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➤ We have finally gotten a proper trailer for The Old Guard 2!!! I feel like it's been in production hell for several years now? So I'm so excited there's finally a release date.

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If you haven't seen the first one, it's an action film based on a comic book about a team of immortal mercenaries dealing with 1) a newly created immortal they take into the fold and 2) some guy trying to capture them for medical research. As an action film fan I thought it was a lot of fun, and Tumblr was very into it when it came out so you may have seen a lot of gifs going around at the time lmao. The sequel looks promising, Uma Thurman is here and she's fighting Charlize Theron in melee combat so 👀

➤ Japanese girl group F5ve's debut album Sequence 01 is out! I've been following them since they released the single "Lettuce" and I've loved every release they've put out since then. All their previous singles plus some new tracks are on the album.

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A no-skip album, tbh. "Lettuce" and "UFO" are probably my favorites, but "Underground" is also a huge bop. "UFO" reminds me a lot of FEMM's stuff who I also really liked (an EDM duo that sadly disbanded a couple years ago. Highly recommend!! Try "Wannabe", "Fxxk Boyz Get Money", and "Cherry on Top" as some of my faves).

➤ I guess while I'm shilling music, listen to Le Sserafim's new EP Hot! The title track is honestly the weakest track on here tbh (well, ignoring the opener, those never count). It's still good but it does not live up to "Crazy" at all, and I'm loving the b-sides on here.

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"The EP incorporates pop, rock, disco, retro, nu jazz, Jersey club and house stylings." Thanks Wikipedia I'm trusting you on this here because I don't know genres. What the hell is Jersey club.

➤ I didn't mean to turn this into a music entry but whatever. Stream Katseye's "Gnarly" now.

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I don't use Spotify much but here's my Spotify Wrapped, why not. I can 100% blame Veronica Roth for skewing half my results. ( Read more... )

While on the topic of music, TWICE just released a new track featuring Megan Thee Stallion lmao I love that they're working together. It's not my favorite English release of theirs ("The Feels" has yet to be dethroned) but it's catchy and everyone looks sooo good. Chaeyoung has lines and screentime! And Jihyo with the knives hello?????

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TWICE recently featured on a remix of Megan's "Mamushi" that's also worth a listen, and I just want them to keep doing collabs!!

So au_challenge is now live! I advertised it on a couple fandom comms and it's gotten more interest than I expected; I guess people really do love those bingo cards lol. But I'm very glad, hopefully people will get some use out of it!

If you're interested in AUs, please check it out! It's a multi-fandom, multi-medium fanwork challenge that has prompt tables you can take and/or a bingo card you can request. No deadlines or anything, this is an anytime challenge you can work on at your leisure.


Le Sserafim's new EP dropped today and it slapsss. A lot of EDM and some hip-hop influence.

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I've got a long weekend thanks to Labor Day so I'm hoping I'll be able to get some stuff done I've been putting off! Unfortunately I just started watching a new TV show and have been reading a wild amount of fanfic lately so I can pretty safely say that's how I'll be wasting my weekend. Anyone else have any fun plans?

Sign-ups are open for that unsent_letters_exchange! I did end up submitting some nominations as I was debating in my last post, so now I sit here waffling on actually signing up. I feel like I can't back out now because what if someone wants to write one of my noms and I miss out on it!! So I did go through all the noms and made a list of possible offers/requests I could do at least... (Whoever nominated The Last Binding series PLEASE reveal yourself I need to be your friend.) Now I just need to figure out the etiquette for those dear creator letters...

At this point I am highly doubtful I'll get around to doing the snowflake_challenge in any sort of timely manner, so I think I'm crossing that off my to-do list lmao. Hopefully next year I'll give it a try on time! But I DO want to steal Challenge #10: Five Things and do a list of five of my top no-skip k-pop albums/EPs because I've been thinking about it too much not to just do it.

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This definitely isn't all my fave albums, for example Itzy and Dreamcatcher never put out bad b-sides, and a lot of good singers never do anything other than singles (Sunmi, my love, album? Full album?? Please?) so I could definitely go on about a thousand other songs/groups lmao. A lot of these are fairly recent too so clearly a recency bias happening but I already put too much time into this so I am stopping here sjhfskdjsf.

I think I only have like, 2 k-pop fans on my friends list, but what's everyone's favorite albums? Of any genre/country of origin! K-pop recs not required haha.

I keep saying I want to do a book round-up post of what I've been reading lately but I can't seem to get it started. So instead I'm just going to promote the Rina Sawayama remix of one of my favorite Le Sserafim songs: "Eve, Psyche & The Bluebeard's Wife".

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Le Sserafim is one of my favorite new kpop groups and I love Rina Sawayama, so this remix was a very nice surprise lol. The original is amazing, I think it's so catchy and almost too good to be a b-side, but the remix is really good too!

What have you all been listening to lately? Any kpop fans here got recs to share?