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i have a vision of Taehyung and Mithra trying to intimidate each other with their most intense scowls and it zooms out to show they are competing at something ridiculous like chubby bunny or keeping a straight face while the others drop outrageous hats on their heads.

Adding up here this compilation of Hoseok judging bts for 40 seconds
#bts

Amazing

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the first thing he does with the stick is try to touch the camera, try to touch the audience, creating the experience of proximity and contact.

The prop also serves as a visual accent, breaking up the frame and novel play to yet another interview, but i would bet he grabbed it to reach out to us.

Happy to make use of some of the research behind Caged Pride!

Falling in love again with RM’s Domodachi from RPWP!

The song is so eerie with its creepy chorus of fake friends singing their refrain “let’s dance here!” like they’re sirens. The dissonance between the lyrics and the music really gets Namjoon’s point across: these ppl aren’t his friends. +

😂 yes there are many equitable solutions worth considering

my nose is fully offline and my concentration was so shoddy that it took all day to finish one little data processing task (plus documentation) but now i sleep.

Its so fun to imagine the target market for these things. Is J-14 a magazine for teens/tweens? is this just something for an adult to buy a kid with a budding interest?

Anti-discrimination law back in spotlight A long-stalled anti-discrimination bill is back in the national spotlight after Won Min-kyong, President Lee Jae Myung’s nominee for gender equality minister,

there are some employment protection regulations at regional or municipal levels, including for LGBT, mostly in the big cities, but attempts to pass protections nationally have repeatedly failed for over the last two decades. Still they will be trying again m.koreaherald.com/article/1056...

oh yes, "Pair the Spares" is a common name for the trope, though with BTS, there is the necessary thruple.

And yeah I've done it and will surely do it again. I just want everyone to be taken care of!

*sighs on the 60° N parallel* goodbye sun

YouTube video by Bangtan Subs [ENG] 131009 [BANGTAN BOMB] Sleeping Boys

#BTS
Today in 2013
youtu.be/1rNvSox63p8?...

It's such a common strategy in kpop fandom, like the everyone gets married trope in opera or Shakespeare, but AFAIK we don't have a name for it? i think of it as "BTS complete" because everyone is covered.

anyway, here is another classic example archiveofourown.org/works/30714647

Animals of Regret does a good job developping each member but they only all team up to force Yoongi into accepting care. This is a hard problem.

A lot of OT7 fics are focused mainly on one character, so i can't think of any that are really balanced. If the alternative arrangement of "everyone gets a romantic story line" is of interest, I think this one did a decent job of giving everyone time and growth archiveofourown.org/works/12247968

hm. when is it time for borasky to start trading signal contacts?

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America 404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

From our proposal: “Book banning and educational censorship (the banning of LGBTQIA+ studies, the study of slavery and systemic racism, the war on “DEI” and trans people) has become a political cudgel and core rallying point for the current administration. These bans have been pushed through by organized groups such as Moms for Liberty and high-profile politicians, and impact the daily lives, careers, and future prospects of students, their families, and teachers, while simultaneously managing to become a core part of the culture war. These documents about censorship are themselves difficult to obtain and are at risk of being memory holed and forgotten about without a systematic effort to obtain, publish, and archive them. This project will show how censorship works and will shed light on the sheer scale of these censorship efforts, at a time when public trust in the government is at an all-time low.” Over the next few weeks, we will be filing hundreds of public records requests with state, local, and federal governments and school districts with the hope of unearthing more information about the groups, politicians, and monied interests that have been pushing book bans and educational censorship on American public schools and libraries. As we get these documents back over the course of the next few months, we will be making them available to the public through Document Cloud, with the hopes of creating an enduring archive of public records about educational censorship in the United States. We will also, of course, be reporting on the documents we get back and will be turning them into articles that you can read on 404 Media.

We need and want your help: If you know of specific book bans/orgs/local groups pushing for book bans and trying to get teachers fired etc, please let me know so I can request docs about what's going on / investigate further

Thank you! If I'm napping by accident, it is surely doing good.

thank you 💚💙 🤞 this should pass quickly.

a close up of a person 's face with a blue background and a smile on their face . Alt: BTS V giving a smile and eye brow lift of acknowledgement

me too! Thank you for the cute bear

💚💙🥣 thank you

cozy is worth a change!

Just smelling this juk simmer is making me feel better. Still feverish, and my nose is only operating at like 15% capacity, but better.

I did not know that was a setting but mine was set to english too! And yet I regularly see and used other languages here so 🤷‍♂️ maybe it's only filtering some feeds, and not applied to accounts you follow?

Sure, when tracks are produced for album coherence and narrative, its a shame to miss out on the full album experience. But I would say it's only a small shame if the individual songs are still being enjoyed. For most people today, personal investment in pop songs matters more.

I also just listen to BTS songs, maybe because I have never witnessed a full length album release (late 2020 ARMY, tail end of BE), or maybe because album listening is not structurally necessary. I think I've listened to concert order playlists more.