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Ash⁷

@arajellybean.bsky.social

This. Always. Min Yoongi would not lie about this.

bbrang⁷ is seeing BTS in 88 days ⟭⟬ @sgmnyg7.bsky.social · 1d

if anyone has ever made you feel unloved and unworthy, just remember what min yoongi said: you’re already more than enough to be loved 🪷💜

January 25, 2026 at 11:15 PM

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Karyn

@dayofkaryn.bsky.social

Have you thought today about how Yoongi visualizes his personal journey as a scarred shadow version of himself locked in a room processing past trauma by killing iterations of his persona over and over again until the scars heal and he can walk through the door into the world? Here’s your chance

January 22, 2026 at 5:18 PM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

FYI, I've discovered for iHeart Radio awards that if you vote the regular 50 votes during the day but then you're available for power hour (8pm-9pm) you can go back and add the extra 50 votes, even if you already submitted.

January 23, 2026 at 1:56 AM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

Found tickets 🥺
Made a new moot (a couple, actually) 💜
Ticket-transfer coordinating chat devolved into sending each other Yoongi gifs 😊

Liking BTS was the best decision ever ✨

January 23, 2026 at 1:23 AM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

If anyone has tickets to sell for Chicago or NJ let me know 🫶

January 22, 2026 at 6:54 PM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

Does this mean there wasn't dynamic pricing?

(I was 67k in the queue, absolutely zero grapes by the time I got in, so I couldn't check.)

A screenshot that says:

"Jan 22 - 11:48 AM EST

$83.80 tickets, floor tickets, and VIP packages are limited for this presale, tickets priced between $119.95 and $786.60 are still available. Limited additional tickets will be available during the general sale on Saturday, January 24th. 

Tickets for this event have been priced in advance by the tour from $83.80–$786.60, including service fees. Ticket prices will not change during the presale or onsale. Tickets are subject to availability. Wait times for today’s sale may exceed 1 hour for some fans. 

Please have your ARMY MEMBERSHIP NUMBER (9-digit ARMY MEMBERSHIP NUMBER that starts with BA) ready to unlock access to tickets when it’s your turn to shop. If you have both a GLOBAL and US MEMBERSHIP, please use your US membership number."

The sentence "Ticket prices will not change during the presale or onsale." is highlight in gray.

January 22, 2026 at 6:03 PM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

thinking about how this moment changed my life

BTS We Are Bulletproof The Eternal live performance HD

YouTube video by NBCworld

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January 22, 2026 at 3:24 AM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

Taehyung, I love your brain.

Taehyung, do you want to grab a not-coffee with me and talk about Van Gogh and Agnes Varda and Méliès and JR and Maya Deren and Fan Ho and Lynne Ramsay and Bing Crosby and Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo and Wong Kar-wai and Miyazaki and Linklater and Chet Baker and-

January 20, 2026 at 10:16 PM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

Not me nearly losing at Film Out because I thought I was looking at a desert scene 🤣

January 19, 2026 at 9:55 PM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

There has never been a thread that was more For Me

Bellyra⁷ 🏳️‍🌈💜 @bellyraqueenofw.bsky.social · 8d

💚This thread will dedicated to prove that Kim Taehyung is Mr Fitzwillian Darcy as played by Colin Firth in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride an Prejudice. (The best and correct adaptation, accept no subsitutes!). 💚

Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in 1995 BBCs Pride and Prejudice leaning against a bannister outside. He is wearing a beautiful early 1800s outfit with a dark blue jacket.

Kim Taehyung of BTS in a dark blue suit jacket,
Gloves, vest and a cravat looking downwards at the photographer quite superiorly.

January 19, 2026 at 9:55 PM

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ABND Podcast

@abrandnewdaypod.bsky.social

I am absolutely loving this album rollout. Each new piece, something direct to army or placed for army to stumble upon and discover like the clues we so love gathering.

January 18, 2026 at 11:20 PM

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bts loops

@btsonfilm.bsky.social

January 19, 2026 at 2:10 AM

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Maerlyn8_BTS7

@btsisinart.bsky.social

💜 BTS is/in Art 💜

He makes winter bearable while we wait for spring!

ART USED: Winter Shadows, Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932)

#btsisinart #bts #namjoon #rm

Namjoon, dressed for the cold, hanging out in the snowy woods with a smile on his face.

January 19, 2026 at 1:18 PM

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TK

@tkinsights.bsky.social

Idk if this will work but I still think it'd be cute!

#BTS

If you're FROM/VERY FAMILIAR with any of the TOUR locations and you have a CAN'T MISS food recommendation serving some BEST your-location-iconic foods, please fill out this form real quick

Full details at link in bio or below👇🏻

HI ARMY!
I’m organizing a WORLD TOUR FOOD GUIDE!

If you’re FROM/VERY FAMILIAR with any of the TOUR LOCATIONS and would like to suggest a GREAT PLACES
TO EAT featuring some of the most ICONIC local food, please send your suggestions to the link in bio!

If you’d like, I’ll credit ALL ARMY that provide
legit suggestions (more details at link in bio)

For FREE for Traveling ARMY (&maybe BTS!!!) to enjoy!

I’m looking for ALL SORTS of suggestions!
(vegan, gluten-free, dessert, coffee, etc.)

Please see the form (at the link in bio)
for full details on how to participate.

If you just drop a suggestion in dm/comments,
it will NOT BE CONSIDERED!

Once I have a solid few options for each location,
I’ll create a shareable graphic and shareable sheet
so ALL TRAVELING ARMY (& MAYBE BTS) can enjoy!

Let’s suggest the best food and the safest spaces for
our beloved 7 bingbongs & beautiful fandom to enjoy!

January 19, 2026 at 7:50 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

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

Kim Namjoon if you knew how often I cried over the careful way your words hold the fragile complexities of my soul you would never again doubt that you had properly loved someone.

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Every time I try translating one of Joon's letters for myself it takes me eight million years, I learn a gazillion new words, and I cry at least three times.

January 17, 2026 at 12:30 AM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

Every time I try translating one of Joon's letters for myself it takes me eight million years, I learn a gazillion new words, and I cry at least three times.

January 17, 2026 at 12:29 AM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

My whole kingdom for just an hour's conversation with Namjoon about Rilke.

Black text on white background, a poem by Rilke, with the words "Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final." highlighted in blue; the whole poem:

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

Book of Hours, I 59

Black text on white background, a poem by Rilke:

Quiet friend who has come so far,

feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.

Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29

January 16, 2026 at 9:44 PM

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💜jackie💜⁷ ⊙⊝⊜

@uhhuhlistenboy.borasky.social

i am cackling at this post…PRE-ORDER THIS WHITE SQUARE!!! and if that doesn’t tickle your fancy…how about this other white square??? no? worry not!! there are plenty of white squares to choose from!

January 16, 2026 at 3:28 AM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

This is a podcast I sometimes use for Korean listening practice and I guess because I've watched like 10 Arirang videos already today, YouTube wanted to make sure I knew she had an episode about Arirang. She goes through a bit of history and a couple different versions, I found it super interesting.

🎼 한국인이라면 다 아는 노래, 아리랑(Arirang) | Didi's Korean Culture Podcast

YouTube video by Didi의 한국문화 Podcast

www.youtube.com

January 16, 2026 at 3:17 AM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

"Like its people, it holds grief with hope; it laments and consoles; it acknowledges the individual experience and tethers it to the collective story.

It holds space to recognize that while the pain of living persists - so does the spirit that endures."

TK @tkinsights.bsky.social · 11d

So... what is arirang?

Now available for everyone! Feel free to share/screenshot/repost/etc. w/ credit.

💜🫰🏻

ARIRANG (아리랑)

What does ARIRANG mean???

so-what.ghost.io

January 15, 2026 at 11:40 PM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

The name Arirang has me thinking about how much I love when BTS goes a direction I didn't expect but that makes perfect sense.

It's not a surprise because it came out of nowhere, but because it seems like it always should have been there, and maybe it was, and I can't believe I only just saw it.

January 15, 2026 at 10:41 PM

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@brightlycrying.bsky.social

In my head the Living Legend version is named after one of the songs and that song is a brilliant meditation on art, fame, legacy, expectation, pressure, and the still being human of it all.

January 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM