This is a ridiculous post in which I will discuss a matter that is probably not deserving of the seriousness level of the post… in which I treat something trivial with the utmost importance. You may come out of it thinking I’m crazy. Or more crazy.
I’ve accidentally been conducting an experiment over the past 30-ish hours. And I’ve made myself sad. I don’t like this.
Ah… but I do have regerts. Uh… regrets.
unintentional experiment:
Since the bitching about emojis post, I’ve made myself feel like I should try not to use them because doing so would make me a hypocrite. And it’s stupid… so stupid… because that whole rant was never intended to be about not using them!
results of unintentional experiment:
Also since that post, I’ve noticed you (the collective you… most/some of you) barely using them with me. I assume because I made everyone think I hate them and never want to see one again. But that was never the message I meant to send!
I am a shit writer because I didn’t even realize how skewed that post and the interpretations thereof became.
I never wanted that post to say ‘no emojis!’ It was about the excess and the loss of simplicity. And in some cases (like my girl kid), overuse. I miss the simplicity of : ) and : (. It feels like emojis have strayed from their original purpose: to convey emotion not always easily discerned from words alone. They still do that… but it’s the excess that annoys me, I guess. (Hell, a movie.) Is an emoji of a car conveying emotion? Probably not. So is it a ‘ji‘ instead of an ‘emoji‘? Because there’s no ‘emo‘…
findings:
The truth is… without any emojis at all, it’s bad! It’s sad and impersonal and kind of cold. Maybe next year, I should have a lovefest instead of a bitchfest. Because, let’s face it, I could probably use half the same things as I have love/hate relationships with so many of them.
This is truly ridiculous… all of it… maybe especially that I felt I had to clarify my stance on emojis! Like this is a critical issue! (Insert various laughing faces here…) But Vic said something that’s true — they make people feel good. Including me… which is why my accidental little experiment made me sad — because conversations suddenly turned cold. Without those little faces and hearts and such, emotion is… missing. That certainly wasn’t my intention. [God knows I’m emotional…]
I have regrets (or regerts, such as it is) about posting that rant at all. Maybe pretend you never read it. I think I’m going to need to spend more time discerning my own meaning before I post these things. And maybe I should stop writing them at 2 AM. I probably offended people with the cliché one, too. Maybe I shouldn’t care… but it’s just who I am. ♥
©2017 what sandra thinks
I don’t understand the extreme popularity of this movie. I don’t hate it but it’s not even one of my top-10 favorite Disney movies. Yet it’s, like, the most popular one of all time. I don’t get it. Parents spending hundreds of dollars to buy Frozen merch for their kids when it was hard to come by? Combing ebay like crazy people, willing to spend five times as much as they should because their kids are so spoiled that they have to have it right now? What is it that makes this movie so special? Because I don’t see it.
Let’s take a quick look at another Disney movie for purposes of comparison. Hm… which one? [Do you know me?] How about… Tangled? Rapunzel is not waiting for a prince to save her. Girl can take care of herself. Just give her a frying pan and get the hell out of her way. And Flynn/Eugene was no prince. He was the animated version of the perfect man. But he wasn’t a prince. He wasn’t going to save her. In fact, she saved him. This movie is just as much about him finding his way as it is about her finding hers.
And it has a love story. Two, actually — the obvious one between Rapunzel and Flynn/Eugene… and the one between Rapunzel and her parents. Both are powerful. I was going to finish that sentence with, ‘for an animated princess movie.’ But they’re powerful for any kind of movie. Both make me cry every damn time. I have seen this movie well over a hundred times and I cannot make it to the end without tearing up.
What the hell was wrong with ascii? [Fuck, I’m old.] Such creativity! Now you can’t even use a simple colon and parenthesis because they get autocorrected to a fucking emoji. It’s a goddamn conspiracy! Can’t I just be left alone to smile : ) or pout : ( or cry :’ ( or laugh : D ? Can’t I just stick my tongue out : P or be shocked : o or be emotionless : | or uncertain : \ ? I want to wear my shades B ) and maybe even summon Homer Simpson (_8^(I).
There are far worse addictions, right? At least this one is legal and relatively inexpensive. Unless you go to Starbucks where the prices are stupid high. They can bite me. Their coffee isn’t even very good. I wish they hadn’t run all the little one-off coffee houses out of business. Things were so much better then. Wow, I never realized how much I hate Starbucks.
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