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Ngl the first time I saw this my first reaction was literally "wife? 🫨"
https://x.com/sounds_of_cheol/status/1851559236704030981?t=j4gZHC8kaOxCIBwEUxDtkw&s=19
Oh u r really cuckoo about phaerae like did ur other ships before ever make u feel like this
no i think this one was the highest stakes one that i had ever encountered. like it was happening in realtime before my very eyes. i got to define the lore of it. that gave me a really vested stake in the ship. vs like... i was a huge soonwooist but i was mostly watching and reading old content of their and then reinterpreting it through my lens. but this is like... we were making the lens. so i feel a sense of ownership over the ship and that's what makes me cuckoo
Hey hope you are doing well <3 you are one of the few sane evnne/zb1/boys planet accounts so I miss seeing you around. I miss your retrospring rants to lol. I hope everything is ok wherever you are (and if it’s not god please double your troubles and give it to Gyuvin)
any new phaerae thoughts after seeing them together at isac? i guess we kinda knew this from the switch practice room but it's so interesting to see how tsundere taerae is with hanbin given how i kind of attribute that to how he acts with people he doesn't know too well as a defensive mechanism or how he acts with matthew as a silly bit/maybe not a bit. with hanbin it feels like there's history behind it if that makes sense? like in the clips where hanbin runs up to him and hugs him and where hanbin keeps leaning back on him it's more of an exasperated fondness that comes with years of dealing with hanbin's touchiness lmao. like ooh i hate that you keep doing this but keep doing it anyway bc i actually don't hate it and you know that. and hanbin knows him so well to know how to push it just far enough where taerae isn't scared away like he is with gunwook sometimes lol. i wish i was at isac like sorry for being insane taerae but my camera would've never left you. there are probably so many things that happened that we'll never see godddd.
lowkey they are exactly how we thought they were the first time we wrote them but we just didnt realize they're not like this with ANYONE ELSE like omg the months we spent being like yeah we just dont know taerae at all i guess hes not shy or tsundere like we thought ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT HE IS... BUT ONLY WITH HANBIN... like whats going ON i was ready to completely disavow my earlier characterization choices but now im like oh... no we had the correct read on the situation. hanbin is soooo posessive with him!!!!!!!!!!!!! so pushy and posessive and taerae pretends he hates it but he's next to him the whole time.
idk i guess my main takeaway from this is we should have trusted our intuition. like. taerae is not like this with ANYONE ELSE. maybe he knows something we dont (that the more he pushes hanbin away the more hanbin will come back again)
who would you put in a boys planet superm type group (no limits to the number of members from any particular group, but there can only be 7 members!)
One night only?! Are you done with kpop , did those vampires steal you 🥲
you and your anons are so miserable about zb1 rps for people who don’t go here, i have to wonder if perhaps it is a complex you have about your faves not getting to debut but either way we’ve long since passed boys planet era and it’s getting boring that all of you continue to have these tired takes and have nothing insightful to offer just the same rot every other week
1) anyone would be blind to look at haobin and not ship them they certainly make more sense than anything you have ever shipped
2) your dislike for one or more in gyubrick overrides your ability to discuss them rationally. their fans being annoying don’t make them any different to any regular rps fan, you for one are also deluded yet we aren’t claiming you as some kind of phaerae representative.
let people ship what they want, you don’t have to ‘get it’ we don’t give a fuck about what happens in evnne rps so you guys can stop having us on your minds rent free. you write phaerae rape fic and are friends with pedos, another group’s rps demographics are the least of your problems
have zb1 rps fans considered there's more compelling ships out there than haobin & gyubrik
a whole world even within that group and yet zeroses are recreating the same slop over and over again and then i get asked why the gruel isn’t to my taste. i feel bad for them!
i don’t even dislike haobin on principle i just can only think of two fics where i was ever actually interested in the dynamic and what was happening. everything else has just bored me to tears and then the fans treat them so weird so it’s a no brainer for me to tune them out. sadly fans are so weird about gyubrick that i keep talking about it which is probably my mistake here cause it opens the floor up to people who either can’t understand my distaste or are offended by it.
ANYWAYYYYY if people started shipping gunwook and matthew around more i would probably have fic to read again.
im curious why do u seem to dislike gyubrik so much? or is it just their fans that u dislike? im a haobinist but im a bnbnist i genuinely find gyubrik cute too altho i wldn't rly say im a gyubriker. i think their fans are the same as all rps fans tho everyone makes mpreg jokes & all
this message is funny cause i have been pretty clear i dont like haobin either so idk what to tell u lmfao... i just dislike zeroses so much that it overrides things i would find acceptable in other fandoms and taints every single thing the members of zb1 do. i'm just a hater, sorry! wish there was a rational answer that would make u feel better but there's not! i have no moral high ground here i just simply hate zeroses and want them to be upset
u talk about male idols and fans when it comes to sexuality a lot but have u ever thought about how weird the female idols are treated when it comes to that stuff… like w/ aespa karina lol
yes and no. first of all i am not usually being a delusional rpf clown when it comes to girl groups. i just like the music for the most part. so i haven’t seen much of what ur talking about! but i don’t doubt it happens. that being said ive talked before about how gay girl gaydar is a whole nother beast. i feel like closeted and glass closet gay girls look exactly the same in the kpop industry just cause no one is thinking about it like that. when i lived in korea i was in a t4t relationship where we both probably presented as women to outsiders and we never had issues with PDA and holding hands in public. even though one of us was much more masc it just did not register as anything other than friendly to everyone around us. the general public’s gaydar for women is generally pretty bad lol and it’s a huge bummer. anyway that wasn’t the point of your question but to answer i haven’t seen it. i think part of what makes the male idol stuff worse is its often coming from people who don’t spend time with or talk to gay men in real life, but think they know what gay guys are like and think they have a pass to speak about them however because they’re also gay. but most of the people who hope karina is a lesbian are, well, other queer women. so i don’t think it’s easy to make an equivalence between the two. most gay karina truthers are, id assume, good at telling when other women are queer and are applying that lens to her. versus people—queer or not— who don’t know many gay guys irl but think they do. cause let’s be totally honest here, most of the people i’m talking about are not gay guys with lived experience as a gay man. imo they can say what they like because, similar to karina gay truthers, they are recognizing a similarity between themselves and the idol. but once you cross into territory where you don’t know as much about the culture as you think you do, the jokes just come off homophobic anyway.
anyway i don’t wanna make it this big gendered thing because it’s not. there’s also plenty of fellow trans guys on this website who aren’t in community with gay men irl and that colors the way they speak about these idols even though they’re also men. at the end of the day it’s a lot more about what communities you belong to and whether or not you respect other types of people within ur community enough to understand them instead of reducing them to stereotypes or jokes just because you’re also queer. like who does that help?
anyway lol sorry this was not the answer i’m sure u were expecting but i’m gonna defend my sisters who want to believe karina is a lesbian like them.
12k likes on that is fucking crazy. i don’t think i’ve ever had a ship i’ve disliked as much as gyubrik i’m not even gonna lie. their fans are fucking insane and annoying and it’s always just gyuvin doing the most while ricky’s being forced into this feminine image. at least haobin are both hyper aware of what they’re doing.
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