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thank you, your words are beautiful

yes I’ve seen it, it’s unbelievably hard to watch. He does say at that point that he is going with JK, which is the first they had said aloud about the buddy enlistment at the time. He said it was reassuring. When he shows his hair, he scoots back on the chair, away from the camera a bit at first, of course he looks beautiful it you can see how hard it is for him, Heartbreaking really. I think you’ve said what I was thinking, how hard it must have been to have that looming over you, knowing in 2 weeks your life was going to change so dramatically, your freedom gone, your ability to be yourself. I think that what I could see in his demeanour there, you’ve put it into words. I don’t know how they did it in all honesty, found the strength to carry on.

Jimin was definitely deflecting in the last live with them all, with laughter but it was easy to spot. And yes, you’re right, I think JKs reassuring touch helped him, and his Defense when talking about shaving their hair, maybe even that Jk just did it first too? Beautiful JK who reassured Jimin he looked good on enlistment day. 💜

Ouch. Just reading the description is painful. Like I said, I saw parts of it on mute at the office, and when he pushed his chair back I just lost it. What bravery.

Jungkook deserves all the credit for pulling Jimin through that time with a positive yet extremely gentle hand. He didn't let Jimin hang in the wind but coaxed him out of his shell with a careful joke, checking to see if it was welcome, If he was receptive. Even that joke about 'Don’t you want to cut your hair quickly too?' in the latest episode is JK opening that (for Jimin) obviously sensitive topic with humor.

We rightly give credit to Jimin for having a high EQ, but Jungkook is right there with him, well versed in the many facets of Jimin.

💜

😭 I was reminded on twitter just before about all the chaos and vitriolic hate directed at Jimin during the trip, because of the trip, and the enlistment.

Maybe that contributed to the sadness radiating off him in that clip. It wasn’t noticeable in the episode itself exactly, or the intro we got on Wednesday, but Jungkooks reassuring back rub, his soft tone. It is so soft I actually don’t think we were meant to hear the ‘that’s why I wanted to come back here’.

The fact this was their last day, what they were facing in two weeks and all that hate, it’s no wonder Jimin looks so sad. The way Jungkook hung to him in the airport, still giving him reassurance, rubbing his back there too. My heart 😭

I've learned to tune out online rage, and I don't seek it out anymore, not even out of masochistic curiosity to understand 'the other side' because it can still suck you in. That's by design.

I'm talking about any topic here, not the hate jikook got before enlisting.

I hope Jimin, too, has found it in himself to ignore all that. I honestly don't think he's constantly online to even see it. He knows who his friends are and cultivates his rl relationships as we all should. It does not serve his energy or his well-being to put any import to what people say online. It's time to realize that online hate does not equate real-life love.

Whatever was going on there between them, I don't think it was about something that happened online. Real-life normalcy was about to become as fleeting as the snow flakes.

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Look at their smiles though 😭

https://x.com/ROCKSTARJlKOOK/status/1832148513532023048

Don't you feel like it's wildly insane how much their happiness feeds into your own happiness? Like a feedback loop of joy because two beautiful guys found each other miles away from their shared hometown all because of a wild dream they had in order to feed this ambitious creative beast inside and then had the courage to be vulnerable together, become more than friends together and after all the wild rides now they donned their bravest armor to go on several trips together, shaking off all the stress and perfectionism because that beast is still hungry, just to revel in each other's company, while hanging on each other's shoulders, standing proud next to the other while dreaming of soft futures, reminiscing of that a shared past, concluding they are soulmates becausehow else does one explain this feeling, all right before embarking on another insane 18 month grueling journey TOGETHER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?

Yeah. Their smiles are nice.

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Agreed. I was reading the comments of a AYS reaction video where the reactor asked about Jimin and Taehyung fighting (remember in episode 6 Jimin mentioned the members used to fight a lot) and tkkrs on the comments keep saying that unlike the other Jungkook and Taehyung never fight each other and that's why they're so special a.k.a that's why they're a couple. And I was like, have these people ever been in a relationship? Hell, have they even ever seen other people in a relationship? Cause if there's a couple in this earth that never fought then there's something up going on there. Of course couples shouldn't be fighting all the time, but a fight here and there is normal. When you spend a lot time with a person and have a strong emotional relationship with them, you're bound to clash. People who never fight are people in a more mild, most likely plantonic relationship where there isn't a lot of intense feelings so it's easy to never get on each other's nerves. All the biggest fights I've ever had have been with the people closest to me. There's a certain type of anger or disappointment that can only be caused by the people who mean the most to you, people who make you feel the most, and sometimes those feelings won't be positive.

Think of the whole pink sausage situation (I'm sorry I can't take that name seriously, why is ever BTS fight about food?). Notice how Jungkook didn't care much that Taehyung disagreed with him. He cared that he was being disagreed with but not that Taehyung was the one doing it. But the moment Jimin agreed with Taehyung instead of Jungkook he immediately got upset. Even though Taehyung was the one who started the argument, Jimin was the one Jungkook was upset with, cause that's who's opinion he cares about. If your friend disagrees with you then that's annoying but you'll get over it. But if it's your partner taking someone else's side instead of yours? Yeah, that's gonna get to you.

But the thing with tkkrs is that they have a very surface level understanding of what a romantic relationship is. They don't know what a real couple should be like because they don't ship a real couple, they ship a fictional one. And in fiction romance is always easier and less complicated then in real life. In real life there's no "And they lived happily ever after", but there's "And they lived in ways that were sometimes messy and sometimes difficult to get through, but the important part is that they lived" and that's more than enough.

When indifference starts to creep up inside of a relationship, that's when you know it's very low stakes for that person. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose there. Just stick to the status quo because it's easy that way, and you know what you can and cannot expect. Such friendships are easy and safe to maintain, especially when you're both very busy.

If, however, one is passionate and fiery regarding someone else's opinion and what will that person think of this topic, and how will they like that topic ect..whoah boy, that's when you know a relationship still has plenty of spark to last a lifetime because there is still curiosity there.

I totally agree. There's never a dull day whenever jikook are together.

Is someone moaning again about their behaviours? If so, that is ridiculous. Don’t people know these men are human? As you say, nuanced? They are allowed to bicker, fight, make up (that’s the fun part) play and have fun, love wholly and also unconditionally.

They have flaws just like us and need room to breathe but you know what I see, that the foundation of their relationship is so strong, build upon years of navigation, and nurture, that it can survive. Think of all they have gone through, aa trainees, as idols and ans individuals and they are each others biggest support and cheerleader, and they enlisted together. That’s huge.

People should take a huge step back if they cannot see the humanity in them.

I can't believe I forgot to mention the giant elephant in the room: they enlisted together! Such a huge green flag! This is the kind of journey you undertake with someone you trust completely, someone you know inside and out, someone you can rely on and whom can rely on you. Yes! Unconditional, well said!

The reciprocal behaviors between jikook need to be studied because how can they both serve the other's need so perfectly? The whole show they're "because it makes you happy", "So that you can experience this", "to make a special memory during enlistment", "that's why", all the while they're drinking in each other's smiling faces and happy giggles like two men who have been THIRSTY for it.

Give and take. Take and give. Are You Sure is really showing us how healthy, funny, fun, joyful, thoughtful, and well-balanced a relationship jikook have cultivated for themselves. I'm pinching myself because we get to see the fruit of their labor 🥺

It’s kind of wild how much the fact that jungkook regularly slept in jimins bed back in the day goes under the radar. Or even jungkook apparently coming to jimins hotel room to just lay on his bed doing nothing for hours. Why is jungkook always snuggled up in jimins sheets?

Finally, someone is asking the right questions!

My guess? Jimin just smells so so good.

I don't mean his perfume or body wash, although I'm sure those are lovely as well. No, I mean Jimin's own smell is probably SO GOOD.

To a scent connoisseur, the experience of rolling in those sheets must feel like coming home. Because Jimin’s bed probably smells like the perfect mix of soft and sweet with a whisp of worn in musk and comforting subtle notes of that lovely sleepy smell that makes one want to sniff his head.....

....you know? Like a baby deer chasing an elusive butterfly.

Something I have thought since last year is about the why, why we did not get to see them supporting each other (apart from JK in the dance practice BB. I never had a doubt that JM was off to see JK in NY, at least in some capacity, it would have been very unlike him, and was proven right when the pics of them going to Antova were leaked, and then the boat ride. But I said all along that it was time for them, and that we would not get a live, unlike when JM was with Yoongi, or the like. Although JK begged for a live after the fact, and did not get it bless him, now we have a fuller picture, the reason is clearer still to me. It is the fact that they were already filming, and about to give us enough content, there was no way we needed a live as well, that time spend before AYS, and after, and every time in between that we do not know about, is for them.

They are in each other's lives, their very private lives, and as much as they sometimes let us in, 99 percent of the time, they do not. To not even get a selca, or a pic of them at the time, again unlike JM with Yoongi etc, only getting the back selfie on JKs birthday, which was loud (and after MS application deadline markedly) But that was the very marked difference to me. We knew that JM was in NY, and that JK in his live after GMA was looking to the side, we now know JM was in the hotel with him, so could have joined him, but he didn't - not then, and not after. To me, if they were just friends and bandmates' going live would not have mattered one bit (not even due to the cult/haters/solos whatever), because it whuld be no different as I say than JM going live with Yoongi after D-Day tour, visiting Hobi during his birthday live, or Joon, or them visiting each other on music shows - but JM and JK did none of that, not really. Why? Especially the lives - he could have joined JK, we knew he was in NY because he flew there, they are bandmates, we were expecting it, and we got nothing at the time. Why?

Obviously, we have a fuller picture now, one where we know about the show, we've seen it now, we are also now getting the bts content and photos from the book. We now know that JK flew back from NY, went straight home (running in the airport) to where JM was there/joined him, cooked for him, they spent the night together, and then went to Jeju the next day. JM made a point of locking at the camera when he told us this, he wanted us to know, but we only know a whole year later. It is another ‘I was with JK at 4 AM, it is giving 'I think JK is sleeping'. It's the little things, you know, sly ole JM.

We now know that despite what they have allowed us to see in filmed content, they also took moments during their travels for themselves, for their own memories just them (although I am still greedily hoping for a GCFP2. I think that is beautiful, and absolutely healthy, and it will mean more to them than we will ever know.

There's something to be said for withholding. Denying something for maximum impact. Looking back, jikook beautifully played their audience by denying us that which we most desired. The lives that were teased, the jumping into the others' welives, mentioning the other or watching their content. It was all a giant tease. All the while knowing that they would be inundating us once they'd enlisted. I don't want to assume, but this level of teasing is masterful and so playful. To withstand all that pouting Jungkook was throwing his way, Jimin, our strongest soldier. Literally. All this build up to AYS? finally being aired, and now that we've been sated, now that we're hooked, we're back to square one, back to the drought. All a beautiful counterbalance to the giant gaping maw that has manifested itself now that jikook are once again hidden behind the dark side of the moon.

If they had had a live together, if we had seen them at eo's shows ect, wouldn't we have felt that their formula had been overused?!!? Tell me honestly, would we have been salivating so readily for AYS?!

....... who am I kidding

YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES!

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I just blew my own point, but I still think that we should not only see jikook as showing us they're '100% boyfriends out in the open in front of us' context. We need to remember that they are idols and artists in front of the cameras and husbands and lovers once those turn off. That part is not for us.

That they're willing to 'sell' jikook as a unit means that they know how strong they are as a unit, and that they have healthy work-life balance. I really do think so. They might flirt on camera, but they are never not performing/censoring themselves (their private selves) for the audience. It doesn't work when they have to bring it all to the front like that. That's when you start venturing into reality tv where the whole lot is scripted for show. Remember how AYS?! was kinda slow at times? Kinda nothing going on but endless moaning about delicious food? A great reality show director would have written a catching dramatic storyline that had a beginning, middle, and end. We didn't get that because I think they decided to self censor themselves ahead of time and to just be together within the guise of friends. Really close friends. And this is the act they've played for years. Whenever they are not amongst trusted friends and family, they know what they're doing, showing just enough to not arouse full-on suspicion. To me, Jimin’s comment regarding sleeping at Jungkook’s isn't played for us, to hint, but just to show a closeness between them as members.

We have more than just eyes, we have emotional depth to see behind the touches and silences. We see what we want to see because we are not homophobic enough to think they're being manipulated either way to spend time together.

The realest thing they did for cameras was enlisting together. That they did for themselves and us seeing that play out in a couple of lives (the goodbye ones) and the little goodbye during ep 8 of AYS?! was a gift. Because we could see that Jimin was in no way exited about the prospect of enlisting. He made jokes about it only to stop himself from feeling sad or anxious.

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If you've made it past the rambling. Sorry for letting these asks pile up. I've been traveling and hadn't the time to really sit down to answer. I also need to make time to re-watch the last episode of AYS?! because I've only seen it once, shocking even myself. It's tender, and I love to feel like it's something special I'm withholding for myself for a rainy day.

I was taught well 😌

There is a lot of negative things being said in the tag about Jikook and doubt. What would it take for you to believe Jikook are 100 percent real?

They enlisted together. They are holding on to each other during a moment of great struggle and challenge. They are not doing it for us to see, they are doing it to endure. Endure a moment that must have caused so much uncertainty and anxiety and fear for personal arrested development. That's what makes me believe they are real.

Also: learn to live with uncertainty. You'll drive yourself off a cliff if you need 💯 proof for certain things. Especially from people on the internet. In real life, learn to give over to someone you trust even if you fear them failing you. Because living with fear must be the sadest thing there is.

https://x.com/koominbulan/status/1836691028197151109?s=46&t=1vpxCz-hcEUUJGzw7h18UQ

keep going will we EVER know 😭😭😭

I'm also still VERY MUCH HERE, Anon... was this just a real-life case project by an intern writing their dissertation on 'Narratives in popular media driving business and profits in the 3 sec attention span culture'.

I hope they got an A+ because I fell for it 🫠

What's the account of the aussies reacting to ays? I wanna watch. Thanks!

Argh! Sorry to have kept you waiting 🤡🍅

They're calling themselves Playback Boys, I believe, and they're a culturally diverse mix of guys with not super interesting takes, but it's entertaining enough to pass the time. They have a lot of videos. Their reactions to AYS?! showed Jikook were behaving suss enough for these guys to scratch their heads at the most peak of jikook behavior. Calling them 'a cute couple' at one point and just eye rolling at others.

What was your favourite part of AYS? Was there anything that surprised you? Or anything you didn’t like?

What a sweet question 🥺

My favorite scene was the train scene. From the moment they step into the station, bellies full and ready to travel, to the minute they step out back into the real world. It felt like they were momentarily encased into a little bubble. It is very serendipitous and a great conceptual way to tackle a practical problem by the production crew.

Seen as a whole, my favorite part was that AYS?! gave jikook the agency to embark on a favorite pastime while under the guise of work. An airtight excuse for travel before enlisting, but also one that has and will keep on serving them well. As a unit within BTS jikook need that veil of plausible deniability in order to be 'two dudes' traveling together.

It might also be my least favorite part of AYS?!. They needed a cover to travel together right before enlisting. I wish so very much they they can travel uninterrupted together. No need to document for the hungry hyenas (ie: me!) or to explain away why they spend so much time together. They can travel with us barely knowing, it's possible. They needed a good excuse to leave the country and this was perfect. But I'm sure they would have had a greater time if they did not have to censor themselves all the time.

Then again, I'm just nitpicking because the smiles were so genuine! They were so comfortable together. They get so much joy from seeing the other happy and smiling. It's basically a mobius strip of joy to have watched them watch the other be happy. It was just contagious.

Now, all that is left for me is to wistfully turn the pages of my photobook and watch them bask in the warmth of their little love bubble.