Mascots, games, webcomics...
BTS stuff that exists but about what I don’t have much to say😅
Mascots
Hip Hop Monsters
BTS’ first mascots! Seven black and white animals representing each member. Jin is a wolf, SUGA is a turtle, j-hope is a horse, RM is a duck, Jimin is a cat, V is a monkey and Jung Kook is a rabbit.
Merch has been created and launched during THE RED BULLET concert. There was also a webcomic that has since then been deleted (but you can find the English translation here).
BT21
see this post
TinyTAN
see this post
Games
This section is dedicated to the games centered around BTS. For collaboration between the boys and existing games (Maple Story, Cookie Run...), see this post. For the games featuring the BT21 ou the TinyTAN, see their respective posts above.
Superstar BTS (Twitter)
The first rhythm game about BTS. Service ended in 2020.
Rythm Hive (Twitter)
Another rhythm game, this time featuring songs from all the groups belonging to Hybe.
BTS World
See this post
BTS Universe story (Twitter, website)
A simulation of the BU story. It also offers the possibility to create your own interactive game with BTS.
BTS In the SEOM/BTS island (Twitter, Youtube)
A Candy crush like game with cute design to which BTS participated. SUGA notably made an OST titled “Our island”. The game is also full of easter eggs referencing real interaction between the members ou choreography moves (see this video).
There’s a special MV for “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)” featuring the characters from the game (making-of video). Check this tweet for a translation of the polaroids’ messages.
The CEO and the director of Hybe IM have been interviewed about the game, you can find a summary here.
In 2023, Weverse Magazine released an article about the conception of the game titled “In the SEOM is a tiny island made by BTS and ARMY”.
Webcomics
We On: Be The Shield
A comic that has been deleted where the boys were highschoolers in a sci-fi world. You can still read the English translation here.
花樣年華 Pt.0 Save ME (Webtoon, Twitter)
A webcomic retaling the beginning of the BU story.
7 Fates Chakho (Twitter, Youtube, read)
Someone posted a thread showing the content of the soundtrack album to which the boys participated.
Others
BANGTAN BOMB
See this Google Sheet file
MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E CONCEPT PHOTOBOOK
See this post
Deco Kit
Spot
‘DECO KIT’ Photoshoot Sketch
Naver post
A variety of posters can be seen in the background:
a vintage invitation poster with retro elements: black and white
a “Just be yourself” vintage card
postcards from the 1930 Liège exposition (including a card showing Gand’s beffroi) held by Jin
a Honolulu poster
a retro party poster
a hot dogs poster
j-hope is holding a tin can of Crisps from Bonilla a la Vista and Jung Kook has a copy of Andrew Marr’s My Trade. You can also see a Dyn O’ Mite flipper behind SUGA.
Special 8 Photo-Folio Me, Myself, and
See this post
BEYOND THE STORY : 10-YEAR RECORD OF BTS
Release date: 9 July 2023
Official page
Official Trailer
Pre-Order notice of the Korean version
Quotes from the members (eng)
Tweets
Weverse magazine: “Interview with the Writer & the Editor of BEYOND THE STORY”
‘BEYOND THE STAGE’ BTS DOCUMENTARY PHOTOBOOK : THE DAY WE MEET
Release date : 22 December 2023
Release notice
Poster
Official trailer
Preview Cuts: #1, #2, #3
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Prompt 181
“Hey. Hey Tuck. Tucker. Tuck look. Look.”
Tucker looked over the edge of the screen lazily, the half interested words on his tongue dying as he let out a wheeze of laughter. “Oh my Ancient Sands, dude, how did you manage that?”
Danny had, for the last near year, been trying to mix shapeshifting, thank you Amorpho, with duplication. Something he’d apparently succeeded in today, if the massive fuck-you hydra standing before him was any indication. The very pleased looking, well did it count as a hydra if it had wings too?
“You need to show Sam. Oh my Sands we need to show Val too. And Wes. You did it dude!” He floated up to look at Danny, who did a little twirl to show off. He shook his head, flecks of gold and sand falling from his hair as he laughed.
“Do you think,” Danny lost it in laughter as several other heads echoed his words, from whichever the main him was. “Holy ancients that’s great- do, do you think we can make a dragon club? Hydras are totally dragons right? Do you think we could pull a Tiamat?”
He landed on a head, taking a selfie to add to the groupchat labeled Preparations. “Dude, we should, but let me send this to the others first… But I am so down.”
They can, in fact apparently, pull a Tiamat- with a little help from Princess Dora, practice in front of Frostbite in case something goes wrong, and some advice from Pandora on controlling extra limbs.
Honestly, who is going to want to mess with Amity when there’s a giant dragon? And hey, maybe they can break the barrier now!
The heads for those wondering who I was thinking of for each lol And perhaps what they might all get
((1) Kwan, Pressurized Water) ((2) Wes, Sonic Blast) ((3) Sam, Poison Gas) ((4) Star, Plasma)
((5) Danny, Ice Breath) ((6) Paulina, Acid) ((7) Tucker, Electricity) ((8) Valerie, Fire Breath) ((9) Dash, Pressurized Wind)
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Because the “shrodinger’s queerbait” nonsense will never go away, indulge me an analogy (and a long post).
wlw ships are the “made from scratch” cake in a world where we only ever expect cake mix from the box.
Say you have a show where, in the first interaction between a male and female character, there is a red box. It could be a Betty Crocker box of cake mix. Because all it takes is just one smile — one wink — one raised eyebrow— and the fans don’t question it. We’re clearly making a cake here. The box is red.
Meanwhile, you have two female characters building their own relationship that have elements that could build to romance. There are eggs in the fridge. A few more episodes, there’s flour in the pantry. Sugar. Baking powder. Queer fans start whispering…we could be making a cake here. Other fans scoff “you will read into anything. They’re just eggs! Everyone has eggs in their fridge!” Maybe so, maybe not. They are written off as discrete ingredients, nothing to see here.
That red box is still sitting in the pantry. Obviously we’re going with that one, and it’s definitely cake mix. That guy and girl stood next to each other again.
The wlw relationship is now full-on batter. It was a cake recipe all along, but it’s not baked yet. The crowd that wrote off every ingredient is now saying the writers are just going to “squander” that box that could be ready-made cake mix or that they’re being “forced” to bake a cake with the very ingredients the writers deliberately bought and put in their pantry.
Now it’s in the oven, the cake is baking. That crowd will still insist it’s forced, or maybe its actually something else, or it’s rushed, or it’s pandering. Whether the writers painstakingly built a pantry to make the cake they truly wanted or they were cultivating good ingredients and realized they had the fixings for a more decadent cake and went there, it doesn’t matter. It’s still a recipe. One that fans who always have to piece together ingredients had hoped for or saw from the get-go, despite being scoffed at and disparaged. Just because that crowd didn’t see (or refused to see) those ingredients as part of a whole, doesn’t make it any less of a recipe.
And wlw fans shouldn’t have to keep writing essays to demonstrate that the wlw “cake” has all the ingredients every cake mix does, or keep pointing out that fans were ready to believe a cake was being baked when they saw a nondescript box, but that they’ll do anything to discredit or doubt the cake from scratch that’s now cooling off on the counter.
It is partly a function of heteronormativity from the audience in immediately seeing romance in any whisper of interaction between m/f characters and passing off all charged interactions between female characters are sisterly or platonic. And it also comes from writers, who are either being cautious so as not to spook corporate overlords or audiences, or who are preserving plausible deniability.
To take the analogy further, box cake mix is fine! It works! It is, practically speaking, what a lot of folks know by default. I thought I was a Duncan Hines girl once myself. Vanilla cake mix has the ingredients measured out, it’s a safe bet, it tastes like cake.
But it doesn’t mean every red box is cake mix. And it doesn’t make the cake that had to be pieced together from scratch due to censorship, caution, time, narrative build-up, what-have-you, any less of a cake.
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Making myself laugh at an au where it’s Peter Parker, became a vigilante at age 10, has been one for like 16 years now, so 26 years old max. and still, inexplicably, has his identity a complete secret, and so his file with SHIELD, if they knew him, should have stuff about him having spider abilities and a healing factor and a spider sense that helps him sense danger even without seeing it, etc
And so Spiderman thinks that his file, because they don’t know anything, just looks like a ton of question marks
But instead, it’s full of their observations that they’re 100% sure are correct based on misunderstandings and misconceptions, and that file just keeps leading to wild rumors, which end up just hiding Spiderman’s identity better, so the file’s like:
Spiderman must be about 50+, clearly knows how to fight, knows First Aid, has trouble working with others, knows military lingo (he figured it out as a kid due to various vigilante situations that put him near them), is clearly trained (they mostly think this because of the experience he picked up and because of his spidey sense), is a genius super scientist who makes his own equipment (this parts true but they don’t know he’s been mutated, they think it’s all equipment), etc
So they’re all like, obviously, Spiderman used to work for SHIELD or something (maybe there’s a rumor or they did actually used to use a weaker version of the soldier serum on agents, so they all think at most Spidey has weak super strength), definitely a government scientist at the very least, went on the run as lone wolf soldier after he witnessed some corruption*, maybe the government even killed off his family when he refused to do something corrupt, and now he wears bright clothes because he’s sick of working in the shadows, etc
(*misunderstanding based on the fact that one of the reasons why Spidey refuses to join SHIELD is because of how often it gets revealed that Hydra infiltrated it but then it gets covered up, and it’s getting covered up because they don’t want citizens to lose faith in SHIELD, like I have no doubts every single time Nick Fury is going out there and getting rid of them all, but to outsiders it just looks like SHIELD refuses to take accountability and is covering it up because they’re still there, and Peter’s Jewish ass can’t take any chances with that)
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