How Quickly Things Change
Jun. 14th, 2022 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stonepicnicking_okapiSo yesterday I was celebrating BTS day and this morning they announced they're taking a hiatus! Whew! The company has since come out and said it isn't a hiatus but the members are going to focus on solo projects. Whatever. You don't cry over a break, you cry over a break-up and BTS' leader (Kim Namjoon/RM) was definitely crying this morning. I mean, they have the military service upcoming. And that's that.
A break-up is a break-up. I think I was an ARMY for exactly the wrong amount of time, long enough to be very disappointed at the hiatus (or not-hiatus, according to official sources) but not long enough to be 'I'll wait forever!' I'm not a 'wait forever' kind of gal. I'm a 'over is over' kind of gal.
So it was my first musical fandom, first RPF fandom, first experience as an adult being a serious fan of a band. Interesting insights into another culture. I'll spend the next couple of days sorting myself out and then I'll probably put everything in a box and put it on a shelf. So expect the collages (I've never got around to doing). And my CD of the anthology album PROOF hasn't arrived yet. But I am wondering if it will matter much when it does.
I opened my BT21 egg I was saving for a rainy day and got a Chimmy water-filled squeezie. Chimmy [Jimin's yellow dog character] is my comfort creature, and I thought it was appropriate.
Hmmm. Sad. But that's fandom life. I got to meet and get to know the fabulousbethctg! And that's wonderful.
Here is the song I liked from PROOF, which they won't perform live anytime soon: RUN BTS
A break-up is a break-up. I think I was an ARMY for exactly the wrong amount of time, long enough to be very disappointed at the hiatus (or not-hiatus, according to official sources) but not long enough to be 'I'll wait forever!' I'm not a 'wait forever' kind of gal. I'm a 'over is over' kind of gal.
So it was my first musical fandom, first RPF fandom, first experience as an adult being a serious fan of a band. Interesting insights into another culture. I'll spend the next couple of days sorting myself out and then I'll probably put everything in a box and put it on a shelf. So expect the collages (I've never got around to doing). And my CD of the anthology album PROOF hasn't arrived yet. But I am wondering if it will matter much when it does.
I opened my BT21 egg I was saving for a rainy day and got a Chimmy water-filled squeezie. Chimmy [Jimin's yellow dog character] is my comfort creature, and I thought it was appropriate.
Hmmm. Sad. But that's fandom life. I got to meet and get to know the fabulous
bethctg! And that's wonderful. Here is the song I liked from PROOF, which they won't perform live anytime soon: RUN BTS