#she got a presale code for me too

[octaviasdread]

of course i get jury service not just the day of lana’s pesale but the EXACT time it starts

my best friend is a real one for fighting ticketmaster 😭💖

she hardly even knows lana lmao but she’s in the trenches for me while i’m waiting to get sworn in

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Can I ask how you got your tickets for Lyon? I’m thinking next time Taylor goes on tour I will have to try for somewhere in Europe! It’s just too expensive in North America and resell prices are a joke!

Same as everyone else, luck of the draw with Ticketmaster! I registered for the presale for nearly every city I felt I could feasibly travel to and hoped for the best. I must have signed up for at least a dozen cities in Europe and could even have been more.

I got selected for a code for Lyon and got put on the waitlist for London and Edinburgh. I got off the waitlist for Edinburgh after the sale started, but by that point the only thing left were like single ticket VIPs which were more than I wanted to spend and also I wanted to travel with friends. I did end up getting off the waitlist for London part 2 about five days before the shows, which was SO lucky because I was already going to be there, so my friend and I ended up getting to see the show again in the obstructed/nosebleed seats.

My suggestion would be to sign up for everything you feel like you would be willing to travel for. Being flexible is key: signing up for just the cities near you is a crapshoot. Case in point: as a Canadian, I also signed up for Toronto and Vancouver thinking that if I got in I'd sell my Lyon tickets, and never even made it to the waitlist, let alone get a code. If I had waited for the Canadian dates to be announced, or sold my Lyon tickets to hedge my bets on Toronto, I would have been screwed. Of several dozen friends and family who signed up for Toronto and Vancouver, I only know three who got tickets, and one of them ended up selling hers because the cost of hotels and airfare were so exorbitant her weekend trip with her girls was going to end up costing $10k.

I ended up going to four shows total (one in Lyon and three in London) and I am certain the four of them cost less than what I would have likely paid for a lower bowl ticket in Toronto for one show. Again, part of it was flexibility (obstructed view seats were relatively cheap in London and turns out you get an awesome experience anyway; my floor GA in Lyon cost less than what upper bowl/nosebleeds were going for for Olivia Rodrigo and not much more than what I paid for Noah Kahan tickets near me; basically, I wasn't too picking about my seats or dates), part of it is tickets seemed way cheaper in Europe than they did in North America, even with the exchange rate.

And also: if you're going to travel, build a trip around it if you're able to. I was lucky that I had vacation time banked so I was able to take two weeks off (and then another week later in the summer for London). I LOVE travelling and had been itching to do a big trip since before the pandemic, so this was it for me. I used the show as the anchor point, and then built the rest of my itinerary around it. One of my friends did the same thing to see Adele in Germany this summer and made a whole Euro trip out of it. It's wonderful to travel just for a concert, but as someone with perpetual wanderlust, you get SO MUCH more out of it when you can explore and take in the sights. There's something so cool about being immersed in a new or different place and just giving main character energy to your day lol. And candidly: if anything ever goes belly-up with the show (e.g. it gets cancelled), you've still got tons to do and see. Up until the minute I stepped onto the tube to Wembley Stadium I was still worried the show would get cancelled (after Vienna), but it wouldn't have mattered because I had the absolute best trip ever that formed so many core memories.

ALSO: if you plan on going with friends, have everyone in the group sign up for the presales as well to maximize the chance of at least one of you getting a code. Also plan accordingly because this time you were allowed a max of four tickets per code. So for Lyon, I went to one show with three friends. For London, I went to two shows with one friend. (She had gotten tickets for another show.)

Sadly the last bit is also: money. I'm not rich by any means, but I had a healthy savings fund that I'd been contributing to since before Covid and my big ticket item was travel. It's an absolute privilege that I don't take for granted. I am fully aware that many can't afford to travel for a show. (I used to be in that same boat until the last few years.) I couldn't travel like this every summer, but every few years is hopefully in the cards.

TL;DR: be flexible, get what you get and don't get upset re: destination (i.e. if you get a code for a city you otherwise wouldn't think of travelling to), team up with your travel buddies if applicable, plan your trip around your concert date and not the other way around.

[bethestars]

getting tickets to the short n’ sweet tour is an absolute nightmare.

team sabrina should not have given out codes to every single person who signed up for rsvp. i even saw an article promoting that a third LA show was added. the article included the presale code… presale codes should not be so accessible. i was very lucky to receive a spotify code. there was barely anyone in the queue and i still couldn’t get a ticket during that presale.

like always, scalpers and resellers got to the tickets first. this is unfortunately an expected issue with concert tickets nowadays. but i can’t believe it’s this bad. at my choice of venue (madison square garden - i didn’t look at brooklyn), resale tickets were at least $350 each. this would vary per venue but man is that absurd.

sabrina deserves to play arenas. her venues during the emails i can’t send tour were way too small and greatly suffered from overcrowding. it even became a safety concern at points. however, i am genuinely afraid that these arenas are only going to be half full - not because she’s not popular enough, but because these prices are so astronomical.

i went to the eras tour, in the 200s and paid around $200 for 2 tickets. i can’t remember the exact amount at this point. i went to niall horan’s the show tour a couple of weeks ago in the 200s again and paid $230. a single resell ticket for the short n’ sweet tour is $350. it’s so dystopian.

i bought the resale ticket but i can’t even bring myself to be thrilled about it because it cost an arm and a leg and i can’t bring a single person with me. i feel guilty that i might be encouraging scalpers and resellers for even buying the ticket. the fact that i could afford a single ticket is a major privilege.

as fans, we deserve better than this messed up system. sabrina deserves to play to a full, sold out arena full of fans. whether they’ve been with her for 10 years or 10 months. i’m just so dejected.

[daechwitatamic]

Of course I would never ghost! Nothing terrible, life has just been... ugh... life. But I'm happy to be back with more time for reading and interacting. Your writing and our chats bring me a lot of joy. 🙂

These two are just too cute to handle. I loved their flirty moments at the bar and OCs comparison of Taehyung as delicate and Namjoon as steady was so insightful. I'm glad she recognized the parallels between what Taehyung is doing with her and what she is doing with Namjoon. If only Taehyung would spend some time on inward reflection like that! I am nervous about the conversation Kris suggested she have with him...

I also forgot to mention in my last post how much the conversation in Part IV between Namjoon and OC about her parents struck a chord with me. Meeting new people and having to navigate the lost parent issue. Trying to figure out whether it's worth saying what happened and bringing down the whole mood or just kind of glossing over when people ask about my parents. Then having to manage the other person's guilt for having brought it up. Ugh it's the fucking worst and the way you described OCs inner thought process was so true to my experience. It makes me feel seen when other people can understand how painful those moments can be, so thank you for writing it.

Omg Agust D tour, yes I definitely plan to go! I remembered you saying you came to LA for PTD so I wasn't sure if that meant you were closer to the west coast, but I am manifesting all the positive energy that we will both score tickets.

I saw your post that work/school has been kicking your butt lately, and I'm sorry to hear that, but am sending you a big "I'm proud of you!" from Taetae (you know the gif) because seriously even if you feel like you're not able to give your 100% to it all, the fact that you are even juggling both AND writing is like 🤯 impressive. Jo, you nice, keep going. 💜

i'm glad you have more time too!!!

eh you said three smart things in a row so hold on. 1) yes, oc is noticing the differences between tae and joon. do we think there's a part of her that i wondering if perhaps what she thought she wanted all this time wouldn't be what makes her happy, in the end? 2) yesss honestly you can attribute how well these two work with each other to the lessons they've learned from their pasts! (or in oc's case... present lol) if she didn't have this bullshit with taehyung, would she have played more games with namjoon and strung him along more? was it the hurt from taehyung's behavior that made her learn to do better? hmmmmm 3) "if only taehyung would do some inward reflection like that" gosh i wonder if any..... events.... might make him finally need to do that >:)

i'm glad to hear oc's behavior/thought process/feelings rang true to you. i hope you were careful with yourself when reading that part, i was worried it would be triggering.

the way i keep checking my email to see if i got my code for presale... even though i know it's not until the 28th.... goodness.

ugh i am tryinnngggg to keep going but woof i'm having a really hard time these last few weeks. i haven't written anything in two weeks which i think is the longest i've gone since i started writing ff again. i desperately need some unscheduled days off where i can just..... get ahead. per semester i'm taking a full courseload but it's one class at a time so it's SUPER condensed and sometimes i feel like just the reading/research is a whole week's worth but somehow i'm supposed to do the three assignments based on that reading also??????????? like??????

ANYWAY!!!!!!! Part 7 tomorrow and I think it's a heavy-hitter!! i hoep you enjoy!!! thanks for stopping by <3 <3 <3

[veryfuckingtrans]

Today i had another very stressful day for no good fucking reason like

-my boss was at the office and i had to sit near him

-i forgot my charger but thankfully it was still on my boss' desk. I took it when he wasnt there but then someone told him "was the charger there yours?" And he directly asked me and i had to explain i had taken it from his desk.

-we had a fire drill and i felt like a stray dog just following people all by myself

-i got up the courage to sit with the other interns who had been nice to me at lunch. I told them i'm working in another project and all that

-i had to do a push to develop (update my code changes to the environment developers use for testing) but accidentally pushed to main (updated my changes to the environment real users use) because i was careless and i almost have a heart attack. There was a "undo" button but i'm still not 100% sure i did it right and i was so close to crying. This is an important system, if it stops working they will call the developers at 2AM on a Saturday to go fix it, and i just changed it accidentally

-the person responsible for my internship talked to my boss (very quietly and facing away from me) and then asked me when i finish my internship. Like girl aren't you supposed to know that? So i had to email my school tutor to ask her, and she might reply tomorrow or she might reply in two weeks, there's no way to know.

-the bus back home was so full we couldnt even move and people were very rude about it

-a friend wanted to go to the taylor swift concert and they asked me to sign up for the presale months ago. Today i got an email saying there were some tickets for sale last minute and i sent it to them. I hadnt talked to them in months and then they sent me a voice message, i'm still too scared to listen.

-i'm trying to do the design/user interface for the app we have to do as a final project (me and 2 friends. One of them changed something that broke the entire page and the other has not done one single thing) and nothing works and i am extremely bad at focusing on tasks so instead of having a simple working header i started to look up stock photos for the background and tried to see if i could use AI to create a logo for the page and i just spent so much time and nothing works and everything looks ugly

-i have not told my mum i'm hanging out with a friend this weekend, on friday we're going to a talk and on saturday to a party. This friend had drama with my sibling and my mum doesn't like her and gets upset every time i mention her

-my parents are looking into building a house and want me to go with them so tomorrow after work i have to go fucking talk with some architect i guess

Everything is so small and so insignificant but my chest hurts and i'm starting to get an eye tick and i feel like i'm gonna be sick on my way to work. I can't help but think anxiety meds would help right about now, but i sort of enjoy the way i can feel all my emotions intensely now. So idk. Shit's hard.

[shybutprickly]

I saw Taylor Swift recently and… it was good. An incredible display for a greatest hits tour and a show nearly 3 hours long. But I found it lacking.

I only really started listening to her when 1989 came out. I didn’t like country music, and I didn’t like her voice. Of course, a couple radio hits stood out to me, but I didn’t know she wrote all her songs and didn’t appreciate how talented she was in that area of music making.

I missed out on her 1989 tour. I think I probably thought it wouldn’t be worth it even though I was definitely listening to that whole damn CD on repeat for months. When the tour movie came out I realized I had slept on a fun show. So when reputation came out, I knew I had to see her. At least once. So I got the CD and my little presale code. Seemed worth the minuscule extra effort.

I was like, huh?, when rep came out, but I ended up fucking loving it. From start to finish it’s a masterpiece like its predecessor. It too was on constant repeat for months.

When we finally saw the show, I was blown away. I mean, iykyk I guess. This was before I was on Reddit, so I only saw passing articles about rep tour before she came to my city. I had heard she was surprising everyone, but I didn’t have Taylor swift fever, constantly reading about her beforehand. I was patiently waiting, like I wonder what she will do to make a stadium show worth it.

And for Eras, ugh I was constantly seeing updates about songs, the tour, this, that. Yes I chose to consume it. I wanted to. But I think seeing people constantly praise the show, it became monumental in my head. I had HIGH expectations. Like, Taylor can do no wrong. It’s going to be incredible. I didn’t permit myself to look at any spoilers. Except the dive, that one just kind of blew up everywhere.

So, we’re in the nosebleeds. I didnt have many options when buying tickets and I thought floor seats were unreasonable (yet looking at resale tix I see now those initial prices were a fucking value). Yes our view of the stage was incredible. What a great idea to have a tv screen stage. My sister poked me during Delicate “look she’s stomping on the stage and making cracks.” The guitar visuals stood out to me during the Fearless set. Honestly, that stage did all the heavy lifting. Literally, the box things lifting? *crickets*

Yet, while I’m grateful to be there, I found myself feeling empty surrounded by screaming fans whose voices are the only ones I can hear, Taylor’s drowned out. I watch the stage and try to catch snippets of her vocals. We walked downstairs to get a snack cos there were finally no fucking lines. I was hoping for a better experience standing at a lower level, like we did at rep (shitty audio from the nosebleeds lol we stood at the third level on the side, had an incredible view, room to dance, and the audio was much better), but you couldn’t see her. Too many people standing. I should have left my sister at the seats and just scoped it out but I felt uneasy. Idk I had fomo for a 3 hr ducking show, Jesus. I didn’t want to miss a damn thing. Then I felt completely cheated and wished I had walked around a bit, found something better. Instead I watched the whole thing waiting for something amazing, and it fell flat.

I think it really hit me when those dancers came out with the cloud props.

[maxverstappensflatbrim]

literally don't worry you aren't the only one who hasn't got a link and got put on the waitlist...

literally 2 of my irls who are barely my friends anymore (fake as fuck to me) ... dont even like midnights???? and they got codes

and then one girl from my old school got one... she barely like's taylor too

it pisses me off 1000% think that they oversold on midnights presale and should defo have a limit on how many hours people listen to taylor cause it's not fair on how many of us want to see her and have been waiting yonks it is not fair

I totally agree on the oversale of midnights presale. And the only venue I’d be able to see her is Cardiff especially if I have to go alone which it looks like I do but I’ve seen so many people getting multiple tickets for different venues with the presale which means I might not have a chance to go to ONE (although my 65 year old grandfather who’s a die hard Neil Diamond/Billy Joel lover said he’d go with me cause I was upset I’d have to go alone, he’s literally my best friend I love him so much)

I understand people may enjoy her music or listen to some popular songs a lot like one of my friends (out of my three ‘friends’ I only like one lol) but it’s just unfair for those who LOVE her. Like I’m such a big Taylor fan I wouldn’t call myself a Swiftie because I don’t know her as a person but I adore her music and think she’s an amazing artist. I respect her as an artist and a person and what pissed me off is my one friend who’s such a Matty girl kinda turned on her during the whole drama (ngl I didn’t listen to her for a few weeks just because her downward fans on Twitter were annoying me)

and I was under the impression that we were going together then it turns out they were all going with families and I was just a bit like ‘oh okay, guess not only do I not have a presale code I also have no one to go with’

I don’t like confrontation anymore (used to love arguing) so I just didn’t say anything and let it go. Which is very new to me because literally a week ago I’d argue with anyone over anything, I just don’t have the nervy anymore.

But there’s not much I can do about it now except cry alone at night

[caruliaa]

getting soo bitter hearing abt tswift tour presale codes on the uk store bc ik i wont be able to go but i also know that its not impossible like if i somehoww move out before the tour than maybe but itll have to be late in the year for that and my only current plan is to maybe bye tickets and sell them online if i cant make it but it might be to expensive for that and also ik after moving im immediately going to like. iv neve had ANY genuine independance before you think i have enough of a hold on myself to go to a fucking concert idk idk but i WANNA GO I WANNA GO SO FUCKING BADLY YOU HAVE NO IDEA IV NEVER EVEN BEEN TO A CONCERT OR ANYTHING HALFWAY CLOSE BEFORE BC IV BEEN SO CONTROLLED MY WHOLE LIFE AND I JUST HAD TO BE STUPID ENOUGH TO HAVE MY FAVE MUSICIAN BE ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR EVER AND GETTING TICKETS FOR HER WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE AND IL LBE BEATEN OUT BY PEOPLE WHOVE SEEN HER LIKE 10 TIMES ALREADY AND THEN WONT EVEN BE ABLE TO GO BECAUSE ILL PROB STILL BE STUCK LIVING WITH MY PARENTS BY THEIR RULES FOREVER OR i;; BARLEY HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO EAT EACH WEEK LET ALONE GO OUT AND SEE A CONCERT OMFG !!!!!

[bribrixmarie]

I have been a fan of Taylor since I first heard Teardrops On My Guitar on the radio 15 years ago. I remember exactly where I was. My mom had taken my brother and I skiing in Vermont and one radio station was playing Teardrops On My Guitar and I fell in love with it. Ever since then I have listened and loved every song Taylor has sung and every song she’s recorded. I have been to every single concert Taylor has played in Gillette. I haven’t missed a concert since I first saw her headline for Jingle Ball 2009. I even had tickets for Loverfest. I’m so heartbroken about Ticketmaster. I got my presale code and I was ready for Tuesday morning. I logged in, joined the queue, and waited. I had done this before with Loverfest so I knew what to expect. However when I finally got in it was a disaster. I had some really great seats in my cart but every time I tried to check out it kept saying the code I entered is incorrect. This is when Ticketmaster really crashed. After an hour of this the site finally loads back up. I get a message that I’ve been on too long and I get kicked out to the end of the queue. Behind 200+ more people. I was DEVASTATED. By the time I made it back in all of the tickets were gone. That night I went home applied for a capital one card, got approved, found my virtual card, and prepared for round two. When I made it into the capital one presale, things were worse. Every time I added tickets to my cart I kept getting a message that said we cannot complete your request on this device. After a lot of attempts to buy tickets I was now getting messages that said sorry, another fan beat you to these tickets and they’re gone. Ticketmaster would take a solid minute to load between each click. I could see the tickets quickly dwindling and each time I was left with a message until I got kicked out AGAIN. I stayed on for a little longer but before I could make any progress on the queue, all tickets were sold out. I am so saddened that I had tickets in my cart and because of the crash I lost them. I am so sad that I got kicked out twice because of how poorly Ticketmaster handled this sale. I’m livid that tickets never made it to the general public but somehow scalpers are selling their tickets for THOUSANDS of dollars. Can we please take these tickets away from the scalpers and give them to the fans?! Mostly I am so devastated about not getting tickets. I’ve never not been to a Taylor Swift concert. I was even at the Speak Now concert where it poured and made it into the Long Live music video. I have been a fan since day one and I have no idea what I’m going to do. I need to see Taylor. I need to be at the Eras tour. I NEED to SCREAM All Too Well 10 Minute Version. If anyone has 2 extra tickets (I’d even take 1) please let me know!

[laceyeb]

If you don’t want to read an essay about my experience, you can skip this.

But holy fucking shit. I did it.

So I took my iPad to work this morning and connected to the hotspot on my phone because I couldn’t get on ticketmaster via the work wifi. Fair enough. I got all set up, brought the site up at about 9:30 for the presale that started at 10:00, and I was ready to go. My students were working independently because I told them we were going to do an “experiment” and see if they could actually figure out how to work on their assignment on their own without me giving them the instructions a million times and I bribed them with class points. My students very conveniently have recess at 9:59. (Total coincidence. That is their actual recess time.) Then 10:00 came and went and nothing happened. The screen was loading and loading and loading and then it popped up with the date and time for regular tickets. I knew that was wrong.

At about 10:07, I went to the ticketmaster twitter and saw that west coast presale had been rescheduled for 3PM. At least a was then able to calm down for a bit, but we had TWO parent teacher conferences scheduled at 3:00! All the 7th grade teachers were meeting together to do the conferences. I finally was able to slide my iPad over and get into the waiting room at about 2:50. I left it on a desk behind me, but another teacher saw me keep glancing back at it. Jokingly she said, “What are you doing? Trying to get Taylor Swift tickets or something?” To which I responded, “YES I AM IM VERY STRESSED!” Something like that. (She basically said, “Well get me one too!” So we’re going together! She’s also very excited!) The queue started at 3:00 and I saw the dreaded “2,000+ people ahead of you.” I did not panic, but I did sit there and watch the thing not move AT ALL. I was ultimately waiting about an hour and ten minutes before I got to look at tickets. I know people were waiting for hours, so I think that was pretty good! The little slider showing where I was at started moving, but the 2,000+ did not. Very suddenly at about 4:05, my number dropped to about 1400. Then suddenly 1100, then 400, then like 40 all in about two minutes. I was getting all worked up. The other teachers in the room looked a little frightened, but luckily our conferences were done.

When I got in to get tickets, there were not a lot left and they were disappearing under my fingers as I was trying to click on them. It was very chaotic. The stupid credit card company sent me THREE codes to ensure it was me AND I got a fraud alert message. But I finally got through all of that and got our tickets! I was freaking out. Another teacher was freaking out on my behalf. The PE teacher was giving me fist bumps. It all still feels like a dream.

Maybe a minute later, three of my seventh grade girls walked in because they had a basketball game tonight and I saw them and I said, “OH MY GOD GUESS WHAT I JUST DID?!” And they all freaked out!

It was quite a day and I’m not even sure how to go on.

[dumbassacademia]

The way that my boss made me sign up for the taylor swift ticket presale to help him get tickets and not only can he not even go on the day I have the code for but also Ticketmaster is crashing on both of our computers

But he is in on his phone and the paralegal in our other office got on at like 8 so she’s got it too

By god we’re gonna get this man his tswift tickets

[luvdsc]

Omg Cat (is it rude to not call you Miss Cat??), I saw you say something about Keshi tickets and I’m half tempted to hook you up with my friend (we’ll call her K) who has an extra for one of his concerts in May. She got 2 bc she wanted to go with another friend who also listens to his music, but turns out that friend already bought tickets with a group from her uni. K asked me to go bc she doesn’t want to go alone but I’d never even heard of him before she asked. I feel kinda guilty cuz I don’t really listen to him, even now, and I also feel like she may just have a better time going with someone who also listens to his music. Anyway, don’t take this seriously if you don’t want to lmao 💕💕

hey, sweetpea ! 💓💓 omg no of course it’s not rude to call me that !!!! I’m not sure when it started but miss cat stuck, but I’m totally ok with or without the miss, lovebug 💘 NO WAY ?????? OH MY GOD HOW DID SHE GET THE TICKETS LIKE THE ONES I WAS TRYING TO GET SOLD OUT AT 10:02 AND I ALREADY QUEUED UP AT 9:45 and six of my friends tried for them too and all of us were unsuccessful 😭we all tried during presale and general sale too ): also didn’t help that keshi gave out the wrong code but it’s not like we even got the chance to type the code in but omg plsss I volunteer as tribute, I will go with her BDHDJDNDJD one of my best friends and I use each other as concert buddies, so she goes with me to concerts for artists I like but know no one else who likes them and vice versa, I’ll go with her to a concert for an artist she likes but doesn’t know anyone else who likes them :’) maybe you can do a trade off like that with her? But also of course, if you aren’t comfy with going then definitely don’t go !! concerts should be fun and if it’s not fun for you, then no need to force yourself to go, sweetpea 💛 I hope she’ll be able to find someone to go with her !!! 🌷🌷

[xjoonchildx]

Hello - I have a bit of a dilemma and could use some advice.

Ok.

I signed up for and got presale codes for the upcoming BTS concerts in Vegas. I cannot use them. I have never been to a BTS concert before. I have not been to a BTS sized stadium concert in like forever. Tickets selling out too fast have never been an issue for any of the small arena/venue style concerts that I have been to in the past. I applied for them knowing I wouldn't be able to go. I wanted to do a practice run of buying tickets so that I would know what the process is when it comes time to actually try for tickets when they hopefully come to the East Coast. My thought was as long as I went through the steps and didn't click buy then I wasn't preventing any other ARMY from getting tickets. I didn't realize that only so many people would be sent presale codes, I had no idea about being waitlisted. While I don't think what I did directly prevented anyone from getting tickets, I definitely see that I've impacted how they can or when they can get tickets. And for that I feel like a POS. Literally sat on my couch crying last night thinking I had ruined someone else's chance of seeing BTS.

Last night after getting the email saying I was invited to the presale I went on twitter to see if others had and what they were saying. That's when I learned about people being waitlisted. . And now there is a lot of discourse and upset ARMY thinking that people who got presale codes knowing they wouldn't be able to use them only did it so they could purchase and resell at a higher cost. I had zero intention of buying tickets at all and even if I did I would never EVER consider reselling them for anything other than face value. I reached out to a mutual who had been waitlisted and offered to buy tickets and transfer them to her, since the presale codes are non transferable. She didn't reply but some other girl did. I explained to her why I applied for presale and said I would consider trying for tickets for her but that I couldn't guarantee them and could only afford to purchase two tickets.

I don't know this person at all. Is it a stupid idea to try to buy tickets and resell them to her? If someone else was in this situation I would probably caution them against it, but because I'm the one involved it's hard to take my own advise.I don't know if in my mind I'm offering to buy a complete stranger concert tickets in an effort to repent from trying for presale codes when I knew I couldn't go so that karma will be back on my side when I finally do get an opportunity to go to a BTS concert. I don't know what to do. I don't want to lie to her and tell her I wasn't able to get tickets. Should I purposefully take my time ordering them so that they do sell out?

I feel like absolute shit for doing what was honestly an innocent mistake. I never meant to keep anyone else from going and I would never try to scam anyone to make money off of tickets for BTS.

okay so -- there's a lot to unpack here. first, let me say do NOT beat yourself up like this about a presale code. it was an honest mistake, this is not the kind of thing you should be tying yourself into knots about.

i am by no means an expert on ticketmaster, but i would assume that if you do not use your presale code, someone who is waitlisted will get the green light. i would suggest you don't go through the process of trying to sell and resell, just don't use it and someone else will get your spot.

i'm sure there are thousands of people who won't use their codes for whatever reason and your situation is probably common. don't feel bad -- stuff happens. i'm sure your code will go right to an ARMY who's able to use it 💞

[farfromskinny-lol]

My best friend got a presale code for Harry styles on some website and got tickets this morning and just didn't tell me about it when she's only going because she "wants to go to a concert" and I cry because I know I'll never meet him. If she had told me I cud have gotten a presale code too. I'm gonna of myself

[greekletters]

insert clever title here..

honestly, I was going to try to bait you all with a better title, but this is all I got..

not really a prompt, but more of a topic... 

The Kissing Booth

When you had imagined college life, you had always thought about late nights studying in the library, or parties where you would go out drinking with your friends, or complete isolation and last minute study sessions in your dorm as you prep for exams.

Having to run the bottle ring toss stand for the dorm hall's charity event wasn't even anywhere near your college to-do list. But here you are. Carefully standing up about forty glass bottles on a table.

You always hated this game. It was completely rigged. The rings you had to toss were always smaller than the bottle tops they were supposed to fall on.

To make matters worse, you had found out that your roommate and love of your life would be running the kissing booth. Of course, Weiss Schnee had no idea that she was the love of your life. But that was a minor detail.

Luckily for you, Weiss' booth had presale tickets. So you may have bought some, just in case. What you hadn't anticipated was her booth being right next to yours.

"Oh hey Blake, looks like we are going to be booth buddies." You look up to see Weiss setting up her sign and placing a plastic bag of some kind on the shelving behind the booth.

"Yeah. Looks like it."

"Did you get stuck doing the ring toss again this year?" She tilts her head to the side and gives you a small smile.

"It's not that bad. I just hate when people, well, really when the kids don't win. It's totally rigged. I usually just give the kids the prize tickets anyways." Shrugging, you set about five more bottles on the table.

"Well that's very kind of you. They said my tickets sold out this year. So I'm a little nervous."

"I mean, why wouldn't they?" It falls out your mouth before you can stop it.

She looks away, smiling. Probably because you're blushing like an idiot because you've totally embarrassed yourself. Not like the two of you have to share a room for the remainder of the school year.. oh wait.

By the grace of God, when you stand up you see Pyrrha making her way towards you, purposefully.

"Hi ladies! Are you ready to go? We are about to open everything up!"

"It's as good as it's gonna get." You mumble as you place the little plastic rings along the counter top of your booth.

"As enthusiastic as always, Blake. Weiss? How about you? You have the only booth to sell out of tickets before we open."

"Really?" There's a slight crack in her voice.

"Most definitely. Yang is quite upset that her booth didn't sell out first."

"I mean, who would honestly pay to arm wrestle her? You're already going to have to pay for your own medical bills when she breaks your arm or wrist." Weiss giggles into her sleeve, and it makes you smile.

"Now, now, that's not fair to say. I asked her to behave and participate fairly."

"Well hopefully she listens." Weiss says as she hops up onto the stool behind her booth.

"Alright, it's go time. So I have to head back up front and make sure Nora and Ruby don't eat all the food. Or set something on fire."

"Wouldn't be good to have a repeat of last year, would it?" You say, and Pyrrha looks at you clearly unamused by the smirk on your face.

As soon as Pyrrha is gone, Weiss leans over towards you.

"Remind me, what happened last year?"

"You mean you really forgot that the two of them tried to deep fry every kind of food they had at the concession stand and the wall caught fire?"

She doubles over in laughter, slapping her knee.

"No, no I didn't forget. But it never gets old. The two of them smelled like corndogs for a month afterwards. Pyrrha was so mad."

The first group of kids approaches your booth and you take their tickets, handing them each three rings.

"And yet, even after the concession stand bonfire, Pyrrha thought it was a good idea to throw the same kind of fundraiser again this year."

None of the kids get any rings on the bottle, but you give them all a prize ticket anyways, and they walk off.

"Yeah, especially since half the money we raised ended up going towards the damages."

"What booth did you run last year? I forgot." It was true. You just know it wasn't the kissing booth.

"Face painting. And I was terrible at it. It was more like a 'Picasso painting in five minutes or less on your face' booth. Kids kept asking for animals or super hero masks and it was just a mess."

"Oh yeah, I asked you to paint a flower on my cheek and it looked way more like a jellyfish than a flower." She grabs one of your rings off the table and throws it at you.

"Who did the kissing booth last year?" She asks, propping her chin in her hand, looking off pensively. But she answers her own question. "Coco. How could I forget? She got in trouble for… how did Pyrrha refer to it?"

"Aggressively trying to suck face with every willing participant." Your air quotes are only to emphasize the ridiculousness of Pyrrha's word choice.

"Poor choice of words, considering it was Coco, so everyone that wandered by was willing."

"You aren't wrong. Still funny though."

Another five or six groups of people come and go from your booth. Weiss' booth still remaining unvisited. But for some reason, she seems unbothered by the lack of people.

"Have you started studying for Goodwitch's exam yet?" When you stand up from picking the rings up off the floor, you face her direction.

"I finished the readings and taking notes but I haven't started studying yet, no. You?"

"Not really. I started to color code my notes but then I was just too distracted."

"Too busy worrying about running the kissing booth, huh?"

"Actually, yes." It surprises you. Weiss isn't the kind of person to let certain things distract her from school work.

"Good news," you look both left and right from your seat, "doesn't seem like you're as busy as you thought. So not much to worry about after all."

"Right? So much for a sold out booth. I even went out of my way to figure out a way to not actually kiss people."

"Wh-what do you mean?" The nervousness in your chest building exponentially.

"Well, I didn't really want to kiss anyone in the first place. So I had to figure out a way to get out of it, without just quitting. So I got these." She leans over and places the plastic bag on the counter top of her booth.

"Hershey kisses. You bought a bag of chocolate?"

"This way, I can technically still give anyone a kiss, but not have to physically kiss them." She dances a little bit on her stool. Clearly proud of herself for coming up with the idea.

"That's kinda smart." It's all you can think to say as your brain comes to realize how much money you just spent on carnival tickets for basically no reason at all.

"So imagine my disappointment when there are no visitors to my supposedly sold out booth." She huffs in defeat.

"More good news, we have less than an hour left, so it's almost over. And you get to keep the chocolates for yourself."

"Still somewhat disappointing."

Suddenly, from around the end of the aisle, Jaune appears, with an armful of tickets.

"Speaking of disappointment." You mumble,

"Those tickets better not be for me." The look of terror is plastered on Weiss' face.

"Hey guys!" He's always so chipper. It's exhausting. "There's only like half an hour left of the carnival so I figured I needed to come drop these off if they plan on getting used."

"Oh God no, please God no." Weiss repeats a few times under her breath.

"And these are…?" You ask him as he lays them across the entirety of your booth's counter.

"Your tickets." He says to you like it's obvious. "You know, all the tickets you bought for the kissing booth. At first when Pyrrha said you had bought them all, I was a little confused. But she told me to just be quiet and bring them here for you. I still can't believe you bought every single one. That's like, over eighty tickets!"

If it were possible to die from embarrassment, you would be six feet under.

"Thanks, Jaune. I'm sure Pyrrha will be delighted to hear that I have received every single one of my tickets, right now, standing here. Now, please do me a favor and leave so I can die in peace."

"Alright then. You two ladies have a good night!" With that, he wanders off back the way he came.

When you finally turn to the right and look in her direction, Weiss is propped up on her forearm and leaning against the booth. Her eyes narrowing as she looks at you. This certainly hadn't been how you thought this would go. You had been hoping she would never find out.

"Just when exactly were you planning on telling me that you bought not one, not two, but ALL of the tickets to my booth, Blake Belladonna?"

"Never? Probably. Maybe eventually?" You fidget nervously.

"Why would you do that? How much could that have possibly cost? Over eighty tickets? You shouldn't go around wasting money like that!"

"It wasn't a waste." You mumble as you begin to start cleaning up your booth, placing bottles back in their boxes under the table.

"What do you mean? Of course it was."

"Selfish maybe, but not a waste." You take a deep breath. "Because maybe I didn't want to spend my night watching other people kiss you, over and over while I supervised the ring toss." Folding the legs of the table, you slide it back against the wall. "It was for charity too, so I didn't waste my money."

You don't really want to wait for her to say anything back. You already feel like your heart had arm wrestled Yang, and lost. So you start cleaning up all the tickets Jaune had left scattered on the booth. Habitually, you count them as you fold them into rows.

"How many?" Her voice almost seems far off, or like you're hearing it through a wall.

"I'm not letting you pay me back for the tickets, Weiss. I'm not sad or feel guilty that I bought them" You dismiss any notion similar to that as well.

"Blake Belladonna, how many tickets did you buy?" Her voice a little more stern this time. Rolling your eyes, you look over at her.

"Eighty four. There are eighty four tickets." Humiliated. You feel humiliated as you hear her shoes scuffing along the floor as she walks over towards you.

"Hold out your hand." You glance up at her suspiciously.

"Why?"

"Just do it, please." She lightly stomps her foot. So you stick out your left hand, palm up.

She reaches up and places a single chocolate kiss in your palm. And you just stare at it for a few seconds.

"Only one? I mean, technically I bought eighty four, so shouldn't you give me the whole bag-"

Before you can finish saying anything she grabs your face and pulls you down, pressing your lips together. If you weren't dead before, you were now.

"Took you two long enough. It was getting painful to watch after three years." The addition of another voice startles the two of you into separating.

Looking over, you see Pyrrha standing at the front side of your booth, holding a box full of supplies under one arm.

"And I'll be taking a few of these, as payment for my continuous pain and suffering that you have caused me over the years." Reaching her hand into the candy bag and grabbing a handful before she walks off.

"I can't believe she took my candy." You say as your eyes follow Pyrrha around the corner.

"I guess you're just going to have to redeem the other eighty three tickets the old fashioned way." Weiss says as she rips one ticket from your collection.

[yeolkisses]

15 Questions Tag

Tagged by @vroomvroombaek, thank you so much and I hope you’re doing well!! 🥺💖💓💕💞💖💗💝

Tagging @masterninjacow @papillonsgf @sunsmileyeol @kimkaijong-in @starchild--27 @nctloveclub @eajbork and anyone else who wants to do this ✨

1. It’s your birthday! What did you ask for and did you receive it?

Well it was actually just my birthday not too long ago, and I asked for a couple albums. Aside from those, I got gift cards and a pretty rock

2. What was the last song or album you listened to?

I think it was Wave by Ateez

3. What is your go to snack when you’re hungry or bored?

Usually whatever fruit we have in the house, or a piece of sourdough bread

4. What is your morning routine?

Currently, I wake up at around 6:50, work out with my mom for about an hour, then make coffee and sit on the couch with my kitties lol

5. What mythical/cryptid creature would you be?

A mermaid or a fairy! When I was really little, I used to think I would one day turn into one or find out I was one like all those shows and movies where something weird happens and the girl suddenly finds out she’s actually been whatever this whole time

6. How do you interact with somebody that you don’t like?

Definitely depends on who/why I don’t like them. A lot of times I can be cordial or tolerant, but if it’s someone I absolutely cannot stand, I won’t talk to them or acknowledge them unless absolutely necessary (I think this really only applies to 1 person though tbh...it’s for a good reason)

7. How do you define a toxic person?

Someone who is constantly taking without giving anything in return, is hypocritical and/or invalidates/belittles another’s feelings and interests (especially while constantly emphasizing their own & forcing them on others), refuses to see things from another person’s point of view, unable to take responsibility/blame, etc.

8. Have you ever been to a concert or fan meet type of event? If not, would you want to?

No 🤧 I had tickets for the Ateez concert in April but because of COVID, it was postponed. I would love to go to concerts and fan meets, but honestly it just seems kinda unrealistic to hope for. Tickets are pretty hard to get (I managed to get the Ateez tickets because an absolutely lovely soul on twitter gave me a presale code) and when I am able to buy them, the dates never work out (INCREDIBLY bitter that I missed a Day6 concert last fall for a marching band competition)

9. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?

Not at all, but I just think it’s fun to read posts about it if I come across them and whatnot. I think it’s just the way I was raised...I remember one time in elementary school we went on a field trip to a planetarium and in the gift shop I bought a keychain (a tiny glass bottle filled with glitter) with my sign on it and for some reason I went to my grandma’s afterwards (it was probably a weekend, I used to spend every weekend at her house) and she was kind of scandalized by it lol

10. If you had only one sense (hearing, touch, sight, etc.), what would you want?

This is harddddd, I think it would be so weird to reach out and touch something but not feel it lol. I’d say sight though, seeing feels like it’s the most essential really.

11. Who is your favorite celebrity or idol?

Of course, Chanyeol.

12. If you could talk to your favorite celebrity(s) for a limited time, what would you tell them?

If I could talk to Chanyeol, I would tell him how much I appreciate and admire him and how driven he is (because honestly!! The boy can do and does literally whatever he puts his mind to, and he’s constantly pushing himself to try and learn new things and improve (because he’s so competitive lol), and that’s the way I want to live too). I would tell him how happy he makes me and so many other people, and how I hope he is truly happy and lives a happy life, because it’s what he deserves.

13. I’m taking you out on a date and it’s your choice. Where are we going?

I wanna go to the beach so badly so the beach!! But honestly I’m good with anywhere, a coffee shop, a bookstore, even just going for a drive.

14. Do you like sweet or savory foods?

Savory for sure. Occasionally I get cravings for sweet things but it’s usually only around my period.

15. Do you have any band merchandise or merchandise from any of your favourite artists? If so, what?

I have a lot of albums and posters, plus a few magazines, two EXO photobooks, and the Exo 2019 Seasons Greetings. I also have a couple shirts.