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Agust D Tour 'D-DAY' in Seoul

434 days before yoongi come back

#177

"Why are you still here?"

"Spite."

The clink of cutlery on porcelain played a quiet symphony in the upscale restaurant where Seokjin sat alone, swirling a glass of red wine with an air of practiced nonchalance. Each time the door opened, his gaze flicked up, hopeful and then sardonically amused as couples—not his date—poured in. He had commandeered two candlelit settings for one, the empty seat across from him a silent accusation against the world's inability to recognize punctuality as a virtue.

"Yoongi," he greeted without surprise when his friend appeared, sliding into the vacant chair with the ease of someone who didn't care that they were crashing a date—or what was supposed to be one. "Fashionably late, as always."

"Seokjin-ah, why are you still here?" Yoongi asked, eyebrows arching above steeled eyes that missed nothing.

"Spite," Seokjin replied, the word dropping like a sugar cube into the bitterness of his situation, dissolving with a laugh. "Also, it's a crime to let this beauty go unseen." He gestured at his own face, the very picture of self-assurance.

"Ah, yes, 'the face that launched a thousand ships.'" Yoongi drawled, leaning back comfortably. "Or at least, it would if any of them actually arrived at the port."

"Harsh," Seokjin countered with a grin. "But I can't deny my gravitational pull is akin to a celestial body."

"Speaking of bodies," Yoongi quipped, "if you were a vegetable, you'd be a 'cute-cumber'."

"Wow, stealing lines from the internet now? How original, Min Genius." Seokjin's laughter filled the space between them, warm and infectious.

"Only the best for you," Yoongi retorted with mock solemnity, raising his water glass in a toast. "To your face, then. May it never be stood up again."

"Cheers to that." Seokjin clinked his wine glass against Yoongi's, their shared mirth as sparkling as the crystal in their hands.

"Seriously though," Yoongi continued, eyes twinkling with mischief, "you're sitting here all alone on a Saturday night in a restaurant that costs an arm and a leg, looking like a snack when you could be the whole damn meal."

"Flattery will get you everywhere," Seokjin shot back, the corners of his eyes crinkling with delight. "Keep talking, and I might just forget about Mr. No-show."

"Who needs him when you've got me?" Yoongi teased, comfortable in their camaraderie, a perfect foil to Seokjin's dramatics.

"True," Seokjin conceded with feigned arrogance. "I'm already dining with the greatest composer of our generation. What more could I ask for?"

"Maybe a discount on your next solo track?" Yoongi offered, deadpan.

"Deal," Seokjin laughed, tipping his glass to Yoongi once more. "But only if it features your rap skills."

"Done," Yoongi agreed, his smile genuine and warm in the soft candlelight.

Their banter wove seamlessly through the evening, a tapestry of easy friendship and effortless humor, proving that sometimes the best dates aren't the ones you plan, but the ones that find you.

210/638 days of missing yoongi

“yeah can i get a 60k with everything on it”

i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

actually i'm reblogging this again with commentary, fuck it.

There's people in the notes talking about "not basing your worth off numbers", and like. that isn't what this post is about. It's not a threat, either, it's a comment on how this site works, at a mechanical level.

Likes are worthless. Let me say that again.

Likes. Are. Worthless.

They don't do anything. They're a bookmark. They were never part of how tumblr works - in the early days we didn't even have a like button, and the site still more or less acts as though we don't. They're personal bookmarks and the only people who "get" anything from them are you (you bookmark the post) and the OP (maybe a very slight serotonin boost), but they don't keep the post in circulation, they don't keep it alive.

Without reblogs, a post will be dead in the water within an hour. No matter how good it is, no matter how many hours of painstaking love and attention its creator put into it, it will be dead within an hour and never seen again. It gets pushed down the dashboard and nobody aside from the followers who were online when it was posted will see it. And there's a huge difference in engagement on posts that get even one lucky reblog from someone with wider reach - that one reblog shows your post to five, ten, fifteen other people, and if one of those people also reblogs it, and so on and so forth, that's how posts stay alive and in circulation. It's like a contagion, but we're sharing creativity instead of disease.

And that matters. That "lifespan" of the post matters, artists and writers give up on this site and go to sites where posts have longer lifespans because it sucks to spend hours of your life, maybe even days, to get two notes and some fucking pocket lint for your efforts. We create for ourselves, but we share because we want people to see it, because that engagement offers positive feedback and encouragement to continue. But more than that, if every post (whether art, fic, gifset, whatever) is dying within an hour or a day of being posted, that means it's not making it onto your dashboard. And if it's not on your dashboard, you won't see it. This kills the site, after a while. You stop seeing the posts, because nobody is putting them on your dashboard, because this site doesn't have an algorithm like twitter and insta's and it shouldn't, it's the last bastion of chronological timelines.

Forgive my giant fucking rant I am so tired right now and full of the plague but like stop acting like artists and writers are just being whiny little babies, or "threatening" to withhold our fucking work (you're not entitled to it! it's ours! if we get nothing out of sharing it we're well within our rights to keep it private!) when we say this site will dry up without reblogs. We're just stating facts.

also I’ve seen some people in the tags say ‘oh there have always been more likes on posts’ no there haven’t ???? 

these are posts from 2013, look at the ratio

not to sound like a nursing home resident but back then people know that the point of this site was to reblog things and share them, not to bury them away among your other 23k liked posts

One thing all yunho stans have in common is the fact that they all have raging hand fetishes (looks in the mirror). It's not like 'aww his hands are gorgeous', it's more like 'his hands are gorgeous i wish they could choke me and fuck me till i go limp'. And his hands are the biggest fetish object for them i mean literally look at them and hes aware thats all i have to say

Who gave you the RIGHT??!! 😭😭😭🤤🤤🤤🤤

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