You know you're addicted to Fan Fiction when...

you know... I am seriously scared now... I am guilty of about 99.99999% of all this... and what's really frightning... I'm not bothered by it at all...

 

-During Science class you spend all your time thinking about what to post next on your fanfic.
-Then you write it down during English class.
-You say you have homework that needs to be done on the computer and you get on the internet and read fanfic at the same time.
-Whenever you write non-Star Wars stories you can't think of any names for the characters except Star Wars names.
-You draw your fanfic characters on the papers you're supposed to be doing Algebra classwork on. Then you scan them onto the computer to show fellow authors. Especially if you're an artist, then you can make them jealous.
-You wake up in the middle of the night to check fanfics you've been reading or add on to round robins you've joined.
-Can't... get... off... computer! Help!
-And your siblings get very angry because you're on the computer all the time. And your parents get mad because there's only one phone line and they can't get on the phone because you're on the internet all the time.
-You get grounded from the computer for being on it all the time.

Sigh... I am guilty of all of these.

~Ånika §kywalker

 

I'm guilty of these
-Can't... get... off... computer! Help!
-And your siblings get very angry because you're on the computer all the time. And your parents get mad because there's only one phone line and they can't get on the phone because you're on the internet all the time.

 

"YKYATFFW... " huh?!

 

You know you're addicted to Fan Fanfiction when...


When your grandfather hands you an article he found in the paper by someone with your real name and asks if you wrote it (my real name is quite common actually) you say that you write online, not for papers, then go on explaining that even though STar WArs pays less, it's much more rewarding.


when you can spin off a disclaimer in your sleep.

 

...when listening to the radio brings memories of the fanfics they were included in.

Sting's Desert Rose always brings a smile with the memory of an amazonian, bleach-blonde smuggler stripping in a cantina full of drunken Jedi.

 

When you check up your exam times and realise you had an exam that morning, have a small fit and relax by reading more fic. (guilty).

When your spell checker no longer bothers with words like "sith," and often suggests "Padawan."

You try to explain your fanfics to your family. "Now dad, you know Obi-Wan Kenobi?...(dad looks blank) Okay, remember the movies with Darth Vader and Luke?... You know Sir Alec Guiness?... (blank look) The old man with the beard? It's about him, when he was a little boy. You know the cave in ESB, (blank look), when Luke was on the swampy planet? You know the cave where he chopped off darth Vader's head, (blank look), (Mum pipes up) I don't recall that he chopped off his head. - He did mum trust me -

 

Gee, I'm soooooo guilty! I'm a total Fanfic junkie!
I particularly agreed with:
"You start to think in English even if it's not your first language."

 

im guilty of a lot of these....but the following 2 are the most severe

When you plan your fanfics with "soundtracks"

You start expecting to see Fanfic charracters to show up in Ep. II and III

 

oh boy I'm guilty of so many of these...

-Putting off your homework to read fanfic and justifying it knowing your roommate will be up to three am anyway doing chemistry homework
-Give non-star Wars characters SW names and pass it off like their parents were obsessed (yep, guilty)
-You swear Sith instead of ****
-You start refering to perspective students at your university as initiates (guilty again)
-You slip and call your professor Master
-You refer to your dorm room as your quarters


and there is the thinking that FanFic characters are cannon...I love An-Paj!!

 

When you wish you were a fanfic character and end up putting yourself in one of your stories....

 

when watching a totally unrelated movie, you start connecting it to star wars and think of writing an AU p.o.v. to it. (soooo guilty) and possibly doing a crossover.

 

...when you're REALLY nice to your sister in order to get her to post on more threads!

(Only j/k Jem!)

...when you stop watching your favourite programmes on TV to be able to read/write more.

...when you start buying microwave meals so you can spend less time cooking and more on the fan fiction.

 

...i actually do buy TV dinners to save time. heh.

 

OMG!!! I just came back into here for like the first time in a week, and there's so much stuff in it that I am guilty of!! Here's another:

You spend all your free periods in school on the JC, reading fic.

*guilty...*

--Mr. P

 

-you're out of school, have a real job, and STILL write fics

-You've written a Melrose Naboo special and find it quoted in this thread! (I promise I'll send them part 2 someday)

 

-The characters in all your stories have the exact same name (or just a small change to it) as your main Star Wars character.

-You write all your friends into your fics, even if they might not even know who wrote the Rogue Squadron series of books (the blasphemy!).

-You stop being friends with your best friend since Kindergarten just because they didn't know that your fic was voted the best fic on a website and they said it was trash.

-When a fire broke out in your house, you ignore the burning photo albums and save your hard disk of your computer because it has all your fics saved on it.

-Your dad has to buy you your own computer, separtate phone line, and internet service just so he can get some work done and make sure you don't go postal for not getting to see if someone posted in the last few milliseconds.

 

You mean it's weird to do this when you're out of school and have a job? I thought one of the points of finishing school was to have more fic time...

...when you start buying art supplies so you can learn to draw your characters, and proceed to spend many hours doing so

...when you want some good political argument and think, "Hey, I'll check that Gore/Bush satire thread at the JC!"

...when you start flat out begging artists for illustrations for the Illustrators' Gallery at your website

...when it's not your turn to write on a round robin, you get antsy and either start adding on to anything that comes your way or adding totally pointless scenes to your other fics because it's too spooky in your room without the keyboard clacking

...when you get a response to an old fic -- a response with illustrations! (it's not a SW fic, so I have nowhere to put them) -- and you think, "Hey, maybe I should go back to that series, in addition to the four I'm already working on..."

 

When the fact that your computer hasn't been able to access FF.N for the whole weekend makes you want to cry... *turns red*

 

>>-Your dad has to buy you your own computer, separtate phone line, and internet service just so he can get some work done and make sure you don't go postal for not getting to see if someone posted in the last few milliseconds.


you mean...I thought my dad was the only one who did that!


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...when you want some good political argument and think, "Hey, I'll check that Gore/Bush satire thread at the JC!"


I know what you mean! I always check in on it.

>>When the fact that your computer hasn't been able to access FF.N for the whole weekend makes you want to cry... *turns red*

so I'm not the only one who hasn't been able to get on. I've been crying also, don't feel bad.

 

--When your parents no longer ground you from the phone. mall, etc. but now they use FF. (the cruelest punishment of them all)

--When your English teacher reads past the word "sith" in a report you wrote b/c you've used it so many times.

--When you enter your fanfiction into a nation competetion for teenager authors. (especially guilty)


Healer Leona - I know what you mean! I will probably hear on an oldies station many, many years form now, and still have that image in my head!

 

don't fret liz, my dad had my brother hook up another computer with aol, a printer, and a word processor(i made them put that in) so he could do his work as well. plus, my family has gotten used to using Internet Explorer, since im always using our AOL account

 

...when your favourite thread finishes, you feel like you've lost something special.

*Bawls* It's soooo unfair!!! No more ANTAR!!

 

--whenever you have free time, you plot out more of your fanfic in your head.

 

Calam,

I hear you! I just know that every day at 3:30 JC time I'll be going through severe ANTAR withdrawals!

*Sob!*

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