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i read @storkmuffin’s recent mingi post earlier this morning and it pretty much summarised my thoughts about mingi’s importance in ateez vocally but i’m going to elaborate anyway because i love good raplines and i ESPECIALLY love mingi

disclaimer: at least for me personally, i am really, REALLY bad at recognising people’s (singing) voices, and if i’m listening to a group, picking out each individual singer with any reliable accuracy is practically impossible for me. usually, rappers are way easier for me to distinguish - whenever i start to learn about a new kpop group even casually, telling apart their rapline vocally is usually the first thing i succeed at. i was able to pick out the rappers in bts before i even learned all their faces, and i have no trouble telling apart the guys in skz too. and even if i don’t know their names, i can usually guess how many rappers are on a song and who features when because of how distinctive they are.

+ because of the above, to me, good rappers are the very foundations and absolute backbone of a good kpop group. i say good rappers because not all kpop rappers probably should be rappers (please just let them sing. we don’t need a rap break in every song), but when you find a gem, they’re usually the undeniable core of their group’s musical sound. to bring up the one of the same examples i mentioned earlier, skz would not be skz without 3racha. not just from a production or songwriting perspective (though i’ve noticed that good rappers tend to do more of that than non-rappers in my limited sample pool), but in the sense that they musically carry a lot of the songs or turn them from good to great. and they can sing too! they’re not limited to rapping!

and at the risk of sounding biased, i think ateez’s rapline is my favourite yet. yeah, there are only two of them, but they’re 1) so strong individually, 2) so unique both from what i’ve heard outside of ateez and also when compared with one another, and 3) work SO well together that every time they’re back to back in a song it immediately contends for my favourite part of the entire song, like in emergency, or (in a simpler but imo no less effective or delightful) in my beloved pirate king:

and mingi!! even in addition to all this!! is another level of unique. i don’t think i have heard a voice quite like his EVER, never mind just within the kpop industry. and he’s so flexible too. a lot of people zero in on his more aggressive side vocally but he’s able to play with his voice to a degree that we don’t really hear from many rappers (or vocalists sometimes) - arriba comes to mind here for an example of his versatility. i think his arriba rap is genuinely one of my fav verses in any ateez song. it’s DELIGHTFUL. his voice is so profoundly distinctive that whereas with most raplines it takes me less time to learn to distinguish their voices, with mingi (and by extension hongjoong, because he never sounds like mingi), it took me NO time. i knew who was rapping from the outset even if i didn’t know his name yet. and i knew that i liked him.

i think the thing for me about mingi’s voice is that it’s so delightfully husky and rough and raw in a way that the other guys’ aren’t. i think that’s why he’s able to pull off the expressiveness and emotion @storkmuffin mentioned e.g. in man on fire to a degree that the other guys couldn’t quite. there’s a polishedness or smoothness or snappiness to the other guys’ voices that makes them vocally very powerful, but when it comes to pinning down a specific, unfiltered feeling, that’s where mingi comes out on top. the same goes in youth imo, and also in tunnel (which, btw, changed my life the first time i heard it) - mingi’s voice is perfect for emotion. sadness, desperation, anger - he convinces you it’s real, because he just sounds so damn genuine about it, even without me understanding a single word he’s saying.

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I'm down so bad

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My baby pink bear i am in love with you

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my woo-nderful black cat boi! 🤍

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bark bark

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devastating

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HJ 🌠 [220319] Universe Messages

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[230429] Pott Official Twitter Update ATEEZ X Pott. BEHIND PHOTO 📸

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[230429] Pott Official ATEEZ x Pott. Behind Photo📸

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[230506] KQ Entertainment Naver Article Pott x ATEEZ Behind

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Ateez's Full Storyline Explained - Part 5

Masterlist

Deja-Vu (Z-Dimension)

this is Ateez breaking into the Android Guardian's bunker to steal back the Cromer

we see Yeosang with a blue butterfly

-> we can later see similar ones surrounding Wooyoung in the Answer MV

-> my very much unconfirmed theory is that these might be used as communication devices since they’re blue and shimmery and we know stolen voices look like blue bleads

we see a drone flying through the sewer system, potentially built by Yeosang

a scan of Yeosang, Hongjoong and Yunho leads to a system error which could be just an editing choice to make it look cool or it's the system detecting that Ateez isn't registered since they're from another dimension

after Jongho "explodes", we see a flash of the Cromer and a butterfly before Hala!HJ appears in a glass case, much like the one Yeosang will be trapped in in Say My Name

this is a reference to Ateez's encounter with the Black Pirates in the bunker which we’ll cover in the Fever Part 3 Diary Version entries

they manage to get the Cromer and make it outside where Yeosang should've been exchanged for the Cromer after the Android Guardians captured him (see: Fever Part 3 Diary Version once again)

during this attempted exchange, Yeosang snatches the Cromer out of the air before the Guardian could get it, turns it once and smashes it to pieces

we see two hands at the end, reaching for each other - Hongjoong's on the right and Yeosang's on the left before a bright light engulfs them

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Are there any similar blogs like yours (whether it’s on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, etc. fashion)?

Hi, thanks for the question.

For Chinese historical fashion there are many other blogs on Tumblr. This is not a comprehensive list just the ones I know :3

@ziseviolet has the ultimate compilation of general hanfu information.

@fouryearsofshades educational hanfu content, like analyzing hanfu trends and their historical precedents.

@hanfu-asks tutorials and specific information about sewing hanfu. They seem to be on semi-hiatus.

@guzhuangheaven posts about period dramas and sometimes talks about their costumes.

@hanfugallery photo sets of hanfu from all eras and sometimes explanations as well.

@fuckyeahchinesefashion Chinese fashion from all eras and also period costumes.

@vintagechinese vintage Chinese fashion and film, though they seem to have stopped posting :.(

For other countries I don’t know as many blogs but I went and found a few. If any of these is problematic/factually questionable please let me know.

For Japan:

@taishou-kun Japanese fashion, art and film 19th century onward. I love that they have a lot of modernist art that is very rare to see and often neglected in favor of the more conventional geisha stuff.

@tanuki-kimono seems to be a hub for kimono enthusiasts.

@geimaiko writes about geisha culture and the kimono they wear.

@koikishu mostly kimono, but also fashion from other Asian countries.

@onna-musha historical Japanese fashion and culture, with a lot of content about fierce female warriors for some reason. I stan.

@thekimonogallery​ historical kimono and Japanese culture.

For Vietnam:

@lotusinjadewell compiled a short history for Vietnamese fashion, and posts photo sets of Vietnamese historical fashion and modern aodai.

For Korea:

@kimono-hanbok joint blog for kimono and hanbok.

@hanboki-blog Korean historical art, photographs and extant fashion items.

Others:

@sartorialadventure mostly Western historical fashion but sometimes they post various non Western fashions as well.

@non-westernhistoricalfashion like the name suggests, non Western historical fashion from a variety of eras.

Feel free to add to this list!!

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I had an Obikaka urge, an hour to spare on drawing, and no one to stop me

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sequel to this

(I blame @pax-thuban​ and @depressedhatakekakashi​ xxx)

((swapped war-Obi out for post-Juubi Obi because why not))