#exo study

[starrysharks]

jan - april - september - november

2023 was my purple period if you will heheheheheh

#zeno's art #old art #yea i know exo-plosion isnt really purple WHO CARES #anyway i used a lot of colors this year but also a lot of purple. next year i want to use lots of different colors #of course next year theres gonna be a lot less art in the first half because i'll be non-stop studying #but still look forward to next year #because thats the year i want to start properly working on my oc projects

[hyakunana]

That Sword wailing like a banshee seeking vengeance, carrying the weight of thousands of lost souls.

Bonus:

Me: Although it would be nice to see Elsie with Lament, I also understand the sword was designed by her grandfather to his own exo version and so it's something she shouldn’t—

Fortnite collab, basically:

#destiny #destiny 2 #destiny the game #bungie #destiny art #elsie bray #elisabeth bray #exo stranger #hunter guardian #the young wolf #thx fortnite for my life but i still wont play it jxckvxbiv #i'll just save in my phone and brain the elsie holding the lament dot jpg #the real reason alfa the hunter is afk from this season since the showcase lmao #nah but for real tho i am playing the season w my hunter bc i main her and im terrible w warlock - i just change for the comics #took a while working on those pieces bc i used them to study lighting ay #also fish the pouka is a must in my any other elsie works 8DDD i just love sayin fish the pouka ok #i hope fish the pouka doesn't turn on us pls they cute af #WHICH BTW SPEAKIN OF ELSIE WORKS if u readin the tags until here listen up #i made a bet with //badumts// destiny regarding me dropping vex mytoclast finally this week and uh... i made a poll on twitter #depending on the result i shall adapt either the dark future or legacy's lament as comic #not sure if i'll do the WHOLE book or just a chapter but i gave my word on that #so yea maybe u guys could check it out and drop a vote as well? it ends next tuesday the 27th

[yakny]

A TERRIBLE NIGHT IS COMING (WARNING)

#colored explorations‚ studies‚ and experiments #sonic #YOUR WORLD OF YESTERDAY #silver the hedgehog #HSADFKGajdxfkdsksf!!! #if you know about EXO's obsession era then you KNOW why these two images of silver together is making me laugh ToT #can't lie‚ i didn't plan on this. i just looked at the references and thought silver would look good in exo's poses and outfits. #and i was right 😌💅... my loser boy is about to get absolutely obliterated by his evil clone‚ x-silvër 😭😭😭—! #(he would TOTALLY listen to exo. and starset. point is: #silver the hedgehog🤝 amy rose: listening to exo and starset. change my mind.)

[theallmightylizard]

A study of my Exo guardian from Destiny!!

#my art #art #digital art #destiny guardians #destiny hunter #destiny #Exo #destiny 2 #art study

[zephyrdagonheart]

I've been working on a more semi-realistic style, and as such I decided to practice my faces.

Of course, we have Crow here on the left, but also @souhdestiny2's Warlock, Valerian Tremaine, or Val for short. I've been meaning to draw him for a while now, so I decided to do a quick doodle of him. :)

#destiny 2 #destiny #destiny the game #art #destiny art #fanart #destiny oc #warlock #not my oc #sketch #study #art study #face study #i wanna get around to drawing Orli too #but i suck at drawing exos so idk when i will lol

[rainebowevee]

#2023 #art study #portrait study #CHEN exo #kim jongdae

[studywithdra]

afternoon work and bujo ☕️📝

#studyblr #studies #studying #bujo #bulletjournal #productivity #notes #suho exo #art #medblr #premed

[cheekblush]

i was honored as the best student from my class at yesterday's graduation and today exo dropped a new album truly the best graduation gift i could possibly ask for <3

#i'm so happy 🥰 #i've been dancing in my room the whole day already listening to exo's album <3 #i have 3 weeks of vacation now so i can finally have some downtime after all this studying #going on a trip with a beloved friend in a few days 💗 #i'll be working 40 hours a week soon so i gotta make the most of these 3 weeks off #i had so much fun at my graduation i felt beautiful and i really didn't expect to be the best of my class i was so shocked #my friend took so many great pictures of me i'm contemplating on sharing some on here but i'm not sure i'm comfortable with that #i got a 40€ amazon gift card for being an honor student so now i can finally buy some things from my wishlist 🥰 #☁️

[lisaken]

Daydreaming

#exo #exol #study aesthetic #study #final exams #lofihiphop #lofimusic #lofi #kdrama #anime #studio ghilibi #slice of life #study movitation #aestethic #book #bookworm #dental medicine #dentistry #medical school #kpop #kpop aesthetic #exo aesthetic

[a9saga]

I started typing this whole thing on mobile and couldn't figure out how to put a break in and I refuse to update the app. Fuck it. You are scrolling past this whole damn thing. Unfollow me. This is all I'm gonna be talking about for the next two weeks.

Exo needs to break up. They have needed to break up. That was my hot take I had been saying I'd eventually share but I never got around to it, and now it's a lot more apparent. Not that I thought this was going to happen. I thought that when I finally posted this, someone might be mad about it, but in wake of CBX's lawsuit I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear it.

I was sure exo members were done suing SM entertainment a long time ago. It's been 9 years since Kris and Luhan filed their lawsuits, both of whom won. It's been 8 years since Tao's hiatus, and almost 8 since he filed his lawsuit months later, which he ended up losing despite never rejoining exo. I became a fan of exo during Call Me Baby promotions when Tao was still dancing with a broken leg. I was 15 at the time, about to turn 16. EXO scandals were extremely fresh and ongoing. But those three are so far in the past now. Lay quietly decided not to renew recently, but he hadn't been able to appear with the group for 5 years so, yeah. No surprise. But I really thought it was all done when EXO-M was done for.

Well, I can tell you why I'd been thinking for a while EXO should break up. It's because they're really a thing of the past, and essentially after Love Shot, it felt like there was nowhere to go from there.

That felt like the last breath of their 5 year long prime. Don't get me wrong, it was awesome. EXO have hit after hit after hit, think of the absolute best most addictive song by your favorite pop artist, and EXO have a discography of mostly those. But they haven't grown and changed artistically or commercially as a group. They've been around 11 years, they're in their 30s now, and I don't even think most of them have the heart to revitalize their prime like Super Junior did after their military hiatus was over. Maybe a couple of them have it in them to do the pop star thing for their entire careers, but I didn't think that like, Sehun or Chanyeol were necessarily passionate about creating new music for the rest of their career. Chen has a family now and that's also something I'd like the rest of exo to afford without their huge commercial group getting in the way of that. The only one I felt for sure would not be done anytime soon was Baekhyun. I thought he'd be the new Kangta of the group, sticking around when EXO were dormant and fizzled out. I never thought SM would actually let them break up, like H.O.T did when I was a baby. But yeah, Baekhyun leaving shocks me the most. Not that I blame him. I do fully believe the allegations made in the lawsuit as SM have had such a shady reputation.

Looking at SM's pre-EXO boy groups, one might say EXO were the main successor to Super Junior, because, obviously, both groups debuted with 12 people. Large groups like that weren't really a thing in kpop before Super Junior debuted. Additionally, Han Geng of Suju was one of the first Chinese kpop idols. In 2008, two more Chinese members were added to the sub unit Super Junior-M, which released Mandarin versions of pre-existing and original Korean Super Junior songs. Hm, this sounds familiar. I only just built up a better case for the EXO/SJ argument. Diana and I talk about this sometimes though; I once made an argument that I think EXO was more a successor to TVXQ/DBSK (Tong Vfang Xien Qi/Dong Bang Shin Ki), which I would have forgotten saying if she never brought up that one time i said it ever again.

In July of 2009, JYJ threw the first brick at SM Entertainment I mean TVXQ's members Kim "Hero" Jaejoong, Park "Micky" Yoochun and Kim "Xiah" Junsu filed a lawsuit against SM for contract termination, claiming they had been coerced into slave contracts as minors. They were 22-23 at the time, TVXQ having debuted on December 26th, 2003. The three of them won the lawsuit, signed to C-Jes Entertainment and formed the new group, JYJ, of just the three of them. It was assumed the original five piece was dead by that point, but surprisingly, in 2010, Jung "U-Know" Yunho and Shim "Max" Changmin chose to stay at SM and continue TVXQ as a duo.

This whole thing is arguably the most significant scandal in the 30-year history of SM. TVXQ had been SM's biggest success to date and some argue they and Boa still are. Your faves wouldn't have cracked Japan without the efforts of those two, and if kpop didn't reach Japan in the early 2000s, the entertainment industry in a small East Asian country wouldn't have become huge across the entire planet---and frankly, if TVXQ hadn't been big internationally, they'd have been done for because SM had them blacklisted from Korean television for a decade.

Han Geng of Super Junior actually did file for contract termination shortly after JYJ did, also for mistreatment. As did Luhan, Tao and Kris as we've already acknowledged. But all four of them could move to the entertainment industry in China. Sure, you're always going to lose something by leaving as big a group as EXO, Super Junior or TVXQ, but SM hasn't been sued by its Korean idols since JYJ. Baekhyun, Xiumin and Chen know that they're putting at least as much on the line. And now, like TVXQ, more than half of EXO are no longer in the group, and the majority of the run for the both of them has had this cloud of mistreatment over their reputations. They were also both so unstoppably huge and popular.

I was in elementary school for DB5K's prime, and there were fans of kpop in the west but I can't tell you what their success across Asia looked like as someone who wasn't there. But I can tell you, between 2015-2016 when kpop gradually started to become very big, EXO for a time were bringing in more people to kpop than A Particularly Famous Group in the West I Have No Interest in Naming Because I Don't Want Their Fucking Fans Derailing My Post With Unrelated Discourse While I'm Not Even Talking About Them. Just believe me there was a time when EXO were way more popular in the west than Said Band I Decline to Specify, the eclipse that happened was gradual, and to my understanding EXO continued to be the biggest thing in Asia despite that another one eventually cracked America more and I'm not denying that they did. Point is, EXO coming first was important to all of that, because I and several others wouldnt have heard of the one kpop group if EXO didnt get us all into kpop first from 2013-15/16.

That all said now, this was all very much not how I'd wanted EXO to actually end. This is crashing and burning. Much like TVXQ, EXO is not going to be able to have a reunion after this, because they'll never receive SM's blessing to work together. I mean, EXO-M never would. 12 member EXO hardly lasted for two years though and their prime was very new when people started leaving, so to be honest, I don't know if the kids getting into EXO in the 2020s would really care to see Luhan, Tao, and Someone Sitting In Prison Whose Name I've Uttered More Than I'd Like To.

But in a similar vain, while DB5K originally split into two, JYJ are all off in different directions now. Yoochun was fired. Junsu left C-Jes and made his own label. Jaejoong did the same recently. Could you tell I listen TVXQ? But yeah, now that there are more than 3-4 people departed from EXO, they've got former members going in a lot of different directions. Someone already said it but I hope Xiumin follows Luhan back now. Back in my day Xiuhan were so cute.

Also, since I managed not to slip this into the post anywhere.... these guys have been showing up to work. Every damn day they've been showing up to work, that's another reason why it's so shocking. Chen dropped a song days ago and Baekhyun has been doing shows, posting dance practices, EXO have been appearing together for their 11th anniversary and supposed upcoming comeback. Whaaat a slap in the face. I support CBX 100% though and you should too.

#in this essay i will reveal i know too much about the history of sm ent #also i didnt state this but i think nct were more sj's successor than exo was #the premise of nct was a group w 40 members which as a concept breaks industry norms like sj did #but similarly while suju was meant to be a rotation group of members coming and going that failed #and so did nct's 40 members bc its own fans eventually boycotted the adding of more members which sj did too #thats my last hot take of the post i promise #sorry for the lack of a read more break but i didnt study kpop boy bands as a teen for my work to be overlooked at a time like this #exo #sm #chen #baekhyun #xiumin #kim jongdae #byun baekhyun #kim minseok #exo cbx #shut up kaily #ps i dont want exo to promote as 5 it would suck

[hyakunana]

A reverie of what could have been...

#destiny #destiny 2 #destiny the game #destiny art #bungie #banshee 44 #eva levante #exo stranger #elsie bray #elisabeth bray #the young wolf #hunter guardian #fanart #comic #THEIR HUG IN LEGACY'S LAMENT LIVES IN MY MIND SINCE BEYOND LIGHT AND THE TIME HAS COME I FINALLY DREW IT #I remember i've been cocooning this idea in my mind for a long time but without banshee remembering her #then i rewatched the lost lament quest for character study and holycrap with the right triggers he can remember things aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAA #dont touch me guys im emotional #ghost: guardian are you really sure this is a good idea? he's still... yknow #guardian: hes not clovis shut up let them have one (1) good time #now i do hope i get some ana and rasputin updates bc im not confident enough to mess with that plot line #speakin of ana i know elsie's mistake in DF is keeping secrets from ana but lets agree on not letting her know about banshee #me concepting this comic: i gonna give elsie a new outfit 8D / during flat: i hate everything including myself

[yakny]

Undercover Agent in Practice, Struggling in Theory

#a few shadows to fill my blog in the mean time ଘ(੭｡•̀ᵕ•́｡)੭ #colored explorations‚ studies‚ and experiments #sonic #shadow the hedgehog #(i really love using the EXOs for their pose references :'D they just have a bit of everything for me)

[mist-cat]

Anatomy study + my guardians - Manticore-17 and Kite Kite's actually exercising, Manticore just l o u n g e s like that.

#Destiny 2 #My art #art #digital art #OC: Manticore-17 #OC: Kite #Destiny 2 OCs #exo #robot #awoken #anatomy study #practice n stuff

[ispaintingcalmly]

Kai doodle :"

#Jongin #Kim Jongin #EXO #EXO fanart #artist on tumblr #art study #kai fanart #jongin fanart #calm vibes #step by step #wips

[ash-rigby]

I got my second covid booster today and I still urge everyone who can to get as inoculated as possible. Covid isn’t gone as much as we all wish it was and these vaccines are your best bet at not getting seriously ill if you get it. Stay safe💜

#text #not exo #i was finally eligible for the bivalent vaccine so I booked that shit as soon as i could #especially given the scare I had with that head cold a couple weeks ago #i'm at school in a program with like 20 people and we all take the same classes/labs at the same time #and it just RIPPED through all of us #so i'm taking no chances going forward #got my booster and i'll be getting my flu shot as usual probably over my study break

[dailyexo]

Suho - 230312 Translator and acting coach Samkobox's Instagram update

Credit: hi_study_life_12.

#EXO #EXO K #Suho #230312 #exo im #exo k im #suho im #230312 boa #instagram #fs:hi study life 12 #comeback:Fight