[ SECRET POST #239 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #239 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Have some more random bite links! Devilbats. ♥

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 195 secrets from Secret Submission Post #035.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 ] personal attack.
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Comments

[tonko-ni.livejournal.com]

1. I felt exactly that way about the Dragonriders of Pern universe, though I wasn't fixated on a character, I'd reread the Hatchings. But you know, Dinotopia was a close second.

5. Sigh. Yeah. I know someone like that.

22. XD I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, but I laughed a little at that one. But sympathetically--I know I've wanted to throw my DS out the window, or put a foot through my TV from time to time. So yeah, fucking dogs!

[(Anonymous)]

I think that awful/wonderful feeling of being so caught up in a fictional universe it feels like you really belong there instead of boring stupid here is one of those nerd childhood rites of passage. It happened to me several times, but Dinotopia was by far the worst. It was a rainy day and I finished the book and went to my room and cried, because I knew I would never be able to go there.

[tonko-ni.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. God I wanted it so bad. I don't remember if it ever drove me to tears, but know I did get pretty miserable thinking about it and when I was young enough, I think I thought Dinotopia might just be real. Dragons, dinosaurs... ::sigh:: Damn the art in Dinotopia, especially, god it's so gorgeous, it doesn't help. (Bet that's why I grew up to write fanfic).

[xenoglossy]

Oh god, I was the same about Dragonriders of Pern. I think I actually cried after reading Dragonflight (I was thirteen or so) because I wanted so badly for it to be real. And then I wrote illicit fanfic for it. I care not about your silly rules, Anne McCaffrey!

Before that, though, I wanted to be an Animorph.

[tonko-ni.livejournal.com]

I think I wanted to be Menolly. All those firelizards! And you know, considering how much I like m/m stuff, I think it's funny that the fact that there were gay couples in the books escaped me for so long (let's just ignore the author's insanity about how she thinks it works).

I ended up in a Pern play-by-email RPG for like four years, though, so it sort of came true (though my characters didn't have entire fairs of fire lizards). Oddly, hatching in the RP were really quite exciting.

[xenoglossy]

Yeah, they completely escaped me too for a long time, even though my slash fangirlism and my DRoP fangirlism definitely overlapped.

Oh, I did the PBeMs too. I was in about ten different ones and when I eventually had to drop out because I didn't have time anymore, I was so depressed. I still occasionally miss them a little, even if the quality of the RP was kind of patchy and I haven't really been into Dragonriders of Pern for a while now.

[tonko-ni.livejournal.com]

By the time Dragonseye/Red Star Rising came out, I had embraced the slash, so that book was, but it was like, going to reread Moreta and thinking "the bluerider's 'special friend' eh?"

I was only in one PBEM but towards the end I had like ten characters or something, one was a Weyrlingmaster which mean more work than fun, and I got worn out. I remember it fondly thought--it was Moonset Weyr, very well organized. I think after a while in that group I hadn't read the actual books in ages--my fandom was the concept, and the RP, and less the books.