#the four of them also have big OT4 energy

[miraculous-pyxie]

Idea where Adrien and Marinette knew each other from years of the Dupain-Cheng’s catering for the Agreste’s so they become The Best Of Friends Ever ™️ and have Ladynoir dynamics since they were kids.

What is included in this idea package:

Years of play dates that are always super fun for the both of them and when their parents at at events they get to go off and play together

their influence on each other starts in their early development so Marinette brings an independent nature out of Adrien and Adrien brings out more collaboration in Marinette

They get to have Big Talks™️ when facing harder questions in life

Marinette was there when Adrien’s mom left so they grew even closer

When they get their miraculous they tell each other immediately and become impossibly closer

they felt bad about breaking the rules at first but they realized that it works so much better this way because they were already so close that they didn’t need to build teamwork with someone new

It’s Marinette that actually convinced Gabriel to let Adrien into public school

Adrien met Chloe before but didn’t like her as much bc of Marinette’s influence (he also got to hear first hand how she was bullying her)

They play a massive prank on their whole class when Adrien comes in the first day because of all people that know each other it’s them. people are shocked, Chloe is mad, Nino is like “bro i thought i was your childhood bestie” so Marinette is like “you are but trust me there is no need to be jealous, just spend like 5 minutes with him you’ll fall in love with him” and she was right

we get lots of post-reveal pre-relationship silly dynamics 

Alya and Nino eventually clock on the two of them like each other, but it looks like they’re both oblivious to it / don’t want to admit it

eventually, Alya and Nino confront Marinette and Adrien separately about confessing their feelings, but they both give back an eerily similar answer of “it’s too complicated to be together” that makes them think there is more to their relationship then they originally thought (Alya thinks they are LB and CN and Nino thinks they are already dating) (they are both kinda right).

Alya and Nino slowly put the pieces together, they’re making jokes assuming they are both dating and superheroes that they kind of just forgot that these are head cannons of their friends so when they eventually find out they’re like “yeah lmao”

all very fluffy and silly and only a ting of angst

Ladybug, Chat Noir, Rena Rouge, and Carapace shenanigans eventually 

#the four of them also have big OT4 energy #they have lots of sleepovers #Nino and Alya eventually become damage control for them and accidentally tells their class that they were missing because they kissing #all the silliness #the four of them ar the best of friends and kinda ot4 #ofc they get their miraculouses first #miraculous ladybug #mlb #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #alya cesaire #nino lahiffe #adrienette #djwifi #adrien x marinette x alya x nino #alyanette #adrino #ninette #ml ot4 #could be seen as platonic or romantic #but the main gist is silly #mlb fandom #mlb headcanon

[daesungindistress]

im glad im not the only one who found the truck ad thingy strange.. i mean do people seriously think yg has or will ever give a shit? bc I don't. of course, some staff members might care about bb as people but the company won't? and why do I feel like ot5s are always demanding stuff they don't even know the members want/need? its a nice sentiment i guess but i always get the feeling they don't trust the members somehow? oh well. yb said what he said, i'll take his word for it. it'll be alright.

The project wasn’t what I was expecting -- and by that I mean it wasn’t as BAD as I was expecting -- so I’m not too bothered by it. But it was still embarrassing and IMO reflected poorly on IVIPs as a whole. Because in some ways it was a bit tone-deaf. BB aren’t having activities right now primarily because of COVID, sure, but there is of course another reason why they’ve been keeping things on the down low since last year and giving their image time to slowly recover. You know who. He is so hated by Korea at the moment that the Korea Subway Transportation Corporation refused an ad for BIGBANG bearing his name and face not because he isn’t a member of the group anymore but because he’s considered “immoral”. So, what do OT5 IVIPs do? Go and put him in a paid ad for BIGBANG demanding protection against hate. Aimed at YG, no less, who he no longer has a contract with 🤦 “Foreign roaches should read the room,” one knetizen commented. Yeah, some of us can. OT5s can’t. I swear these people wake up every day with the goal of finding new ways to get the guys dragged.

In another recent fan project (Fanplus) a fanmade OT4 poster was selected to celebrate BB’s upcoming 14th anniversary in Korean subway stations. OT5s raged online and bombarded the company with hate to the point where Fanplus issued a statement politely requesting that fans stop sending them profanity. This made the news in Korea, by the way. These fans ran amok on Twitter, plotting to sabotage the project (yes that’s the word they used), promising to vandalize the displays, and threatening to tear them down. Y’all. Who needs antis when you’ve got fans like that? Ironically, these OT5s don’t seem to realize they’ve become the very thing they’re asking YG to protect BB from.

And no, they don’t trust the members in the slightest. If they did they would stop screaming at them about Seungri daily and trying to strong-arm them into giving them what they want. They would stop baiting them into making statements about him... then manipulating, misinterpreting, and mistranslating their words when what they get isn’t quite what they were hoping for. They would see the foolishness of slapping his face on promotional posters and would think twice about demeaning the members by placing him front and center. If they truly trusted BB they would stop shoving him on them, where he no longer belongs, and on us, where he’s no longer wanted. They would quit forcing the issue, give up their demands, and simply let it be. Accept what’s happened and what is -- quietly.

If they trusted the members they would also let go of this pretense of concern they’ve been flaunting lately. “We care more about the members’ mental health than a comeback,” they boast, in a seemingly well-meaning but actually backwards attempt to disguise the fact that they’re reluctant (and for some, downright unwilling) to support new material from a four-member BIGBANG. It’s only a nice sentiment until you understand where it’s coming from, this faux caring. They are hoping the guys will lie low a little longer, quietly and uneventfully, their creative energies suppressed until their disgraced ex-member returns from the military and ~rejoins~ them. They’re pushing a tragic narrative that says the members are too depressed and broken to make music without him. Believing they don’t want to come back as four and patting themselves on the back for telling the guys to take it easy until they can be five again. Yeah, that sounds an awful lot like wishful thinking to me, from a group of fans who still, after a year and a half, haven’t come to terms with our new reality. We all know whose mental health they’re really protecting by balking at the idea of new music -- and it ain’t BIGBANG’s.

What’s especially funny about this is -- well, you know those teasers from TOP over the last few days? The clips from the studio with the caption “working,” him spitting lines with a vengeance, dancing in his PJs and looking for all the world like someone who’s ready to take on the stage, and even dropping a “Big Bang,” getting us all stirred up with excitement? He posted those just as these “we’re not asking for a comeback because we care” arguments were making rounds on Twitter. The timing could not have been better. Thanks, TOP, for serving a reminder to those who’ve forgotten (or have never known) that the most healing thing a creative person can do is keep creating 😘

In short, the truck project was messy, reckless, and unnecessary. And Youngbae’s “Cheer up, guys” that followed, with a fun message about shaking off hate, is all the encouragement I needed, personally, to keep believing good things are on the horizon for BIGBANG. I trust they know what they're doing. All there is for us to do is be there for them when the time comes. Until then, we wait.

#bigbang #ask #anon #had to write this twice lol #because the tumblr app is shit and ate my post when I tried to post it #it had been so long since I typed out a lengthy post on the app... I forgot how unpredictable it can be #sigh

[anncedes]

what is your 3 favorites moments in the blue lions route? and your 3 favorite ships? =)

sorry for the late response, i’m out in the country and the wifi hates me dslfjlskfkdk

for my top three moments, i would say:

1. the first time i met the house as their new professor - it was so fun and cute, with annette apologizing because she thought i was a student, then all the talk about formality which ending up with training plans because felix can’t ever not think about fighting. that was the moment i adopted them all on the spot

2. after rodrigue’s death, finding dimitri out in the rain and giving him your hand. i can relate to some of dimitri’s struggles with mental illness and having someone reach out to you like that??? that moment was really beautiful and it made me cry

3. retaking fhirdiad. everyone is so happy that they’re back in their homeland, they’re taken it back and saved their people. i was joining dimitri in his happy tears (also killing cornelia, bitch deserved it)

for ships:

1. anncedes! as you can probably tell from my url, i just love them. annette and mercedes are two of my favorite characters and i’m such a sucker for best friends to lovers ships.i can’t see it getting romantic until after the war, because of the age difference and the fact that they don’t seem like the type to realize their feelings until times of peace. the age difference actually doesn’t bother me though, because there’s no power imbalance there - it’s just two gals being pals, loving each other more than anything in the world

2. ot4- dimitri/felix/sylvain/ingrid. you know what’s even cooler than best friends to lovers? CHILDHOOD best friends to lovers. i really ship all four of them with each of the other three, i could probably make an entire post about each dynamic and why i like it. the only reason this one is lower than anncedes is because of all the angst making me sad ;-; intsys let them have their happy cuddle pile please

3. linspar/casphardt - another childhood bffs to lovers one, and they’re just??? so cute? i love their differences and how they’re still so close despite that, also their ending has big ikesoren (aka gay) energy

#asks #fe3h #blue lions #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #anncedes #annette fantine dominic #mercedes von martritz #ingrid brandol galatea #felix hugo fraldarius #sylvain jose gautier #linspar #linhardt von hevring #caspar von bergliez #fe3h spoilers #fire emblem three houses spoilers #fe16 spoilers

[mindthebulletso]

you have to decide which side to stay on!!!!!!

outside. along with the garbage. seriously, I want to answer this. I never identified myself in this fandom. no offense to anyone but there is a reason if I have never followed One Direction and when Louis found me I thought things would have turned out differently. all the people I follow here and on Twitter have a reason, I am not interested in personal disputes with each other, I want to follow whoever I like (for different reasons) and not take sides in disputes that do not concern me. It's a matter of priority. Here is a whole Larries VS Rads VS Harries VS Louies VS Ex Larries VS Directioners. This is all a label and I ... I don't one in me. Because i’m atypical. This equidistance from everyone allows me to see a lot of contradictions in people and has allowed me to make peace with mine because I obviously have them too. you know that a Louie yesterday completely forgot about Louis's Tour and wrote that the Reunion will not be there because Harry will be (maybe not) on the USA Tour in July. Do you know that many Louies who criticize Larries simply put Zayn in Harry's place and make Louis his sweet and needy Girlfriend? Is it only the quantity that makes the difference? Ok but not for me. I’m not a Larrie because I don’t support Harry anymore. I’m not a Louie because Most Of them are like.. in love with a sort of Omega!Louis and c’mon please no. I don’t give a fuck about the children in LA, The girlfriend in London e The Band.. OT3, OT4, OT5 Ma StiGranCazzi. everyone here has their own mission and that's okay but what if I see a manipulation even in those who believe they are not being manipulated? and I also think that some girls I follow know it but it's ok for them so why does it have to be a problem for me? I let it go, I take what interests me and I don't care about the labels. a Louies obsessed with how small Louis is, imo, as wrong as a Larrie / Elounor who only thinks of Louis' private life. a Louies obsessed with Fetus!Louis or obsessed with how feminine ten years ago he was and does not remember his tour is no different from Larries so criticized by Rads. being here to show that Louis and Harry are not together has the same weight as being here to show that they are. Every Holy Day I ask myself, why isn't Louis enough? why is all this outline so suffocating to him? and see .. I'm generalizing even though I think many people are investing energy to keep, a fandom beaten for four years, alive and I have a lot of respect for these people but in addition to Sony's massive boycott, imo, Louis has a big problem with his fandom. to all four other boys the fandom has allowed things that Louis still does not allow in 2020. You can’t see that? Are you sure the problem is that I have to take sides? Thanks but I'm fine outside. with the garbage.

[talkingismylifewrites]

I feel like it’s been awhile since we visited ot4 and just feel the need to check up on them, how are they? Anything interesting happen to them lately? In a ot4, does Roger still tour after John steps back from queen? Is there tension there?

omg i’ve missed ot4 so much and i still have an ot4 ask about good dad roger that i need to post

 but anyway

okay

very important for everyone to know but in any and all of my au’s freddie does not die

ever

E V E R

in ot4, freddie and jim get together before the whole hot space debacle and their relationship is kinda grown/tested through the whole break thing

like freddie realizes he wants a relationship so he and jim make it work

also freddie is so much more busy keeping roger from choking to death on his own vomit that he doesn’t have the time or energy or want to go out and party and hook up

so he and jim get together, stay together, and neither get sick

H O W E V E R

in the 90s (probs about ‘95/’98 somewhere between there) the band decides to slow the fuck down

they’ve been touring for like, over 35 years they’re tired

(also roger throws out his back having incredibly acrobatic sex and is unable to drum)

john basically puts his foot down and is like we have spent more time on the road than we have at home

you’re crippled

our children are growing up

time for a break

roger, propped up in bed with a million pillows, unable to turn his head or move his torso: i’m fine i can drum

 so john handles it all and calls freddie and is like hey from now on small tours only, anniversary tours, etc. 

freddie, who is also suffering from a sex related injury (hurt hip) is like ugh FINE 

brian who’s most adventurous sexcapade was when anita got on top is super fucking salty about it and starts blogging about how SOME PEOPLE need to take BETTER CARE of their bodies while posting pics on his bike

(john comments on it “i do more than enough riding in the bedroom thanks very much” 

roger: save a bike ride a bassist

dominique comments just a picture of male legs hooked over hers on a bed like: we even ride backwards sometimes

veronica: working up a sweat in the bedroom burns about 239 calories, so multiply that by four

brian disables the comments )

(robbie calls them up and is like please for the love of god STOP discussing your sex lives okay its gross

which sparks a family meeting where they sit all of the kids down in the living room 

veronica and dominique give the kids an incredibly detailed three hour lecture about the importance of sex within a relationship and how older couples not only SHOULD be having sex but CAN

roger has blatantly turned off his hearing aids and is Not Listening

john is dead eyeing robbie like you brought this upon yourself and if i have to suffer, so do you

robbie is shrinking down on the couch humiliated, vera is focusing more on her cuticles, daisy is doing her best not to look anyone in the eye, the twins who aren’t twins (HA&HA) are very interested in the floor, and the other five are just horrified beyond belief

)but anyways back to touring

they still go on some tours? and they do a big reunion one a few years down the line and obvi its successful af

ot4 settle into being parents and grandparents and having their large but incredibly loving family

#ot4 #john/veronica/roger/dominique #answered asks #caro talks

[ivyfics]

more ot4 hcs please i love reading them

Hello, anon! I took a while with this but I didn’t forget you◊

This is no particular order and based on Being Gross AU AU bakt endgame (I hope that made sense?)

Bokuto is an art history nerd. He can go on and on talking about it but he goes super quiet and focused when he’s reading or doing some research. Kuroo took an Art History class with him, and he’s used to Bokuto being super high energy about things that he likes so that gave him a chance to see his more focused and serious side.

Tsukki gets super jealous when it comes to Akaashi. I think it’s because he doesn’t see him as often as the other two. It’s mostly around the time Tsukki figures out he has a crush on his boyfriend’s boyfriend, but there’s this dude hanging around Akaashi a lot and Tsukki is… feeling things. He doesn’t say anything because that’s none of his business but he’s grumpier than usual. Eventually Bokuto finds out and goes are u jealous ??????? excuse, u like my boyfriend??????

To which Tsukki responds, Yesterday you told me u wanted to suck Kuroo’s soul out through his dick so pot meet kettle but also OH SHIT—He has a meltdown, it’s pretty funny. Telling Kuroo is not as funny.

Bokuto cuddles. A lot. He and Tsukki are cuddle match made in heaven. A lot of the times Kuroo will get home and they’re casually cuddling on the couch which is adorable as fuck but hella awkward when it turns into ‘My boyfriend is dating my best friend who is also my roommate and they are cuddling in front of me and I don’t know if I want to leave, fawn over how cute they are or join them if I’m allowed, which I might not be.’ It’s rough at first.

Tsukki doesn’t tell Kuroo about Bokuto’s feelings for him, and neither does Bokuto. Tsukki thinks those two need to figure it out on their own (with the tiniest bit of prodding, because he can’t help it. He should be able to cuddle his two boyfriends at the same time). BokuTsukki start dating first without Kuroo knowing Bokuto also wants him. He thinks Bokuto doesn’t also want him, and Bokuto thinks Kuroo doesn’t want him either and it’s a big old misunderstanding/mutual pining mess until they straighten things out.

Bokuroo will naturally gravitate towards Tsukki and initiate affection most of the time but when it comes to Akaashi Tsukki gets clingy and tries to glue himself to Akaashi’s side as inconspicuously as possible. After they’ve been together officially for a while the whole inconspicuous thing goes away.

Kuroo does something similar but it’s more like he’s shy about Akaashi’s attention, especially because those two are the last ones to come together. Kuroo likes to make him laugh and butt heads with him, but seeking comfort and being vulnerable in front of him is hard. They end up bonding over the other two. Kuroo still gets stupid when it comes to Tsukki and is stupid with Bokuto. Akaashi just nods like ‘yes, I agree.’

Kuroo gets sick and Akaashi goes to take care of him. He recovers quickly with Akaashi’s help so he says, “Now you can go tell those two that I’m better so that they can stop pestering you to take care of me.”  It’s not at all what he should have said, because Akaashi goes still and gives him a look before, “What, I can’t be worried about you?” That’s the tip of the AkaKuroo slippery slope. 

When Akaashi starts to see the four of them coming together he’s practical about the whole thing and drops a, “We should just all date each other. The bed’s big enough.” The bed isn’t big enough.

Everyone knows Tsukki is evil. They’ve all had Evil Tsukki moments and enjoyed them profusely. Everyone wants an encore.

The more I write this the more I want to write the au au, but alas, I don’t have time right now. Maybe someday.

#bakt #haikyuu!! #asks #bokuakakurotsuki #myhcs #being gross #the au of the au #this might interest the ones that are new here #hello new pals #tsukishima kei #akaashi keiji #Bokuto Koutarou #Kuroo Tetsurou

[shineethinks]

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG Can you do one about OT4 supporting TaeBaby with his first solo concert ? TT TT TT TT So emo as it is but since I love death I need this lol ^^

i was waiting for the concert to be a little closer to get to this one! 

onew:

told taemin that under N O circumstance would he be attending his concert 

he’s serious

he’s serious taemin 

taemin doesn’t believe him largely bc he personally gave him the ticket as well as to the rest of shinee????? (taemin: stop this gag) 

backstage: brought a cutout of taemin’s head that’s the size of half a human and makes taemin take multiple pictures with it 

honestly such a proud dad 

“do well okay???? don’t use all your energy all at once!!! you’re going to do so great omg” 

waving his arm so hard it looks like he’s doing the propeller part from everybody but he just wants senpai to notice him 

jonghyun:

when he first sees taemin all made up and in costume, he’s all like “WHOA IS THAT TAEMIN????? LEE TAEMIN?????? LEE TAEMIN OF SHINEE???? SO NICE TO SEE YOU SUNBAE-NIM WE CAME TO SUPPORT YOU” 

sHOOK when taeminnie takes off his shirt

WHEN DID HE GET SO RIPPED 

opens his instagram and tries to compare if that’s how he looked during x-inspiration 

wearing taemin’s jacket that he won at weekly idol for being taemin’s #1 fan 

@ all the taemints: let it be known, he is the ultimate taemint ok??

screaming oppa a lot on the top of his lungs 

key:

knows all the fanchants bc research 

waving around two lightsticks 

LEE TAEMIN, LEE TAEMIN, LEE TAEMIN 

when they went to see him before the concert, he personally checked what taebaebae was going to wear and gave his approval

smoothes his hair down and makes sure tae has like 5 water bottles lined up for easy access after he finishes a performance 

@ the shirt off part: *whispers* taeman

before concert: posts a picture of taemin from replay era with the caption “this kid is having a solo concert??? this child that i fed and ironed his uniform for?? aigoo you grew up a lot maknae. do well tonight, don’t be scared bc hyungs aren’t up there with you, also get an instagram already……………….”  

minho:

completely loaded with taemin merch 

taemin’s merch sold out in like 4 mins 

you know why?

choi minho

wearing a shirt (that he got made for this very occasion) of taemin’s face 

super proud of it and super gleeful that taemin’s embarassed af by all his taemin swag 

was going to write taemin on his forehead with eyeliner but key restrained him 

brought a package of ramen and offers to cook it for him 

and also takayaki 

and banana milk 

and on all of them are lil post-it notes of encouragement 

taemin:

during the first talk, peers into the crowd 

“shinee’s here today!!!! HI HYUNGS”

waving

waving in the wrong direction 

realized the people he’s waving to is not them mid-wave but he’s already committed and he’s seeing this wave through (jong: aigoo we even told him what section we were sitting in………….) 

the first talk is the hardest bc he’s so used to having someone(four) up there with him to banter with and the stage is so big without ot4 

the subsequent talks are a bit easier but he sometimes trips over his words and then he does that thing with his hands and it’s adorable af 

swears that he can hear shinee (especially minho) cheering and it makes him smile a lot 

tears up bc he’s touched by the fans, his hyungs, and wow this is how it feels to be up on this stage

feels invincible 

ot5 :

bought a standing wreath made up of blue roses that says “shinee is taeminnie’s fanclub ♡” 

#taemin's solo concert #you can't tell me that jong won't scream oppa #he will #really loudly #shinee #shinee scenarios #ot5 #i have a lot of feels

[daesungindistress]

Sorry for bothering you. I have some questions. I'm new in this fandom. At fist I supported Seungri but now I doubt him. Some vips say that he is victim of media, he run only Aori ramen and Kmedia is lying. I see posts claiming that OT4 won't go on without him. There are so much conflicting information. What exactly did he do? If OT4 had problems with Seungri why were they so nice to him during Last dance tour? Again sorry for bothering I just want to know the whole story.

I’m sorry, I’ve gone over this at length so many times over the last six plus months… do I have the energy to hash it out again in detail? It’s true that there is still confusion over his case, let’s face it, there always will be. It’s also true that there has been misinformation spread on both sides, both for and against him. Accusations that came and went, some that stuck, some that didn’t. All you need to know is that right now, based on the results of the police investigation he underwent this spring, he is currently facing 7 charges (from this article):

Solicitation of prostitution (for himself)

Prostitution mediation (for his foreign investors)

Occupational embezzlement of Burning Sun funds

Occupational embezzlement of attorney’s fees

Instigating destruction of evidence

Violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes (sharing a photo believed to be molka)

Violation of the Food Sanitation Act (this is related to Monkey Museum)

He is also currently under investigation for suspicions of gambling while abroad (which, though few fans seem to have a problem with it, is illegal for Koreans) and violating the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act (raising gambling funds through “hwanchigi,” a term that refers to illegal practices surrounding foreign exchange transactions). So if you see people saying he’s facing up to 9 charges, that’s where that number comes from. The first 7 charges are currently in the hands of the prosecution. Police have recommended indictment on all 7, however, it’s up to the prosecution to conduct their own supplementary investigation and decide whether or not to formally press charges against him (i.e., indict him), after which, if indicted, his case will go to court. This is just a thought, but they may be waiting for police to finish up their investigation on the gambling suspicions so that they can make a decision on all charges at once. In the meantime, it seems his enlistment has been postponed indefinitely.

For the record, most VIPs defended Seungri against the Burning Sun allegations (not gonna get into that here, but it’s pretty horrific stuff). The Burning Sun situation is still murky, and probably always will be, but it’s worth noting that Seungri was never booked or earnestly investigated on anything related to the club besides embezzlement of club funds. Then, in late February the prostitution chats were released – chats which appear to show him and his business partners arranging for prostitutes for their foreign investors visiting Korea back in late 2015 – and he was officially booked as a suspect for that. Then, as if things weren’t bad enough for him already, there came the molka/spycam chats, in which women were filmed in sex acts without their permission and their photos and videos secretly shared among friends. We later learned that some of these women had been drugged and raped. Besides that, the text content of the chats themselves and they way these men spoke about the women they’d slept with was just vile.

Based on the very limited evidence we have available to us, Seungri’s involvement in those molka chats was admittedly minimal (at least when compared to the other chat members, many of whom are currently standing trial on rape charges). However, some of these men were close friends of his, and for many people, his knowledge of their despicable acts toward these women and his complacency (in neglecting to report, or at the very least condemn them for it) was enough. We know he viewed at least one molka video and seemed unbothered by it, even laughing at it. That was the point at which many (I would argue most) people dropped his ass like a hot potato, horrified that he’d had any part in it at all.

Everyone has to draw the line somewhere. For many, that was the line. As for me? I remember the first time I saw that headline, and how my heart sank. I was still on his side back then, perhaps not yet realizing just how serious the situation had become, but even so, I knew in my heart that it was the end for him. And sure enough, it was later that same day when he announced his retirement from the entertainment industry.

His supporters will swear up and down that he had nothing to do with it, but from his own mouth, in his Chosun Ilbo interview, he knew. And not only that, he apparently helped them dispose of evidence when the news broke by alerting them that they were in trouble and instructing them to change their phones (hence the “instigating destruction of evidence” charge). And this is to say nothing of the ridiculous explanation he came up with for the prostitution chats: that he was just providing girls for his female friend to party and go shopping with, an explanation that was shot down by that very friend who he tried to use as an alibi. So when you said “now I doubt him”? Yeah. Us too.

There’s so much more to this saga. So much more. And it’s ongoing. But I’m so tired of going over it again and again and again. The fact is, Seungri asked to have his contract with YG terminated and announced his withdrawal from the industry. So whether you like him or not, continuing to pledge your support to him is just a massive waste of time. Seungri has been a retired singer for six months now, and the cold hard reality is that since March 2019 Big Bang has been four members. G-Dragon, TOP, Taeyang, Daesung. They are still with us. They are who will stand on the stage before us again. They are who will bring us new music and feature in new videos. They are our future as a fandom. If we want more of Big Bang, if we want to see the band continue on at all, we have to express a willingness to support them as they are, now and for the foreseeable future. Otherwise, it’s like Youngbae said during Last Dance: it will be goodbye for real. And who wants that?

Seungri has been locked in an intense media and legal battle for almost all of 2019 – nearly nine months now. And I don’t see things getting better for him anytime soon. This could easily drag on for another three months, until the end of this year. It could go on for six. It could even stretch on for twelve, if he’s indicted on all charges and his case goes to trial. When you factor in enlistment, the absolute soonest Seungri can even think about being active again as an entertainer is in 2-3 years’ time. It has already been almost 3 years since BB’s last comeback. Does anyone really think they’re going to make themselves and us endure another 2-3 year wait (at best!) for a retired member to return to them before they'll release new music again as a group? When they wanted him to enlist alongside them, but he chose not to? And then became the center of the biggest controversy in kpop history? After they begged him not to get in trouble while they were away?

“If OT4 had problems with Seungri why were they so nice to him during Last dance tour?”

I don’t want you guys to think I’m spreading the message that BB ever hated Seungri. It’s more complex than that. I think they cared for him, but I think they were also frustrated with him. I think they wanted what was best for him and were concerned for him. I think they wanted to put their trust in him, knowing that he alone would be carrying the name Big Bang in their absence, but given how distant he’d become and the questionable connections he’d made, couldn’t help being wary of him.

And more than anything? I think they felt they’d lost him. For several years now. And it’s so damn sad.

Somehow, somewhere along the way, to someone (those friends of his) or to something (money and fame, greed and pride, power and envy, you name it), he slipped through their fingers. It wasn’t always this way between them, I’m sure of it. But sometimes people change, often as a result of their changing circumstances. Seungri, unhappy with his present situation (circa 2015, maybe even earlier), found a new passion and a new social circle (a problematic one)… and the closer he grew to them, the farther he drifted from BB. They said they only ever saw him onstage. Said they made plans together but he’d often cancel at the last minute. Said he was always overseas with his other friends and business associates. Said he was “totally a businessman” and that he “didn’t want to work [as a singer] anymore.” They said it seemed that Big Bang had become “business” to him and that all he ever talked about with them was money. I think they felt that though he stayed with them, he did so for all the wrong reasons, reasons that no longer included a passion for music. He didn’t even invite them to his last birthday party before they all enlisted, his big island resort birthday bash in the Philippines (and we’ve all seen that Last Dance tour behind-the-scenes clip in which GD scolded him harshly for it. In hindsight, they dodged a bullet by not being there, seeing as that party was under scrutiny this year for suspicions of prostitution mediation).

Sorry. At this point I’m just rambling. You say you want to know the whole story? Yeah, well, so do the rest of us. But for now, the best we can hope for is that it’s not over for Big Bang. So please, let’s give all our love to the four who remain.

#I can't believe writing this moved me to tears wtf #11% abv beer will do that to ya I guess #don't call me a lightweight! #lol #it's called dragon's milk btw #good stuff #bigbang #seungri #ask #anon #burning sun #I just feel terrible for all of them... everyone #this whole year has been so damn tragic for so many people