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Mar. 9th, 2010 05:29 pm
muskruid: super junior m's henry (storm)
So, basically, ELF have been flooding Henry's baidu with apologies, and almost every thread goes something like this:

ELF: I want to apologize.
Strings: Yeah, sure, w/e.
ELF: I'm sincere! Truly!
Strings: Kind of late for that, don't you think?
ELF: No, really, I never hated Henry or Zhoumi, I just can't accept them.
Strings:
Strings: D:
Strings: Bitch, plz.

It's kind of amusing, but I feel sorry for the mods. I know ELF are trying, but um, I feel like they should think about why they want the Strings to acknowledge and accept their apologies so much. A quick absolution of guilt? Methinks so.

Wih a heads-up from Clip: "I don't want an apology, I want you to grow a conscience."

Anyway, the support messages are (mostly) awesome, but I want to talk a bit about the back-handed complimenting that's going on all the damn time. Because, you know, when you say shit like 13 as a group, 15 as a family (AND YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THIS 'MOTTO' GETS MY GOAT) you aren't actually supporting Henry or Zhoumi as performers in their own right. You are basically saying, "Super Junior is the actualfax band, and Henry and Mimi can hang out with them sometime, because we're that nice."

PLEASE STOP. You sound like a douchnozzle.

I'm not even going to touch all the comments of 'but they're just in SJM' because it is dangerously close to being my berserk-button, negl.

If (the collective) you'll take a hard look at what Henry actually wrote, you can see he doesn't give a shit about what you think of his relationship (or lack thereof) with the band. He's angry and frustrated and hurt because he (and by extension Mimi) can't do what he loves, he can't perform. In that regard, it has fuck-all to do with Super Junior.

Seriously. Just look at any fancam from the Shanghai Super Show. I've never seen Henry go through the motions so fucking much and with so little enthusiasm, and that's saying alot, because whatever else Henry may be, he isn't an actor. He pretty much wears his heart on his sleeve, and I have no doubt that it's only his enjoyment in performing that made him stick around when the first waves of batshit began hitting him. The only sense of fun I can see him having is when Heechul planted one on him (and thanks for that, Heechul, misguided an attempt as it was ♥). In fact, during Blue Tomorrow on the seventh, I seriously thought he was just going to walk out of there, song be fucked (and I'm not sure whether I'm disappointed or relieved that he didn't). What you're doing, what you have been doing for the last couple of years, is destroying his love for the stage, and it upsets me to the core, because he clearly loves it so much.

So please, for the love of Siwon, shut up.


In more recent news, Hangeng looks fantastic in that Sohu interview. I'm glad to see him doing well. But. Is this interview really the smartest thing he could have done? Lol, Hangeng. Either way, I wish him all the best, wherever he may go. Be happy, Gege. ♥
muskruid: super junior m's henry (henry)
Super serious post about Super Junior M (or rather, Henry) is super serious and also long.

Jesus fucking Christ on a purple pogo-stick. I swear to God this is the only fandom that can make me shed angry tears of rage just for existing, which probably says alot about me and my investment issues right there, huh. Admittedly, this is why I've stepped back from it for the last month or so (until Henry's fantabulous solo in Taiwan dragged me back kicking and screaming, but that's neither here nor there). Because basically, that's what you do when you're in something of a toxic relationship to something (or someone). And then it hit me like a fucking rhino wearing a toga. For Henry and Zhoumi, there is no stepping back.

For people not in the know, I'm referring to the Shanghai Super Show held on the seventh and the sixth of March. The vitrol the ANTIs (and by this time, I really, really can't call them ELF anymore, I realize this) spewed those days were awful, the worst it's been this year and, dare I say it, the year before. There are ANTIs who will defend what they did with the same BS we've heard before (ie.; it's only because we love Hangeng so much and are disappointed that he isn't here, it's to make sure SM knows this, it's nothing personal against either Zhoumi or Henry, honest!) but again, I call bullshit. It's pretty fucking obvious that the chants for Hangeng were always loudest when either Zhoumi or Henry were on-stage and singing. I'm not even going to mention the jeers of "GTFO" and "get off Super Junior's stage". It even culmulated into Siwon telling the fans to shut up when curtain call came around (you don't want to know how much my respect and love for that man skyrocketed, no, you don't).

When Siwon is telling you to STFU, you STFU and reflect on the fact that it was Siwon, all-around nice guy and crowd pleaser Siwon, who told you to.

Anyway, long story short and the reason for this amazing piece of teel dear, Henry snapped fantastically. It's all over everywhere, I feel, and the baidu bar has been going insane with support messages and people freaking out, but.

I feel relieved. It's been a long time coming, and I always figured it was going to be sooner or later. His silences, his letting Hangeng and Zhoumi speak for him and his stance on the ANTI-movement during every interview ever (no, seriously), I felt that spoke of all the disgust and hurt he didn't want to give voice to, and reading his message, I guess I'm right.

On that note, I can understand perfectly where he's coming from, why he would write this now, because (going on a bit of a tangent and arm-chair psychologist route here) after the rush of the Taipei Super Show (which was a-fucking-mazing, and I've never smiled so much through a Super Show ever), it must have been such a fucking disappointment to go back to Mainland China, to have to deal with the same old fucking crap he's been dealing with for up to four fucking years now, and I don't begrudge him it, and I'm ridiculously proud of him for speaking up in such a polite and civil way. (Oh my God, seriously. I'd have always pegged him for the affable, silent type who'd just go red with rage at one point or another. I'm glad he felt that he could share it with the Strings in such a peacable manner. YEAH, ILHSFMRN.)

So, I don't know. I'm happy and sad and angry and about everything inbetween at the moment. And also not making that much sense. I've tried to leave a message at the baidu bar, but unfortunately my babelfish-fu just isn't up to the task of not being totally fail at getting anything posted on there. So, I'll just use this dusty, old space.

An Open Letter To Henry:
(aka, Boy, Listen To Me)


Even if I'm half-way across the world, I love you so fucking much, you don't even want to know. I know a large part of the message you wrote isn't addressed to the people who love you and support you and there isn't anything we can do or say to make all the stupid and the hurtful people go away, but I still want to say that we're listening, we're here and we understand perfectly. Thank you in return for being so honest with us, for being so headstrong through it all, and for being, you know, you. :)

I wish I could give you and Zhoumi a big internet-hug, but well, these words will have to do.

Please be happy and brilliant and keep doing what you love, Zhoumi and you both. I love you guys. No matter what happens, no matter what paths you both will take. ♥

If the world gets to be too much, just breathe for awhile.
muskruid: glee! (glee)
I'M SO HAPPY WITH ANALYTICAL FANDOM, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW. ♥

I'm so glad that these questions are being asked, these things talked about, because I love the progressiveness of fandom, I love that we like to get our hands dirty, to say, "wait, this doesn't fly!" but what I've never understood is this obsessive need to erase ourselves in the process. So yeah. I'm happy that people who are much more eloquent than me are actually discussing it! THREE CHEERS FOR FANDOM. i can't believe i don't even have any icons with sexy girls in it, this is bad and i feel bad


And now for something completely different.

My TL;DR thoughts on Glee. Let me show you them. Spoiler-alert for pretty much all the thirteen episodes, to be safe. And one for the back nine, even. )

All-in-all, I'm waiting on April, because this show is a trainwreck. A cute trainwreck belting popular tunes from the last decade. Oh, show.


OH ALSO. BECAUSE I AM INCORRIGIBLE HERE'S SOME SUPER JUNIOR M SPAZZ.

I think that pimp-coat Henry's sporting should DIAF. No, really. )

/mops up


In other news, I watched Resident Evil yesterday. It was fun in that horror way where everybody needs to die and strangely hot. I want more Rain and Alice/Rain AU because damn. I'm kind of pondering seeing Avatar just for Michelle Rodriguez. I feel slightly pathetic.
muskruid: the caption, "drink coffee! do stupid things faster with more energy" (lulz)
This is all based on true events.

Somewhere in the passages of time, there was a Korean boyband, called, hilariously, Super Junior. This Korean boyband enjoyed some success, I suppose (though really, I wouldn't know), because not only did they sing about loving you long time, there were thirteen of them singing about loving you long time. So many pretty boys, so little time! Except of course for the tubby one, because, dude.

(Shindong, I seriously love you, man. ♥)

I digress. Either way, there were thirteen, and the world was a happy place. But then! (You seriously didn't think it would end happily-ever-after, right?)

From the fiery depths of Hell (also known as Canada) came a kid, a boy, no less, who used his satanic demon violin skills to curry favour with the bigshot of Korean boybands all the while looking like your favourite kid brother (if your kid brother were inclined to wear dead birds on their shoulder and uh, moonwalk while playing the violin, that is). And this all to ensure his goal of infiltrating the hapless succesful Korean boyband, the horrors!

Of course, the fangirls saw through his clever disguise, and started a silent protest. Which is actually one of the smartest things they've done in like, ever. Again, I digress.

When that didn't work, they were like, "I wonder if it's because we're not actually saying anything." That got heads spinning and reeling and tumbling end over end. Then, the head-honcho of the fangirl brigade and ostensibly the one with the biggest brain said, "You know, 13 + 1 = 0, right? So we should totally shout that while Demon Kid is using his Demonic Skills onstage."

(You can see how they were screwed from the start, ey?)

For some reason (I'm thinking mind-control) everybody thought this to be the greatest idea since shoving thirteen boys in a band and letting all of them sing about one line each. As you do.

But the sordid tale didn't end there, for the boss-man of the Korean boyband industry was like, "Psah, who needs Korea? I want the worldChina!" and had long ago made the decision to dump the Demon Spawn (from CanadaHell) in a sub-group with five members of the Korean boyband proper to go and "conquest" China.

The fangirls, instead of realizing that wow, this is a frikkin' boyband for God's sake, decided to boycott this sub-group and still used their faulty maths to try to dissuade the Demon Kid from owning their souls. No idea how that went, actually. The stories, much of them myths or legends, are patchy at best, and will no doubt be used as scary bed-time stories to learn the importance of not underestimating the batshit of the Korean fangirl.

Anyway, skip a year later, and me and my sister were just hanging out, and she pokes me and says, "Whatever happened to that crazy kid with the violin?" and I'm like, "What? How should I know? You want me to check?" and she's like, "Well, he was cute." and I'm like, "Yeah, he was. Demonic kids always are, don't'cha know."

I'll leave it to you to fill in the blanks, here. :)

This is all a very round-about way of saying that there will shortly be a FUCKIN' SUPER JUNIOR M SPAZZ POST OMG. ♥♥♥