Ballbusting workout. Goddess Aaliyah puts me through a workout... while giving hard kicks and stomps, she doesn't hold back. LINK IN PROFILE for FUll 14min VID. #ballbusting #stomps #nutshots #bdsm #workout #hardkicks #goddess #fetish #kinkshow more

I had such a hard workout today that my... nylons got a run. Now that you’re in your place, I need you to change them for me but we’re gonna do it my way, you peel my sweaty nylons inside out and put them in your mouth with the toe parts on your tongue, then get me clean ones. Feetcentral 🍑 ASS + FEET - RT FREE 🔥 TRASH FOOT COMMUNITY 🚫‼️ LiveLifeFeet Feet RT PROMO 💯K (ROAD TO 200K!) TopToes - foot fanatic, nylon lover Nylon_Seduction_ StinkyNylonFeet Foot Fetish Forum 🔪🎃👣SOLES IN DA HOOD👣🎃🔪 iam_the_eagleshow more

Let’s CHANGE it up! 😍 I’ve come to learn... that one of my top 6 human needs is VARIETY. What does that mean? Basically, I don’t like when things start to feel stale. In knowing this, It’s crucial for me to cycle through different habits/patterns. Remember, you’re NOT stuck doing what you’re doing now, forever. ✅ Giving myself the permission to switch gears whenever I feel burnout creeping up has been such a game changer for my mental health and overall well-being. So, I took iron to the water and got in an underwater workout 🌊 🏋️ I call exercise #2 “Iron balls,” fitting? 😆show more

The wait is finally over — Spartan Fuel has... arrived. Imagine Maximum muscle growth Skin-splitting pumps Limitless energy Laser-like focus What’s the secret? An all-encompassing, comprehensive intra-workout blend. Everybody knows about the importance of pre and post workout nutrition, but intra-workout nutrition is often neglected. The optimal time to fuel your body is when you are working out, breaking down muscle fibers, expending stored glycogen, and depleting electrolytes. In order to stimulate maximum muscle growth and achieve a vicious, skin-splitting pump, we need to fuel our bodies. Spartan Fuel contains a comprehensive blend of EAAs, fast-acting carbohydrates, electrolytes, and mitochondrial boosters that provides your body with EXACTLY what it needs to perform at it’s highest level. Many of you are probably like myself; you put on your best Walter White impression and whip up a concoction of supplements to try and find that edge. Why should we leave gains on the table, right? Well, I had enough of guessing and watching my supplement cabinet (and monthly bill) continuously grow. And then it struck me. There’s no product that properly combines EAAs, carbs, and electrolytes. After lifting for years, absorbing everything I could on X, I figured it was time to make my own mark. That’s when I decided to connect with the man himself, BowTied Biohacker . Leveraging his expertise and my vision, we created a formula that would change the way we lift forever. We created a product that would be FELT IMMEDIATELY. After sending samples out to a bunch of bros here on X, the feedback was overwhelming — we had struck gold. Other-worldly pumps Gas tanks that were always running on full People crushing their log books, pumping out more reps than ever before… DURING EVERY SET Everyone felt like a million bucks. Once you try it, it you will never want to workout without it. It’s THAT good. We all push ourselves hard. Many of us train to failure. We want to get jacked. We want to get shredded. We all want to unleash our inner warrior in the gym. Now there’s a way to totally lock-in and dominate with intensity during very workout. We all know the feeling. Once in a while we have a workout that just blows us away. We feel stronger than ever, locked-in. We leave the gym with a high that has us feeling on top of the world. Now picture every single workout being that amazing. No other product can deliver the boost you need to consistently perform at the highest level. It’s basically a PED. We didn’t skimp out on quality. We didn’t cut corners. We included EVERYTHING needed to maximize results and boost performance. What many people don’t know is that in order for a supplement to truly be effective, the ingredients need to be dosed in the proper ratios. And that’s just what we did. And just when you think it can’t get any better (there has to be some catch, right…right?) We kept it natural — no artificial ingredients or sweeteners. This is something that digest like a dream, hits the bloodstream instantaneously, and fuels your muscles. Our competitors don’t do this. They sell a bunch of ingredients separately, trying to sell more products. Or they sell proprietary blends and junk loaded with fillers. Spartan Fuel makes your life easier. One tub. One scoop (or 2 if you’re like me and want to go hard). No more wasting money purchasing the entire supplement store. Whether you start drinking it on your way to the gym or as you begin your workout, you will quickly feel the difference. This fall, you can dominate every workout, and supercharge your winter bulk. And this post would not be complete without giving a huge thank you to @Thomas_Salamus_ TJ was instrumental to the birth of Spartan Fuel since Day 1. If you love his products, you’ll love Spartan Fuel. Rest assured, the quality is unmatched. The first batch is limited, so act now and don’t miss this opportunity to unlock your true potential.show more

Every muscle in the human body grows from progressive... mechanical tension. Except, apparently, the abs. Abs uniquely require: - 100 reps a session - Bodyweight only - No tracking, no progression - A different "core circuit" every workout for "muscle confusion" - Done at the end when you can barely stand up - Followed by a plank for the soul Because apparently the rectus abdominis evolved on a different planet from every other skeletal muscle. While your chest, back, and quads respond to heavy load through a working range, your abs respond to chaos, exhaustion, and a TikTok-approved sequence of crunches named after a celebrity. Or, alternatively, you could do weighted crunches for 4-6 reps, add a kilo a fortnight, and watch them grow like every other muscle in your body. But that would require admitting the abs are just a muscle. And the fitness industry would lose an entire genre of content. Your call.show more

Enjoy this journey while you can. There will be... a day when you don’t have anyone to throw with or lift with or play pickup racquetball and then hit the sauna after with. There will be a day when you can’t immediately roll from your workout into breakfast/lunch/dinner with 8 of your best friends. There will be a day when disputes cannot be settled with a game of madden, 2K or the show. You will realize that showing up late for work pales in comparison to the fear you had about showing up late to the field or the weight room. You can say that you’ll still train hard, keep yourself in shape, hold YOURSELF accountable. It’s easy to say when you have a goal you’re working towards with a collective group. But when you don’t have that, damn it gets hard. So enjoy it. Take advantage of the time and the energy. For some guys it happens after 6 years of pro ball. For others it happens after 4 years of college. But it will leave you. Let me repeat that: IT WILL LEAVE YOU AND IT SUCKS WHEN IT DOES.show more

A gym asked to repost their workout video. Eight... months later, that same gym pays them $10,400 a month. Two friends run one Instagram account together, split down the middle. It started as a joke — a place to dump their workout clips so they'd stop flooding their personal pages. Then the gym they train at reposted one video. Then asked for more. Then offered to pay. That was the whole beginning. One local gym, a small monthly fee to keep their feed looking alive. Here's what they figured out fast: gyms are desperate for content and terrible at making it. Beautiful equipment, dead Instagram. The two of them already film every session anyway — so they started pointing the camera at what the gym needed and handing it over as a finished feed. Now they run it like a tiny agency. Three gyms and two activewear brands pay them to produce a month of content each — reels, captions, the posting calendar, the whole thing. The part that makes it possible with two people and full-time jobs: AI does the 90% that used to need a team. They film. Claude does the rest — cuts one session into 20 clips, writes captions in each client's voice, builds the 30-day calendar, drafts the monthly report that keeps every contract renewed. What used to take an editor, a copywriter, and an SMM manager now runs while they're getting coffee after the workout. 5 clients. Around $2,000 each. $10,400 a month. Their cost to run all of it: under $60. That number doesn't move whether they have 5 clients or 15 — that's the entire model. The wild part is how ordinary they are. No huge following. No personal brand. Two normal girls who train together and realized the footage they were already making was worth money to someone else. Every friend group at every gym is filming the same content for fun and letting it die in their camera roll. These two just asked one gym if it wanted to buy it. The full breakdown — how two people turn shared workouts into a real content business — is in the thread above. Read it before another duo in your city signs those gyms first.show more

Happy to be back on the podium 🥈and in... the prize money 💰 with a 2nd place finish at the Cleveland Marathon #ClevelandHalfMarathon today! Congrats to all the #runners 🏃🏻🙌. While the “flat”road speed felt like it definitely was not quite there (I don’t even remember the last time I ran a sub 5:20 mile in a workout 😂). It was great to feel that lactate burn and get some good HR data around threshold at sea level again. I kinda positive split like a N00b, but held a pretty steady HR effort and moved up in position as the race progressed. Breathing was hard all the way!! Certainly a shock to the legs and lungs again given the relative humidity and my typical lung scar tissue area pain. Overall though a great experience with a nice organization and tour of #cleveland 🏙️. Thanks to my parents and Sandi Nypaver for coming out to support and for all the people cheering and who a met. Also the race organization, sponsors and volunteers 🙌! What an awesome #runningcommunity 🏃🏻🙌. Okay back to #mountainrunning and longer races now 🏔️🤣! HOKA Compressport COROS Global Strava Spring Energy Drymax @athletebloodtestcom @tracer_fitness @squirrels_nut_butter CamelBak #anysurfaceanydistance #higherrunning Billyshow more

This weekend has definitely been one for the history... books. Friday, flying from Phoenix to Newark. Saturday, attending my Dad’s funeral there, and Sunday, flying back to Phoenix. This workout was definitely needed to decompress from the mental and emotional exhaustion of this weekend. Nonetheless, I’m grateful for my Dad, for the example of strength and resilience he has shown me since he first came into my life at the age of 7. He freely picked up the responsibility and mantle of Father that my biological father chose to forfeit. He loved me like I was has on flesh and blood, and was my first example of health masculinity displayed through love. For 35 years I gleamed knowledge and direction from him, and how to stand in my truth, even when it’s not difficult and unpopular. I thank him for covering me, molding me, and correcting me, and most importantly loving me. I’ve endured ALOT of loss this year and regard to connections and people, but this one has to be the most difficult. Yet I know that I will be okay. It may take a min, but I know the power that can be produced from pain. I will continue to move forward, and keep his memory in my heart for all my earthly days.show more

NEW CLIP: Kiss my feet, Prove your worth You’re... back again, of course you are. Pathetic little wallet in hand, eyes glued to my sweaty feet after a brutal gym session. You didn’t earn this view. You never do. But I let you watch. Why? Because I like seeing you squirm. You obsess over every inch of my new gym set like it’s holy. It is. I wear it, so it’s worth more than you’ll ever be. Your only job? Fund it. Worship it. Then fall to your knees and thank me for the honor of licking my post-workout feet while I laugh at how desperate you are for crumbs of attention. You don’t get the gym. You don’t get the body. You definitely don’t get the girl. All you get is the chance to pay for the privilege of watching me enjoy it all without you. Available now on Loyal Fans.show more

KARDASHIANS IN MONACO: RACE DAY CHAOS! 🏁🇲🇨💨 Ferrari power!... The Kardashians have officially taken over the Monaco GP — Kim & Khloé in full glam sister squad mode, yacht arrivals, killer outfits, paddock domination, turning the most glamorous F1 weekend into Hollywood runway central while supporting Lewis Hamilton. Lewis crushed P3 in qualifying — prime spot on this brutal no-overtake street circuit where starting position decides everything. Huge podium (or better) vibes for the 7x champ in red today. Pass drama check: FIA rules are loud and clear — EVERYONE must wear their pass visibly at all times. No celeb free passes. Yet Kim glides through like royalty while her bodyguards likely carry it for her amid the VIP superstar treatment. Special access, prime views, zero hassle for the connected elite. Rules for thee, but not for me? 😏 She’s just a human like the rest of us… with fame-level privileges. She jetted in for the full high-octane weekend to back Lewis on race day before likely heading back to her packed LA/business empire schedule soon after. No extended Monte Carlo extension announced — these electric couple moments hit hard while they last. Will Lewis deliver a Monaco masterclass? Have you been watching the racing? Regardless of what you think about the Kardashians, it’s an epic showing of precision driving and Monaco is simply gorgeous. Have you tuned in? (Video: AI)show more

A Love Story ♥️♥️ "Bro, drop her. There are... plenty of normal girls." That's what my teammate muttered in the locker room the week Leah joined our cheer squad full-time. I was the starting quarterback. Team captain. The guy people expected to date the loudest girl in the room — the one with the biggest following and the brightest spotlight. Leah didn't fit that script. She had Down syndrome. She didn't chase attention. She didn't care about being seen. But she showed up. Every single time. While everyone else filtered in late, Leah was already stretching on the sidelines. When practice ran long and tempers ran short, she stayed steady. When I threw a bad pass and slammed my helmet in frustration, she didn't flinch — she just said, "You'll get it next drive. You always do." She believed in me before I believed in myself. She waited after practice to ask how the game plan was shaping up. In study hall, when my grades started slipping, she'd slide my notebook back toward me and say, "Focus. You said you wanted that scholarship." No one else noticed when I was overwhelmed. Leah did. I started walking her home after practice. She'd tell me about her routines, how long she'd dreamed of wearing that uniform, how she practiced cheers in her bedroom mirror when she was ten. She spoke about everything with this quiet certainty — like joy was something you could train for. Somewhere between late-night games and early morning classes, I realized something: I wasn't looking for her out of responsibility. I was looking for her because she was my calm. Before every kickoff, I'd scan the sidelines until | saw her. And when she caught my eye, she'd give me that small nod like she was saying, You're ready. After graduation, people assumed we'd drift apart. We didn't. We stayed through college applications and job rejections. Through cramped apartments and long-distance moves. Through cheap furniture and shared savings accounts. We built our life slowly - brick by brick, paycheck by paycheck. Leah still shows up. She still reminds me of the things I forget. Still believes in plans I haven't finished building. Still chooses me on ordinary Tuesdays. Fifteen years later, when | look across our kitchen table, I see the same girl who stood on the sidelines and steadied my heartbeat before every game. They told me to find someone "normal." I found someone extraordinary. And I'm still choosing Leah the same way I did at seventeen — not because it's easy. But because she's the best decision I ever made.show more

"This happened last Monday at Cedar Creek Correctional Facility... in Oregon. Tyler Brooks, 29, is serving year five of a seven-year sentence. His eight-year-old Golden Retriever, Moose, had been with him for three years before he went in. His sister took Moose, then moved overseas for work. Moose went to Tyler's parents - until his dad got sick and they couldn't care for him anymore. Moose ended up in a shelter. Prison chaplain Ryan discovered Moose was still there through a volunteer program and arranged this visit through the facility's rehabilitation initiative. Security footage shows Tyler at the metal table, hands shaking, barely breathing. The door opens. Moose stops, stares, doesn't move. Tyler drops to his knees on the concrete: "Moose. It's me." Moose's tail starts wagging - then he runs full sprint, crashing into Tyler. Both go down. Tyler sobs, burying his face in Moose's fur while Moose frantically licks his face, checking every inch of him. "Tyler's been a model inmate for five years," Chaplain Ryan told us. "Finding out his dog was still waiting destroyed him and gave him hope at the same time." "Five years. I thought he'd forgotten me," Tyler said through tears. "But the second he saw me, it was like I never left. He still loves me." The shelter is holding Moose until Tyler's release in eight months. His sister is flying back from overseas to foster Moose until then. Sometimes a dog's loyalty has four legs and never stopped waiting for you to come home.show more

Today was my hardest workout before the Javelina 100—an... uphill treadmill supercompensation session accumulating 60 minutes of intervals at 10% grade, starting at threshold and ending harder. I think uphill treadmill threshold sessions can be magical for some athletes. Threshold work is classically defined as LT2 or easier, around what you could sustain for 1 hour. In practice, that feels relatively relaxed at first, and it only starts to get harder after you accumulate a substantial amount of volume. The rationale of threshold work is that it improves lactate shuttling, helping mitochondria be more efficient at processing and transporting lactate, preventing fatigue cascades even at harder efforts on other days (or at easier efforts in marathons or ultras). In other words, it’s primarily an aerobic stress. Faster is not better. The real-world obstacles with threshold work are twofold. First, for most of us, it’s pretty slow when done right, or way too hard when done wrong. A study on the training of elite athletes found that long intervals had the lowest correlation with long-term growth, and this conundrum is probably why—athletes do their long intervals too hard, breaking themselves down without the mechanical or aerobic stimulus to justify it. Second, outdoor threshold work can be an injury risk. If I tried this workout outdoors, it would wreck my calves and high hamstrings for days. The uphill treadmill can help athletes get around these hurdles. It’s slower by design, putting the emphasis squarely on the aerobic system. That helps athletes develop a much more precise understanding of threshold. But perhaps most significantly, the uphill treadmill reduces impact forces immensely. When I finish one of these—even a supercompensation session—I feel fine the next day, allowing me to absorb way more work (and more specific work to my goals). Particularly with age, I find that running training is about managing the efforts that are high impact to be limited and focused. While most of the uphill treadmill work I do is very controlled, it’s also ok to occasionally dig deeper. Today was about supercompensation. It’s not called The Pain Cave for nothing 🔥show more

The moment she pressed her tiny hand to the... glass, something in the room shifted. You could see her whole face light up as if this cold barrier wasn't even there. And for a brief second, the man in the orange uniform forgot where he was, because the little girl staring back at him was his whole world. Caleb had been locked up for a little more than a year after a night that went wrong in every possible way. He never denied what he did. He owned it. But owning it didn't make the weight of missing his daughter any lighter. When he went in, Lila was barely forming her first sentences. Now, at around two and a half, she talked nonstop. She knew colors, she knew songs, and she asked for her dad every morning. His wife, Emery, never missed a visit. She carried Lila on her hip through security, through the metal detectors, through the long hallway that always smelled like bleach. Lila never complained. She always came with the same excitement, the same little bounce in her walk, like today might finally be the day she could hug him. The officer nodded. Caleb stepped forward. The glass was clean enough to see every detail of his daughter's smile. "Hey, my little princess. Daddy's right here." "Hey, Dad." Emery smiled behind her, brushing Lila's hair out of her face. "She talks about you every single day." Caleb swallowed hard, fighting the sting in his eyes. "Love... I love you more than anything in this world, okay? Put your hand right here for me." "I love you too, Daddy." Lila pressed her small palm against the partition. Caleb matched it. Their hands lined up perfectly through the cold barrier, but the feeling was warm enough to break him. She leaned forward, giving the glass a gentle kiss, and he closed his eyes as if he could feel it for real. People walking past pretended not to stare, but moments like this always pull reactions out of strangers. Some see hope. Some see heartbreak. Others don't know what to feel at all, because everyone carries their own idea of what a parent should be and how much a second chance is worth. Caleb didn't think about any of that. He only saw his daughter looking at him like nothing in her tiny heart had changed. The guard signaled that time was almost up. Emery lifted Lila a little higher so her face stayed level with his. Caleb breathed in slow, letting himself memorize every detail. "When I come home," he whispered, "I'll make you proud. Every single day." Lila nodded with a seriousness only small children can pull off, as if she understood more than anyone expected. When they turned to leave, Caleb kept his hand on the glass for a few seconds longer. Not to hold on to them, but to hold on to the promise he'd just made. Anyone who's ever loved a child knows exactly why that moment stays with you long after the room goes quiet.show more

You do not need to be in the gym... six days a week. Doing so will reward you with worse progress, not more. Here's why: Fatigue accumulates. Not just from session to session. From week to week. From month to month. The hard leg session on Monday leaves a tax that has not been fully paid by the time you're back under a bar on Tuesday. Multiply that across six sessions and you are walking into every workout pre-fatigued. The first casualty is your high threshold motor units. The fibres with the most growth potential. The ones recruited only when the muscle is fresh enough to call on them with real load. Train under accumulated fatigue and those fibres never get touched. You're left stimulating the lower threshold fibres you maxed out years ago. Two rest days a week should be the bare minimum for anyone training hard. Three is better. Four sessions of about an hour each is not the maintenance protocol the high-volume crowd will tell you it is. It is the optimal dose for a natural lifter who wants to actually grow. Four hours of lifting a week. Four. That's it. The best physiques in your gym are almost always built on less work than the worst. The volume bros sweat five hours a week for a body the four-hour man built while still having time to read a book. More is not the answer. Recovered is.show more

"For eight months, the old Dalmatian refused to come... to the front of his kennel. Every family that entered the shelter glanced at his grey muzzle and continued toward younger dogs. Initially, Buddy still rose when footsteps came closer. Eventually, he only watched from the back of the kennel. One rainy afternoon, an elderly woman in a pale blue cardigan entered the long hallway and stopped. Eleanor pressed both hands to her chest when she saw the spotted dog behind the metal gate. Eleven years earlier, she had carried Buddy home as a puppy. After her husband died, he followed her through every room and slept beside her bed each night. Then a serious fall changed everything. Doctors moved Eleanor into a rehabilitation center that did not allow animals. Because no relative could care for Buddy, she had to surrender him to the shelter. Before leaving, she touched her forehead to his and whispered, “Wait for me.” Recovery lasted far longer than expected. Once Eleanor could walk safely again, her old apartment was gone. Her search ended only when a senior community offered her a small home where dogs were welcome. When the keys finally reached her hand, she called the shelter before unpacking a single box. Now only a few feet separated them. Motionless, Buddy stared through the bars. Several quiet seconds passed as the shelter worker reached for the latch. “Buddy, it is me.” His ears lifted, and his tail moved once. Carefully, the worker opened the gate while Eleanor lowered herself to her knees. At last, Buddy moved. Slowly, the old dog stepped into the corridor on stiff legs. Halfway across the concrete floor, he paused and raised his nose. A familiar scent reached him, and the uncertainty left his face. Suddenly, he walked straight into Eleanor’s arms and pushed his head beneath her chin. Trembling, she wrapped both arms around him as he leaned his full weight against her. “I told you I would come back,” she whispered. Later that afternoon, Eleanor signed the adoption papers and took Buddy to her new home. That evening, he settled beside her bed in the same place he had chosen for eleven years. Neither of them had forgotten the promise.show more

When your pain, fear or resentment is consuming you,... no one else can pull you out of the dark, because you ARE the dark. Your mindset. Your thoughts. YOU CONTROL where you work & live, who you live with, what you eat & drink, what time you sleep, how you think, how you feel, how you spend your energy & what you do with your spare time. YOU! These things may feel out of your control but they're not. They're all things we can change if we're unhappy but our MINDSET has us convinced we can't, by playing on our fears of the unknown & our own weaknesses. 'What if I can't find other work?' 'What if I don't find anyone else?' 'I don't have time to cook!' 'I don't have time to workout!' 'I have nothing to feel happy about' 'I can't sleep!' Your life will not change, unless YOU do! You need to change your mindset! No one can do it for you. You can CHOOSE to see silver linings OR just the possibility of rain. You can CHOOSE your HARD... - Struggle through a workout vs struggle to look at yourself & how unhealthy you've become - Struggle to learn a new skill vs struggle in a job you hate. Trying to see beyond your unhappiness, 'bad luck' & bad choices is confronting & can feel impossible...BUT it isn't!! It's possible! Not over night but gradually...taking ONE DAY AT A TIME! Be kind to yourself! Changing your mindset & working on overhauling years of negative thought processes is far from easy but in doing so, you'll reclaim your POWER & take back control of your own happiness. Choosing to go out into the sunshine to drink a cuppa (instead of staying cooped up indoors) won't make your problems disappear...BUT it gives you a few seconds of CALM to REFOCUS your thoughts & a dose of Vitamin D & fresh air, while feeling the warmth of the sun on your skin. In making that choice, you reinforce your self-worth: you deserve time for yourself & you deserve to feel good. It's a simple choice that can completely change how you feel for the better, even if just for a moment. In time, your days can become full of those moments & you'll no longer need to look for the light in the dark. You will BE the light! The beacon of your own happiness ❤️🫂 #mindsetshow more

A rant ⚠️ I grew up in Iran. I... lived there most of my life. Four years ago, I would have told you Islam and the Islamic Republic are separate. I believed that. I defended that distinction. Today, for many of us, that distinction no longer feels real. Islam did not arrive in Iran peacefully. It entered through conquest. And today, religion is again enforced through state power. When faith repeatedly arrives and survives through coercion, it’s not surprising that people question the foundation itself. This anger did not come from nowhere. It came from being told this is a “religion of peace” while brutality was justified through it, and from watching leaders openly say they would kill thousands, even millions, to protect their rule and reshape and erase Iranian identity. And it came from hearing people, safe and comfortable in other countries, insist their beliefs are peaceful while defending or excusing that violence. I don’t have many religious relatives left. The ones who were deeply religious have lost whatever faith they had. That may be the Islamic Republic’s greatest and only achievement. And don’t use “diaspora” to silence us. Many of us were raised there. Our families are still there. Our grief is still there. The only difference is that we can speak without being arrested. Being diaspora does not make this lighter. My body may be here, but my mind is not. I don’t sleep or eat peacefully. Every day I see another face, another story, people who had plans, families, ordinary lives before they reduced into numbers, numbers that many deny or mock. These aren’t statistics. They look like people I love. While we can mourn freely, our relatives back home are threatened into silence, even during their 40th day memorials. When my cousin called after attending protests, I was grateful she was alive. She told me she wished she wasn’t, after watching her friends get shot and killed on the street. She told me about a friend who was raped in prison. Another cousin disappeared during the Mahsa Amini uprising. Weeks of silence. We didn’t know if she was alive. Years earlier, her husband had already been killed. She survived that. Now she has been killed too. Even now, relatives tell us to delete messages. To unsend. Because sharing the full truth could cost them their lives. “If only you knew the details” People are not only killed. They are silenced while still breathing. If you continue blaming victims while defending a government that uses faith to justify brutality, against women, men, children, even animals, then you are choosing what you stand for. Attacking innocent people does not protect your religion. It reveals it.show more

[SBS News] BTS V's self-composed song 'Into the Sun'...... appears in G7 Summit welcome video The song "Into the Sun," co-written and composed by BTS V, is garnering attention after being used in a video related to the G7 Summit. On the 16th (local time), French President Emmanuel Macron released a video on his official social media welcoming the leaders attending the G7 Summit held in Evian, France. The video featured the leaders of each country appearing one by one, with music symbolizing their respective national images and cultures used as background music. In particular, BTS's "Into the Sun" played during the scene featuring President Lee Jae-myung, drawing significant attention. The National, a prominent English-language media outlet in the Middle East, reported that President Macron selected music tailored to the nationality, culture, and image of each world leader. According to the report, BTS's "Into the Sun" was used for South Korean President Lee Jae-myung's video; Tom Petty's "Love Is a Long Road" for U.S. President Donald Trump; the James Bond theme song "The World Is Not Enough" for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer; and Celine Dion's "Jueire Ou Tou Ira" for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. "Into the Sun" is a track from BTS's studio album *Arirang*, with V participating in the main songwriting and composition. It is known that V completed the song based on a melody that came to him on his way back from a workout. He previously stated regarding the song, "Although it is a song I created, I thought I needed to make a cold, objective judgment on whether it fit the album," but it was ultimately included due to the active recommendations of the other members. Following the release of 'Arirang,' 'Into the Sun' received favorable reviews from major international media outlets. The U.S. daily newspaper The New York Times described it as "a hypnotic song that puts the mind at ease," while the music magazine Rolling Stone noted that "the falsetto harmonies and sparkling tempo demonstrate BTS's infinite potential." The BBC in the UK also introduced the track as "an experimental yet intriguing song that adds a mysterious atmosphere through digital effects." (Article: #BTSV #INTOTHESUN #ARIRANGshow more