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I'm probably going to jinx myself.
As you all know I don't update this blog that regularly anymore, and I know the reason for it. I basically have no set one-true-fandom to wall-of-text about every few days. I mean my last one was Hetalia, but that faded away as it got bigger and the series just felt like the same over and over again. Also it was faaaar too big. I could TRY to follow what's going on, look at pretty Hong Kong fanart, but there must be a lot and I'm not really into the fandom enough to take time to actually look through pages of pages of the slow pixiv site.
After Hetalia, I tried jumping around fandoms, trying to cling onto something. I didn't really feel like going into an entirely new one or anything like that, and so fell into a theme of nostalgia, particularly the Powerpuff Girls and Beyblade. I even returned to Sims to not only do more than just the crap I always do, but fuse all of my fandoms. Then I went to college and got bored. GODDAMNIT COLLEGE. So besides that and school I've just been gaming, following proleague, watching hockey...yet it didn't feel right to not be fangirling around something with my fellow BIFF, even if so many of them have moved on because they are super-busy writing exams to have future careers and basically become successful. (And am trying to do but I'm juggling it quite easily atm, lol)
For example, with PPG I can be a dork around Akira and we'd talk and discuss about say...Bubbles' personality and her history throughout the episodes or, how awesome Kaoru is to Aoi-dono, but these fandoms are all over. The series are over and everything has faded away, as has Beyblade. You could revive it for a while, but not much new stuff to look at are coming out. You've already seen it all. Lately though it's basically been Ventrilo, Starcraft 2 and League of Legends. Not that those games are bad, and not that I don't enjoy screwing around with friends on Ventrilo like having silly debates on the debates custom map in SC2, but I still wish for the girly side of myself, like how some girls need to scream at hot male celebrities or Korean singers, to satisfy their female needs. I still need that. P: (Even Bisu is not enough.)
Sure Ed reads Negima as well, but every time I bring it up it seems to be a lost cause as the biggest, most common interest among that group is gaming, or discussing/attempting to convince a friend to bring a girl to Tai. It is not the same. Plus when I discuss Negima it tends to be me bitching about something and that guy is all "LOLOL NEUTRAL LOLOL" so...rather than FURTHER INSIGHT ON WHY THIS NEWEST CHAPTER IS UNSATISFACTORY! So you know, maybe I should spam all that stuff onto this blog, but that is not what this post is about!
You see, the newest one-true-fandom I could've easily leapt into was RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE ALL THIS TIME, and I just...never noticed it. I knew a friend of mine was INTO the fandom, and even had say, an MSN display picture of it at some point in time, it just never occurred to me that it was the perfect thing to start fagging about if I was ever in a fangirly purgatory as I have been this past year. What is it you ask?
SOUTH PARK. Yes, that stupid incredibly offensive construction-paper animated cartoon.
Do you know why it's perfect?
1. It's still running.
2. I do have a friend to fangirl it about.
3. Shitloads of fanart, fanfic, EVEN MADS.
4. And I can discuss it casually to some male fan as well because if its genre. (Surely SOMEONE on Vent likes South Park)
5. I've watched it since THE FIRST SEASON AS A KID = nostalgia factor without even being OVER
6. The way the show is done makes everything RIDICULOUSLY FLEXIBLE.
So why did it take me until SEASON GODDAMN FOURTEEN to even notice this!? I have no clue. For all these years I always thought of South Park in the same category as Family Guy, The Simpsons, and other not-for-children cartoons I watched as children anyway. But South Park isn't like the others! It's rated higher for example, in terms of audience, and it's on a cable network. Hell, half the reason could probably be because since my brother moved out (and he was the guy who watched most of the TV) my parents dropped a lot of channels, including the one new South Park episodes come on anyway, so if I wanted to watch some instead of opening the TV at a specific time I'd actually have to take effort to find the episodes on the internet.
So one day Spotto was bored and was very interested in this THE COON episode she saw in boredom last year. It is this trilogy that drove me to search for Mysterion fanart, and so I was opened into the South Park fandom world. (Btw the latest episode was hilarious. Perfect ending.) I mean back then I always did like Kenny, and I've mentioned in the last post liked Kyle a lot too, but Kyle alone was not enough to keep me watching every Friday. (Kenny wasn't developed much) I was incredibly giddy that SOMETHING happened to Kenny and it was epic, character development-ish, and canon. Damn.
It also helps that unlike other cartoons, I actually like pretty much every South Park episode I watch. Sure I like some more than others, but I've rarely disliked an episode. (The only one I might not have liked is the one where Britney Spears walks around with half-a-head...I found little point to it..) and also I still find newer episodes to be good unlike The Simpsons, and the cartoon actually decent, unlike Family Guy which I just hate all together. Plus, as I continued to explore this fandom I realized a trend that I NEVER noticed, but seemed incredibly obvious to me.
You know how in fandoms there's always that guy you pair up with EVERYONE and he's the one where you deconstruct his personality so he ends up being the super girly submissive boy in all pairings? Yes. It took me fourteen seasons and a look around deviantart to realize Kyle is actually a perfect character for it. No WONDER there's a rampant yaoi-fandom for a construction-paper animated cartoon! No WONDER I liked him. Kyle's type-of-character and what he's gone through just fits the mold. I mean I can mention obvious things like his slightly higher/squeakier voice than everyone else (except maybe Butters but Butters is like naive submissive boy to the EXTREME)
But just the way he IS....the angry kid who gets annoyed at someone...the Asuka, the Kagami, the Chisame, the England...he fits that mold. Plus he tried to kill Queer Eye for the Straight Guy with Mr. Garrison/Mr. Slave, tends to voice the girl when he and Stan are playing with action figures and melting them with a magnifying glass, chose a girl in World of Warcraft, having moral issues (Stan does as well, but Kyle more often) and generally everyone else around him (except Butters) acting manlier really. Also he has to be the one who's different, he's the Jew. That's why he was the Chinese guy in "Good Times with Weapons" because in Anime, the most common minority (that is stereotyped) is the Chinese, so even though he had black hair in that episode it made sense P: The minority must be the minority character. Also he actually has a unique-kind of relationship with the other three main boys. Stan's is obvious (SBF [super best friends!]), Cartman is obvious too (rivalry!), Kenny is fuzzier but I think he's cared more about him than the other two have. (And there has to be a reason him with Kenny is the second most popular after Stan/Kyle)
But it's not JUST that aspect of the fandom, oh no. Let's not stray away from the actual point of South Park. Comedy! It makes me laugh. I really do find it very clever. I'm the kind of person who if I actually mouth off the way I want to will probably offend someone in some way (thus why I'm such a quiet person in RL) but I keep being told to just say and do whatever I want to say and not care what others think, so I eventually DO do that until I offend someone again and shut up for a while. South Park doesn't care. I wish 201 wasn't censored, but it's that little show I know I can laugh at no matter how offensive it is because I'm not the one saying it. P: (also no one has to know I laughed at it) Also since most of the issues I have with society in general I'm pretty neutral or apathetic for, laughing at everyone works for me. Laugh not only at conversatives but also liberals, at those who are devoted to religion and the theory of evolution! (Although I obviously lean more to the evolution theory)
I myself, if I KNOW it is a joke (since on the internet, jokes can sometimes be unintentionally missed, caisng massive misunderstandings and potentially pissed-off-people) I can laugh and share. P:
Plus they're cute. Aren't they cute? I think they're cute. Awww. (They really do act like what fourth graders might act, well probably not as smart, but there are times when they act like general kids and I do believe children at that age swear as much as the kids in South Park do.)
Of course now that I analyzed all that I might have jinxed myself and never post about South Park again because I just watched a billion episodes for no reason. WHO KNOWS! Not until the next post, I suppose! As for favourite character? I'm starting to like Clyde because he's a crybaby. What a shallow reason. Lololol. This has been sleep-deprived Spotto, over and out!
After Hetalia, I tried jumping around fandoms, trying to cling onto something. I didn't really feel like going into an entirely new one or anything like that, and so fell into a theme of nostalgia, particularly the Powerpuff Girls and Beyblade. I even returned to Sims to not only do more than just the crap I always do, but fuse all of my fandoms. Then I went to college and got bored. GODDAMNIT COLLEGE. So besides that and school I've just been gaming, following proleague, watching hockey...yet it didn't feel right to not be fangirling around something with my fellow BIFF, even if so many of them have moved on because they are super-busy writing exams to have future careers and basically become successful. (And am trying to do but I'm juggling it quite easily atm, lol)
For example, with PPG I can be a dork around Akira and we'd talk and discuss about say...Bubbles' personality and her history throughout the episodes or, how awesome Kaoru is to Aoi-dono, but these fandoms are all over. The series are over and everything has faded away, as has Beyblade. You could revive it for a while, but not much new stuff to look at are coming out. You've already seen it all. Lately though it's basically been Ventrilo, Starcraft 2 and League of Legends. Not that those games are bad, and not that I don't enjoy screwing around with friends on Ventrilo like having silly debates on the debates custom map in SC2, but I still wish for the girly side of myself, like how some girls need to scream at hot male celebrities or Korean singers, to satisfy their female needs. I still need that. P: (Even Bisu is not enough.)
Sure Ed reads Negima as well, but every time I bring it up it seems to be a lost cause as the biggest, most common interest among that group is gaming, or discussing/attempting to convince a friend to bring a girl to Tai. It is not the same. Plus when I discuss Negima it tends to be me bitching about something and that guy is all "LOLOL NEUTRAL LOLOL" so...rather than FURTHER INSIGHT ON WHY THIS NEWEST CHAPTER IS UNSATISFACTORY! So you know, maybe I should spam all that stuff onto this blog, but that is not what this post is about!
You see, the newest one-true-fandom I could've easily leapt into was RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE ALL THIS TIME, and I just...never noticed it. I knew a friend of mine was INTO the fandom, and even had say, an MSN display picture of it at some point in time, it just never occurred to me that it was the perfect thing to start fagging about if I was ever in a fangirly purgatory as I have been this past year. What is it you ask?
SOUTH PARK. Yes, that stupid incredibly offensive construction-paper animated cartoon.
Do you know why it's perfect?
1. It's still running.
2. I do have a friend to fangirl it about.
3. Shitloads of fanart, fanfic, EVEN MADS.
4. And I can discuss it casually to some male fan as well because if its genre. (Surely SOMEONE on Vent likes South Park)
5. I've watched it since THE FIRST SEASON AS A KID = nostalgia factor without even being OVER
6. The way the show is done makes everything RIDICULOUSLY FLEXIBLE.
So why did it take me until SEASON GODDAMN FOURTEEN to even notice this!? I have no clue. For all these years I always thought of South Park in the same category as Family Guy, The Simpsons, and other not-for-children cartoons I watched as children anyway. But South Park isn't like the others! It's rated higher for example, in terms of audience, and it's on a cable network. Hell, half the reason could probably be because since my brother moved out (and he was the guy who watched most of the TV) my parents dropped a lot of channels, including the one new South Park episodes come on anyway, so if I wanted to watch some instead of opening the TV at a specific time I'd actually have to take effort to find the episodes on the internet.
So one day Spotto was bored and was very interested in this THE COON episode she saw in boredom last year. It is this trilogy that drove me to search for Mysterion fanart, and so I was opened into the South Park fandom world. (Btw the latest episode was hilarious. Perfect ending.) I mean back then I always did like Kenny, and I've mentioned in the last post liked Kyle a lot too, but Kyle alone was not enough to keep me watching every Friday. (Kenny wasn't developed much) I was incredibly giddy that SOMETHING happened to Kenny and it was epic, character development-ish, and canon. Damn.
It also helps that unlike other cartoons, I actually like pretty much every South Park episode I watch. Sure I like some more than others, but I've rarely disliked an episode. (The only one I might not have liked is the one where Britney Spears walks around with half-a-head...I found little point to it..) and also I still find newer episodes to be good unlike The Simpsons, and the cartoon actually decent, unlike Family Guy which I just hate all together. Plus, as I continued to explore this fandom I realized a trend that I NEVER noticed, but seemed incredibly obvious to me.
You know how in fandoms there's always that guy you pair up with EVERYONE and he's the one where you deconstruct his personality so he ends up being the super girly submissive boy in all pairings? Yes. It took me fourteen seasons and a look around deviantart to realize Kyle is actually a perfect character for it. No WONDER there's a rampant yaoi-fandom for a construction-paper animated cartoon! No WONDER I liked him. Kyle's type-of-character and what he's gone through just fits the mold. I mean I can mention obvious things like his slightly higher/squeakier voice than everyone else (except maybe Butters but Butters is like naive submissive boy to the EXTREME)
But just the way he IS....the angry kid who gets annoyed at someone...the Asuka, the Kagami, the Chisame, the England...he fits that mold. Plus he tried to kill Queer Eye for the Straight Guy with Mr. Garrison/Mr. Slave, tends to voice the girl when he and Stan are playing with action figures and melting them with a magnifying glass, chose a girl in World of Warcraft, having moral issues (Stan does as well, but Kyle more often) and generally everyone else around him (except Butters) acting manlier really. Also he has to be the one who's different, he's the Jew. That's why he was the Chinese guy in "Good Times with Weapons" because in Anime, the most common minority (that is stereotyped) is the Chinese, so even though he had black hair in that episode it made sense P: The minority must be the minority character. Also he actually has a unique-kind of relationship with the other three main boys. Stan's is obvious (SBF [super best friends!]), Cartman is obvious too (rivalry!), Kenny is fuzzier but I think he's cared more about him than the other two have. (And there has to be a reason him with Kenny is the second most popular after Stan/Kyle)
But it's not JUST that aspect of the fandom, oh no. Let's not stray away from the actual point of South Park. Comedy! It makes me laugh. I really do find it very clever. I'm the kind of person who if I actually mouth off the way I want to will probably offend someone in some way (thus why I'm such a quiet person in RL) but I keep being told to just say and do whatever I want to say and not care what others think, so I eventually DO do that until I offend someone again and shut up for a while. South Park doesn't care. I wish 201 wasn't censored, but it's that little show I know I can laugh at no matter how offensive it is because I'm not the one saying it. P: (also no one has to know I laughed at it) Also since most of the issues I have with society in general I'm pretty neutral or apathetic for, laughing at everyone works for me. Laugh not only at conversatives but also liberals, at those who are devoted to religion and the theory of evolution! (Although I obviously lean more to the evolution theory)
I myself, if I KNOW it is a joke (since on the internet, jokes can sometimes be unintentionally missed, caisng massive misunderstandings and potentially pissed-off-people) I can laugh and share. P:
Plus they're cute. Aren't they cute? I think they're cute. Awww. (They really do act like what fourth graders might act, well probably not as smart, but there are times when they act like general kids and I do believe children at that age swear as much as the kids in South Park do.)
Of course now that I analyzed all that I might have jinxed myself and never post about South Park again because I just watched a billion episodes for no reason. WHO KNOWS! Not until the next post, I suppose! As for favourite character? I'm starting to like Clyde because he's a crybaby. What a shallow reason. Lololol. This has been sleep-deprived Spotto, over and out!