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Jan. 20th, 2006 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castalieMy god, someone must love me very much for They gave ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isolde13 and la_folle_allure the idea of doing a hurt!Dean challenge. That's so very shiny! I might even want to participate.
As it happens, I'm also tempted by the new round ofsentinelsecrets and thinking of participating as I didn't the last two - or is that three? I don't remember how many rounds there were.
Anyway, I'll see whether my muses finally want to cooperate as far as challenges go.
Unrelated now,starwatcher307 shared with us what it was about fandom that drew her, and kept her coming back. And then she asked her flist to answer the same question. Which I did because like I told her, I love talking about fandom! And about myself, obviously.
And as usual when I write a long-ish comment in someone else's lj after replying to a fundamental question, I'm pulling a Jim Ellison and being all anal about it and thus, I'm pasting my answer to my own lj.
I think it's the people and sharing of squee. I'm not a lonely person. See, I'm a bit of a loner because I love, and need, to have 'me' time on a regular basis as well a friends or family time, but I'm not lonely; I have TheBestFriends, I have the GoodFriends, I have some pals, and then there's my family [sister, BIL, cousins] with whom I spend a lot of time too so I'm not into fandom for lack of a social life. But still, the people factor counts for a lot.
Fandom gives me the opportunity to really let my inner rambler and squeer go - it gives it free rein so to speak. Believe me when I say that all my friends and my family know all about my favourite shows, my favourite characters, my time on-line, my journal - only just by name though, I never gave them the URL or anything - my fics. They know what slash is and all know that I like it. So, like, it's not as if I hid it IRL and felt like I could only be free on-line, but! Fandom is the only place where I have people who totally get it, not because it's one of my quirks and of course you're interested in your friends' quirks because, you know, they're your friends and all, but because those people share my love for tv shows and slash and whatever.
I talk and they reply. I talk and they up the ante. It's a real exchange and man it's so incredibly cool, you know? We squee over things, disagree over others and discuss the whys of the disagreement, we talk about the silliest or most insignificant things... except they're so not insignificant for us. We develop lots of theories about stuff that wouldn't matter to anyone but us - and it's just that sense of community that I love.
Though we're often of different nationalities, we actually speak the same language because we're fans and me? Fans sometimes drive me nuts but I also love them to pieces. There's a passion in them that I'm addicted to. And being in a fandom on-line as we are makes it so much more exciting because there are all those people, who come from different countries, from different backgrounds, who are of different ages and dude, it doesn't matter. That's just mind blowing! There's an energy that is too good to miss and much generosity, too.
If I'd been told one day that I would become friends - seriously friends - with some people I'd never met, or that I would end up meeting people from the internets, I would have laughed. Except it did happen. And this is why I love fandom so much - because it opened my mind to something else.
Also, seriously? LiveJournal has a lot to do in all that. A LOT.
And finally, this is for the French Posse - minuscatiadoodle and dont_callmebabe since they're the ones who gave me the link. C'est un site où vous trouverez des parodies de chanson. Jusque là, rien de vraiment extraordinaire, ok. Sauf qu'il faut absolument que vous en essayiez quelques unes en priorité: Au Pays de Candy par les "Gypsies" and Youri, Ulysse Rasta par "Yannick Noah", Demetan par "Patrick Bruel" et Les Bisounours par "Gainsbourg".
C'est à mourir de rire ! Ils gardent les mêmes paroles... mais arrangées à leur sauce et franchement, ça vaut le détour.
isolde13 and la_folle_allure the idea of doing a hurt!Dean challenge. That's so very shiny! I might even want to participate. As it happens, I'm also tempted by the new round of
sentinelsecrets and thinking of participating as I didn't the last two - or is that three? I don't remember how many rounds there were. Anyway, I'll see whether my muses finally want to cooperate as far as challenges go.
Unrelated now,
starwatcher307 shared with us what it was about fandom that drew her, and kept her coming back. And then she asked her flist to answer the same question. Which I did because like I told her, I love talking about fandom! And as usual when I write a long-ish comment in someone else's lj after replying to a fundamental question, I'm pulling a Jim Ellison and being all anal about it and thus, I'm pasting my answer to my own lj.
I think it's the people and sharing of squee. I'm not a lonely person. See, I'm a bit of a loner because I love, and need, to have 'me' time on a regular basis as well a friends or family time, but I'm not lonely; I have TheBestFriends, I have the GoodFriends, I have some pals, and then there's my family [sister, BIL, cousins] with whom I spend a lot of time too so I'm not into fandom for lack of a social life. But still, the people factor counts for a lot.
Fandom gives me the opportunity to really let my inner rambler and squeer go - it gives it free rein so to speak. Believe me when I say that all my friends and my family know all about my favourite shows, my favourite characters, my time on-line, my journal - only just by name though, I never gave them the URL or anything - my fics. They know what slash is and all know that I like it. So, like, it's not as if I hid it IRL and felt like I could only be free on-line, but! Fandom is the only place where I have people who totally get it, not because it's one of my quirks and of course you're interested in your friends' quirks because, you know, they're your friends and all, but because those people share my love for tv shows and slash and whatever.
I talk and they reply. I talk and they up the ante. It's a real exchange and man it's so incredibly cool, you know? We squee over things, disagree over others and discuss the whys of the disagreement, we talk about the silliest or most insignificant things... except they're so not insignificant for us. We develop lots of theories about stuff that wouldn't matter to anyone but us - and it's just that sense of community that I love.
Though we're often of different nationalities, we actually speak the same language because we're fans and me? Fans sometimes drive me nuts but I also love them to pieces. There's a passion in them that I'm addicted to. And being in a fandom on-line as we are makes it so much more exciting because there are all those people, who come from different countries, from different backgrounds, who are of different ages and dude, it doesn't matter. That's just mind blowing! There's an energy that is too good to miss and much generosity, too.
If I'd been told one day that I would become friends - seriously friends - with some people I'd never met, or that I would end up meeting people from the internets, I would have laughed. Except it did happen. And this is why I love fandom so much - because it opened my mind to something else.
Also, seriously? LiveJournal has a lot to do in all that. A LOT.
And finally, this is for the French Posse - minus
catiadoodle and dont_callmebabe since they're the ones who gave me the link. C'est un site où vous trouverez des parodies de chanson. Jusque là, rien de vraiment extraordinaire, ok. Sauf qu'il faut absolument que vous en essayiez quelques unes en priorité: Au Pays de Candy par les "Gypsies" and Youri, Ulysse Rasta par "Yannick Noah", Demetan par "Patrick Bruel" et Les Bisounours par "Gainsbourg".C'est à mourir de rire ! Ils gardent les mêmes paroles... mais arrangées à leur sauce et franchement, ça vaut le détour.
