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Nov. 26th, 2002 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverwhereI changed my journal! Wheeee! :D
Thanks to the wonderful![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thehush I now have a LOTR boys mood theme (yayyy!), and so I decided to change everything, because I was tired of looking at the same boring colours. Blah. So now my journal is PURPLE! It's so pretty. *giggles* I changed my comment tag to a Tori quote as well, but I'll probably make it something different soon -- I seem to change it as much as I make new icons, which is to say alot. *grins* But I think the purplely goodness is here to stay. :)
Considering that I have had a total of 3 hours sleep in the past two days, I am surprisingly coherent and upwardly mobile. *laughs*
Sunday night I had terrible insomnia, and got less than an hour sleep. I don't think I need to tell you I was an irritable zombie all monday. *G* Last night I was up till almost 5am cleaning my house before the landlord came for his inspection. Yes, I should have done it before, but I am the world's worst procrastinator, and leave everything, no matter how important (sometimes especially if they're important) to the last minute. I hate the way I do this to myself, but I just can't seem to stop. Sigh. But at least the house is sparkling clean (mostly) and passed inspection with flying colours. Which now that I think about it is such a strange expression, how can colours fly? *giggles*
andraste_oz wrote a bit in her journal about Fandom, and how she doesn't really feel like she fits in. I don't think I do either. It's so odd, because there are many wonderful things I'm a huge, if not unbelievably obsessive fan of, like LOTR and Monty Python and Neil Gaiman just to name a few, yet I don't feel a part of that nebulous thing called 'Fandom'. I think the main problem is that I don't write fanfiction. I don't even read it, unless it's written by my friends. I suppose this is because I have read such appalling bad fanfiction over the years -- the few that I did read when I gave it a try were so poorly written it made me want to scream, so I just gave up on the genre entirely. It's only very recently (since I got a LiveJournal actually) that I started reading it again, and I'm still very selective in my choices. I still find most of it to be terrible, but there are a few (like the things written by ashfae, trianne and monkeycrackmary) that I really enjoy. I'm almost certain that because I don't write fanfics myself, or have famous fic authors to moon over I am overlooked, and, probably, unwanted.
I am also not a squealing teenager, which I'm sure helps to feel like you belong. I would have thought that because the things I am passionate about are good for intellectual discussions as well as fangirl squeeage, there'd be more mature people in the Fandoms, people who won't hate you for having a different opinion or point of view, who don't ignore you because you might be new to their particular 'clique', even though you've been a fan of the book/author/show for years, people who are welcoming and friendly and not vindictive and cruel. Where are all these people? I'm not a member of any groups or clubs because every time I've tried to join I've felt like a pariah, which certainly isn't right. I just want to meet people who share the same love as me, can that be so wrong?
There's been a lot of discussion recently on various people's journals about privacy and whether or not to make all entries friend's only. I rarely make any posts friends only, simply because I have very little to hide -- I am not controversial, I don't talk about other people behind their back, I just ramble on about my thoughts and my life. And I like sharing my thoughts with others, even people I don't know, it makes me so happy to know that people think I'm interesting enough to read about, because frankly hardly anyone I come in contact with in the boring 'real' world gives a damn about me. I certainly don't fault anyone who makes their journal private (like one of my dear friends who's just had a nasty scare and has every reason to want to protect herself), and I feel privileged to be one of the people they feel is worthy enough to read them, but it's just not for me. Although I suppose if ever I were to be attacked for some reason by lurkers or if (godforbid) my father ever found out about this journal, I'd probably be tempted to go private as well. Lets hope I never have to find out, neh? ;-)
I made two new friends today,akira114 and thevoicewithin! And my friend Angelina finally took my offer of an LJ code and signed up today as theinsaneasylum, whooot! :D
I just love the Two Towers soundtrack, I can't believe my luck in finding a place to download them before it's even released! Go me!
Gollum's Song is hauntingly beautiful, as is just about all the music, which maintains many of the same themes as FOTR but uses them in new ways, and blends them perfectly with the new ones. I hope Howard Shore wins another Oscar for this magnificent score. No, wait, I hope that TTT wins Peter Jackson that Best Director Oscar he so desperately deserves. And Best Picture wouldn't be bad either. *grins*
Another day, another astoundingly long entry. Are you guys tired of reading these or what? *laughs*
Thanks to the wonderful
thehush I now have a LOTR boys mood theme (yayyy!), and so I decided to change everything, because I was tired of looking at the same boring colours. Blah. So now my journal is PURPLE! It's so pretty. *giggles* I changed my comment tag to a Tori quote as well, but I'll probably make it something different soon -- I seem to change it as much as I make new icons, which is to say alot. *grins* But I think the purplely goodness is here to stay. :)Considering that I have had a total of 3 hours sleep in the past two days, I am surprisingly coherent and upwardly mobile. *laughs*
Sunday night I had terrible insomnia, and got less than an hour sleep. I don't think I need to tell you I was an irritable zombie all monday. *G* Last night I was up till almost 5am cleaning my house before the landlord came for his inspection. Yes, I should have done it before, but I am the world's worst procrastinator, and leave everything, no matter how important (sometimes especially if they're important) to the last minute. I hate the way I do this to myself, but I just can't seem to stop. Sigh. But at least the house is sparkling clean (mostly) and passed inspection with flying colours. Which now that I think about it is such a strange expression, how can colours fly? *giggles*
andraste_oz wrote a bit in her journal about Fandom, and how she doesn't really feel like she fits in. I don't think I do either. It's so odd, because there are many wonderful things I'm a huge, if not unbelievably obsessive fan of, like LOTR and Monty Python and Neil Gaiman just to name a few, yet I don't feel a part of that nebulous thing called 'Fandom'. I think the main problem is that I don't write fanfiction. I don't even read it, unless it's written by my friends. I suppose this is because I have read such appalling bad fanfiction over the years -- the few that I did read when I gave it a try were so poorly written it made me want to scream, so I just gave up on the genre entirely. It's only very recently (since I got a LiveJournal actually) that I started reading it again, and I'm still very selective in my choices. I still find most of it to be terrible, but there are a few (like the things written by ashfae, trianne and monkeycrackmary) that I really enjoy. I'm almost certain that because I don't write fanfics myself, or have famous fic authors to moon over I am overlooked, and, probably, unwanted. I am also not a squealing teenager, which I'm sure helps to feel like you belong. I would have thought that because the things I am passionate about are good for intellectual discussions as well as fangirl squeeage, there'd be more mature people in the Fandoms, people who won't hate you for having a different opinion or point of view, who don't ignore you because you might be new to their particular 'clique', even though you've been a fan of the book/author/show for years, people who are welcoming and friendly and not vindictive and cruel. Where are all these people? I'm not a member of any groups or clubs because every time I've tried to join I've felt like a pariah, which certainly isn't right. I just want to meet people who share the same love as me, can that be so wrong?
There's been a lot of discussion recently on various people's journals about privacy and whether or not to make all entries friend's only. I rarely make any posts friends only, simply because I have very little to hide -- I am not controversial, I don't talk about other people behind their back, I just ramble on about my thoughts and my life. And I like sharing my thoughts with others, even people I don't know, it makes me so happy to know that people think I'm interesting enough to read about, because frankly hardly anyone I come in contact with in the boring 'real' world gives a damn about me. I certainly don't fault anyone who makes their journal private (like one of my dear friends who's just had a nasty scare and has every reason to want to protect herself), and I feel privileged to be one of the people they feel is worthy enough to read them, but it's just not for me. Although I suppose if ever I were to be attacked for some reason by lurkers or if (godforbid) my father ever found out about this journal, I'd probably be tempted to go private as well. Lets hope I never have to find out, neh? ;-)
I made two new friends today,
akira114 and thevoicewithin! And my friend Angelina finally took my offer of an LJ code and signed up today as theinsaneasylum, whooot! :DI just love the Two Towers soundtrack, I can't believe my luck in finding a place to download them before it's even released! Go me!
Gollum's Song is hauntingly beautiful, as is just about all the music, which maintains many of the same themes as FOTR but uses them in new ways, and blends them perfectly with the new ones. I hope Howard Shore wins another Oscar for this magnificent score. No, wait, I hope that TTT wins Peter Jackson that Best Director Oscar he so desperately deserves. And Best Picture wouldn't be bad either. *grins*
Another day, another astoundingly long entry. Are you guys tired of reading these or what? *laughs*
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Date: 2002-11-26 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-26 03:57 pm (UTC)*squosh*
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Date: 2002-11-26 03:59 pm (UTC)I know!
*rolls around in purplelove* :D
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Date: 2002-11-26 04:11 pm (UTC)Never, dearest. =)
Augh, must resist urge to download Two Towers soundtrack...I want the movie to destroy my brain...THEN will download it, and then as soon as possible will buy it...Peter Jackson will certainly win one of the Oscars; the only reason he didn't get it for Fellowship was because it was the first of three. There will be others. Watch Return of the King eat the Oscars alive. *gryn* Though Two Towers is the best! LESS THAN A MONTH!! *dies of ecstacy*
As for fandom thoughts, you might want to have a look at http://www.diagon.org. Seems to be filled with people who think like you. =) (come to that, I got hooked on the fandom in there, when I read Lori Summers)
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Date: 2002-11-26 04:35 pm (UTC)I guess I am too old to appreciate this thing called fandom, being one who would rather be out creating rather than following others, but as long as it doesn't hide real talent and people from the world, I'd think it could be a fine place to hone budding talent.
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Date: 2002-11-26 04:49 pm (UTC)OOOh! OOh! I know *waves paw in the air* Mee, pick meeee!
*gets picked*
It's cos milliorns of years ago in the castles and dragons era, ones coat of arms was simplifyed to a flag or flags known as your 'Colours' therefore 'Flying Colours' means everythings ok, the king/land baron who's paying you 1 groat a week is still alive and you're still going to die in his name tomorrow morning.
Also, later on, the signal flags on tall-ships used to communicate were called colours and in WW2 US Airmen were shown cards with the names of colours e.g. GREEN but the letters were actually red or blue to see if they were colour-blind. If you passed you had "Flying colours"
Erm, *puts away nerdy book* Hee *nervously looks around* It's a little sad knowing all that, isn't it? :/
[/Useless Facts]
:D *pounce*
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Date: 2002-11-26 11:24 pm (UTC)Wooohooo! Thanks babe! *noseysmooch*
And no, it's not sad at all! Didn't you know I am the Queen of Useless Facts? The panda is a giant raccoon! *giggles*
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Date: 2002-11-27 11:36 am (UTC)*hugs*
-=Blue=-
aka LadyLuiniel
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Date: 2002-11-27 04:12 pm (UTC)Why thankyou very much, it seems for every one useful thing I know theres 7 usless ones for it to lean on :D
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Date: 2002-11-27 03:24 am (UTC)Yeah, I know what you mean about privacy. It's only lately I've put a lot of my entries on friends-only, only because those thoughts are personal to me, but usually I don't have anything to hide from my friends. About 90% of my entries are public, 'cause I agree with you and feel flattered to know that someone's reading about my boring little life *G*
"And the award goes to..."
Date: 2002-11-27 06:08 am (UTC)Come on TTT!!
*hugs*
Akira
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Date: 2002-11-27 06:31 am (UTC)It also reminds me of when I joined the Tolkien Society at university... No one really paid any attention to the new members, and when I finally worked up the courage to suggest a project I'd been thinking of for a while (a sponsored read-through of the radio series of LotR, for charity! :-) ), the people I mentioned it to just laughed at me. Literally - they didn't even bother to say anything. I wasn't a fan in the same way that they were, and my response to the books, and what I wanted to do about that response, was different from theirs, so they weren't interested. I never went again.
I do suspect, though, that those of us who don't really feel like we fit into the Fandom, and skirt on its peripharies (while not necessarily being any the less dedicated to the film/book/tv stuff that we love...) are possibly in the majority, and probably have the most fun... I've certainly had a lot more fan-related fun since joining LJ and talking to people like you on it than I did when I was reading vast quantities of Buffy-related Fandom e-mails every day. :-)
I'm very jealous that you've got access to the Two Towers soundtrack already! Gah! Glad to hear it's so good, though... Nick and I have our tickets for the film already booked. *Towersy bounces*
*hugs*
Elly
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Date: 2002-11-27 01:44 pm (UTC)No one really paid any attention to the new members, and when I finally worked up the courage to suggest a project I'd been thinking of for a while (a sponsored read-through of the radio series of LotR, for charity! :-) ), the people I mentioned it to just laughed at me.
Hoo boy, can I ever relate to that. I had the same problem with every society I tried to join at uni. I just gave up after a while, because what was the point in trying when you're so obviously not wanted? Sigh.
And yes, I do think we peripherals have more fun -- and ALOT less arguments. *grins*
PRETTY PURPLE!!!
Date: 2002-11-27 09:08 am (UTC)I'm a compulsive procrastinator too! I can't explain it and I totally hate it... but it just keeps happening! I'm never too late, though. Never ever. That's weird, isn't it?
Fandom. *sighs* Fandom is... to borrow from a friend of Mysti's, like a thrift shop. Or like the internet in general, or the music on the radio. There's soo much JUNK but if you search hard enough, and/or have the right connections ( I'm not speaking of modems here! ;-) you can find a few really good places. The problem with internet publication is that the internet is open to everybody and the good stuff just drowns in cr*p. Take fanfiction.net, for example. Has anybody been able to find some good LoTR fanfic there? I know it has to exist, but I haven't found it! Yes, the majority of fans seem to be of the... not-too-profound kind, and then I think there are a few really really deep groups where they analyze things deeply enough to write theses ( sp? ) about it. I'm looking for places where people are mature enough to have intelligent discussion, but not too intellectual for me to keep up with! ;-)
I really don't see any point in making some of my LJ entries "friends only". Nobody reads it but my friends anyway. But I can understand people who have gotten into conflicts, or if you want to protect your creative writings but still have the people you trust read it. But making entries totally private seems pointless. Why waste money on the internet bill when you can write it in a Word document on your harddrive?
Yes, Peter Jackson deserves an Oscar! I've never really noticed directors before ( it's the actors you see on the screen ;-) but that man is brilliant and the movie is beautiful!
And, as you can see, we're not tired of reading your entries! ;-P
Liking the purple vibe...
Date: 2002-11-27 12:22 pm (UTC)I have a lot of friends who are obsessed with LTR and who aren't really 'squealing teenagers' (well most of 'em) so I'm not that bothered about belonging to fandoms anymore. I agree that we have more fun, I think becuase we can see other people's points of view better?
Aggh, I join you in procrastintors anonymous. It's one of the things that most irritates me about myself.
I hope Gollum's song is better than it's title...
Love the new mood icons by the way!
Neil Gaiman
Date: 2002-12-05 03:01 pm (UTC)I saw the japanese Ringu 2 last night! very scary!
*hugs*
Re: Neil Gaiman
Date: 2002-12-05 03:10 pm (UTC)Swishyyy! *tacklepouncehugs* :D
Poked your head out of your cave once again I see...;-)