Sir Prancelot posted:

Would this place be at all appropriate for sharing tales of my college anime club and how it went irreparably insane over the course of a single semester? It went from being a very laid back club for generic nerd interests to a coven of crazed 18 year old girls who believed they were a wolf pack in less than two months. It's got stalkers and monsters and all kinds of madness.

Redeadagain posted:

The whole multiple worlds thing sounds somewhat like that one soulbonder person...darkladycelebrian or something?

Mors Rattus posted:

Question. What, in this many-worlds schema, makes our world so special that it is our fiction and our belief that creates all other worlds, rather than one of the other worlds creating ours, or mutual creation or whatever?

Clockroach posted:

I'm the same age as the OP, and this is what led my high-school boyfriend to start believing that Digimon were real. It didn't help that his mom was very strongly Wiccan, and liked to reinforce everything that would rationalize something like this being possible. It wasn't a romantic thing (well, I hope not) It was still a "I am their hero" bit.

More recently, I got to go to an academic lecture about fandom. The conference was about Communication Studies, and the lecturer had spent gotten his PhD (I think) studying how music fans have acted throughout the years, starting way back in the gay nineties with opera singers. At first the music itself was causing wild reactions, and diaries of the "fanatics" ended up talking more about the singers personal lives ("I bet we'd be friends!") rather than ability. The literature academics in the audience said the same happened with several classic authours, and then, yes, people started admitting to liking the characters more.

Walking out of the lecture, my now boyfriend tells me it rang some bells because he's taking a class about Christian mysticism- basically, people who have done this with saintly or biblical figures. Saint Teresa of Ávila comes to mind.

It's all over, it's everywhere, and it seems like a good psychologist could spend some time on it.

Hammer Backspace posted:

Not in my case! In my case the weird friend was made by my brothers. Believed she was a vampire despite being 300 pounds easy, reacted violently to... basically everything. Thank God that any time I asked her about what Frankenstein's Monster was up to these days or about the ongoing vampire war with the werewolves, she thought I was being serious.

But then my cool normal friends spent an inordinate amount of time talking behind each others back and forming petty grudges over nothing and doing stupid poo poo they regretted later and basically being massive loving headaches, while my brothers' weird friends have also included an aspiring stage magician, various martial arts geniuses and a six foot six actor/breakdancer. So I guess I'm the idiot here.

Proletariat Beowulf posted:

You just justified my liberal arts education, then.

And yeah, noodles, keep this fun-tastic train a-comin'. Much appreciated.

For those who feel such regret for these people, just remember that you can't help someone who doesn't need it. I quit trying to solve all the world's problems one person at a time a long while back, and I'm better for it.

WebDog posted:

It's clear that Denise's fantasies are her projections of what she wishes her life was, easily fulfilled and exciting with direct and logical meaning as she views everyone else life as being so.

Stew Man Chew posted:

You think there's a logical reason for animu-things?

After a while it's tautological. Anime is anime.

Pancakes McGee posted:

Hetalia? That's bad enough, but god help us all if she gets into Homestuck. That poo poo is crazy.

Spitball Trough posted:

This this this a thousand times this. I really shudder to think what would have become of me if I had had regular internet access as an adolescent. The thing about crime, drugs and rock and roll is that you sink too far into your idiot fantasy world, there's always a skinhead or a cop or something to bop you on the head and bring you back to reality.

la_fausse_tortue posted:

Fairly weeaboo. She was tagged in a picture of Vocaloid or wtf it is with the long blue hair.

Konstantin posted:

I don't think female Touhou fans exist. While many Touhou fans are crazy, there is a difference between crazy male fans and crazy female fans, and most of the time a particular property attracts one or the other. I don't think Denise would be a fan of Touhou considering it has an all female cast, so she can't have a spirit husband or whatever, plus the games are rather difficult.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

I sometimes wonder how the gently caress someone who knows how to put a condom on didn't for actual intercourse, but did for blowjobs.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

Did I also mention they were Mormon?

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

Aight buddy, have fun with that.


Yeah, this guy was really, really devoted. I imagine you'd have to be to want to go onto First Nations reserves and basically tell them to give up their heritage/culture to go hang out with the crazies that believe you're a savage needing salvation. From what little I knew, he was actually sleeping in someone's spare room and working for the church as extra, so that's probably what the extra year was for. I do know that he went and saved up over 15k just to do that trip, and that was after his parents paid for all his expenses. That money was just for him to use on whatever he felt he needed.

They also did those sorts of things for his sister (my ex friend) and that's probably why she turned out the way she did. She had 4 brand new phones her dad bought her when I last talked to her, but refused to use all of them because they weren't the new iphone. On top of that, he would buy her a new gaming laptop every year (talking about 2k at the least), thousands of dollars of clothes, and take out almost once a day. Her family was really nice to me, but you could tell that they didn't want to deal with any of her serious "I'm an animes" problems and just threw money at her.

uglynoodles posted:

When we got back Denise was making some bead thing. There were beads everywhere. Everywhere. I'd be finding beads in that room for weeks afterward. On the floor, in the corner, under the closet door, in my loving underwear.

Corbid Muriosity posted:

But it has been said that she hides it from most everyone, like her dad, but shows out for people like Noodles and Kat who seem to tolerate it for the most part. Wouldn't a crazy person not give a gently caress and just let everyone know about her magic sky castles and stuff because they actually believe it's real? I don't know, I'm just asking.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

I combed through my private journal for my final moments on Anthro Asia, since I was not thrown out immediately after the skype interrogation. It was apparently a thread on photos of real life furries and I posted this.



http://www.scottybunny.com/

(A more recent pic:
)

THEN they banned me. I don't understand, do furries hate the fabulous???

Morzox posted:

Speaking of old mainstream stuff, I'm sure of at least one piece you could expose her to to hilarious results.

Defiance Industries posted:

Once they are scientifically proven to work, they are usually adopted into conventional medicine. You know, like how aspirin is prescribed by regular doctors even though its working ingredient is extracted from willow bark?

So basically, saying "alternative medicine" is like being a "cryptozoologist."

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Ograbme posted:

Noodles, I am amazed that you can go through sexual assault, an insane sociopath for a friend, and homelessness and still come out as a decent human being.


How do these people respond when they're called out on their bullshit? Do they ever have an excuse better than "No I can't show you the flying swallow ninja death touch; my sensei would send assassins after me for revealing his secrets"?

lirenth posted:

Edited to add something I just remembered- speaking of animal cruelty, one of the 3 ferrets died in its cage (got trapped and died of thirst since Darrian was out of town that weekend and Kit couldn't be arsed to check I guess). Darrian found out on the very last day I saw any of these people on purpose. I got invited to the "resurrection ritual" but I obviously did not attend.

Twiggy Johnson posted:

Worse though is that soulbounders take things to the next level by co-opting the character in a way that prevents anyone else from having the same degree of connection. It's one thing to worship Jesus and look to his teachings/fiction for guidance. It's a completely different matter to claim that you are Jesus. One allows the mythos to be shared by everyone; the other is akin to a toddler gathering up all the toys in the room and screaming when anyone else tries to play.

TannhauserGate posted:

Every group of "otherkin" or whatever always claim that this isn't what they're like. This is exactly what they're like. My friend Keesha claims to be a big fan of "glomping" (aka when you run up to someone and hug them, but when you say glomp that makes it anime). e: And she's (offered?) to have me in a furpile before. When she's not even a furry. What is that I don't even.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

LyonsLions posted:

For some reason Japanese TV stations love to go out in Tokyo and find the fattest, greasiest anime nerd tourists and put them on TV, making me weep with shame for my country. I saw something a while ago where they were talking to this fat American cosplayer girl, and they convinced her to have some sort of makeover and put the most ridiculous make-up on her. I am convinced that the media likes to troll the poo poo out of foreign otakus, which is both hilarious and mortifying.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

OH I AM RUNNING OUT OF SPACE

I WILL SEE YOU IN CLASS TOMORROW GOODBYE

There's no class anym

SHUT UP WE ARE GOING NOW

Khazar-khum posted:

cuntvalet posted:

She's spiraled into weirdness in the last couple years, including a stalkerish crush on me,

quote:

"hey, kawaiiest! I didn't see you there. Want to try to something cool?"

Zakmonster posted:

This is getting a bit long, so if people are still interested, I'll post a few more incidents with Robert and introduce Leon, the Unwashed Skeleton.

Count Bleck posted:

Question Mark Mound posted:

Gif of the year! (For proving that humanity has reached a dead-end)

Great Green Auk posted:

Also, she insisted on calling me "Lithuania" and forced "Russia" to tackle-glomp me every day

the kawaiiest posted:

Not just by copying other manga artists but also by plagiarizing the poo poo out of everything they can get their hands on.

I could probably count the number of good manga artists in one hand.

Konstantin posted:

Yeah, that's the sort of thing that absolutely merits police involvement. Seriously, I worked as a campus police officer, and if Cruxxed Up were to come to me with that story it would lead to some very serious repercussions. "Zander" would probably be expelled and/or arrested if he didn't stop right away.

CuddleChunks posted:

Next time I'm in Portland you just point him out and I'll go all internet toughguy on him.

I have a blackbelt in e-intimidation and carry a replica blunderbuss which I use to intimidate pilgrim cosplayers. His days of being a greasy, fedora-wearing supernerd are *over*!


(my days of being a greasy, stolen-fedora-wearing supergoon are just beginning!)

FewtureMD posted:

Or if you're Harry Dresden.