#wolf stop that

[wolfofwoods]

Shoot.

My roleplay buddy Sam of 5 years has finally decided to sleep, and has been asleep for about an hour and a half.

My college friends are A) at a museum or B) with their boyfriends

Amanda sounds a little busy and I'm not quite sure what to try and talk with her about.

And it seems no one else is on Tumblr right now?

Bluh I don't know what I want to do.

[wolfofwoods]

Fangirling - It's a Sport. Personal, long rant

So I've been aware of this for a while, in that I suck at every sport ever.

This includes fangirling.

Fangirling is mostly a mental sport. Dedicating yourself to creating AUs, memorizing others, headcanons, creating art and stories and music, etc. All of which require dedication. ^---- There's the rub. Because I end up throwing myself into fandoms really hard, but I don't end up MAKING anything. But that's okay. Because I dedicate to absorbing other people's. (I'm a leech.)

Except usually, I have one fandom, and it takes over everything.

My first fandom was probably Fruits Basket. I would only look up music videos set to it, and eventually I looked up pretty fan art because of it as well. My sister bought be a Kyo cat plushie which I still own to this day. But Fruits Basket was not my full immersion into fandom. There was a music video that was put together beautifully, and it linked to a fanfiction. Naive as I was, I believed that expertise in one medium instantly meant expertise in the next. The problem was not entirely the writing and the pacing and the characterization (which was a good part of it), but more the betrayal of trust from when I went in.

I did not touch fanfiction for 3 years following.

The next fandom, I went all the way. Fullmetal Alchemist, which I've come back to at times because it really is a good anime, and for a long time a favorite for my sister and me. Looking up cosplays, the actors, so much fanfiction. FMA was my REAL gateway fandom.

Next came Kingdom Hearts, which lasted the absolute longest to date. I was able to straddle KH and FMA for a while, but really my attention was pulled more and more on only Kingdom Hearts. I ended up sidling into Final Fantasy 7, but I mostly count this as my "grown up" KH phase because it was still Square Enix, and the roleplays I did with my rp buddy still frequently included KH characters.

Now comes the interesting part.

I got involved in Homestuck. I ended up becoming part of the Homestuck fandom.

While still in the HS fandom, I ended up stumbling into Doctor Who, but not really the fandom, so that was okay. Then came Sherlock. So Sherlock and Homestuck shared their time with me.

Then came Avengers.

Three fandoms at once ishardfor me because I throw myself entirely into the fandom and everything I see and breathe ends up relating back to it in some way when I come to play. (In fact, the fandom of Sherlock has started to fade into the background now.)

And now I'm starting Supernatural, but that's okay, because Superwholock makes the three fandoms into one fandom and that works.

....And then I started Teen Wolf today.

Because. Reasons. (Like hanging out with my friend who's further in SPN and didn't want to rewatch episodes but we wanted to watch shows so we started one neither of us have seen.)

....I'm a baaaaaad fangirl. (And no one's reading this because it's too long and dumb and no one cares =DDDD)

[wolfofwoods]

So I was reading and I ran across part of the saying, "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride."

And it struck me how would actually be even worse for the beggars in most cases.

Because they'd have a wish and then it would turn into a horse - cool, I got a horse! And I can ride it now! I wish I knew how to ride a horse -- oh look, another one. That I still can't ride because I don't know how?

But let's say they did learn how to ride horses then. If they're beggars, they probably don't have a lot of extra income for maintaining a horse, for feeding or cleaning or housing. And if they get emotionally invested in their new equestrienne, then they're likely going to wish they had a means of feeding it - and a new horse shows up instead. Now they have TWO horses to try to take care of. And each time they have a wish, it just results in more horses to take care of and ultimately disappoint.

So maybe they decide to sell their horses, or at least some of the ones they can't take care of. But selling a horse is not the easiest thing to do. You can't do like Jack and go into town and trade a horse for magic beans. The casual person won't usually buy a horse in an urban setting, which is where most beggars reside. And so after the fourth day or so of not having anyone buy their multiple horses, the poor soul will likely break down and say, "I wish someone would buy some of these horses!"

And then there's more horses to take care of, and still no one to buy them.