I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled

[flemmings]

I see memes going around- the Fandom Sins meme, the shipping meme, and I... um, am at a loss. 'My concept of shipping'? 'Cosplay and mimicking characters?'

Have you ever
Stalked some one online/at a con/at school, because of who they cosplayed/RP/remind you of?
Claimed a character as your muse/soulbond/head mate?
Claimed you ARE a given character?

To paraphrase the Brit sitcom that ran before, well, most of you guys were born, "they didn't do things like that when we were alive."

Trundles off with her walker and her fleecy booties...

...still muttering 'Concept of *shipping*???'

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[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

Nothing substantive to add, except: huh, I can *read* that French in the second link/journal. ^_^ Not as rusty as I thought.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Gives the ego a boost, I always find. And then I try to read a magazine article in French and it's all oh forgeddid...

[doire]

It's so galling that the 5 years of French at school, which I disliked and failed, have stuck so much better than the German from living there in my 30s and the Japanese in my 50s.

That said no matter which language I need to speak in the brain goes "Oh, forign" and produces the wrong one.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh I hear you. Disliked French and dropped it as soon as I could. But of course I picked it up again in *my* 30s, and I see it (or a gross caricature of it- am not good enough to tell) on the other side of any label I happen to look at every day.

*And* about the other thing. 'There can only be one!' second language in my brain and it's the one I've heard most recently. I have a sad story about going to the French Consulate here while on vacation from my Tokyo job and thinking I could still speak French ha-ha.