Taemin and Bataille (a match made in eroticism).
Quotes from Bataille's work :
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.
I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.
In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?
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I know we are happy we survived the Tae drought, but I think we should mostly be celebrating the fact that he survived through this despite the shock it gave to his system. It's so admirable and I hope he eventually is proud of himself for getting through it.
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In regards to Taemin's Guilty concept, I think there is a wider lens to consider when looking at it.
Yes, it is about personal pain and reclaiming dark and ugly parts of himself, but it's also how these parts represent a revolution, his way of revolution. The parallels between Bataille's work and his message are plenty. He knows his eroticism is a source of horror and discomfort to others and maybe to himself, but that's why it's so pleasurable to dive into it. It's the way to shatter the norms of the outside world, but also his inner world.
Eroticism is his look into the dark, into the abyss in a way that permits the reflection of everything underneath the surface and helps bring back to the surface the consciousness of what can usually stay subconscious.
Eroticism is his way of fighting back against everything he believes in while simultaneously embodying everything he (and we) despises. It is a revolution on pain, love and everything in between.
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If Taem can go Georges Bataille on us, he can collab with Sufjan. As Suf commented on self-reflexively, they can be poster children of sadness and solitude together.
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Watched the fanmeeting live while buzzed and tipsy, then had to recover the next day. All this to say, I am still convinced Taemin isn't real.
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Happy birthday to my cancer bro, the one I share an almost identical birth chart with, the one I almost shared the same exact birthday with, my cosmic twin, the one I feel an unexplainable connection with and finally, the one I hate and l*ve the most in this world.
I hope you are healthy. I hope you know how much love there is in the world for you. I hope you know how special and worthy you are. I hope you know you are everything.
I hope you know.
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I am so happy he did The Rizzness on stage because it permitted him to show off his dance roots with all the popping and isolation moves. It feels satisfying.
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I laughed at how much Taemin enjoyed seeing this message. https://www.tumblr.com/taemmin/726727764300939264
Ofc he loved it! He is not joking when he says he is possessive over his fans and wants them to love him more than anything else 🙄
That person though is guilty of stroking Tae's ego like that as if we need him to be even more COCKee ugh.
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