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a lot of people are having very visceral reactions to this news. i’ve seen many people say that BTS are now lazy, they’re just not as hungry as they were for fame, they’re egos are too high, they think they’re too old, etc. now we, of course, don’t know the true reason why they turned down the offer, unless they speak out themselves, but i think automatically assuming anything i listed above is immature and illogical.

them turning down coachella is most likely due to their tour ending in Australia on february 21st and coachella taking place the weekends of april 9 - 11th and then april 16 - 18th. giving them less than 40 days to prepare for the stage with some relaxing after the grueling tour and traveling in mind. BTS, as headline performers, would need longer than that to prepare for their stage, as headliners typically prepare their stages months in advance. i’d expect an intense stage from performers like BTS, something that would gain a lot of attention, praise, and be visually stunning. maybe something like their 2019 mma performance, obviously not the exact same, but something as impactful and stunning as those stages. this would put immense pressure on them fresh out of their again, very long and physically demanding, world tour. i simply don’t think this news should instill any fear into fans of them disbanding or not wanting to perform on big stages anymore.

it’s just not realistic for them to headline coachella with their schedule this year. but i also think fans celebrating and saying “yeah, they’re too big for coachella anyways” is also harmful. no artist is too big for coachella, especially as a headliner. famous artists like beyoncé, justin beiber, sabrina carpenter, madonna, zara larsson etc have performed. it would be an amazing opportunity for them to perform at one of the biggest, if not biggest, music festivals in america. i’d love for them to and maybe it’ll be in their future! unfortunately, it’s most likely that the timing just didn’t work out this time and that’s okay!

i hate that i constantly see jimin in “kpop idols that can’t sing” categories. i feel like antis recycle the same 5 clips of his voice cracking, him on an off day, him sick, him nervous, or him experiencing in ear issues to label him as a bad singer. he is a fantastic vocalist with a very unique, beautiful voice. hearing him live was mesmerizing! i’m shocked he hasn’t went more viral with his vocals. his voice is so impressive that other idols struggle to cover bts songs or can’t even cover his solo songs because his voice is so hard to replicate. i feel like people forget that jimin’s voice was (and still is ofc) crucial to bts and hybe. jimin was constantly in the back hitting difficult notes as adlibs or just hitting high notes the others couldn’t. some songs i think his voice stands out in are let me know, rain, danger, i need u, home, bs&t, outro: do you think it makes sense, love maze, don’t leave me.. just to name a few. i don’t think it’s fair to label him as a bad singer when his talents greatly outweigh his faults. faults that every vocalist has mind you. jimin deserves more praise!

he’s such a natural blonde and the long locks really fit him so much! you can also tell how comfortable he is with this hair and how much fun he has playing around with different styles. he’s so confident with this hair. i love this for him so much

just saw a tiktok with 40k likes hating on aang for telling katara and his friends they’ll never understand how he feels. what he said is NOT wrong. his friends all lost something due to the war. katara and sokka lost their mother, their father had to leave them to fight in the war, and the benders of their nation were round up and killed off. zuko lost his mom and his connection to his people because he was too kind hearted for them. these are all horrible, but aang lost everything. the only thing he had left of his culture and people were appa, momo, and some air temples. every single person he knew was killed. he was the only air bender left. the last monk. so no, aang was not in the wrong when he told his friends that they can never understand him. they can only understand aang to a certain extent, but they’ll never be able to fully grasp the concept of being the last of your kind. i have no idea how that had so many likes and people agreeing in the comments.

i haven’t read the comics and they probably explore azula’s character more in depth, but was there truly any hope for her to end up like zuko? in zuko alone, we get many flashbacks of zuko’s childhood, which obviously includes his sister azula. and here we can see that at a very young age she showed signs of being a psychopath. she has zero empathy for others. when she learns that her uncle iroh’s own son died, instead of feeling sad for him or mourning the loss of her cousin, she mocks iroh for not continuing the attacks on ba sing sae. she also listens in on the conversation between azulon and her father, where ozai agrees to kill zuko, and rather than feel sad and anxious by this new information, she instead taunts zuko. even saying that maybe a nice earth kingdom family can adopt him. not to mention the fact that she hurts small animals and often enough for the animals to fear her very presence. i feel like only so much of these behaviors can be her father’s influence. was she truly just born with a bit of screws loose? or is this truly all ozai’s doing and a lack of support from her mother? we all know that zuko was forced to gravitate towards his mother and as a result, had more guidance and good life lessons to learn. additionally to this, zuko also had iroh’s presence during his banishment. i’m not sure.. what do you think?

i always ask myself if his obsession over lori was the sole reason he went crazy and acted the way he acted? or if even without lori he’d still be an impulsive, hot head who doesn’t work well with others? i’m never too sure.. lmk what you think.

my personal take is that even if lori wasn’t involved, he still would’ve wanted to be the only person making calls and would feel threatened by rick’s natural leadership role. he wouldn’t like that the group favored rick over him and rick’s calls over his own and would probably still go crazy and want to kill rick. ultimately, leading to his death. i also think that, yes, shane did make some correct, tougher calls which were the norm for the later seasons, but killing otis took a huge toll on his psyche. sort of proving he couldn’t last long, especially wnen killing people becomes extremely normalized. but i could also see him lasting til negan times, if he could be rick’s right hand man, but again, could shane’s personality handle that? not sure.

i want to preface this by saying i am by no means victim blaming him in any way, nor am i defending stalker behavior. but i don’t understand how jungkook is still so trusting, i would say is the right word, this far into his career. army’s are probably the biggest fanbase in the world, meaning there are many freaks and weirdos in the fandom. in my opinion, he over shares with fans. again, the fandom is huge, therefore BTS should always be extremely cautious with what they post and say on the internet, for their own safety. i feel like the other members do this just fine. im not saying they also don’t have their fair share of freak fans who follow them around, but jungkook is always saying how people are constantly outside of his own home. this is terrifying!! but anyways.. just to be less broad, today he posts videos of him working out (now i’m not from korea, but i am sure koreans can easily figure out where he is), saying what time he is leaving to go out.. so of course people showed up around his house because they know he’s leaving and they can catch him outside. someone even said they’ll go to the han river to meet him (im guessing that’s where he was running and working out. he posts a video politely telling them to “fuck off” afterwards, but this could’ve all been avoided if he was just more cautious and let’s say played those videos in a week from now when he is not currently at the han river, or currently leaving his house. i seriously hope the company begins to sue and throw these freaks in jail, but i seriously want jungkook to also be more careful!! when these people already know where he lives, sharing that you are going out to run around and work out and providing videos of the surrounding area is not smart! there are ways to interact with fans safely. this is coming from a place of worry and care, not hate btw. i just don’t want to see him get hurt

obviously with katsuki being the delinquent and izuku as the oblivious nerd

i disagree with the part of the fandom that complains about how ozai was handled or written. i think he was the perfect overarching villain for a show set up like atla, where the main conflict is a 100 year war. and who is leading and fueling the very war? ozai. no, we did not need to see more of him. no, we did not need a face reveal sooner. no, we don’t need a backstory. no, we do not need a day in his life or more depth to his character. all of this is unecessary when we, the audience, see his destruction every time the gaang travels someplace new and runs into people like jet and the freedom fighters. children so hurt by war they are willing to kill innocents (or maybe it was just jet, i can’t remember). haru, who is forbidden to earth bend because fire nation soldiers will imprison him, just like they did to his father. refugees so hurt by the war they are burned and scarred, like song. refugees who are barley getting by in the serpent’s pass episode. katara and sokka’s mother who was killed and left without a father because he must go fight in the war. zuko’s scar is a constant reminder of what a horrible, selfish, piece of shit ozai is. to burn his own son so terribly, mind you for showing compassion for their own soldiers, leaving a permanent “lesson” on his face, while deforming his eye and ear is simply irredeemable. for turning azula, a 14 year old girl, into a child soldier to do his bidding. ozai is simply the big bad who needs to be stopped. he lacks depth because he doesn’t need depth. any depth added would feel unecessary when we see how horrible he is throughout the show, through other characters and their experiences with the war. we learn, very early on, that he is a tyrannical world leader that simply needs to go down and that works perfectly for atla.

sokka was really going to hijack appa in the dead of night to take him to a fire nation prison surrounded by boiling hot water 😭 and then aang never really gave katara permission to take appa on a trip for who knows how long doing who knows what, and she even admits in the scene she was going to take him anyways. appa is NOT just a means of transportation, people!! so rude 🥲 #JusticeForAppa

ever since i was a kid, i’ve always enjoyed the boiling rock episodes the best. sokka and zuko are a great duo and the pay off at the end of ty lee and mai betraying azula makes this one the best to me.

i really like suki’s character and i think she proves to be very useful throughout the course of the show. for example, she knocked some sense into sexist sokka and shaped who he is now, she helped the gaang cross the serpents’s pass (even saving toph from drowning), she found and healed appa, she was the MVP during the boiling rock episodes, and she saved sokka and toph’s lives in the final battle. i personally like when she’s considered apart of the group. “fan and sword” as sokka said </3

on the other hand, i understand when people say that suki has her own group, the kyoshi warriors, and duties to tend to, so they view her more as a very useful ally to the gaang, but i was wondering what this subreddits take would be on this!

its so cool