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[aamalie]

Okay! Finally at a bit of a stopping point after driving all around Northern California all weekend, and also spending a large chunk of yesterday at the ranch taking care of the horses because, well, big animals means a lot of poop. Go figure. Anyway, on our way back we stopped in Trinidad, which is a wonderful little fishing town just north of

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[iggy04]

Is Kingdom Hearts a good series? An online buddy of mine said "In my opinion, Japan and Walt Disney should have never been mixed together."

I keep seeing Kingdom Hearts series on shelves: Birth By Sleep, 365/3 days (or something like that) and Recoded.

[aamalie]

I certainly think so! I mean, it's not perfect, but I really enjoyed playing (and replaying) KH1 and KH2, and the little of Birth by Sleep that I got to.

[genarti]

Hello to Eureka! That's where my oldest brother used to live, although nowadays he's up in Oregon.

And heh, I'm in a way the same and in a way the opposite; I've been involved in fandom for nearly as long as you, but my perpetual laziness about getting really fannish about things means that I'm generally multifannish rather than monofannish. I'd say FMA is the first fandom I've really been in, rather than reading some recs and maybe reading a fic or two and doing lots of meta in my own head and generally wandering along with distant but long-term benevolence towards the canon.

[aamalie]

Fancy that! My great-grandparents lived up there when they were alive, so a lot of my family history is up there. :)

See, I do all that too though, with the fandoms I am not necessarily producing my own fanworks for! I guess I define being in a fandom as ~doing stuff~ for it, but I am fannish about a lot of things. I just. Don't talk about them as much?

Who knows. Maybe I'm just weird.

[genarti]

Oh, neat! I don't have any Californian family history that I know of, other than my brother and sister-in-law's years there, but that's still a neat coincidence!

And I dunno; I'm weird too, I think! I have this loose and flexible definition of being fannish as "have written a fic in it, or read fanfic there sometimes, or just have seen/read the canon and had at least one meta conversation about it or otherwise thought about it in fandom terms. Uh. And stuff?" Whereas being in a fandom I think I mentally define as following at least one relevant comm with actual interest, and writing or actively seeking out fic about it, and generally being someone that might possibly be recognized as existing by some other people involved in the fandom. In which case I've been in, like, two fandoms ever.

So basically I think we might be giving different labels to the same sort of shrugging standpoint on things? Oh labels.