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I have it on good authority that Dark! Yunho, toxic boyfriend, fuckboi Yunho etc is actually a major theme in Yungi fanfic. I haven't really wanted to find out for myself so this is all just what I've been told.

So I mean - to the extent that people use the Reality Show content for inspiration to explore dark themes in their fiction, I guess having this variety of relationships in the Reality Show of Ateez makes it a rich source.

Uhh.

I dunno how to answer this. Yungi was so not it for me that I thought I wasn't a shipper at all, until Soobin (the Hybe Yunho!) decided to make the Yeonbin Divorce Era the promotional theme for their post-contract-renewal comeback and I am ALL ABOUT that.

So in Yunho's defense (and they are meager but) - Yunho likes Mingi. He also accepts Mingi for how he is, including the ways that make Seonghwa react with screaming. Yunho also likes pinching Mingi and pulling his pigtails and making him cry and then mopping his face with a soft tissue and putting a candy in his mouth to make him stop crying and then telling him that the pulling the pigtails didn't happen and if it did it's all Mingi's fault - but fundamentally HE LIKES MINGI. He considers Mingi 'his' and Mingi seems to need someone who does that. Yunho notices everything Mingi does and listens to everything Mingi says and responds to him every time. Nobody is allowed to be mean to Mingi except Yunho, and Yunho will actually defend and protect Mingi (not always and not every time, but still).

Also Yunho is very straight but Mingi's sexiness is so incredibly powerful that Yunho finds the attention extremely validating, every time. This is Yunho who expects 20,000 women to scream in adoration at him whenever he gets a close up on stage. BUT I MEAN - if you had Song Mingi melt into an entranced puddle whenever you deign to smile at him a little bit, wouldn't YOU hehehe over it? ... Is it just me that thinks this?? (... This is why I need to start my Ateez sabbatical lol).

Can we have a movie where its 100% just Mingi kissing people filmed at this angle? Movies are barely breaking the 80 minute mark at most these days, and that'll do. 80 minutes of this, please.

Oh wait, you were saying something about - uh

What was it?

They're going to give us the rehearsal logbook for this right? RIGHT? KQ? HEY KQ? YOU FILMED THE REHEARSAL SESSIONS FOR THIS RIGHT?

YOU ONLY HAD ONE JOB, YOU REALIZE THAT RIGHT?

HELLO?

저기요? 케이큐 - 준비해 놓으신 거 맞죠? 그런거죠? 그렇다고 해 주세요. 에이티니 - 특히 K-ATINY 에게 뭐라도 좀 해 달라고요. 얘들이 이런거 만들고 있을 때 영상 찍어 놓는 거는 기본 중에 기본인 것 쯤은 아셨던 거죠? 아실 때 되고도 남자나요. 그쵸? 네?

Sorry to keep reusing blurry photos I took while hysterical in a very sticky, stuffy performance hall full of similarly hysterical women but like, Can you imagine how it feels like to have the power to make THE Park SEONGHWA smile like that?

Did you even ask a question? I can't remember.

Oh by the way - you know how I've been taking a weekly kpop dance class for the past year or so?

Girl dances in kpop is so much about making pretty angles with your body at the right time, including wrist and finger details. I do make an effort, but the angles rarely come out very pretty, so I took to assuming the beautiful girl idols pull it off because they have those pretty, elfin-fairy bodies to begin with, but then Mingi is like, Bitch don't be stupid, and hits the same angles with the same delicacy with his giant muscular male body.

Well OK. I'm SORRY. I didn't realize, okay? You didn't have to come and step on my neck about it, Song Mingi. Jeez.

Lunar new year is coming up so I drew this based on the beautiful fat horse sculpture in nanjing

Selkie Rafayel AU ! 🦭🦭🦭

The classic "old bicycle" we're all thinking of, which looked like this:

Is actually a technological compromise developed in the early 1870s. The very first bicycle was invented in 1817 and it looked like this:

It had no pedals and the rider would push it along with their feet, the same way toddlers learn to ride bikes today.

In about 1864, a mechanic in france came up with the idea of adding pedals to the front wheel, making the first self-propelled bicycle.

This was a great improvement because it's a lot easier to move and a lot more fun than the Fisher Price version above. It was a big thing for about five years, but there were some drawbacks.

First, because the pedals were directly attached to the front wheel, you couldn't go very fast without moving your legs incredibly quickly, which takes a lot of effort. It also is kind of awkward to steer because your legs are in the way of the wheel.

The other issue was bumps. Roads were not very smooth in the 1870s, most of them were unpaved and full of ruts, potholes, and rocks. And at first there were no rubber tires, just wooden wheels with metal rims. Altogether this made for a very bumpy ride.

The big front wheel, which was made possible by the invention of wire spokes and solid rubber tires, solved all of these problems. A big wheel runs over bumps more easily: think of how rough it is to ride roller skates over bumps in a sidewalk that you would hardly notice on a bike. And the bigger the wheel, the faster you can move with one push of the pedals. Having the seat on top of the wheel, instead of behind, also makes steering less cumbersome.

There are of course drawbacks to this design, in particular being so high up makes it very easy to go over the handlebars if you crash, and more likely to hit your head or break your arm.

Two more inventions helped drive this comical beast into extinction and bring back a more balanced, and safer, bicycle.

The first was the pneumatic tire, which contains a cushion of air, and makes for a much softer ride compared to a solid tire or a metal one. The cushion effect eliminates the need for a big wheel to smooth out the bumps in the road.

The second invention was the sprocket and chain drive. This lets you put the pedals anywhere you want on the bike, and with a big gear at the pedals and a small one at the wheel, you can get more speed out of a small wheel.

The first modern bicycle to combine a sprocket and pneumatic tires was built in 1879. It was an instant hit, not just because it was much less dangerous, but because the low drag profile and the smooth pneumatic tires made for a faster ride, and the trendsetters in cycling, then as now, were the racing community. There have been plenty of innovations and modifications in the years since, from ten-speed gears to carbon fiber frames, but these are all variations on a theme. The basic form of the bicycle has not changed.

The first was that each of us had attacked at least one of the others in print. I had dissed Eco’s book. Umberto had criticized Mario for being too right-wing. Mario had criticized me for being too left-wing.

The second discovery was that we all got on like a house on fire.

It was Umberto who suggested we should now call ourselves The Three Musketeers. (This, remember, was the time of the Three Tenors, Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras.) I remember asking, “Why Musketeers? Why not, for example, The Three Stooges?”

“No,” Umberto insisted. “It has to be Musketeers, because first we were enemies and now we are friends.”