Ooh, memes!
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trinityvixenInstead of updating about family such-and-such, I decided to do memes. I'm still working away at the LJ posts in the past week, but I'm getting through many more as a result of being stuck at home waiting on the electrician. I could leave it to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feiran but it's my room's lights being worked on, so I'm staying nearby. Plus, I've dealt with these guys all along. I should maintain that. I can get done what absolutely must be done at work today in a few hours and I will leave the rest to next week where I will work my buns off and otherwise ignore the kid there.
Anyway, enough. Onto memes!
And fromviridian: The deal is this: If you are involved in fandom at all, whether you're creating or just reading/viewing, in your livejournal you must post (under a cut if you wish) a SECRET. Preferably something you wouldn't normally admit, and definitely something fandom related.
1. The first fandom I ever got involved in was The Flash television show. I wrote a cross-over story between that and my other obsession at the time, Nancy Drew. Like all fanfic cross-overs I've ever started save one, I never finished it. The basic plot was pretty obvious--Nancy Drew investigates fill-in-the-blank, where fill-in-the-blank was "Who is the Flash?" I remember writing the British doctor chick who knew about the Flash as kind of a bitch. Probably because, long-suffering boyfriend notwithstanding, Nancy was fated to be with the Flash. That alone is embarrassing enough to admit to count for three of these. But I have enough embarrassing shit to fill up the meme, and so let us continue.
2. Ah, yes, the only cross-over fanfic I ever finished? An X-Files/Matrix cross-over. Crap ending, since I undid more things than ends with "and then he woke up" does. However, it did bring me some notoriety when an article, back in the day, on some online paper wrote about the rise of fanfic on the internet. I still remember the line "Remember when Mulder and Scully met Neo and Trinity? No?" because that hyperlinked to my story. I was internets famous! ZOMG DIRTY SEKRETZ!
3. I never wrote a Mary Sue story. This isn't something to be kept secret, per se, seeing as it's quite the accomplishment. I had one Mary Sue that I wrote, sure, but I never really posted it anywhere. I did, however, write AND post a story I wrote about SOMEONE ELSE'S Mary Sue. She found me, liked my writing, and offered me up her Mary Sue and demanded I write the story. Naturally, the Mary Sue was the long-lost twin but better of a popular character; was the favorite of the canon character's parental unit instead of the canon character; had been kept a secret for forever because the other person said so; and she got the hot guy that the canon character had always been linked to (but could never have because she was, of course, less cool than the Mary Sue). The fandom? X-Men. The comics, too, which, mind you, I'd not actually read...well, ever at that point. I based knowledge off of scouring the web for histories of characters. The Mary Sue was a twin of Rogue, who--of course!--could control her powers and was able to do everything Rogue could do but BETTER. It was a hilariously bad time all around.
4. I have done more research for fanfic that I have never finished than I have done for some school papers.
5. I honestly hate most of fandom. Doesn't matter the fandom, it seems. People who are enthusiastic about a fandom are abundant. People who are SMART about a fandom and enthusiastic about it are so few and far between as to make me despair. "Fandom" (used as the pejorative) keeps me out of fandom (the community). Because people are scary about shit. Or they're immature about it. What I really love is getting crazy meta about things I enjoy. I prefer that to fan-produced works most of the time, especially as the difficulty of finding good stuff in fandoms increases. Now, of course, I've met WONDERFUL people through fandom as well, but I find that they are the exception that proves the rule. Congratulations, you people are exceptional. And, I would guess, you all know it. But, if not, I'm telling you now. Know it and love it, people!
And now I finish that meme, I find it did not require me to have five things to write about fandom, that was just whatviridian did. Oh well. Have at it!
feiran but it's my room's lights being worked on, so I'm staying nearby. Plus, I've dealt with these guys all along. I should maintain that. I can get done what absolutely must be done at work today in a few hours and I will leave the rest to next week where I will work my buns off and otherwise ignore the kid there.Anyway, enough. Onto memes!
Your Score: Lion Warning Cat
64% Affectionate, 51% Excitable, 35% Hungry
You are the good Samaritan of the lolcat world. Protecting others from danger by shouting observations and guidance in cases of imminent threat, you believe in the well-being of everyone.
To see all possible results, checka dis.
| Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
And from
viridian: The deal is this: If you are involved in fandom at all, whether you're creating or just reading/viewing, in your livejournal you must post (under a cut if you wish) a SECRET. Preferably something you wouldn't normally admit, and definitely something fandom related.1. The first fandom I ever got involved in was The Flash television show. I wrote a cross-over story between that and my other obsession at the time, Nancy Drew. Like all fanfic cross-overs I've ever started save one, I never finished it. The basic plot was pretty obvious--Nancy Drew investigates fill-in-the-blank, where fill-in-the-blank was "Who is the Flash?" I remember writing the British doctor chick who knew about the Flash as kind of a bitch. Probably because, long-suffering boyfriend notwithstanding, Nancy was fated to be with the Flash. That alone is embarrassing enough to admit to count for three of these. But I have enough embarrassing shit to fill up the meme, and so let us continue.
2. Ah, yes, the only cross-over fanfic I ever finished? An X-Files/Matrix cross-over. Crap ending, since I undid more things than ends with "and then he woke up" does. However, it did bring me some notoriety when an article, back in the day, on some online paper wrote about the rise of fanfic on the internet. I still remember the line "Remember when Mulder and Scully met Neo and Trinity? No?" because that hyperlinked to my story. I was internets famous! ZOMG DIRTY SEKRETZ!
3. I never wrote a Mary Sue story. This isn't something to be kept secret, per se, seeing as it's quite the accomplishment. I had one Mary Sue that I wrote, sure, but I never really posted it anywhere. I did, however, write AND post a story I wrote about SOMEONE ELSE'S Mary Sue. She found me, liked my writing, and offered me up her Mary Sue and demanded I write the story. Naturally, the Mary Sue was the long-lost twin but better of a popular character; was the favorite of the canon character's parental unit instead of the canon character; had been kept a secret for forever because the other person said so; and she got the hot guy that the canon character had always been linked to (but could never have because she was, of course, less cool than the Mary Sue). The fandom? X-Men. The comics, too, which, mind you, I'd not actually read...well, ever at that point. I based knowledge off of scouring the web for histories of characters. The Mary Sue was a twin of Rogue, who--of course!--could control her powers and was able to do everything Rogue could do but BETTER. It was a hilariously bad time all around.
4. I have done more research for fanfic that I have never finished than I have done for some school papers.
5. I honestly hate most of fandom. Doesn't matter the fandom, it seems. People who are enthusiastic about a fandom are abundant. People who are SMART about a fandom and enthusiastic about it are so few and far between as to make me despair. "Fandom" (used as the pejorative) keeps me out of fandom (the community). Because people are scary about shit. Or they're immature about it. What I really love is getting crazy meta about things I enjoy. I prefer that to fan-produced works most of the time, especially as the difficulty of finding good stuff in fandoms increases. Now, of course, I've met WONDERFUL people through fandom as well, but I find that they are the exception that proves the rule. Congratulations, you people are exceptional. And, I would guess, you all know it. But, if not, I'm telling you now. Know it and love it, people!
And now I finish that meme, I find it did not require me to have five things to write about fandom, that was just what
viridian did. Oh well. Have at it!
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