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Post by treneka on Jan 6, 2005 1:55:43 GMT -5
Some musings: please add your own.
If your friends have ever asked you which Muse is torturing you *today*, you might be a fanfic author.
If you've ever discussed how long it would take for all the blood in a human body to clot... over dinner, you might be a fanfic author.
If you've ever wondered aloud to your husband what excuse might get four ostensibly straight guys into bed together, you might be a fanfic author.
If you've ever sat at the computer typing for so long that they had to take you to the hospital for clinical dehydration; if you've ever written fifty words of perfect dialogue on a Walmart receipt; if you've ever wandered the halls of your high school talking to yourself in the voices of three or more imaginary people....YOU MIGHT BE A FANFIC AUTHOR!
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Post by elven dreamer on Jan 6, 2005 6:23:15 GMT -5
Hehehehe
Well, I guess I don't quite qualify..
Considering I'm not married, don't go to walmart and currently not to school either...
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Post by Blood_Debt on Jan 6, 2005 6:51:59 GMT -5
*g*
If you start complaining to your English teacher that the word limit they have set is too short - you did double that.
When you turn down real boys because you are devoted to a fictional one.
When your idol is someone you have never met - but they write great stories!
When you don't have posters of Orly Bloom, or Johnny Depp, but one of the Sanzo gang...
When you read stories and critizise the sentence structure.
When you complain about the movie mistakes that no one else notices (plot points)
You start analyazing books for Mary-Sues
You use author abbreviations in public - 'I was reading this terrible S-I, it was so Mary-Sue, and it had so much fluff!'
You correct your friend's grammar.
...Guilty ;D
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Post by KarotsaMused on Jan 6, 2005 23:26:43 GMT -5
*raises hand* So guilty! Blood_Debt has me pegged... at least gramatically Got a few more. You may be a fanfic author if... Every song you hear corresponds to (or can be tweaked to suit) a character's persona You see fan numbers/acronyms/terms everywhere in daily life You find yourself hailing people using "Oi!" Your original artwork is heavily inspired by your fandom (Bad Karot) A major criterion as to whether or not you like a book/movie/series is its potential to spawn plotbunnies You confuse quotes from canon with dialogue from your favorite author's work Every symbol you explore in Lit class can be correlated into a fandom You doodle fanfic dialogue (complete with little faces) in the margins of your math notes You dream your fandom ...extra points if you use the dream as inspiration later!
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Post by wildelamassu on Jan 7, 2005 2:38:50 GMT -5
...If your lecture notes are covered in plotbunnies, inspired by said lecture. (Agah, Theogony. ^^)
...If your significant other has never seen/read your favorite series, but he can name all the main characters.
...If you've gotten a LiveJournal or onto a message board after absolutely promising to stop with this fandom nonsense. ^^;
...If you've a ridiculous crush on a fictional character. (Although I suppose Hakkai must only join the line-up, going all the way back to Vanyel to Numair to Darcy. *sighs*)
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Post by Blood_Debt on Jan 7, 2005 20:24:57 GMT -5
I lurve Vanyel Ashke and Numair. But more:
The mere word bunnies immediately makes you think of something *other* than rabbits. (Monty Python!!!)
It is the word you can touch type faster than any other.
You turn round hearing the word orbs, laughing helplessly.
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Post by KarotsaMused on Jan 15, 2005 22:49:20 GMT -5
One: Thanks, Blood_Debt One more to add from today: If, in the middle of a conversation, you suddenly say, "You know, this would make a -great- Breakroom dialogue..." *waves hand* Yes, it happened. I got smacked for it. ;D
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Post by Blood_Debt on Jan 16, 2005 20:36:03 GMT -5
I'm actually fixated on the word pre-breakfast boink. It gets me every time.
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Post by KarotsaMused on Jan 16, 2005 22:10:50 GMT -5
Why thank you That's actually a phrase I rather like, too. It's in "Turn of Events", right? Er. Wait. No. "Insufferable." One of those. I remember I actually purloined the word "boink" from a fiction about a "Happy Birthday boink" and...changed the prefix. Okay, new one due to the frustration I experienced last night: You might be a Fanfic author if, when trying to write original dialogue between two non-fandom characters, you lapse into your fanfic contrivances. Case in point: www.fanfiction.net/s/2222051/1/ <- GAH.
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Post by treneka on Jan 17, 2005 1:50:44 GMT -5
*yum* Karot phrases... I've always adored "orgasm on spinach." If it's ever salad night and I'm not feeling hungry, I just read "Sleeping Alone" and suddenly I'm craving leafy green stuff... Now if only Hakkai would share the recipe. *giggles*
Anyway, a couple more:
If your therapist begins a session by asking what you've done to torture [fictional character - okay, it was Spock, but it was also a long long time ago] today, you might be a fanfiction author.
If you find yourself arguing canon with a friend only to realize that the example you were thinking of actually comes from a fanfic, you might be a fanfiction author.
If you've ever watched an anime series from beginning to end, while despising every poorly-written, cheaply drawn minute of it, just to better understand a mind-blowing fic you read on ffnet - you guessed it.
If your significant other has ever offered to buy you a computer to get you to stop monopolizing his, you might be a fanfiction author.
If your cat has ever laid on top of your keyboard more than twice in an hour in a hopeless bid for your attention--Ringo, get down. DOWN!
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Post by slizziechan on Jan 17, 2005 22:09:24 GMT -5
Oh wow, you all have me pegged on almost all of those. Heres another to add, or okay, a FEW more.
If your friends don't know what you are talking about, but they know it has something to do with writing.
When you mom/dad/sibling/spouse walks in and sees you typing quickly, they know not to disturb you when you are in one of your "Moods."
If you can speak a little of: Elvish, Japanese, French, Greman, and bits and pieces from a dozen languages.
When you mumble over and over again, "the bunnies gonna eat me, bunnies gonna eat me..."
If your friends only read your fic cause you beg and plead and... *gasp!* black mail them.
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Post by KarotsaMused on Jan 17, 2005 22:46:23 GMT -5
Treneka: *grins evilly* That one was my own, written after a night at a very nice restaurant. I can't get enough of good spinach salad. Oh, and everything except the one about the cat applies to me, with enough tweakage to suit my particular lifestyle, of course. S. Eerandgel: "Moods" is right. Although I normally have epiphanies and run out of the room, thus leaving my family to exchange knowing glances before rolling their eyes. ;D I've got a few, thanks to some odd conversations today... If you've used the words "deranged" and "adorable" in the same sentence... (We were talking about Kami-sama. ) If someone asks you about the goofy grin you're wearing by inquiring, "Get a good review today?" (Treneka, you *killed* my bad mood today. ) If someone agrees to read a fiction for you but backs out after about five minutes of the backstory explanation you have to give them so they understand the stupid thing... ...you might just be a fanfic author.
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Post by rasinah on Jan 18, 2005 1:58:53 GMT -5
*giggles*
You might be a fanfic author if...
1) You start losing a few kgs/pounds, since all you have for lunch/breakfast/tea/supper is alphabet soup and bunnies kebabs.
2) You start having a conversation with yourself in the mirror, on what you should do when the two of you are alone finally.
3) You slow down every time you pass a VCD/DVD store and drag your friends in, thereafter saying things like "Look, this anime has bishies. Ooooh, these two are a definite sh-ai!" Then as an afterthought, "Oh, and great plot too". And your friends go 0___o?
4) You start having dreams and ish convinced that it is some sort of divine message from Up Above on the validity of your fave pairing(s).
Heee ^____^
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Post by Blood_Debt on Jan 18, 2005 6:25:02 GMT -5
Well, today, I took my (10 year old) brother's English sci-fi story that they have to create, and my hands started twitching towards a pencil. When he wouldn't let me scribble on his work, I started pointing out all the flaws etc, and telling him what to do instead. And I also pointed out that the plot was based on Justice League.
I told him I was willing to beta, but for some reason, he didn't seem so keen... I wonder why? *mumbles* I can still get to him before the final draft...
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Post by wildelamassu on Jan 18, 2005 7:01:18 GMT -5
Well, today, I took my (10 year old) brother's English sci-fi story that they have to create, and my hands started twitching towards a pencil. When he wouldn't let me scribble on his work, I started pointing out all the flaws etc, and telling him what to do instead. And I also pointed out that the plot was based on Justice League. I told him I was willing to beta, but for some reason, he didn't seem so keen... I wonder why? *mumbles* I can still get to him before the final draft... *laughs* This might be my favorite "You might be a fanfic author if..." Points for innovative style! *runs away grinning*
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