Because sometimes, closets suck no matter how golden they are.
I loved @kanmom51 's post about this shoot last night and reposted it here but I COULD NOT STOP THINKING SO HERE WE ARE.
The photoshoot, in case you're a baby ARMY or missed it, was for BTS' Rolling Stone cover last year and the actual shot they were working on was from this set:
And we got the right side of the above video first. Cute lil jikook just jikooking, no big deal. I could be wrong, but I think the video above was taken between shots that were meant to be more than the single pic on the couch above - and WE DON'T HAVE OTHER STILLS THAT I CAN FIND from this part of the shoot. If you have other published ones, hit me with 'em. I want the full set.
Because now Memories 2021 has been released online and arrived at a mailbox or two and Peaches got to work (wisely not translating a damn thing this year, GOOD FOR HER) and THIS HAPPENED
Kids, this is not a gay-panicky little Koo like we have seen in years past.
This man has been warned to move his tattooed, ring-finger-bared hand, out of frame or at least out of view. AND HE IS PISSED OFF.
And I took screen shots. Hi, Hobi in the blue shirt! Hey, Taehyung totally off camera on the couch!
Everything was fine until that second, when someone - maybe Jimin, but possibly off-camera - told Koo to change position, I think. He was literally JUST TALKING and ...
"...oh here we go with the homophobic bullshit AGAIN..." he seems to be thinking.
Say what you want about Jeon Jungkook but he usually does what Jeon Jungkook wants, goddammit, unless or until his job or his man puts on the brakes.
He cannot believe the audacity. Tell a grown ass free human to unhand his own spouse, what kind of heinous fuckery is this? He no longer wants to even LIVE IN THIS UNFAIR WORLD /yoongi AND HE IS DISPLEASED.
Not scared. Not "oopsie". This is Rage Against The Homophobia Machine Koo and we have seen it before, albeit usually a bit more defiant and less "oh FML I hate my job today".
So he moves his hand. As directed. But he is NOT happy about it and he does not care who knows.
Now, remember, this is a very short clip. Five seconds. So what I am doing here is essentially expression and movement analysis and what you want to do, as soon as you can, is WATCH ORIGINAL CONTENT FOR TRUTH AND CONTEXT. Got it? We do that in this house because we are not insane shippers who have to make up things. As soon as the code hits my mailbox I will publish the entire segment so we can all see it together. Until then, this is what we have.
Now, Jimin is also annoyed, make no mistake. But he has two advantages here that JeiKei does not. One is camera angle - Jimin has a 90-degree angle to play with and it turns into a near 140 away from the camera. I think he went that way because of 2) his facial control.
Which even he was losing. Normally Jimin's face never changes. Major reactions during actual posed shoots are unusual for him, but look at their posture. AND LOOK AT JEIKEI'S FACE.
Jiminie's gotta be feeling the tension from Jungkook. He is not unaware that his man is MAD. I mean, it's fast, but I promise you, whoever is behind those cameras is well aware.
We got the pout. We have a full on side eye. We have malicious compliance.
And we have the gayest eye roll I have seen in a minute, as he flips that hand SO WE STILL SEE THE TATTOOS.
Jimin obliges by adjusting, but Jungkook is a professional model as well as a professional everything else. Nobody in BTS is ignorant of light, angle or pose in a shoot. They all know exactly what to do to get the shot they want.
But they are also human. Not robots, not objects, not pretty chess pieces on a board. They're men. And two of those men have had just about enough of being told how much they can show. One of them in particular, in this moment, is OVER THIS CLOSETED SHIT. Praise Jesus for a Hobi knee, the man needs a headrest.
I don't know when, or if, they'll ever be able to come out, entirely. But this is one time when the closet walls appear to be feeling just a little too tight.
I have made it through 4 of the 7 discs and here are some moments I captured. Some have been making the rounds more than others. The captions are sometimes hilarious.
JM: Stop flaring your nostrils
JK: kekeke
The way Jimin almost grabs JK around the neck...heh heh. Those darn muscle memory things...such betrayers aren’t they?
In their own world again...
It’s a long one isn’t it, Jimin? (future post with more context to come.)
Mimi finds other Mimi adorable. Kitty and Puppy Kitty...god they ARE adorable!
You don’t need permission, JK.
Here he comes again ...
Dance dance dance...
I wish this segment was 1 second longer, but there’s much more from another wider angle.
The most popular singers in the U.S! That’s crazy!
So these two aren't a couple? I call bullshit. Part 2, courtesy of Memories 2021
Part one below.
Firstly a huge thank you to @kanmom51 for her tireless hard work in keeping us updated with everything
Memories 2021 gave us A LOT of Jikook moments.
Many of them are cute, soft and fun moments. Not loud in the hickey and rose bowl sense, but to me they are loud in their own way.
Jimin and Jungkook are at a point in their relationship now where they know how they feel about each other, they are committed, settled and content.
So the loudness for me now comes from the domesticity of their relationship. The normality of certain behaviours that it doesn't elicit a response, such as JK searching for Jimin's skin under his t shirt and JM not even flinching at the touch, he knows it's JK he recognises that touch.
The loudness of them always being together, not doing anything extraordinary, just hanging out.
Or messing around in the background of the shot.
This is not a Jungkook who is uncomfortable around Jimin. This is a Jungkook who adores his Jiminie and thinks he is cute (did JM look at and smile at JK? Namjoons serious glance at JK makes me think he did). Jimin and kids is the cutest combo 😍