I sure hate a lot of fans

2005-05-03T05:14:15Z

Here's a few more fans I hate.

~I once worked at bargain theater and one of my coworkers was a loudmouth asshole. He was an arrogant, ignorant, and scrawny nerd that made Screech look cool in comparison. No one could shut him up because he'd pull that, "Oh, you're just stupid and that's why you don't agree with me! So let me keep talking to enlighten you!"

He would talk loudly about stuff like how when he turns 21 he'll get super rich in Vegas because he's the only one in the world who knows how to play poker, how he can beat everyone at everything, how no matter what the topic he was always right, how college isn't important, or how we were all losers because we didn't know how to play D&D even though we never played it before.

He believed he was the Master Anime Expert(tm) just because he liked Princess Mononoke. That alone made him know everything there is to know about anime. He just had to look at the box cover to tell if the anime was good or not. Basically if the box cover had girls with their huge boobies falling out of their skimpy little outfits, it was a masterpiece. His favorite masterpiece was Sorcerer Hunters and he let me know almost every day just in case I forgot. He tried to pass it off as art but it was easy to tell he was drooling over the boobies. I didn't think the show belonged in a museum so I was an idiot. Then he would tell me how every anime I liked sucked as if I was going to go home and cry because I actually gave a rat's ass about what he thought.

It was common for him to say he liked or hated a movie based on the trailer. When he saw Lilo and Stitch's trailer, he proclaimed it to be one of the best movies ever and didn't shut up about it for three months. He took off that Friday it came out so he can see it multiple times and afterwords he talked about the whole movie. OMGNOSPOILERZ didn't work with him. He demanded that when our bargain theater received the film, it should have a midnight showing and be placed in three of our six theaters. It was fun watching him get pissy when the manager wasn't treating the film with the respect he thought it deserved.

Now I'll never see him again. I'm crushed.

~ The second guy my group and I called "The Time of the Month" because three of our group had to put up with him every month when the college had an anime club meeting. I ran into many annoying Slayers fanidiots but this guy blew them all out of the water. I can write a novel on this guy. I'm not going to talk about his idiocy in our Slayers RPG. Or how he held up a dealer's room line for three minutes because he was staff and didn't need to use the exit like everyone else because he was too important. Or when we spotted him stalking a Naga cosplayer about thirty years younger than him. Or how I heard he did the same skit two years in a row. Or how I accidentally took a picture of TTotM creeping out Crispin Freeman. TTotM was another fan that would never shut up. He wasn't mean or anything like that, he just would not stop. You can scream "FUCK OFF!" at him and he'll just reply, "Well that isn't very nice." then continue with what he was saying.

TTotM is an obsessed Naga fanboy. He can and will go on about how she is the deepest and most misunderstood Slayers character and fans should see her the way he sees her: as a complex beautiful goddess who is nothing short of perfect. When other posters reasonably pointed out anything that went against his vision, he would either talk about how a three second scene in one of the OVAs/movies proves his vision even though Naga acted like an obnoxious drunk in the rest of it or just ignore the poster. He claimed he didn't like anything pervy but that didn't stop him from writing a fanfic where Naga had three boobs.

Since I hanged with the three who he knew from the anime club and the fact all of us were from the same mailing list, he knew who I was so I spent a lot of time trying to avoid him. It was almost like Jaws but instead of getting out of the water, it was getting into the bathroom. He couldn't follow me in there. But even when he couldn't find me, it didn't mean he couldn't find anyone else. I think he would have talked at a plant if he needed to. At NekoCon, my friend and I looked through drawings where we stumbled apon a drawing called "Put A Sock In It". It was a drawing of Naga with a sock in her mouth. We knew where the inspiration for that came from but we asked the artist anyway. He told us that at ACen, he was warned about some Slayers nerd and was told not to get into a conversation with him. So when TTotM came up to him and asked if he liked Slayers, the artist said he hated it but TTotM decided to talk about Slayers and Naga anyway. Is no one safe from this guy? (I'm sure anyone cosplaying as Slayers characters or characters from other series he likes at ACen met this guy.)

Luckily, he doesn't recognize me so I don't have to deal with him at ACen anymore. (Unlike that poor Naga cosplayer.)

Dani

I sure hate a lot of fans