thoughts after rereading my previous post.

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They should pay people to do what we do. To do nothing all day but think about and talk about and dream about and do art about and write about and consume everything fandomish. Buffy. Bebop. LotR. Anime. Farscape. Highlander Harry Potter. X Files. Smallville. Star Trek. Movies. Television. Music. Books. Pick your poison-- whatever series/verse it is.

Sometimes I wonder if I am abnormal. If all of us are.

I mean, my parents also gush about LotR, but I don't think they gush *this* much, as much as I gush about some of the things listed above. And they don't write fanfic, or watch fan music videos, or dress up as characters, or make fan art, or make music mixes.

When I read someone on my friends list talk about Buffyverse and say statments like "I think about Spike all the time. I think every song ever written is about Spike," I understand them perfectly. I know the mindset because it's my own. And if they were to say the same statement about Smallville or Alias, two shows that I don't even watch, I would still understand. It's a thing.

It's okay if I'm abnormal, if it's weird that I think about this stuff 24/7. But I just want to know for sure. The suspense is killing me.

My brain is so filled with all things music/tv/book/movie/internet/fandom that sometimes it makes me crazy.

I am a pawn of the mass entertainment industry. Their perfect little brainwashed minion.

Still I beg for more. Happily.

Comments

[magarettt.livejournal.com]

Before I left for college, I made up my mind that I would not be spending as much time online and obsessing over BtVS/AtS. I thought, "Normal people don't obsess like we [the fandom] do."

But then, crazily, one of my roommates is a HP fangirl and the other is on the LJ fashion squads, and other girls are obsessed with Jane Austen, or Johnny Depp, or LoTR, and I realized, "Oh."

So either my college is entirely full of freaks and abnormal people (which is, frankly, entirely possible), or we're not so very weird as we think. I mean, everyone's got obsessions -- just thank your deity/powersource/inner-moppet/whatever that our obsessions are so cool. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I hope I have roommates like that when I go to university next year.

::suddenly realizes that has had own room for 13+ years and now will not::

::dies::

[icafreak.livejournal.com]

I am a pawn of the mass entertainment industry. Their perfect little brainwashed minion.
Still I beg for more. Happily.

amen sister