Despite outward appearances, I am not in a bad mood. I'm just annoyed by shitty people. This is, I guess, going to count as my thinky thoughts post, re: bandom and bands, in two points. Why I feel compelled to post this shit after midnight, half asleep, I do not know.
Disclaimer: This post was written close to 2 AM, running on about 5 hours of sleep in 2 days, so please excuse anything that doesn't make sense. I assure you, it all makes more sense in my head than it does written out.I am going to preface this post by saying that I have been in bandom since June of this year. I know it's not a long time, certainly not a long time to be into these bands compared to most of you guys, but I'll admit, I was one of those people that only ever listened to the radio. Ever. And if it wasn't played on the radio, I wasn't listening to it. Now, I never listen to the radio, I listen to
Pete Wentz you guys. Anyway, in addition to that, I maybe mocked bandslash at first. Not actual mocking, just. Vague, "but it's
bandslash" comments, because it made me think of popslash. And I know at least a couple of you used to do the popslash thing, so not to make fun of you guys, be it just. Is not my cup of tea, we'll put it that way.
That being said, bandom kind of ate my soul. In a good way, obviously. It eclipsed all of my other fandoms, caused me to lose complete interest in most of my TV shows (which were my previous fandoms, anyway), and also caused me to stop listening to most of the music I listened to previously. It's also sort of all I ever talk about, and I am
not going to apologize for that. Ever.
Which brings me around to my first point.
( Liat's rant about bandom haters. ).
Point number two. This one is a tad more sensitive and really, really irks me sometimes. More-so than the first point, because I tend to see this more often. And I am in no way pointing fingers at anyone when I say this stuff, just so you guys know. It's just a general feeling I get from people sometimes, no one in specific, and I want to express my feelings. If you don't want to read it, feel free to skip over it.
( Liat's feelings on bandom 'elitists' (and not of the fic variety). )And I could probably ramble on and on about My Chemical Romance and Gerard Way, but that's another post for another time, I think. :)
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And I'm done. The purpose of this post was not to offend anyone, or stir up arguments, it was just me wanting to get these feelings off my chest. Feel free to discuss, with me, with each other. Opinions are opinions and everyone is entitled to their own.
I love you guys.
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