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Yoongi's live gave me life today. It was so lovely to see his calm self after such a long time. That cat clearly loves him, the way it kept calling out to him for attention. And Namjoon was also live a moment ago. He wanted to show so much excitement but he forced himself to remain subdued, it was a bit funny. Usual comments in the chat that annoyed him but glad he's telling them off.

People who consider it bad taste have a) never had to face a difficult situation themselves where they're left between a rock and a hard place and therefore lack complete empathy or b) have faced a difficult moment and they had no one to turn to to ask for help for xyz reason so they're unfortunately, bitter and hate it when other people get the help that they needed in the past. Eitherway, they should be ignored. During this time, I have come to learn that people who know you, are more than willing to help if they can if you're honest about how bad things are. People who I've worked with over 7 years ago while at Booking.com have chipped in and I might have had 5 non-work related conversations with them in total. And I will also be forever grateful to them, including the people in here who have helped me out 💜 I'd say create a Go Fund me, Barbara. Ask people to share it on their socials and get the ball rolling. Especially your son who must have an interesting network in his line of work. You have the advantage of the US being massive. I've seen other campaigns based in there, and could see how much easier it actually is for people in need to get donations there. The only thing it takes is to get the ball rolling with a few $5 donations and the rest will come as long as you keep sharing. Hell, I have seen people with TSW there getting their $5k and more to go to Thailand for CAP treatment. That's easier said than done. Sometimes they want to offer but their own situation doesn't allow it. My dad has offered to help, and he has sent me some money but I can't leech off of him anymore than this because I know how difficult it is to just gather £50 for him being in Argentina. Of course, most of Barbara's family is in the US (I assume), but if the relationship is not there or their financial situation isn't good for them either, then there is no point in speaking up and it ends up being more of a guilty feeling for her than relief of finally getting some breathing room. Mine is still ongoing. There have definitely been some up and downs. Not so much because of writer's block but more because of life kicking me in the ovaries, like now. I want to finish it. Now that I have all this time while I'm applying to jobs I need to give it a real go. It's always been kind of a dream to earn a living as a writer. Back in school I always used to get full scores when we had to write something for our Literature classes and I even made my professor cry once when I read the story out loud to the class. Proudest moment of my life 😂 Keep working on those stories of yours. For me, writing while I posted at the same time has helped me make it an actual responsibility. Especially with all the kudos and comments I would get. They hype one up and it makes you want to keep on writing for the 5 souls who leave comments lol

Happy Holidays ladies! I'm alone at home with my two buns, just enjoying a quiet morning/brunch. I made myself some crepes and splashed tonnes of Nutella on each of them. I'm probably gonna do some cleaning after to make myself useful while I can. And maybe even pick up writing again later and make use of the skills I developed while writing my own fanfic on AO3 - see if that could potential serve me as a minimal income. Being unemployed while having a chronic illness is not it, I tell ya Things I want to say: Taehyung needs to know that Weverse ads tend to be longer than his lives. Someone has to tell that boy.... JK in that tiny silky robe on AYS is doing my head in. Jimin too, but you know, JK is my boo and pretty much the only man I'd accidentally lose my clothes for. Thanks demisexuality! (does this belong in our private group chat? I think it does. Sorry!) I'm seeing a lot of people on X getting emails from Weverse from orders that were placed during Black Friday, informing them that it was cancelled due to being out of stock. I swear whoever works as the distribution centre for them is ridiculously incompetent. Have we gotten too used to the likes of Amazon and local post where you can get International shipments within days? Are the long waiting times something typical in Korea? Do they accept orders and THEN start fabricating the item in question? I just don't get it. Is only one person working there to cause such delays? I recently saw a tiktok of Reuters interviewing the CEO of Weverse. Let's just say the comments were anything but positive feedback (including mine). They talked about moderating comments during lives, AI translations and how the shop orders are handled. I'm amazed at how quickly Hybe Boy uploads stuff on youtube as soon as there are news about the guys. Obviously he does this full time, but like... how does he not have executive disfunction? I would need hours to talk myself into starting to record anything

I don't think she sang live at all? It was a full fletched DANCE cover. She should have gotten rid of the mic completely because it kinda looked ridiculous when she would remove the mic mid verse. She danced great, but the actual song cover was pretty dull for meMade me want to shake her by her shoulders and yell at her to LET IT OUT. Is this how she usually sings? So... subdued? @barbara Keep us posted on how things are going. 🤞🏼 I'm in the middle of another shedding phase on my face. Third week into my Dupixent injections and the inflammation is definitely down all over my body but looks like the skin on my face is still the most sensitive one and more prone to go through the endless cycle of angry red and burning--> dry --> flaky --> healed and back to angry red all in the span of two weeks. But hey, at least I can move my body right now although I want to scratch myself to death 24/7

That's Mingyu. Way taller than Tae.

I think we forget that most of the time, their actions/reactions stem from what they see on the Korean side of the fandom (unfortunately) and don't see what I-ARMYs think or say. It is what it is. Namjoon obviously had some conversations yesterday after the life with some of the guys. Maybe they worried about how everything came across, and it caused Namjoon to come online today to write that post? Who knows. His thoughts and emotions are sometimes all over the place, and he overthinks everything way too much. It's never a simple thing for him, which drives me crazy tbh.

Does anyone pay for Disney+ on a regular basis and would be willing to share their password with me so that I can watch the boys? I never watch Disney myself and feel silly paying for a month just for one show

This. I'm the "just in case" type as well (although I don't carry around 5 different types of lip balms, but just because my finances don't allow it xD). I bought a lovely large bag at Don Quijote in Japan, and I carry it around with me everywhere I go: receipt folder (because I'm self employed), a small necessity bag with tweezers, lip balm, a small tube of face cream because winter kills me, hand cream of course, my medicated cream, even a small umbrella "just in case", wallet of course. It depends on the day sometimes as well. I've had too many occasions where I needed something only to find out that I hadn't brought it with me and I'm frugal, I don't want to have more than one thing of the same item.

Indeed, there are definitely sauces that call for it and it's good. I think I just got traumatised by the fried chicken we had because there was no sauce involved (apart from the dipping one) but it was the actual batter that was sweet. It didn't really go well with our cold beer

Yeah-- no, they omitted sugar. He put a full tea spoon of sugar in it. I swear Koreans and their obsession with sweetening food that is supposed to be savoury always got the best of me when I was there. I had sweet fried chicken. There was sweet cheese ffs I get adding sugar or glucose to anything that is spicy/has gochujang. The combination is full-on food science worthy. But you will not add sugar to my pasta, meats or pizza. Thank you very much.

The editors had it out for poor Jimin

It's not just NJ, in fact, I think that's the least of their concern, to be honest. The whole fandom is in shambles between Taehyung being cancelled due to his ambassadorships (and I'm convinced that part of his emotional state during Jin's concert was because of that); Jungkook being, once again, the target of vile rumours that are getting more and more out of hand + crazies still trying to break into his house; Bang PD being investigated; a mother of one of the Seventeen members making it pretty clear she's bitter towards BTS; the things Jimin had to go through when they got back from LA. It's all piling up. And people are between fighting back, getting into a vicious circle of never ending bickering, or just reporting to Hybe for the legal team to take care of everything.

I believe that had more to do with showing support for the girls. Crazy came out during the height of the hate train against them because of the evil witch and her fabric minions. Plus that part of the choreo was easy lol

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY'RE IN USHUAIA?!?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN I WILL SEE IMAGES OF THEM IN MY HOMELAND?!:? kbfkbafn ETA: booo, just went to that person's account and they're from Argentina. The way they talk clearly shows that she was trying to be funny. Completely false