#it's happening with K-pop

[voidfire-studios]

Why do people hate teenage girls so much??? That's kind of weird. Stop it. Get some help.

[xielianslver]

tgcf modern au but their still gods/ghosts they've just lived for that long

[gnatryan]

drew fanart of @drawfee's tmnt mutant ocs and also my take on oompah and k-pop : )

[wooyoungisbaby]

im being so serious rn, stop fucking whitewashing wooyoung!! his skintone is dark - do you like his actual real self or not? whitewashing idols isn't doing them a favour, it's cruel and it perpetuates the idea that light skin is more attractive and desirable. it treats idols as issues for editors to "fix". the colourism in kpop fandom needs to stop, it's so rampant both in fan photos and news outlet photos :)) im gonna come for your fuckin kneecaps

[toast-the-unknowing]

hey k-pop fandom, I don't like to judge you out of hand, but you are now 3/3 on being responsible for plagiarizing of my fic and I have just got to know, what the fuck is going on over there

[anemoiawithatouchofobsession]

Oh and if I see just one another blue "Miss Korea" swimsuit I think I'll vomit idk why

Watching the older Miko competitions have given me nothing but pure anxiety for some reason. Never realised the amount of pure judgement these young women go through.

I remember that Aunty June mentioned on "Godfather" a few years ago how they had a photoshoot with cars in those swimsuits, and one of the workers at the car place literally turned to her and shouted across the field "you need to lose the weight if you want to be in the Miko!". I'm not surprised that Korean people never knew how to accept a healthy adult body, and it breaks my heart even more thinking that this is still stuck with her after all the years. And the fact that she sometimes still calls herself fat or having a "big body" 😭😭😭 girl idk who's gonna tell you this but you're hot. There I said it. Like, someone with her figure should be walking ramps and shit

Oh and if you're wondering, this is how she looked :

idek about yall but I don't see anything that's wrong? Like I'm sorry but I think she was damn pretty. The curls were popping, she's tall and got serious model figure. Like... what's yalls problem????

Of course Aunty had the last laugh - who has the amount of flex money that she has? - but if someone one day calls for the ending of the Miko, I will fully support that.

[being-otaku-is-life]

"WHEN WORDS FAIL" FROM SHREK THE MUSICAL EXCEPT ITS ZELINK!!!!

I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE ANIMATICS BRO I HAVE SO MANY THAT PLAY IN MY FKING HEAD EVERY FKING DAY!!!!

[thesingingrevolution]

BEST JAEHYUN SELCA POLL‼️

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[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

JAMBOREE THREE -- TAKING PICTURES IN THE BATHROOM SINCE BEFORE YOU WERE BORN.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Bret, Heather, & Calvin of American indie rock band BEAT HAPPENING, during the band's "Jamboree" era, c. late 1980s/1988. 📸: Anne Culbertson.

"Contrary to the regimented roles in bands of the time, the trio swapped instruments with one another and used primitive techniques to capture their songs. The outcome was shaky, lo-fi recordings with off-key vocals and occasional chatter or tape hiss. They distributed their early recordings via cassette, not only to ensure that the music could be heard easily and affordably but also to confront the mainstream industry. Some have perceived their minimalist approach to making music as a calculated act of defiance to the more aggressive, macho punk that was kicking off at the time by the likes of BLACK FLAG and MINOR THREAT. It was about resourcefulness. "I think it was just doing the best we could with the tools we had," says Lewis."

Sources: K Records (official), The Guardian, & https://twitter.com/echoandthebussy/status/1777014187748630735.

[wayfinderrinku]

So instead of writing today I decided to start learning Korean

[lastweeksshirttonight]

Apropos of literally nothing besides my weird-ass thought process, Strike Force Five and the K-pop stan behavior I think they might do

Jimmy Kimmel: get into a fistfight over H.O.T. vs Sechskies

Stephen Colbert: get into a fight with Rain over who is more influential teach his military juniors the "Rollin" dance

John Oliver: buy shares of SM to try and influence the direction of their groups

Jimmy Fallon: write 500K-word Jimin/reader fanfiction

Seth Meyers: send protest trucks to demand that all future Enhypen videos, MVs or otherwise, have a bunch of women in them

[forcebookish]

it's two am i ate too much today and i can't stop thinking about forcebook using pet names and cute personal pronouns with each other

[jamethinks]

I wish y’all would just admit that the reason you’re so upset with hyuna is not because she’s dating a predator you’re just mad she dated dawn but you didn’t want to say anything and come off as delusional stan so now that everyone is criticizing her for what she actually did wrong you’re sneaking in all your bullshit pent up issues and making it into something it’s not.

The amount times I’ve seen tweets that are like “you dump dawn for this” “this is why you broke up pentagon” “you ruined dawn’s career” like that’s literally not her problem. It’s just crazy how many of y’all were pushing for dawn and hyuna and the minute they break up you’re finally letting out all those thoughts you’ve holding in since 2019. Bunch of fucking losers

[mywifeleftme]

331: V/A // International Pop Underground Convention

International Pop Underground Convention Various Artists 1992, K Records

My entrée to basically every art scene I’ve ever been involved in was basically just going to whatever extremely DIY festival that scene threw in my city and hoping. You see what seems like an unfathomable number of artists good and terrible (and very occasionally great), hit most of the venues, bars, and spaces worth knowing about, and sometimes even strike up some conversations with people who eventually become your friends. 1991’s International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, organized by Candice Pedersen and Calvin Johnson of K Records, was the indie model for these fests as I’ve known them, and so it’s as directly responsible for a lot of the good stuff in my life as any musical event I can think of. Everything I’ve heard about it sounds like absolute paradise—the platonic ideal of all the times I’ve picked through mountains of sick screenprinted t-shirts by bands I’ve never heard of, eaten some weird and great food by a tattooed baker, and then ridden my bike on shrooms to catch bits of four shows on the same night, all on a dime.

The lineup on this double-live compilation is all over the place musically, but it does a beautiful job of summarizing the thing indie/alternative music of the era shared despite its sonic diversity: a sense that the music you liked and what it represented could be a space of legitimate opposition to corporatism; that there was something worthwhile in wearing that belief on your sleeveless t-shirt; that the notion of “selling out” had some real conceptual worth; that we’re in this thing together. So, the International Pop Underground Convention LP serves up first-wave riot grrl (Mecca Normal, Bratmobile); DC post-hardcore (Nation of Ulysses, Fugazi); twee indie pop (Beat Happening; Spinanes); noise rock (Melvins; Unwound); grunge-y stuff, primitive singer-songwriter folk, surf rock, plunderphonic DJ sets, and more and more besides, all recorded live and kinda badly but “real.” As individual performances, few are essential, but collectively they are a powerful document of the alternative scene as it existed in the moment right before Nevermind changed everything.

I always think about how crazy it must be for someone like Nikki McClure, an Olympia visual artist who designed a bunch of early K Records sleeves and released a handful of EPs on the label, to have a performance preserved on the same disc as all these icons. On the one hand, it's not like she sits around in awe of like Beat Happening in the same way a fan would—they were friends and part of the same community, and probably still are to this day. But on the other hand, I’m sure when she comes across a copy of this LP there’s sometimes a dazed moment when it seems like that young Nikki singing her funny little a cappella song must be someone else entirely, the record itself an object manifested from a dream. But the International Pop Underground Conventional was real, and in its way, it carries on to this day.

331/365

[dumpsterfireofsubtext]

Zoning out when my sister attempts to explain why she finds Jonah from superstore attractive is my lesbian coping mechanism.

[todayisafridaynight]

was at the mall and someone complimented my outfit and then followed up like five minutes later like 'wait how old are you, you look really familiar' and while i turned out Not to be who they thought i was i really hope they didn't recognize me, for some reason, from the fact i'm wearing this exact same outfit i drew daigo in