a lyric-related comment: joon chose to write about himself as a pack of cigarettes in “out of love” because they need to be fully extinguished. since he’s generally an optimist who always finds something good in another, he too needs to burn himself completely in order to fall out of love.

what i do find fascinating — almost off-putting? — is how much team rm and joon himself emphasise how “real” rpwp is in its honesty and rawness, bc as a long-time listener and viewer, rpwp slots in so easily into his wider discography. +

well, i watched the rpwp docu. didn’t like it, to be quite honest with you. (and i love the album!! so much!!)

it does beg the question, though: when do /you/ feel like your truest self?

how can my husband watch wicked, tell me he liked it, then just move on with his life???

how can someone consume something and not be consumed by it???? couldn’t be me!!

i can’t not say it: wicked hit every single emotional beat, and then some. investment is at 100%!! jaw-dropping!! thrilling!! heartbreaking and euphoric!!

ah yes, the kind of day where i sit down at the dining table at 7.45am to eat the lunch i just packed

“i’m singing my blues, singing my bloom / back in my room” from j-hope’s “blue side” seems like a pretty apt description of this site

as someone in the southern hemisphere, my biggest frustration as a teen was that i’d get music drops for the wrong season. now, it’s that the recipe vids i see use non-seasonal ingredients. 🥲

- last book you read: The Good Wife of Bath, Karen Brooks
- your current read: Homer’s Odyssey, Simon Armitage (a retelling originally commissioned for BBC Radio)
- last book added to your TBR: The Medici, Paul Strathern

- and slowly but thoroughly: Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson

i love that a lot of the lyrics to rm’s rpwp are still beyond my grasp, bc it’s
a) more linguistically exciting,
b) concrete proof that he was able to have new experiences with new people and draw out new language for it

Jin’s happy and in it for the long run. My album review for Teen Vogue: www.teenvogue.com/story/jin-of...

you’re becoming emotional thinking about “tonight” & jin’s pets whilst watching the mv? no worries, here’s a meteor to distract you!

you’re trying to pick up the pieces of your heart after the lyrics of tracks 5&6? no worries, here’s jin to play puzzles with you!

i have jimin to thank for a growing number of people correctly assuming that my name is in fact two syllables, not one

the terrors it took to sign up to this very app (sung to “twelve days of christmas”): three bot posts, two fans of bangtan, and a broadsheet’s grim announcement

dare i say ticketing for the colosseum has been more difficult than any concert???