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[Hahaha. A period where she didn't have a lot of friends. Yup.]

mostly i watched movies
or made music and stuff
but with the lotr trilogy in particular i was like ok im clearly missing a lot of material here and also im not actually even getting everyones names?
so i obtained myself the dead tree format and somehow got through

[hashtagafreakingghost]

wow you should see my face
just the thought of that's making me smile
no one even forced you!
I had to bother and pester my best friend to read them and even then he kind of slogged his way through
I mean he did watch the extended editions with me which is tbf the ONLY way to get the full experience
but choosing to read the books on your own
did you end up reading The Hobbit too? or watching those movies? the changes they made to that one were extreme but I really liked them
especially since it added a romance subplot AND another badass lady elf

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theres more movies??
i mean i assume youre not talking about the weird anime cartoon version from 1977

[hashtagafreakingghost]

of course not that thing's blasphemous
I'm talking about the second trilogy!! it was just one book but they stretched it out to make three movies which was a weird idea but it gave me more middle earth so I'm not REALLY complaining
An Unexpected Journey
The Desolation of Smaug
The Battle of the Five Armies

Following Bilbo Baggins' adventure with the dwarves :)

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when did those come out

[hashtagafreakingghost]

one every december starting in 2012?
the last one came out last year
last year for me at least since apparently it's 2016 here instead of 2015...

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oh ok that explains it
damn
were they any good
id look for them here but theyd be the pokemon versions and im not sure im ready for that to be my first exposure to a movie

[hashtagafreakingghost]

oh I thought since you mentioned how old you are that you would have been around for at least a few of them
they were good either way
at least I think so
kind of milking the franchise? but like I said I got more middle earth so I'm satisfied

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um yeah i havent uh
generally seen or read anything thats come out recently
im good up through the first decade of the millennium but from 2010 on im playing catch up

[hashtagafreakingghost]

you weren't able to for the last few years?
THAT sounds horrible
and like a story
but I don't want to ask if it'd make you uncomfortable
(since you've been distracting me from a lot of unpleasant things and all that)

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its not that im uncomfortable

[He's totally uncomfortable.]

its just a really long story and nows probably not the best time to get into it
for now you can think of me as
a participant in a really extreme study abroad experience
except without the studying so much

[hashtagafreakingghost]

gotcha
say no more
I won't ask any questions

[She really wants to ask questions.]

back to nicer things?

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yes im all about nice things always
what about comics do you like comics

[hashtagafreakingghost]

nnnnnot as much as some of my friends??
I like Neil Gaiman's The Sandman does that count??

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oh ive heard of that one
the premise always sounded more roses thing than mine so i never picked it up
that and webcomics were more my scene
anyway its all like magic and elder gods and occult shit right

[hashtagafreakingghost]

I haven't read a lot of webcomics
not consistently anyway mostly just little vignettes
but yes it is though
beings called the endless who are the personification of things like dreams and death and desire
I should not have read it as young as I did because it is very fucked up :)

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sexually fucked up or violently fucked up
or psychologically fucked up
theres a lot of different kinds of fucked up you know

also how old were you

[hashtagafreakingghost]

all of the above?
all of the above

I thiiink I was eleven??
you know when you recognize an author and just think yeah this won't be scarring
and then it's kind of entirely scarring??
ehhhh
it got less disturbing as it went on

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oh elevens not that bad
thats BASICALLY middle school
everyone starts learning that stuff by then

i didnt even realize this was a thing when she started talking about it.....

[hashtagafreakingghost]

it wasn't THAT bad but it still wasn't fun!
there's like
a freaky diner where reality's distorted and people's minds are all fucked with and

[


cannibalism
why]

you know
uncomfortable things to see

G O D

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well i guess that could be kind of creepy for kids

[Maybe? He has literally no frame of reference.]

but you still kept reading it didnt you

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[He guesses? ...Hm. :|a]

I mean
I couldn't just STOP

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hahaha
because it was that good or because its a point of pride

[hashtagafreakingghost]

more like
you know that saying about not looking away from a trainwreck?
except not that it was bad writing-wise just that that's kind of what it felt like an actual trainwreck with all the carnage
that kind of thing

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oh yeah
fuck theres a word for that what was it
the human fascination with death
thanatopsis or something
what youre describing doesnt have to do necessarily with death i guess but that pull probably goes along with general disaster too