#the poses are from cmbyn sorry

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CMBYN Parallels

Cinematic parallels... or not.

Note: Short post. For the new readers here, I’m sorry to say that I won’t be able to commit to posting as the editing and collecting information takes a lot of time. I will reply to asks and DMs faster. Due to the virus outbreak, life is much more complicated than usual. Please take care of yourselves and exercise caution till it blows over. 

On to CMBYN, I just watched the movie maybe a month or two ago, and while it was interesting, I don’t actually see any resemblance to Taejin’s actual relationship except for a few gestures Taehyung did similar to the main character, Elio. Last year there was an interesting series of events preceding Taehyung’s revelation that he watched Call Me By Your Name which was linked to Taejin. 

22 Mar 2018 - CMBYN was released in Korea 

Before this date, there were plenty instances where Taehyung did stuff that Elio, did to his crush such as biting his shoulders, playing footsies, etc. 

19 May 2018 - Fake Love CB Show

Taehyung did that famous footsie play with Jin and the camera cut the scene. This is by no means the first time, but probably the most obvious and noticeable as it was intentionally done right in front of the camera. 

28 Apr 2019 - SBS Gwangju Concert

Halfway through the performance Taehyung keeps grinning to himself (because I don’t see the others laughing with him) and he literally can’t stop smirking while dancing. So probably he planned it in his mind and was all excited to actually carry out his plan. Jin is very clearly taken aback and the way he bends backwards the closer Taehyung comes; he must have thought Taehyung was going to do something drastic like kiss him considering the intensity of the gaze directed at him. 

Like with many Taejin moments, some are extremely intense, some are super sweet, and some plain “what the heck are they doing?”. I classify this as all 3, his gaze was extremely intense as he got closer till his hips were resting on Jin’s. The closeup of his expression while he rested his head on Jin’s chest for even a second was very sweet, like he was in his safe haven. But I must say the ending pose was too weird, with Jin bending backwards like that so everyone would literally go “what are they doing???”. 

Jin looks pretty startled, he looks like he wanted to take a step backward or even use his arms to hold Taehyung but got lost in his intense gaze, froze, and ended up bending backwards. So they don’t kiss or accidentally kiss but Taehyung is still able to do whatever he intended to. There’s something captivating and beautiful about this moment, despite it being a little weird. 

All these photos come from four different individual fansites, from all angles and in HD. Taehyung knew what he was doing and chose to go ahead with it anyway. Knowing it would be captured in plain sight and immortalized on the internet. Even if it probably didn’t turn out the way he intended. 

I find this part ambiguous but also, the red string that Taehyung wore for a period of time is similar to the one Elio had on his wrist in the movie. This could signify something or it could also signify nothing, but I won’t rule out the possibility. 

01 Jun 2019 - Taehyung’s Twitter post

https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1134534511591612418

When Taehyung posted this video of himself ‘playing’ Le Jardín Féerique - CMBYN OST, Taejinnies who watched the movie before started making the connection, that he might have been intending to do the famous pose by Elio and Oliver during their SBS concert. These speculations trended among the small Taejinnie community for a while, creating discussion that all this might just not be a coincidence. 

The movie’s signature pose in comparison to the Taejin moment from above ^. If Jin hadn’t panicked, I’d agree that it might have turned out this way. 

09 Jun 2019 - V-Hope Vlive

A week later, J-Hope comes to join in Taehyung’s vlive when he heard the classical music, and Taehyung says it’s an OST from a movie he watched recently. For people as busy as them, recently could range from a few days to maybe a few months, and the SBS concert was slightly less than 2 months before this vlive. 

That aside, the most important take away from this vlive is Taehyung acknowledging that he watched it, he liked it a lot, he listens to the OST and he recommends the movie for it’s deep meanings. The boys all know what goes on social media, sees all the comments, what people fight about, knows about all their ships. 

Example 1: 

Example 2: This after posting his half naked selca 

He most definitely saw the speculations and still confidently went ahead to confirm that he watched and likes the movie. 

Of course, he could have just watched and casually enjoyed the movie without it having to mean anything at all. They’ve all been very vocal about their support for LGBT after all. This wouldn’t have been a big deal at all, but because it’s Kim Taehyung from BTS telling us he watched a particular gay movie and liked it enough to ‘play’ its OST, publish it on Twitter to 23 million followers then acknowledge that he did watch the movie 1 week later after seeing the posts Taejinnies made about the similarities. Then it becomes a big deal. This sequence of events seems like a ‘confirmation’ to me. 

It’s hard to think of this as a coincidence the way he’s this direct with his words. Personally, this is probably the closest Taehyung has ever gotten to verbally ‘acknowledging’ his relationship with Jin is something more. (Not that I needed further confirmation after he confessed that he likes Jin-hyung the most) The fact that he hyped this movie in various different ways also shows how emotionally invested he was in it, that it is entirely possible that what happened in the SBS concert is indeed a copy of the pose by Elio and Oliver, very much intended by him. 

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09 Jun 2020 

On his YT vlog, Tae came online to express his appreciation for his favourite movie again. It hits me a little differently to know that he’s still openly hyping up the move a year later. 

Of course, being a Taejinnie, my mind automatically links this to Taejin and the DNA incident from last year. Whether or not it has any link to Taejin this time, I’m just going to include this here because of the beautiful excerpt he read.

That said, the relationship between Elio and Oliver is completely different from Taejin’s dynamics. There’s literally no other similarities besides the the way they display their affection for each other. The movie itself is thought provoking and meaningful, I won’t post spoilers but Taejin’s relationship is really much more beautiful and I’d say incomparable to the movie. But all in all, it’s a huge thing for Taejinnies. 

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Not only did charmies send that blind gossip item but every person who commented that the item is about A is a charmie. There are a few comments guessing that the item is about Channing, Hemsworth, or B Cooper, but all the comments about A go into way too much detail about him to be made by an average Joe. Charmies are the only ones who have such in depth knowledge about A, his whereabouts, his current events, they’re the only ones who make those nasty comments about E. 1/3

Charmies also mask themselves as average readers and commenters on Daily Mail, on youtube on charmie or cmbyn video edits, on obscure youtube videos that feature only E on the red carpet. Then they screenshot their own comments and run back to tumblr to report how even casual viewers and readers can see that A and T are gay for each other and how E is a bitch and doesn’t know how to pose. Charmies are the only ones seeking out any new video or article about E. 2/3

They are right about her not being famous enough to have random people be interested in her projects so that leaves only charmies who stalk her every move. That’s how they spread their narrative and agenda across the internet. They expose themselves by posting too much info for a casual reader to have, not to mention some comments are copy pasted from their own charmie blogs. Now we know the lengths they go to make it seem that their ship is real. Sinister and psychotic behavior. 3/3

Sorry I didn’t post this earlier, anon. But you point out some really important things here, in how Charmies operate.