#fire+water

[elizzieblack]

i just found this in my room (yes, that's my work) and thought: maybe someone will like random fire-water koi fish doodles on minicanvas.

[19silvermirrors]

The wip and the final version are like another flashing chance at bliss~ 💙❤️

[a-birdie-on-a-rose]

halloween thorns

[taekooktimeline]

April 1, 2026 -

OT7 go live. Please note, I’ve zoomed in on Tae and Jk to better capture their expressions, so sometimes other members then become cropped out of frame. 

Jk tries to share a spoiler, but Tae says they don’t need to since it’ll be out later today. Jk says to look forward to it and Tae then takes up the teasing mantle by saying it’s funny. 

Timestamp 3:11

Staff bring out individual wreaths for members. Tae’s is red, which prompts him to remind members and viewers he likes red because his sign is water and he needs fire. This then prompts Jk to say he’s fire and needs water to cool down. After this, they gently hold hands for a moment. 

I cannot stress enough how telling it is that Tae and Jk independently chose to go to a fortune teller together and have their fortunes read, and took that reading seriously, something others with more Asian cultural experience than me (who’s grown up in the States) has emphasized is important in relationships. Tae’s and Jk’s respective signs balance each other out. I think it’s also important to note how significant this reading was that the two have referenced being the fire / water duo who balance one another more than once. 

🐻: The staff knew I like red, so they prepared red for me again like this... 

🐰 They knew I'm "Fire" in the Four Pillars of Destiny, so they made it blue to cool me down, right?  

🐻 I'm "Water" in the Four Pillars of Destiny, so I actually need Fire instead.  

🐻🐰 🤝 

Hand hold close up -

Timestamp starts at 4:34  https://x.com/naver_taehyung/status/2039234646622568899?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/jungkovtae/status/2039231146987339994?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/winter17_tkbear/status/2039230590394753141?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/lovecco55/status/2039233516345725004?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/5roses123/status/2039274866759934004?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg 

Remember on their March 6, 2022 live, they first shared they got their fortunes read together. When Tae said, “I need fire but have him,” pointing at Jk, Jk’s smile got wider (see below stills). 

🐿️: You said you’re Fire / Water together. 

🐹: what?

🐻🐰: yeah

🐻: I need fire 

🐰: and I need water. That’s why I’m wearing blue 

🐻: I need fire but I have him *points to Jungkook*

🐹: so you won’t be apart from each other?

Recap video -  https://x.com/tkksfairy/status/2039290269850538366?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  Recap - https://www.tumblr.com/taekooktimeline2022/678944024589205504/march-6-2022 

And they also mentioned their fortune reading during episode 2 of BTS MBTI Lab, which aired on YouTube on May 13, 2022. 

Recap - https://www.tumblr.com/taekooktimeline2022/684624307034505216/may-13-2022-released 

Tae shares that he tries to keep up with members’ projects. He then mentions Jk’s and Jimin’s teaser coming out with Choo Sung-hoon. This prompts members to discuss various projects they’re seeing each other feature in. 

Timestamp 6:42

Jimin prompts Tae to mention his joint interview with Joon on BDNS. Jk exclaims knowingly before nodding, quietly confirming he’s seen it. 

Timestamp 8:38, see Jk’s actions at 8:44

I find it sweet even when multiple people are talking, or a lot is going on, that Tae and Jk are so in tune to one another and truly listen and absorb what the other says. Jk mentions it’s been nonstop and Tae hears him over the conversation of others and nods in agreement. 

Timestamp 10:13

Another example of being focused on one another: Members mention how busy their comeback period was with various things they filmed for the comeback. Tae mentions January - February and Jk, hearing him, instantly nods in agreement. 

Timestamp 10:28-10:30

Another instance of being in tune to one another: Jk mentions Tae saying “next spring,” which Tae then discloses he was told to say. They have an inaudible conversation after this, which makes Jk laugh. 

Timestamp 10:33

Members talk about Tik Tok, challenges and remixes. Taekook can be seen having a conversation in the background and laughing.

Timestamp 13:16

Tae exclaims how happy he is, and it prompts Jk to smile and ask him to repeat it, before he agrees they should be happy. They then gently and briefly hold hands a second time. 

🐻 Ah, I'm really happy  

🐻 I'm happy  

🐻 Let's be happy together  

🐰 Let's be happy  

🐰🤝🐻 

Timestamp 14:48  https://x.com/eripurplekv/status/2039238769690501190?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg https://x.com/winter17_tkbear/status/2039232171903238494?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg https://x.com/toricot123kv/status/2039249827998179674?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/v1230mp4/status/2039231227711090702?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/jk_v123_6/status/2039233506438742113?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/ruthiefd07/status/2039316099414839476?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg

Tik Tok is brought up again. Jk has been posting dance videos on this platform for some time. Joon mentions 2.0 is releasing soon and Tae interjects with a reminder that JK’s Tik Tok is too, showing he’s aware of what Jk is up to.  

Timestamp 16:24

Jk shares he has fun editing his videos for Tik Tok. It’s then confirmed what we suspected, that is that Jk edits some of Tae’s Tik Tok uploads (which was suspected based on his signature editing). 

🐻"I can't edit, so I just shot it and send the files to Jungkook..."

🐰 "Oh, for Taehyung-hyung's TikTok this time, I did the editing." Jk smiles after he declares this. 

🐥 "That one where you jump onto the bed?"

🐻"No, I told you, that was no edits! I just shot it and uploaded it as is!" 

Timestamp 16:40  https://x.com/mybwits/status/2039235574671032707?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg https://x.com/thvjk_4ever/status/2039277215016218868?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/jk_v123_6/status/2039239435703980367?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg 

Members bring up “SWIM.” Tae comments about his circle understanding why it was decided as the title track once they listened to it. Taekook then exchange nods, and Jk subsequently smiles and laughs. 

🐻 People around me said that after listening to it a few times, they finally understood "Swim" and got why it had to be the title track.

🐰(nods)  

🐻(nods)  

🐰(nods)  

🐻(nods)  

🐰hahaha 

Timestamp 19:01  https://x.com/thvianx/status/2039244194762637815?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/taepillled/status/2039254496040407399?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/jk_v123_6/status/2039274219931099305?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/thvjk_4ever/status/2039269701260345573?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/winter17_tkbear/status/2039243100900430056?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg 

The wifi password comment is yet another example in this live alone of Taekook being aware of each other, and engaging when the other spoke by responding quickly and with complete engagement. They truly were so in tune to hear the other speak during this live (and in many other times over the years). As soon as Tae talks, Jk turns to him to give him his prompt and full attention. 

🐻: now now.. d-day..

🐰: *turns his head* wait a sec what are you looking at? is there something over there? 

🐻: it’s the wifi password (laughs) 

🐰: i thought there was something there (laughs) 

Timestamp 20:16 https://x.com/jk_v123_6/status/2039248785961009480?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/taekoomania/status/2039270375662797213?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/jungkovtae/status/2039262989149172218?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  https://x.com/kookvtwins/status/2039247642736091482?s=46&t=StSwHjW0_Domk_lHUFMaCg  Video -  https://weverse.io/bts/live/2-172302781 

Video -  https://weverse.io/bts/live/2-172302781 

[time-cherry]

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME I SHOULDN'T HAVE EVER DRAWN THIS BUT I DID UNFORTUNATELY. I APOLOGIZE FOR EVERYTHING

[kentuckymud]

[drconstellation]

Thoughts on Drinks in S2

Updated 10 Nov 2023

I thought I might put together some of my rambling thoughts on all the drinks that appear in S2 in general, since there are far more of them than food. I believe the hot chocolate is just as important as the coffee choices and some just make interesting comments.

Tea

Tea only makes a brief appearance, notably when Muriel visits the bookshop and meets Azriaphale. It is an introduction to the ways of humans. The only other tea we see are the offered herbal teas of peppermint (stimulating) or chamomile (a relaxant) to Maggie by Nina, and we don't know which one Maggie chooses.

Sherry

The request for sherry in the pub is, quite simply, hilarious, even without the Lady Bracknell ad lib. In Australia, where I am from, and I believe the UK as well, sherry has a long tradition as a ladies drink. And one wouldn't be adverse to have a nip or two (or more) while doing the cooking with it. If you haven't seen The Importance of Being Ernest performed, not just read it, you really must make the effort. (Coincidentally, I was taken as a teenager to see a version where Lady Bracknell was played for comedic effect by a man in drag. I loved it, and have never forgotten it, or the cucumber sandwiches.)

Wine

In S2E1 we have Nina reaching for the comfort wine while trapped in the coffee shop. She offers Maggie some, but she declines, and offers "No judgement."

Then we have some romantic wine in 1941, and some potentially romantic wine back in the present. Or is it?

Why don't you just talk to Gabriel, suggests Aziraphale. Alright, I will! declares Crowley, pausing only to take the wine bottle with him. The next thing we see is him ready to pass his Judgement on the amnesiac archangel.

Edit: I missed quite a bit of wine my first time around! There was two lots of wine in the Job minisode, and that was quite judgemental as well.

What, you didn't bring the wine, angel?

Then later in the cellar, while the storm rages, Crowley does find some wine and proceeds to enjoy the fruits of his demonic work while having a moral argument with Aziraphale.

Hot Chocolate

Ah! Ohohoh! The hot chocolate! Jim-short-for-James hot chocolate! I think it is very telling he is offered it by both Aziraphale and Crowley. The first gif sees him drinking while overlooking the Outside and a reflection of "give me coffee" in the window (this is the start of S2E3.) He is walking a different road to the others, one protected and facilitated by A & C. The coffee isn't for him, its for Other People. He gets his own special stash of the Good Stuff, labeled and everything. Privilege for the Frog Prince, sheesh.

Edit: Several times I've tried to explain the Choice of the Hot Chocolate, and I've actually replied to someone here about it in the mean time in a way that I'm happy with - here is most it, below:

Most of us get the two options, coffee, or death. But Jim has been given a third option, and he has grabbed it enthusiastically with both hands. Aziraphale has handed it to him in spades, even! That much will take a long time to get through, wouldn't it. It's a big generous gift, that Aziraphale understands well. Gabriel came to Aziraphale because he instinctively knew Aziraphale understood what he needed. Mr 'six-shots-of-espresso' loves his freedom, or liberty, and his life here on Earth. The humans who line up for their dose of Heaven every day do, too. Death is the option-that-is-not-an-option. It's duty. It's the tax we all have to pay for living. So the Metatron turns up and offers Aziraphale a coffee to one who doesn't drink coffee. Essentially the Metatrash offers a choice that isn't a choice. Aziraphale's only choice is to do his duty at this point, or else...well, we aren't shown it, but it seems the 'else' was too terrible to contemplate. (Or, as some people alternatively see it, the Metatron kept pushing until he was offered a carrot he couldn't refuse.) But Jim, he's been give the option that Aziraphale and Crowley really want, but can't quite have at this point. Freedom to love as they want, and openly in front of all Heaven, Hell and Humanity. They understand. They don't judge Jimbriel for this, they actually encourage it - they both make it happen right under the Ineffable Bureaucracy's noses in the end! The irony of it! They give their arch-enemy the gift that they dream of. I'm very tempted to digress off into a discussion about the two glimpses of authority we get from Crowley and Aziraphale in S2E6 at this point (Crowley yelling at the demons prior to the attack on the shop, and Aziraphale shouting at the Ineffable Bureaucracy representatives arguing what to do about Gabe and Beez in the shop to shut up,) and what it might it might tell us about their pasts. Because, as others have noted, Gabriel and Beelzebub have that freedom to be together in front of everyone because they have power - they are essentially the top ranking beings in this AU. They can do what they want with little fear of consequences. And I guess the Metatron didn't step in to intercede at this point because he essentially wanted Gabriel gone from the picture, and this was a convenient way to do it. So yeah, the sweet hot chocolate is Gabriel's special option, facilitated by Aziraphale and Crowley. He doesn't have to drink what the plebs drink, the bitter devotional duty to Heaven.

Whiskey

The demon drink. Fire water. (Maybe...enough said? Not sure...I've got dots to spare here...fire...and water...hmm...where have we seen that before...)

Coffee

Give Me liberty Coffee, or Give Me Death!

Six shots of espresso in a big cup for Crowley - lots of freedom for the demon.

The humans line up every day to get their ration of free will.

Regarding the Metatron's coffee offer to Aziraphale, the best explanation I've seen of it is here. The almond syrup signals that Aziraphale is being watched, and to me he is being offered a choice he can't refuse. He has no option but to accept it. In regards to the oat milk, I've seen a suggestion that it was a reference to Aziraphale being too free while on Earth and having a chance to "sow his oats." Also the purpose of offering it was to see if he was compliant enough to follow orders when asked.

Coffee shops have historically been a hotbed of foment, where new ideas were discussed, business conducted and rebellions started.

Finally there's a special mention for Gabriel and Beelzebub with their "intoxicating liquor."

Which they didn't. They got to make their own choice, in the end, thanks to Aziraphale.

Extra edit:

The Laudanum

I originally didn't include this one, but since posting this I realised how it fits in. I've written it up in this meta here - The Altar of Eccles Cakes, - because its a Sin Offering.

[A Sin Offering was for] atonement or unintentional sin. It would have the elements of a Burnt offering, as well as a Peace offering, but not be shared.

It pretty clear to most observers that Crowley did a good and "kind deed" for Elspeth here, which angered Hell in the process and then he was dragged forcibly downstairs to be duly punished for it. There is a post here from atlas-hope that suggests this is a parallel of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, drinking the cup of God's wrath to absolve Christians of their sins. They point out the laudanum is even poured into a goblet. Crumbs, that's a hefty bit of spiritual lifting, dear demon. What were you thinking, Anthony J. Crowley? It might cast that conversation you had with the carpenter back on the mountain in a new light, or least make us look back twice at it. (Plenty of time for contemplation before S3 arrives...) Remember, a Sin offering has elements of both a Burnt offering and a Peace offering: a giant Crowley gets Elspeth to promise to devote the rest of her life to being "properly good, not just pretendy good" and the money Aziraphale is forced to donate to her ensures her future prosperity. Sounds like a win-win situation there, Elspeth!