#tvxq triangle

[mmiso-soupp]

ⓣⓡⓘ-ⓐⓝⓖⓛⓔ - ⓣⓥⓧⓠ (②⓪⓪④)

[girlbosscannibalism]

[sanstropfremir]

In the last 48 hours we’ve gotten a changmin triangle hair revival and a TVXQ! comeback (as Tohoshinki in Japan but I’ll take it). The hag fans are winning this week 🎉

the hag fans are WINNING!!!! loved parallel it was a great return to toho form. im not mad about them only doing toho releases bc at least they're happening and i like how their jpn team does their design work. it's always interesting for me to see how jpn and kr teams handle the same group, and esp for tvxq bc they've been around for so long now

[curiuosmess]

[what-if-nct]

Johnny: Boy groups don't climb around on the wall and ceilings like they used to anymore.

Yuta: Or wear metallics.

Johnny: Sometimes we just want to defy gravity in a spinning box.

Yuta: And wear a silver trenchcoat in the middle of an empty parking garage.

Johnny: And bring back the ss501 and tvxq hair.

Yuta: I'm trying, I give them a picture of Jaejoong from the triangle music video but they keep saying it's outdated. They don't understand the vision.

Johnny: Its up to us to change everything back.

Doyoung: You both are high and eating cheeto puffs off the floor. What are going to change?

Johnny: Everything.

Yuta: Johnny the ants are coming hurry and eat all the cheetos.

Johnny: On it *eats cheeto puffs directly off the floor*

[satzumosupremacy]

Might be off topic from smuts and all, but can you recommend me some songs of the older generation? I want to explore how much has changed.

I don’t know what genre you like so..

D-Lite (Daesung of Bigbang)- Anymore (Japanese song) *it’s better if you see his live performance*

Taeyang- Wedding Dress is such a classic

Taeyang- Only look at me (don’t read the lyrics first, do it after hearing it, you’ll be surprised)

Zion T- Yanghwa Bridge (if you like rnb)

Nu’est- Hello

Bobby- Raise your guard and bounce, YGGR (smtm3)

Got7- Fly

TVXQ- Mirotic

BTOB- Pray

MOBB (Mino & Bobby duo)- Full House

Mino- Fiancé

Day6- Love Me Or Leave Me

G-Dragon- Bullshit

T.O.P- Doom Dada

Epik High- Born Hater, Rosario, Acceptance Speech

Baekhyun- Bambi

Lee Hong Gi- Still Love You

EXO- Love Shot

Sik K- Rendezvous

f(x)- 4 Walls

Bigbang- Lies, Haru Haru (any song honesty)

Zico- Bermuda Triangle

IKON- Love Scenario

Davichi- This Love

Swings- Villian

Dynamic Duo- Aeao (after 9 years, it blows up on TikTok lol)

[jasonbehrs]

🎭 wear your heart where i can see 🎭

by airauralintensity (aka me, jasonbehrs!)

“But you’re a dude!”

“That will continue to be true for every lesson in the curriculum, so I suggest you get over that quickly.”

fandom: dbsk/tvxq characters: kim jaejoong, jung yunho, seulgi sooyoung boa in supporting roles ship: yunjae themes: high school au, fake dating au, tutoring au, sooo tropey, you're gonna predict every plot point and you're gonna love it okay?, okay chapters: 10/10 word count: 1.6k+

read it on ffnet, aff, ao3, or below!

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A/N (4.30.2023): The epilogue is broken up into two portions: a montage-esque description of the aftermath of week 9 and the actual wrap-up to the story.

Ever heard of 'show, don't tell'? The montage is heavy on the tell, lol. Maybe one day I'll write them out fully and add them as appendices to this fic, but for now I entreat you to merely accept the knowledge that these developments happen at all :)

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weeks 12 - 14

When Yunho wins his hapkido tournament, he points to Jaejoong in the crowd and does an air-kiss. This is not necessarily the same thing as going public at school, but it definitely makes them public to the hapkido team.

And his parents.

At the customary post-tourney celebration in Lotteria, the mood is awkward. Everyone is naturally distant from Jaejoong even if they're polite. No one brings up Boa.

Yunho, who has the social skills of someone who learned Korean that morning, had given Jaejoong a head's up that he will not be helpful in overcoming the awkwardness, but he promised to step in if anyone was noticeably rude. Jaejoong assured him that he knows who he's dating and gamely took matters into his own hands.

Once Jaejoong takes out the cupcakes he had prepared (Fighting! is iced on top of each one in his best calligraphy), the ice begins to crack. As he expected, food is the way to the team's stomach: they get over whatever initial weirdness they felt towards him as soon as they bite into the fluffy, lemon-blueberry confections.

The parents remain unimpressed, but Yunho's little sister takes an instant liking to him when he sings along with her to her favourite K-pop group on the radio. With such a winning endorsement (and Yunho's repeated assurances at home that dating Jaejoong is not going to be any more distracting from his studies as dating Boa had been), the Jungs eventually come around. Jaejoong is sure that with more time, he'll completely charm their pants off.

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The lead actor of the musical and his family get into a car accident on the way to the school for opening night. If that isn't bad enough, the lead actress is the other guy's girlfriend. She flees the auditorium as soon as she hears the news, presumably to go to the hospital to be with her boyfriend and his family.

This means Jaejoong and Sooyoung have to step up as the understudies, and the two of them can't even rejoice in getting to play the leads due to the unfortunate circumstances that led to this situation. In the hours leading up to curtain rise, costumes have to be refitted, their lines as supporting characters have to be redistributed, and the faculty advisor-cum-director is giving them last minute directions on blocking.

In the bustle, they both completely forget about the on-stage kiss their characters are supposed to share until the exact scene where it happens.

They're professionals, but they're best friends, too. He knows that she knows that he knows that they're both thinking about it: both of them have kissed Yunho, and now they're kissing each other. It's a weird triangle, and it takes every ounce of self-control they have not to burst into laughter the instant they make eye contact as soon as the kiss is over. The show must go on, after all.

When Jaejoong reintroduces Yunho as his real boyfriend to Sooyoung and his parents after the show, he already knows she's going to bring it up. (Poor Yunho's skin tone may never return to a normal shade ever again.) Everyone welcomes Yunho back into Jaejoong's life like he never left.

Of course, they run into Boa. The three of them exchange friendly but short greetings. Jaejoong doesn't think that's going to get any better until Boa gets a boyfriend of her own, and Yunho begs him not to interfere in that.

Subsequent shows go great. So much so that the faculty advisor of the drama club even comes up to him after the final show and says, "I look forward to your audition for the lead in the play next year," which is basically code for Jaejoong-is-definitely-getting-the-lead-in-the-play-next-year, which he is totally normal about.

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Jaejoong finally asks Yunho for academic help, and Yunho is excited that it's his turn to teach Jaejoong something. Unfortunately, geometry is a lot less exciting than romance. Fortunately, Jaejoong gets to call him seonsaengnim and delight in the blush that decorates Yunho's face each time.

Jaejoong steadily learns discipline from Yunho, who institutes a rule where every other date has to be a study date. Beyond the academic, other benefits to this are that they see each other much more than they probably would have otherwise. Jaejoong usually satisfies the study date requirement within a day or two of a romantic date 'to get it out of the way', and then he de-stresses from the rigourous mental activity by planning their next romantic date.

(Yunho has no complaints with this new comforting routine.)

The next time Jaejoong is called into the guidance counsellor's office, she even has good news for him.

"Wow! Your grades have really improved this last quarter! What changed?"

He proudly tells her, "I got myself a tutor."

.

They finally use the Backstreet for its intended purpose. Twice.

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Before school lets out for the year, they all have final meetings with their guidance counsellors. Yunho's tells him that he is on a good path for getting into one of the SKY universities, and attending cram school would really give him an advantage in the application process. The Yunho of four months ago would have accepted such a prescription without question, but the Yunho of now winces. He'll do it, of course, but he'll also have less time to spend with Jaejoong in their final year of high school. Again, Jaejoong assures him that he knows exactly who he's dating, and he'll happily provide study snacks in the meantime.

Jaejoong, on the other hand, has no such lofty ambitions, but he did finally accept that college would be in the cards for him. He thinks he might enter into a technical school, some place that doesn't need high scholastic achievement as long as you know how to follow instructions; and his guidance counsellor agrees. More exciting than that, though: she encourages him to sign up for one more extracurricular now that his grades are under control.

"I don't know what it should be. I used to be on the badminton team, but a sport is a big commitment, especially since I care about drama club more anyway. I need something that doesn't require too much of my time…" he thinks aloud as he waits for Yunho to finish what he's doing. They went 50/50 on those bluetooth helmets that let a motorcyclist and his passenger communicate while driving, and Yunho is setting them up so that they could try it out on the drive home.

"I'm sure you'll find something. Who knows? Maybe the thing you're meant to do doesn't even exist yet," Yunho comments supportively, but distractedly. Jaejoong has long ago abandoned the pretense of offering assistance.

Once they're ready, they walk through the emptying hallways of the school, at one point bypassing a bulletin board petitioning interested students in signing up for a new initiative. A welcoming committee.

~~~

epilogue: one year later

In the silent, near-empty hallway, Seulgi stares after Boa with resigned understanding. She considers herself a great judge of character; and the way Boa carries herself does a lot to add credence to her First Day Buddy's assessment. If someone like her couldn't land Jung Yunho, there's really no hope for Seulgi. "Ah. Makes sense," she comments blithely.

Her Buddy clears his throat, and she turns her back on the short-lived fantasy of getting to date the first attractive man she saw at her new school. "So from here, I figured I'd take you to your locker then your homeroom?" he offers as he leads her through the tour again. "You could ask your teacher or a classmate how to get to your next classroom at the end of every period. It'll probably be easier for you to remember them that way than if I tried to show you all of them at once right now."

Seulgi agrees absentmindedly. Again, she is a second-year student. Navigating a new high school is not IB-level material.

At last, her Buddy drops her off in front of her homeroom. He mentions that he'll sit with her at lunch and wishes her a great first day at school, and then she's finally left alone.

Knowing that she won't be able to once she's in the room, Seulgi loiters outside just to scroll through her phone for a little bit. It's homeroom on the first day of school; she isn't missing anything.

In the distance, she hears, "There you are!"

She looks up on reflex and is interested to find Jung Yunho beelining for her Buddy further down the hallway.

"You didn't say hi to me after hapkido practise," Jung Yunho whines. She frowns. Whining men are not attractive.

"Sorry, I couldn't stop. I had Welcoming Committee responsibilities this morning."

"You're indeed so responsible," Jung Yunho teases. He presses a swift kiss to her Buddy's cheek, and Seulgi has to stifle her gasp. "Are we still studying in the library after school?"

"Cram school is cancelled, and you still want to study? But fine. I'll see you there, seonsaengnim."

He leans up to properly kiss Jung Yunho, then they go separate ways, her Buddy getting further away and Jung Yunho getting closer. He catches her gaze and sends her a kind smile in greeting on his way. Seulgi doesn't even have the chance to be embarrassed for getting caught staring before the interaction is completely over.

The bell rings, and she forces herself to get it together. Being late to homeroom on your first day is not a good look.

In her seat, she all of a sudden remembers something from her Buddy's narration this morning. Didn't he say Jung Yunho was dating the star of the drama club? Makes sense. Based on the performance this morning, her Buddy seems like a great actor.

… Seulgi probably should have learned his name. Ah well, she'll get it at lunchtime.

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A/N (4.30.2023): That's a wrap! Once again, a million thanks for everyone who supported me on this journey, whether overt or covert. Until next time. :)

[ikjun]

wait i just discovered you’re doing an ask game can u do tvxq pls thanks ily 🫶

my first bias: changmin as far as i can remember my current bias(es): changmin. maknae on top. my album and/or era ranking (or favorite of each): xv (i will die on this hill, fuck u avex and sm) -> keep your head down (repackage) / tone -> humanoids / time -> chapter of love / tomorrow -> catch me -> spellbound -> rise as god -> with -> tree -> rising sun -> epitaph -> O -> mirotic -> triangle. xv and kyhd / tone are immovable, the rest changes depending on my mood. how i got into them: one of my first internet friends was a shawol like me as well as a cassie and she literally lay down the entire tvxq lawsuit proceeding to me. my first cb was keep your head down and i was amazed. then during the pandemic i decided to become active in the fandom since i couldn't really be that as a teenager. idk how it happened ... i just listened to tvxq songs and was like let me post about this for once lol. which member would be my best friend: changmin. we would chat non fiction book recs, watch soccer together (he's well versed in being around obnoxious arsenal fans), ignore most of the world's media that's not fifteen year old jrock, and he could teach me to be a better cook. also bc being friends with changmin means i am friends with yunho and minho by default. strategy is everything! something i associate with them (or with a bias/any member): from the top of my head it's the friend who showed them to me, their first keep your head down comeback stage and the birthday one, litany in which certain things are crossed out and the stag and the quiver by richard siken, december and february, winter in general, one piece (yes), the pigeon story from tour last year, "he is the last flame of my life", strawberries and peaches lmao, cassiopeia constellation, the red ocean (especially during kyhd), q line and their friendship(s) with shinee and red velvet, the dilf duo, "you want to solve something? get out of your own way."

send me a kpop group and i'll tell you!

[marina-isabella]

tri-angle by tvxq, boa, and trax is literally the most lit jam of this century👌🎵🎶

fight me on this

i’m currently turning up to tri-angle in my boring ass study hall😂😂

[sarahespacial]

[cardinalvalentino]

no but truly it makes me so happy when classical music is sampled or referenced in any way in pop music its so good.

[sanstropfremir]

if you could bring back one styling that you think wasn't appreciated in its time or the fans weren't ready for (but are now) or just think should be around again, which would it be? (hard round: something other than TVXQ's "Triangle" styling) (and I already know the #1 is Pink Gumby)

(kicks rock) ok FINE i won't immediately say triangle.........

my first instinct is actually something that DID get its due appreciation: arario!! it was genuinely ahead of its time (both in styling and musical composition), and if vixx hadn't done shangri-la we might never have seen a traditional/hanbok styling trend in kpop. but realistically this is kind of a tough question to answer because most trends in kpop styling have been recycled already in some way. i could say something like we should bring back the goofy looks for the early '10s but realistically that's already happened as much as it's going to without completely reverting silhouettes and clothing construction, which is not going to happen. and also i don't think most of those looks were underappreciated at the time. the most frequent type of look that is oft derided by fans and underutilized by creative staff are the infrequent forays into science fiction concepts. songs like 100%'s beat and more famously vixx's error were quite controversial for no legitimate reason, although honestly i don't remember how beat was received since vixx overshadowed them significantly (justice for 100% actually. the beat styling is better), but considering nobody remembers 100% even existed i'll consider it underappreciated. tbh in the current styling landscape of kpop my beef is less with fans not appreciating a styling (bc fans know exactly jack shit about costuming and will accept anything, even obvious garbage) and more with stylists who are unwilling to actually flesh out a concept. this applies to pretty much everything but i see it most obviously in scifi (and fantasy/horror etc, anything that's not boy/girl next door or school) concepts. one of the few cbs that i do desperately want to have a go around again is obsession bc please god can i finally have ksoo and minseok on the song, but also it's a fantastic concept that got most of the way there, it just could have been so much more interesting out if the stylists weren't cowards.

[kpopmemories]

[mixednotmatched]

You know you’re far up TVXQ’s a** when anything triangle-shaped, or anything that comes in 3′s, makes you giggle, blush, or make a duck face.

[what-if-nct]

hiiii today's reminder is new 127 music!!!! ok so the first verse felt a bit all over the place but it really picked up for me after the first chorus. what in the actual fuck is going on with Taeyong's hair in that one outfit? Doyoung Yuta and Haechan look SO fucking good (i mean all of them really but they stood out to me). that one shot of Yuta levitating while sitting cross legged, i just cannot take it seriously. but i do need his white outfit as is, i would look so fucking good in it. and also the chorus into the bridge, Jaehyun walking out after his ay yo is cracking me up for some reason

Hii! Yes Taeyong's liberty spikes! Just from the videos he posted you can tell he loves it so much. It's giving Changmin from the Triangle music video and I love it. And the beginning was a bit messy but once the chorus hit, their title track legacy was redeemed. And Jungwoo, Johnny and Yuta's parts in the light box were very personal to me. I really thought from the Cali teasers they were going to let them be free range. But one day. The vocalists were really vocalisting, like I know 127 will be fine once taeil enlists but I'm gonna miss him, he just brings the flavor. We gotta get you Yuta's outfit, Yuta take your clothes off. But Yuta levitating in white again giving tvxq triangle old-school visual kei era kpop and I just need it back. I listened to visual kei before kpop so I just want the worlds to collide again. I feel 127 can do it. Jaehyun walking away was honestly so unnecessary and funny. But When Jaehyun raps in a song, like when that decision is made it's already a good song. Hes been weakening me lately this almost broke me but I'm faithful to my 8 or 9 men. But he can move into the guest house with Yangyang till further notice.