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reasons why i liked hanson and/or hanson slash and/or hancest (because i feel a sudden, mostly likely self-scarring need to examine my own twisted brain):
i like their music. so many people slam it for being too "pop" or too "fluffy", but seriously. i like songs that make me happy, and it's been a long time since i've smiled just because of a song. it's like a reflex action with (most) hanson songs. (happy list includes, but is not limited to - lost without each other, get up and go, hey, if only, this time around. if you see this as an overt suggestion for you to start downloading hanson songs, then you're absolutely right.) also - and this is terribly frightening - they make me harmonise along with them. note that this is something i don't do unless under extreme circumstances (i.e. the musical i rather stupidly auditioned for and amusingly got cast in when i was fourteen).
i like them. because they're fun people, and they (well, some of them) are goofy and wonderfully lame. i love the way they sidle up to each other and nap on each other's shoulders and give each other bunny ears during photo shoots. i love the fact that they use words like "visceral" and "plethora" and write all of their songs and seem to genuinely care about their music and the music industry. and most of all, i think, i love the way they look onstage, jamming on their instruments with their heads bobbing and hair flying, all wild and free and unfettered. (plus, man. the pretty. and the totally random microphone-sharing, which they should do more often.)
it's different when you go into a fandom because you really love canon. too often, i'm sucked in because of fanon - i'll read almost anything if it's written well, and if it's a brilliant writer, i'll read any rating, any pairing, any fandom. at the moment, i can't even recall a fandom that i was really into because i actually liked canon. hanson is the first for me, and it's even more thrilling because it's such a young fandom and it's just starting to blossom. loving canon makes so much of a difference - i can't even describe how much i enjoy just watching the guys, even if it's not slashy or not funny or just plain boring. and trying to write them is so hard because you're afraid of botching it horribly, but is at the same time so much more enjoyable because of the sheer joy of being able to examine these characters in your head and bring them out the way you want to.
i go for the pretty almost all the time. (aefallen and majokai are testament to that.) i'd pick james franco over tobey maguire, the rest of *nsync over joey, roy/ed over ed/al, and the list continues. but ike/zac is a little quirk of mine; because taylor is too perfect and too pretty for me to even think about liking; because i always imagine taylor as a spoilt little diva; because taylor has a wife and a kid and it feels like such a betrayal even though i know it isn't; because taylor hogs the limelight all the time and ike and zac deserve some attention, damn it; because ike is a goofball and zac is such a little boy at heart; because ike is the older brother and zac just begs to be taken care of; because zac falls asleep on ike's shoulder; because they live in the same apartment and ike's king-sized bed must have some purpose; because ike is the most ludicrous and the most serious and zac is the quietest and the loudest; because i truly think ike adores his baby brother and zac adores his big brother.
okay. the end.
i like their music. so many people slam it for being too "pop" or too "fluffy", but seriously. i like songs that make me happy, and it's been a long time since i've smiled just because of a song. it's like a reflex action with (most) hanson songs. (happy list includes, but is not limited to - lost without each other, get up and go, hey, if only, this time around. if you see this as an overt suggestion for you to start downloading hanson songs, then you're absolutely right.) also - and this is terribly frightening - they make me harmonise along with them. note that this is something i don't do unless under extreme circumstances (i.e. the musical i rather stupidly auditioned for and amusingly got cast in when i was fourteen).
i like them. because they're fun people, and they (well, some of them) are goofy and wonderfully lame. i love the way they sidle up to each other and nap on each other's shoulders and give each other bunny ears during photo shoots. i love the fact that they use words like "visceral" and "plethora" and write all of their songs and seem to genuinely care about their music and the music industry. and most of all, i think, i love the way they look onstage, jamming on their instruments with their heads bobbing and hair flying, all wild and free and unfettered. (plus, man. the pretty. and the totally random microphone-sharing, which they should do more often.)
it's different when you go into a fandom because you really love canon. too often, i'm sucked in because of fanon - i'll read almost anything if it's written well, and if it's a brilliant writer, i'll read any rating, any pairing, any fandom. at the moment, i can't even recall a fandom that i was really into because i actually liked canon. hanson is the first for me, and it's even more thrilling because it's such a young fandom and it's just starting to blossom. loving canon makes so much of a difference - i can't even describe how much i enjoy just watching the guys, even if it's not slashy or not funny or just plain boring. and trying to write them is so hard because you're afraid of botching it horribly, but is at the same time so much more enjoyable because of the sheer joy of being able to examine these characters in your head and bring them out the way you want to.
i go for the pretty almost all the time. (aefallen and majokai are testament to that.) i'd pick james franco over tobey maguire, the rest of *nsync over joey, roy/ed over ed/al, and the list continues. but ike/zac is a little quirk of mine; because taylor is too perfect and too pretty for me to even think about liking; because i always imagine taylor as a spoilt little diva; because taylor has a wife and a kid and it feels like such a betrayal even though i know it isn't; because taylor hogs the limelight all the time and ike and zac deserve some attention, damn it; because ike is a goofball and zac is such a little boy at heart; because ike is the older brother and zac just begs to be taken care of; because zac falls asleep on ike's shoulder; because they live in the same apartment and ike's king-sized bed must have some purpose; because ike is the most ludicrous and the most serious and zac is the quietest and the loudest; because i truly think ike adores his baby brother and zac adores his big brother.
okay. the end.