So I have an irl STAY friend now
I wasn't super close to them before (not hostile or anything, just not CLOSE close), and I knew she liked kpop, but for me there's a big difference between irl ppl liking kpop and Irl ppl liking STRAY KIDS. Probably cuz SKZ are my ults but whatever.
Anyway, one lunch like a week ago, I was innocently on tumblr while I was eating, scrollin and stuff, and scrolled past a gif of Felix. No biggie, right? I get attacked on the regular. But this dude. THIS DUDE. They apparently glanced over my shoulder right then, and I shit you not their ENTIRE FACE LIT UP,, and it basically came out one word when they went--
And I swear to god that was the happiest moment of my life to date, because once I confirmed that I did indeed stan stray kids, this dude literally PUMPED THEIR ARMS IN THE AIR, yelling "finally!!!" And my heart just--💓💓💓, ya know??
So anyways, that was fun, and we talked abt Stray Kids mildly for the rest of lunch.
The next couple of lunches, I didn't wanna seem overboard (because i kind of have a wariness of what level of kpop fan i should express as, even around other kpop fans, for fear of being judged), and was, like, slooowly easing into mega stay territory. But I showed them a gif of Hyunjin bodyrolling that I downloaded on my phone and they literally convulsed and went "yoU SHOULD HAVE WARNED ME" so I was pretty much in safe territory, I thought? And for the rest of that lunch we freaked out over hot skz pics together.
As we were leaving the lunch room, we were having a discussion abt Hyunjin turning people straight (both of us are girl-lovin only), then they went "But Minho tho." And i was like "MINHOOOEEE." And we also talked about how Woojin is the only dom in Stray Kids (which we agreed on). They went "wait, what about Minho?" And I told them "Nah, Minho's like, mega switch. He's either a hard dom or a fucking brat and theres no in between." And they 100% agreed and it was GREAT. Then we were trying to figure out what the hell Minho was, because we were both certain him and all of SKZ were not men, and I went as we were saying goodbye "Wait- He's a MinHOE." And they went "meanhoe." And i may have literally ascended to heaven. I felt like I'd found my STAY kin.
[I was still kinda wary tho, cuz a couple weeks ago an irl friend i have that was a mega fan of blackpink and some other groups, that I felt pretty comfortable talking about my love of skz to, jokingly called my love of skz an "obsession". I told her it made me super insecure and she felt really bad and apologized big time,, but my trust was still iffy.]
ANYWAY NOT THE POINT. Anyway this dude and I spent all of lunch freaking out over attractive skz bois together, then killed the rest of our lunch table by showing them. I'm pretty sure i watched the life fade out of one girl's eyes as she looked at Hyunjin, so that was great. My anxious ass was still hesitant to be a full-on, all-out explosive Stay, but ya know.
And then the third lunch i had with this dude (the most recent one) they DEADASS WALKED IN, LOOKED ME IN THE EYES, and went,,
"Red light green light swag. Buy or wassup man."
And I swEAR my atheist ass saw god for a second there. That lunch was the best, cuz we talked really in depth the whole time about SKZ - They asked me what my favorite tracks were, then they told me theirs and we had a big long chat abt THAT; also about Changbin's rap. We also sang "RED LIKE GREEN LIGHT SWAG" like five times before lunch ended. Their favorite tracks are Voices and M.I.A (stan underated kings), and they legit said "I'm emo, so yeah they're my favorite tracks" and yeah i died. We also made, like, ten skz meme references/inside jokes sooo
The best part: THEY GAY TOO
We're both only attracted to women, and we deadass had a whole conversation during that second lunch that was basically just us vibin about being lesbian STAYs together. We both had the very funny realization that, despite how much we freak out over their gorgoues-ass faces and body rolls and fashion, they pull up their shirts and show the abs or whatever and we're both just like "...eh. cool i guess... meh." and it was grEAT [that lead to me going "Hyunjin is the one person to make me question whether or not I'm 100% gay" and they went "ooh Minho too tho" and I went "MINHO TOO HOLY SHIT" and then we vibin]
Anyway I'm having lunch with them again tommorow (if i dont get a snow day) and I'm super excited,, the last two B days I spent literally all day looking forward to lunch, like, it was the highlight if my entire school day. so. yeAH I'M REALLY HAPPY RIGHT NOW thats all for today sorry and thank you for going through my rant if you read this far or read at allllll