Thief ^_~
I swiped the ten "comments" about me and my relationships with various fandoms meme from fencer_x because I needed something to think about at work today . By all means try and guess who/what I’m talking about, but I think this says way more about me than about the books, series and people it’s supposedly about.
I ended up doing these in chronological order (sort of) because it was easier for me that way XP
1. You were my first. Regardless of what others may claim or assume, you’re the one who took me in and influenced me without me really realising. I believed in you, imitated you and was inspired by you again and again for years. But things changed, I changed, I grew up and assumed that I’d moved on until a chance encounter again at a time in my life when everything was changing set off a chain reaction no one could have predicted. It wasn’t very pretty at first, but what grew out of that encounter has changed me hugely. But you weren’t there to see it. That one-off appearance was just that and I still persisted under the delusion that I’d outgrown you. I couldn’t have been more wrong could I? Because just two years ago you exploded back into my life, kicking out the cobwebs and eventually pitching me head first into one of the best stories I’ve written in years, into a collaboration I’ll always enjoy and now I know that I never out grew you at all, did I?
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
2. You sprang out of 1 initially but since then you have this bad habit of showing up, toying with me for a while and then buggering off again. I’ll always take you back, no question about it, but our status fluctuates from massive interest to barely registering. As my first crush and certainly my longest lasting, most people don’t understand my interest in you; they give me funny looks and say that... well, you’re certainly talented but... and then they look at me funny again. But then who said fangirling had to make sense?
SAMUEL WEST
3. And then you came along. Never the kind of thing to interest me normally you somehow managed to hit the right buttons, dragging me into a world (or to be more accurate, a whole galaxy of worlds) that I wanted to care about. You held onto me for five years and I was loyal, very loyal... until you started to make bad decisions, until you let go of the character I cared most about and I had to go off to university without regular access to a television. I did try and keep in contact but it was too difficult to maintain with such long periods of absence and we drifted apart. You did your best to woo me back, but I guess it was too late. Your offspring will always interest me and I do want to keep in contact, but I’m sorry, you’ve been replaced ;_;
STARGATE SG-1
4. Well the world and its dog know about you so of course I do too. I remember when you first got started, I wasn’t quite there right from the beginning but it was close. I’d never try and argue your case as great literature but I think what a lot of people miss when they look at you is that you’re a good story and that it really can be as simple as that sometimes. I’ve gone through phases of being obsessed with you but I’ve always been wary of falling too deep into your following when I have my own stories to play with. Your world fascinates me and makes me want to further develop my own and the detail amazes me (as does my own knowledge of your twists and turns because even if I’m a half-hearted geek at times, I’m still a geek). You’re also proof that if you’re in the right place at the right time, anything can happen and that gives me hope ^__^
HARRY POTTER
5. You weren’t intending to do this to me... I think. Although I wouldn’t swear to it... you were just happily going along your way and I was going along mine and they were kind of parallel until a friend gave me a nudge and into each other we fell. I’ll admit, your’s is the kind of world I wish I inhabited. The variety and depth makes my head spin and your people are some of my all time favourites. I haven’t investigated your fandom personally but from what I hear it’s very polite and I confess I don’t want to read fanfiction about you because I don’t think anyone could do you justice. You make me laugh until I cry and yet there are layers to you that require endless long, convoluted discussions to unravel. But best of all you inspire me, you make me want to write better and to do it now.
DISCWORLD - TERRY PRATCHETT
6. Now this is where it all changed and it’s all your fault. If you hadn’t been so shiny and different and... well, let’s face it, gay, then I wouldn’t have had my interest caught. You introduced me to yaoi, you introduced me to the concept of fandom and fangirling, you showed me it was possible to be attracted to an animated character and you then introduced me to crack. I’ll always have a soft spot for you no matter how daft your incarnations may be or how bizarre your plotlines get. I won’t question it because it’s all part of your unique charm and you know it XP
GRAVITATION
7. While 7 laid the ground work, you’re the one who came along and built on it. You laid claim to my interest and my creativity and for a while it looked like that’s where I might stay. But there was something missing and for all that I loved you, it just wasn’t enough. You were dramatic and crack-filled by turns, you gave me my first fan (though I didn’t know it at the time) and my first fanfic multi-parter (that I’ve never finished) but I was still pretty lost in it all. You were also big and a little scary to be involved with at times, you had some truly obsessive stalkers who made even the weirdest people I knew look sane and while I do still care about you and follow what you’re up to, I’ve distanced myself from your crowd both by accident and by design. If you’re looking for someone to blame, btw, look at number 9 ;)
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
8. You're the fandom that isn’t but I adore you, you’ll always know that. The problem is that with nothing else to sustain my fangirling I have to admit that I don’t give you anywhere near enough attention. I come back to you when I want something familiar, fun and dramatic. I’ll push friends in your direction if they want the same thing (or if I think they want the same thing) but you can’t draw me in any deeper because I don’t think there’s really anywhere for me to go. You do however hold the distinction of being one of the few shows that I will consistently watch in English rather than Japanese. Oh and you give the best quotes ^__^ ("We’re having a tactical meeting in the john... anyone else bothered by this?")
GENERATOR GAWL
9. To steal the line from a song, you’re simply the best. If you hadn’t burst wholly unexpectedly into my merry little fangirl existence, if you weren’t that damn wonderful that I found myself compelled to more or less drop every other fandom in favour of you then I quite simply wouldn’t be sitting here writing this now. You’ve given me so, so much in terms of friends and excitement and interest over the last two years and more than that, you’ve given me inspiration; the best kind of inspiration that doesn’t stop and refuses to go away and just keeps feeding itself again and again and again. You’ve led, one way or another, to my best writing and my best characterisation. Writing for you has stretched me and challenged me and changed me and nothing, no fandom before or since can or will be able to boast about having this kind of effect on me. I can’t underestimate what you’ve done or the impact you’ve had, I can’t downplay how massively things would be different for me if you hadn’t shown up. I owe you a lot and one day I really intend to thank you, both of you ♥
TUTI X NAGAYAN
10. The most recent addition, so new in fact that neither my profile nor my icons have been updated to reflect my very sudden surge of interest in you, but you’ve caught my attention and have left me in the happy "I want to know more" stage of the fangirling process that I haven’t found myself in for a very long time. You could be a serious attachment but at the moment I don’t know, but I'm looking forward to finding out :)
HIKARU NO GO
So... anyone care to guess?
Aside from procrastinating, today has been good. It had a rocky start but then things conspired to make it better and the absence of my manager turned out to be a good thing. I still didn't get any writing done... but I guess I can't have everything ^__^
I ended up doing these in chronological order (sort of) because it was easier for me that way XP
1. You were my first. Regardless of what others may claim or assume, you’re the one who took me in and influenced me without me really realising. I believed in you, imitated you and was inspired by you again and again for years. But things changed, I changed, I grew up and assumed that I’d moved on until a chance encounter again at a time in my life when everything was changing set off a chain reaction no one could have predicted. It wasn’t very pretty at first, but what grew out of that encounter has changed me hugely. But you weren’t there to see it. That one-off appearance was just that and I still persisted under the delusion that I’d outgrown you. I couldn’t have been more wrong could I? Because just two years ago you exploded back into my life, kicking out the cobwebs and eventually pitching me head first into one of the best stories I’ve written in years, into a collaboration I’ll always enjoy and now I know that I never out grew you at all, did I?
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
2. You sprang out of 1 initially but since then you have this bad habit of showing up, toying with me for a while and then buggering off again. I’ll always take you back, no question about it, but our status fluctuates from massive interest to barely registering. As my first crush and certainly my longest lasting, most people don’t understand my interest in you; they give me funny looks and say that... well, you’re certainly talented but... and then they look at me funny again. But then who said fangirling had to make sense?
SAMUEL WEST
3. And then you came along. Never the kind of thing to interest me normally you somehow managed to hit the right buttons, dragging me into a world (or to be more accurate, a whole galaxy of worlds) that I wanted to care about. You held onto me for five years and I was loyal, very loyal... until you started to make bad decisions, until you let go of the character I cared most about and I had to go off to university without regular access to a television. I did try and keep in contact but it was too difficult to maintain with such long periods of absence and we drifted apart. You did your best to woo me back, but I guess it was too late. Your offspring will always interest me and I do want to keep in contact, but I’m sorry, you’ve been replaced ;_;
STARGATE SG-1
4. Well the world and its dog know about you so of course I do too. I remember when you first got started, I wasn’t quite there right from the beginning but it was close. I’d never try and argue your case as great literature but I think what a lot of people miss when they look at you is that you’re a good story and that it really can be as simple as that sometimes. I’ve gone through phases of being obsessed with you but I’ve always been wary of falling too deep into your following when I have my own stories to play with. Your world fascinates me and makes me want to further develop my own and the detail amazes me (as does my own knowledge of your twists and turns because even if I’m a half-hearted geek at times, I’m still a geek). You’re also proof that if you’re in the right place at the right time, anything can happen and that gives me hope ^__^
HARRY POTTER
5. You weren’t intending to do this to me... I think. Although I wouldn’t swear to it... you were just happily going along your way and I was going along mine and they were kind of parallel until a friend gave me a nudge and into each other we fell. I’ll admit, your’s is the kind of world I wish I inhabited. The variety and depth makes my head spin and your people are some of my all time favourites. I haven’t investigated your fandom personally but from what I hear it’s very polite and I confess I don’t want to read fanfiction about you because I don’t think anyone could do you justice. You make me laugh until I cry and yet there are layers to you that require endless long, convoluted discussions to unravel. But best of all you inspire me, you make me want to write better and to do it now.
DISCWORLD - TERRY PRATCHETT
6. Now this is where it all changed and it’s all your fault. If you hadn’t been so shiny and different and... well, let’s face it, gay, then I wouldn’t have had my interest caught. You introduced me to yaoi, you introduced me to the concept of fandom and fangirling, you showed me it was possible to be attracted to an animated character and you then introduced me to crack. I’ll always have a soft spot for you no matter how daft your incarnations may be or how bizarre your plotlines get. I won’t question it because it’s all part of your unique charm and you know it XP
GRAVITATION
7. While 7 laid the ground work, you’re the one who came along and built on it. You laid claim to my interest and my creativity and for a while it looked like that’s where I might stay. But there was something missing and for all that I loved you, it just wasn’t enough. You were dramatic and crack-filled by turns, you gave me my first fan (though I didn’t know it at the time) and my first fanfic multi-parter (that I’ve never finished) but I was still pretty lost in it all. You were also big and a little scary to be involved with at times, you had some truly obsessive stalkers who made even the weirdest people I knew look sane and while I do still care about you and follow what you’re up to, I’ve distanced myself from your crowd both by accident and by design. If you’re looking for someone to blame, btw, look at number 9 ;)
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
8. You're the fandom that isn’t but I adore you, you’ll always know that. The problem is that with nothing else to sustain my fangirling I have to admit that I don’t give you anywhere near enough attention. I come back to you when I want something familiar, fun and dramatic. I’ll push friends in your direction if they want the same thing (or if I think they want the same thing) but you can’t draw me in any deeper because I don’t think there’s really anywhere for me to go. You do however hold the distinction of being one of the few shows that I will consistently watch in English rather than Japanese. Oh and you give the best quotes ^__^ ("We’re having a tactical meeting in the john... anyone else bothered by this?")
GENERATOR GAWL
9. To steal the line from a song, you’re simply the best. If you hadn’t burst wholly unexpectedly into my merry little fangirl existence, if you weren’t that damn wonderful that I found myself compelled to more or less drop every other fandom in favour of you then I quite simply wouldn’t be sitting here writing this now. You’ve given me so, so much in terms of friends and excitement and interest over the last two years and more than that, you’ve given me inspiration; the best kind of inspiration that doesn’t stop and refuses to go away and just keeps feeding itself again and again and again. You’ve led, one way or another, to my best writing and my best characterisation. Writing for you has stretched me and challenged me and changed me and nothing, no fandom before or since can or will be able to boast about having this kind of effect on me. I can’t underestimate what you’ve done or the impact you’ve had, I can’t downplay how massively things would be different for me if you hadn’t shown up. I owe you a lot and one day I really intend to thank you, both of you ♥
TUTI X NAGAYAN
10. The most recent addition, so new in fact that neither my profile nor my icons have been updated to reflect my very sudden surge of interest in you, but you’ve caught my attention and have left me in the happy "I want to know more" stage of the fangirling process that I haven’t found myself in for a very long time. You could be a serious attachment but at the moment I don’t know, but I'm looking forward to finding out :)
HIKARU NO GO
So... anyone care to guess?
Aside from procrastinating, today has been good. It had a rocky start but then things conspired to make it better and the absence of my manager turned out to be a good thing. I still didn't get any writing done... but I guess I can't have everything ^__^