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"I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

– Neil Gaiman, American Gods

fandom

So here’s where I talk about my unhealthy obsessions with various fandoms, which will pretty much fills up this tumblog.

Warning: this page is dully boring and only sums up my history and feelings and OTPs and favorite characters of each fandom. 

› Harry Potter:

I wasn’t always so interested in reading novels and the such, but my mum noticed that I like to devour short stories in magazines and that I finished the questions that involved passages more quickly. So when I was in the sixth grade, she went to the bookstore and asked for the latest Harry Potter book (since I so enjoyed the movies), and that was when I acquired Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I remember scrambling under my pillow to get my copy of HBP after mum kissed me good night, and I used the light from my cellphone to read. I was hooked.

Then the seventh book got released, and I begged my mum to buy me that. I finished it in the span of three days, partly because I was afraid of losing the magic, partly because I was just savoring the moment. The next year, I requested the remaining five books of HP that I didn’t have –– from Philosopher’s Stone to Order of the Phoenix –– and I was properly pulled into the HP fandom. 

I love the characters. I love the settings. I love the magical rules and games and the big storyline as well as the subplots. My favorite characters were of course, Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom and Nymphadora Tonks. In my eyes they were just like me: a little awkward and sometimes not regarded seriously. But they showed the whole magical community of how amazing and inspiring they are, and they did that to me, too.

The only non-canon ship I have in HP is just Neville and Luna, and when handled correctly, Dean and Seamus. I’m fine with the canon pairings, especially Ron and Hermione. 

› Disney:

I grew up with Disney movies. Hell, I think most everybody grew up with Disney movies. These films taught me first and foremost about values and kindness and bravery that we have to show to be good people. It’s pretty straightforward, really: I love Disney movies because they inspire me to be good, to do good, to love unconditionally and have adventures. 

But as I get older, I realized that it is so much more than making children laugh and understand moral values. Each and every Disney movie was done with so much effort to it, so much considerations, so much determination. From the story itself to the art to the music … everything just fits so perfectly, and each movie is the product from different minds and it’s brilliant how they can have such commitment to produce a masterpiece. Drawing frame by frame, the story boards and the failed songs and the successful ones – all that requires so much hard work.

Anyway. My all time favorite Disney movie is Beauty and the Beast, and my favorite princess is Belle, naturally. Belle is seriously my first role model. I mean, she loves books! She’s considered odd by the village because she’d rather read than anything else! That’s exactly how I feel when I was in middle school, and she gives me hope somehow, that it’s okay to be like that. It’s fine to want adventure in the great wide somewhere instead of just wanting that Nick Jonas’ signed poster. 

(Fun fact: I have a little collection of Belle merchandises ranging from keychains to ballpoints to dolls that I started from 2010)

Avatar: (coming soon)

DC Comics: (coming soon)

Supernatural: (coming soon)

Books in general: (this includes The Hunger Games, Artemis Fowl, Bartimaeus Trilogy, and stuff by Neil Gaiman) (coming soon)