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hello everyone ~~ ⋆♪ ₊.
it's been a second... *^^*
i hope you all still remember me... (,; ⩌ ;,)
my dear seventeen... ☆
i was thinking lately about how seventeen are really the only active group i keep up with nowadays (｡ᵕ ◞ _◟)
my ult groups have been cemented pretty well since ~2021 (the boyz, seventeen, loona)
nowadays post-bbc ofc it just doesn't feel the same with loona being fragmented & even though the boyz are coming back soon it's still up in the air when they'll come back as a full group because younghoon & hyunjae's impending enlistment dates are marching sooner and sooner...
i'm really glad sangyeon is back though ε-(´∀｀; )
(and) (loossemble was my favorite post-bbc group) (and i like artms a lot but i really dislike modhaus) (and yeojin's single just wasn't my style tbh...) (as for tbz) (it seems like aside from jacob & kevin everyone is just doing solo acting work or holding fanmeets) (moonbae's solos just aren't my style either tbh... & i've never been someone who watched kdramas) (even when younghoon was in love revolution and stuff like that) (so as much as changmin is an ult of ults for me i wasn't very interested in watching his drama)
(this is NAWT a tbz/loona only occurrence fyi... i lowk took a pause on keeping up with seventeen from late 2024 to late 2025 because i didn't vibe as much with hxw or cxm's albums either...)
anyway that is to say i've been watching going seventeen quite a lot since i finished playing p3r and ranking all the episodes on my bearblog like it's a full time job lol
i've been missing wonwoo, hoshi, n woozi quite a lot lately & now that dokyeom, mingyu, and vernon have enlisted i miss them even more and more
at least there's so much seventeen to still watch
i'm rewatching a lot of the going seventeen episodes and realizing how little i actually remember about most non-2020 episodes lol
svtflix is like an angel sent from above...
tbh this is the same song and dance i did back in 2020ish
after oh my! came out back in 2018 i really lagged on keeping up with seventeen in the midst of peak loona, the boyz first few comebacks, nct 2018, wanna one impending disbandment... ( ;´ - `;)
and then when they dropped home i seriously didn't like it and that kinda cemented me not keeping up with them for a good minute
home is still probably my least favorite title track LOL it's always going to be the song that got me to stop stanning seventeen for a while
carat for sale (me)
but then in 2020 when we were all shut ins of course i got into seventeen again and it was Because of going seventeen
so i'll always have a soft spot in my heart for going seventeen... especially 2020...
the unfortunate effect of this is that i didn't see seventeen when they came to san jose in 2019
that's seriously one of the biggest regrets i'll ever have in my whole life...
(ㅠ﹏ㅠ)
i even found out that they performed my favorite seventeen song of all time (몰래 듣지 마요 / don't listen in secret) then too...
(ㅠ﹏ㅠ) (ㅠ﹏ㅠ)
and this is also b/c when they did their first world tour in 2017 (diamond edge) i was so absolutely distraught that they didn't have any california stops... and i absolutely wasn't going anywhere else to see them... even los angeles would've been a stretch for me at the time...
(ㅠ﹏ㅠ) (ㅠ﹏ㅠ) (ㅠ﹏ㅠ)
i know i'll run out of gose episodes to watch eventually (i'm about ~40% through with my ranking)
i haven't seen nana tour yet aside from the first episode where they all find out they're going to italy so i know that's next
there's a lot for me to rewatch still but the passage of time is so scary ૮◞‸◟˶𑁬
i can't watch contents that are too old or else i'll get super sad...
i think 2019 is like the limit for me because a lot of those contents are still new for me (sorry home i still don't like you)
that one episode of """going seventeen""" they did in 2019 that was just a vlog of them going to nyc as a group is very near and dear to my heart (and one of the first things i watched when i first started getting into them again!!)
everytime i see old vlive clips or one fine day clips i feel like i'm getting shot in the chest because those are what i watched when i first started stanning seventeen... all the way back in going seventeen (THE ALBUM) era... i really can't rewatch those without getting super sad from nostalgia (& because they were all so young ...!)
don't even get me started on hit the road... i think i need to emotionally prepare myself if i ever choose to watch that...
but it's so weird... watching going seventeen 2020 episodes used to feel so fresh compared to the seventeen i remembered before i started restanning them again... and now i watch those episodes and they've grown so quickly... it's hard to imagine how i ever felt that way in the past
my 10 year anniversary with joshua is coming up soon (i've 1000% mentioned this before but i keep repeating it because it sounds so crazy to me)
it's so strange knowing i became a fan of seventeen when joshua was 20 and now i myself am 21... time flies so quickly
i love my los angeles gentleman so much!! ♥︎
anyway to touch on that a bit more i'm soooo excited for jhhj unit ... even though i'm really sad they didn't just call it jhhj instead of jxj (¬_¬") but not every unit can be v8 i guess...
but sh*bal... the new photocards for the album...
somehow makes me feel like i jumped too early to preorder the photocards because i could've been getting joshua shuasumi photocard if i waited for the pop up... (⸝⸝⸝╺﹏╺⸝⸝⸝) i know it'll end up costing a fortune now
## jealousy
i've always felt like i haven't done enough as a seventeen fan
(the whole 'i stopped stanning for a while in 2019 and always regret it' thing doesn't help)
when i see people with their shuasumi spreads having every single shuasumi that has ever been released or with adorable bongbongee merch that i didn't even know existed i always get this strange feeling
it's jealousy but it's less so directed at other jsss or huihuis or carats who get the opportunity to see them but more so directed at myself like i'm not doing enough as a fan / bec i've never had floor seats for their concert or been to a fansign & bc i don't have all the photocards maxxed or all the albums i feel like i'm not worthy as a fan
i know it doesn't even matter and no one actually cares but i do feel like that sometimes...
genuinely this tweet is how it feels seeing ppl who get opportunities to meet joshua and actually are able to b/c of how much he does for his ambassadorships
one of these days though the next time seventeen does ot13 concerts i hope i can attend the la one and make a "welcome home joshua hong" sign or something... something like that
and i hope that i can attend the first ot13 caratland they do after they're all done with their enlistments... that's truly the dream...
(in the case that i do... i hope i can do a bongbongee fit for day 1 and a shuasumi fit on day 2!!) (not me planning for something that's not happening for at least another 2 years...)
(another japan trip in the cards for whenever they do their next fanmeeting there too ...? (ㅅ´ ˘ `) ) (me n autumn have spoken about it in the future... but that won't be until after i'm actually making money)
i complain too much i'm acting like i don't literally have a bunch of svt photocards & albums (some of which are even first print before the great hybe reprintings...)
i've seen them 3 times already with 2 of those times being in la so i was able to go to the popups and official events organized by pledis so i'm just being a downer just to be a downer
i'm also just sad that this is the first time in a while that seventeen isn't touring SOMEWHERE...
hoping everyone who's going to see jihan's shows know how truly blessed they are...
lord knows if i had the chance to i would've 10000% gone to see the v8 shows and the prerelease listening party & the fka twigs show with them & yves
i knew from the very first teaser of singasong with them doing their little tiktok dance challenge that i'd love this album and i've been listening to it literally nonstop since it released over the summer
it's such a perfect vibe for me (♡ˊ͈ ꒳ ˋ͈)
especially since the yves -> underscores -> hyperpop (general) pipeline hit me very hard this year
(my 2026 first listens is going to be extremely edm-centric)
i think my song of the year will definitely be from v8
⋆♪ ₊.♫⋆｡♪ when i'm lonely, i put u on loop₊˚♬ ﾟ.
‧₊˚♪ 𝄞₊ play back everything i like about you ♫ ˚⊹
i know we already got a bit of a teaser but i'm wondering what the jihan album's sound is going to be
i think knowing vernon's style a little more from how much he's done solo with a lot more of his creative freedom (charli xcx feature, tobi lou feature, black eye, two minus one) & minghao's as well with his start in djing made it a lot clearer with how v8 would sound
i really expected something very mellow and dreamy given the concept photos for jxj + jeonghan and joshua's different solo songs (esp. baby come home, coincidence, fortunate change, one more dance, so many roads &&& the general vibe bec they're both vocal unit)
but i'm very very excited
the units have been so great at showing off new sounds of seventeen when they split into smaller units
it's seriously like the ppt/vcu/hhu split just taken to a different level
while (like i talked abt) not all the sounds of each unit have particularly been ""my type"" i'm loving all of them nonetheless (especially the 2026 releases!!!)
^^ wait also also i've been luving dino & jun's solo albums teehehe
(i would've 1000% gotten jun's album if it got a physical release...!)
my huihuiness is not as apparent but it's still just as strong
he's literally just like me fr
i actually never ever really watch full length drama series or anything so i don't particularly keep up with jun's acting activities but seeing all the go for broke 2 clips is making me consider changing my ways...
(for totally cinephile and media critique related, non-"don't ask me the color of nothing" reasons fyi...)
^ bc wym this is the same guy going "OPEN THE F#CKING DOOR"
// that clip plays in my mind like 59 times a day...
speaking of don't ask me the color of nothing
i'm still thinking about joshua's new instagram post... huhuhu...
(*￣∀￣)
me biasing the funny guy who is from la sometime between love & letter and going seventeen feels like the best investment i've ever made in my entire life
my california hot guy... ~
since it's my 10 year anniversary with joshua i've been talking about wanting to do more oshi stuff with him...
(wait i'm ded i was just looking for pix to include in this post and stumbled across this one ૮₍ ´ ꒳ `₎ა OHHH MEIN GOTTEN this was one of the first videos i saw when i first started stanning TEEHEHEHE i fell in love with joshua hong in real time watching this video)
"૮₍ ˶•⤙•˶ ₎ა ANYWAY
the problem is i don't know where all the cupsleeve events and stuff went ...???
it used to be so easy to oshi idk what happened
it's probably because i'm in la now but also ... all the cupsleeve events used to be held by the same group (bayareacarats) but they lowk dropped off the face of the earth after the svt 10th anniversary so i have no clue what happened to them
even still i feel like if i wanna go out and oshi somewhere in la all the cafes and stuff are peak performative #LAPOS
it doesn't really feel like oshi-ing when people r either trying to pinterest or tiktok lapos post or productivitymaxx. or worse. only there for the microtrends .... like i can tell some of u are not ordering salt bread with the purest heart and are just getting it bec it looks funny...
the closest thing i did to active oshi-ing in public was when i would polco/toploader deco with a friend while i was still at community college
though i would say we defo oshi'd before that became a common piece of vernacular for ppl in the west esp. across kpop fans
i fear we are not friends anymore... and i don't particularly miss the person as much as i miss being able to do this activity with someone
i miss my kpop friends ... </3 most of them i don't really see anymore since i started going to school in la
why r there so many photos of joshua looking completely out of it LMFAO
save me joshua hong signed album at musicplaza save me
(i make sure to pay my respects to this album every time i go to musicplaza to pick up an album) (they have fr been my go to ever since i bought my first ever kpop album there) (aka) (this exact album) (love & letter repackage)
man i miss seventeen
manifesting me going to all days of the first ot13 caratland they do after everyone is discharged from the military for the second time in this post (っ- ‸ - ς)
miniteen popmart...
i alrdy talked about it last time
i didn't originally want to get it because blind boxes are the bane of my existence but the popmart vending machine at usc has them stocked (buzzword buzzword buzzword)
my dear friend matthew got a bunch of them and somehow HASN'T GOTTEN A DOUBLE YET and also got my BIAS LINE (shuasumi, ocl, and foxdungee)
it's kinda crazy too because i went back home for the weekend and neither the valley fair nor the stonestown popmarts had them
## JEALOUSY
it lowk took me a while to warm up to miniteen tho
even though i met jjongtoram and ocl for the first time in person at the made by seventeen popup in oc almost 2 yrs back i always love bongbongee the most out of any svt character
(YES even more than shuasumi and even even more than more than ocl)
the fact that the very first bongbongee was made by mingyu's own two hands.. it's just the most adorable origin story
i remember when bongbongee went along with them throughout diamond edge (while i was mourning the fact that they weren't anywhere close to me)
as much as i completely fall for all the consumerism and the cute bongbongee merch they've made (meeting bongbongee irl @ the svt popup during seventeen is right here tour was a life changing experience) i can't forget that bongbongee originated as mingyu's handmade anik anik
i don't have the time to really do handcrafts anymore like i used to but one of these days i hope to handsew my very own bongbongee just like mingyu's original iterations...
i think that's all from me for now...
next time i'll surely recap my month and all the adventures and sidequests i've been on lately ... i've just been on such a svt kick lol
i was going to combine all these svt thoughts with my activities and whatnot but as we can see this ended up way longer than i intended to...
oh well! i do love seventeen this much... so no ragrets
until next time ... !
₍^⚯ ^₎⟆ ppyong
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