Such a sad, ridiculous fangirl

[gwyn]

This is what a lame, pathetic fangirl I am. On the back of a lot of "kids'" cereals there are games and quizzes and ads for whatever new toy or movie they're promoting. (A history: when I was a kid, my mom wouldn't let us have sugary cereals until we were much older -- well, except for the brief halcyon time we got to have the new Quisp and Quake cereals, where of course my sister went for the musclebound, blond Quake and I went for the little spaceman Quisp -- and so as soon as I moved out on my own, sugary cereals became a staple of my cupboard. I am not unlike Jerry Seinfeld in that I have about five varieties of both good and bad for you cereals all the time, and I eat cereal for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or a snack, because cereal is the best food ever.)

I was folding up the empty box of my corn pops (still think of them as sugar pops), and there was a movie trivia quiz on the back with very teen-oriented questions. The second one was "What was Brian O'Conner's occupation in The Fast and the Furious?" -- notice that e in O'Conner! (The choices they offered were a) a mechanic b) a cop c) a businessman -- can you imagine Brian as a businessman? It is to laugh.) Naturally I got all giddy about the fact that F&F was a question on a cereal box. Yup, that lame. A bunch of the other questions are about LotR, so that also made me all fangirly. And X-Men. And Ocean's 11. And PotC, even though I'm not a fan of that movie, because, you know, my friends are. And then another F&F question pops up, though from the sequel, about what kind of car Suki drives. And I giggle because, hey, I know the answer!

Then I put the box back in the recycling and tried not to feel so ashamed.

Don't leave me this way. Tell me your most pathetic fangirly (or fanboyly) moment.

Comments

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

I am currently inventing a twenty-fourth century dance craze, complete with working out the steps to it, for a Doctor Who fic.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to know at least one other person is a little embarrassed about something they're doing privately in their own home. Most seem to be about being around an actor or in public. To me there's nothing worse than standing in your own kitchen, squeeing over a box of cereal. ;-)

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

You've heard about The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/)? The fake comedy newspaper? Well it started out in my town so it's not uncommon that you will see the weekly issue lying around on a waiting room table, on someone's desk at work, etc.

One day I was in my manager's office and saw a newspaper on her desk, publication banner side down, so I couldn't see what paper it was. The story facing up was something like "Man collects all four 1984 Empire Strikes Back Burger King glasses." Before I even knew what I was doing, I snatched up the paper and with great excitement thought, "Hey! I have all four too!" I was two paragraphs into the story before I figured out something was wrong.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I like it! (I would so do that, too -- I can be awfully gullible at times.)

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

I can't remember all my embarrassment moments, but I have new ones all the time. The latest was yelling "OMG Callum Keith Rennie!" when watching the opening credits to Memento with my friend Lara. I don't even like CKR. It...just...due South reference!

*sigh*

At least another friend, Sarah, told me that she wants to watch dS with me because seeing me play the DVDs on computers at school made her interested. Yay for pimpage!

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

First, you are very cute. *g* Second, my most embarrassing fangirly moment... has to be when I was at the Las Vegas Star Trek Experience thingy and I found the Captain Kirk tunic in the gift store and carried it around with me as I looked at every item in the store, even though I knew there was no way I'd ever actually buy it. It just made me happy to carry it around.

Yes, I am that sad.

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

I think that may be the funniest icon I have EVER seen...

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

Isn't it great? pureglasscup made it, along with a whole bunch of others, including this one. *g*

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I thought that the one I saw the other day, with Spock looking surprised and something like "Holy shit!" on it, was the best one I'd seen, but these are just too fantastic for words. Are they by the same person who did that one, I wonder? Doesn't matter, they're fantastic. I might just see if i can scare me up one! First love...

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

I think they're all by the same person. I found them here:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/startrek_tos/26199.html

:-)

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Don't leave me this way. Tell me your most pathetic fangirly (or fanboyly) moment.

Hee. Visiting the hotel where they filmed the Hyperion for Angel? Going to a bar with Mexican wrestler paintings because of "Numero Cinco"? Making pukajen take us by the old BtVS set every time we drove by?

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Squeeing over film sites doesn't count! YOu know why? Because it's the best fannish activity ever. So it's off the list of Stuff We Have to Be Embarrassed About.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Because it's the best fannish activity ever.

Ah. Okay.

::makes note in her Fancyclopedia::

& :-P

[destina.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have so many pathetic fangirly moments! For instance, I bought numerous Scholastic Star Wars books written for the pre-teen set, just for the young Obi-Wan cover art...and I was, uh, 31 at the time. Yeah, it was fun explaining that habit to non-fannish friends who looked at the bookshelves. And then I took the books out and made them look at the art. :D

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Cereal box... scholastic books... yeah, we're adults. I can see that. ::nods sagely::

[deejay.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I just don't freak out over dealings with celebrities; "liaison 'em & keep 'em happy," has always been my motto. But there was this ONE time, when I completely and totally lost it. I mean, I seriously Lost It. In public, no less. Worse, it was in front of another celeb. Woe was me....

I was at the Actor's Club in London's West End, meeting up for dinner with Mark (Nasir, from 'Robin of Sherwood') Ryan to talk to him about attending Anglicon as a guest. Had a nice meal, great conversation, and respectable (silent) admiration of such passers-by actor notables as Anthony Hopkins and Christopher Reeve. I took notice of each, but did not Lose It.

Mark and I finished up and headed for the exit. As I reached for the door, it swung open and continued to politely be held open for us by - the entering Sir Alec Guinness (who was appearing in a play that had just let out next door). I froze in mid-step and my jaw headed southward. Mark ran into me from behind and stopped, with an audible, "Wha - ?"

Sir Alec, a discernable patient air about him, continued to hold open the door.

Here was the entire ensuing dialogue:

Me (stumbling forward, being escorted through the door by Mark Ryan, as my legs had apparently gone numb): "Oh. Mister Obi Wan. Sir. Oh, thank you. Sir. Yeah."

Him (smiling and nodding his head as if dribbling idiots ordinarily addressed him in such a manner): "Have a pleasant evening!"

Mark responded with a bemused, "Thanks." I could not utter another sound (thank God).

And, I swear, I overheard a low chuckle emanating from Sir Alec as he entered the Actor's Club, having finally let go of the door.

My mouth was completely dry, and my face was becoming hot and flushed, as poor Mark had to literally propel me by the shoulders down the sidewalk. We barely made it to the taxi-stand at the end of the block before we both Lost It in hysterical (me quite embarrassed, though) laughter.

Years later, during one of the last conversations I had with Mark, he still teased me with "run into MISTER Obi Wan lately?!"....

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're so gonna get a teasin' when I see you next!

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

Oh god. Where to start.

Um ... driving to every single comic store in Las Vegas to find back issues?

Or goggling at Val Pelka at Reunion check in and instead of saying hello, blurting "Holy shit! It's you!" ?

Squeeing and I mean squeeing with joy when I found out that a customer of Ralph's has the ultra rare Kyuss-Queens Of the Stone Age CD and would burn me a copy?

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

Or goggling at Val Pelka at Reunion check in and instead of saying hello, blurting "Holy shit! It's you!"

HEE. I never heard this story. Okay, that is cracking me up.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Bwah! I would have loved to see you do that. (The blurting, I mean.)

[klia.livejournal.com]

My most pathetic (lately *g*) happened while I was watching the first online Serenity trailer, and heard Kasabian. I must've looked like something out of Monty Python, flapping my arm and shrieking like a banshee.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I get that way about music most often, too. I have no idea why. Even hearing Muzak renditions of someone I love in a store can make me do that -- I once freaked out in a grocery store when I heard a Muzak version of Finn Bros.

[klia.livejournal.com]

I always go a little mental when I hear music I love -- even Muzak, so you're not alone on that -- especially musicians/bands that aren't mega-popular, like The Church showing up in Donnie Darko, or Neil Finn on Felicity.

Did I ever tell you about the time I was at the top of Sydney Tower in '88 and heard a Muzak version of U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For? And that was barely a year since The Joshua Tree came out!

[black-bird-777.livejournal.com]

All I can say is that this is adorable. I would have squealed, and I probably would have kept the box instead of recycling it. :-)

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Ummm... well, yeah... no, I never really thought about that. Huh-uh.

[sweet-ali.livejournal.com]

I'll give you two:

1)During a passover seder, we were reading from the haggadah and they kept using the word redemption. I started giggling at one point and someone asked me why and I explaines that every time that word came along, i thought of the Pharoah going to get his soul like Spike. ANd then imagined Spike in the haggadah and Buffy and...They kinda stared at me and i figured i'd just drank too much wine.

2)I was in a doc' waiting room, waiting obviously, and the tv was playing the repeat of "Chosen". It was the end with the "i love you" exchance and i started crying. Not loud, but there were tears. Apparently, so engrossed in my watching, i didn't hear the nurse calling my name nad she had to physically come over to me and tap my shoulder. I tried to hide the tears and brushed it off that i'd just been tired.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

You were just emotional about seeing the doc. Really!

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

Um -- the first that comes to mind (though I'm not saying it's the fangirliest) is asking someone who had had a small guest role on EZ Streets whether Ken Olin was as sexy in person as on TV.

(The humiliation factor was reduced by the fact that he answered fervently, "Oh yes. Sex god.")

[smithereen.livejournal.com]

I live to be embarrassingly fangirly. :P Buying Bop for the Buffy cast pictures always shamed me intensely. I'd hide it at the bottom of my pile like it was porn.

Or there is the shame of knowing that I once sent David Boreanaz a fan letter. On stationary I made myself, that said Buffy & Angel. *facepalm* The idea that it could possibly still exist somewhere in the world as a testiment to my lameness still fills me with dread.

Or oh, this is the worst one. There was one time I went to a James Marsters signing and gave him a charcoal I drew of himself and his girlfriend of a couple years, whose name I can't remember now but she was an actress, and I think she was in an IMAX movie about dinosaurs. (I don't KNOW why I thought I should do that. I just thought why would he want a picture of himself, you know? But why I needed to give him a picture at all I cannot tell you.) That would have been lame enough. But it turned out he had JUST broken up with the girl. Heh. He kind of looked at it for a second, and I was all...it's your girlfriend. And he said something like "oh... we broke up." My friends immediately all CRACKED UP (the jerks!) because we had actually joked about that the day before. But I just stood there frozen in total horror. And he was all trying to be nice and saying...but it's a great likeness. It must have taken so long to do, whatever, whatever. And I was like...please tear it up, burn it if you want, just let me DIE! (only I didn't say the let me die part outloud). And then I almost burst into tears. And he felt bad and hugged me, and I've seen him at cons and stuff since then and he has no memory of me thank god, and I've never been a Spike/James fangirl (I was just a Buffy fangirl and he was part of that), so it doesn't haunt me like it could have if it was someone I really loved. It's just a good omg! i am stooopid! story to tell now. But that moment there standing in front of him was HORRIFYING.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Oh, your friends are so cruel! Not that mine would have acted any differently. But I can just imagine that -- and I would never have lived down the shame. The way I am, I carry stuff with me forever, and stupid stuff I did in third grade can still make my face turn red and make me shrivel with shame.

[klia.livejournal.com]

Not that mine would have acted any differently.

Your friends get so fangirly they can barely talk to celebs, if they can at all. *g*