Confession

I wish I'd known about LARPers when I was in middle or high school. Hell, even junior college. I would have been on that shit like white on artificially blanched rice.

I don't know if I'd've grown up more geeky if that had happened (I'm pretty geek anyway), or if I'd've even liked it past the first few attempts, but I can't say the idea isn't without it's appeal. It's like theater... except you don't have to have talent, and every show is about monsters and swordfights and ninjas and spells, and it's not your day job.

But, as it is, I find the idea of it now (in my twenties) to be...boring. At least how it looks on youtube videos of people. I might one day be convinced to cosplay, but only if I had a costume appropriate to my physical appearance and only if I was with a group that I trusted not to ditch me. Or, you know, for a costume party.

Now, if, for example, you got fifty people in someone's old building, souped everyone up with fake blood bags, passed out "identities" so at least two people were secretly murderers, removed 4 out of 5 lightbulbs and proceeded to have a live horror game where everyone who "dies" has to then be spook staff and the survivors have to figure out the "murderers" before everyone gets killed or the game ends... well, that would be fun. I don't need vampires or werewolves, I'd actually get quite a kick out of a Scream scenario game. Do people ever do games like that? I could dig it. *

Or lazer tag. That's fun too.



* my AmeriCorps team last year made a haunted house and we scared the shit out of people and it was GREAT.

Meme - fandom and writing

I was tagged by redbrunja, and it's been a while since I did a vanity meme.

How about a brief introduction of yourself?

I've been active in fandom for over 8 years now, though I discovered fanfic back when I was 13 or 14. I used to just read and write fic, and it wasn't until Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I joined forums and later LJ and got into reviewing, discussing, analyzing, and obsessing over shows. That was also the first fandom where I was a moderator at a forum, though the great fandom migration to Livejournal eventually killed Crumbling Walls.

I watch anime, tv, film, and read books. I rarely read manga (only 3 titles, really), and I generally don't read American comics. I'm a Jossfan and a Buffy follower for life and while I love Jedi and Han Solo and Leia, I tend to have a lot opinion of Star Wars apologists. There's just some things you can't apologize for, and simply have to mock. I'm nearing the end of my quest to read/listen to all the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett.

Fabulous! And what got you into fanfiction to begin with?

I was dreaming it up and even scribbled it on note-paper once in middle school before I discovered fan sites on the internet and realized what I was doing.

I see, so what kind of fanfiction do you like to write?

I like drama and I like parody. Romantic drama tends to be what I write most, but I've a huge soft spot for humor, and my humorous fics always get the highest response count.

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Satisfy my curiosity...

You know, I never bothered to find out... how does the Inu Yasha manga end?

Can anyone give me a brief summary?