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marimo_bloggerJust survived midterms.
Apart from spreading my Hetalia virus (as well as ; I'm so proud of myself, Ning!) to quite a lot of people (well, the definition of 'a lot' may differ, but) and watching Avatar: The Last Airbender, I've been spending my free time (or what was left of it nowadays) doing homework and chipping away at fanarts I owe people. I ought to be shot for not finishing anything at all and being a slowpoke.
Hetalia is quite an old fandom already, huh? I mean, it's been there since 2008? I've always pictured that fandoms come and go as the anime seasons pass (well, the long-running ones obviously have longer-lasting fandoms), as would be indicated by the doujinshi and fanmade goods variety during cons. Over the past two years, I've watched, stalked, and followed many people who produce fanarts and fanfictions; so many that I even made separate folders in my fic and art folders for these people. As the years go by (oh come off of it, now, marimo, it hasn't been that long), some of them left the Hetalia fandom, while some new usernames appeared on my stalking-list.
Truth be told, I'm actually proud of myself for having induced some new fans into the fandom; I'm hoping that they would be like a breath of fresher air to the fandom. I mean, I bookmarked an ff.net link to let me see updates on US/UK fanfics, and I've been checking for quite some time. It's just sad to see the same plot(s) being used all over again, very disturbing OOC -ness (think abusive!Arthur), trollfics, and the lot. I'm sick of reading about idiotic!blonde!America and angsty!self-hating!England, and I'm only skimming the summaries!
I thought of how the fandom has deteriorated a lot. It's true what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
abarero said some time ago: few seems interested in the canon characters anymore. Sadface.
Well, it has made my resolve to draw more fluffy US/UK art even stronger, I guess.
Now onto Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's pretty awesome :) I love the fast pacing of the story: stuff always happens in every episode that's important somehow, and culminates towards the end, and there are no filler episodes (YAY!). Tales of Ba Sing Se is my favourite episode so far. Also, I like how they incorporate Asian terminology and names in it so fittingly. I always laugh when I get them, like Suki, Yue... Haha. My favourite characters would be Iroh, Toph, and Zuko.
But. I don't really like how they just pair off Aang and Katara, as well as other couples. My initial reaction while watching it was "ಠ_ಠ uh, what? Where's the development in the relationship? How come suddenly Aang just decides he likes Katara in this episode?". I honestly didn't see the chemistry between the pairs! Oh wait, does it even exist? It's like the characters decide, "Oh, in this episode, I'm gonna like him/her, but not in the next one". Toph did, Aang did, Zuko did. The romance sub-plot is seriously lacking in development and realistic-ness.
But the story is good. The animation is, too; the blend between cartoon and anime is smooth, with the cartoon-style comical expressions and anime-style timing.
Now, movies. This was quite some time ago, but I'll just jot it down here. So, one day...
I watched Brokeback Mountain.
The shirts. THE SHIRTS. I was bawling like crazy. I know it's too far-fetched to hope for a happy ending for the two of them, but... ugh ;A; *sniffles* their story really got to me. I didn't even know what to watch after it, or if I want to watch anything, because it'd ruin the whole... thing for me.
And some random afterthoughts: I hate how society works, living and following the set of rules predetermined by somebody else. I hate being a part of it. I always wonder why they can't just mind their own business. They tell us to be what and who we really are, but why do they make it so hard for it to be?
And marriage is a really hard thing. A big step, and you don't know for sure if it's the right way or not. It's always portrayed as something wonderful, rosy, and a sure-fire way of attaining happiness. Me, I think it's an anchor that ties you down and drags you under. Some couples come into mind, and... well, happiness is relative, but I doubt what I see in them is happiness. I do believe that true love exists, but we won't be able to be sure if they're the one or not. (Oh, look at me, a cynic and an idealist. What a joke; I'm an impossibility *scoffs at self*).
So a good few hours (more like half a day) later I watched Pride and Prejudice (2005), Death at a Funeral (2007), Gosford Park (2001), The Hangover (2009), Across the Universe (2007), Accepted (2006). I must say, Across the Universe was EPIC. The editing, the music, the bits of surrealism and imagery that's very fitting... They really captured the intended atmosphere well.
I also watched Freedom Writers, Soul Surfer, and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (again).
Recently, one of my groupmates talked to me that she found it disgusting that Michelangelo was gay, which she knew about when researching for a summary of Renaissance, and gave me some invalid arguments (which she sadly didn't realise). I almost wanted to tell her that homophobia is gay, but I held back. Oh, the narrow-mindedness of people here. I feel like I could choke at any moment.
Apart from spreading my Hetalia virus (as well as ; I'm so proud of myself, Ning!) to quite a lot of people (well, the definition of 'a lot' may differ, but) and watching Avatar: The Last Airbender, I've been spending my free time (or what was left of it nowadays) doing homework and chipping away at fanarts I owe people. I ought to be shot for not finishing anything at all and being a slowpoke.
Hetalia is quite an old fandom already, huh? I mean, it's been there since 2008? I've always pictured that fandoms come and go as the anime seasons pass (well, the long-running ones obviously have longer-lasting fandoms), as would be indicated by the doujinshi and fanmade goods variety during cons. Over the past two years, I've watched, stalked, and followed many people who produce fanarts and fanfictions; so many that I even made separate folders in my fic and art folders for these people. As the years go by (oh come off of it, now, marimo, it hasn't been that long), some of them left the Hetalia fandom, while some new usernames appeared on my stalking-list.
Truth be told, I'm actually proud of myself for having induced some new fans into the fandom; I'm hoping that they would be like a breath of fresher air to the fandom. I mean, I bookmarked an ff.net link to let me see updates on US/UK fanfics, and I've been checking for quite some time. It's just sad to see the same plot(s) being used all over again, very disturbing OOC -ness (think abusive!Arthur), trollfics, and the lot. I'm sick of reading about idiotic!blonde!America and angsty!self-hating!England, and I'm only skimming the summaries!
I thought of how the fandom has deteriorated a lot. It's true what
abarero said some time ago: few seems interested in the canon characters anymore. Sadface.Well, it has made my resolve to draw more fluffy US/UK art even stronger, I guess.
Now onto Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's pretty awesome :) I love the fast pacing of the story: stuff always happens in every episode that's important somehow, and culminates towards the end, and there are no filler episodes (YAY!). Tales of Ba Sing Se is my favourite episode so far. Also, I like how they incorporate Asian terminology and names in it so fittingly. I always laugh when I get them, like Suki, Yue... Haha. My favourite characters would be Iroh, Toph, and Zuko.
But. I don't really like how they just pair off Aang and Katara, as well as other couples. My initial reaction while watching it was "ಠ_ಠ uh, what? Where's the development in the relationship? How come suddenly Aang just decides he likes Katara in this episode?". I honestly didn't see the chemistry between the pairs! Oh wait, does it even exist? It's like the characters decide, "Oh, in this episode, I'm gonna like him/her, but not in the next one". Toph did, Aang did, Zuko did. The romance sub-plot is seriously lacking in development and realistic-ness.
But the story is good. The animation is, too; the blend between cartoon and anime is smooth, with the cartoon-style comical expressions and anime-style timing.
Now, movies. This was quite some time ago, but I'll just jot it down here. So, one day...
I watched Brokeback Mountain.
The shirts. THE SHIRTS. I was bawling like crazy. I know it's too far-fetched to hope for a happy ending for the two of them, but... ugh ;A; *sniffles* their story really got to me. I didn't even know what to watch after it, or if I want to watch anything, because it'd ruin the whole... thing for me.
And some random afterthoughts: I hate how society works, living and following the set of rules predetermined by somebody else. I hate being a part of it. I always wonder why they can't just mind their own business. They tell us to be what and who we really are, but why do they make it so hard for it to be?
And marriage is a really hard thing. A big step, and you don't know for sure if it's the right way or not. It's always portrayed as something wonderful, rosy, and a sure-fire way of attaining happiness. Me, I think it's an anchor that ties you down and drags you under. Some couples come into mind, and... well, happiness is relative, but I doubt what I see in them is happiness. I do believe that true love exists, but we won't be able to be sure if they're the one or not. (Oh, look at me, a cynic and an idealist. What a joke; I'm an impossibility *scoffs at self*).
So a good few hours (more like half a day) later I watched Pride and Prejudice (2005), Death at a Funeral (2007), Gosford Park (2001), The Hangover (2009), Across the Universe (2007), Accepted (2006). I must say, Across the Universe was EPIC. The editing, the music, the bits of surrealism and imagery that's very fitting... They really captured the intended atmosphere well.
I also watched Freedom Writers, Soul Surfer, and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (again).
Recently, one of my groupmates talked to me that she found it disgusting that Michelangelo was gay, which she knew about when researching for a summary of Renaissance, and gave me some invalid arguments (which she sadly didn't realise). I almost wanted to tell her that homophobia is gay, but I held back. Oh, the narrow-mindedness of people here. I feel like I could choke at any moment.
