Oh, let me go off on a tangent here. Pokemon. And manga. And anime. And Melee. And let's just throw in all the video game stuff lol. I'm fine with this stuff that doesn't really interest me when my friends are talking about it, yeah, sure, okay, I'm going to pretend that reference you just made didn't go right over my head. And slowly I might learn what you're talking about, if I cared enough. But I don't. I get that you're obsessed with this stuff, that wo0o0o0ow it's so cool amazing awesome can't get enough of it. Would you mind ... not talking about it all the time, though? It would be so so so so so nice if we could have a conversation without any of this stuff somehow burrowing in and making an entrance. I don't talk about K-pop with my K-pop hating/not listening friends, do I? I don't obsess over the lead actor in the newest K-drama I've been watching. Why don't I, when I fangirl over these people on Tumblr? Because I've figured out that these things don't interest you, that you're tired of me talking about these people, that you don't care. Why can't you do the same for me? I'm not saying that you have to stop talking about these topics around me. That'd be rude and demanding of me. I'm suggesting, carefully and politely, that you might think about talking about some other things with me?
While we're on the topic of fangirls (because I am fond of going off on tangents, and wow, is this one of the few semi-serious posts on this blog? WOW GOOD JOB ME)
....fangirls, while I use the term 'fangirl' as a general word to mean fans. That are girls. There's also 'fanboys', but that's a whole other spiel. Let's focus on fangirls first. Or just fans for short. Because usually the fanboys are the reasonable, 'good' fans that don't send death threats to their beloved idol's girlfriends =______=
Of course, I don't do any of the below. /gives self a smug pat on the back/
What I Find Wrong With Fangirls In General (Mostly K-pop Fandoms)
- WHY MUST YOU SQUEAL?
- Oh, the squealing. And the screaming. Oh, the screaming. Oh, my poor poor bleeding ears.
- I have no problem with fans lining up at airports in China and Korea and Japan &etc. for hours. Sure, you want to see your precious idols (usually male idols lol), okay, fine. But when they get there and actually try to walk through the airport, ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Must push and scream and shove and run to try to get as close to your precious oppaaaa! While holding handmade fansigns, of course. Then the idols get hurt. Managers being managers, of course, try to keep the fans from getting too close and literally mashing the poor guys to death. When fans still don't listen and won't back off, even scratching the poor managers, then the managers, patience all used up, start using physical force. That's when the huge fancy expensive cameras come out and pointing fingers at the managers just trying to keep their idols safe. If you were true fans, you wouldn't try to mash the poor guys to death. Js.
- Sasaeng fans. What. Why ... you don't even deserve to be called fans. For those who are not familiar with the term 'sasaeng fans', it denotes fans who skip school, skip ... everything and pay taxis to follow idols around Korea. They even camp outside their dorms and sometimes do that overnight, forcing idols to sneak around their own homes and making them even afraid to go outside. When they see their precious idols, they mob them, try to kiss them, completely disregard any concept of 'personal space'. They try to grab their private parts, rip off clothing, hair, scratch the idols/managers. They write letters to their biases with tampon blood. What kind of people are you? Here for more information on what sasaeng fans do.
- Death threats sent to male idols' girlfriends. Lately it's been better, but a couple of years ago, when Jonghyun of SHINee was in a relationship with Shin Se Kyung (an actress), some Shawols (fans of SHINee) sent her death threats. Or made 'anti-Shin Se Kyung' fansites. Some Blingers (fans of SHINee, but Jonghyun especially) became fans of the other members instead, or just left the fandom completely. What? Shouldn't you be happy your oppa has found someone that likes him, that he likes, that he'd want to be with her openly, even if 'fans' like you were going to leave?
- "I knew _____ before they got popular!" "You're just a new fan." "I was a fan of _____ since _____'s debut." You'd think that fans would be happy about their idols getting more popular, of them getting more publicity so they'd come back with more albums/songs, and win more awards, and be happy, but no. Some fans are so hung up about who joined what fandom when where why that they forget that fandoms are for the idols. If you were a fan of someone, you'd most likely want them to be more successful. Just because an idol group has more new fans doesn't mean that they're jumping on a bandwagon. The fandoms are there to generate a larger fanbase. To companies/idols, it doesn't matter when you joined, just the fact that you joined. So they can sell you more posters/CDs/merc.
Um...
I think the original point of this post was to talk about dreams. Specifically, my dreams. Instead it became a rant against fangirls. Haha. Oh well ... I just want to share something that we did in AP Psych today. Kearns gave us a bunch of questions to answer to 'psychoanalyze ourselves', and they were pretty accurate, actually o_______o I shall replicate my answers verbatim for you below. Also, I answered these as honestly as possible and tried not to think too hard, so I think they're pretty indicative of my personality... (Analyzing part in parentheses; she only told us the analyzing part after we'd answered)
- You're walking in a forest. Who are you with? (most important person in life)
God, spirits, Jeremy Mak (since I answered three, I guess it's God ...)
- You encounter an animal in the forest. What is it? (size of animal correlates to size of problems in life)
Bear (oh god my problems ;~~;)
- What does the animal do? What do you do? (interaction between animal and you is how you deal with your problems)
Bear swipes at me, I dodge, run away (...sadly, very accurate. I run away from my problems.)
- You come across your dream house in a clearing in the forest. (size of house is ambition to solve problems)
Small, cozy cottage (......... .___.)
- Is there a fence around it? (if yes, closed personality; if no, open personality)
No
- You go in the house. There's the dining table. What's around and on it? (if there's flowers, food, or people, you have a happy personality)
Wooden chairs around table, vase of flowers and four placemats
- You go outside to the yard. There's a cup on the ground. What's it made of? (perceived durability of relationship with person from Question #1)
Glass (....so God, spirits, or JMak?)
- What do you do with the cup? (attitude towards person from Question #1)
Pick it up and throw it to the ground, breaking it (.........................................great)
...
There were two more questions, but we didn't finish and she didn't tell us what the questions meant so maybe I'll finish this post tomorrow.
Anyways, I have a lot of homework to do.
So toodles.
Oh, and if you want to know what I'm currently listening to, it's this station on Pandora. Love to bits (almost) all the songs that they play for me.
So toodles.
Oh, and if you want to know what I'm currently listening to, it's this station on Pandora. Love to bits (almost) all the songs that they play for me.
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