#solo 2020 mimi

[fymoonbyul]

[ARTICLE] Moon Byul hopes to be more than just the rapper of MAMAMOO

Moon Byul spent the first decade of her career as the rapper of girl group Mamamoo. She now plans to break that frame as an all-rounder artist with her first full-length solo album, “Starlit of Muse,” featuring band music, brass music and more.

“I’ve spent the last 10 years as the rapper of Mamamoo, but I didn’t want to lock myself under that title. I didn’t want to be afraid of taking new challenges,” Moon Byul said during a group interview ahead of the release of “Starlit of Muse” on Tuesday.

The group interview was held at Space Sophora, the art gallery in Jung District, central Seoul where Moon Byul also hosted her special exhibition before the release.

“This is why I started my own battle to break that frame in 2022, joining competition shows and releasing new solo albums. I think I can pack that final punch with my full-length album,” she said.

“I needed all 12 tracks in my album to fully express myself.”

The album's 12 songs come in a variety of styles and genres, including “Touchin&Movin,” the lead track featuring funky brass tunes, “Memories,” a song featuring live instrumentals and “Gold,” the artist's first English B-side.

“All the genres that I’ve tried before in my past solo lead tracks are included in ‘Starlit of Muse’,” Moon Byul said. “There’s a song similar to ‘Lunatic’ (2022), ‘C.I.T.T.’ (2022), I have a powerful song just like ‘Eclipse’ (2020) and much more.”

Moon Byul joined and took victory in JTBC’s competition show “The Second World” (2022), which saw girl group rappers such as Oh My Girl’s Mimi, WJSN’s EXY and Billlie’s Moon Sua competing.

But Moon Byul, despite her history as a singer-songwriter who has written lyrics for both her own and Mamamoo's music, is only credited as a producer on two of the album's tracks — “Like a Fool” and “After Sunset,” which Moon Byul wrote three years ago, but has been saving for her full-length release.

“I’ve only decided to put two of my own songs in the album because I wanted to be open to different perspectives — I didn’t want my album to be limited by my vocabulary and the language I use. I wanted to sing songs of love, youth and other different stories seen in different perspectives.”

Nevertheless, Moon Byul clarified that she was at the center of the album's production process, thinking of ideas and making decisions to craft an album that she, herself, would want to buy.

“When I was in a group of four, the agency gave us the big picture and we didn’t have much input in the album. When I was in a duo in Mamamoo+, I could put half of my input into the album. With a solo release, I can have all my input in the album,” Moon Byul said. “Everyone can release a bland album, so I wanted to make a fun and exciting album.”

Out of the many songs in the album, “Memories,” featuring RBW’s boy band Onewe, was Moon Byul’s favorite B-side track.

“'The Second World’ really taught me that I like band music and made me realize that I’m quite good at it,” she said. “'Memories’ is a song that fits just right in that category. It revolves around the theme of refreshing youth, and I think it will be best performed live.”

“I’m so glad and thankful to have Onewe as instrumental performers in the song, because imitating band music using synthesizers just didn’t feel lively,” Moon Byul said. “Listening to Onewe’s live performances, I could feel the liveliness, and I could sense how the band communicates with the listeners.”

But despite praising her collaborators, Moon Byul remained humble and cautious about debuting her own band.

“You know, as much as I want to start my own band, I’m very much well aware that people around me would have to suffer [in helping me],” Moon Byul said with a laugh. “I also can’t play any instruments. I think I’ll have to be ready first.”

Moon Byul hopes that fans will enjoy the merchandise she's prepared to accompany the album, including a limited-edition tote bag made out of demo and various “unique and fun” photocards.

But the most important thing, the artist said, is that she, herself, is happy with her work.

“I never felt the feelings of satisfaction as I released my previous albums, but I was truly satisfied with everything with my album as I produced it,” Moon Byul said. “So regardless of how other people judge me, I’ll be happy with my album.”

But, she emphasized, “I hope my fans will listen to the album and be proud of their favorite singer.” She added, “I hope it turns out to be an album I’m not ashamed of and one that’s worthy of Mamamoo’s name.”

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[classicalmusicdaily]

During his studies, he was awarded with the Rector’s Award in 2010 (for new project “DuLuM”), as well as with the Dean’s Award in 2012 (as an assistant conductor in the production of Bizet’s opera Carmen). In 2013 he conducted a performance of Stravinsky’s opera Le rossingol. He continue to collaborate with the Academy of Music in Zagreb from 2016 on, as an Assistant professor (Conducting studies and Sight reading), as well as a conductor of the new production of Massenet’s opera Cendrillon in March 2020. Since 2013 he was a member of the team at Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, firstly as a Répétiteur, later as a Studienleiter. As an assistant conductor, he made 10 productions for the theater: Les vêpres siciliennes, Don Carlo, Madama Butterfly, Turandot and Gurre-Lieder, just to name a few. He conducted performances of operas such as Don Pasquale, Mimi and Equinox. From September 2019, he is a member of Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where he had his german debut in March 2021. He is a conductor and an artistic director for three ensembles: Vocal baroque ensemble Projekt Lazarus (with concerts in Rome, Vienna, Venice, Varaždin, Zadar and many more), Chamber opera company “Opera bb” (with two premieres: Die Lustige Witwe in 2017 and Die Fledermaus in 2019) and Chamber ensemble “Col legno” (with contemporary repertoire performed at many festivals in Zagreb, Cres and Rovinj). Hello, dear Darijan and welcome in our Conductors of the future rubric! We are very happy to have the chance to get to know you better and to talk with you about your path & the beautiful world of opera. First of all, please, tell us about how everything started for you, about your musical journey. Dear OperaCharm Team, it is a great pleasure having this opportunity to talk with you all present myself and my work to a wider audience. I’ve been living with music since very early age. My older sister is a concert pianist and I had often been present while she’d practiced at home and my father always mention that I’ve been humming with her and sometimes even correcting some mistakes even before I started to play piano myself – so, there was a conductor somewhere inside even then I’ve started to work with my first piano teacher around my 7th birthday in my small hometown Novska (Croatia) and piano is always near me and I think it will be my whole life the basis of my musicianship, but with time I’ve realized that I like to make music with my friends and colleagues more and more… In that sense, I’ve gathered a few friends and started my own choir during my high school. After graduation in both piano and music theory, I moved to Zagreb, where I studied conducting and eventually got my MA Diploma in 2014. In 2011 you started your professional career as an assistant conductor in the production of Bizet’s Carmen, how was it for you? What is it like to have the chance, as a young conductor, to assist & be a part of the musical creation process? Except for living with classical music, mostly repertoire for piano solo in my youth, I’ve always been interested in wide range of music, going from arrangements for all kinds of ensembles (from chamber choir to symphonic orchestra) to even playing pop music in a few different groups. Somehow, opera as a form got to my attention quite late, i.e. during my studies in Zagreb. That was really the so-called “A-ha moment” when I felt really like I got “infused” with some kind of a drug I could never get rid of. All joking aside, that was really a great pleasure to assist my professor at the time and get the chance to be included in all stops on the way of making an opera production – from the very first coaching and lessons, learning the roles with singers to conducting staging rehearsals with soloists and full chorus. That experience was and still is crucial for all projects that came later. I’ve had an opportunity to find a way of giving my best working patiently with singers on all needed skills within a goal of

performing his/her best, from mastering most of languages of operatic repertoire to sing other parts, that still makes me happy to this very day. reposted from https://opera-charm.com/

[izzyizumi]

DIGIMON ADVENTURE: [2020 Reboot] ~ EPISODES 32~36 & EPISODE 37 + CHARACTER MOMENTS + SERIES REFERENCES ~ MIMI TACHIKAWA & TOGEMON & GOLEMON

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A golem, {in Jewish texts and Jewish folklore} is a clay creature that has been magically brought to life. The name comes from the Hebrew word “golem,” which means something incomplete or unfinished, like an embryo.

In popular legend, however, the golem became a kind of folk hero. Tales of mystical rabbis creating life from dust abounded, particularly in the Early Modern period, and inspired such tales as Frankenstein and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”  Sometimes the golem saves the Jewish community from persecution or death, enacting the kind of heroism or revenge unavailable to powerless Jews. Often, however, Jewish folktales about the golem tell what happens when things go awry — when the power of life-force goes astray, often with tragic results.

The classic narrative of the golem tells of how Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague (known as the Maharal; 1525-1609) creates a golem to defend the Jewish community from antisemitic attacks. But eventually, the golem grows fearsome and violent, and Rabbi Loew is forced to destroy it. (Legend tells that the golem remains in the attic of the Altneushul in Prague, ready to be reactivated if needed; this legend reappeared in Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay). Likewise in Paul Wegener’s expressionist film The Golem (1920), the golem is a brutish creature whose powers are all-too-easily turned to destructive ends.

This is, of course, a perfect encapsulation of the same anxiety that underlies so much of the mystical speculation about demons, dybbuks, ghosts, and golems: The power of life is so strong, that it brings both promise and terror.

- MyJewishLearning.com’s article on Golems {check out the full article at their website for full contexts with further reading and further reference links!}

BONUS:

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Before talking about in-depth or ‘reviewing’ this episode, I’d very much like if the fanbase could keep in mind not only the said folklore that blatantly inspired this Digimons’ design and canonical lores, but also be careful in their commentaries about this episode as a result.

They are a very specifically Jewish folklore, and within our storytelling tradition are pretty complex creatures created to protect, but with potential for destruction. Often golems are taken out of that context, by people who are not Jewish, to be used just as monsters.

For many folks that isn’t an issue, but for others (myself included) that feels a bit uncomfortable, as the (perhaps unintended) message can be seen as “creatures that protect Jewish people are really monsters.”

[Keeping this information] in mind and being AWARE of the history of the golem in our folklore will prevent issues relevant to handling this topic. {Especially if you are considering either commentating on the character itself, the story within the episode portrayed along with it, or using or referring to the character within future fanworks.}

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Flake's "Des Tastenfickers podcast" 🎹 podcast (and readings) - my takes (index)

Because it annoys me that half the time i can't find my old posts again (once again i'm looking at you Tumblr), this is a bit of a list of my takes on Flake podcast posts 🎹 still missing several i think, but i'll add them if i ever find them again..

abt 2020-03-18 Western (added 2022-09-03)

abt 2020-04-29 Railroad / Eisenbahn (added 2022-09-03)

abt 2020-04-29 Harmony in music / Harmonie in Musik (added 2022-09-09)

abt 2020-04-30 Berlin (added 2022-08-28)

abt 2020-05-13 Collaborations / Zusammenspiel (added 2022-09-18)

2020-05-27 Solo albums / Soloplatten

abt 2020-06-12 Books / Bücher (added 2022-10-01)

2020-06-24 Drugs / Drogen

abt 2020-07-08 Schoolbands / Schulbands (added 2022-10-01)

2020-07-22 Children / Kinder

2020-08-11 Remarkable bandnames / Bemerkenswerte Gruppennamen

2020-09-03 Girlnames / Mädchennamen (added 2022-10-16)

2020-09-16 Foreign bands who sing German / Ausländische bands die Deutsch singen (added 2022-10-06)

2020-10-14 Supergroups / Supergruppen

abt 2020-11-05 Animals / Tiere (added 2022-08-30)

abt 2020-11-11 Misunderstandings / Misverständnisse (added 2022-09-11)

2020-11-25 German bands who sing english / Deutsche bands die englisch singen

2020-12-09 King and queen / König und Königin

2020-12-23 Rocksongs with a piano /Rocklieder mit einem Klavier

2021-01-13 Dads / Väter

2021-01-27 Humor

2021-02-09 Youth / Jugend (with daughter Mimi)

2021-02-24 Radio

2021-03-10 Songs with spoken lyrics / Lieder in denen gesprochen wird

2021-03-24 Whistling songs / Pfeiflieder

2021-04-14 Africa / Afrika

2021-04-28 West bands who were more popular in the GDR than at home / Westbands die in der DDR beliebter waren als im Heimatland

2021-05-12 Bands named after cities / Bands die wie Städte heißen (with songlist)

2021-05-26 Instrumental songs / Instrumentals

2021-06-09 Certain harmonic sequences / Bestimmte harmonische Abfolgen

2021-06-23 Girl bands / Mädchenbands

2021-07-13 Streets / Straßen

2021-07-28 Classical music in rockmusic / Klassik in der Rockmusik

2021-08-11 Noises in music / Geräusche in der Musik

2021-08-25 Music in tv shows / Musik in Fernsehserien

2021-09-15 Running / Rennen

2021-09-29 Rivers / Flüsse

2021-10-13 Unmistakable songs / Unverwechselbare Lieder

2021-10-27 War - soldiers - peace / Krieg - soldaten - frieden

2021-11-10 Remarkable albumtitles / Bemerkenzwerte Plattentitel

2021-11-24 Cars / Autos

2021-12-15 Music about food / Musik über Essen

2021-12-29 Uncool bands / Uncoole Bands

2022-01-12 Chile

2022-01-26 Music about music / Musik über Musik

2022-02-09 Work / Arbeit

2022-02-23 Ships / Schiffe

2022-03-09 Lonely / Einsamkeit

2022-03-23 Kisses / Küsse

2022-04-13 Flying / Fliegen (with songlist)

2022-05-11 Time / Zeit

2022-06-14 Ill / Krank (with songlist)

2022-07-12 Rhythmic finesses / Rhythmische Finessen

2022-08-10 Sport

2022-09-13 Gay and Lesbian / Schwul und Lesbisch (with songlist)

2022-10-11 Goodbye / Abschied

2022-11-08 Blood / Blut (with songlist)

2022-12-13 Nach der Wende

2023-01-10 Stars / Sterne

2023-02-14 Mountains / Berge

2023-03-14 Hair / Haare

2023-04-11 Talking / Reden

2023-05-09 Crying / Weinen

Because his podcast seems to have put on hold indefinitely, some takes on his readings and guesting on podcasts too

2020-07-03 Durch die Brille gefragt -guest: Flake (added 2024-10-27)

2024-10-18 Drecksack reading "Bessere Hälfte" (Better half)

[kpop-locks]

Oioi adms se não for encomodo pode me ajudar a conhecer mais o grupo OH MY GIRL

Desde já agradeço 💗💗💗

a gab nossa miracle de plantão ta sem tempo, então vou tentar ajudar um pouco com o tempo que fui fã delas! JIHO MEU AMOR TUDO POR VOCÊ!!

hyojung: líder e main vocal, ta na subunit omg banhana (a da musica do macaquinho). ela tem o sorriso muito contagiante, ta sempre sorrindo nunca vi, ela é pitica e o apelidinho dela é candy!! (insta: @candyz_hyojung)

mimi: A DONAAAAAAAAAAAA, o amor da vida da lara ela passa mal sabe. main rapper, main dancer e sub vocal pq ela faz TUDO. outra amaldiçoada com a franja do demonio, sinto pena. ela tem o arco do cupido muito bem definidinho, se quer diferenciar ela vai pela boca, o gummy smile dela tbm coisa mais linda. o espirito animal dela é um ursinho iti mamae, ela gosta de desenhar e não gosta de videos assustadores. ela se sente muito intimidada por paparazzi e cameras então deem espaço pra deusa. (inta: @mimmiiiya)

yooa: main dancer, lead vocal e face do grupo. tem uma carinha pequena e redondinha, parece uma boneca e os labions redondinhos. ela era trainee da whent. ela é parte de um grupo chamado sunny girls, com outras idols de outros grupos! ela debutou solo em 2020 com bon voyage (algumas tretas de apropriação cultural junto) (insta: @yoo__sha)

seunghee: a palhacinha do grupo, que serve gogó, vocais e vocais, main vocal. ela sabe tocar violão, o box smile fofissimo, tem o rostinho redondinho. ela é a que tem mais atividades fora do grupo eu acho, osts, alguns acting pequenos, participações em programas de variedades sozinha, etc, ela é fangirl da hwasa, gente como a gente, ela é muito amiga do tae e do jimin do bts (e sim, ja vi gente atacando ela por isso, assim como atacaram a jennie pelo tae seguir ela no insta, como se os meninos não pudessem ter amigas mulheres o auge). ela canta os background vocals na musica full moon da sunmi!! gostou demais do cabelo rosa, tava vendo a hora que ia vir o corte químico. (insta: @hyun_maxiang)

jiho: A DONA DA MINHA VIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, kim jiho estou aqui pra servi-la. lead vocal, lead dancer e se não advinhou ainda olhando pra esse rostinho VISUAAALLLLL. o apelidinho dela é nyang pq ela parece um gatinho. ela é a endorfina do grupo e sabe tocar guitarra e imitar o pikachu! ela atuou no mv de 'sweet girl' do b1a4! em 2020 enla entrou em um hiatus por ansiedade e saúde mas a fadinha ja voltou pra nós!! (insta: @hyun_maxiang)

binnie: (tbm conhecida como sósia do joshua do 17) é subvocal e tbm ta na subunit omg banhana! ela era uma criança prodígio, varios job de modela e atriz. ela é conhecida como a mina de cabelo curto do omg pq ela ta de cabelo curtinho desde sempre (mas ela pos uns aplique recentemente). ela ta na versão feminina do 97line group junto com a dami do dc (a deusa), a yuju, a jane, minkyeung e gyeongwon do hinapia e yebin do unit. (insta: @baeyu_b)

arin: lead dancer, subvoacl e makner. a dupla infalivel junto com o soobin do txt (sim, da fancam de dolphin). tbm do omg banhana, o espirito animal dela é um coelhinho. ela é bem timida a princesa. elaé a que tav SEMPRE com cabelo preso no começo da carreira do omg, o reset cultural quando ela apareceu de cabelo solto pra uma performance. a arin é amiga a dayoung do wjsn e da yoojung do weme. e era classmate da mina do gugudan e do mark do nct (inta: @ye._.vely618)

[jippy-kandi]

Digimon Adventure: 2020 – Episode 51: The Mystery Hidden Within The Crests (Review)

Thoughts on the fifty-first episode of the Digimon Adventure reboot series.

Well, after last week’s super climax episode . . . this episode was pretty chill.

It was nice to see the kids relaxing - and then being annoyed when Garbagemon disturbed their peace, lol. Kids being kids! Nice. :)

It was also nice to see Garbagemon again! And to meet the tiny Wisemon. He’s so cute. XD;

CRESTS! YAS! FINALLY! But we’re told very little about them, lol. I see, gotta learn about them as each Digimon Mega evolves . . .

Koushirou: “I’ve always wondered about it [the Crests]. Though I only thought of it as an icon that indicates the Digivice’s owner.” LOL. But that’s fair. And an entire generation of children wondered about what the symbols meant for 90% of the series, too . . .

OMG FLASHBACKS OF THE KIDS AS SUPER TINY KIDS!!! <3 The actual highlight of this episode for me, lol. But they flashed by so quickly I had to take screenshots of them manually. :c

So apparently Millenniumon was nothing (or is one part of something bigger), and the Chosen Children are here to stop the Great Catastrophe! Yamato: “What happens in the Great Catastrophe?” Wisemon: “. . . We do not know . . . is what we do know. This, too, brings joy to my knowledge.” LMAO. I really like Wisemon. :)

Oh, Fillermon eating RAM sighting! It’s Burpmon - who is essentially just Kirbymon. :D

There are a lot of weird Digimon cameos this episode, including one that looks like a pencil, lol.

I like how everyone just stood there and did nothing as Burpmon ate Mechanorimon, lol. Wisemon’s voice is just so riveting, I guess. Gotta let him finish speaking before attacking enemies. XD;

Well, Burpmon is a picky eater and doesn’t eat trash. Lucky for Garbagemon! XD; Burpmon was a fun and silly villain . . . but pretty pointless after Millenniumon, you know? You can’t beat that dude. But I found Burpmon cute. He should be a good Digimon instead. ^_^

Taichi’s speech about continuing his adventure because he likes Agumon and Digimon - and not because he’s a Chosen Child and it’s his mission - fell flat to me. It just felt forced and inserted out of nowhere, like the writers trying to convey the strength of the kids’ friendships with their Digimon through words, instead of action . . . it’s lazy writing.

But their stone Crests start glowing and their Digivices have arrows pointing them to “answers”, so, fine . . . except Taichi’s arrow is pointing everywhere because he is The One True Protagonist and sigh. I can see where this is going . . .

Jou taking Takeru and Hikari to the hot springs he was at earlier, just for Patamon and Tailmon to recover from their Mega evolutions exhausting them is . . . so bizarre. And WarGreymon went through a lot too, including holding unfathomable power in his hands . . . and yet he’s OK??? Please. :P

So the kids split up (again - they are barely friends in this series) into odd groups. Jou, Takeru and Hikari are together, then Taichi and Sora, while Yamato, Mimi and Koushirou go solo (Koushirou actually stays behind). Very odd. But I imagine that Taichi will actually hop from each group to the next (due to his spinning arrow), as the others reach their Mega evolutions . . . you know, because this series cannot handle an episode without The Bland Protagonist. orz

This was a decent episode, I guess. I liked the idea of the information tree - and visually it was cool to see. But this episode was pretty much just an information dump, and I do want the Crests to be explained - but they didn’t do much of that, lol. Instead, we’ll learn about each Crest in each new episode. Yay! :P

Next week: PHOENIXMON!!! Hell yeah. The other kids are getting Mega evolutions! Just shoehorned in towards the very end of the series in a super rush-job. \o/

Please let this Sora episode be just as great as her episode 40. Please, Toei. She deserves it. ;_;

[beyoncesdragon]

an introduction of VICTON♥︎༄

my favorite emo punk fairies of kpop, @aixy-hpsa bub buckle up.

-`about victon´-

Victon actually means Voice to New World or some, and we, the cult-followers, are to be yelled at by the name of ALICE. They debuted 2016 and have so far produced a bunch of mindblowing, amazing, superior, beautiful, showstopping (...) bops:

-`studio albums´-

Voice : The Future is Now (2021) *scream*

-`mini albums´-

Voice To New World (2016)

Ready (2017)

Identity (2017)

From. VICTON (2017)

Nostalgia (2019)

Continuous (2020)

-`single albums´-

"Time of Sorrow" (2018)

"Mayday" (2020)

they are amaaaaazing oke. look here have my favorite songs of them. (Yes I’m forcing my love for them down your throat now I’m sorry)

♥︎ - KANG SEUNGSIK - ♥︎

♥︎ 16. April 1995 ♥︎ 🐶 ♥︎ 🇰🇷 ♥︎

Leader!

He became Victons leader after Seungwoo started participating in Produce X 101 and then officially became Victons leader when Seungwoo came back from X1.

Vocalist! VOCALIST. VOCALIST

This man is blessed with a set of insane vocal chords and we all love him for it.

congratulations to Victon for being the only group with Kang Seungsik

He’s the mom of the group :,)

Supa caring dude, cleans up the mess of OT6

Is “Health” in persona, which kinda fits doesn’t it.

Naturally gets bullied by the younger ones.

EYE SMILE GANG

Also has dimples

Great leader and we should all respect him for it and give him never ending credits, victon wouldn’t be victon without him periodt.

♥︎ - HAN SEUNGWOO - ♥︎

♥︎ December 24, 1994 ♥︎ 🦊 ♥︎ 🇰🇷 ♥︎

Lead rapper, lead dancer, lead vocalist lead everything

Except Leader.

He gave that position up after he returned from X1 (where he by the way also was voted leader)

YOOO the members missed him so much they cried when he was gone

Visuals✨

Oh boy that man...dangerous

He has the funniest laugh? Like u would never expect that laugh to be his???

He. Has. His. Own. EP. And I dare everyone to listen to „Sacrifice“. It’s a masterpiece.

Seunggu also has tattoos!! 3 in total.

This dude is ripped yet u will probably catch him imitating goats and pikachu...?

Will roast the maknae but with love

Hes so much more than just his face.

♥︎ - DO HANSE - ♥︎

♥︎ 25. Sept. 1997 ♥︎ 🐱 ♥︎ 🇰🇷 ♥︎

Hello you’re looking at the loml

Main rapper.

(Of victon and of Kpop ex.1 and ex.2)

Sese ♥︎

Puts the sweet in sweetheart and really, he only looks like he could kill

TATTOOOOOS. SO. MANY. OF. THEM.

Semicolon on his wrist; cross on his left shoulder and chest (he church boi); roses on his arm: writings on his collar bone; so many more

bestest sense of fashion hands down

Iconic lip ring

His own solo EP is on the way!!!

Somehow this man is also main dancer

MIC FLIPS OWO

Talented boy.

♥︎ - LIM SEJUN - ♥︎

♥︎ May 4, 1996 ♥︎ 🍓 ♥︎ 🇰🇷 ♥︎

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Most coziest-est VLives in history of Vlives

Easily scared (victon does enjoy that, naturally)

Very whiny but it’s oke

Lead Vocalist, Visual, Face of the Group

Insane vocals too, here ex.1

Another member of kpops cucumbers-anti squad

He’s very much BTS fanboy (not as much as Wooyoung but that’s hard anyways)

Competitive eater (listen, the maknae said that and we will believe him)

Will never leave Subin do a Vlive in peace ever

Will Never leave Subin live in peace ever either

Clingy boy

Walking noise-machine, he goes “ouh? Oh? Eh?” Like 372892 times a day

So much love for the dimple-prince

♥︎ - HEO CHAN - ♥︎

♥︎ December 14, 1995 ♥︎ 🦖 ♥︎ 🇰🇷 ♥︎

May I introduce...SUNSHINE OF VICTON ☀️

Mood maker of the group!

Mr Main Dancer and Vocalist also has dimples

And even tho he wanted to be a dance instructor, he somehow ended up becoming an idol

He even trained with TBZ mr leader sir Sangyeon

Mans can drive!!

Like Lee Know, he once was a backup dancer. For A-Pink tho, which is pretty cool

Hes considered the uncle in our lovely family dynamic

Expensive boi be collecting sHOES

And he said he polishes them from time to time and I do think that’s adorable

He’s also allergic to cats (unless it’s Hanse. That’s okay ig)

Cutest sunny boy, will take good care of your heart always☀️💛

♥︎ - CHOI BYUNGCHAN - ♥︎

♥︎ November 12, 1997 ♥︎ 🐥 ♥︎ 🇰🇷 ♥︎

Welcome to Victon where everyone has a mandatory crush on Byung

Like he doesn’t even have to enter your biasline

You will still have a crush on him because Byungchan

Softest biaswrecker i have ever had 112/10 would recommend

Tall boi. Like really tall and really broad👀

I keep forgetting he’s maknae line tbh

Prettiest Dimples ever.

Very active on his Instagram and we love him for it

Top tier bf material

Hes the softest boy and yet only one who isn’t scared of fucking bugs (victon scaredy cats)

Try not falling too hard for the mister

He knows so many girlfroup dances

He also shows them off quite always

He’s a bit tinie liddol but clumsy sometimes

Gosh I love him

♥︎ - JUNG SUBIN - ♥︎

♥︎ April 5, 1999 ♥︎ 🐰 ♥︎ 🇰🇷 ♥︎

Vocalist, Rapper, Heart-stealer, Actor...

AND MOST LOVED MAKNAE EVER

Like I don’t know if any maknae ever received as many kisses as this one

Gets (rightfully) babied to the Max by every. Single. One. Of. Them.

24/7

He’s also a babie. Like yes he’s a grown man and he looks hella intimidating on stage but-

It’s Subin

He’s also the smolest in Victon (uwu)

At the same time, maknae on top, this man gets everything (except his own room lmao) he wants

Sometimes not so baby (ex.1)

Saiubin-bby was supposed to debut with Pentagon but he yeeted last minute (we thank)

The child himself has children too: dog Toto and 2 cats: Mimi and Jaws.

He’s close friends with my favourite, formerly pink-haired elf-twink Yeonjun of TXT

Chairman of Victon.

he has the BEST insta user: subsubey.

Best boi.

-`very valid victon-moments to begin with´-

- because its pride: 🌈

- general victon-feelsies: 🌸

- for bad mood: ☀️

- moments when you want to question their sanity: 🌻 🌼 🌺 🌹

- victon being talented on studio CHOOM

- victon being talented whilst covering kehlanis "Gangsta"

alright that was long. and yes they are exactly as loud and noisy and annoying and time consuming as they seem but they are also best boys who can bring very much happiness into ones life, so they are very much worth it

[mma3youf]

FA222 ,principles of graphic design:

Instructor: mr.munwar mukhtar

@uob-funoon @mnwrzmn

Project 1 : design

Covering up the Cracks: The Return of Wallpaper

How artists from Édouard Vuillard to Dorothea Tanning and Kehinde Wiley used wallpaper in their work

Forget fragrant roses and honeysuckle. Forget soft-throated songbirds and sunflowers. I always see spiders in wallpaper. My eyes trace the patterns, searching them out, those crooked arachnids. The mere hint of one turns my stomach. Look: there’s one! Tarantula-black, wriggling through that ivy-blossom, crouching behind those camellias. See its distended abdomen, those unwieldy legs?

What this says about me, I don’t want to know, but spiders also spring to mind whenever I think of a certain painting by Édouard Vuillard. Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist (1893) is a most peculiar work, wrought with invisible tensions. The manner in which Vuillard configures his mother and sister hints at a curious dynamic, one more commonly imagined between a spider and a fly. Here is Madame Vuillard, a throbbing black presence, legs set wide apart, hands placed defiantly on her knees in as dominant and sinister a pose as she can muster. To the left, Vuillard’s sister, Marie (or Mimi as she was known within the family), looks as if she is being engulfed by the wallpaper. Or is she already trapped? Can you hear the frantic buzzing as she struggles to escape? It’s almost unbearable. Marie is ensnared; it’s as if Madame Vuillard has forced her into a web. The awkward angle at which Vuillard composes his picture fosters this tension. Somehow, the artist seems to suggest, maman is driving her daughter into dangerous territory.

Or is she? Is Vuillard really attempting to convey that his mother is pushing his sister not only to the limits of physical space, but also of sanity? Although the narrative is not explicit, Vuillard painted several similar portraits of his mother and sister that imply domestic disharmony. In The Door Ajar (1891), for example, Marie appears alone, this time peering into a room as if she wants simultaneously to enter and retreat. Marie’s dress and the wallpaper are barely distinguishable from one another: the maggoty yellow pattern of the latter insidiously overlaps with the strange crescent moons of the former to suggest … what exactly? Is Marie, once again, being pushed in to the web of the wallpaper? Or is something else at play? Could Vuillard be trying to capture some deep-seated predisposition in his sister? Perhaps, psychologically speaking, Marie wants to entwine herself with the background of life. As in Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist, rather than being pushed out of the room by maman, Marie is perhaps choosing to contort her body so as to escape? Whatever the case, for Vuillard, wallpaper is never simply decorative. Loaded with narratives, in the artist’s hands it becomes a metaphor for the divide between physical and psychological space, between inner and outer realities.

A little less than 100 years after Vuillard completed Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist, a young woman on the east coast of America took a series of photographs, ‘Space2, Providence, Rhode Island’ (1976–77), one of which could stand as a companion piece to his painting. An eerie connection exists between the two works, a conversation of sorts across the decades. Here is the image of another young woman who appears to want to escape and who uses wallpaper as the means by which to do so. Unlike Marie, however, who is the subject of her brother’s narrative, the woman in this photograph is most definitely the author of her own disappearance. Using strips of paper to cover her face, breasts and legs, Francesca Woodman attempts to take herself out of the photographs she so carefully constructs. Like wallpaper itself, with its repeating patterns and shapes, the desire to remove herself from the picture occurs throughout Woodman’s work.

In other self-portraits, Woodman crouches beneath a tilted door, disappears through a wall, merges with mirrors, windows and fireplaces. She is a ghost light, a will-’o-the-wisp, a haze and a blur; present only in her absence, a non sequitur made physical. Indeed, looking every bit like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1865), with her long blonde hair, floor-length skirts and black pumps, Woodman seems desperate to slip beyond the here and now, to use every available surface in order to vanish – not into Wonderland, but towards some other dimension. Ironically, much like the Cheshire Cat whose smile lingers long after the rest of his body has disappeared, by highlighting herself in the act of vanishing, Woodman’s spectral presence grows ever more compelling. Who is this beguiling figure dedicated to both evading and haunting? The answer is never clear. In fact, the nearest we come to it might be the manner of the photographer’s death. In 1981, at the age of 22, Woodman took her own life by jumping out of a window.

Appearance and disappearance. Repeating patterns and shapes. Integration and disintegration. A year before Vuillard completed Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist, a novel was published in America that foreshadowed it. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes as its subject the agonizing mental decline of an unnamed narrator who has just given birth. Confined by her husband to an upstairs nursery with bars at the window, the woman is advised to empty her mind and do nothing but rest. Instead, she begins to tell us about her predicament. Having been deprived of any mental stimulation, she begins to believe she has seen glimpses of a woman trapped behind the room’s sickly yellow wallpaper. As a metaphor for the morbidly restrictive society into which 19th-century, middle-class women were born, The Yellow Wallpaper is highly effective; on a psychological level, it is unsurpassed. As with the walls in Vuillard’s painting, the paper crawls with meaning; the narrator projects her fears onto its ‘bloated curves and flourishes’, its ‘sprawling flamboyant patterns’ and ‘wallowing seaweeds�� until, finally, they take on a life of their own and begin to seep through the paper in the shape of a deranged ‘other’. The wallpaper, in other words, has become a reproduction of what is playing out in the narrator’s misshapen psyche.

It is hard to think of Gilman’s work without being reminded of that doyen of the 19th-century British arts and crafts movement, William Morris. The intricate wallpapers and textile designs he created for Victorian homes could easily have graced the room in which Gilman’s narrator was incarcerated. This made American artist Kehinde Wiley’s first UK museum solo show, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, at William Morris Gallery in London earlier this year more than a little intriguing. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper is something that has haunted me for years,’ Wiley says of the novella in a short film about the making of this work. ‘The idea of being in a room and not being taken seriously.’ This is not something that can be said of the six black women and two children Wiley met on the streets of east London, whose strikingly beautiful portraits filled the exhibition. Whether sitting or standing, whether their faces turn away or directly look out, each sitter is centre stage. More than that, each is engaged in a serious dialogue with the background patterns from which they emerge. These patterns are based on Morris’s own wallpaper designs that would have papered the walls of mansions inhabited by, among others, former slave-traders and plantation owners. In doing so, Wiley’s work plays on the conflict between the sinister history embedded in the prettiest detailing and the self-possessed women who emerge from the patterns, who seem to defy anyone to repeat it.

Lindsey Mendick, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, 2020, installation detail, Eastside Projects,Birmingham. Courtesy: the artist and Eastside Projects; photograph: Stuart Whipps

Coincidentally, artist and sculptor Lindsey Mendick’s exhibition at Eastside Projects in Birmingham earlier this year was also titled ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. Featuring untitled videos, ceramics and miniatures, the show pivots on a disturbing episode in the artist’s life when, during a nervous breakdown in 2006, Mendick glanced from her bedroom window to see six men dressed in black, walking up and down the street speaking into walkie-talkies. Mendick related the incident to her mother who, given her daughter’s vulnerable state of mind, found the story difficult to believe. A few days later, however, news broke that the former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, had been poisoned; he was Mendick’s neighbour.

Unlike Gilman’s narrator, what Mendick had seen was real; however, in her exhibition she, too, played with the idea of wallpaper as a borderland between sanity and insanity. The show also included other domestic items as receptacles into or onto which all that was unendurable could be projected. A large teapot (with a hole in one side through which you could view the vessel’s interior) contained two small ceramic figures taking tea from a large teapot containing two ceramic figures taking tea from a teapot, in what felt like a claustrophobic dance to the death. Nor did the claustrophobia end there, for all the pieces in the small, over-lit gallery spoke of other confined and confining spaces – from the hollowed-out, ceramic head of Russian President Vladimir Putin, inside which the figure of a distraught woman (Mendick herself?) sits on a toilet within a cramped bathroom, to a 1960s-style bedside cabinet inside which reside Mendick’s family members, configured weirdly as Russian dolls. But, of all the dialogues taking place inside this room, the loudest is also the most hallucinatory: the one inside my own head between Gilman and Mendick. What is it they are saying? That yellow is an unfortunate colour with which to decorate a room? That the divide between sanity and insanity is paper-thin? Or that even the most innocuous of objects can pulsate with the unconscious?

This is a sentiment with which the surrealist artist, sculptor and writer Dorothea Tanning would surely have agreed. Writing in the catalogue for her 1979 exhibition at New York’s Gimpel-Wietzenhoffer Gallery, she declared of her hometown of Galesburg, in rural Illinois, that ‘nothing happened but the wallpaper’. Tanning’s Chambre 202, Hôtel du Pavot (1970–73) is a three-dimensional, life-sized room in which two grubby pink torsos, shaped as if carved from ham, poke through the dingy wallpaper while the chimney breast gives birth to three further mutations – although whether these are animal, vegetable or some other tumorous mash-up, it is impossible to say. The work was partly inspired by a song Tanning recalled from her childhood: ‘In Room 202’ (1919) composed by Dave Harris with lyrics by Edgar Leslie and Bert Kalmar, tells the story of Kitty Kane, a gangster’s moll who poisoned herself while staying at a hotel in Chicago.

In room two hundred and two The walls keep talkin’ to you I’ll never tell you what they said So turn out the light and come to bed.

But if the song suggests talking walls, Tanning pushes this idea to its very edge, wishing to create a space in which the wallpaper, as she once explained, would ‘tear with screams’ while maintaining ‘an odd banality’. The latter is captured by the dreary ordinariness of the installation’s wallpaper while the former is contained in the hotel’s name: pavot is French for poppy, the flower from which opium is derived. By conflating these disparate ideas, Tanning succeeds in heightening the room’s creepiness; this in turn precipitates a sense of impending doom. What springs to mind is a back-street abortionist’s or the lair of a serial killer such as John Christie who, over several months in the early 1950s, murdered (among others) Kathleen Maloney, Rita Nelson and Hectorina MacLennan, hiding their bodies in a kitchen alcove, which he subsequently wallpapered over as if it were a solid wall. The women’s bodies were only discovered after Christie moved out of the house and his landlord, wanting to redecorate, tapped on what he thought was the rear wall to the kitchen only to discover it was hollow. As Ludovic Kennedy wrote in Ten Rillington Place (1961), the landlord then ‘pulled away a small piece of paper and shone his torch inside. Whatever he expected to see, it could hardly have been what he did see: the naked seated body of Hectorina MacLennan.’ You can almost envisage the landlord stumbling backwards in horror, just as the chambermaid might have done when she pushed open the door to Chambre 202. This is a room that distils much of what the work of Mendick, Vuillard, Wiley and Woodman makes clear: that wallpaper does not so much cover the cracks, as serve to reveal them.

Main image: Lindsey Mendick, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, 2020, installation view, Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Courtesy: the artist and Eastside Projects; photograph: Stuart Whipps

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I coloured the latest line art of Mimi and Palmon in the washing hands series being shared by the Digimon Adventure: staff!

I am so excited for her solo episode tomorrow, this was the perfect way to spend the night before the episode. 

And of course, I’m glad her towel is okay ☺️

Line Art / Apps Used: Autodesk Sketchbook and Photoshop 2020 

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💜GUIA PARA NUEVXS ARMY💜

Este post es solo un poco de información sobre algunas cosas que quizás no sepas o entiendas cuando recién conoces a bts. Si me falta algo o me equivoco, comenten y lo agrego :)

disclaimer: personalmente no creo que se necesite saber nada para empezar a escucharlos ni hay una canción o album especifico por donde tengan que empezar. Es sólo escuchar, leer las letras e interpretar! (más abajos voy a poner cuentas y sitios con traducciones confiables)

Con respecto a la música 1) no toda la música de BTS está en spotify y sitios pagos de música, sino que tienen también música en soundcloud 2) los miembros de bts tienen canciones solistas! pero estas no es comercial ni promovida de la misma manera que la música de bts.

Iba a hacer una lista con la discografía pero la verdad que es mucho trabajo y este articulo tiene todo desde los álbumes oficiales,a mixtapes, lanzamientos de soundcloud y colaboraciones https://hypable.com/bts-song-album-list-complete-guide/… SoundCloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/bangtan

En Revista Magic Shop tenemos una pequeña guía para escucharlos también:

https://magicshoprevista.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/bienvenidx-es-tu-primera-vez-con-bts/

Pero si querés conocerlos más a fondo, stannearlos como dicen acá, probablemente esto te sirva. Si quieren estar al día con las noticias de información diaria de BTS pueden seguir a @bitiiez

o @BeyondTheSea613 pero les dejo esta lista con cuentas de información y actualización de BTS https://twitter.com/i/lists/780736666856194048

Algo que puede pasar es que te cueste reconocerlos especialmente si ves videos de diferentes épocas, cambiaron mucho desde que debutaron en 2013!! Algo que les puede servir es hacerse una imagen como esta

Otra cosa que a mí me confundía un poco era ¿tienen varios nombres cada uno o qué? NO, como todas las personas tienen un nombre y un apodo, además del nombre artístico.

Entonces...

Kim Seokjin = Jin

Min Yoongi = Suga/ Agust D (es el único que tiene 2 nombres artísticos)

Jung Hoseok (Hobi) = J-hope

Kim Namjoon = RM (antes Rap Monster)

Park Jimin (Mimi) = Jimin Kim Taehyung (Tae, Taetae) = V

Jeon Jeongguk (JK) = Jungkook

REDES SOCIALES: Los miembros de BTS NO TIENEN REDES SOCIALES PERSONALES, las únicas cuentas oficiales son las que aparecen en las descripciones de los videos músicales:

bighitcorp.com​ https://twitter.com/BTS_bighit​ https://twitter.com/BTS_twt​ https://facebook.com/ibighit/​ http://facebook.com/bangtan.official…​ http://instagram.com/BTS.bighitofficial…​ http://weibo.com/BTSbighit

Pero la única que manejan personalmente es @bts_twt, las demás son manejadas por el staff de Big Hit

el youtube oficial de bts es Bangtantv, aunque los videos musicales están en el canal de Big Hit Labels, en bangtantv hay logs, bangtan bombs (videos cortos de bts haciendo algo), bts episodes (videos largos de alguna fecha o evento especial) y canciones y videos no oficiales. https://youtube.com/channel/UCLkAepWjdylmXSltofFvsYQ

Perooo si querés escribirles un mensaje en donde puedan verlo y haya aunque sea una mínima posibilidad de que cotesten el lugar es WEVERSE

Weverse es una plataforma para artistas y fans desarrollada por Big Hit a través de una compañía subsidiaria: WEVERSE COMPANY (ex Benx), ahí los artistas de diferentes grupos (cada vez se van sumando más) publican, fotos, videos, textos o momentos y los fans pueden contestar además de hacer sus propias publicaciones. Además Weverse tiene la Weverse Magazine donde hacen artículos y entrevistas muy buenos! la pueden leer en magazine.weverse.io También pueden encontrar contenido gratuito como Learn Korean with BTS!, Run BTS!, logs, videos musicales, GCF, etc; y contenido pago como Bon Voyage, In The Soop y las diferentes docuseries y documentales en la seccion “Media”, en resumen es como un gran archivo de contenido oficial

Algo muy importante para la cultura ARMY (?) es Run BTS! es nuestra serotonina semanal y sale todos los martes a las 9 am (ARG), 9 pm (KST) y además de en weverse pueden verlo en el canal oficial de VLIVE de BTS Run BTS es el programa de variedades de bts donde hacen juegos, desafíos y demás. es muy divertido, tiene subtítulos en inglés y autogenerados en español.

¿qué es vlive? es un servicio de transmisión de video en vivo surcoreano que permite a las celebridades con sede en el país transmitir vídeos en vivo por Internet.

Está disponible como aplicación para smartphone y como página online,desde acá también muchas veces bts hace transmisiones en vivo sorpresa así que está bueno tenerla instalada para enterarte al toque!

En cuanto a las transmisiones en vivo, obviamente ellos van a hablar en coreano y los subtítulos van a estar disponibles recién horas después así que les recomiendo seguir cuentas que hagan traducciones, en español estan @BangBangtanEsp_

y @minsugacheonye. pero les dejo mi lista de traductores/as https://twitter.com/i/lists/1260823338999582720 También a la hora de leer letras de canciones lean a traductores y no en Genius porque ahí están traducidas textualmente y muchas veces no tienen sentido, dos blogs que me gustan mucho y traducen al inglés son los de @doolsetbangtan y @doyoubangtan

https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/

https://doyoubangtan.wordpress.com/

En la traduccion de contenido @bts_trans están traduciendo desde 2013 y está todo en su página https://www.bangtansubs.com/

Con respecto al contenido, es muchísimo pero @index_bts lo tiene organizado cronologicamente en https://contentindex.bangtanbase.com

Otra página que tiene compilado todo el contenido de bangtan es Road Map https://landonmark.net/roadmap qué es completísima, una masterlist de todo el contenido de BTS.

Algunos contenidos y cosas que probablemente escuchen nombrar y no sepan qué es

Bon Voyage: es la serie de bts donde se van de viaje a diferentes lugares y recorren y hacen actividades como turistas, a diferencia de normalmente que viajan en tour.(bueno hora no por la pandemia)

Season’s greetings: es basicamente un paquete merch que sale a fin de año con fotos, un dvd y otras cosas El summer package es parecido al season greetings pero sale a mediados de año

Memories BTS: es un libro de fotos y dvd con recuerdos del año anterior inédito, por ejemplo este año saldría el memories de 2020 en junio o julio.

Festa: es el evento en el que BTS celebra el aniversario de su debut, comienza en los primeros días de junio con la ceremonia de apertura y termina el 13 de junio con la fiesta de cumpleaños y ceremonia de cierre. Durante todos los días que dura bts le regala a army diferentes cosas como videos, canciones, fotos, etc.

Muster: son eventos que son fanmeeting y concierto a la vez, las fans hablan y juegan con BTS mientras que ellos a la vez presentan canciones.

MUSIC SHOWS Y WINS

Los programas de música de Corea del Sur son programas de música que se transmiten semanalmente en la televisión de Corea del Sur, todos en días distintos, en los que diferentes artistas de diversos géneros musicales, principalmente de k-pop, realizan presentaciones para promocionar su música y competir por el primer lugar en cada edición (win), en base a un sistema de calificación que considera votaciones populares, listas musicales (charts), ventas digitales, ventas físicas, streamings, difusión en redes sociales, etc.

Las compañías de transmisión más grandes de Corea del Sur tienen cada una su propio programa, que se transmiten en diferentes canales. Estos son Inkigayo de SBS, Music Bank de KBS 2TV, Show! Music Core de MBC, M! Countdown de Mnet, Show Champion de MBC Music y The Show de SBS MTV. Probablemente vean hashtags como #nombredecancion1stwin esto es porque ganó el 1° lugar en uno de estos programas!

¿Cuáles son los requisitos para ganar (win)? https://soompi.com/es/article/406543wpp/guia-para-ganar-en-programas-de-musica-lo-que-necesitas-saber… https://twitter.com/i/events/997010772898201601

una forma de ayudar a ganar wins es votando en las aplicaciones de los diferentes programas de música, también suele haber votaciones por premios y durante los cumpleaños para saber cuáles son las votaciones vigentes pueden seguir cuentas como @bitiiezvotes

BTS Universe o BU: que también pueden encontrar como hyyh series ya que comenzó en la era de The most beautiful moment in life (hwa Yang yeon hwa) es un universo ficticio creado por Big Hit con personajes basados en los miembros de BTS pero que no tienen relación con ellos ni su vida real. Consiste videos musicales, cortos, libros y un webtoon, entre otras.

una explicación sobre el BU porque es un montón y bastante complicado https://twitter.com/army_society/status/1251256939859894273… un indice del contenido y la linea temporal http://bucontentgui.de y http://thebtseffect.com

algunos términos que quizás no entiendan

hyung: es la manera en la que un varón llama a un varón mayor que él y con el que es cercano, la traducción sería 'hermano mayor'

oppa: es lo mismo pero de una mujer a un hombre mayor, sería 'hermano mayor' también

noona: es la manera en la que un hombre llama a una mujer mayor que él

maknae se le llama al menor de un grupo, significa 'hermano menor'

hyung line: Jin, Yoongi, Hobi y Namjoon

maknae line: Jimin, Taehyung y Jungkook

daesang: son las categorías más importantes en los premios de música de fin de año (MMA, MAMA, AAA, etc) por lo general son 'cancion del año', 'album del año' y 'artista del año'

bonsang: es como el daesang pero no tan importante ya que puede haber hasta 10 o 12 ganadores

diccionario kpop

Cuentas individuales de Spotify: Jhope:https://bit.ly/JHOPE_SPOTIFYRM:https://bit.ly/RM_SPOTIFYV:https://bit.ly/V_SPOTIFYAgust D:https://bit.ly/AGUSTD_SPOTIFYSUGA: https://bit.ly/SUGA_SPOTIFYJin:https://bit.ly/JIN_SPOTIFY *Jimin y JK aún no tienen cuentas oficiales

Consejos: 1) en #armyrookieday van a encontrar muchas consejos y etc para baby armys 2) no crean todo lo que leen, hay muchos rumores y hay mucha gente que desvirtúa todo 3) BTS tiene muchxs antis, no les den bola, denuncien, bloqueen y sigan con su vida

https://twitter.com/ARMYdutchies/status/1293257212652126212

Si quieren estar al día con el cronograma de BTS para no perderse nada este calendario de @BTSdailyinfo es una buena opción, para añadirlo tienen que tener Google calendar

https://twitter.com/BTSdailyinfo/status/1296099696604143616

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thank you vicki & sandra @loverofmines for tagging me 💕

tagging @wheniminouterspace @redrattlers @rebelwith0utacause @bandsanitizer @escapesos @calumthoodshands @michaelownsmyheart @himbocalum

name/nickname: mili, mils, mimi but no one really calls me that besides family

gender: female

star sign: virgo

height: 169cm which is approximately 5′7" i think?

time: 10.30pm ish

birthday: sept 22

favorite band(s): nothing but thieves (duh), 5sos, paramore, all time low, p!atd, yonaka, badflower, cleopatrick, friday pilots club, flyte, giant rooks, inhaler, enter shikari........too many

favorite solo artist: hayley williams, maggie rogers, mitski, meg myers, phoebe bridgers, julien baker, florence, sam fender, tom odell, hozier....

song stuck in my head: 1000 names by stereo honey

last movie: do documentaries count? if so it was bbc’s inside the bell jar bc i worship sylvia plath and cry about her at least once a month; last regular film i rewatched recently was about time

last show: behind her eyes //twas a hate watch for sure

when did i make this blog: aug 2020

what i post: i’m great at clicking reblog, yelling in the tags, and hyping up my talented mutuals

the last thing i googled: non-fungible token (nft)

other blogs: had one for tv shows but it’s inactive; i occasionally go back to my first one @milisanthrope 

do i get asks: surprisingly yeah sometimes<3

why i chose this url: even tho sgfg is not my fav album it sure has a soft spot in my heart idk i thought it was clever to incorporate it into the url address itself

following: 143

followers: far too many

average hours of sleep: wish i knew; 5 ish?

lucky number: 3

instruments: i played piano for like 2 months lol rip

what am i wearing rn: lavander pjs.......very on brand 

dream trip: as if travelling didn’t make me anxious before,, i said amsterdam at one point so sure why not

favorite foods: actually snacks? like chips. technically potatoes in any shape or form. i am a child

nationality: serbian

favorite song: of all time? idk sorry by nbt probably

last book read: tiny short story special edition of my purple scented novel by ian mcewan

top three fictional universes: hmm pass i suddenly can’t pick any

favorite color: lilac/lavender

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not y'all hating on yoonmin putting out think pieces like that. jm is the sweetest person ever and he doesn't deserve solos or ot6 whiners like you. yoongi is probably WITH mimi right now ❤️ painting yoongi as a villain. are you dumb? bringing up the soop rooming as if it means anything, don't you trust your bias? & you think relationships like this twitter. com/agustdidas/status/1431618902132281349?s=19 is peak? yoonmin are just more mature. get off jimin's dick and stay mad b*tch 😘🖕

I can’t trust anything that comes out of the mouth of someone who uses the middle finger emoji. It’s giving underaged rat.

“Yoongi is probably with MIMI right now.” Okay and? Did Yoongi not decline Jimin’s request to room with him or is your head far too up your own ass? What’s there to trust? The moment was caught in 4K.

“Yoonmin are just more mature” so they bicker like two children to prove it to the world. We love to see it. Thanks for going out of the way to send me that old ass sope clip btw though. Since we’re on the topic of “ships” here’s 12 minutes of SOPE IN THE SOOP BEING THE BEST DOMESTIC COUPLE EVER. In contrast, I could quite literally count the number of yoonmin Soop moments on one hand. Hopefully there’s more content of them in season 2 to continue feeding your misplaced delusions. I’m sorry you can’t relate to genuine friendships so you use bickering as sign of peak maturity. Your personal relationships must be in absolute shambles if that’s how you view things.

Also, here’s almost 20 minutes of SOPE BEING CUTE ON VLIVE. And how many vlives does yoonmin have together? Oh that’s right NONE. I wonder why…. :( Honestly that whole YouTube channel is full of SOPE content so have fun watching it all until it makes you blue in the face. Also here’s 2020 Memories SOPE with Hoseok sending Yoongi a coffee truck as a form of encouragement and Yoongi even saying they look like a couple and their cute video call. Meanwhile Yoongi didn’t even bother acknowledging Jimin when he came to visit him on set :( and every single yoonmin moment is caught in 140p WITH fanmade captions included, that or it’s painfully awkward :( Truthfully, I don’t care about ships but if we’re being objective here, you’d be an idiot to think Yoongi is closer to Jimin than he is with Hoseok. Overall, you sound like a dunce and all the emojis used make you sound even more idiotic. Then again I wouldn’t expect anything less from a dumb cunt like you.

If I were delusional I’d say the videos I linked are peak ship content (omg boyfies ❤️😘🖕🥰). If yoonminers even got a fraction of the content sopies(?) did you bitches would never stop talking about it. You’re lucky sopies(?) are so laid back and actually respect Yoongi and Hoseok’s personal space. If they were as vile as jikookers you hoes would never see the light of day. Maybe that’s why sope’s friendship continues to flourish meanwhile both yoonmin’s and jikook’s are in hell :)

“jm is the sweetest person ever and he doesn't deserve solos or ot6 whiners like you.” Says the anon with his balls halfway down their throat. “Sweetest person ever”? Well, it seems all this circumstantial evidence says otherwise. Thanks for coming to my blog to share your useless opinions. Feel free to stop by again anytime.

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My 75 Favorite Albums of 2020

Every year produces excellent music and 2020 was no exception. The exceptional thing about this year, though, is the loss of livelihood so many musicians suffered as a result of the pandemic. To better celebrate all I’ve listened to and loved this year, I’ve expanded my albums list from 50 to 75 albums and included a highlight track from each in the Spotify playlist below. If you like what you hear, why not throw the artist a few dollars on Bandcamp?

Check the Spotify playlist HERE.

Without further ado, my favorite albums of 2020. Happy New Year, and happy listening!

10. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red: Carti’s long-awaited opus has only been out for a week, which is probably not a long enough time to give an album as sprawling and surprising as this one a full critical evaluation. But I do know when I’m hearing something that’s unlike anything I’ve ever heard: this album rearranges hip-hop at the molecular level. 

Whole Lotta Red is overstuffed with invention, the glitchy, expansive production giving Carti ample opportunity to glom onto the contours of the beat and experiment with his voice. That voice is the album’s main attraction: it squeaks, it squeals, it roars, it spits, it shudders, and organizes itself into irresistibly ignorant mantras (my current favorite is “Lamborghini parked outside, it’s purple like lean”). 

Across its 24 tracks (which feels like too many, sure, but only the 5-minute long Kid Cudi-infected droner “Metamorphosis” overstays its welcome), Carti plays with listener expectations, annihilating rap songwriting conventions (why do you need verse-chorus structure if every line is a hook) as he defiantly proclaims his desire to be unlike anybody else. Though it bears some resemblance in sound and subject matter to Future’s Monster (and much of the production owes a debt to the work of Lil Uzi Vert’s favored Working Of Dying collective), Whole Lotta Red firmly establishes Carti as a totemic figure connecting mainstream and underground sounds.

9. BbyMutha - Muthaland: BbyMutha is a natural born spitter, armed with a drawly stutter-stepping flow that routinely annihilates unconventional instrumentals. She glows with supreme confidence and comfort in her own skin, especially when she’s dripping with disdain with those who’d dare refuse her the respect she deserves. A 25-track opus that earns every minute of its runtime, Muthaland is an engrossing immersion into Mutha’s world, balancing a fascination with the occult (“Sorry I don’t fuck with n****s who don’t fuck with Satan”) with grounding interjections from close friends and her four children. Boasting rockstar fantasies like “Heavy Metal,” bad girl anthems like “Nice Guy,” and dancefloor-ready jams like “Cocaine Catwalk,” Muthaland is a tour-de-force by one of rap’s singular voices, and if she’s really finished with music as she’s claimed (rappers never really retire, but Mutha has indicated she wants to focus full time on her Apothecary), the game will greatly miss her incisive punchlines and crudely empowering perspective.

8. Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead: In 2020, Mid-’80s sophistipop grew into one of my favorite comfort foods. Westerman’s Your Hero Is Not Dead struck me directly in the sophistipop sweet spot, evoking the attention-to-detail and synth-heavy craftsmanship of that era and pairing it with harmonic complexity and a piercing emotionalism that recalls his idol Neil Young. On songs like “Blue Comanche” and “The Line,” Westerman constructs tales as twisty as his melodies, economically exploring how people relate to each other at the beginning and end of romantic relationships. Westerman complements his tasteful palette of synth sounds with intricate and lyrical guitar playing, most notably on the sighing, gorgeous instrumental “Float Over,” which softly segues into the title track to end the album on a gently-rising high note.

7. WizKid - Made In Lagos: The focal point of the sub-Saharan Afrobeats renaissance, Lagos is having one of the most exciting musical moments of any city since Kingston in the early ‘70s. WizKid is one of the scene’s biggest stars, with an ability to combine the sonic tapestry of his hometown with Caribbean-influenced beats and vocal styles. Made In Lagos is a masterwork of sound design, bringing creamy bass, chicken-scratch speckles of guitar, tasteful interjections of saxophone and brass, and an intoxicating mix of acoustic and electronic percussion, all offered in service to an immaculate vibe that matches the album cover’s shiny, monochromatic color scheme. Made with lockdown in mind, the album eschews uptempo dancefloor workouts in favor of stress-relief and romance. WizKid plays the perfect host, tamping down his melodic flights of fancy and embracing a song-serving smoothness. He’s a warm and inviting presence throughout, laying out the red carpet for a cross-continental cast of collaborators like H.E.R., Skepta, Burna Boy, and Damian Marley. The result is a truly global pop masterpiece, capable of brightening even the dourest day of a miserable year.

6. Ka - Descendants of Cain: Firefighter by day and rapper/producer by night, Ka is a master of allusion. He organizes his thoughts into themed collections of metaphor, illustrating the bleak realities of street life with gnomic symbolism. On Descendants Of Cain, Ka’s strongest work to date, the enigmatic rapper expresses himself through a litany of biblical references, drawing parallels between ancient parables (he goes far deeper than the Cain/’caine double entendre that rappers have been using for decades) and the stark code of morality with which he lives his life. The 48-year-old hermit produced the project himself, creating an immersive sonic realm, crafting expansive, noir-ish backing tracks populated by late-night saxophones, sparkling pianos, and the occasional shot of sweeping strings. Once again, Ka’s music comes almost entirely without drums (certainly without “beats” in the traditional hip-hop sense–every once in a while, he adds an open hi-hat or a subdued shaker), the artist preferring to let his music swirl around his half-whispered words of wisdom. The album ends on a tearful, sentimental note with “I Love (Mimi, Moms, Kev),” in which the artist ditches the biblical lyrical conceit and expresses his love for his wife, his mom, and his best friend atop light percussion and a warm soul sample.

5. SAULT - Untitled (Rise): Rise is the second part of a diptych that SAULT recorded in response to the movement that exploded in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Black Is, the first part, is a great album (you’ll find it in the lower reaches of my 2020 list), but the mysterious UK collective fulfilled their immense potential with Rise, a propulsive, powerful, and danceable album that doubles as a thought-provoking examination of the nature of freedom and liberation. The album tackles weighty topics–police violence, fake-woke “allies,” protest, cultural appropriation–but handles them with an inspiring effervescence and a propulsion meant to usher right-thinking people into the streets. The music itself is an intoxicating marvel, combining elements from every trendy musical movement from the early ‘80s (post-disco, post-punk, house, hip-hop, whatever the hell ESG was) into a percussive and surprisingly cohesive cocktail. The album immediately makes its greatness known with its first four songs, one of the strongest opening runs of any album in recent memory: the swaggering, funky, keep-your-head-up anthem “Strong,” which features a drum solo from SAULT architect Inflo, the soaring, club-ready vamp “Fearless,” concept-establishing, string-heavy interlude “Rise,” and especially “I Just Want to Dance,” the best song ESG never wrote. 

4. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters: Fetch The Bolt Cutters arrived with the kind of universal acclaim that can make some people suspicious. The Pitchfork review got a lot of attention, not just for its perfect score but for its bold statement that “no music has ever sounded quite like it.” 

That statement might’ve been slightly hyperbolic. Fetch The Bolt Cutters has the kind of propulsive left-hand piano figures, chest-thumping percussion, and impassioned vocal performances that we haven’t heard since...the last Fiona Apple album. But the album deserves its experimental reputation. These songs mess around with song structure and melody in ways that resemble avant-garde singers like Meredith Monk, use overlapping vocals that occasionally evoke the works of post-modern composers like Luciano Berio, and echoing modernist composers like Edgard Varese in the way she wrings pathos out of rhythmic elements.

Though Fetch might be a slight step down from The Idler Wheel, it’s an invigorating listen, packed with the soul-baring confessionals that only Fiona is capable of executing. Combining literary wordplay with plainspoken directness, Fiona forces the listener to confront her trauma and contemplate her diagnoses of patriarchal ills. The songs are uniformly excellent–especially opener “I Want You To Love Me,” the most “traditional” song on the record, and “Shameika,” a burrowing childhood rumination with a happy ending–but Fetch The Bolt Cutters stands out to me as a collection of amazing moments: when the jig-like “For Her” fades into an unforgettably painful cadence (“Good mornin’, good mornin’/You raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in”), Fiona’s ground-shaking vocal intensity at the end of “Newspaper,” her dogs howling over the outro of “Fetch The Bolt Cutters,” the winking repetition of the title phrase on “Ladies.” Her albums display more than enough ambition to forgive the long gestation periods, but hopefully we won’t have to wait another 8 years for Fiona to bare her soul once again.

3. Drakeo The Ruler - Thank You For Using GTL: Embroiled in a Kafkaesque legal saga that shines a light on the worst aspects of our horrendous justice system, Drakeo The Ruler spent more than three years wrongly incarcerated for a crime he not only did not commit, but for which he was acquitted (for more info on Drakeo’s ordeal, read Jeff Weiss). He’s now mercifully a free man, mostly due to the work of his lawyer, but at least partially because of publicity generated by Thank You For Using GTL. Recorded over the phone from prison during the height of the pandemic, it’s a miracle that an album created under such sub-optimal conditions sounds as excellent as it does, but credit producer JoogSzn–who not only supplied the creeping, head-nodding backing tracks but recorded Drakeo’s phoned-in vocals–and engineer MixedByNavin for the project’s astonishing fidelity. Drakeo and Joog spent hours on the phone to record the album, in the process paying thousands of dollars to GTL, the predatory telecom company of choice for the L.A. corrections system, whose mechanical interjections serve as a constant reminder of the injustice that made the album necessary. Of course, a good story is a good story, but that alone doesn’t get an album on 2020’s most prestigious Best Albums list (mine). It’s a classic rap album, perhaps the best ever released by an incarcerated rapper, and a thumb directly in the nose of the D.A. and the LAPD. The album is a lyrical marvel, packed with winding wordplay and outlandish flexes, as Mr. Mosley takes aim at 6ix9ine, cackles at sorry-ass Instagram haters, and sneers at American-made cars (“To be honest, a Hellcat isn’t a foreign”). Each song has a carefully considered concept, the rapper’s punchlines building upon one another to make an airtight case for his status as L.A.’s top dog. He contrasts his own whip-crashing lifestyle with flashy wannabes on “GTA VI” and “Backflip or Sumn,” mourns a favorite department store on “RIP Barneys,” and proves he still doesn’t rap beef on “Maestro’s Tension.” The album’s masterstroke comes with “Fictional,” the final track, in which Drakeo exposes the prosecution’s use of his lyrics as evidence in criminal proceedings as the farce it is: “It might sound real, but it’s fictional/I love that my imagination gets to you.” Drakeo’s story was a rare bright spot in 2020, and a rare one with a happy ending. Just last week, the rapper released Because Y’All Asked, a studio-recorded version of Thank You For Using GTL, giving the album’s songs the clarity they deserve. But I think I’ll mostly return to the original, which will live on as an excellent album and a vital document of post-George Floyd America.

2. Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry: Hailing from the middle of nowhere–or, more accurately city in the English Midlands only known in the states for its middling Premier League team–Gambian-British artist Pa Salieu served up the most distinctive, visceral, and daring rap debut of the year. His style fuses elements of grime, drill, afro-trap, dancehall, and the darker edges of U.S. hip-hop into a percussive slurry, injected with the urgency of his struggle to survive. The magic of the album comes from the way Pa’s fluid flows interact with the shimmering and foreboding production (Felix Joseph and Aod lead the cast of the project’s sound architects), which is perfectly suited for cold city nights. He slips effortlessly into the pocket, toe-tagging the beats with a combination of aggression and trance-like meditation and uttering casually powerful pronouncements (“I'd make a killa riddim offa any riddim/The grind can never stop 'til I'm wrapped in linen”) that make you believe he’s Britain’s next great rapper. Pa keeps the vibe consistent throughout, but the moments that stand out are the moments when he locks into an unbreakable groove over no-frills production, like on singles “Block Boy,” “Betty,” and “B***K.” The artist’s wry sense of humor and brash confidence keeps the album from feeling bleak, but Send Them To Coventry wisely ends on “Energy,” a warm and bright ode to keeping your creative spark safe from the prying forces of fame and fortune.

1. Kassa Overall - I Think I’m Good: “I think I’m good”–a phrase that’s ran through my head throughout this shitstorm of a year. Sure, I postponed a wedding, cancelled trips, and saw my friends and family much less often than I would like, but I count myself among the lucky ones. Still breathing, still sane. Though it was recorded and released before the pandemic started, Kassa Overall’s I Think I’m Good became a lodestar of sorts for me. It’s a brilliantly introspective and deeply personal album about existing in enclosed spaces–whether a jail cell, an NYC subway car, or the inescapable prison of your own body.

Kassa Overall made his name as a jazz drummer, touring with icons like Geri Allen, but his solo music incorporates elements of hip-hop, classical, and trap to create a wholly original milieu. The album features contributions from over 30 accomplished voices, ranging from luminary Vijay Iyer, to Kassa’s saxophonist brother Carlos Overall, to virtuosic pianist Sullivan Fortner, to venerated activist Angela Davis. But all the disparate elements come together in service of Kassa’s deeply personal and engrossing vision.

Taking partial inspiration from Kassa’s struggle with manic depression, the music fluctuates between meditative calm and unbearable tension, mimicking the patter of an unquiet mind. Album opener “Visible Walls,” is a mesmerizing prayer for salvation soundtracked by fluttering harps, piercing woodwinds, and heartbeat percussion. “Find Me” buries a plea for help within a cacophony of sampled voices and rattling piano notes. Fortner’s piano guides us through the hauntingly devastating “Halfway House” and the Chopin-indebted “Darkness In Mind,” each highlighting a different stage of grief (despair and acceptance, respectively). The arc of I Think I’m Good concludes with the hopeful “Got Me A Plan” and “Was She Happy (For Geri Allen),” a Vijay Iyer-assisted tribute to his late friend and mentor. 

It’s ironic that an album that so deeply explores the feeling of isolation vibrates with such a collaborative spirit. I Think I’m Good feels like an answered prayer–a community coming together to check on a beloved friend who’s gone through a tough time: “You good, man?” “I think so.”

Here’s the rest of my list.

11. Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind 12. Shackleton & Waclaw Zimpel - Primal Forms 13. Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways 14. Duval Timothy - Help 15. Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake 16. Moodymann - Taken Away 17. Secret Drum Band - Chuva 18. J Hus - Big Conspiracy 19. Headie One & Fred Again - GANG 20. Tiwa Savage - Celia 21. Andras - Joyful 22. Bill Callahan - Gold Record 23. King Von - Welcome To O’Block 24. Flo Milli - Ho, Why Is You Here? 25. Chubby & The Gang - Speed Kills 26. Madeline Kenney - Sucker’s Lunch 27. Empty Country - Empty Country 28. Smino - She Already Decided 29. Destroyer - Have We Met 30. Yves Jarvis - Sundry Rock Song Stock 31. Ela Minus - Acts Of Rebellion 32. Creeper - Sex, Death & The Infinite Void 33. Alabaster DePlume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals, Vol. 1 34. Good Sad Happy Bad - Shades 35. The 1975 - Notes On a Conditional Form 36. Kate NV - Room For The Moon 37. $ilkmoney - Attack of the Future Shocked, Flesh Covered, Meatbags of the 85 38. Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness 39. Kenny Segal & Serengeti - Ajai 40. Bad Bunny - YHLQMDLG 41. Kahlil Blu - DOG 42. Califone - Echo Mine 43. Boldy James - The Price of Tea in China/Manger On McNichols/The Versace Tape 44. Bufiman - Albumsi 45. Moses Boyd - Dark Matter 46. Thanya Iyer - KIND 47. Jyoti - Mama You Can Bet! 48. Obongjayar - Which Way Is Forward? 49. Rio Da Yung OG - City On My Back 50. Young Jesus - Welcome To Conceptual Beach 51. Owen Pallett - Island 52. Oceanator - Things I Never Said 53. Shootergang Kony - Red Paint Reverend 54. Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - Philadelphia 55. Six Organs of Admittance - Companion Rises 56. Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia 57. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song 58. Polo G - The GOAT 59. Actress - Karma & Desire 60. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 61. Porridge Radio - Every Bad 62. Yg Teck - Eyes Won’t Close 63. Mozzy - Beyond Bulletproof 64. Ratboys - Printer’s Devil 65. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages 66. Ulver - Flowers of Evil 67. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA 68. SAULT - Untitled (Black Is) 69. Ezra Feinberg - Recumbent Speech 70. Davido - A Better Time 71. Hailu Mergia - Yene Mircha 72. HAIM - Women In Music Pt. III 73. Half Waif - The Caretaker 74. Key Glock - Yellow Tape 75. KeiyAa - Forever Your Girl

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Digimon Adventure 2020 Ep 7 Reaction

AKA:  The latest installment of the ongoing battle between Gomamon and Tentomon for the title of “Best Digi.”  

(And all I can hear is an irate: “BUT WHAT ABOUT GABUMON?!”)

Man, Jyou, I don’t even know what to say???  This is one of those episodes where the digimon received more care than the human, lol!  This whole time, I’ve been like, “Man, this show needs 100% more Jyou screaming and running in circles and trying to use destroyed telephones,” but I honestly wasn’t ready for him to bash his head against a makeshift hut while screaming his background exposition so hard that the hut collapsed...  And neither were the others.

(And how hilarious is it that Taichi, Sora, and Mimi had stronger reactions to watching Jyou self-destruct than to...  Arriving in the Digital World and fighting monsters???  Like????  How am I supposed to parse this?????)

It’s odd, because this ep was much simpler and calmer than 6, and yet, I feel like we walked away from 6 knowing far more about Mimi than we know about Jyou following 7.  However...  This ep focused on the Chosen/partner bond more than any previous eps, except maybe Agumon’s mysterious fore-knowledge of Taichi in the first ep.  And obviously, that bond is the core of the digimon franchise.

WHICH LEADS ME TO THE TRUE MVP OF EVERYTHING:  YA BOI, THE CUTEST, THE SWEETEST, THE FUNNIEST, THE CHARMING SCAMP!  YOU KNOW HIM, YOU LOVE HIM, GO!MA!MOOOOON!

So, in a move we all can expect from Jyou, he decided that studying was more important than...  Erm, saving Tokyo.  That sounds damning on the surface, but Gomamon gets it, somehow?  This sweet l’il digibub with no knowledge of the human world, presumably, somehow understands the crushing weight of pressure and expectations that Jyou is carrying.  As a 6th grader, he is prepping for his middle school entrance exams (Jyou is literally always on the precipice of a future-determining event in digimon, somehow, god bless this dumpling).  My American friends don’t have an equivalent of testing into middle school, but I’m told it’s a Big Deal in Japan, especially when you’re aspiring to join your father and brothers as a doctor.

So, when Taichi and co ask Jyou to help them...  Not only does he decline, but he tells his partner, Gomamon, to go with them.  Ouch, dude.

This clearly hurts Gomamon- his eyes glaze with tears.  But instead of reacting with hurt and anger, he explains Jyou’s situation to Taichi and the others, thinking that Jyou is out of earshot.  He says something like, “It may look like Jyou is being selfish and absorbing himself in studying...  But the truth is that he already has so much on his mind that he can’t handle another thing, especially something like saving the world.”  He then says that, until Jyou can figure his stuff out, he, Gomamon, will contribute to the Chosen team on Jyou’s behalf... because they’re partners.

THERE IS SO MUCH TO UNPACK HERE.  First of all, as someone with general anxiety disorder, BOY HOWDY DO I GET THAT.  When your hands are full and you don’t know how to handle what’s in front of you, and someone approaches you with a whole new danged thing- especially if it’s something that really shouldn’t be your job (like, uh, saving the world when you’re a 6th grader), it’s so easy to blow up and nope out.  (Granted, I’ve never smashed my head into walls, but let’s just side-eye that and move on).

AND THE OTHER THING is that THIS IS EXACTLY HOW PARTNERSHIPS WORK.  Gomamon sees that Jyou isn’t at his best.  He knows, from personal experience with Jyou, that Jyou is a good, kind, hard-working person...  He’s just struggling right now.  And when your partner is struggling, you help them...  Knowing they’ll do the same for you when you’re struggling.

AND THEN THIS OTHER THING GOMAMON SAYS?!  Gomamon explains to Jyou how excited he was to meet his partner, to which Jyou replied, “Aren’t you disappointed that it’s someone like me?” 

AND GOMAMON- THIS PRECIOUS BEAN- HE SAYS- HE SAYS!  “Not at all!  I think so myself, so there’s no mistake!”  I could be reading into this too much, but how I took this was: “Okay so supposedly there’s some kind of magic destiny thing going on here, but I choose you.  You are MY choice.”  This simultaneously indicates that Gomamon has already accepted Jyou and loves him, and that he is asserting power over this destiny/Chosen situation.  This hits so hard when you juxtapose it against Jyou saying, “Why me?” over and over while he freaked out earlier.

Gomamon knows exactly why he is involved in all of this prophecy nonsense: because he loves Jyou.  Because he wants to be here.

AND IF THAT ISN’T ENOUGH, he tells Jyou exactly what someone who overburdens himself needs to hear:  “You won’t do this alone.  Taichi and the others are here... and so am I.”

Excuse me, I’ll just be over here sobbing, give me a minute.

At this point, Jyou finally accepts everything with the best possible line:  “You’re my...  I’m YOUR partner,” rightfully acknowledging and accepting that Gomamon is the rock here, and he has a lot of room to grow into this partnership.

SO BASICALLY:  This ep showcases the Chosen/digimon partnership so lovingly, which has always been where Jyou and Gomamon excel.  Gomamon is the best, and we love him.  However, most of what we learned about Jyou came from exposition (Jyou screaming about his exams and his family of doctors while destroying his hut, Gomamon explaining point-blank what makes Jyou tick to the audience).  As an enormous Jyou fan, I wish his intro were as smooth and natural and compelling as Mimi’s in 6...  But clearly, this ep was more focused on the Chosen/digimon bond, and that’s so critical to the franchise.  This ep has a lot to offer!

Now, fingers crossed for Yamato and Kou-chan to join the group.  I seriously don’t remember anything about Yamato in 2020, wasn’t he just kind of... quiet and stand-offish and prone to going solo?  Big “get your extroversion out of my face” vibes.

[misticakalamity]

"Pensamientos Cortos" Digimon Adventure 2020: Episodio 8

Si Mística, voy a hacer esto

Omg! Mimi trenzando el pelo de Ikakumon 🤣

Damn... Eso estuvo cerca (se siente el peligro)

Yamato mi amor! 😍

Hmmm... Me gusta ese estilo de encapuchado 🤣

Que lindos! Gabumon y Agumon reunidos! 🥰

Well... No me sorprende, Yamato al inicio era medio solitario y todo parece indicar ha pasado por esto en el pasado solo 🤔

Jajajaja eso es tan Jou! Debi haberlo visto venir 🤣

Jajaja estoy de acuerdo Sora y al parecer Taichi también 🤭 Yamato es genial

Awww el poder de la amistad, literalmente 😏

Este Yamato ¿parece saber lidear mejor con sus sentimientos? Aún así me encanta que bajo la voz al dar las gracias y disculparse 🤣

Y ahora?

En general un excelente capitulo, me encantaron los pequeños detalles, la interacción y reacción de los niños y Digimon así como la acción! Espero sigan por este rumbo! No puedo esperar al próximo capítulo!