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i wanna bite han’s arms

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co worked asked me if i had seen han’s red dazed photo and she was not surprised when i pulled out the photo in my camera roll. like that isnt my lock screen???

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HELP INSTAGEAM REMINDED ME THERES A TATTOO UNDER THE SHIRT AND I NEED TO REMIND Y’ALL

look i may be asexual but the UNSPEAKABLE THINGS i would do to this man

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look i may be asexual but the UNSPEAKABLE THINGS i would do to this man

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Anyways, reminder that I do have a love & deepspace side blog that is open for requests @sylusesfavkitten

here me out now

skz x love and deep space

(this is all i’ve thought of)

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3!!!!!!!!

🍄

😈😈😈

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ONE, TWO, OR THREE?

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international stays, give me your opinion on the kids fan club membership this year

i’m not speaking on the concept they have this year. i’m mostly speaking on the benefits you get from buying the membership. these include (All taken from yes24’s website/listing for the membership):

- member card & stay 5th kit provided - exclusive content on FANS - full access to FANS *not listed but I had the 4th gen membership when they started FANS and bc of hate, jype put out a statement saying only people who bought the membership could fully interact on fans {posting, replying, etc.}* - priority participation opportunities for public broadcasts and offline events *not a guarantee and availability is subject to change. does not guarantee ticket reservations* - various other benefits and events will be provided

i’m generally curious and want to know other i-stays opinions on this bc i’ve seen others and wanna know more

(tags are for traction to post)

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one of my girls from work just said the palisades fire could reach as far as Santa Cruz if its not getting under control and that’s not far from the bay area (where i live) so yoinks

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international stays, give me your opinion on the kids fan club membership this year

i’m not speaking on the concept they have this year. i’m mostly speaking on the benefits you get from buying the membership. these include (All taken from yes24’s website/listing for the membership):

- member card & stay 5th kit provided - exclusive content on FANS - full access to FANS *not listed but I had the 4th gen membership when they started FANS and bc of hate, jype put out a statement saying only people who bought the membership could fully interact on fans {posting, replying, etc.}* - priority participation opportunities for public broadcasts and offline events *not a guarantee and availability is subject to change. does not guarantee ticket reservations* - various other benefits and events will be provided

i’m generally curious and want to know other i-stays opinions on this bc i’ve seen others and wanna know more

(tags are for traction to post)

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     I know I’m a few days late to talk about this, but I still want to. I also want other’s opinions on this, and I do have a poll going for the week to see what others say, but regarding Stray Kids Offical Fan Club, as an international stay, it is not worth it in my personal opinion.

     I have seen other stays on social media talk about this as well and why they won’t be getting the fan club this year. I have only been a stay since January of 2023. So, I can only speak about the fan club from last year and not the year before. But I did want to share this in case I’m weirdly the only person you ever see talk about this or value my opinion in some way (please don’t; that’s a lot of responsibility on me, and most of my opinions come off as asshole-y)

     Most of what I have gathered as to why I-Stays are upset or not getting the fan club is as follows: pricing, lack of benefits, and difficulties with yes24.

     Starting with yes24, it is a little hard to navigate, especially if your device is translating it to your native language since not every language can share the same words/phrases when translating from one to another. Sometimes, I have to fill in the blanks in my head when translating from Korean to English on the site, so it makes sense in my head. But that’s not the main reason I’m seeing issues.

     Many I-stays are having payment issues. When they enter their card information, they get a lot of error pop-ups saying something is wrong—yes24 also will not let you use PayPal or any other payment site to pay—and I will admit I remember having this problem last year with the 4th-gen fan club, Stay Hideout. Along with the payment issues, overseas shipping for the kit is 2-3x as much as the kit. Now, the kit is a small box with photo cards, a photo book, ID badges, and lots of other little goodies that (at least for me) kinda just sit on our shrines/displays. The box is about $25 USD, and from what I remember, I paid about $80 last year.

     Some people may think, “$80 isn’t too bad. I’d pay that for all that stuff!”. And if you have the money to spend that, I applaud you for having your finances sorted out like that. Not everyone can afford that.  But Stays are also promised other perks within Fan Club. Part of that is Exclusive FANS content and concert perks—from what I have read, presale codes, fan club ticket prices, and stay zone. From my personal experience, I only got full FAN access— community posts, commenting, interacting with the boys, etc.— and the kit. I did not have presale codes for the tour— my stop is in May— and from what other stays have said on SM, there is nothing for those of us with the membership at the concerts like there is for K-stays. Paying way more in just shipping to receive fewer benefits because we live farther.

     FANS are a whole other thing. If you don’t know and are wondering why I said “full FANS access,” that is because last year when FANS first launched, everyone, fan club or not, could comment on the community. This had led to —I did not see this happening, but I did see the message JYPE decided to put out regarding this— hate being directed towards the boys on the public forum. JYPE then changed everything and made it so that you could only really do anything on there if you had a fan club membership. This did upset a few baby stays, from what I saw, who did want to interact but had joined the fandom after the recruitment period. The “exclusive content” they told us we would get was BTS photos and photos for their birthdays. Then, they would get shared by other stays not long after they were posted.

     Yes, you could sign up for events, but most of them are live, and not everyone can drop everything and get on a plane to Korea to participate in these events. Looking back, there were a few streaming events for their albums last year, and that was it. But those were then posted on the x/twitter account. So it wasn’t “exclusive”

     And with FANS, the only ones actively engaging with stay are Hyunjin, Seungmin, and I.N. Chan and Changbin for a day, Felix and Lee Know are very rarely there. Han posted one thing, and he was never heard from again on FANS. I (personally) would rather pay for their bubble subscriptions than have FANS access.

     Now, if you are okay with all this as an I-Stay, go ahead and buy that membership, babes! If you read this and go, “What the fuck?” I’m with you. I-stays are in the background as they cater to k-stays and j-stays, which I understand. Stray Kids is a Korean boy group first, and they do have Japanese albums and debuts (I do how that all works; I just see J-stays getting better perks than other i-stays, i.e., dome tour), so the company does focus on them more. But a lot of us I-stays are there for the streaming events. We are a very large part of their fan base, and we all know if they could do more for us, they would. Skz does not know us, but they do love us. If you just like having all their merch and stuff, it might be worth it in that aspect, but it's up to you. I just wanted to share what I saw and what I felt.

TLDR: Pay too much for two things and skz are barely active on the community app so it’s not worth it in my opinion.

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sorted thoughts. that shit could be an essay

was gonna post my opinion on the kids fan club this year as an i-stay but i need to organize my thoughts more and research what other i stays are feeling bc i see a lot of opinions on intsa threads

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international stays, give me your opinion on the kids fan club membership this year

i’m not speaking on the concept they have this year. i’m mostly speaking on the benefits you get from buying the membership. these include (All taken from yes24’s website/listing for the membership):

- member card & stay 5th kit provided - exclusive content on FANS - full access to FANS *not listed but I had the 4th gen membership when they started FANS and bc of hate, jype put out a statement saying only people who bought the membership could fully interact on fans {posting, replying, etc.}* - priority participation opportunities for public broadcasts and offline events *not a guarantee and availability is subject to change. does not guarantee ticket reservations* - various other benefits and events will be provided

i’m generally curious and want to know other i-stays opinions on this bc i’ve seen others and wanna know more

(tags are for traction to post)

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was gonna post my opinion on the kids fan club this year as an i-stay but i need to organize my thoughts more and research what other i stays are feeling bc i see a lot of opinions on intsa threads

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btw, i finished them

I might change a few things and tweak them but ye

writing out my crochet patterns for my skzoo beanies so I don't have to question wtf I did every time I make them and man this shit is time-consuming

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writing out my crochet patterns for my skzoo beanies so I don't have to question wtf I did every time I make them and man this shit is time-consuming

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i just realized i see railway live in may and i’m driving to the concert with my aunt and cousin and im glad we didn’t get seats together so i can be truly feral with whoever i sit next too