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[jmdbjk]

Mid-year recalibration

It's been a year since Festa Dinner 2022. A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THEN.

And on January 1, 2023, I posted my "predictions" for the year. "Predictions" in quotes because most everything I write is sort of slightly unserious, not to be taken TOO seriously, begs for you to please use your common sense... also I haz a little sarcasm dripping here and there when I express my thoughts. Drip, drip.

So let's see the status of my "predictions":

Solo albums... wellll, I sort of got that right, Jimin's FACE was released before Yoongi's D-Day. We're still waiting for Tae and Jungkook. RM keeps putting off enlistment to work on new music. I'm gonna have to drag him by the ear to training camp... get yer ass in there so you can come back sooner than later!! But we did get to see him for Festa and I'm thankful for that.

New prediction: Jungkook comes through with a chart topper that doesn't involve a collab.

Speaking of Tae, I said he'd do more acting before music and though it's not really acting, he's been in a few reality TV shows: "In the Soop: Friendcation" and "Jinny's Kitchen." There are rumors he was spotted on the set of a K-drama and now possibly he was in Spain for a movie...or was that for an upcoming solo MV? Surely he'll have at least a little bit of music before he enlists? Honestly, I wouldn't mind seeing him actually acting in a drama... we wait.

New prediction: Piano bar listening party for his solo release.

Military enlistment... wow so far I've struck out. Joon is still hanging around. Yoongi has extended his world tour (which I'm happy to say I've been to a concert). And HOBI IS ALREADY ENLISTED....

😭

So 3 strikes I'm out because obviously their enlistment timing is unpredictable. Right now I'm just hoping that by May 2024 (yes almost a year from now) they'll all be in so we can have a New Year group reunion on Dec. 31, 2025. Of course, I hope they go much sooner though it kills me to know we have to watch them enlist again and again.

My other predictions were hit and miss:

Yoongi did cut his hair so I was wrong about that. Also sad. I loved his long hair. And this NBA ambassadorship came outta left field. The D-Day world tour was the bomb he dropped on us, his big project. Oh well, guess there won't be any tangerine soju coming from his non-existent citrus orchards. Ha!

Hobi DID release more music, On the Street, and it WAS a collab with J. Cole. AND he became fashion ambassador for his fave: Louis Vuitton. God I miss him so much. Instagram is so quiet without him. Everything is so quiet without him.

We finally got PJM1 and it has a name now, FACE and Like Crazy has broken records. Jimin as an artist has broken records as we knew he would and he is still making music. And he's travelling the world being a Dior and Tiffany ambassador and snatching everyone's wig, eating everyone alive and just being Jimin. His constant happy smile has been the most meaningful thing to me this year. I'm so thrilled he is happy.

Jungkook... the Bunkoo has stumped me. The Calvin Klein contract is amazing. His spontaneous lives have been wonderful. Cooking for us has been awesome. None of that could have been predicted. He's the sweetest king of spoilers and support for Jimin's stuff. I also did not predict I would love him even more this year. But here we are.

NOT ON THE PREDICTION RADAR WHATSOEVER:

Jimin on a Fast & Furious franchise soundtrack collab. I NEED MORE JIMIN!

Tae and Jennie "soft" revealing their relationship publicly. Like WHAT? But they did that.

Also blonde Tae... I never thought we'd see a blonde Tannie again.

Attending a Suga/Agust D concert and meeting up with Army friends I met on the internet. HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR!

[I can't believe I saw Yoongi in real life. This close.]

2023 is already half way over. I have no idea what will happen this second half of 2023. It's a mystery.

As much as I am reveling in having so much to look forward to every day and every week, and as much as I wish this didn't have to happen...I (selfishly) really want them to get enlisted so they can be back together as soon as possible in 2025 (at any point in 2025). The first time I see them together in 2025, I am going to cry with relief. However I am always the first to say BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR so I know I shouldn't even been saying any of that...

Anyway...

I guess at the end of December, I will be looking back and saying "well, who would have thought THAT would happen?" More of "not on the prediction radar." By December, Jin will only have six months left. Time is flying faster than I thought it would when back on June 13, 2022. After that heartbreaking Festa dinner, we were staring down a bleak two and a half years of being Bangtan-less....well that didn't happen did it?

[probably-impossible]

I think it would be fun if Papa V turned out to be Copia's twin who died and came back wrong but still a little bit silly.

Based partly on that artwork that's been floating around + extrapolations from the tour poster.

Bonus:

[sealsdaily]

GUYS AUSTRALIAN SEA LIONS HAVE MONOCHROMATIC VISION????? I ONLY FOUND OUT JUST NOW??

[dykephan]

we all thought phil shared that penguin video so dan could see it while they were separated but no they were sat next to each other deliriously ill holding back tears watching animatronic penguins sing and they just had to share it with us

[opikiquu]

(disappears for a month and reappears with a slightly obscure hyperfixation) Hey guys

[thomaskong]

It wasn't intentional. It just came out. The mosquito? The jealousy.

DMD Friendship The Reality EP. 4

[twistedappletree]

laughing bc i failed a speech check at the devil’s den during the cannon heist convo and didn’t know it was gonna be henry proposing the absolute batshit idea of tying up hans and leaving him in the middle of the road as bait for an ambush

[crazyxtogether]

The fact that this is the ai overview is wild to me

[cornerdreams-txt]

hey persona 5 fandom we're aware that bouldering takes an insane amount of upper body strength. right. like you need a LOT of upper body strength for that. especially in your shoulders, back, and chest/abs. gotta be able to hold your body weight and pull yourself upright, without falling off those rock walls and all right.

...anyway with that in mind you guys remember how akechi says he's picked up bouldering in the p5t dlc? and how he has a mementos line about it? yeah? yeah. yeah

[bonejunky6669]

POPPIES. THERES FUCKING POPPIES ON THEIR WEDDING CAKE. IT WAS LITERALLY ALWAYS ABOUT JACKIE. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT EACH OTHER THEIR RELATIONSHIP ITSELF IS A MEMORIAL TO JACKIE. NOT ONLY DOES SHAUNA HOLD ONTO THE DRESS JACKIE LOST HER VIRGINITY IN, BUT SHE MAKES HER A PART OF HER MARRIAGE TOO. JEFF WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE REPLACEMENT. JACKIE HAUNTS THE NARRATIVE ONCE MORE. IF JACKIE GOT TO HAVE A WEDDING DO YOU THINK SHE WOULD HAVE PUT POPPIES ON HER WEDDING CAKE? DO YOU THINK SHAUNA WAS THINKING THIS EXACT THING WHEN PICKING ONE OUT? DO YOU THINK SHAUNA WAS PICTURING HERSELF AS JACKIE, OR PICTURING HERSELF BESIDE JACKIE? AND DO YOU THINK WHEN SHE ATE THE CAKE SHE IMAGINED IT BEING JACKIE? SHE COULD STILL TASTE JACKIE IN HER MOUTH? DID YOU KNOW THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE

[emuanon34]

Disney is not slick hiding the fact that the duet between Asha and Magnifico obviously started out as a love song between her and the Star Boy.

We almost had the second coming of Jelsa but without the copyright infringement.

The lyrical difference between the official song and the demo song is that the demo says “Love” but it’s replaced with “Promise” in the official version.

[mysteriousmissme]

subtle foreshadowing for this??

:((

[wordfather]

spotify said 'ok skipper🤨'

[starleska]

just uncovered a fascinating Longlegs (2024) fact!! 👀

did you know that besides his own mother, Nicolas Cage had another highly specific influence for the character of Longlegs | Dale Kobble...a medium from a surreal Italian film made in the 1960s?

meet Bhisma, a psychic/prophet-type character from Federico Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits (1965). in the interview linked above, Nic Cage mentioned how he modelled the voice of Longlegs on the 'androgynous prophet' from this movie—and when you line up the clips together, you can really hear the inspiration!!

it's also worth noting Bhisma's repeated references to being 'beautiful', and how much she loves her hair and pale skin. she also chokes and breathes heavily, and swaps between this a light, airy way of speaking, to nasty and demonic. even Bhisma asking Juliet, 'Be honest, am I beautiful?' directly mirrors Dale's 'Do you find me beautiful?' in Fire, Fire, Fire, Hiss!! 🔥 no wonder Nic's performance as Longlegs is so iconic...what fantastic, unconventional source material! if anyone knows the name of Bhisma's actress, i'd love to know :3c

[princessbutler1316]

Some random people: u cannot animate a manga chapter cover, it's not even a painel

Cloverworks: you bet

[petitesmafia]

domestic skk causes the ADA to get whiplash bc on Monday Chuuya’s sent to their organization to blow up their defence but on Thursday they’re all gathering at Chuuya’s apartment for a dinner party (Dazai invited them)

Chuuya (mafioso): who wants to fight against gravity >:) Chuuya (dinner party host): who wants a second hotpot serving

Chuuya (mafioso): do y’all have a death wish? Chuuya (dinner party host): do any of y’all have any uhhh. allergies

bonus: art by andy !!