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There was another post by someone who said they hope that Black people will stop consuming k-pop because of all of the anti-black/colorist bigotry, and I agree and disagree with the sentiment. Based on my experience, I've been most drawn to k-pop songs and artists because of Black creatives who work on these k-pop projects. So, I feel like Black k-pop fans may find themselves drawn to it because it basically IS Black culture. The blueprint, the foundation of k-pop is undeniably Black. I could never fault any Black people from liking k-pop/k-culture despite the controversy.

I am a very casual consumer of k-pop music, but my sister recently introduced me to BTS through their Arirang Album and took me to the concert. I was really drawn to the songs 2.0 (choreo, mv, and lyrics), Normal, Merry Go Round, Oh Please. Then I went down the BTS rabbit hole and I developed ADHD Limerence over RM (I know, I know). But I digress. Like any sane person, I looked up the creatives behind the album and was pleasantly [un]surprised that a lot of Black creatives worked on it.

With that being said, I'm not sure if this has been done before, I really want to highlight and bring attention to the Black Excellence behind BTS Arirang Album. These are just the ones I know of:

1. Teezo Touchdown
2. JPEGMAFIA
3. Mike Will Made It
4. Kirsten Allyssa Spencer (A.Chic)
5. Ant Clemons
6. Derrick Milano
7. Asheton Hogan/Pluss
8. Brandon Bell/Donut
9. Charles Hinshaw
10. Atia Boggs
11. Livvi Franc
12. Nick Joseph (Choreographer)
13. ALL THE BLACK BACK UP DANCERS

I think the best thing we can do is go out of our way to amplify these creatives, writers, producers, composers, dancers, etc.

Honorable mentions to black faces breaking into Korean screens:

Jenny Park (half Nigerian/half Korean model)

Chase Infiniti (Ateez MVs Model)

Bae Yu-Jin (half Black/half Korean model)

Han Hyun-Min (half Black/half Korean model)

* This isn't a comprehensive list, there are many more. In the words of Issa Rae "I'm rooting for everybody black."

I'm half thai from USA. My Thai great-aunt Yao (grandma's biological sister, my dad's biological aunt) is being taken financially abused because she is elderly and unable to care for herself. Pa'Yao's ex husband divorced her and married another thai lady to help her and her sons get USA citizenship. The lady paid him like $50,000. Two years ago, the lady's son (Bo) took my great-aunt from her home and had her committed to a convalescent home and didn't tell us where she was. Then last year, he had a lawyer help him [fraudulently] change all of Pa'Yao's POA and Will & Testament to his name. This guy is literally PaYao's ex husband's step son. Bo doesn't know who I am (which is funny because he says that he grew up in Pa'Yao's house which is a lie). The court investigator requested a test to see if Pa'Yao is mentally able to consent to changing her POA and stuff. The investigator said that Pa'Yao couldn't even remember her the year or which President we have or if she got SSI & Disability (She does).

Basically, I wanted to ask how culturally taboo it is for thai seniors to be taken care of by their ex-spouse's step children. Especially if their biological family members want to take care of them?

TLDR; Who is in line in the family to take care of the elders?

Hope this made sense.

I've been able to naturally lucid dream most of my life. However, I was looking through this subreddit and maybe I've been doing it all wrong lol.

My first lucid dreams (when I was a small child) started out with me having a dream, and then becoming aware of it. Then, if it's not going the way I like (dream or nightmare), I can change the events. Sometimes, I can "rewind" the dream and start over. Other times, I can control what my "character" is doing in the dream. For example, I can generate a person or if I'm being attacked by zombies then I can find weapons or hide.

As I got older, I would almost ALWAYS have a lucid nightmare and sleep paralysis together.

THEN, I stopped dreaming for YEARS until I moved to a different country. The lucid nightmares and sleep paralysis came back. Most of them were like shadow people chasing me or SAing me.

Whenever I became pregnant, I had a dream about the swimming in an ocean with clear water but jagged rocks at the bottom. Then after I delivered, there were many dreams of demons or witches trying to come after my kids. OMG - one recurring dream I had was of this demon with a pitch black body and red and black striped face trying to get in my window where my babies were lying down. another one was of an old crone reaching over my body to where my children were lying down. I would always recite [something] and then they would fight for a bit then I'd wake up.

After my second pregnancy, I didn't really dream much at all. Mostly regular dreams and I'd never remember them at all.

The last 2-3 years, I've been lucid dreaming again. I would dream about different random people, living different lives and sometimes in different realities. I would be 3rd person watching others, aware I'm dreaming but not really having any say in what goes on. Other times, I would be in 1st person living the life of someone else. I can make decisions and changes in the dream. These are usually lovely, but when I start waking up (like my alarm rings) I'll "lose" the dream and it'll warp into another dream or become blurry. SOMETIMES, I can go back to a dream place that I've been before or the dream place that I've just left (if I can remember vivid details)

HOWEVER, I've never asked any of the "characters" if they knew it was a dream, or anything like that (I saw it in a thread). Uhhh, so what do you think? lol