meme's been making me sad lately. :( the lack of genuine discussion about girl groups has Bern getting me down. idk i feel like recently any attempts to discuss any girl group just gets a few 'oh, cute!" or "ive been meaning to get into them"comments and not much more.
i love it when anons talk about their biases in detail (even when i don't share the same biases, I really like seeing the passion some anons have).
and okay, ive been sitting staring at this draft for ambitious girls thinking this whole thing would be easier if i had someone to talk to about the girls I'm writing.
i do try to link as many girl-group-relevant things as possible, but most of it doesn't garner a whole lot of discussion. i certainly don't want to force anons to discuss something that they have no interest in, and there have been times where girl group discussion was great, but meme going slow typically means a resurgence of guy groups. there's not a good hub of girl group discussion anywhere, even on tumblr. ;A;
i don't want to whine, but i do wonder why girl group discussion has decreased. do we not have as many girl group anons? is it because there's not a lot of fic to discuss? do people not invest themselves as much in girls as they do in boys? we just don't know. ~_~
for me, it's pretty much because I know of a lot of girls and I like my biases in them a lot but a) there's not enough detailed material abouth them and b) all groups come second to my one main fandom. idek how many people are in infinite and sometimes it takes me a while to know who's who in super junior. I know my girl groups more but, like I said, there's not enough material or not a decent fansub team
and tbh i think meme in general has become a lot less talkative, esp compared to a while ago when it was literally girl group anons everywhere
i'd be more amused by the fact that janghyun is actually supposedly a egotistical asshole (cheated on and emotionally abused a former girlfriend? check! took too much credit for his contributions to the group when members like misung have done more than him and get little to no credit? check!) if half of sunny hill's fans didn't consider him their favorite and don't see the appeal of sunny hill as a girl group.
as a girl myself, i think it's harder to stan girl groups bc, through my experience as a female, i can more easily spot the inner-workings behind each member's public persona. we all know idols promote false images but it's almost like it's easier to play along when they're male, simply because i can't call bs about half the things i can with girls... if that makes any sense?
i also feel like there is a much narrower set of stock roles for female idols to play, and yeah, it feels (to me) like there can be more artifice for girl groups' personas, or at least their public personas feel stifling to me.
my mom might have cancer and i haven't told anybody yet because we won't know until she takes a few tests next year and she doesn't want anybody to worry unnecessarily, even though the chances are really high
and i want to tell my best friend but i feel like i can't because even though i've known her for ten years, we've been drifting apart lately and we only really meet up twice a year and even though it's really nice when we do meet up, she's got a lot going on in her life rn so i'm perfectly okay with just listening and reminiscing about old times. and i know she hates it when people only use her to take care of them because they're feeling sad, and i know i haven't been there for her enough in the last few years to let me use her to talk about this.
idk. maybe i just needed somewhere to talk about this. my mom might have liver cancer and she's the sole breadwinner of our family and we're already in a fair amount of debt and my brother is going into post-secondary next year so i really hope the world ends next week.
i can only stan groups whose music i really like. :/ are any other anons like this? idk, i've tried to get into groups for other reasons, but if i don't like their music and performances i can't do it. my main fandoms (and even my minor fandoms) are all groups that i was initially attracted to because i heard one of their songs/albums and loved it.
nah i pretty much only follow groups whose music i enjoy. i don't stan all of them only for the music though, because sometimes people are such quality individuals i can't help but stan them anyway
i wish there was more of an audience for gen. i don't ship kpop lady pairings that often, but sometimes i just want to write from a female point of view without any kind of romantic plot point. i feel like there aren't too many readers for that, though?
i also feel like there is a much narrower set of stock roles for female idols to play
this reminded me that i wanted to talk about characterizing girls! i feel like it's hard to get a grasp on their personalities because the roles are so confined and superficial and with some groups (aka the ones with subbed material ;~;) it's a lot easier to spot where the persona ends and personality begins but for a lot without subbed material the only thing you're going off of is some shallow character traits, which is probably why so many people feel like characterization in girl fic is shallow.
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