cherries picked with and by cherry

I am so happy right now! The ever cheering cherrybina whom I only met a very little while ago has posted the awesomest of awesome Inception squee post to help a relative newbie like me squee. Thank you so much, and thank you everybody for linking and posting and omg, how many years do I need in limbo to plough through all the squee???!!

I'm going to have to buy a new printer tomorrow and at once because I can't survive any longer with my old one wot packed it in a few months ago because I need to print out all this fic. It is starting to be essential to my survival.

Um. Sorry everyone who's not with me in this fandom. Scroll on past...

i can't even omg liek111

It is wonderful, wonderful, to come to a fandom late and be glutted with fic and pic glory.

It is also a danger! Because before one knows it, one is reading and drooling and feedbacking and trying to keep up with all the new people one must know in this new fandom (because only about two people overlap with any other fandoms one has been in before) and figuring out where everything goes (comms? memes? challenges?) and discovering the fanon and the fanart omg....

.... and what one is then not doing is continuing to write!

Which is Not So Good!!

Sometimes it's funnest just to jump in with a bit of canon attached to one's forelock and join the fray in blithe and blissful ignorance.

On the other hand, once the sweet fruit of fandom (and what a fandom is Inception) has been tasted, there's no turning back.

So it is a juggling act. A bit of droolery, a bit of fic readery, and then write, plz, write! (Also, argh, one must prepare one's lecture, feed one's family, go for a Sunday walk with one husband, and so forth... And my printer is broken so I am tethered to my laptop!!!) I am planning to go into the office early tomorrow and print out REAMS of fic which I will then have to stuff surreptitiously into my bag and hope nobody mistakes it for student essays.

Squee lingo has changed a tiny little bit since lotrips: linguistic observations.
Back in the day of entry fandom squee (2002), I seem to remember that the common things to type were:
• *falls off chair*
• Eeeeep!
• Ack!
• omg
• *is dead*
• *fans self*
• *cackles*
• kjdkjfaksd flkjdksjakj
• liek omg1111 [lotrips loved the ironic teenslasher quote]
Nobody in fandom wrote 'lol', as far as I recall. Everybody wrote *grins* or *smiles* or *laughs*.

This is how squee expresses itself these days:
• SQUEE!!
• omg
• I can't even...
• idek
• FTW
• I am excite.
• UNF
• kjfkdalksdl;fjkhg

Note how third-person verbs enclosed within asterisks have been replaced by a more first-person approach and by a variety of acronyms wot i had to look up on t'interwebs (idek=i don't even know; UNF = universal noise of f**ing, and the concept of 'the win' did not exist in 2002).

Also the word 'slash'? Practically gone from the vocabulary.

I have to say I love the diction "I can't even..." *flails*

Fanart! I can't even... NWSF

because a random interwebs test is bettah than years of councelling, right?

( What personality disorder are you? )

navelgazishly tracking of progress through new fandom

My first Inception post was Tuesday, 15 February!! (How apt. I must have been imbibing fic on Valentine's Day. Awww.)

( scroll on past the navelgazery )