these pictures were posted on 191029, the day of the last show of the LY:SY tour, with the caption:
Thank you for being with us on this tour
(trans cr: Denise @ bts-trans)
[#Today’sBangtan] Hello, Seoul!
So that we’d love ourselves more than yesterday and today! The lengthy yet short 62-rounds of concerts from LY tour to SY tour! Thank you to the ARMYs who sent their love and support all the way up until the end🥳 Good Bye SY!
#TheFinalConcertRound3 #SYTourTheFinal
Banner Translation*:
Every language that makes you,
is already in paradise
(T/N: *lyrics from Paradise - trans cr: Denise @ bts-trans)
Can we take a moment to talk about Jimin and Jungkook during that So What performance for the LY:SY final? First, the body rolls… send help. But then.. the way Jungkook looked at Mimi and then draw a heart in the air with that fart machine (no idea what it’s called)? Please, his eyes, this moment, it’s just a second but I swear that man is so in love it’s just so freaking cute 😭
LMAO the fog machine that Jimin asked him to pretend to make a fart with 🤣🤣🤣 they really are so cute!!
Was sitting today BTS songs just playing in the background while I'm working on my post. All this shit just happening around us, around JK and JM (yes, JM is part of it, he's also affected by it all), and The truth untold comes up.
This version:
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One of, if not their best performance imo. The emotion just pouring out of them.
This song. It kills me every single time. Brings me to tears every single time. JM turned away from JK singing "and I still want you" in every performance. Well, other than their last 3 in Seoul, changed by them, performed by them, ending facing each other JM singing "but I still want you". Defiant.
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All about the need to wear that mask to hide your true self for fear you might not be loved for who you truly are, that you might be seen as ugly, a monster. And the two of them, changing the staging, turning to each other, looking into each other's eyes, while changing the "and" to "but I still want you"... do people understand this? The enormity of this moment?
And then this song comes up, this performance:
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This was on day 2, while on day 3 we had this:
Omg, my YT logarithm is trying to kill me today.
And got me thinking about this moment we got on day 3 as well.
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This love, people, this chemistry, us not seeing it as often for the lack of BTS ot7 content doesn't mean is gone. It's very much still there. We just aren't as lucky to be able to see them in that one frame as often or even at all. But when we do, there is no denying it. Even if it's for the shortest of moments.
We saw it in 2020 (have people forgot memories 2020 for god sake?)
We saw it in 2021
So much more, so little image allowance... But you can find it all in my masterlist.
We saw it throughout 2022 in their Seoul and LV PTD concerts.
And in JITB even if briefly,
And in Busan and Run BTS episodes.
And we even got a little touch of it in 2023, when there was no way of keeping them out of the frame, like in Jhope's enlistment BTB, D-Day in Seoul and even when not being in one frame, in those lives we got to enjoy when the one joined the other in their comments and even without the other even making that kind of appearance.
Letter, goddamnit.
Oh and then we had JM literally flying across the world to be with JK for his Solo debut (if only GMA concert wasn't cancelled, damn it), and them dipping off for their 4 day private trip in CT.
It's sad how short people's memories are. Really. I am reading all sorts of fanfictions being put forward as "this is what happened with Jikook over the years", stating facts that are not facts, creating non existent drama, because people love the drama.
This is a loving couple in a long term relationship. You know, that boring kind. The stable, loving, filled with respect and no drama. The one where one supports their partner when they are struggling. One where just being with each other is fulfilling (cough JK coming to JM's room in LA just to be with him in the same room for hours cough).
Funny how people are talking about them breaking up 2020-21 during the pandemic when JK literally had a slip of the tongue spilling the beans they live together, they are one household, in Run BTS episode 142 they were each gifted a knife. JK all proud and piping up "we got 2"...
JM just sitting there all quiet, smirk on his face.
Stories about breakups. Stories about sexually experimenting but no actual emotional commitment. All while ignoring the constants. Those things that are just there, all the time, whenever we do get to see them:
That electrical chemistry between those two.
The way they look at each other constant over the years.
The way they talk to each other constant over the years.
The way they touch each other constant over the years.
The way they talk about each other.
The way their interactions are so different from the others or their own with the others.
The way the others are around them, their reaction to Jikook.
All still there!!!
*PS:
I wrote this post yesterday before JK's Radiohead appearance and his TikTok post-delete.
I guess now would be a good time to repeat what the wise @ourwinterspring (yes, I'm mentioning you again, lol) once said (well a couple of days ago, that is):
rosie, do you have A MOMENT™ that no matter what happens and what jikook does, you always come back to this moment? like it's been your no1 moment for months, years, all the time since you've first got into bts.
mine is the last concert in seoul when jungkook was crying and jimin backhugged him, walked with him and literally fucking wiped his tears off with his sweater paw 😭 that really broke me i was screaming crying throwing up for days after i first saw that. and no matter what happens like even after the jungkook was naked in bed and flirting with jimin live i was still thinking about 191029 jikook like lmao i'm gonna be 80 on my deathbed and i will still be like: but do you remember when jimin comforted jungkook that one time-