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hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.
there's something about yeosang being the one to flip the coin at the beginning of the gayo daegeon performance this year and the bridge in bouncy... his little toss/coin flip gesture. i can't quite put my finger on it but there's something.
There is something so interesting happening with his character lately...
So many of the big lore moments have always kind of hinged on Yeosang… and it feels like we may be walking into another one of those here soon.
Even in the Golden Hour Part 1 diaries (which I’ve heard were largely disliked, but were just slightly before my time as an Atiny) his part was one of the most interesting to me. I can’t help but think maybe we’re starting to really see the fruition of his time with the Guardians now.
kim hongjoong you are everything to me but i would ABSOLUTELY be honking my horn at your little impromptu pride parade. like i already swerve or break my car if i see a squirrel crossing the road so this is no different. and the way that video started i wouldn't have been surprised if he was flagging. "men working"? oh i'm SURE they are. beep beep bitch some of us have to go make money to support your polycule get out of the ROAD!!!!!!!!
there's something about yeosang being the one to flip the coin at the beginning of the gayo daegeon performance this year and the bridge in bouncy... his little toss/coin flip gesture. i can't quite put my finger on it but there's something.
*gayo daejeon
mad at myself for posting with that spelled wrong lmfao
there's something about yeosang being the one to flip the coin at the beginning of the gayo daegeon performance this year and the bridge in bouncy... his little toss/coin flip gesture. i can't quite put my finger on it but there's something.
The Ghosts of Halateez???
Ok so I have been saying "....ghosts???" for WEEKS and, after me and @skelejor were screaming about this last night, I need to compile all my thoughts in one red-strings-on-a-corkboard post because I am probably wrong, but if I am right I want to have it all together in one place so I can be absolutely unbearable
Full disclosure I am still very much a BabyTiny, I’ve only been here since September, I am not up-to-date on the lore, this is just what my pattern-recognition-machine autistic brain is seeing
Let's start at the beginning, several weeks ago - the black outfits where two of them were white - everyone was in the comments going "lol who didn't get the memo we were in black today" - my initial reaction was "heh maybe they're ghosts" - I MAY BE WRONG, it may be entirely unrelated, but that's just what I thought at the time
Time moves on, I forget about the ghosts, and then we get the raggedy ass tattered and torn, held together with safety pins KGMA outfits. And I go huh that's interesting, feels very Halloweeny but we're past Halloween....Are they ghosts??? Don't even get me started on the return of Hala Hala and the way they did a medley of past hits. Ghosts of their past selves hello??? AND SAN'S DANCE BREAK TO "PHANTOM" WHAT IS PHANTOM WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT????
AND NOW it all begins to spiral and I start to wonder if I'm onto something or just delulu. The ghostly light grey contacts??? They scare the life out of me. I'm used to Hwa and Yeosang having maybe darker grey contacts but these light ones give me ghost/spooky/undead/bodysnatcher vibes, especially on Wooyoung and Mingi (who MATCHED HIS HAIR TO THEM??)
Again with the spooky, again with the white and black outfits with flashes of red. It's giving spooky, romantic Edwardian ghosts vibes, Phantom of the Opera vibes, spirits and darkness and roses and blood. And the makeup???? Like I recall it's a thing that Korean blush comes up under the eyes but this goes beyond that, Wooyoung looks positively undead here??? It's giving ghost of a Victorian child who died of tuberculosis. And don't get me started on Day-of-the-Dead vibes all-white matador Mingi??
At AAA there was that dance break that made us all go "ummmm Phantom of the Opera vibes??" with the candelabra and Yunho (in which I very much see him being tormented by the voices(/ghosts of the past?) and drinking to make the voices go away... (was it poison?? the way he shakes/seizes after drinking it, I'm just saying....)
THEN COMES THE SBS GAYO DAEJEON
We're in 'mature pirate' outfits BUT now there are ACTUAL GHOSTS ONSTAGE?? And Wooyoung has placed a veil over us and we've collapsed and the music has wound down as we're being drawn into the ghost world (beyond the veil!!!). And the clincher for me is as soon as we become part of the ghost world A BELL TOLLS (the symbolism *feral screeching*) and an eerie mist rises (on the screens) as the Captain descends (into the underworld??). We're beyond the veil now in the world of GhostTEEZ, who are resurrecting an old song and performance (see this FANTASTIC post on how we're getting a glimpse into their past and links the dancer ghosts to this idea)
The brilliant @skelejor then reminded me that the Ash MV TAKES PLACE IN A CEMETERY - so moving forward from that - is something rising from the dead here?? Is this the ghosts of their past selves rising from the ashes?? The ghosts of Halateez perhaps??? Is this why we've been getting performances of old songs?? Is this why they've looked spooky and tattered and torn??
Finally there's the lantern - it's shoved in the camera's face (and therefore has to mean something??) when Seonghwa jumps in to defend Wooyoung who's surrounded by ghosts and it seems to drive the ghosts away (and possibly contains an hourglass?? It's not super clear if it's just the internal part of the lantern or The Cromer???) AND there's a similar lantern (refashioned into a snowglobe) on the Santatarius team table in the Christmas games video!!! THE LANTERN MEANS SOMETHING I'M TELLING YOU IF I'M WRONG ABOUT THIS I'LL EAT MY OWN HEAD
Anyhoo, feel free to ignore me or join me and add to my corkboard of insanity.
Final thought that is definitely just my delulu speaking and does not mean anything BUT my initial thought on seeing this photo was "oooooh priest!Wooyoung come to exorcise the ghosts!" Man if I wasn't avoiding doing assignments I would write a spooky AU fic about all this
Update: There's a post about the afterlife/underworld imagery here too!!! We're either mass-hallucinating or WE'RE ONTO SOMETHING!!!
ALL OF THIS.
I cannot find the video that it's from, but didn't one of the members once accidentally spoil the fact that there is an object in the lore that works by the powers of the sun the same way that the Cromer works by the powers of the moon?
Hongjoong quickly shushed them, but that was a HUGE spoiler.
What if that lantern with a Cromer in it is the object that is powered by the sun?
WHAT IF?
(seriously I do not know where I heard that spoiler about the sun object, but I'm almost sure I'm not making that up, right? anyone have a link?)
I cannot find where the "sun object" was spoiled, but I could swear I remember it. I've certainly been waiting to find a sun object to pop up in the lore ever since, so I don't think I made it up. (I could swear it happened on one of their lives back in the day.)
BUT! Professor Hongjoong definitely let us know that the Cromer is not the only relic in the lore, so there's at least some proof that I'm not crazy.
Until told otherwise, I'm guessing the Lantern is a relic.
FOUND IT! I KNEW I didn't make it up!
It's Yunho who says it! Video starts at 35.10 when they're discussing the Cromer.
He also says that's "not a spoiler, just an assumption" and Hongjoong is quick to say it's an assumption.
But mmmm I feel like it was definitely a spoiler.
@pirate-queen-aurora you genius!!! I can’t believe it was Yunho he’s normally so on the ball!
First of all, this is all brilliantly thought out and I'm so excited to be reading it.
Secondly, I've got a number of theories on this, actually, and only a few of them will have me admitting that I'm just on copium. My goal is to keep this as concise and straightforward as possible, but I'll be honest it's 2am and I'm not sure how well that's going to go at this point. Regardless:
It's clear from a diary perspective that we're leaning further and further into whatever the hell was going on in the Halazia MV (the most unexplained and befuddling MV of all time from a lore perspective, my beloved). The name drop of the Priests of Halazia, the acknowledgement of Sopro, and the resurgence of World Z conversations are leading us back in that direction.
Now, as far as I can remember, all language surrounding the Priests of Halazia has been past tense--whether this is because the order didn't really exist anymore by the time our boys made it to World Z or because the topic at hand was focused on the original priests is hard to say, but it does feel like if they were a current and active organization, Left Eye would have used present tense. This brings me to my first theory --
World A Ateez will bring back the era of Halazia in their dealings with Sopro, and with it, its priests. This is, of course, predicated on the idea that they ultimately return to World Z (please please please) in some form or fashion, which I think is extremely likely both from an overarching storytelling point, and with the supplementary evidence of the "Your Thunder" letter being released with The World to the End. Furthermore, I think that searching for the best way for them to subdue/contain/deactivate Sopro will probably lead them back to World Z in some way.
In this case, I think that the ghosts from the Gayo Daejeon could be the spirits of previous priests watching them as they interact with Sopro. Maybe they'll receive some sort of interference or guidance from said spirits (or potentially intervention in the form of Halateez? This is like 90% copium though) in the upcoming diaries as a result.
I've spent a lot of time wondering how they'd get back to World Z without the Cromer, but if this sun artifact is the counterbalance to the Cromer, then that potentially answers that question. And with Yunho in archaeology and the introduction of World A's version of Left Eye, I think that the sun artifact could potentially be a pretty reasonable solution to the Sopro issue overall.
My second theory is a little more substantiated by the end of the In Your Fantasy Diary (all diaries can be found here).
Yeosang: “It didn’t disappear, it was just hiding!”
Yeosang turned his tablet to the members. On the screen was a live clip of a video creator searching for true ghost stories. He talked while walking through a graveyard. A statue that didn’t exist until yesterday suddenly appeared overnight, and monsters were rising from the ground. The bust statue, made of corpse, bone, soil and grass, had grown into a human shape. With a shriek, its eyes shot open. It looked enraged. People watching the live video called it “the resurrection of Frankenstein.”
Not long after, a war broke out over there.
From an extremely literal and lore-centric perspective, the ghosts in the recent live performances make a lot of sense here. As does the return to the Kingdom version of Wonderland -- the lore drops on Kingdom were some of the most blatant and simultaneously best obfuscated. As an Atiny who didn't show up until well after Kingdom was done, the hints were obvious to me from the get-go, but for Atiny who watched those performances live, the lore was right there but just out of reach. I can't speak for anyone else, but it truly does feel to me like Ateez are getting back on their lore focus with performances, and using Kingdom Wonderland (and Hala Hala, and the OG Wonderland, and other throwbacks) feels more than a little bit like a batsignal.
With that said, we don't actually know what Sopro's been doing in its time underground, or what the monsters and bust statue are in a literal sense. But I think that San's performance of Phantom could represent Sopro's recent experiences in hopping from person to person, gaining a large amount of power, being pressed into the earth, and then coming back.
As a brief side note: the fire he puts out could serve as potentially either a nod to the sun artifact as a way to help neutralize Sopro or a nod to Sopro itself. I'm more inclined personally to connect it to the sun artifact given the addition of the lantern in the Gayo Daejeon, inclusive of the hourglass-not-hourglass structure within it. (It's just entirely too hard to tell.)
I've now been working on this for entirely too long and really need to sleep so I'm capping it here for the moment, but I do plan to return to this tomorrow when I have time to clarify anything that needs it (sorry) and continue my thoughts with further fervor.
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It’s not. The bombs didn’t stop. The drones didn’t stop. The funerals didn’t stop.
During this so-called ceasefire, dozens of people were killed. Homes were burned. Children were pulled from under the rubble. You’ll see the photos I’m adding below - all taken during the “pause”. This is what our reality looks like.
My own family is suffering too. We lost relatives. We lost our home.
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“Cats don’t actually love you”
A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.
Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.
Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.
TJ MIKELOGAN's HALLOWEEN HORROR 2025 EVENT day eight ↬ favorite horror director
"You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative. Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence." — Wes Craven
I spent a lot of time handcuffed and in a cage in high school, for a charity bit the grocery store I worked at would do
the bit was that I was "put in jail for having too big a heart" and customers could donate to my bail to get me out (and the money would go to a children's hospital or something)
now. I was very clearly a teenaged employee handcuffed inside a large cage. and I would honestly tell people that I had been in there for hours. and people would say, that's terrible! that's awful! and I would show them my wrists red from the tight handcuffs, and say but I'm sooooooo close to making bail.
and then they would dump some cash in the basket, I'd thank them, and they'd walk away.
and every so often, one of the managers would come by and collect some of the cash, so I could keep being soooooo close to making bail.
I was very good with this bit. Parents with small kids would pay $5-10 if I told their children I had been placed in jail for not cleaning my room/doing my homework, etc. For people in their 20s, I'd threaten that I was very bad at playing the harmonica, but I WOULD play it and we'd all suffer unless they paid me. and for the most amount of money, older men in suits would almost always pay $20s if I avoided eye contact and stammered a lot.
eventually, the managers started to feel bad because I was in the cage so fucking long and often, that I'd need someone to brace me when I got out because I'd have no feeling in my legs. wobbling like a newborn giraffe.
but I would also rake in at LEAST $100 an hour in charity.
so they were like, hey champ. can we, uh, give you a pillow to sit on. in the cage. would you like a pillow so you're not just sitting on a cold metal slab. can we give you a pillow.
and I had to explain to them that if they gave me a pillow, people would think I was more comfortable, so they wouldn't feel as bad, so I'd bring in less money.
the compromise was that they'd bring me a nice coffee every couple hours, which I would have to try to block with my body from the customers.
all this money went to charity. that's what the money was for. it's what was on the sign. but how much they were willing to pay was very contingent on how comfortable I looked, never mind the fact that I was still a teenaged employee handcuffed inside a cage.
and out of the dozens of shifts I did this on, not ONCE did ANYONE say, hey kid I'm going to go talk to your manager because what the fuck is going on here. they would just drop money in the basket, and I'd thank them and sip from my secret drink.
I actually had people get MAD at me that I told them I was far away from bail, they donated like $15, and then 20 minutes I got let out because my shift ended.
again. the money was for charity. it was on the sign that was very clearly placed on the upper half of my cage.
so yeah. even when people think they mean well. people can be really, really fucking stupid.
took me a bit but this is roughly what the cage looked like, without the middle platform
It was something that was originally used in the back for carting boxes, but was repurposed into a teenager cage
they'd wheel it out and the one open side would be backed against either a wall or a large display (like very tall rows of soda boxes or something)
Then I'd get in, they'd push the thing so it would be as flush as possible against the wall, and then I'd stick my hands through the bars for them to handcuff me. there'd be a sign up top explaining the bit, and then a shopping basket tied on front for people to drop the money into.
the handcuffs were fake, and I could unlock them myself for obvious safety reasons. I would get more donations if they were tight, though.
After maybe a month or two, I asked for a harmonica to sell the bit. they also tried giving me a mug, but it was too awkward with the handcuffs. I got kind of okay at playing the harmonica, but the main point was just to do one sharp blast to startle people into looking down, and then I'd threaten that I had no idea how to play, but would do so anyway unless they donated to my bail. managers actually got me a prison jumpsuit to throw over my uniform, but it was really fucking awkward so we stopped eventually. I also got a metric fuckton of mardi gras beads so I could lure small children over, to then mournfully tell them of my imprisonment due to not cleaning my room, etc. parents would be moderately irritated that I'd lured their children over with beads, but would respect the game that I'd given their kids a whole new fear. I had some parents even ad lib what I could have been thrown in prison for. guaranteed donations.
obviously, the prison bit worked best with younger girls. my roughly 50-60 year old manager once congratulated me on doing so well with the donations because I "looked like a cute sad little puppy in one of those RSPCA commercials. like a helpless puppy or a kitten." wearing makeup and earrings also increased the rate of donations.
had to explain to another girl how I regularly got $20s, which was when an older guy in a suit walked by I'd rattle my handcuffs slightly to draw attention. 10/10 times the guy would walk over, and I had to tell this girl like. If you avoid eye contact and sound uncertain you will get at least $20. I am sorry. this is for children's cancer research.
cannot stress enough that the other employees fought to get to be in the cage. customers were so awful and the weather was so shitty. jail meant sitting down with very few expectations, talking and joking with people.
Anyway. Shit was definitely not an allegory, though it could be used as one for about 11 different things.
Still better than customer service.
remember when millennials said we weren't going to be as weird and stupid about gen z as boomers were about us? lol that didn't last long huh
I just saw someone suggest that no one under 18 should have access to the internet because they're all falling for online radicalisation, and I don't know how to explain to you that "this whole group of people should be banned from part of society because they're fundamentally incapable of thinking for themselves" is actually one of the most fascist things you can think
justice for gazans, justice for little hind rajab and her family. from this day and onwards, make iof scum face the wall for their crimes against humanity
I miss them a lot
