Also, for NY/NJ East Rutherford tickets, let me plug the theatr app (no affiliation). It’s meant for last-minute changes of plan, and all resale tickets must be face value or lower. It’s mostly theater, but there’s a concert section, too. I’ve seen Beyoncé and TSwift tickets come across it before.

(Also, can we discuss the sheer dickswingingness of all these weekend dates? Yeah, they’re coming to town, yeah, they’re gonna play stadiums, yeah they’re gonna do so whenever they damn well please.)

Live from Archimedes HQ

I have technically got a travel website up and running before tour dates are announced! Let me wrangle your BTS concert travel logistics!

To tide myself over until the Culinary Class Wars finale next week, and because two great tastes etc, I am watching a bunch of Paik Jongwon’s appearances with BTS/Jin. I’d seen some before,but it’s much more fun now that I have better context of the Korean food scene.

All of the s2 Culinary Class Wars cliffhanger episode endings have made me yell, but the mid-ep veal doneness check smashcutting to black/a flashback was particularly grimy.

So this means I really need to get off my ass and finish the website for my concert travel planning service, eh?

Oh god someone needs to go back and check all 2025 Namgi footage to check for slow blinks.

Peter was a flat pancake until he overheard this conversation, upon which he promptly curled up and mrrrreowed flirtily. Like human, like cat, I suppose.

Bless the AYS season 2 producers for continuing to understand what we really want: jikook grocery shopping, cooking, and recreational budgeting (ie not because it’s their only meal of the day), with gorgeous scenery and easy, laughing relationships with the crew as a bonus.

I am also consistently delighted by how many of you I still have text threads/group chats with, so I get to hear about houseboat acquisition shenanigans as they happen. 🥰

Lessons learned from this year’s Thanksgiving, documented for posterity: - sous viding the turkey is excellent. pouring the extra mayo-based marinade in the bag is not. Also, you have to actually press start for the water to heat up.

No one talk to me.

This picture screams to me that Namjoon got interrupted mid-pulling Jimin onto his lap, but now he’s not going to get the chance to do so because Jimin is going to tackle him first. With his mouth.

Kim Seokjin concert costume when?

Most of my exposure to Korean cooking shows has been various members of BTS exposing the insides of their fridges to v fancy chefs, but I am All In on Culinary Class Wars. People I know from, like, four episodes of the fridge show! And from Jin! Epic set! Strong underdog vs master narrative!

If I am counting correctly, D-Day_final_final_knj_edits in August 2023 was the last time either Yoongi or Namjoon fully performed in front of Army. Which, y’know, big feelings night for both of them (and us). And a lot of big feelings in between then and now.

“I’m going to make this the most literal concert title ever.” -Kim Seokjin, probably

I have just remembered Sleep No More is in Seoul now. If Taehyung has not checked into the McKithan multiple times already, I will lose all faith in this world.

::bangs pans together:: Victor/Victoria!Jimin! Get your Victor/Victoria!Jimin AU right here! Hot and fresh!

Once Jin is in LA, I hope at least one night he and Hobi lock eyes, then turn to Yoongi. Maybe Yoongi is squintgrinning at one of the others, but when he sees Jin and Hobi looking a little lost, he beckons them over, serious and kind.

Best new tweak to my Concert-Going Setup: a little magnetic leash thing for my earplugs (a la Beats Flex earbuds) so I can pop them in and out without worrying about losing them. Made it much easier to sing along with my voice getting lost in the crowd rather than echoing in my head.

I have just read an officially translated NPSS DMBJ story in which Pangzi is translated/described as “my friend Chunk,” and now I must vacate this universe.

If namgi dropped Jimin back home before their concert date, does that mean jikook snuck off to do a live while the babysitter (Taehyung) wasn’t looking, or does that mean that ARMY was supposed to be the babysitter?? whosdrivingthisbus.gif

Give that man fishnets and make multiple vids of him in this outfit to Short Skirt, Long Jacket stat.

We (I) have all been thinking about how wonderful it will be for Jin to have his six babies following him around, but let’s just take a minute for Hobi, who is going to have to live in close proximity to concerts that actually involve ::spins wheel:: to determine what happens next. For MONTHS.

I am emotionally unprepared for BTS to travel around the world like they’re little kids playing soccer and Jin is the ball.

Sitting together in a way that maximizes touching while minimizing any chance of the contact = peak Namgi.

Jin really did set up an entire concert tour so he could gently scold thousands of people around the world in person, and I love that for him.

Am skipping BTS prom tonight, alas. Both my local subway and my building’s elevator are out of order, and not even my killer outfit is enough to make me want to walk a mile and climb 5 flights of stairs at 3am after several (many) daechwitinis/mikrokosmopolitans/blood(sweat and tears)y marys.

I think we should all be very, very afraid.

Once I get past the staring-at-the-sun aspect of rode-hard-and-put-up-wet!Yoongi, I realize someone had to have set-designed those ashtrays, flasks, pills, and banana peels. What a world.

They’re coming home They’re coming home They’re coming Bangtan’s coming home Three maknae on a shirt Army bombs still gleaming Thirty months of hurt Never stopped me dreaming …I’ll show myself out.

Someone is FEELING himself today.

The injustice of Yoongi having to go back to his office job on Monday is beyond compare. On Friday night, he is reminded of what it feels like to have thousands of people scream in delight at your tiniest hand gesture. On Monday, he has five more business days of spreadsheets.

Hobi should always wear knee length coats with snatched little waists.

Prayer circle for all seven to be at Hobi’s concert on 6/13, even if they have to smuggle Yoongi in wearing a Mang mask or something.

Has anyone checked on Destiel?

I’ve got the Nicole Kidman divorce picture and the Pam-from-the-Office “it’s the same picture” meme ready to go, just waiting for Namjoon’s discharge photos to complete the set.

just realized this summer will be the 10th anniversary of the end of the 10-year promise: wu xie met xiaoge at changbai mountain coming out of the bronze gates on 17 august 2015. they've had a decade together in yucun now. anyway i'm normal do you want to talk about like mortgages or insurance #dmbj

Just putting this here for posterity. As the tags say: not based on the ReFa commercials, but not NOT based on the ReFa commercials. Ahem. archiveofourown.org/works/29235180

WAIT.

If this is a just and honest world, this pic would produce at least six namgi-handcuffed-together fics. (Accidentally? Deliberately? eldoradoboth.gif)

Clearly this is Jackson Wang running slow-motion up a dramatic flight of stairs in a perfume commercial and/or fleeing his (canon?) duties as The Consummate Party Host for little black dress soirées where pairings from any fandom can make poor choices.

He's the most naked boy in bangtan, even with clothes on, it's astounding. Big Birthday Suit energy.

Petition for Hobi to cover Toxic, complete with Britney’s costuming (or lack thereof) IMMEDIATELY.

Wait. WAIT. He puts the sparkly teeth thing for Sweet Dreams. It kind of makes him sound like he’s wearing a retainer. Y’know, for bed. Our oral health king!