of Dieter's backstory.
Thank you for attending my TED Talk on artistic analysis of Dieter Bravo during COVID, we now resume your regularly scheduled program for Saturday night. 🤪
(Have I been smoking because a local dispensary actually had 'Mando' bud? I sure as fuck have and I blame that for this post.)
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Excerpt of Kari Lake interview with 60 Minutes Australia
Kari Lake is a dangerous, dangerous politician.
And she might become the governor of Arizona.
Above is an excerpt from Kari Lake’s off-the-wall interview with Liam Bartlett for 60 Minutes Australia. It is worth your time to watch the entire interview, which you can see HERE (at these video times: 12:37 - 14:23, 16:17 -19:07, 20:14 - 20:33). 
During the interview, Lake uses the Trumpian defense techniques of lying, grossly exaggerating, attacking others, and projecting what the GQP does onto others.
In the video clip above, we see that when Lake doesn't like the direction the interview is going in, she accuses the mainstream media (and Bartlett) of being "conspiracy theorists." The interview goes downhill from there. Here’s part of the video transcript: 
LAKE: Maybe they get away with that stuff in Australia. Perhaps in Australia because you've given your rights away; you melted down all of your guns, and you guys have no freedom that you find that okay. But here in America we do things differently. We have something called the U.S. Constitution and we have rights.”
BARTLETT: So we’d be better off having more guns here. I mean, what? You would be better off—
LAKE: Yeah, you would. You absolutely would, sir. You absolutely would. I feel so sorry for the people in Australia have no power. The only thing keeping us from being Australia right now is our second Amendment, and we will never, ever let that go. Mark my words. What we saw happening in Australia where you have internment camps, and people are being forced, if they've encountered anybody with COVID, to be locked into a quarantine camp is the most horrifying thing I think I've ever seen a government do.
BARTLETT (Cross-talking): Would it—
LAKE (Cross-talking): It's frightening, and if you if you can't see that I feel sorry for you.
BARTLETT (Cross-talking): Would it have been better-- 
LAKE (Cross-talking): This is our last question Liam. We have to run but thank you for your time. 
BARTLETT (Cross-talking): Just, just answer me this one question. One, one more question, Kari-- 
LAKE(Cross-talking): Well, no, I've already told you we're done. Thank you so much.
BARTLETT (Cross-talking): Well, just-
LAKE (As an aside as she is getting up to leave): That guy's a complete nut. Seriously, a complete insane person.
I have honestly never seen a less professional and over-the-top interview by a politician as this one (and that’s saying something, given some of Trump’s interviews). 
Heaven forbid Lake ever makes it into federal politics where she has to deal with international representatives. 
I mean, accusing Australia of having COVID “internment camps”!😱 It’s not surprising that Kari’s statement is based on right-wing misinformation. Australia built a quarantine facility for travelers coming into the country, whether or not they were vaxxed. Most countries during the deadly COVID pandemic had quarantine requirements for incoming travelers. Kari’s comment was completely outrageous given the reality of what was actually happening in Australia.
Clearly Lake is used to American journalists who don’t push back on politicians who lie or try to evade answering questions. Lake’s meltdown in the above video in part was probably triggered by Bartlett’s previous confrontation of Lake’s claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” (shown in an earlier part of the interview not included in the above video). 
When Bartlett pushed her, Lake had the audacity to say that the bogus “forensic” Cyber Ninja Arizona audit proved that the election was stolen. Uh, no. In fact, it supported the fact that Biden won Arizona and that there was no substantial voter fraud in Arizona’s 2020 election.
Unfortunately, Lake is charismatic and there has been some talk of her being a VP candidate if Trump runs for president in 2024. 
Let’s pray that she loses Arizona and is also ignored for federal office. 
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supraveng · 2 years
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Quarantine together
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Summary:  (friends to lovers...college au).....Sam takes care of you while you are sick and feelings are exposed 
Pairing: Sam Winchester x reader (no description)
Requested: YES!  This is the first time I’ve actually written a request, but the wonderful  @swiftlymoniquesblog​  is sick and in need for some handsome Sam Winchester comfort
Warnings: FLUFF, Sam being sweet and comforting, talks of COVID
Main masterlist    graphics by @firefly-graphics​
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Why? That was the only thing you could think. Why did you decide to go to law school? You knew it would be hard, but this…this was insane.  
You were so tired, more tired than usual and now you were running late to your study session with Sam.  Without whom you know you would be failing most if not all your case studies.   
But now, you were cursing yourself for being late, you hated waiting on people and loathed yourself for doing this to him.   Making your way over to your study room in the library, Sam was already there.  
“I am so sorry I’m late, I’m feeling a little off lately, not that that is a good excuse, but I am really sorry you were waiting on me and i didn’t even bother to text you that I was running late….mainly because my phone is somewhere in the bottom of my bag, but I’m really sorry” looking at Sam, he just smiled making you want to melt on the spot.  
“Its ok, I was running late too, the line at the coffee cart was ridiculous, I’ve only been here a minute, don’t stress”  he patted the chair next to him and handed you a coffee.  
“You are a lifesaver!” you hugged Sam quickly before hopping into your seat and taking a large whiff from the cup.  
You sighed, “I must be coming down with something, I can’t even smell it” almost whining.  Taking a tentative sip, not wanting to burn your mouth, you thought it tasted off but wasn’t sure, so you took a larger sip.  You can get sick, you didn’t have time for this.  
“What did you get me?  It doesn’t taste like the usual” you asked Sam, hoping it was the coffee cart's mistake and not something wrong with you and your taste buds.  
Sam looked a little confused, “it’s still your Red Eye with almond milk, but they were out of hazelnut syrup so it’s just regular sugar”  His response did not reassure you at all.  
The fact that it barely tasted like coffee made you concerned and you didn’t want to think about what that actually meant.  Smiling at Sam you opened your laptop and tried to focus on the screen.  
“Ok, do you have your notes from last week?  I think the midterm will probably focus on the case study were discussed, it seemed more complicated than the previous ones”.   
“Hold on for a second ok, are you sure you are feeling ok?  You look a little flushed, do you want to take your jacket off?”  Sam motioned to your coat but you shook your head. 
“No, I’m feeling fine, just a little cold, a bit tired.  I might be getting a cold or something, maybe I should sit on the other side of the table….I don’t want you getting sick.” you stated as you started to move around, only for Sam to reach out and grab your forearm.  
“Slow down for a minute, your symptoms sound like” but you interrupted him before he could go on.  
“Don’t!  Don’t say it Sam” you whined knowing exactly what he was thinking.  “It can’t be that!  We have midterms next week, I can’t be quarantined!”   
You immediately felt guilty for the way you spoke to him, you were frustrated and didn’t mean it.  “I know what you are thinking, and it’s crap timing but your health is more important than midterms.”  
Knowing he was right, you weren’t sure what you should do, but you also knew you didn’t want to get him sick.  
Feeling defeated, you looked up at Sam “I’m going back to my apartment, and we can facetime our study session, ok?”    
He was too good of a friend to let you go that easily, “I have a counter offer….how about I walk you to the clinic?  That way, if it is that the nurse can notify your professors of the quarantine so you can be rescheduled for your midterms”   
By the sound of his voice you could tell he wasn’t going to let you back out of his plan, so you mumbled a simple thank you as you grabbed your stuff and headed towards the clinic.  
“Thank you for walking me, but I don’t want to get you sick” looking up at Sam, trying to convey how sorry you were for causing a disruption in his day.  
“Quit worrying about me, I’m fine, but if it will make you feel better, I’ll test too, just in case” he smiled and held the door to the clinic open for you.  Always the gentleman.  
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Waiting for the test results was only 15 minutes but felt like hours, you didn’t want to test positive, but it would make sense about how you’ve been feeling lately.  
Finding out you had COVID was supposed to be a relief, but discovering that Sam had it too made you sick knowing you were the one that probably gave it to him since he had no symptoms.  
“Go get some rest and I’ll check in on you later, ok? I’ll send you my class notes after you take a nap” Sam’s smile was the only thing you wanted to look at for the rest of the day, he always made you feel better.  
“Thanks Sam” you leaned in for a quick hug before heading to your car and back home.  
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The hot shower helped your sore muscles a little but you really just wanted to sleep for a week, throwing on your favorite leggings and a flannel you stole from Sam, you got in bed.  
You hadn’t been sleeping long when you felt warmer all of a sudden, it was a pleasant surprise since the blankets you had didn't seem to help much. Snuggling in a little further into your pillow, you try to roll onto your back but find something heavy across your stomach.   
Reaching down as you turned your head, you found Sam, sound asleep with his arm wrapped around you.   You gently turned until you were facing him, your faces mere inches apart.  Gosh, how did you end up with such an amazingly handsome friend?  He is so sweet and caring   
“Shh, I can hear you thinking, go back to sleep” he whispered without opening his eyes.  
“What are you doing here?  Where is your mask?  You don’t have symptoms, I don’t want to make it worse for you” you whispered back, not sure what else to say or do at this point.  
“We are quarantining together… I can’t let Dean get sick, and there’s no one else I'd rather be stuck with for the next week”  he kissed your nose and pulled you closer before mumbling, “go back to sleep”
You couldn’t help the smile that spread across your face as you nuzzled into his neck.  
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The next time you woke up was due to being too cold, and you realized you were alone in bed. 
Sitting up, you saw Sam in your kitchen, and it looked like he was attempting to cook something.  
“We already have the virus, you really want to add food poisoning to that too?” you joked as you watched his large body gracefully move around your micro kitchen.  
“Haha, looks like the virus has killed your sense of humor along with your taste buds”   he walked over and handed you a bowl, “It’s tomato and rice soup, my mom’s recipe, so we should survive”   
“Thank you Sam, I wasn’t expecting all of this, but I’m glad you’re here” you looked up at him with all the sincerity you could.   “This whole thing sucks, and I’m probably the one to blame, but I can’t imagine being stuck with anyone but you for the next week.  You always make me feel better”  
Sam smiled down at you, “I feel the same….not about you being the one to blame, it’s a shock we haven’t been exposed yet, but you mean so much to me, I knew I would only get through this if I was about to take care of you”   
You both had stupid grins on your faces while you finished your soup and decided to turn on a movie to keep from going crazy.  
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Getting settled in, Sam pulled you into him and cuddled you for the entirety of the movie, his arms around you making you feel immensely better by the minute.  
“So, do you think I can take you on a proper date, once this is all over?” you could hear some nervousness in Sam’s voice when he asked.  
You couldn’t look at him, you weren’t sure he was actually asking or if the virus had you hallucinating, so you snuggled further into his chest before asking, “you want to date me?”  
He hummed in response before kissing the top of your head “yea, I’ve been thinking about asking you for a while, but I guess I was too nervous you would say we are just friends.  Dean convinced me to tell you how I feel and I’m hoping you feel the same way”     
Finally looking at Sam you smirked, “how do you feel about me, Sam?”   
He laughed a bit but realized, you needed to hear it as much as he needed to say it  “I like you more than a friend, I think about you when I wake up and before I go to sleep.  You are my favorite person in the world, and I really want to kiss you every minute of every day for the rest of my life”  
Saying you were shocked would have been an understatement, you weren’t expecting all that, but it was the best thing you had heard anyone say in a really long time.  
Realizing he was waiting on a response, you did the only thing you could think of and leaned in and kissed him.  The kiss was soft and slow, but you poured every emotion you could into it.   
Pulling back you smiled at Sam and nodded, “me too”   
You both laughed and continued cuddling, “let’s get us both healthy and then we can continue on with all the romance you can handle”   
“I like the sound of that”
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toyama-division · 8 months
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With the COVID numbers slowly rising again (unfortunately), that's got me thinking of a question I wanted to ask...
If COVID took place in the HypMic universe, how would your OC's handle it? Would they slowly go insane from being trapped indoors? Would they develop an unhealthy drinking/smoking habit? Or would they be perfectly fine?
It's easy to expect it, but Asato would be mostly unaffected. Aside from the sharp increase in demand for produce, the Rikiya family and its workers already were spread apart in the fields, so work wouldn't be affected majorly. The biggest issue for the family is the need to do regular health checkups and the need to increase prices which would greatly bother Toshiko and Asato since they pride themselves on making their produce affordable (outside of the designer fruits). Asato would be a little stressed about risking his grandmother to infection considering her age to her annoyance. If anything, she takes the quarantine harder since Toshiko is a very social woman.
Yano might lose some of his sanity being trapped in his apartment alone for long periods of time... Thankfully, he would have special access to Glassara being the nephew of the owner. Working alone would limit his projects to be much smaller, exclusively making dishware and miniature sculptures. Still, having a place to spend making art pieces with his uncle is a lot better than rotting alone in his room doom-scrolling through social media platforms.
For Kensaku, it's hellish for him. Since his company is a big producer of antibiotics, the start of the pandemic would be spent having to turn away customers, even doctors since their medication isn't made for viruses like COVID. On top of that, with the increase in demand for medical workers, many of the company's researchers, maybe even Kensaku, would be temporarily transferred to help research remedies and cures to the virus. If anything, the poor man is going to be overworked, spending nights at his work or coming home to his apartment an empty husk. At the very least, Kensaku wouldn't be as isolated as others may be, not that the work he is subjected to makes up for that.
Thanks for the ask! (And I feel you there...)
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naradivision · 8 months
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With the COVID numbers slowly rising again (unfortunately), that's got me thinking of a question I wanted to ask...
If COVID took place in the HypMic universe, how would your OC's handle it? Would they slowly go insane from being trapped indoors? Would they develop an unhealthy drinking/smoking habit? Or would they be perfectly fine?
It’s sad to say Yuuya would be the most affected in the group. Although he has loads of hobbies that can enjoy at home, he is still an outdoor person who craves human interactions at heart (That’s why he loves part-time jobs and tends to have many different ones every week). He doesn’t have any problem with online schooling, but to be alone for a great amount of time will distress him greatly even if he does understand the circumstance and make sure to properly follow the safety regulations. Besides, he is the type to be worried about the well-being of other people in general, so this pandemic would definitely give him a lot of internal struggles. Therefore, he is likely to cope with this by being more active on online platforms such as Zoom, PROFILE, or etc. But as soon as he manages to adjust himself (with some help from his friends, his teammates, and his furry roommate) …he too, would be able to find peace at home from some small projects like working on his music tracks and trying out new DIY ideas. 
And for Asahi; despite his childlike personality, he is surprisingly handling things well during the pandemic. Even so, it isn’t to say that he won’t be bothered by too many regulations and the lower influx of customers at his family store. Since he has a family business to run and has two elderly people at high risk of developing serious symptoms at home, he has to get busier and be more cautious about many things. Aside from that, the difficulties are going to make him discover his own forte —Other people may not be aware about this, but Asahi is crazily good at marketing… You can see that he has already done a lot of promoting stuff via the birthday events of other divisions. Along with his own creativity to boot, he will soon take this opportunity to try many more methods to help promoting his store. Maybe he will try online marketing, maybe he’ll learn to use social media for his own benefits, maybe he’ll just get more invested in his hobbies (making handicrafts, embroideries), Asahi in his productive mode with lots of free time is something unstoppable. By the way, he is concerned about his friends too! He is probably the first one to reach out and find a way to brighten them up without knowing.
Lastly, Saigo-san… He is the least affected from quarantine and all sorts of regulations. And to be utmost honest, the idea of social-distancing rather sounds like a blessing to him. He used to work at home from the very beginning so he has no problem with it. Getting less paid because of the reduction of clients? Nah, that won’t be a problem since he already has a lot saved up from the past and he also has another way of income (he plays stocks). He just gets a job as the property appraiser because he is bored and that’s all. Moreover, he dislikes getting outside of his mansion unless it’s neccessary. The most appealing things for him to do during the pandemic are reading something from his mansion’s library, keeping up to date with the worldwide circumstances, and maybe doing some research on something that piques his interest. He may even use this chance to find out more about other rival divisions in order to plan things ahead for his team. 
Thanks for the ask :)
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shizuokadivision · 8 months
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With the COVID numbers slowly rising again (unfortunately), that's got me thinking of a question I wanted to ask...
If COVID took place in the HypMic universe, how would your OC's handle it? Would they slowly go insane from being trapped indoors? Would they develop an unhealthy drinking/smoking habit? Or would they be perfectly fine?
Kanon doesn't really care besides maybe studying the disease. Give her a week and she’ll come out with her version of a vaccine that’ll kill the disease faster than what's currently available. Sadly Kanon is keeping it for herself and her teammates. 
Reika is glad she doesn't have to go to any social gatherings for a while at least. That doesn't mean she’s quarenting herself up her manor. She immediately starts to work on providing relief for hospitals making sure they have enough supplies. She’s also helping those most affected by the city shutting down such as small businesses and the like. 
The first thing Sakura does is temporarily halt all activities for the Kito-gumi and forces all her men to go through a mandatory 2-week quarantine. Then it's back to business although the Kito-gumi are now strictly following COVID regulations. Sakura isn't entirely cruel though if any of her men catch COVID they get paid sick leave and all their medical bills are covered by the Kito-gumi.
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musashi · 1 year
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i think most of the time when people tag your triggers they're tagging them for people who want to be able to avoid them, not for you.
you guys really need to stop acting like when i vent about something i have experienced on my personal blog, that that means it is some problem i have made up for myself by assuming the worst in everyone around me. i do not know how you live your lives, but i do not consider something an actual issue until i have spent plenty of time with it and learned its intricacies. i would be miserable if i did.
i am not talking about... seeing a trigger tagged on my dash, and being like "hmph! they tagged this incredibly common thing to tag! how DARE they baby me, a person whom the world revolves around" like i know you guys have a real knack for thinking i'm a fucking idiot, but i can fucking assure you i have a brain and i use it. like, often. to assess things. and come to conclusions. quite frankly i do not understand how you could even come to a conclusion that i am so incredibly sheltered and self-absorbed that i would think this of someone, but that's kind of in line with how non-narcissists talk about us so nvm maybe i can.
licherally my tags on that post where about one-on-one or group conversations i have had with people... like one time for instance i was talking about how a new pokemon game had come out, and a bunch of people were peer pressuring me hardcore into playing it, and playing it faster. i had one friend (no longer a friend) who brought up specifically me playing it every hour it felt like, it was unrelenting. what's more, everyone around me was talking about it, which just made me think about the peer pressure, which just made me feel miserable. so the topic of this came up, i cant remember how, and i talked a little bit about this, and immediately one of the mods in the server was like, oh we can be harder on people? we can be more strict forcing people to go to the pokemon channel. we can do this and this and that to accommodate you.
and i do not like that! the idea of forcing people to quarantine their joy ALONE makes me feel furious, but also overly-eager accommodation makes me feel furious too! i do not mind accommodating people whatever way they'd like, but when it comes to my own comfort, i personally dislike being treated like a poor disabled baby who needs to be coddled. if i want something tagged or avoided i will just 1. leave the conversation or 2. ask outright!
like, i'm a person who exists outside of social media, i have to be exposed to triggering things all the time. at work it might be my co workers talking about a medical procedure and i'll politely leave the room or tell them i'm squeamish and need the topic changed or the ability to step away. when im on call with my friends i can just deafen myself, or ask them to ping me when the topic changes. but the alternative to that, asking the people around me to memorize every single trigger i have and censor themselves accordingly... it's fucking insane. i could not do that to someone, i would be insanely fucking uncomfortable being treated that way for a multitude of reasons. thats all i was talking about.
how the fuck you got "someone on my dash tagged for drugs! THEY PERSONALLY HATE ME AND ARE OUT TO GET ME!" from that i don't fucking know but a good exercise you can practice in the future is not reducing people like me down to offhanded comments we make on a microblogging website. calm down
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literaticat · 8 months
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Are there ever situations where you are sure a publisher or some publishing pro is just straight being dishonest about something (maybe the reason for rejecting a book).. and as an agent you just have to accept it, ask no questions and move on?
I guess it depends on what kind of dishonest?
I assume that people are being 'little white lie' dishonest, where you say something nice even though the "real" thing is kinda mean, all the time, and it doesn't bother me at all. (And I am not even sure I think it's dishonest!)
"It's just not for me" -- maybe it means 'I think this is awful/boring/dumb/I couldn't be bothered to read it/I'm too busy/I gave this to an intern and then the intern quit and I'm about to quit can't you see I'm at the end of my rope/the numbers on the previous books are terrible/we think your author is a schmuck' -- but at the end of the day it really isn't for them, regardless of the subtext or 'reason' given, soooo.... IS it dishonest?
I would really rather NOT hear "the manuscript you sent is boring and bad as hell" even if that IS how an editor truly feels! :-) We are all trying to keep relationships positive here, and certainly I say "nice sounding things that may not be the 100% baldly honest facts but it's what's called for in the moment" to THEM, as well. We accept it and move on, this is polite society.
Then I guess there's a lie that is a notch up from that -- where like, look, you and I both know this is probably a lie, but OK, sure. There used to be an editor who would be consistently *insanely* late all the time -- like when I say late, I don't mean "responded to email a week later" or "sent notes a few weeks late" -- I mean many months and sometimes YEARS late. LITERALLY. They'd never be in the office or respond to calls -- they might send an occasional note from the great beyond like "my mother-in-law is visiting from France and she has scabies and she's given all of us scabies so we are in quarantine, so sorry!" -- two months later, "well, as soon as the scabies cleared up I was running to catch the subway and I slipped and fell on the third rail and had to be hospitalized, I'm in the mutant turtle ward and they will only allow me to type with one flipper but I had to tell you so you'd know why I'm so late, my apologies!" -- all of which is annoying AF, and would make my author and I roll our eyes, and play betting games about what new tragedy would unfold next -- if it WAS all true, this person was the unluckiest person in history, and if not, well, I guess they have something kinda wrong with their brain, and it's hard to be angry for long at somebody so clearly going through it on either a tangible or psychological level, and the notes when they did come REALLY WERE great, soooo...
Now if it's dishonesty in a real way, where it really affects us beyond annoyance -- like malfeasance or fraud or something criminal, that's a totally different story!
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stormblessed95 · 2 years
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Hey, storms! Can I call you storms? How are you doing? I hope everything’s going well and that people are not being too awful in their asks. I just recently received my first ever anon ask (jk and jikook anti) - I’m relatively new to being actually active in tumblr - and it was a weird experience. I laughed it off ‘cause it was ridiculous, and logically I knew that, but it did puzzle me that there really are people who wake up and just choose to be awful to others, anonymously or otherwise, online for no reason. I guess it threw me off, even though I know this is how a lot of people are online, cause I’ve never experienced it myself. I don’t really post on here - I just like and reblog stuff that resonates with me or makes me laugh - so I didn’t think I was ever gonna get an ask, let alone a rude one. Anyway, I tip my hat to you and all other blogs on here who deal with shit like that on the daily ‘cause it must be exhausting sometimes.
Si, my actual ask is this: how excited are we about BTS going to the US after being invited to the White House? I’m so unbelievably proud of these incredible humans and everything they’ve achieved. I’m so proud that they’re gonna speak about diversity and inclusion and speak against the rise in anti-asian hate crimes that’s been taking place. This is so important and there are few people more adequate for the job - as the biggest Asian music group in the world and with their insane level of influence, they’re gonna be able to reach so many people. I’m also aware, however, that they must be incredibly nervous and under a lot of pressure - not just because of the context (they’re meeting the president of another country!), but because of the subject matter. It’s something that’s so near and dear to their hearts, something that is so important and relevant and they’re gonna wanna be as sensitive, respectful and gracious about it all as possible. It’s a huge responsibility, which I know they’ll deliver on, but a huge responsibility nonetheless. There’s RM, our dear president, who’s gonna take on most of the responsibility and that’s gonna be tough BUT it’s also gonna be tough for the other members to not feel like they’re leaving him alone to it. They’re all getting more confident/comfortable taking part in public speaking opportunities at these official events, though, so I’m looking forward to seeing how it’ll play out this time around. Also, do you think they might perform? And is JK gonna be dropping from the ceiling again given that he’s, once again, travelling a day earlier than the other 6 members? Or is he maybe cooking stuff up for his mixtape or a collab? Whatever it is, I am beyond thrilled and excited about this. They truly are a wonder. All of them. I am infinitely proud♥️
That’s all from me today, lots of love and take care😊💕
I'm both thrilled, excited and proud of them for getting asked to go to the White House. Their influence is unparalleled and it couldn't have happened to better people. Im sure everyone involved feels very honored. I'm also sure they know what they are doing and getting into but I worry a bit and hope that they are safe while they are here as always! And I hope ARMY doesn't engage with all the usual political bullshit that it sure to come from this unless it's truly out of pocket. And I don't think they would perform, I think we would have been told something about it if they were at this point.
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As for why JK is going early and making a pit stop in LA? I have no idea! It could be for any number of reasons ranging from personal to work related to something else. A lot of people are speculating that perhaps it's because he is working on a collab with Charlie Puth, who is an artist that JK likes.
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I guess we will see. It could be for whatever he tried to go early for last time but ended up getting shuttled right off to quarantine and possibly didn't get to do, which maybe could have been a Charlie Puth collab. Lol I'm sure we will find out whenever we are meant to find out.
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As for your nasty anon, none of the bloggers here were kidding and how gross people can be online when they have an "anon" option to hide behind. I'm so sorry you got one though! Hopefully you don't get too much or any more! I too, am very very proud of BTS! Hope you all have an amazing day!
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P.S. I'll just take this moment to let everyone know that I have an insanely busy weekend. If I'm not very active on here, forgive me! Lol but I promise I'm okay! I have 2 asks that I've been meaning to get to from weeks ago that I feel bad having made wait, I'll try to get to them and my newer ones soon! Love yall 💜
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unwelcome-ozian · 2 years
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I have an important question. can you have built in "mind sets" that change when you're in certain situations?
For details, I recently managed to (mostly??) get away from a cultic group I was raised in but last week the leader returned and we spent a fair bit of time together. But the oddest thing was was that it felt like my entire way of thinking changed? Everything she said felt true, even when thinking back on it it didn't make much sense. It felt like everything I thought of and did without her guidance was inherently wrong and faulty, like I was a trying to see clear through a kaleidoscope.
It took about a week for it to wear off after she left, but during that mindset it felt so much easier to speak and exist around other people. I knew what was expected of me and I knew how to fulfil that expectations, so there wasn't the anxiety and ???? that comes with social interaction (for me at least). BUT that was only when I was talking to/with her.
Now that it's worn off it all feels gross? Like I can still feel the presence of that mindset in my hear criticizing what I'm doing because I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. I finally got my first ever job but it's online and I'm mostly left alone to do things, and I really wish I could go to school to meet people my age but I can't (pandemic made my schooling all online so no meeting people opportunities there). Without her guidance I feel aimless and without purpose, but being stuck in quarantine with her for years really messed me up.
I don't know how to interact with the outside world and knowing how easily I can fall into a mindset of "YES EVERYTHING YOU SAY IS 1000% TRUE AND CORRECT AND YES, YOU ARE THE ONLY REAL PERSON TO EXIST" and more terrifies me. I feel more real in that state, but how can I be more real if I cannot think without influence??
I don't know if you can help but can you please share any insight you have? thank you so much
It takes time to get out of and recover from a cult mindset. This is the reason going no contact when leaving high control groups is recommended.
The recontact can trigger the trauma bond to the leader and the group sometimes leading someone to return.
After exiting a cult, an individual may experience a period of intense and often conflicting emotions. She or he may feel relief to be out of the group, but also may feel grief over the loss of positive elements in the cult, such as friendships, a sense of belonging or the feeling of personal worth generated by the group’s stated ideals or mission. The emotional upheaval of the period is often characterised by “post-cult trauma syndrome”:
spontaneous crying sense of loss depression & suicidal thoughts fear that not obeying the cult’s wishes will result in God’s wrath or loss of salvation alienation from family, friends sense of isolation, loneliness due to being surrounded by people who have no basis for understanding cult life fear of evil spirits taking over one’s life outside the cult scrupulosity, excessive rigidity about rules of minor importance panic disproportionate to one’s circumstances fear of going insane confusion about right and wrong sexual conflicts unwarranted guilt The period of exiting from a cult is usually a traumatic experience and, like any great change in a person’s life, involves passing through stages of accommodation to the change:
Disbelief/denial: “This can’t be happening. It couldn’t have been that bad.” Anger/hostility: “How could they/I be so wrong?” (hate feelings) Self-pity/depression: “Why me? I can’t do this.” Fear/bargaining: “I don’t know if I can live without my group. Maybe I can still associate with it on a limited basis, if I do what they want.” Reassessment: “Maybe I was wrong about the group being so wonderful.” Accommodation/acceptance: “I can move beyond this experience and choose new directions for my life” or… Reinvolvement: “I think I will rejoin the group.”
Passing through these stages is seldom a smooth progression. It is fairly typical to bounce back and forth between different stages. Not everyone achieves the stage of accommodation / acceptance. Some return to cult life. But for those who do not, the following may be experienced for a period of several months:
flashbacks to cult life simplistic black-white thinking sense of unreality suggestibility, ie. automatic obedience responses to trigger-terms of the cult’s loaded language or to innocent suggestions disassociation (spacing out) feeling “out of it” “Stockholm Syndrome”: knee-jerk impulses to defend the cult when it is criticised, even if the cult hurt the person difficulty concentrating incapacity to make decisions hostility reactions, either toward anyone who criticises the cult or toward the cult itself mental confusion low self-esteem dread of running into a current cult-member by mistake loss of a sense of how to carry out simple tasks dread of being cursed or condemned by the cult hang-overs of habitual cult behaviours like chanting difficulty managing time trouble holding down a job Most of these symptoms subside as the victim mainstreams into everyday routines of normal life. In a small number of cases, the symptoms continue.
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This information is a composite list from the following sources: “Coming Out of Cults”, by Margaret Thaler Singer
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red-dye40 · 9 months
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it’s my fic’s birthday n i just want to take a mome to reflect on this past year of writing my cringe jthm fic because no joke it has been one of the most therapeutic and rewarding things ive ever done for myself so im gonna spill my guts under the cut here in case ur into that sorta thing
no joke i started writing ancillary auxiliary (obvs under a different much dumber name) when i was THIRTEEN. i was perpetually very very scared of and confused by my psychosis—i saw and heard things constantly that no one else did, and no one could explain that to me, which was obviously very isolating and frustrating. jthm made me feel rly normal (like not alone??) and this fic was a way for me to explore and dissect all these things i was processing and experiencing and repressing. i abandoned it like right away because i was a young teen with undiagnosed adhd but im sure it’s still kickin around on deviantart somewhere.
i have struggled w a lot through my years—addiction n subsequent withdrawal, hallucinating nonstop, uhhhh Being Trans In Society, willingly choosing to be an actor bc i am literally insane—and i felt like my brain was only getting sicker, because i never prioritized my health! none of it! but especially not my mental health!
in the isolation of quarantine a couple years ago i had like sooooooo many psychotic episodes, and eventually i admitted myself to a psych ward bc i was so scared and i just wanted to get better finally!
and i did get better! eventually!
it took a lot of hard work, and i was in outpatient for what felt like forever, and i was going to therapy twice a week and trying a bunch of meds and also just experimenting w hormones bc why not. i stopped making art (which truly truly was sometimes the only thing in my life that brought me joy) because the shit i was making was so scary, i just didn’t want to subject myself to that.
eventually i got myself a really amazing job, literally a dream job of mine, and things fell into place, and my job was my whole personality for a while. idk when it happened but sometime last summer i suddenly felt myself really wanting to read jthm again ?? i guess as i was reflecting on all my trauma, and how i used to cope w it as a kid?? but i reread director’s cut and it truly felt like someone unclogged a drain in my head and all this new inspiration and like LOVE for my past self and xir interests just rushed in and it was so exciting!!!!
and i remembered this fic i had started so long ago, and how proud i was of the concept, and i started writing it in my notes app and it got bigger and bigger and i found a little corner on instagram of ppl who liked it (thank u to those of u who are still here rn!!!!! if ur reading this ilysm) and now it’s this! and i love it!
it might just be super self indulgent at the end of the day idk but! i love everything that has come from this fic (and Other Fics i have written 👁️) and i am so grateful to all of u who have read ancaux and enjoyed it and reblogged and left comments like :) thank u so much
there are three (maybe four?) chapters left i literally didn’t anticipate this to go on for so long and i have no idea when it will end but im excited :) and i hope you’ll stick around :) the ending is rly good i think
LOVE U ALL THANKS
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croustitrans · 1 year
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A love letter to a streamer
This is probably the most parasocial thing I’ll ever write but I’m sure I’m not the only one experiencing this feeling. 
I started watching streamers in my native language a while ago, a bit before quarantine. It was nice, it was new. And as a lot of us did, I fell into the dsmp when covid hit. I was a little late to the party, fell in love with SAD-IST animations, talked about the lore to any and everyone. I was so amazed by this new way of telling stories ans this amazingly creative community surrounding it. 
I always believed in this narrative that in order to be an insane fan of something you had to be lonely. I was so certain that I wasn’t. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m so so grateful for the people surrounding me. I have been so lucky to have the most supportive group of friends and a family that always tried their best. But somehow, I felt like something was missing. 
I remember the first time I watched a ranboo stream. To be completely honest, I cringed so hard at first. I don’t really know why, I think i somehow I saw my younger self in them. But something made me stay. Probably the way I felt more at home watching them ranting while mining for hours than in my own bed. 
For the first time, I felt this warm feeling of comfort. This strange happiness of being alone with so many people. We joked a lot about all of us being queer, and as stupid as it may sound, even tho I was already out and proud irl, it felt new. 
But it is so much more than this. I liked a lot of creators before, and I’ve always been very aware of the dangers of feeling like you know some of them. I’ve grown a lot since then. But there I am. Writing a fucking essay about someone that I’ll never meet. Maybe I’m being too naive, but as long as I don’t have a reason not to, I will let myself love them. 
I am so incredibly grateful that I stumbled upon them during my life. I am so happy to see them grow and learn to be happier, to be a bit more themselves. I know I’ll never truly know them, and it’s ok, i’m just happy with the parts I got the chance to know. But it’s a strange feeling. Sometimes it keeps me awake at night, wondering if it’s healthy, if it’s normal. I think it is. I think even if I tried, I wouldn’t be able to kick them out of this weird place in my heart. Not a friend, not a celebrity I look up to, just someone I feel close to. 
Because yeah, they’re just someone on the internet. But they’re also the person that helped making some of the darkest parts of my life bearable. They’re the first representation of a gay non-binary person that I ever saw. They’re the one that kept me going when I didn’t wanted to, when I though I didn’t had it in me. They’re that stupid knowledge that even tho everything may sucks, I’ll always have a laugh at the end. They’re that quiet comfort when I don’t have the strength to cry for help.
I am way happier now. And I think they are too. But even tho I’ll never really be able to explain the part that they had in my recovery to anyone around me, I’ll always know. And now I’m here. Stuck with the genuine affection I have for a stranger. 
And I’m so okay with it, I’m so grateful for it. 
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happyfunf3tti · 5 months
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1, 5, 17, 24, 25, 29, 36, 38 ? I know that's a lot , you don't have to do them all hahah !
are you challenging me hajime *glares at u* im just kitten lawlz
1. what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?
cartoons
movies
uhhhhh youtube
5. what made you start your blog?
i honestly dont remember why. maybe to talk about stuff i like i dunno boredom??? i mean i did start three years ago which is when i started going stir crazy due to quarantine. when i first started out all i did was just mostly comment on people's posts
17. name 3 things that make you happy
antique stores
animals
the three stooges!
24. what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?
i graduated as the valedictorian (technically salutatorian bhaha me and my other classmate pretty much made the same grade but he did better on exams) of my private school. i dont know how i did it but it happened. (also i went to three different high schools but thats a whole other can of worms)
25. fave season and why?
tough question because i love winter and how cozy it is despite it being agonizingly cold. same 4 fall. summer is fun but very hot and sweaty. spring is nice. april showers bring may flowers :]
29. what do you do when you’re sad?
when im sad i try to watch something that makes me happy but this doesnt work all the time. its nice talking to someone when ur down
36. are you an open book or do you have walls up?
believe it or not walls up XD. selective mutism and social anxiety i guess. once i feel a lot more comfortable then you'll see the insanity of squee mhwahaha!
39. fave song at the moment?
don't have a favorite song atm but ive been getting into new tatsuro yamashita and city pop songs
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sizzlingpatrolfox · 1 year
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You know what pisses me off to the nth degree? When people say that Jimin isn’t queer but they justify their opinion by comparing what he’s done (or rather, what he hasn’t done) to what Taehyung has done. In other words, “Tae mentions queer media often!”. Like, have you considered that maybe it’s a lot easier for a straight man (or at least straight presenting by nasty stereotypical norms) in a conservative country to talk about queer media and artists and give recommendations, etc., than it is for an actual queer person to do it? Another thing: I hate to say it but there’s a reason why the harassment and insults against Jimin are almost always homophobic/transphobic — it’s because he’s more stereotypically queer in appearance. That doesn’t mean he is queer, obviously, but when you combine that with the things he’s said, how he’s presented himself as, the coding he puts into his work — it starts to become a lot clearer why he chooses a different approach to these things. It’s especially insane because when Jimin does things that indicate him not being straight/cis/etc., it’s blatantly ignored; It’s the stylist’s choice, Koreans don’t know about XYZ, so on and so forth. Because apparently the only type of “hinting” towards ones sexuality is saying you like CMBYN. Or something of the likes. It all reeks of a very specific, sometimes entirely western-centric way of sexuality/gender expression and coding.
The thing is... Jimin doesn't even talk about the STRAIGHT media he watches. It's not like he deliberately doesn't talk about queer media, he just DOESN'T TALK about what he watches or listens to. It would be an argument if he were super into sharing about the movies or the dramas he watches or the artists he listens to, and somehow we'd know that he purposefully avoided talking about the queer ones or had a bad reaction to it. But he doesn't really talk about movies or TV at all. So I don't get the comparisons.
I really think Jimin doesn't have a personality of a someone that's fan of people, that's a fan of media. Have you noticed how he doesn't seem to have a favorite artist, he doesn't really go to concerts as much as like for example, JK does. He said in 2019 that he didn't have role moles growing up, etc. He really is just a dude in that sense. It's not that he doesn't enjoy music or TV, but he doesn't seem to become a fan. I've met lot of people like that, that don't really have fixed interests or are fans of anything. My brother is one of those people.
I agree that maybe it's more difficult for Jimin to point out gay media if he's queer himself, it would be totally understandable. It doesn't necessarily have to be because of that, tho. Personally, I'm queer and I don't really talk about gay media that much. I actually think gay movies suck most of the time 😭 my favorite singer is Taylor Swift, who's literally the straightest woman that has ever lived and all her songs, songs that I know by heart and sing at the top of my lungs, are about men. My favorite movies are also romantic movies with straight couples. None of that makes me straight.
You know when was the first time I watched call me by your name? During quarantine in 2020. It was around late May or June 2020, that was my first time watching that movie. My brother, a straight guy that just likes cinema, watched it the year it came out while me, the gay of the family who just doesn't care that much about cinema, watched a gay movie 3 years later.
Everytime someone asks me to recommend them queer media, my mind goes blank. I can't think of more than two or three movies/TV shows because I just don't watch that many. And the majority of media I consume and enjoy, it's straight.
Taehyung is clearly someone who just loves movies, period. He has shared about his love or interest in a lot of queer media and artists, but that doesn't make him queer. He's also shown the same interest and love for "straight" media, too. Not only that, but all the songs he's written are for women. Also, the gay movies Taehyung has mentioned have several other elements that he likes in general, I mean CMBYN's whole aesthetic, it's a "foreign film", you know, all that snob/snob wannabe stuff that he likes. It's not like he'd suddenly come out and say he loves Fire Island or RuPaul. He even likes Lady Gaga because apparently she invented jazz 😭😭😭😭😭 C'MON.. be for real. He likes her because she's singing the type of music that he likes, but he's never said anything about her whole career before jazz, which was the Lady Gaga that gays actually liked.
If Jimin comes out with an album that he's handwritten himself and all of the songs turn out to be for a woman, THEN that would be something that would force me to at least reconsider a lot of what I believed about his sexuality, but until then... Nothing he's ever said or done imo indicates that he's straight.
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