#girl just disband atp

[allpromarlo]

every year or so i take a peek into what’s going on in kpop and every year i understand less

[sailorspica]

it’s 5am and i can’t sleep so my mind has turned to wondering: where the hell were jean and annie finding the time to bleach their hair in the middle of like world-ending chaos???? jean and levi had their perfectly maintained undercuts and annie had her platinum blonde hair 😭😭😭😭😭 i know it’s probably her natural blonde but she’s the only blonde is the series with that shade and it’s significantly funnier to me to imagine her letting hitch do a bleach and tone immediately before she went out to kill the levi squad 😭

okay, having giffed WIT and mappa annie and reiner several times, i think they pass for siblings, but you know who else has identical hair color? jean and hitch. this also begs the question of if any shifter used like, overtone or hair chalk, would their titans also get it? i guess it's like clothes—it's not as if the beast titan gets giant glasses—but the thought of the female titan with the Lover pastel bi ends is sending me

i've seen so much fruity fanart of levi and erwin shaving each other and touching up their undercuts with straight 😏 razors, so i think soldiers in general/anyone in close quarters like that all cut each other's hair—mikasa chopped hers off night one, so she might have asked for help or been offered a hand in the girls' barracks, yk? in my little heart, EMA probably spent the previous two years as refugees cutting each other's hair, so why would they stop? and the same goes for RBA, or at least reibert. i think the cadet boys would have fun shaving connie's head all the damn time and would surely inflict bad haircuts on each other on purpose until shadis put the fear of god in them (his own bald head).

eren and jean Certainly had some incident early on—say, eren was cutting jean's hair, doing well, and jean was like, "i'll return the favor" and eren went, "that's okay, mikasa just trimmed it last week," et cetera. come disbandment time and quickly joining squad levi, i headcanon the scouts are all so close that atp who Hasn't shorn connie, and in a pinch (idk, if hange is busy) the kids also cut levi's hair

it's also SO funny that jean hates marlowe's bowl cut, but i just made myself deeply sad with the thought that jean grew his hair out in the time skip because idk, in the three months marlowe was a scout they enabled each other, or something. idk

[vampiricgf]

the whole hybe newjeans situation is so weird to see in the context of fans talking about it because I think anyone with a brain can see that being paid a $3 million salary, getting preferential housing, and the multitude of brand deals they have is hardly mistreatment from the company for a group. and if anything them potentially going with ador is a poor move business wise. it's hybe as a company that has the financial ability to not just pay their salaries but to pay for their comebacks and promotional materials and manufacturing albums and merch. ador is a subsidiary of hybe, they themselves would not have the same level of financial ability to do that as a separate, smaller company no longer attached to hybe. those resources won't go with them if they sever ties. not to mention ador would be in a sticky situation regarding its image after all this is settled, even if it turns out in mhj's favor her reputation is already smeared and a lot of people will be wary about working with her and by extension about working with newjeans. it's very very risky for them to position themselves at all in the situation rather than just continue with their contractual obligations neutrally and let the companies battle it out in court

and that's not even mentioning how inappropriate and odd it is for an adult woman to be so emotionally dependent on four teenage girls. they aren't therapists, she should be seeing a professional rather than using them as emotional crutches because it puts them in a situation where they potentially feel responsible for a grown ass adults wellbeing and that could potentially explain why they've taken a stance with mhj without seeing the risk they're taking by doing so. they handed hybe reason to disband them on a silver platter so they theoretically could just dissolve the group if the risk outweighs the benefit of keeping them around for hybe as a business

truly I don't think it's hybe that's hurting the girls image rn it's mhj and her intense emotional entanglement with them.

and the illit stuff is a weird distraction, if hybe owns both groups how does it make sense for them to sow discord between them? a business that depends on these groups to make money is not going to sabotage them right out of the gate especially after they've already invested money in training and debuting them the entire point is to recoup that investment as well as make a profit outside that. they are a business so what matters to them is the bottom line and this fan created scenario of hybe villainously sabotaging both illit and newjeans makes zero sense in that perspective. why risk having to dissolve two groups and eat the cost of training, debuting, and maintaining them with nothing to show for it but a negative profit? the hand movements people are pointing to as this damning evidence of dance move plagiarism is silly, that movement has been used by multiple groups in choreography atp. and the girls' group aesthetics are different, modern y2k vs dreamcore. the similarities begin and end at minimalistic hair and makeup, it's just been blown out of proportion by diehard stans who take it as a personal insult that another group of girls would debut with neutral looks and an easy listening sound

[jentlemahae]

god i am so over blinks on twt being like "ugh bp disband already" like please for the love of god move on from this topic! we have known that bp aren't doing group shit this year for months now, why are we still having the same old conversations every 2-3 weeks? it's so fucking boring

i literally scrolled through my tl this morning and the number of times i rolled my eyes 🙃😐 how many times do we have to say that the pinks are all focusing on their solo career this year !!!!!! and how many times do the pinks have to say they’re all working on solo music !!!!!!!!! i’ve really come to the conclusion that not only do a lot of blinks not care about the pinks as people and don’t want them to do what they actually want, but also a lot of blinks are genuinely stupid because how can u look around and see everything the girls have been doing/saying and still demand group music ?? we keep having these conversations and it’s gotten beyond boring atp, some of these people are just idiots

[pastrnaks-sainz]

ok I’ll try 😭😭 this is really emo for some reason don’t come at me

sway: joined the military at 18. considered a “failure” in school because he never really did well, but both of his parents were very sick so most of his time was spent working and looking after them. His mom wanted him to serve the country, since everyone in his town did it. He didn’t want to disappoint her, so he enlisted at 18. He was a really good shot because he used to hunt a lot, and he eventually became a SEAL and went into special forces

ully: also joined very young, but it was to get away from his parents. He lied about his birth year and during boot camp he got found out. They were already watching him very closely and thought that he was above average, so they took a gamble and let him stay. The caveat was that he knew that he could be sent home by them at any time, so he had to do everything he was told; no questions asked. eventually he was pulled aside with some of his peers about joining a special team. The guy running it told everyone that it was gov’t approved (it wasn’t). The team’s job was to go around basically interrogating and k!lling “suspects”. Ully would later find out that these people just knew too much about the leader. He kept coming back to deploy until he met a girl in a bar. It was basically love at first sight, so he went out with her a couple of times. She said she’d wait for him while he was at war and he went off again. When he got to base, he told one of his buddies he wasn’t going to re enlist, and the word got spread until the SPECOP leader figured this out. He pulled ully to the side and basically said “you will return until you die. I cannot afford to lose you, you are my best soldier.” Atp ully had a fuckton of pent up rage from doing this guy’s bidding and snapped. He finished his service and vowed to never go back. He married the girl and they had kids together, but shortly after his son was born he fell into depression from PTSD; he was convinced he couldn’t raise a child because of all the killing he’d done, didn’t know how to be kind. To help, he started looking into the operation he was in, and his angel of a wife stuck by him the entire time. when his kid was around 1-2, one of his old friends from the unit came to his house. he told ully to stop looking into these things, that it wasn’t safe and his family was being watched. His wife suggested they move, so they did. Ully stopped looking, and focused on family. That is, until he got some random ass email. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back, and Ully told his wife he needed to go back. She told him to be safe, and off he went again. In his year at war, he gained no information except that the unit had disbanded when he started to look into them. Confused and homesick, he came back. He came back to a home torn apart. He came back to his wife, tied to a chair with a bullet wound in between her eyes. He came back to his son, with a tear stained face and empty eyes and a white sweater turned red. He mourned for months, and by rotting he became vengeful. He packed up his life and went on a killing spree basically. He hurt anyone who could be connected to his family’s murder; including many government officials and soldiers from his unit. Caught in the crossfire were two undercover Americans. Word got out that the Americans were killed, and that’s where Sway comes in. Sway’s team was given the job of finding this guy. Sway’s particular job had been watching Ully for a few years now. I don’t wanna write out how they met, but they did. It was on a mountain overlooking the home of a Swedish military contractor. Ully was basically about to put a shot through this dude’s skull but Sway stopped him. He tried to fight but it didn’t work. One of Sway’s teammates hit him with a syringe and he passed out.

There’s sosossososso much more that’s not the end at all but I have to go to practice 😜 also there are more storylines Swaymark are not the only ones lol

Hi yes I’m going to need 60k of this injected directly into my veins

[cryiling]

oh my god im so insane about 4town it's not even funny atp

1.) my bias is TAE YOUNGGGGG 🤭 it's the kpop stan in me LOL he reminds me so much of jimin. but he's just so sweet and caring and I neeeed more content of him!!! his little arc in the 4town manga was so 💗

2.) guys I'm an ot5, I love them all 😭✋

3.) i have no idea if this is unpopular, but I headcanon that tae young is the beatboxer of the group! I saw a tik tok from his va, and turns out the va is the one who did the beatboxing on their songs! so I hc that therefore tae young is the one doing that ^^ I haven't seen this hc before tho

4.) tbh I have not interacted enough with the fandom to know many popular hcs ajdbsjfb. I do hc that tae young gets really into second gen kpop around 2007 tho! is that a popular hc? specifically I think he'd lovee wonder girls and snsd

5.) ok ik that after 4town disbands robaire goes on to have a solo career, but my big hc is that they all stay close friends and further down the line they do a reunion album/tour for funsies!! robaire would absolutely slay as a soloist but I don't think he would prioritize that over his friends

6.) omggg hiding my pain is one of my favorite fics, I relate SO MUCH to tae young in it and I really love the hurt/comfort of his friends comforting and supporting him 😭🙏

7.) stop omg this art is so cute!!! tae young as jimin will always be my fave 🤭

8.) ok wait I did have two oc for my 4town predebut au but I don't remember their names 😭 but basically the fic idea follower tae young's high school life and how he got to know the boys, but it centered a lot around around his coming of age and coming to terms with his ethnicity and sexuality. in the au, he joins his school's asian-canadian club, and there he made two friends, one boy and one girl. but I don't remember their names or anything abt them 😭 but they were his first friends before 4town, and after the group debuts they still remain rlly good friends! yaur I'll talk abt this au more in #13

9.) can I count the disneyland parade LOL i saw it this past week AND TAE YOUNG GAVE ME A HEART OH EM GEEEEEEE im dead i love him 😭🙏 but if not that, then fs the 4town manga!!! i actually should reread it bc I don't remember most of it, but it gave us so much content for how the boys interact with each other!!!

10.) guys back in 2022 there was this person on insta who was making 4town cds and photocards and stuff and i NEEDED ITTT so I bought it for $25 😭 but omg I was so obsessed with it, I had the tae young pc in my phone case for theee longest time, tbh I have zero clue where I put the thing but I loved that merch!!!

11.) me when I'm fighting a giant panda by singing my hit song

12.) AN ACTUAL COMEBACK WITH A FULL LENGTH ALBUM AND MV PLSSSSSSSSSS you don't understand how badly i need that

13.) hey guysss are u ready to hear my whole fic idea for tae young centric predebut 4town 😽

so basically this takes place when tae young is in high school, a large part of this fic revolves around his insecurity issues regarding being a queer korean-canadian and wanting to express himself more feminine (like by wearing nail polish). in order to connect with more ppl like him, he joins the asian-canadian club at his school, where he becomes friends with this boy and girl who are both also queer (or at least allies, I don't really remember?)

but his two friends help him come out of his shell and start embracing his true self! I thought it could be interesting if the guy friend was z or something, but maybe it's more impactful if it's just an oc? idkk

at some point, he connects with t, who's in the same grade as him but a few months older. they're working on a school project together, but even once the project's over, they stay good friends! and this is when he starts to connect with the other 4townies

tae young has always had a passion for singing, but for a while he was really self conscious of his higher pitched voice. but his two friends from the asian-canadian club helped him overcome this insecurity as well. and so he really connects with t, who has always loved dancing and wants to pursue that as a career

anyways idr how but the 4town members eventually all connect and become friends (this happens in tae's and t's senior year btw) and they all share the same dream of becoming music artists! eventually they're scouted by a music label, and they can't believe the good news, so they all sign asap. and under this label is when they put out their turning red album and do their tour from the movie and everything

but actually, this label they're under is kinda rlly abusive and they totally overwork the boys and don't let them have any artistic control over their work. so none of the boys are really happy. and eventually, this all comes to a head when the company's ceo gets rlly verbally abusive towards tae young, calling out a lot of the things he used to be insecure about. and the members have had it atp, so they all quit their contract on the spot (ik this isn't super realistic but they do something like loona did irl and sue the company and it all works out in the end) and the boys are able to leave the label and start making their own music independent of a label

this means that their music is more representative of who they are and what they want to do, and this becomes really clear to fans, who have been supporting 4town the entirety of their fight against their old label. so yeah happy ever after to the boys who can be the artists they want to be!!

i cannot believe I just wrote all of that for a 4town fanfiction 😭 I have not written that long of an au post since revalink last year omg

14.) ok tbh I don't really see myself dating any of them 😭😭 it would be super fun to hang out with tae, altho I think my personality would mesh better with robaire or t ajdbwjfn. I have zero clue what we would do, prob with tae we could go get boba or coffee or smth, maybe with robaire we could get dinner or a more traditional "date?" and with t I think it would be super fun to have a dance session together!

15.) well *I* would fs be fangirling the entire day LOL, idk I would honestly be scared to be perceived by them 😭 im content to do wtv SJDBEJFN

anyways this was so much fun to do!!! I've loved 4town forever but I'm still new to the fandom on tumblr so pls be kind to me 😣

4*Town Questions To Keep You Entertained

Keeping the 4Townie fish fed & enriched, more lil activities on the way

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1. Who is your 4*Town bias/favorite member? Why do you like them?

2. Who is your least loved 4*Town boy? Why?

3. Whats an unpopular 4*town HC you have?

4. Whats a popular 4*town HC amongst the fandom that you enjoy/share?

5. Whats your favorite 4*Town headcanon/idea?

6. Do you have a favorite 4*Town fic or headcanon set? If so, what one?

7. Do you have a favorite 4*Town art piece or artist? If so, who?

8. Do you have a 4*Town OC? If so, what are they like? Tell me about em! Show em off! If you dont have one, make one up on the spot briefly

9. What official 4*Town content is your favorite? (Manga, gifs, the website, movie etc)

10. What UNofficial 4*Town content is your favorite (it can be your own! Or a fic an animation, a fan piece, fanmerch etc)

11. Whats your favorite 4*Town song? (Except you cant list its name or any of its lyrics, you just have to poorly describe it)

12. If you could make any self indulgent official 4*Town content, no limits on VA’s, no cost problems, whatever quality you want, what would it be? Why would it be that?

13. Make up (or talk) about a 4*Town AU thats self indulgent to you :]!! Whats it like? Whats it involve?

14. Who do you wanna date in 4*town? What would the date be? How would the guy behave?

15. You get to spend a day with 4*Town, what are y’all doin?

[berrytual-remade]

9, 10, 18, 22, 32!!

9. a group that deserved better </3

not rly in the past tense bcs its still ongoing but everglow nd cherry bullet </3

10. song to most likely make you crash your car while driving or get pulled over for speeding

buck woodz def ….

18. most unique music video

antifragile lsf

22. favorite subunit release

i have a couple ….. catellena orange caramel , loonatic odd eye circle , thursday’s child has far to go txt , push & pull twice , easy wjsn the black , hmph! & super yuppers wjsn chocome

32. if you could magically bring back a disbanded group but had to disband another, who would you bring back and who would you disband?

id bring back wonder girls (just have them take breaks in between n sunmi can still release solo music) n id disband….is it controversial to say blackpink. im sorry to my blink moots who read this im a (casual) blink myself but they seem more like models than a music group atp

[transrightsjimin]

i wish there was more of interesting discourse on IDOL: The Coup but a lot is just abt who of the two male lead characters ends up w jenna and also that ppl hate bong... like yeah thats. thats what u watched. but theres also a whole plot abt music and mistreatment and plagiarism nd all these character's backstories! but viewers' reading of the show seems still so superficial to the point i see ppl dont even understand who plagiarized the song or think jenna's weird decisions make sense 😭

atp out of the 3 main characters CEO Cha is ironically my fav one simply bc the actor is so good at acting like a pissed off manbaby but tbh i get why hes so fed up w jenna bc goddd 😭

i do appreciate tht he reconsiled w jihan like YES finally characters r TALKING out of their issues instead of being vague, though his reason for neglecting jihan when he was younger was so gssiffsiskdj

but yea at this point hes at least the more interesting one out of the two but if jenna does end up w him i hope she does rly leave starpeace bc your boss dating u is just rly messed up. also i would love for solbin to stay w her found family or reconsile w her (lesbian?) parents or smth.

and pls stella and el need to be in a better place, stella needs who i assume is her abuser to be out of her life, and for el i wish she can support her mom financially and away from her abusive dad. which AGAIN is why i think jenna is an idiot and shouldve accepted the longer contract option bc w 1 hit and then disbanding, possibly leaving the industry, the other girls are back at square 1.

so i hope either they find safety nd income after they (if they do) score a no1 hit, or they change plans bc jenna is confronted w how few she has to lose vs how much the rest has if their careers end like that. but jenna serves to maintain the premise of the plot i know, i know. just urgh very conflicted abt the progression of the show bc past 10 episodes feel silly when jenna keeps dropping every plan continuously

[jentlemahae]

yg releasing a statement bcs their stock fell saying they're still discussing with lisa. girl it's september, ur not discussing shit. just dragging out the drama atp.. i rmb them saying the same thing with CL which turned out to be bs bcs then she left. and apparently jenchuchaeng are still unknown. tbh it seems more like parting ways w the company and not e/o but it could go either way 🤷‍♀️

i think the girls have all made up their minds but yg is still trying to persuade whoever want’s to go to change their mind, so they’re still trying to ease the investors bcs if one of the pinks leaves bp is disbanded even if yg says otherwise lol so their stocks will surely plummet 🤷🏻‍♀️ we shall see but atp im genuinely curious