*quiet wailing*

[kat_lair]

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Okay, I realise it has been some time since I've screeched here about Stray Kids but trust me when I say that the latest comeback has been  A TRIAL and I have screeched about it plenty into my pillow and via WhatsApp at dreamersdare and pushkin666 . Special mention goes to Seungmin's face which became a problem for me like, personally, around S-Class and has continued to only grow. The new haircut is not helping. Both of the MVs dropped so far are violent assaults on my fragile soul. But this. THIS FUCKING WEAPONS KINK STREET GANG AU FEEDING VIDEO tipped me right over into feral. The.. the fucking nightsticks for Chan and Changbin? *chokes* I know for a fact that dreamersdare will never be same again after that gun footage with Minho and Jisung. Bow and arrow combo for Hyunjin and Felix, okay, I can live with that. But then. THEN. They gave Seungmin and Jeongin knives and I... I... No. Absolutely not. Like fuck you. For real.

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[dreamersdare]

Firstly, no. Secondly, fuck off. Thirdly (and now we get into the segments):

1. Changbin is commiting violence on my eyes, can he not with the flicky thing with that baton
2. HAN JISUNG HAS A FUCKING GUN KINK AND NOTHING WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
3. I thought Seungmin was committing violence with his knife, and the staring, and the twist. And then Jeongin... happened all over my screen.
4. JEONGIN'S FACE.
5. Multiple fetish gloves. Hyunjin's is a thing
6. Why does (must) the choreo involve Chan and Jisung grabbing each other?
7. WHY ARE CHANGBIN AND MINHO DRESSED TO MATCH?
8. JEONGIN'S FACE (CONT.). WTF IS WITH THAT LITTLE EYEBROW TWITCH?
9. Seungmin's outfit. All their outfits, but Seungmin's in particular makes it very clear that this is street gang boys like two fics on from where we are when they've levelled up, and I cannot *sob*

This is

[kat_lair]

I mean yes, I am still having a mental breakdown over everything in this comeback and this just tipped me over. There was NO NEED for this level of weapons kink AND YET.

1. Opening with Chan looking like he was about to stick whip anyone who looked at his boys sideways WAS A CHOICE. And yes, there's his back up. The flick Changbin did was obscene.
2. Concur. I assume it didn't take a lot to convince Minho to give it a go too. I saw those two with the guns and whilst my first thought was 'fuck' my second one was 'lol DD gonna die'
3. I AM STILL FERAL OVER THEM BOTH, LIKE WHY IS VOCALRACHA NOW A FUCKING BLADERACHA? _{...and do I low key want to write some mutual knifeplay fic about it? maybe.}
4. FUCK HIM IN PARTICULAR, GO BACK TO BEING CUTE, I CAN'T DEAL WITH THE FUCKING CHEEKBONES AND EYEBROW HITCHES
5. Is it even a skz vid at this point if someone isn't wearing a fetish glove?
6. Because Jisung literally vibrates out of his skin if someone doesn't have a hand on him at all times?
7. ...so they can more impactfully tag team Jisung later? ...sorry, I slipped into bdsm!au land.
8. I would also like to point out HIS FACE IN THE MOUNTAINS VID. VIOLENCE.
9. Listen. Two fics down the line Seungmin is the fucking respectable face of that outfit and has built an empire from the ashes of his daddy's business and this is the outfit of a man who walks into the board room with a knife in one hand and Hyunjin on the other arm (wearing the red outfit and glasses from the man MV) and no one dares to say anything except 'yes sir'.

yes. yes it is.

[dreamersdare]

1. Look, not gonna lie, everything about Chan and Changbin in this one is obscene. Choices were made with the two of them and they were all of them violent. I can't even look at Changbin's section right now, it fries my brain everytime.

2. I... have feelings. About all of this, but about the two of them in particular. Especially Minho's clear comfort level and Jisung's "I'm so innocent, BOOM" schtick.

3. BLADERACHA IS NOT A WORD I NEEDED IN MY VOCABULARY AND YET HERE WE ARE. Also, fuck yes, write that shit. I'll help.

4. HE HAS TAKEN EMBRACING VIOLENCE TO ANOTHER LEVEL. LIKE, IT WASN'T A BAR TO BE SURPASSED. ALSO YOU FORGOT THE FUCKING SMIRKING

5. No, but that doesn't make it any less violent, and Hyunjin's glove physically hurts me.

6. ...yeah, okay, accurate.

7. No, I'm also prepared to take that as accurate, holy shit, I wanna write that now

8. IT IS THE SAME VIOLENT FACE. WITH THAT VIOLENT THING ON HIS LIP.

9. Oh, fuck, yes. Completely concur.

[kat_lair]

Also, fuck yes, write that shit. I'll help. - I'm not saying this is how ALL our problems start but... Many of them do. Just... Many. _{but uhh i keep thinking about this in the street gang au context (because ot8 is obviously the ultimate end game everywhere) where they are both so very fucking unhinged in different ways and Chan has the knives and is willing to teach the basics and Hyunjin is all about the aesthetics and there's no getting around how pretty the two are together and...}

9. ...Seungmin kept his daddy's obscenely large desk but not for work or even show. oh no, the only thing he does at that desk is to fuck Hyunjin over it. or the other way around.

[dreamersdare]

It's not our fault, we are victims of circumstance.

But also, gah, yes, all of that. I'm slightly at a tangent to you but now I'm thinking about the first time Chan offers Jeongin a knife, hilt first, blade gleaming under the overhead lights, and tells him "it's yours, if you can take it", with the corner of his mouth curled into an odd half smile.

(I'm also thinking about the first time Chan pulls a knife on Jeongin, but whatcha gonna do, I was always going to end up there!)

[pushkin666]

I must confess I am very fond of the new album. Have listened to it a few times already. This MV though - well it is indeed violent. Like I said in our whatsapp chat their stylist needs a payrise and many many other things for the aesthetics. Love this - love the guns, knives and the nightsticks for Chan and Changbin. Those two definitely getting their Dom on. Not quite sure about the bow and arrows but hey, I'll take it cos I'm shallow and I love their music and I love the pretty.

[kat_lair]

It is absolutely full of bangers. I need to watch some of the behind the scenes stuff though...

This is an extremely violent intro and I'm having a constant personal crisis over the two youngest.