#I want to kms THIS IS SO HARD TK WATCH AGAIN

[armandssawtrap]

I’m going to slam my head into the fucking table Claudia is so so much like Lestat and they HATE it she HATES it and he wishes it were different but unfortunately… like mother like daughter

[stormblessed95]

Hey stormblessed!

Love your blog as per usual. I’ve noticed you’ve gotten a lot of asks from taekook supporters

I know you don’t have a ticket to their thoughts but I have to wonder.

Why is jikook competition for taekook?

Or is it that they spam anons of all other v or jk related ships?

I’m not really a shipper so I don’t get it. If I was to rank terms of possibilities of who could be in a relationship (besides Jikook) then so many other ships would have more of a likelihood:

Vmin, taejin or even idk hopekook lol. Is it because both Tae and jk are heavy on staring and skinship? (JK with his fond eyes and Tae with bedroom eyes)

I don’t want to even be that person, but I also don’t understand why jkkers are confused by taekook?

They’re friends and love each other. They’ve also lived together so just like all of BTS, have little boundaries in regards to touching.

Like hobi can be all up kissing JK’s neck and if Tae does it every jkker is questioning their life choices.

Like relax, the possibility that two members of BTS will date the same person is extremely extremely low…….so either one ship is real or none is real, and honestly it isn’t taekook

Like listen to Tae please, taekook being in a relationship is a fantasy created by shippers…and he knows that.

So unless you get a GCF in Tae & a Rosebowl in Tae & MMA 2018 in Tae…..then I really don’t see why you can’t sit back and relax and enjoy the guys being their cute, loving, cuddly, flirty friends.

Hi 💜💜 I know we've talked before about how stupidly big my masterlist is. Lol but I've definitely talked about some of this before too! I'll link those posts for you 🥰 tkkrs have always had the biggest and most vocal problems with jikook. But lately I've seen them really start going after vminnies and taejinnies too. Which are arguably the 3 biggest ships outside of taekook for Tae and JK to be in. It's a being threatened thing, and underlying need to be right and "win" and prove everyone wrong I'm sure. But it's madness. I've seen jkkrs do it too sometimes, going to other ships blogs and listing reasons why their ship is more real. I've had vminnies up in my ask box before. I've had JinMinners and Jinkookers and Namkookers and Minimonists and Yoonminners. Lol every ship has its bad apples for sure.

Some of my previous posts you might find interesting if you haven't seen them yet is this one over ship wars:

This one over the difference between platonic and romantic skinship:

This one about the double standard of shipping where KM and the general fandom is involved:

This one about shipping culture in general:

This one about TKK being the most popular/prevelant ship

Tkkrs Mentality when it comes to "shipping moments" don't have to be in their head when they invite you in by commenting in jkkr spaces lol

Taekookers ARE constantly in my inbox, this was a decent one though lol

Jikookers seem to get insecure about tkk because their shippers are so loud and can be hard to ignore at times. It makes no sense, but jkkrs truly are just as obsessed with them as they are with us and it NEEDS to stop. Like truly. Yall, LET IT GO. And enjoy the bonds for what they are, not whatever shippers are spouting off. Speak your own truth, not someone else's.

My posts over that topic are more here. Like with this post about taekook vs taekookers

They way people jump into my inbox full of worry at taekook interactions when vmin can be all over each other and jkkrs won't blink an eye makes me wanna smack sense into a few of yall for real. These posts over vminkook in muster and the vminkook LA vlive sum that up nicely.

Hope that helps some! Honestly it all drives me crazy too. Im really just here wanting to vibe with all the content I'm given and enjoy it. Lol everyone needs to breathe a collective sigh and know most things are not that serious and friends can be friendly without it taking away from any other relationships. It's not Pi, moments for one does not detract from moments for another.

[annetteblog]

Intro & My take on KM

Hi!

I’m new around here so it’s supposed to be (not so short) introduction, since I don’t know how to start a blog heh. I hope to sprinkle my 0.5 cents into the KM conversation and maybe to bring a new perspective from someone, who is not a part of the typical English-speaking West.

Who /the hell/ Am I?  

(please, consider it to be said with NJ’s voice from Intro: Persona :D)

I was born in Siberia (it’s in the Asian part of Russia), currently live in the European part of the country while studying at a Uni (European in terms of geography, not in terms of everything else i’m definitely not shading rn lolllll). English is not my first language, I’ve just kind of learnt it to some extent. Due to this it takes me more time to write a post; and I may (and will) make some grammatical & other mistakes. Plus I’m lazy AND busy with Uni, so I won’t even promise to be consistent in posting smth lol. But I thought I need more practice in terms of writing in English, so here I am, actually scribbling something. This feels weird, because I’ve been around stan Tumblr since 2015, but never ever interacted, just read.

How I ended up around Jikook/Kookmin (and BTS) & My (long&messy) take on this matter

Although I had heard of BTS before, I became an Army only in October 2018. I had kinda avoided them, because you know... boybands.... sing songs about romantic love and how they love girls.......... (+I had been around Twitter when 1D been at their peak and I remember a quite toxic community of fans, whom always had scared me). Shortly, hello stereotypes. Obviously, after I got engaged I felt terribly sorry that I had been sleeping on them, but what is done cannot be undone. 

Someone I knew back then reposted one of their MVs and I, during my sad hours of procrastination, decided to watch it. Then I saw their live performance with the same song. And I thought “wow these guys can sing and dance and the music is kinda cool, i need to check this out maybe??” 

Then a funny thing happened. One of the next videos I watched (the same person had it added to their page) was a 2016 BangtanBomb where JM and JK practiced their Coming of Age dance. 

Do you know this moment with Gina from the 1st episode of Brooklyn 9-9:

Well, that was precisely me after I watched it. I don’t even know how to explain this, it was kind of a gut feeling? Whatever you call it, I started to get suspicious and couldn’t even explain to myself why. /actually now a do have questions to this vid and the main one - why does everyone cringe that much? if it’s a girly choreo than they had done some “girly” moves before. why is there such strong reaction??/

I started to get deeper and went to some ru-shipper communities. Shipping culture among Russian speaking fans is... well, weird to some extent, but I maybe address this topic some time later. You need to consider that (as far as you probably know) Russia is quite homophonic country and sadly is not the greatest place for LGBTQ+ community at the moment. The non-frienly influential attitudes hanging in the society + the general shippers’ weirdness = the result is not that nice honestly. 

I struggled for some time in order to find more mature people (not just in terms of age but in general sanity), failed, ended up with some EXTREMELY toxic ru-fans of TK, which was/is the most popular pairing here, spent among them like 15 minutes and ran away horrified. After that I didn’t even try to engage with shippers or believers or whatever of any pair and just decided to enjoy the music and the content (which is a great idea, highly recommend!)

After a couple of days I discovered that JK makes videos. I love video, films and visual art so I immediately found them on YT, saw the titles with names of different cities from all over the world and was like “Oh that must be so cool, he’s visited so many outstanding places I’ve never been to, so I really need to watch it! I shall enjoy some beautyyy”. Then I clicked on GCFt.

Well, what can I say. I did enjoy some beauty, but not the type I had initially anticipated. The biggest clickbait in my entire life. JK should be proud of himself.

                                       /as I said - the beauty/

I had already known Troy back then and I known the song’s lyrics so it would not be an underestimation to say - the video just blew my mind. I was like - hold on is this real? seriously?? no really really????? he manage to get away with something THAT obvious?????? dude how

As a person who edited videos AND is not a native English speaker, I don’t buy the explanation “oh he mustve didnt get the lyrics lmao”. You just don’t do that. You don’t. DON’T. You google and translate every shit you don’t understand, every word and idiom you’ve never encountered, because otherwise the possibility of an epic failure is very likely. You wouldn’t want to give your mum a video as a birthday present and then discover that you used a song with WAP-ish lyrics, right? (well maybe that would be okay in your family, I don’t judge, but that’s not the case for people I know). So don’t you dare to degrade JK’s intellectual capacities; such assumption is really offensive. He is a smart boii, he knows exactly what he’s doing in terms of his art.

So I was shocked, but decided to look for the context - maybe I missed some previous events regarding this Tokyo thing (another great idea - always check the context). Well, apparently I didn’t, because the whole narrative with the trip for two, lovely selfies etc. made my poor brain lowkey explode. (I still don’t buy the rings theory thing though)

But I didn’t give up lol! I’m a bit stubborn and it’s very hard to convince me in anything, so I decided to search for more context, more of their interactions, moreeee. Remember, the late October 2018, there were no swan lakes, RB, and even MMA18 hadn’t happened yet. 

This time I ended up watching content in more or less consistent way, and when I saw all of these scenes with affectionate JM and a cool badass i-don’t-care-about-anyone-i’m-a-manly-man-with-no-feelings-whatsoever JK, I just hysterically laughed. 

Homophobic Russia, remember? I recognized this. Growing up here being LGBT myself, taught me the same type behaviour during my high school days. When a girl I kinda liked but didn’t what to admit it to myself was nice to me or (oh god) flirted with me, I did something similar. It’s like a huge panic mode. Being an introvert doesn’t help either. The funniest thing is that you may not entirely realise what exactly is going on in terms of your own feelings, especially at that age (16-18ish). In my personal case, I thought I liked her but as a friend, only later to realise that well not as a friend oops :DDD The second thing (already not so funny) is that you actually consciously or unconsciously try to avoid the subject as much as possible, as long as possible and pretend that nothing is going on. We’re just bros. Stop doing this stupid gayish thing and don’t look at me like that, you’re annoying. If you ever do this again I (gently) kick you. I’m straighter than a straight line in my math textbook. IDK, but probably that’s your brain is somehow trying to protect you. Again, in my case&position I knew that the consequences for any non-straight person being outed would be bad (TW not to the point of being killed bad, but to the point of being excluded from a big part of society). So for me it was a mixture of the internalized homophobia + lack of self reflection + just being a bit emotionally slow + very! straight community around. Shit happens, I was a teenager and made my share of mistakes, but that experience helps me to recognize the same pattern of behaviour up to this day.   

So coming back to KM, because the post is already waaay too long and I just ramble. It’s been 2+ years for me being a part of this fandom, and what can I say... Things become more intense and eventful with every year passing by ;) Funny how I felt that vibe from the 2016 dance practice video. Seeing the Black Swan performance a week ago almost had me choked, no joking. They are amazing.

                                                    Pure Art

However, and I would like to emphasize that, I do not incline that KM are 100% romantically involved and/or gay or whatever. I tend to treat people with respect and not to make too much assumptions about their private life. That’s not my business. However, I’m also not a fan of heteronormativity, so I’m just sitting here and observe everything that’s going on putting some distance and not forgetting being generally polite and critical thinking. But if they are just straightest besties please give them an Oscar before Grammy

Anyways, I hope this blog won’t kick the bucket from the very start and I will post something every now and then. You can always ask me questions about some BTS/Jikook related stuff or something about Russia and a Russian view on mass culture topics, since I’m pretty sure some of you have very stereotypical view of what is going on here :) However, do note that I’ve never been to America or Europe, therefore I may not be aware of something verrrry obvious to you or just have a completely different experience. 

P.S.  And yeah, I’m used to say Jikook, since it’s the name which is used much more frequently in Russian.  i like it better and what will u do haha