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[bedlamsbard]

Am now on Facebook because, uh, Tulane wants me to be, so there I am. This more or less translates to me bopping around going, "I am so confused and have no idea what I'm doing, but hey, I know these people! FRIEND FRIEND FRIEND."

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I was an innocent little child before fandom corrupted me. (I blame HP. For EVERYTHING.)

People always think I'm twice my age -- you know, they do the whole, "OH MY GOD I HATE TEENAGERS AND WHAT ABOUT YOU?" and I go, "Well, I'm sixteen, so..." (Or eighteen, now. I was exceedingly happy I turned eighteen shortly after the whole LJ-various-things mess.)

I missed the yahoo groups stage of fandom (this was a topic on one of my lurker journals, so it's relatively fresh in my mind); I was messageboards for HP, and then I went straight to LJ, though I missed the migration by a year or so.

I cannot imagine being in New Orleans ever. I sit here and stare at my knitting and go, "I am not going to Wellesley why?"

And I met him on the Internet! That's the kicker, probably. Although I'm sneakily sneaking in references to people I met online for various things.

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There's nothing wrong with blaming HP; I think it's responsible for a great deal of corruption. ;)

*lolz* Yes. I never really picked up on that in the yahoogroups/my younger daze, but I definitely see it now and it's just point blank obnoxious. I mean, if fandom had decided: "You!" *pointing at me* "You're a teenager and we don't like you and you'll obviously never improve." then... well. I probably wouldn't have written quite so diligently or as often. I got feedback from -- whatever fandom I was in -- and I could develop my voice in peace with just enough confidence in my ability to keep going. And I had lots of people who were all "It's kind of cool that you're young and into this stuff. Keep it up!" not "All teenagers are useless chatspeak fanbrats who know nothing about sex! RAR." or what have you.

I was on usenets type groups for a while, as I recall (oh, we're harkening to the dark dark days of my youth here), and mostly chatted with people over AIM and ICQ, and then I found yahoogroups and only got into LJ around the middle of HS or so.

Because you like what Tulane has to offer. Except for the oppressive humidity and the hurricanes. Thing. ...oops.

Haha yes that too. At this point while my parents are still suspicious: "And WHERE do you know [so and so] from again? The INTERNET?" they can't do much of anything and have figured out I generally know enough not to get killed.

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I blame HP for everything, including some of my latent canon issues, which I am forcefully using Narnia to push aside.

Yeah, since the dominant setting on LJ (fandom LJ, I mean) is middle-aged woman, there's a lot of animosity towards teenagers. Occasionally people remember to go, "Except for so-and-so, but OH MY GOD TEENAGERS."

Messageboards was my middle school (literally, started in sixth grade), LJ was my high school (again...freshman year). I wonder if anything new will come up for college?

The horribly amusing thing is that I chose Tulane because it had so much to offer, and now...I have too much stuff on my plate, so I can't do band. (Tulane was the only one of my four finalists that has a band.)

It's a matter of sneaking in the harmless things, I think. "Oh, she just wants to know about ESL..."