BTS as ppl I encounter at record stores:
NJ: Crate digger, but not a jerk about it. He WILL look through everything but he also reads really fast, so by the time you're flipping through the next section, he's already in the next row. Is either there for hours or for just a few minutes after work.
Keeping the body warm is important to avoid cramps etc during long reheasals with bursts of intensive exersion and puffy jackets are light, loose, and easy to shrug off. And they contain/hide sweatiness and all of its consequences.
I'm at the point where i see the clock time and its 13:08 and my brain goes "Just one away from 7 🥰🥹"
Comeback is crazy.
The sevens on MOTS had serifs and other type-face details. These tattooed sevens are handwritten.
Screenshot of a bsky profile for user jinhitpicts, showing that several people I know follow them (but I have covered the names of the known followers). Below the bio is a post showing AI generated images the account made of the BTS members from the Arirang vinyl teasers.
Just a heads up to my moots following this account, they're posting AI images that are generated from the blurry teaser posters we got on Weverse.
😑 Deblurring feels so against the spirit of comeback. Yuck.
Jungkook's internal teleprompter is in very large font
A quince! That was not on my radar.
Good to know it's an actual shrub. My mind was trying to infer a trunk structure that could support that branching and nothing added up to a happy tree.
The Korean men were “solemn, sedate, and observing” and “were surrounded by a dozen persuasive damsels, who begged them to sing.”
Here is the review article of the original 1896 Washington Post Article: boundarystones.weta.org/2020/02/12/k...
Great Read!
#BTS #ARIRANG
A capsule marked: phonograph record. Tribe - Korean Ar-ra-rang. love song
Zoomed in so you don't have to.
look at all the real humans real arting 💗🥹
why do people have to be wrong and a problem? Has he eaten his words and apologised?
still tasty is still good!
I really thought there was a way to opt out of seeing fic and author stats but it must have been a skin option, not a setting of the main site.
For readers, making stats optional sounds very relevant!
Its been interesting to see people have very different reactions to this suggestion of reader stats. We already use the platform in our own ways.
My main reason for raising these questions is the challenge of helping readers recognise what they are contributing to a creative community when it is big and when it is smaller. explained better in this thread.
Fair point, but community building outside of archive has been repeatedly foiled by social media migrations. I also don't want to burden the platform and yet its become a strange point of contact and stability across a fractured internet. Its structure is defining our culture already, healthy or not
People claiming that they don't know what to say in comments is baffling when examples are everywhere. But its a position that reflects a disconnect with other readers. Developing readers mutual awareness is maybe the goal, whether or not numbers are involved (publically). Id love private stats too.
A photo of a small flowering quince shrub in a black pot, there are only a few green buds and small pink flowers on it.
Namjoon: Maule’s quince/Chaenomeles japonica
Writers don't need everyone leaving massive comments, but a thinning fic community needs proprotionally more readers showing interest for writers to keep writing. And that means some of the silent need to realise they have a role to play in this creative space, one way or another.
But when fandoms change and readers don't notice, many bring their "big crowd" habits of quiet consumption to works that are getting less attention. And this results in creators feeling lost with little sense of how their work is being received. Silent hits are incredibly ambiguous!
At a concert, performers can get enough feedback from a small subset of a large crowd, while a small audience will instinctively be more effusive (proportionally), because creators need at least a little something or they'll quit. And same in fic: rareships get more comments per hit than top ships.
People often enter a fandom through very popular works and at a time when the fandom is growing. These conditions can make individual reader feedback feel inconsequential in the tide of excitement. As readers dig deeper and fandoms age, the number of readers for any given work goes down.
Sort of, yeah, thank you. I don't mean to suggest you are doing something wrong. The readership is heterogeneous and that's ok. Whether/how readers adjust their behaviour for the size of audience they assume a work has is where I see creator-reader relations getting lopsided on AO3.
Found this again and ughhhhh I needed it today. Maybe you also need Yoongi talking nicely to you.
ok. What are you basing that judgement of (not) lopsidedness on? Do you pay attention to the behaviour of other readers? Do you feel differently about leaving kudos or comments on fics with a lot of feedback vs very little?
And now Namjoon is posting a little indoor cherry tree!!?! 🥹 (OK maybe its a plum tree, its hard to check the petals at this resolution) Still my imaginary Taejoon tree carer dreams keep being watered.
Your point about quantization exposing readers to judgement is a real risk, norms would form quickly and could go a few ways. I don't know that numbers are the best way to go, its just onn within-platform stick/carrot available to challenge the lopsided dynamics between creators and readers.
I appreciate the point of keeping it an archive, but AO3 already has metrics that create the competition. The creator population is being ranked by default while the consumer population has very little structural encouragement to develop supportive behaviours. Lurkers take without building community
funny they call it an opening move for the Arirang comeback when "What is your love song?" was a huge multi-platform and multi-city campaign just a month ago
