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MAMAMOO THOUGHTS: Competition

When I first became fans of Fifth Harmony, one of the things I was not prepared of was the fandom. Years later, knowing MAMAMOO getting to know the fandom is something I couldn’t prepare myself still. After my first experience with 5H, I made a conclusion that being a part of a fandom was never for me.

I’ll support the group I like but getting involve was never an option. Being a fan gives a person vulnerability to act upon a nature’s characteristic of favouritism. I do have this and act upon it as well. Most of the days I always seek for balance and hope to provide people around me opportunities to share their views and thoughts because I understand that people are different and have different perceptions.

Yet, I do am bias when it comes to the things I like. I was young and social media was gaining its power when I started my fan girl life. I wasn’t in the music industry but still you defend your preference. I lurk in social media platforms and I know it can be very toxic on that space but it is the fastest source of information sharing out there for people who are in this type of hobbies.

We crave to get to know the people we like hence we search for a place when we could find it. We crave to meet people who share the same preference and views as ours and the easiest place to go to is where people share their personal views.

It’s actually seeing people who shares what they like and their views on why they like a group. It’s fun when they can make jokes and share positive messages that they learn as they continue their journey with the group that they follow. Yet, even with all the possible positive outcome of being a fan girl there is also the dark side of this hobby.

Due to the fact that people is able to throw negative words and Ill comments to other because of people personal preference is something that’s so hard to take on. I like MAMAMOO. I do get affected to some extent when I see ill words and accusations about them.

With all those opinions all I can see is competition. MAMAMOO is my current favorite group and I want all the success for them but I do understand that the world revolves on certain rules when a platform is anchored by popularity. MAMAMOO is a celebrity given that they are working on the public eye.

Since they are in the public eye they already accepted the truth that popularity is their way to continue the dream they have. The thing about popularity is that numbers is what dictates the game. If majority of the people acknowledges you beauty they you are beautiful, if the public acknowledges you as talented then you are talented. The people’s general preference that garnered most attention the one whole take the top spot.

One of the major challenge in marketing now a days is the process of capturing the market when people’s attention span is getting shorter and shorter. The shortness of the attention span supplies the notion that everything must be easily consumed. Hence the easier to understand the easier to sell, that’s POP music. A genre where things can be easily consume and store to people’s mind.

MAMAMOO have enough content to prove their talent. Another change in marketing is the shift of traditional advertisement to the digital platform of the internet. When I attended a marketing seminar back then the speaker said that advertisements have change drastically due to the power of internet and its speed of information. People doesn’t simply relay on television and print add. The more internet influence you achieve the more momentum a celerity actually garner.

KPOP is getting bigger and fandoms are actually getting more and more competitive. Since the demand is getting bigger and opportunities are opening up; fandoms are acting out. Fandoms gets rigid to consume the supplies to be able to get ahead of the game. The game is a race and whoever comes on top has a bragging rights to boost.

Since the competition is getting stiffer, fandoms starts to point fingers to all the things they can see that will put their opponent down; its trash talking in the game they say. Again, there are balance in this world. The balance is hard to keep and I think people who choose is are those who actually understands it.

We all want are favourites to succeed hence we do all the things we can to support them including taunting other people’s business. The things is, others can say all they want but the real competition is outside the trash talk. The competition is aimed on who will deliver a good song.

One of the things that MAMAMOO thought me as I go in this journey is that to acknowledge the competition but never sacrifice your art for it. Wind flower is one of the best example of that. I was watching MAMAMOO’s tipsy live and I could easily feel the trust they have in the song more than anything else. They trusted their art to fight alongside them.

Moonbyul stated it herself that never step on anyone just do your thing, Hwasa said that more than being number 1 they want to deliver good music. MAMAMOO knew what they are fighting for and it was never just the top spot; they are fighting for the art they believe in and if that’s not one of the best gift they gave their fans then I don’t know what more an artist can offer beyond it.

RBW may seemed incompetent in marketing MAMAMOO but they did one thing right. They delivered a focused content that will prove the groups strongest weapon, their music. Sometimes I wonder if people do understand what MAMAMOO fandom have on their hand; a weapon that RBW and MAMAMOO orchestrated.

The strongest marketing strategy in the world is “Word-of-Mouth”. Do you want to know why western artist still dominates majority of the world’s celebrity industry; it’s because they are best in narratives. They strengthen their narratives to the point that it is being spread by everyone. That strategy is the power of popularity. It’s the base and foundation popularity.

The weapon that RBW gave for MAMAMOO’s fandom is content. Content that’s enough to prove the one narrative they want to sell, music. RBW needs to establish their facts for the fandom to act, for the fandom to spread MAMAMOO’s artistry to the public. As a fan, I have something that provides MAMAMOO’s brand. RBW took one of the hardest route in popularity, other’s will open their world to different facet of the industry such as acting, hosting, modelling, influencer or television but RBW stand on their decision to establish a group that will deliver music.

The only way to prove a group’s ability is to create materials that will showcase their skills and that is the gift MAMAMOO and RBW gave and keeps on giving so that the more people that recognize them the more people will be able to prove their artistry.

Yes it hurts that MAMAMOO gets hate, it hurts that they are being trashed, it hurts that they are being belittled but they wanted to stand on there music and nothing else. They wanted their legacy to be about their skills and their works and that’s the reason why I realize that the competition was never about being on top for them. The real challenge for MAMAMOO is their music.

We fight for them but we sometimes forget that the competition MAMAMOO wanted us to remember is the group’s improvement. They really embodies the saying that your greatest enemy is yourself. Hence even when everyone is pointing at MAMAMOO I always know my happy place and that’s them and their art.

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when you seem to absorb specific emotions someone is expressing, that's un undeniable mirror of what's going on inside your own head, is it not? it feels deceptively like empathy but i don't think it is. it's much too instinctive, uncanny, overlapping, and without distance to be simply an internalised reading of another person through a filter which inevitably exists with empathetic processes. this is more of a locating of resonance. it has been dormant and is now activated. what has been latent is surfacing to inhale and stretch its limbs, prodding against your skin for an open pore to exit from in a grand dance.

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i didnt think it was possible, but over the last few months ive been sinking steadily into a mental drought and plateauing at this low point. i stop doing some things which i used to simply because i enjoyed them. im questioning myself a lot and don’t know what im living for. because of this insecurity, many things ended up as painful emotional experiences and i got exhausted from being permeable. sometimes i glimpse tiny bursts of pure excitement, passion, love from anywhere (art, an artist, your 2017 video etc) or myself, they revive me momentarily and i remember my desire to learn from life. hearing you say that you wanna strive to figure out where your “moderate happiness” level lies has sparked a little something in me. i can start from there. you’re right, it’s much too easy to slip further down when you’re already at a low point. your promise to yourself brings me energy. thank you for your honesty, claire. i see in you strength in vulnerability– a beautiful essence of life, something i want to regain.

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The Solar Clan 1

Fandom: Mamamoo Pairing: Wheesa, Moonsun Rating: T (for now) Word Count: 877 Tags: Vampire AU, mafia AU, scifi, angst, sexual themes, dark themes, TW: blood, violence Summary: No one knew it at the time, but that was the beginning of the Solar Clan. The notorious Solar Clan led by Queen Yongsun, an all-female crime syndicate known for their particularly cunning and brutal methods of business. A/N: Now posted as a full chapter on AO3 and AFF.

It was human error to assume a wooden stake through the heart could kill a vampire.

Folktales of angry mobs wielding pitchforks and torches and wooden stakes, shouting profanities and ill wishes at the wretched monsters that lurked the black of night, riddled human storybooks with false moral superiority.

It wasn’t the creatures of the night who were the monsters, it was the humans. With their easily-impressionable, feeble minds, mortals eager to boast their self-proclaimed righteousness tainted the twilight with their hatred for any who were different.

A time came when those who were different struck back. Armed with sharp claws and sharper teeth, those who were different drew blood. Upon the morning glory of their bloodbath, those who were different retreated into caves and caverns, leaving only bloodless caracasses for the buzzards to pick at.

Over time, isolation influenced evolution. Those who were different, those who sought blood, had violence coerced into their genetics as they hunted live meals. Village elders of human communities taught the children never to wander beyond the swamps where bones bleached white by sunlight built great ivory castles among the marsh. The savages who lived there, they explained to the children, were called vampires.

Keep reading

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Do you have any mamamoo nsfw fic recs? ><

they dont call me eternal-smutmoo for nothing (they really dont i made that name on the spot)

mamamoo nsfw collection by @gaykpopgirls

pairings: ot4/moonsun/wheesa/wheebyul/hwasun/hwabyul/wheesun (all of them basically)

my comments: *breathes in* BOI this is the smut fic collection to satisfy all ur kinky needs. honestly the author came in and could have just shot me in the chest and id grovel at her feet bless this fic this is a must-read get ur father ur mom ur teachers ur pets get them to read this. (her stories in general are top-notch amazing read all of them pls)

Me First by arshuckle

pairing: moonsun

my comments: u will literally die as u read it. im not even kidding, prepare and oxygen tank next to u because at one point ur gonna need it. arshuckle is one of my favourite authors and once again has succeeded in playing a hand in my death

Toujours Pur by RielleB

pairing: wheebyul

my comment: so kinky o my god it has mild bondage and strap-on sex just to let u know

Slice of Campus Life by melonlover

pairing: moonsun/wheesa

my comments: one of my all-time favourite smut/slice of life fics. its so good i’ve re-read it like 4 times already. the smut scenes are so good im dying

Something Like Baseball by fy-yongsun

pairing: moonsun

my comments: theres only one chapter so far but it show so so so much promise i had to add it in here. they’re written so realistically and nicely here and i love the way the author portrays their relationship here

I Surrender! by fireroasted

pairings: moonsun/wheesa

my comments: dom pirate!yongsun and sub captive!byulyi. need i say more?

There are definitely a lot more, but here are some of the more recent and my favourites. 

Authors that you should go check out: heartb, arshuckle, phanti, magikarp007, hayleys, fireroasted, fluffsaur, ashensprites, Mufasaisalive, me and there are others but i have pages of favourites authors and this post is long enough as it is

hope u enjoy!! and hope this helped

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Elio and Oliver first time. ½

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Are you glad you came here?

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Run Lola Run (1998) dir. Tom Tykwer

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The Big Cabbage in Liaocheng, Shandong.

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May your favourite restaurant be open for business today and that you’ll get seats without queueing for too long or at all. - by @eeridescence

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cowardice, courage

it’s not a rash decision.. it is something that’s been festering in my mind and life the past 3 years, and my state of mind has just been deteriorating increasingly, because im STILL here. i want to stop being passive, stop doing smth which had been a consequence of ill decision making and which i hadnt had the will to terminate. somehow i had fooled my mum into believing this is a worthy path, because im the one who’s enabling this waste of time and her money.

i know where the problem lies: curriculum is shit and i get no concrete value from this education. yes i shouldve been done with it by now, but that’s just not what has happened, my inability to “just get this over and done with” in itself proves my desperation in wanting, but not being able to move on. most significantly, the ennui ive been experiencing is corroding my self worth. knowing the problem, knowing how it’s impacting my well being, knowing the source of my misery, yet having done nothing to help myself out of it.

what happens when im finally done with it, 8000$ + exam fees later, with a (low level) degree i never was invested in? i literally won’t even use it because i know what i want to pursue seriously and “professionally”. it will be useless, and i would have had subject myself to unimaginable inner torment to get there. i say unimaginable bc currently im in the worst state ive ever been (stopped experiencing “recovery” or “betterment”) and i just know it will worsen when school term starts. i can’t even stand the thought of repeating whatever it is we did in school, all over again. i dont wanna lose myself to this.

“find a job first and do what u want later” that’s what my fam says, they’re not the ones who have found a keen interest in things, or a passion for something. (i mean they’re not even liberals) they’re a product of societal conditioning, inactivated self awareness or just not utilised, and i dont want to be just that, esp since i am /the/ rebel in the fam. even in the context of an absurd world and futility, i know what excites me, what gives me vitality, i know what i advocate for, why have i not started doing things for myself and my own life? i want to live for the arts and for moments of connection.

i believe ive met with enough ppl in not just the arts scene, to see the different kinds of realities they live, and these are the ppl i wanna learn from. i have an honest idea of this kind of life, and im ready to live with it if i find myself in similar situations. ive told some of them that i admire them, and ive been given advice. i dont want to meet these ppl 1 year later, and have them tell me the same things. if there’s anything ive gained over these past few months, it’s that i need to stop being an observer, stop doing things i like as a distraction, but take them and myself seriously.

i know all this sounds idealistic and prob unimaginable for u, but ive seen it and i want to make it happen for myself. i can and will do so many things, amanda. right now i wanna be admitted to an arts program, bach or diploma undecided, so i need to read up on requirements, which require a portfolio. ill start looking thru what ive amassed, put some things together- photo series, text, short clips. produce some new things based on ideas ive had, submit to zines and publications, enter photography competitions, volunteer at events (alr signed up for one in nov, singapore writers festival). pick up my dslr again coz i haven’t had the capacity to do it recently. work more shifts at suntec temporarily (to at least pay my phone bills coz my mum says she’ll stop once i graduate so it’s the same), begin to experience the unemployed millenial life. i can look for some other contract jobs (im looking to work at the projector but ill need to work on my portfolio first). i do know some ppl already, and there are always opportunities floating around (lots of open calls). i just need to take this first step. yes ill prob be a failure to my mum, family, whoever, but at least i know ill be doing smth i want, amanda. not just waiting for smth i don’t want to face to be over. ill feel better, at least. and i i don’t know when else i would if not now.

the catalyst for this decision really was a long conversation i had with my friend on friday. he knew id been delaying the checking of my results, and before he left he just casually mentioned “u haven’t checked ur results right”, and i said yes i have. i said ill prob be more depressive once term starts, (we’ve talked abt this before) he said he really thinks i ought to do smth abt it, and i became silent and he sensed smth was amiss and then he talked to me for a loong while. i got a stress headache coz its just difficult. one of the things he asked was “what hurts you the most?” i couldn’t answer so he gave me 3 options: family, self worth, (forgot the last one lol), and i said self worth. this past weekend everything here was all i thought abt (cried, obviously), and ytd i texted him (while at an exhbition): “i realise a big part of my cowardice has been towards my mum. the first step i need to take is putting myself somewhere i want to be, knowing that she has stopped having faith in me and cant support me. it’s what hurts me the most”

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