BTS and storm coming
Jan. 24th, 2026 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allezhopRecovering from the flu has been a job, but I've also managed to get back to work this week (minus the Monday holiday) and was only laid flat after work one or two days. I'm so easily distractable. Reddit is my favorite rabbit hole of late, and I was kind of curious about how things went with the BTS ticket pre-sale. I used to be a massive fan, but not so much the last year or two. I was even watching content pretty steadily through military service, with each solo release, and was really excited when they all got released from the military. It's hard to pinpoint why I stopped being emotionally invested, and the easiest way to say it is that things just didn't feel the same. I stopped believing a lot of the group's messaging, and once those idealistic lenses were off, it was harder to care at all. I actually completely forgot about the tickets going on sale until someone at work told me she was getting them.
Anyway, I'm not going and feel pretty ambivalent about it. The only thing that feels a little weird is looking back on my fandom years. I loved them SO MUCH I flew across the country to see them in LA after the pandemic. There was a desperation to be there, and a true joy once I was there. But also it was exhausting and expensive, so I guess it's just going in that bucket of "life experiences that were fun but I don't need to do again."
Getting ready for the storm is pretty easy. I have my staples set, mostly peanut butter and crispbread. I don't have a lot in the fridge right now, but hopefully the stuff in the freezer will be okay. I think salmon and chicken nuggets are the only thing I'll have to offer to the crows if the power outages go too long. We're getting a LOT of freezing rain, so will consider myself ridiculously lucky if power holds out. I've got my sleeping bag ready so I think Mochi and I will do fine.
I'm quite worried about the community cats, but I've done all I can do, including a shelter with straw that continues to be unused. I haven't seen them this freezing morning, and I hope that means they are somewhere warm or even that someone has taken them in. Probably wishful thinking, but I keep remembering that one of the young ones vanished in the summer and came back super friendly and with a tipped ear; so I know someone else is looking out for them.
I also just need to get the dishwasher loaded and running, and laundry done, so that's all to a decent place before the storm hits.
Anyway, I'm not going and feel pretty ambivalent about it. The only thing that feels a little weird is looking back on my fandom years. I loved them SO MUCH I flew across the country to see them in LA after the pandemic. There was a desperation to be there, and a true joy once I was there. But also it was exhausting and expensive, so I guess it's just going in that bucket of "life experiences that were fun but I don't need to do again."
Getting ready for the storm is pretty easy. I have my staples set, mostly peanut butter and crispbread. I don't have a lot in the fridge right now, but hopefully the stuff in the freezer will be okay. I think salmon and chicken nuggets are the only thing I'll have to offer to the crows if the power outages go too long. We're getting a LOT of freezing rain, so will consider myself ridiculously lucky if power holds out. I've got my sleeping bag ready so I think Mochi and I will do fine.
I'm quite worried about the community cats, but I've done all I can do, including a shelter with straw that continues to be unused. I haven't seen them this freezing morning, and I hope that means they are somewhere warm or even that someone has taken them in. Probably wishful thinking, but I keep remembering that one of the young ones vanished in the summer and came back super friendly and with a tipped ear; so I know someone else is looking out for them.
I also just need to get the dishwasher loaded and running, and laundry done, so that's all to a decent place before the storm hits.
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Date: 2026-01-26 02:51 am (UTC)I totally get what you mean about being emotionally invested in a fandom. I was a HUGE fan of doujinshi and Visual-Kei. I think because they were so different and unique I just gravitated towards them. when i look back i look back on it with good memories. I hope you had good memories too of going to their concerts. Did you have a fav concert of theirs?