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In honour of the best holiday ever, I present, for your reading enjoyment, a Hayley obsession retrospective. Here's things that took over my life to unhealthy amounts and the degree to which this occurred:
1. Digimon - this was my first love, and will always have a special place in my heart because of it. I watched the new episodes every week (and got up early to watch the rerun before school every day), got a new email address related to the show, read fanfiction (as well as wrote my first piece ever) and was kind of in love with one of the characters.
2. Following this, came an obsession with numerous animes all at the same time (although never quite to the same degree as Digimon) - Pokemon, Card Captors, Escaflowne, Dragonball Z. To get an idea of how much I loved them, I tried learning how to draw manga. And that just speaks volumes right there. Me and art don't really mix.
3. Next came Harry Potter. Re-reading the books over and over again (and later, continually watching the movies), knowing insignificant details that other people find ridiculous. I started reading fanfiction by the pound at this point, and wrote quite a few pieces of it myself. I even dressed up as Lily for Halloween once. Oh, and again, changed my email address.
4. And this brings us to our present era in the life of Hayley. Vampires. This one has been going on for a number of years, but I felt it still deserved mentioning. I read a ridiculous number of vampire books, and I devour any show that involves them. I don't quite know what my fascination with them is, but I can just never get enough. In fact, I almost wanted to give the Twilight series its own category here, but it's really just a subset. When I read them, I honestly don't want to do anything else ever except for read. I don't wanna eat, I don't wanna sleep. I just want to read. I only read the series a couple months ago, but I've already started again. Sometimes with this, and previous things mentioned, I just get this kind of mental twitch and feel like I have no choice but to indulge in something (in this case, reading the books again). In this instance, I haven't written any fanfiction, but I do have the beginnings of an original story forming in my mind. If only I had the actual impetus to actually write it.
5. This doesn't quite fit into the timeline right - it started before number 4 and continues to the present - but Stargate must also be mentioned here, of course. I could go on and on about the ways I love it, but I'm going to Vancouver for Gatecon. 'Nuff said.
And this concludes our overview of the fandoms of Hayley. I regret nothing. However, the one geeky thing it occurred to me I haven't done but really want to? A zombie walk.
1. Digimon - this was my first love, and will always have a special place in my heart because of it. I watched the new episodes every week (and got up early to watch the rerun before school every day), got a new email address related to the show, read fanfiction (as well as wrote my first piece ever) and was kind of in love with one of the characters.
2. Following this, came an obsession with numerous animes all at the same time (although never quite to the same degree as Digimon) - Pokemon, Card Captors, Escaflowne, Dragonball Z. To get an idea of how much I loved them, I tried learning how to draw manga. And that just speaks volumes right there. Me and art don't really mix.
3. Next came Harry Potter. Re-reading the books over and over again (and later, continually watching the movies), knowing insignificant details that other people find ridiculous. I started reading fanfiction by the pound at this point, and wrote quite a few pieces of it myself. I even dressed up as Lily for Halloween once. Oh, and again, changed my email address.
4. And this brings us to our present era in the life of Hayley. Vampires. This one has been going on for a number of years, but I felt it still deserved mentioning. I read a ridiculous number of vampire books, and I devour any show that involves them. I don't quite know what my fascination with them is, but I can just never get enough. In fact, I almost wanted to give the Twilight series its own category here, but it's really just a subset. When I read them, I honestly don't want to do anything else ever except for read. I don't wanna eat, I don't wanna sleep. I just want to read. I only read the series a couple months ago, but I've already started again. Sometimes with this, and previous things mentioned, I just get this kind of mental twitch and feel like I have no choice but to indulge in something (in this case, reading the books again). In this instance, I haven't written any fanfiction, but I do have the beginnings of an original story forming in my mind. If only I had the actual impetus to actually write it.
5. This doesn't quite fit into the timeline right - it started before number 4 and continues to the present - but Stargate must also be mentioned here, of course. I could go on and on about the ways I love it, but I'm going to Vancouver for Gatecon. 'Nuff said.
And this concludes our overview of the fandoms of Hayley. I regret nothing. However, the one geeky thing it occurred to me I haven't done but really want to? A zombie walk.