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Post by Freelance Exorcist on Nov 8, 2011 20:17:50 GMT -4
Oh man, I am SO GLAD I'm not the only one who thought so!!
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Post by Ripley on Nov 8, 2011 21:32:40 GMT -4
Oh man, I am SO GLAD I'm not the only one who thought so!! But they both had such great makeup in their wedding photo!
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Post by chiqui on Nov 8, 2011 21:45:10 GMT -4
I read and reviewed fanfic for years starting in the mid-90s, and I think what was true then is still true now: active fans (i.e. the ones who post) are into the community and fandom way more than the actual object(s) of their fandom. The fandom objects are just a means to garner attention, write/post (through fanfic or debate), and share opinions with other fans. They only seem to be nuts because they want attention and that's their way to get it.
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Post by Neurochick on Nov 9, 2011 11:27:52 GMT -4
You know what's funny? A lot of them were middle aged women in 1996 too. I met a woman in the nineties who was heavily into the XFiles fandom, as I sort of was, and she was really a horrible stereotype. In her early 40's, lived in her mom's basement, didn't have a real job, spent all of her time obsessing about X Files and Space: Above and Beyond. It scared the heck out of me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2011 12:33:14 GMT -4
Yikes, that is scary.
I've only met four other people heavy into the X-Files fandom, they were all women who were old enough to be my mom (I was 23 at the time.) They seemed normal enough though. One was a married rabbi and another worked on film crews in NYC and both had a lot of other interests. I don't know what the other two did.
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Post by Freelance Exorcist on Nov 9, 2011 16:25:26 GMT -4
I don't think it's all that unusual for older folks to be huge fans of something typically associated with younger people or even kids. My mom at 60+ is a huge fan of Glee. I'm 40 and am really into RPG video games, especially Final Fantasy VII. I haven't run into too many people my age in the one fandom I've been skulking around the edges of (past bad experiences have made me wary of diving into another fandom culture), but in the past there were plenty of middle-aged and older women and men.
That said, it's especially sad when I see someone my age behaving in a manner one would expect from a 13-year-old, like the chatspeak, rabid shipping and wank. They just seem so stunted.
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Post by scarlett210 on Nov 19, 2011 13:16:37 GMT -4
Cliniquia aka belllacullen is still frothing all over HP, rabidly defending Brad Pitt and hissing insults like "cat lady" at any that dare write a negative word.
Amazing how many people respond with "get help" but she just keeps on going. I can't even imagine what her life must be like to care this much about a celebrity that will never know her and would never give her the time of day.
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Post by tszuj on Nov 24, 2011 3:35:19 GMT -4
This is a bit British and also from last year, but did the Tale of Rakspatel, the Benedict Cumberbatch and her Imaginary Awesome theatre wrap party ever get posted here? I was talking to someone at the National Theatre the other day and we were laughing about it. No, it didn't, but I'm sure its amazing as it involves Benedict Cumberbatch and he is amazing. Details? D'oh forgot this! A woman named Raks, who was already infamous in Sherlock Holmes/Benedict Cumberbatch fandom for being wanky and generally aggressive and irritating, and for being stalkerish towards the actors and trying to exploit any potential connection to them, became, as you can imagine, a big fan of the theatre production Frankenstein at the National Theatre (NT). But only those performances were BC was playing the Creature, not the perfomances where Johnny Lee Miller was (the two actors revolved roles). Because she Did Not Like Johnny. Despite this, Raks decides she needs to celebrate the final performance with a Big Epic Awesome Party!! Yay!! She even emails the NT to ask if she can hold the party there (the NT is a massive complex with loads of theatres, restaurants, bars, live music areas, and even an art gallery, as well as spaces that are hired out for parties) and they say yes, yay!! Except they aren't actually anything to do with the 'party,' she just hired part of the lobby for the evening, which anyone can do. Raks was so excited, she made up special "professional" invites -- 400 of them, just to be on the safe side! Her fandom friends and members of her fan comms got exclusive invites, of course. And so did everyone working on the production, and also everyone working at the theatre -- even if it took poor Raks many days of hanging around outside the theatre to give them all out! But Raks felt bad! So far the only people she was inviting were fans and people from the production! She knew so many people she was leaving out! So she proceeded to generously share invites with everyone she knew, including a cab driver, her salsa teacher, and the people who work in her local chippie. Who cares that they've never heard of Benedict and haven't seen the play! Everyone deserved the chance to go to Raks' Special Exclusive Everyone-Welcome All-Frankenstein (exceptnotthatoneleadactor) National Theatre-Cohosted Amazing Party of Awesomeness! Some meanie poos on the Internet judged Raks for her amazing generousity! Raks was confused. Why were people being so mean about her party invites? After all, Benedict himself endorsed them -- he said "thank you" when she gave him one after waiting outside the stage door for several days. An actor wouldn't thank a fan for a stage door gift unless he really, really meant it, would he? Raks was so generous, she even donated two tickets to a struggling minor theatre company for their fundraising auction! Not her fault the auction had to be reworded because stoopid bidders misinterpreted "tickets to THE Frankenstein wrap party thrown by the National Theatre" to mean they'd be partying down with the cast at the official wrap party. Which they would, of course, because the cast would be coming. Because her party was going to be awesome! Alas, poor Raks. Only six people showed up to her amazing party of awesomeness, which took place in a dark corner under some stairs in the lobby. The eveel Danny Boyle, who told Raks he couldn't come to her party as he was "out of the country" was seen partying next door. (Boo hiss!) Even that traitorous Benedict (but don't worry BC, I'm sure Raks still loves you lots and lots and lots) went to a bar next door instead - where by sheer coincidence all the fans who had also seen the final performance had gone to get away from Raks. Epic wank reports
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Post by Witchie on Nov 24, 2011 12:31:01 GMT -4
Wow! Girlfriend is living in lala land.
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Post by huntergrayson on Nov 24, 2011 12:41:34 GMT -4
That is so awesomely insane and schaden-licious.
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