Bibilly Hillock ⁷

Fwiw, I always appreciate your perspective.💜

You got this.💪💜

So show me.. I’ll show you.🎶💜😭

SAME

*raises hand*
Me please.💜

In case anyone wants a little break, here are a few of my favorite facts that I learned in 2025, in no particular order.

Some trees benefit from, and may even encourage, getting struck by lightning because it kills their nearby competitors nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I’m manifesting tickets for you.🤞🤞🤞💜💜💜

Currently rewatching EAW. It is such a great show. And it is so lovely that it helped you find BTS and us. 💜

Ooh hello *waves frantically * 👋

So happy for you.💜

Yes, Athens, Greece.💜 thanks beautiful ARMY.💜

Nope, just said ‘not allowed’. The ignorant fool offered to cut my half knitted sock off the needles not realising they just slip off.😳

Knitters beware of Athens airport.😡

Ok guys I gotta vent.😡(non-BTS related). I am an avid sock knitter, especially when travelling. I have been knitting and flying for years. And today my needles were confiscated by Athens airport security. WTF? What nefarious thing am I going to do with size 2.5 circular needles? Furious. 😡

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! 💜

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...)

YouTube video by Jɪᴍɪɴxᴇᴜᴘʜᴏʀɪᴀ♥︎ Jin losing it when Namjoon changed the lyrics from Singer to Seagull!😂||#BTS #Shorts

I am stuck in a loop of I'm a born seagull 🤣🤣🤣

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Thank you 💜💜💜

📅 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 +

Several years ago I decided to figure out where the studio version of Arirang by BTS came from. Was it an edit from the kcon performance? Released somewhere?

With the help of ARMY lore keepers, we found the answer. +

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#bts
#BTS_ARIRANG

Do you know what a commonplace book is? Well, among other things keeping one is the subject of this micro-course on close reading! A commonplace book is a fun, easy, low-stakes way to deepen your relationship to reading. Here we go...

Ok guys, so, I’m in Seoul right now! And look where I went! (Yes, that’s me.😁) if you have never been there it is right in the centre of Seoul, near Gyeongbukgung palace and large monuments. It is really cool and impressive.🎉

This one is the best.

finished version of above. bts comeback promotion display being installed at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. BTS letters painted on the steps in white with the comeback date of 20th March 2027, the 3 red circles logo sign for the new album installed at the top of the stairs.

the final sign up

So. I went to see Funny Girls in Blackpool last night. (For those that don't know, it's a long running drag cabaret show in England.)

It was fab! But it got me overthinking (pretentious mind dump klaxon) 1/

🎉🎉🎉thank you!

Where is this???👀

repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally

[AJP 데스크 칼럼] 기대와 부담 사이, BTS의 봄 | 아주경제 그룹 방탄소년단 (BTS)이 3월 완전체 컴백을 알렸다. 거의 4년 만이다. 반가움이 먼저 들지만, 동시에 묘한 긴장감도 따라온다. 너무 오래 기다렸고, 그만큼 ...

“The memories of being comforted through music, and the time shared together, are already reason enough. Whatever song comes out, and however they return, the mere fact that they stand on stage again is meaningful in itself.” 🥺🥺🥺

www.ajunews.com/view/2026010...

I almost did.😁😁😁