Comments | spaceyplum: In which I contemplate the death of the inner fangirl

spaceyplum

In which I contemplate the death of the inner fangirl

Aug 15, 2010 10:46

If I'm truly honest I must admit she's been dying a very slow death for the last five years at least. Gone are the halcyon days of obsessively watching and/or collecting that used to define my world to some degree. It started with the soaps, became really bad with The X-Files and I do believe it ended with Potter Verse ( Read more... )

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emerald_night August 15 2010, 18:06:37 UTC

LOL I did that about a year ago. VHS tapes / magazine clippings - GONE. I just enjoy the stuff online now for the most part (and DVD sets lol)

spaceyplum August 15 2010, 18:42:28 UTC

I got rid of most of the video tapes a few years ago but I was still holding on to all the magazines for some unfathomable reason. I'll need to work on the DVD sets and books next because I just have too much stuff and I'm getting tired of looking at it all. I love my DVD sets but most of them have remained unopened so what's the point? Books I have a hard time throwing out but those I generally trade back, just need to start reading again ;)

artic_fox August 16 2010, 20:17:44 UTC

Bravo! I think we all reach that stage at some time or another. I admit, I was never much of one for collecting things up from fandom (I own occasional random items from various fandoms, but usually nothing big or too... geeky, I guess), but I think it is okay to step away from that side of things, just as it is okay to step towards it.

misplacedpearls August 31 2010, 16:59:31 UTC

Muriel I know how you feel.I made the same transition starting this past winter.It stared with my Bold and Beautiful tapes(but not my hard-to-come-by One Life tapes featuring RH and FL as TnT,I searched forever for those.And I don´t even have my vcr connected to the tv set anymore,but I just can´t get rid of them,it´s TnT/RH and FL fgs! You know.And I finally let the soaps go forever.And a coupe of weeks ago it was the soap rags.My new obsession are the movies,Old Hollywwod to be precise,and some contemporary ones and I did rediscover Jackie Collins this past summer.I loved her book growing up.It really is growing up in a way.And at 35 you think you should have but you made an interesting point.Pop culture.The kids born in the 70´s were the new teens and not even their parents let them grew up like normal people (hrm..I am a grown up) but nowdays there is your education which probably earn you a degree at like 36 if your lucky and if your really lucky,a steady job and then it´s kid and your old man,or your old lady,that depends.Sorry ( ... )