Still in Bed, Fandoms, and Simon
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
My lord I don't have all that much interesting to blog about. I'm seriously not joking about how little has been happening.
But last week, I did go out with Simon, and it was really cool. We had to walk into Sutton, so I went to his house which took about twenty minutes, and then we walked the rest of the way to town while he was telling me about his Australian accent and giving me examples. We had chip cobs at the café, and I filled him in on what had been happening, like the gig, and I said I'd lend him the DVD. We went around a few shops, and I bought a Fallout 3 expansion (one more to get, though I still have to do Operation: Anchorage) and then we went to Sutton lawn, which was so much fun. Then again, I pretty much always have fun when I'm with him.
The other thing I was going to talk about is fandoms. I've honestly never been that keen on Harry Potter (which makes people look at me with hate sometimes, I swear) and lately there's been a lot of people talking about it being the end of an era with the last film coming out and all. Personally though, I have a couple of completely different fandoms that I'm not too involved in, but I still love them all the same: anime and video games.
I've been gaming for 15 years now, and I started getting into anime about 7 years ago now, I think. However uninvolved I may be with these two, they have lead me to meet some fantastic people who I can happily call my friends. Don't get me wrong, I have a few friends who just aren't that into it, and I love them all the same.
Gaming has been a huge part of my life, from the early days of Mario Kart 64 and Street Fighter
Alpha 2, to now, where I'm about half way through Fallout: New Vegas. And Anime has changed my life, and helped me find new friends at University, and it gave me a new found confidence with chairing WAC for 9 months. I've had a lot of amazing times because of the things I'm into, like drinking and smoking with Wendy Powell and Brad Swaile. And I've never taken them for granted.
I think with all this talk of the Harry Potter story ending for a second time, and a lot of hardcore fans being terrified of this change makes me realise that I am extremely fortunate to love this fandom so much; it won't end, at least not for a very long time. And even if anime stopped being produced, and gaming went under, there are so many old series and games that I could fall back on. I find myself to be very lucky knowing this.
So, now that's out there, I'm thinking about perhaps starting a new blog where I can talk about all things game and anime, maybe with a couple of friends who might be interested in writing about the same things. Who knows? I have a lot of possibilities right now.
Lastly, going back to the illness thing that's been plaguing these posts for a good couple of weeks now. I have a gaming injury. I'd been sitting playing Fallout for so long that when the game crashed and I went to restart it, I had an incredibly bad stabbing pain that went down my back, and it was killing me to breathe because it hurt so much. Turns out because I'd been sitting for so long, I'd knotted my muscles in my back, so I'm officially not gaming for a few more days. I'm on day 4 of bed confinement. It's just so special.
That's all I have, but Becca and Allan are here with his parents, and seeing as I've just spent an hour on the phone trying to sort out banks and job seekers, I'm going to go and say hello before I start panicking about impending meetings.
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