寻觅你最明媚的四月天

I care very little about the NBA (not since Michael Jordan retired) but I've been following the whole Linsanity phenomenon (mostly in the news, because actually watching NBA games requires more effort than this college basketball fan can muster) with interest that stems mostly from the glut of posts on my Facebook feed (what you get from having so many Asian friends) and from the novelty of having an Asian-American succeed in professional basketball.

Things I've thought:

- YAY AN ASIAN-AMERICAN PRO SPORTS STAR. (Caveat: there are probably others in, like, baseball or something. I'm no good with American sports, okay?)

- WTF IS THIS REAL LIFE?

- Dude, this is perfect inspirational overcome-the-odds sports movie material! Only if it were made into an inspirational overcome-the-odds sports movie, people wouldn't buy it, because it is too damned clichéd to be real. Holy cow.

- LOL, who am I kidding? They'll never make this into a movie. The lead would have to be Asian. Not only that: tall and Asian. And reasonably attractive, because it's Hollywood. Hollywood doesn't believe tall, attractive Asian-Americans exist! (My love life possibly agrees.) Moreover, the problem is that it's a story entirely about an Asian person who isn't a kung-fu master, accented comic relief, or exotic and mysterious foreigner. UNPOSSIBLE. Hollywood wouldn't believe a movie revolving entirely around an Asian person could sell successfully. Hollywood doesn't believe anyone but white actors and actresses can hold the sympathy and/or interest of the white audience for the entire movie, after all, and white people are the majority, so if they won't come to the movie, then Hollywood doesn't rake in the dough, and then the world would end. Poor Hollywood, so constrained in their casting choices because they can't help it if their majority audience is white! It's just demographics!

- Honestly, though, he seems like the kind of superstar Gary Stu everyone hopes they'd be like if they were ever in the same position: not just awesome, not just with a great rags-to-riches Cinderella story, but remarkably down-to-earth and humble, happy to pass on the credit to his coach, his teammates, and the system of play the Knicks employ. (Also, God. But maybe not all of us would share that faith if we were the Mary Sue/Gary Stu in question.)

SERIOUSLY, HE IS A REAL LIFE GARY STU. (But Asian. Gary Chu?)

Take away all my serious thoughts and it really does come down to: Damn, it's pretty cool there's an Asian-American getting some recognition. I feel like hyphenated-Asians in the US either get lumped together with the rest of Asia or overlooked entirely. Suddenly it's like this invisible subculture has been revealed to the Rest of the World. The news articles, jesus. There are Asian-American Christians? There are Asian-Americans into sports?! There are Asian-Americans raised by Tiger Moms who care about more than studying and good grades?! Good god, next you're going to be telling us they can sing and rap and dance and write and make movies too!

So! Apparently, the majority of people don't know wtf the bar exam is? Or maybe just the majority of non-law people I know have no idea what it is. I have lived in such a skewed world perspective for the past three years, man. Studying for it is already making me moody and stressed and it's not even July! I will probably hiatus in July...

Anyway, the exam's July 24 & 25 and I appreciate all the well-wishing regardless. They work like little tiny cushions to prevent massive internal bleeding every time I want to headdesk in frustration and despair. (Spoiler: it's a lot.) :D

In a momentary break, while I can still afford to take them (well, no, I probably can't afford to take them, but while they are still justifiable to myself): calling all Eddie Izzard & Star Trek fans! A hilarious piece of comedy.



Funnier, I've been told, if you've seen TOS, but still tear-inducing hilarious if you've only seen the Reboot and read a lot of fic (like me).

And now, a poll about movies: ( Under the cut to save flists and spark curiosity. Ooh la la. )

Last note: SM finally got around to making official Zhou Mi merchandise. IT ONLY TOOK YOU THREE YEARS, FUCKERS. That said, I now have no disposable income whatsoever (I bought the peeeeens), so no dice. Now I am left only with dreams of daintily sipping alcoholic beverages potent enough to knock me out from the sweet cradle of your hot-pink-stylized mug, Zhou Mimi. (I am all class, amirite?)

I wish I could write. :|

Back to studying.

So I have been inadvertently caught up in the World Cup football craze! My Twittering has been a thing of incoherency, randomness, and beauty - if you want to take a look, I'm heartwaters. (Congrats to Korea for winning their opening game!)

This post is to bring to you the glory of Hot Men.

That is:

The Non-Football Fan's Guide to the World Cup
or What to do When You're Just Here for the Hot Men

"Want to watch the World Cup but know absolutely nothing about it? Enjoy ogling good-looking men whose jobs give them perfect bodies? Wonder if I really hate myself enough to decide to find at least one attractive player from every single one of the 32 partcipating nations? Well then, this picspam is for you! It won't really teach you much about football or any of the teams involved, but it will let you know who you should hope will take off their shirt."

AWESOME PICSPAM. (ETA: Sheena & Gem would like to lodge protests of cute guys that were missed. In that case, LEAVE SOME PICS HERE, LADIES.)

Want a more kpop-flavored picspam?

Have Donghae running around playing football in the rain showing you some gorgeous flashes of thigh.

You? No, those flashes of thigh are all for meeee.

And one last hot man though it is unrelated to soccer:

Jensen Ackles, wet. You know the phrase "rode hard and put away wet"? Looks like this. Also: FRECKLESSSS.

Credits to my darling swingingstars for the hot footballers and for Jensen, and love to my babydoll catskilt for wet!Donghae.

I like this post. Do you?

Firstly: Happiest of birthdays to my best suxing and forochel and (because it's likely I won't post again tomorrow) catskilt. To say nothing yet of the 26th, 27th, and 28th... So many May babies!

Secondly: So I was reading some people's thoughts on RPF/RPS and got kind of curious about the flist.

Do you guys have any strong feelings for or against RPF? I know a lot of you guys enjoy it/read it/write it considering that a lot of you I met, uh, in the kpop fandom. So.

I can enjoy almost anything in fiction because I have this huuuge mental barrier between reality and fiction so gay brotherly (apocalyptic) incest? I'm so there. Korean boy band members macking on each other? Sign me up. RL married actors ~falling in love with each other~? No problemo.

( More babble about RPS. Now tell me YOUR opinions! :D )

♡ Okay, I Ship Wincest and J2. Would anyone be interested if I made a fic rec post for the amazing fic that's stood out to me even among a wealth of amazing fic? (Or you could just go through my J2 and SPN memories.) You don't have to know the fandom that well either! I've only watched through season 2 - supernatural.tv keeps me updated on spoilers. Or you could just YT the gag reels and funny moment videos the fans have made. All kinds of amazing? Why, yes. ♥

♡ I SPENT THE WEEKEND WATCHING SNSD AND SHINEE ON HELLO BABY (haven't finished either yet) AND OMG. Just. Mad, mad flail. I want a baby so badly. ;_; No, it's a lie, I'm not so crazy as to think I could handle the responsibility right now. But oh god do I miss having cute babies and toddlers around to play with. My biological clock rings loudly at me. :(

Sunny is making a concerted effort at winning away Sica's favorite spot - she is so fucking cute (her aegyo, her aegyooo) and yet sexy and has a great sense of humor and I love her friendships with my other favorites and she is so good with babies. alskghf This is apparently more of a turn on for me than I realized. My heart~

Another person whose amazing kid skills have absconded with my heart? (I mean, yes, he had it already, but now the Favorite Forever is sort of cemented much the way my feelings for Donghae are.)

Choi Minhooo.



I can't flail hard enough about how insanely adorable he is with Yoogeun and how he totally dotes on him and is so patient and spoils him so badly. So much spoiling, god, but that's mostly because he's not actually the kid's father - I believe he'll be able to be strict once he's got his own kid. He's already got the interest and the energy and the ability to teach and eee. But omg Minho is so in love with Yoogeun that it makes me smile so, so much. Favorite foreverrrrr. But the show really made me love all of them - I'm learning about SHINee, sob. Maybe I'll be able to write them better now. Jonghyunnie, iluuuu.

I remember Donghae on Adonis Camp being awesome with the kids - he was so young then though and he spent most of the time playing with them. I'd like to believe he's matured to the point where he could handle taking care of them on top of just the playing?

God, I love this show. Baabieeeeeees. Cute Asian baaaaaabies. And the sweetest, most adorable idols ever. ♥♥ /grabby hands

Related: I've gotten a hold of the first five eps of SHINee on Hello Baby, subbed. Does anyone know where I'd go for the following? I know the last episode airs tomorrow or something and there are reports of tears, teaaaaaaars. Oh Minho.

♡ ( Cut for a large picture of gorgeous aquarium. )

Um, I kind of want to visit the Seaworld in Thailand now. Holy shit that is a huge and gorgeous aquarium. Is the Georgia Aquarium comparable, because that's already on mine and swingingstars's list.

♡ As a UNC alum, I root for two teams: UNC and whoever's playing Duke. Thus, NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship tonight? GO BUTLER. Just for the record.