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hope18
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 Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:13 am Post subject: Am I crazy? |
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Hello again!!!
I missed you all terribly, but now I'm back from my vacation so...
I wanted to ask all of you here, something that has been bothering me since February 2005.
Do you also cry when you read bout your favourite characters die in fiction (and not only) or am I the only one?
For example I was reading a story and when the author killed Haldir (not at Helms Deep) I burst into tears and I couldn't get over it for many days. Am I crazy?
So tell me bout yourselves
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Yavanie
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: |
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(Just so you know, you are in good company).
It's good fiction if you find yourself living in it. At least when I read stuff, I take it very emotionally. That, to me, is what makes a good story.
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inglor
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Maybe not cry but I have had fics ruin my day and get under my skin like that. One in particular ruined a character for me. But I agree with Yav, it is a sign of a good fic when you get pulled in like that
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NeumeIndil
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If your heart is in what you do (regardless of the context), you'll probably get emotional. I have yet to actually read a fic where one of my beloved horse lords passes into the halls, but the closest I got was The End of All Things by Katzilla, which had me in tears. Similarly, when I write a particularly good bit, I usually tear up. So no, you're not crazy, just devoted. 
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hope18
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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| The story I read is the Empty Vessel and Tel Lindar by Zee. Wonderful story but it made feel so happy yet so miserable |
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Vilwarin
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Crying? Oh yes, often enough.
It works with some angst and torture stories as well. I am near to tears if I only think of my poor Halbarad dying!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| hope18 wrote: | | Am I crazy? |
Yes  , but this: | Quote: | | The story I read is the Empty Vessel and Tel Lindar by Zee. Wonderful story but it made feel so happy yet so miserable |
is a remarkable complement any writer would be humbled to have.
Way to go, Zee! You made Hope cry! 
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simon22cat
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Cry? I rarely cry. I mean, I don't cry while watching Little House on the Pairie, and that is one of the most angst filled shows you can find. It doesn't mean that the story is not good or doesn't pull me into it. It will make me sit back for a minute and think. I remeber when I read when Zee killed off Haldir. I gasped and thought 'I can't believe she killed him!'
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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I know I have cried (on very rare occasions) at fic, but to be really honest, without looking back over my reviews, I can't remember what made me cry. So much of the stuff I've read has been good.
I don't believe I've ever made anyone cry with my stories, killing characters or not, but I have made myself cry whilst writing, heh.
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Alassante
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Oh I cry all of the time.  Viv made me cry in Red Dawn, Space made me cry in Envious Moon, Ghetto in Circle, Thuriniel in Rebirth and her Feanor fic (cannot think of the name), Maram in Midst, Ellisk in Journeys, even drabbles by SML, NB and others made me cry.  If I list them all, it would be embarassing but you know who you are cause I usually say in a review if I cry.
Although, there are times when I cry and its just me be a tad be overly emotional. But I have seen the movies 100 times and I cannot watch or read certain parts of the LOTR without crying and it is the same with fan fiction.
I only cry with mine when I don't get reviews and ratings or I get bad ones.  Then its an all out temper tantrum.
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Alassante wrote: | Oh I cry all of the time. Viv made me cry in Red Dawn, Space made me cry in Envious Moon, Ghetto in Circle, Thuriniel in Rebirth and her Feanor fic (cannot think of the name), Maram in Midst, Ellisk in Journeys, even drabbles by SML, NB and others made me cry. If I list them all, it would be embarassing but you know who you are cause I usually say in a review if I cry.
Although, there are times when I cry and its just me be a tad be overly emotional. But I have seen the movies 100 times and I cannot watch or read certain parts of the LOTR without crying and it is the same with fan fiction.
I only cry with mine when I don't get reviews and ratings or I get bad ones. Then its an all out temper tantrum. |
Well, yeah there is that.
I'm an incurable sap, personally, (since I'm sitting here barely able to see after a CD of music made me cry...) I have a long list of banned films, ones I can't watch without bawling all the way through.
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Neniel
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Well, there have been a few precious fanfics to make me cry, but usually they were so good that it was actually a wonderful experience! There is one I especially remember, called "Tempus edax rerum" or something (can't remember my latin) in fanfiction.net that was so well written, I cried myself to sleep!  I kept thinking back to it for two whole days for crying out loud!
And then, there's always the chance that the story just comes along at an opportune time or emotional state, and that's when even the silliest Mary-Sue can reduce a perfectly sensible person to sobs and tears...
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RoxieRxChicago
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| You're perfectly normal. Both of those fics made me bawl like a baby. I love a fic that draws me in like that and lets me become so involved in the characters. |
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DreadLadyFreya
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| hope18 wrote: | | The story I read is the Empty Vessel and Tel Lindar by Zee. Wonderful story but it made feel so happy yet so miserable |
Me, too! Zee had me crying at the end of EV, and then for most of the first half of TL.
As for me I cry at just about anything. . . original fic, fan fic, TV commercials... Yeah, I'm pretty pathetic! 
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Silvae
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:06 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I've cried over some really well written fics (can't for the life of me remember what they were called, though, sorry ), novels, speeches, and movies. Oh yes. I'm the official movie theatre cry baby, especially when animals are involved (like... oh, I don't know the titles in English... The Choir, it must have been, and Two Brothers : about the tigers, you know )
If it's well written/filmed/delivered and touching, it is perfectly normal to have a good bawl.
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