yes no ho hi

But it thoroughly kills me when I see supposed queer accs say this. Like…how privileged and removed from reality do you have to be? Ngl this is the type of shit some white queers from western countries be saying, living in their own bubble online or have been blessed with a supportive family that they take for granted. These are also the same types of people who refuse to acknowledge queerness or sexuality if not said explicitly out loud.

Being queer is a stigma. There are countries including ones who’ve legalized gay marriage where people are being killed as we speak for their sexuality. Homophobia is everywhere and countries like Korea is so seeped in conservatism that there are korean trump supporters marching with american flags at their protests. I’m not going to speak on xlov’s ceo or company, in the end this is a business and they took a risk banking on xlov being successful.

But to Wumuti, Rui, Hyun, Haru this is obviously not just a concept. This is their lives, this is their way of expressing who they truly are, and the main reason they’ve gone this far with it is because the lgbtq+ community noticed what they were doing and accepted them. Rui’s sister even mentioned how she once heard a woman she knew make a discriminatory remark about Rui. If this was for a successful cashgrab, the idol industry would’ve pushed a group like this a long time ago. They’ve already capitalized on fanservice but a concept like xlov makes things too real. Xlov knows this, knows what people say about them, and have gone all in anyway.

Xlov: All of them use all pronouns, Rui is a "prince/princess" depending on the day, Wumuti actively avoids gendered terms for the lovies, haru/haruself, Muti says all pronouns but the days she looks pretty is " she" (always), Wumuti using Uchi-wa while addressing herself, Google changed description from "boy group" to "musical group" (similar to what they did with XG), Rui is the birthday girl, official interview subtitles exclusively using they/them for the members, use of the nonbinary emoji, expressing things that are very similar to trans individuals' experience, allowing people to tell them their preferred name at album signings, Wumuti is okay with all Korean honorifics,

Shoma, on this photo: It is now 10:17 PM.

in case you don't know what shoma means by saying it's 10.17 pm:

in no order.

1. I'll Be Here in The Morning - Townes Van Zandt

2. Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me - Mississippi John Hurt

3. Let The Sun Shine Down on Me - Jean Ritchie

4. I Am With You - Ty Segall

5. Mama Got The Blues - C.W. Stoneking

6. Drivin' Nails In My Coffin - Ernest Tubb

7. Ocean Planet - Gojira

8. Road Drum - Mozart Gabriel

9. Khala My Friend - Amanaz

10. Moon Over Montana - Jimmy Wakely

11. Southern Constellations - Pierce The Veil

12. Rosemary - The Good Gollies

13. The Strawberry Roan - Marty Robbins

14. Saviour - Lights

15. Minotaur - Thee Oh Sees

I tag: @adventurecat13 @la-cocotte-de-paris @laurelcanyon1966 @lizabethscotts @archivedspaces @cameo-locket @la-dichotomie @perpulchra @lesbian-moon-gf @christinarossettis @youreaghostlove @edwardian-girl-next-door @milk-and-violets @southcarolinagoddess @lordansketil @boyphelia

15 songs on repeat (shuffled)

p.h. - SEVENTHLINKS

Monitoring - Deco*27

Dappou Rock - Neru

Baby You're a Haunted House - Gerard Way

Hibikase - Giga

Your Love - The Outfield

Cinema - Ayase

Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy - Fall Out Boy

Lucid Dreaming - naïveP

There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet - Panic! At the Disco

Sailor Moon - Plantina Jazz

JITTERBUG - Kuriyama Yuri

Prom Night - Anamanaguchi

Because the Night - Bruce Springsteen

Dramaturgy - Eve

15 Songs I've had on Repeat

And not just according to my Spotify On Repeat, that's boring. And I wanted to include non-recent songs too.

1 of Lov (XLOV)

One Of A Kind (Weathers)

Bottom Is A Rock (Mother Mother)

JUICE (SHINee)

Paper Cuts (EXO-CBX)

Heaven For You (CHEN)

Holy Water (TAEMIN)

Believe (Hollywood Undead)

Lie (BTS)

Power (EXO)

In Love With Myself (Weathers)

Next Semester (Twenty One Pilots)

Talk to a Friend (Rain City Drive)

BLEEP (Stray Kids)

Thanks for the tag @iamyourwayout

Pick your trope tag

| coffee shop or flower girl | au or fix-it | enemies to lovers or childhood friends | angst or fluff | love at first sight or pining | modern au or historic au | break up & make up or proposal & wedding | get together or established relationship | soulmates or unrequited | fake dating or secret dating | obvious pining or domestic fluff | hurt / comfort or crack | meet the parents or meet cute |

Pick your trope!

| coffee shop or flower girl (I don't like either lol)| au or fix-it | enemies to lovers or childhood friends | angst or fluff | love at first sight or pining | modern au or historic au | break up & make up or proposal & wedding | get together or established relationship | soulmates or unrequited | fake dating or secret dating | obvious pining or domestic fluff | hurt / comfort or crack | meet the parents or meet cute |

Thank you, @hippodameia, for the tag. Oceans of love.

Thanks for tagging me, @sigurism 🥰💛 I didn't include my homescreen due to personal content, but here's my lockscreen (gorgeous Sandman art by @alexzpaintings) which has been unchanged for 2+ years, and most recent song!

Thank you @marlowe-zara for the tag!

Here they go:

Tagging @herpsandbirds @ink-the-artist @deeplyenchantedsabotage @wolf-and-raven-dreaming @writing-for-life @avelera @dreamyhopes @dreamaturgy @seadeepspaceontheside @stardustdreamling

And everyone else who wants to

(my lock screen actually cycles through 12 different images, so I'm just going to use the one that showed up when I unlocked my phone)

Anyway here goes. Lockscreen pic was taken by ME, wallpaper is Yuri on Ice Fanart by Alex Siple.