Notes

🌟 Key terms, books, movies, art, and other misc. items pertinent to BTS theories:
Cr.: @dailyunnie

BOOKS:
¤ Demian, by Hermann Hesse
¤ The Owl Service, by Alan Garner
¤ Through The Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll
¤ Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
¤ Big Red, by Jim Kjelgaard
¤ Spiral: The Bonds Of Reasoning (Manga), by Kyou Shirodaira, illustrated by Eita Mizuno

SHORT STORY:
¤ The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin

MYTHOLOGY:
¤ Icarus (who flew too close to the sun & lost his wings)

ARTWORK:
¤ Pieter Bruegel's 'The Fall of the Rebel Angel
¤ Pieter Bruegel's 'The Fall of Icarus'
¤ Herbert James Draper's 'The Lament for Icarus'
¤ Michelangelo's The Pieta

ARTIST:
¤ Vincent van Gogh

DRINK:
¤ Absinthe (particularly the way it has been abused by famous artists in the past)

PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDER:
¤ Manchausen's syndrome

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER:
¤ Dissociative Identity Disorder (depending on what theory you follow w/Demian, this could be one cause).

MASS THEORY:
¤ The Butterfly Effect (you can read books on this, watch movies, or read articles; all will explain).

MOVIES:
¤ Lost River, 2014  - Film by Ryan Gosling
¤ Chatroom
¤ Snowpiercer, 2013 - Film by Bong Joon Ho
¤ The Helpers: No Vacancy ⚠
¤ Inception ⚠

TERM:
¤ Nirvana (not the band, but the actual term and its meaning)

PERSON:
¤ Henry II, of England (particularly his relationship with his son Richard).

SYMBOLISM:
¤ White lilies
¤ Apples
¤ Fire
¤ Waters of Baptism (seriously)
¤ Butterflies
¤ Scorpions
¤ Labyrinths (the actual mythology and symbolism behind them)

SMERALDO STUFF
So for some reason I decided to make my own copilation of Smeraldo stuff, but for now I think what is important for theories is the "fictional shop" itself and all the symbolism around it. The dates and other information that connects with BTS are not coincidence but I don't think they play a big part in the story they were probaly their so ARMYs would connect the shop with BTS MVs storyline.

1. Jin's Twitter Post:
https://mobile.twitter.com/bts_twt/status/895191758233112577

2. The flower Smeraldo doesn't exist.

3. Naver Blog:
https://m.blog.naver.com/testesso

About the blog:
¤ It is supposed to belong to a florist  who is preparing to open his flower shop called Flower Smeraldo.

¤ There're 9 posts on the blog (when ARMYs found it there were just 7 episodes about Smeraldo).

⏺ July 10, 2017  - [First Episode] A fateful encounter with 'Smeraldo': the prologue
     Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/895575901194272768
      ¤ In this first episode the florist mentions the "The Smeraldo Academy" and give us a link to its facebook page, wich we'll see more about later.
 
⏺ July 12, 2017 - [Second Episode] Introducing Flower Smeraldo
       Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/895640172074647553

⏺ July 17, 2017 - [Third Episode] How a 'smeraldo' was found?
       Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/896565071702183936
        ¤ The blog said the location Smeraldo was found used to be an old city called La città di smeraldo that could be translated to Emerald City, wich may be a reference to the book "The Emerald City of Oz", by L. Frank Baum, besides this book's messages applies to concept storyline.
        ⏺ July 20, 2017 - [Fourth Episode] A 'smeraldo' legend
       Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/897079336364146688

⏺ July 26, 2017 - [Fifth Episode] 'Ashbless Card'
      Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/897468597987008512
      🕵William Ashbless.
       ¤ He is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers James Blaylock and Tim Powers. Ashbless was invented by Powers and Blaylock when they were students at Cal State Fullerton in the early 1970s, originally as a reaction to the low quality of the poetry being published in the school magazine. They invented nonsensical free verse poetry and submitted it to the paper in Ashbless's name, where it was reportedly enthusiastically accepted. And since then when they both needed a name for a poet character in their books, they independently used the same name. After this had been pointed out to them by their editor, they got together and added details to make it look it was the same guy.
        ¤ He is present in a lot of Powers' and Blaylock's Works:
            - The Anubis Gates (1983), By T im Powers
             - The Digging Leviathan (1984), By James Blaylock
             -  Offering the Bicentennial Edition of the Complete Twelve Hours of the Night: 1785-1985 (1985), By Tim Powers and James Blaylock
             -  Last Call (1992), By Tim Powers (there is a poem attributed to William Ashbless in the introduction to Book One)
             - On Pirates (2001), By Tim Powers and James Blaylock
             - The William Ashbless Memorial Cookbook (2002), By Tim Powers and James Blaylock
             - Pilot Light (2007), By Tim Powers and James Blaylock
         ¤ Tim Powers is one of the foremost practitioners of the secret history genre, in which real historical events are revealed to have surprising fictional explanations. 
         ¤ If you checked William Wikipedia page you would also found this:
            " The same name is also known as an Italian noble and poet in the 16th century.
              It is widely known that William Ashbless' knowledge on the playing cards were profound and, especially, the ‘Ashbless ' card he originally designed was very popular at the salon where Italian nobles gathered social activities at the time, for its colorful graphics and beautiful stories embedded on each card.
           However, the truth is that all of this is only speculation, but nothing has been officially recorded in history due to the fact that Ashbless Family went into ruins in disgrace facing power struggles between nobles. Thus all the records related to Willam Ashbless have been removed from history.(1) And Ashbless card and the stories about the cards were naturally forgotten as well."
           But for some reason It's not there anymore.
⏺ July 31, 2017 - [Sixth Episode] Madame Lenormand and the Flower Card
       Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/897663877994905600

⏺ August 3, 2017 - [Seventh Episode] 'The True Heart that I Couldn't Deliver'
       Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/897680805274824706

⏺ August 7, 2017 - What is The Smeraldo Academy (TSA)?
       Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/897708055282028544

⏺ August 15, 2017 - [Eighth Episode] I got the first official order for smeraldos
       Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/897426853299863553

⏺ August 22, 2017 - The Event Winner Announcement
        Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/899903052014010370
        ¤ People actually won and recieved their prizes: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/900035208631668736

⏺ Aug 30, 2017 - [Ninth Episode] Today, I will finally deliver 'smeraldo'
       Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/902797670120513536

⏺ September 2, 2017 - "I'm closing everything indefinitely."
      Trans.: https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/904343204081704964


4. Instagram account: 

     ¤ In one of the pictures It says that the smeraldo (flower) meaning is 'sincerity that couldn't get delivered'.

5. Twitter Account:
 https://mobile.twitter.com/flowersmeraldo
      ¤ Now it is private.

6. Facebook Page
 https://m.facebook.com/academysmeraldo/?locale2=pt_BR
    ¤ I guess it is this one but a lot of posts are gone.
 ¤ Proof that all of this connects with BTS:

- BTS was seen with flowers that resembles smeraldo already, during run era especially during JK and Suga's fight and some random pictures of the members with the flower.
 https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/895302380136169473
- Jin tweet with the flower smeraldo was on Bang PD's birthday.
- I guess the highlight reels were the biggest confirmation
     - the notebook Jin's girl dropped has information about the smeraldo flower.
     - The flowers Jin was going to give her looks like smeraldo
     - We see the flower shop delivery truck.
     - And the date Jin is with the flowers is the day the florist say he is going to deliver his first order.
Naver Blog:
- If you check the blog source, it's said 석진꽃 Seok Jin's flower
- The blog address is testesso and "love yourself" in italian can be translated to "ama te stesso"
- One of the blog's picture file name: BTS_smeraldo
- In the first blog post it says the meaning of the story behind the flower smeraldo is  " the true heart that couldn't get delivered" and in the PUMA x BTS collab campaign commercial Suga's says during his narration "sincerity that couldn't get delivered" and a hand grabbing a flower is the symbol of this campaign (or something)
- In the second blog post It say the flower shop will open in september = BTS Comeback
- In the third post he said smeraldo only existed in a legend and was finally discovered on June 12, 2013 (date in the IG picture).
- The blog has an event asking people to send their stories about sincerity until Aug 15 10 PM. There will be 7 winners. The numbers of winners coincide with BTS members and the deadline with the last day of Bon Voyage (the one the members wrote letters to each other)
- The blog was created in the same day BTS revealed their new logo.
- There is this video with other blog file names and they are also connected with BTS. https://mobile.twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/895804565030699008
- When you look up William Ashbless on wikimedia commons, the name of the user who made the file for him is listed as 'Qkdxksthsuseks' and this when typed on a Korean keyboard gives you 방탄소년단 (Bangtan Sonyeondan).

Instagram Account:
- In one of the pictures It says that the smeraldo (flower) meaning is 'sincerity that couldn't get delivered'. And a lot of people think this is Jin's handwriting.

Facebook Page:
- The Smeraldo Academy mentioned in the blog has a facebook page and there it says it was established 4 years ago on September 12, RM's birthday.
- There is someone that is in the page woth the username "inbloom Bts"