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Asia • I love Asia. It's where I was born, it's a huge part of who I am, it has all these pretty boys I keep falling in love with... No, seriously, what's not to love? I love the food, I'm interested in the different cultures (similarities and differences), I like the music, I like learning about the politics and the history (moreso than other places) because it's part of my heritage, I guess. I'm hugely biased towards China, obviously, but Japan won so much of my affection in my earlier years (oh anime and JE lol) before Korea stole my heart; China's still always going to be my, cheesy as it sounds, homeland though. It's where my parents came from, it's where I was born, it's where all my family is now - what do you expect me to do about it? I want to visit a lot and maybe work there one day. In any case, I like all of Asia, not just the Eastern part - I've taken a lot of classes on SE Asia and Central Asia and all that good stuff.
Babies • I always joke I love babies the way I love puppies (or vice versa) - I like playing with them for a few minutes and then returning them to their mother/owner. They're always cuter when you're not responsible for them. Honestly, though, I love babies. I LOVE THEM. They're so cute and tiny and I don't care that they cry (okay, unless I'm already really grumpy) but when I went to Korea there were CUTE WHITE FAT CHEEKED BABIES EVERYWHERE. ALL OF THEM. There must be something in the food they eat to all have such pale skin and to be so chubbily cute omg. I wanted to kidnap so many babies in Korea, it was terrible.
Cartoons • I grew up watching cartoons like Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors (oh awful, the dub ruined everything), and Digimon. I continued with things like ABC's Saturday morning Disney shows and then Pokemon was all the rage in middle school. I grew into anime and it shaped pretty much all of my high school years. I still love it, even though I've been distracted by pretty, gay, swively 3D Korean pop stars. ;D I am less vocal and fangirly than I used to be, but I still harbor lots of love for the 2D.
DBSK • I told this story before, so let me just copypasta it because I'm lazy like that. I'd heard of DBSK before, but I hadn't really stumbled upon them myself until I watched the mini-drama Banjun Theater - Dangerous Love, after which I shipped JaeHo. In a...vague, distanced sort of way, not being a DBSK fan. After this horrible Korean wave overtook me (damn you Big Bang, damn you SuJu, except not because I adore you both): I ventured another look into DBSK fandom.
Goddamn. It's terrifying. DBSK is phenomenally huge, which means their fanbase is both extensive and rabid. Oh god, the rabid. Also, JaeHo is the unquestioned king of all slash pairings in this fandom, and because there are fewer boys all around to slash (unlike SuJu), it means the JaeHo fanbase gigantic. And rabid. You can't escape the rabid in this fandom.
So instead I just stay away from it and lol. Though I'm really sad there isn't more goodfic for JaeHo, especially when I'm craving it. I've read all of
Erotic dreams • I...don't think I've had any? At least none I can remember. I once had this very, very disturbing dream that Nick Carter was licking my bellybutton, but I wouldnt' call that an erotic dream as much as sort of a nightmare. Though I think I once had a dream where Yohji and Aya (of Weiss Kreuz) were getting it on? MY MIND IS A STRANGE PLACE. I do, however, totally believe in erotic dreams as plot devices. :Db
Fandom (SuJu specifically) • This is fandom, for me.
For SuJu specifically, in comparison to other fandoms I've been in? Well there's been 1. less shipwank, and 2. less porn. I'm all right on the former and rather sad about the latter, haha. There's generally also been more crazy though (oh ELF, I think I will always hate you), even though the recent Only13/...anti-Only13 has been getting on my nerves while confusing me at the same time. But you guys already know where I stand on that, right? I support SJM but I'm not against not adding more members to the original 13. Or something.
SuJu fandom's been fun, which is all I can ask of it. I don't need to find BFF or Extended Family from it, because PoT already gave me that. I've met people I like, though, and read good stuff, and get to watch lots of happy gay videos, and also get to cry over the amazing bond these happy gay boys share. I think I'm good. Fandom should be there as the happy escape from RL, and it's been that, but I don't want it to take over my life. I'm working on it. :)
Good Omens • I can't even remember who recced this book to me but it is one of my favorite books in the entire world. I adore Terry Pratchett and I adore Neil Gaiman, though I hadn't read any of the latter's works until after reading Good Omens. But, damn it, this book is hilarious and witty and snarky and has gay under/over tones with an angel and demon and it's about THE END OF THE WORLD only better and - obviously this book makes me totally incoherent. Anyone who hasn't yet read this book is missing out on something fantastic. It's not truly any genre except snark, though it has elements of contemporary fantasy and satire in it, I suppose. I don't know, I fail horribly at categorizing things like that.
Heechul • CINDERELLA. I go around a lot saying, "Favorite ever" but I say that for practically everyone whenever they're on screen doing something fantastic. Heechul does that a lot. I really, really do love Heechul though - I hear it's generally a love/hate relationship with him and almost everyone I know loves him, but that's because almost everyone I know appreciates a sharp wit. He truly is so smart and so snarky and so amusingly egocentric. I love that he doesn't care if he looks and acts girly. I love that he can dance all the girl dances so well, and yet still pull of some smokingly hot images. I love how he experiments with his hair, how he makes fun of his members, how he's confident about everything and gah.
But more than that, I love how all his princessy ways cover who he really is inside: afraid of kids, a truly devoted friend to Hankyung and to all the members, sometimes insecure and covering it up by being sarcastic. I love how he spoils Donghae and dotes on Kyuhyun and wants the best for all the members even if they're not in SuJu (re: EHB8 hidden camera). I love that he's worked so hard and come so far, and that he's a man (who can grow facial hair!) even when he's so pretty. I love how unique he is and how he isn't afraid to be, has turned it into an asset, and god I really do love practically everything about him. His bad rapper English, the way he's awkward and comes off wrong to strangers (like Anya), his mostly good-natured irritation at Siwon trying to bring him to Jesus, his love for his cat and j-rock... Also, on a sidenote, I truly believe if someone in SuJu is gay or at least bisexual (statistically speaking, at least one of them should be, right?), then it'd be Heechul. Not to be stereotypical, but that's just the sort of thing I could see for him, because he just doesn't care all that much about the rigorous standards of mainstream society.
Cinderella, I love you!
Ice cream • I like ice cream! I don't love it, however. I've lost a lot of the sweet tooth I had as a kid, I think: I really don't eat much sweets now. I dislike hard candy and I was never really big on gum or lollipops or whathaveyou. I like the occasional piece of chocolate and cheesecake and scoop of ice cream but in smaller portions, thank you. Extra delicious on a hot day. :D Mint chocolate chip has been my favorite flavor for years now, but I like cookie dough and strawberry too, plus a lot of other things. We have Butter Pecan at home a lot because my mom really likes it. I'm easy, mostly.
Jaeho • I already said a lot of what I feel about JaeHo up in the DBSK section. Personally, they're about the only couple/ship I really pay attention to or care about in DBSK (and that's when I pay attention to DBSK at all). I think Jaejoong is so, so pretty and yet also really hot in a masculine way.
Kihae • Current obsession and OTP. Cate gave me this one and I promised her an epic pimp post of Why They Work (for me, anyway) and, well. It got a little long. So it's all HERE. To summarize, though, I love Donghae and I love Kibum, and I love the way Donghae makes Kibum laugh and be playful. Plus they're hot. :9
Long distance friendships v. Long distance relationships / Love • They can both work, but of course they will take effort. I've never had a long distance relationship so I can't really comment on that with experience, but I personally believe it's harder to maintain romantic relationships than friendships over distance, because a romantic relationship requires different (I won't say more) commitments and intimacies. It's not an easy task, maintaining either, but I think they're worth the time and effort.
Love... I say I'm a romantic, and I am, but then sometimes I'm really cynical. I think I believe in true love for those I love (or write, at least), but I can't imagine it happening to myself. I can see infatuations and crushes, even strong likings, but love... well, I suppose it depends on how you define it. I love a lot of people. I can see myself loving someone I marry. But I don't know if I believe in "true love" or all that. It's a nice thought, but what are the chances? And it's not as if true love will solve all your problems anyway; you have to work for it and sacrifice for it no matter what. Nothing in life is that easy.
(Actually, I've thought about the pros of arranged marriages before, in all seriousness. Sometimes I'm not a romantic at all. I don't know, I'm a paradox, I suppose.)
Manga • I love it, I read it frequently. I have grown to be able to like any art style (Slam Dunk? beautiful! FAKE? love it. Naruto? wow. and I can still fawn over the pretty and totally disproportional shoujo, yey), though it really takes the characters to win me over. I forgive a lot more cliches and bad plots and characterization in manga than I do in writing (it's all those awful shoujo and BL things I've read), because I guess I have lower standards? Or just want the easy (read: brainless) visual entertainment, haha. Favorite manga series: Hikaru no Go, Slam Dunk, Perfect Girl Evolution, Cardcaptor Sakura...probably tons more, but those are near the top.
Nipples • They are hot in porn. And on hot guys. Like Siwon. :D
OTP • I used to OTP all the time in my anime/manga fandoms. That is, I would find one couple/ship that I adored above all others and it would make me unhappy to see them split up and written about with other people. The pinnacle of this was definitely FujiRyo in Prince of Tennis. I was, um, rather well-known for adoring it, and TezuRyo actually made me sort of physically ill. There were some bad times. I was young. After getting into Kpop and RPS though, I really can't OTP over too much because, hi, real people. It's sort of strange. Real people have real relationship dynamics with other real people, romantic, platonic, fraternal, etc. or whatever. The closest to an OTP I have in SuJu fandom is KangTeuk, but even though I talk about it as a pairing, I really only care that they're best friends and support each other and love each other deeply (with or without romantic inclinations). Though recently I've also been nattering about KiHae being OTP, you're free to ignore me. I don't use the word the way I used to.
Pomegranates • I LOVE POMEGRANATES. They're kind of ridiculously hard to eat but they're delicious and anything with pomegranate juice is delicious. Love, love, love. I suddenly want pomegranate juice now, omg, why is it so expensive. :(
Quirks • I'm pretty sure I have quite a number of them. I guess I'll list some out: 1. I'm a compulsive list-maker. 2. I pre-type most of my LJ entries up in a notepad file. 3. I hate mushrooms and refuse to eat them, but only if they're Italian/American/whatever. I eat Asian mushrooms. 4. I change my handwriting every few years because I'm bored. 5. I've been keeping a diary since seventh grade. 6. The word "semen" throws me out of a pornfic. 7. I really, really love Pilot Precise .05 pens. Love. Especially in different colors. 8. Eight is my favorite number. 9. I only sleep on the left side of my queen-sized bed and I never, ever need the other half. (Right now it's covered in my SJ posters.) 10. I haven't grown since pretty much seventh grade: same shoe size, same height, same weight. It's actually sort of depressing.
Really cute boys • I, uh, like really cute boys? :D What is there to say about this? I like the puppyish cute ones as well as the attractive cute ones. One of the things I like best about Donghae is that he is both! The thing about really cute boys is that they tend to be 1. really young (like...6 years old or younger) or 2. really childish, and I can't date someone I'd have to mother.
Sungmin • Sometimes I look at him and I just go, same as with Heechul: "Favorite ever." Because what's not to love? He's ridiculously amazing in all sorts of ways: there's the cuteness and the pretty, pretty skin, of course. There's that gorgeous smile and the happy giggling and flailing that he demonstrates all the time on Chunji. Then there's the kungfu and the guitar-playing and the sweet, soft voice singing English songs that makes me melt. ♥ Plus he's one of the better dancers and singers. On top of all that, he's sweet, sane, logical, reasonable, and sincerely caring: see all that mess about Henry, SJM, Only 13, even SNSD. He worries about ELF and he loves them, but he's not blind to their faults (like I think some of the other members can be sometimes...). He truly reaches out to people and takes the time to be their friends. I love his BFFery with Hyukjae, his everything with Kyuhyun, his amazingness with Henry, and also! How he and Shindong are so close because they're the same age. I love that he will randomly go to SD's room and tell him everything. I think it's totally precious and god, SM, ilusm.
I love SM's black hair, and his Don't Don hair. I'm sort of "eh" about his current hair and though his Happiness blond hair was cute, it didn't make me go into fangirl fits. But the black hair from Twins/U and the Don't Don hair? Oh come fuck me, bb.
I'm actually really sad that Sungmin isn't one of the more popular members and that he doesn't get much of a chance to talk on shows. He's really talented and awesome and I think I would love being his friend irl (oh I wish, haha). Plus, he cooks! I don't spend enough time fangirling SM, which is tragic, but never assume I don't love him equally or more than a lot of the other members. He's pretty, he's hot, he's talented, he's got a great personality - seriously, what's not to love?
Toe-sucking (hot or not?) • My initial reaction is ew. But then I reconsidered because fic makes me reconsider everything. So my conclusion is: almost anything can be hot if written well, but I put up with a lot more in fic than I would irl. And I'm pretty sure toe-sucking just weirds me out irl. :|
Universe • It's there and I don't think about it much. Sometimes I look at pictures of space and go, damn, that's pretty awesome. It's sort of surreal to think we live in this. Then there are thoughts about God (I have religious issues, and not in that I'm totally atheist, but not in that I'm a certain denomination of religious either...it's complicated), and thoughts about life and existentialism, and then I move on. My favorite universe is probably Pterry's Discworld though. :D
Ventilation • It is a good thing! Fresh air is nice, musty air not so much. I can tolerate heat a lot better than I can tolerate cold (not enough fat on my bones, I guess), and A/C that doesn't bother a lot of people can make me shiver in my shoes. It means that I never know what to wear in the summer because it's so hot outside, but so cold inside. :'(
w-inds. • The thing about w-inds. is that they were my first J-pop boy and love, and that means you must always type it correctly or I will be grumpy forever. Lowercase w, dash, and period, always. Seriously, I was all about Keita in w-inds., though I like Ryohei and Ryuichi too. It's always been about Keita for me though, the pretty-voiced singer with the adorable square grin and the dorky flailiness of fail and, yes. I have all of w-inds. songs, even Keita's awful solo album, and all their PVs, and all of their concerts except the most recent one. I've fallen out of fangirling them but I will always love them. They had the best cheesy songs (Super Lover remains an all-time favorite) and some godawful PVs and dance outfits, haha. I remember well how the It's In The Stars PV dragged
Xylophone bones (or Pterry's death, more specifically) • I DON'T LIKE THINKING ABOUT PTERRY'S IMMINENT DEATH. :( Early onset Alzheimer's, no. This makes me so sad. Moving on!
Your future • I'm going to WashU law school this fall, hopefully not failing out, hopefully getting the internships I need during the summer, and hopefully getting a job after I graduate in 3 years. Then I will be in debt, work, get out of debt, and get filthy rich. That's about as far as I've thought as of yet. I'm not sure where relationships fit into that, or traveling, or anything really of what I want but I've learned to put what I want beneath what I need to do, so it's all right. If I were allowed to have the job I want and not starve while doing it, I would meta and meta and meta more, because I think it's fascinating, but what kind of livelihood can you make out of it? I'm sorry, I'm more practical than I'm a dreamer, plus I want to provide for my parents in the future (as well as any future family I may have for myself). So there you go, not terribly romantic, sorry.
Zoos • I kind of hate zoos. I went to the Beijing zoo during my trip and saw giant pandas and they were in glass and they looked so sad, and ugh. I hate zoos. I don't need to see these exotic creatures up close. TV and photos are good enough. Please just let them be free, or at least give them a sufficiently expansive and comfortable environment to live in, instead of cooping them up. It's unnatural and not terribly kind.
What a depressing note to end on. :(
So here, HAVE MORE KIHAE. Linked to my pimp post! Read it! (It's backdated to not spam your flists, yey!)


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ME TOO. FOR BOTH OF THEM.
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It's cool. I understand. Whenever you're ready! I feel like we're in a relationship, whut. R U READY FOR THE NEXT STEP?!
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UH...FULL BODY CONTACT? IN TWO MONTHS. WORK UP TO IT, OKAY?
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I look at fresh fungi and I swear, my skin crawls. D:
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Also I love your icon. ♥!
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:( for no more July seats though.
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Will come back to this!
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Yes, you should be studying! Go! Have priorities! CHEMISTRY~
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J: YUNHO~ He's such a good dancer! And he's such a gentleman! *___* This sounds really fangirl-y and dork-ish, but I used to go on youtube and look up dance clips so I could ooh and aww over his mad dance skillz. *dies*
Psst, here is a ninja!fic rec:
forgiveness (http://ouimonsieur.livejournal.com/36928.html)
nietzche is dead (http://unlearned.livejournal.com/32657.html)
Daybreak (http://community.livejournal.com/jaeho_exchange/4599.html)
Every Human Love (series) (http://community.livejournal.com/writingonawall/tag/s:+every+human+love) (This isn't Jaeho, but it had such a cool concept that I couldn't resist putting it in here.)
Like you, most of what I like is by
M: I used to think I read a lot of manga until I realized that I only read Naruto and stuff by CLAMP. *facepalm*
Q: 4. I change my handwriting every few years because I'm bored. Whoa, how do you do that? Are they variations of your "original" handwriting (e.g., you're decide you want your handwriting to look more cursive-y or more block-y), or do they look completely different (i.e., your handwriting looks like a series of different fonts)? O_oa
I liked reading through your alphabet list; it was nice getting to know you a little better. :) *hopes that doesn't sound weird/awkward*
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:D Feel no shame about fangirling Yunho - I've done it myself! And I do it still with Hankyung and Donghae.
And also YAY FIC RECS! Thank you so much!
As for my handwriting, it changes um...well, I guess I can do the handwriting meme sometime and show you the differences over the years. The changes now are more subtle but over the years they've been pretty drastic.
And I like getting to know people better too. It's not creepy!
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I have much Yunho-love. BD
You're welcome! I hope you like them. :D
Yeah, I don't want to make people uncomfortable or anything, so I just double-check w/ them. -o-;;
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DBSK fic--Jaeho, enh. I like my Soulmate couple~~ :D (in as much as i like/prefer any dongbang couple, haha. my forays into DBSK fanfic pretty much begin and end with
SUNGMIN IS THE BEST EVER. :D :D oh, i forgot to mention in my post that awesome prank-call SM did where he CONVINCED SOME GUY TO DONATE BONE MARROW. so, so devious. ilhsm. ;-;
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Yeah, my forays into DBSK are fairly shallow as well. It's a sort of huge and terrifying fandom full of crappy fic. I can never find the good stuff. :(
I know about Semagic, but I still like to make my life harder? IDK.
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... Cardcaptors (oh awful, the dub ruined everything),...
x_x Gahhh, I don't even want to go there and discuss how the show killed my heart when I first saw the Snow episode. Gawd~! *throws rice table*
4. I change my handwriting every few years because I'm bored.
o_O lol.
DBSK:
rabid fangirls - true.
flood of jaeho fic - true.
w-inds.: T_T reminds me so much of how I entered the J-pop. JE didn't do it for me. w-inds. just won me over, and like you, I love Keita as well. :D Super Lover is still an awesome song. <3
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Cardcaptors was truly awful, but the manga is excellent and the CCS Japanese anime was lovely (or so I've heard). ♥ So beautiful.
Aw, Keita, so cute. ;[]
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Yes, the manga is excellent. The Japanese anime is also awesome, despite the fact that some things have been changed like the end of the series and the roles in the play, the series remained true to the manga. The eyecandy of course is the voice cast. OMG! Kero-chan is so hilarious!
XDD Ahaha, the box smile.
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that gif is....*staaaares* Donghae, why so hot.
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But then again, 26 is actually a lot!DBSK: IDEK. I didn't think I would ever get into them. But along came flist, and you can't really escape the power of your flist D: Things happened and YES I AGREE it has the most terrifying fandom EVER. Most of the time I am so, so scared of these fans who are so hardcore and over-the-top that it turns me off. And they read between the lines!
Which brings me onto the Jaeho. They have such a soft spot in my heart. Really, but not their fans! D: (How can you when fans look at a picture of them "vaguely" looking in each others direction and say "omg they're so getting it on!") And you're right, the badfics are all over the place D: (But then people like
I think I've read too many badfics to know what a goodfic is like anymoreI really, really love Pilot Precise .05 pens. Love. Especially in different colors.
*-* I love you. And everyone with fascinations with colored pens. I used to buy these pretty, thin pens and never use them because I love them so much. :D
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Oh DBSK, I linger on the fringes of its crazy fandom. I went on a finding-JaeHo-fic kick last night and found some decent stuff at
Pilot Precise pens are amaaaazing. I love pretty pens. *__*
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alskdjf *DIES OF WANT* ;_____; S-sometimes I see really cute babies on the bus, like last week there was this precious baby that had the LONGEST eyelashes ever and I couldn't stop staring and its mom got all creeped out. T__T
H - Y. YYYYYYYYYY.
M - I am so picky about art. =(
P - POM. *\o/*
Q - You are so cute. =( I like reading about you! And how could you not like mushrooms, gasp! Though I agree on the stationery point. Guh, I am so picky about my pens and pencils.
S - Y. OMG. Y. Favourite ever? YES.
T - ...ew. D8
This was lots of fun to read. And I'm sure I had all sorts of interesting comments the first time I read it through b-but now I don't remember. orz
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SO. I should work on my Cinnamin. I WISH IT HAD A PLOT. OR AT LEAST A PLOT I UNDERSTOOD. ;_____;
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HEY, I LIKE THIS IDEA OF WRITING MIN. :DDDDDDD GO, DO. DECIPHER THAT PLOT!
ugh, all caps comment is all caps.
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Both Heechul and Sungmin are so uncooperative. :(
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(Anonymous) 2008-06-17 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)=( That's no fun.