LJ Idol Week 9: Keep Calm and End This Meme

[rswndrlst]

Part One: Frodo Lives!

It’s called Fandom.

It’s basically an addiction at this point.

You are obsessively enthusiastic about certain characters and stories.

You can’t stop even when it affects your well-being.

Even when you know you should.

Even when you are thinking, this isn’t even really making me happy anymore.

Other people doing it too

Comments

[kagomeshuko]

I've never truly gotten into the whole fanfiction thing. I remember finding out about it when Harry Potter first came out and there were all these stories about Harry Potter, Snape, and Viagra . . .

[rswndrlst]

OMG! Snape and Viagra eeep.

Heh, Harry Potter was probably my first true foray into the fan fic world but I was writing even my own versions of literary characters when I was too young to even know it was a thing other people did too. I used to write stories in which Anne Shirley and Diana Barry fell in love and Jo March and Theodore Lawrence ran off together and joined a traveling theatre troupe.

My 16 year old sister has written Labyrinth fanfiction and we just met last year. So it was funny we had this to bond over.

[kagomeshuko]

The story that you and your sister just met must be something being that she's 16.

I was always more into trying to make a stage play out of my children's books.

Yeah, I was into chat rooms (found one that was called "The Chapel" at a site Freetown . . . doesn't exist any longer). People were nice, but they did post stories of Snape and Harry taking these "little blue pills" and I just could hardly believe it at times. Viagra became quite a joke there, though.

[rswndrlst]

Well I hadn't seen my Father in about 14 years. and before that I had only "met" him a few times since I was five or six. We were reunited recently and he's been a great support my life

[kagomeshuko]

Oh, I know that there are so many worse things out there than the male/male teacher/student relationship and the student being given Viagra. I'm not into any of that, though.

Yeah, definitely a lot of instant gratification. I had a friend who was into writing Dr. Who slash fiction. Honestly, it wasn't that great, but she was my friend, so I supported her. My other friends wrote better things, but they honestly still were not great writings. I wasn't that great and I can always improve. However, what they thought was quality stuff that should be published . . . well . . .

Theatre is awesome! I minored in theatre as an undergrad and I recently got into our local theatre (well, one of them). It's been so much fun even though I've only acted in one play and really all I've done is help out in other ways. However, I really enjoy that, so it works! I actually like backstage/writing/directing more than acting. I like to teach people to act, though . . .