#the real

[choi-san-makes-me-wanna]

Yunho singing hongjoong’s part in ‘the real’ has me on my knees.

[rosy-opal-commander]

Not gonna lie. If the dude that I was attracted to came into my home told me I was a piece of shit because my feral sister decided to hunt after my ain't shit father was gonna let us starve. And I was bad at archery. Then him being there was a threat to my safety and he kept flirting with me. Would not leave me alone.

And because him and his friends where having political meetings at my house, I was kidnapped by the opposition turned Faye against my will.

And while I'm on my healing journey, I'm helping with the fucking war effort he again would not leave me alone, flirting with me the whole time and then one finally I'm like OK I can do this. I'm gonna show affection to this man back .... he drops my hand when his ex walks back in?

And then he decides to when he thinks we are about to die, declare his undying love and about how he will see me in the next lifetime. He disappears without a fucking word.

THEN the next time I see him at Christmas, he is literally exchanging lingerie while I am having the biggest existential crisis of my life. Then proceeds to not leave me alone. Yeah my crash out would have been worse.

I would have been so much worse.

She didn't even burn a building down. She didn't even lit the med tent he was in on fire. What do you mean she mean and abusive? lol she's not mean enough. What do you mean Cassain your sad about how mean she is have you ever tried not playing in her face first? All you had to do was hang out a dive bar BFFR.

Anyways this pic is a drawing I did of Nesta on Christmas 😂 just waiting for that winged mence to leave.

[skelpiescool]

Slouching Towards Branson

Will Wood · Upcoming album · Releases on Dec 24, 2025 · 22 songs

GUYS?! GUYYS?!?!? GUYS?!??!?!!! GUYS?!

[sortagothsaturday]

Real Rashid, The Father Who Stepped Down, and Fail Fledgeling Molloy threesome when?

[maxbytes]

very much so 🥰

[karmacharmeleon18]

Random things I've noticed in In Your Fantasy

as someone who doesn't know much about the lore and tends to point out the obvious a lot, so pls don't get mad at me if this is stupid

1) the red eyes

Jongho's and Yunho's are pretty obvious throughout the MV, but actually all of them have red eyes; it's subtle, mainly noticeable in the black-and-white shots

Yeosang's and Hongjoong's eyes were barely open, but I bet they were red as well (+ you can see the red hue in Yeosang's in another blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, which was too quick for me to screenshot properly lol)

all we got of Mingi was his side profile (not complaining 🥴) but it's made up for by this shot right here:

Where everything about him is red and he looks like Luficer himself

(just my personal agenda, this has zero validity in the lore ahah)

There are similar shots with other members, but Mingi's gave me pause because the red light hits the white of his eyes as well, rather than it just reflecting off his skin or shining around him

The fact that they're also hiding behind red screens cannot be a coincidence

2) Yeosang's white shirt

Jongho is wearing a white shirt too, but it's covered by a black jacket so that he doesn't stand out among the others. Yeosang does stand out, and it might be purely because the MV director wanted to break the monotony and aggressiveness of the red and black, but... nothing is a coincidence with Ateez lol

Yeosang tends to represent something, like in The Real MV were he was a sort of "white dove of peace", surrounded by fellow white doves, and switched from an all-black outfit to an all-white one at the end

but in The Real that was possibly not the real (lol) Yeosang, but Hala-Yeosang? So who is this Yeosang?

also that thing crawling up his neck is suspicious™

3) as I mentioned in a previous post, this callback to Hala Hala:

At first I thought this meant these are Halateez, but @atiny-for-life theorized these might actually be Halazia's Ateez, doing that dance move as a nod of respect and a thank you to Halateez, who invited them into this Dreamscape to help free Strictland

I don't know much about the lore so I'm absolutely fascinated by this theory...

4) Wooyoung (sort of? maybe?)

Whoever they are, the reason for the red eyes has to be the Sopro, right? The red stone-spirit is kind of possessing them? Influencing them? Hiding all of them behind red screens? And making them "release their inhibitions"

Which might be why Hongjoong tears off his Captain band and throws it away, something that "regular" Hongjoong would never do

This thing right here:

Held by that man right there

Just like after Hala Hala, I'm left thinking "Why is it always you, you troublemaker?!?!" about Wooyoung lol

I've seen some Atiny mention that despite the vibes being completely different, IYF feels almost like Hala Hala's older sister... and maybe it's because we can feel that Halateez are near, if not in body then at least in spirit, and the callbacks really sell it for me!

So in my eyes we got two callbacks to Hala Hala (the dance move + troublemaker Wooyoung) and a possible connection to The Real

Which... mean absolutely nothing to me LMAO

But maybe more cultured Atinys will find this useful for their research 🔍

💗💗💗

Btw in case anyone's curious (I know nobody is, but y'all can't stop me 😌) my personal theory is:

Ateez and Halateez... are one and the same. And World A and World Z... are one and the same, too.

The Cromer/Time travel is a thing here, right?

What could turn Ateez into Halateez is the Sopro with its ability to manipulate emotions. And the change that turns World A into World Z could also be triggered by the Sopro 🤔 accidentally or by Halateez themselves

So maybe Ateez aren't supposed to free Strictland... but stop it from ever becoming a thing in the first place?

(Ateez turn into Halateez through the Sopro and trigger World Z, regret it, find a way to time travel to contact past Ateez and change the course of history)

But in the meantime, Halateez (aka Future Ateez) are stuck in World Z and need to dismantle its oppressive government

(is that still a thing btw, because between shots of lemon drop and Magic Ateez right here, I'm losing sight of what the end goal is lmao)

Or maybe that would be too paradoxical; no World Z would mean no Halateez and no MVs

So maybe the goal not to change history, but to damage control: we must topple this oppressive government and have the World return to what it was before we fucked it up, metaphorically turning things back in time

But in either scenario, In Your Fantasy would happen before Halazia, for example

You know how Halazia-Ateez "want to feel"? Wanting implies that you have the ability to feel something already, you know? You can't want things if you're completely empty of all emotion. So Halazia-Ateez are stuck in a moment where emotions have been stripped from them, but their memory of them is still alive in them (Live Alive!) and ao strong that tehy can still feel want. They don't know how to feel all emotions, but their mind/spirit/heart still longs for them, and for the time where they could feel them freely. Longing is an emotion. That's why the lyrics talk about how "everything has become barren" (implying it's a recent development) and "getting used to the feeling of losing" (because something is being taken from them right now). The city around them is in rubble but it's also still burning up/full of smoke, because something major just happened. The rap parts are full of emotions... all negative ones: desperation, fear, anger... Halazia is a prayer to a deaf god that very likely doesn't even exist, and in the end they realize that no one is coming to save them, they will have to save themselves

I know Halazia is technically a spinoff and it was supposed to be a B-side, but to me it's such an important song.

iirc it's with Halazia that we get the first mention of the Sopro?

(again I don't know much abt the lore so take this with a salt flat of salt)

I feel like Halazia might represent one of the moments where World A starts turning into World Z

Or maybe it's the final moment, the final nail in the coffin...

They've just lost the most important battle

But among the destruction, the loss so fresh they still burn, and despair and long for something else, San's Herculean effort represents a new fragment of hope for the Rebellion

And that will eventually lead to the sparks of Revolution

To the beginning of the real war

In Guerrilla, Bouncy, Crazy Form, they all "join forces" or rather, become one again, in order to rebel

Ateez - Halateez - Halazia-Ateez...

They're one and the same, just at different points in time; one morphs into the other

Halateez caused World Z, realized their mistake and were the first Resistance

Halazia-Ateez have lost the decisive battle, they burn the Black Pirates' clothes in mourning, and symbolically to "burn away" their past, what they did, but they also represent the undying spirit of Rebellion

Ateez (past/present) are the missing piece, what Halateez and Halazia-Ateez need to start the proper Revolution

(my bff and I also love the idea of the name Halateez being an amalgamation of Halazia-Ateez, so we've also come up with a scenario where Halazia-Ateez come before Halateez: Ateez -> Halazia-Ateez -> Halateez, thought the burning of the Black Pirates' clothes makes less sense this way)

This is why to this day the Answer MV gets me emotional, when Ateez and Halateez - the past/present and the future, in my theory - see each other face to face and they make a toast like a thunder together

Wonderland and Guerrilla are war anthems, but Answer feels hopeful. It's like they're looking at each other and thinking: "This is it. We are doing this. Together". And to this day it still gives me chills 💗

So in this scenario, IYF is the beginning of the end, that crucial moment in time when the Sopro starts taking over, and Ateez start changing

Dun dun duuuuunnnnn 🔪🔪🔪

Wooyoung, when I catch you, Wooyoung!!!

I know this makes little sense, and that's why I hate time travel and its paradoxes, but this is the beauty of an incomplete story, anyone can fantasize as much as they want 💗 it's all in good fun!

[kiras-kritters]

Ada in the Tower is about to make some serious bank on the June update because what do you mean Eververse is opening up everything again. Uh yea, I’m hitting up fine shyte n her loom when I get my hands on some bangers every week