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Sometimes I miss the GWA board. It was full of smart and interesting people with a variety of pairings and ideas, and stupid flame wars weren't tolerated. I wish something like that would exist for the Naruto fandom.

Sometimes I miss the GWA board. And then I go back, and I realize that lots of the oldbies have left (some have jumped ship with me XD), or they're not as deep in the "community" as I remember them being, and all that's left is the annoying brainless fantwits, spamming the board with all-important questions that have less to do with military grades in OZ, or cultural and sociological studies of the Colonies, or where exactly in Europe Sank could logically be located, than they have to do with "if Duo was a hairdresser, how would you rate his hairdressing abilities on a scale of one to ten?" "if Trowa was a diver." "if Wufei was a ninja." What. The. Fuck.

Why. WHY. is it that every time I come back half the messages on the first page are by that person, and they're almost ALL as pointless as the previous ones. WHY CAN'T SHE KEEP HER STUPID BRAIN GLITCHES IN ONE TOPIC. No actually no, I was never unable to sleep because I was tortured by the immortal question: Duo, little scythes or little skulls on his boxers? And it says something that most of her topics are even more inane, pointless and WTF-inducing than the boxers question. which is my own example. Hers hurt my brain too much for me to remember. The hairdresser and ninja stuff, though? Totally hers.

I'm never wandering back to the General forum ever again. I'll post my fics and leave, nostalgia be damned.

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wandering back onto old forums is always depressing~ *remembers Pokemon AAML days and weeps*

*has learned her lesson, yes ma'am*

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o_o;; Pokemon, AAML, or general fandom stupidity? XD

I try very hard to forget that part of the fandom exists at all.

too bad they don't give us the same courtesy =_=

bed now. You write!

It was full of smart and interesting people with a variety of pairings and ideas, and stupid flame wars weren't tolerated. I wish something like that would exist for the Naruto fandom.

I also really, really wish there was a place matching that description in Naruto fandom. Especially the "variety of pairings and ideas" part.

I'm not that INTO the Naruto discussions yet... much trolling about? O_o Or just general lack of pairings and ideas ~~beyond 'oooh! Sasuke's hawt omg!~~?

Most communities are divided between "I luuurve sasuke!! he's so pretty!!!" and "i hate sasuke!! he's a bastard and I hate his stupid fangirls!!"

Oh wait, there's also the sasunaru fans who can't conceive of Naruto actually owning a pair of balls, and tend to gouge their eyes out at the mere mention that their Sasuke-seme-sama could be *gasp* topped. And the sasusaku fans who somehow imagine them to be a tragic romeo-and-juliet-type couple, with sasuke as a closet romantic.

Both fans are persuaded that OMG ITS DESTINY. yyyeeeah. no.

...ok, NOW you've scared me. Can't I just... you know, hang out here and avoid all those scary people? *snugs up to you*

I thought there was tons of crack pairing love in the Naruto fandom. Those people with ideas and a variety of pairings are not hard to find. I'm one of them.

But where do they hang out?

... nowhere specific? Maybe we should gang up on a all-pairings-no-bashing middle-ground? ^^

It's not really anywhere specific although there are a quite a few of us floating around. The chuunin (http://www.livejournal.com/community/chuunin/) comm has a number of them, but we only come out of the woodwork when someone creates a topic about crack pairings.

There's also a comm devoted to crack pairings, but it seems as though it's more geared towards fanfiction than actual discussion.

You could also try another community called narutalk (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=narutalk/) which is devoted to indepth discussion about Naruto. It's kind of slow though and not necessarily concerned with pairings, but you could start a pairing related topic if you wanted.

If somebody wanted to start a community devoted to the discussion of unusual pairings or ideas in general, I'd be more than happy to join.

Narutalk (http://www.livejournal.com/community/narutalk/)

Link didn't work the first time. My apologies.

Thanks for pointing me, these look like cool communities :)

I never went to the GWA Board because it has always scared me. I think I've only posted one fic there in the four years I've been writing GW. I was on MLs for a while (2 yrs?) but I've quit all of those now, too. I sort of found my little niche, have a few good friends, and I've given up on everything else. Sometimes I wish I could get my fics out to a wider audience, but I just can't stomach the imbeciles. ^^;

*petpetrubs* aw! why scared? ;_; everyone was very nice. besides you can stick to post-and-run XD

My inner Duo goes commando and is proud of it. Silk boxers are a waste of money he could use on important stuff. Like food and ammo. ;)

I have occasional bouts of nostalgia for the fandom, too, but you can never really go home again.

And, I would really love to see a GWA type of site for Naruto fandom. *_*

XD! My inner Duo would go commando, but his pants kinda chafe. Yeah.

So he steals Heero's spandex. In secret.

So would I, but I really don't have the patience nor the webspace. Also a community of smart people is not really something you can create from scratch, unless you only accept people on invitation, and then hello elitism wank.

*LOL* My inner Heero says, "nothing comes between me and my spandex." :D

Sadly, there's really no escaping fandom wangst. It's the main reason I mostly stick to my own little corner these days. :)

... hey, I did that sociological study of the Colonies thing! I came up with the idea of why there's old people and teenagers in GW, but very few middle-aged adults.

And, d00d. Everyone knows Duo sleeps naked.

This is Sera btw. I'm stealing teh internet from Aoi-chan's house.

Well, that's the problem of getting older together with a group of people and wandering back into the land of...er... fantwits and newbies. The good side is - I guess? - that you can always look back on the amazing discussions of the 'Golden Times' and... move on?

=_= Ah... nostalgia.

hee. Yeah, I guess I was a fantwit too at some point. the difference is that I was too ashamed of my english to share my squeeing and fanon love. XD

The getting older together thing is an argument that really makes sense, though. *cuddles it and holds it close* ♥

Hm. I used to visit forums a long, long time ago (back when I was in my egotistical, preteen period) and I've learned one important thing from that experience: Never, ever go back again. LJ Communities have more well-rounded individuals and they generally lack the 'teen scene' -- as I like to call it.

I visited the GWA forums back then, as well, and I never really got into it like most people did. Back then, there were still flame wars on the forums and I didn't think it was worth it, getting involved in something that blase.

So, yes, I agree with you; post your fics, and run hell-for-leather. :)

We can always hope that the future will produce fewer idiots in the world, can't we? ;)

huh. that really, REALLY depends on the communities. =__=; The ones i've come across usually suck. Or else no one posts much. The high-traffic ones always seem to bring the fanpoodles out.

Yeah, I remember a Yuugiou forum that I used to adore and spend way too much time at... then the cool people started to drift and it got taken over by the fantwits. Sucks. So. Much. Wahhh...

The sad thing is that this is happening to a lot of forums. Most of them have been taken over by "fantwits" and its been harder and harder to find a good place to have deep converation about things like that.

A long time ago I would go and talk to people about some really cool things. Notting like where Sank would really be (and where would that be anyway?), but some neat things like MS being named after constellations. And if someone don't like the show we talk to about that we thougth was important about the show without starting a frame war and there could get really deep at times.

Now when happen to find the post again all I see if "Duo is Hot <3<3<3" or "Deathscythe Rocks". And I miss the talks about the characters, the meaning of Gundam Wing and all the strange facts.

*Sigh* I use do miss the old days. The new fourms are so depressing.

*sighs* T_T *hugglepets*

(well, there was lots of debate, placed on the kind of clothes people were wearing and what it meant about the climate, Zechs' apparent nordicness and Relena's... more middle-of-europness, the size of the country, the checking-canon-to-see-if-other-european-countries-still-exist-or-if-they-could-have-been-renamed-sank, and tons of other nitpicky arguments. It was great. Some people argued that Sank was in fact Switzerland, or France-belgium-switzerland, or that it was smaller than that and more upward, and stuff. XD)

I know exactly who you're talking about. If they start the topic, I don't even bother to read the thread. And this is from someone who used to read every thread on the forums.

yeah. We had other annoying n00b-fangurl-type people around, but this one is particularly obnoxious. *growl* Sadly I'm not there often enough to have any right to tell her to shut up, and even back then it would have been seen badly if I started yelling at her. She hasn't done anything against the rules -- she's just so fucking annoying. >_<;

Yeah, it's Tyr's board, she's the only one who has the right to decide that someone's too much of a PITA to put up with.

This one's way too persistent, too - been going it for months now, someone told her to back off and she did, but it's still more than likely that any new threads are stupid and her fault. :P

I don't even try to eke out a larger existence than my little niche in GW fandom any more. I haven't got the patience for that bullshit. :D

that's why it's more fun to stick with Naruto right now. there's hilarious pictures like this: http://www.yale.edu/anime/imgarchive/Naruto/sasuke_obsessed.jpg

Because you're the biggest obsessomagnet the five countries have ever seen, Sasuke XDDD Just by looking at you, they all become obsessed, whether the obsession is about sex, rivalry, power, love, hate, or hunger- they're obsessed.

Isn't that picture from the part shortly before the third exam when Gaara is being all scary-stalkerish and telling Sasuke he's his prey?

that's what someone else said, so i guess so. it still makes for a hilarious fan commentary tho.

It DOES make for hilarious fan commentary. Someone totally needs to take the text and picture in that image and shrink it down to icon size. Someone not me, because my image manipulation skills are limited to MSpaint.

*thwaps you both for hijacking the topic again* è.é

*Lurker emerges*

That person had a whiny post about 6 months back about OHSOBSOB,I DON'T MEAN TO BE OFFENSIVE, BUT WHY DOES NO ONE COMMENT WHEN I POST? WHAHWHAHWHAH.

Several commented to her about why they're not posting. My beef had been that I couldn't figure out what the hell the post was about from the obscure headers, and that I'm also not really into these sort of polls she runs.

Yeah. She didn't get back to us, either. >_<

I've completely gotten out of the habit of going to GWA, especially since most of my fave authors are here, anyway! :D

PS Yay, for more cloneness!!

hah! I remember that topic. I even wrote her a list of why a big hit count doesn't mean a big number of people actually reading and liking enough to comment. My real reason, though, was my last item on the list. "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." XP It doesn't seem to stick, though.

hee! ^^ glad there are a few people who actually read that thing. XD

Ahhh! So that was you! I wasn't sure. It was an exceptionally comprehensive comment - and no, it doesn't seem to have taken, has it?

Sad, sad person.

diverts your attention with late fanart?

heee! thank you ^___________^ I love Harry's profile and Naruto's expression, and mmmm uniforms = sexy. XD though it's a bit weird to have him go "erk" when the pose is so casual and relaxed. XD maybe add a tiny doodle with strangling? é.è

I should have drawn the throttling scene too. >.< I FAIL at life.

Srry im a crazed fan and i dunno how many people ask you but are you gonna update the TEAMWORK fanfic on AFF? cuz... its was soooo good and i know im a loser for asking but would you plzzzzz

è.é if you scroll down the page to about ten entries, I posted the first two scenes of the next chapter. The chapter is long and difficult to write. When it's done, I'll post it. I can't post a chapter I don't have.

^_______^ yay

hehe srry that I had to pester you all the way here its just that T-T its soo damn good

I missed the world building.

How the colonies were structured and could they actually be independent completely from earth, both politically and economically? The pysch profiles on all the boys and yeah they really aren't teenagers. How Relena become the huge political force she was and why wasn't there any real form of media or democraticly pissed off masses?

*goes off to design bloodline limit orgin myths*

I miss that, too. RL bitchslapped me like a red-headed stepchild in 2004 and I had no time for most internettage, and whenever I poked my head back in since then there was... well... not much in the way of interesting discussionification. Not even stemming off of fic commentary (fondly remembers linguistics and social skills commentary discussions that evolved off of one person responding to an interesting fic).

And I never was much good at starting discussions, just at hopping in once they got going.

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UGH fantwits

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>_> Teamwork?

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