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Post by pervasivethrenody on Oct 11, 2004 13:16:43 GMT -5
I was assimilated. ;D Just kidding! I've been reading/writing fanfiction for about seven years. The first piece I ever remember reading was, of all things, a Jonny Quest fic I found while browsing AOL's message boards. I was in awe. Fireworks exploded over my head. Gypsies danced the Lambada. And the following day, I wrote my first story - the most godawful pile of crap ever. I'm not EVEN kidding. That thing sucked. Fortunately, it never saw the light of day! Well, the Jonny Quest fandom has pretty much long since died. These days, Saiyuki is what's frying my brain. A year and counting, and no signs of the obsession slowing down. Good, or bad? I say good. Everyone needs a hobby, eh? ;D I love writing. Even when when I hate it, and it makes me want to pull my hair out and scream and wonder why I can't manage a plot, I still love it. Such is life!
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Post by kitsuneoni on Oct 12, 2004 4:16:43 GMT -5
Thanks you guys... *g*
Actually I've had 20 years olds (up to 27!) chasing after me sometimes... Very scary.
Glad to see another Saiyuki fan!
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Post by kanshu on Oct 12, 2004 5:45:38 GMT -5
I can only add to the others: Very cute dress, and a very handsome young lady who wears it! I can understand that the 20-27 year olds chasing you. And don't worry, that kind of age gap will not be so scary when you get older.
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Post by kitsuneoni on Oct 12, 2004 7:49:54 GMT -5
*laughs*
it takes a long time to get older!
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Post by Me-Nuriko on Oct 12, 2004 10:23:35 GMT -5
As OptiMoose said, the age doesn't matter in a few years. In fifteen years you want to look younger instead. Hehe, a 20 year old boy tried to pick me up one Saturday night some months ago, and he was serious about it. I was really flattered ( I didn't go with him, if anyone thought that!), I know I look younger than my years, but that young...? ;D My husband thought it was quite funny, when I told him, too.
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Post by Salmastryon on Oct 12, 2004 11:12:05 GMT -5
My dad always looks younger than he is. Unfortunately with my mom going silver in her twenties she sometimes got confused as his mother, and my dad is older than my mom!
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Post by kitsuneoni on Oct 18, 2004 3:25:41 GMT -5
*g* My mom looks relatively young for her age and sometimes gets chatted up by younger men (not in their 20s, though).
It is true that age gaps matter less when you get older. It seems a little strange for a 16 year old to be going out with someone who's 21, but it sounds okay for a 21 yr old to be going out with 26 yr old.
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Post by Blood_Debt on Oct 29, 2004 4:13:14 GMT -5
Blegh. A bit off-topic, isn't it?
That kinda stuff doesn't happen in the country I live in, it's Muslim, so resticted in many ways, especially since its Ramadan right now (fasting month).
As what got me into fanfic, my friend forced me to read one of her fics, and plot bunnies started to rampage though my head
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Post by kitsuneoni on Oct 29, 2004 4:56:52 GMT -5
*g* We tend to go off-topic.. we're such chatterboxes!
You were forced? That doesn't sound very promising... Although I'm sure now you're glad she did, right?
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Post by rasinah on Nov 5, 2004 3:41:05 GMT -5
Am I late? *looks around, shrugs* Oh well... better late than never I guess... I explained a bit on this on my board but well, I can just summarize it real quick. Basically I stumbled upon some 58 fics (from Saiyuki fandom) and naive me thought those got omitted from the anime or something. I found out later they were known as fanfictions and I got really excited. I love English (it isn't my Mother Tongue, by the way) and often aced my Eng papers, esp in compositions/essays. And I've been writing in my Mother Tongue (was supposed to send in my manuscript to a local editor/publisher but am not confident enough) so I decided to give fanfics a try. The rest is explained on my board but well, nothing fancy.
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Post by Blood_Debt on Nov 6, 2004 1:48:23 GMT -5
Oh, of course! I thought it was a brilliant story at first, but now when I read her stuff I keep spotting flaws etc etc, that's why I say forced. She also makes me leave reviews, even if I'm sitting right next to her, so that annoyed me. And now, of course, I've spotted all the amazing authors here , and I wouldn't leave fanfictions for anything... except, perhaps, Sanzo... *drool*
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Post by Ganheim on Nov 15, 2004 14:42:26 GMT -5
I'm not sure whether to say I feel like some young newcomer or old-timer who missed out. I've been an author at heart since I was a little kid, so when I started to grow attached to a certain cartoon/series/whatever, I'd start writing a fan fiction - and often I'd start taking it over, adding in multiple original characters, doing things like adding in rival empires that just coincidentally never showed up in the show, etc. I'm not sure when I started putting those fan stories to paper, but I've been doing them for as long as I can remember. I've even still got some of the character biographies for a Star Wars fan fiction that I started when I was 13 or something like that. I've been working mostly on original fiction ( Life of the Silver Tear), but after a long and depressing period of writer's block I discovered FanFiction.net and started reading Inuyasha fanfics (oddly, my sister introduced me to the series, before I had never liked anime's). Anyway, after reading a few and watching more of the series I started writing my own (I threw out the first one, but I'm re-writing it now as Crossing the Rubicon[/u]). I'm so glad that I found this place, the section on what those little abbreviations and such mean means I finally know what those people are saying...mostly.
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Post by Me-Nuriko on Nov 16, 2004 3:32:45 GMT -5
Oh, a new 'face'. ;D Welcome. I'm glad you like it. Here are always a lot of interesting threads going on. It seems like all us fangirls all have been fangirls since very early age. It must be some kind of special way of thinking, that makes us what we are. A friend of mine has written an essay at the university about the subculture that is 'fangirls'. Very interesting.
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Post by KarotsaMused on Nov 16, 2004 17:53:23 GMT -5
I think it takes a certain sort of person, really. I don't know about you guys, but it is very easy for me to become attached to certain characters in television, movies, or books, and that really seems to be the heart of fandom. But if there is any way you could possibly share that essay with us, Me-Nuriko, I'd be much obliged! I'm really curious now As for me, I used fanfiction as a testing area for ideas in my original fiction. Once I started posting on ff.net, though, it became a lot more prominent in my life. Heh.
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Post by Me-Nuriko on Nov 17, 2004 0:27:58 GMT -5
I ask my friend if she's willing to share, and if so, we find a way to let those interested read it.
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