we'll regret trying to keep these things inside forever

[mercuriazs]

Okay. Um. How do I even explain this.

The other night, I was hanging out at nextian's, talking her ear off about literally everything. And we discovered some of my old fanfiction.

By old fanfiction? I mean at least seven years old. I learned a lot of things about 14-year-old Merc that I had forgotten: most pertinently for the sake of this post, that I

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[fahye]

dkljaskdkh I am not going to listen to it because I need my sanity to be a medical student with, but the summaries ALONE...

Note how I am VIRTUOUSLY REPRESSING the urge to hate you for the ability to toss off the casual sentence like the other night, I was hanging out at nextian's

[mercuriazs]

:O

I am amazed that I even have this ability!

But I appreciate your virtue.

[lienne]

I was a fucked up middle schooler, dudes.

Join the club. XDDD

[arcane_lark]

There were a whole crowd of us fucked-up middle schoolers around that time! Most of us grew up pretty all right, for people who fancied themselves metafictional vigilantes.

[mercuriazs]

dooooo iiiiit.

[tafadhali]

I REMEMBER THIS

Oh my godddddddddddd.

All we did was read fucked up fic about either Legolas or Snape, as far as I can recall.

[tafadhali]

I feel the same strange combination of nostalgia, amusement, and HORROR that I tend to feel when we delve into our fannish past. It's like an LSD flashback -- I'm all "OH GOD THE MAGIC MARKERS."

It's weird to need a trigger warning (well, appreciate it -- this story's way too farcical and familiar to trigger me) for something I, like, cheerleaded at fourteen.

[mercuriazs]

IT IS LIKE AN LSD FLASHBACK

NNNNGH

(P.S. my spring break is shot-- they're making me work. >.<)