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Post by lemacd on Oct 27, 2013 18:39:01 GMT
ok, shame is the wrong word.
i am wondering who tells anyone that they write TSOM fanfic stories. i ask because i mentioned it today when a friend told me her daughter got the part of Zuzu in a local stage production 'it's a wonderful life'. she laughed. a bit more than i thought was normal for a "oh, how fun... i think fanfic is one of the greatest expressions of a brilliant literary mind." and i'm not sure it was "wow, that is stupidest thing i have ever heard." it did, however, make me regret mentioning it.
so... does anyone other than a significant other know what you do? who do you tell? and do you let them read it?
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Post by augiesannie on Oct 27, 2013 19:01:47 GMT
I have told people that I have begun to write fiction, which seems to impress them, even though I tell them under no circumstances will I let them see it. And I have told people I LOVE the movie, which elicits a lot of agreement and occasional eye-rolls (I was quite public about going to the singalong in Brooklyn in May, and simply laughed back at people who laughed at me). And if you're interested, everyone, I have also told people that I have met some wonderful people online who made me laugh and entertained me this year when I was sick. But I haven't put the picture together especially with the word "fanfic" which has a certain connotation. I am close to the age where I will stop caring what anyone thinks of me (but not there yet) and also, I am old enough that I still think there should be two mes: the professional one and the personal one (younger people don't seem to have this line, which I think will be to their eventual regret). and you might know all of this already, but it certainly felt legitmizing: Wikipedia's take on fanfic
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Post by indigoblue on Oct 27, 2013 21:33:39 GMT
NOBODY knows about my little obsession with TSOM, so I have told absolutely no-one about my brief forays into fanfic a couple of years ago: you are my secret (and a very special one!)
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Post by utility_singer on Oct 27, 2013 22:37:24 GMT
Everyone knows of my obsession with TSOM, but only my 13 year old daughter knows I've started writing fanfic, and that's because she writes as well. I would never tell my husband he would think I'm completely insane or completely inebriated and take away my wine ;-)
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Post by mie779 on Oct 27, 2013 22:42:24 GMT
Well to be honest I haven't even told my hubby about me writing fan fic (hmm does that make me a "bad" wife, keeping secrets...!! ) He knows that I read fac fic, well at least I think he know, I did mention it shortly some time ago, (when he asked me what I read on my computer) and he really didn't sound like he really cared that much... and we really just never talked about it since... And as so you can guess that NO one else knows about it... well I did make one slight slip up at another FB group... I'm in a group of mothers who have children the same age as my oldest (don't know if you have a term in english that fully describes this sort of group... "a mother group" or "parenting group"... i don't know!!!!!!!!!) I wrote, by accident, some comment in there that was meant to be send to our TSOM group on FB... Unfortunately some of the saw the post before I realized my mistake and they asked about it... oh the curious ladies in there *S* well I thought "what harm could it be, I have never meet them in RL and might never, and if I do, we have already talked about pretty much everything else in that group (mainly about our children, "stupid" husbands, "pain in the *** parents-in-laws" etc etc... nothing it taboo in there... got to love that, some times you just need someone to talk to about stuff like that... ) their reaction was somewhat curious and all just accepting it... no one asked to read my stories... don't think I would have let them... but if they would they could find me... my name "mie779" is also in my email... stupid I know, one small google search and they could find my fics on ff.net.... Well I don't really know WHY I never talk to people about it... guess I'm afraid that they would think I'm an odd ball or something... but really, neither one of us are odd balls, really...!!!! so I kinda live this "secret" life online... and through this I have met some wonderful people in here, ladies who understands my passion about TSOM AND fan fic writing... (I'm in contact with another ff writer who writes in the Dr. Quinn series... we talk about RL things too, feel I kinda know her... ) So no I wouldn't call it a shame, per say... just a little secret life that I love to live online, and I like it to be just that, a secret... why?... I really don't know...
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Post by lemacd on Oct 28, 2013 0:31:05 GMT
my husband is fully aware of what i'm writing and when it comes to anything to do with a historical perspective, i have asked his input. and he's been more than willing to contribute, so i'm quite thankful for that. he has read some of my writing but the first time i let him, he pointed out something and it was rather annoying the way he did it so i stopped asking him to read it. and my reaction i think has made him shy about offering serious criticism. seriously, don't our men know we just want to be told how wonderful we are at everything we do?
the fact is he is a huge encouragement, wants me to take classes and keep at it because he can see how it makes me happy. and that has been a problem for the last couple years (though much improved over the last few months).
i finally told two other people and let them read if they want; my best friend who responded with "you write fanfic? i read fanfic!! awesome!" which is one of many reasons i love her. we haven't talked about it since then. she's more of a star trek kind of gal. which is one of the many reasons i can not always understand why i love her. but whatever. i also told a woman who has been my spiritual mom, and she wanted to read it very much so i relented. she gets that it was about doing something to make me feel good. she knits. not the same thing, but she gets it.
i'm glad to have this secret. and you guys are a huge part of why it has helped me so much to get out of the valley (insert 'climb ev'ry mountain' comment here). it could be worse, i suppose. i could be secretly pole dancing and dabbling in a seedier lifestyle. haha... yeah, if you saw me you'd know how hilarious that is. i kill me.
and every once in a while, my youngest starts singing about when the dog bites or my husband makes a captain von trapp reference and i get giddy. so it totally makes up for the laughs i get when i let it slip that i love this movie.
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Post by augiesannie on Oct 28, 2013 0:42:59 GMT
I'm trying to think who in my life I could share my writing with: I'm sure there's someone, but it's not springing to mind. I find that there ARE people who love the movie, but writing fanfic is something else entirely. My husband enjoys how happy it makes me, but I'm too shy to show him anything I write. Sometimes I tell him my ideas, and he's always very encouraging. It is really wonderful, that yours is encouraging you to take classes.
The people I've met writing and reading fanfic have been a major reason that I made it through a very dark difficult year. Everyone is so funny and clever and supportive, o excited about what I'm doing, so happy to greet me (hahahaha) it makes a huge difference. I'm pretty sure pole dancing would not have done it for me, personally, but I have such loyalty to the rest of you that if one of you branched out into pole dancing, I'd show up to watch. (don't test me on that, please). What is funny is that we probably don't really have that much in common in the "rest of" life - but I'm not sure which way that cuts.
I often wonder if I would have felt as isolated and unhappy as a young mother if the internet had existed then.
Also - as I observed to one of you recently, people do a lot of bad things online. They spend money they don't have, they cheat on their spouses, they say hurtful and bullying things. We have only brought each other joy, what's bad about that?
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Post by lemacd on Oct 28, 2013 0:52:53 GMT
<---- will not reveal her pole dancing name, even at gun point. so just don't ask. what' bad about that? absolutely nothing. i often feel sorry for people who aren't us.
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Post by utility_singer on Oct 28, 2013 1:35:16 GMT
I get that. My husband enjoys how happy fantasizing about Chris Plummer makes me. But he doesn't know. So don't tell him.
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Post by gothicbutterfly95 on Oct 28, 2013 2:33:20 GMT
Yeah people know about it and while I do mention my TSOM ones, they are kept secret from anyone but you guys (the others I show to some people)
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Post by augiesannie on Oct 28, 2013 12:00:49 GMT
I get that. My husband enjoys how happy fantasizing about Chris Plummer makes me. But he doesn't know. So don't tell him. took me a second but yeah, I guess
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Post by lemacd on Oct 28, 2013 12:06:38 GMT
lol it took me a few, too.
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Post by utility_singer on Oct 28, 2013 13:16:15 GMT
TMI? Sorry gals.
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Post by lemacd on Oct 28, 2013 13:45:03 GMT
well, not exactly... i'm actually thinking i'm missing something. but hey... live and let live, i always say. takes all kinds to make a world, what's good for the captain is good for the governess... actually, i'm going to start saying that last one more often.
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Post by augiesannie on Oct 28, 2013 13:52:57 GMT
I did't think it was TMI, because it was, er, subtle. So subtle that lemacd thinks she's missing something.
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Post by lemacd on Oct 28, 2013 13:57:51 GMT
that happens to me a lot, actually.
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Post by lisab1991 on Oct 31, 2013 12:28:13 GMT
No one knows about the real extent of my TSOM fondness. No one really knows that I write fanfiction etc. One friend sort of does know, but she thinks I only write Arrow fanfiction. I didn't tell her that with so many words, but I think she's figured it out. She even knows about my YouTube channel and that I make fanvideos. She has the url to my page, and she says she likes it..
Now about TSOM.. I think I'm one of the youngest members on this forum.. Perhaps even the youngest? My parents were toddlers when TSOM came out.. It's different when you compare this movie to, let's say the Twilight franchise. TSOM is not what you would call "cool" nowadays, especially around people my age or younger. They're like: Okay, big deal, and they start discussing the newest Thor movie or something. I mean, people find the movie sweet and have nice childhood memories of it, but that's it. It's like making an adult watch a Disney movie (one of my other guilty pleasures, I confess). They either love it or hate it. So I tend to discuss TSOM as little as possible, to avoid the stares and the blank face expressions. Not that I'm ashamed of it, but it's just so uncommon these days, it seems.
One of my friends actually never saw the movie.. Now that's what I call impossible!
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Post by lemacd on Oct 31, 2013 12:43:16 GMT
a lot of people know i've been writing. when they ask i just say, "oh, you probably would just laugh if i told you." they either promise they wouldn't or take it as a subtle 'you'll never know' hint and drop the matter.
sometimes (not often) i'm with people who start making fun of the movie for whatever reason and don't say anything. i feel like i'm the kid on the playground watching someone get bullied but don't do anything to intervene. they should be ashamed of themselves... go pick on a movie your own size!!
ahem... anyway.
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Post by utility_singer on Oct 31, 2013 13:02:51 GMT
Aw, Lisa, you aren't the youngest here. Lousiavontrapp is 14. And I'm roughly your parents age, I was born the year TSOM won the Oscars.
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Post by lisab1991 on Oct 31, 2013 13:20:22 GMT
Really? I'm yet to go through the introductions page, but thanks ^^
Still, age doesn't matter, at least not to me. It doesn't define us, it doesn't bind us.. But this fandom does, right? That's the most important , I think. I haven't read all the topics yet, but seriously, you ladies all rock! It feels like a nice warm bath browsing through all this awsomeness.. Makes me want to board a plane, organise a get together and hug you all! Finally some people who I can discuss my "craziness" with, lol. I mean that in a good way. And here I was thinking I was making too much out of certain scenes..
Anyway, when I'm all enthusiastic, I tend to babble a lot.. So what were we discussing? Ah yes.. Well, let me say: having found this community, and forum, makes me really happy, and helps me to stop thinking of TSOM of some kind of "shame"..
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Post by indigoblue on Nov 1, 2013 0:16:37 GMT
But you never know quite who likes TSOM; I remember a few years ago I was talking to a father and daughter, the girl a friend of my (small) children then (age 5). Her father was a very tall and masculine policeman I knew a little bit through her. I was talking about TSOM to the girl (trying not to sound TOO enthusiastic about it, like I wanted to), when he chipped in on the conversation, talking about some of it in more detail than I expected for a man; then he said he just loved having the excuse to watch it with his daughter, because he just LOVED the movie, and couldn't see it often enough!! Who would have guessed! A policeman with a TSOM obsession!
I think what I like most was that he felt he could say that to me.
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Post by augiesannie on Nov 1, 2013 0:39:34 GMT
lisab1991 I love your enthusiasm (and indigo I loved your story). I might be the oldest - I was in third grade that year -- and I can say that there are plenty of people my age who roll their eyes at the movie, and I also am surprised at the people I come across who love it. But even people who love it think the fanfic thing is weird, I used to be on this FB group about TSOM and I mentioned that I was reading fanfic, and they thought I was crazy. And maybe I am.
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Post by utility_singer on Nov 1, 2013 12:01:41 GMT
My older two kids have long written fanfics (since they could write, really). I think a lot of kids do (I remember acting out Brady Bunch stories with my Barbie dolls, and then having them do stuff that wasn't on the show. Most 'outgrow' it, so it seems to be looked down on in that way. I never even imagined there was such a thing as TSOM fanfic, and when did find it I was hooked.
BUT now my son found me out. He asked if he could read a chapter, so I let him. He thinks I'm a good writer, but he still thinks my obsession with TSOM, Julie, and Chris is weird. LOL
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Post by mie779 on Nov 1, 2013 12:57:23 GMT
When I was a kid... in the 80's (90's) Danish tv ALWAYS aired TSOM in the days between christmas and new year.... Don't really think they do that anymore!!! ? But I own it on DVD now, so not that it matters all that much... but I do remember that we were a small group of girls in my class that ALWAYS saw it and talked about it... in someway it was one of those love stories you have seen a lot... (like other "classics", not as classic as TSOM but still, like "grease", "Dirty dancing", Pretty woman" etc. ) Yes I'm a child of the 80's... ) I discovered the world of fanfiction around 2003... maybe a year or so earlier... but I've been a member on ff.net since 2003... wow that's a decade... (Now I'm feeling rather old *LOL* ) But since that time I've been hooked and read loads of fan fics... and it's soo much a secret, as you can read in my other post
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Post by gothicbutterfly95 on May 16, 2014 9:21:28 GMT
My older two kids have long written fanfics (since they could write, really). I think a lot of kids do (I remember acting out Brady Bunch stories with my Barbie dolls, and then having them do stuff that wasn't on the show. Most 'outgrow' it, so it seems to be looked down on in that way. I never even imagined there was such a thing as TSOM fanfic, and when did find it I was hooked. BUT now my son found me out. He asked if he could read a chapter, so I let him. He thinks I'm a good writer, but he still thinks my obsession with TSOM, Julie, and Chris is weird. LOL I used to do that all the time with my barbies; except instead of Brady Bunch I usually did Little Mermaid or Wizard of Oz as I had those dolls. I tried to do TSOM once using my Olympic Swimmer Barbie as Maria since she was the only one with short enough hair and this was years before I even knew a proper Maria barbie doll existed, but it didn't quite work. The fact that I didn't have a Ken may have had something to do with it. In every other "show" I used to make Olympic Barbie the guy. P.S. Wasn't Kym Karath on Brady Bunch?
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Post by utility_singer on May 16, 2014 10:49:30 GMT
Yes, she played the friend Jan brought home that Peter crushed on who fell for Greg instead when she found out he was the one telling Peter what to say to her. Ironically, the episode was called "Cyrano de Brady"; one of the reasons CP signed on to TSoM was because he wanted to do a musical version of Cyrano on the stage and thought the movie would be a good way to learn to sing. link
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Post by gothicbutterfly95 on May 17, 2014 3:22:27 GMT
Interesting...
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2014 5:37:06 GMT
So I'm now coming across this thread so I'll add my bit to it.
So as most of you know, I kept my writing a secret for ages until I let it slip to my husband and he has read most of my stuff and is really supportive (but he still thinks I'm totally insane and uses every opportunity to make fun of the movie and Georg, because of the way it's pronounced).
I have 'mentioned' to a few select close friends that I have joined an online creative writing group but I WILL NOT tell the of the subject matter. I got quizzed by one if these friends at Easter who tried to guess what I was writing and even guessed fanfiction but I just told her I was going to say no to everything she suggested so not to bother. I have been 'very' close to telling one of my best friends (who loves TSOM and Julie Andrews too) about my writing but I keep chickening out. Maybe one day....
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Post by mireille on May 17, 2014 7:55:44 GMT
Just tell her! I told a close friend of mine, she was very much impressed I wrote in English. I even showed her my stories. But her English isn't that developed so she can't read them. I actually wish she could. BUT her husband who is also a good friend of mine overheard the conversation and does speak and read English. ..... so he searched my stories and of course the first he started reading my M-rated one, with me ssitting beside him! OMG I blushed, but he liked it and complimented me and even left a review. Not sure if he'll read the rest You see, sometime we fear the worst but it turns out good.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2014 9:50:07 GMT
Ha ha!! I looked up that review your friend made. That's funny that you got caught out!!
As far as my friend goes, I think the reason I haven't told her is because I've written some, well.... racy stuff and that may not go down too well (or it may, who knows?).
The other day, she was posting Victor/Victoria clips to my FB timeline and I was chatting to her privately saying that I ended up running late taking my daughter to school because I was too busy watching Julie and I subtly then said that I usually run late due to "something" Julie related (like fan fiction or watching youtube) and I was waiting to see whether she would pick up on the fan fiction bit (as I said she is a massive TSOM fan - she was sending me parts of the script the other day) but she didn't pick up on it - or say she picked up on it. Even if I just said I read fan fiction, she'd probably pick up that I'm one of the writers since my pen name (charleybec) is based on my 2 daughters names.
Anyway, I'll still hide away from my real life friends (vs my online friends - can't hide from you guys for too long), and we'll just keep the writing as "our" little secret right?
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