If I had the chance, I'd ask the world to dance

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I have written and rewritten these first couple sentences quite a lot, but they all basically boil down to the fact I am sad, and in an effort not to be as sad, I am re-posting some conversations I've had with other people that made me laugh, and actually still do. I mean, ideally they also make other people laugh, but honestly, these are mostly

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I mean, ideally they also make other people laugh

I was going "omg Utena/KH crossover lol" at the Utena/KH crossover story, giggling and thinking "reminds me of when the Mass Effect fandom tried to scientifically determine what Tali'Zorah's sweat smells like" at the discussion of authors making too big a deal out of peopletaste, completely losing it at the FF7 Nazi AU, and I may have woken up my landlady when Aeris was Anne Frank.

That's only like halfway through the chatlogs so mission accomplished!

Is it a sign of being jaded when the fanfic ideas that seem the most interesting are batshit insane like this? I mean, FF7 Nazi AU is still awful and why would you do that you weirdo on the kink meme, but that prompt synopsis has more thought put into it than a lot of actually written fics.

Like I was recently thinking that Metroid: Other M pissed me off so much I want to write this ridiculous AU re-imagining the whole thing as Cowboy Bebop or Firefly-esque. Samus always loses her power-ups between games because she's broke and needs to eat so she sells them. She can get like a whole pallet of space ramen for a powerbomb. Adam owns the broken down ship everyone lives on and nobody listens to him. The other guy on the ship is Ridley who still hates Samus so much he wants to eat her like he ate her parents but he can't because he needs a job too and it's a living. This entire thing is basically inspired by the fact that I desperately want Retsupurae's version of Ridley to be real.

Going back to peopletaste. I had completely forgotten Shaun White had gum because lately I get my gum from the warehouse store because the limited selection is, I feel, a fair trade off for a massive box of gum for the price of like a pack or three, when I read "two flavors" my mind went into full blown. omg. I may steal this for the fanfiction panel I do at the local tiny-ass anime con (maybe Otakon will take my panel next year! ....probably not but whatever.) Peopletaste is on the list of topics I introduce, and then say "Please don't do this." It's right up there with height comparisons as descriptors and creating OCs by having a magical game console teleport someone from the real world into the game world (why is this a thing.)

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I need to get Kadrin to tell me where the link to that story is; I was trawling through his livejournal to no avail. It's so awesome.

To be fair, that conversation happened shortly before/during the Winter Olympics, when I would expect Shaun White gum marketing effortd to be at their highest efforts. I am not sure of its current status! Part of me rather hopes it's around, though.

Please do the people taste thing and let me know of what you say! It's one of those pet peeves that kind of drives me bonkers when I run into the same thing over and over. Ugh.

Anyway. I'm glad this made you laugh and you piped up. Haven't heard from you in too long, dude. I was looking for someone to be sad at the other day that Michael is in rehab, and it seemed to be that swimming RPF fandom is a largely Lochte-centric place now, which just makes me ragequit out.

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Oh the old swimming RPF days, when there was a little bit of gymnastics on the side and no one myself included knew the winter athletes existed yet. I'm usually good about not getting all "OH I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW OLD I AM" when remembering things but two exceptions are definitely a) Athens was ten years ago and b) we are three years away from Final Fantasy VII being twenty years old.

I also used to be continually aware of Shaun White Gum's existence because the best grocery store around that isn't the warehouse store stocks it at this perfectly eye-level shelf on the gum racks so I would see it every time at checkout.

Also being one of the more intelligent people/writers that I know I will most definitely tell you all about that if I get to pull it off. I'm also applying to give a panel about well-regarded vidya that nevertheless has hilariously hack writing (Dear Esther, most walking simulators, really) or at least problems that make them not as perfect as all the "11 out of 10!" scores would suggest (things like Bioshock.) I half-expect to be assaulted at some point should I get to do this.

Awhile ago I was bored so I trolled the comments on a Dear Esther youtube video (because I'm an adult,) and one of the responses I got was someone who said he didn't like videogames he actually had to PLAY. With the all-caps and everything.

Anyway yes please feel free to sad at me about Michael. Just when he's trying to make a comeback too and might make the swimming RPF scene a little more interesting again (which is clearly the thing I should be most concerned about; I should've saved the "I'm an adult!" joke for this instead.)

On a more random note, you may be amused by this year's Hookerween highlights. Not featured (because they did it last year): Sexy Corn.

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Yeah, I feel kind of annoyed that the summer Olympics missed out on some of the fandom movements, but I probably would have just gotten annoyed anyway, so no harm done. God, the Hamm twins. I remember you guys. And Michael was a baby, and there were TWO Ians, and no one really cared about Ryan Lochte, and Grant Hackett wasn't unfortunately puffy yet. Those were the good old days.

I hope you get to give the panel! I will expect to hear all about it if you do.

My life is too sad right now for me to wallow in being sad about Michael as well; I will save that for whenever he surfaces out of rehab.

Oh God, sexy corn, what the everliving fuckall is wrong with the world.