#tinkchick555

[gaykey]

Wait I've been dealing with stuff and been unable to keep up. Was it announced that Kibum's repackage is finally coming in Feb?!

yes it was!

finally right!

[thisgameissonintendo]

Laura, I just wanted to say thank you for all of your incredible and hard work!!! Seriously you deserve the world!!!

hello, thank you so much. this is so sweet, i'm out of words 🥺♡

[suuho]

How has the vocal training been going?? <3

hey!!! initially i wanted to wait with answering this until after my vocal lesson on tuesday but eh, what the hell. i am just gonna... very tentatively say that i am slowly regaining my footing. which, it feels like it happened so quickly i think but the truth is that i have been struggling for well over a year now (in april it will have been a year since i had covid, so that pretty much checks out. that was like the final nail in my coffin, lol), and i probably struggled even longer than that. if i am brutally honest, which. uh. once again, lol. that is why i honestly find it very encouraging when singers i look up to confess that they also struggle and question themselves and their skill; it is normal and human, and it isn't the end of the world either or makes me a terrible singer.

anyways. the thing is, i really truly and well feel like i am fifteen again just with a different skillset. i have started from scratch, mostly. i sing a bunch of the same stuff i sang ten years ago, a lot of rock and pop-punk stuff that taught me how to sing to begin with, like fall out boy and paramore. because those are songs i could already sing, so they are familiar but i have to force myself to sing it properly, stop singing so much from my throat (which i most definitely got rid of before and now i am annoyed that it happens basically unconsciously. it sucks.) i think i need to get an ab workout in again, lmao, because i NEED the support to come easier for me. yoseob, i understand you and your crazy abs wholeheartedly. 😭

my last two vocal lessons went pretty well, though! i am pretty happy with my mix these days, i think i managed to push it a little higher while maintaining the volume, and i am working so hard to not go thin when i sing high anymore, which is another annoying thing that has happened to me after covid. never happened before, now i am like wtf is this???? so i try to consciously adjust that too. the song i picked for my lesson right now is a straight musical theater piece with lots of high belting and it sits right where my voice breaks these days (also smth i worked out before that is now back, lol) and i am not letting up on working through it because i need to figure out how to sing this fucking song properly. technique and all. i need to go through every section and adjust my voice, like i am really treating this like i did when i was fifteen and sang way less challenging songs. so, at least i know i made SOME progress in ten years. lmao.

i sing a lot at work now, so i have gotten rid of most of my anxiety surrounding singing in public. that used to cripple me to death until, like, three years ago or something? i couldn't even sing in front of my teacher, it always fucked me up. but it's nice because now people come up to me and tell me i either have a great voice or they like my music!! lmao.

ok, so!!! uh, i think i am hopefully getting over the hurdle now is what i am saying. and i hope that the progress is not just temporary and that it keeps going like that. i wanna feel comfortable and confident singing again, because i know i can do it. and i know what i am capable of.

yoseob posted videos on his stories of him warming up and singing these past days and that was so encouraging, man. idk. it just made me feel so happy. i admire him so much, i think he is one of the best singers ever and his technique is soooo good. it's so cool how dedicated he is to keep himself in shape, and he also still takes vocal lessons!! he really is such an inspiration to me. i remember when jongdae and jinho would post bits from their vocal warm ups or lessons, that inspires me so much as well. it's just that normal stuff that keeps me going. i guess.

but!!! thank you so much for asking!! this made me so happy. i hope you have a wonderful day!!! 💘💖💓💞💗

[claudia-kishi]

I'LL TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT!!! I'M FERAL ABSOLUTELY ABOUT THE OCTOPATH TRAVELER SOUNTRACKS!!!!

OMG I AM NOT ALONE AND I CAN FINALLY TALK SOMEONE HAVE U BEEN PLAYING THE NEW ONE IT'S SO FUCKING GENIUS

[i-love-books-because-reasons]

Hi darling! How are you doing? Have you seen Lockwood and Co? It's on Netflix and it's SO GOOD!!!

Hello! I'm doing good. I've heard of Lockwood and Co but I haven't seen it. If you say it's good I'll give it a try. 😊

[dazzlingkai]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

thank you :)

[amaranth]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOCKEY EXO BUDDY!!!!

THANK YOU!💕

[aerisosweet]

I'm good! I started a new job recently so I'm still learning the ropes but it's going well!! !!! As for Lockwood and Co OMG you should TOTALLY watch it! It's SOOOO good! I'm really hoping we get a second season. There's 5 books total and I've read the first after I watched the series and it's insanely accurate. First season is books 1 and 2. Three ghost hunters solving mysteries and being awesome and becoming friends with a truckload of trauma and it's spooky and cozy and actually really well lit, especially for how many scenes take place in the dark. The characters all have really good chemistry and are really likeable. Seriously I cannot recommend it enough.

Yay for a new job!

I went to borrow the first book at the library and there's a wait time of about 12 weeks aka 3 months haha So I'll have to definitely wait until I can borrow it. I didn't want to buy it and then not like it but the gifs all look pretty cool! I like when things are accurate!

[bowieisworried]

Wait I’ve been gone and just saw your post. Did they push taemin’s release back again?

We had all assumed that with him going into civil service, he would have the standard extra 100 days (648 in total, as with the service lengths of those who went straight into civil service like Exo's Baekhyun).

However, Taemin posted a few Insta stories yesterday (midnight KST) for Christmas and one of them had D-100 in the corner. So instead of the 70-odd that we thought were left (for 648 days), we're now back to 100 (or 99 as of now).

Basically he's back on April 4th (KST)

[pearlcaddy]

LOCKWOOD & CO. 1.02

favorite underrated locklyle moment ↪ requested by @tinkchick555

[gaykey]

I’ve been MIA and missed everything cause Netflix cancelled my fave show so I’ve been dealing with saving it on Twitter -.- but my gosh Kibum looks so good and the album is so good!!!!

I have no idea how to even begin choosing a fave track.

he looks amazing ugh. he's killing meee

and yeah, i really love the album! i've seen a few people here & there feel a bit iffy about it, but, i think there's so much shinee there!

that sounds stupid, like of course there is, but, i mean their colour and vibe and sound is so rife in thia album. People don't seme the get the direction, but someone said its like lucifer and 1of1 had a baby, and yep. that's it.

amber had some really great thoughts about it that really sum up my feelings.

but yes!

identify is a hard fave for me, i can't stop listening to it.

[thisgameissonintendo]

Hey just wanted to let you know I love and appreciate all the gifs and graphics you make!!!

thank you! that really means a lot to me 😌🫶

[suuho]

Oh gosh I’m so sorry about the voice stuff. I totally get how frustrating that is when you’ve got to retrain through things that you once could sing and it feels like you’ll never get back to. I know you’ll make it since you’re still going for it. But gosh the interim is the worst. I’m cheering you on!!!

hey!!! oh my god, thank you so much for this message because honestly? it did really cheer me up. like, i need to hear this. it just feels like there is such a WALL in my head that is nearly impossible to work around, and that is what frustrates me the most... but i also would never stop singing, you know? so, we really just push through but hell, if that isn't a bitch rn. 💀 like the only person in my way is myself and that makes it kind of even worse? sigh. but you're right, still gotta keep going. fighting!! thank you so much! i hope you have a wonderful day. ♡

[claudia-kishi]

I think Temenos is probably my favorite character!! I think he’s hilarious honestly XD but then again, he seems like a mix of Ophilia and Therion, who were my favorites in the first game lol. Also! I saw someone recommended Lockwood and Co and I also can say it’s super good! I started reading the books after and I don’t know the last time I saw such a good moon to screen adaptation. The characters are so good and their relationships with each other are great!!

honestly i didn't like him at first but he grew on me especially through his relation with crick....... ugh i love. and the music and how like he isn't like ur typical cleric dude and it's honestly so fucking funny and his THEME!!! and yes ur so right therion supremacy!!!

and ah i didn't know it was based on books til someone reblogged that post, i will try to check it out in the future :)

[i-love-books-because-reasons]

Hi!! How are you?? How’s it been going? I know this is random, but I started thinking about it and got curious. I think you said at one point you have like 14 sideblogs right? What are they all for??

Hi! I doing good. How are you?

Yeah I have a lot of sideblogs lol. Most of them are for inspiration for my stories, one is blog is dedicated to all things pink (because it's my favorite color), one has mods and custom content for The Sims games, one has language learning resources, one is for exercise motivation, and the last on is an uplifting LDS/Christian blog.

So yeah, that's a lot of blogs lol.

[idreamofthemeparks]

You and tinkchick555 aren't the only ones who think the Frozen ride looks like crap. My sister (disneylandrdilettante) and I both think it looks both dreadful and boring as hell. Yeah, sure, the animatronics are splendid, but it's just Frozen the soundtrack the ride (and not even the full soundtrack, like Ariel's Under the Sea Adventure is), with too many screens and weird backwards bits and more plot than should be included in a dark/flume ride.

Dark/flume rides are about the ambiance of the setting, NOT about the story of the movie the ride is based on. PotC and HM hint at a possible story, but leave most of it up to the imagination of the guest. This feels much too much like the Frozen section of Kingdom Hearts, which wasn't allowed to deviate from the plot of the movie at all, in so much as Elsa was belting out Let It Go while Sora, Donald and Goofy stood awkwardly in the background watching.

We were even robbed of an amazing dress transformation right before our eyes, which is honestly what I was anticipating. After giving us Beast's transformation, I was literally expecting something as visually stunning for Elsa, but no. Just open a different set of doors, and now she's in her trademark outfit.

Oh shit, the idea of a dress transformation didn't even occur to me. They definitely could have done that. We were robbed.

I know it's ironic considering what many of the classic Disneyland rides are like but IDK, I feel like we've gotten to a point where a ride just being "you can go through the story of the movie!" doesn't cut it. Even earlier rides like Peter Pan's Flight had SOME immersive quality to then-- you're not just sitting there while the story of Peter Pan happens around you, you're soaring through the sky with the characters. What this new ride reminds me of most is Universal Singapore's Madagascar ride, where you literally just watched as the story of Madagascar was reenacted on either side of your boat. It feels designed for little kids to point at stuff and go "I remember that part of the movie!" and very little else.

Imagine the cool new stories that could've been told with that much impressive technology. Even "the gang has to fight off some kind of new snow monster" would've been better. Hell, they could've put Anna and Elsa in new dresses and made a killing selling dolls of them.