#minx kpop

[aryomengrande]

it seems that toji has once again crashed out in the apt after a long day of gambling ! fortunately, this apt is prepared to deliver a relaxing night for long-time tentants toji and minx ! thank you for stopping by at the apt, @081231 ! come see us again in the future ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

rara's favorite random game | © aryomengrande 2023

hold up ! the valued guests have arrived on an unforgettable date for the host ! lee jinki, a.k.a. onew from SHINee, the host's ultimate bias in kpop, turns 35 years old today ! allow us to extend the warmth from the SHINee world from here to toji and minx’s world ✧˖°

내 곁에 있어 준 넌 kind you were next to me, you're kind - kind ; SHINee

[kpop-idolxx]

Yoohyeon

[kpop-girlsworld]

JiU

[stickypiratepeach]

[insomniewriter]

Hii, Hiddens & Somnies! InSomniaWriter here! (But you can call me Nova) Welcome to my DreamWorld, your Minxiest Nightmare, aka my tumblr page. 🪐

Where to find me:

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/InSomnieWriter/works

Fandoms: Dreamcatcher (Minx) & Kard

X: https://x.com/insomniewriter?s=21

📝: my main domain is x (twitter), I’m mostly active there, but i am here on tumblr too, and I’d love to talk to my readers more so please feel free to send me questions !! 💬

Discord: InSomnieWriter 🫧

What fandoms & ships do I write for?

main: dami, siyeon (deukae & minx) & jiwoo (kard)

Ships: 2yoo, SingBin, SuaYeon, SoWoo & YuYeon (I only read YuYeon as of right now) 📝

genres: slice of life, alternate universes, dystopia, cyberpunk, sci-fi & dark fantasy

Constructive criticism for my writing is welcomed! So please don’t hesitate to comment or message me either. I’m very shy, but i will do my best to respond. But I will not take negative opinions as criticism, I do have decorum ✍️

Get to know me:

I like writing and listening to music. Deukae, their cinematography, the Nightmare Series (& K-pop lore in general) are huge inspirations to me & the reason I started writing again in the first place. (I stopped from 2020 to 2021 for medical reasons.)

I like dark fantasy, dystopian, alternate universe, slice of life concepts. I’ve been an active Somnie since mid 2022. I’m main line biased but over all ot7. Tho I do write ot5 works for Minx. I’ve only started writing for kard recently after becoming a hidden in 2023, especially Jiwoo/SoWoo because the kard fic community is pretty dead. So I shall revive it/hj

I do NOT writer idol fics, x reader or self insert fics. I will write headcanons for anyone in kard & deukae for any ship or members. I don’t write fics for any ship or member tho, just my faves. This is just a hobby. I also don’t do commissions, that’s hella illegal & I don’t actually ship anyone irl.

Here’s song that I correlate with my profile:

[mybiasisexo]

I’ve loved exo for 10 years, I’ll love them for 10 more 😤

[kpopfan861]

[underrated-ggs]

Happy Flashback Friday! Underrated bop of the day is "Love Shake" by MINX!

[hwangyeonjun]

prompt: “now everyone’s going to know you’re mine”

pairing: han jisung x fem!reader

warnings: smut, (un)protected sex, neck biting and marking, breaf mention of insecurities

word count: 563

2k followers celebration masterlist

jisung loves bragging. one of his biggest accomplishments aside becoming a kpop idol is getting you. he was tailing after you for a long time and when he finally got you, he promised himself to never let you go.

sometimes even literally, everywhere you go, he always has his arms on you, and at home, he just can’t get enough. you don’t mind, it’s nice knowing that you are wanted and loved.

but sometimes it gets too far for his own good. whenever he sees someone else talking to you, or making you laugh, jisung can’t help but get this uncomfortable feeling in his chest. many thought overflow his mind which leads to insecurity. though he never weighs those thoughts down on you, he’d never want this effecting you or your relationship and you are pretty oblivious of what’s happening in his head. actually you are so oblivious that the poor guy spent a whole week sulking over you rejecting him after he confessed that he likes you only for you to realise what he meant seven days later.

tonight though, he was voicing out his thoughts, or more accurately - showing them as he has you pinned against the bathroom wall. his hands are holding you by your thighs tightly while yours are wrapped around his shoulders holding on for dear life as he keeps ramming his cock into you.

“what are you doing to me” he grunted, lips brushing against your neck as he spoke.

you had your head thrown back, giving him access to your neck, your eyes tightly shut, unable to keep them open.

“i-i don’t know” you choked out, not knowing what exactly are you talking about but still feeling the need to answer.

“i think you do” jisung breathes out, thrusting his hips harsher, knocking the air out of you in the process. “you are a little minx, always so oblivious of everything but i know you. i know that you know”

before you could answer, he bites into your neck, making you gasp from the sudden pain. “i don’t” you meek out, digging your nails into his skin when you felt the knot in your stomach tightening.

jisung doesn’t answer, as he still focused on the spot on your neck that he bit just a few seconds before. he kisses it gently, before starting to suck on the spot as an idea popped in his head.

you were too focused on trying not to cum but the tingling feeling on your neck made it harder, the pleasure mixing together.

“jisung i- i want to cum” you whine, trying to pull him closer if that’s even possible.

you completely forgot about the party happening downstairs as jisung encouraged you to let it go, covering your mouth with his to quiet you down at least a little bit knowing you get really loud when you reach your orgasm.

after a few seconds of quick breathing, you opened your eyes to finally look at jisung, while he was already staring at your neck. remembering that he paid a lot of attention to your neck, you already knew what he was looking at. before you can voice your thoughts out, he opened his mouth to speak with a little smirk playing on his lips.

“now everyone’s going to know you’re mine” he muttered, while brusing his fingers through the bruise.

[deviya-sharma]

🌙 ˙˖ ࿔ Welcome to my blog ɞ° 𓈒

﹙❗️﹚ ── you can call me JB, I go by she/him.

➪ ︴you might know me as @webanglikethat, but I sadly lost that account. this will be a new fresh beginning and hopefully we can create memories just as sweet as the last time! I’m still holding out hope to get my old account back and if I do, this will be just a ss dump account then <3

➪ ︴this blog will mostly talk about detective conan, percy jackson (especially luke castellan), dteam, taylor swift, kpop & romance club.

➪ ︴DNI if you are panphobic/homophobic, racist, hate any of the stuff I like because I’m not here to listen to some bitching and moaning, like colleen hoover, schlatt + minx supporter.

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ : my loveliest: kelly, veronica, shah, min, agrima, hayam 🫶🏽 love you girls the most forever

[dreamcatcher-roulette]

Since I enjoy collecting things (big surprise) this year I've been working on collecting every Dreamcatcher music show performance in a quality that doesn't suck ass (aka not the seven pixels that YouTube compresses the official uploads down to). It went pretty well!

Pseudo research report under the cut (because I'm a massive nerd).

Scope

I started this project with the goal of collecting a full set of "music show performances". I didn't realise quite how ambiguous that definition is. After some deliberation I settled on the following as constituting "regular" performances:

Show Music Core

Inkigayo

The Show

Show Champion

M! Countdown

Music Bank

Simply K-Pop

Everything else I classified as misc. Most notably I left K-Force Special Show in the misc category despite there being quite a few performances on that show in the early days. This mostly came down to how I'm storing the files — I've organised the regular ones by era, but the K-Force Special Show performances frequently happened in between comebacks making them difficult to sort in that fashion. That and difficulties in ascertaining whether I do actually have all of them.

Methodology

The first step in collecting anything is finding out what you need to collect. I was surprised at how difficult it actually is to get a complete list of all of a group's music show performances. There are some fan sites which do a good job of presenting a lot of well categorised individual links to Dreamcatcher's appearances but I was hoping for something more "from the source" (aka the music shows themselves) and ideally machine readable to cross check that nothing is missing, since, for example, a collection of links to all official Inkigayo performance uploads is not a list of all Inkigayo performances (some never got official uploads). I ended up finding /r/kpop's music shows wiki fit my needs the most. The information is all in tables and sorted by music show and date which what I wanted.

Unfortunately, the main tables of /r/kpop's music show wikis only list debuts and comebacks, so I had to index and search all the individual pages to find what I was looking for. This involved spending a couple of afternoons opening up nearly 2,000 tabs of Reddit* and then downloading them using the SingleFile browser extension (Reddit rate limits you quite harshly and so I had to open a bunch of tabs, check they loaded, wait, and then repeat, which slowed it down a lot). While maybe a little overkill I did this for multiple reasons. Firstly, Reddit's search sucks, and I didn't trust it to find all instances of what I was looking for over so many pages. In contrast Everything's in-memory file content index beta is really good. But secondly, this is much more extensible, and now I can find any other group's performances as well (between 2017** and 2023).

*Reddit does not archive Simply K-Pop well at all (which caused some initial confusion), but the official Arirang website works fine as an alternative (albeit one that is somehow even slower than Reddit at opening new pages).

**Reddit's music show wiki pages start right before 2017. This is very convenient for a Dreamcatcher archivist, but, unfortunately for me, curiosity got the better of me and I did venture further out into the unknown. For 2014-2017 I have some scattered archives from various official websites, Twitter accounts, and Korean catch up services. I'm less confident in my music show data for this period in the general case but because the rough start and end dates for the two Minx promotion cycles are known I am confident enough that all the gaps I have in there are genuine gaps and that I'm not missing a performance date.

Once I had my wishlist I then had to go out and, you know, find them. And figure out what "best quality" actually means. I learned a lot about video encoding against my will. I also learned that HEVC is fucking haunted. When multiple sources were available I ranked them as follows:

2160p HEVC > 2160p h264 > 1080p HEVC (one weird edge case I didn't know what to do with) > 1080i h264 > 1080i MPEG2 > WEBDL (usually some kind of web livestream or online catch up service recording) > YouTube

Which I represented in my spreadsheet as:

This should be mostly uncontroversial, however, there is a slight complication in that the 4k broadcast copies are not all native 4k but often upscaled from the 1080 source (I can't find specifics on this as the information, if publicly accessible, would be in Korean, and there is only so much Google Translate can do, but the technical broadcasting details probably aren't public to the extend I am interested in regardless so I'm mostly basing this off information gleaned from secondary sources). As far as I can tell there exist two "grades" of upscales: one of which is upscaled by the network before being pushed out to a UHD channel, and one of which is upscaled by the end user by either recording a HD channel in 4k or running an existing recording through an upscaler. Traditionally upscales aren't very desirable due to providing no real material benefit you couldn't get from playing the 1080 copy on a 4k display yourself. Or, for people with an archival mindset like myself, because ones that actually look a bit crisper introduce "magic" pixels which may or may not have ever existed. See below for an example of this taken to the extreme (note the faces):

No one wants that, right? AND YET SOMEONE THOUGHT THAT WAS SUCH A BIG IMPROVEMENT THEY DELETED EVERYTHING ELSE, AND NOW IT REMAINS THE ONLY COPY I CAN FIND. Monsters!!! Anyway.

While upscales usually aren't desirable, I did come around to the idea that the network upscales deserve their place at the top of the list. There are a couple of points working in their favour: one is that they are, presumably, upscaled much more directly from the source, allowing them to avoid some of the data loss that being encoded into 1080i h264 and then upscaled would cause. The second is that quite a lot of them are encoded directly into HEVC, which makes the confetti and flashing lights look noticably smoother than the regular deinterlaced 1080i copies. Also, finally, as a touch of personal preference (especially in the case of 4k h264 where the second point doesn't apply), these do come pre-deinterlaced which is nicer for my chosen method of playback. Although some of those points apply to non network upscales too, the "impurity" of them far outweighs any benefit in my eyes, as I have more faith in whatever the network standard is than some random person on the internet trying to "fix" a file.

So how did I tell the difference? Also a frustratingly difficult problem, one which applies not just to spotting fake upscales but also to finding real TV recordings instead of lower quality catch up service clips. For the 1080 copies one of the biggest things was that the TV broadcast copies (unfortunately) always come through in 1080i. 1080p is suspicious. It means something has been touched (although sometimes in a way that is forgivable when nothing cleaner exists). File sizes are also a good sanity check. A single song in h264 should be in the 200-400MiB range, MPEG2 is 400MiB+. (For reference YouTube, and other inferior WEBDLs, usually come in at under 100MiB). This is a good reminder of why size does not always equal quality, because, in this scenario, worst to best is 100MiB < 450MiB < 250MiB.

On the 4k side: Music Bank, Show Music Core and Inkigayo are currently broadcast on UHD channels with a UHD variant of their channel names in the top right, which is a good indicator that something was recorded from a UHD source. (Although I've found 1080p copies recorded from UHD channels, so the presence of the logo doesn't mean no downscaling has occurred). Recent "4k" M! Countdown, Show Champion and The Show recordings, in comparison, appear identical in channel watermark to the 1080 copies. This and the fact that the only 4k copies I've found are from a source known to dabble in AI upscales means that I'm not going to trust these are genuine without further proof, and this was the main category of files which I decided against adding to my collection. (Note that The Show was in the past the only show that was broadcast in 4k, first on UMAX UHD and then on SBS F!L UHD, it is only recently that that seems to have stopped (or, no one has been recording it)). I paid less attention to the 4k file sizes than for 1080. 4k HEVC seems to come in pretty reliably at just under 1GiB, but 4k h264 is all over the place due to I think some differing quality profiles between uploaders (a range of 1GiB to nearly 3GiB). The latter is annoying because it means I can't figure out what the "true" recording should be, but I did develop an internal ranking of the trustworthiness of sources which was the tiebreaker when two differently sized 4k h264 recordings existed.

I prioritised collecting existing cuts where applicable (although many were not cut nearly as meticulously frame perfectly as I would like) but there were quite a few where I had to cut them out of full broadcast recordings myself. There were also instances where only the main performance was saved in 4k leaving interviews behind. In those cases I decided to keep the highest quality available for the bits in which it was and store the other segments separately.

Results

Alright, the fun stuff! I have successfully catalogued:

317 Dreamcatcher music show performances

34 Dreamcatcher miscellaneous appearances

46 Minx music show performances

16 Minx miscellaneous appearances

Those links go to mostly complete YouTube representations of what I found with exceptions listed in the descriptions of the playlists. You can also of course find a published version of my beautiful spreadsheet here. Finally, if you've made it this deep I would like to just quietly tell you I'm more than happy to share the originals, but please message me privately as I don't want to publicly host questionably copyrighted content on my good and morally upstanding posting images of dreamcatcher photobooks blog (for legal reasons the entire existence of this collection is a joke).

Honestly I'm pretty happy with the completeness of the collection after my first pass. The list of ones I would consider "missing" (aka not good enough quality) is:

It's almost all Simply K-Pop, which makes sense as it seems to not be archived with the same enthusiasm as the others. The missing M! Countdown, meanwhile, does kind of hurt, since it's ruining an otherwise perfect run. I'm out of ideas for now but am not going to give up on it forever, I have seen evidence that proper recordings exist, so I'm sure they have got to resurface eventually.

As can be seen in the breakdown for this section the percentage of MPEG2 recordings is also a pretty major victory, with the vast majority being h264:

For Minx things look a bit worse:

But then again I hadn't been expecting much to begin with. To be honest, watching all of these to check quality did drive me a little insane. There is a reason I don't own Love Shake and Why Did You Come To My Home, and it's not purely the irresponsible financial decision, it's the thought of spending that much money on something I actually really don't like. Watching Minx performances is amusing for a little while, but man, am I glad Dreamcatcher exists instead.

It's also evident that people were holding to completely different standards even just a few years earlier, as this is where all those MPEG2s in the overall numbers are hiding:

Future Work

While I'm confident I've successfully catalogued the "music show performances" as defined in the scope, I know there is still much more to be discovered under Misc Appearances, as those were filled in not via a predefined wish list but just by what other recordings I happened across in my search for the original goal. The obvious next step would to be a little more systematic about finding out what I'm missing in that category by scouring some Dreamcatcher specific archives, but because I've already exhausted the full collections of my two main sources of recordings I'm not confident I would uncover many more performances outside of YouTube in that way, which isn't really that appealing.

I'm probably more likely going to do something about my performance outfit images collection which has been slowly but steadily increasing over the years. I'd like to put them into a proper searchable database alongside performance dates, which would have a similar effect of cataloguing the missing performances, but with the visual element that the spreadsheet lacks.

But then again, I also might not :)

[knavesflames]

You've been posting more about music lately so I was wondering, what are your top 3 genres, your top 1 band or musician, and your top 3 all-time favorite songs?

Yap incoming I fear. Beware. I warned you all so you can’t yell at me for yapping. I’m sorry for the yap though (am I?)

Omg music my beloved :] honestly if I’m not interacting with people my earphones are in and it’s so bad because I listen to the same songs constantly. Spotify wrapped (and my friends) HATE to see a bitch coming.

I am very interested in language learning, everyone who knows me knows that much. I enjoy immersing myself in said language and one of the main ways I do so is by listening to music— I learned a lot of both Korean and French by music and television alone. So, a lot of the songs on my playlist aren’t in English or the language of the country I reside in.

I did look at specific stats on a website:

My top three genres this year are kpop (admitting it I’m a stan and have been since 2016), indie and soundtracks from different films/shows/games!!

My top three artists this year are dreamcatcher, aespa and le sserafim!! Followed closely by Philipp Sheppard, Indila and (g)-idle. However, I’ve been a dreamcatcher ult since their debut after minx.

I’m unsure if this comes as a surprise to people on HERE, but people in my not online life know I’ve been ever so slightly obsessed with supernova (aespa) (SOTY YEAHH), but let me list the top like, ten tracks this year because I think it’s funny how quickly the genres change. My friend and I talked about tonal whiplash (aespa..) recently and this makes me laugh.

-being loved isn’t the same as being understood - vines (ok listen i had a Time)

-supernova- aespa

-OOTD/Justice- dreamcatcher (they tied)

-bad blood- queendom puzzle with like a ton of artists

-sadeness- enigma (I daydream and I couldn’t even tell you what I daydream about because idfk. Arlecchino probably)

-untie- viviz

-strangers- Ethel cain (THIS IS WHAT I MEAN ABOUT TONAL WHIPLASH!)

-speaking of whiplash, whiplash by aespa

-fire in the belly- le sserafim

-can you hear the music- it’s the fucking oppenheimer soundtrack.

-Kara’s main theme- Detroit become human soundtrack 😭

-eyes roll- (g)-idle (yeah. I picture it. The things. You know.)

-boite en argent- indila

That was 12. I think. Idc

All in all, I <3 music and everyone who knows me well knows that I do. I ALWAYS listen to recs and most of the time I really do love them. I listen to everything except country music, I fear.

Anyway, I’ll stop yapping. Thank you for asking, I love when people ask things like this<3

[virginmiri99]

Kpop Groups Streamers Would Be In

(With explanations. Some more detailed than others. to keep me awake)

Tommy - Astro

I think Tommy would fit best with Astro because they don't have an outright cute concept, but not out right cool concepts either. They produce some sappy, upbeat pop that would fit Tommy's image. His role in the group would be sub vocal

Tubbo - Fromis_9 (or nct dream pre boom)

I think Tubbo fits best with girl group fromis_9 due to his youthful energy and cute girl slay factor. While I don't like fromis post hybe acquisition, I still think Tubbo could fit into concepts like DM. Alterntitvly: he and Wonyoung (IVE) are literally the same person. His role in the group would be visual or sub vocal/sub rapper

Ranboo - Boys Planet 999 contestant

I do not think Ranboo could be in any group. Not even in a nugu. He is that contestant on a survival show who gets popular for "reverse charm" (untalented) and just barely misses the required debut ranking.

Purpled - Golden Child

Purpled is just too damn cute he could be in DamDaDi. He's probably that member who wants a cool concept so bad but isn't given one and has to grit his teeth through cute concepts. His role in the group would be maknae

Jack Manifold - ONF

This one is entirely bias but for some reason when I listen to Popping by ONF I inexplicably think of Jack Manifold. Ha, I bet you thought I was going to reference Peniel, didn't you? WRONG. Jack Manifold is stationed eating as the vocalist of the group.

Ludwig - Baekhyun

Wilbur Soot - Day6

It's a band!!! In another universe he was Jae. I Don't think he would be the main vocalist but he would be the face of the group.

Technoblade - Soloist

Now, I thought about this for a very long time and I've come to the conclusion that Technoblade cannot be in any group. He's like Chungha, he will just outshine everyone. Sooooo he's Chungha.

Philza - TVXQ

Fine. Whatever. He can be in tvxq

Fundy - SF9

Inexplicably, SF9 is literally Fundy to me. They go hand and hand.

George - NCT 127

HE WILL JOIN NCT HOLLYWOOD

Karl - Seventeen

It just makes perfect sense to me. He's that member you kind of forget about tbh...

Foolish - MonstaX

Muscles. Gets no lines in songs. Cast for being hot and they had to figure out talent second.

Tina - Pristin

They have a song called "Tina." Tina would be a sub vocal.

Quackity - Producer

This another one that I thought about for a very long time but I've come to the conclusion that Quackity cannot be in any group, and instead will produce songs about lice.

LDShadowlady - Weeekly

She would EATTTTTTT in After School

Badboyhalo - Super Junior

Skeppy - Ikon

I hate disrespecting Ikon like this but like.... Skeppy would be there

Eret - Vixx

Slay factor

Minx - Mamamoo

Schlatt - BigBang

[7oversrock]

7oversrock intro!! ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭

Hii my name is minx !! I don’t really use tumblr but I decided to start using it to try and branch myself out more lmfao since TikTok is getting banned

THINGS ABOUT ME

I have like 20 million interests, but I have very little *special* interests. I love bonding with people, and making mutuals so don’t ever be shy to ask!!

I go IA cuz of my school too; and i have a smalll tendency to dry text but that’s genuinely only if im not doing good.. I also don’t respond as fast if I’m not!!

INTERESTS (special interest will have a ‘*’)

euphoria

music (I’ll get more into this later on)

sonic*

final fantasy

kingdom hearts

resident evil*

cartoons (ex: Daria, courage the cowardly dog, etc)

anime

and probably more

MUSIC

I genuinely listen to so many types of music it’s concerning, but my favorite artists that I will post mostly about are:

Wallows, Dominic fike, Chappell roan, Sabrina carpenter, my chemical romance, Pierce the veil, sleeping with sirens, beabadoobee, Faye Webster, and a few more!!

I also fw kpop not as heavily anymore but I do enjoy myself some twice 🤑 my biases are Momo and Jeongyeon, I also luv itzy (my bias is ryujin)

ANYWAYS thank you if you read to the end, and let’s be mutuals if you have anything in common!! Just know, I will complain a lot on here, and it might be annoying HAHA.. (I’ll make a new post once I have a carrd up and going)

[aryomengrande]

for the questions (I used a random number generator lol)

26

17

7

5

hello, minx ! thanks for asking (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

26. fav color and why

purple. idk, when i was a kid, it rly just stood out to me

17. name 3 things that make you happy

(1) paw-paw (my son my cat), (2) when my friends draw for me HAHAHAGSHA they're always so afraid to do this bc they're afraid that i might judge but rly, it warms my heart. im never on the receiving end ('T᷄⌑T᷅), (3) grilled tuna belly (can change my entire demeanor in nanoseconds)

7. what's scares you the most and why

the answer on the tip of my tongue was cockroaches and yes they freak me out but it's losing a loved one

5. what made you start your blog

when my friends convinced me to do commissions, they said i had to reach every corner that i can that's why i made a tumblr (although ive been here before as a kpop blog hehe)

[misswoozi]

that is completely valid. i remember hearing about minx back in the day (the only release i ended up listening to was love shake tho. a certified bop) and i enjoyed but like never got into them. and then when they redebuted as dreamcatcher i was immediately hooked (took me embarassingly long to realise minx and dreamcatcher where infact the same group, specially since i was around for so long).

i swear they just keep getting better and better. you will not disappoint in stanning them. like even my family who have absolutely 0 interest in kpop really enjoy them, and will actively ask about them. -🪃

AHH YOU'RE MAKING REALLY GOOD POINTS HERE, OP

I gotta stan. I gotta pull the trigger and STAN. I GOTTA DO IT FOR DAMI AND SIYEON SPECIFICALLY 😭😭