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a slightly less insane version of this

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please,they are so cute (cr. trans: miiniyoongs)

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here’s jimin’s precious eye smile bc i’m ✨suffering✨

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???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????!!!!!!??????!!!!!

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likelihood of jjk1? this whole hair situation is making me feel like too much of a clown🤡 but i can’t help but get my hopes up

Lol I’ve been getting my hopes up since he first dyed it blonde 😂

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I mean... MMA Black Swan is like recent recent and that shit is both preplanned and not subtle. Lol. Like it is a pretty dramatic statement to perform traditional dances in a way that’s not constituted by gender, in a way that is reversing gendered expectations. We can also look at the Christmas sing-along—they did not have to include that really intimate turn when jm is softly singing the chorus. People decided to keep that in, that was a /decision/. This is just my opinion, but I get the sense that the company is very ‘supportive’ of their relationship, or else they wouldn’t be intentionally showing content that is slightly sus or pairing up jk and jm more and more recently. I mean even back in 2017, they let jk drop GCF-T! and they didn’t have to allow that! And they’ve seen people’s reactions since then, and I’m sure they’ve been observant/detailed about it too, but they keep allowing jikook to keep jikooking.

That being said, I don’t know the intentions behind the company’s ‘support.’ It seems to me that they’ve seen how powerful heteronormativity works for them while jikook live in what I consider to be a glass closet. Bighit as a company doesn’t have to worry about the backlash because they aren’t out, and, as we see on the daily, people are just refusing to see them as anything romantic. The culture of shipping and fan service covers up anything particularly revealing for most people, while they still get to show their natural chemistry (👀 considering lights video behind the scenes, I think that demonstrates how the company might see them as a unit). Is this because they support them as queer people/queer artists or is this because they see the marketability of the two and have been able to show their chemistry while maintaining plausible deniability regarding their sexuality? Who’s to say, my good bitches. Generally, motivations are pretty complicated, so I think it’s likely that it’s a mixed bag of both. Regardless, I get the sense that jm and jk (and the rest of BTS) are pretty happy about the situation, so I’m happy about it as well, but once again, this is my opinion! I think it’s dangerous for them to come out, especially since they haven’t done their military service yet, but I think they’re finding a balance between protecting them and letting them be themselves and together. The video below about living as two mlm in SK and people’s assumptions might be telling... The people in this vid make the assumptions that support their own worldview and keep them comfortable.

What sorts of repurcussions did Jikook face fro 'slip ups' in the past? By slip ups I mean the New Jersey Vlive, Rose Bowl, and things like that. Did they have internal meetings within their company. Did they get scolded? Were they reminded of everything they stand to lose is their truth is put out there in ways that are undeniable? It seems like a lot of Jikookers get antsy when Jikook aren't being 'obvious' for a while. But aren't they supposed to be 'not obvious'? The times when they 'made it obvious' during live moments have probably been slips in vigilance. As time goes on, and they get more famous and scrutinized, we probably won't be getting anything Rose Bowl like anymore, will we?

Vlives together have been more obviously supervised (during his wine vlive in 2019, Jk said that someone from the company always stayed up to monitor vlives so clearly this was always a thing but in the year 2020 Jikook had staff members hovering in the apartment with them). There are no audience taken fancams or much live impromptu footage of Jikook. Yet we still had stunning personal moments of Jikookery like 'I was with Jungkook' and that extended stare during the sept 1 group vlive.

Does it make you nervous ever that Bighit could take easy measures to effectively 'end' the Jikook 'ship'? Do you think Jikook will be more cautious and careful as fame and scrutiny increase? If that is the case, your inbox will be full of insecurity...

There’s no way of knowing if they were in trouble by the company or had any repercussions for their slip-ups, but I’d say the company didn’t mind Rose Bowl all that much since it was included in the Memories 2019 and to such an extent. Their vlives in general, if they’re subunits or ot7, have staff members present, and I’m not sure if that has anything to do with keeping the members “under control” or only serves the purpose of helping them out and being there as support. I mean, it still doesn’t stop jikook from jikooking lol.

And no, I don’t think BH can or would “end the ship”. Shipping is a part of k-pop, and I think the company and all of the members are aware of that. The furthest anyone has gone to “ending” a ship were JK and Tae themselves, but that didn’t do much lol. 

I do think they’ll keep themselves in check because they’re bound to get even bigger, so there definitely won’t be any ear biting in the future. They still might, however, be paired in an artistic and musical sense, like they were for Dynamite and Black Swan MMA. They work together great, their chemistry is amazing, there’s no reason for them not to be.

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jinmin and chaos go hand in hand 🤝

bonus: why are they like this 😭

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Hello, this is unrelated to jikook but can you talk a bit about your favorite wordplay in the BTS’s song lyrics? Like what wordplay did the tannies use in their songs that absolutely blew your mind?

Generally speaking, I feel like Koreans really love wordplay lol. Just take for example our obsession with acrostic poems and ajae gags— 

But my favorite to come out of the tannies’ amazing lyricism has to be the one in Trivia 承 : Love

“난 그냥 사람, 사람, 사람 넌 나의 모든 모서릴 잠식 나를 사랑, 사랑, 사랑 으로 만들어 만들어”

“I’m just a person, person, person You erode all my sharp edges You make me Into love, love, love”

The word for person (사람) turns into the word for love (사랑) once the square ㅁ character gets “eroded” into the round ㅇ. On both a figurative and literal level, “person” turns into “love.” I’m obsessed with the images that the wordplay in those lines evoke; I remember being struck with how beautiful it was the first time I heard it, and it’s stayed with me ever since. ♡

Runner-up has to be all the mind-blowing wordplay in their song “Ddaeng/땡” (and especially in Namjoon’s verse!) that this video does a great job breaking down here. I highly recommend the watch!

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Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)

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Would you ever consider doing a post on the queer coding/gender queer coding of jk and jm as you mentioned?

Sure, as long as someone was interested! I would especially love an excuse to talk about the Filter performance, MMA Black Swan, and ‘i am you, you are me.’ And if anyone wanted to hear me rant about something else like the recent Home performance or GCFs or Coming of Age Ceremony 👀 or really anything, I would be happy to talk about them as well. As I mentioned in that ask (linked below), I don’t consider myself a jikook blog, so I’m also happy to talk about Vmin platonic soulmate bond, BTS queer coding in general, my adoration for Kim Seokjin, and most importantly to me, why a romantic and/or sexual relationship between any of the members doesn’t make that relationship more important than any of the other relationships within BTS. Not sure if people are quite as interested in those topics, but the reason I became a fan of BTS was because of their group dynamic. Found family is fucking beautiful 🥺😭

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jimin × dispatch ‘white day special’

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Ugh Jimin saying he’ll be more active on Weverse is exciting but all together terrifying. I would love to see him be more active on social media but I’d also hate for him to see all the gross hate he gets there as well. Like I just had to block someone who called him a flop and an attention seeker for posting, and telling him to stay away from jk because he commented on his baby pics. It’s so bizarre and sad that people are like that.

I hope he scrolls through all the bullshit without looking at it and just reads the harmless, nice posts. He hasn’t been active in so long, and people have the audacity to throw hate at him for it?! When he’s the sweetest, kindest human being who couldn’t sleep and decided to come talk to us. He could’ve literally done anything - stared at the wall, counted sheep, meditated, but he decided to talk to armys and people spin it around against him?? Also, the commenting on JK’s pics was so freaking adorable, I can’t 🥺

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reminiscing about the tokyo trip 🥰 c;littleblossom

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To love you is to be in love with everything.

Dermot Bolger, from “Ontario Terrace, Rathmines”, That Which is Suddenly Precious (via soracities)

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we might also ask if assuming straightness is projecting heteronormativity! but i really liked anon’s question because i think a lot of queer people look out for queer coding from people--maybe using gender neutral terms about partners or potential partners, discussing queer artists, etc.--to meet potential friends who are also LGBTQIA or for safety reasons as well. considering jk’s consistent suggestions for queer artists, km’s comments about gender and/or gendered clothing, their avoidance of labeling their relationship explicitly, their artistic representations of their relationship (GCF-T, Home 2020 on Jimmy Fallon, MMA Black Swan), etc., it’s my own opinion that they have been queer coding their own relationship intentionally. Take GCF-T and MMA Black Swan, for instance: jk used queer artist Troye Sivan’s music in the background, and the lyrics are definitely sus. The video is also of jm only--not the both of them--just like fond footage of jm smiling and being cute and happy while on a vacation for his birthday with jk, a vacation that jk planned and paid for. jm and jk both wanted people to know, considering jm made a vlog about it and then jk followed it up with the very quickly edited GCF-T (there are theories about it being posted on an anniversary, which is cute and maybe explains why jk worked so hard to finish it by this day, but regardless, the video speaks for itself). they also cannot stop talking about it, so it was clearly important and memorable for them! similarly, with MMA Black Swan, there are implications from their duet that also queer codes their relationship. To be clear, I know little about dance but more about queer theory applied to art, including dance. The pas de deux (the lift) in the performance is done between a man and a woman. To switch up the gender roles with two men is significant--it suggests a break in our expectations about gender and dance. With this disruption of gendered roles, we might also what that signifies (beyond their beautiful dancing, of course!). We might also consider, why jm and jk? and also, how jm and jk? not only does this lift require a lot of strength on both parts, but it also requires a lot of trust. at this point, I think jk and jm are saying a lot about their relationship, and i think as queer people, we are less disenchanted with heteronormativity than most. I like to see our potential to read situations as queer as a positive rather than a negative. I’d also like to imagine that if they indicated that they were unhappy with those suggestions, they would say so. But so far, they just giggle a lot. 

https://twitter.com/tteokjm/status/1143493624669196288?s=20

Anon, I hope you’re enjoying getting back in touch with your sexuality! What an exciting time :) 

i've only been exclusively in het relationships, though i've had doubts about my orientation since my teenage years (i'm much much older now). i never explored it, nor do i have a desire anymore to do so, as i am happy and content with my married life. (Wife for over a decade now). having said that, learning abt km, watching their relationship and their interactions have awoken that aspect of me that i have not thought about/delved into in a long while. it made me think again about my very own sexual identity/orientation. I do wonder if my initial fascination with kookmin, that has now grown to love and support, is just me projecting my own unexpressed desires (and/or unrecognized frustrations). ig my question is how do you know that what u see (thus believe to be true) in km is in fact reasonable speculation and not simply a projection of your own sexual identity. I'm quite inexperienced in all these so i apologize if any of my comments/questions are in anyway offensive. thanks in advance.

Hi anon, I don’t see anything offensive about your ask! I think we’re all bound to project a bit of us in others, especially if it’s someone we don’t personally know, and people we’re only watching through a screen. The question is, just how much we’re projecting, and how much of it is observing it through an unbiased lens. I’m glad to hear you’re happy now!