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[ SECRET POST #192 ]

⌈ Secret Post #192 ⌋

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1. But as long as we're having fun, why does it matter? Yeah, I'd rather spend time with my fandom because I don't have friends IRL. Everyone I know wants to do drugs, have sex, party till 4AM, pick up guys in bars (we're 17!) and do other things to try to prove they're "grown up". Meanwhile, I'll sit here at home and play an episode of Darker than Black or something, rather than be an idiot like them.

14. I don't have any "blog crew stamps" but excuse me for having a huge ego just because I'm Cornelia Li Britannia, Shihouin Yoruichi, Anemone and Deidara in my blog crews.

17. There's nothing wrong with that. I was one of the people who was pretty much in tears watching the episodes that revolved around them but when the next episode came, I was over it. I did love Ray and Charles though, they were such amazing people and shame they were enemies. It was Ray's breakdown and death that made me feel bad though. :/

18. Uh. Okay. It's annoying when anime fans don't want to watch anything but anime but it's their loss or whatever.

18. But that's what makes them anime fans.

I like both but you know, I'm sick of all the re-runs they play for SpongeBob, Danny Phantom, The Fairly Odd Parents and other cartoons. Why don't they just MAKE MORE? The Fairly Odd Parents haven't had a new episode since like... July 2006 I think.

If I heard correctly, Nickelodeon has seized production of Fairly Odd Parents and Danny Phantom for some reason or another. Strangely enough, they still show it.

Oh Nickelodeon, you never change (what? Me still bitter about what they did to Ren & Stimpy? Of course!).

Naw, FOP is coming out with a new season from what I've heard. (Though that won't stop the reruns...NOTHING stops reruns. *shiver*)

I don't know about Danny, though. :/

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23 years old, and I STILL agree. Growing up and all the faux-maturity that comes with it is for the birds.

I'm all for going outside and playing soccer or something but I'd rather play it safe, you know? I expect at least half the people I know to be dead by at least 30 with the shit they do.

And whatever, most of the girls I know would rather only hang out with their boyfriends than anyone else.

I have no regrets. I was just at a graduation party and declined alcohol, explaining politely that I don't drink, expecting to be met with choruses of "OMG WHY WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST FUN D:" but instead I got a fair deal of "Good for you. I wish I'd gone that path." So hey. I assume they'll all learn their lesson in time.

Ew yeah, that really sucks. =/ I applaud you for your smart decision. ^_^ I have one online friend too who doesn't have RL friends either because she's moved at least once every single year for the last 5 years of her life.

What I was trying to say is that when people do have friends who want to hang out and like go to the movies, and they skip out to read fanfiction, I'm a bit disappointed in them. Inevitably, I think human interaction is important, especially since I've found that people online tend to forget there's someone at the receiving end of their rude comments.

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Yeah, their total loss. XP I mean I don't watch much American animation because I just generally don't watch TV (I don't watch much anime anymore either), but to me, Fairly GodParents > most anime shows. XD It's just so amusing. ♥

(No offense to anyone. I just personally find that show better than most action-packed, drama-filled shoujo anime.)

You know, in high school I thought the same thing of all my peers (all drunken losers) until I actually got offline and LOOKED, and turns out? it's just a vocal minority. I promise you, kids today may be lazy but they're not all retarded cokeheads. Just branch out =\

I wish I had your optimism. Alas, everyone I grew up with is either a loser or religious (i.e. either way I'm screwed). Glad you managed to dodge that bullet. :-)

Any ideas for someone who's pretty much alienated from her peers?

I promise you, you're talking to someone who was in the same boat. I grew up in rural Tennessee, buckle of the bible belt, and I was an incredibly outspoken liberal. I thought everyone hated me, and to an extent quite a few did, but there are always kindred spirits if you're not completely on the fringe yourself.

It really wasn't until my last year of high school that I discovered Cookeville's not just a bunch of rednecks and bible-thumpers---there are a lot of truly GOOD PEOPLE HERE.

I think a big part of people's problems, beyond all that, is that they think they need to find peers with completely similar interests. None of my friends are in fandom, and it IS a thing I have to conceal with certain people, but honestly? That is life. I love my friends and would do anything for them, but no relationship is perfect.

I'm... kind of fringey. I do have a few offline friends, just none from my own graduating class -- long story short, they freaked out when the depression hit and never quite recovered from, uh, my mental illness. They also didn't like the whole bisexual Pagan academic schtick, and I wasn't willing to stay closeted. No big loss there; if they're only going to dislike who I really am, why bother putting on a show?

I guess I'm missing "my" bookstore fairly intensely, as it was my biggest source of non-internet interaction. There was one on Main Street, only it was just forced to close, so no more writerly gatherings for young and old. I ought to email a few of the others, see if they want to meet somewhere else. There were some under the age of forty! Really! ;-)

Oh, that's not fringe, not really. By fringe, I mean if you're an open fursuiter into scat porn, you may have difficulty finding kindred spirits.

Unless you're living in a town where you literally do know EVERYONE, there is someone nearby you can find if you look hard enough. College campus and college groups are BY FAR the best starting points, but there are other ways, too.

*snerk* Nope, I'm not the troll from poor_skills the other day. I promise. ;-) I do live in one of those areas (it's more of a three-town amalgamation), and I've been at a community college where, no shit, I can count the number of non-professors I befriended on one hand. Maybe living away this fall will be good for my social skills (or lack thereof).

Thanks for listening to the blather. I never know where to turn for help on these things, so I end up gravitating to threads like this.

Where are you going? Location change like that can DEFINITELY help, as long as you're not too scared to try. Which can indeed be scary.

Here's a good secret to building friendships, though: Don't be ashamed of hiding some parts of yourself. If you find someone who truly respects you, they're much more likely to respect anything else you choose to divulge (though there is always a risk). Even in fandom, that's how things work, just on a different level. :)

Not going far away at all -- forty-five minutes, from one rural edge of the city to the other. The Yoda to my Luke will be within hollering distance, which is nice.

*writes down advice* Hold... something... back. Right! Got it.

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