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📎Bert

@guitarnut.bsky.social

Their mission statement is cynical.

DONT GO TO THOSE LINKS
DONT

January 18, 2026 at 4:51 AM

⊙⊝⊜ Carrieee ⊙⊝⊜

@carrieeemca.bsky.social

Stadium tour gonna sell out in presale 💅🏼

yoongisfave🐱⁷ @yoongisfavecat.bsky.social · 16h

Streets are saying the VIRTUAL army membership is sold out 😬

January 18, 2026 at 1:20 AM

⊙⊝⊜ Carrieee ⊙⊝⊜

@carrieeemca.bsky.social

So cute that every single muggle I know has sent me a text "alerting" me to the upcoming #BTS tour 🥰
Thanks babe, my 7 sons told me a few weeks ago, but thanks for thinking of me!

Yoongi Suga GIF

Alt: Yoongi Suga GIF

media.tenor.com

January 17, 2026 at 10:38 PM

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Becca⁷ ||⟭⟬E ARE B⟬⟭CK 💜|| 3/20 - ⊙⊝⊜

@nerdyfornamjoon.bsky.social

Rapline for your skyline
Skkkkrrrr-ts. 😆

January 17, 2026 at 10:30 PM

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soch

@qsyami.bsky.social

These captions are absolutely playing on the fact that he's a smoking hot dude being extremely cute. Some kinda vibe-y translations:

일편단심 순애합니다아
whole-hearted devotiooon

(냅다 하트)
(sudden heart!)

괜히 마음이 따뜻해지는데요
Somehow, my heart has warmed up

(아미만의 큐트 맹수
(A cute wild beastie only for ARMY)

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soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 1d

www.instagram.com/reel/DTmIaKk...

January 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM

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Gleyqui7

@girl4big7.bsky.social

TAMPA (Raymond James Stadium) Location will not allow bags bigger than a clutch and if that is not concerning enough got response via email stating that
LIGHT STICKS
are very possibly not allowed either.
Please share and try to reach out to the Venue and help by filing a complaint.
Thank you

January 17, 2026 at 7:37 AM

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Brymo

@brymo.bsky.social

Shake That Bunny Butt!
#bunnies
#slo-mo
#joy

January 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM

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Pantsirang

@pantsawe.borasky.social

I'm looking for 4 more US ARMY to fill an Apple Music family plan! @staygold613.bsky.social is arranging it and I'm joining too 😎

$38/person for 12 mo💜 DM me to join!

AM will get you access to Stationhead parties the guys will be hosting, as well as exclusive promo interviews ⬇️

(boost plz 🙏)

January 17, 2026 at 4:07 PM

⊙⊝⊜ Carrieee ⊙⊝⊜

@carrieeemca.bsky.social

This is stunning and now I'm in my feels 🥺

Daily BTS⁷ 💜 @dailybts.bsky.social · 22h

A beautiful breakdown of Arirang & ARMYrang by user zarahgeeh— Filipino librarian, folklorist, writer & ARMY. Sharing this here for those not on Threads because this love, history, and meaning deserves to be heard. 💜

(🔗: www.threads.com/@zarahgeeh/p...)

I have been sitting with this for hours now, trying to steady myself because, my goodness, BTS has done something sublime, yet again.
Because, to name the comeback album, “Arirang” is not just an album title. And for them to send ARMY a message on Apple Music, calling us ARMYrang is not just a message.
As a librarian, as a folklorist, as a writer of folk tales, and as ARMY, this moment reaches far deeper than fandom. It touches the part of me that understands how culture survives;
how stories of ordinary people make the fabric of sovereignty and nationhood.
Arirang comes from folk tradition. It is not a song you own. It is a song you carry. It is a story you offer.
It has no single author. It belongs to farmers and migrants, to those who labored and waited, to people who crossed mountains and borders with grief in their pockets and hope folded carefully into song. Arirang has always been sung at thresholds, when leaving, when returning, when words are not enough.
So when BTS name their comeback album, Arirang, this is not nostalgia.
This is not branding. This is not a trend.
This is inheritance. This is heritage. A cultural artifact brought back to consciousness.

BTS is not saying we are back. They are saying we endured. They are saying we crossed. They are saying we remember who we are and where we come from.
And then, ARMYrang.
That word undid me.
In folk traditions, the refrain of song and story exists so others can join in.
The song lives because someone answers back. To be named inside a song and story is to be acknowledged as part of its survival.
ARMYrang is not a term of endearment. By using folk literature, BTS is addressing us as kin and community.
BTS says: you are not the audience.
You are not just a market. You are not merely a number.
You are part of the refrain.
As a librarian, I know this as second skin: for culture to survive it needs to be remembered and to be lived.
Because someone must keep on singing, retelling, passing it on with care.

As a folklorist, I know what it means to step into collective authorship; to speak with humility, to carry a story without flattening it, to trust the people who receive it to hold it well.
As ARMY, I know what it has meant to wait. As a mother, I learned how to hold joy and sorrow together. Being a woman, I know how to sing quietly when shouting would break us.
And now, ARMYrang. It feels like love eternal not
because it promises forever but because it promises continuance.
Eternity, in folk culture, is not endless time. It is unbroken transmission.
A song passed hand to hand.
A name spoken with care.
A people who show up, again and again, to sing. To tell stories.
This comeback does not ask us to scream. It asks us to listen.
It does not demand attention.
It asks for reverence.
Putang ina. Paiiyakin tayo ng Bangtan. (Fuck, Bangtan will make us cry!)

Not because this is dramatic.
But because this is true.
This is what it looks like when artists return not as products, but as people. And when they call their listeners not fans, but kin.
I am still gathering my wits. Really. I think I will be for a while.
But I know this much:
To be ARMY in this moment, to be called ARMYrang, is to stand inside a very old song to be held and to belong there.
Apobangpo! Purple and true! 💜

January 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM

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soch

@qsyami.bsky.social

Smoking meat and roasting sweet potatoes in a hangari..

[랜선효도] 제주감귤🍊 @jejuorange.bsky.social · 1d

POV you married a Korean guy
뭐야 이게 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

January 17, 2026 at 4:49 AM

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BipolarChef⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ 💜 🐳

@bipolarchef.bsky.social

Namjoon on Ig

💜🐨💜 #RM #BTS

🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DTjpzCGD9ob/

January 16, 2026 at 4:13 AM

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Becca⁷ ||⟭⟬E ARE B⟬⟭CK 💜|| 3/20 - ⊙⊝⊜

@nerdyfornamjoon.bsky.social

Such a great idea from @tandyhard.bsky.social
As on older ARMY (and general Kpop fan), I am always staying vigilant at shows if I notice anyone that might need a buddy. 💜

Becca⁷ ||⟭⟬E ARE B⟬⟭CK 💜|| 3/20 - ⊙⊝⊜ @nerdyfornamjoon.bsky.social · 1d

Did this with a friend for SKZ shows (she's a STAY 💚), and we ended up finding a young woman each night. It's good to be educated, but it's really great to have allies looking out for you, as well.

January 17, 2026 at 1:57 AM

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아순

@triviaserendipity.bsky.social

in the words of the incomparable Jane Austen: if I loved you less I might be able to talk about it more 💜

Screenshot of 16/01/26 ot7 live. There’s a table in front of them with an iPad/tablet. Seokjin, Jungkook, Namjoon and Jimin are up front and Yoongi, Hobi and Tae behind. Jimin is talking gesticulating with his hands, Namjoon is looking at him paying attention, Jungkook is looking down smiling to himself. Seokjin is looking somewhere off camera, Yoongi is in a pondering position with his hand over his mouth, Hobi is looking down at the tablet (?) and is wearing a mask, Tae looks hilarious with his denim shirt/jacket over his head.

January 16, 2026 at 12:40 PM

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alexis⁷

@yoonginokuni.bsky.social

I looked into the Rilke book that Namjoon used a quote from in his letter, and of course the first poem that I see is the one that Jimin has written on his body in the Set Me Free pt.2 mv 🥺

A screenshot of the Rilke poem "Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen"

(It's the poem that was written on Jimin's torso in the Set Me Free pt.2 mv. German ARMYs will never get over this btw)

Anyways, here's the poem (in German):

Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen,
die sich über die Dinge ziehn.
Ich werde den letzten vielleicht nicht vollbringen,
aber versuchen will ich ihn.

Ich kreise um Gott, um den uralten Turm,
und ich kreise jahrtausendelang;
und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm
oder ein großer Gesang.

January 16, 2026 at 8:12 PM

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soch

@qsyami.bsky.social

If you're learning Korean, here's some explanation and extra resources for the -다가도 grammar that @tkinsights.bsky.social explains in her excellent translation.

Let's get into some -다가도 grammar weeds...

#learnKorean

TK @tkinsights.bsky.social · 2d

🐨🩵 RM 1/16 Weverse Post Translated

RM Weverse Post - 1/16

Poetry with RM to start the day... what a beautiful bright spot in 2026

so-what.ghost.io

January 16, 2026 at 11:40 PM

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Anika⁷ ⟭⟬🐋💜

@abusra16.bsky.social

The way Namjoon zips his jacket is so cute😭

January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM

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coal

@coalmind.bsky.social

🐯where should we do it next?
🐿️do what?
🐯live!
🐨let’s just turn it on at practice room
🐯why? hyung’s place was the funnest for me
🐹NJ-ie’s house is good. there’s a lot of stuff to take
🐿️take what?
🐹there was a bottle of alcohol. NJ-ie gave it so i took it
🐯really?
🐨i love my members so much. really

January 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM

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Brymo

@brymo.bsky.social

Bunny Binky!
#joy
#bunnies
#slo-mo

January 16, 2026 at 7:25 PM

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V 🌈 lonelywhale

@meowhour.bsky.social

namjoon describing us as army bombs glowing in a forest at night.. does that make us fireflies or is he seeing the stars through the trees.. our beautiful namjooning tree loving poet

January 16, 2026 at 4:19 PM

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uni

@chimspell.bsky.social

namjoon and his cuteness aggression over jimin

January 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM

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soch

@qsyami.bsky.social

All these constructions together, convey that he is experiencing these things but not the driver of the actions that cause the effects.

It sounds humble to me. Anyway, NJ, ilysm.

January 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM

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soch

@qsyami.bsky.social

A language comment on NJ's letter today:

여전히
As ever

좋은 음악이 만들어지면 심장이 뛰고,
When good music is made, my heart races

멤버들과 장난치다 보면 아이처럼 웃게 됩니다.
When members make jokes, I end up laughing like a child

그리고 밤의 숲처럼 빛날 관객석의 아미밤들을 생각하면
And when I think of shining ARMY bombs like a forest at night

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January 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM

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BTS Translations / Bangtansubs

@bangtansubs.com

📅 260116 Weverse Translations

RM’s Post ❇️

‘Love’ continues to be a complicated word for me.
Have I ever, even just once, actually loved someone?
I have held on to that question for so long
and all I’ve grown surer of,
is the fact that I still don’t know.

Last year, I felt trapped in a lot of +

January 16, 2026 at 5:09 PM