Hey, everyone. This just came to me today and seemed like a fun discussion to have. Seeing as BTS is now a 13 year old group and we have ARMYs who joined at very different times, I thought it would be fun to talk about things we learnt or came across during our own baby ARMY days that hardly ever get mentioned today. I find it so interesting that certain lore persists (hi Team Kim Seokjin and lachibolala), but some just gets left behind.

Sharing some of my own first (for context, I joined the fandom around Nov 2017):

• Hixtape - Stands for (Hobi + mixtape ). At the time, everyone was looking forward to it, waiting for an announcement to drop on us at any time. And we all referred to it as hixtape since we didn't know the title yet, obviously. Of course now we all call it "Hope World".

• In the mood for love - HYYH (hwa yang yeon hwa), the name of BTS' famous youth trilogy, is a Chinese idiom and there is a famous movie with the same name. But the movie's english title was "in the mood for love", and for some reason, these got intertwined and mixed up by both media and fans. So a lot of fan wiki at the time had HYYH's english title as either "in the mood for love" OR "the most beautiful moment in life". I remember being really confused as a baby ARMY till I saw Namjoon clarifying it in their After School Club (youtube) interview, and confirming that their album was officially called "The most beautiful moment in life", and not the other name. I don't think anyone these days gets confused about this anymore 😅

• Mic Drop MAMA 2017 - Not a term as such but I remember when this performance first happened, it was earth-shattering. All of us were talking about how legendary it was, we were obsessed with the dance breaks and it was the best performance BTS had ever done. Theeee standard for an award show performance. But as the years have passed, It's gotten overshadowed by MMA 2018, MMA 2019, etc and hardly ever gets mentioned for a recommendation. It makes me a bit sad because I love it so much, and BTS themselves still seem pretty attached to it and bring it up from time to time.

These are some examples of mine. I'm so interested to see what everyone else has to share, especially older (fandom-wise) ARMYs. I hope more recent ARMYs don't feel alienated by this either and that It's a fun exercise for everyone to learn something new from. So please share with us....what are some fandom terms or lore that you remember that rarely gets a mention nowadays?

I was just listening to my large playlist and I'll Be There by Jin came on.

I was suddenly hit with a wave of nostalgia and emotions remembering that time.

Honestly, I think this was when I started to see the light at the end of the tunnel. To really understand "it will end, they will soon be seven again".

What about you? Fellow ARMY who made it all the way through this era?

This thought came to me when I was doing my album look-back during the month-long break between the NA and the LATAM leg of the tour. Is there an album that was really important for BTS or the fandom, even if the songs didn't fit particularly well together?

When I think about culturally important, I imagine things that are important to their career, or how they pivoted into a specific era, theme, or genre. And when I think of cohesive, it has more to do with the album belonging to a consistent sound, mood, or concept.

Feel free to define your own meanings and how you view their discography through this lens. And has an album found itself firmly in the middle of this spectrum? The perfect or ultimate BTS album.

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Hello Bibliophiles of r/bangtan! As BTS are winding their way around South America we are winding our way through the month of October! We hope you all are having an amazing spooky season! We hope you didn’t forget about our October book club pick!!! Don’t worry, she’s a shorty so you have plenty of time!

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My pen and paper could never do quite enough

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Book Specific Questions

• What did you think of the book? Is it something you would recommend to someone else?
• You are thrown right into the action of the story with no heavy exposition. Did you find it easy to connect to the story and characters with this immersive style or did it make it hard to follow?
• Our main characters, Red and Blue, exchange letters through a number of ways. What do you think was the most creative? Did you have a favorite?
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• This book is authored by two people. Max Gladstone wrote from Red’s perspective and Amal El-Mohtar wrote from Blue’s perspective. They did not outline the content of the letters in advance. Did you notice the two different voices while reading or did the story appear seamless? Do you think this writing style helped or hurt the story?
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?

You fill my world with wonder

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