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wolfstarblade.bsky.social
Tara
@wolfstarblade.bsky.social
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Artist | Swordfighter | Reader | Gamer
🇳🇿 Late 30's | she/her | asexual | OT7 | Yoonmin biased 💀🧼
Part of Army since Wings era. Same on X/mastodon.
✿.｡.:*☆:.💜You know. I know💜.:☆*.:｡.✿
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purrinink.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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morgu07.bsky.social
In case you're not sure: Seatgeek is being used for the shows in Baltimore (August 10-11) and Arlington (August 15-16).
that1inthegroup.bsky.social ⊙⊝⊜ that1inthegroup⁷ @that1inthegroup.bsky.social · 23h
glad i checked my tour stop on tm bc it sends it over to seatgeek. i had to set up over there and that would’ve been a most unwelcome surprise tomorrow 😬
January 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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floverale.bsky.social
Closer look at the final art

#art #dragon #nebula #cosmic
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Digital art of a purple-blue nebula in a form of a flying dragon who "breathes fire"
January 20, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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emphaticdream.bsky.social
Eepy fellas…🧼💀

#ghoap#ghostsoap#slimerancher
January 17, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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floverale.bsky.social
Maybe there is one who carries the moon 🌕

#art #dragon #cosmic #moon
A digital painting of a yellow night with bright and dark clouds making a shape of a dragon flying on the wings of light and darkness, and carrying the moon in its horns. Below is the forest and lake, in the water reflection, no dragon visible
January 16, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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mahoukarp.com
I love sharks 🦈
#art #shark
Illustration of a variety of sharks. Sharks featured are swell, tiger, zebra, carribean, crocodile, leopard, basking, saw ghost
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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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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dbyd.bsky.social
There’s also Arirang in BTS history:

[KCON 2016 France×M COUNTDOWN] Opening Performance _ Arirang Medley (아리랑 연곡) M COUNTDOWN 2016.06.14 EP.47
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwc5...

#BTS #방탄소년단 #DS_BTS #BTS_ARIRANG #BTS_WorldTour #Kpop #Musicsky #DS_BTSHistory
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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starcasticallyy.bsky.social
Ahh it truly is the perfect name for this comeback album 💜💜
screenshot of a post by Twitter user @ryuminating which is a fan translation from BTS's Jan 16 2026 live by Namjoon: "There are many ways you can interpret Arirang, the lyrics, and I think it's about aching and longing and love. And when I was in the military, I thought a lot about things like that. I thought a lot about the past and about performing."
January 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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yoongerinepie.bsky.social
Breaking News: Seven Men Nearly Explode From Holding In Spoilers
Screenshot of the Weverse live. Jungkook, in front, looks sneaky
January 16, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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umaw.bsky.social
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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dailybts.bsky.social
ARMY, read up!! •ᴗ•
army-on.bsky.social ARMY ON⁷ @army-on.bsky.social · 7d
The #ARMYON Platform Streaming and Buying Guides have been updated!

We are preparing for #BTSComeback2026 album coming March 20 and pre-orders open Thursday, Jan. 15 9pm EST!

BTS IS COMING
2026 YEAR OF BTS AND ARMY
BTS COMEBACK 2026
#BTSComeback2026 #BTS #BTSARMY
January 16, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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purrinink.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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hrimfaxe.bsky.social
Someone is very proud! and someone has a very good view! <3
#art #dragonghost #dragonghostau #simonghostriley #dragonbaby
January 14, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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purrinink.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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purrinink.bsky.social
Open the thread to read the comic. 🐾
January 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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piranha.bsky.social
Peeking in from how life never gives me a break to say:

‼️ Discord, amidst quietly dipping their toes into going public, has put out a survey about implementing AI ‼️

PLEASE fill it out and push back against it.
(Bonus: mention stopping Nitro if you sub)

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January 10, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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purrinink.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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tatteredleaf.bsky.social
Something to be aware of - my original LJ is about 24 years old or so, I think? I already got all my old fics off there ages ago, and imported as well. Memories and all that.
rahaeli.bsky.social rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21d
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
January 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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gremlin.world
I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)
October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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wwxwashere.bsky.social
PSA on ao3 scams ran by bots. turn off guest comments if you can, be safe ♥️
January 5, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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tessahill.bsky.social
Today is a very very good day to follow more independent news sources:
January 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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purrinink.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
wolfstarblade.bsky.social
Also not US-based, but all branches of our military, were all over the media as well as at our 'career expo's when I was finishing college and looking at my options for university. Please, talk to anyone you know considering joining up, there are much better options.
mindthegoop.bsky.social 𖹭 Goopy 𖹭 @mindthegoop.bsky.social · 19d
Not US based but when I was still in school I remember them getting a dedicated table at a college fair we were having, trying to sign us up when we would have only been around 14-15
January 3, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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gatorpond.bsky.social
from someone who was in school for the beginning of the "war on terror," please. please please please. talk to teenagers in your life about not joining the us military. about not letting themselves be groomed by recruiters in schools. they're going to want soldiers, and they always start young.
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM