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Taemin and Bataille (a match made in eroticism).

Quotes from Bataille's work :

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

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I know we are happy we survived the Tae drought, but I think we should mostly be celebrating the fact that he survived through this despite the shock it gave to his system. It's so admirable and I hope he eventually is proud of himself for getting through it.

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In regards to Taemin's Guilty concept, I think there is a wider lens to consider when looking at it.

Yes, it is about personal pain and reclaiming dark and ugly parts of himself, but it's also how these parts represent a revolution, his way of revolution. The parallels between Bataille's work and his message are plenty. He knows his eroticism is a source of horror and discomfort to others and maybe to himself, but that's why it's so pleasurable to dive into it. It's the way to shatter the norms of the outside world, but also his inner world.

Eroticism is his look into the dark, into the abyss in a way that permits the reflection of everything underneath the surface and helps bring back to the surface the consciousness of what can usually stay subconscious.

Eroticism is his way of fighting back against everything he believes in while simultaneously embodying everything he (and we) despises. It is a revolution on pain, love and everything in between.

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If Taem can go Georges Bataille on us, he can collab with Sufjan. As Suf commented on self-reflexively, they can be poster children of sadness and solitude together.

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I hope the clown shoes are the most comfortable thing he's ever worn. If they are I'll forgive it.

I would forgive it if he kept them hidden.

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Watched the fanmeeting live while buzzed and tipsy, then had to recover the next day. All this to say, I am still convinced Taemin isn't real.

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Omfg. My mom said - why does it seem like Taemin's military service is neverending??? -

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Happy birthday to my cancer bro, the one I share an almost identical birth chart with, the one I almost shared the same exact birthday with, my cosmic twin, the one I feel an unexplainable connection with and finally, the one I hate and l*ve the most in this world.

I hope you are healthy. I hope you know how much love there is in the world for you. I hope you know how special and worthy you are. I hope you know you are everything.

I hope you know.

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I hated every thing about those two days of concert. I hate Taemin. The oddacity.

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I am so happy he did The Rizzness on stage because it permitted him to show off his dance roots with all the popping and isolation moves. It feels satisfying.

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I laughed at how much Taemin enjoyed seeing this message. https://www.tumblr.com/taemmin/726727764300939264

Ofc he loved it! He is not joking when he says he is possessive over his fans and wants them to love him more than anything else 🙄

That person though is guilty of stroking Tae's ego like that as if we need him to be even more COCKee ugh.

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Taemin posting on insta almost has me in tears ajdjasjdajdsjjdasjdas

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Waaait I only had 5 taemin tags on this day last year and now 11...

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So....

I just finished the Nolto ep with Jinki and oh lord

Oh lord

You see, I'm usually much more on the side of "this man is very esthetically attractive, let me replay fifteen times this micro action that he does because it's so Manly and so Good", rather than on the "he's very very hot I want to put my mouth on him" side.

But oh lord, I feel like a Victorian man seeing an ankle when I see his arms in that fishnet, he just looks soooo good, and soooooo fun

Anyway, it is late and I'm touch starved, so yeah I'm quite... delirious

-chaotic hipbone anon

(Also I'm missing Taemin like crazy, I want my bub back and because I can't have I am Very Sad)

I am always on both sides simultaneously, cause *brain goes in HORNee*

Oh god haven't had time to watch it yet dhahdhhehd that fit is trooooublleeee I am not ready 😭😭😭

You are not delirious dw although what is in parenthesis... XD

But seriously, knowing Taem can now see his safety circle much more often settles my heart a bit more. Whoever thought he could get through regular enlistment were very optimistic. I don't want to start on exemptions and all, but if someone is struggling so much I think they should get it shortened at the very least.

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Everyone knew Taemin couldn't be in the military. Like it was the most violent act then to make him enlist.

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My thing with people loving Taemin first before SHINee or people who only know Taemin is that they really are missing out on the growth and experience he got from being in SHINee and being around 4 other boys that pushed him to want to be the best on all fronts. The journey of Taemin is only satisfying through the lens of his whole career aka from his pre-debut training to now. No one becomes that successful and outstanding without other people of the equivalent caliber (or close to) surrounding them.