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(201218) @choiminho_1209: forever shinee five.

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An "outline"? brother I'm writing off of vibes alone

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LOEWE x Seungcheol' 24 🖤

closeups and @highvern feature below

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living his best life fr

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dick from a man who has waited lifetimes to meet me again in my reincarnated form

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You’ve heard of one shots, now get ready for none shots! It’s when you think of an idea for a fic and then don’t write it

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a lot of people have been asking how they can help me during the recovery time from Hurricane Helene and I am the type of person who hates asking for help, but unfortunately I've reached a breaking point of needing it. 

the major point of the storm hit Friday, Sept 27th, and that is when I lost power at 6:40 am. I still do not have power, and they don't know when I will. for the first two days, I was trapped in my house because where there was a creek in front of my house, it turned into a rushing, dangerous river. i didn't have water or food. What water i did have i gave a lot to my disabled cat in hopes that the power would come on soon, or i would be able to get out. 

you may know that I am a 911 dispatcher, so I kept watching the water and eventually to drive out knowing work was going to be overloaded. I got stuck and walked through almost knee-high water to get help. I found out that someone up the road from me lost their life in the flood, and it was a hit to my heart because, as hopeless as I felt at least, I had my life. 

my landlord was able to help me get my car out and some belongings. I left what water I could for milo and drove to town. a 25 min drive took almost 2 hours through trees, water, rocks, and mud. my little town looks like the end of the world. 

now, a few days later, I am exhausted. I have been able to go back and give milo more water, but still no power. work is hell, but I keep pushing to help people who are stuck. tomorrow, I am going to go back out and walk through the mud to get to my house and clean out my ruined fridge. while im out there, I'm gonna load up with donated supplies from work and give them out to people who can't leave the remote area. 

but the help I need is sadly money. I can't stay at home. gas, food, and bills have already drained my account. this hurricane ripped up my life so quickly in ways I didn't expect. you don't consider you have to buy muck boots or food to fill a fridge once you get power. life is harsh. 

if you can help, thank you. if you can't, that is completely okay. thank you for letting me get this out. it's been a long few days, and it's gonna be even longer. 

my PayPal https://www.paypal.me/onlymingyus

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what's a girl gotta pay to get seventeen to do a full cover of wolf by exo

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man if I gotta write bad fics, it should at least be easy! But it’s not! It is also hard to write this bad fic

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A 44 year old man goes to a K-Pop Concert

I promised you a report on the K-pop concert that I, a 44-year-old accountant, went to a couple of weeks ago with my wife and daughter in Toronto. So here it is.

The band we saw were Ateez. They're my daughter's favourite band and my wife's second favourite. I know most of my mutuals are similarly aged like me and may not be familiar with them so let me give you a brief primer on Ateez.

Imagine the most attractive eight men you can think of, just unfathomably beautiful specimens of aesthetic perfection, and make them sing songs that somehow combine the subjects of 'dancing like nobody is watching' with 'we live in a dystopian hellscape that we must all work together to overthrow'. Give them an ongoing music video story lore that literally nobody - not even the band themselves - understand, so that online discussion of their visual motifs looks more like the fevered rantings of a conspiracy theorist, complete with speculation about alternate realities and time being a Moebius strip. There is also a giant sand timer, for some reason.

That's Ateez. That's what you need to know.

Now, K-pop concerts are very different to the gigs I've been going to for the last 28 (!) years. There's no support act, for a start. Also the band perform for like, three hours, with breaks for costume changes and interpretive dance. Furthermore, hanging above everything is the constant looming threat of mandatory military service.

So this being my first such concert, I wasn't sure what to expect. What happened was difficult to explain, but I will try as I am already six paragraphs into this write-up and I'm too invested to stop now. Here goes:

In his Wicked + Divine comics series, Kieron Gillen places modern pop icons as deities, feeding upon and gaining strength from the worship of their fans at the altar of musical performance. I thought I understood that metaphor. I thought I understood it AS a metaphor. I was wrong, because that night Ateez WERE Gods with a capital G and we were their worshippers, a crowd emanating adoration (in the religious and non-religious senses), bestowing strength upon them and gaining their strength in return.

If that sounds weird, it probably is. But as pointed out above, I have lived over four decades and never yet experienced anything like the overwhelming passion of that crowd, the utter abandon with which they conveyed their love for the band.

"But Fuiru, what of the actual music?" you ask. Thinking back, there was a moment in one of their songs - I can't remember which - where I watched the stage, and the people around me, taking it in, and I thought, "Man, I just love Music". But that doesn't answer your question, sorry.

Ateez's music is bloody great. As a tiresome indie/rock/metal kid I'm resisting the urge to add the usual tiresome indie/rock/metal caveat of "...for pop music" because honestly that does it a disservice. They have some genuinely amazing songs. Halazia is an absolute fucking masterpiece that descends into furious hardcore breakbeat. Bouncy is a big, brash racket that somehow is also a perfect pop song. Utopia, Wonderland, and Guerrilla are similarly superb. The obligatory boy band slow number is represented by Dancing Like Butterfly Wings which will make you cry because you will forever associate it with your twelve year old daughter being pointed to and waved at by her favourite Ateez member (Seonghwa) because of her Seonghwa-branded lightstick.

That might just be me, though.

So in summary: being a 44 year old dad at his first K-pop concert rules and you should endeavour to partake in the experience if the opportunity arises.

Finally, for any Atiny reading this: my bias would be San or Seonghwa but my wife and daughter said they were taken so it’s Mingi. My concert outfit (designed and created by my offspring) reflects this.

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...My God...

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WRECK THE FOCKKK OUT OF ME CHOI SEUNGCHEOL 🙏🥹

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I've never screamed, been shocked, sang along, or excited at the same time for a song before. I DID NOT EXPECT CHEERS!!! 🍻🥂

When the rest of the group joined at the end I LOST IT!! 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️😩

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❤️‍🔥

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S.COUPS 🍒

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SCOUPS @ Lollapalooza Berlin