Happy birthday MYV!
It's MYV's birthday today! Damn, that guy's the same age as my brother, I tend to forget that when I think of him. :) He will probably never cease to amaze me, or to make me squee with just a few notes, sounds and noises from his guitar. Did I mention that I think he's got to have one of the most sensual ways of breathing into the microphone? Haha, I'm clearly infatuated with Miyavi and his amazing voice. <3
May he continue to be blessed with health and neversinking spirit. I hope his voice and fingers and eyes and tongue will never lose their ability to reduce his audience to screams, moans, tears and sheer excitement. Not that he could ever not enrapture those who listen and watch. I mean, I feel like his works are directly touching my heart. :) I've even -successfully I might add- pimped him out to a work acquaintance, who had nothing to do with japanese music before, and I won't do that when I'm not totally, absolutely standing behind something. <333 [Um. Ignore my awkward words and just let the hearts speak. Because MYV? Is love. *nods solemnly*]
JE, sweet, addicting, evil JE. Being (or not beeing) in certain fandoms clearly makes a difference in the amount of drama you risk exposing yourself to, hah! It's not only JE, though, I have HP (which I stay away from) and PoT on my list of dangerous fandoms, too. [If neither of the three abbreviations in this paragraph rings a bell, count yourself blessed and do not, under no circumstances, research them. It'll only cost you a lot of time and money, trust me. Also, ESPECIALLY with JE, once you've started slipping down the sparkly slippery slope, you're done for. Your soul will be gone for good. XD;]
*Cough* What was I saying? Ah yes, drama. I'm really the last person to easily judge bitching and foot-stomping and screaming in sudden rage, because I sure have done all of it at least once in my life (although the number of occurrences has significantly decreased with growing maturity, hohoho), but if there's something that really pisses me off and saddens me at the same time, it's abusive mods being areholes, and frankly, immature morons.
Community theft seems to be an evergreen, I remember that there was trouble at seiyuu some years ago, and looking at the Tenimyu corner and your daily providers of graphic yaoi, there seems to be a history of falling-outs between mods and members, or backstabbing of mods within their own lines, or maintainer issues.
As I'm still new to JE, to return to my original subject, I read around in jesummary and, just on the first page of recent entries, came across a fansubbing group's headperson behaving like a narcisstic, insecure, overbearing, paranoid, hypocritical and self-contradicting immature little boy overreacting to a missed attempt of communication with a comm's mod, exaggerating the incident into an accusing rant against the lack of promised neutrality etc. etc. Scroll down to the bottom at the entry to find a nice summary to the wank that cluttered up this week's f-lists all over LJ-lala-land (with links).
Aw crap, I lost track of the point I was making, assuming I had one to start with. Anyway, unmodly!Mods really are a fucking pain in the ass. A few honourable wank mentions back in jesummary, I learned about some other comprehensible overreaction that led to an Arashi comm's mod being mauled into suspension over literally nothing. After reading up a few people's reports on it, I couldn't bring myself to join the comm after all (yet), after seeing indications that the mod seems to have some character flaws. **
Overreacting on my part? Maybe. Isn't it the members that make a community what it is? One socially inept mod shouldn't be a reason to shun a comm, right? For the good of the comm, I should step over my shadow and just accept the fact that making honest comments can get me banned if they rub the wrong person the wrong way. The last thought aside, this incident reminds me of LJ's/6 Apart's issues and the discussion that followed it. Hell, we're mostly adult people, and many of those who aren't think of themselves as mature, so why can't everyone just reflect a little bit and try to act reasonable? Social retards are clearly not suited for administrative positions.
**Of course, maybe she just had a bad week, who knows? Not knowing either of the involved persons, I can only go by what's there, black on white, or by what I experience on my own. For example, I know that many people strongly dislike a certain mod from Seiyuu comms, but when I spoke to her she was always friendly and nice. I guess I'll have to find out for myself with that Arashi comm's mod, too, and as long as everything runs decently, I don't really have a reason to come to a conclusion. Some people simply get along worse than others, so yeah, things sometimes escalate before you know it.
/rant
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Ahh~! I remember my point again. XD JE and NewS in particular. After falling for NewS just by watching the newest DVD, it wasn't long before I started looking for fic, first in jest, then with growing interest. *facepalms* Finding good fic is hard, that's a given, but finding prompts is easy! jackoweskla and swtjemz have used their brains in exemplary ways. Goodness, look at the great selection of prompts for the Shige-Thon! How come only 12/100 have been filled? Where is the love, I'm asking you. T_T Man, I'd kill to see 8, 27, 32, 35,48, 66 and 91 pulled off well, or any of the whole lot would do. *sigh*
And man, there's some lovely crack in the JE fandom. *glee* I love well-done crack so much!
I've been lj-hopping again, too, but I'm not in any state to sort out my bookmarks though. lt might be a good idea if I point out what I liked so far, so people can help me out with some recs, huh? Hunting fic is hard work. *wipes brow*
Also, thawrecka was mentioning celeb gossip that associated Koyama with "slutty" and "Love BMW" yesterday, and I came to the conclusion that I wasn't really surprised.
My c&p-ed two cents on it are that Koyama is easygoing and caring and radiating those stray cat vibes (of the "I'm harmless come pet me and take me home where I'll take over and own your place before you know it" kind. Also, he's got those suspiciously sneaky look in his eyes on occasion.) - I guess he'd have the least trouble chatting up girls with his kind of attitude, because I think you'd easily underestimate him, and next thing you know - Love BMW (to abuse that term out of context, haha).
Ah, I <3 Koyama. Now that I think of it, he's got a similar look like Fukuyama, calm yet sneaky, with an expression that suggests the owner is up to no good. Must be the eyelids. |D
Underestimating individuals judging from a superficial impression and taking them lightly is always risky. Aiba, too, may be one of those. I think it works that way: when people think you're fun but not bright, they assume that you're harmless, which results in you actually having more freedom to move around and unfold your possibly present hazardous potential.
I'm kidding. Just felt like rambling about something for a while. :) At the same time I can't muster the energy to squee properly about the awesomeness of it all and my incredible (more and more refined) liking for all of NewS' members. :/
I talked to my sister over Skype today, and she seems to be alright, if stressed. Things aren't as good as they could be, but life is not bad by international comparison. I just miss our sisterly fangirling time. Whenever I watch some funny clip now, or remember a scene from a dvd, I turn and want to flail and squee about it, but she's not there. It's M.E.H., it's m.e.h., it's M.~E.~H. *violent hip thrust* ***
[***Please ignore my fail, especially if you don't know the video clip I'm loosely referring to. XD;;;]
Oh, and I got mail today! gokumew2's heavy envelope arrived, and hello pretty, does Fukuyama Jun look good or what? The man's my age for Schu's sake, life really likes to mock me by showing me the shiny that I can't have. XD *hearts* The huge poster got horribly scrunched up on one spot, but luckily the face and most of the body wasn't affected, just the corner and the middle fell victim to the postal service's lack of gentleness. <3
It's as huge as the Takki poster further down. \:D/
From the Seigura magazine:
The image of Jun holding the glasses between his teeth just slays me. I must, no, I will make an icon out of that for myself once I have time to scan it. The looks, the lips, the smile... Yesss! :D
What really made me squee was the fact that the magazine included another, smaller poster. More sexy Fukuyama Jun for me! :D~
Takizawa Hideaki's Takizawa Enbujo seems to be OOP? I thought they'd just keep selling a regular edition after the limited ran out. Did anyone else here order it, too, or am I the only one? o_O
Well, the poster that came with the preordered LE finally arrived, it had been delayed so much that I thought it had gotten lost! I admit that I had paranoia abour YA not sending it, since people reported problems in the past, but all is good now. And the poster is huge, oh man!
Here's a clear image from yesasia.com:
Speak after me. "Ohhh, shiny!"
Nicked that pic from spleen. There's lazy, and then there's this mom. *headdesks*
Your opinion?
May he continue to be blessed with health and neversinking spirit. I hope his voice and fingers and eyes and tongue will never lose their ability to reduce his audience to screams, moans, tears and sheer excitement. Not that he could ever not enrapture those who listen and watch. I mean, I feel like his works are directly touching my heart. :) I've even -successfully I might add- pimped him out to a work acquaintance, who had nothing to do with japanese music before, and I won't do that when I'm not totally, absolutely standing behind something. <333 [Um. Ignore my awkward words and just let the hearts speak. Because MYV? Is love. *nods solemnly*]
JE, sweet, addicting, evil JE. Being (or not beeing) in certain fandoms clearly makes a difference in the amount of drama you risk exposing yourself to, hah! It's not only JE, though, I have HP (which I stay away from) and PoT on my list of dangerous fandoms, too. [If neither of the three abbreviations in this paragraph rings a bell, count yourself blessed and do not, under no circumstances, research them. It'll only cost you a lot of time and money, trust me. Also, ESPECIALLY with JE, once you've started slipping down the sparkly slippery slope, you're done for. Your soul will be gone for good. XD;]
*Cough* What was I saying? Ah yes, drama. I'm really the last person to easily judge bitching and foot-stomping and screaming in sudden rage, because I sure have done all of it at least once in my life (although the number of occurrences has significantly decreased with growing maturity, hohoho), but if there's something that really pisses me off and saddens me at the same time, it's abusive mods being areholes, and frankly, immature morons.
Community theft seems to be an evergreen, I remember that there was trouble at seiyuu some years ago, and looking at the Tenimyu corner and your daily providers of graphic yaoi, there seems to be a history of falling-outs between mods and members, or backstabbing of mods within their own lines, or maintainer issues.
As I'm still new to JE, to return to my original subject, I read around in jesummary and, just on the first page of recent entries, came across a fansubbing group's headperson behaving like a narcisstic, insecure, overbearing, paranoid, hypocritical and self-contradicting immature little boy overreacting to a missed attempt of communication with a comm's mod, exaggerating the incident into an accusing rant against the lack of promised neutrality etc. etc. Scroll down to the bottom at the entry to find a nice summary to the wank that cluttered up this week's f-lists all over LJ-lala-land (with links).
Aw crap, I lost track of the point I was making, assuming I had one to start with. Anyway, unmodly!Mods really are a fucking pain in the ass. A few honourable wank mentions back in jesummary, I learned about some other comprehensible overreaction that led to an Arashi comm's mod being mauled into suspension over literally nothing. After reading up a few people's reports on it, I couldn't bring myself to join the comm after all (yet), after seeing indications that the mod seems to have some character flaws. **
Overreacting on my part? Maybe. Isn't it the members that make a community what it is? One socially inept mod shouldn't be a reason to shun a comm, right? For the good of the comm, I should step over my shadow and just accept the fact that making honest comments can get me banned if they rub the wrong person the wrong way. The last thought aside, this incident reminds me of LJ's/6 Apart's issues and the discussion that followed it. Hell, we're mostly adult people, and many of those who aren't think of themselves as mature, so why can't everyone just reflect a little bit and try to act reasonable? Social retards are clearly not suited for administrative positions.
**Of course, maybe she just had a bad week, who knows? Not knowing either of the involved persons, I can only go by what's there, black on white, or by what I experience on my own. For example, I know that many people strongly dislike a certain mod from Seiyuu comms, but when I spoke to her she was always friendly and nice. I guess I'll have to find out for myself with that Arashi comm's mod, too, and as long as everything runs decently, I don't really have a reason to come to a conclusion. Some people simply get along worse than others, so yeah, things sometimes escalate before you know it.
/rant
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Ahh~! I remember my point again. XD JE and NewS in particular. After falling for NewS just by watching the newest DVD, it wasn't long before I started looking for fic, first in jest, then with growing interest. *facepalms* Finding good fic is hard, that's a given, but finding prompts is easy! jackoweskla and swtjemz have used their brains in exemplary ways. Goodness, look at the great selection of prompts for the Shige-Thon! How come only 12/100 have been filled? Where is the love, I'm asking you. T_T Man, I'd kill to see 8, 27, 32, 35,48, 66 and 91 pulled off well, or any of the whole lot would do. *sigh*
And man, there's some lovely crack in the JE fandom. *glee* I love well-done crack so much!
I've been lj-hopping again, too, but I'm not in any state to sort out my bookmarks though. lt might be a good idea if I point out what I liked so far, so people can help me out with some recs, huh? Hunting fic is hard work. *wipes brow*
Also, thawrecka was mentioning celeb gossip that associated Koyama with "slutty" and "Love BMW" yesterday, and I came to the conclusion that I wasn't really surprised.
My c&p-ed two cents on it are that Koyama is easygoing and caring and radiating those stray cat vibes (of the "I'm harmless come pet me and take me home where I'll take over and own your place before you know it" kind. Also, he's got those suspiciously sneaky look in his eyes on occasion.) - I guess he'd have the least trouble chatting up girls with his kind of attitude, because I think you'd easily underestimate him, and next thing you know - Love BMW (to abuse that term out of context, haha).
Ah, I <3 Koyama. Now that I think of it, he's got a similar look like Fukuyama, calm yet sneaky, with an expression that suggests the owner is up to no good. Must be the eyelids. |D
Underestimating individuals judging from a superficial impression and taking them lightly is always risky. Aiba, too, may be one of those. I think it works that way: when people think you're fun but not bright, they assume that you're harmless, which results in you actually having more freedom to move around and unfold your possibly present hazardous potential.
I'm kidding. Just felt like rambling about something for a while. :) At the same time I can't muster the energy to squee properly about the awesomeness of it all and my incredible (more and more refined) liking for all of NewS' members. :/
I talked to my sister over Skype today, and she seems to be alright, if stressed. Things aren't as good as they could be, but life is not bad by international comparison. I just miss our sisterly fangirling time. Whenever I watch some funny clip now, or remember a scene from a dvd, I turn and want to flail and squee about it, but she's not there. It's M.E.H., it's m.e.h., it's M.~E.~H. *violent hip thrust* ***
[***Please ignore my fail, especially if you don't know the video clip I'm loosely referring to. XD;;;]
Oh, and I got mail today! gokumew2's heavy envelope arrived, and hello pretty, does Fukuyama Jun look good or what? The man's my age for Schu's sake, life really likes to mock me by showing me the shiny that I can't have. XD *hearts* The huge poster got horribly scrunched up on one spot, but luckily the face and most of the body wasn't affected, just the corner and the middle fell victim to the postal service's lack of gentleness. <3
It's as huge as the Takki poster further down. \:D/
From the Seigura magazine:
The image of Jun holding the glasses between his teeth just slays me. I must, no, I will make an icon out of that for myself once I have time to scan it. The looks, the lips, the smile... Yesss! :D
What really made me squee was the fact that the magazine included another, smaller poster. More sexy Fukuyama Jun for me! :D~
Takizawa Hideaki's Takizawa Enbujo seems to be OOP? I thought they'd just keep selling a regular edition after the limited ran out. Did anyone else here order it, too, or am I the only one? o_O
Well, the poster that came with the preordered LE finally arrived, it had been delayed so much that I thought it had gotten lost! I admit that I had paranoia abour YA not sending it, since people reported problems in the past, but all is good now. And the poster is huge, oh man!
Here's a clear image from yesasia.com:
Speak after me. "Ohhh, shiny!"
Nicked that pic from spleen. There's lazy, and then there's this mom. *headdesks*
Your opinion?