please this was so cute namjoon couldn't stop laughing over his pikachu hat and jungkook made him laugh even more
🐨: guys— [laughs]
🐰: pika pika 🥰
🐨: [dies of laughter]
lost my voice screaming at metlife tonight but i got to witness dis-ease and run with my own two eyes so i think i'm winning at life also sorry seokjin i'm not sleeping by midnight 😭 day 1/4 ✅
thank you pot fish chili jiejie for putting a family hotpot scene before this arc because i don't think i would survive without it
... reposting bc of a typo i forgot how to translate the name 🫠
i started listening to the "how to own five buildings" arc in the ghg audio drama and it's just as depressing as it was to read it honestly flowers for the audio drama team bc they really make this come alive. even as i cry listening to it
OUCH.
"Each of the seven members posted the same brief statement announcing that the group would not submit its music to the Grammys this year, adding a hope that music might be heard and loved for what it is rather than sorted by region or language.
Big Hit Music asked that the statement be taken as written, and taken as written it is remarkable, because it asks for nothing. A boycott makes demands. This made none, set no conditions, named no grievance, and offered the Recording Academy no way to win them back. You negotiate with an institution whose judgment you still need. The one whose judgment you have outgrown, you simply inform.
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An award has no value of its own; it is worth exactly what the wanting of it is worth, and the wanting must be freely given. For five years the biggest band on earth gave it freely, showing up, performing, losing, returning, lending the ceremony the one asset it cannot manufacture, the sight of someone enormous still hoping.
That hope was always the Grammys' property more than BTS's weakness. It has now been withdrawn, without anger, without demands, in a statement short enough to fit on a phone screen, by seven men who knocked at a door for years and were at last, generously, offered a smaller one."