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when did I ever promise you the world?
Sometimes I have non-incoherent thoughts too, though usually they come out in the form of unpopular fandom opinions:
【一】 What's up with praising people to high heavens for the bare minimum of human decency? It's like thanking someone for not punching you in the face. Shouldn't we have higher standards than that?
What do I mean?
GD does something with basic human decency that all humans should have done in that situation, gets praised as G-sus.
(Summary for those who hate omona as much as I do: a mom takes her fairly young kid to a Big Bang concert and gets separated from him in a crush of fans rushing to surround GD, who is running around the balcony area as part of the show. GD, also trapped in the throng, basically does his best to protect the kid from the rabid fans, tries to signal the bodyguards to help, and blocks a trashcan from falling on the kid.)
It's kind of like saying "Congratulations for not being an asshole!" or "Well done on not being racist today!" It reminds me, actually, of back during Kangin's hit-and-run, all the fans who thought his going back to apologize and own up was such a brave and noble thing to do. No, you fuckers, it is basic human decency considering he HIT AND RUN in the first place.
Don't get me wrong: I'm glad GD was not an asshole. I'm absolutely glad he did help the kid. I think he's probably a pretty good guy. I definitely get the gratitude from the mother. But this excessive praise and misty pride by fans?
I'm so glad your idol is notMel Gibson a raging prick, I guess, but, um.
【二】 I don't do OT3s. Other people do, that's cool, they're not really my thing. I shout about threesomes and moresomes when it comes to smut because, hey, yeah, the more the merrier, right? But when it comes down to my favorite true love happily ever after fics (yes, I'm actually a twelve-year-old fairy princess inside), I ship OTPs like they're going out of style. I think shipwars are stupid and we should all live and let live (and flail with the stuff that makes us happy in fandom rather than spending time being butthurt), but I'm also a little annoyed with the attitude that OT3s are the best and only answer to any differences in shipping and that if I don't support them, I must be a close-minded tinhatting ship-war-starting OTP fangirl. Really, not all of us are. You can enjoy your contrary ship and your OT3! I don't hate you; I will never attack you or your ship. Can we not have this attitude where only OT3-ers are open-minded and welcoming, and all OTP-ers are batshit and out for blood? Let's be honest, I'm way too busy trying to make my OTP make out at all opportunities.
Points go to people who know the only OT3 I've ever sincerely shipped in my five gazillion years of fandom. (Yes, I am that old.)
【三】 On an unrelated non-fandom note, one thing I've observed about exchange programs is that the majority of people go on them to party and hook up, which is not exactly an earth-shattering revelation (though not a newsletter to which I subscribe). Usually that hooking up is with other exchange students, because that's the crowd they stay in, sort of enclosed in a foreigner-bubble with little interest in seeing what the real country and culture is like beyond the superficial (this is also why I don't hang out with a ton of other exchange students, sadly). Sometimes that hooking up is directed particularly at the women of the foreign country they are visiting and, well. Maybe this is less common in Europe, but it is all over the place in Asia; I have heard so many jokes (all from Western guys) about "wanting a Chinese girlfriend" or "get[ing] myself an Asian wife" that I might actually throw up.
Because, you know, that is fucking skeevy as hell, to say nothing of misogynistic, racist, colonialist, absolutely demeaning, etc. etc. I would like to kick you in the balls. Or is that not sweet and obedient and Asian enough for you?
Asshole.
【一】 What's up with praising people to high heavens for the bare minimum of human decency? It's like thanking someone for not punching you in the face. Shouldn't we have higher standards than that?
What do I mean?
GD does something with basic human decency that all humans should have done in that situation, gets praised as G-sus.
(Summary for those who hate omona as much as I do: a mom takes her fairly young kid to a Big Bang concert and gets separated from him in a crush of fans rushing to surround GD, who is running around the balcony area as part of the show. GD, also trapped in the throng, basically does his best to protect the kid from the rabid fans, tries to signal the bodyguards to help, and blocks a trashcan from falling on the kid.)
It's kind of like saying "Congratulations for not being an asshole!" or "Well done on not being racist today!" It reminds me, actually, of back during Kangin's hit-and-run, all the fans who thought his going back to apologize and own up was such a brave and noble thing to do. No, you fuckers, it is basic human decency considering he HIT AND RUN in the first place.
Don't get me wrong: I'm glad GD was not an asshole. I'm absolutely glad he did help the kid. I think he's probably a pretty good guy. I definitely get the gratitude from the mother. But this excessive praise and misty pride by fans?
I'm so glad your idol is not
【二】 I don't do OT3s. Other people do, that's cool, they're not really my thing. I shout about threesomes and moresomes when it comes to smut because, hey, yeah, the more the merrier, right? But when it comes down to my favorite true love happily ever after fics (yes, I'm actually a twelve-year-old fairy princess inside), I ship OTPs like they're going out of style. I think shipwars are stupid and we should all live and let live (and flail with the stuff that makes us happy in fandom rather than spending time being butthurt), but I'm also a little annoyed with the attitude that OT3s are the best and only answer to any differences in shipping and that if I don't support them, I must be a close-minded tinhatting ship-war-starting OTP fangirl. Really, not all of us are. You can enjoy your contrary ship and your OT3! I don't hate you; I will never attack you or your ship. Can we not have this attitude where only OT3-ers are open-minded and welcoming, and all OTP-ers are batshit and out for blood? Let's be honest, I'm way too busy trying to make my OTP make out at all opportunities.
Points go to people who know the only OT3 I've ever sincerely shipped in my five gazillion years of fandom. (Yes, I am that old.)
【三】 On an unrelated non-fandom note, one thing I've observed about exchange programs is that the majority of people go on them to party and hook up, which is not exactly an earth-shattering revelation (though not a newsletter to which I subscribe). Usually that hooking up is with other exchange students, because that's the crowd they stay in, sort of enclosed in a foreigner-bubble with little interest in seeing what the real country and culture is like beyond the superficial (this is also why I don't hang out with a ton of other exchange students, sadly). Sometimes that hooking up is directed particularly at the women of the foreign country they are visiting and, well. Maybe this is less common in Europe, but it is all over the place in Asia; I have heard so many jokes (all from Western guys) about "wanting a Chinese girlfriend" or "get[ing] myself an Asian wife" that I might actually throw up.
Because, you know, that is fucking skeevy as hell, to say nothing of misogynistic, racist, colonialist, absolutely demeaning, etc. etc. I would like to kick you in the balls. Or is that not sweet and obedient and Asian enough for you?
Asshole.