Stop sippin' on the haterade! Also, capslock.
Nothing I hear about the new Panic! record is not amazing. NOTHING. It sounds like Aladdin? It sounds like a film score crossed with the Beatles? It sounds like France? Holy God, Ryan Ross, sign me up.
(Also, to be serious for a moment, I am so thrilled by the fact that he has CLEARLY gotten really bored with people asking what the next album will be like, and decided to just go ahead and fuck with our minds. Keep on keepin' on, you tiny ridiculous man! ILU!!)
I had kind of an unpleasant encounter at dinner last night with a friend of a friend, who was just incredibly fucking hostile about the bands I am currently in love with. Like, not even mockingly. He was dead serious. I don't understand that kind of attitude! I just don't fucking get it. Sure, hate certain genres of music or certain bands if you want to, I understand that even if I don't really do it - but what kind of pleasure could you possibly get out of spreading that negativity? How could you POSSIBLY hate a genre of music so much that you hate not only the music, but also the bands themselves, and the fans, and just. I don't get it! For example: I'm not into Supernatural. If you want the truth, I actually kind of resent Supernatural for stealing so many awesome awesome fangirls, and I don't enjoy the show very much, and it is just in every possible way Not My Thing. But Jesus Christ, I don't go around being angry that it exists, and I am genuinely glad that it makes so many of my friends happy. I love it when people love things, even if they're not the same things I love. It pleases me to see people happy and engaged and loving their fandom, being fannish in general, no matter what of - and I think I'd be the same way if I were a music fan, rather than a media fan. You know? So when I encounter that kind of open hostility, I don't even know what to do with it. Ugh, the whole thing just SUCKED.
Honestly, I'm just glad he didn't say anything mean about PStump, because then I would have had to cut him with my steak knife, and that might have been socially awkward.
Hey, question: when people type in all caps, do you read it as them shouting at you? Because I remember people telling me that it meant screaming and was very very rude, but a) that was around the same time as the :-[ type emoticons, and b) I don't have a b. But that just doesn't seem right, does it? For me, I usually read it as kind of louder, or maybe just more STRESSED, but definitely not shouting. Ahahaha, once I had an entire IM conversation with Allison where we decided that all caps meant RyRo-style hilarious monotone. True story!
I just went to find the chat out of curiosity, and it's kind of amazing, so I'll reproduce it here. This was JUST after the Send Your Love to the Dancefloor video was released, and we were. Kind of excited?
kalpurna: I CANNOT TAKE OFF MY CAPSLOCK FTR
shoemaster: I HARDLY EVER PUT CAPSLOCK ON. I HOLD DOWN SHIFT
kalpurna: USUALLY I DO TOO, ACTUALLY, IT HELPS TO MAKE MY EXCITEMENT MORE KINETIC OR SOMETHING?
kalpurna: PLUS I'M STUPID LIKE THAT
shoemaster: IT'S MORE ACTIVE
kalpurna: BUT RIGHT NOW EXCITEMENT IS MY DEFAULT STATE
kalpurna: SO I'M JUST, LIKE, WHATEVER
kalpurna: CAPSLOCK: ON
shoemaster: LIKE, YOU'RE HOLDING DOWN THE BUTTON OF WHEEEEEEEEEEE
kalpurna: YUP
shoemaster: IF I HAVE CAPSLOCK ON, WELL, I DO SORT OF SHOUT IN MY HEAD STILL. OR JUST TALK LIKE I'M AN IDIOT TALKING TO SOMEONE WHO THINKS SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH IS ACTUALLY DEAF
shoemaster: BUT I LIKE HOLDING DOWN SHIFT MORE.
kalpurna: YEAH
kalpurna: RIGHT NOW I FIGURE I'M JUST TALKING VERY LOUDLY AND IN A MONOTONE
shoemaster: EXACTLY
kalpurna: I KIND OF ENJOY THAT THOUGH
shoemaster: LIKE RYRO WHO CAN'T HEAR HIMSELF TALK OR SOMETHING
shoemaster: IT'S HOW I ALWAYS IMAGINE CAPSLOCKY (EVEN VIA SHIFT KEY) CONVERSATIONS
kalpurna: YEAH JUST LIKE THAT
kalpurna: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
shoemaster: SO IT HAS POSITIVE CONNOTATIONS
kalpurna: I KNOW
kalpurna: OH RYYYYYYRO
kalpurna: ILOVEIT
shoemaster: I NEED TO STOP NAPPING FOR THREE HOURS AT A TIME
shoemaster: JUST SAYIN
kalpurna: CAPSLOCK SEEMS MISPLACED THERE
kalpurna: LET'S TALK ABOUT ASSBUNNIES
shoemaster: OKAY
kalpurna: LET'S TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT ASSBUNNIES IS NOW A LEGITIMATE WORD IN THIS FANDOM, AND NOT EVEN BECAUSE OF A FIC
kalpurna: NOT
kalpurna: EVEN
shoemaster: HE'S ON A MISSION
shoemaster: A MISSION FROM COBRA
kalpurna: I KNOW WHAAAAAAAT
shoemaster: (WHICH IS ACTUALLY TAKING ME TO A WEIRD GI JOE PLACE)
kalpurna: HERE'S WHAT I LOVE:
kalpurna: FIRST OF ALL, HAHAHHAHAHA GI JOE
kalpurna: SECONDLY, I LOVE THAT MR. T IS IN THIS VIDEO
kalpurna: AND YET
kalpurna: IT IS SO NOT THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING IN THE VIDEO, BY SUCH A HUUUUGE MARGIN, THAT NO ONE IS EVEN MENTIONING IT
kalpurna: IT'S LIKE, PRIORITIES
kalpurna: ASSBUNNIES FIRST, MR T LATER.
kalpurna: AMAAAAAZING.
shoemaster: I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE
kalpurna: I KNOW, RIGHT
kalpurna: I KNOW
kalpurna: BUT HE'S THERE!
shoemaster: THAT IS AWESOME
kalpurna: AHAHAHAH FTR: IF YOU TYPE "♥" IN ALL CAPS, IT DOESN'T MAKE A HEART
kalpurna: AND YOU LOOK LIKE A TARD
shoemaster: HAHAHAHA
kalpurna: FUN FACTS FOR FRIENDLY FOLKS
shoemaster: I NEED SOMETHING BIGGER THAN CAPSLOCK FOR THAT LAUGH AT YOU
kalpurna: AHHAHAHAHA SRY
kalpurna: OMGGGGGGGGGG GABE
kalpurna: WHHHHHHHY
kalpurna: WHY SO AMAZING
shoemaster: IT'S OKAY, MSC WON'T LAUGH
shoemaster: TOO HARD AT LEAST
kalpurna: SIIIIIIIGH
kalpurna: JUST SO YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME I TYPE "SIGH" WITHOUT THE ASTERISKS, YOU SHOULD PICTURE ME ACTUALLY SAYING THE WORD "SIGH" OUT LOUD
shoemaster: OH GOOD
shoemaster: SOMETIMES I SAY NOD
kalpurna: SOMETIMES THAT HAPPENS
shoemaster: WITHOUT ACTUALLY NODDING
shoemaster: ...TO MY DAD
kalpurna: OKAY THAT IS AWES
kalpurna: I AM PICTURING IT RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S AWES.
shoemaster: PICTURE IT WHILE HE'S TEACHING ME HOW TO DRIVE
kalpurna: I HAVE TO GO PEE BRB
shoemaster: K
I will miss that loser HARDFUCKINGCORE next year, for reals. :( :(
Okay, so, poll!
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(Also, to be serious for a moment, I am so thrilled by the fact that he has CLEARLY gotten really bored with people asking what the next album will be like, and decided to just go ahead and fuck with our minds. Keep on keepin' on, you tiny ridiculous man! ILU!!)
I had kind of an unpleasant encounter at dinner last night with a friend of a friend, who was just incredibly fucking hostile about the bands I am currently in love with. Like, not even mockingly. He was dead serious. I don't understand that kind of attitude! I just don't fucking get it. Sure, hate certain genres of music or certain bands if you want to, I understand that even if I don't really do it - but what kind of pleasure could you possibly get out of spreading that negativity? How could you POSSIBLY hate a genre of music so much that you hate not only the music, but also the bands themselves, and the fans, and just. I don't get it! For example: I'm not into Supernatural. If you want the truth, I actually kind of resent Supernatural for stealing so many awesome awesome fangirls, and I don't enjoy the show very much, and it is just in every possible way Not My Thing. But Jesus Christ, I don't go around being angry that it exists, and I am genuinely glad that it makes so many of my friends happy. I love it when people love things, even if they're not the same things I love. It pleases me to see people happy and engaged and loving their fandom, being fannish in general, no matter what of - and I think I'd be the same way if I were a music fan, rather than a media fan. You know? So when I encounter that kind of open hostility, I don't even know what to do with it. Ugh, the whole thing just SUCKED.
Honestly, I'm just glad he didn't say anything mean about PStump, because then I would have had to cut him with my steak knife, and that might have been socially awkward.
Hey, question: when people type in all caps, do you read it as them shouting at you? Because I remember people telling me that it meant screaming and was very very rude, but a) that was around the same time as the :-[ type emoticons, and b) I don't have a b. But that just doesn't seem right, does it? For me, I usually read it as kind of louder, or maybe just more STRESSED, but definitely not shouting. Ahahaha, once I had an entire IM conversation with Allison where we decided that all caps meant RyRo-style hilarious monotone. True story!
I just went to find the chat out of curiosity, and it's kind of amazing, so I'll reproduce it here. This was JUST after the Send Your Love to the Dancefloor video was released, and we were. Kind of excited?
kalpurna: I CANNOT TAKE OFF MY CAPSLOCK FTR
shoemaster: I HARDLY EVER PUT CAPSLOCK ON. I HOLD DOWN SHIFT
kalpurna: USUALLY I DO TOO, ACTUALLY, IT HELPS TO MAKE MY EXCITEMENT MORE KINETIC OR SOMETHING?
kalpurna: PLUS I'M STUPID LIKE THAT
shoemaster: IT'S MORE ACTIVE
kalpurna: BUT RIGHT NOW EXCITEMENT IS MY DEFAULT STATE
kalpurna: SO I'M JUST, LIKE, WHATEVER
kalpurna: CAPSLOCK: ON
shoemaster: LIKE, YOU'RE HOLDING DOWN THE BUTTON OF WHEEEEEEEEEEE
kalpurna: YUP
shoemaster: IF I HAVE CAPSLOCK ON, WELL, I DO SORT OF SHOUT IN MY HEAD STILL. OR JUST TALK LIKE I'M AN IDIOT TALKING TO SOMEONE WHO THINKS SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH IS ACTUALLY DEAF
shoemaster: BUT I LIKE HOLDING DOWN SHIFT MORE.
kalpurna: YEAH
kalpurna: RIGHT NOW I FIGURE I'M JUST TALKING VERY LOUDLY AND IN A MONOTONE
shoemaster: EXACTLY
kalpurna: I KIND OF ENJOY THAT THOUGH
shoemaster: LIKE RYRO WHO CAN'T HEAR HIMSELF TALK OR SOMETHING
shoemaster: IT'S HOW I ALWAYS IMAGINE CAPSLOCKY (EVEN VIA SHIFT KEY) CONVERSATIONS
kalpurna: YEAH JUST LIKE THAT
kalpurna: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
shoemaster: SO IT HAS POSITIVE CONNOTATIONS
kalpurna: I KNOW
kalpurna: OH RYYYYYYRO
kalpurna: ILOVEIT
shoemaster: I NEED TO STOP NAPPING FOR THREE HOURS AT A TIME
shoemaster: JUST SAYIN
kalpurna: CAPSLOCK SEEMS MISPLACED THERE
kalpurna: LET'S TALK ABOUT ASSBUNNIES
shoemaster: OKAY
kalpurna: LET'S TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT ASSBUNNIES IS NOW A LEGITIMATE WORD IN THIS FANDOM, AND NOT EVEN BECAUSE OF A FIC
kalpurna: NOT
kalpurna: EVEN
shoemaster: HE'S ON A MISSION
shoemaster: A MISSION FROM COBRA
kalpurna: I KNOW WHAAAAAAAT
shoemaster: (WHICH IS ACTUALLY TAKING ME TO A WEIRD GI JOE PLACE)
kalpurna: HERE'S WHAT I LOVE:
kalpurna: FIRST OF ALL, HAHAHHAHAHA GI JOE
kalpurna: SECONDLY, I LOVE THAT MR. T IS IN THIS VIDEO
kalpurna: AND YET
kalpurna: IT IS SO NOT THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING IN THE VIDEO, BY SUCH A HUUUUGE MARGIN, THAT NO ONE IS EVEN MENTIONING IT
kalpurna: IT'S LIKE, PRIORITIES
kalpurna: ASSBUNNIES FIRST, MR T LATER.
kalpurna: AMAAAAAZING.
shoemaster: I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE
kalpurna: I KNOW, RIGHT
kalpurna: I KNOW
kalpurna: BUT HE'S THERE!
shoemaster: THAT IS AWESOME
kalpurna: AHAHAHAH FTR: IF YOU TYPE "♥" IN ALL CAPS, IT DOESN'T MAKE A HEART
kalpurna: AND YOU LOOK LIKE A TARD
shoemaster: HAHAHAHA
kalpurna: FUN FACTS FOR FRIENDLY FOLKS
shoemaster: I NEED SOMETHING BIGGER THAN CAPSLOCK FOR THAT LAUGH AT YOU
kalpurna: AHHAHAHAHA SRY
kalpurna: OMGGGGGGGGGG GABE
kalpurna: WHHHHHHHY
kalpurna: WHY SO AMAZING
shoemaster: IT'S OKAY, MSC WON'T LAUGH
shoemaster: TOO HARD AT LEAST
kalpurna: SIIIIIIIGH
kalpurna: JUST SO YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME I TYPE "SIGH" WITHOUT THE ASTERISKS, YOU SHOULD PICTURE ME ACTUALLY SAYING THE WORD "SIGH" OUT LOUD
shoemaster: OH GOOD
shoemaster: SOMETIMES I SAY NOD
kalpurna: SOMETIMES THAT HAPPENS
shoemaster: WITHOUT ACTUALLY NODDING
shoemaster: ...TO MY DAD
kalpurna: OKAY THAT IS AWES
kalpurna: I AM PICTURING IT RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S AWES.
shoemaster: PICTURE IT WHILE HE'S TEACHING ME HOW TO DRIVE
kalpurna: I HAVE TO GO PEE BRB
shoemaster: K
I will miss that loser HARDFUCKINGCORE next year, for reals. :( :(
Okay, so, poll!
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