#as taemin would say

[gay-strawberry]

i really appreciate the way jean's brain works. he be having very heavy suicidal thoughts or remembering traumatic shit and then he suddenly goes. hold on. big thighs ? sexy women in bikinis ?? a water drop going down a naked back ? pretty boy is now blond ??? why is everyone so short ? pretty boy GAY ????

its so relatable. i feel so seen,

[zhouxiangs]

it is day six of losing my mind over the peteway hand-holding, what came before, what came after, and what may or may not come later, and today i am thinking about the importance of touch.

or most importantly, of touch as a gesture.

because there's the touch itself, which as two enigmas with touch-based powers that are probably touch-starved for genuine consensual purposeful touch (thank you @marinacourage, i am never recovering from reading those words strung together in that order) is... already a lot. we can infer from what we've been shown/how deliberately they focus on it every time that both their powers work by touching people with their hands, which i imagine must be incredibly alienating for both of them, albeit for different reasons, but specially so for pete who (unlike way who also has to verbally issue a command) seems to need only to touch someone to invade the privacy of their mind even if he doesn't want to.

so, the act of touch alone is incredibly intimate for both of them.

once everything is out in the open, when they both know the other is an enigma and what his powers are, and way knows that pete has been using his power every time he touches him to read his mind, pete could just stop touching him. which is what he does at first.

but then there's my favourite part: both the intent and the manner of the touch. because pete withdraws, but not because he doesn't need or want to keep touching way; he does it because he was using his power surreptitiously, and now he doesn't need to.

pete reaches towards way again, and not only touches him: he slides his own hand in between way's and touches their palms together. pete is touching way, but he makes sure that way is touching him, too. and just like when he bared his neck earlier, pete is putting himself in way's hands, at way's mercy; he can read way's mind, but way can control him if he wants, either to make him back off or anything else. and way doesn't, nor does he draw back even if he looks at pete in surprise.

because pete is showing way he believes in him. he's telling him as much, saying "don't let obligation or fear make you not dare to decide to do the right thing. you are worth more than daddy says". saying "you always have a choice. you still have the right to choose, way".

but he's also telling him with his touch, with the palms of their hands resting together. "i see you", "you are not alone", "i'm here, and i believe in you", "your past sins will not drive me away. wounded hearts can still be cared for".

and also, because of how pete looks at way and because of how emotionally charged this moment is, i cannot help but think about the metaphor of "and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss" in act 1, scene 5 of shakespeare's romeo and juliet; juliet's evocation of a palmer touching the hand of a saint's statue as an almost holy and transformative experience. a kiss with hands.

[vampyretaemin]

TAEMIN | MAKING FILM

[acebytaemin]

Did you see people are saying taemin is copying jimin with the comeback 😂 where do I start

this is getting soooo tired we literally get this every taemin comeback and im one hairs breadth away from being mean about it with a much more damning variation of ‘cute next to gorgeous’ LMFAO but i don’t actually have anything against the poor dude (who’s said multiple times how much taemin has inspired him). taemin invented jimin in the artistic sense and even if he hadn’t taemin’s newest work is very obviously self referencing to anyone who’s familiar with his previous work which whoever is saying this is obviously not

[smtown-tourist]

Guys………. I think Key and Taemin had a lovechild when we weren’t looking 😳

[xoalsox]

taemin's (not so) hidden vocals in sexy in the air (x)

[darkyukifr]

Taemin's songs, part 1/3, Asuka (@fannynja 's character)

I wanted to draw our trio Asuka/Yuji/Katsuo with a Taemin song for each of them!

Flame of Love (the clothes are from the 1st Stage Budokan concert)

Part 2/3, Katsuo

Heaven (the clothes are from the Inkigayo stage)

Part 3/3, Yûji (@fannynja 's character)

Shadow (the clothes are from the WaterBomb Festival 2023)

[lee-jinkis-ponytail]

Eternal's pretty good! Not my favorite taemin album but definitely good overall.

[peppertaemint]

Jungkooks song isn’t that bad. I know he’s trying to break a stereotype of him being the youngest and wants to be seen more mature but that guy was not a need for this song 😭 and I don’t get the hate towards jungkook cuz his lines were fine it’s just Harlows….

I'm gonna be real with you. I think that even though Harlow's lines are egregious and charmless and pretty much offensive, I don't think that Kookie comes out much better.

The song itself is about having some sort of relationship, whatever that is, with someone online in 2-D, i.e. video film, pictures, and wanting to bring that into 3-D, which is in person. That in itself is a not an issue; I've been there - seeing someone in person is exciting for the 3-D action, LOL.

My problem is that the song is so focused on the sexual act/encounter like a science experiment. You add the womanising and the objectifying, and it doesn't come off right for me. 

I'll contrast the song with Rod Wave's Turks and Caicos featuring 21 Savage. This is another sort of innocuous song about "player" behaviour. The chorus is the girl girls girls all over the world blah blah blah. But it still has charm, and it paints a portrait of a woman as a person to an extent. They talk about the girl being a vibe and bad bitches you better grab one. It's not just a list of "I have these chicks and I want to fuck them and I wanna see what it's like to fuck in person". That feels so clinical and there's a distance there, and it feels objectifying and gross.

I do think this song is charmless and sexist and pretty boring. Overall disappointing. 🤷‍♀️ and I do think that Kookie trying to make it sound like it's about monogamy in press/PR just doesn't work.

[sanstropfremir]

do you agree that the voyeuristic nature of taemin's album was deliberate to make you feel "guilty" for looking at some of the teasers because this is his way of portraying the way he's been taken advantage of by the kpop industry ever since he was in middle school?

why is this so accusatory lmao. what are you gonna do if i don't agree? what are you gonna do if i say that I think that's too simplistic of an analysis of this work that is very clearly about the nature of self in indoctrination and how institutions specifically work to break will and make the self complicit in that breaking? what if I say that if you are just now keying in to how deliberately voyeuristic taemin's work is you clearly haven't been paying attention for the last six years?

[scarefox]

idk Pavel reacting to kpop men again could fix me for a bit maybe.

[acebytaemin]

peer reviewed

[1eos]

saying taemin isn't a better singer than your fav when taemin was personally vocal coached by THEE KIM JONGHYUN now i need you to be very serious for a moment

so you're aware the only reason you are here in this moment trying to act like taemin is the best singer on earth simply bc he's in shinee and has access to ppl who sing better than him? that's interesting. that man not even the best singer in shinee PLS stop huffing that gasoline from sm!!!!! it's fucking up your brain cells remember you can only have the high road when it comes to dancing when its time to discuss VOCALS taemin can't even get A musical role let alone serve like this!!!!

[lonesplendour]

'Feminists' aka terfs will shout about more diverse representation for women and then kick up a fuss when a trans woman wears a sports bra because she's flat chested because all cis women obviously have large breasts and if you don't then sorry but sports bras ain't for you apparently

[justanotherfluffreader]

felt obligated to post

i love this album love that song but the title...

(click on image for better quality bc tumblr is being so silly !)

[jonghyunluvr]

they didn't gaf back then ik the dorm fights were crazyyyyyy