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Faceless stranger.

@bangtan-hyungline / bangtan-hyungline.tumblr.com

21. i'm trying to be a writer and to have a life, but that's not possible, right?
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shymagnolia

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

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leepacey

me at family gatherings

the screenshots here are from near the end of the interview, which i think makes it even worse, because the interviewer listened to everything he’d said and still didn’t treat it very seriously. there are other parts where she seems very smart and intuitive, but then other times he’d say something like “i hate myself to death and feel like i’m an empty shell” and she’d just laugh and move on while i’m just like !!!

i was really impressed by how open he is about it though, even the “ugly” symptoms that aren’t really talked about normally — like how he said he used to lock himself in his apartment alone and drink and “bang on the walls” because he didn’t know how else to cope with all the pain he was in, and he even mentions hurting himself and talks about scars and refers to himself as a “masochist” and says a coworker once referred to him as “someone constantly trying to hurt himself.” the fact that he was able to talk about all this so openly, despite the reaction he got, was so impressive and amazing to me

it’s really heartbreaking though because he’s obviously never had the support he needs — at one point he mentions that the first person he ever opened up to about all the pain he was in (back in his mid-20s, when he says it was much worse) was a director who was considering hiring him, and he later found out that that director had told people she thought “someone like that” would be “too difficult” to work with, and it caused this rumor/pre-conceived notion about him to spread that affected the way his coworkers treated him. now that he’s famous and has had other work he’s literally known for how charming and nice he is to everyone, but at that point his coworkers all thought he was moody, pretentious, and rude and always avoided him on set because of this, all because he opened up about his severe depression to the wrong person

speakng of raising awareness: the movie he’s being interviewed for here is “silenced”, a film he initiated production of. it’s based on real events that happened at a school for deaf children, where kids were sexually abused for years by their teachers. of the six rapists, two received prison sentences (and were out within a year), while the others were freed immediately because the statute of limitations had expired - and all were reinstated at the school

gong yoo read about this a few years later and said to himself “what can i as an actor do to help,” and he made a movie about it. millions of people saw it and there was mass public outrage, and because of this movie the case was reopened, the school was shut down, the rapists got much harsher punishments, and a law named after the movie was passed that abolished the statute of limitations for all sex crimes against minors and disabled people

when they were making the movie, gong yoo was convinced by the director he’d found to star as a teacher who tries to help the victims, but at first he was hesitant (because before this he’d only been in romcoms and he thought he lacked the acting ability to pull off the emotional depth required for this subject) but he eventually agreed because he wanted to use his fame to bring attention to the events

like… i have nothing but admiration for this guy. gong yoo is incredible and i want the world to know

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GIRL GROUPS WORK JUST AS HARD AS BOY GROUPS

okay, well let me just say, as a girl who loves kpop, there’s a lot of sHIT, THAT WE SHOULD SHED SOME LIGHT ON AND TRY TO FIX.

DO. NOT. DISRESPECT. A KPOP GIRL GROUP. For the following reasons:

A.) They did a sexy concept~ fIRST OF ALL THEY PROBABLY SLAYED YOUR EXISTENCE. SECOND- GIRLS CAN AND SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE CONFIDENT IN THEIR BODY AND IN WHATEVER THEY’RE WEARING.

B.) Being spotted with a potential lover. LOOK. Let’s be realistic, your ult bias is probably not gonna marry you, sO they’re gonna find someone else to be happy with, PEOPLE CAN DATE AND IT SHOULD BE FINE. DO NOT TRY AND FORCE PEOPLE APART JUST CAUSE YOU DON’T LIKE THEM TOGETHER.

C.) STOP COMPARING EVERY GIRL GROUP?? THEY CAN ALL PRESENT THE SAME CONCEPT IN DIFFERENT AND GOOD WAYS.

D.) YOUR FAVES MIGHT NOT BE SOMEONE ELSE’S FAVES AND THAT’S OKAY CAUSE PPL HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS.

E.) DON’T! BE! FUCKING! ASSUMING! EVERYONE! HAS! HAD! SURGERY!! AND SO WHAT IF THEY DID?? THAT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

F.) STOP THE SLUT SHAMING AND GIRL HATE. GIRLS IN THE KPOP INDUSTRY STILL WORK HARD. GIRLS IN THE KPOP INDUSTRY STILL DESERVE TO BE RESPECTED.

LASTLY. GIRL GROUPS ARE AMAZING AND SLAY, AND IT’S FINE IF YOU DON’T REALLY DIG THEM BUT PLEASE LoRD, R-E-S-P-E-C-T THEM.

(THIS WAS HEAVILY, HEAVILY, HEAVILY, INFLUENCED BY MY LAST REBLOG)

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