become wings

This blog updates infrequently. Thank you always for your support & continuing to share the story of BU. ♡

Find me elsewhere:      @songofastar [TXT’s The Star Seekers]      @dreamaze [side blog]

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This blog contains spoilers for Notes 2 and BTS Universe Story.

It is with a heavy heart that I announce the closure of this blog. The most recent pair of posts, In Darkness and In Light, are my final content for the foreseeable future—a celebration and a farewell. I thought this over a lot in the months I was focusing on work and school. I will always love BU, but for several reasons, making new creations in its honor has been increasingly challenging over the past year and a half, especially as Hybe’s attention has shifted away from visual content to further the storyline. I remember my excitement last year when I awaited the arrival of The Notes 2—and the fear when I finished it that they would be leaving it with such a sense of incompleteness. I have a similar regret that I was unable to bring all of my content ideas to fruition, but I am also proud of this blog’s growth and evolution since it began in October 2019 (months before I even had the software to make gifs). Out of respect for the blog itself and my followers, I don’t want to leave it on hiatus indefinitely. The “archive” label feels most appropriate, as I will keep the content available for as long as tumblr is around.

I don’t know what the future holds. It is possible that I may be moved to create something new at some point, particularly if Hybe does continue the narrative in a medium that can be adequately captured here, but I don’t want to make any promises that I can’t keep. I can say, from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who supported this blog, sent in questions, and shared your enthusiasm for BU with me and the greater community. Your tags and comments kept me afloat, motivated, and connected far more than I anticipated when I began this as a humble place to house my thematically and symbolically connected screenshots. Thank you for helping this blog and me grow.

This is the closing chapter for my work on this BU blog, but not my presence here. I am active on my side blog, @dreamaze, and my Star Seekers blog, @songofastar, which are also linked in the pinned post. I hope to continue seeing some of you around. Thank you always for your support and continuing to share the story of BU. ♡

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In light

               ... and in darkness

“Once I pass through this door, the environment will be completely different from the one that has surrounded me. I refuse to think about what’ll happen next. I’ll focus on taking one step at a time. I pushed the door with all my might. Every cell of my body collided with the outside air. There was no oppressive sunlight or fierce wind like I had always imagined. I felt like crying. The sound of my heartbeat reverberated in all directions.”

     — JiMin, 15 May Year 22. The Notes 1.

In darkness

                        ... and in light

“When the sun was gone but the moon hadn’t risen yet, darkness settled down on the riverbank. … Nobody came to this kind of ruined place. Maybe that was the reason nobody came to me, either. I was most comfortable like this, in a place nobody would come to find me, alone in total darkness. I thought it would be nice if this moment never ended.”

     — JungKook, 2 May Year 21. The Notes: Persona.           Translation cr. @/origamifirefly tw.

First, an explanation for those of you who weren’t around when I originally announced this was coming: I have now started grad school on top of a full-time work schedule, so updates to this blog will be much less frequent and my presence will generally be reduced. This place still brings me some joy, and I want to support my fellow content creators, so I will do my best to keep reblogging content on my side blog, @ourownwings.

Second, I had also originally stated that this blog would be my first priority. Due to shifting circumstances and feelings, I can’t promise this will necessarily be the case for the next few months. I’ve reached a point where I’m ready to share more of that energy with my Star Seekers blog, @songofastar. (For those of you unfamiliar with it, Star Seekers is TXT’s ongoing narrative; it was originally branded +u.) I love BU and I am far from finished with content for this blog. I’m simply in a place where I want to devote more of my time to giving Star Seekers the love and care it deserves, too.

                                “                                 ... maybe his                                       violence                                         was my                                   inheritance.                                                      ”

— TaeHyung, 11 August & 22 May Year 22. The Notes: Answer & Her. Translation cr. @/origamifirefly tw.

     — SeokJin, Highlight Reel '起承轉結'

Milestone celebration for @livefree-and-diestrong​

“In the abrupt silence, I realize life’s immense beauty. Just the fact that you are in it makes all the difference. Even if this were a dream, this is where I choose to be.”      — SeokJin, Highlight Reel ‘承’

Milestone celebration for shy anon

“Something was about to begin. Maybe I had been waiting for that. I tried to remember starting when I had been waiting. But I couldn’t remember anything.”      — JungKook, XX XX Year XX. The Notes 2.          (Epilogue: The World Turned Upside Down)

Milestone celebration for @dreamingspark 

“At the end of the month, I left Songju by train from this platform. I watched the city receding out of the window. As far as I could remember, I lived in Songju. I’d never left the city and never imagined living anywhere else.”      — HoSeok, 12 August Year 22. The Notes 1.

Milestone celebration for @yoong02

“When the doctor started to dress my left arm, blood spurted out from the burn. He said the scar would start to fade away six months later. I looked at the blackish red wound. The burnt skin around it seemed like a lick of fire.”      — YoonGi, 2 May Year 22. The Notes 2.

Milestone celebration for anon (p.29)

“I looked up when someone put his arm around my shoulder. ‘Do you go up to the high places these days?’ TaeHyung asked. … I glanced at him. High places? Why had he asked me that? Had he heard it from someone? I hadn’t told anyone, but I had been going up to high places. I rode down by the Yangji Stream as fast as I could on a bicycle, or sometimes I started a fight with thugs on the street for no reason and got beat up. There were dangerous moments. I could’ve fallen down or, worse, fallen into the stream. But I couldn’t stop doing it.”      — JungKook, 25 April Year 22. The Notes 2.

Milestone celebration for @butterkookies​

“I went out the front gate of the Grass Flower Arboretum alone. The sky was cloudy and it was a little chilly. … After walking for a while, it began to rain. My classmates and their mothers had all left, and no one paid attention to me. My legs hurt. I crouched under a tree. The rain began to pour down more and more heavily. I stretched my neck to check if anyone was coming from either side, but no one was around.”      — JiMin, 6 April Year 11. The Notes 1 (p.17).

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“The people who jumped into the burger joint to avoid the sudden shower looked lost as they all stared out the dark window. The rain that had started from the clear blue sky soon turned into a downpour. … And suddenly I saw JiMin in the room. Or a student who looked like JiMin. … The last time I had seen JiMin was when he ... got carried away to the hospital. The boy turned around. He was a young student in a school uniform. I looked out the window and saw my own reflection. I was standing in the pouring rain. I was in the crowd of people, but I was alone at the same time.”      — HoSeok, 20 April Year 22. The Notes 2 (p.17-18).

Milestone celebration for @taemaknae

“NamJoon gazed at me, as if to ask what was up. He said, ‘You said what you saw in your dream was the future. You said so yourself.’ ‘Right… that’s right. But still…’ What I’d seen in my dream did happen in reality. I’d said that to him because I experienced what I’d seen in my dream. But this dream hadn’t happened yet.”      — TaeHyung, 17 July Year 22. The Notes 2.

Milestone celebration for @jminparks

     BTS Universe x The Star Seekers 

             ⟡ thematic parallels ⟡