You know you've been at Fandom High too long when . . .

[godinakilt.livejournal.com]

In the midst of a flurry of comings and goings, let us pause in this festive season to remember all the good crack that we've smoked these past four months and indulge in a little game of 'You know you've been at Fandom High too long when . . .'

I'll start.

. . . one of the first things your mother says to you after not seeing you for four months is, "Um, why are you getting mail from someone called 'Aziraphale'?"

. . . while giving a tour of campus to a prospective student, the following comes out of your mouth: "This is Liquor Lane, which is actually the best lit part of Fandom." "Excuse me?" "Campus. I meant campus."

. . . the words 'frell' and 'frak' enter your vocabulary, despite having no exposure to said fandom.

. . . you can't help giggling your way through 'Revenge of the Sith' because your mind keeps hearing banthabells.

. . . the words, 'Can't sleep, Fandom High will eat me' have left your mouth.

. . . you start watching 'Power Rangers: SPD' just because of Bridge.

. . . whenever an actor (say, for example, Steve Bacic) is in a show, you involuntarily think, "Squee, that's me!"

Any others?

Comments

[bens-mikey.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that last one -- oh yes. Especially since I thought I was getting a break from FH over Thanksgiving (since mom is internet-less), and then Hal Sparks shows up on the Thanksgiving CSI. *headdesk*

To add:

...mini marshmallows (especially in cocoa) make you think of Aziraphale and/or Yazoo.

...you watch DVDs of the show your character(s) is/are from, and skip through to watch only the parts with your character(s) in them.

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

You're getting taken out for a very swanky Holiday luncheon on the company's dime and all you can think is...

"Damn it but I was doooinnnggg things in Fandom!"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

It gets weird reading your regular flist b/c when you see icons from various fandoms you assume it's the character.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

OMG THIS GETS ME ALL THE TIME. Especially as Kara's mun makes AWESOME icons that most of my flist has and I keep thinking "wtf, Kara's posting? About the Yankees? ... oh wait..."

[sensethevisions]

...whenever something bad comes up you immediately want to vanquish it

...the words "But that isn't how Camulus teaches it" have come out of your mouth

...your daughter asks you how come you're getting mail from Aziraphale's rare Books

...you watch Revenge of the Sith and laugh because "our Anakin is better"

...you collect the Power Rangers toys from McDonalds in hopes of getting a green one

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

...you collect the Power Rangers toys from McDonalds in hopes of getting a green one

*is not snickering uncontrollably at all, no*

*because that would be a very pot-kettle situation when you're doing that yourself*

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Method RP.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

...you start organizing your DVDs by Fandom High OTPs (Veronica Mars goes next to Angel goes next to Xena, Star Wars goes by the Gilmore Girls...).

...the words "I go to high school with them" have actually come out of your mouth during television previews for shows you didn't even know existed four months ago.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

...the words "I go to high school with them" have actually come out of your mouth during television previews for shows you didn't even know existed four months ago.

OMG YES. People talk about GG all the time on my flist and I keep wanting to say that I go to HS with Rory and she's awesome....OMGWTF?!

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

Or you watch various music vids in a variety of fandoms and go
"Slept with her, slept with him, took a class from him, slept with him, did a B&E so she could get into her spaceship, slept with her."

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

...you go shopping for DVDS and go "ooh, I'm buying all my friends!" and put Veronica Mars inbetween Firefly and BSG so that Veronica doesn't feel awkward next to Lee and Anakin feels a little left out that Liz is not purchasing Gilmore Girls this time around.

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

...You spend more time Xmas shopping for your characters friends than your RL friends

...You say I can't go to bed yet I'm finishing my homework

...Most you the stuff you've bought recently has been FH related

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

Yes, as sogothcally-mun and I discovered the past few days, EVERYTHING IS META NOW.

Because when you walk by an X-Box at Fry's Electronics and can't stop snickering, or you just have to go and put the Star Wars Episode III DVD next to a Gilmore Girls box set because it just doesn't look right otherwise, that kinda says something.

As does ordering toast just so you can ask for it to be "*fingerwiggle* buttery."

Or laughing your ass off every time you drive by the ABC Dental Cosmetics storefront.

*w00ts quietly over yet another mention of SPD-watching*

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

*dies of snickering*

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

*laughs at the "mail from Aziraphale"*

...You can't watch television or movies with actors from FH playing other characters, because the entire time you're thinking things like "Gosh, the Doctor's being really creepy today".

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Oh, and then the movie industry goes and does something like

THIS (http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2005/apr/06bond.htm).

I will NOT be able to watch this movie. AT ALL. I'm just going to sit there expecting him to say, "Phale. Azira Phale. Tea, stirred, not shaken, my dear."

License to flaming sword your ass, indeed.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

...Your entire holiday season gift wish list is stuff from fandoms you're trying to catch up on so you can interact with more people.

[sensethevisions]

*raises hand* Me, too!

[godinakilt.livejournal.com]

I just remembered another one.

. . . when watching GoF, you blurt out (too loudly, actually), "It's Doctor Who!" when you've never, ever watched any Doctor Who before. Actually, I think I might have yelled, "Doctor Ten"

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! YES!

[mycanonhatesme]

I forgot to put stamps on some of the cards I sent out (*facepalms*), so they came back to my house. Cue my mother asking me who "Chloezoe" is, and why we were getting returned mail for her. *g*

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

BWAH!

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

You're watching "Rome" and do a quick back-up on the TiVO for Atia's party scene, yelling about one of the dancers: "I know that profile! I wake up to it every morning!" And when your husband glares at you, you add sheepishly "...in Fandom."

Frell has indeed entered my vocab. Frak was already there (and has been for 25 years, right next to felgercarb).

You develop major actor crushes and spend too much time on IMDB and Ebay tracking down everything they've done.

You rewatch "Firefly" and the family can't figure out why you keep snickering. (and your oldest says "Mom, you didn't damage Jayne's hat, did you?")

You tease your oldest (who was briefly Harry Potter) for watching "Kiki's delivery service" too many times. And send her off to her gay youth group with the knowledge of an antiquated piece of lesbian slang...

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

*squee!*

[chasingangela]

...you get your Fandom High dorm room number and your real-life apartment number confused, and try your key in the wrong mailbox.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Dude. You WIN.

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

You leave a Christmas party saying, "Must run! Another party, at Phale's!"

...And then proceed to floor it for the hour drive all the way home. And then sit at your computer from when you walked in at 1:30 until 4 am playing...without even having taken off your coat.

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

I left a party to go fight zombies.

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

You can't see a West Wing promo without blushing.

[headdesk]

[absolutesnark]

... you're in real life Interpersonal Comm wishing CJ was actually teaching it.

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

FiveO'clockShadow!Phale. Maybe after a bender on the communion wine?

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Phale doesn't drink communion wine. He prefers a nice Chateau Lafitte 1875.

Now if you'll excuse me, my other character has to go assign pretend grades to the pretend students in his pretend class.

[can_be_more]

...You answer to your character's name in public.

...Um. You have Plans for the nativity scene that goes under the Christmas tree. The mini Rory tree would be cool, but of all the things you could do, you need the gremlin baby Jesus.

...You've blamed something on a gremlin bite.

...You've called shows by their Fandom names. (Law and Order is now Crime and Justice, etc.)

...You've started rewatching shows you gave up on years ago simply because the character is cool.

...You giggled all through GoF wondering why Draco's not off banging Harry's mom.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

...Um. You have Plans for the nativity scene that goes under the Christmas tree. The mini Rory tree would be cool, but of all the things you could do, you need the gremlin baby Jesus.

Don't look at me like that. I'm not planning on replacing the Joseph figures in all my family's nativity scenes with Green Mystic Force Power Ranger figures! I'm not! I'm not!

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

i agree with the last one on there and I got all excited when I was flipping the channels and saw Dean Bristow up on Alias.

[godinakilt.livejournal.com]

Here's a new one I discovered this morning.

. . . you wake up, flip open the laptop which you in no way sleep with because you fall asleep online with regularity, open all your Fandom High links in tabs, and then a single emo tear rolls down your cheek when you realise that classes are out.

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

You nearly drown because you suddenly remember that Broots and Alanna have unfinished business at FandomHigh. And you're swimming in the ocean at the time.

You giggle like a maniac through an episode of Alias and Charmed, causing your mum to go leave the hotel room muttering about crazyness.