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Abuela's Song of the Day (Feb 21)

KQ Fellaz - From cw: lens flares

Flashing back to pre-debut team KQ Fellaz and that brief period when they were nine members in LA with the song Hongjoong ended up writing twice.

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🔹 Someone else's fiction cannot cause you physical harm.

🔹If someone else's fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.

🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.

🔹Someone else's fiction is not about your personal trauma.

🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.

🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people's mental health.

🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.

🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn't mean they want those things to happen.

🔹Don't like? Don't read.

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artist in denial of being depressed: omg this 2 month long art block has been crazy... sorry i haven't updated any of my fics in a long while! it's just been super difficult to daydream! so weird that i've lost a little bit of passion for my current comfort character and ocs... this couldn't possibly have any implications or alternative explanations

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Are you a Kpop fan with photosensitivity? Have you ever started a new MV only to realize halfway through you really could have used a warning for the police subplot, the abusive relationship dynamics or just a hanky warning for the adorable pupper saving someone's life? Curious to range beyond the big names but not sure where to start?

Every week, I round up new Kpop video releases across all the genres - dance, ballad, rock, trot, whatever comes across my feeds - and then annotate them for content warnings. I warn for both the usual (flashing, medical, gore) and less usual (clowns, abusive relationships, Suho's stupidly pretty face) suspects, plus sometimes I tack on my cranky commentary as someone who's been a fan of the scene for over twenty years. If that sounds interesting to you, come on over!

This week's listing features new music from ONF, Chungha, Boyfriend, As One, plus many more!

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Abuela's Song of the Day (Feb 20)

Monsta X - Who Do U Love? (feat. French Montana) cw: flashing

Throwback to almost exactly five years ago, before the bullshit hit the fan because reasons

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Pacific Northwest mood

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I don’t know how to explain this well…but I’m 30 years old and I feel like I’ve had to ‘sacrifice’ my entire adult life to unprecedented times, the pandemic and daily anxiety over hateful politicians and whatever rights they want to take away on any given day and I’m just so fucking tired

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Whenever I take a long car ride I end up exhausted afterwards, and I’m always like “why am I so tired? I was just sitting around doing nothing all day.”

But the answer, it turns out, is I was doing something. Riding in a car jars your body in many directions and requires constant microadjustments of your muscles just to stay in place and hold your normal posture. Because you’re inside the car, inside the situation, it’s easy not to notice all the extra work you’re doing just to maintain the status quo.

There’s all sorts of type of work that we think of as “free” that require spending energy: concentrating, making decisions, managing anxiety, maintaining hypervigilance in an unfriendly environment, dealing with stereotype threat, processing a lot of sensory input, repairing skin cells damaged sun exposure, trying to stay warm in a cold room.

The next time you think you’re tired from “nothing”, consider instead that you’re probably in situation where you’re doing a lot of unnoticed extra work just to stay in place.

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Abuela's Song of the Day (Feb 17)

P1Harmony - Sad Song cw: blood/injury, flashing, surrealism, surrealism, dripping wet Piwon

This song being a dance BOP was not what I had been expecting from that title, but I am HERE for it.

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Music Monday #257: NCT 127 - Walk release: July 2024 genre: Kpop, hiphop cw: aggressive flashing, camera motion, Mark and Doyoung in glasses

What's this, a Music Monday again? Yeah, I know, it's been awhile. But finally, finally I'm clearing my summer trio with this track from NCT 127!

I'm purposefully using a performance version rather than the music video, but if you want to watch that surreal affair, it's here with warnings for flashing lights and Taeil's stupid face (though it also includes an adorable Taeyong baby picture, so, you know, use your own judgement) -- since Taeil was still on no-dancing medical restrictions at the time, performance versions don't include him and his lines are visually covered variously by Jungwoo, Doyoung, and Yuta. And if you have no idea why I'm casting salty aspersions on Taeil, uh, we can talk in the comments.

ANYway.... In spite of NCT 127 being masters of what my wife and I jokingly call fungus pop, for me, Walk was a hit right out of the gate. Which was mostly a surprise because the last few A-titles from 127 have needed some time to grow on me first. And while purists may feel the urge to argue, 127 is NCT's hiphop subunit, meaning this fit in perfectly with my hiphop summer obsession. It's a good steady beat with lyrics rooted in a message of ignoring the haters and moving along at your own pace.

As a performance version, there is ... probably zero lore to this, both because of its video type and also because I'm not convinced SM3.0 didn't kill all lores anyway. And that's fine, I guess. On the other hand, the ex-dancer in me enjoys the focus on a choreography that looks a lot easier than it actually is, between close quarters and passing moves. Still, there's a lot of bright/aggressive flashing in here, especially in the back half ...which is a common problem in performance versions, really, but the Nstop version is the most forgiving in that respect. It's a fun three minutes if you can do it and the boys cover the lines so well I almost can't remember where Taeil was supposed to be.

WALK, the 6th album from which this is the promo track, is available on all major streaming services and wherever you do your Kpop buying. While Jaehyun has since started his mandatory military service (and Doyoung is expected to start his soon), 127 has been doing fanmeetings and live shows with US dates coming up at the end of this month and on into March.

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fact: when pidgin dialects involve english, -glish becomes the suffix, eg: chinglish, konglish, hinglish fact: slash pair name order puts the top first and the bottom second, eg: deancas vs casdean conclusion: english is an uke language and that’s why we have an omegaverse, not an alphaverse

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Zig Zag Creek, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon by Joshua Johnston

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my plans, such as they are, for the writing week ahead

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Abuela's Song of the Day (Feb 16)

Boramiyu - Wish You Luck cw: flashing transition (once), background flashing lights

Something a bit different today, pay no mind to the Christmas tree in the background.