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Post by Cy Skywalker on Feb 22, 2005 18:15:21 GMT -5
ESCAPE! WOOT WOOT! I am totally an escapist. It's more mental than hiding in a closet, but it works. That's why big cool worlds like SW are so fun. You can immerse thyself in them.
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Post by Jedi Arwen ~ Protector of Life on Feb 23, 2005 20:24:53 GMT -5
or you can come here! Enter our world of randomness and people who care!
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Post by kanedbydemons on Feb 24, 2005 17:37:33 GMT -5
Heh, fandom... I never knew there was a word for it... I'm assuming this includes just lying on your bed and imagining yourself in a story-based world, because that's as far as I take it... Not much one for the dressing up because my parents would go absolutely mental. They think I'm crazy because I write stories, I daredn't tell them about writing fanfics or anything. Heh, that's life.
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Post by MFB on Feb 24, 2005 20:51:31 GMT -5
Crazy because you write stories? Not to be, erm...disrespectful of your folks, but unless they have some sound reason for this, that is...weird. Writing develops much needed thinking skills...in fact, I think I've learned more about grammer and spelling via writing fanfiction than through school.
Fandom: the realm concerning all things of one subject that relate to one another and are fictional. (i.e., LotR is a fandom; Star Wars; Harry Potter; Zelda; etc.)
It may not have to be fictional...I'm not too sure on this one. I mean how do you really describe fandom? ;D
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Feb 24, 2005 20:57:25 GMT -5
lying and thinking most DEFINATLY counts. How you would define it...enjoying a created/fictional world, so that you support it, talk to others about it, create stories within it. See writer-fans and other fans are different, in a way...i have been talking about that with my brother. Kaned, what's up with your fics that your parents don't like? that's kinda weird. Tell them you'll support them in their old age when you become a best selling novelist. ;D Works on my mom...
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Post by kanedbydemons on Feb 25, 2005 2:51:26 GMT -5
They believe in living the moment and being in the here and now... Not in any sort of fictional world of any kind. They also think I should spend all my time revising for my GCSEs in June. And that fiction poisons the mind and makes people dumb. Ah, well, I shall continue my secret writing and never tell them. Anyway, fandom sure is a cool thing - especially naw that I know what it is! You gotta love it, it lets you be anything where annoyingly strict family can't get you!
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Feb 25, 2005 19:59:57 GMT -5
GASP! That's harsh. Writing makes you smarter! it's just like school stuff. My dad's real here and now, but he doesn't impose it on me...suse, i feel so sorry for you. i'd like to read something of yours. GCSE is a regional test, i presume? I've got annoying HSPAs next week...the picture prompts are fun though. For pratice we got this pic of a giant chair on a pedestel and this guy looking at it, and I wrote about a future where things of the past were put on display like this, but the people had bombed the old world and were now under attack by rebels...i wouldn't have had time to finish it though.
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Post by kanedbydemons on Feb 26, 2005 3:26:42 GMT -5
That sounds cool... Sounds like loads of action in that.
And no, GCSEs aren't a regional test. I live in England and every student all over the country takes GCSEs at the end of year eleven which I am in now. Because they mark the end of compulsory education they're really important: it's GCSE qualifications that let you a) get some kind of a job or b) go into sixth form or collage for further education. Without GCSEs you can't really go anywhere or do anything.
So yeah, I know they're important, but still I do think that my parents go a bit overboard with it.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Feb 26, 2005 14:22:36 GMT -5
ah, ok. That's really different...rather cool. I was gonna go to London for a writing conference this summer, but it was mad expensive. $4000. I agree with you about your parents. Just...try to work with it I guess. Being persecuted for fandom...that's really wierd.
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Post by Jedi Arwen ~ Protector of Life on Mar 1, 2005 1:02:03 GMT -5
Everyone I know knows about my fandoms! Frogs (ie, Kermit! ), LOTR, Veggie Tales, all of it! Even if there not a fan they always are like, "oh, I saw this neat looking LOTR poster at suchandsuch store you might want to check out" and stuff like that. Yea tis an epic world to belong too. I've been to London! when I was like 5 hehehehe! I remember some.......
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 1, 2005 8:30:44 GMT -5
fans aren't always rescieved well though. Ugh...i am like a Bothan in an imperial base sometimes, i tell you. LotR doesn't get so much flak i guess, because it's new and everyone's seen something of it. Veggie Tales...lol. are there VT fics out there somewhere? that'd be..wierd...interesting-wierd.
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Post by Jedi Arwen ~ Protector of Life on Mar 5, 2005 2:11:26 GMT -5
hmm... dont know about VT fics, be hillarous! LOL!
They are (some of them) parodies of other shows....ie Gilligans Island, Star Treck,Rocky, the mickado, Dr. Jeckal and Mr. Hide....etcetc LOL!!!!!! The Italian Scallion!
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 5, 2005 12:41:54 GMT -5
yeah, that i knew. i'll have you know that i can't get your answer to a question in that game from a while ago, where they show movies in theatres to turn us all into fans, out of my head. It would be so awsome if there was this huge conspiracy, (but obviously it isn't working very well...or was abandoned...) about that...why would they want people to be fans though? I may just write a fic about this!
Mamy good ideas ceom from science fiction anthologies as well. ;D
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Post by Jedi Arwen ~ Protector of Life on Mar 6, 2005 0:17:07 GMT -5
yes they do. Why thank you *bows* I do like that quote myslf, it just came out from no where.
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Post by Dûncariel on Mar 6, 2005 16:43:10 GMT -5
I'm a Jason from Foxtrot fangirl... probably the only one in the world. But he's my soul mate.... And a fellow LotR purist. *hugs Jason*
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Post by Jedi Arwen ~ Protector of Life on Mar 6, 2005 23:57:58 GMT -5
Oh I adore jason! he's a ringer boy! Gotta love ringer boys! I've saved all the LOTR Foxtrot comics!
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Post by Dûncariel on Mar 7, 2005 14:56:45 GMT -5
I have sooooo many Foxtrot's on my door, you can hardly see my LotR pics.... heh.
"You, with the Orc arrows, please shoot me!"
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Post by Jedi Arwen ~ Protector of Life on Mar 8, 2005 0:18:44 GMT -5
LOL!
"You read -the Return of the King- Jason, does it mention Orlando Bloom a lot?"
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 8, 2005 15:55:41 GMT -5
GASP! Love Jason!! I have all these Foxtrots on my mirror...the Star Destroyer...lol
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Post by Dûncariel on Mar 8, 2005 19:19:59 GMT -5
Heh...
This last weeks were pretty good...
"No, Mom, that sounds more like an Elf quest."
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