#int: taemin

[magsdeveaux]

☆ closed starter / taemin lee @legallytaemin ☆ location: fire & feather hot wings competition @ the chicken shack

Maggie had come out to watch the competition, knowing better than to sign up herself. She tossed some cash into the donation bucket on her way to a table, sliding in next to someone she thought she'd seen around town but hadn't quite met just yet. There's no such thing as a stranger, darling, only people you haven't met yet. Nana's voice echoed in her mind as she smiled at the person next to her. "Have you competed in one of these yet?" Maggie picked up a carrot stick in her basket of boneless wings, having opted for a dry rub instead of a liquid sauce. She shifted her gaze up to the makeshift stage where the contestants were seated, preparing to begin the challenge. "I could never do it. I remember my first time I came out, a guy ate so many wings that he started to smell like buffalo sauce. I saw him a week later and could still feel it burning my nose."

[pennysylvester]

Um... What? Are you good?

the worst battle is between what you know and what you feel. @pennysylvester

[acebase]

Taemin Gimpo Int Airport from Japan

[stromaenthe]

I like how minkey is both ice cold business strategy gay for pay but also at the same time it weirdly deters people from realizing key is a gay man. Like does that make sense? Like he queerbaits on tv with minho and its so cartoony and ridiculous that it distracts from his actual real life homosexuality. Im sure literally everyone in kr knows but it is funny to see int shawols be hardcore in denial and be like We Really Don't Know at best and at worst straight up saying hes het. Like uhm. Lol

omg let me get this essay out on a Friday morning before work.

my thing with kpoppers who talk like, like all fandoms, is it's actually fine for queer fans to be like hey, this guy is truly telling us something because i can read. there's nothing wrong with speculation itself, that's completely natural for people to see something familiar to themselves. the PROBLEM is that they cannot keep from blowing it up and trying to demand that information from the real person, so that everyone starts talking about it and then they get defensive like you can't PROVE anything. see: people stalking kibum's friends on instagram to get information and acting like that's normal. I think it's really weird for people to think that queer art isn't queer unless that artist explicitly states that they are, kind of like people who think only gay actors should play gay roles. That's such a specific mindset of ppl who live in places or situations where they can be out, and that's just simply not true for everyone OR people don't want to be out in that way. Queer ppl aren't obligated to "come out" in the way that is seen in largely western progressive cultures. I live in the U.S. and I've never "come out" but either my friends are also queer or ppl have taken the hint, and either quietly ignore it or accept it. I do feel a kinship with Key in this aspect.

The problem I also think is that is that a lot of people still equate feminine = gay when it's a man presenting that way, when a lot of times that's not true bc some of those idol boys who look like girls are more homophobic than a jock could ever be. like well groomed men can even be worse, just look at mormons. And people acting like jocks and gym rats can't be gay because that's masculine are soooo funny to me because SOOOO much cruising goes on in gyms, they are on of the original gay man hangouts. And still are, even at the gym I go to. Like the stereotyping going on here, please. This way of thinking is actually how Minho functions as someone who is clearly aware of homoerotic themes and behavior but he has a spotless reputation in SK as the "perfect" man so he has the cultural currency to get away with it being an act because of that. So it transfers onto Kibum as a net positive.

So really it's kind of the play of the decade because kibum's persona on stage isn't really what defines him as gay to me (like, i don't think ha/rry sty/les is queer at all lol and prince was a noted homophobe) it's actually the works he references and the fashion he wears. Kibum references deep cut gay culture, just like Taemin has granular philosophical and scientific references in his work, and Minho is a film nerd in a way that has made him old hollywood without it seeming like a cosplay.

[seoyuna]

I still don't understand from wich group your man is from ? I want to know more 🧐

oh my man Ha Sungwoon????

bastard boy???

he is was from my ult nugu boys HOTSHOT that unfortunately are no more... he went on Produce 101 and made it into WANNA ONE but I missed all that because even from afar it looked messy.. they gave him these looks at some point so that was nice I guess

he started his solo career last year and has been getting booked on varieties and brand deals ever since I really wake up everyday to pictorials and new shows like I really can't keep up

last thing he released was his funky little Get Ready song. he also collaborated with Ravi (unfortunate) on that song I haven't listened to. watched it on mute and my man looked very good

certified short king at 167cm but I'm into that so it's ideal

also he's cute or whatever

he's having a comeback soon so expect me to be annoying about him I won't apologize for it this blog is going back to its roots and that's it

[pcrkjmin]

no le digan a nadie, pero está pidiéndole a diosito que lo convierta en esa bendita dona de araña naranja para estar en medio de alec y bosung. 

[2359krw]

@hcvns​​ !

            this wasn’t the normal time he would come, but he hadn’t much else to do and he really felt like he needed a drink. there was a slight frown as he looked up from his phone to see rowon; a drink sliding towards him.  ❝   maybe too long of a while hmmm … ❞  he replies lifting the drink, a single nod before downing most of it.

a soft hum slipped past his lips as he dipped his chin in a nod, “what brings you here?” he asked out of curiosity, hands busying themselves by preparing drinks for other customers at the bar. rowon chuckled lightly, “slow down there, you’re gonna knock yourself out by the time you down the third glass. 

[ultrakdramamama]

5HINee will ALWAYS be FIVE 💙💙💙💙💙

cr: @maira100491

[dlstmxkakwldrlarchive]

230624 SHINEE WORLD VI PERFECT ILLUMINATION — FINAL MENT

minho: you all saw the mood sampler right? we really put in a lot of hints int here. the concept is shinee who are stuck in a maze, and end up finding each other there again in one place taemin also said there are references to their individual projects as well

minho said they will be doing activities for 2 weeks! taemin: oh is that too long for you??? shawols: NOOOO

trans. cr. ×

shawols shouting saying they want more!

Taemin: we're someone who wants to pursue perfect quality, and that's can only be achieved if we're doing 2 weeks promotion, if it's more than that the quality might be a bit..

Minho: remember for Amigo we did promotion for 3 months?? I wonder if there's any team that beat that (promotion period)

trans. cr. ×

[kimgaias-blog]

@tacminyn. / “¿Es eso vodka?”

Frunce un poco el ceño ante la interrogante, que parece más afirmación que cualquier otra cosa. No le hubo prestado mucha atención en primera instancia: una botella más de vidrio, tirada por ahí, le resultó sinónimo de chatarra; un peligro, si un niño la hallara. “¿Por qué? ¿Acaso quieres averiguarlo?” Retruca, sin preámbulo alguno; piensa que quizá el joven se encuentre interesado en aquello que lleva entre sus manos y está a casi nada de acabar siendo desechado, antes de terminar en lo profundo de una bolsa de basura, junto a otras cosas de menor importancia encontradas durante su faena. “Hazte de el si así lo quieres, no es mío.”

[sanstropfremir]

Bot sure if i sent this before *but* what do you think about the role fashion plays in kpop currently. I watched a video comapring new groups to older groups in the sense that older groups had more of a cohesive identity when brand deals and High fashion didnt play as big of a role in performances. I tend to agree. Lots of new groups wear the same few fashion pieces in different ways but its become “oh i saw x wearing this too!” Instead of themed outfits that matched with concepts.

i did actually write a post about my opinions on luxury branding a while ago that i can't for the life of me find again, but basically yes to all of that. most current kpop stylists are actually very bad at their jobs from a design point of view. luxury and designer branding is very commonly used shorthand for 'look this is good because it's expensive!' without any thought on 1) the holistic design of the cb itself, and 2) what the connotations of branding has on that cb. the best working stylist in kpop atm is a.c.e's stylist, who works on a budget of like $50 and whatever she can find in the beat int closet, so therefore her creativity is through the fucking ROOF. there's only one group where excessive luxury branding actually works in their favour and with their concept, and that's wayv, the reasons why i've talked about a lot already so i won't go into it again.

to elabourate a little bit more on what i think about it specifically though, i think when we talk about 'fashion' in kpop we're not actually seeing it used to it's fullest extent. i would never go so far to say that no stylists should ever use something from a designer or luxury brand, but none of these stylist are actually using the GOOD work from those designers and brands. the luxury styling that gets used in most kpop is the ready to wear commercial stuff, which just further feeds the capitalist machine and never fully realizes the artistic potential of the more haute couture or even just the more unusual brands. we've had some brushes with it, like when aron showed up in a gmbh shirt for a needle&bubble teaser photo, or like taemin popularizing loverboy, but imo it's not enough. i'll be happy when i start seeing idols in schiaparelli

[acebase]

230817 Taemin at Incheon Int Airport departures to LA [KCON LA 2023]

[suckmybigtoeoikawa]

Crazy 4 you <3

Totally inspired by Taemins song Crazy 4 you and real life events. I apologize for being gone for so long but I just wanted to take a break and I've been lacking creativity, I should have warned y'all. I’m working on requests right now so please be patient. 

Info: Oikawa has always been on the lookout for love when he goes to the US for a business meeting he meets his new lawyer, you 

Oikawa x Black fem reader

Crazy 4 u by Taemin

Oikawa has always been looking for someone. He's always grown up around people in relationships and has always desired to have one himself. So when he started trying to look for someone to date he found himself only falling in love with one girl. No it wasn't you. It was one girl he met in high school. He fell deeply in love with her, even planned to live with her and move to Argentina with her. 

But something was just off about her.. she always desired the materialistic things that Oikawa had to offer. When he would go to kiss her she’s shove him off, when he went to talk to her she’d snap at him. The whole time he thought that he wad doing something wrong. How would he know what not to do and what to do in a relationship? he could of went to his sister or his mother but they wouldn’t fully supply the answer. How could he accuse her of something when he doesn’t even know what to accuse her of. 

He let this happen to him for  2 years when finally Iwazumi got into a relationship. He saw how close they were, the equal amounts of affection that was given in the relationship. it was so healthy, that's what he wanted, he wanted a strong and healthy relationship where both parties are invested. 

So Oikawa broke up with the girl. He still didn't know completely why, but he thought he knew he could figure out an answer after the relationship ended. And, although the relationship ended in tears and broke glass, he felt so relieved. He felt this way for probably a week or two. Until he felt lonely again. He tried going on dates and even one night stands but he felt nothing. He wanted someone to love. 

INT. AIRPORT - 12:38 PM IN THE AFTERNOON

Oikawa just got off of his trip from Japan to the US. He was on his way to meet Iwazumi and his partner in California. 

Oikawa stands at the pickup waiting for his friend

“He’s late” Oikawa thinks to himself, he makes his way over to a little bench by the entrance and scrolls through his phone waiting for his friend to arrive. 

HONK! HONK!

Oikawa shoots his head up and looks at the gray car right in front of him. The tinted window on the car rolls down and he sees it’s his long time friend.

“You’re so late” Oikawa smiles. “okay whatever, Shittykawa” 

“what's that dark thing on your neck?”

“SHUT UP!!” 

“were y'all fuckin?” 

“IF YOU DON’T SHUT UP I’LL DUMP YOU OUT THE CAR NOW” 

“my bad, my bad,,, so y'all was fuckin”

INT. IWAZUMIS HOUSE - 9:48 PM IN THE AFTERNOON

It’s been so long since he’s been around Iwazumi and his partner. Iwa is trying to catch Oikawa up on all the things that couldn't be shared through a simple message or a video call. He tells him that he plans to get married during the summer and how in love he is. Oikawa is convinced he's trying to rub it in his face. Iwa knows how badly Oikawa wants a partner, and Iwa has tried to set him up on some dates. But the girls just weren't appealing to him. Each and everyone of them was the same.

“are you trying to make me jealous??” Oikawa asks, taking another sip of his drink 

Iwa furrows his eyebrows “what do you mean?” “I feel so lonely, I want what you have, Iwa” 

Iwazumi is a little bit surprised by this comment “you want what I have?” “yeah, you seem so in love, y'all haven been dating for years now and I want something like that” 

Iwa moves a little in his chair “I think that it just takes time-” “but how fucking long” Oikawa whines, “I've been waiting for years and years” he continues. “Oikawa, I don’t know what to tell you man, I'm not the best at giving love advice” 

Oikawa huffs in defeat, “it’s fine, I’m gonna just go to bed, goodnight” 

The whole night Oikawa keeps dreaming about what his significant other may look like, how they talk, what do they think or dream about, and maybe even some sexual things too. He just wanted to find the right person. 

04/07/2022 8:15 AM 

Oikawa is greeted to the smell of bacon from his bedroom, he shoots up out of his bed ready to devour the back only to come into the kitchen and see Iwazumi and his partner making out... over the bacon. 

“oh lord take me now” he says loudly enough for the couple to hear. “oh hey good morning, Oikawa, do you want some bacon?” Iwazumi’s partner says trying to act like nothing happened. “no I'm fine I'll get some cereal” “You sure” Oikawa lets out a lough sigh and walks over to the couple. 

“you guys didn’t put you cooties on the bacon did you” 

“No, Jackass” 

9:38 AM 

“Come on, Jackass” yells Iwazumi “I feel like I have a child”

“WAIT WAIT I NEED TO FIND MY COAT” 

“IT’S 60 DEGREES OUT YOU DON’T NEED ONE” 

“DON’T QUESTION ME IWA” 

Oikawa comes runing out of the room and meets Iwazumi at the door

“wait I need to get some more bacon” 

“oh my god..”

INT/EXT. IWAZUMI’S CAR - 9:42 AM

“I swear if we’re late” Iwazumi growls under his breath “I don't know why you have your drawls in a bunch, it’s my meeting” Oikawa says munching on his last piece of bacon,”hey is this turkey bacon orr”, Iwazumi shoots him a glare. “okay my bad” 

Oikawas meeting begins at around 10:00. He had to meet with his new lawyer because the other one left (reasons unknown). Oikawa was very excited to meet this new person and Iwazumi says that they’ve been a good friend of his for a minute so hopefully Oikawa has a good impression on this new person. 

10:06 AM

they were late. I mean it wasn’t that bad since it was only 6 minutes, but it was also 6 minutes to late. 

they enter the business room and suddenly all eyes were on them. 5 people in the room and you could tell they were all ready, they been ready. 

“we apologize for coming in so late” Iwazumi says while the both of them bow.

Oikawa search the room trying to depict who his new layer and best friend could be. One guy with blond hair and brown eyes wear a black and white business suit, Another guy with short slicked back hair and fair skin, another male with a no hair, he was bald and wearing a gray suit and then.. oh

a girl. no no. a women. 

Her hair was beautiful, it was in braids something he’s only really seen in movies or on social media, and her skin complexion was so beautiful, and her makeup make her features stand out more, he was captivated by her. So much so that he was just standing there staring at her. He could feel his face heat up and his cheeks get red. She’s Devine. 

“Oikawa” iwazumi says in a stern tone

“yes-” he got broken out of his trance, Iwazumi starts to introduce himself and so do the other men but he only heard one name. yours. 

“Y/N” oh what a beautiful name. that’s a name he would want tattooed on his body and marked all over him. He wanted to know about Y/N and who she was.

All the men get up to shake Oikawa and Iwazumi’s hand and so did Y/N. Like routine he shakes all their hands and then he reaches Y/N. Her eyes were so beautiful, she gave direct eye contact so he could see her beautiful eyes. Her handshake was firm, she was a confident women he could tell just by the handshake. But he didn’t want to give her a firm handshake, he wanted to kiss her hand, then kiss up her arm to her neck. He wanted to hear her speak more.

“pleasure to meet you, Oikawa” good god al mighty.. her voice saying his name.. he could fall over right now. “I'm your new lawyer”

god is good, all the time. 

“nice to meet you, call me Tōru” 

she smiles at him “please to meet you, Tōru”...... he’s gonna bust a nut right here in this office. 

“pleasure to meet you too” he smiles unaware that he’s still holding onto her hand, iwazumi had to slap Oikawas hand. But still Oikawa’s eyes still look at her walk back to her seat. 

10:35 AM

Oikawa takes a seat next to Y/N in hopes that he doesn’t constantly try to look next to her. If Oikawa had sat across from her he wouln’t be able to take his eyes off of her. 

Yet his plan starts to fail, he keeps on looking over at Y/N, and keeps on smiling at him which makes him blush a little bit more. 

But finally she starts to speak business, and oh my god if that isn’t the hottest thing ever.. he doesn't know what is. All the words she's saying just fly right pass him and he’s only focused on her lips and how she articulates her words. Such a smart women. 

“Tōru, what do you think” Y/N asks 

“huh, oh uhm, yes” he has no clue what he was just asked. “okay, perfect, I'll give you my phone number and we can meet up somewhere to talk about what to do next, is that okay, Tōru?” they way she keeps saying his name, he knows now that she has to be fucking with him, she knows how satisfying it is to say his name and how delicious it sounds to hear from her. 

“oh yeah” she hands him her phone and types in his phone number and chaining his contact photo to a selfie of him. hoping she would look at it later 

“cute” she says taking the phone and smiling at it. If his face was red before this doesn't compare. 

“I'll message you later, bye everyone” she leaves the room and so does everyone else. 

damn, he should of asked for a picture of her.. he’ll do that when he texts her. 

11:03 AM

“hey were you okay in there” Iwazumi asks, looking over in the passenger seat to Oikawa who was staring at a black screen on his phone..

“yeah, I was fine, it was just hot” oikawa says 

“see I said you didn’t have to bring a coat” 

“oh shut up!!” 

*********

PART 2??????

MASTERLIST 

have a great day, make sure you eat and drink water. Also likes and reblogs are appreciated 

[seoyuna]

wait why was sungwoon fighting with exols lol

tbh is kinda confusing and we all arrived late to the party but basically askdfjs

sungwoon regularly replies to ha:neuls tweets like,, a lot askdjsa like 15 replies per day, even if they don't mention him he goes out of his way to interact with them

and so he got this tweet that said something like "did you have fun playing tennis with your girlfriend?" so,, clearly a sasaeng or at least some crazy bitch, RIGHT? like anyone with basic comprehension skills would get that, RIGHT?

not him KJSHFDSKFKD

he thought they were joking bc the way he usually jokes around with fans and he said something like "oh, did Kai and Minho tell you?" bc apparently he had been hanging out with them playing tennis a few days prior

so obvs it was an exol/shinee sasaeng bc tbh sungwoon got no sasaengs he got fans and dedicated haters but no sasaengs lol

and idk why... dumb int exols caught wind of this and were like "WHO are you and WHY are you mentioning OUR Kai on your mess??? ://"

like Kai would sell you all to one direction to make enough money to buy Sungwoon a humidifier or smth for his birthday because he lost to Taemin's birthday gift last year

they are so dumb I hope they drop dead

[http9yu]

hola tae, este año vas a organizar fiesta de halloween con tu amorcito? 😊 es que no me ha llegado la invitación

¡hola, suegrita!  siento que no te haya llegado la invitación, usualmente las enviamos la primera semana de octubre, pero hemo estado algo ocupados con la preparación. alecmin’s horror night definitivamente se llevará acabo, así que mejor ve buscando tu disfraz, aunque.... aún falta que sepas la temática ;)

[pcrkjmin]

♡ ~  ❝ 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲'𝐬 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞...   ❞

era la tercera noche de yeonu en casa y lo que taemin creía que sería pan comido, terminó siendo todo lo contrario. honestamente, un bebé era mucho más difícil de cuidar, que dos. yeonu tenía cinco días de haber nacido, el rubio estaba seguro que tenían leche más vieja que él en el refrigerador, pero este ya tenía toda una personalidad. era puntual, eso tenía que admitirlo, pues lloraba todos los días a la misma hora, el problema era que no respetaba esa característica cuando era hora de guardar silencio o dormirse. ❝ mm, yo voy  ❞ contestó, despierto al cuarenta por ciento, más o menos. ❝ oh, hyung, creo que no hay más botellas hechas, ¿puedes hacerle una, por favor? ❞ viva la paternidad, pensó, mientras caminaba a oscuras por la habitación hasta la pequeña cuna. 

@6xetc​