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Whenever the Blackpink girls do something solo, I always see people saying that Lisa and Jennie are being oversexualized. I don’t know much about Blackpink other than their names and their music but I do like them! I’m just wondering, could the direction of their solo career be a resistance to the infantilization of kpop? I’m not sure if Blackpink specifically suffered from it a lot, but I know girl groups often debuted with cute images that followed them for years. Like when I just got into kpop some years ago Lisa was introduced to me as the cute one. Do you think maybe the girls want to intentionally go the other way through more mature or sexual styles? If so I think that’s a valid response, like if they’re saying “I’m not a cute kid anymore im a a grown woman”. Maybe there’s discussion to be had about how they do ut from a marketing standpoint. That made me think if there’s direct link between the infantilization and idols later in their career. Like wasn’t there once a former idol who turned to adult entertainment after her time in the industry? I guess it also has to do with the age of idols, like maybe it’s not infantilization if they’re literally children. And if fans watch them grow up, then of course they’ll be more adult when they’re actually adults. Sorry if this made no sense I was just trying to get my thoughts together but I think it’s an interesting conversation

I know this isn’t specific to Adventism, but it’s what I know so I’ll speak on it. I am so fucking disgusted by the reactions I’m seeing to that flood in Nepal. I heard about it but saw videos of it today for the first time and it’s so devastating. A glacier melting caused up to a hundred feet and tons and tons of water to basically slam into the region out of nowhere. And the things I’m hearing from Adventists (and admittedly other religious people) around me is essentially “omg did you see that flood Jesus is coming soon!” And yes this happens time and time again, but I guess since I’m older and actually paying attention I’m just more disgusted now. Like how dare you be celebrating the catastrophic loss of human life??? I confronted a couple family members about it and they were all like “oh we’re not happy that it happened, but it’s signs of the times you know” and I actually felt sick. First they insist that climate change is a ploy from the devil to fake Jesus second coming or whatever. Then they insist that the consequences of climate change are because of too much sin. The only sin causing these disasters is corporate greed, not some arbitrary spiritual state of the world. The refuse to acknowledge the real causes, and then have the nerve to associate event of massive deaths with the day when Jesus will come back and take his oh so special people to heaven without giving a single fuck about who will be left behind in that scenario. As much as I try to take it slow and hold on to my belief in God, the more I look around me, the more I’ve come to accept that if that God is the way he’s portrayed I’ll just burn. There is genuinely a concerning obsession with disasters in this church. They get on their pulpit or YouTube channels and talk about these like some great prophetic revelation with absolute disconnect. Like hundreds of people just died. And hundreds more are missing. It’s just absolutely disgusting what can you even do about it? And you’ll never see mission trips organized large scale for these things either!!! They somehow start churches in random places and put it in the quarterly , but a major disaster happened and it’s radio silence with no funds in sight. I just can’t see myself defending this any more

A lot of times I hear people reference physical album sales since it’s a measure of success. But I always think that groups would get more sales if they consistently made jewel case versions of their albums.

For example, if I like the music of a smaller group, but I don’t stan that group or know any of the members, I’d like to be able to buy the cd and the cd alone. Like most people seem to buy albums of groups they like since you get a cd along with all the fun inclusions. But wouldn’t it be beneficial if they had a more minimalistic version without photocards or things like that? Like just the cd and lyrics.

I think that way they could get sales from a wider audience who just enjoy the music. If they did that (and made them cheaper than regular albums of course), I think a lot of smaller groups would at least see a small increase in sales, and fans would get to show support directly beyond just streams. The few times I see jewel cases in kpop, they’re just a one off from a group. Nowadays there’s album versions that don’t even come with CDs at all!! I don’t know, I feel like companies should go the other direction and sell CDs on their own.

This is kind of embarrassing to ask. Im a 20 year old girl, and have zero I mean zero experience. No first kiss, can’t even remember holding hands romantically. I’ve had crushes that never go anywhere because I’m too shy to act on them, because I was raised in a strict high control Christian household, and also because I’m closeted to my family and don’t want to take any risks. The problem is, I feel like I’m a little hyper sexual. From arguably too young an age I learned about BDSM, was reading erotica way too young, masturbate pretty regularly, and at one point was even scared I had a porn addiction. After buying a couple sex toys, I started feeling really guilty. So am I a hyper sexual virgin, or is my upbringing making me over think?

Does anyone here use zoos? I’m about to sign up but I don’t really understand it because the translation is not the best on my browser. Is it basically their own weverse? Also, how does the collection thing work is it just a digital collection?

Has anyone watched it? It keeps popping up in my recommended on YouTube but I don’t know anything about it. Is it like a real time survival show? Is it good??

Apparently hybe hybe is debuting a new girl group soon, under a brand new label. So far discourse ive seen is: a lot about how some of the girls are like 14 or 15, some people bringing up newjeans and comparing the two groups, and people criticizing hybe for debuting yet another group.

I think the teasers look cool, I like the bold colors and stuff. It seems like it’s going to be a little bit more youthful than the current sound of kpop but I wouldn’t know.

I can understand the criticism of hybe debuting yet another group. They have a LOT of groups. I know it’s because they have individual labels, but opening a brand new one dedicated to girl groups is an interesting choice.

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This video popped up on my Instagram and I ended up thinking about how religion seems to follow the whole “it’s plain wrong” thought process. Like so many things were considered wrong but never properly explained why from a logical standpoint. He used the big example of bestiality but I feel like Adventism has these rules for non issues. Like my parents have a problem with nail painting for example, or more general beliefs like kissing. I think if you believe something is right or wrong, you should have a logical reason for why. And the reason probably shouldn’t come from the “spirit of prophecy”. What do you guys think?

This question has been bothering me all week. Last week I went to church since I'm home with the family. The sermon was whatever but one of the scriptures from it has been stuck in my head. Growing up I was taught to memorize Exodus 20:8-11, I know it like the back of my hand. But last week the pastor read the sabbath commandment in Exodus 31:13-17:

^(13) Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

^(14) Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

^(15) Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

^(16) Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

^(17) It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Now I didn't know that the sabbath commandment was said more than once. But the reason I was perplexed is that the pastor very obviously read only the first half of the verses. Like, if I wasn't following along in my bible I wouldn't have seen the part about being put to death if you don't keep it.

The question I was left with is this: if the Sabbath is supposed to be kept, why aren't we keeping it that way? Like I was taught all the laws about stoning people and stuff were old laws of Moses that we don't need to keep anymore. But if the sabbath isn't one of those laws, then why aren't we putting people to death for working on the sabbath? Obviously, that's not the right thing to do, but I'm interested in know what the Adventist justification is of how the sabbath is to be kept. Is there a later verse that says that people don't need to be killed anymore? When did they stop killing people for keeping the sabbath?

I realized I’m pretty lost when it comes to billlie merch despite them being my ult group. I’m pretty good at getting the albums for each comeback especially since the stores in the US usually have preorders for them. But their other merch like the new pop up stuff is so confusing for me. I’m not a collector so I never had to go through the whole ordering directly from Korea thing, but the new character plushies are super cute and I really want the Tsuki Sua and Haruna ones. Does anyone know how I can get them in the US??

I'm pretty neutral about the lightstick except the fact the base/holder thing makes it look like a candle lol. But looking at it I think only one thing would make it super unique.

There's the two white ends to it right, like a mold? I think it would be cool if they were initially together you had to pull it apart to reveal the lightstick part. Like you have to break the mold to reveal the light/colors. That would be so so cool. Obviously it would be kinda complicated to make and maybe a bit expensive, but wasn't there a group that had a like expandable staff for their lightstick? I think it would've been doable.

It also would've been unique because while not it use it could be like a more compact tube that's only open when you need it. Idk just my thoughts

This is pretty ideal world type of scenario. I thought of this because of this song that popped up on my Instagram reels the other day that can’t find again. It’s an Indian guys I believe, and he sings “I look clean but I’m dirty” or something like that. If you know that song, then you know the type of sound I’m talking about. I’d love to hear katseye make that sound and I think it would fit right into their multicultural identity.

Edit: I found the song it’s called “dirty” by koad

Another thing I’d like is some Brazilian phonk (funk? Idk which is right) I know it’s kind of trending right now in kpop but they’d sound great. Or it doesn’t have to be Brazilian I’d take any upbeat Latin American production. Gabriela was nice but I think katseye shines even more when performing upbeat kinda edgy songs. Give em a beat like Bad by Ateez and or Mexe by Nmixx and let em work!

Also with choreo I’d love to see some acrobatic esque things I guess? Not like mama debut level. For example my favorite group is billlie and in their earlier songs Tsuki who is the main dance always did a little trick during the dance break nothing to crazy but still nice to look at. I actually don’t know who katseyes main dancer is but it would be so cool.

I know Grlset has their rnb thing going and they’re doing great but I think katseye would also do good at more rnb songs

This is pretty ideal world type of scenario. I thought of this because of this song that popped up on my Instagram reels the other day that can’t find again. It’s an Indian guys I believe, and he sings “I look clean but I’m dirty” or something like that. If you know that song, then you know the type of sound I’m talking about. I’d love to hear katseye make that sound and I think it would fit right into their multicultural identity.

Edit: I found the song it’s called “dirty” by koad

Another thing I’d like is some Brazilian phonk (funk? Idk which is right) I know it’s kind of trending right now in kpop but they’d sound great. Or it doesn’t have to be Brazilian I’d take any upbeat Latin American production. Gabriela was nice but I think katseye shines even more when performing upbeat kinda edgy songs. Give em a beat like Bad by Ateez and or Mexe by Nmixx and let em work!

Also with choreo I’d love to see some acrobatic esque things I guess? Not like mama debut level. For example my favorite group is billlie and in their earlier songs Tsuki who is the main dance always did a little trick during the dance break nothing to crazy but still nice to look at. I actually don’t know who katseyes main dancer is but it would be so cool.

I know Grlset has their rnb thing going and they’re doing great but I think katseye would also do good at more rnb songs

I saw someone bring up Twilight here recently and I’ll do you one worse! I secretly read the shadowhunters series when I was a little younger, maybe early high school late middle school. Binged it all! It’s nowhere near as popular as twilight but I know there was a movie and a series based on it.

The premise is these supernatural people who come from… you’ll never guess… nephilim! Yes that’s right, angel human hybrids lmao. I actually don’t remember the plot but it’s a whole franchise with other series set in the same universe. I remember learning that some of the biblical references came from the apocrypha and SDA does not like that haha. Now I kinda wanna reread for the hell of it

Lol I feel bad for asking this! But I still can’t tell those two apart not matter how I try! I’m a busy lady, so I don’t often have time to watch their YouTube content but when I do I try my best to pick up individual features but I just can’t. Do they have any solo content that could help?

First I’m black. Of course I know this is a wild take, but I genuinely think some controversies in kpop regarding race aren’t that big of a deal. When you inflate problems that aren’t that deep, real racism gets swept under the rug and excused.

Someone wearing cornrows just isn’t that deep to me. That shouldn’t warrant the same amount of hate as someone who says slurs and insults. Idols doing hip hop concepts, I really don’t care and most times end up liking it. That is not on the same level as someone promoting racist politics.

I just think there’s levels too it and people are all way too reactive. Some things are just a little insensitive, not every single thing is fully racist. It’s actually more racist to try and virtue signal and point fingers. Whataboutism is annoying. And I really only care about the opinions of other black people because even if they disagree they have the right to say whatever.

I know racists when I see them. I live among confederates and have even dealt with the kkk, so I think from experience I have a right to say some things just aren’t that deep

Hello, I’m wondering how many schools is a good amount to apply to for a masters in architecture? I applied to a variety of schools in state for my BA, but my state only had two schools that offer architecture. They’re good schools and one is very good. I just worry two schools isn’t enough to apply to. Should I just aim for both of those or is it worth it applying to a number of schools out of state? How many?