#i love these concept photos so much

[saythenameritwika]

These fucking pictures...i am dead. 😭😭

Seventeen — 【12th Mini Album】 Official Photo 𝗩𝗘𝗥.𝟬 #I_FELT_HELPLESS

[bird-inacage]

Are you KIDDING me??? Kant and Bison have no right being such cute ass boyfriends. The rom-com feels are hitting hard.

Kant looks so fond. Bison looks so twee. Ugh, this combo be killin' me.

Note: Ohhh I've finally realised that the things around Bison's neck are arcade ticket stubs. BLESS. Their dates look SO WHOLESOME.

[hue-kangz]

Snow fairies Tyunning and their matching ribbons 🎀

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

oh my god oh my god oh my GODDDDDD i can’t BELIEVE i found these on my little rainy october thrift shop wander this morning. like, one would have been more MORE enough. but both?? at once??? i am quite simply floating and may never touch back down to earth

[icewindandboringhorror]

recent things and such~

[araksi-art]

oh my beasts we're really in it now..

grown-up al'ixia-mariunak! the beastmaster <3

btw those are a mountain goat, a lynx, a hare and a marmot! but large

[ms-all-sunday]

i won that nami contest which meant that i was in control of what @fawnnbinary drew.

dog! zoro and post ts robin with body hair 🥰

[avanii]

The Black Smoker Beast can be found roaming the spreading ridges in the depths of the oceans. Hydrothermal vents support a lot of life, so I wanted this creature to look a bit more friendly than my other geology monsters! The enormous, chimney-like structures are absolutely awe-inspiring and I hope I did them justice. I really wanted the beast to have such a chimney for a shell, and gave it the iron armour and red skin of the volcano snail, and white/red whiskers based on the tube worms that make their home at black smokers. Lots of fun again painting with acrylic inks.

[shiinapop]

you know i fly from mars 📫💌🔭

[lesbiancarat]

I agree their album concepts seem pretty consistent with their music (lack of lore, more rooted in reality), plus i also think that more recent ones (FTS, FML, and Seventeenth Heaven in particular) matched the overall concept/themes of the albums well. Hell ive basically given a whole dissertation to my friend about FTS and FML concepts fitting into their overall narrative. I do admit I'm easy to please so i just like their faces lol but yeah its been nothing but complaints since i got here in 2020 😭 i do see people enjoy stuff so its never been 100% negative but those that are negative are LOUD. Should there be improvements? Yeah sure but like the stuff thats complained about never is what really matters half the time

I will however push my "give every kpop idol a sword" agenda tho bc i wanna see them with swords

yes exactly! and yeah that's true, it's never 100% negative, which is also why i think a lot of it comes down to personal preference and not bad design. bc there have been times i haven't liked a certain design choice or concept photo but i see others praise it and vice versa... but yeah it's just the fact that every comeback it feels like there's a loud group of ppl acting like the the album design or concept photos are the most boring things ever and it's the end of the world when it's really not that serious. and it's okay to not like things without making a big deal out of it or ruining others' fun

and i also totally think it's fine to wish for a certain concept! i too would like to see svt with swords!! but also 9 years into svt's career and they still stick to a pretty realistic concept and don't have lore... i feel like people shouldn't be shocked and upset every comeback that this is the case (and i was just using swords as an example i'm not directing this at you specifically)

like maybe it's time for some people to accept that if they want super crazy fantastical concept photos they shouldn't look to svt for that bc it's just not part of their brand. and if some day they do a concept like that i'm sure it will be super fun and cool and we will all be excited! but people shouldn't be upset when we don't get that since svt and pledis have given us no reason to have that expectation and that is also okay. and it doesn't mean the design or concepts themselves are inherently bad

[edmunderson]

vaq and what i've got so far for his room at his homestead :)

[slytherinshua]

idea....conceptober....like I use concept photos/take era request for moodboards/locks for all of october. does this sound like a good idea?

OOOO THAT SOUNDS SO FUN 🥹🥹🥹 I love concept photos so much so I would def be a fan of it 😍😍

[sanstropfremir]

I'm curious. What concept SHINee has done that you find the most interesting, the most well done, and the one that had potential but missed at execution?

hm! potential but missed at execution is DEFINITELY dcm, there was SO much promise in those first set of fake reality promo photos that was pushed aside for appropriative 4th gen nonsense that was not at all necessary. i don't really know what happened with the creative team there and why they got cold conceptual feet, but i'm very sad that they never pushed thru for the full twin peaks-y fake suburbia theme.

most well done? tie between odd and 10f1. both of them were SO influential to the industry that we're still very visibly seeing the effects of them almost a decade later. personally i would put 1of1 slightly farther ahead of odd just because the styling for 1of1 is one of THE best stylings of all time in the history of kpop, and they damn well knew it. i love odd + view so so deeply but its legacy has been a .....worsening of stylings over the last eight years bc it made companies realize they could just put idols in normal clothes and stop investing so much in costuming.

most interesting? hands down tsol. it's so rare to see such a beautiful monument of grief and love so thoughtfully executed. i've talked at length before about the choreographies from this era and how incredible they are, but the cohesiveness of the full album and its aesthetics of nostalgia and examination of their legacy as a group and how they set an optimistic tone for the future is so so so fascinating. i rewatch the tsol mvs (good evening/i want you/countless, not our page bc it makes sob uncontrollably) more than any other shinee mvs because there's endless ways to unpack them and the inherent dichotomy of deep personal grief and having to pretend to be a veneer of yourself as your job adds such a compelling layer to them.

[billdenbrough]

the thing about this trip is that i’ve gotten to hang out with so many of my favourite people ever which is SUCH a like. fucking peak. but also like the thing about giggling together on the couch at 5am over kevin day being cute and funny is that you get SO sad when you have to have your mournful goodbye 😭😭😭

[kutiee]

HAPPY K DAY 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖