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tenlittlebullets) wrote2005-11-07 10:41 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2005-11-07 10:41 pm
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*claps hands* It's time to play "Amusing Fandom Misconceptions!" You know, those ideas that get formed in your head by listening to fan banter before you are actually exposed to the source material in its entirety. Like thinking the Death Star is actually a star before you watch A New Hope, or having some bizarre mental connection between Aslan and Gryffindor, or overhearing all the shit that gets flung at Raoul de Chagny and getting the impression that he's a total asshole. Or things even more illogical than that.
I will start, of course, with Les Mis. Fantine, to be specific. Before I watched the TAC and read the book I honestly had no idea that she was young, beautiful, forced into prostitution (omg spoilerz!!1), a paragon of stained purity, etc. In fact, I knew nothing except her name, and by some unfortunate and insane crossing of neurons, got her mixed up with a character in another excessively verbose 19th century novel about a French revolution. I refuse out of sheer humiliation to name names, but I will admit that I flinched when I heard someone nattering about a fic where Fantine knits baby Cosette a scarf.
Amusing Fandom Misconceptions! Reply with your own today and win a free toaster*!
*But only if you one-up the embarrassment of mine. And give me your first-born child, of course.
I will start, of course, with Les Mis. Fantine, to be specific. Before I watched the TAC and read the book I honestly had no idea that she was young, beautiful, forced into prostitution (omg spoilerz!!1), a paragon of stained purity, etc. In fact, I knew nothing except her name, and by some unfortunate and insane crossing of neurons, got her mixed up with a character in another excessively verbose 19th century novel about a French revolution. I refuse out of sheer humiliation to name names, but I will admit that I flinched when I heard someone nattering about a fic where Fantine knits baby Cosette a scarf.
Amusing Fandom Misconceptions! Reply with your own today and win a free toaster*!
*But only if you one-up the embarrassment of mine. And give me your first-born child, of course.
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......I'll give you my firstborn anyway.
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This is what HAPPENS when poor, innocent little Phantom of the Opera fans get cross-exposure to a fandom they're not in any way familiar with.
... I originally thought it was set in 1789, too, but that's not as funny.
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......I can't think of any fandom mishaps, I found the fandom after I found the canon... I'm sorry, obviously I fail at weird. ;_____; Oh oh oh! I thought Firmin and Moncharmin (Richard and Moncharmin, rather) were gay --
......wait.
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- I was a sheltered child, so I went into the Star Wars original trilogy completely unspoiled. Darth being Luke's dad blew my little mind.
- I thought Kill Bill was a comedy until I saw the extended version of the trailer.
- What do you mean 'Hermione' isn't pronounced 'Harmonie"? And since when does Hogwarts only go seven years as opposed to ten? Why can't Hufflepuff's house mascot be a dragon, dammit? D: (Eleven-year-olds are really bad at close reading, just in general.)
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... you know, I really should kill them.
I've forgotten how I originally pronounced "Hermione," but it bore no resemblance to the actual pronunciation. XD For the longest time before I read the books, I thought Harry died in Chamber of Secrets. Which was as far as the series went in the days before I read the books.
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When I first read Harry Potter, I thought that Prof. McGonogall was, like 25. Wow.
And... that's all I can think of now.
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And, your icon- AAAHHHAHAHA *cough*
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*dead*
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Although it did take me two or three read-throughs of Sorecerer's Stone before I picked up that yes, some of this is supposed to be funny.