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Post by paula on Mar 15, 2014 0:48:40 GMT
That better than my case: my father thought Georg was called Gaylord (I kid you not). It was only after my aunt mentioned it to him that he finally realised what his name really is. She was the first person I seriously let read my fics, because (get this) she likes fanfiction. Unfortunately, I don't know of anything she's written. He's not the first one to misunderstand Georg's name. Anytime I try to set somebody straight about it, I always point out that the name Gaylord is BRITISH but the von Trapps are AUSTRIAN, meaning they speak GERMAN!!!! It's the German form of George, pronounced Gay-org. And then I usually refer to the classical composer Georg Friedrich Handel.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 7:25:01 GMT
I think I'm going to DIE!!!!!!!!
I was out having coffee with a good friend and I just told her EVERYTHING about my writing including sending her a link to my charleybec profile on ff.net and she said she's going to read some of my stuff. Maybe I should stop drinking coffee if that's what I get up to on a caffeine high... on second thoughts.... I don't think I could give up coffee.
I'm going to say it again.... I think I'm going to DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I might have to hide away in a hole for like forever.
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Post by lemacd on Aug 27, 2014 9:02:47 GMT
you did WHAT?! oh, @charleybec don't you remember! the first rule of SOM fanfiction is you don't talk about SOM fanfiction.
well, obviously that's not true because we talk about it all the time. it'll be fine. you made her sign the confidentiality contract, though, right? RIGHT?! oh, dear...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 10:41:57 GMT
Yes, I know. I'm stupid. Sigh... I'll let everyone know the outcome after my friend lets me know what she thinks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 16:53:56 GMT
You know what though? GOOD FOR YOU. I've been thinking a lot about this lately...most of my friends and no one in my family know that I write or read fanfic and it makes me sad that that is true. It should be something that the people who care about us are proud of us for, not embarrassed or judgemental about. People like to compartmentalize others so that they can better understand but that's not my problem. We all do that. We're all trying to make it through the day. Why is the creative process - because that IS what this is - any more or less valid than someone who paints or works with clay, for example? One would never mock the painter recreating the nature scene before them. We were inspired by something and wanted to expand on it. Just as many other artists do. I'm not saying that writing fanfic shouldn't be a private hobby if one chooses to make it such, but one should not be made to feel ashamed of it. Do you know just how many "legitimate" writers were/are afraid to show their work to their friends and family? A great many of them. Seriously. I absolutely respect well-known authors who will not sign-off on accepting fanfic as their original work is their creation and I can appreciate them not wanting to see someone else's stamp on it. I get that. And I won't go there.
I'll get off my soapbox now. I apologize for the rant. <3
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Post by utility_singer on Aug 30, 2014 12:47:59 GMT
I see it much the way I feel about singing----I'd rather sing in a room of 1000 people I don't know, than sing for family or close friends. I don't really know why that is true, but it is. Maybe because I care more about what they think? Or I'm afraid of disappointing them in some way? I've tried many times to figure why I'm that way, and haven't come up with any real reason. I do think a bit of it is that I am very protective of M & G, and while you all love them as much as I do, my family and friends don't.
Also, as I've said somewhere else, I do know there are friends of mine that would look negatively upon the erotic nature of most of my stories, so there is that.
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Post by augiesannie on Aug 30, 2014 19:13:11 GMT
....maybe it's something about the way that the people who know us best have their preconceived notions of us, while with strangers we are free to be whomever we wish...
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Post by lemacd on Aug 30, 2014 22:45:19 GMT
Whoa. Deep.
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Post by indigoblue on Aug 30, 2014 22:55:32 GMT
For me, keeping closet is partly because I am not an obsessive person, and I suppose I feel I may be exposing what others may see as a weakness if I reveal my obsession with something 'frippery' like TSOM.
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Post by augiesannie on Aug 30, 2014 23:44:10 GMT
I'm a complicated person.
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Post by augiesannie on Aug 30, 2014 23:45:13 GMT
For me, keeping closet is partly because I am not an obsessive person, and I suppose I feel I may be exposing what others may see as a weakness if I reveal my obsession with something 'frippery' like TSOM. Yeah, although you really are such a high-class contributor!!!
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Post by lemacd on Aug 31, 2014 5:43:11 GMT
For me, keeping closet is partly because I am not an obsessive person, and I suppose I feel I may be exposing what others may see as a weakness if I reveal my obsession with something 'frippery' like TSOM. Yeah, although you really are such a high-class contributor!!! Especially when she uses words like 'frippery'.
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Post by indigoblue on Aug 31, 2014 22:55:41 GMT
Ha! Got a lot of other words I could use, too!
Anne, you flatter me - but I have to say, you also encourage me enormously...one of these days I might let loose with something quite wild in the hope of entertaining you all!
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Post by augiesannie on Aug 31, 2014 23:59:15 GMT
Ha! Got a lot of other words I could use, too! Anne, you flatter me - but I have to say, you also encourage me enormously...one of these days I might let loose with something quite wild in the hope of entertaining you all! you already have, dear.
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Post by patrickssong on Sept 1, 2014 12:52:38 GMT
Off topic slightly. I have a life long love of old Hollywood. I was walking with friends the other day who were singing the praises of Channing Tatum and Travis Fimmel (I have no idea who he is). Then I piped up about a few films stars who left this earth several years ago, and this was said;
Me: Travis Fimmel? I have no idea who he is! Friend: That's because all of your celebrity crushes are dead.. Me (indignantly): Christopher Plummer isn't! Friend: okay, dead or nearly dead!
*sigh*
P.S, if my mother read the once piece of fanfiction I had ever written, she would die. Literally...
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Post by utility_singer on Sept 3, 2014 20:38:14 GMT
Mr. Plummer is far from dead.
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Post by cass on Sept 5, 2014 16:01:28 GMT
Mr. Plummer is far from dead. Hear, hear! Having just procured his first Oscar a few years ago, by my calculations of his brilliance and talent, he'll need at least ten more before leaving this earth. So that leaves him plenty of time to keep on existing.
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Post by patrickssong on Apr 11, 2015 13:58:06 GMT
So I have outed myself to my Mum. I didn't call it fanfiction, I just called it a writing exercise. She never surfs the net, so she has no idea that fanfiction exists or what it is. She is generally supportive with all my craziness anyway. The first thing she asked me was "How much money can you make out of it?" She was disappointed when I said nothing.
I also outed myself to a very close and lovely friend. She is a lovely person and probably the only person on earth I know who I would purposely allow read it (knowing it was me that is).
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Post by clarinetjamie on Apr 11, 2015 17:12:45 GMT
Patrickssong, are you going to update your story soon, Submarine Captains and Horses on the fanfiction website? I'm dying over here to read the next chapter. It's quite good. Love the story! The suspense is killing me, lol.
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Post by patrickssong on Apr 11, 2015 22:47:57 GMT
Patrickssong, are you going to update your story soon, Submarine Captains and Horses on the fanfiction website? I'm dying over here to read the next chapter. It's quite good. Love the story! The suspense is killing me, lol. Thank you @clarinetjamie That is very kind, and I appreciate your feedback. I'm currently writing the next chapter and hoping to have it up next week.
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Post by clarinetjamie on Apr 12, 2015 4:18:19 GMT
Yay, I'll be looking forward to that!
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Post by acid.milque on Apr 13, 2015 0:43:21 GMT
Yay, I'll be looking forward to that! I second that!
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Post by thebeestings on Jul 20, 2015 22:10:27 GMT
Well, it finally happened. I outed myself, quite by accident, to the husband!
So yesterday I realize that I am late to the PTA meeting at school. I leave the laptop on the bed, open to what I thought was the new health insurance forms from work for my husband to look over when he gets a chance...
I kiss the babies, kiss the husband, and tell him he needs to look over the health forms before he falls asleep watching whatever Disney Princess movie the girls choose.
I come home and the house is quiet. Wow, I'm impressed everyone is asleep. I get to my room and find the husband with my laptop diligently reading the fine print of the health forms. I'm so pleased. Until I notice that no one smiles like the cat that ate the canary while reading about dental insurance.
And that's when he looks up at me and says, "Honey, I'm not sure what insurance company we are switching too but with introductions like this they might be saving money on Viagra...".
And the penny drops, and I realize that I must have left my ENTIRE personal Google docs file open instead of my office one...and he's read it all. OMG.
I thought I was going to die. But he just laughed at my obvious mortification, said they were "pretty decent" just too bad they where all about SOM and I thought he was going to let me alone... I should have known.
The husband is rather fantastic with computers and the like... Sometime last night he managed to change the text tone of my phone when he texts me... It now plays a clip of The Captain saying, "Now when I want you this is what you'll hear" along with the annoying whistle sound. Every time he texted me...which was all day. And he put a password on it and I can't change it.
Should I kill him when I get home? I knew y'all would feel my pain! LOL!
I'm rather glad it's out now but I foresee weeks of teasing in my future. Weeks...sigh.
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Post by clarinetjamie on Jul 20, 2015 22:38:01 GMT
The husband is rather fantastic with computers and the like... Sometime last night he managed to change the text tone of my phone when he texts me... It now plays a clip of The Captain saying, "Now when I want you this is what you'll hear" along with the annoying whistle sound. Every time he texted me...which was all day. And he put a password on it and I can't change it. Should I kill him when I get home? I knew y'all would feel my pain! LOL! I'm rather glad it's out now but I foresee weeks of teasing in my future. Weeks...sigh. I am laughing so hard at this. I can just imagine the funny looks you must get every time you get a text message.............and I bet he was texting you on purpose as well. I would have died the first time I heard it. You have to admit that it is a pretty funny prank. My husband doesn't know anything about my fanfiction writings. I'm way too chicken to share it with anyone except you ladies here.
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Post by thebeestings on Jul 21, 2015 0:42:58 GMT
Believe me clarinetjamie, he took total advantage. He's headed overseas next week and I offered to grab anything he needed while I was out...he texted me his toiletries list one item at a time. Needless to say he will be getting his own stuff on his way home...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 0:47:35 GMT
Well, it finally happened. I outed myself, quite by accident, to the husband! So yesterday I realize that I am late to the PTA meeting at school. I leave the laptop on the bed, open to what I thought was the new health insurance forms from work for my husband to look over when he gets a chance... I kiss the babies, kiss the husband, and tell him he needs to look over the health forms before he falls asleep watching whatever Disney Princess movie the girls choose. I come home and the house is quiet. Wow, I'm impressed everyone is asleep. I get to my room and find the husband with my laptop diligently reading the fine print of the health forms. I'm so pleased. Until I notice that no one smiles like the cat that ate the canary while reading about dental insurance. And that's when he looks up at me and says, "Honey, I'm not sure what insurance company we are switching too but with introductions like this they might be saving money on Viagra...". And the penny drops, and I realize that I must have left my ENTIRE personal Google docs file open instead of my office one...and he's read it all. OMG. I thought I was going to die. But he just laughed at my obvious mortification, said they were "pretty decent" just too bad they where all about SOM and I thought he was going to let me alone... I should have known. The husband is rather fantastic with computers and the like... Sometime last night he managed to change the text tone of my phone when he texts me... It now plays a clip of The Captain saying, "Now when I want you this is what you'll hear" along with the annoying whistle sound. Every time he texted me...which was all day. And he put a password on it and I can't change it. Should I kill him when I get home? I knew y'all would feel my pain! LOL! I'm rather glad it's out now but I foresee weeks of teasing in my future. Weeks...sigh. THAT is THE most wonderful thing I've heard all day!!!!! I'm so happy that your secret is out! Now you can just tell him you need time to write and to take the kids out somewhere!! i'm cheering over here! and I just LOVE that ring tone for your text messages. I want that! But too bad about the teasing. LOL
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Post by clarinetjamie on Jul 21, 2015 1:19:25 GMT
Believe meĀ clarinetjamie, he took total advantage. He's headed overseas next week and I offered to grab anything he needed while I was out...he texted me his toiletries list one item at a time. Needless to say he will be getting his own stuff on his way home... I think you're missing your opportunity here. That's when you pick all his stuff up for him and then mix up all the travel bottles......ie trading the body soap for the shampoo.
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Post by thebeestings on Jul 21, 2015 1:27:49 GMT
Believe me clarinetjamie, he took total advantage. He's headed overseas next week and I offered to grab anything he needed while I was out...he texted me his toiletries list one item at a time. Needless to say he will be getting his own stuff on his way home... I think you're missing your opportunity here. That's when you pick all his stuff up for him and then mix up all the travel bottles......ie trading the body soap for the shampoo. Clever idea! Why didn't I think of that?
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Post by clarinetjamie on Jul 21, 2015 2:48:00 GMT
Hahaha, if you guys need marriage counseling don't blame me.
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Post by lemacd on Jul 21, 2015 14:46:51 GMT
thebeestings!!!!!!! That is the MOST AWESOME story I have ever heard. And I am laughing so much!
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