"So feeling mo ikaw na si Piolo niyan?" Hyoyeon teased Seulgi as they met on a Friday night, with Seulgi welcoming the former to her home in Elbi.

Seulgi just shook her head and smiled ruefully. The two just finished watching "Starting Over Again" by Olivia Lamasan and that's where Hyoyeon is trying to draw parallelism from with their situation. She's grateful that Hyoyeon kept her ties and communication with her even after Taeyeon has cut Seulgi out of her world after Joohyun returned. If there's one person who knows their story in and out, it will be no one else but Hyoyeon. 

"Before I answer your question, Ate Hyo," Seulgi answered, "na-realize ko lang na ito na yata yung huling film ni Toni Gonzaga na susuportahan ko talaga. After her refusal to listen to the perspective of Martial Law victims as well as the lack of discernment in her role in invisibilizing and neglecting their history, I couldn't support her anymore."

"So you couldn't separate the art from the artist?"

"I think we shouldn't. I think we shouldn't gloss over the conscious choices made by artists to harm others. Their brilliance doesn't exempt them from accountability. That's part of their legacy."

"Picasso, for example," Seulgi paused as she remembered that this is how Taeyeon addressed her on their first meeting - young Picasso, "no one will refute his contribution to the art world, the importance of cubism. But he hurts women. He even called women as 'machines o