Three Questions...

[cosmic_llin]

Snurched from penguin2 :

"Ask me 3 questions. ANY 3 no matter how random, personal, dirty, etc. Just comment here with the questions. I have to answer them HONESTLY. In turn you have to post this message in your journal and you have to answer the questions that are asked to you."

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[cadiliniel.livejournal.com]

1. If you were a character in TXF, what would you be like?

2. If you had to pick just one of your fandoms to stick with for the rest of your life, which would it be?

3. Erm...*scrapes barrel* What the most horrible thing you've done to a friend?

Man, I suck at coming up with things like this, heheh!

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

1. I'm assuming you mean an original character? Like I can't say: "I'd be Scully"?
Ok, well, I would be a young woman with amazing telepathic powers, and I would roam the world doing good deeds, but one of my good deeds would go wrong and Mulder and Scully would come and investigate me. Then make me their sidekick.

2. Aaarghh, you can't ask questions like that! My fandoms sort of drift in and out of favour - so at the moment it would be the X-Files, but this time last year I would probably have said M*A*S*H or ST:TNG. So X-Files, but only because I would never really be called on to make this choice!

3. Um....I'm not really sure. Anything deliberately horrible I would only have done to someone I no longer considered a friend anyway. I have probably done some horrible things unintentionally, but nothing springs immediately to mind. There was the time that I accidentally spoiled the ending of Goblet of Fire for Gemma and Rachel (they came around the corner just as Jess and I were discussing it). There are probably others, but that is the only one I can think of right now.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

1. How "Welsh" do you feel? - i.e., would you describe yourself as Welsh or British, and how do you feel about the English, both as a political oppressor and as a cultural nation of persons?

2. How deeply do you put yourself into your favourite telly series/films/books? I ask because I'm trying (still!) to understand the whole fanfic ethos, and had fascinating face-to-face conversations yesterday with both my SO and my dear friend neko_seraph.

3. Are you ever likely to come to Australia?

There. Easy ones :-)

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

1. Ooh, this is an interesting question! I would describe myself as Welsh first, British second. I feel very glad to have come from somewhere with so much culture going on! Actually, I'm feeling a bit down about it today because tomorrow is St David's Day, and if I was at home there would be all sorts of fun Welsh stuff going on, but here nobody cares. Still going to wear my daffodil and everything though. I have to say I felt very Welsh indeed watching our team win the rugby the other day!
As far as England goes, I'm really not sure what my feelings are. I feel a bit angry on behalf of my ancestors for the way they took over our country, and in an ideal world I think it would be nice for Wales to be an independent nation, not subject to any kind of English rule. But I don't think it's realistic just at the moment, if only because the Welsh Assembly are really still finding their feet and learning to use the few powers they do have. I wouldn't use the word oppressor - I don't think anyone in power in England is really looking to oppress Wales or the Welsh, but they can be quite indifferent to Welsh concerns.
As a nation, I have nothing against them except in a very general, sporting grudges kind of way. I think the English as a group can be a bit superior and a bit inclined to believe that they can go anywhere in the world and get by just speaking English, but then the same might be said about Americans. I think I have too many English friends to really dislike England.

2. Well, I'm fairly picky about what shows I watch on a regular basis, so if a show passes that test, then it's almost impossible for it not to become a fully-fledged fandom. With books it's a bit different because I will literally read whatever is put in front of me. I guess what happens when I become a fan of a show/book/film is that I become very involved in the characters, and being quite a nosey person I want to find out everything I possibly can about them. So I spend a lot of time discovering useless trivia! So in that situation it's quite easy to spend lots of time thinking about the characters and the show, and that leads to thinking about situations that they might find themselves in, which is where the fic happens! I am very nitpicky about my own fic, so I don't feel able to write about the characters until I have seen most of the episodes of a show, or at least have a good idea of the overall story. I would hate to get even a small detail wrong. Also, most of the scenarios I come up with will never leave the confines of my brain, or possibly a notebook that won't ever be seen by anyone else, if I particularly want to see what it looks like written down. I tend to only actually write a fic if I feel I have a good idea - or an interesting plot, or something original to say about the characters.
I think it's only really possible to have one main fandom at a time - for me, anyway. At the moment The X-Files is my all-consuming passion. My flatmate and I usually watch an episode of an evening, and I regularly surf the net for XF-related things. I will sometimes see things in real life that somehow parallel events in the X-Files. It's almost getting to the stage where people will start to say: "Oh my God, can't you stop thinking about the X-Files just for a minute?" That is the peak, really. After that my X-Files consumption will begin to slow, and I'll move on to something else!

3. Hmm, that's something I've never really thought about. I expect so eventually, since I'm hoping to do a lot of travelling over the next several years. But Australia is a long way and a lot of money, so it would take some serious planning if I did do it.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, sounds like your Welshness is similar to my Irishness :-)

Thankee for your answer to #2, even though I'm no more enlightened than I was yesterday. I'm beginning to suspect that fandom is just one of those things I'll never quite grok, along with autographs and signed books and RPG...'tis odd though. I'm definitely, for example, a total-immersion Buffyhead; I've spent, and still spend, hours discussing aspects and implications of the storylines and character interactions; I feel that the characters are "real", for a certain qualified value of real, and I care about them; but it would never in a thousand moons occur to me to even want to imagine new shall-we-say adventures for them. I wonder if it's because, for decades out of mind, I've been creating things for a living, and wouldn't touch someone else's creations unless I was being paid to do so? - or if it's because I've had my own er um private world to play in for most of my life? ~shrug~ Ah well, there's room for all of us :D