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⌈ Secret Post #708 ⌋

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Boredom kills, it does, it does.

101. Hey, my latest fandom obession! Yeah, don't feel bad about that. If it happens, can I join you? In the meantime, can you help me find that wardrobe that will lead me to Narnia? What's weird is that my old longtime (seven years) fandom obession is set in a world I *don't* really want to go to (Trigun... Planet Gunsmoke is a harsh world and I consider myself to have already lived there, having grown up in the southwest). It is my thought that almost everyone who plays the Zelda games would love to go away to Hyrule, so you aren't alone.

102. For that very reason: I named myself after my cat. When I first entered online fandom, I wrote fanfics under the name of "Shadowcat" - it evolved into "Lady Shadowcat" (still used sometimes), and now Shadsie. Felt it better to name myself after a beloved pet than to have anything fandom specific. I find fandom-specific names silly. Still, I don't really look down on people who have them. It's just kind of funny when someone is known under one fandommy name and they switch fandoms so their name is out of place...

109. That is too cute for words. XD

149. What about people who actually do research? Sometimes, it can make up for experience. I'm a gen-writer, myself, with not *much* in the way of sexual experience (feel a little frightened revealing that here, don't kill me, please). I don't write "smut" per-se, but, occasionally, one of my stories will call for a mild sex scene as part of the overreacing plot. If I am in doubt about what I am doing, I ask friends who have more sexual experience than I. For example, I had a brief, awkward sex scene (supposed to be awkward with the couple) in an non-fandom story I wrote - I shared the scene with a friend who's been married/divorced/soforth and they said "Yeah, it reads well." I think that if one doesn't have the necessary experience, one can always ask. And some thing should just be common sense. I mean, I write about people dying all the time and I haven't died, obviously, nor have I killed anyone, so on, and so forth... that's all imagined/improvised and researched when necessary. My advice is just to try to ignore those who don't bother to research/just don't care/don't handle things well, not to broad-brush *all* the virgin writers out there.

154. Law of fandom that the crap gets attention? Or maybe just on the fanfiction network? One of my most popular fics is one that I now hate - I keep it up because I'm nice, don't like to kill people's fun, but... AUGH! Okay, it's one of the *few* Legato x Vash fics in the Trigun fandom, written as something of an experiment, but *headdesk.* It's like people don't notice how forced it is or how out of character Legato is being... Then there was that time I transcribed a roleplay between my friends and me into a fanfic, posted a couple of chapters to see what would happen (it was a multiple Mary Sue-fest, I knew that from the get-go). Was getting reviews LEFT AND RIGHT and got so embarassed by them I took the experiment down forthwith. My favorites among my own stories, the stuff I really put a lot of thought and soul into, are lucky if they get 5 reviews, total.

158. I have no idea who you are, have no idea what you're fanning, there, but my advice is not make a big public apology. It will probably only hurt you. I've seen too many things like that get roasted by people.

Problem is, you know the origins of your name, but others don't (before they ask or before they look to where you might have told). Were they to see 'Shadowcat,' the first thing that pops into their mind might not be your pet. They might not even know that you HAVE/HAD a pet, let alone a cat.

The first thing that popped into my mind when I read that 'shadsie' was short for 'Shadowcat' was the X-Men character. You might not be in X-Men fandom. You might not even know what the X-Men are! So fandom names aren't necessarily silly, because a) they might not be fandom names at all, as in your case, and b) who cares if they're out of place? They demonstrate that someone really likes something enough to be identified with it.

People have mistook my name for the X-Men "Shadowcat" before - and it has always annoyed me, but the name's still stuck. Most people I meet don't seem to be X-Men fans and don't make that mistake, so whatever.

I merely gave an opinion - I'm agreeing with the OP on this at all - I don't actively disrespect people with fandom names, I just think they're a little silly, but in a cute way.

I hope you weren't trying to start a confrontation with me because, right now, I am in just no mood.

*not agreeing

Stupid tiny laptop keyboard.

Nope, wasn't trying to start a confrontation at all, but I was trying to point out how any given name can be misconstrued by someone who doesn't know you/your fandoms/etc.

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