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Brucha ([info]mindset) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2003-09-09 12:44:00
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Current mood:energetic
Current music:Neneh Cherry - Trout

Proof that not all comics wank is about elitism... some of it is just *scary* obsessive wank.
I present ROM & Me, a site displaying one fan's rather freaky obsession with ROM, Spaceknight.

For those unaware, ROM was a toy line put out by Hasbro in the early 80's, and licensed by Marvel Comics for a several-year series. It developed a bit of a fan following (heaven knows why), and the fandom was well known for their obsession. For example, whenever Marvel writers wanted to express exasperation with fans, they'd often quote the letters begging to bring back ROM.

But Ceioa's devotion to the character seems to go a bit too *far*. Witness:



Possibly one of the weirder things is that I honestly can't tell if this fan is male or female... the self-portraits give off a certain unfortunate overweight androgyny. I've guessed female, because of the name and the rather Harlequin-style fanfic, but one never knows...

Anyway, enjoy. ;)


(Several-time commenter, first-time poster. Slightly wary about wanking this, as I'm somewhat guilty of similar behavior, but at least I never took myself or my character this seriously, and the most I ever did was modify a Dr. Ken. This person makes me feel normal.)

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[info]rogue
2003-09-09 09:46 pm UTC (link)
Now I am filled with an unexpected pain. This pain was like no other, a grief that felt like drowning! I read the passage again and my eyes filled with bitter tears, tears for the One that I have loved for so long! I knew at least, that when the book was canceled, that he was still lived in the Marvel Universe but now he was ....just....gone....They had killed him.

... *backs away sloooowly*

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[info]vengeance_bean
2003-09-09 11:31 pm UTC (link)
I'm with you.

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[info]shoiryu
2003-09-09 09:48 pm UTC (link)
......Uuuuuuum.

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[info]ingrid
2003-09-09 09:51 pm UTC (link)
Okay, this wasn't exactly wanky (as in: hey, this person just loves ROM, like a lot) until I got to this part about The Terrible Death Blow:

"My mind just couldn't take this, it reels with shock and pain. The pain is so great that my emotions went numb. I went numb, unable to function properly. I have been through Sept 11 and being abandoned by my spouse, both I stood and felt, but this..this was just to much for my mind to bear! It hurts so bad that I couldn't even cry! My body screams, "NO!!"

Oh, yeah. I see the wank now.

Obsessed fans of dead characters everywhere have some serious catch-up to do.

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(Anonymous)
2003-09-09 11:02 pm UTC (link)
So . . . the death of a fictional character was more disturbing to this person than *being left by his/her own spouse*? And 9/11 to boot?

God, people SCARE me sometimes.

One wonders if this person's ROM obsession was a factor in the spouse leaving.

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(no subject) - [info]bookshop, 2003-09-09 11:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]msmanna, 2003-09-10 11:06 pm UTC

[info]mariagoner
2003-09-09 09:57 pm UTC (link)
Good golly Miss Molly... this lady (or... whatever...) puts even the Siriusly Obsessed to shame!

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[info]mauralabingi
2003-09-09 10:09 pm UTC (link)
You know, I never really felt the need for one of these icons before today.

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[info]parlance
2003-09-09 10:14 pm UTC (link)
I wish we could see a photo of the look on her professor's face when she proposed to make a bronze statue of the One.

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*laughs at someone else's pain*
[info]resmiranda
2003-09-09 10:18 pm UTC (link)
I didn't really see the wank until this part:
My mind just couldn't take this, it reels with shock and pain. The pain is so great that my emotions went numb. I went numb, unable to function properly. I have been through Sept 11 and being abandoned by my spouse, both I stood and felt, but this..this was just to much for my mind to bear! It hurts so bad that I couldn't even cry! My body screams, "NO!!"

I'm screaming "NO!!" as well, but for a different reason.

Take your pills!

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[info]puipui
2003-09-09 10:21 pm UTC (link)
I don't know why, but she rather reminds me of Link's Queen, only with illustrations, better grammar, and a very fortunate lack of eye-gougingly bad lemons.

Scary. Even without the tigers. *shudders*

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[info]virago
2003-09-09 10:21 pm UTC (link)
>>but at least I never took myself or my character this seriously, >>

See, to me, this is vitally important. I'll fangirl all over the place, but I know when to put my toys away and get back to the real world. And I know that it isn't real. It's fun, sure, but there's a difference.

As for the excerpts: stunning, just stunning. In the literal sense. Particularly the scary-sad connotations in the excerpt suggesting that a fictional character dying is worse than being left by a spouse. (Granted, the spouse may've been a jerk, but since it's lumped with other traumatic things I'm guessing this wasn't a good thing.)

Crazed fans' reactions to killed-off characters are one of my favorite fandom trainwrecks. Comes from too much time in the Final Fantasy 7 fandom, I think. Some of those people are still lunatics.

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(no subject) - [info]rowan, 2003-09-10 02:39 am UTC

[info]redpanda
2003-09-09 10:39 pm UTC (link)
The betting pool on why her "spouse" left her is now open. Me, I'd say having to share the bed with the Bronzed One may have been a factor.

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(no subject) - [info]sagralisse, 2003-09-10 12:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]veuki, 2003-09-10 12:27 am UTC

[info]stubbleglitter
2003-09-09 10:40 pm UTC (link)
Y'know, if s/he animated that dream sequence thingy, she could clean up at animation festivals. I once cried in pain through a twenty-minute long student final film with similar character "design" only to find out months later that the Germans, apparently, couldn't get enough of it and were exalting the thing at animation festivals all over the country.

der Traum? Wunderbar!

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[info]senor_pinata
2003-09-09 11:00 pm UTC (link)
I have been through Sept 11 and being abandoned by my spouse, both I stood and felt, but this..this was just to much for my mind to bear! It hurts so bad that I couldn't even cry! My body screams, "NO!!"

I...wow.

That's both scary and sad.

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[info]bookshop
2003-09-09 11:10 pm UTC (link)
Let us hope this person's pain is too great to induce her to ever leave her house, ever again.

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[info]musette
2003-09-10 12:00 am UTC (link)
Damn, this person obviously has never gotten attached to any 19th C. lit. All of my favorite characters DIE IN CANON!

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[info]sorchar
2003-09-10 12:44 am UTC (link)
ROM - He's like Jesus, in a way.

Only Jesus' fans aren't usually this obsessed with him. Not even the really scary ones.

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From 'The Dream'
(Anonymous)
2003-09-10 01:46 am UTC (link)
Some felled right where they stood

I want to curl up into a corner and whimper for the Grammar Gods to take the bad person away.

- Melle

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[info]snoozy
2003-09-10 02:33 am UTC (link)
God... I've already seen this link posted up at least three times within the same week, but it's just as scary every time I visit it. I think it's the bit where she mentions the loss of her spouse and 9/11 that gets to me. Yeesh!

*whimper*

"I had no idea Rom looked like Jesus when he didn't look like a cheap action figure."

You learn something new everyday, don't you? :P

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(no subject) - [info]sewingmyfish, 2003-09-10 03:17 am UTC
...why oh WHY did I click on the Dream first? >.<
[info]redpanda
2003-09-10 04:49 am UTC (link)
What is so freaking great about Rom? Can somebody PLEASE explain this?! I vaguely remember him from an old Micronauts/X-Men crossover or something, and that's only really his name, and that's about it...

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Re: ...why oh WHY did I click on the Dream first? >.< - [info]trismegistus, 2003-09-10 06:46 am UTC

[info]feenix
2003-09-10 06:23 am UTC (link)
...harlequin as in harlequin icthyosis?

/tws

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(no subject) - [info]soleta, 2003-09-10 08:09 am UTC
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[info]mydarkstar
2003-09-10 06:28 am UTC (link)
Wow, I never thought I'd see something that made the VB/Orangeblossom "we wrote a bunch of unreadable babble in our journals because WE WERE POSSESSED BY THE SPIRITS OF MERRY AND PIPPIN" fiasco look sane...and, well, I was right. Nothing could make that look sane. But this is pretty freakin' scary. Rom? I mean, isn't that like going all shrieky-obsessed-fangirly about a character on The Facts of Life?

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(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2003-09-10 06:44 am UTC
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[info]dawnswalker
2003-09-10 06:32 am UTC (link)
Would it be bad of me to mention that the giant ROM figure s/he made is actually kind of neat looking, as are the "medal" things?

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(no subject) - [info]virago, 2003-09-10 09:05 am UTC

[info]lots42
2003-09-11 03:18 am UTC (link)
It developed a fan following because the comics were damned good. But in the end, they are -fiction-. It's sad when some people forget this.

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Is it just me?
(Anonymous)
2003-09-13 05:28 am UTC (link)


Maybe I'm just pervy, or it's the way
the light is reflecting off the figure,
but doesn't Rom look awfully well-endowed
in that bronze sculpture? I think he/she
added a few extra curves in the groin
area. It is well made, but really....


Ysadri

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