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everyone's so cute and then here i am feeling old lmao i discovered svt through running man (i think that was mansae? era) and the fact that they have 13 members stick out to me. i wasn't even into idols at that time but somehow i felt like searching them up and i watched one of the mansae stage. i remember feeling amazed by the quality of their performance. from there i was led to members' fancams and found dino. i knew i like him from the get go. the way he dance, his attention to details and his facial expressions were all so impressive. i love the fact that he gets better every comeback too. also don't judge me, i know carats don't particularly like his mansae hair era but to me who was just a teenager at that time, i thought he look cool. honestly he just shines so bright on stage that i couldn't be bothered to care about the styling. now i prefer long haired dino (sorry channie lol) but i still think fondly of mansae dino. he's just such a cutie. anyway, then i started watching svt contents with whatever limited translations available at that time and fall in love with his laughs. he seemed so timid sometimes among his many hyungs that i didn't expect for him to have such a loud and contagious laugh. as i get to know him more, i find that he's relatable in a lot of ways and we're like around the same age too. most importantly, he's just so adorable! everything he does just becomes adorable to me but then when i see him perform on stage, i get hit again with the same awe i had the first time i see his fancam. whenever he's performing, he's just the coolest person in the entire world and you can just feel that he loves what he's doing. he makes me want to keep supporting that passion in him, makes me want to see just how far he can go. as years go by and i get to see him grow and bloom into himself, my love for him also just keeps growing. i didn't even know that was possible but that's why he's just so amazing. like his name, i hope he keeps shining for a long, long time.