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Look, I just need you guys to understand how important queer coming-of-age forbidden romances on internationally accessible platforms like Netflix is, especially to youth in countries where homosexuality still hasn't been legally decriminalised or socially accepted.

That was a mouthful, so let me explain. You, a white American adult with a liberal family, may not relate to a fictional anxious teen Swedish prince grappling with strict familial and societal expectations versus his first love. You may not find anything special in a bunch of queer British teens discovering themselves and figuring out complex relationships that are honestly rather simplistic, in retrospect. It might be a little too trite for you. Like, just a little vanilla without any extra drama. Perhaps corny—cringe, even. Too wholesome.

But you know what that is to me, a desi queer young adult? It's representation, in an unlikely place. My country certainly isn't making movies or shows where I see my secret relationship between me and my girlfriend portrayed. I don't see that happening in the next couple of decades, either, sadly. But you know who’s telling our stories? Alice Oseman. Lisa Ambjörn, Lars Beckung and Camilla Holter. Through fictional storylines that might seem kind of boring to you, I am finally able watch my lived experiences play out on screen.

American media has done such a disservice to queer coming-of-age stories. I want to scream this from the rooftops. Y’all, I’m glad to see more out quirky queer side-characters—I can’t get enough of them—but why is it so rarely their story, in sharp focus, about how they found themselves? I want to know how they overcame internalised homophobia. When was the moment they knew? What is the cost they have to pay for being out? For not being out?

And no, I don’t want it to be dramatic. I don’t need to see violence or betrayals or victorious kisses in public, really. I’m happiest with the teenagers behaving like real teenagers. Innocent, vulnerable, nervous. I want it to be heartfelt, and excruciatingly slow, and authentic. I want to see the small wins and the subtle losses. The quiet mental toll of how much you have to give to a queer relationship—especially your first queer relationship—and how hard that can be to separate from your Identity itself.

Give me that "am I gay?" quiz and genuinely crying at 3:00 AM because you're in a rabbit hole about LGBTQ+ rights in a country where you actually don’t want to be gay and you don’t even know if you “count” anyway. Show me that moment where you're going back and forth from forbidding yourself from seeing the one person that sees and understands you and it's to protect your mental and physical well-being but it's driving you insane. Give me ALL THE YOUNG ADULT BI+ AWAKENINGS where one person strolls into your life and changes everything. No, it’s really not the same as most cis-heterosexual insta-love movies out there, even if it looks that way to you. It doesn’t even cut it close.

The happy ending, the acceptance is only what I can dream of, not what I can expect. The wholesomeness is actually radical to me.

No, we’re not past the need for basic star-crossed queer romances. For most countries in the world (including for many white American teenagers!), we need them as much as ever.

Forgot I never showed my poster designs for this pride month

I did this for uni

Hi! Have you answered the question about who fell first and who fell harder between jikook according to you? I believe there's a consensus inside the fandom that Jimin fell first and all that teasing towards Jungkook during those early years weren't just for fun and that he genuely began having actual feelings for him.

Some Jikookers: Jimin fell first but Jungkook fell harder.

Me: Rubbish

They were both into eo from the very beginning. Just coz Jimin was more vocal about it, don't mean JK didn't feel the same.

This moment here 👇🏽 is underrated. Maybe coz it's a blink and you will miss it moment. But this clip shows us exactly where JK was at.

(Thanks @chicknbunny13)

If JK wasn't feeling some type of way, he'd have just held onto Jimin like Suga is doing to him. But the fact that he hesitated.... had to think about it... that right there is what makes Jikook sus. A friend is a friend. You wanna hold their shoulder, you just do it. You don't even think twice about it.

But JK was doing math in his head; do I touch him? Do I not? Why does the simple act of holding Jimin have to be complicated? Easy; because Jimin wasn't just one of JK's members. He was more. He felt like more. JK wanted him to be more. And he was confused... conflicted by what all this meant. Jimin... his band mate... a boy, was making him feel things and JK didn't know how to act.

And it didn't help that Jimin didn't have the same reservations. Shamelessly flirting with JK and asking for kisses, telling him he can't sleep because of him. It was alot for JK who knew Jimin gave him butterflies... who knew it felt good... but couldn't fathom why. And so the solution was to push him away. And when Jimin wasn't showering JK with praises and being all over him, JK would take to teasing Jimin. Because as confused as he was, he knew he liked Jimin's attention. And so he would pick on him, to get said attention.

Yes, Jimin liked JK and didn't try to hide it. But JK liked Jimin too. Difference is how they both went about it. But make no mistake; it was mutual.

More on the Jikook timeline here.

It’s me, hi!!

I’ve never made a blog post before, so maybe don’t expect this to happen a lot from me. But I just saw this photo on twitter again after a hot minute… And it got me thinking a lot of things so I’m going to put them out into the tumblr universe for anyone who wants to read it.

I don’t think I’ve ever truly taken in how damn romantic this photo is because DAMN.

So let’s dissect it.

Jungkook is completely facing away from the gorgeous scenery of the ocean, the sunset, the little moon, and instead he is facing Jimin with his head angled toward him, not a coincidence. Also, take a peak at the sand for a moment too, righttt next to Jimin. Doesn’t that look like an imprint of someone sitting there? I think at least Hobi (maybe more members too) was probably with them that night but I don’t think that booty imprint belongs to anyone else but Jungkook. At least, not from the star, wind, and romance mood vibes from this photo.

Oh you thought I was done? No. Now we have to talk about Jimin. While he is actually facing the gorgeous scenery, he isn’t having an insta blogger moment staring straight ahead into the waves. His gaze is up towards JK. Yes, the moon is in that direction too, and we know how much JM loves the moon. BUT one can’t ignore that JK is standing there too, and he’s a more prominent focal point.

I think I’m just trying to say that we moved on too fast from this picture. It was definitely a choice to share this with us. And it speaks. And you know what they say right? A picture is worth a thousand words.

Rainy Day Fight

One of my favourite Jikook moments, has to be the rainy day fight. Something about jungkook annoying his hyungs with his bratty behavior and jimin pulling him aside to have a conversation with him, about why it isn't appreciated instead of letting the members bombard him with their complaints really tags at my heart. jimin must have held him to some high regard and partially felt responsible for him. His brother being JK's age for sure played a huge role in that.. Anyway we all know the run down of the fight so no point in me regurgitating anything, but just incase...

Despite Jimin's efforts to try and reason with jk, Jimin and jk fail to see eye to eye on this matter and jimin frustrated, tells him he's done looking out for his arrogant bratty ass, tells him to do wtf he wants and storms out of the studio. JK more or less does the same and finds himself wandering about the streets, overwhelmed with his emotions. This is the first real fight he's had with one of the people he's come to really care about. I do not think jk realised just how much jimin meant to him until his unlimited access to the jimin trust fund of love was cut off. This fight helped put a couple things into perspective. One being just how important jimin was to him.

Jk is now lost but that's not his concern, his concern is the one person he just royally pissed off. Listen, idk about you but when i fight with my sister I'm not going to apologise first, much less 20+ minutes after said fight happened. Matter of fact, we don't apologize, we just start talking after hours, sometimes days. Food being the olive branch that gets us back on track.

It low key bugs me that a lot of people oversimplify the sequence of events that happen during and after those twenty plus minutes it took jimin to walk from the studio to their dorm. Jk and jimin just had a big fight (according to jk atleast) jimin had pontius the pilated his hands clean of JK and both had stormed out the studio in different directions, but 20 minutes is all it took JK to realize he wasn't about that jiminless life. He had fucked around and he hated what he found out. And so he takes out his phone and guess who he calls? Hint: It's not V his partner in crime, it's not Jin his "parental" figure, it's not his Suga hyung who never scolds him, it's not his thighland crush Namjoon,it's not even his angel Hobi. Noo nooo its none of them. He calls the one person who just gave him an express ticket to hell. (not literally) After deciding on 3 rings" Mr. didn't i just make myself clear that I'm done with you? why tf do you still have my number saved on your phone?" picks up, still mad as hell. (20 minutes was a little too quick, even for him) but while it was only 20 minutes for jimin, it was 20 dog minutes to JK. He was barely holding it together and he all but dramatically fell on his knees in the middle of those street crying. This is all too much for him. He didn't care who was right or wrong, all he wants at this point is his jiminssi back.

Jimin is livid at jk, but as soon as he hears jk is lost, his hyung instincts kick in and without hesitation offers to go pick him up(do you hear the sound of my heartstrings being tagged at?they are unreal) He puts his anger aside, and in that moment, all he wants is for jk to be safe, fuck the fight. Jk takes a taxi and embarks on his journey back to jm's heart(fingers & toes crossed). And if this already isn't enough, we have the weather bringing in the special guest, pouring rain, to make it all the more intimate. It takes jk an hour to get back. All this while, jimin takes a natural shower that not only washes him, but his anger as well. Two birds one stone tings. By the time Jk gets to him, not only has his anger been washed away, but he's been factory reset back to the caring hyung he was before the fight. He runs and embraces JK in a hug that speaks more than his words ever could. It is understood at this point that the drama is behind them. They still have to talk and agree on conduct moving forward, but they are more or less back on. Jk apologises and i know he means every word he says. Jimin apologises and promises to get jk his unlimited jimin access back. All this happens on the rooftop... to be a droplet of rain when all this went down. sigh Now the kicker for me is that;

Despite solving this issue on the same day,Jk still felt sorry about it 5 years later. Just goes to show how much this fight impacted him.

They solved the fight without the other members knowing(at the time i believe bighit had a policy that all fights needed to be resolved with all members present no matter what the fight was about).

He was sorry only to jimin, and not his hyungs who felt his behavior was warranting in the first place. Hell i didn't even hear him talk about apologising to them.

Even though he just fought with jm, it's still jm he called. And despite being mad at JK, JM still picked his calls, offered to go pick him up and waited for him in the rain.

They both put their egos and pride aside and tackled the issue together. It became a us vs the problem and not a you vs me issue.

They took equal responsibility for the fight. Noone blamed the other, only themselves.

Why am i reminded of that chorus by Luther Vandross? i'd rather have bad times with you, than good times with someone else i'd rather be beside you in a storm, than safe and warm all by myself i'd rather have hard times together than to have it easy apart i'd rather have the one who holds my heart

your vision of jungkook is completely skewed imo. how has jungkook given any indication he wants to "come out of the closet"? if anything he's been doing the opposite, trying to come off as straight as possible before military service. you think any of them would fucking risk being out of the closet and being harassed and mistreated in the military? do you have any idea what happens there?! gay men can go to prison for having sex if they're in the military. jungkook's celebrity status would never protect him from the huge bigotry there. get your head out of your ass and think for a second. stop being blinded by shipping.

Lol am i the only one who watched him flirting with jimin in bed at 8 freaking am? naked for all we know! Begging jimin to let them do the live together? even offered to take his showering products to jm's if he only said yes? his disappointment when jm turned him down? what about the night he spent one and a half hours watching jimin content? the only member he's done that for btw? made sure to tell us not to comment. I won't even get into him malfunctioning when a shirtless jimin appeared. His white day live? Going live exactly a day after jimin travels out of the country and going MIA when he is back in the country? What about him watching lee mujin and mimicking jimin, indicating that it's not his first time watching that video, he even knew which part to skip, you dried up cretin!😑

What about him playing letter and getting completely lost in the song for a brief second? and the endless jyaman, jimin, jimin, park jimin, park jimin he did? jeon jimin? 🧐disappearing in new york for the 4 days jimin was with him? renting out a lgbtq+ friendly restaurant for the two of them and staff only? being spotted in a lgbtq friendly pizza place? He only resurfaced when jimin was traveling back to korea looking hella spent but glowing! How about him re recording his 7 dance practice in new york simply cuz he didn't like the way the first one came out, the same studio jimin just happened to use for lc? Surely was it not the other day he told us that him & Jimin drew the whale picture jm uploaded on Chuseok? 🤔 this wasn't needed info. How about his confession that he only watched jimin's suchwita episode? 5/7 members episodes had been released by then! Even Suga was a little taken aback.. His concept pictures for 7 being a copy of jimin's face concept? Their matching necklaces in LC and seven music video? Saying he doesn't have a girlfriend and making sure to tell k-armys to inform i-armys about it? Did him singing about having sex in 3 songs suddenly erase all that? Let's not forget his 3d ending fairy of him gesturing to sucking d*ck. Did i hallucinate all these instances? And btw that magazine editor who asked jk about the nature of his relationship with jimin did not just wake up and do it on a whim. They too must have picked up on something. So miss me with that, you malnourished cockroach. nkt!

i got bombarded by taekook asks (send help)

so i stumbled upon this ask which is very similar to the mountain of asks i've been receiving lately:

i initially wasn't going to speak on the issue because

it's a common ask which many jkkers have already responded to

i'm secure in my support for jikook so i don't feel the need to prove anything to t*kers/non-shippers/any other shipper

the coco crush ring argument is getting old quick

but here i am, i guess! here to answer your long-awaited questions about jungkook's supposed "wooga squad" ring.

let's unpack this

so, here is the basic t*ker argument on the whole ring situation:

it's the coco crush ring

the infamous wooga squad wears the coco crush ring

jungkook's ring is the coco crush ring

jimin's ring is not the coco crush ring

therefore, taekook is real and jungkook is part of the wooga squad.

see why i'm adamant on the wooga squad ring theory? it's baseless and has too many gaps to create a solid argument.

first off, i'll let you decide for yourself whether you believe it's the wooga squad ring or not. the main part of my argument doesn't exactly focus on the brand of the ring so either way, it makes no difference to me whether it is the coco crush ring or not.

wooga squad friendship ring (the coco crush ring):

jungkook's pinky ring he's been wearing:

the jikook ring theory (there are multiple but the original asker didn't specify which one of jimin's rings is not the one jungkook is wearing so i chose the most plausible one imo):

personally, jungkook's ring is not the coco crush ring. chanel has a wide range of coco crush rings, but jungkook's ring is thinner and the engravements are not particularly similar. although, even if it were it makes no difference to me.

i will mention this, hobi has worn a coco crush ring before. but radio silence from the cult. i won't even begin to dig into why because it's pretty self-explanatory.

so, why don't i believe it's the wooga squad ring?

it's the placement.

yes, the wooga squad wears the ring on their index fingers while jungkook's is on his pinky. big deal!

(very much a big deal if we look at the significance of these placements)

so, the ring's significance to the wooga squad adds up, but what about jungkook? i wouldn't believe that it meant much at one glance, but then i remembered this isn't the first time jungkook has done this.

yup. the iconic moment when jungkook took jimin's ring and placed it on his pinky. he then proceeded to ask the audience "do you understand the significance of this ring?" (along those lines, search it up for the actual translation). definitely seems like it means something special for jungkook (and jimin).

the ring he's been wearing seems a little small for his ring or index finger since it's a perfect fit on his pinky. maybe because it belongs to someone else. with smaller hands.

once again, it's your call.

so, that's one theory. we also have this:

with the release of seven and the amount of attention it's received, i'd say jungkook is definitely achieving his wishes and dreams. king behaviour.

to sum it up, no, jungkook's ring is not the wooga squad ring. let me rephrase, it doesn't have the same significance as the wooga squad ring.

well, folks. there's your answer. now here's my response to everyone who spammed my inbox:

small hands.

time to use your cognitive skills and think a little!

didn't think i'd have to post about this but a lot of you seem to be dense!

could the 'j' on jungkook's hand possibly stand for jk? sure.

could it merely be a coincidence that said 'j' is underneath the 'm' in 'army'? possibly.

but let's get serious... out of the 4 letters he decides to put it under the 'm' without adding a 'k' after it even though it's incredibly common for them to do that since it's very normal for them to add the first letter of the syllable when writing the shortened version of their names (e.g. nj for namjoon).

if you think that he, a superstar under the eye of millions who resides in a very anti lgbtq+ country, would just confess that he has his 'bros' initials tattooed on his hand, you're very delusional and possibly have watched too many coming-of-age movies.

"but he could have just ignored it!" and caused more speculation? sure!

as a queer poc myself, it makes me anxious to even hint at the fact that i'm attracted to somebody who is not of the opposite sex, let alone millions of people.

let's be logical people!