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Mira 💜

@yoonjoonagenda.bsky.social

Here's the form to submit recommendations for your fave small businesses in any North American city on the ARIRANG tour! Pls share with friends 💜

forms.gle/4qrS88EmCZXV...

January 26, 2026 at 1:38 AM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

I invite you to watch this clip and focus only on Namjoon’s eyebrows. You’re welcome.

January 24, 2026 at 5:00 AM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Hey loves, time to vote!

TK @tkinsights.bsky.social · 2d

POWER HOUR ✨💜🫰🏻

HOBI&AYS2

LEGGOOOOO

January 24, 2026 at 1:42 AM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Damn, they added that Las Vegas date and said, “Presale is right now!!!”

BTS tour poster with additional Las Vegas info.

January 24, 2026 at 1:22 AM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Once again, I see photos of Jin and just think, “No way is he real.” Then, I remind myself that I saw him once with my own eyes and he is, in fact, that gorgeous.

Daily Seokjin⁷ 🐹 @dailyseokjin.bsky.social · 2d

Gorgeous covers!

January 23, 2026 at 2:42 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

I got tickets for Tampa so am cancelling my Airbnb in Palo Alto, 25 minute walk to venue. If you need a place near Stanford, take a look!

January 22, 2026 at 9:57 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Holy hell, I'm having the luckiest day ever. I just booked my flight to Tampa for the concert and the RT price was $275. From the West Coast! My mom is in Tampa and the cheapest I've ever found before this was over $400. I'm baffled. Happy, but baffled!

January 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Seriously, being ARMY is the best. BigHit/BTS took care of us by refusing dynamic pricing. I'm so grateful that they opted to make less money so more ARMY could actually afford to see them.

January 22, 2026 at 3:04 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

I won!!! Tampa Day 1!!!
🎉🎉🎉😭😭😭

January 22, 2026 at 2:27 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Tampa: “Tickets have been priced in advance by the tour from $88.85 - $775.26.”
Posting for folks trying in later time zones. Guessing this will be the cost range for the US.

January 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

TM message: “Ticket Prices will not change during presale or onsale.”
No dynamic pricing in the US!!!
Thank you, BTS!!! 😭😭😭

January 22, 2026 at 2:05 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Please BigHit, give us a Bangtan reaction video to these.

laur ♡⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ @joonlens.bsky.social · 5d

非 TYPE CLIPS: A THREAD

January 21, 2026 at 5:51 AM

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✩riya⁷

@s7ndipity.bsky.social

taehyung you weird beautiful man I adore u

January 20, 2026 at 2:44 AM

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Bia Noctua⁷

@bianoctua7.bsky.social

It's Power Hour again, ARMY (10 a.m. KST)--double votes for one hour
www.iheart.com/music-awards/

iHeartRadio Music Awards | iHeartRadio

The thirteenth annual iHeartRadio Music Awards returns Thursday, March 26, 2026 live on FOX at 8/7C.

www.iheart.com

January 11, 2026 at 1:03 AM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

I’m just… JIMIN. You know?

January 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM

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✧.°⋆

@glosslips.bsky.social

First Korean Rap Song to Hit 1B on Spotify:

🥢 Haegeum
Total: 736,432,881M
Daily gain: +897,385K (+37,686)
Days to 1B: 293 🚨

⚫️ *
Total: 693,143,652M
Dg: +1,583,370M (-2,244)
Dt1B: 193

cr camlovesyoongi
#SUGA #AgustD #슈가 #シュガ #민윤기 #방탄소년단슈가

January 16, 2026 at 10:56 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Jimin’s little, “Hi!!!” I’m dying.

January 18, 2026 at 4:25 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Their voices!!! Yoongi!!! 😭

January 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM

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Daily BTS⁷ 💜

@dailybts.bsky.social

A beautiful breakdown of Arirang & ARMYrang by user zarahgeeh— Filipino librarian, folklorist, writer & ARMY. Sharing this here for those not on Threads because this love, history, and meaning deserves to be heard. 💜

(🔗: www.threads.com/@zarahgeeh/p...)

I have been sitting with this for hours now, trying to steady myself because, my goodness, BTS has done something sublime, yet again.
Because, to name the comeback album, “Arirang” is not just an album title. And for them to send ARMY a message on Apple Music, calling us ARMYrang is not just a message.
As a librarian, as a folklorist, as a writer of folk tales, and as ARMY, this moment reaches far deeper than fandom. It touches the part of me that understands how culture survives;
how stories of ordinary people make the fabric of sovereignty and nationhood.
Arirang comes from folk tradition. It is not a song you own. It is a song you carry. It is a story you offer.
It has no single author. It belongs to farmers and migrants, to those who labored and waited, to people who crossed mountains and borders with grief in their pockets and hope folded carefully into song. Arirang has always been sung at thresholds, when leaving, when returning, when words are not enough.
So when BTS name their comeback album, Arirang, this is not nostalgia.
This is not branding. This is not a trend.
This is inheritance. This is heritage. A cultural artifact brought back to consciousness.

BTS is not saying we are back. They are saying we endured. They are saying we crossed. They are saying we remember who we are and where we come from.
And then, ARMYrang.
That word undid me.
In folk traditions, the refrain of song and story exists so others can join in.
The song lives because someone answers back. To be named inside a song and story is to be acknowledged as part of its survival.
ARMYrang is not a term of endearment. By using folk literature, BTS is addressing us as kin and community.
BTS says: you are not the audience.
You are not just a market. You are not merely a number.
You are part of the refrain.
As a librarian, I know this as second skin: for culture to survive it needs to be remembered and to be lived.
Because someone must keep on singing, retelling, passing it on with care.

As a folklorist, I know what it means to step into collective authorship; to speak with humility, to carry a story without flattening it, to trust the people who receive it to hold it well.
As ARMY, I know what it has meant to wait. As a mother, I learned how to hold joy and sorrow together. Being a woman, I know how to sing quietly when shouting would break us.
And now, ARMYrang. It feels like love eternal not
because it promises forever but because it promises continuance.
Eternity, in folk culture, is not endless time. It is unbroken transmission.
A song passed hand to hand.
A name spoken with care.
A people who show up, again and again, to sing. To tell stories.
This comeback does not ask us to scream. It asks us to listen.
It does not demand attention.
It asks for reverence.
Putang ina. Paiiyakin tayo ng Bangtan. (Fuck, Bangtan will make us cry!)

Not because this is dramatic.
But because this is true.
This is what it looks like when artists return not as products, but as people. And when they call their listeners not fans, but kin.
I am still gathering my wits. Really. I think I will be for a while.
But I know this much:
To be ARMY in this moment, to be called ARMYrang, is to stand inside a very old song to be held and to belong there.
Apobangpo! Purple and true! 💜

January 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

Our JK working on the logo and the hyungs being so proud. Ugh. I love them so.

coal @coalmind.bsky.social · 9d

🐿️ logo is revealed now. with “arirang”
🐹 that! our JK-ie went “what if we did it like this?”
🐰 right! when we were working in the US, i sketched about 4 options, sent them to the company. they developed it a lot
🐨 during the song camp, JK-ie was…
🐹 yeah, drawing
🐨 yeah, constantly drawing on a pad

January 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

I woke up to Namjoon quoting one of my favorite poems. I feel so lucky to witness his growth and vulnerability. He is so perfectly human. I don’t know if I fully understand love either but I know I love him.

January 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM

Bea⁷

@beasea613.bsky.social

I am so so curious about this roll out. Did they (correctly) assume that ARMY couldn’t handle the album name AND visuals on the same day? Are all the white album covers an ARMY protection service? When do they think we will be ready to absorb the new visuals? It’s so mysterious. I love it.

January 16, 2026 at 5:14 AM