It's December, which means we get bombarded with the same old Christmas songs over and over again. Now I do have some Christmas songs I don't mind hearing every year, and there is an art to the holiday song that sometimes I just can't resist, just as with regular bubblegum. But like with regular bubblegum, sometimes I can't stand the lyrical ( Read more... )

Why do I love SooSun?

Take us through a day in the life of your favorite...
Well, the first thing she does is...

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Last weekend I was away from internet. The night before I did attempt to get iacus and/or hyomona to do the Lulz post, but it's probably for the best that Top Lulz didn't get made after all. This is because I've become too much of a fan. Most of the SNSD moments that I had to clamp my hands over my mouth to strangle the laughter that would disturb ( Read more... )

( Disappointingly the wordcount is not over 9000 )

And the world ends. Well, that's not technically true, my rant against ranking was targetted at general member rankings.

I'll admit, my fandom has been waning. Hoot was as boring as all get-out, I don't give a fuck about CFs, and VD was a good song but not much else.
Oh yeah, and the endless parades of awards that SNSD has won. That has inversely ( Read more... )

A small heads-up, I finally edited the Fanfiction Part II post with excerpts and some brief commentary.

So now, first order of business is the feedback survey.
( To the first order of business-mobile! )

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Title unabashedly stolen from Pink Wota.

Where there isn't much literature on idols with regards to their happily playing with identity(or rather, focussing on the asian idol subset of celebrity culture), there is a lot of writing about fanfiction and its dirtly little corners, and not all in a condemning tone either.
Holy crap look at all of the ( Read more... )

Yes, you read that right. Part 1. Because I recently discovered some articles(courtesy of R and Jko) that might do all of our discussing for us. D:
But I did this damn idol fic writers survey a month ago, so you're going to get selected answers whether you want them or not, dammit.

( Full disclosure of answers(but not identities) available by PM )

Warning: heavy stuff thrown together at stupid hours of the night. Beware of directionless rambling and half-assed statements not backed up very well.


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