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Huhhhhh. Here’s the weird thing. When I purchased off AXS the best they said they had left was VIP but this other site says they still have VVIP which I would totally prefer but I can’t sell my other ticket since I opted to pick it up hngggg. I am now considering just getting the better one and then inviting a friend…. to give the other one to

WHY IS BUYING CONCERT STUFF ALWAYS SO COMPLICATED AGHHHH

I decided to get will call tix because yay physical souvenirs but im looking at ticket master and they’re like “we won’t tell you anything about your ticket because you’re supposed to pick it up at will call :)”

Yeah… and I also need to know what time my ticket group is going in?????? If anyone has that schedule it would be greatly appreciated if you shared it. I bought VIP (tier 3) at SF btw if that helps

Or AXS I don’t remember I just know it’s on one of my phone apps

[tolkpopfan]

I decided to get will call tix because yay physical souvenirs but im looking at ticket master and they’re like “we won’t tell you anything about your ticket because you’re supposed to pick it up at will call :)”

Yeah… and I also need to know what time my ticket group is going in?????? If anyone has that schedule it would be greatly appreciated if you shared it. I bought VIP (tier 3) at SF btw if that helps

Or AXS I don’t remember I just know it’s on one of my phone apps

[tolkpopfan]

OP you forgot napping on the sand when it’s sunny out. Nothing like a great beach nap.

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Yesterday and today I woke up feeling good despite not getting quite enough sleep both nights. This. This is the concert effect. I’m tired, yeah, but that’s just what it’s like to be a college student. Otherwise, I feel pretty fucking good.

Idk how long it will last after the concert, but hopefully a while. Other than how I always feel when I’m actually at concerts, I can’t remember the last time I felt this excited.

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TUMBLR SUGGESTED ME A POST FROM A WHITE SUPREMACIST NAZI BLOG “based on [my] likes”??????????????

WHAT THE FUCK

[tolkpopfan]

This is similar with learning new languages too. I was talking to my Korean tutor and wasn’t even sure of the word for bunk bed so I said “two floor/story bed” (like a two story building) which even funnier is that it’s actually the correct word.

Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

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Actually, you know what, I’m gonna try to find a bunch of gifs like these to describe the facial expressions of and I want people to tell me to what extent I’m probably wrong.

I may be autistic but I like to think I can read faces (despite the evaluator thinking that I couldn’t) so it would be super fun to figure out how correct other people think my interpretations are.

hyunjin was like: well… that was painful

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He isn’t literally saying anything but his face is very clearly saying “wtf… are you guys seeing this?”

hyunjin was like: well… that was painful

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It’s exactly like “how are you doing?” You aren’t supposed to answer honestly, you’re just supposed to say “good” because it’s a greeting

in guarani there's a standard greeting that literally translates to "are you happy" (ndevy'apa) and the natural reply is "i'm happy" (avy'a) and as americans learning the language we were so distressed like "but what if we're not happy....." and our teachers were like "that's so not the fucking point"

we kept trying to think of any other way to reply but our teachers kept trying to get it into our brains that it's an idiomatic greeting, it literally is not the time or place to traumadump, and as usamerican english speakers we are not some special exception for saying "what's up" with the reply being "not much" instead of "the ceiling"

but anyway while i was working in paraguay -- the country with the largest population of guarani speakers -- i got sent an article by some friends back home like "look! they're saying that paraguay is the happiest country in the world!"

and the methodology was "we went around and asked paraguayans if they're happy and recorded their responses" and i was like. oh. of course you did. and of course you got a 100% positive response rate.

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I admit I am quite the fan of saying “okiedokie”

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Tbh I was really glad to see new music from Samuel in my recommendations on YouTube and Spotify. I wasn’t sure he’d return to the music industry after his dad was murdered a few years ago. I honestly can’t imagine what that’s like to lose your parent at such a young age in such a horrible way. I don’t have the words for it. Hopefully the reason he’s back is because he’s doing better.

I really hope that he’s doing ok and that his fans haven’t forgotten about him and that he’ll get plenty of new fans soon, too.

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Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

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The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

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I’m more and more seriously considering having another do-over when I go to uni and potentially start using they/them pronouns and maybe a new name. I’m not entirely sure about the name part though.

I already got to reinvent myself to an extent when I started public high school after spending my entire life in catholic school and now that I have an opportunity to completely restart at square one, it’s beginning to seem appealing.

The only reason I haven’t done it yet is out of fear of change and insecurity over weird internalized prejudices that I’m still trying to scrub away. The people around me and culture where I live are not factors that prevent me from doing this. It’s mostly myself. And it’s fucking terrifying to seriously think about which is probably why I’ve never seriously thought about it before.

It’s also just easier not to change anything. I don’t hate the way I’m referred to or seen so it doesn’t seem worth all the effort it will take to try to change those things. Which is why university would be the best place to start. Because nobody will know me or have already established ideas about me, so although it would be a change for me, it wouldn’t be for everybody else if they’re meeting me first the first time.

Idk. It’s complicated.

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ooohhh because you asked me sth similar before i'm curious on what got you into OnlyOneOf (and or the whole story of what made you a lyOn~)? [but i can say that last line is exactly how i felt about tbz- that they mean a lot to me more than i ever expected- isn't it funny how that happens?]

Ok. Out of all my stanning stories, this may be the weirdest one. Brace yourself this will be long.

Stress has been making me feel like crap this semester and when I saw Oneus in March I instantly felt better for a little while. I lamented to my educational therapist that the Oneus concert may be my last concert in a long time since I’m going to uni soon so she encouraged me to just go to another concert, any concert.

I decided to research who would be touring soon and there were Enhypen and TXT that I could buy tickets for but I know barely anything about them so I’m not gonna spend hundreds of dollars on shitty seats. I knew probably just as much about OnlyOneOf but they had the perk of being in a small venue with way less expensive tix so I decided to give them a listen before making any decisions.

I liked what I heard and desperately craved to see pretty boys up close again, so I bought VIP tix because I experience catharsis through seeing pretty boys in person. This was all a few weeks ago.

I get bored with certain variety shows easily these days so I made a post asking for fun recommendations to help me learn more about OnlyOneOf. So I checked out the recommendations and all the music videos.

I liked that they had some really sexy concepts and were somewhat reminiscent of Gen 2. But what really made them special for me was not just their UndergrOund idOl project but their attitudes to it as well. It was professional but not at all detached. They were invested, very much cared, and were not uncomfortable but were also not overly excited about it or too proud of themselves for it. I watched the behind the scenes for all those music videos and really appreciated how natural they all were about it.

They seemed to recognize that by depicting explicitly gay relationships they were doing something different but they themselves didn’t treat gay relationships as alien or different. As a queer person, this resonated with me deeply, especially considering that they live in a much more socially and legally restricted society than I do as an American.

And of course they’re attractive and have good teamwork and seem really funny, but if it was only that, they wouldn’t be so meaningful to me.

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Not his fault that he needs extra room for all that heart he has 👀

Respectfully, not my fault my eyes go straight to his bIG heart 🐸😮‍💨🙏🏻

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Fukk

Oweee

I chipt my tooth