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timepiececlockWent to 2nd meeting of Anime Club. There were only four of us, and one left fairly soon. Me the only perosn not an officer, and thus not required to be there. I told them they needed to do some heavy advertising and planning.
I think I'm going to be running this club by next year, if I stay a member. Or at least co-running it. I might make that my ambition. They're doing so little right now... I'll help. And they're sorely lacking in personell, so it's not like they don't need people to fill administrative roles.
We had no working tv, so I chatted for the whole 2 hours with the two remaining guys, G and C. We talked a lot about anime, and partially about other shows like Farscape or Lord of the Rings or video games like Final Fantasy. Turns out-- Buffy fans. C more so... G had that look of "I am a fan, but I don't want to appear silly by gushing about it."
C was a little hesistant too; we were still in that phase of "I don't know you well, but I know you're a fan and you know I'm a fan, but am I really free to reveal how muuch of a fan I am without you running off?" But once I asked C about the finale, I got him talking. We agreed that it was very sad, that the little girl playing baseball was both cute and scary, and poor Spike, and Angel had his destiny handed to him all easy. That was mostly C, but I agreed with him about it. He watched the finale ofAngel Westely the Series too. Neither C nor G knew about the casting spoiler though, and were surprised. We all 3 agreed that if Spike got the Shansu, it would not only be cool but also wonderfully ironic. We agreed that we'd have to shift our loyalties to Angel now that the Buffy show was sad and over.
Later in the conversation, when talking about LOTR which led to talking about what it might be like to live in Australia, C & G made a dingo joke, specifically laughing at the phrase "dingo ate my baby." That's when the real fannishness of it all got to me, and I felt like I'd really like these guys.
They were highly amused when I told them the anime show Ronin Warriors reminded me too much of Saturday Night Live's The Ambbiguously Gay Duo. That led to a discussion about yaoi [slash] in anime fandom, especially series like Gundam Wing, where 5 of the 6 main characters are male.
I think I'm going to be running this club by next year, if I stay a member. Or at least co-running it. I might make that my ambition. They're doing so little right now... I'll help. And they're sorely lacking in personell, so it's not like they don't need people to fill administrative roles.
We had no working tv, so I chatted for the whole 2 hours with the two remaining guys, G and C. We talked a lot about anime, and partially about other shows like Farscape or Lord of the Rings or video games like Final Fantasy. Turns out-- Buffy fans. C more so... G had that look of "I am a fan, but I don't want to appear silly by gushing about it."
C was a little hesistant too; we were still in that phase of "I don't know you well, but I know you're a fan and you know I'm a fan, but am I really free to reveal how muuch of a fan I am without you running off?" But once I asked C about the finale, I got him talking. We agreed that it was very sad, that the little girl playing baseball was both cute and scary, and poor Spike, and Angel had his destiny handed to him all easy. That was mostly C, but I agreed with him about it. He watched the finale of
Later in the conversation, when talking about LOTR which led to talking about what it might be like to live in Australia, C & G made a dingo joke, specifically laughing at the phrase "dingo ate my baby." That's when the real fannishness of it all got to me, and I felt like I'd really like these guys.
They were highly amused when I told them the anime show Ronin Warriors reminded me too much of Saturday Night Live's The Ambbiguously Gay Duo. That led to a discussion about yaoi [slash] in anime fandom, especially series like Gundam Wing, where 5 of the 6 main characters are male.
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Date: 2003-05-27 09:08 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-05-28 02:01 am (UTC)We're too pathetic to be snooty about anything. That's like asking a mouse if he'd be terribly offended at only getting plain old cheddar instead of gouda.
If you guys ever need materials I'll be happy to help out, so long as you're not anti-fansub.
I'd love to take you up on that, but I think between us we'd spend as much money on shipping as we would on buying the anime. I live in California.
Actually, what we need are ideas. Ways to get people to attend our meetings, ideas on how to make the meetings more interesting, or what to do on days when we don't have the TV to watch shows.
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Date: 2003-05-28 09:21 am (UTC)Meeting Ideas: Food is a must. If you guys have an SGA budget or are willing to pool your resources or organize cash fund raising schemes, try to have food at meetings. Food is the universal diplomat.
A typical anime meeting I'd go to would consist of a viewing of two eps of an anime and a post discussion. There'd also be a recap of any eps viewed the previous week. Things club related outside of activities were left for administrative meetings. You want to keep the meetings focused on the anime with out too many annoucnments.
There'd be votes about what shows people wanted to watch. Discussions about anicons etc. On those days that you don't have TV, discussion topics will work. You guys could even set up informal debates related to various issues drawn from the shows themselves.
There's a lot more you can do. Those are just a few things I thought I'd share ^^
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Date: 2003-05-28 11:29 am (UTC)That's a good idea! We need to be more oraganized, and stuff.
You guys could even set up informal debates related to various issues drawn from the shows themselves.
This si good stuff. Thank you. I'll keep all of this in mind when i go to the next meeting.
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Date: 2003-05-28 11:43 am (UTC)