#fmdduri

[fmdjaein]

“so you have any thoughts on writing ultraviolet’s music any time soon?” 

honestly, jaein doesn’t know how duri does it. actually, she doesn’t know how anybody does it. writing music? sounds like a whole lot of work that she’d never want to do. doesn’t help that people are overly critical about every release these days which means that most songwriters are more likely to receive criticism over praise.

however, she also knows that duri’s written some songs that sound completely different from the songs ultraviolet sing, and she thinks that maybe, just maybe, a change would be appreciated. for her, at least. she’s not entirely sure about their fans. they seem to latch onto anything they release. 

“like can you imagine me singing something like chimatbaram? i can’t, but i think it could be fun.” does she completely mean it? not really because, admittedly, she’s not a big fan of the song she just name dropped, but it is a fun situation to imagine.

@fmdduri

[fmdxsuji]

“it’s kind of cool to see the items being handed out like this, huh?”

taking a peak inside her own goodie bag, suji couldn’t help but smile upon seeing the merchandise she helped design. it had come out looking so much better than her sketches and plans, and she’s forever thankful for the many staff members who took part in making it come true. knowing duri, she wasn’t all too surprised to find his to be a pot. their two items kind of went well together with her having designed a tea cup set. 

“people are going to think we came up with our ideas together or something,” she says rather jokingly before looking up to take a look around the gift shop. there were other things on sale, but nothing she thinks she’d spend her own money on. interesting stuff for fans, sure, but she’s not sure if she was the target audience for any of them. the vouchers and coupons she got will probably be going to friends as well. she doubts she’ll use them, really. 

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[fmdjoosung]

house of rubies, august 27th, on camera

“wow, this place...” how could one person use so much space? “it’s, wow, it’s really beautiful here. though, it doesn’t feel very you, you know?” perhaps she was projecting her own moralistic views on duri because she considered them to be very similar people, but, “you seem like you’d like just enough space for the pups to run around, but not much more. and you’re such a good cook! maybe you and the chef can have a little competition.” she chuckled at her own joke, especially knowing the result would always fall on the professional, no matter how nice of a home cook duri was.

sung took another couple of steps, and at a turn, gasped. her eyes had locked onto the window, and carried her forward to it. “look at this view! gosh, it’s so beautiful. that’s the real selling point of this place. gosh, i could get lost looking at this forever.”

@fmdduri

[fmdmin]

❝ it’s been a long time

❝ you appeared without a word and took my heart away love is a maze to me, please give it to me twice not to feel lonely anymore @fmdduri, mid june

this felt like the first time in a really long time that minhee could forget he was an idol and just focus on other matters that he didn’t get to otherwise. he wasn’t the nosy type, at least not for these situations, but he didn’t see why he should miss the opportunity to get to know duri better. after the sudden announcement jake made to his face quite a few months ago, minhee has been so fucking happy for the two of them. so it started with a small text of congratulations in duri’s direction, and from then onwards he made the effort to properly keep a conversation going, despite the huge time difference.

so this is how minhee managed to find duri during the lotte duty free family concert, backstage, in a quieter corridor and squeeze in a proper face to face chat. “i still don’t get how you deal with him, he is insufferable.” its a bold statement that comes from the younger, but he doesn’t mean it in a bad way. he knows jake probably way better than he should, so he thinks he is allowed to say that, with all the love and affection. “like, he’s a handful as well.” he adds, but can’t help but laugh, crossing his arms over his chest and leaning his shoulder on the wall.

[fmddowoon]

@fmdduri / lotte duty free family concert.

click, says the camera. not really -- the camera shutter sounds on dowoon’s phones are, of course, totally artificial. cameras these days, phone or otherwise, didn’t make such obnoxious noises. though, dowoon kinda liked the ones that did. he has an old 1990s 600 type polaroid lying around at his parents’ house that he wants to pick up, to bring on his and jaein’s eventual camping trip, but that’ll have to wait. for now he has to be content with posing for his stupid phone, on these stupid stairs, backstage at this dumbass concert -- advertising a megacorp he has no interest in to his followers and to the wider airscape of k-pop fans. but, he’ll live. he understands that marketing is just the name of the game. if he hadn’t become a trainee and ended up where he is now, he probably would have ended up as a sign-holder on the street, doing the exact same advertising job, just on the bottom rung of it. 

he wonders if his jaw looks particularly square set, if his eyes look particularly disillusioned in the pictures duri takes. dowoon takes a deep breath through his nose and tries to bring himself back to the present, back to the stupid concert, and hooks his thumbs into his belt... oh fuck. 

“duri! hyung!” dowoon scrambles back down the stairs, thumbs still hooked in the empty belt loops of his oh-so-catalyst cargo pants. “i’m meant to be wearing a belt right now, shit! i think i took it off in the bathroom!”

[fmdjoohyun]

— an interview with @fmdduri​ — interview for base online — mid april, 2022

there’s a reason joohyun is pretty bad at the average variety. as much as she’s a friendly person, someone who enjoys interacting with others, she finds it painfully awkward to have to speak to someone she’s not familiar with while also having to be minimally entertaining. but dimensions is gunning for her to put herself out there more, to participate in these opportunities set up by the companies as a way to get her name out there more — nothing more appropriate for publicity than to have her name tangled with idols who are more famous and more dear than her, in a non controversial way.

an interview. that’s all she has to do. sit through an interview with someone she’s barely interacted in the past, someone who’s a distant senior from a distant company she exchanged a few polite words in the past only. but joohyun can’t dwell on that as the studio finishes being set up, as the staff responsible for the filming let her know they can start. she’s already introduced herself, so joohyun puts on her best celebrity smile and turns to her senior with a confidence that is every bit feigned. “duri-ssi, thank you so much for agreeing to the interview, it is a big pleasure for me to be able to talk to a senior as respected as you are, so thank you for giving me some of your time!” every word was written by someone else as a guide, her manager taking pity on her and counting on joohyun’s flawless memorising capabilities to get her through it. “okay, so, your most recent solo release, traffic light, was met with a lot of success. how does it feel for you to still maintain such an acclaim even after ten years in the industry?”

[fmdrina]

so far, she had been safe. that was the best thing rina could tell herself. it was fun and exciting that duri worked on their current title track, she just hated the fact that she didn’t enjoy the song. not all of it, the chorus was a work of art to her and the little refrain after but the verse’s weren’t much for her. and now, they were going on the song together, and he hadn’t asked about her thoughts. 

not yet at least. “i don’t know if you helped with lines but i thank you for the ones i have.” not too many, just enough. she could be seen when she needed to be seen and fade into the background once it was time. “i even like the little dance we do.” she mimicked the arm movements. it looked a little strange but it was fun in the context of the stage. 

[daisukefmd]

Base Online Cover ➙ September 2021 ➙ @fmdduri

It may have come as a surprise to most people because of the vibe he gave off as well as his very vocalized love of rock music, but Daisuke was an avid lover of girl groups, some of his favorites being ones who executed the cute concept very well. He enjoyed a wide range of concepts, none more than the other, but there was something addictive about a bubblegum pop song that Daisuke’s ears and brain couldn’t resist. One of his all time favorite girl groups would have to be Cloud’s little sister group, Candy. He’d been a fan ever since their debut a year and a few months after his own with Cloud, and he doubted anything about that would be changing any time soon. 

His love of Candy had led him to picking to cover one of their songs for the Base Online project - one of his favorite songs from them, What is Love? It was a song that Daisuke found surprisingly deep, especially the chorus. The lyrics weren’t particularly out of this world, but the message and emotion behind it was certainly there. Singing the song with Duri had come about not too long after he made the decision to cover the song, and he was glad that he had someone else to perform it with. Plus, on the bright side, Duri was one of his favorite vocalists in the industry, so it was going to be a fun experience for him no matter what. 

He entered the set with his guitar strapped to his back, dressed in his own, comfortable clothing. He was glad that they weren’t being professionally styled for it. Daisuke settled down on one of the chairs and began setting up his guitar, only glancing up when the door opened, signaling someone’s arrival. “Hey, hyung. Glad to see you made it.”