hii!! I'm more than happy to be your sounding board, and I think you did fine!! 🥹 the way I see it, the both of them have those cute little limp-wristed dino arms going on way too often to be anything but neurodivergent (and also gay), so from that perspective I think jiseok is sort of like jooyeon's special interest, and therefore he remembers Everything about him 🥰 but also I think jooyeon loves to tease jiseok haha, the way a lot of people like to poke a bit of fun at the person they have a crush on to try and get a reaction from them and thereby get their attention 😏

although, honestly, I'd never thought about it from either of those perspectives before so this is giving me some interesting food for thought 🤔🤔 thank you anon~

eyyyyy I know who you are hehe, of course I don't mind 🥹💕 in fact that really means a lot to me that my fic would have enough of an impact to pop into your head like that, and thank you for telling me because it makes me feel very warm ㅠㅠ I think I might have watched that season of american idol with my own family LMAO I recognised the name david cook but couldn't place it right away sjdfgs those lyrics really are almost eerily fitting though 😭 "the life that I knew is through / and I'm gonna need you more than ever / I'm alone in this crowded room / it's like life on the moon", "getting lost in my own atmosphere / stars in the sky all the stars in my eyes / is the cost of getting out of here alive" like damn okay

anyway, thank you so much again, love you~ 🥰🫂

you continue to be so incredibly real 😭😭 but! well! at the very least with their 3-year anniversary coming up they won't have to worry about the dating ban for much longer 🫢 it really has been so interesting seeing their dynamics (and the dynamics amongst the rest of them) develop over the past three years though... jiseok has kinda dumped the tsundere act somewhat and I actually feel like a big part of that is because of how he got closer with jungsu, who helped him open up a little bit. jooyeon, meanwhile, I think became somewhat more aware of the eyes on them, and he's probably matured the most, which makes sense since he's the youngest (but I think he had further to go than the others lol and I say that very lovingly). so in a way there's kinda been this role reversal between them, almost? where jiseok is the more openly sickeningly in love and jooyeon is a little more reserved, thus the "joo fell first but ji fell harder"..... but MORE recently, as in over the past couple months, I feel like we hit another turning point and our jooseok are more consistently meeting in the middle... and caring less about how obvious they are LMAO

as for the dorm boxing... idk I don't really do well with that kind of tit for tat dynamic because I just want everyone to talk things out and be friends SDJFHS but I mean!! I do love a good bit of pining 🤔 what are the gays without their yearning? but hmm I can't find the post now but on showchamp last week during one of the mc bits jiseok said that something he was grateful for was xh's concerts selling out and something he was disappointed in was (I think, if I recall right) letting his worries and concerns stop him from enjoying something beautiful............... 🤔🤔🤔 are u picking up what I'm putting down here

anyway sorry if that got off topic lmao but I appreciate the braindump actually 🙏 it was very entertaining to read sdjfkhs <3

the library of alexandria 😭 so true though, that acc has been the singular most helpful resource for me whenever I need to queue up more posts for dailyjooseok lmao. but yeah as if instead wasn't enough, and as if the mv itself wasn't enough, the behind was a gourmet meal for jooseok nation. the hug. that fucking hug. I haven't stopped thinking about it since that video dropped. and their little hand-holdy giggly moment like oh my GOD could they BE more OBVIOUS?? and yeah... jiji was eyeing that bare shoulder like a victorian man seeing an ankle for the first time 😭 obviously his type is lee jooyeon but I think our boy is otherwise attracted to masculinity judging by how he always reacts to gunil's or seungmin's muscles (by trying to... bite them... among other things), although he did seem awfully gleeful about dressing joo up like a pretty pink princess on his birthday so who knows 🤔

hmm I'm not sure if you saw, but someone did actually ask joo at a fansign for the behind story of when he visited ji at show champ. I'm not sure if anyone translated it though 😭 take this with a grain of salt because I'm so far from fluent, but from what I could decipher, it seemed he had a schedule in the same area but finished earlier and so went to show champ to gloat to jiseok that he got off work first lol. so it wasn't an "official" visit or anything, and that's probably why there wasn't anything filmed... it was spontaneous and they probably didn't have the staff or equipment on-site to film any behind the scenes stuff. that makes it worse for me tbh, he was really just visiting his bf after work, no obligation to be there, no content, just the opportunity to see him and the desire to take that opportunity (even though they see each other all the time every day anyway) 😔

the video of him talking about it is here, by the way: https://x.com/gaonnn020114/status/1853044713340936529