#not to be a kpoppie on the side blog

[clovariia]

"Misty"

🦋 song: "misty" by mina from twice/misamo

🦋 character: misty brightdawn

🦋 media: my little pony generation 5

🦋 youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLaZgMYm31M

[astrangedoor]

[the6ixense]

hi, i'm the6ixense!

but you can just call me ophelia :)

⭑ 21 y/o, pisces sun capricorn moon gemini rising

⭑ they/she ; biromantic, demiromantic, asexual, demigirl

⭑ random: kpoppie but i only really keep up with ab6ix, average waterparks fan who gets gender envy from awsten knight, permanent unpaid intern, audhd & bpd haver, trapped in a permanent mystic messenger hyperfixation (est 2016)

⭑ all my writing can be found on my side blog, @hwipetals

[lqfiles]

i have srs fomo n when i get notifs seeing ur answering msgs i kick my feet a little thinking of the shit i wanna ramble about to feel included but HOW R U DOING TODAY BAEEE 😼 i spent four hours trying to get my nose stud out and now i can’t get it back in 😛

i feel like karmas out to get me for just being a hater today bc on top of this disaster💓 i had previously made jokes about kpoppies crying when their fav enlists n now im on the verge of ripping my hair out thinking ab taeyong literally leaving NOW and jeonghan within a matter of months…

ANYWAY i think… soon i might… maybe… make my side blog to start writing… and im sooooo nervous

— yours truly 🪼

LMAOOO that’s so real if it makes you feel better i have the biggest case of fomo too i have to check twitter every day because i just can’t be left out 😣 i love your rambles tho i look forward to them fr

IVE BEEN GOOOOD i wrote a little and i’m planning on changing my theme soon </3 i’m gonna miss this haechan icon but new era new me kinda? if i’m not feeling it much i’ll return back to the haechan theme but yeah.. i wanted to be like those accounts that never change their pfps but there are so many i wanna try i just can’t not i’m sure this is some form of FOMO..

anyways THAT SOUNDS UNFORTUNATE idk much about piercing but did the hole close that quickly?? i mean at least you got what you wanted i guess.. still you should probably go to a professional if you REALLY want it back in and it doesn’t go in, IM ROOTING THAT YOU WILL WIN THIS BATTLE BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR NOSE‼️

i actually still not processing that taeyong will be leaving like wow.. it just doesn’t feel real and i will only believe it once i see it myself but aackk.. stay strong tyongfs 😭 it’s the way taeyong is making it worse with all these sad posts too like pls your fans aren’t the strongest. and i thought jeonghan was exempt?? FUCK IM GONNA END IF HE GOES LIKE I CANT BEAR SEEING HIM LEAVE.. my hanibani 😭😭😭😭😭

and i say do it !! the writing community is rlly nice and i’m sure you’ll have fun ^^ don’t be too nervous and post whatever your proud of, i’m rooting for you!!

[fandommochi]

this is lissie on her side blog, but seeing you doing this makes me wanna do one too. will do both gg and bg depending on what i'm feeling like with this

me top fav groups since i like kpop

2012 - snsd, shinee 2013 - exo, f(x) 2014 - exo, 2ne1, b.a.p 2015 - bts, exo, seventeen 2016 - bts, seventeen, nct, blackpink, gfriend 2017 - bts, wanna one, seventeen, nct, astro, gfriend 2018 - bts, wanna one, seventeen, nct, loona, skz (peak kpoppie behavior) 2019 - bts, txt, seventeen, ateez, nct, loona, skz 2020 - bts, txt, nct, ateez, loona, skz 2021 - txt, enhypen, ateez, loona (the year i started to get tired of kpop) 2022 - txt, enhypen, ateez, loona (the year i became a casual listener) 2023 - txt, enhypen, ateez

honorable mentions: fav from musicality: onf, newjeans, billlie, dreamcatcher fav from concept: tbz, ssera, rv, aespa

groups i have stanned throughout the years

2011- wonder girls

2012- wonder girls

2013- wonder girls

2014- wonder girls

2015- wonder girls

2016- wonder girls

2017- i stopped listening kpop cuz i was mad that wonder girls disbanded

2018- i was mad

2019- txt

2020- txt

2021- txt

2022- txt

2023- txt

[viktoropalmoon]

its not exactly the same but it rlly does remind me of the outfits for bang sort of a mix of the red ones and the outfits from the reunion especially the jacket 정아 wore

[felinecorpse]

MVs from top 5 kpop companies with $100k+ budgets: no closed captions for any of you bitches. Shut up and stream

MVs from tiny unknown kpop companies filmed with 1k and a dream but the song is a banger: here's closed captions in 4 languages and its in the description too love u mwah mwah :) <3

[shimamine]

✧ kim lip wallpapers ｡.｡:+♡*♥

[fullsunsunoo]

iF YOu neVer EVen EXPerienceD the TrOublES

As if our country doesn't still feel the impact of it today? If you're not from our Island then don't speak on these things.

Bootlickers DNI

[checkers-dance]

checkers no you need to understand why i ended up having that nct break down yesterday. there's this one person in our server whos a kpoppie too and she shows up once in a while and somehow i always manage to end up in rlly unhinged conversations with her. she showed up today and asked us if we listened to txt so i started talking about their music with her and we ended up talking about cat & dog and she said it sounded like an nct song. SO OF COURSE I JUST ENDED UP DERAILING THE CONVERSATION INTO BEING ABOUT NCT and i ended up dumping so much lore on her, i made her listen to kick it and make a wish, i explained LORE to her and she said at this point i need to become the server's first nctzen and that i practically already was one. I KEPT TRYING TO DEFEND MYSELF, BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE JOINED THE CONVERSATION AND SAID SHE THOUGHT I ALREADY WAS AN NCTZEN.... AND I GOT ANGRY BUT THEN THE OTHER PERSON SAID ANY NORMAL PERSON WOULD ASSUME THAT BECAUSE I TALK ABOUT NCT ALL THE TIME.... AND I KEPT TRYING TO ARGUE BUT SOMEONE POINTED OUT I HAVE AN NCT PFP ON MY SIDE BLOG AND I JUST COULDNT KEEP GOING. it made me realize that i genuinely have a problem. my friend max called it an anti interest akin to the carriage. this TRULY is my carriage, idk how the fuck i ended up like this, but im genuinely so angry. at least its funny.

anyway here's some quotes from that conversation.

I mean thank u for the explanation but that still doesn't excuse the fact that I was RIGHT and u're gonna turn into an (ironic? 🤨) nct fan 😭. U were JUST liveblogging reading nct fics last night

ALSO NOT THE LAST SCREENSHOT???? WHY MUST THE FORBIDDEN COW HYBRID LORE COME UP AGAIN......this is undeniable proof, why is nct becoming implicated in the cow hybrid farm, sooner or later u'll be making dark nct aus

[akookminsupporter]

Hi! So, this isn't here to start drama or anything, but I did have a question for you and others to answer if wanted! I've been seeing a few posts about how BTS are awful people for not controlling or setting boundaries for fans. I have seen the example of Corden being used. He saif he was getting death threats and someone said that none of them responded or acted concerned in a way (sorry, I haven't watched that interview or any others because I kinda cringe at American interviews!). I have even seen people say that BTS actually encouraged and appreciated the fact that fans were defending them from others like Corden.

Additionally, these posts are always about other groups setting their fans straight, but people still manage to bring BTS into it. Personally, I don't know how to feel about this because I can see this side. However, I can also see the fact that the fandom is freaking gigantic and one group of seven men can't control all of those people. Even if something were said, there would be no gaurantee that the fans would follow, especially the ones who intentionally cause chaos and breed hatred.

As you can see, I am kinda stuck on how to feel. Both sides seem to be reasonable but there is always some type of context to take into consideration. Still, I would love to hear yours and others opinions on this because I want to hear more from others other than those who are obviously aggravated with BTS.

I hope you don't mind this ask and stay safe! Have a beautiful night/day :)

I think we've had this discussion several times on this blog, most recently when the guys were on Corden's show.

There's little I have to say but:

Saying that BTS encourages their fans to defend them is not entirely true at least not as those people you supposedly saw most likely meant. BTS know that their fans have their backs and that they will always defend them but they would never encourage their fans to insult and threaten someone in their name. They would never encourage their fans to bully a person, to do that would go against their whole message, their whole work with Unicef. It would go against who they are.

I imagine those people you are reading these opinions from are from other kpop groups. kpoppies hate BTS and their fans, that's a fact. Hearing an opinion from them about bts is honestly a waste of time. Listening to or reading other fandoms' opinions about ARMY is another waste of time because those other fandoms are also problematic.

BTS are not the parents of the fandom. They are not responsible for what their fans do or say. BTS has been quite clear in their message and what they do encourage their fans to do, to be. Being a bully is not one of them. If a fan doesn't understand that, that's their problem, not BTS's, or at least that's what I think.

[thoughts-on-bangtan]

Can you imagine losing interest in BTS and their music ever? I've seen it's a hot topic on Twitter, how some fans just lost connection and how others put it as "exiting the magic shop". I don't understand. I spent my teens listening to the Beatles, Incubus and now that I'm 30's I still love them. I suppose it could happen but I just dont like it when people say they lost interest bec BTS has already healed them. Like, you can heal and listen to them at the same time right? Your thoughts guys?

First of all, thank you for this ask because this is such an interesting topic.

Secondly, I'm fairly sure this whole thing about "being healed from BTS", as in stopping being ARMY/stanning BTS was started by "ex-ARMYs" (or people cosplaying as such) on either twt or t*kt*k (or both) as a way to feed into the narrative of how you can only possibly like Bangtan while you're "sick" but eventually you get "healed" and move on to other artists, specifically other K-Pop groups. It's also occasionally used by people who stopped "stanning" BTS to make themselves look better in the eyes of kpoppies (or suck up to them) and to get hit twts. A quick twt search showed me a twt where someone spoke about how now that they've "left the Magic Shop" they're able to "love other people" and have found themselves in (Other Group’s fandom name)-land. As in Bangtan healed them so now they can listen to/stan “better” groups.

Do I think there are also genuine people among them who credit BTS for helping them heal before moving on? Probably, but I find the phrasing and way of thinking rather weird and also something that plays into the stereotype that liking a "boy band" is just a phase that you grow out of and then move on to "real music". 

Are there people who genuinely "lost" whatever connection they felt or interested they had in BTS? Probably, though sometimes I feel like people misinterpret twts where people talk about leaving ARMY twt/their sns stan accounts as them stopping being a fan which is false. Being a fan of a musician is more than just posting on your stan account, right? There are plenty of people who are ARMY yet don't engage in fandom sns.

Now circling over to your question about if we/I can imagine basically falling out of love with an artist (BTS) and, well, personally I think it depends on certain factors. Just like you in my early teens I used to listen to a band called HIM, a little later to a band called Placebo, and to this day, if someone asks me who my favorite rock band is, I still name both of them without hesitation despite not actively listening to them anymore the way I do with Bangtan, as example. Yet it doesn't change the fact that I still love their music and check out what Placebo are up to from time to time. 

I think there are certain bands and artists whose music simply does something for us, this specific something that makes us connect to them in a deeper sense, in one that makes their music and artistry stick with us even far down the line when we might not listen to them daily anymore, might not check their sns every day anymore, or even at all. At this point I'm pretty sure BTS are exactly that for me as well. I can imagine that perhaps one day I might not be as invested (invested in the sense of having a stan account and blogging about them) anymore as I am now, because that's natural, but I doubt I'll ever go as far as saying "I've lost interested" or "been healed from being ARMY" or whatever else some say.

So, when I said it depends on different factors if you'll ever fall out of love/loose interest, what did I mean by that? I think a major deciding factor is why you became ARMY/a fan in the first place and what it is that keeps you interested in them.

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If you became a fan because you’re into shipping and your main focus is your ship and nothing else, honestly, I doubt you’ll stick around all that long. And I say that as a vminnie and namjinist myself. I imagine, if the only thing about Bangtan I would care about would be those two pairings and I would spend all my time hunting for clues and looking at gifs/pictures and discussing them and nothing else, their music only being of interest to me if I could make it about my ship? I’ll be honest, I would probably lose interest in less than a year because you can’t possibly remain invested in two people, their lives, “relationship clues” and ship fights with others for years without basically getting tired of it.

Also when I say just focusing on a ship, I literally mean just the ship aspect, not even the artistry those two people have, like their music etc, but just the bond they have and nothing else. And yes, there definitely are people like this. I’ve seen Xkookers only care about (insert song here) because they thought it was about their ship but once they realized it isn’t, they never brought up the song again, and never spoke about the song itself at all. And I don’t want to just point my finger at them, there are also people who ship other pairings who act this way as well, definitely.

At the end of the day, eventually you’ll have analyzed all there was to be analyzed, discussed every aspect and detail, seen every moment and taken it apart, and will have had every fight you could have, and then...what? There’s only so much “content” and “entertainment” you can get out of someone else’s life and bond and that’ll only be able to keep you interested for so long...and then what?

But if you got interested in Bangtan due to their music first and that is your primary focus while them as people is more of a nice “extra”, that’s “sustainable”, for a lack of better words. They release lots of music every year, have a huge discography along with side/solo projects, their lyrics are so layered and you can find so much in them, immerse yourself in their artistry. Their music can become your companion, basically. There are so many ARMY that have songs and albums that mean the world to them, that helped them heal or love themselves, that they keep coming back to, that engage in discussions about their music, old and new, and who find boundless joy in all of it while also adoring the members themselves.

If you got into them for their personalities while thinking their music is just okay, an all right extra, but you love their bonds and shows like RUN or Bon Voyage, I could imagine that being some kind of middle group but then again, why stan musicians whose music you only find okay? Would you be a fan of an actor whose personality you like but find the movies they are in and their acting ability mediocre/okay?

I’ve been around for a long time and the way I think that’s possible, and why I think I will remain ARMY for years to come as well, is because I genuinely love their music, love spending time listening to it, reading about it, talking to others about it, but also because I adore the members, their personalities and who they are, their bonds, their variety show type content and vlives, and I adore vmin and namjin. While I love talking about vmin/namjin, if I had to just focus on that (as in the ‘ship’ aspect of their bonds) all the time, I’d get exhausted and/or reach a point where everything that could be said would be said, but because I also spend a lot of time with OT7 content and in non-shipper ARMY spaces, with their music, their other content, reading their interviews and everything else, it’s a “sustainable” way to be ARMY. And I’ve seen and spoken to other ARMYs who have been around far longer than me, some even having been around since the very beginning, even before their debut, and that's how they’ve remained ARMY since, because it was this package deal that they fall in love with, the fact that they spend their time engaging in different fandom discussions and activities, instead of hyper focusing on a certain part of it exclusively, like shipping.

Of course, if you fell in love with the package deal in your twenties while in a dark place but then reached your thirties and, with the help of their music (side note: while Namjoon (inspired by Seokjin) told us to use BTS to be happy, don’t put the “responsibility” of healing you/helping you heal solely on an artist, since that’s not fair or healthy, rather if you really need help/assistance/someone to talk to, please reach out to someone, friends or family, or a professional if you can) and other (outside) factors, reached a better place and don’t feel as connected to them anymore as you did before, it’s possible you might “unstan”, but that doesn’t have to mean you’ll move away from their music completely, that you’ll make a clean cut and never look back. Especially if they helped you, chances are they will always remain with you one way or another for a long time. At the same time, I guess it’s only natural that sometimes our interests and tastes change and the band you used to love might just not “do it” anymore for you. It’s human. There are bands I used to love as teen but don’t care about anymore nowadays because their music isn’t my taste anymore, I don’t connect with it the way I used to etc. Does something like that make you a fake fan? No, it just, well, makes you human. Though, like I said, at this point I don’t foresee that happening for me with Bangtan and there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of others who will tell you the same thing. We’re in this Bangtan sh*t for life, purple blooded. Even Namjoon joked about how once you get into Bangtan there is no exit anymore. Or that no jammer joke about how once you JimIN you never JimOut.

Lastly there’s also a whole conversation to be had of what will happen once the members start enlisting, or once the daily content turns into monthly, bi-monthly, every half year and eventually only sporadicly spread out throughout the year, when their music will be all that we’ll get instead of music + additional content like sns posts or RUN. What will happen when that day comes? Shippers and those interested in their personalities will stop “being fed” and eventually their interest will dwindle away. Those who need to constantly be engaged with and fed to remain interested will likely dwindle away and move on to other content/musicians that’ll keep them fed with new things on a regular. And those who are into their music, or the package deal, they’ll likely still be fans, still love their music and come back and be active when new releases come, still occasionally return to content like watching concerts or old RUN episodes, but even they won’t stick around the same way we all do right now. This isn’t to say that when that day comes we’ll find out who “the real fans are”, because the question of what a real fan is, is a whole other discussion to be had, but rather it’ll be a natural, normal part of fandom, of a musicians career, of a human cycle.

Take AC/DC as example, after so many decades they still have fans that show up when they release a new album, but I doubt those fans have active stan accounts and engage in daily fandom stuff the way you do with a constantly active/present artist like BTS etc. And I can imagine that’ll be Bangtan and ARMY much later down the line as well.

To sum it all up, I don’t think there is a black or white answer, merely a gray one.

[aegissi]

fave era on this blog is 2018 bc that was ikon's return era and i was super super active and it was such a good escape from hs (it was my last year and I was really struggling) and I used to interact with my mutuals all the time!!!! nowadays I barely interact with anyone and I don't really want to get back into the kpop side of tumblr bc most people r so creepy and stupid abt it 😭 I just don't make internet friends like I used to which kind of makes me sad bc I feel like it was easier to become besties with someone when ur a kpoppie bc u have a lot of stuff to talk abt and there's always smth new happening?? and now idk... maybe the pandemic also fucked with my social skills on here 💀💀

[little-lazuli]

aloha mai kākou 👋🏽

name: Laz

age: 21

pronouns: he/him

home: hi

signs: goat (chinese) and aries (the other one)

persona type: INTJ-A

sides: @lazuli-recs (fic recs blog) / @lazuli-mbs (moodboard blog) / @lazuli-writes (fanfic writing blog)

dividers: all dividers are credited to @cafekitsune, mahalo nui loa 🫶🏽

things of note: minors do not interact / minors DNI / minors stay off my blog / minors exit stage left / minors crawl away elsewhere

other accs: moody_moonie (ao3)

if i was a trope: friends to enemies to friends to enemies to lover to friends

header/background: i do not own the bg

what i do: adulting

current song on repeat: true story by ari

current thought: the boy is mine

fav fandoms: pjo, asoiaf, harry potter, lucifer, twilight, daybreak, mcu, reign, atla, lok, the flash, the 100, bnha, ouat, umbrella academy, descendants, the host and kpop

fav flowers: naupaka & ʻōhiʻa lehua

kpoppie biases: (was asked to put this) Haechan, Han Jisung & Jeongin, Namjoon, Rosé, Jihyo, Vernon & Dino, Jongho, Changkyun & Keeho

[dramaphan]

anon should send phannie asks to kpop blogs...if we get kpoppies mad at us we're all gonna get murdered i can't wait

God we can’t have beef with kpop we need them on our side they’re too powerful

[alligaytorswamp]

tagged by @followfindyou mwah💜

tagging: @froggygrogu @3maeiri @yukinyaminyato @pintsized-void

name/nickname: adryan/adry

pronouns: he/him

star sign: capricorn

height: 5'4" / 164 cm

birthday: january 15

nationality: russian

fav band/groups: monsta x, dreamcatcher, kard, i also look intensely but respectfully at wjsn, a.c.e & cravity

on the weeb side: muse, lily white, roselia, quartet night

fav solo artists: wonho... jessi...

weebie: araki......... gumi bc vocaloids count.

fave albums: mx: we are here, follow - find you, fantasia x, fatal love, phenomenon; dc: dystopia - the tree of language, lose myself, road to utopia; kard: red moon; cravity: hideout - be our voice; wjsn: unnatural

song stuck in your head: wjsn's unnatural and yalla

last movie you watched: us :p

last show you binged: no clue.. but if anime counts then jujutsu kaisen.. 

when you created your blog:  21 Nov 2013 - about 7 years ago

last thing you googled: боль в левом виске - which translates into ‘pain in left temple’, googled that bc i woke up w a raging headache and while i was waiting for the painkiller to kick in i got curious if that sort of pain meant i was dying jkashdjasdhsjkd

other blogs: i have 1 side blog for kpoppie crimes and another one that exists just to keep a url akjdhjskd

why i chose my url: because I'm fucking gay and stupid and alligator by monsta x takes up 90% of my personality

number following: 360