#hxg

MEGAN TO LARA

This spread shows a friendship that has a deeply genuine, loving foundation, but is currently navigating a heavy period of mental anxiety, mismatched energy, and boundary shifting. Megan cares an immense amount, but she is feeling deeply drained and trapped in her own head about how to handle things.

the 3 of Cups Upright and Strength Upright shows that Megan genuinely values Lara as a true friend. She remembers the fun, the sisterhood, the good times, and she has put a massive amount of patience, quiet effort, and compassion into holding this friendship together through thick and thin. Megan currently feels a massive, exhausting imbalance. She feels like the give-and-take in the friendship is completely one-sided right now, like she is overextending her energy, time, or emotional support and not getting the same reciprocity back. Because Choices is Reversed, she feels completely cornered. She feels like she doesn’t have any good, easy options to fix the dynamic without causing a scene, making her feel trapped in an uncomfortable stalemate.

The 8 of Swords Upright is the card of mental confinement. Megan feels completely paralyzed and anxious about the relationship. She is wearing a self-imposed blindfold, stressing over what to say or do, and feeling like any move she makes might go wrong. Paired with the 9 of Pentacles Reversed, she feels like her personal boundaries, peace, and solo independence are being compromised by the drama. She feels isolated, financially or emotionally depleted, and insecure about her standing. she feels entirely powerless to manifest a smooth fix. She feels like normal communication isn't working, or that the tools she usually uses to smooth things over with Lara have completely failed her.

Megan still holds a massive amount of genuine affection and deep, emotional care for Lara. The friendship hasn't turned cold or dead to her. Because she cares so much, the Knight of Swords Upright shows a powerful, growing urge to just rush in and blurt out the absolute truth. She is reaching a boiling point where she wants to cut through the overthinking, drop the polite act, and have a swift, blunt, and completely honest conversation to clear the air once and for all.

LARA TO MEGAN

​Lara is experiencing a massive emotional fallout. She feels deeply disconnected, fundamentally ungrounded, and lost in an absolute labyrinth of confusion. She is mourning what they used to have, but her energy feels completely blocked from fixing it.

With the Ace of Cups Reversed, Lara feels emotionally drained, empty, and completely blocked. She has shut down her vulnerabilities because she feels too hurt or overwhelmed to engage. The 3 of Cups Reversed directly mirrors Megan's upright version. While Megan is holding onto the nostalgia of the sisterhood, Lara feels the friendship has actively soured or fractured. She feels alienated, excluded, or like the genuine "celebration" of their bond has completely vanished.

Wake Up! Reversed shows she is sitting in deep avoidance or denial. She is refusing to open her eyes to the root cause of the friction because looking at it directly hurts too much.

The 4 of Wands Reversed shows a total loss of stability, security, and peace in their shared environment. She doesn't view the friendship as a safe space anymore; it feels unstable and tense. With The Magician Reversed, she feels completely powerless to fix it. She might feel like communication is being manipulated, or she simply feels she lacks the tools, energy, or capability to manifest a positive turnaround. The 7 of Cups Reversed shows a harsh, exhausting reality check. The idealistic illusions are gone, leaving her feeling utterly overwhelmed by a messy reality she doesn’t know how to navigate. She feels fundamentally altered by this conflict (Changed in the Night Reversed) and can't seem to find her old self within the dynamic.

It’s so frustrating. Hiding behind a bunch of young women and then pushing them from behind… setting every single one of them up to take the brunt of fans’ frustration without letting them speak for themselves abt the situation at all.

If they can do this to Manon then they can do it to every single one of them.

And I MEAN setting them up! Giving Daniela most of Manon’s lines while she’s still getting blamed for her boomer father’s Facebook comments, giving Sophia that canned-ass answer and stopping her from mentioning Manon on stage, making Megan take down her insta story, etc.

They aren’t just negligently allowing the girls to receive hate but are actively making it worse.

Ppl keep trying to say it’s all Geffen and not Hybe but I don’t believe that for a second. Not only am I skeptical about the amount of involvement that Geffen actually has with HxG, but it’s not like Hybe is an antiracist corporation. I’d point my finger at them. Likeeee the booklet calling Manon lazy and selfish was printed in Korea yall. They’ve go their artists singing the n word behind the scenes.

Lowkey their treatment of Manon has me skeptical that a kpop company is capable of successfully managing a multicultural & multiracial group in the US. The old Korean men calling the shots just don’t understand the culture— treating blackness like a trend, inhuman working hours, the value that audiences place on artist involvement in the creative process, etc.

They’ve got the infrastructure but none of the know-how. Plus they seem to expect KATSEYE’s fanbase to act like kpop fans (understand hiatuses, not expect artists to have involvement in the process, etc) but that doesn’t align with the actual composition of their fanbase.

to be clear, none of this is on the girls. they're not responsible for anything that i have an issue with and am about to say. they are a victim of what hxg has done to this group. lara, dani, sophia, yoonchae, megan, and manon are completely guiltless in my distaste for the group.

i have issues with the sexualization of the girls being pushed by hxg (NOT how the girls dress and post, but how HXG presents them on tour, in music, and promo). i'd say it all here, but honestly all my thoughts are summed up in this video.

the second problem i have is the longer i look at this group, the more i think katseye is a marketing stunt. they constantly have brand deals. THEY HAVE MORE BRAND DEALS AND ADS THAN MUSIC. it's the perfect group to market products with, and i think hxg knows that and that's their main goal with katseye. to shove as many brand deals their way as possible so they don't have to make as many songs, or even good songs. and it's tiring. I don't care what they're promoting, i'm here for the music and the girls, and when the music is falling flat (and it is. we all know it is) i'm just there for the girls. and when the "eyekons" critize every goddamn little fucking thing they do, the girls no longer interact. which leaves me with... nothing.

my final straw is the constant ai use. if hxg is willing to use ai to promote music, they won't hesitate to use it during production. i don't care. generative ai use is a line i will not cross.

the manon hiatus was a contributing factor as well- she's been treated like shit from the first episode of dream academy to the hiatus and it's like. hxg if you're going to switzerland specifically for a girl to be in your group, why would you treat her like this? paint her as a villain in your documentary, let the fans bombard her with racism and calling her lazy and untalented (BECAUSE of the doc mind you), give her .5 seconds in the groups first song, hide her in the choreo, constantly omit her from various videos and promos, and then send her on hiatus for almost no discernable reason besides it makes a good pr stunt before coachella. hxg, we're not fucking stupid.

the management and handling of this concept has been an absolute shit show and i'm fucking tired of it. so i can't really listen to pinky up or support this comeback in anyway. it just feels wrong at this point.

Katseye Sophia x Lorcana

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