tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post958382203971850259..comments2023-04-10T03:20:23.344-05:00Comments on HanLeiaFanFicWriters: How Long Have You Been a Fan?Zyrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04860113813294303312noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-71560453804998741332014-03-19T11:00:40.054-05:002014-03-19T11:00:40.054-05:00Just found this site! Hi, everyone! I've been ...Just found this site! Hi, everyone! I've been a fan since 1977, when ANH came out, but alas, I come from this low-tech, super-uncool family, so we only saw it like once in the theater (as opposed to my now-husband, who saw it like 10 times with his older brother, bought the soundtrack and listened to it constantly, read all the novels that were then available, etc. I don't think I was even aware that the soundtrack album existed. :P) in a drive-in no less! <br /><br />However, my little sister and I did buy the bubble gum trading cards, plus all the action figures... and I remember she, my best friend and I went to see a double feature several years after ANH came out, it was ANH and another movie, can't remember, maybe Star Trek: the Movie? anyway, ANH played first and it was so wonderful we skipped the other movie and sat through ANH again instead. I would do that again in a heartbeat. :D<br /><br />I did have the novelizations of ANH and ESB, and read them many times, although by the time Jedi came out I was too busy with school to spend as much time with it (still loved the movie, though.)<br /><br />Of course my husband and I went to see all the prequels, which we consider reboots rather than headcanon, and just recently we rewatched the original 3 and I got obsessed all over again. Only this time, there's the Internet, and sites like this, so it's just so much easier to feed one's obsessions than back when I was a teenager first in love with Han Solo, and admiring Leia and Luke and the others. So glad to find this forum!weasellehttp://fishstix.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-8320898077018016732014-03-17T19:16:56.849-05:002014-03-17T19:16:56.849-05:00We own The Fugitive, it's one of Mr. Stats'...We own The Fugitive, it's one of Mr. Stats' and my personal favorite flicks. StatsGrandma's Office Hourshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06128031887455320394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-7991934127064756762014-03-16T16:19:25.404-05:002014-03-16T16:19:25.404-05:00Oh, and if I might expand the question a bit: my 4...Oh, and if I might expand the question a bit: my 4 year olds are both fans, too. And today a pretty amazing thing happened. I was out to lunch with the boy and the girl, and I was telling that I (and also real people on the Internet!) have noticed a marked similarity between Kristoff in Frozen and Han Solo. They both have beat up, fast vehicles that they're proud of, they each have a creature sidekick with who they have seemingly one-sided conversations. And the boy added that they both go to snowy places :-). ANYways, the girl suddenly pipes up and says, "something just flew into my head! I like Han Solo!" I seriously almost died. I cupped my hand and whispered "me too." The boy asked why and she said, "because he's so cute in Star Wars!" Well, she might be a bit precocious, but the girl has good taste :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062372303336920420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-58160586220629656562014-03-16T16:14:03.388-05:002014-03-16T16:14:03.388-05:00Sorry to be so late to this party! I've been a...Sorry to be so late to this party! I've been a fan since 1977, when I was three. I don't remember seeing either of the first 2 movies for the first time, but from the beginning it was a part of my world and consciousness. I had one of the original Kenner R2D2s, as well as a boss Darth Vader turtleneck. I'm guessing it was when I saw ESB that I turned into a rabid Han/Leia shipper.<br /><br />My fandom seems to blossom when my life is most difficult. Elementary school was several years of daily hell for me, and retreating into fantasy was a great escape. Just after I graduated from college I had a resurgence of fandom as I tried to figure out just what the hell to do with my life. That's when I read through most of the existing EU. And then most recently, the years since my kids have been born I've made another difficult adjustment. This has been the time when I've read the most fanfic, and of course begun to participate in the fan community and write. <br /><br />I'm so glad that I've finally gotten past all the embarrassment that I used to feel about being a fan. I went to an all-girls prep school, and it was so unacceptable to be into science fiction. Accepting my own loves has allowed me to write fiction for the first time in my life. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062372303336920420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-4277976781688247102014-03-16T03:50:26.469-05:002014-03-16T03:50:26.469-05:00Thanks for the heads up, Z! I've been wanting ...Thanks for the heads up, Z! I've been wanting to watch that again as well...for the exact scene Claire mentioned. Heh...<br />Elivagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08444154877873416316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-1504122643861755972014-03-16T03:42:11.861-05:002014-03-16T03:42:11.861-05:00I think it was the summer I graduated high school,...I think it was the summer I graduated high school, around 8 years ago, my friend had a two-day SW marathon. When we got around to the OT, I couldn't believe I had waited so long to see them. I LOVED them. The only movie I had really seen before was TPM when I was a kid. I do remember I had always wanted to see ESB because they would always show clips of it as an example of stop motion animation on the film specials I used to watch.<br /><br />A year or two later, I decided I wanted to see them again so I went out and bought them. Suddenly I found myself watching them non-stop. I mean, I'm pretty sure there was a period of time where I was watching one of the three almost everyday. Upon each viewing, I was more and more interested in Han and Leia, and I've never been into romance. So as I dug myself deeper and deeper into this hole, I inevitably succumbed to reading fanfiction. ;) <br /><br />Whilst sifting through different fanfic sites, I found NHP when it was just about dead. Then this place popped up, thankfully!Elivagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08444154877873416316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-62743971469366405432014-03-15T15:41:24.603-05:002014-03-15T15:41:24.603-05:00I can clearly remember going to watch ANH in the m...I can clearly remember going to watch ANH in the most famous cinema in Budapest when I was in the elementary school. I can not remember the year but it was in the late 70’s.<br />At taht time Hungary was part of the Soviet controlled block of Europe and it was really a big thing to have this film in the theaters.<br />Can you imagine we bought cinema tickets on the black market to watch Star Wars?<br /><br />I was in the secondary school when I started to realise that I may have too much interest in SW in general. I thought I would grow out of it in time.<br />Years later I still considered myself an extreme SW fan until I went to the first and last Sci-Fi Fan event of my life and met with people in costumes.<br />(I was really relived that my state of enthusiasm was far from pernicious.<br /><br />I have to tell you that the very reason I started to learn English was that I really wanted to watch and understand the OT in English. Second reason was to be able to read Carrie Fisher’s books.<br /><br />Approximately ten years ago I found the first fan fiction accidentally on the internet. It was a really sad story about Leia dying in an incurable disease. It was shocking! My life changed. I started to explore the world of fan fiction and on the way I realised that I rarely read other stories beside Han and Leia centred ones.<br /><br />My list of “crimes”: books (in Hungarian and later in English), DVDs, albums and lots and lots of downloaded fanfictions. <br /><br />Now at the age of 44 I am a definite Leia and SW fan not a die hard one but I am stuck with loving SW and Leia for the rest of my life I am sure of it.<br />zsuzsahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328191441621414403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-39701795268533108022014-03-15T13:48:12.219-05:002014-03-15T13:48:12.219-05:00Ahh, gotta love Working Girl. I immediately think ...Ahh, gotta love Working Girl. I immediately think of that scene when he's changing his shirt whilst talking to Melanie Griffith on the phone, and all the women in the office are watching him. Sigh. claire1976https://www.blogger.com/profile/04285049568087268653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-90768002542624128292014-03-15T13:20:51.323-05:002014-03-15T13:20:51.323-05:00Lucky you... I don't have these channels with ...Lucky you... I don't have these channels with my TV provider but Blade Runner is on tonight on the Encore movie network. I'll have to trade Jack Trainer for Rick Decard! ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14109753853015666736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-19093501766143722272014-03-15T13:08:37.355-05:002014-03-15T13:08:37.355-05:00I didn't realize until much more recently that...I didn't realize until much more recently that people posted stories on the JC forums. I mostly only looked under the literature section there. I tried once or twice but it is near impossible to navigate it and actually find stories, and if you're coming in late then it's annoying to have to find the story while sifting through the comments between chapters. I'm sure it was fun WHILE you were posting it, but to try and read old stories it's just not worth the effort. <br /><br />Ugh, html code? That sounds awful! No wonder I never posted there. It's so easy to do it there now!Zyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860113813294303312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-73368015116748494192014-03-15T13:06:19.937-05:002014-03-15T13:06:19.937-05:00You're welcome ;) It's going to be on tom...You're welcome ;) It's going to be on tomorrow night on the Sundance channel too. And come on, it's just one of those movies that has to be on TV every once in a while. It felt like we were due.Zyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860113813294303312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-33865199495438408822014-03-15T12:59:39.537-05:002014-03-15T12:59:39.537-05:00Oh my god, I'm gonna be out, but I'm total...Oh my god, I'm gonna be out, but I'm totally going to DVR it. Ha ha! I can't believe it's gonna be on! It's like you willed it through The Force. ;)Stoned Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-4087908924274234012014-03-15T12:54:41.487-05:002014-03-15T12:54:41.487-05:00Yeah, I totally get it about fanficiton.net. It se...Yeah, I totally get it about fanficiton.net. It seemed like you had to dig through a lot of…er mediocre stuff to find the gems in there. I usually went through other sites as well. I only ended posting my story there at all because my original JC thread had turned into more of a social thread for my readers, and it was getting harder and harder to follow the story in there (not that I'm complaining. I kinda loved it)<br /><br />And yeah, I don't think you could sort through stories by character or anything back then. I mean you could look under the category "Star Wars", but then you had to wade through piles of Ani/Padme fics to find the Han/Leia stuff. I also remember posting your own stories back then was a bit of a pain (probably why I was so bad about updating there--no matter how far along I was on the JC). You had to manually put everything in html format yourself and it was kind of a chore. Sooo much easier now!Stoned Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-70212446483823008762014-03-15T12:47:17.739-05:002014-03-15T12:47:17.739-05:00Oh, yes. Ask and you shall receive: 5:30pm easter...Oh, yes. Ask and you shall receive: 5:30pm eastern time on the Reelz channel. Thank you, cable.Zyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860113813294303312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-35557108263616847832014-03-15T12:33:42.995-05:002014-03-15T12:33:42.995-05:00Oh my god, YES! I haven't seen that movie in F...Oh my god, YES! I haven't seen that movie in FOREVER. I have the VHS copy, but…you know. Man, that's a good one. I'd definitely be up for watching that. :)Stoned Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-82220207038830814392014-03-15T12:21:45.485-05:002014-03-15T12:21:45.485-05:00Of course at the time you didn't think you wer...Of course at the time you didn't think you were young. And I used to write all the time, too. When I was in third grade a friend and I spent weeks and weeks at recess writing and illustrating a book we later read for the class, just because. Wrote lots of other stories on my own, too. Wrote and made movies later. <br /><br />Oh, and FANFIX! That was probably the first site I found and I went through and found and read every Han and Leia story. You can still access most of the content on there through the wayback machine. I also read on some now defunct Han and Leia sites. I actually don't think I looked at stories on ff.net until 5-6 years ago. Not sure why. Everywhere else seemed to have some version of quality control. It's also possible that back then you couldn't search by category and character, but I'm not sure. Zyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860113813294303312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-86098576152189114072014-03-15T12:11:54.975-05:002014-03-15T12:11:54.975-05:00The Fugitive is on?!?! You know what I wish was o...The Fugitive is on?!?! You know what I wish was on TV right now? Working Girl. It's been a while. Good call about the commercials though. I think that's part of it, like if I put in the DVD then I have to be seriously committed and I can't step away from the TV for anything. But if it's just on some channel and there are commercials then I can go do things and come back to it and it's no big deal. Zyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860113813294303312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-77755312775481014132014-03-15T11:58:17.361-05:002014-03-15T11:58:17.361-05:00Oh my god, I *was* so young! I mean, I didn't ...Oh my god, I *was* so young! I mean, I didn't think so at the time, but now looking back? Ha! It's funny. And for what it's worth, I had been writing little stories on and off since I was very small. So it wasn't my first story story or anything. But yeah, it was indeed my first fanfic. :)Stoned Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-68750121151109437072014-03-15T11:52:00.836-05:002014-03-15T11:52:00.836-05:00I'm currently committing a similar offense by ...I'm currently committing a similar offense by watching "The Fugitive" on Oxygen. Yes, I own that movie too. There's no reason to put myself through this…but truthfully those commercial breaks are a convenient time to get stuff done. Like next break? I"m running out for coffee. :)Stoned Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-9655892960435388902014-03-15T11:09:18.431-05:002014-03-15T11:09:18.431-05:00I remember reading "shifting impressions"...I remember reading "shifting impressions" by Push on FF.net (which is one of my favorite fic by the way) and then saw her link to this blog. That's what got me here in the first place and I started reading the joint story: the sequel, which I waited for updates with great enthusiasm, I was hooked! ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14109753853015666736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-9180986708724710412014-03-15T09:32:16.699-05:002014-03-15T09:32:16.699-05:00I don't remember how or when I saw A New Hope,...I don't remember how or when I saw A New Hope, but I'm assuming I did because I remember vividly going to the theaters to see Empire Strikes Back and I had seen ANH by then. I was 6 when ANH came out and about 9 at that memory of ESB in the theater. The only part of the movie that I 'vividly' recall is being so worried/devastated that Han Solo was perhaps dead. Even though back then I was not even into a 'shipper' preference or anything. I just was worried about Han! I played with my brother and his two friends. I would be Princess Leia, my brother was Han, his older friend was Darth Vader and his younger brother was Luke. We would reenact scenes from the movie. My brother and I had tons of SW action figures. A C-3PO head that opened up and carried all the figurines. We had a Millennium Falcon. I do remember one of my favorite figures to play with were a couple of Jawa's. They had cool orange eyes. And a hammerhead guy that we thought was cool. I remember loving the Ewoks in ROTJ. But after that age, I left Star Wars behind. I do remember a set of SW glasses from McDonalds...<br /><br />And then, as my ff.net profile states, I watched the movies again with my children and it wasn't until that screening that a lightbulb went off while watching ESB that said, "Holy Shit! This is a romance! And an awesome one at that!" I can still remember the first time I googled Princess Leia for something and found Wikipedia and learned her last name and read that she and Han got married and I just couldn't get enough of it. I was around 38 at the time.<br /><br />My first fanfic (I had never heard of such a thing) that I found/read was Sue Zahn's "Into the Fire" and it was just some random webpage or something and I couldn't find any other stories so I emailed her and she sent me to her website and it was like I had discovered Atlantis. I started reading everything there and then once I figured out it was all called "fanfic" it was all over. I wonder how many hours I devoted to reading fanfic back then. It's amazing I'm still married and employed. ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-84879194330767841252014-03-15T08:47:05.383-05:002014-03-15T08:47:05.383-05:00Not too long. Mine was very long! I like hearing...Not too long. Mine was very long! I like hearing people's histories. I'm so glad we were able to guilt you back into writing. I'm not above doing it again ;) Honestly, it's kind of amazing that you started writing that so young and it was your first story. My first stories were terrible. Zyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860113813294303312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-33883553220902280232014-03-15T08:42:40.428-05:002014-03-15T08:42:40.428-05:00Seriously, EVERY time it's on TV I will watch ...Seriously, EVERY time it's on TV I will watch it. I honestly probably only put my own copies in to watch like 2-3 times a year because once a month they show them on TV. Maybe it's knowing that since it's on TV, everyone else is watching, too. It is absolutely silly. Although I find it true of most movies. I get all excited that something is on TV even though I could watch it anytime I wanted. Just a few weeks ago the first 3 Indiana Jones movies were on TV on a day I was sick and I watched all of them, commercials and all, even though I could've seen it all in probably 90 minutes less without all of the commercials. Zyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860113813294303312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-17566414388596944302014-03-15T08:39:36.644-05:002014-03-15T08:39:36.644-05:00I remember now... I was reading Push's profile...I remember now... I was reading Push's profile on FF.net and that's how I found out about this place. And I forgot to mention the Millennium Falcon model I put together from a kit sometime in my teens that I still have. Such a geek.TooOldForThishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06669513923795537051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591963962547240042.post-7244360448468619162014-03-15T08:36:25.808-05:002014-03-15T08:36:25.808-05:00I find it funny that those of us who own the DVDs/...I find it funny that those of us who own the DVDs/BlueRays, etc will STILL watch the movies when they come on Spike, TNT, etc. We'll watch it on TV with all the commercials and it takes like 4 hours. What we should do is pop the DVD in when we run across it on TV and fast forward to the point where it is on TV, but we don't. I'm as guilty as the next guy. Just strikes me as something silly we humans do.TooOldForThishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06669513923795537051noreply@blogger.com