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Taemin and Bataille (a match made in eroticism).

Quotes from Bataille's work :

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

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@gwiyonew​​ I am suing you 

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I thought I wasn't going to enjoy the mini, but those last three tracks are golden wow.

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I know we are happy we survived the Tae drought, but I think we should mostly be celebrating the fact that he survived through this despite the shock it gave to his system. It's so admirable and I hope he eventually is proud of himself for getting through it.

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In regards to Taemin's Guilty concept, I think there is a wider lens to consider when looking at it.

Yes, it is about personal pain and reclaiming dark and ugly parts of himself, but it's also how these parts represent a revolution, his way of revolution. The parallels between Bataille's work and his message are plenty. He knows his eroticism is a source of horror and discomfort to others and maybe to himself, but that's why it's so pleasurable to dive into it. It's the way to shatter the norms of the outside world, but also his inner world.

Eroticism is his look into the dark, into the abyss in a way that permits the reflection of everything underneath the surface and helps bring back to the surface the consciousness of what can usually stay subconscious.

Eroticism is his way of fighting back against everything he believes in while simultaneously embodying everything he (and we) despises. It is a revolution on pain, love and everything in between.

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“Hyung, ice cream 🥺”

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Mr. SEXis in the air.

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If Taem can go Georges Bataille on us, he can collab with Sufjan. As Suf commented on self-reflexively, they can be poster children of sadness and solitude together.

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I hope the clown shoes are the most comfortable thing he's ever worn. If they are I'll forgive it.

I would forgive it if he kept them hidden.

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Watched the fanmeeting live while buzzed and tipsy, then had to recover the next day. All this to say, I am still convinced Taemin isn't real.

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Bonus : In the last SWIV concert in Seoul when he brought the mic up to Jjong’s mouth as he was having a mental breakdown and was laughing at him. 

i missed what teeming said that was mean. i need filled in

OKAY SO THIS IS OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD W/OUT LINKS (SORRY) BUT:

one time in swiv he told fans to get better seats if they wanted the stuff that was thrown by shinee

the entire game segment of the shining fanmeet thing in 2018 where he just violated his members personal space just to mess w them (sticking his fingers up key's nose, grabbing minho's ass, aggressively tickling onew)

called his friend's group flops on blue night once in 2016 (hotshot -- he rlly said that their album didn't do well)

constantly bullies his youngest manager and jokes abt him being a virigin and getting him a gf (i have a thread on this under a specific tag i can't remember now rip but I'll reblog it)

said he wanted key to mess up on live tv ("even monkey's fall out of trees sometimes")

broke into key's house?????? and said it was fun?????

on hello baby the baby wanted to play the tunnel game (running between their legs) but taemin just turned around and bumped the baby's face w his butt instead ksgkdkdlslgkdkdlhljlkl

that one clip from we got married where like he was trying to show shinee his "wife" and the phone stopped working and he threw a "tantrum" (this is more diva than mean)

wait didn't he stab jonghyun's eyes out in his 2017 birthday cake or smth or did i hallucinate that. he did smth like that once I'm pretty sure

when he slammed jonghyun's bday cake into his face in like....2014? 2015?

in 2016 on weekly idol during the random play dance and he kept throwing his hyungs under the bus for messing up the choreo lmao

on any show (esp w shinee) u can pinpoint the exact moment he gets fed up and wants to go home but can't. always hilarious bc he just sits there like 😡😡😡

all of this is said w affection and jokingly, by the way anon! I don't actually think Taemin's a bad person!

that being said, he is a little shit and I can't believe how often he manages to 6v6 his way out of all of this

There's definitely more but I can't think of them. So others feel free to add on!!!!

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I hated every thing about those two days of concert. I hate Taemin. The oddacity.

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I am so happy he did The Rizzness on stage because it permitted him to show off his dance roots with all the popping and isolation moves. It feels satisfying.

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I laughed at how much Taemin enjoyed seeing this message. https://www.tumblr.com/taemmin/726727764300939264

Ofc he loved it! He is not joking when he says he is possessive over his fans and wants them to love him more than anything else 🙄

That person though is guilty of stroking Tae's ego like that as if we need him to be even more COCKee ugh.