when ocean vuong said ‘isn’t that the saddest thing in the world, ma? a comma forced to be a period?’ and kim namjoon said ‘treat me like a comma, i’ll take you to a new phrase’
hostages. they’re hostages but they put hostages in a prison without charge called them prisoners and suddenly the world doesn’t care about how they’re being treated because they’re ‘prisoners’ right.
i can’t even begin to fathom the loss, and i cannot comprehend how anyone can look at the scenes coming out of Gaza and still find a way to justify the genocide, the level of depraved inhumanity it must require to be so apathetic and violent and evil
i’m a jumbled mess of my love; my feelings all tangled earphone wires and my thoughts the centre of a new skein of yarn but my love is still mine, all mine
i am still learning to be gentle with myself and sometimes that means i have to let myself bend until i break and make sure i don’t prick myself on the shards when i get down and pick them up to glue myself back together flesh and gold
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hope is in the flowers, hope is in the clouds in the sky, hope is in the daylight moon, hope is in the tangerines i leave lying on my desk to ripen, hope is in me, and hope is in you
to be unaware of a boycott & divestment campaign that’s been going on in your own fandom for several months now btw and has been covered by several major media + bds korea over the past week to the point that even the gp knows and has been talking abt it, your ignorance is wilful
not everyone can afford to buy books not everyone has access to public libraries not everyone lives in countries where functioning public libraries even exist in the first place; if you are that troubled by it, you’re always welcome to set up & contribute to funds that can
you’d think yoongi was a hardcore capitalist the way these ppl are talking about him in my qrts rn like you don’t even know the person that you claim to love it’s just sad really
i need y’all to remember and keep in mind that a lot of this backlash towards boycotting and the most definitely racist and aggressive response towards palestinian and arab armys when they express themselves is because a lot of these people are zionists plain and simple.
‘selflessness can be selfish too, it’s true, it’s actually my greed when i say it’s all for you’
the selfishness of our selflessness, there is no true altruism, yoongi gets it, we are simply as human as human can be, living and loving
the people who consume art are just as much a part of it as the artist. what’s a movie that no one ever watches or a book no one ever reads or an art gallery no one ever visits?
here’s a quote from michiko aoyama’s– ‘what you are looking for is in the library’ that i really like
no film will ever carve itself a home in my heart the way everything everywhere all at once did; if i could only put all that it’s made me feel on a bagel and eat it, i would never feel hunger again
you don’t use your platform to spread awareness about palestine, you look the other way when you’re asked to boycott merch, you harass organisers and participants for carrying out the boycott calling it performative & yet your accounts are still devoid of any mention of palestine
little joys i’m grateful for lately:
- homemade strawberry milk tea
- lucky finds from my local charity shop
- familiar faces of strangers in the neighbourhood
- happiness of my beloveds
- sun on my skin and beautiful skies
- dreams full of warmth and my favourite people
the overwhelming rhetoric of love yourself your way out of loneliness has been so damaging because it almost puts the blame on the individual for not doing enough to curb their unhappy feelings when it’s the systems that are failing us, standing between us and our communities
it already has been doing that in kashmir for years: settler colonialism, pink washing, labelling resistance groups as t3rror!sts, state sponsored t3rror!sm - the military killing civilians with full impunity, complete communication blackouts. you name it, they’ve done it
K-pop stans are actually fkn insufferable like bloodlines are being wiped and people are under this saying “bts loves you” and reducing lost lives only to “armys” instead of acknowledging ALL Palestinians. Like this is what it took for y’all to open ur mouths ??
palestinian, arab & muslim armys especially have all the right to feel how they’re feeling & express it exactly how they feel it w/o having to baby y’all just bc you feel uncomfortable with their honesty & straightforwardness. use that discomfort to learn & grow, not dogpile them
(thread) It’s honestly absurd to me that some people are still able to call themselves fans if they truly believe that the members are spineless and that they collab with these artists despite having knowledge their beliefs..
‘i want it, a sincere connection with others’ and ‘i say it’s (life) a struggle against loneliness’
yoongi so perfectly capturing the yearning for life and love and people to hold dear, the essence and proof of our human-ness
when i reread the same text years later, i get to see how my thoughts have changed or stayed the same over the years, it gives me a glimpse into my past self and their worldview at the time that influenced their interpretation of the text. annotations are a record of me
thinking about love and life and loss tonight and it’s such a heavy weight to carry yet we all do it all day every day isn’t that amazing aren’t people just so wonderfully resilient
so israel is just openly regurgitating the same lies and propaganda that have already been proven to be false in the international court of justice alright. you’d think it shouldn’t be permissible to outright LIE in a space like that but then what does a genocidal state care
and this is why we need to keep consistent with our boycott efforts, the more money they lose, the greater and quicker are the chances of getting rid of scooter. and wouldn’t it be so nice to be able to take part in and enjoy these experiences again WITHOUT zionist involvement?
y’all are twisting it again exactly as i thought u would, if these people are chronically online enough to know about every minute bts related update, they’re online enough to know abt the campaign unless they’ve deliberately curated their timelines to remain unaware lol dpmo
waymond wang and jimin and understanding the strength in kindness; you can protect everything and everyone that you care about not only by still being kind but also through being kind
it really says a lot about people whose instinctive response to a tweet emphasising the gravity of a genocide & urging people to speak up is to get defensive & try reason themselves out of any feasible action y’all refuse to let even your guilt move you into action. pathetic.
incredibly insightful thread detailing scooter’s zionism. oh ! but according to
@HYBEOFFICIALtwt
@hitmanb
all of it is personal opinion & separate from company, despite him using his position to boost zionist propaganda
#하이브는시오니스트를퇴출하라
#HYBEDivestFromZionism
scooter braun has revealed his new donation campaign!
he has partnered with care together who focuses on helping “women and girls”!
i guess finding an organisation that wants to protect all innocent palestinians equally was too much for him :(
please read the thread below!
‘stop romanticising grief’ how about you stop trying to dictate the way other people experience and conceptualise and express their own grief. their grief is theirs to do with as they please and as is yours, and there’s no right or wrong when it comes to feeling it
enable as many of those people to buy it as you can within your financial limits
i am glad some of you have always been privileged enough to not understand that reading is a privilege but there is no need to admonish & shame people who cannot afford to read as easily as you do
some of you are so deep into stan culture & chronically online, it genuinely boggles my mind bc what kind of apathy does it take to retaliate to someone’s expression of grief with streaming links; people are dy!ng out there bc the world is silent but yeah get those streams ig
a lot of y’all follow u might want to change that
the sheer privilege and audacity. one, you don’t need a pol science degree to be able to tell it’s a genocide and anyone with their morals in the right place should be condemning it. two. the internet is free, libraries exist
i don't refrain from commenting on global conflict because i'm apolitical or uncaring. i refrain from commenting because i do not speak when i don't know what i'm talking about. this maneuver is accessible to you too
some of us have grown up exclusively on pirated books because that was all that was available and affordable for us and we know that without these alternatives we would never even have read so if you think shutting down some scans is going to contribute to any sales
this made me cry so hard the frustration even i feel at the utter lack of humanity (do you not even have any shame?) to not only not offer the barest amount of sympathy to someone who’s family and people are constantly getting carpet bombed and killed but have the audacity to
you’re far stupider than i thought because people who can’t afford it now won’t be able to magically get funds if you get rid of scans, they will simply not be able to read it at all and you do not know bangtan at all if you think they’d be happy about that
unsurprising that the terrorists who only target civilians (a big chunk of whom are infants and children) would run away when faced with actual combat and armed resistance. they shoot and bomb people while hiding in comfort like cowards
while we mourn (remember that that’s also a privilege that we are able to afford rn), don’t also forget to keep up and increase the momentum: continue speaking up, showing up to protests, sticking to the targeted bds boycott, keeping pressure on your local govt representatives
finding gender envy in women with short hair and men with long(er) hair; gender envy isn’t in those things themselves but the subversion they represent in this essay i will
when tee said y’all are no better than zionists she was right because what in the world did i just read
since they can’t fire him for his ‘beliefs’ as you put it, that’s the whole goddamn reason a boycott is needed, we’re spoon feeding them the financial grounds to do it instead
i know you’re seeing calls for merch boycott yet i’m seeing a whole lot of you being disingenuous gleefully talking about merch you’ve bought/want to buy. and then it’s you people who turn back to say boycott isn’t feasible because.. it’s you yourself making them infeasible
you say we should be sending emails for this situation and yet you have not participated in any of the email campaigns, you say we should protest in person at hybe america and when someone actually organises that, you harass and report them
i understand what people in the qrts are trying to say because if you’re of any marginalised identity you understand that your existence itself is inherently political but the point is, that it really shouldn’t be. basic human rights shouldn’t be up for a political debate
“friends disagree on politics all the time” i need u guys to use critical thinking for 2 seconds and realize that genocide and politics are two completely different things
i was thinking about how whenever life seems to be going downhill, i crave a new hairstyle or a tattoo or a piercing and how it really does make me feel better. i realised that what i really crave is a change in myself, enough that i can distance myself from who i was yesterday
i don’t know if it’s just me but i’m not feeling even half as distraught as i thought i’d be, and i’m realising it’s because they’ve been thoughtfully preparing us for this day in little steps and phases with constant reassurances
we keep using the world dystopian and apocalyptic for scenes such as this because we have no other word for horrors that we’ve never personally experienced, but it’s not dystopian when it’s been the reality of so many people for years and years and years
calling for boycott for what are literally luxury items, this really should not be hard at all, especially considering how crucial cause for the boycott is. and put that money in your savings, you’ll be thanking yourself later
amygdala is so visual as a song; the repeated iterations while recalling memories (very reminiscent of echolalia to me)
like ripples cascading across your reflection in the water when disturbed, memories are also distorted by the force of time
the only time you talk about palestine is when you want to weaponise the cause for something as pathetic as streaming numbers and when someone calls you out on your bs and calls you a zionist, you take up an issue with that too while again refusing to even do much as rt a tweet
standing at the precipice; we’re still quite a way from the warm spring days, i hope the daylight brings you joy until then / (before the spring, jonghyun)
on friendships and (found) family and community and tenderness and loss and grief that you can’t seem to get over but everything comes to an end and courage to keep trying because you’re not alone and this is not the end
you will stay with me, welcome to samdal-ri
there’s a phenomenon of social desirability bias that we have to account for when conducting social/psychological research; even under assured anonymity, people feel the need to display or convey socially desirable behaviours and hide any undesirable ones
everytime i try to pen down a lil birthday wish, my brain feels like a pinball machine with thought bubbles of yoongi yoongi yoongi ricocheting all around and my heart is too full of love to find words within and this feeling just grows stronger with every passing year
if they haven’t made that clear with their words & actions yet, they’re going to at some point. although i’d say opposing, & this aggressively at that, any form of solidarity for palestine regardless of wtvr ruse they hide behind, can only be anti-palestinian & therefore zionist
the amount of times i’ve seen the gross invalidation of and meaningless aggression towards palestinian armys, they’re continually met with far greater hostility and dogpiling than anybody else relating the same message in essence.
because oh ! you don’t like tweeting abt that on your fan account etc etc - even the smallest & easiest action that you are encouraged to take, you find a way out of it. you put more effort into wiggling your way out of any useful action than you would in just taking that action
also guess who india buys it’s weapons from that it uses against kashmiris? yeah. not to mention that all of this is heavily based in and powers off from islamophobia, no surprises there tho
id recommend following @/ standwkashmir on instagram to learn more about it
being moved to tears by the random drafts you left to be lost in the archives of your words is a very precious feeling; disconnected thoughts turned into sentences turned into paragraphs that suddenly find meaning simply from being perceived again
yoongi discussing & dissecting the concept of freedom of speech at a time like this is more significant than ever considering how the rw has twisted & reinterpreted it to suit their agenda & uses hate speech as a tool to hurt and silence without taking ownership of their words
if mono was a warm love-filled hug while we were down, indigo feels like it could be the hand that lifts us up and stands by our side as we move through our lows and highs