Indication that I am a Buffyholic and not an X-Philer
"My Krycek has two arms! So there, Chris Carter."
My immediate thought was: "Four, or only three?"
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Allan Lang - Jun 29, 2003 5:12:49 pm PDT #5375 of 9843
'And on that tragic day, an era came to its inevitable end.'
That's all there is.
Angus G - Jun 29, 2003 5:48:38 pm PDT #5376 of 9843
Roguish Laird
the whole nature of intense fandom is a new thing for me -- didn't think it would happen at my age
I feel exactly the same way...although if any of my friends dares to give me lip about Buffy, I can always point to the far crappier things that they invariably like.
Leigh - Jun 29, 2003 5:49:06 pm PDT #5377 of 9843
Nobody
but there's part of me that has trouble accepting that I have an obsession with a TV show and that I'm exploring that obsession by reading things that other similarly interested fans have done to tease out the edges of it
Oh, I think a lot of people go through the 'but, isn't it kinda, y'know, strange?' and the 'Oh, God. I'm just like a Trekkie. I should be greeting people with the Vulcan hand-thing and learning Klingon' phases. Or that might just have been me--but either way, there's definitely a cultural predjudice about being fannish about something which doesn't involve the movement of a roundish object about a big field, and it can be intimidating. For my first year of Buffy obsession I had very clear rules about what I wouldn't do and reading fanfic was most definitely on the forbidden list, because I could recite quotes from almost every episode (even though I hadn't seen three-quarters of them) off the top of my head, but reading fanfic?--well, that would make me weird. I don't really remember what made me give up on that idiotic notion, but I suspect it was the combination of some very good authors writing some very beautiful porn.
Angus G - Jun 29, 2003 5:51:29 pm PDT #5378 of 9843
Roguish Laird
First they came for the ficcers, and I did not speak up because I was not a ficcer...
Leigh - Jun 29, 2003 5:58:55 pm PDT #5379 of 9843
Nobody
Hee.
Kassto - Jun 29, 2003 6:52:23 pm PDT #5380 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
Hey. Suddenly I don't feel so weird any more...
Oh my God, it's a support group. And I swore I'd NEVER join one of those.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2003 6:55:16 pm PDT #5381 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So sayeth the Fay:
Person A: I...I kinda like to wear rubber gloves on my head and pretend to be a chicken. Sometimes. Er. For a laugh, you know?
Person B: I do that every weekend.
Person C: I'm wearing a rubber glove on my head right now and it's fucking great! Those non-rubber- glove-wearers (henceforth to be called NRGW) don't know what they're missing!
Person A: Yeah!
Person B: Let's set up our own forum at World Crossing.
Angus G - Jun 29, 2003 7:01:37 pm PDT #5382 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Ha, the "World Crossing" reference dates it somewhat (in more than one way). Still, one of the classics.
Trudy Booth - Jun 29, 2003 7:06:19 pm PDT #5383 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The only fic I wrote was just an idea I got into my head and kept going and going. I was fairly obsessed with making it fit into canon.
P.M. Marc - Jun 29, 2003 8:25:14 pm PDT #5384 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
For my first year of Buffy obsession I had very clear rules about what I wouldn't do and reading fanfic was most definitely on the forbidden list, because I could recite quotes from almost every episode (even though I hadn't seen three-quarters of them) off the top of my head, but reading fanfic?--well, that would make me weird.
I dimly recall those times...
Then it became "well, I'd never *WRITE* it" and then I just Gave. Up.