#jikook traveling

[stormblessed95]

Jikook travel documentary in the US??

I remember the rumours back then that they might by filming, but didn’t want to get my hopes up. I’m so so happy!! I wonder what they did? Did they actually go camping?

(So many series to look forward to while we wait for the reunion: the BTS documentary, hope on the street, and now this! Bless BTS for feeding us so well, honestly)

Clearly they went out to eat.

They went on a boat and/or a yacht (maybe more than once).

(Won't post the clips from the boat capt that were leaked since jikook had asked him not to film them and he did anyway, asshole)

They had some drinks at a brewery (spotted at this brewery).

They went on a small road trip and to a small stop&shop for pizza.... (open for thread)

I cannot WAIT to find out more. It's going to be so freaking good I know it. They had SUCH A GOOD TIME it seemed like from the few people who saw them out and about!!

[thoughtsonkm]

AYS photobook favs pt.1

cr. to youth, jaksal & rina

[zourrysecrets]

🌱🍔🍜⛵

[haedalkoo]

The car conversation and grammar: "When I was busy, you were free but you never called me."

After rewatching the episodes a few times (I just couldn't get enough of them) and reading the opinions floating around, I wanted to add my two cents to the car conversation discourse. This post is mostly about language and interpretations. Keep in mind I'm not 100% fluent in Korean, but I understand the language to a significant degree.

Let's get started!

It's time to put on my Korean-is-an-awfully-ambiguous-language cap. Buckle up.

The conversation starts with Jimin saying they haven't gone somewhere in a long time. I would say it's not that they haven't hung out, but that they haven't traveled together or gone out like that. This is just my interpretation, though. JK tells him, "we were supposed to get a drink" (as in, meet up and go for a drink 만나서 (meet and) 술 한잔 하자 (go get a drink)). Then, Jimin says "원래 그런 거 아니겠니" which loosely translates to "isn't that how it's supposed to be originally?" as in, that's what happens, you talk about doing this or that together and it never ends up happening. Like the travel show, if JM hadn't flown to JK. Like the times he tells Tae to meet up but never happens. Life gets in the way.

But this is the interesting part. Jimin's reply to me comes off a little defensive (in a joking manner), as if saying, "don't blame me for not meeting up (it's not like I didn't want to, I couldn't)." but JK keeps pushing him. He says:

"형 바쁠 땐 / 내가 겁나 한가한데 / 안 찾고. 나 바쁠 땐 / 형 한가한데 / 안 찾고."

This sentence is a grammatical nightmare. He isn't using any particles, which help indicate who's the subject or object of the sentence. So you can only guess based in context. I've marked Jimin (hyung) in orange, JK refering to himself ("me") in purple, and "didn't come looking for" in pink. 찾다 (jatda) means to search for, look for.

Many K-armys have been pointing the same thing out, and I agree. The repetition of 안 찾고, to me, feels like he's making the same point in different situations.

When you were busy, I was so freaking (겁나) free

When I was busy, you were free

And in neither of these cases you came looking for me.

That's why Jimin jumps in immediately to defend himself in a whiny tone.

아니지 찾았지! That's not true, I did go looking for you! (The ending 지 indicates a reiteration, something both the speaker and recipient know as true.)

He took that personally LOL. But this makes so much sense in retrospective, think of all of those 2023 lives were JK was asking JM to come over, to do a live together, and JM's response was always "I'm busy" "Hyung needs to go" "You/I have a schedule." Jungkook was lonely without him. Jimin probably felt bad and did as much as he could to see him ("I did reach out!") - to the point he flew fourteen hours to spend quality time with JK. HOWEVER, this is just an interpretation. The lack of clear pronouns and particles makes this really hard to translate, which is why the show translator interpreted it as "when you were busy and I was free, I didn't call you." Both interpretations are valid, but giving their reactions and context, I feel like this one makes the most sense to me.

If we go with my interpretation, after that, I feel like Jimin tries to ease the conversation/justify himself by saying how him and Tae don't meet up either even if they videocall often. As if saying "I'm not pushing you aside, I'm really not meeting up with anyone else either". This makes Jungkook laugh, but he still wonders lightly "I don't think we would be seeing each other (either) if it weren't for this (trip/shoot)." I want to reiterate how lighthearted this comment is, he's simply wondering (but still teasing a little.)

But again, Jimin feels the need to defend himself "yah, that's why I (hyung) came here!" (again, he uses a grammar that highlights the information being said is something the two of them know, something obvious.) To me this felt very whiny/cute, like, "stop saying I didn't make time to see you! I'm literally right here!!" and I think JK gets the hint that if he keeps pushing JM might get upset, so he smoothes things over by repeating over and over again, "that's right, you came, you came."

It's a response to the previous "you weren't looking for me." You did come looking for me. You found me. We're okay now.

Finally.

[jeonscatalyst]

I don’t know about you but i’m not getting into bed with and snuggling with someone who has a stomach bug and explosive diarrhea unless I love them an unhealthy amount.

So you mean to tell me that Jungkook wakes up in the morning and the first thing he does is go to Jimin’s room to check on him and then proceeds to get in bed with him, pull his leg down and lays on his stomach/ crotch area (whatever that part was) then starts play fighting with him, smacks his ass and then almost enters into his skin (because where was the space) all while grunting??!!???!! Nah these two give a whole new meaning to the word SHAMELESS and i’m not even sure they realize it.

PS: Jk must love Jimin’s smell because at some point I thought he was going to enter into Jimin’s skin with how much he was glued to him in bed and knowing that Jk is extremely sensitive to smell, it says alot that he was more than comfortable being in that position with Jimin for God knows how long.

[mrs-monaghan]

Tbh I'm a jikooker, but I find it incredibly difficult to fit a healthy long-term relationship into the same timeline as all of jimin's solo work. It's not the pronouns or taking one lyric very literally, its the entire thing, plus comments from him and his producers. To me, you'd have to do some serious olympic level mental gymnastics to make that make sense. I don't doubt that jikook have a special bond, I've definitely seen things between them that definitely look like sexual attraction to me and things that surpass friendship boundaries, but I can't in good faith say that they're together in some official long-term way if I actually listen to jimin and his work.

I've seen some jikookers think they broke up for a while, but I have to question if those people have ever been through a breakup because the little bit of distance/separation/awkwardness we did see from them during chapter 2 is nothing compared to the type of tension that would be there if a relationship that intimate and intertwined had separated, especially considering the dark feelings jimin was feeling. He wouldn't have been cutely commenting on jungkook's lives and jungkook wouldn't have been asking to hang-out or getting excited to see jimin in his comments.

Idk, I'm sure someone could twist everything a certain way and only take certain things at face-value and then make everything else abstract, etc. to make the case that they are together, but I don't really see it. You look at face-off, alone, and just his general dark feelings during Face, then look at the creation of Muse and how him and his producers said he couldn't relate to the love-dovey beginning songs, which is how they ended up making Who (despite the fact that jikookers try to distance him from the song since he doesn't have writing credits even though he sat in the recording room telling them what he wanted and saying it felt like reading his diary). I think jimin could have very well gone through a pretty awful breakup along with the inner turmoil he was going through post-covid, but I don't think it was with jungkook if he did. I still enjoy jikook's bond either way at the end of the day, but yeah I don't really get how anyone can take an honest look at jimin's work and his words and think he was in a long-term healthy love-of-his-life relationship during that time or into chapter 2.

Not trying to change your opinion or anything, honestly I don't really see it discussed much in jikooker spaces (besides bad-faith stuff like tkkers stirring up shit over pronouns in lyrics which is just dumb) and when it is, some jikookers are pretty pick-and-choose about what they deem to be true to jimin's feelings and what isn't. Which I get being nuanced, but sometimes it does feel like a "well this fits my beliefs so clearly this is true to jimin and this doesn't so it means nothing because he didn't write it" or whatever. I honestly get annoyed with the bad-faith arguers because it prevents being able to have actual discussions about some of this stuff in our little jikooker corner of tumblr. Like "he said her, he's clearly straight! he danced with a girl, straight!" stfu.

I don't have much to say to you anon. Not really. Not anything that hasn't been said anyway. Which you've seen and decided its jkkrs doing mental gymnastics. "I'm a Jikooker but..." its never a great way to start a sentence. It just gives major insecure jkkr vibes which i just 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬 you either believe in them or you don't. There is no if, and or buts.

I will leave you with this; over the years, antis and (insecure) jkkrs alike have always found a way to conclude Jkk aren't as close anymore or they broke up or some other bullshit. But what happens everytime Jikook resurface and we see them together again?

NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!

Nothing ever changes with these 2! They come back closer, more in sync, happier, more in love and their relationship more established than ever. This happens every👏🏽damn👏🏽time👏🏽 Everytime!

Then the insecure jkkrs will be like "jkk is real" again.

And then we will go without content for a while and once again we are back here with the jkk aren't as close argument. Once again. It is an exhausting cycle that I refuse to be a part of.

You can try and nit pick various reasons as to why Jikook aren't in an established rlship, but I will chose to focus on reasons why they are definitely 130000000% in a relationship. Like the fact that they are enlisted together rn, the fact that they could have done AYS with other members but chose eo. Or the fact that Jimin wrote his name on JK's chest with sunscreen and I dont even want to imagine how he did that. What position they were in that would justify people calling them brothers 😂

You do you anon. I'mma just be over here enjoying Jimin promote the hell out of his favourite JK song.

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Look at him so proud of his man 🥺🥺

[goldenhickeysandramen]

3 songs for 3 trips

Jungkook’s three main songs all share a similar storyline: the need to be close to the loved one 🥰

Coincidentally (or maybe not), each song was released during an AYS trip, perfectly fitting the mood between Jimin and Jungkook each time and becoming their unofficial soundtrack, especially Jimin's 🤭.

This full video is my tribute to the songs & the 3 trips, and all the ways they overlap ☺️

SEVEN

“Seven” was the USA trip’s anthem. It was released the same day they started their journey, and Jimin and Jungkook kept singing it together throughout the whole 3 days. JK even playfully asked Jimin to do a cover of it ☺️

Seven is the ‘serenade’ of a lover who wants to be with their beloved every day, loving them, easing their mind or spending quality time (FINALLY!!! as JK said).

Originally, AYS was only supposed to be a one-season show, but they extended it, which totally captures the spirit of "Seven"

3D

Then there's "3D", which also talks about wanting to be with someone but in a more physical way. The song’s definitely more cheeky, like how Jimin and Jungkook were with each other in Jeju. They had this lighthearted, playful energy—especially in those moments when it was just them 😌.

Their little “ppeuriri” joke—after coming out of the pool and chatting about RAMEN— didn’t feel random LOL

SNTY

Finally, "Standing Next to You" is all about commitment and standing by each other: “I’m here with you, no matter what life throws at us.” And this is the song and mood of Sapporo and the end of that year:

"Let's create memories together"

"We had to go back to Japan together (because it's our place)"

"These are the best trips of our life"

"We will enlist TOGETHER".

[slaaverin]

I'm never letting you forget that his happened.

The Caress, the quiet way JK went into the bed to rest his head on Jimin's..navel? Not a word was exchanged. There was a silent knowing in the normalcy of this intimate moment.

Nothing was said but everything was shown.

I still can't believe we witnessed it.

As usual it feels like we're seeing things we shouldn't. And yet they allowed us to.

That's a huge level of trust.

AYS feels like a fever dream 🥲

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

Are You Sure?! - Episode 8 Observations

10/10 ☆

"If you just watch my trip with Jungkook here, you'll know exactly what I do every day at home."

Jimin - Are You Sure?!, episode 8

Something had shifted that last night in Sapporo. The tongues were looser, the flirting was back in full force, the laughter out of nothing and everything could be heard throughout the house. After two days of activities and always on the move from one place to another, this was now a time to just be. Like they usually are when they hang out together. And it was a peek into how easy it would be for things to escalate. It was like I could finally see how Jungkook could spin Jimin around and then receive a bite/hickey because of it.

A lack of actual objective and purpose cracked the facade that somehow they both tried to maintain and succeded more or less. Especially Jimin. But even in that context, this trip was Jimin and Jungkook stripping away the filters. Add some alcohol in the mix, together with tiredness and soreness and it almost strips them bare. So much so that it leaves enough room to blatantly check the other one up from head to toe while being almost naked. It leaves room to use words like "baby" and "honey" without the other one finding any of it remotely weird.

Going back to that quote from the beginning, despite Jimin referring to how he simply does nothing and lays around the house when he's not out working or on trips around the world, I think it also applies to the cooking session/impromptu show they had that evening. It also takes me back to their second night in Connecticut when Jungkook made pasta and both of them were in sync and knew exactly what to do and how to do it because it was a habit. The difference in Sapporo was that it had the humor twist on top. But even then, it all fell into place immediately. They laugh at the same things and they probably must have put on similar acts in similar situations before. Jungkook is good at making Jimin laugh and how can he not try his best at succeeding that when Jimin is almost falling over because of it?

Which is why the next morning is such a blatant contrast to their good spirits the night before. Reality came crashing down. Impossible to hide. The mood was down, some tears and snifling even before they left the place. Not even shared jokes about puppy Jimin could work anymore. Not even the feast they have each time they go to a resturant. Not even Jungkook opening up all the windows in the car to distract Jimin. And how could it possibly work?

The lack of filter was there that next day, but in very different circumstances. There was no point to put on a brave face and end it with a classic "it was fun, hope we'll do it again, bye". These were the last three days of spending significant time together before 18 months in which most of the closeness probably had to be contained in just being in each other's presence. They didn't hide the sadness. It was not only palpable, but vocalized. Wanting to go back to the first day, feeling down because it's the last one. And ultimately, for someone in his position that has travelled countless times for business and pleasure, the time he spent with Jimin filming this show remains as the most significant for Jungkook. That's a big statetement, but no words were minced.

The memories made during AYS?! will hopefully make their lives easier during their military service. And even though another winter is getting closer and snow is something to be shoveled there, I hope they'll remember running around the streets of Sapporo and only feeling pain in their knees from skiing.

[kanmom51]

Are you sure? Another teaser gem.

Our matchy matchy cuties.

Less than one minute of those two and I'm gushing.

That smile.

OMG, that smile.

What was it that JM said? "Fuck all your opps"?

Well there you have it, lmao.

Promised and delivered on multiple occasions seeing this hug is not from the same trip...

Pure happiness!

Please help!!!!

What am I going to do with hours of it?????

[drawballa]

Add "stomach bug" to the list of things jk would fight...

[thoughtsonkm]

AYS photobook favs pt.2

cr. to youth, jaksal & rina

[stormblessed95]

My grandma and brother are in town and staying with us this week. I'm going to force them to watch AYS with me as people who don't know BTS at all beyond the general "that band my sister/granddaughter really loves" 😂 stay tuned for their thoughts!

[haedalkoo]

https://x.com/jjkwifeplz/status/1831647012586164651?s=19

korean jikookers are going crazy because of what jungkook said to jimin when jimin was being flirty with him. they're saying they can't explain but apparently the "you're ridiculous" translation isn't accurate enough? can you try to explain it better for us please 💘

Hi!! I'm really glad I've been getting asks about this moment because it was one of my favorites. What Jungkook says to Jimin is "별꼴이야" which can translate to "you're ridiculous", imo, but what makes it hard to translate is that this 'ridiculous' has to be delivered in a very specific tone to convey the meaning of 별꼴. Again and again, I keep finding that the show's subtitles aren't wrong, but they can't convey the subtleties in Jikook's interactions. (This isn't to blame the translator, it's a common ocurrence with subtitles due to their concise nature!)

별꼴 is an unexpected, bizarre thing. One of my favorite examples to describe the feeling of this word comes from this dictionary:

가:저 사람 봐! 이 추운 겨울에 반소매 티셔츠에 반바지만 입고 있어.  look at that person! They're wearing a short-sleeve T-shirt in the middle of this cold winter. 나:정말 별꼴이다 They're really crazy/that's ridiculous/what a weirdo, seriously

As you can see, there are many ways to translate it, but they all convey that same meaning of 'you're being weird/ridiculous.'

Now, Jikook. To nobody's surprise, they're flirting. I think Jimin is pretending they're at a bar and he's paid for JK's drink to get his attention/flirt with him. So he's faking to be the stranger that paid his drink and waves at him coily from the other end of the bar (what's up with these guys and roleplaying...) Then, JK says 'you're being ridiculous' with a huge grin on his face.

What I think is making K-Jjkers crazy is that this response is heavily flirty as well. It can be used when couples or someone is being too cheesy or 'cringy'. JK's response is giving 'don't say such nonsense *blushes, smiles, twirls hair*'. He's flustered. Jimin fakes offense to his comment by turning around, and they break into giggles. You see what I mean? he's not really calling him ridiculous at all.

As Jikookers, we've seen this sentence used in the same way once before. Remember "my favorite thing these days is, hmm... waking up and seeing Jungkookie?" and Tae's response, "BOOO that's nonsense!" He said the same thing, 별꼴이야. It can be used when couples or someone is being too cheesy or 'cringy'.

In sum, Jikook be jikooking, anon.

[kthice]

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𝗬𝗢𝗨:⠀⠀𝗉𝗋𝖾𝗍𝗍𝘺⠀⠀𝖺𝗌⠀⠀𝖺⠀⠀𝗏𝗂𝗇𝖾⠀⠀🦪⠀⠀📼

[mrs-monaghan]

https://x.com/PJMGGUKlE/status/1826553314596585717

https://x.com/manggaebun/status/1826735659375362368

Jimin-shi.....your expressions are feeling a little naughty. I don't know how jungkook handles it, jimin's eyes alone can make you feel like your his prey, but then even his posture in that ramen conversation gif is so.....cocky? posturing? come and get me??? Idk, its a LOT

Poor JK. Jimin doesn't really make it easy. 🤭🤭

Jimin loves to push as much as he can... tries to see how much he can get away with, on camera. From the Dynamite hand holding, to the Bon Voyage footsies. And lets not forget all the times he's pretended to kiss JK. Idk why people think this man is so innocent.

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Never mind. I see why 😂