what a beautiful thing to wake up to on my dreamwidth reading page :') thank u for doing the work of writing a primer and hoping that ao3 user predebut is successfully gotten!!!
also did not know u were 늘빈 fan... unfortunately i prefer 빈늘 just because i like younger 1 older 0. but at this point it does feel too early to rly say
just want to add some things:
for zh's predebut stuff he also ran a silly little food blog on xhs (chinese social media site) that was basically just him going around eating food from various places and then reviewing it :') extremely endearing to me...
also in terms of his education he never actually "majored" in geoscience or whatever he just took the gaokao, got an offer, and decided to not take it to pursue music instead. this timeline is only possible because he took the gaokao two years earlier than one usually does (usually it's taken at the end of spring semester in 12th VS he took it end of spring semester in 10th ie first year of high school). since he switched to do music instead, that means he has to take the yikao, not necessarily that he took the gaokao twice (the yikao is essentially the gaokao but for arts).
to get into any arts school you need to take both the gaokao and the yikao anyways, but the timeline matters because the yikao is administered in the winter and the gaokao in the spring, so typically people take the yikao end of fall semester (february - march) and then the gaokao end of spring semester (june - july). and he ranked 1st for the yikao, but specifically for the liankao, which is like... the general yikao exam that everyone takes. i mention that because he went to fujian normal university for music as opposed to say the big 3, which he would've needed to take xuekaos for (ie winwin) and also the record of him ranking first says liankao i think.
ummm i can't find a good link for this so source: just trust me but he also only learned violin for three years before pursuing it which makes me think that he picked it up for a year, took the gaokao, decided to switch paths, and then furiously studied like crazy for the two years leading up to the yikao (which is insane because the yikao's acceptance rate is crazy low... somewhere around 0.3% iirc)
and then lastly re: shb eloquency i feel like it's not just that he's well-spoken but also that he's always very careful/considerate with what he says and how it comes off. like during the top 9 commentary thing when he got asked about why his hair looked like a coconut he was like "oh well another trainee helped me style my hair prettily but i was the one who moved too much and messed it up" (something along those lines) which is touching bc he took care to frame it so that he wasn't the other trainee's fault (rip ichan) but more so his... little things like that rly add up bc he's so consistent with it that it's just his personality :') like if zh is mostly careful with his actions then shb is the one who's careful with his words.... ah.
okay sorry for long insane rambling here i hope everything i said made sense (esp the gaokao/yikao stuff...) but if it didn't then im happy to clarify! centerz/mirrorz/twinflamez/etc let's walk the flower road together or whatever... :')
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Date: 2023-05-25 05:07 pm (UTC)also did not know u were 늘빈 fan... unfortunately i prefer 빈늘 just because i like younger 1 older 0. but at this point it does feel too early to rly say
just want to add some things:
for zh's predebut stuff he also ran a silly little food blog on xhs (chinese social media site) that was basically just him going around eating food from various places and then reviewing it :') extremely endearing to me...
also in terms of his education he never actually "majored" in geoscience or whatever he just took the gaokao, got an offer, and decided to not take it to pursue music instead. this timeline is only possible because he took the gaokao two years earlier than one usually does (usually it's taken at the end of spring semester in 12th VS he took it end of spring semester in 10th ie first year of high school). since he switched to do music instead, that means he has to take the yikao, not necessarily that he took the gaokao twice (the yikao is essentially the gaokao but for arts).
to get into any arts school you need to take both the gaokao and the yikao anyways, but the timeline matters because the yikao is administered in the winter and the gaokao in the spring, so typically people take the yikao end of fall semester (february - march) and then the gaokao end of spring semester (june - july). and he ranked 1st for the yikao, but specifically for the liankao, which is like... the general yikao exam that everyone takes. i mention that because he went to fujian normal university for music as opposed to say the big 3, which he would've needed to take xuekaos for (ie winwin) and also the record of him ranking first says liankao i think.
ummm i can't find a good link for this so source: just trust me but he also only learned violin for three years before pursuing it which makes me think that he picked it up for a year, took the gaokao, decided to switch paths, and then furiously studied like crazy for the two years leading up to the yikao (which is insane because the yikao's acceptance rate is crazy low... somewhere around 0.3% iirc)
and then lastly re: shb eloquency i feel like it's not just that he's well-spoken but also that he's always very careful/considerate with what he says and how it comes off. like during the top 9 commentary thing when he got asked about why his hair looked like a coconut he was like "oh well another trainee helped me style my hair prettily but i was the one who moved too much and messed it up" (something along those lines) which is touching bc he took care to frame it so that he wasn't the other trainee's fault (rip ichan) but more so his... little things like that rly add up bc he's so consistent with it that it's just his personality :') like if zh is mostly careful with his actions then shb is the one who's careful with his words.... ah.
okay sorry for long insane rambling here i hope everything i said made sense (esp the gaokao/yikao stuff...) but if it didn't then im happy to clarify! centerz/mirrorz/twinflamez/etc let's walk the flower road together or whatever... :')