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[here2bbtstrash]

an update on LDOMLT (and this blog)

hi beloveds and happy bts month! 🤍 i hope you're all staying healthy and hydrated. two important updates for y'all are below this cut :)

1- i cannot believe i am typing these words, but the final chapter of LDOMLT is complete and is currently with my incredible beta team.

as of right now, i don't have an official release date. i love the ~metaphoric resonance~ of potentially planning the drop for june 20th, the day yoongi completes his service. but frankly, i know my impatient mind, and it's a lot more likely that i am going to 'fuck it shibal' this chapter out into the world the moment i feel it's ready.

so i guess this is me telling you to, uh, brace yourselves lmao. perhaps start a reread given that it's been two whole entire years, oops. who else is feeling completely terrified, put your hands up!!!!!

2- i have been #thinking a lot of #thots about what i want my next steps forward to be. the completion of this series after such a long (LONG!) time coming feels very much like a bookend for me, and a really lovely note to end my "here2bbtstrash era" on.

which means that, with the completion of LDOMLT, this blog will be closing. not because i don't want to write anymore, not because i am unstanning bts, and not because i am leaving tumblr. rather, i just like the idea of letting this be an archive of a specific time in my life, and giving myself the chance to start totally fresh in a new place.

so, if you somehow are not sick of me and would like to keep up with any writing (and yapping) i do after this - you can find me here: @jungkooksvape

it has been an honor to share this space with all of you, and you have shown me so much love, compassion, and kindness over the years. i will never feel that i am deserving of it, but i will always be endlessly, endlessly grateful. from the bottom of my heart, thank you for being here. i truly do believe the best, for all of us, is yet to come 🤍

[jungkooksvape]

wdym i have to stay alive for 10 more fucking days before we get our yoongi discharge crumbs.... EXISTENCE IS A PRISON!!!!!!

[springseventeen]

Lewis Pullman for GQ Magazine

[silly-lil-scribbles]

woag was just going into settings to look through my asks and apparently i lost like over 100 followers somewhere in the past like week or two????????????? i mean im not upset, my posts and art suck ass and idk why anyone follows me to begin with and nobody is obligated to stay but im just really confused if i did something now

[shivshanked]

finally bought an ita bag

[here2bbtstrash]

i s2g if i don't finish the final chapter of LDOMLT by june 21 i'm gonna delete everything and quit my job and run away to live in the woods

[jungkooksvape]

i started 🕺🕺🕺 a new wip 🕺🕺🕺 todaaayyyyy !!! please CLAP!

[springseventeen]

Lewis Pullman for GQ Magazine

[buddieinmybeddie]

People who only like and support ONE ship and go around sending hate to other ships/shippers are so weird , I as a multi shipper cannot understand..

I love to explore the dynamics my favorites would have with other characters, there are of course ships I don't like but I'm not gonna go around hating on them who DO like them for no reason

[neophytecalibrator]

I have so many opinions and not enough fags t show them to

[captainvulcant]

Just thinking about the way Crowley's instinct is to protect Aziraphale and Aziraphale's instinct is to change things for the better so Crowley can be accepted and wondering if those instincts stem from the ways they wish they themselves had been protected and accepted.

[jungkooksvape]

the more i think about/reread the transcript of what namjoon has said about his enlistment experience :((( the more i really fucking feel for him... i'm sure he ultimately feels mixed feelings and it's clear he had some really strong connections with the people he met during his service but :(((((( it also sounds like it was fucking hell for him, tbh

i just really really hope he can rest well, take care of himself, and not put too much pressure on himself to bounce back into idol mode right away. he deserves his own space and time to process and heal, and to find his way back to creating again when he feels ready

[springseventeen]

Lewis Pullman for GQ Magazine

[buddieinmybeddie]

If I had only watched this season of 9-1-1 then I never would have guessed Eddie was a main character 🙃

[ihavementalillinois]

Would anyone believe me if i said my cat did parkour

[captainvulcant]

Communication and Escape Velocity - Couples in Good Omens Season 2

Something that I really love about Good Omens is all the little ways in which things are balanced (light and dark, good and evil, young and old, etc), and mirrored (various couples vs each other, the Them vs the four horsemen of the apocalypse etc). As someone who likes both symmetry and metaphors this is very satisfying, and I love that we see it in season 2 also with the three main couples portrayed.

What I find super interesting though is the differences in each relationship, particularly with regards to the speed the relationship progresses at, and the amount of communication between the partners.

First we have the newest couple: Maggie and Nina

I don't think we're told exactly how long they've known each other, but certainly their relationship as anything other than people who work on the same street is new. Throughout the 6 episodes their relationship progresses the fastest, from acquaintences to acknowledging their feelings for each other. They also have the most open and frank communication of all three couples (even when they are disagreeing their communication is proactive and they both understand what the other is trying to say), and though they don't end up together their resolution is still satisfying because you know that this was the right decisions for them in that moment, reached together through good communication and good decisions.

Communication 9/10 | Speed 8/10 (8 rather than 9 simply because they also put the breaks on their relationship)

Next we have Gabriel and Beelzebub

If we assume this takes place four years after the first series then Gabriel and Beelzebub have been meeting up for that whole time and their feelings have developed in this period. They've also gone from enemies on opposite sides of a celestial war to leaving everything behind for each other. For humans this would be a reasonably normal timeframe for this kind of change. For beings as old as these two this is like getting the bullet train vs going via donkey.

When their relationship starts they're not open in their conversation, but as it progresses they start to be more honest with each other and their communication improves. They realise that they both have a lot in common and that neither of them wants the war to go ahead. They realise their feelings for each other and make a mutual decision to leave for a new life together.

Communication 7/10 | Speed 7/10

And then finally we come to Aziraphale and Crowley

Their relationship has been building for the past 6000 years. It is the slowest of slow burns, but much of that is because their communication is not in harmony. We the audience knows they're in love, random strangers they pick up in cars know, people serving them coffee know. And they know, or at least each knows they love the other. But, unlike the previous two couples, this is not communicated well between Aziraphale and Crowley. In fact, the couple with the best communication even tells them this

They had to invent an apology dance because they're so bad at talking (ok, admittedly this is my interpretation, and it is hilarious, but I do think there is something to Aziraphale and Crowley's invention of so many rules and habits and routines with regards to each other. It's like dancing - they like to follow a certain series of familiar steps because it gives them a safe framework to work within when it comes to each other. This is also shown in their formulaic approaches to getting Nina and Maggie to fall in love).

But this results in a situation where, when they do communicate, they often say things they don't mean

or say things to obfuscate what they do

That isn't to say they haven't made progress from season 1, they definitely have. But the other two couples are there to hold a mirror up to Crowley and Aziraphale and say, look here's what can happen if you would just be honest with each other. Instead, Aziraphale and Crowley tend to assume what the other means in any conversation and usually get it wrong (hinted at in their conversation about Gabriel at the beginning of the series and then clearly shown in that disaster of a conversation at the end).

Instead they give each other gifts and quality time and use physical actions to try and express what they can't communicate well in words

Communicating might not solve everything and make things simple and easy (Maggie and Nina), it might create more problems and cause a series of ridiculous events (Gabriel and Beelzebub), but, as we have seen, when these two are alligned in their communication and thinking and goals they can create miracles of such magnitude it sets off alarms in heaven.

Communication 2/10 | Speed (Pre Season 1) 1/10, (Post Season 1) 4/10