i never had any doubts when it comes to woosan 😆 and it’s something these people had been trying to fight about bcs they never really got it Why 🤣🤣🤣 whenever they said something like “what woosan said to each other are just the same as they did towards other members”, i’d ask them, do they understand korean? their answers were always no, as expected. bcs i’ve seen a bunch of mistranslations of a certain ship too so i’m not even surprised when some of them came @ me with some more mistranslations. words-wise, i can talk about it confidently bcs i know korean so i understand the depth and differences, unlike them.

when they were like, how can you be so sure of woosan when you don’t even see other ships? oh trust me i have 🤭 it can be surprising but i read all ship fics! in terms of hobbies and medias, i consume everything. and i don’t just like a ship over simple reasons like “they’re cute together”, or “lately they have many moments tgt”, no no i’m not in this for the yaoi.

i like woosan bcs i understand what they have with each other. the depth of it, the meaningfulness, how incomparable it is.

and this is something not everyone can see and understand bcs it really does require a certain understanding about human relationships, closeness and dynamics. and i’m just someone who’s lucky enough to experience a lot of things when it comes to relationships personally so i can understand the differences, i can see how meaningful something is.

generally, i don’t see other people on just the surface level, it’s just who i am. just bcs people say someone is like this or like that, i won’t just simply believe them. i’d rather know someone personally myself and not just their exterior, i want to see who are they inside. that’s just my habit. so inevitably, this goes into my interest as well. i don’t just like woosan over simple things. it’s more of me really seeing the kind of bond they have— which is really really such a lucky thing to happen to anyone. and i’m talking as someone with many loving people in my life and really close platonic relationships as well. so it’s just easier for me to see it.

ofc, some people are able to understand and see it without experiencing things like i did but i can always tell that the people who said shitty things about them aren’t the people who come from a place of love to begin with (especially so when they’re the same people who spread hatred. people’s actions and words say a lot of them).

in terms of ateez’s relationships, all of them are close, they just have different dynamics. and we can force ourselves to make a certain dynamic to appear as another dynamic, that’s just lying to ourselves. the problem with shippers is that a lot like to compare. but the truth is, yungi, matz, sansang, yunsan, topaz, etc can never be woosan simply bcs they’re all different people. so no one can say and compare like that. people can be equally close and have different dynamics that make outsiders think one seem to be less close to the other when it’s just the same. in terms of closeness, it’s woosan and the members themselves who shared word by word that they’re the closest with each other so nobody can say otherwise. btw this has been going on for so long??? since their early debut, the members said the same, and even in the present days, the members acknowledge woosan as woosan, that whatever they do with each other just makes sense bcs it’s woosan (concluding some words from hongjoong himself)

over the years, the members, especially hongjoong often uses the word ‘relationship’ whenever he talked about woosan (with fans or others), to emphasize their closeness and their deep bond, rather just using the word ‘friendship’.

and back to dynamics, to understand it requires understanding the people individually, rather than just a pairing.
some shippers only have an interest in the pairing or the ideas they have over them, rather seeing them as who they are both individually and how they are with each other.

so to me, when people understand these things, the depth of their relationship, the different dynamics they have, it’s just that. it’s just a simple belief to me and when i believe in something, i just confidently do so bcs i’ve seen many things about it and many things related to it before diving into a belief. i guess that’s why i never had any doubts, and i don’t feel like proving anything to anyone either bcs we all don’t have the same mind, we don’t have the same heart. just enjoy the ride, nothing in life should be so very serious.

so ummm i guess if you do feel doubts then just surround yourself with people who can uplift you. i think i’m lucky that people around me have the similar mindset as i do??? also bcs we have more important things to worry about. like, i love woosan a lot i would talk about them nonstop and i would defend them but i would never sacrifice my mental health over kpop in general. it’s where i wanna have fun so if i happen to speak up, that’s simply bcs i’ve had so many that i had to respond 🤣 i’d rather choose peace but hate messages didn’t write themselves out. sometimes
we gotta give them the limelight they wanted: so people know who are these people, what are they like. if i weren’t a woosan fan, i would never be that certain ship fan simply bcs of their fans. the kind of mean things and how they like to start shits with others. i don’t want that.

but i like it here with my fellow woosaners, a lot of us are creative people and we enjoy each other’s works. the fics, the edits, the aus, the arts, etc. these are the things that are like gold to me and tbh these are good distractions over those silly things/silly people. also, don’t hyper focus on things in a negative way bcs that’s when things can get unhealthy when it’s actually nothing much.