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Sometimes Jungkook looks at Jimin like he is seeing him for the very first time…..completely entranced.

The way his eyes trace Jimin’s every movement…🫠

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I love these edits

But i realized I've never seen the opposite

It's always JK

Why?!?!?!?!?!

🤣🤣🤣

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Gonna start blocking all the tae haters in this fandom. That episode was so much fun. I just knew those three had the most natural chemistry. Tae putting jk's head on his shoulder was so cute, Jimin encouraging V while climbing was adorable, Jk and V teaming up to bother Jimin was perfect. We even got iconic jiminssi/jungkookssi. I love their dynamic so much and i'm glad tae came.

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let me start by saying: i speculate, there are no objective facts here.

it seems like jikook liked whatever they had much better when the group was active: a powerful unlabeled bond between two members of the biggest band in the world. it must've been exhilarating, sharing a deep secret connection and also sharing the most global stage at the same time. why label it? they are bandmates, supposed to have each others backs, supposed to love each other because bts members love each other right? that's what army wants so badly right? so in that context, what they had made some sense.

Now in chapter two, there's no group activity, no reason to see each other often, no excuse. over the many years that they've known each other, i dont think jikook properly developed mechanisms to maintain a relationship in situations where they are not required to be in the same place all the fucking time. relationships require effort when you have no reason to be together always.

my speculation: in chapter two, things got too real? there was now a need to label whatever the fuck the attachment they had for each other was. outside of kpop boyband territory, people actually raise eyebrows when two men get too close. also the looming military service didn't help. it wasn't as fun anymore and idk, they both handled it very differently.

that's why this reconnection in the travel show seems like we're witnessing something very special right on front of us :)

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Came across a post insinuating Tae isn’t close with any members of BTS, and maybe I’m the one who’s wrong, but that line of thinking feels very… delusional. Y’all don’t have to agree with his actions or even like him, but building such a negative narrative as to why he posts about Jungkook, is just as horrible as Tkkrs building theirs to frame Jimin as a predator.

Y’all are on a very slippery slope, but are gassing each other up as if you’re not all talking about Tae in an incredibly anti way. We do not know him nor the other members, so while we can of course speculate as to why he is posting JK despite JK never really seeming all that interested in talking about him to us, that doesn’t mean you should be out here framing him as wanting of what Jikook have, jealous that he doesn’t have it, and an outcast within the group as he struggles to convince JM and JK to allow him into their duo.

We know Tae and Jin are close, they’ve talked about it, but just because Tae also has friends whom he makes time for doesn’t mean he’s grown apart from Bangtan. They’re adults with their own lives, and Tae happens to have a pretty close knit, famous group of friends, so it makes sense we’d see more of him with them than we would of the others and their friends.

I don’t want to get long winded, but that post feels real anti to me, while dressing itself up as a “personal observation”.

Do better, Jikookers. Especially because y’all hate Tkkrs and other fans talking down on Jimin that way.

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I'm already seeing this "article" used as a legitimate source of additional information about the travel show. Here and on twitter.

It is not and by the looks of it, it has been written by ChatGPT. The description of the locations is a giveaway.

Please don't spread false information when it's clearly not needed.

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im glad they're doing seperate jobs. that way, they have loads to tell each other at the end of the day :)

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It’s an old tradition that during a leap year women could propose to men. This was usually depicted as old or ugly women trapping men, but some art focused more on the role reversal and could be quite cute.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the last one because it plays on the idea of “undesirable” people, a tall masculine woman and a shy effeminate man, finding each other but instead of mocking them depicts it as sweet that she could finally ask him because he was too shy and insecure to ask her.

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Jikook and Army's Shared Emotions.

Missing someone is a universal feeling. We’ve all experienced that loss or longing for something that is just out of our reach. Technology helps, we saw that during lockdown, but there’s such a big difference from seeing someone on screen and seeing them in person. There’s still that distance between you that cannot be crossed. No touch that can be felt. 

As I researched a fairly recent “Live Reactions” moment, I saw that the majority of Army was united in thinking one thing:

Jungkook REALLY missed Jimin.

We understand that feeling. Not necessarily in its fullest form. It’s one thing to miss a member as Army, but it’s another thing entirely to miss them as another member of BTS. They all have cherished memories, each one woven into a part of their history together. Some of which we will know nothing about. They haven’t been shared with us for whatever reason, but we’ve seen and know enough.

With Jimin and Jungkook, we first saw that glimpse of longing in 2019 when BTS went on vacation. Jimin posted a photo for Jungkook’s Birthday with the caption “It’s nice to see you again after not seeing you for a few days.” That was only a few days and they’ve experienced this even longer in the last few years. We witnessed it in front of our eyes every time Jungkook went Live or Jimin mentioned Jungkook. The same goes for when the joke began that Jungkook would go Live whenever Jimin left the country. It ended up not being a joke anymore and I saw more comments about it (that will be posted soon), where Army felt for them rather than adding humour to the situation. It changed how they viewed each time they saw a video from the airport. It wasn't about us as a fandom making predictions on social media, but how we saw two close members miss each other and their relief to be reuinted again. Something which is hard to ignore. This post was first written before I knew that Jimin and Jungkook would be enlisting together. Personally, I hope the best for them and that all the members return safely. That is my only wish right now. I will wait however long until then and when they feel okay enough to come back to us. It's not about me. It's about them.

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Joining the discussion on who decided to enlist through the buddy system for who's sake:

When people bring up the amount of black belts jimin has or whatever, they are missing the point because I don't think the expectation from jk here is to become a human shield in any type of physical altercation. Or lift weights on jimin's behalf. its companionship. The mental support that comes with knowing someone is on your side. If the Face album is any indication, with songs like Alone, we know he has struggled with being on his own. How much harder will it be in a completely alien setting with people who might dehumanise you and view you as some sort of celebrity unicorn?

(Not to mention the homophobia towards idols. And again, why do people think the homophobia will manifest itself as physical violence first? It always starts with psychological bullying. That's harder to handle than a fist fight imo. Its easier to single someone out if its an idol by himself. but if its 2 people, its a little harder. (aka, let them fucking try) )

The isolation will not be fun, at least at the beginning. Do I think jimin would be able to eventually get through it and make friends etc? Yeah, totally.

But here's the thing. I don't think jk is much better than jimin with these things. We always joke and nudge each other when he goes live everytime jimin goes overseas. Does that mean nothing? Emotional attachment is a thing and thinking its only jungkook who's been an emotional comfort to jimin is going a bit too far.

Edit: just remembered all the times jk is sad/in tears and beelines straight for jimin, like there's 3 occasions where that happens on camera. That's his emotional support park jimin, y'all.

I think they both thought it was better if they had someone on their side through this, so they don't get bored, feel lonely, become a target for any sort of toxicity etc. and decided it would be better and far less of a hassle if they could just do the whole thing together and get it over with. Jimin and jungkook are superb at teamwork. So they're playing to their strengths.

The buddy system was introduced to avoid soldiers taking their life. I don't think someone is pushed to that extent just because of the physicality of it all. Its slow, toxic torture. So idk how a black belt would help. Just saying.

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Jk probably, when he saw that grainy ass video

This is not my beautiful house. Deez are not my beautiful nuts.

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i hope you write (i hope we both write)

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I think the funniest dynamic for arranged-marriage royalty would be a queen who came here 100% prepared to murder her future husband and rule as a widow queen in her own right, only to discover that the king is autistic as hell and responds to her wish to rule with "oh thank god please do, I don't want to be bothered by these people. I can just tell them to go bother you instead, if you really want that. I've got beetles I wanted to study."

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I recall late November

Holdin' my breath, slowly I said

"You don't need to save me

But would you run away with me?"

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you know i don’t think we often talk about how difficult it actually is to suddenly realize that a belief you thought was good and moral and correct was actually really fucking toxic. how you have to look at something and go ‘oh shit, oh i fucked up. oh this is going to take probably years at minimum to deprogram from my brain because of all the little ways this shit pervaded the rest of my beliefs’

so. to all the people picking up all the pieces of a recently shattered world-view and trying to figure out what is safe to keep and what has to be thrown away and started over

to all the people having to relearn how to even listen to other people

to all the people putting in the work to do better while struggling with the guilt that comes from finding out you were the asshole

i’m proud of y’all.

it’s hard to admit being wrong and even harder to change in the aftermath. just keep doing the best you can and just know that the effort is appreciated. everyone can change. everyone can do better. keep fighting.

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Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

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as someone who has never tried to label what jikook have as anything more than "hella sus", none of the recent events *ahem* have made me want to jump ship yet.

as long as *the pattern* doesn't break, they're still hella sus to me.

*the pattern* is something ive observed for the last 2 years almost unfailingly.

its just this:

when jk has a schedule, jm is usually either 1. out and about with his friends or 2. also on a schedule.

when jm has a schedule, jk is either 1. at home doing a live/active on socmed or 2. seen out and about with his friends or 3. also on schedule.

when neither of them have a schedule, they disappear off the face of the planet. its crickets. you don't even notice until one of them appears at the airport and the other one is out with friends 2 days later.

as far as im concerned, that is still *the pattern* of their behavior so.

still hella sus