Stufflings.
First? This wins.
For
desperatefans people - or non people, I'm making a meme out of it, behind the cut, bolding the ones that are true.
1) ... you feel the urge to call people Mademoiselle or Monsiuer (even if none of your puppets are French)
2) ... you spend all your free time in the chat room/on the site. (And even some of your not-so free time.) You have stayed in chat for more than 12 hours at a time.
3) ... you snicker at the thought/mention/sight of oranges.
4) ... you find yourself constantly arguing with your puppet. And your puppet started it.
5) ... you have a rather large reading list now. You push everything else off your reading list, so that you can get better acquainted with other peoples' characters.
6) ... you are sad that strike-outs don’t work on messaging programs (at least, not without a lot of effort).
7) ... you were sad when Lag came along and killed AIM Chat, but then happy when the Zombie Chat came back through IRC.
8) ... you actually know what I mean by most of the things on this list.
9) ... you want to apply examples of DF to real life, and have done so.
10) ... you start quoting DF characters and chats in daily life.
11) ... you are more concerned about the relationship your character has with another character rather than your homework.
12) ... you talk about events that happened here to people in real life, as if it has actually happened and is a monumental event.
13) ... you can't fall asleep at night because your brain is buzzing about DF.
14) ... you drink lots and lots of caffeine so that you can stay up in the DF chat all night. Even with finals/tests the next day.
15) ... you can't fall asleep because you keep thinking about what's going on in the chat that you're missing.
16) ... you skip meals to stay in the DF chat longer.
17) ... you begin to cry over something that happened to your character, and when asked what is wrong, you say that you're crying about something a fiction character has done.
18) ... you turn down invitations from friends and family to go somewhere so that you can comment/chat some more.
19) ... you express your love in odd ways, like exclaiming in the middle of a conversation "DF OWNS MY SOUL!".
20) ... your character has completely taken over your life and your mind.
21) ... you are more concerned about your character’s friend’s problems than you are about some real-life friend's problems.
22) ... you run your character journals through memes before you even run yourself.
23) ... you only want to draw your character and his/her respective mate, or want to draw DF fanart in general.
24) ... during the reading/movie of your character’s story, you think 'I play _____ much better'
25) ... you begin trying to figure out the floor plans of the DF Chat Room.
26) ... you daydream about/express in some way your love for your various DF OTPs.
27) ... you discover that Chat/Foil is your OTP for life.
28) ... you are more interested in your puppet's love life than your own.
29) ... you find yourself writing the name of your character's crush in the margins of your notes.
30) ... you find that you squee and melt when your character's mate kisses your character.
31) ... you find yourself all nervous when your character is.
32) ... you are more worried about other DF pairings than your own love life.
33) ... you are talking to someone on the phone or instant messenger and nearly speak in the third person because you're too used to the commenting/chat.
34) ... suddenly, your character has invaded your body and forced you to become him/her.
35) ... you find yourself cheered up by things that usually depress you simply because those things make your character happy.
36) ... you spout off your character's opinion without thinking, and find people agreeing with you.
37) ... you find yourself picking up more and more puppets, though you have no time for them.
38) ... you find logging the chat/reading logs more important than homework or sleep.
39) ... you find yourself imagining arguments between two puppets you manage, because you just know that if they were in the same fandom they'd shred each other.
40) ... you argue more with your puppet/character than you do with your friends or family.
41) ... you respond to your character's name.
42) ... you no longer have control of what your character says or does, even if you’ve been a member for only a short while.
43) ... you can think up questions for I Never or Truth or Dare to embarrass your characters quite easily.
44) ... the characters living in your head actually start arguing with each other.
45) ... your character has taken over your life so much that you begin to write as if you were him/her.
46) ... you have to stop your characters from replying on each other's journals, before you have a long conversation with, well, yourself.
47) ... you recite lines from your character's book as replies to what your friends ask you.
48) ... you react to characters from a book as if they did the things that the DF character did.
49) ... you smirk every time you see a reference to Winnie the Pooh
50) ... you read a fic where your character is different than you play them, and think WTF and get annoyed.
51) ... you have honestly forgotten that some things that happen here aren't canon.
52) ... you wish that you could write/read 133t better, as it seems to be highly prevalent
53) ... you begin to wonder if Courfeyrac would like Lancelot were he human
54) ... you look at the clock and wonder how it got to be 9 cause it surely can't be past 6.
55) ... your character's journal's friends list has consumed your ultimate attention.
56) ... you haven't even checked your own journal's friends list for at least a week.
57) ... you go around friending everyone on DF just to do memes and keep track of everything
58) ... you go cross-eyed from reading what Raoul has to say.
59) ... you find yourself sitting in class plotting activities for your puppet
60) ... you go to do laundry and you're in such a hurry to return to chat that you forget the detergent (or other absentminded things like that).
61) ... you rush home for the soul purpose of checking in on DF/the chat.
62) ... you really do wish that you were like your character.
63) ... "Truth or Dare" have been completely ruined for you/made awesomely fun.
64) ... in other fandom-related communities, you are asked for your favorite pairing, and name a multi-fandom one that came up here.
65) ... someone asks for your name, you almost give your character's.
66) ... you take up tea over coffee again.
67) ... you are sad that you don't have asterisks to signal actions in real life, and have to substitute in hand motions instead.
68) ... you find yourself close to grinning madly just thinking about DF, or laughing aloud when remembering something that happened here.
69) ... your friends start using things you picked up here, having no idea where it came from.
70) ... after being IMed, the first thing you type is a bracket/double parentheses.
71) ... you babble to your poor friends about DF for the longest time, even though they really don't get it.
72) ... you update your real/regular journal with random stuff about DF.
73) ... you almost write a personal journal entry as one of your characters instead of yourself.
74) ... you use ‘intarweb’ instead of ‘internet’.
75) ... you want to go out shopping for your character's clothes.
76) ... you almost mention ‘your typist’ in a personal journal entry.
77) ... alternatively, you dress like what you imagine to be your puppet's ideal woman/man.
78) ... you ignore your friends on AIM because the DF chatroom is more fun
79) ... you don't even sign into AIM/MSN anymore.
80) ... you usually never go for meetups with online folk, but would jump at the chance to meet DFers.
81) ... your characters use your brain more than you do.
82) ... you consider RPing as your character in your own journal just because it's more exciting than your own life.
83) ... you have a bad day, and your characters take it out on other characters.
84) ... your characters' bad moods affect you
85) ... you talk in your personal journal about DF characters as if they're real people.
86) ... your character has a bad day, and you take it out on RL friends.
87) ... you have far more affection for the characters you're representing AFTER you start playing them.
88) ... you get so frustrated when your internet doesn't work.
89) ... you can read a rapidly scrolling chat, and pick out the important parts
90) ... you try to visualize yourself and see your character instead.
91) ... or vice-versa.
92) ... you have odd, DF-related dreams.
93) ... you skip class (or consider it) to comment/chat.
94) ... you think ‘my character made me do it’ is a valid excuse.
95) ... you start liking characters or pairings you’ve never liked, just because of this community.
96) ... the people around you now know you as ‘the person who laughs out loud randomly, while at the computer’.
97) ... you either yell things at the screen, or find yourself flailing wildly at inappropriate times.
98) ... your eyes hurt, either from lack of sleep or staring at the screen too long.
99) ... you read through this whole list and were nodding quite frequently.
100) ... you can come jointly come up with a list of 100 things. *high-fives everyone*
Ehehehehe.
I'm so pathetic. Oh well.
For
desperatefans people - or non people, I'm making a meme out of it, behind the cut, bolding the ones that are true.
1) ... you feel the urge to call people Mademoiselle or Monsiuer (even if none of your puppets are French)
2) ... you spend all your free time in the chat room/on the site. (And even some of your not-so free time.) You have stayed in chat for more than 12 hours at a time.
3) ... you snicker at the thought/mention/sight of oranges.
4) ... you find yourself constantly arguing with your puppet. And your puppet started it.
5) ... you have a rather large reading list now. You push everything else off your reading list, so that you can get better acquainted with other peoples' characters.
6) ... you are sad that strike-outs don’t work on messaging programs (at least, not without a lot of effort).
7) ... you were sad when Lag came along and killed AIM Chat, but then happy when the Zombie Chat came back through IRC.
8) ... you actually know what I mean by most of the things on this list.
9) ... you want to apply examples of DF to real life, and have done so.
10) ... you start quoting DF characters and chats in daily life.
11) ... you are more concerned about the relationship your character has with another character rather than your homework.
12) ... you talk about events that happened here to people in real life, as if it has actually happened and is a monumental event.
13) ... you can't fall asleep at night because your brain is buzzing about DF.
14) ... you drink lots and lots of caffeine so that you can stay up in the DF chat all night. Even with finals/tests the next day.
15) ... you can't fall asleep because you keep thinking about what's going on in the chat that you're missing.
16) ... you skip meals to stay in the DF chat longer.
17) ... you begin to cry over something that happened to your character, and when asked what is wrong, you say that you're crying about something a fiction character has done.
18) ... you turn down invitations from friends and family to go somewhere so that you can comment/chat some more.
19) ... you express your love in odd ways, like exclaiming in the middle of a conversation "DF OWNS MY SOUL!".
20) ... your character has completely taken over your life and your mind.
21) ... you are more concerned about your character’s friend’s problems than you are about some real-life friend's problems.
22) ... you run your character journals through memes before you even run yourself.
23) ... you only want to draw your character and his/her respective mate, or want to draw DF fanart in general.
24) ... during the reading/movie of your character’s story, you think 'I play _____ much better'
25) ... you begin trying to figure out the floor plans of the DF Chat Room.
26) ... you daydream about/express in some way your love for your various DF OTPs.
27) ... you discover that Chat/Foil is your OTP for life.
28) ... you are more interested in your puppet's love life than your own.
29) ... you find yourself writing the name of your character's crush in the margins of your notes.
30) ... you find that you squee and melt when your character's mate kisses your character.
31) ... you find yourself all nervous when your character is.
32) ... you are more worried about other DF pairings than your own love life.
33) ... you are talking to someone on the phone or instant messenger and nearly speak in the third person because you're too used to the commenting/chat.
34) ... suddenly, your character has invaded your body and forced you to become him/her.
35) ... you find yourself cheered up by things that usually depress you simply because those things make your character happy.
36) ... you spout off your character's opinion without thinking, and find people agreeing with you.
37) ... you find yourself picking up more and more puppets, though you have no time for them.
38) ... you find logging the chat/reading logs more important than homework or sleep.
39) ... you find yourself imagining arguments between two puppets you manage, because you just know that if they were in the same fandom they'd shred each other.
40) ... you argue more with your puppet/character than you do with your friends or family.
41) ... you respond to your character's name.
42) ... you no longer have control of what your character says or does, even if you’ve been a member for only a short while.
43) ... you can think up questions for I Never or Truth or Dare to embarrass your characters quite easily.
44) ... the characters living in your head actually start arguing with each other.
45) ... your character has taken over your life so much that you begin to write as if you were him/her.
46) ... you have to stop your characters from replying on each other's journals, before you have a long conversation with, well, yourself.
47) ... you recite lines from your character's book as replies to what your friends ask you.
48) ... you react to characters from a book as if they did the things that the DF character did.
49) ... you smirk every time you see a reference to Winnie the Pooh
50) ... you read a fic where your character is different than you play them, and think WTF and get annoyed.
51) ... you have honestly forgotten that some things that happen here aren't canon.
52) ... you wish that you could write/read 133t better, as it seems to be highly prevalent
53) ... you begin to wonder if Courfeyrac would like Lancelot were he human
54) ... you look at the clock and wonder how it got to be 9 cause it surely can't be past 6.
55) ... your character's journal's friends list has consumed your ultimate attention.
56) ... you haven't even checked your own journal's friends list for at least a week.
57) ... you go around friending everyone on DF just to do memes and keep track of everything
58) ... you go cross-eyed from reading what Raoul has to say.
59) ... you find yourself sitting in class plotting activities for your puppet
60) ... you go to do laundry and you're in such a hurry to return to chat that you forget the detergent (or other absentminded things like that).
61) ... you rush home for the soul purpose of checking in on DF/the chat.
62) ... you really do wish that you were like your character.
63) ... "Truth or Dare" have been completely ruined for you/made awesomely fun.
64) ... in other fandom-related communities, you are asked for your favorite pairing, and name a multi-fandom one that came up here.
65) ... someone asks for your name, you almost give your character's.
66) ... you take up tea over coffee again.
67) ... you are sad that you don't have asterisks to signal actions in real life, and have to substitute in hand motions instead.
68) ... you find yourself close to grinning madly just thinking about DF, or laughing aloud when remembering something that happened here.
69) ... your friends start using things you picked up here, having no idea where it came from.
70) ... after being IMed, the first thing you type is a bracket/double parentheses.
71) ... you babble to your poor friends about DF for the longest time, even though they really don't get it.
72) ... you update your real/regular journal with random stuff about DF.
73) ... you almost write a personal journal entry as one of your characters instead of yourself.
74) ... you use ‘intarweb’ instead of ‘internet’.
75) ... you want to go out shopping for your character's clothes.
76) ... you almost mention ‘your typist’ in a personal journal entry.
77) ... alternatively, you dress like what you imagine to be your puppet's ideal woman/man.
78) ... you ignore your friends on AIM because the DF chatroom is more fun
79) ... you don't even sign into AIM/MSN anymore.
80) ... you usually never go for meetups with online folk, but would jump at the chance to meet DFers.
81) ... your characters use your brain more than you do.
82) ... you consider RPing as your character in your own journal just because it's more exciting than your own life.
83) ... you have a bad day, and your characters take it out on other characters.
84) ... your characters' bad moods affect you
85) ... you talk in your personal journal about DF characters as if they're real people.
86) ... your character has a bad day, and you take it out on RL friends.
87) ... you have far more affection for the characters you're representing AFTER you start playing them.
88) ... you get so frustrated when your internet doesn't work.
89) ... you can read a rapidly scrolling chat, and pick out the important parts
90) ... you try to visualize yourself and see your character instead.
91) ... or vice-versa.
92) ... you have odd, DF-related dreams.
93) ... you skip class (or consider it) to comment/chat.
94) ... you think ‘my character made me do it’ is a valid excuse.
95) ... you start liking characters or pairings you’ve never liked, just because of this community.
96) ... the people around you now know you as ‘the person who laughs out loud randomly, while at the computer’.
97) ... you either yell things at the screen, or find yourself flailing wildly at inappropriate times.
98) ... your eyes hurt, either from lack of sleep or staring at the screen too long.
99) ... you read through this whole list and were nodding quite frequently.
100) ... you can come jointly come up with a list of 100 things. *high-fives everyone*
Ehehehehe.
I'm so pathetic. Oh well.