#apink stuff

[sailorjisunq]

은지

[littlepanduh-writes-365]

Day 100

Title: “It's Late”

Features: Irene (Red Velvet) & Solar (MAMAMOO) & Chorong (APink)

Word Count: 1,556

Description: You’re not here with me anymore but I find myself touching the matching tattoos we got when I’m in need of comfort.

Tags: Irene-centric | Grieving | Angst | actress!irene

cw: implied minor character death

Irene hates how cold and dark her apartment is. The vacant living room reminds her to invest in a couch or a futon, but it’s all just a distraction in the form of empty promises. She chooses to live this life, yet she can’t help but hate the silence. 

The rookie actress opens the fridge only to see its contents are the same leftovers she’s eaten for the past 2 days. Wanting something else for a change, she looks to order something online. She’s about to order some malatang, but remembers how Chorong was craving it the last night they were together. It’s an obscure memory, but the emotions rise enough that Irene decides she will no longer get anything delivered. Ramen it is. 

As the water boils, she looks through her emails. Her agent had forwarded her various invitations to award show galas and movie release after-parties. Irene knows she should start attending them again, but she still doesn’t feel sure if she was ready. 

The celebrity knows she has a social status to upkeep and everyone’s waiting for her return to the spotlight. She’s lost track of how much time has passed, but regardless of how high that count is, she isn’t sure if she’s capable of attending such a high stakes event alone. 

Maybe she doesn’t have to go stag. She never did anyways. Changsub could carry a conversation when Irene needed to take a step back. Chorong always warned her that he might need to be supervised when he spots expensive bourbon. Byulyi is another safe option. Irene hasn’t really talked to her since the memorial. 

It’s not the same. Changsub won’t squeeze Irene’s hand after a reporter grills her. Byulyi won’t distract everyone around them with dolphin squeaks of a laugh. 

She aggressively snaps the ramen package in half. The sudden motion causes the plastic bag to open in the middle, allowing the blocks of dry noodles to fall. Irene hisses when the boiling water hits her skin.

The idea of “replacing” Yongsun and Chorong never sat well with her. The instant, internal denial makes Irene feel like she’s emotionally regressing, but she has to remember the baby steps she’s already taken, like settling their shared investments and moving out of their apartment. They were all hard decisions to make all by herself, but Irene did it. 

She still wishes she didn’t.

Irene wishes she could still come home to Yongsun working out in the living room and Chorong preparing dinner in the kitchen. Irene wishes she could complain to her roommates about forgetting to take out the trash. Yongsun will sweet talk her way out of Irene’s annoyance and Chorong will ask her about her day.

The two of them weren’t just people Irene lived with. It might've seemed like that more than 12 years ago when they shared a college dorm together. Their relationship evolved into a friendship with all the classes they shared. They became sisters when they cried about breakups and job rejections. 

That was all taken away from Irene after a phone call with the police and within the white walls of the funeral home. 

Irene has learned to stop blaming herself for what happened, but it’s never been easy for her to cope with her losses. 

She can afford new furniture and try new food and attend important events alone, but the lack of Chorong and Yongsun’s presence manifests into a discomfort she doesn't know how to battle just yet. 

When the ramen is done cooking, she grabs a bottle of soju from the fridge and settles down in her breakfast nook. Irene always thought that this table was too small for the three of them. Irene always thought that with less people, it would take longer for her to consume the leftover alcohol. At an alarming rate, empty bottles easily occupied the empty spaces.

As she waits for her meal to cool down, she browses through social media. She takes a swig out of her bottle before scrolling through comments. 

She doesn’t shine as much as she used to. 

Did she get plastic surgery? 

It’s amazing that she can smile after what has happened.

The actress is no stranger to criticism or hate comments. It comes with the job. Short comments can have different meanings and need context that she’ll never receive.    

People can hate on her as much as they want, but as long as she has a schedule, she couldn’t care less. 

That's what they reminded her then. That's what she tells herself now.

She’s half a bottle in until her emotions finally loosen up. Irene slams her phone on the table and stands up. She marches to her bedroom, disregarding her meal and her device. 

Who is she kidding?

No matter how many positive comments there were, no matter how many jobs she could take, they wouldn't be able to uplift her in the same way her friends once did. 

Irene tries her best to commemorate their support by recalling memories and the words of encouragement that they used. She knows Yongsun would be proud of her new project. She can imagine Chorong telling her to ignore the malicious comments. She'll remember them as much as she can, but falls back to the reality that she has to do this alone.

Nonetheless, she can’t always hold herself up, especially on a particularly low day. 

Fear and stress suddenly engulf her. The intensity of loneliness overwhelms her and it’s times like this when she dearly misses her best friends.  

She thinks about how her counselor tells her how “time will heal” and that “work will be a good distraction”. The accident happened last winter and it's nearing their birthdays. Clearly, it’s not enough time to mourn, yet Irene busies herself with this project since it's been penned in her calendar for nearly a year ago and she needs some income.

To an extent, her counselor is right. The pain from loss doesn’t hurt as much. Irene has stopped feeling guilty for something she can’t control. Nonetheless, it’s hard to cope with the idea of being alone again. Irene knows how to cook her own food and to clean the dishes, but forcing herself to do all these things has been mentally taxing when all she wants to do is curl up in a ball and cry.  

She unbuttons her shirt and shrugs it off. There’s probably a fresh set of pajamas in her closet, but the feeling of Yongsun’s old, plush blanket against her bare skin will ground her.

Irene looks down and smiles at the tattoo on her bicep. The ink was an impulse decision after the three of them landed their first jobs. Time had passed and the shading needed some retouching, but she won’t ever remove the panda or the dragon, even if it had cost her some roles. 

“Why are we getting it on our bicep again?” It’s ironic Chorong whines about it now, considering her tattoo artist is halfway done with the second animal of their piece.

Irene stares at the outline on her own arm. Although she’s pretty committed to the idea, seeing the stencil on her skin intimidated her. Thinking answering her question will rid her cold feet, she responds, “Isn’t it supposed to be the least painful area?” That’s what their tattoo artist advised them.  

Yongsun admires herself in the mirror and flexes her arms. “It’s on my bicep because you two are my strength.” 

Irene rolls her eyes at the corny comment, but smiles. Yongsun initially suggested that they placed their tattoos on the chest, presumably since it’s easy to hide. With that answer, Irene can imagine her actual reasoning is because she keeps them close to her heart. Her friends might be intolerably greasy, but she loved everything about them. 

Another tattoo artist calls Yongsun to the back so they can apply the skin film. With her absence, the room grows quiet, minus the rock music in the background. Considering how tense Chorong looked, Irene knew she should try to distract her.  

“How bad does it hurt?” Maybe she could’ve chosen a different topic, but she knows Chorong will ease up after talking about her feelings.

Chorong exhales and her eyebrows soften. She looks towards Irene and smiles. “It’s not bad, but being stabbed a million times is definitely uncomfortable. 

Irene walks over and grabs Chorong’s other hand. “You’ll get through this.” She looks down at Chorong’s tattoo-in-progress and smiles at the nearly completed dragon and panda. The tattoo artist was starting on the rabbit. “Yong’s dragon is already done!”

Chorong closes her eyes and squeezes Irene’s hand. “I know I will. Pain is just temporary.”

Tears fall down Irene’s cheeks. She’s too exhausted to bawl her eyes out, but she won’t hide the pain. 

Pain is temporary. Irene will be able to move past this. Irene knows that Chorong and Yongsun are still a pillar of strength for her. Nonetheless, she does wish she could be in their arms or hear words of comfort again.   

The positive reinforcement helps Irene’s sleep with less anxiety. The dread of tomorrow feels less intense. 

For now, she’ll seek comfort in the reminder that Chorong and Yongsun will always be with Irene, just like their permanent tattoo memorialized on her skin. 

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[smutoperator]

Rules, kinks and favorite idols/groups

I've had this blog for a while but finally I'm not busy enough to keep it active. So there are the rules:

Idols must be 18 or older (obviously).

Sex must always be consensual.

Besides rape, I also avoid stuff like scat, vomit and necrophilia.

I don't write G!P smuts. I allow for the use of strap-ons but not actual penises for idols that have vaginas.

I keep note on every request and will select a few if the story fits. All smuts will feature at least one female idol and a male reader.

My favorite fantasies are: anal (my #1), breeding, creampie, dirty talk dom/sub, facefucking, morning sex, poolside sex, public sex, rough sex, spanking and titfucking. As you can see, I'm on the rougher side of the spectrum and my smuts veer into the porny side but can do romantic stuff if asked to.

Now on to the idols.

I have idols spawning from 2nd to 4th generation as my biases, my all time top 10 is, ordered by their groups: AOA Seolhyun, Blackpink Jennie, Dreamcatcher Yoohyeon, Girl's Day Yura, f(x) Krystal, Ive Wonyoung, Iz*one/Soloist Eunbi, SNSD Yuri, Twice Jihyo and Twice Momo (and RV Seulgi but I don't write smuts about her for finding her too cute to lewd).

Here are the idols from each group, order alphabetically, I can write smuts of. Inside their groups, the idols are ordered by my personal preference.

4Minute: Hyuna

Aespa: Karina - Ningning - Winter - Giselle

After School: Nana - Kahi

Alice: Sohee

AOA: Seolhyun - Choa - Hyejeong - Jimin

Apink: Bomi - Hayoung - Eunji - Naeun - Chorong

Berry Good: Johyun

Blackpink: Jennie - Jisoo - Lisa - Rosé

Cherry Bullet: Jiwon

Cignature: Jeewon

CLC: Seungyeon - Yeeun

Dal Shabet: Subin

Dreamcatcher: Yoohyeon - Gahyeon - Handong - SuA - JiU

Exid: Hani - Junghwa

f(x) : Krystal - Victoria

Fromis 9: Saerom - Chaeyoung

Gidle: Soyeon - Shuhua - Minnie - Yuqi - Miyeon

Girl's Day: Yura - Hyeri

Gfriend: Eunha - SinB - Sowon - Yuju - Yerin - Umji

I.O.I: Somi - Doyeon - Sejeong - Jieqiong - Chungha - Mina

Itzy: Yeji - Chaeryeong - Yuna - Ryujin

Ive: Wonyoung - Gaeul - Yujin - Rei - Liz

Iz*one: Eunbi - Wonyoung - Chaewon - Minju - Hyewon - Yujin - Sakura - Yena - Chaeyeon

Kep1er: Xiaoting - Yujin - Hikaru - Chaehyun - Dayeon

Le Sserafim: Kazuha - Chaewon - Yunjin - Sakura

Loona: Heejin - Yeojin - Hyeju - Yves - Haseul - Jinsoul - Kim Lip

Lovelyz: Mijoo

Mamamoo: Solar - Hwasa

Miss A: Suzy - Fei

Momoland: Ahin - Nancy

Newjeans: Danielle - Minji - Hanni

Nine Muses: Kyungri

Nmixx: Sullyoon - Haewon

Oh My Girl: Arin - Yooa - Jiho - Yubin - Mimi - Hyojung - Seunghee

Rainbow: Jaekyung - Hyunyoung

Red Velvet: Joy - Yeri - Irene

Secret: Hyosung

SNSD: Yuri - Yoona - Taeyeon - Seohyun - Sunny - Jessica - Tiffany - Hyoyeon - Sooyoung

Sistar: Soyou - Hyolyn - Bora - Dasom

Stayc: Isa - J - Seeun - Yoon

T-Ara: Hyomin - Jiyeon

Twice: Momo - Jihyo - Sana - Mina - Tzuyu - Dahyun - Nayeon - Jeongyeon - Chaeyoung

Weeekly: Monday - Zoa - Jihan

WJSN: Bona - Cheng Xiao

Wonder Girls: Sunmi

[fillinforlater]

Monday of Appreciation: Part 89

Hello everyone, Smite here!

From A(pink) to Z(blue), we have a nice variety of fics and idols today as well. Let's not make it too crazy today, I have a bunch of other fun things to do and I hope you have a nice Monday as well.

Here is some stories to relax to:

-1-

@ggidolsmuts: Do not disturb ft. Chorong (Apink)

Interesting title, because OC definitely does not care who he disturbs and how often he does it. His silly group name and nugu status are the cream on top... the cream that leaks out of Chorong... there is a lot of sex here.

-2-

@coldfanbou: Sexual Education ft. Chaeryeong, Chaeyoung, Eunha, Monday

YOOO the fuck!

-3-

@seungheesenglish: Puppies New Toy Part 1 ft. Xiaoting, Kazuha, Yunjin, Chaewon, Sakura

A/B/O stuff with Kazuha and Xiaoting is absolute premium, goated, must-read... add even more hot idols and you got me begging for that Part 2. Absolutely love it!

-4-

@nsfwmaemi: Two Pretty Best Friends ft. Xiaoting, Yujin

XIAOJIN XIAOJIN XIAOJIN let's live the bisexual dream ahhhhh

This threesome still melts my fucking brain ahhh

New fic this week probably! Until then, have a good time!

[nsfwflint]

Hmm, what do you think?

(Ngl, the way she submerged her tits underwater so it would be blurred is such a tease of her)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twice_Fap/comments/16zov1e/this_is_how_the_pic_should_have_been/

Idols are master of the tease. They all do it, and they're pretty much trained to do it by their companies. Heck they even have different methods too.

Like this isn't the first time Jihyo has used water or a towel or something to obscure what would be amazing photo. And then there's Apink Hayoung who is a master of the long distance photo. Close enough to make you want more, but far enough from the camera that you can't quite get the good stuff.

[thesinglesjukebox]

ILLIT - "MAGNETIC"

A K-pop debut that we're quite drawn to...

[7.15]

Iain Mew: It's 2024, of course the single picked from their EP picked is the song with the most candied music-box elements. The song isn't as fully committed to replicating that sound as the tentative spoken word intro suggests, which means its sweetness is diluted, but the other elements in the mixture work with it. The bass stomping forward and the 2010s stuttered "you you you"s are a great alternative, and the 16-bit swoops and pops tie it all together with a fizz. [8]

TA Inskeep: This smart K-pop groove has the feel of '80s first-wave electro without actually sounding like it. I don't love the sound effect-sounding stuff, but "Magnetic"'s airiness (especially ILLIT's vocals) counterbalances its rubbery bassline nicely. [7]

Alfred Soto: Its twitchy pulse and winking vocals are a tonic after the relationship psychobabble of their American contemporaries. [7]

Nortey Dowuona: Super eclectic. I'm very proud of Martin KOR. For a first credit, he made his mark; he should have more than one credit. [8]

Isabel Cole: A pleasantly summery little bit of froth; I like the video game twinkles that pop up every now and then. [6]

Taylor Alatorre: Nobody wants an entire genre, even the most vertically integrated of genres, to be flattened into an arms race pursuit of weaponized competence. But there's a bit of a collective action problem, in that it's very hard to object to any single display of that weaponized competence. The besotted bits of spoken word that bookend "Magnetic" are like the blurb on the back of a bag of potato chips, touting its recipe's lovingly handmade origins and capped off with the inkjet signature of the company's long-dead, possibly apocryphal founder. The chips taste good. [7]

Katherine St. Asaph: Synth and squelch and pneumatic charm, engineered to precise specs. [8]

Ian Mathers: None of the alerts from my phone or computer (personal or work) sound much at all like that notification-ass effect they use here, and yet I have found myself reflexively checking to see whether someone's trying to get a hold of me at least 3-4 times each time I've played "Magnetic." I can't decide if it's genius or maddening or both. [6]

Michael Hong: ILLIT make low-key proclamations: "you're! my! crush!" exclaimed, but only on paper; "we're magnetized, I admit it," confessed, but not meant to be heard. "Magnetic" is all glittery synths and the word "you" transformed into a dial-tone sound effect, toeing the line between fantasy and reality in regards to a crush, but perhaps that's what makes it so addictive. [7]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: Pretty easy to pin down everything here: a spoken intro reminscent of vintage Apink, a vocal melody that points to K-pop’s undying love for “My Boo,” the sort of half-time breakdown that TWICE has been doing since “Likey,” a diaphanous atmosphere that screams NewJeans, bed squeaks that are decidedly unsexy, and pretty synth flourishes and vocal manipulations that are classic “K-pop does J-pop” a la Red Velvet’s “Russian Roulette.” It’s a summation of girlish K-pop throughout the past 15 years made palatable for the genre’s 5th gen. [7]

Leah Isobel: The TWICE-ification of NewJeans -- more garishly obvious, with a thicker candy shell that messes with the textural balance. Still tasty, but less subtle. [6]

Kayla Beardslee: Everything is NewJeans -- except it’s also not, Min Hee Jin, stop making your delusions everyone else’s problem. Trend shifts happen when a force builds up in the background without people noticing, until someone influential who’s great at reading the room happens to give it a push that bursts the damn, and suddenly everyone is swimming together in the changed current. In the last few months, the dam has burst on the 5th generation of K-pop, and "Magnetic" may well have been the song that caused it.

I don’t think even ILLIT’s company expected their level of breakout success: it seems like K-pop listeners were waiting for a release like "Magnetic" without even knowing it, and when it finally came along, it was so perfectly primed for the current moment that we had no choice but to be pulled in. What set the stage for ILLIT wasn’t one group so genius and unique that their tactics simultaneously influence everything yet cannot be replicated, but a combination of releases from multiple big names over several years that gradually pushed K-pop in a new direction. First, in late 2021, IVE debuted to instant massive success with a concept that was essentially "What if we just made good pop music without any gimmicks?" Then NewJeans picked up that same idea and debuted in summer 2022 to even more unprecedented success, causing an instant aesthetic reset in K-pop from the boldness and busy-ness of most leading 4th gen groups back to mellowness, warmth, and simplicity. Between mid-2023 and early 2024, Zerobaseone, RIIZE, and TWS debuted, which was the first time in several years that multiple high-profile boy groups debuted in quick succession. All three hit it off with breezy debut singles about letting boys have fun and be earnest instead of acting cool. (Think about the dorky confessions and bright synths of TWS’s "Plot Twist" next to to the shouted chorus and crunchy hip-hop textures of NCT 127’s "Kick It.") Then, in the span of three days at the end of this March, five different K-pop related girl groups debuted with singles that ranged from mellow candy-colored pop to tight electropop to chill pop-R&B to, finally, the ILLIT track we’re actually reviewing.

Most 4th gen K-pop singles are distinguished by a density of ideas and hugeness of sound that match the expanding size of the global K-pop audience in the late 2010s to early 2020s -- the glut of Blackpink-inspired girl crush comebacks, the boy groups doing a million loud hip-hop and electronic songs, tons of rapping regardless of how good they are at it, deliberately disjointed song sections -- but the flood of girl group debuts in the last week of March focused first and foremost on constructing a solid pop beat, then layering relaxed, approachable vocals over it with a topline that does just enough to keep the listener interested. (If you’re asking, "Is this too slight, or is it actually good?" then it’s probably on trend.) Compare these to the energy and density of "Dalla Dalla," "Savage," "Tomboy," or "Panorama," and you’re in two completely different worlds.

This is how we ended up with "Magnetic," which is nowhere near the most musically ambitious or complex track of the year, and certainly not the most vocally interesting, but is a gently glowing sign that we’ve transitioned into a new generation of K-pop that values entirely different aesthetics. It’s also so supernaturally catchy that it sounds like it was created in a lab: not in a "Haha K-pop is a product" kind of way, but like I think they actually had test tubes with different samples of the hooks sitting around in the HYBE building, and they probably tested them on animals to find the most insidiously catchy ones. (Like, does Lauren Aquilina have a dog who listens as she writes?) "Magnetic" is the biggest K-pop bop of the year so far, and yet it feels so small and accessible due to the incredible economy of its tight, groovy production and its multitude of hooks, which are embedded not just in the lyrics but also the rhythm of the instrumental against the vocals and the careful negative space placed throughout. (Oh! beat My! beat Gosh!) ILLIT are balanced on the crest of the wave as K-pop moves into a new generation, from the larger-than-life ambitions of the 4th gen to the idol-next-door simplicity of the 5th. They didn’t set the wave in motion, but they caught it just early enough to have a pivotal role in its shaping. "Magnetic" is perfectly constructed and historically significant, but it’s also cute and so much fun: I can’t imagine hating a song as endearing as this. Wait... why do I hear boss battle music? [9]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: pretty! [7]

[Read, comment and vote on The Singles Jukebox]

[neoneun-au]

you know what i miss most about old kpop? the variety. like variety content.

its so much more a focus on presenting a perfect image now and doing short little tiktok things and lives and stuff but like....there just dont seem to be as many genuinely hilarious and entertaining shows and clips. maybe thats why i latched onto onf so hard is because their content reminds me of old variety and theyre all very....silly. seventeen too cause gose is very much a call back to it

but like,,,sandeul beating the shit out of baro with leeks, lee joon ripping his pants open on television, all of infinites ranking king, girls day on running man, jo kwon in general, btob and vixx in those little youtube shows they had (i dont remember at all what they were called lmao), we got married iconic haunted house episode, shinees hello baby, one fine day, teen top fly kicking each other into another dimension, baps killing camp. uee flinging her ponytail extension off her head while dancing on running man. i remember like. in tears laughing over so much of it but idk. im sure there is stil very good content out there but its just....ah :')) this is an "old man shakes his fist as the sky" kind of moment

infinite and apinks BIRTH OF A FAMILY fjdksalfhdsakj i cried

[ilhoonftw]

I think one reason why intl fans are completely against mhj is because of that info leaking allegation cuz now all stans of all groups are speculating about how any bad press or scandal in the past few years was her doing and this allows them to completely shift the blame from the artists like I’ve seen people allege how those bad lee serafim performance critiques were clearly paid for and started by her. On the other hand hybe has some were prominent company stans. I also think sometimes people have a general hard time just accepting that somebody shitty is partly right and partly wrong as well.

It’s so weird and interesting to see how much practically everybody is leaning into a ‘good guy’ and ‘bad guy’ narrative. Like the cherrypicking of info. I saw somebody say that mhj was saying weird things about Lee serafim and their debut but when you zoom out the truth is that yeah she was saying some super weird stuff about them but also she was standing up for the nj girls cuz their debut was getting pushed back and when hybe was questioned about it they basically shrugged the concerns away. Like dude all of them are creepy but this also shows how little hybe cares about those girls as well.

on the newjeans note I also found it so creepy but concerning how much those young girls are going through turmoil cuz mhj isn’t settling firm boundaries between them like I admit I know that within this industry the line between the managerial staff and artist gets very blurred cuz that’s who you spend the most time with so they’re almost family but still those girls should not have to call you crying worrying about your mental health mhj. I genuinely wonder what’s going on with those girls cuz right now yeah since they’re profitable hybe will want to keep them but clearly there’s a certain callousness with which they’re dealing with them but on the other side mhj is just such a concerning case as well. I hope things work out for them they’re all so young. I know I’m making assumptions but I get so so pissed off at the parents for even putting such young girls in these positions to begin with. I’m sorry this was so long it’s just everybody is extremely favouring one side and I just wanted to vent to somebody who sees that they’re all absolute asses

death to company stans tbh

i doubt mhj really has this much of hold on the industry to be the mastermind behind everything bad that went on in 2k23 💀 bigshit on the other hand was always slimey i was there gandalf. eye for eye tbh, everyone in entertainment keeps tabs on each other, it's business...

ls bad singing controversy were p organic, like every year there's a group that gets in hot waters for being bad singers and their encore ridiculed... twice, jimin, kang daniel, hell even kara used to be called the 'group that can't sing' 💀 i mean that's why idols don't sing live and companies have them prerecord pretend live versions that have even heavy breaths included... to avoid bad live singing controversy. i mean stans will defend everything, say 'oh they were tired' but it's kinda crazy how singing lessons aren't a priority

i feel like 'mhj is a creep' and 'mhj cares for nj in her own way' and 'mhj was screwed over by the bigshit machine' can coeexist

it's also wild how everyone glosses over the absolute lack of concerns towards idols as human beings shown by hitman bang 💀 if he doesn't care for nj and toyed with their fates by messing with debut date then he doesn't give a shit about your faves either...

a lot of what is painted in the media as bad is just regular idol system bullshit. 'oh they were scouted by different company and spent x years there' well apink was trained in cube but president hong decided to let them go and have debut them in different company called 'a cube' and apink members parents were rightfully upset about it yeeears later. trainee transfers are a normal thing? how many boy trainees went through cube after 2016? how many debuted elsewhere... how many times a smaller/broke company gets taken over by bigger company and all trainees are sacked... it just doesn't make the news

it pisses me off how every damn time some bullshit goes on, there's always a % of audience that treats it like a tennis match. pick their guy and their guy is the goodest good guy. 0 nunace. good people do bad things, hello??? also terrible people can do good things. b&w thinking truly rots brains

it's been obvious mhj is treating nj members like they are her friends and not employees... it's strange. the sns posts too. boundaries are beautiful she should try it. i feel so bad for the girls became clearly they are on the losing end irregardless of the outcome. isn't everyone but oldest member a school drop out too? the concepts they had always had me 😬😬😬 bc clearly mhj has some weird obsession with youth. i don't like her one bit

i feel like right now mhj is painted as paranoid woman who tried to screw hybe over 💀 ton of ableism too, assuming she's mentally ill. i studied glass ceiling and other barriers for women in the workplace my sociology graduation thesis and a lot of what's going on is ringing bells for me. like you have a male boos who will say you're emotional and useless all while he's having mood swings everyday at work 💀 in sk it's even worse. a lot of workplace harassement towards women seems mild so it goes unreported but it makes showing up to work x10 harder and p much nerfs workplace mobility. it's systemic. mhj straight up was put on a glass cliff

to sum it up i'm on side of human rights

fucked up idols are overworked and hardly paid, the money they earn goes into new company building and then their group disbands and they leave the company... the building still standing and being used by everyone but them

[gaymer-hag-stan]

Okay so here's the thing

I used to not follow anyone because at some point Tumblr had this feature where if you followed tags but not people it would filter popular posts from the tags you follow on your feed.

While this feature has been gone for a long while, I retained hope that maybe they would bring it back but here we are...

So, I ask you, if you post about any of the following give a like and I'll check out your blog. Reblogging is appreciated for a bigger reach. There's also a tag limit so I won't be able to properly tag everything anyway, so I'll be ranking my interests in order of decreasing... interest

Tomb Raider (anti Kurtis Trent, otherwise love all eras and Laras)

2NE1 (OT4)

T-ara (OT6)

Girls' Generation (OT9, OT8 is fine so long as you don't trash Jessica)

Tekken (anti Kazuya × Jun)

Wonder Girls (K-pop group OT6)

KARA (K-pop group, OT6)

Dead or Alive (the fighting game, though You Soon Me Round slaps)

After School (the K-pop group, I love all of them but mostly interested in the 2012 OT8 lineup + Kahi)

Brown Eyed Girls (K-pop group, OT4)

miss A (K-pop group, OT4)

SoulCalibur

4Minute (OT5)

Assassin's Creed (anti Haytham, love both the originals and the RPG era but if you're one of the boomers that complain about how things used to be better don't bother)

The King of Fighters

f(x) [all five though if you don't support Amber I won't judge. If you were one of those who called Sulli an untalented attention whore while she was alive touch grass now]

Street Fighter (anti F.A.N.G, Rufus, Dan, Hugo, Abigail)

SISTAR (OT4)

Resident Evil (anti-Wesker, anti-Luis)

Virtua Fighter

Video Games (I've grown up with PlayStation so I don't really know of care about Microsoft or Nintendo's exclusive stuff)

Second Generation K-pop Girl Groups (no boys allowed. I have a weird relationship with GGs post-2012 but I don't outright hate any of them. I think)

Fighting Games

Eurovision (2004 onwards, if you're one of the unhinged Käärijä fans trashing Loreen stay the fuck away)

Pop Divas (Madonna, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Céline Dion, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Adele, Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, Cher, Donna Summer, P!nk, Christina Aguilera, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Kylie Minogue)

9MUSES (2013 lineup)

The Elder Scrolls (Skyrim mostly)

Guilty Gear

Samurai Shodown

Capcom vs. SNK

Sid Meier's Civilization

Rainbow (all seven)

Apink (OT6)

Skullgirls

Final Fantasy (I don't care for the MMOs or XVI)

Secret (all four)

Mortal Kombat (anti Raiden)

Girl's Day (OT4)

Granblue Fantasy: Versus

BlazBlue

Under Night In-Birth

Marvel vs. Capcom

Dragon Ball FighterZ

Melty Blood

Sonic the Hedgehog

Injustice

Persona 4 Arena

[sailorjisunq]

은지

[bisexualhobi]

what would u say are ur top 5 (or 10?) kpop releases this year? im struggling to make a list bc ive hated so many songs this year lmao

omg this is such a broad question to answer quickly but like. I've been thinking about it so I might as well do it now. this year had some standouts for sure but it was overall very bland so I'll go month by month:

january - wjsn chocome super yuppers! TOP TIER BUBBLEGUM POP it's amazing

february - billlie gingamingayo AND taeyeon invu great fucking month for the ggs and the soloists

march - red velvet feel my rhythm THEIR BEST ALBUM SINCE REVE FESTIVAL FINALE

april - ive love dive and bigbang still life

may - got7 nanana this was a GREAT song the whole album is amazing

june - xg mascara and it's kinda dire that this month had so many releases but nothing that caught my attention besides this one song 😭

july - apink copycat!!!!! SOTY IN MY PHONE and dpr ian mito though it's not technically kpop

august - BILLLIE RING MA BELL AND KEY GASOLINE! this month was so great cause snsd also came back and their album was amazing too

september - not much happened this month to call it one of my favorite kpop releases. however xiumin brand new was still a bop so it's taking this spot

october - acid angel from asia generation HANDS DOWN and it only came out three days ago 😭

let's see what the end of the year brings w red velvet comeback, the rumored kai comeback and other stuff coming out!

[floralovebot]

oh no i totally get that, cus like winx club x k-pop is like an extremely niche thing LOL. i’m working on the second part rn, but i’m stuck on tecna!

oh fun!! yeah tecna's music taste has always been surprisingly hard for me to figure out! i think it's cause we don't get a good sense of what she likes in canon besides what the winx band does. if it's cool with you, i do have some suggestions for kpop songs that i think she would like!

i'll show you by kda (close enough to kpop imo), mago by gfriend, hands up by cherry bullet, panorama by izone, one by day6, and view by shinee!

i can especially see her listening to these while she's working on her techy stuff - just like in the background yknow? for songs that i think she Might like but i'm not too sure about: after school by weeekly, so bad by stayc, dumhdurum by apink, and shoot by itzy!

i really wish we got more info on the things tecna likes outside of just video games and technology :')

[vitaminwaterreviews]

Apink - Pink Memory

Overall, extremely impressed by this album. The thing that stuck out to me the most was the vocals. I’ve just listened to 29 albums by SM girl groups, and not a single one of those albums had vocals as beautiful as the ones I just listened to. Part of it is that SM just like, refused to mix their vocals cleanly until 2015, but part of it is definitely that there are some excellent vocalists in this group. Their breathy voices were So pretty, their high notes were So pretty, their regular singing voices were So pretty.

As far as musical style goes, I can see why you said that this album is kind of a midpoint. The only other Apink song that I know is Dumhdurum, and that’s definitely further along the house/EDM side of the continuum. I don’t know Apink’s earlier stuff, but I know bubblegum well enough to imagine that a lot of this album probably sits somewhere in between the two extremes, maybe leaning a bit more bubblegum.

Highlights of the album were definitely Perfume and Promise U. I love sounds that aren’t used often in kpop, and that kind of lofi electric piano that was in Promise U is super uncommon among the stuff that I know.

Anyway, score average is 7.7 which feels about right, maybe a bit low. My biggest issues weren’t with the music itself, though, just with my personal taste. The ballad in particular was objectively excellent, I just don’t like ballads in general.

Remember

Pretty scene

Oh, pretty pretty vocals

And the little music box in the background, that’s adorable

The aesthetic though

Here we go, here’s the synthpop

Their lips are SO pink like wow

These vocals genuinely are excellent, they’re doing some really neat things with their voices

Also they’re absolutely beautiful like wow, remember back when girl groups could just be Beautiful?

What exactly is going on harmonically in the chorus? My ear isn’t good enough to tell

8/10

Perfume

Oh okay, nice and bassy

Wow the guitar

Wow the horns

Honestly let’s fucking go, this is excellent

Chorus is just a tad too poppy, give me a bit more bass here

Love the horns

Oh my god that harmony just murdered me

Haha the “bum bum bum ba bum” is so good

The pause before the chorus omg

Awww they didn’t pause before the last chorus! Sad

9/10

Attracted To U

A bit more low key in this one

Oh wait who’s this?

“Marco” I guess?

This song is one of those songs that’s like a slow jam except it’s just a bit too bouncy to count

But like, the bass here is SO slow jam coded, the percussion too

Sorry I really just can’t get over how clean and pretty the vocals are

This album was released a couple of months before 4 Walls and I stg the production feels more modern and the vocals sound so much cleaner

(I just listened to 4 Walls like an hour ago)

7/10, it’s a great song but it’s not totally my style

Dejavu

Speaking of 4 Walls…

Cho-rong wrote this song apparently, the lyrics at least

I’m not a huge fan of the instrumentals here. I dunno what the name is for this genre, but there is SO much of this sound in early SM girl groups, and it got tiring midway through M.I.L.K.

Like, if I’d heard this song a month ago, or maybe a few months from now, I’d probably enjoy it more. But having just spent like three weeks straight listening to albums using this sound…

6/10

Petal

Alright, soft and pretty, ballad time?

Oh, maybe not

I always enjoy when they do that, switch the beat up after the intro and make it a fast song with pretty harmonies on top of it

Wow. Vocals for days.

7/10, really really excellent singing, not my type of song

What A Boy Wants

They really do love their horns on this album

Ohhh noooo not the 80’s drums haha

Actually, they work really well here, kinda like in Lilac

I hear that guitar in my right ear, don’t think I don’t hear you there

Haha “boo boo buh buh buh, yeah yeah yeah” I love that

“What a girl wants” hol up that’s not the title!

This outro is heavenly

8/10, that outro is everything that I want in a bubblegum group

I DO

Jammy

We’ve got two entire saxophones going off, that’s twice as many as one saxophone!

Aaand just like that they’re gone

Oh okay, they’re back (but much quieter) in the chorus

“Doo bee doo, doo bee doo,” that kind of scatting is my thing

Pheww the first part of the bridge is So good

Random high note

Obligatory ad libs

8/10

A Wonderful Love

The real question is, will there be a proper ballad on this album?

Well this sounds ballady so far

Yep, here we go

This sound, too, is SO prevalent in those early SM girl groups

I’m holding a package of Skittles and I’m debating whether I should open them

This bridge at least is a bit more unique, I like what the strings are doing here

Oh here’s the build

Oh nevermind, it’s quiet

Oh nevermind, now it’s heavenly

I can’t hear echoey vocals anymore without hearing Bada, those early B-sides were something else with her vocal production

These vocals, on the other hand, are some of the best produced vocals I’ve heard in ages

7/10, which is about as high as I usually put ballads

Promise U

Oh okay, we’re lofi now

Wow this is a Cool set of timbres

Pretty little vocal harmonies

“La la la la di da” love that

And now we’re all lofi and moody again

I just wanna say this song is so good

Also I haven’t mentioned the bass yet but the little slap bass is so good

Random high note, like that came out of Nowhere wow

Well this outro is perfect

9/10

[baekhvuns]

Omg i completely forgot to talk abt the most imp things 😭😭

YES THE CHALEYA DANCE IVE BEEN DOING THT EVERY DAY AND MY FAMILY IS TIRED OF ME 😭 but I still do it tho omg saammme i haven't watched jawan too.

I completely agree considering Asia is a little sophisticated but come on people don't hv to cross their limits and calling them strippers and stuff, PPL hv no chill. Ofc bcz it bp, bcz now jennie's getting hate bcz she did pigtails in her new performance ver of the song you and me 😭😭 WTF IS WRONG WITH YALL?!?!?! I did not like the idol or whtv it was BUT COME ON SHE GETS HATE FOR EVEN BREATHING 😭 wait- THEY HV WHAT AT CRAZY HORSE?!? 😭 NAHHHH THTS SO SAD

IDK ABT THE REEL VER OF THT SONG BUT EVERYONE IS GOING CRAZY ABT THE CHAMPAGNE CONFETTI PART 😭😭

OMG OMG OMGGGGGG IM- SEONGHWA IN TFMA 😭😭😭😭 LAWRD I CANT FIND HE PICS ON PINTEREST BUT I JUST SAW THEM ON TV AND AHHHH WHY IS HE SO VINTAGE VAMPIRE CODED AND THOSE LONG HAIR 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Nd honestly me embracing my feminine energy more is much shocking to my brother thn me 😭 idkw but he's like "omg you're turning like them" BRUH-

Y'all are getting your hands read?!?! Thts dope, A RICH HUSBAND DAMN YALL WINNING IN THE FUTURE 😭😭

I'm literally on old kpop gg fever, snsd, wonder girls, t-ara, apink, and it was so much better, so much better. I'm not complaining abt the music kpop is making but the old music was like a slap of fresh air.

Dude were literally the same person BCZ I ALSO DONT HV MUCH FUNCTIONS OR WEDDINGS IN MY HOUSEHOLD but considering now all my cousins are growing up we bout to hv a blast 😭

Your bias in riize is wonbin NOW TELL ME OF HE REMINDS YOU OF SEONGHWA BCZ HE DOES TO ME, i heard someone say tht they look familiar and I was like nahhh but now tht hwa grew out his hair i cn def see where they were coming frm

LMFAOOOO AND THEY SHOULD HE CAME BACK AFTER YEARS WE HAVE TO CELEBRATE

nO LITERALLY i cannot go one post without seeing a hate comment abt them like???? just leave them be??? what’s it to you 😭😭 like aren’t u tired?? SORRY OVER PIGTAILS??? yeah they have that at the crazy horse bathrooms 😭😭😭 absolutely disgusting

i lOOOVE the part where he goes “u know how i like it girl” I DO BRO I DO FHWJDHWKHDKA

HE REALLY IS ISNT HE BFWJDHSK no omg i literally thought that photo was wonbin, ever since hwa grew his hair out they both look similar to me 😭😭😭

tell ur brother it’s high time yOU DO TOO

NO SERIOUSLY A RICH HUSBAND ME WHEN !!!!!

oh u kinda slapped w that list, was crying over mr taxi today 😭😭😭

stOP it bc that’s what’s happening w me!!! everyone’s off age and now it’s just straight up wedding season, it begins next year and it won’t end until 17 others get married fhskdhdk the get togethers are about to be a blast but so is the drama 😭

HE DOES REMIND ME OF HIM 😭😭😭 I CANT ESCAPE THEM BRWKHDWK

[unifox]

Nice to meet you!

✧˖° Hello, I’m Foxy! 𓃥˙✧˖° 🫧 ⋆｡˚꩜

✧˖° she/her

✧˖° 01' liner

✧˖° kpop stan (multistan!)

✧˖° Can't live or function without music

✧˖° love trying new drinks (non-alcoholic tho)

✧˖° Ask is always open if you wanna chat! - I just can't promise I'll be quick with my answers...

✧˖° Extra! I'm an illustrator, i love the sea and the sky. I have a soft spot for animals and plants. I'm a dreamer, i really like surrealism and ludic stuff.

✧˖° Mostly bg stan

➴ shinee, winner, pentagon, onf, btob, sf9, ikon, seventeen

✧˖° the girlsss

➴ apink, gwsn, taeyeon

✧˖° Rappers

➴ penomeco, ph-1, agustd

✧˖° Actors

➴ kim bum, lee dongwook, lee soohyuk

[nsfwflint]

What is your top 10 Girl Group songs playlist for now?

Oh man, are talking like all time top 10 from every girl group EVER? Nah bro that's way too fucking hard. Instead I'll just do my favorite songs from my favorite top 10 groups. This playlist will be purely favoritism and not whether I think a song is "objectively" better than another. Also after finishing, I spent WAYYY too long on this lol. Hope you enjoy.

Dreamcatcher has so many good options man. I feel like it's impossible to pick just one, so I'm just gonna go recency bias for the last DC song I listened to and say Fairytale. Off their latest album, and an absolute bop. Runner-ups: Tension, Chase Me, You And I, Boca, Whistle.

Apink also has an amazing catalogue that's hard to pick just one from. I REALLY love Nothing, but I think I have to say NoNoNo still because it's just so fricken iconic and the song that got me into Apink. Runner-ups: %%, Nothing, Heaven, Mr. Chu.

Gfriend, yet another amazing discography. I'm actually gonna go with one of their Japanese bsides, because I fucking love it and think it's severely underrated. Runner-ups: Mago, Wheel of the Year, Rough, Me Gustas Tu, Rainbow

Laboum unfortunately never capitalized on the resurgence of Fresh Adventure a few years ago, but they're seriously one of the best nugu groups ever imo. So many fantastic songs. Gonna go with Fireworks because it's an absolute bop and a great example of their more mature sound after transitioning from their original cute style. Runner-ups: Fresh Adventure, Satellite, Kiss Kiss, Two of Us, Hwi Hwi.

Berry Good, severely underrated group with a bunch of amazing tracks. I'm gonna go with Angel because it's the song that made me get into them and I love the climax of the song. Runner-ups: pretty much the entire Fantastic album and this fucking AMAZING ballad off of their final album.

SNSD, don't even have to say anything about their iconic discography. Gonna go with another Japanese track, because this is a list of favorites. Runner-ups: Run Devil Run, Mr. Mr, Oh, Gee, The Boys

Gugudan, god Jellyfish did you so dirty. Especially since if Not That Type was released a few years later when everyone else was doing girl crush stuff, it would have popped off. Runner-ups: Lovesick, The Boots, Do It, A Girl Like Me

Afterschool, you were already disbanded by the time I got into you, but I would have bought so many albums if I found you in time. Gonna go with Flashback because it's the first Afterschool song I heard and it slaps. Runner-ups: Bang, Shampoo, Ah, When I Fall

Girl's Day, same as Afterschool. I really regret not getting into them sooner. My lack of Girl's Day albums is something that hurts me. Expectation is a complete fucking bop. Runners-up: Something, Ring My Bell, Look At Me.

And then finally because you didn't specify kpop, I'm gonna go with PassCode Clouds Across The Moon because this song fucking SLAPS and it's honestly one of my favorite songs of all time, probably in my top 25. It's so fucking good, stan PassCode.