you have no idea how much *facepalm* exists in my life

[meitachi]

The TL;DR backstory...

I had one of the most bipolar experiences in JE fandom in late 2005, early 2006, before most of my flist was swept away by love for KAT-TUN & Arashi & Yamapi and, you know, those endless Johnny's boys. I fell hard and fast after life_of_eden & wakkawoo brought KAT-TUN into my life, and Gokusen introduced a certain MatsuJun... I could not stop talking about KAT-TUN's tinfoil outfits, or their hot purple leather pants, among other things. I dragged my first-year roommate among_the_lost and innocent bystander thyme_hawthorne into the fray with me. Oh boy.

In those months, dozens upon dozens of GBs worth of videos and clips and music were downloaded. Pictures too. God, the folders I had sorted out for KAT-TUN. jin_daily and kame_daily were created, and kamepi, with some ensuing wank. These were some of the best and worst times of my life. (I exaggerate.)

I like Pi now. I like Kame still. I love Ohno and Nino silly. I still listen to KAT-TUN's music all the time, and I couldn't stop flailing at everyone at work when Arashi's "We Can Make It" PV came out.

But JE and its fandom also leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because it's so closely tied to one of my...unsuccessful friendships. Drama and melodramatics aside, suffice to say I have a love/hate relationship (okay, truthfully, more like an "easily entertained/bitterly resentful" relationship) with it. It's "the one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it" from the Fandom as Lovers Meme.

The last thing I want to do (especially right now, on top of my RL business) is fall into another similarly huge and shiny-filled music fandom. (I'm content with my Big Bang love with occasional peeps of w-inds. fangirling, really!)

But. Guys. This Korean phenomenon. I--I can't seem to escape it.

Super Junior. Rain. Se7en. Big Bang. SS501. DBSK.

SEND HELP. Seriously.

My first real exposure to Korean boybandery was DBSK. I thought they were pretty (girly) and shrugged them off, content to ignore them until I watched Banjun Reverse Drama Theatre- Dangerous Love.

Um, that's kind of responsible for my endless Yunho love. UKNOW. I love him even though he looked like a hobo in the Choosey Lover MV. The boy can dance, okay?!

And Hero--I'd have to be blind not to admit how pretty he is. I refuse to like him with blond hair though. >:|

Max is just adorable and I am happy he got a haircut! Xiah won me over after the thing with mini-DBSK, the adorable little children alkdjflsk. Oh Xiah. ♥ I have no real opinion on Max but, um, I like his hair now more than the dreadlocks? Yeah.

SO I SORT OF GOT INTO DBSK.

Then I proceeded to ignore Korean boybands for months on end, happy with my 2D boys, until Big Bang came and smacked me in the face with Dirty Cash and Goodbye Baby. alkdjskl ::cries:: I was a lost cause. They're my #1 right now. How far they've come in just a year. How hot their hair is now! Watching early performances actually throws me because all of their hair was so different.

I LOVE YOU GD. But I can't pick a second favorite among the rest of them. They are all tied, I LOVE THEM ALL. And I am still not tired of hearing "Lie" or seeing it performed. Crazy, maybe, but babies~♥

But, yeah, I thought I was okay with just Big Bang. You know. Sort of totally not learning Korean while I listened to their songs and admired their better-than-JE fashion taste...

Then a few weeks ago I watched Attack on the Pin-Up Boys.

...

DAMN THIS MOVIE TO HELL.

It was pretty and funny and plot-driven and had a fabulous song at the end and had me totally shipping Donghae/Kibum and adoring on them in general and--

Learning all 13 Super Junior names.

Watch this: Donghae, Kibum, Heechul, Hankyung, ShinDong, Siwon, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Kyuhyun, Ryeowook, Leetuek, Yesung, Kang-in.

Oh my god, someone kill me now. I can only recognize about half or 2/3 of them upon first glance or in moving clips, but--this is more than I ever thought I'd be able to. ;___; And until tonight I thought I wasn't really into SuJu, just the movie AU (which I still really, really want to write fic for, oh Donghae/Kibum ftmfw), but then Youtube and X-Man happened.

So now I'm a little in love with Heechul (don't hate, y'all) and Sungmin and Siwon, and a lot in love with Donghae and Kibum (really don't hate, you know who you are!). And Hankyung. Well. The boy's Chinese. I'm inherently biased.

DAMN YOU MUSIC FANDOMS. Now, I only have two SS501 songs and we're going to keep it that way. I have too much of Rain's music and still need to watch his dramas. But, you guys, I don't have nearly enough Se7en. And I am kind of entranced by his dancing. ::facedesk:: Help?

★★ alksdfjldk I would love you forever if you sent me Se7en music or Neorul Saranghae by SES (girl band Big Bang parodies) or, um, your favorite pretty-Asian boy band song.

In conclusion: I TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY BLAME thyme_hawthorne & loveblackcoffee. ~___~

I hope the Chinese/Taiwanese phase never starts. Sadly, I already think Danson Tang (also known as 梁思南 or Nanba in the Taiwanese HanaKimi) is adorable and want to watch more dramas (like I have time!!) with him in it.


Um. On a totally unrelated note, I was rereading Komatta Toki ni wa Hoshi ni Kike today and RLY, RLY WANTED TO FIC FOR IT. Fuck.


So, uh, I'm going to go...study People & Environment in SE Asia now...

Comments

[fuminshou-neko.livejournal.com]

I diiiiiid. They're so BFF and obviously in one another's pants. XD And I like Wuzun with the other guys, if only because Danson/Jiro screams DESTINY!! at me. XD

...but I'm slowly getting dragged into Chinese pop stars love. *gnaws on Aaron Kwok* :x

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I don't like the other guys because they weren't in HanaKimi. XDD ::biased like whoa:: THIS IS HOW I GET INTO BOY BANDS, SEE. If it weren't for Gokusen, I'd never have liked MatsuJun & Arashi. If it weren't for that longass drama name, I wouldn't have liked Yunho or JaeHo! And if it weren't for Pin-Up Boys (damn that movie), I wouldn't be interested at all in SuJu!

Gahh.

[fuminshou-neko.livejournal.com]

BUT THE SUJU MOVIE WAS AMAZING. XDXD I mean, the whole entire plot revolves around who is worthy to have crap thrown at their faces. XD *loves SuJu. so, so, SO much* XDXD

But did you ever watch the Japanese HanaKimi? XD It doesn't follow the manga all that well, but I don't care because Oguri Shun and Toma kiss. *O* And apparently they had to go through twelve shots before it was finally 'perfect.' Oh, Japan. Never leave me. XD

I wonder what else I could recc to you (video-wise) that will get you to start liking more people... >)

Did you ever see ENDLESS SHOCK with Koichi and Tsubasa? XD

[meiface.livejournal.com]

:| :| :|

Okay. I can't talk about the Japanese HanaKimi, because it will take away the shiny and, er, give people reasons to hate me? Yeah. SO.

I LOVE THE SUJU MOVIE SO MUCH. I AM GOING TO FIND TIME TO FIC FOR IT. OMGWTF.

RE: Endless Shock, I haven't and. No. ::covers eyes & ears:: This is enough music and corruption for tonight!

[fuminshou-neko.livejournal.com]

I... am readily one of those people who admit that the Taiwanese version was a lot better and much truer to the manga. Thus, I pretended that the Japanese version was something else entirely and also renamed every file to something else so that I could further pretend that it isn't H---K---. :D *renamed it to BL ACADEMY*

YES. YES. PLZ TO BE WRITING KANGIN/HEECHUL/PANDA?? :D????

............DOWNLOAD IT. Here! (http://community.livejournal.com/drugtrax/13462.html) ...again. XDXD LOOK. LOOK. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1vDDd66mKE) Pleeeeeease watch how Koichi stares at Tsubasa. There is so much NON-subtext in this musical it's awesome. XD

[meiface.livejournal.com]

It's not so much whether or not it was true to HK that bothered me, but a lot of fandom's general reaction to it. Um, yeah, I won't go further into that but suffice to say fandom can really make or break a canon series/thing for me sometimes.

LOL. I DEFINITELY SAW THE KANGIN/HEECHUL, BUT PANDA LOVE IS GOOD TOO. First of course: Donghae/Kibum muwahahaha. ♥

::RESISTS::

[fuminshou-neko.livejournal.com]

...this is true. @_@;; I hated fandom's reaction to it, wtf. >>;; That's also another reason why I'm such a hardcore lurker. I wanted to see it because of Shun and Toma and Hiro, but I knew that there'd be so much wank over the wazoo over Taiwan vs. Japan versions. So.. I just avoided everything and watched at my leisure. XD;;

Donghae/Kibum were just... so perfect in that. XDXD I had never expected to see them as a pairing, but... yeah. XD Movie changed that for me. XD;;

Waaaaatch. ;~~~~; Please? ♥?

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Boo fandom. Yay DonKi...::snickersnort:: DONKEY. OKAY SORRY I'M TIRED AND HIGH CLEARLY. Er. This is why I don't mash names for them.

alkdjsl. I have midterms and papers and other papers and law school apps. ;__; I'll put it on my "to watch" list? (I despair of ever getting to "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya". Woe.)

[fuminshou-neko.livejournal.com]

dakjdajd;kjd;jkdjkdajkldj I was DRINKING, Mei!! XDXD Omg, so totally referring to that as DonKi from now on. XDXD

...okay. ;~~; But I'll hold you to it. KAZUKI. MAKE-UP SPECIALIST. MAKE-UP ATTACKS. :x

Aaaand... just single mp3s for now. XD *will upload more crap later* XD

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=76VXBJKO
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3EDKL506
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NISVJSHO
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I3PU7D9L
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FIUN2QLI
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IRTMTIDS
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CY9WG4EA
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q0NWYZXF
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G5DO512I
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=35FA53LL

[meiface.livejournal.com]

♥_____________♥

YES PLEASE SHIP DONKI WITH ME LOLOLOL.

[fuminshou-neko.livejournal.com]

I shall have more music for you tomorrow! XD *will just let it upload over night* :Dv

.....OKAY. XDXD

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I adore you, like a lot. :D Thank you so, so much!

[fuminshou-neko.livejournal.com]

I was more than half expecting you to rail against me in hate for how much I've spammed you. XD *likes taking people down into Teh Shiny Hell with me* :x ♥

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Well, I do hate you. But I also appreciate all the effort put into links and uploads and fangirly babbling!

[fuminshou-neko.livejournal.com]

...oh. Duh. XDXD I'm so stupid.

You need to join kpop_uploads for this, but scrooooll down to 'S', and you can download four of Se7en's albums. :D

Link!! (http://community.livejournal.com/kpop_uploads/1648189.html)

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh kpop_uploads is an amazing place. ::clings::