Comments | shrift: I am bored! I have french fries!

shrift

I am bored! I have french fries!

Mar 05, 2007 15:44

I love you, fandom. Never leave me!

Sometimes I wonder what people do without fandom in their lives. (Garden? Watch football? Join a nunnery?) I wonder what kind of person I might have been if I hadn't found fandom ten years ago when I was impressionable and 18. Would I be curing cancer? Would I still be able to explain bukkake? Would I be ( Read more... )

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fitofpique March 5 2007, 21:50:59 UTC

I am pretty sure I would not have spent the weekend writing threesome smut and watching British quiz shows wherein Stephen Fry discusses arthropods with two wangs.

This sentence would require very little rewriting to accurately describe my weekend too (down to the very episode of QI), to whit:

I am pretty sure I would not have spent the weekend writing inexplicable RPS and watching British quiz shows wherein Stephen Fry discusses arthropods with two wangs.

OMG!

shrift March 5 2007, 22:09:53 UTC

This just makes me love fandom even more. I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE.

fitofpique March 6 2007, 14:56:10 UTC

I KNOW, RIGHT?

*clings to internets*

pearl_o March 5 2007, 22:28:48 UTC

ME TOO. Well, you'd have to replace "writing smut" with "crazed vidding fever", but otherwise? EXACTLY RIGHT.

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nestra March 5 2007, 22:29:51 UTC

No, no, you're not allowed to have an imaginary hypothetical future where you're not in fandom. It's too scary. No PolyRecs, no BFA, no Leviathan, no interpretive dances of bad fanfic...

God, you probably wouldn't even know who David Hewlett is. It's too awful to contemplate.

shrift March 5 2007, 23:30:31 UTC

No... no Hewlett? No porn? No you? God, my alternate universe life SUCKS.

nestra March 5 2007, 23:39:47 UTC

It's like one of those horrible AUs on Stargate where people are weird and have bad hair.

shrift March 6 2007, 01:51:46 UTC

Now I'm worried that alternate universe me is fond of inexplicable cowboy scuplture.

burntcopper March 5 2007, 22:51:10 UTC

...I seriously have no idea. Without fandom I would not have started going to cons, which would mean no seamstressing. Or started making websites, or proof-reading people's fic.

Which means : no current job, none of my friends (seriously, all my real life friends are from online fandom or the convention scene), and none of my current skills.

shrift March 6 2007, 01:57:01 UTC

I certainly would not be living in Chicago with another fan as my roommate. Probably would not have very many friends, and certainly not the people who have been my best friends for the last seven years.

I'd have a job, but that's about it. God, my life would be very, very boring.

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shrift March 6 2007, 01:58:22 UTC

Ooh! That sounds like an excellent plan for next weekend!

zoniduck March 5 2007, 23:53:20 UTC

No fandom? 'Tis too horrible to contemplate. Your threesome smut on the other hand, I am contemplating rather a lot.

I spent 4 hours of my Sunday watching a not very good TV movie on Lifetime just because David Hewlett was in it. Ah, fandom! It makes you do the wacky.

shrift March 6 2007, 01:50:15 UTC

our threesome smut on the other hand, I am contemplating rather a lot.

Sorry -- it was for Samurai Champloo, which I don't think is a fandom you do.

I spent 4 hours of my Sunday watching a not very good TV movie on Lifetime just because David Hewlett was in it.

Yeah, I Netflix not very good things just because David Hewlett is in them. Curse you for being awesome, Mr. David Hewlett!