#they've all been through so many hardships already can the universe make it stop

[strhwaberries]

Hi Lucie, I saw your tags on my Xeed post and I decided to explain some things (and also because I'm a little tired about how NS is handling things, really 😩).

Basically Bao was on a livestream with some of his friends. One of them bad-mouthed the fans and Bao laughed about it instead of defending them. During the livestream, his friend mentioned RPF too. Bao at first denied the fanfics about them but, once his friend mentioned their existence, he reacted negatively about it. Last but not least, Bao mentioned his PTSD from recording songs in the recording studio.

Korean Greenies didn't like his behaviour during the livestream and Bao got forced to cancel his fancalls first and then posting an apology on the fancafè. Apparently he shouldn't have joined the livestream in the first place but I don't know if it's a speculation or something that idols aren't supposed to do. The only certain thing is that Bao should have defended Greenies from his friends and he didn't do it.

Bao then went silent on social medias (which is probably normal) but then ALL the members went silent. Fans speculated and started to think that the entire group got punished for this issue and started to mass mail NS about it. NS didn't answer but decided to let the members chat on Bubble at least (in fact they're heavily active there while being silent on their other social media except for a post or a random live from time to time. And the lives don't even last on their socials).

NS, ofc, didn't released any statement for clarifying everything as always and this is why I'm begging for a better PR management, because I'm honestly tired to see this company sweeping everything under the rug even for a simple issue like this. I've discovered all this mess thanks to some fan-pages who did some search in the Korean Twitter side of the fandom. If it wasn't for them, I would have made five posts in a row being worried about them.

A little statement telling us about Bao's or even the entire group's hiatus would have been useful instead of leaving us Greenies without any clue.

Now it seems they're coming back to a sort of regular posting (Jaemin posted a new reel after a while so maybe they'll post more? I don't know at this point 😩) but everything seems so uncertain that I'm a little lost about all of this mess.

Sorry for filling the ask box like this but I'm frustrated about this situation. We're already starving content wise, the socials are the only way where we're getting something and now NS decided to fuck everything up with a simple issue that could have been resolved more easily 😩

I hate this company with all of my guts and I want them under a better management but I don't know where they can go ☹️ I highly doubt they can re-debut again, so, idk, I think we should endure (?) all of this and hoping they'll release more in the near future.

oh well i don't even know what to say, idols are people and they can fuck up once in a while - who doesn't - and there have been so many other idols who said terrible things live and were never punished for it, why does bao and the rest of the group should be treated that way is beyond me

i just hope the situation gets resolved and we see more of them, i didn't really realize they were gone until you mentioned it, there's so many things that went on in my life in january and february, i hardly paid attention to anything kpop related, and with xeed it's always hard to know what's going on bc it's such a small fandom, but yeah i don't think they deserved that treatment so my only wish is for them to come back to us, hopefully with new music

[sometipsygnostalgic]

do you have songs you associate with she-ra characters or ships?

Not really. I don't listen to enough music for that shit. But what music I DO listen to, I tend to link that back in.

Here's She-ra characters as Pokemon music and as Homestuck music (plus an addition) because what the fuck else do I do with my time.

As for other media... Persona 5 for example has a lot of music relating to "masks", to covering your true feelings with a front that makes you more acceptable to others, then ripping off the mask to reveal your true self. I think this fits in squarely with the themes of She-Ra, with how various characters feel under pressure from others to conform to their standards. Pretty much everyone in the main cast applies, especially Catra and Adora! Whenever I imagine a She-Ra Persona 5 AU I sort of imagine Catra as Joker, but it could just as well be Adora.

The final boss of Persona 5 Royal gives the heroes the promise that they can be their true selves and live in happiness, without any memory of the pain they've experienced, if they relinquish control of reality to him. It is like a benevolent Horde Prime, desperate to right the wrongs of the world. However, the protagonists understand all the pain and hardship to be a part of their journeys in becoming who they are today, and they are proud of that, so even if they have to destroy Paradise, even if they're technically killing thousands of resurrected people including their own relatives, they feel they need to stop the villain to remain true to who they are.

It's beautiful!

This is a song from the final bossfight that lives rent free in my head, it is supposed to be the villain crying this out to the protagonists:

[Bridge] You can throw your mask away, no more pretending You've been tied down for the longest of the time, be free You deserve better - you should forever be free. [Chorus] Don't sleep through dreams that can come true No more tears shall drop from your cheeks anymore You won't need to strive for greatness Believe in me that you don't need to suffer from anything

This song makes me think of Adora, and the struggle she went through to break free of her heroic streak.

Another song I already really love, that reminds me of She-Ra, is Drifting Soul from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The singer is walking through a hard and arduous path. They see someone ahead of them on the path, someone far stronger, who they look to for hope, and who they are fighting for. But the singer also recognises they need to search for themself before following their friend up "Jacob's Ladder".

The entire song is a heavy hitter, but these lyrics are what help me get up in the morning:

So tell me why I'm here and what's the reason I am here today If I recall it was you, you wished that I would stay No matter how much wind will blow against me I will keep on, oh oh I will keep moving on, to find the answer too I'm lost in search for you

The first three lines could apply to so many characters (I'm looking at you Beast Island squad), but the whole song screams of Catradora. "You wished that I would stay." How can you get ANY MORE Catradora than that?

But the fact that the singer concludes they would not climb up Jacob's ladder to meet their partner at Heaven's Gate, they would let it go, and find their own path, it makes this song lean more to Catra's point of view, as she tries to find out who she is outside of her longing for Adora.

This song has a lot in common with a far lighter, and far more familiar song: Love Like You, from Steven Universe. In particular, the second act.

I always thought I might be bad Now I'm sure that it's true 'Cause I think you're so good And I'm nothing like you

Look at you go I just adore you I wish that I knew What makes you think I'm so special

If I could begin to do Something that does right by you I would do about anything I would even learn how to love

When I see the way you look Shaken by how long it took I could do about anything I could even learn how to love like you

Love like you Love me like you

This song is definitely from Catra's perspective. I hope there are a million AMVs of it from Catra's perspective, she deserves it. I've seen people use it from Hordak's perspective too, and honestly, it tracks. Villains lashing out and not understanding how anyone could care about them, nevermind someone with so much light, and then thinking, if they could do right by their partner, if they could accept their partner's love and reciprocate, maybe they could learn to love themselves.

There's an AMV, Promised Land, which is Catra and Hordak focused, the same singer for both of them, comparing their journeys to each other. I absolutely fucking love this AMV. I mean, it's got the complete opposite vibes of Love Like You, but the AMV itself loops it back around to the moment they chose to let go of their rage and do that One Good Thing for the people they love. "Look at me now."

I haven't really got anything else since I don't listen to tons of music. Like most of the songs I know are in the metal or art rock genre, which doesn't really fit the she-ra vibe. I've considered "Pollyanna" but that's absolutely an Adventure Time song, not a She-Ra song. Unless it's from Razz's perspective. That'd be funny.