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NEVER SEPARATE THEM AGAIN PLEASE THEY ARE FAMILY 🥹

That’s what makes this so fascinating. Technically speaking, BTS belong to the very same industry as those artists. They’re the biggest, most established, and most globally recognised act to come out of it, and in many ways they’ve been the pioneers when it comes to establishing themselves in Western markets. So when a group in that position makes such a principled decision, it inevitably creates a point of comparison for everyone else.

Imagine another K pop group facing exactly the same situation and saying, “I don’t care if this category exists because of my ethnicity or where I was born. I want that nomination. I want that recognition. I want that validation.” The moment they make that decision, people are likely to compare them with BTS, and suddenly the conversation stops being about career strategy and starts becoming a moral debate.

That’s the part I find most interesting. I can’t help wondering whether these conversations are also happening privately. A lot of these artists know each other, and several BTS members are friends with idols from other groups. I genuinely wonder whether they’ve talked about this.

Can you imagine a BTS member saying, “I don’t want recognition in that way anymore. I don’t need it. My fans have already validated my career, and I’ve proved over and over again that I can succeed without that award.” And then another artist replying, “I do want it. I don’t care how it comes. I want that opportunity because it could change my career.”

Neither perspective is necessarily wrong because they come from completely different places. BTS have already reached a level where they can afford to reject something they no longer feel they need. Other artists are still trying to reach that point, and for them a Grammy nomination could genuinely transform their careers. That’s why I think reducing the conversation to who has more integrity completely misses the complexity of the situation.

In that sense, BTS’s decision has placed the rest of the K pop industry in an incredibly interesting position. Whether they like it or not, every artist who chooses to submit, or chooses not to, will probably be compared with BTS. People will inevitably assign meaning to those decisions, even if the motivations behind them are entirely different.

So far, no major K pop artist has publicly supported BTS’s decision. The only notable exception has been Tablo, which makes sense given his own history and perspective. But it’ll be fascinating to see whether anyone else eventually speaks up or whether most artists simply choose to stay silent and make their own decisions behind the scenes.

The Grammys didn’t create that “Best Asian Music” category this year to be diverse. They did it to continue boxing non English speaking artists but especially BTS, so they won’t have to nominate them in the main categories with the rest of their peers. This was the Grammys telling BTS they’ll give them a Grammy win but under their own boxed category. We give you the scraps and you are supposed to take them. They said no.

They’ve been doing this for years under the disguise of diversity. “Best Traditional Country Album” a new category introduced after Beyoncé won in the Best Country Album category because they couldn’t stand a non white artist redefining that genre. “Best African Music” being introduced in 2024 to keep Tyla away from other pop girls. And “Best Latin Song” being introduced for this year along with Best Asian Music after Bad Bunny right fully dominated all of the charts last year. And mind you, Brazilian artists cannot even submit their work for this category because the rules say it has to be 51% in Spanish, even when Brazilians speak Portuguese but are Latin people.

It was never about diversity. It’s about boxing and categorizing these artists when global music (or more like non English music) is becoming bigger each year and this is the only way they can keep their American/British peers safe in their space.

In BTS’ latest album ARIRANG, they have a song called Alien where they describe feeling alienated by the industry duo to their xenophobic behavior. Them creating this category when they released one of the biggest albums of the year is proving them right. At the end, this was the right choice.

the one that was dreaming and wishing and working hard for a grammy—the peak of musical acknowledgment for years—not being afraid (albeit a bit shy at times) saying it’s his goal.

the one that knows what a monster project like an entire album and tour takes, both with a group and solo, from the production team to the songwriting team to the A&R team to the engineering team to the promotional team and on and on and on.

the man that wrote that giving up decisively also counts as courage.

★ Meanie by @back2bluesidex (pwp, smut, mean boss au)

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★ Warm This Winter by @jamaisjoons (angst, fluff, smut, christmas au)

Summary: spending the winter vacation with an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend was not something anyone would ever consider doing. spending the winter vacation with both an ex-boyfriend, his new girlfriend, and the one night stand you’d used to try to get over him, well that was a whole other situation that anyone sane would have fled from. and yet, here you are. caught between your best friend (and consequently your ex-boyfriend), and the very same man who you’d fallen into bed with after a night of wallowing in self pity. all while stuck in the picturesquely beautiful - and cruelly romantic - austrian alps. well. at least you can say you had an interesting christmas.

★ Untitled by @angellgguk (smut, age gap, ceo au)

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★ Mold a Pretty Lie by @blog-name-idk (smut, college au, teacher!seokjin)

Summary: They say love is like a garden that requires regular care and attention. Kim Seokjin, your kind and handsome professor, is more than happy to cultivate the vines that bind his heart to yours. This fic is on hiatus.

★ Payment Plan by @trivia-yandere (smut, infidelity au, brother-in-law!seokjin)

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★ Teach You by @lachimolala7 (mafia au, arranged marriage au, fluff)

Summary: Both settle into a polite but distant routine. The reader spends her days reading in the library and gardening, while Jin secretly admires her kindness and finds himself counting down the hours until their nightly dinners together. One day, Jin comes home early and asks to make lunch for her.

★ Don't Make A Noise by @yourfavtangerine (smut)

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★ Off Limits by @floralseokjin (brother’s best friend au, smut, angst, fluff)

Summary: you’ve been lusting after your brother’s best friend for a while now, ever since you met him at a house party, flirting it up a storm as you failed to realise who the other was. That was months ago now and things are still awkward, but you can’t ignore the sexual tension that’s simmers between the two of you…and it keeps getting worse.

★ You Belong with Me with @back2bluesidex (fluff, a little angst, b2l)

Summary: The story is loosely inspired by Taylor Swift's song "You Belong With Me". The female reader is upset after a breakup with a guy named Namjoon, who called her "complicated." She vents to her best friend, Jin, while eating ice cream and chips.

‧₊˚🖇️back to seokjin's library 𐚁

sophie baek is a maid. that distinction is not cosmetic, it is the foundation of her entire story. comparing her to penelope ignores the central class divide that defines benedict and sophie’s relationship. penelope is from a reputable family. she is a known, present member of the ton. she is a debutante. ON TOP OF THAT ELOISE’S DEAR BEST FRIEND because of that, colin can bring her through the front door of bridgerton house without any bloody hesitation. he can present her directly to his mother. and violet, the family, and society can accept that union with joy and pride. their love fits within the rules of the world they live in. its two privileged people coming together.

benedict and sophie do not get that luxury. benedict cannot bring sophie through the front door. that is not a minor obstacle, it is the entire point of their story. sophie’s class is mountains lower than the bridgertons, and the ton will never accept her as his equal. their union will be whispered about, shamed, and resisted at every turn. loving sophie is not socially safe for benedict; it is a risk, a defiance, and a dream he is not supposed to be allowed. where colin’s love is sanctioned by society, benedict’s is fundamentally transgressive. penelope’s story is about being seen within the system. sophie’s is about surviving outside of it. collapsing those two dynamics flattens the stakes and erases what makes benedict and sophie tragic, radical, and powerful.

benedict is an aristocrat. his family is close to lady danbury who’s the queen’s closest confidant, his brother is a viscount, one sister is a duchess, another a countess, his sister in law is THE lady whistledown who controls the entire ton, to sophie, benedict is untouchable, an impossible dream. he feels unreal to her, like someone she should never even look at too closely. he’s almost like a prince in her eyes, and the idea of being involved with him any deeper terrifies her.

their love is not meant to be easy, public, or instantly accepted. it is meant to be impossible and defy the traditional society rules.

* body language masterlist

* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said

* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

* some more body language help

RM/Vogue 😍

One of my fav picture of him. He looks like a ceo.

He can be so random sometimes but that makes him more genuine 💕💕💕💞💞💞