Comments | fools_game: Conversations with my mother

fools_game

Conversations with my mother

Mar 12, 2009 20:34

So, my mother is having a conversation with my aunt about the giftedness of their respective children, and the topic of the troubled writerly-child comes up. (Auntie Cathy's troubled writerly child is a thirty-two year old unemployed PhD-holding pot smoker who stil lives at home and still manages to never see his mother)

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MOTHER: Oh, we ( Read more... )

fandom, family, real life

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fools_game March 12 2009, 10:14:20 UTC

And then I had to EXPLAIN it to her. While she stared at my like I'd grown a second head.

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fools_game March 12 2009, 10:17:48 UTC

I thought she knew! Me and one of my sisters both read fanfic and have for years. Okay, I don't tell her about the slash, or the smut,or the incest,but I thought she at least got the general gist of what was going on.

angstslashhope March 12 2009, 10:04:48 UTC

.... Oh dear.

fools_game March 12 2009, 10:15:49 UTC

The conversation that followed was... awkward.

Oh money for you hang on hang on

angstslashhope March 12 2009, 16:33:04 UTC

No hurry!

I'm getting better at telling people I write fic. Took me a degree w honours to get the confident words I wanted to use to explain, but there you go!

lydia_petze March 12 2009, 10:36:48 UTC

/headdesking into eternity

fools_game March 12 2009, 10:42:46 UTC

I was mostly baffled. It's like we've been having wseperate conversations for the last ten years. I mean, this is my major hobby, and it's not like I've ever tried to hide what was going on.

fpvs March 12 2009, 11:38:13 UTC

HA HA HA!!!!!

Brilliant. Just BRILLIANT!

fools_game March 12 2009, 11:56:41 UTC

I don't know who felt stupider by the end of that conversation.

fpvs March 12 2009, 12:02:55 UTC

*teehee*

It doesn't matter. The conversation is now OVER! :)

almosee March 12 2009, 11:48:42 UTC

*Dies from laugter*
Awwwwwwwww... man, I LOVE your mother. It makes so much sense, I love the way she thinks.

fools_game March 12 2009, 11:57:57 UTC

*sulks* Why can't my mum be cool and understand me the way yours does? Your mother ships. She slashes. My mother fundamentally misunderstands the driving principle behind 90% of my current creative work.

almosee March 12 2009, 12:00:13 UTC

Yeah, my mums good so long as you NEVER mention the SarahJane/Maria ship which makes her want to kill people.
But my mum's a geek to begin with. Plus she's had a very, very long time to adjust to the weirdness that is life on the interwebs. Once you've tried to explain 'furries' and make them acceptable to your mother, everything else gets easier by comparison, trust me.

dreamwaffles March 12 2009, 14:54:40 UTC

...really? Wow, I'm sorry. -pets-