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am in a wierd post-period state of wanting to *break* something. It's like some vague unease wherein every post I start and don't finish seems to be a rant on something or other and there's this sense of jitteryness and I haven't been drinking tea since this feeling's started (so it's not the caffeine) and I'm not ticked off at anyone insofar as I consciously know.
I'm wondering if it's because of the post-periodness. am wondering if it's because I've been reading too many wanks. am wondering about the state of being a fen and of being a squeal-y fangirl, about the use of the glomp and the hugs and the fannish flirtatiousness that may or may-not be uncomfortable to people and yet. and yet what is fandom sometimes but a group of people who've found a specific outlet to be mentally and emotionally touched?
It took me until senior year HS to realize that I was touch-starved, and whereas physically that was easy-ish to accomplish (with glomp friendly close friends) and yet sometimes in other ways it was hard to connect, because even as I've made peace with the fact that my mind worked in very strange ways and with the idea that I'm a bit of a freak (ie. not the same; ie. don't think the same; ie. don't communicate the same) and even as I can mostly tamp down the strangeness in mixed company, well...it makes communication difficult, yanno?
what is a ::glomp::? a ::hug::?
I think about this:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/100_roadtrips/51810.html#cutid1
and about this:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fannishly/17777.html?mode=reply&style=mine
and in specific this paragraph:
But that leaves the underbelly exposed. And I'm not quite comfortable with that I suppose, or perhaps strong enough. and... it's so EASY to slide back into that mentality. so. so. fucking easy.
Norrington hurts me. The putting myself in his POV hurts me in that way that's like watching someone place the key to your cell in a place always unreachable to you. Like letting go of the guy that I loved (thought I loved? I still don't know) to someone that'll probably be better for him than I (and I the better for not letting him have a chance to tear me down) and yet watching them kiss and interact and being *happy* for them and knowing that I'm better off without him but godDAMMIT he was MINE.
It's tricky. And a complicated mess. And if you've ever been weirded-out by a coolish response to a norrington or sparrington comment made in my journal? that's why.
I still don't know completely my thoughts, this is unorganized, maybe I can get some perspective on this with some more objective viewpoints.
But, at the end of it? I will ::glomp:: and ::hug:: and try to be emotionally touchable and squee over stuff in shameless piles of happy because I've noticed, both online and off, that smiling first causes other people to be less afraid to smile.
And I guess that can be considered my fannish manifesto: share the love, so that it grows.
::hugs flist::
[edit] Which I guess, in a way, explains why I get pissed off at the permanent my-policy-is-to-not-feedback-lurkers, who then complain about their fandoms being small. Feedback = more inspiration, and I can only shake my head at the people who don't get this...
[edit2] upon thought, this could be considered an addendum to The Mom post I had a bit back.
I'm wondering if it's because of the post-periodness. am wondering if it's because I've been reading too many wanks. am wondering about the state of being a fen and of being a squeal-y fangirl, about the use of the glomp and the hugs and the fannish flirtatiousness that may or may-not be uncomfortable to people and yet. and yet what is fandom sometimes but a group of people who've found a specific outlet to be mentally and emotionally touched?
It took me until senior year HS to realize that I was touch-starved, and whereas physically that was easy-ish to accomplish (with glomp friendly close friends) and yet sometimes in other ways it was hard to connect, because even as I've made peace with the fact that my mind worked in very strange ways and with the idea that I'm a bit of a freak (ie. not the same; ie. don't think the same; ie. don't communicate the same) and even as I can mostly tamp down the strangeness in mixed company, well...it makes communication difficult, yanno?
what is a ::glomp::? a ::hug::?
I think about this:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/100_roadtrips/51810.html#cutid1
and about this:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fannishly/17777.html?mode=reply&style=mine
and in specific this paragraph:
I'm thinking again of Ed Norton's comment that the modern world has "dark cool irony disease." I don't discount anyone's genuine eye-rolling response to this movie, or to any particular movie or whatever, but in general I do agree that there's a common distaste for earnestness, a tendency to dismiss all sentiment as sentimentality, and an instinct to temper all gravity with humor or with its more mean-spirited incarnations. Humor is like a trump card -- you can always play it and trivialize what someone else finds precious or even sacred. Being able to laugh at something puts you in a superior position to someone else who can't. Cynicism is the most defensible position -- to care is to be vulnerable, not to care is to be impenetrable. To laugh at, however gently, is to consider yourself superior to....and I've HAD the "dark cool irony disease" and am every day trying to step away from it. I would rather squee and thus invite others to be silly with me than to forever be cynical, made a very very determined decision several years ago to STOP being...laid back? vague? to stop being *completely* agreeable and mellow and cynical and vaguely sniping. And instead to be willing to be a bit more rash, to state my opinions, and to let myself be ticked off.
But that leaves the underbelly exposed. And I'm not quite comfortable with that I suppose, or perhaps strong enough. and... it's so EASY to slide back into that mentality. so. so. fucking easy.
Norrington hurts me. The putting myself in his POV hurts me in that way that's like watching someone place the key to your cell in a place always unreachable to you. Like letting go of the guy that I loved (thought I loved? I still don't know) to someone that'll probably be better for him than I (and I the better for not letting him have a chance to tear me down) and yet watching them kiss and interact and being *happy* for them and knowing that I'm better off without him but godDAMMIT he was MINE.
It's tricky. And a complicated mess. And if you've ever been weirded-out by a coolish response to a norrington or sparrington comment made in my journal? that's why.
I still don't know completely my thoughts, this is unorganized, maybe I can get some perspective on this with some more objective viewpoints.
But, at the end of it? I will ::glomp:: and ::hug:: and try to be emotionally touchable and squee over stuff in shameless piles of happy because I've noticed, both online and off, that smiling first causes other people to be less afraid to smile.
And I guess that can be considered my fannish manifesto: share the love, so that it grows.
::hugs flist::
[edit] Which I guess, in a way, explains why I get pissed off at the permanent my-policy-is-to-not-feedback-lurkers, who then complain about their fandoms being small. Feedback = more inspiration, and I can only shake my head at the people who don't get this...
[edit2] upon thought, this could be considered an addendum to The Mom post I had a bit back.
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::snuggles the rest of you::*
I am cynical, about many things, but I don't have time for "dark cool irony disease". If being cool means I can't like what I like, then I don't need coolness; it's too bloody much work.
::wanders off to watch cartoons::
*I like the pseudo-physicality on LJ, because IRL it takes me a long time to trust someone enough to let them into my physical space. Yay for being able to glomp and lick and snuggle at will!
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And yes, much with the pseudo-physicality! Sort of like a 'touch'-stone for fen I guess? =D
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Ooh, exactly. I think you've hit on just how I feel about all this (pseudo-physicality is a good term). In RL, I went through a very long period where I didn't hug damn near anyone, not even my mother. Then a familial crisis cropped up and I went if not a 180, then at least a 165, and now mum quite often has to pry me off with a crowbar. I was so starved for physical affection that I've become covetous of cuddling. I usually only do it for real with mum and my best friend, but online (like you say), I can *hug* and *glom* and *snuggle* at will.
Hell, in certain circles I can even *lick* and *snog* and *sex*, even though in RL we wouldn't exactly be having little orgies all over the place. It's just a new way to interact, and I don't think we're showing anyone any disrespect that way.
*uses smooching penguins icon to subtley snog you all*