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First - Thank you to everyone who's said such wonderful things about me on the love meme! You made me blush, you made me laugh, and you made me feel loved. ♥ ♥ I have awesome friends!
One of the things that made me laugh was the references to my K-pop addiction. I know some of you, when I post stuff about that - if you don't scroll by really fast! - probably kind of mentally pat me on the head with a "there, there, yes I'm humoring you" type of gesture, or think I have god-awful taste, and really can't understand why I'm so obsessed. Or can't understand why I'm obsessed with THAT.
I'm not quite sure either, but there's a reason I don't gamble, that every attempt to quit smoking has basically failed, and that, while I do enjoy an occasional glass of wine or a beer or a shot of tequila or two or five, I'm not really a big drinker and less so now than I used to be. I can become really addicted to/obsessive about something really quickly. Alcohol was never really a problem - I've always been a social drinker, and I've never really needed a drink - and drugs weren't an issue either. Sure, I tried a few things in college - pot, shrooms twice - but knowing my tendencies, I purposely avoided that path.
But other things just kind of take hold of me, and wham! I was a die-hard NY Giants and NY Islanders fan for years. I was obsessed with playing volleyball. I'd read my favorite books over and over until the spines fell apart and the pages fell out. And then, thanks to AOL, I discovered online fandom.
I'd dabbled in some fandoms in the '90s/early '00s - Highlander, Soldier of Fortune, Trek, Star Wars, to name a few - but when I discovered Trixie Belden fandom in late 2001/early 2002, something in me just kind of clicked. I spent hours - days, weeks, months! - searching out and reading fic. I printed them out at work and I'd read them everywhere: on the train, in restaurants, at volleyball games (though not while I was playing! :-P) while I was babysitting my niece, at work when I wasn't busy, and even when I probably should have been doing something else ... I couldn't stop. Trixie fandom is what got me writing my own fanfic, too.
And then came HP fandom in summer 2004. I'd avoided it like the plague because Trixie fandom was tiny and HP fandom was like this vast black hole of chaos and I knew that if I read even one fic, I'd be sucked over the event horizon so fast, I wouldn't know what hit me. I think most of you know I took the plunge anyway. No regrets!
But K-pop came out of nowhere. I had NO interest at all. I mean, for a couple of years longleggedgit, cmere, furiosity and a few others - even shouldknobetter (George :( I miss you!) - would stalk me with that creepy licky Jaejoong icon, (and stickers and giant buttons at the Toronto and Chicago HP cons) and I ran away screaming. And then xingou came over and made me watch a few Super Junior videos. I figured I'd just humor her, since I made her watch some Weiss Kreuz videos (the seiyuu for that series sang all the songs for it) and after she left, I was all "*swipes hands together* Done with that!"
Except I couldn't get this one song out of my head. (Bonamana) Or the thrusty dance moves from the vid. (see icon) And quite unwillingly, I found myself watching it again. And again. And then I found more vids. And, well. That eventually led to TVXQ/DBSK, and a complete change in attitude towards Jaejoong. And now I'm a JYJ fangirl of ridiculous proportions. While I do enjoy other bands, I only really lurk in K-fandom, largely because it's kind of scary, but also because 99.9% of them are really really young. If a guy and a girl are even seen together - and god forbid it becomes known that they're dating - it becomes a scandal of epic betrayal of the fans. It's still lots of fun, but there's a huge component of serious immaturity that runs through the fandoms, and there are hordes of vitriolic anti-fans like I'd never seen. Many incidents are even worse than the HP shipping wars! I have no patience for that kind of stuff.
But I still stick around because it's entertaining, and there is also crackalicious goodness of epic proportions. Like what, you ask? Like this .gif of Nichkhun, from the group 2PM, from a recent variety show that aired on Korean TV:
It's the little things or not so little things that amuse me! (Also, donnaimmaculata - you're not the only perv with a crotch obsession, eh? :-P)
But it's funny, too. Some fandom-y things, even though I love them, I don't feel that obsessive pull. Others just kind of take over my brain and I want to read and write ALL THE FIC, watch ALL THE VIDS, and look at ALL THE PICS and ART. It's weird how that happens, and kind of annoying how I seem to have absolutely no control over it! Ah well. Musings for another time.
Happy Saturday! (or Sunday as it may be in the far east/Australia.) I haz a pervy fic to beta!
One of the things that made me laugh was the references to my K-pop addiction. I know some of you, when I post stuff about that - if you don't scroll by really fast! - probably kind of mentally pat me on the head with a "there, there, yes I'm humoring you" type of gesture, or think I have god-awful taste, and really can't understand why I'm so obsessed. Or can't understand why I'm obsessed with THAT.
I'm not quite sure either, but there's a reason I don't gamble, that every attempt to quit smoking has basically failed, and that, while I do enjoy an occasional glass of wine or a beer or a shot of tequila or two or five, I'm not really a big drinker and less so now than I used to be. I can become really addicted to/obsessive about something really quickly. Alcohol was never really a problem - I've always been a social drinker, and I've never really needed a drink - and drugs weren't an issue either. Sure, I tried a few things in college - pot, shrooms twice - but knowing my tendencies, I purposely avoided that path.
But other things just kind of take hold of me, and wham! I was a die-hard NY Giants and NY Islanders fan for years. I was obsessed with playing volleyball. I'd read my favorite books over and over until the spines fell apart and the pages fell out. And then, thanks to AOL, I discovered online fandom.
I'd dabbled in some fandoms in the '90s/early '00s - Highlander, Soldier of Fortune, Trek, Star Wars, to name a few - but when I discovered Trixie Belden fandom in late 2001/early 2002, something in me just kind of clicked. I spent hours - days, weeks, months! - searching out and reading fic. I printed them out at work and I'd read them everywhere: on the train, in restaurants, at volleyball games (though not while I was playing! :-P) while I was babysitting my niece, at work when I wasn't busy, and even when I probably should have been doing something else ... I couldn't stop. Trixie fandom is what got me writing my own fanfic, too.
And then came HP fandom in summer 2004. I'd avoided it like the plague because Trixie fandom was tiny and HP fandom was like this vast black hole of chaos and I knew that if I read even one fic, I'd be sucked over the event horizon so fast, I wouldn't know what hit me. I think most of you know I took the plunge anyway. No regrets!
But K-pop came out of nowhere. I had NO interest at all. I mean, for a couple of years longleggedgit, cmere, furiosity and a few others - even shouldknobetter (George :( I miss you!) - would stalk me with that creepy licky Jaejoong icon, (and stickers and giant buttons at the Toronto and Chicago HP cons) and I ran away screaming. And then xingou came over and made me watch a few Super Junior videos. I figured I'd just humor her, since I made her watch some Weiss Kreuz videos (the seiyuu for that series sang all the songs for it) and after she left, I was all "*swipes hands together* Done with that!"
Except I couldn't get this one song out of my head. (Bonamana) Or the thrusty dance moves from the vid. (see icon) And quite unwillingly, I found myself watching it again. And again. And then I found more vids. And, well. That eventually led to TVXQ/DBSK, and a complete change in attitude towards Jaejoong. And now I'm a JYJ fangirl of ridiculous proportions. While I do enjoy other bands, I only really lurk in K-fandom, largely because it's kind of scary, but also because 99.9% of them are really really young. If a guy and a girl are even seen together - and god forbid it becomes known that they're dating - it becomes a scandal of epic betrayal of the fans. It's still lots of fun, but there's a huge component of serious immaturity that runs through the fandoms, and there are hordes of vitriolic anti-fans like I'd never seen. Many incidents are even worse than the HP shipping wars! I have no patience for that kind of stuff.
But I still stick around because it's entertaining, and there is also crackalicious goodness of epic proportions. Like what, you ask? Like this .gif of Nichkhun, from the group 2PM, from a recent variety show that aired on Korean TV:
It's the little things or not so little things that amuse me! (Also, donnaimmaculata - you're not the only perv with a crotch obsession, eh? :-P)
But it's funny, too. Some fandom-y things, even though I love them, I don't feel that obsessive pull. Others just kind of take over my brain and I want to read and write ALL THE FIC, watch ALL THE VIDS, and look at ALL THE PICS and ART. It's weird how that happens, and kind of annoying how I seem to have absolutely no control over it! Ah well. Musings for another time.
Happy Saturday! (or Sunday as it may be in the far east/Australia.) I haz a pervy fic to beta!