Sucked In AGAIN, and SO JEALOUS

Know how it's all confessions all the time around here? Well here goes.



I wasted my entire weekend...

reading fan forums of theories predicting the sixth and seventh books...

parsing apart scenes (or more accurately, watching the experts do it)







Art by Kinky-ChiChi

And you see... I've done this BEFORE... Between Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, I kept THINKING about those darned books I loved and my BRAIN went into overdrive and I kept coming up with THEORIES about where the stories would go...



And it drove me online to find a community of like-minded people to talk about it with...



They were wonderful people. I STILL love those people. They got me writing. They got me laughing. I'm sure you can see what a mopey, depressed person I normally am *shifty*  But seriously, it SUITS me to get into really deep discussions over less deep things (like books). I love to THINK, but I don't want to be all sad about it when I'm done... and If I meet a couple simpaticos, well, heck, that's even better. We were silly and had fun, but it really was THRILLING to parse apart books and see how REALLY WELL DONE they actually WERE...







Jon Snow/Daenerys Targarian/??Ned Stark?? source

So now... eight years later (also MARCH, by the way—that gives me some pause), between the fifth and sixth book, I've fallen in love with another world... this one, the one of WESTEROS, where the politics, character complexity and plotting brought me in, but it is the brilliance of the writing complexity that has driven me to talk to people.



You see... in anticipation of the start of season 3 on HBO, I decided to RE-read. And I loved the plot and had some predictions the first time, but the SECOND time, I am spotting all the foreshadowing and hints, and it makes me want to guess farther ahead than there are books yet available...





And THAT caused me to FIND all this stuff written by others of the THEMATIC stuff, and the SYMBOLISM, and the stuff drawn from MYTHOLOGY, and *gasp * (only my Harry Potter peeps will get why I had to gasp there) the ELEMENTS associated with the Stark children!!! The PARALLELS between Daenerys Targarian and Jon Snow. OHMYGAWD, I'M IN HEAVEN!!!





But You Know What is Depressing?



I can't look at myself and my writing and think I will EVER achieve this level of brilliance. It is humbling to the Nth degree. Yet this is what I CRAVE. I want to be AMAZING like this!!!





Anybody else get thoroughly immersed in a fandom?

Have fantasies of people getting immersed in YOURS?



Anybody looking for all this stuff for A Song of Fire and Ice, I've been at Westeros.org. They have forums for people on the first time read through and forums for re-readers. (and forums that look like they are for the SHOW) (I called myself Snark_Tamer)



And I know NOTHING. Just like Jon Snow. It doesn't feel as 'communityish' as my Harry Potter days, but it is definitely satisfying for the part of me that just loves to be buried in a book world.