BTS OT7 Live - 7/1

DISCLAIMER

There may be moments where they're talking over each other/mumbling incoherently or not loudly enough that I couldn't quite catch it. I also translate for nuanced/contextual vibes so there may be a few words that you recognize that I haven't included/tweaked because I prioritize for intended meaning over literally translated vocabulary so please bear that in mind

If you're just finding me - it's easiest for me to transcribe in "real time" sorta in a stream-of-consciousness style rather than tidying everything up and summarizing it, so it may feel chaotic at times - but it's true to the nature of their lives lol

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RM: I saw it/I went there
he either said 봤어 or 갔어 but I can't tell
SUGA: we're gonna start the live
Jimin: it didn't come up here yet though
Jin: if you wait like 10seconds it'll come up

AKA there's like a ~10second lag between real time and the app - keep that in mind when you're commenting!

JK: oh it's faster than I thought
j-hope: as soon as it's up.. everyone will be checking their own :trails off:

laughs at the still photo they took for the thumbnail/cover image

Jimin: wait look at this thumbnail
SUGA: you said to take it like that
Jin: is this a family photo or what
Jimin: ..have to lose weight
SUGA: is the internet not working?
Jimin: I think it's a wifi
SUGA: is it slow?
RM: maybe it's cuz there's so many viewers all at once?
Jimin: ? I don't think so there are zero people rn hehehe
our most precious sugaball: in classic grandpa voice*no they're gonna start tuning in~

j-hope: YAHHH WAHHH this picture [of them together]
Jin: it's been 3 years? 3?
RM: i'll tell you exactly~ [the last time was] September 2022 Chuseok live
JK: 34 months? 32?
RM: 33 months
Jin: only 33? not that long - two and a half years
JK: mumbly bb 34? 33?

j-hope: personally, I'm a bit emotional rn
V: [affirming j-hope] seriously
RM: you're emotional?
V: hyung
JK: i'm i'm i still feel like we have to go back [likely to the military] like it really feels like that
j-hope: go back? go akjdflgjalkfjg
JK: like when we had breaks [from duty] i'd always go to the dermatologist and ..like today i went to see the dermatologist so it feels like i have to return [to base] again
j-hope: that feeling does linger for a bit

RM: [to JK] your ear piercings haven't closed up?
JK: no they didn't
SUGA: I don't even have ... touching his ears
Jimin: mine are all closed up also touching his ears

lol our bbs are so cute T_T i am ded - next is this spectacular moment and my debut as a nublet editor of medias on the internets...

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j-hope: how did you do it? (their greeting hand sign?)
every member throws up their hand sign w/ "i did it like this, papa" vibes & chaos ensues
j-hope: i did it like this straight up KIG choreography moment x2..3...4

Jimin: We're back, everyone! We're finally all back together

ARMYs around the world clapped, cried, ran around screaming, and many many many were sleeping cuz these bingbongs did NOT announce their first live together😑

also halp. i've been at this for like 15 minutes, we are 1:54/31:07 live. APOBANGPO AURA GIVE ME STRENGTH

Jimin: of course - the condition of my face has not fully retur..
V: ANIYA JIMINAH (no, Jimin!)holds breath for oncoming compliment?..next spring, you'll.. :trails off:
BTS: O_O? HAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

V has dropped a spoiler that has broken all of BTS

Jimin: are you crazy rn..
V: I mean.. I just mean YOU'LL BE FULLY recovered by.. next spring
Jimin: your timing be off.. NOT. YET. tries to deflect by wiping his forehead and saying he's sweaty, V recoils in shame lmao
Jin: good good yesss...

fully trying to deflect
SUGA: gotta lose the weight gotta... lose the weight..
Jin: cannot stop laughing
~* mumbly BTS shenanigans *~

Jimin: anyway, we're back again
V: HAVE YOU BEEN WELL, JIMINSHI?
Jimin:
Jin: How have you been Jiminshi?
Jimin: O_O so ..SINCE being discharged this is only my 5th day in Korea
Jin: o rly
Jimin: so.. I've just been especially enjoying my bed

it's giving COUCH COUCH COUCH #kpopdemonhunters iykyk
Jin: bed.. ahh mm..of course

j-hope: let's hear from the recently discharged friends~

Jimin: actually you know what's the BEST part?
Jin: wot
Jimin: it's that when I have to sleep - I can have my phone
RM: the besttt
Jin: how long has it been since you've been discharged?
Jimin: a little over 3 weeks
Jin: isn't that enough time to be over that kinda thing by now?
V: ohh hyung!
RM: it's been like exactly 3 weeks~
Jimin: yea but since it's only my 5th day in Korea.. the fact that I can lie in MY bed and just use my phone -
Jin: that makes you happy?
Jimin: it is glorious

V: I wake up at 6:30am and then do morning some military routine? at my house
j-hope: wdym
Jimin: stop your lies
JK: stop your lies
SUGA: looks down and laughs in tiny
Jin: you lie whenever you open your mouth
V: screams some kind of military salute? morning exercise drill words? IDK

if/when they use military jargon, since I did not grow up ever having to learn/hear these terms - I am SUPER unfamiliar

HAHAHAHAHA BTS CHAOS. MY FIRST OT7 LIVE AND IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT. SOOO CUTE. SOO HILARIOUS. SOOO TROLLING SIBLING VIBES AND I LOVEEEEE

RM: the vibes are a teeeeny bit awk
Jimin:
RM: doesn't it kinda feel like we shouldn't be here?
just referencing the fact that they feel like they have to go back to base/feels weird not being on duty/having to mind those things; nothing to do with their work/etc.

someone: 33months
everyone: 2.5 years

Jimin: yea it kinda feels like we have to film this and then get back to base
RM: yea~ like that
the recently discharged ones kinda nod/mumble in agreement
RM: is it the weekend right now? it's not O_O like every Friday I check..

SIMULTANEOUS SIDE CONVO
Jin [to j-hope re: the recently discharged members]: they're cute aren't they?
j-hope: seriously~ like do you have the concept of weekends?
Jin: I all the way cannot~

JK: (re: feeling the concept/cadence of weekends) I didn't before, but I definitely got a sense of that while enlisted - but now it's starting to fade

this is referencing that they're schedules, before enlistment, were so jam-packed/around-the-clock/chaotic (see this for a fun lil reference from weverse) but once enlisted, because everything is on a tight, regimented schedule for the whole base and because they only have certain flexibilities afforded them on weekends, they had a strong sense of when the weekends were approaching

Jimin [to j-hope & Jin]: while we were gone... thanks for holding down the fort.. your concerts fist bumps & handshakes
j-hope&Jin: ah thank you

clapping for their brothers

SUGA: Seokjinhyung's concert a few days ago.. waaa
Jimin: it was so fun
SUGA:cuz it started in the day - it's been such a long time since I've been able to go to a concert that started in the day
Jimin: it's truly a concert only you (Jin) could pull off.. tbh when I first walked in I was like.. oh sht.. he's really doing WHATEVER he wants
lmao all around

RM: the most shocking part was when he said "I practiced so much so I'll show you" (playing the piano) - but then he said "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED" before he started playing. I mean it's his own concert?? like why is he accepting challenges on his own stage??

lmao all around
j-hope: I kept dying laughing cuz namjoon kept saying that to me during the concert "why is this hyung saying 'challenge accepted' so much??
RM: I mean I was like - it's a concert? Why you accepting challenges?

Jimin: from the running time to ... like everything - I had SO much fun watching your concert

Jin: that was the concert concept
JK: the concept was RUN JIN
RM: I realized that~
V: I kept telling you I was emotional [to Jin]
Jin: ohh from the 'Traveling w/ Clouds'?
V: with a straight face no the song "tie it up for me"
j-hope: ahh yes, tie it up for me
Jin: IT'S NOT "TIE IT UP FOR ME", IT'S ROPE IT.

Jimin: HYUNG! how are you so good at piano?! I was so surprised!
JK: SERIOUSLY
V: SERIOUSLY

FRIENDS. they're so precious. I wish for all of you reading this that as much as you love/support them - that you know ARMY love/support each other too! START PURSUING YOUR DREAMS. KEEP TRYING AND ITERATING. YOU NICE, KEEP GOING. I love how they (especially our sweetiepants Jimin) encourage each other with SPECIFIC details. It hits different when people notice the little things and appreciate all the decisions you had to make to accomplish something. I love that. I love them. I love you!💜

Jin: so for like 2 months.. since hobi and I have parallel schedules, we're in/out of the building together and our schedules are shared~ and hobi was like "hyung are you tryna become a pianist??"
j-hope: SERIOUSLY he had so many practices
Jimin: you did SUCH a good job live - I was so surprised (like delighted surprised not like skeptic surprised)
SUGA: that was the main event~
RM: while you were playing those two songs - you kept ONLY looking down the whole time
Jin: bruh like I prayed before performing that the first time like PLEASE let me do a good job

V: have you ever screwed it up? no right?
Jin: I mean during rehearsal.. like I messed up 1/5 times but so far out of the two concerts, I haven't messed up
JK: so like it wasn't a pre-recorded hand sync
RM/Jimin/V: no he played it in real time
JK: waa you're incredible [to Jin]

guys. ....guys.. 😭😭😭😭

SUGA says something but I can't hear him over everyone else being in awe of Jin. But quiet moment of silence to remember our sugaball's BEEN playing the piano like an ace since day 1~ I didn't know about BTS yet when our bb sugaball was on tour~ but I'm sure everyone will attest to the fact that he crushed it so hard. I hope BTS gassed him up just as much when he did... or actually maybe for them, by now, it's so second nature that they didn't lolll siblings be siblings~

Jin: like if the keyboard settings are off - my mind goes blank..

j-hope: hyung, your sense of self-love is epic re: his tee
Jin: it is my merch - please show my merch (or "goods" in Korean, sounds like goodze) lots of loves
SUGA: why would one have their own face on their t-shirt
RM: makes a pun about goodze/gucci when did he get like this. also everyone but our precious hobi pretends not to have heard this lmao
j-hope to RM: gucci/goodze hehehehe
JK: smiles at RM
RM: satisfied
V: ANYWAY~~ so that is how it was~~

HAHAHAHAHA V randomly recalibrating the convo outta nowhere

SUGA:AHH I also REALLY LOVED hobi's concert
j-hope: AHH thank you
Jin: hobi's concert was so cool
RM: hobi like.. comes out decked out in ALL RED, commanding the stage like Lee Eun-gyeol 이은결 (a famous Korean magician/illusionist)
j-hope rolls away in laughter
RM:...like a complete magician
V makes really cute faces at RM
RM: felt like a magician's dinner show

SUGA: I got emotional during mic drop
Jimin: the stage kept changing, up and down, separated, only the middle~
Jin: they said that was hobi's idea!
Jimin: thats what I mean~~
JK: I really liked the thing that went around and then out does hand motions in tiny
RM: right~~ and then he blows a kiss
Jin: you really were so cool
j-hope: thank you all so much for coming forreal~
Jimin: the members were able to see all your coolest sides~ (presumably re: Jin & j-hope)

RM: truly like.. I think I've only been to others' concerts in the last like 2-3 years~ it's truly diff being in the audience
Jimin: ...so now - don't you think it's time for US TOO?
V: YES IT IS!

RM: we recently did that thing
Jimin: oh yes! so so today we took some photos and man... the way my nostrils WOULD NOT RELAX.
as in, they were still sorta awk/trembly holding poses for long times on camera, etc.

if you've EVER done ANYYY kind of professional photo shoot, whether you model, have taken photos for wedding/birthday/resume headshot, etc. - you know it's NOT easy to hold a pose without feeling awkward or embarassed~ esp if you keep having to retake it or it's not coming out quite right~

j-hope dies of laughter and rolls away episode 2375829
Jin: ohhhh cuz you guys are still getting readjusted to being in front of the camera~ that's righttt..
Jimin: and there's a monitor off to the side and the pic was taken and I just ..makes silly face
RM: HAHAHAHA (the most enunciated ha.ha.has i've ever heard lmao)
RM: I was tryna hold a wink and my eye began to quiver~ like.
j-hope: for sure when you JUST get back it's hard to get used to it again

Jimin: I'm working on losing weight~ well actually I have betrayed your faith and I ate a bunch but NOW I've started to get back to it again~
JK: mumbles to himself betrayed your faith? hehehe
SUGA: now that I'm older, it's harder to lose weight
RM [to SUGA, massaging his shoulders lol]: hyung, please do not discuss real life things like that here
JK: it's not as easy to lose stomach fat as it used to be
V: forreal
j-hope: stomach fat?

Jimin: i have no abs anymore
RM: remember Jimin's abs back in the day? you could feel each ab square/kernel (he's referring to how kernels of corn can look like abs)
You could see each distinct "kernel"

Jimin: makes slapping noises of abs atp idk friends lmao
SUGA: it's really not easy
V: I used to worry about that too~ humble bragging cuz now he looks like a greek god even more than he did before
RM promptly slaps V in the leg
Jimin: But I am the type that gets sht done when I want - so just wait for me~

JK: tugs on Jimin's shoulder what's that.. h ..hmh?
everyone: what is that?
RM: ah.. "하면해"//ha myun hae as in HMH, ha myun hae/ this is spoken to communicate roughly like~ "if I put my mind to it I'll get it done" or more simply, "I'll get it done/just do it" type of thing or sometimes a reluctant 'whatever, I'm down'

Use 1:
Q: Do you think you can get in shape by next spring? A: 하면해, I'll get it done/I'll just do it/I can get it done

Use 2:
Q: Do you want to go bungee jumping? A: ...하면해,...whatever/fine I'm down/i'll go along w/ it

RM: these days.. they're using like "gmg"
what is that??
JK: 가면가// ga myun ga fine, i'll go; ok let's just go
Jimin: that's the trend now~ like using "hmh"
Jin: hamyunhae? mm ic.. ha. myun. hae.
Jin just used it like Use 2^.. ok whatevs/that's fine/i'll go along w/ the fact that it's trending
LOLS all around
SUGA: what if I can't keep up [w/ the trends?]

randomly
j-hope: I see sweat on the top of Jin hyung's head
Jin: ugh it still feels a little awk
RM: it does feel a little awk
j-hope: it will take a little time to get used to being on camera together again~

Jin: cuz for like a year, I got so comfortable being on camera alone - without you guys. now with you guys... it's like uncomfortable
j-hope: you're not comfortable rn??
Jin: I'd like for you all to leave
V: ever the sassball wanna actually leave?
RM: okay gets up to fake leave
Jin: Nonononononoo don't do that
RM: "gmg gmg" (😑)

Jimin: ugh my hair has to grow quickly ajkdlfgj;kalf
JK: babygiggles
Jimin: cuz my hair looks so crazy on camera rn.. I forreal actually should step outside for a sec cuz WHY DID YOU SEAT ME RIGHT HERE??

LOLLS ALL AROUND j-hope rolls away episode 27385972849

Jimin: like look at my face - my hair just.. and my face just..
Jin: there's this really great thing called 'a wig'
Jimin: UGH i can't look up cuz I keep seeing myself
JK: more baby giggles
RM: the staff's facial expressions are not good... like for a while now o.o
SUGA: *you did do a lot of something
Jimin: fiddles w/ hair idk T_T hides in his hair what am I supposed to do ughhh.. and I'm like sweating from my face so much too.. i'm SO SHINY EVERYHWERE
SUGA: your ears are so red now - they're SO red
Jimin: oh I am stresseddd - ANYWAYs, everyone, we're back!

j-hope: no don't worry~ you're so cute.. it's supposed to be like that [when you've just returned]
RM: we really have no content for this live
SUGA: I mean if we really think about it - don't we have like a lot to say tho?
RM (looking at Jimin): wait didn't we have stuff we wanted to say though?
V in his infamous yelltalk: NEXT SPRING!

LMAOS all around & RM/JK hit V from either side jaklfjgklafjg lmao
JK: wait like a MINUTE goodness~
RM: yaa aishh
Jimin: 🤣🤣🤣
Jin: if he[V] wasn't in such better shape than me - I would've challenged him to a duel (re: his constant harping about next spring~)

j-hope: what should we start talking about
friends, we are at 10:19 of this live and they haven't "started" talking about the things they wanted yet lmao

Jimin: well now that we're back ...we ..
RM: like what are we gonna do..
Jimin: we're gonna return to..
RM: don't use that word 복귀

(복귀//bokgui?bokwee?boqui?) the word itself means 'returning/resuming' but since 5/7 of them are used to hearing the word in the context of returning/resuming their MILITARY duties after weekends off, they keep hearing it in that context and RM is lowkey triggered
JK: but we wind up using it more often than not~
RM/j-hope/Jimin repeat more words used in military AND civilian contexts that are sorta triggering for them because now they've gotten more used to hearing those words in the military context
Jin: don't worry in ~3 months, it'll all go away~ maybe we should talk about our upcoming plans
Jimin: I will now only converse showing my side profile turns head sideways for camera
Jin: have confidence to Jimin
j-hope: (consoling Jimin) you're pretty~

awwww now that the moment has come~ RM wants V, who has been bursting at the seams, to be able to have his moment
RM: isn't taehyungie in charge of the announcement?
Jin: turns to V taehyungie, go~
RM: don't spill everything just yet but..
V: I didn't hear what you just said o_o
RM: akdfjg;lkajdf;lkgjal;dkf
Jin: agjakjflgjakdg YOU GUYS ONLY SAID 3 SYLLABLES [in Korean] SO FAR
Jimin: in tiny "Next Spring"
SUGA: Leader, the leader should maybe organize our thoughts and present them
RM: ooof the term 'leader' feels weird
j-hope: wdym you ARE our leader..
V: oOh what about 부대장 budaejang// unit commander??
j-hope: OOh ooh! unit commander! unit commander!
JK claps in baby bunny
RM: jakdflgj;alkdfjgk omg i almost just swore

there is so much chaos as RM is speaking that I'm not 100% sure what he said but I think basically that he explained that a few of his former military ...underlings (?) idk military words~ but his lil buddies msg'd him saying they saw clips of RM mouthing an expletive while swatting away a lovebug (an actual bug) that landed on him during Jin's concert 🤭😏iykyk
RM to V: anyway - that's what I thought of just now when you called me unit commander~
SUGA: there were a lot~ [of bugs]
Jin: a lot flew into my mouth

RM: so anyway, I'll share about our plans because we have to accomplish at least this much~ it's July now... congratulations yoongihyung [for his discharge/release from social duties] starting now (July) we have to ..make an album right? We're going to work on an impressive album... so starting now we're gonna keep working collaboratively, sticking together, focusing on making music. But we're not gonna be working on this for like 100..200 years~ we're going to work on it until when? taps & points to V
V: sits up like a baby and roars "NEXT SPRINGGGG!"
j-hope: the 3 syllables he's been preparing for THIS moment
RM: when?
V: NEXT SPRINGGG rawr

RM: yes so we're planning to put out our next album by next spring
Jimin: so our fans... hold on imma speak looking over here looks off screen at nothing
SUGA: you can look at me and talk
Jimin turns twd sugaball: so our fans may have thought that we'd have something right off the bat as soon as we were discharged - but actually, we're not allowed to work on other things while enlisted.
RM: right
Jimin: staring into the ether again so we're starting prep now.. so I anticipate it will.. take a little while
Jin: my solo also took a few months after getting out~
SUGA: esp cuz this is a group effort... and we have to collaborate together
Jimin: we, especially, want/wanted to collaborate closely ..so
SUGA: so we'll need time

V has been fiddling with Jimin's shirt for a while
Jimin to V: WOTAREYOUDOINGGG
V: I'm taking off a thingy from your shirt

RM to the guys: how long has it been since we released a full album - not including singles and stuff like that?
SUGA: I mean we had Take Two
RM: but that was a single too
j-hope: mmm Map of the Soul?
V: ...house of cards?

V saying 'house of cards' solicited groans from many... but invoked the eyeroll of the century from Jin

Jimin to V: ya - it's been like 10 years
V: it's been a long time huh hehehe
j-hope: do you think anyone [pointing to ARMY viewers] even knows House of Cards?

first of all, how dare you. second of all, how. dare. you. the love of house of cards runs so deep
RM: no house of cards.. is famous
JK: but we didn't perform it on stage did we? oh no we did we did
V: we did!
JK: i was thinking of louder than bombs
SUGA: starts to say something but i can't tell
RM: so if we come out w/ a new album next Spring ~ it'll have been about six years. WHY? (rhetorical) Because 4 members had to be discharged from the military - a significant amount of time. so finally, we can say a BTS album will be coming out next spring~
V: THASS RIGHT!

SUGA: but it does still feel a bit crazy to think we're gonna start working on making music again
Jimin: idk like what/how we're gonna do it..but we just gotta keep talking about it now
SUGA: cuz in that time the industry/market has changed a lot too

RM: so we're gonna..together.. keep .. like.. well cuz we have Lollapalooza and Jinhyung's tour coming up so you might not hear so much about our personal stuff but as much as we can, through lives/social media/etc. we'll be sure to keep communicating with you all~ so please just give us some time/bear with us and we will prepare a really solid..
V: did you tell them about us working in the US?
j-hope: .. . .. .no i don't think he did

Jimin: giggles in tiny waow~ delicious~
everyone lolls, Jin loses it
jimin: excyuuzemee
Jin: incredulous goodjob
RM: resigned YES. WE ARE! We're going to be working on music in the US!
j-hope: so the songs..
#saveRM

JK starts to talk; Jimin & Jin are still laughing, so RM gestures to give JK the floor and they quiet down. JK is still RM's bb and I love them all so much ajdfklgjal;djfglakjdg

JK: so while we've worked on songs ..we're gonna try to return to the original heart/mindset/inital motivation
Jimin: that's right
SUGA: if you think about it Dark & Wild was worked on in the states too
Jin: that's right~ and I mean we can work on it while we're traveling to other countries

(😑)

RM: so hyung, because you're on tour - minding your travel/movements, starting with the states maybe~ it'll be something like a moving song camp
Jin: and I'll keep touching base with you all

"song camp" - this isn't a Korean concept but just in case there may be folks new to the concept; this is a little group of ppl w/ diff roles in the production of a song/album - involving musicians, artists, production staff +/- other roles, spending dedicated time (usually away together on some kind of focused trip) to intentionally work on creating together

Jimin: I think it'll be fun
JK: I actually wanna record so badly
Jin: go do it now~
SUGA: it's been 3 years?
JK: aingg~ not right now - we have nothing to record
Jin: just turn on your phone and go ah~AH
V: ai.. seriously 😑he's doing this on purpose (re: Jin) - he's leaning into a concept/persona
j-hope: laughs in calm down calm down my daughter

Jin: taehyungah, do you know why i'm doing this? it's all because of you.
RM: oh sht he's being serious rn
Jin: I am putting in a lot of effort

bruh when Jin plays hyung card, hell freezes over.. what you see here is V's soul momentarily leave his body

JK: even in the military, I practiced singing very sincerely~~
SUGA: jiminie - you did too
JK: we did we did
Jin: I heard you practiced for like ten hours a day every time you guys met up
Jimin: we couldn't be together for ten hours a day because we were in separate military words i don't recognize meaning diff depts essentially

RM: and when we met up, he/we just talked about music for like 3+ hours
Jimin: oh you mean when just you and I met up?
RM: mm
SUGA: you've been trying lots of new things [to Jimin]
Jimin: the problem is that ..none of it shows. I set like the solid musical fundamentals but..
SUGA: the fundamentals are what's important
JK: no it does show

티 나 (tee na) = it shows
you might use this when telling a friend you can totally tell when she's crushing on someone because 'tee na' 'tee ga na' = it shows
Jimin was saying he's a bit frustrated because despite his efforts to strengthen the fundamentals (vocal technique, stamina, control, depth in singing) he felt these are things unseen~ but JK assures him it shines through
THIS is encouragement. Friends, when you're encouraging someone pursuing something that is unfamiliar to you - it makes a world of difference if you learn about their world and offer them a word of encouragement. Let's be great together and let's be such good fans of others pursuing/reaching greatness

Jin: you did great back in the day, you're doing really great now - you've never wavered in delivering~
SUGA: when your core/fundamentals are strengthened - it for sure shows
Jimin: o_o ...when might you have listened to me sir
SUGA: two days ago.. when you came out. I listened to everything! I even played guitar for you.. I listened!
Jimin: oh that's right that's right
j-hope: you did what??
Jimin: we had guitar and singalong time smug af that he got to spend this kind of quality time with sugahyung
j-hope: sounds so.. like.. romantic
Jimin/SUGA/j-hope/RM lolleverywhere _chaos talking over each other~ "3am" "it was at 3am"

RM:..at 3AM.. aw hyung plays the guitar~ dongseng freestyle singing.. waaa
Jin: woww ..that's so cool
"that's so cool" almost always sounds a bit sarcastic when spoken by.. not a child in english but it's meant sincerely here lol
Jimin: but.. I do not remember much of this

RM: anyone else wanna say anything? Yoongihyung? Hoseokah... anything?
SUGA: ..I can't guage how long the album prep will actually take - it's the first time we'll have to work like this/under these circumstances

referencing the fact that like they're fiercely committed to building this next album TOGETHER - yet one of them is on a world tour/another traveling for Lolla, they seem to have tentative plans to work abroad~ vs. they've had more crystallized group work schedules when they've collaborated on albums in the past

SUGA: i guess we have to cross those bridges when we get there~
RM: true but for now we are targeting next spring as the release date. i ..don't think it'll take til july/august of next year?
SUGA: Korean spring though right?
RM: well yes, we are Korean after all
SUGA: well we're just gonna try~
Jimin: we'll try our best so that you don't have to wait any longer than absolutely necessary
j-hope: i'm really looking forward to it
Jimin: I'm already so happy just being all together
j-hope: i can't even keep count of how much I've laughed today
Jimin turns to j-hope: j-hopehe does this specifically to make j-hope laugh cuz of what he just said
j-hope bursts into laughter
Jimin: but is it cuz my face is funny =_=

GUYS. I'M WEEPTYPING. FRIENDSSSS. HE CANNOT COUNT THE AMOUNT OF TIMES HE'S LAUGHED TODAYYYY. I AM DED. THEY'RE SO PRECIOUS. AHDFK:JG:KLDFJGLJDFGJ
Jin: this is happy

simultaneously reassuring Jimin
SUGA: you're fine
Jin: you're goodlooking
Jimin: I'm ready [to become more fit]

Jin: but seriously, after doing so many solo activities for so long, as of Festa~ I had to film WITH hobi so much and it was sooo much more fun and we kepttt laughing
j-hope: all we did was laugh
Jin: like any time we looked at each other we'd burst into laughter so ..now that we're all together.. it's gonna be so fun

RM: since you two have been out for a while and pursuing solo projects~ how does it feel for you guys now being all together with us?
j-hope to Jin: how has it been for you? you've been at it [solo] the longest
RM: ..truthfully - can I guess? I feel like you were really deeply anticipating our reunion like sincerely but now that it's here - you're kinda already exhausted no?
everyone looks at Jin's tentative face and starts cracking up
Jin: you are.. so... exactly.. correct BUTTT the reason is cuz when I'm doing solo activities, it's super comfortable because everything is calibrated to my standards/preferences but as I was preparing the solo tour/performing - I deeply/keenly missed the members desperately cuz I had to fill that time by myself. I wondered like how can I drive this time alone? I felt like "without the members, I'm so lonely" I thought that a lot actually

V: hyung, you did a great job~
j-hope: so you rose to the challenge
RM: "challenge accepted"

도전 (dojeon) = challenge, but depending on context it can mean just the word 'challenge' as a noun OR 'challenge accepted' or 'rose to the challenge' - if you didn't already know, this is the word Jin always shouts before playing games on Run Jin; if you're going to his concert, it'd be wise to memorize it so you can yell it out!

Jimin: hobihyung - you like cried and.. talking about last HOTS performance
j-hope: I ..
RM: you like really let it out/cried your heart out huh
j-hope: i didn't cry cuz i wanted to cry~ everything sorta bubbled up. thinking about the prep. everyone takes their personal work so seriously~ but I guess it was just an amplified version of that? cuz he prepared the details of his whole tour vs. just an album or song which even in itself is a huge featthinking about that.. when it came to an end.. i felt sorta empty? a little bit? all of that - kinda got me choked up

오열 (ohyul) - this goes beyond crying/tearing up and means like SOBBING uncontrollably/breaking down in tears

SUGA: I did this too; holding my guitar waa
RM: ..we saw LOLL
V (re: SUGA): he has said this same thing while you (j-hope) were talking now 3 times.. please focus on him
RM (now teasing SUGA): HYUNG SAID HE CRIEDDD~~
V: he's been whispering that he cried~~
SUGA: I'm just saying I know what you felt [to j-hope]
Jimin: next time you cry [to SUGA] please call me
SUGA:😶 call you? should I video call you?
Jimin: yes please video call me.

j-hope: i think when BTS is back together in concert... I think i'll get choked up again
RM: oh for SURE
j-hope: i think like FROM the beginninggg I'll be choked up
SUGA: you do get choked up when we do our group songs and stuff
V: but you know what'd be funny - it's our group concert - it's the opening and we
JK: ..are just all crying?
RM: starts doing KIG choreography but make it weepy
j-hope rolls away episode 7348958
j-hope: we have to do a concert~

RM: so anyway
V: NEXT SPRING
RM: next spring.. with the release of our new album we will indeed be planning a tour
Jimin: we have to start preparing..
RM: so if we do a world tour next year.. it'll be the first time in 7 years
j-hope/Jin GASP AWE INCREDULITY STUNNED

V: well we all built up our stamina anyway~
JK/RM: that's true
Jimin: ...shakes JK's hand as he says my stamina has decreased
JK to Jimin: let's step up our game~
j-hope: everyone take great care in your health
RM: we'll be going all over the place so please look forward to..
Jimin: aghh my hair is really the worst

j-hope: i'm already like .. my heart is beating so fast already
RM: seriously my heart is beating so fast
SUGA: then you have to go to the doctor
RM: anyway this is what we wanted to announce - it's why we turned on the live~ everything else has been shenanigans/nonsense

V: so now what's everybody doing?
j-hope: what when we're done w/ the live?
V: no I mean like..
multiple speaking at once ajkldgjalkfjg
RM to V: why? is there something you wanted to do?
V: no i just wondered like if there was something up next
j-hope rolls away episode 73847593
Jimin to V: 'justeuh kweshchun?' -AYS
JK baby bunny giggles

j-hope: i mean.. I have to go to Germany and then America
V: that's so cool again, sounds so sarcastic when I type it - but it's meant sincerely lol
RM: Jin hyung's going on tour~
j-hope: want me to come to see you on tour right? want me to see you in America?
Jin: nonononono
j-hope: where do you want me to go see you?
JK: anaheim is probably the closest?
Jin: has been saying nononono this whole time

RM: so what I was wondering about your tour, hyung, is that you have to do this in different languages as you travel..
V: and also.. if the audience sings your songs -isn't it too easy to guess for you? wouldn't you guess correctly every time?
Jin: I think it has to be a bit overly easy so the interactive component feels fun; if they don't understand what I'm saying for most of the time it wouldn't be as fun.. [to V] I think you may not be adjusted to civilian life quite yet...
j-hope: this hyung says this like a HABIT.. he KEPT saying this to me as soon as I got out - ALL the time 'mimicking Jin' it may be because you're not adjusted to civilian life yet but...
SUGA: you didn't even have that much time between you two
Jin: right yea there wasn't a huge gap between me and hobi
Jimin: 4 months

RM: so anyway how are you going to handle that [the different languages element?]
Jin: so regarding that matter.. I have a concert coming up this Saturday...
j-hope: so you'll address it...
Jin: starting today I will start thinking about this. I haven't thought about that at all yet...
RM/j-hope/Jimin INCREDULOUS TOO STUNNED TO SPEAK HOBI HAS ROLLED AWAY AGAIN

23:48

I cannot. look at Jimin's face friends

RM: how is this hyung real rn
j-hope: are you going to Chiba first?
Jin: mm yes - I hadn't thought about that element yet, I'll start worrying about that now~
Jimin: so sincerely hyung, you can't get hurt okay?/gotta take care of yourself okay?
Jin: if our Jiminie is rooting for me, there's no way I can get hurt awww? but wait for it. also RM is randomly speaking Japanese in the background.. which means if I get hurt it's because you weren't rooting for me
Jimin: oh I see okay yea I'll be rooting for you

JK: Jin hyung's really good at like enjoying himself~ [on stage]
everyone talking at once
Jimin: somethingsomething doesn't it get SO hot?
Jin: I'm okay with heat -I was so happy it wasn't cold

V: ooh I saw that you were on a variety show!
Jin: me? i was on one?
V: the one with Hong Jin Kyung sunbaenim
Jin: oh ..Screwballs?
V [mid convo w/ Jin, to viewers]: PLEASE SHOW LOTS OF LOVE TO THIS EPISODE
Jin: O,O? I was a guest on the show; thank you so much for watching things I'm on

j-hope: was Kian's BNB fun to do?
Jin: ..it was fun. do you guys wanna come to Kian's Bizarre BNB?
crickets
RM: nah - truly hyung - only you could do a show like that cuz wdym
SUGA: if we'd have gone ... we'd just sit..
j-hope: jin hyung really worked so hard

RM: hobi is literally on every show
Jin: if you turn the TV on, hobi is on the show
j-hope: so I just wanted to go on programs I hadn't been on before; if I have the opportunity, I just want to go to spaces (shows/places) I haven't been before

sideplot: Jimin has been covering his face; V palms Jimin's little face in his one hand and smothers him with 95line love ..or idk what happened but that's what i'll assume because he says something but it's too low I can't hear

Jimin: still covering his face sings KIG
JK to j-hope: this song is SO catchy 멤도네

멤도네 (maem do nae) = gets stuck in my head/lingers

j-hope: ohh thank you
SUGA: it was so cool
Jin: in my life I never thought hobi would bare his abs
j-hope: i have a little stomach flub now
RM: hobi was working out
Jin: I know! I was so surprised
RM: but then he just worked out his abs for like 30 mins and then left
j-hope stands up to laugh
j-hope: i have no workout routine - i just do abssss
RM: like he was watching vids while he was working out - but he was working out his abs while watching
SUGA: but your abs did look good~
JK: did you do something I can't tell has to do with the way they filmed the mv I think on purpose?
j-hope: yea

Jimin: still covering his face but actually hobi is cheating; his stomach fat forms in the shape of abs; it is a cheat
Jin: but that's true
Jimin: he's been like that since forever; just be open minded that what you have seen may not have been ab muscles
j-hope: ..it could've just been weight
Jimin: but as long as it was cool ~
j-hope: but ..i did work really hard

lollll

j-hope: let's have fun prepping team stuff now
RM: are there any fun comments Jiminshi?
Jimin: mm idk about fun comments - I only see my hair
j-hope: put your hands down! swats Jimin's hands away from his face
Jin: your hair is fine
Jimin: it's not my hair, it's that you can only see my puffy face rn
SUGA/Jin: you can just exercise it's fine~
j-hope: you might just be reacting that way cuz your hair is still a bit short
Jimin: anyway~
Jin: anyway~

j-hope: i'm curious about what the fans are saying..
Jimin: waow it's no joke~~ some 6M+ people
RM/JK: cotdamn~~
Jimin: referencing someone or some meme or some scene idk?
RM/JK: yup
Jimin: cotdamn in tiny
RM: I kept watching some show I couldn't make out because that's all they had available to watch in the military

V (to RM): can I share a TMI?
RM: wait
Jin: whisper it to namjoonie and then say it
V: of the writings that comforted me, I got one from Moon Sangsomethingsomething hyungnim (I can't tell the name he says)
Jimin/SUGA: laughing - this .. truly is a TMI
V: I sent a DM to Moonperson mentioned above
JK: what'd it say
V: I said "I was really comforted"
RM: Go on presumably a show name//and this Moon person is the host or director or something of this show?
V: he gave me his contact info
RM: ooh very nice

Jimin asks about some new slang/acronyms? to RM.. and RM replies but I can't tell what they're saying BECAUSE KOREAN SLANG IS SO HARD FOR ME TO DECIPHERRRRR especially because a lot of it, these days, are ENGLISH words written in Korean and THEN shortened... I lowkey hate this trend but I humbly accept language continues to evolve no matter how much the direction of the evolution irks me personally loll

j-hope: were there any shows you wanted to be on after you were discharged?
Jimin: Run Seokjin
Jin: it's over
Jimin: I know but
Jin: did you wanna be on it?
Jimin: i did
Jin: if Jiminshi wanted to be on it - we might be able to do one more episode
Jimin: mayhaps we tackle that after we do our scheduled work?
Jin: this is a good idea lolls all around

RM: but are there any shows you wanted to be on?? looks around
95s: BON VOYAGE highfives
RM: of course we have to do Bon Voyage
Baby Bunnbunn: taps V in tiny but Bon Voyage is ours though
V: ...yes highfives
Jimin: I do want to go on - I mean there are a lot of shows I have so much fun watching.. but I think if I go on - I don't know if I'd do a good job
RM to camera: give us courage 💪🏻
RM: anyway~~

암튼 amteun (remember from last time?) this means 'anywayyy'

RM: we wanted to show you we are baaaack
BTS clappies
V: we, together, and individually will continue ..to.. keep.. through these lives... keep sharing...
JK: we have no other schedule than work so we'll try our best to show ourselves through these times
Jimin: with his eyes ALL the way opened O,O..like seriously we are going to be very focused on this
SUGA:👀looking at Jimin ..you might be a little too focused. your eyes are TOOO focused rn
RM: your focus is crazy trolling Jimin
SUGA: observe how he doesn't close his eyes
RM: wow

V: mumbles either what I presume to be a dadjoke or just comments on something super mundane that leaves everyone speechless at his confusing vibes today
Jin: ...it must be because you haven't adjusted back yet to civilian life
SUGA: don't you think we'll get better at this with more practice?
yes yes yes all around

RM: ANYWAYYY let's greet
V: okay say the thing "we've been..."
j-hope: oh like RIGHT to that??
Jimin (giving V another chance to shine): WE'LL BE OUT W NEW MUSIC WHEN?
V: TOMORROW SPRING!everyone bursts out laughing no no no no no nooono NEXT SPRING
RM: ahhh but it's THIS RIGHT HERE~ this is the vibe~ this familiar sense/taste I'd been missing; this taste that you all know~
referring to the familarity/vibes of when they used to do this kinda thing all the time and the same brand/wavelength of chaos/comfort/silly
Jin: it is a taste I have feared...
RM: it's the taste of names snack of their childhood [walnut cookies]

RM, our softie poet
95s HIGHFIVE NEXT! SPRING!

RM: anyway, next spring we have plans for our next album in six years, and following that, plans to pursue a world tour - so please just...

EVERYONE: WAIT A BIT

Jin: wow that comes out automatically huh
RM: I tested yall
JK: it was SO NATURAL! I can't w/ pookiekookiecakes today he is so baby

RM: Anyway, we have been BTS. 2!3!
Everyone: Gamsahamnida!
j-hope: waaa starting things up as BTS again.. is so fun
Jin rises in old man noises to turn off the live
j-hope: loveyouloveyouloveyou
RM: 🎶you're my soda pop, my little soda pop
JK: DID YOU WATCH THAT?
RM: mm
JK: ISN'T IT SO FUN!?

fin

FRIENDS. We made it. They're back together!

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