idol + era: jonghyun + “she is”

whichever way the path may lead, shawols will always stand by you forever. you worked hard. you did a good job. thank you. #shinee3500day

thank you & i hope you are at peace, jonghyun 🌙

for those interested: members of the shinee reddit community are in the process of putting planning both a book and charity project in the name of jonghyun. as to quote what was written in the main post (which can be found here): “we’ll be collecting, compiling, and translating messages from fans into a book commemorating jonghyun to send to the shinee members. we’ll also be including with the book the certificate of the donation we made in his honor. the charity portion of the project is completely optional. we know not everyone has money, and the book itself will still be made no matter what, as the donations we’ve received from in-server already cover the book cost. because of that, any additional donations will be given to a foundation that focuses on mental health and lgbtq+ youth activism in south korea, which we think is something jonghyun would believe in. the foundation is called dding dong.” guidelines for submissions can be found at the linked, along with how can you submit what you want to include. donations are not required but an option if you have some extra money to spare. the due date for submissions will be january 5th, 2018.

“there is no shortcut to perfection. all it takes is hard work and more hard work”- kim jonghyun

수고했어, 김종현. 정말 고생했어

• remember how fast jonghyun would speak whenever he’s nervous. it was a cute lil habit of his
• remember how jonghyun never learned how to ride a bicycle until he was 23 and when he finally learned how to, his new bike got stolen and had to go back to the bike shop the next day, apologized to the bike owner and bought a new one (only to find out a year or two later that minho was the one behind the bike theft)
• remember how jonghyun always somehow managed to get a lot of sm’s youtube channel and would post cute n wholesome clips of his dog roo
• remember how much love and support jonghyun gave to taemin with his solo career and how much he adored “dracula oppa”/ his “fairy prince”
• remember how jonghyun fell asleep on the couch and minho recreation of that famous michelangelo painting and key posted it on weibo
• remember how jonghyun got mad from said event so he decided to post 473828292 memes of minho as payback (and just always posted memes of the rest of the members on twitter lol)
• remember how when jonghyun and onew first met, jonghyun thought he was older than him and dragged onew around the sm building speaking informally. and when he found out the next day that onew was older he got super embarrassed
• remember how much jonghyun loved playing that damn kazoo of his, his live version of beautiful tonight > anything really
• remember how the members were asked how many hats did kibum own and jonghyun instantly raised his hand in 0.000000001 seconds and got the answer correct
• remember how jonghyun thought it was a good idea to walk to the airport with a dog mask on his head just so he could make everyone laugh
• remember how much jonghyun cared for his older sister songdam and always had her as his phone wallpaper
• remember how much jonghyun cared for his mother who he loved so dearly and said she was always his biggest influencer