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I don't think we know the season, but they met during the school year.

HERE IS THE YUNGI ORIGIN STORY, pieced together from various sources:

Yunho and Mingi both attended the Joy Dance and Plug-In Music Academy, but different branches: Mingi attended the Incheon branch and Yunho attended the branch in Gwangju. Yunho then transferred to Incheon to attend the prestigious SOPA (School of Performing Arts) in Seoul and lived with his grandparents during that time.

An instructor at their dance academy essentially set Yunho and Mingi up on a blind date, thinking Mingi could be a friend to Yunho, who was new to the area. According to Mingi, they met at the academy and instantly hit it off, and a few hours later they were at an internet cafe playing FIFA. Mingi and Yunho agree they've never warmed up to someone that fast.

As you may know, Yunho courted Mingi (😁) by visiting him at his school during their lunch break and treating him to a beef bbq meal worth about 100,000 won.

Mingi transferred schools a lot during his youth, and he eventually ended up transferring from Baekseok High School to Suju High School, which was closer to SOPA (about a 35 min bus ride, down from over an hour bus ride, according to google maps).

He and Yunho would regularly get meals together. Here is Mingi talking about the early days of their friendship. I'm inferring from this clip that Yunho bought Mingi a lot of those meals.

credit @yungilovr

I speculate that there were other reasons for his transfer, but here is a former classmate of Mingi sharing that one of Mingi's reasons was to be closer to Yunho:

The rest of the story is well known: they each auditioned for KQ without the other knowing, and called the night before to wish each other luck.

They both passed the audition but Yunho joined before Mingi, becoming the second trainee at KQ. Mingi initially became a trainee at Maroo Entertainment, but he joined KQ about a month later after talking to Yunho. One of the funny bits of their lore is that Mingi claims Yunho tempted him by saying KQ had no set schedule, but when Mingi showed up on his first day, he found that they had a very intense schedule. He was tricked!

Today, Mingi credits Yunho for his debut with Ateez, calling him a "savior-like entity" in his life. They have continued to grow their relationship, overcoming challenges and obstacles together.

anyway, that’s how the internet spends a year speculating that ilya rozanov and cliff marleau have explored each others bodies. they are so all over each other and constantly tweeting gay shit about each other that ilya’s time with shane barely even gets a second glance. the first time ilya drags shane out to meet cliff, a photo gets posted on twitter and everyone is like “poor shane having to third wheel these two #ally”.

Kaz: Gift-giving. Come on. Try to argue with this. TRY.

Inej: Acts of service. Again, TRY to argue.

Jesper: Physical touch. The number of times he's hugged people in the duology is insane.

Wylan: Quality time. That man organises the best dates ever. Also gifting, because he probably composes for his friends regularly.

Nina: Physical touch and words of affirmation. She regularly uplifts Inej and Matthias in the duology, and she's also pretty clingy imo.

HwaGi - Troublemaker

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.