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The Other Fan Thread

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13:45 / 11.08.03

Are you a fan? What of? How do you feel about your fannishness? Is it an embarrassing social disease, a 'goddamned hobby' or a way of life? What makes a fan?

I will answer my own questions later, when I am not supposed to be doing something else.

Quantum

13:57 / 11.08.03

Buffy, Faithless, Diana Wynne Jones. I am proud to be a fan, if I loved comics more I could be a proper fanboy, as it is I am a wannabe and proud of that too.
There should be an annual march for being proud of your fandom.

Tryphena Absent

14:20 / 11.08.03

Ooh ooh ooh Draco Malfoy. And Buffy and Diana Wynne Jones and William Wallace translator of the 1873 edition of Hegel's Logic and Malory Towers and Tipp-Ex mice and Ann Widdecombe (but only in a kitsch way) and Banana Yoshimoto and Eric Rohmer and Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane (both the character and fanfiction author). I love being a fan, it's a fun social disease especially when you meet others afflicted in a similar way.

Whisky Priestess

14:25 / 11.08.03

The A-Team, of course. Seeing as I own an A-Team t-shirt, mug and video collection, had a "Murdock" t-shirt made and have taken fan-fiction to new heights by co-authoring a two-hour musical on the subject of the soldiers of fortune in question, I don't think I can justifiably claim to be ashamed of my obsession ...

No star here laces

15:57 / 11.08.03

I have a Paul Pope drawing and a Jhonen Vasquez drawing tattooed on my flesh.

I guess that makes me a fan.

I don't feel like a fan, though, because I ultimately feel I'm better and more interesting than anyone whose stuff I'm a fan of...

I'm using them...

bitchiekittie

16:17 / 11.08.03

ooh, I'm far too fickle. often I am a big fan of a band, collecting everything until I have it all and/or am tired of them...at which time, I move onto another band. same thing with authors, in the rare case that I find an author I really adore, I'll read all of that author's books until I find a stinker (and I always do), and then I am just sad and readless.

but there are very very few things that I get into obsessively....maybe that's what I'm missing, something I love so much that I'd tattoo it on my butt.

Quantum

07:47 / 12.08.03

Jefe, what Vasquez did you tattoo yourself with?

No star here laces

10:39 / 12.08.03

The little dog eating an ice-cream from Squee (y'know, the one that gets run over about 50 times...)

It's a terrible tat - too small and blurry...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:27 / 12.08.03

I can't help it... I'm a Star Wars fan. And yes, that means I'm even looking forward to Episode Three... you know, just on the off-chance (I refuse to believe that Lucas could have betrayed us so heinously).

And I'm a music fan- often starstruck. Meeting David Tibet in a building society was a defining moment of my life... now he actually comes up and talks to me if I bump into him and, sadly enough, it makes me feel special. Same with Julian Cope.

YES, I'm a fucking fanboy. And it's terrible.

(Although I did once turn down an invitation to go drinking with a friend who was mates with Nick Cave, on the grounds that I didn't want to get pissed with Cave because at least one of us was bound to think the other one was a wanker, which would have ruined my enjoyment of the records).