#so many people wanted to know

[heungmins]

pls tell us the sk nt beef im on the edge of my seat

if you dont know what shit show is going on over at south korea nt, i’m happy for you <3

so basically what happened was after the uruguay vs south korea friendly that took place yesterday, where we lost 2-1, minjae did a post-game interview, looking all dejected and his voice was all quiet, and he looked exhauseted, which you know, fair, but he’s usually really energetic and loud. really fucking loud.

but then he went on to say things along the lines of “i’m very exhausted mentally and physically and i want to focus on my club right now, not the national team.” and the interview was short, but that was basically all he said? i’m not taking anything out of context or anything, even though im biased on this, he’s still korean😭 then the reporters, who were kinda taken aback, asked, “is this something that has been talked over with the kfa?” and minjae just sort of pursed his lips and said, “i can’t say an agreement has been reached” then told them that was all the interview he was gonna do for the night.

korean fans went crazy, obviously????? quite obviously???????????? he made it sound like he was gonna retire and there’s history behind this bc korean fans never like it when players retire from nt before they retire completely bc loyalty whatever but minjae’s like 26 and at the height of his career (maybe) and the person that holds our defence together and everything

and people were mad bc like that’s so fucking irrational and soooo unprofessional bc fucking it over with your club is a different business than the national team, and talking like napoli was more important than your country is just.. yk. icky. you’re carrying your country’s pride on your shoulder, you REPRESENT your COUNTRY when you run with that 태극기 on your chest, it’s not just some silly business

and I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH… koreans take country pride loyalty INCREDIBLY seriously like we’re just a country of fucking insane people

like a day later, he made an instagram apology, turned off all his comments, and he said something along the lines of,

“i work my ass off every game because playing with my nation is important for me, and i can’t believe the 50 something games ive played for the nt is being “taken away”/bashed because of a foolish comment i’ve made, i was just dejected from the goals that went in as a defender, i’m not retiring, sorry to all the staff and players and fans i may have upset”

and like, ok

sure

but the problem was that he blocked??? heungmin?????????????????

son heungmin????????

his CAPTAIN????????????????????????

HE BLOCKED SON HEUNGMIN HIS FUCKING CAPTAIN………………??????????????????

let that simmer let that sink in

he unblocked him now obv and they followed each other back and all now but.. what??????

and we dont really know what happened.

like they couldve had a whole another argument or whatever (though it’s highly unlikely) but many speculate (THIS IS A SPECULATION) that it was bc heungmin after the game posted stuff about how carrying the 태극기 on his shirt while he plays for korea is always an honour .. the way he does after most intl games, but minjae mightve thought that it was like . him being shady .idk

according to the kfa, klinsmann (sk nt new coach) is going to visit italy next month to get to the bottom of the situation .. whatever sure mhm

[perrieedwards]

i feel like people are skimming over the uk riots in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out. muslims in the uk are in active danger. immigrants in the uk are in active danger. refugees in the uk are in active danger. people of colour in the uk are in active danger. asian communities in the uk are in active danger. black communities in the uk are in active danger.

there are massive far right riots throughout the country right now and people like fucking elon musk and nigel farage are inciting it and still have a platform to speak. people have used three young girls deaths, people's genuine grief in southport, to try and gain traction for their own racist bullshit and it's working.

a lot of refugee charities have been forced to close leaving many people without support, homes, funding, food, etc. if you aren't able to donate please consider sending a message via the conversation over borders campaign! it will send a hopeful, welcoming letter to a refugee in the uk. there is also a guide to staying safe here.

please do your own research and donate to refugee charities, anti-islamophobia charities, mosques who are trying to rebuild after being destroyed, counter protesters, here are some i've heard positive things about but the list is extensive; southport strong together (support for the southport victims and their families), southport mosque rebuilding, riot repair fund, middlesbrough vulnerable residents, nasir mosque rebuilding, hull help for refugees, bristol welcomes migrants,

[donutdrawsthings]

People all over the world are thinking of you!

[heartorbit]

if we could stay connected, just like this

[akanemnon]

I don't like this place. It's turning everyone edgy and sad.

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[barghest-land]

drawings from paleo expedition to dagestan, done right on the trip. sometimes messy when it was cold and rainy, but i won't correct it. i think it's cool to leave it just the way it was done, and not retouch it after. there will be more drawings later, but those will be done from home

[ratsoupee]

Accepting isolation, craving belonging

[stuckinapril]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

[tubbytarchia]

so ranchers huh

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[lycandrophile]

it’s so funny to me that people used to try to warn me “if you go on t it won’t make you androgynous it’ll just make you look like a man” because 1) i do want to look like a man, that is famously a major part of being a trans man but also 2) t literally has made me androgynous?? like they were wrong on both counts. i got most of the looking-like-a-man changes that i wanted (deep voice, broader body, hair all over my body including my face) and i also give every single cis person in a five mile radius a stroke every time they try to figure out my gender. the assumption that trans men wouldn’t actually want to look like men and the assumption that cis people are good at correctly gendering us once we’re on t are both weird as hell.

[tuttle-did-it]

You know, it's genuinely sad to me that aging favourite character actors no longer have any fun murder-mystery tv shows to guest-star as murders on.

[spiritsong]

wyll.y.am ravengard, I love you so

everyone loves to put him in gold (rightly so) but my personal style is lots of silver jewelry + heavy eyeliner so that's what I gave him. also roses because he's so damn venusian

[lazylittledragon]

i'm in one of those phases where i really wish i believed in manifesting and spellcasting and things like that bc you know when you want something so bad you're literally praying for the universe to let it happen

[arsenicflame]

Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?