Madeleine Bialke

Glass-Girl, 2021

Just so happens I have a gay on the phone so. Kev says:

Kookmin or Mingguk have actually been referred to as The Open Secret publicly. Bitch cannot immediately provide me with a source though so it doesn’t count, like I’m just supposed to publish that without receipts? Fuck off Kevin. But he says they have and I’m supposed to just be like fine dude cool. Disregard the gay until he comes at me with a link.

Whether they’ve been called that in relatively public circles or not, the spirit of the idea is correct. Everybody kinda knows but “nice people don’t talk about their private lives in public”.

To give you an idea, Kevin says you are almost never gonna get an invite to share a meal or stay overnight in a traditional Korean person’s home. Parties happen but privacy is so key that most social meetings take place in a public place. And queer relationships exist but simply are not discussed because it’s considered rude to talk about such things.

However, when he has heard it discussed in more private settings, it’s in a wink wink nudge nudge manner. Nobody really believes these dudes aren’t boning. He says the neck kink and constant proximity thing is very telling but more than that it’s how they speak to each other. Korean is an honorific-laden contextual language that translates to English more in blocks of ideas than in precise words. And the Minggukies speak to each other intimately using words that signify, well, intimacy. Honorifics are routinely dropped or even reversed and he says the reversal is a Thing, like, it’s not done unless you are Loud AF. Also the caretaking that goes on would be nbd if it was Jimin doing it, but Jeongguk is a loud little shit when he does the same to his hyung. And you will notice he does not take care of the others that way generally.

Long story short, Jiminie’s behavior is a bit more on point socially because he is older but Jungkook has never given a fuck about a closet. And Kevin says nobody he knows is confused about those tattoos. That Koo got them to begin with was kinda edgelord of him but there is no bullshit theory in which the J does not stand for Jimin. Everyone knows. There’s a reason he is never asked to explain. Imagine that.

are you working on music constantly?

🐥 i get inspiration from my daily life or conversations with close people, but i wasn’t able to work much because i’ve been isolated for a while. recently, i’ve been doing this and that while receiving vocal coaching from jungkook

translation credit: @/minkookfolders

🐥the process is both hard and fun. jungkook is doing well as the main vocalist, so we talk and we worry about things together. having those kind of conversations and concerns make me happy

🐥jimin

That’ll be a first - man and dinosaur all die together.

THIS HAPPENED SO LONG AGO WHY AM I STILL THIS EMOTIONAL

The level of vulnerability, the intimacy between these two young men. 

JK cries, JM comforts him.

And then they kind of part ways, JK walks away from JM.

JM looks in his direction and that’s when JK turns around and sees JM.

That moment.  That exact moment was how I knew in my heart that JM was JK’s person.  The one he trusts the most in the world.  The one he can fall apart with and know that will ALWAYS be there for him, even at his worst or at his most vulnerable.  The one he can just let go and know will be there to catch him, anchor him down.

And JM, well JM knew.  He knew JK needed him, and he was there for him.  And that look on JM’s face.  As much as I saw just how vulnerable JK was with JM, that is as much as I could see just how much JM adores JK.

Jimin talking about how Jungkook sleeps...

I quit!

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