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“i have never understood those tea things,” taesuk agreed, “they always seem to have people promote them who post about working out all day and then want them to act as if some random fake tea is what keeps them in shape.”

“do it,” tae agreed, “i dye my hair just to go with something i want to wear sometimes, i do it so often. every now and then the fans that wait in front of spotlight stare at me in confusion as if they’re supposed to know who i am.”

“i swear those things are a scam, if people want to look cute in glasses just by the frames,” taesuk shrugged. he spent more time squinting at a seam with his face only a couple inches from fabric than staring at a computer, but he figured the two were similar enough. “could you just make text and all those things just a little bigger so your eyes aren’t as strained?”

“congratulations and everything,” taesuk looked over as he spoke, “and i mean this in the nicest way possible, but that sounds exhausting. i have no idea how you guys keep up with promoting with that busy of schedules, it looks insane.”

taesuk sighed as he glanced up at blair, “you know, that’s probably not wrong but it’s also boring.”

“you’re technically not wrong,” he sighed quietly, “i just kinda figured that working as a stylist for them counted as a time and place for not just wearing a boring button-up.”

“yeah i’m not sure it’s fair either,” tae huffed, before he started to laugh softly, “then again, i don’t think i’d ever be able to pull a you and wear no shirt at all.”

taesuk looked up at josie when he heard the compliment, her kind words actually slightly catching him off guard after knowing that he was being a little too negative. even he knew that. “oh, thank you,” he returned her smile, “i guess it must be against some rule, but it’s not the first time i’ve worn a shorter sweater to work and no one cared, they knew what i look like when they hired me.”

“i dunno, i guess i hoped they wouldn’t care enough to pay attention to what i was wearing anyway, it’s not like i have any of the important titled like they do,” he didn’t stop himself from rolling his eyes at her other comment, knowing that there was more than a little truth to it. “god i hate how you’re not wrong, sometimes i wonder why they even brought me on if they want to still do the same thing for their girl groups almost every time.”

“... did your extensive history at spotlight tell you that?” taesuk asked, drawing a blank on if the other man had ever been there at all. he focused on the girl groups anyway, but he still doubted he had ever remembered duckie being a former traxx member or something before he had gotten there.

“this is ridiculous,” taesuk tugged down at the end of the button up he had just added under the slightly short sweater he was wearing the whole day, up until one of the many people above him disdainfully told him to ‘cover up.’ “half of what spotlight pays me to do is put their artists in crop tops,” he huffed, “but when i do it, it’s weird?”

“first of all, i don’t know what made you think that all suits are stuffy and uncomfortable, but you’ve clearly been looking at the wrong ones,” taesuk didn’t bother to hide the disdain from his voice at the comment, but then again, sometimes he had to remind himself that thinking suiting was exciting wasn’t exactly a popular opinion. tae shrugged slightly, “i can think of some off the top of my head but you’d have to suck up international shipping. i really don’t understand how some tailors can call themselves ‘well rounded’ when they can only fit tall skinny masc guys.”