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the second picture i stuck my head out of my upstairs window for. the lunar eclipse is beautiful and i am way to excited about it 🌙
INTRO: SERENDIPITY THEORY
Intro: Serendipity is an expression of Jimin’s love for Her but the means of forming and describing that love is paradoxical. If one examines the entirety of the lyrics, they contrast each other at different points. Serendipity is used to describe Jimin’s and Her’s love that implies their love occurred by random chance. Whereas some of the lyrics express the opposite, that Jimin’s and Her’s love was destined and was meant to be since the beginning of time. Integrating these notions together, their love can be construed as a beautiful paradox; a destined serendipity or a serendipitous destiny. In other words, Jimin and Her were destined to have a happy “accidental” meeting, or it may mean the other way around, that their happy accidental meeting became their “destiny”.
The lyrics mention things that have a serendipitous background such as Penicillin and Calico cat. Both of which came into existence by rare occurrences and pure random chance. It also talks about destiny itself and its personification of it supports their love as serendipitous rather than destined. Simultaneously, the lyrics contrast itself again with lines such as, “None of this is a coincidence,” and “Our happiness has been planned,” signifying that their love was destined instead of serendipitous.
“You are my Penicillin, You saved me,” Jimin sings. Penicillin was discovered by Fleming in the 1920’s without the intention of developing a life-saving drug. He randomly discovered that his culture of blue mold, which is the direct translation from Korean to English, was surprisingly killing harmful bacteria that progress into fatal diseases. He then harnessed this phenomenon, engineered it into a viable treatment, and distributed it to the rest of the world, saving millions of lives. His discovery was serendipitous for many. Jimin uses this story as an analogy and as a metaphor to express his gratefulness to Her, singing that Her is the Penicillin, and that Her “saved him,” in some shape or form.
Calico cats are tricolor creatures that are used as an expression of serendipity in the song. These cats have three colors of hair: white, brown, and black. A cat that has three colors of hair, especially male ones, are rare, due to how genes and their traits play out when the sperm and the egg meet. It is rare enough for a certain sperm to penetrate an egg out of millions of other sperms, but it is more so for a sperm and an egg carrying the specific genes for a Calico cat, to meet. Jimin sings, “I’m your Calico cat, Here to meet you.” The metaphorical lyrics voice that he beat all odds and came into being for the purpose of meeting Her and loving Her.
“I’m scared, just as much as my heart flutters, Because destiny keeps getting jealous of us,” the lyrics flow out. The personification of destiny supports the notion of serendipitous love. If destiny was a person, everything in his life would happen only if it was planned. There would be no element of surprise in destiny’s life, which may in turn make it jealous of Jimin’s and Her’s love. Their love is also expressed as so pure and so strong that it moves the universe and causes destiny itself to become jealous. The lyrics personifies the universe as well, saying that it has the capability to move anything and everything to make way for them; making it seem like it was meant to be in the first place. It may be another motive why destiny becomes jealous since the universe defies its own laws for them, and destiny itself is part of that law.
In the music video, it also expresses the concept the paradox through a metaphor using the sun and the moon. Jimin represents all things yellow, which includes the cactus, the small ball, the large ball, the blanket, the balloon, and the sun. Her, on the other hand, represents the moon. When someone falls in love, their partner becomes their world and this concept is expressed in the music video through the panning of the camera into Jimin’s blood, entering his world, and the panning out of his eyes, exiting his world. Through the first perspective use of the camera, the audience becomes Her. We become Jimin’s Her, his love, his moon. The fleeting eclipse represents their rare meeting and could be thought of as the universe aligning perfectly for them to meet or the universe adjusting for them after they meet.
Jimin then explores Her’s world, the night. His world is bright and beautiful but he delves into her world which is dark and somber but shows the stars and galaxies. He thinks Her is different but is just as beautiful. He has never seen anything like Her before since the sun never sees the dark. This is when he falls in love with Her, and is metaphorically acted out by Jimin literally falling in front of the moon, immersing himself in her world.
By the end of the music video, his house is shown shaking, symbolizing the universe moving for their love as Jimin smiles fearlessly, accepting the universe’s help. As the eclipse end, the sun shines again and Jimin goes back to his world, sitting as though reminiscing about the other world and how it make him feel. At the last shot, Jimin breathes out with a piercing gaze at the camera, “Let me love, let me love you,” singing to Her, to his love, to the moon, to us.
Stretching the metaphor of the sun and the moon, what gives it a mile more beautiful about it is that because the stars never stop moving in the sky, the sun and the moon could be seen as chasing each other. The sun will always chase the moon and the moon will always chase the sun. Even though they are different and far apart, they will go through great lengths and spend infinite amounts of time to meet each other again; until the stars align once more and the universe itself allows another chance. This cycle of a never-ending chase symbolizes Jimin’s and Her’s love as eternal and forever.
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The 2024 DCA Reveal-versary magma collab has been wrapped up and here are the final results! ☀️🎉🎂🌙
A super big thank you to all the amazing artists that attended the collab to celebrate! We've broken way over 2023's record of attendees with a overall number of 59+ artists! It really is a lively celestial party in there, they're probably going to need more cake!
An additional thank you to all who stopped by, shared the event, expressed their interest and to the Daycare Friend Pick Up mods for also allowing this in their discord server!
(Due to being over the tumblr tag limit for the full credit list, a reblog will be added onto this with the second section of credits!)
⭐Here's the list of all the artists that participated!⭐
@aquacomet - @crystalmagpie447 - @pure-plum
@thatmooncake - @flinxypie - @eggcromancer
@nexerist - @crabsnpersimmons - @zamjd
@darlingdeer21 - @agent-darkfest - @piowasthere
@nighternex - @gyxtar0luvs - @sulfadimethoxine
@pluck-heartstrings - @starshinenoa - @enduu115
@tvboxi - @tinkpumpkin - @marshmallowcat666
@luckyyyduckyyy - @m-mints - @sunshinehare
@ping-ski - @lil-artist-blog-fandoms-ocs - @sipnoot
@synthrobeat - @galaxysugarr - @alynwrench
(I took care to note down everyone who participated and added their credits, but if I missed someone let me know what you made and I'll add you to the list!)
Holy. Crap. Realizing that Edward having Alice kidnap Bella and hold her hostage is dangerously close to what happened with Tamlin and Feyre...
But Feyre realized the relationship was toxic. Feyre. Got. Out.
I mean think about it Ianthe is like Alice (it hurts me to say it cause I love my Alice) and Lucien is idk Emmet? Jasper? And they’re all so committed to keeping her ‘safe’ from the Voltari//Prythian that they make a deal with the Voltari//Hybern? Feyre and Bella both becoming powerful immortals after almost dying for their love?
Main point: The same toxic relationship...but two different endings.
They were feeling cute today ☺️
They say empathy is what made the success of the human race. Our survival is directly linked to our cooperation. We evolved together and we will perish together.