"You know you've had too much Gen/Attolia/MWT when..."

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

rowana 's squashed a cockroach with The Thief, openedlocket's had to stand over her QoA, hand-drying its pages, and philippas  has been ambushed by cockroaches determined to cause damage to her precious copy of The Thief. Add Sylvester to the mix, and you get a bunch of fans oddly plagued by bugs!

It seems that disaster, sadly,  can often befall us whilst too engrossed in Gen's world to pay attention to more mundane matters. But -  and I hesitate to type this - there are some dangers, my friends, that spring FROM too much MWT-reading. rosaleeluann suggested a post around an excellent topic: "You know you've had too much Gen/Attolia/MWT when..."

For example: 

You know you've had too much Gen/Attolia/MWT when...

• There's pimento all over your face from trying to balance olives on your nose, a la Archimedes at the circus last year
• The looming decision of whether to buy CoK in hardback or paperback is causing you sleepless nights
• You buy clothes in bright, clashing colours to look like Gen/You buy red dresses to look like Attolia
• You're tempted to use quotes from TT,QoA and KoA in school/university essays
• You thank people with 'Be blessed in your endeavours'
• When you hear a song for the first time, you listen out for possible Queen's Thief parallels
• 90% of what you write on LJ is Gen-related
• When you see the word/abbreviation 'gen' in a non-Queen's Thief context, you're confused
• You can quote pages from the books verbatim (TLE, I am looking at YOU)
  
   

More ideas?  I know something like this was done a while back, but as far as I can recall it was over a year ago, so I bet we can come up with some all-new answers. There are 444 creative people here; have at it, Sounis!

Forward Momentum!

Comments

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

The looming decision of whether to buy CoK in hardback or paperback is no decision at all. The decision is whether to try for an ARC, pre-order, or both. And even that's not difficult to decide.

Your only vacation thoughts seem to revolve upon how many Sounisians you could meet up with at any particular destination.

Your fascination with all things Greek is only matched by your fascination with all things Patagonian.

Somehow your biggest goal has become getting to New Zealand.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

You're counting down until the next time you can meet up with fellow Sounisians. (We're still planning on September, right guys?)

You are in the process of carefully marking and cross-referencing your copies of the books. You got this idea from a brilliant fellow Sounisian.

You know exactly where on the shelves the books are in the bookstore/library and sometimes go there just to smile at them, and perhaps place them more prominently.

Your roommates can quote passages verbatim, even though you haven't yet gotten them all to read the books yet. (I'm working on it, though.)

[openedlocket.livejournal.com]

You know you've had too much MWT when the bookstore clerck stares at you strangely after giving you your first copy of QoA. Then when you lend this QoA to a friend and the cover get's folded you obsessively smooth out the fold everytime you see it. And then when it get's wet you blow at the pages, smoothing them out in front of the fan.

Also...when you hear the words general, generousity, nitrogen and etc. you immediately think of a thief. And when you use a question mark you think of hooks. And when a song about a dog and cat is being played on the radio, you think of your favorite thief/queen pairing.

One last, you buy a fake set of ruby jewelry then you put on a red dress, tie your hair with a red scrunchie and twirl in front of the mirror singing 'I'm a pretty princess'

And of course the already mentioned 90% LJ thing, the 'be blessed in your endeavors' situation and the listening for QT parallels in songs (even if I've already heard them a million times)

And when almost all your LJ icons are related to the series.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

There's pimento all over your face from trying to balance olives on your nose, a la Archimedes at the circus last year

You knew exactly what this was refering to, and could flip to the passage refered to in a matter of seconds... or simply rattle it off from memory.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

When you leave a bookstore, all Megan's books are attractively arranged--face out--in a conspicuous spot where lots of people will see them.

[philippas.livejournal.com]

You check out random guys at the mall, just in case they look like Gen. (No luck yet. Sigh.)

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

*tries to decide if having an olive tree in the dining room 6 months of the year qualifies*

(the other six months it's outside)

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

When you hear a song for the first time, you listen out for possible Queen's Thief parallels
I have been doing this LIKE CRAZY the last few weeks! It's ridiculous. I'm determined to build up an entire playlist for QT (mostly Gen/Attolia).

Also, the one about the abbreviation "gen". Haha. It always makes me think of our Gen now. I'm ruined!

[vaireweaver.livejournal.com]

"I remember that Archimedes. I think it was five olives." :D

"You're tempted to use quotes from TT,QoA and KoA in school/university essays"

*Very guilty of this*

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Also, the "Staff Recommends" things suddenly all seem to have moved from the Twilight/Paolini/GossipGirl section revolve around MWT's books.

[inkasrain.livejournal.com]

I like this :-)

You know you've had too much MWT when...

Your siblings leave the room every time you broach the subject of getting them to read it.

You come across random actors in TV shows and movies and begin auditioning them in your mind.

You feel like putting a helpful/threatening post-it-note over the space in your local bookstore where Queen's Thief aught to be, but is not.

You've had friendships threatened when certain people "don't get into" the earlier parts of TT, put it down, and refuse to acknowledge that it will get better and keep reading, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU TELL THEM TO.

You have "Megan Whalen Turner" saved as a search on your Twitter page and check it regularly to see if people are saying anything.

(I also totally do the song thing, by the way!)

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

Every time I go into Borders I have to go check on their one copy of The Thief. I can't help it. I have to.

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

And rightly so! :P
(I never thought of that one!)

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

-"You know exactly where on the shelves the books are in the bookstore/library and sometimes go there just to smile at them, and perhaps place them more prominently."

Absolutely!

-"You're tempted to use quotes from TT, QoA and KoA in school/university essays."

For me it is in ever day speech, but... yeah...

-"When you see the word/abbreviation 'gen' in a non-Queen's Thief context, you're confused."

Really? I thought that was just me.

-"When you hear a song for the first time, you listen out for possible Queen's Thief parallels."

Yeah, I do that.

-"90% of what you write on LJ is Gen-related."

Since History_Haven was founded, it's more like 70% but... pretty close.

[beatlelove927.livejournal.com]

You ask if they have the books at your nearest bookstores everytime you go there, to try and "create demand."

They still have nothing but Thief. I don't know if I'll even be able to get CoK.

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

You buy clothes in bright, clashing colours to look like Gen

I NEED TO GO SHOPPING IMMEDIATELY.

(I have his hair! If ever I make it to a meet-up, I could be your token Gen-cosplayer) :D

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

oh, this will be fun. I am guily of the CoK cover issue, quotes (in daily conversation, too), be blessed in your endeavors, listening to songs for parallels, %90 of LJ posting, the 'gen' abbriviation (which made studying the bible for english REALLY hard, let me tell you), and... why, TA, whyever would you think of little ol' me when you wrote that? it's not like I can do anything like that...

Btw, I can really only quote dialogue. For example, I can tell you this:

"what do you want me to say, then?"
"tell me you won't cut out my lying tongue, tell me you won't blind me, you won't drive red hot wires into my ears"
"I love your eyes, I love your ears, and I love every single one of your rediculous lies"
"your are a treasure beyond any price"

But I can't for the life of me tell you what comes in between. Something about a shaky breath? forgetting that anyone else in the world could possibly be listening? dangit.

Here are some of mine:

1) the realization that there is a paragraph you have not analyzed straight to the moon causes you both a fit of fangirlish joy and a panic attack, at the same time.

2) Your school binders are entirely filled with doodles of Gen, Irene, and goats.

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

I'm planning to go stalking when I go to Greece. I promise I'll take pictures if there's anyone really good.

[philippas.livejournal.com]

Sweet!

[philippas.livejournal.com]

Peggy - Your icon is fabulous! I adore Vash.

[in-my-niteshirt.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, we are *so* still on for September!

Cross-referencing is a noble endeavor. (Do you have an accurate count yet on how many times he says, "Am I King?" or "I am King" ? I've got 5 and 2, making seven. I still can't find another, but magicsandwiches is so certain that I missed one, I've got to keep looking.)

Yes, I too move the books at libraries and bookstores. The best thing is to place them on the display tables, but if I'm in a hurry I'll just pull them out and leave them with their lovely front covers facing prospective readers. And I pat myself on the back for doing a good deed for a complete stranger.

Even your roommates who haven't read them can quote them? Lol That's great!

[in-my-niteshirt.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee such lovely confessions. Here's my contribution:

Looking through catalogs or junk mail ads, you forget what you were shopping for and find yourself deciding on whether the models would be suitable to play Gen.

You make it very clear that for your birthday you want a plane ticket to wherever MWT will be signing books when CoK is released.

You make a KoA glossary and then keep revising it and adding to it.

You keep two sets of books, one to loan out (no spoilers in the notes in the margins) and one to thoroughly study and cross reference. And you think about buying a third set just to redo the cross referencing more carefully and more beautifully. And color coded.

Instead of getting a song stuck in your head, you spend half the day with a line from the book stuck in your head. And you don't mind at all.

Most of your passwords are phrases from the books with the pages they are found on. You make long lists of phrases and pages so that next time you need to choose a password you have one handy. And, you have no trouble remembering these long convoluted passwords.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Forward Momentum!

Oh, so? Let's just see what happens.

[ballet2nite.livejournal.com]

You know you've had too much Gen/Attolia/MWT when... your friends immediately recognize get mad at you when they spot the cover of any book in the series!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Even your roommates who haven't read them can quote them? Lol That's great!

Yeah, it happened just the other day actually. I forget what we were talking about, but I said, "I don't think I've ever heard you--"

"YOU SOUNDED ALMOST ARICULATE. WE KNOW."