♡ HAPPY HYUKA DAY ♡
i am wishing our beloved tubatu maknae a day filled with love, laughter, and happiness! i hope this coming year is fruitful in all the ways he wants it to be, and that amidst tubatu's packed schedule, that he has time to rest, relax, and recharge as he deserves.
quick cc note: no it's actually quick this time, i'm serious! if you want to know what i think about hyuka in greater length, pls revisit my past bday posts ;LKAJDF;ALKJA there's really only so many times i can talk about how proud i am of my tubatus and how they've grown SO well. that being said... i DO want to say this: the longer i watch txt as a group, the more i appreciate each member and the overall dynamic, and how each person contributes to the overall atmosphere and helps the team move forward.
i touch upon it on the back of the trading card above, but huening kai impresses me SO much with his consistency and excellence onstage. he is so steady, so dependable. i'm never nervous watching him; you know without a doubt that he'll always deliver. and it's not even just when they're performing. it's more or less a sure bet that even if the other four members are in tears and unable to speak, hyuka WILL be smiling at them and ready to take the mic if needed.
he's always been like this, a solid presence for the group through thick and thin, but as time goes by and he grows more and more into himself, it's even more evident. and i think part of it is just his nature, right, but it's also something he works hard for! and it pays off. you can absolutely tell how much the members lean on him and trust him.
i think huening kai is just such a lovely human being, and i hope he treats himself with as much kindness as he does others!! and that he continues to grow in all the ways he hopes to, and that all of the love he pours into the people around him comes back and reaches him in the high and low moments alike.
♡ HAPPY BEOMGYU DAY ♡
to txt’s resident multifaceted moodmaker, who never fails to lift his members’ spirits and always makes sure to care for them in all the ways they need, i am wishing a birthday full of love, laughter, and as much relaxation as can be managed as they prepare for tour!
quick cc note: first of all. a formal apology to my beomgyutuals and also to beomgyu himself that his bday zine still sits like 60% finished on my external hard drive. i’m so sorry like i HAVEN’T forgotten it’s just like. i don’t want it to suck. u know how it goes!!! anyway !!! moving on....
there’s of course so many sides to beomgyu and so many things that we could spend time talking about. i love that he likes to and often does present such a bright image, and i love the way that he naturally lights up a room, especially when he’s with people he loves and trusts. and i equally love his gentle and quiet nature, and the way all of this combined and juxtaposed comes together to make up a one-of-a-kind beomgyu!!! i love how empathetic he is and how clearly he cares about the people around him. i think at his core he is a caretaker in the way that he is always looking out for his members, and how he will make sure they’re doing okay before he even thinks to think about himself. along these lines i how unfailingly kind he is and how he’s the sort of person that naturally lifts others up without even seeming to consciously realize he’s doing so. people gravitate to him, and it’s no wonder!
i think another incredible strength of beomgyu’s is his ability to acknowledge when he’s struggling. i really admire the way that he’s able to be open about the natural ups and downs one can go through, and i think he makes more of a difference than he knows by sharing his lower moments with his fans even though he has no obligation to whatsoever. it’s so brave of him. he’s really brave, the way he lays his heart bare and the way he shoulders the weight of being seen as the moodmaker of the group, and the way he squares his shoulders and keeps moving forward through the good times and the bad.
and the thing that really leaps out to me about beomgyu? honestly, i think it’s the way he lives and breathes music. all the tubatus love music and love performing, but i think for beomgyu it’s literally his lifeblood. i think music to him is something as integral to living as air. you can tell how sometimes a song he loves is so personal to him it almost hurts. you can tell that even if he wasn’t an idol, even if he wasn’t doing something involving performing, music would still be central in his life somehow. there’s something unadulterated and pure about the way he loves it.
to beomgyu, who often looks after others before looking after himself! i hope you give yourself the same grace you give to those around you, and that you allow yourself time to rest even when the world seems more hectic than ever. i hope you always love music and the stage as much as you do now, and that it continues to bring you joy even as the years continue to pass. i hope this trip around the sun is fruitful for you, that there are more good, warm days than there are bad, that as many opportunities to do whatever you want fall right within your grasp, ripe for the taking. i will always believe in you and will always be cheering you on. i hope you spend today and this year and all of those to come smiling as often as possible. ♡
