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preview extremely gay, full thing might totally swerve, though (or at least distract by sticking a few shots of a girl in). --- guys why are we doing spoiler tags for totally interesting and relevant topics? the political backdrop of LGBT rights/perception in Korea (and even greater Asia, such as Taiwan) strongly influence how comfortable LGBT idols are when it comes to showing who they are or expressing their support. it's not like you guys are talking about how happy you were to see Kai's dancing live in Jakarta or something. if you insist on using spoiler tags for an entire post (which you don't need to for this topic), at the very least add a descriptive title outside of the tag. otherwise, we're still clicking through all of your spoiler tags to find out what they're about, which defeats the purpose of the tag. we've talked about this before. thanks.

i just came in to post this but it's already here ;;;;;;;;

"Where U Are"? reminds me I should bring back LULU X's sweetly gay "Where Are You Now"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PQ2CM1SybQ ^just after 6:25 woohyun's face when jaejoong is talking about his abs is so relatable XD it might just be coincidence (editing on this show is very tight, meaning way too much missing context) but it is exactly how i feel looking at JJ's body.

no, and it's too boring reading through it to find out.

just watched ep 5 (everything outside the spoiler tag is spoiler-free): I thought the judging was vastly improved this episode. J-Black was there again, and Honey J was really letting them have it on absolutely valid criticism that can be grown upon. Mun Heejun was also fairly decent (his score for that one team was not well explained, but I kind of got the idea)... though admittedly I can't remember much of Ha Hwi Dong. felt the bar for performances was even higher this week. the previous round had some great stuff, but you can really see how much harder they're working now and how much time they're spending together in the way they move. specific stuff about the dances (spoilers):

well, no. Japan doesn't give a single fuck about Billboard because the vast, vast majority of sales come from the domestic side and numbers are lucrative enough not to need it.

why not sing it together live in a social media update without releasing a studio ver and see the vast amount of positive reactions they'd get for it? it's a bit daring but i wish they would.

holland is a fucking prince in that shot. not even gonna say "king" because he looks better than that.

H-hwat? catch me up, i'm confused.

love the performances but the point system is really ruining the show. the first episodes got away with the 50/50 judges vs audience system because the judges were the five coaches (who know what they're working with and set high expectations)... but now that they're bringing in other coaches, and suddenly REVEALING each judge's individual scores (even though they didn't during the first 2 eps), they're essentially throwing the performances to the audience. it may make sense to say "well this group is amazing so 95, and this group is better so 96," but when you're splitting judgement with a random audience who doesn't necessarily know much about dance, the difference between 95 and 96 is almost entirely negligible. i doubt they'll change the 50/50 balance, but the least they could do is show the judges what they're evaluating and tell them to give varied scores. that way the judges would have more impact overall. ... also the replays in the middle of performances are distracting (replay key moments AFTER the performance, not during it. this is dance, not some idol funtime variety episode). my rankings and other episode spoilers: ^^i'm not a dancer so my opinions on the performances are not necessarily terribly informed.

oh my god king jaejoong quenching our parched gay bodies with freshly squeezed gayjuice (didn't know how else to end that sentence). this is the kind of "fan service" i can get behind

12:35 host: "and look at you now!" BB: "and look at you too!" wat this boy is such a sweetheart tho im sorry i never been new ;;;;;;

this is kind of the crux of your argument, and while it's true that it IS POSSIBLE, there's really only so many times you can assume the less likely interpretation and still come across as believable. you may be right, the majority MIGHT be gay, and they MIGHT all share gay porn amongst themselves that they MIGHT admit to willingly on TV under the expectation viewers will assume it's straight porn. and similarly, as Bushi was saying, RM MIGHT be implying that 'Her' could actually be a 'Him' even though there are other ways he could have stayed gender neutral if he wanted to... it just feels like you guys are almost coming up with excuses to avoid the more likely implications. (that's not to say i don't buy any parts of your arguments. i do think it's extremely telling that RM used "her" extensively for himself but avoided gender pronouns for Jimin, etc.)

am i missing something? this sounds like a major reach.

hoya sleeveless and blindfolded, dancing with lia kim on sketchbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dst06o18C0A thanks!i was just gonna skip through and watch a few performances here and there but i got sucked in and watched all of it (and now it's past 4am). hoya has a good team but excluding top 10 performers who got to choose their coach, lia kim picked my favorite dancers. gonna be hard competition against that team.

not sure if i noticed this before or not (it's been 7 years since this aired), but the design hoya's shirt in this dance battle is reminiscent of (but different from) the transgender symbol:

i don't think the point is whether bisexual or homosexual people have it better when they decide to live as "straight." the point is: if you are bi, you are bi. there may be a degree of preference one way or the other, but attraction isn't a simple on/off switch. example~♪ if you're a bi boy looking4luv, and you see heart-stoppingly adorable boy A, you could try to get yourself to stop thinking about him... maybe even try to focus on an attractive girl instead. but she's not him. every person you meet is unique, and the same goes for everyone you fall for; it's not so easy as replacing one with any other and everything working out easy. sure, you'll probably move on even without owning up to yourself, but it's gotta hurt if you keep stomping your feelings out every time you find yourself enamored with a boy just because you want to pretend you're straight. feelings can be ignored, but there is a price.

original: trans: *(not sure if this is a pun or something about the microwave. maybe he's joking that fans should get him a microwave next? not sure honestly)

kind of living for this rn that one named kevin is SUPER good. and i'm just realizing that when you guys talk about "kevin" recently, you're probably talking about this kevin and not the one in u-kiss. (didn't realize there were two... can hardly wrap my mind around there being two marks)

hoya performed on sketchbook. pretty good, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqaGWQg9Tg

probably someone i'm fairly convinced is gay, honestly.there's always a chance they might not be but having that confirmation would allow me to better understand their perspective, i think. so probably INFINITE - Woohyun SNSD - Yuri (wow i guess those are my only two bias groups.) there are other members who could possibly swing either way, or maybe straight-seeming members that are actually LGBT or something like that, but it's really too hard to settle on any one member over another in that case.

hoya had a showcase apparently: do you guys know if he'll appear on regular music shows?

fine, but maybe your previous posts were at least homoerotic content? this one is just Taehyung in a robe holding a camera... i don't know what you've posted before about Ansel/Taehyung/whatever, we're only responding to this particular photo.

is this a photo that taehyung took and sent to ansel or something?none of what you just said explained what we're supposed to be looking for here in this photo.