#i only discover them dec last year 😭

[mangojustbecause]

[sunnyville36]

Hellooooo!!! I apologise for taking so long but this time of the year with work and finals is hell for me 😭 hopefully next week is all over for a while. To answer your question nope I do not travel during the holidays; I still live in my hometown and since we're a pretty small family ─ just my grandmother, mother and me, excluding my godparents ─ we all stay here! Only once, when we spend Christmas in Paraguay and New Years in Brasil. That was quite memorable, with the fireworks and everyone at the beach.

That being said! It makes me really happy that such a small thing like sharing a playlist led you to discover an artist you now love so much! I'm glad and I'm sure Liana Flores is as well ♡

A Christmas pajama party sounds really fun! With my friends we do something similar but during Halloween; for Christmas these last three years we've been doing Secret Santa (my boyfriend suggested it since we are both obssesed with that chapter/scene from The Perks of Being a Wallflower) and it became such a dear tradition to me. The most personal and treasurable presents for me are handwritten letters or anything handmade, that really goes straight to my heart haha I'd give you a pair of "porcelana fría" (polymer clay I think it's in English?) earrings inspired in rises the moon maybe.

Also the fact that all of you got BTS Christmas sweaters is so cute. ALSO Also, when is your birthday? We might be both Capricorns!

ahhh Bri I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to respond!!

That Christmas in Paraguay and New Years in Brazil sound like an amazing time! It would be so cool to be at the beach over the holidays some time! My friend (who also has a December birthday) and I have always wanted to spend our birthdays in London since she lives in Germany and I’m in the US and it’s one of our favorite cities 🤗 maybe one day!

My birthday is actually tomorrow (Dec 21)! The first day of winter and shortest day of the year ❄️ so I’m the last day of Sagittarius, but usually feel like I identify more with Capricorn traits haha 😅 what day is your birthday? are you also a December baby?

Secret Santa is always so fun! I love giving people gifts, and handmaking gifts (and getting handmade gifts!) is so personal and memorable! Clay earrings - Rises the Moon inspired no less - sound beautiful! I’ve been into making signs with my friends’ favorite quotes on them this year, so I’d ask you what your favorite quote is and make you that!

[gaykey]

How were you introduced to Shinee? :D I'm always curious about how other people came to know about them. I remember we had the Mnet channel on cable and came across the Lucifer mv. I was 19 lol and my sister were in middle school. We all thought it was so cool.

think i've briefly spoke about this before?

but

it was actually my best friend at the time that introduced them to me

we were 15, and we always used to hang out at hers and just like browse myspace and youtube for hours. we weren't at school that day, so it was either the weekend or some sort of school holiday, i can't remember, but it was in june 2008.

she was super excited to show me a music video for some boy group that she had stumbled upon whilst watching fanvids for some drama she was into at the time. i was a bit like 'eh' because i wasn't into pop boy groups at all.

she was like 'trust me. it's called replay and its so good. they're called SHINee but it's spelt like 's-h-i-n-e-e and they're all so hot, especially my fave one, who's called jonghyun. *her younger sister's name* fave is taemin!' (she'd already learnt all of their names even though she only discovered them like 2 days before lol. also, i DISTINCTLY remember her replaying the jonghyun part from about 1:28 - 1:33 like a thousand times and squealing 😂😭) she was so sure i was gonna love it too.

we watched it, and it was pretty much love at first sight djfjdj. i just thought they were all so cute, and could dance so well, and it wasn't really like anything else that was currently in mainstream music that i knew of. it had elements of course, but idk, they just stood out to me. and i was pretty entranced by the very pretty one with the eyebrow scar.

anyway, we spent the rest of the day youtube-ing and googling anything and everything we could about them, and the rest, is history.

i'm still here 13 years later, and it's weird because, though i have drifted from that friend, and don't know if she still stans (i last messaged her after about a year of not talking, on dec 18th 2017, as i'm sure you know why, and that was the last time we've spoken since) i think i'll always feel a bit connected to her through shinee, and all the amazing times we had loving them together for years.

and of course, i owe it to her for introducing me to them in the first place.