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Post by stoneagewoman on Dec 6, 2005 14:10:38 GMT
Hey, people! Not really show how this works, but whatever. I'm sixteen, have been on fanfiction.net for 2 years, write Lord of the Rings fanfiction mainly, and aspire to be a writer.
I love Lord of the Rigngs. I especially like Aragorn-Legolas friendship fics and other fics on Aragorn and Legolas. Though I'm not averse to reading a good hobbit fic or a Legolas-Gimli fic either. It just has to be good, is my rule!
I love angst, and I HATE slash. Oh, and I'm from India. Thought you might wanna know that.
Thanks to Lindahoyland for inviting me! Ta!
Stoneage Woman.
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Post by lindahoyland on Dec 6, 2005 15:32:56 GMT
Welcome Stoneage Woman, :)it is so good to have you here !You have been one of my best reviewers for a long time now and I enjoy your stories too. I hate slash too and love Aragorn and Faramir friendship stories best,while enjoying some with Legolas and the Hobbits too.Hope you have fun here. Linda ;D
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Post by Lily on Dec 6, 2005 18:39:59 GMT
Welcome stoneagewoman! I like your name! I hope you donĀ“t mind that I moved your thread, but we will be able to find it more easily and welcome you.
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Post by eggowaffles on Dec 6, 2005 19:45:20 GMT
Hello and welcome! ;D
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Post by StefaniaB on Dec 7, 2005 6:28:48 GMT
Welcome, Stoneagewoman. I love your nickname, too. I work in the computer industry, with lots of colleagues from India. Where in India are you from? It will be a lot of fun to hear your perspective on LOTR and other fanfic matters.
- Steff
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Post by Raksha on Dec 7, 2005 6:43:28 GMT
Welcome, Stoneage Woman! Hope you enjoy your stay.
Have you read Repairs? It's a wonderful Gimli short story, with Legolas in it as well:
www.fanfiction.net/s/883019/1/
RAKSHA THE DEMON
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Post by Rosie on Dec 7, 2005 21:59:05 GMT
Hi stoneagewoman - nice to have you here. Hope you enjoy yourself.
And Eggo - I love that sig pic!
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Post by stoneagewoman on Dec 8, 2005 11:00:53 GMT
Hi people! No, I don't mind you moved my thread, and when I get the time I will definitely read the short story.
Thank you all for welcoming me! I'm still trying to get the hang of this whole thing, and I hope I'll be able to figure it out.
Unfortuneately, my mum has suddenly decided I'm getting addicted to fanfiction, and has restricted to my time spent on fanfiction.net and here and chatting with fanfiction friends to one hour a day. Can you believe her? I will still spend a little while here whenever I can though, I think I'm gonna enjoy it here.
As for the nickname, it is what the guys in my class of seventh grade to tenth grade named me, because I picked up a stone once. They thought I was trying to make fire. So--- Stoneage Woman.
And Steff, I'm as loony as you are about LOTR. My friends think I'm completely mad half the time. I'm from Bombay or Mumbai as it's now called. Where are you from?
Once again, thanks for welcoming me. Ta!
--Stoneage Woman
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Post by eggowaffles on Dec 8, 2005 19:52:07 GMT
Unfortuneately, my mum has suddenly decided I'm getting addicted to fanfiction, and has restricted to my time spent on fanfiction.net and here and chatting with fanfiction friends to one hour a day. Can you believe her? I will still spend a little while here whenever I can though, I think I'm gonna enjoy it here. Ooh, sorry to hear that. Whenever my parents show signs of wanting to restrict my Internet activity, I find threatening to scramble everyone's personal passwords to be oddly effective. Though that method may be exclusive to my family...
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Post by stoneagewoman on Dec 10, 2005 14:16:54 GMT
Well, I don't think my family would be very amused if I tried that, even if I did know how to scramble people's personal passwords. I think my mum would put me in an asylum if I tried any such thing. Or worse, she'd tell me no more fanfiction.
You know, reading what I just wrote, I'm reminded of what Ron said in the first HP movie, "She needs to sort out her priorities." That was hilarious.
I love your Christmas pic of Fara and Boromir. I have one like that, only with Aragorn and Legolas. It is so adorable! Not that I celebrate Christmas, but still!
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Post by eggowaffles on Dec 11, 2005 4:46:11 GMT
I love your Christmas pic of Fara and Boromir. I have one like that, only with Aragorn and Legolas. It is so adorable! Not that I celebrate Christmas, but still! Never mind... the season of greed and silly hats requires no religious affiliation! ;D
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Post by stoneagewoman on Dec 12, 2005 18:27:49 GMT
Yes, I know! I love Christams- it buys us an extra holiday!! If you go to school, you know how important that is! Of course, I go to college...same principle really.
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Post by eggowaffles on Dec 12, 2005 20:17:32 GMT
Yes, I know! I love Christams- it buys us an extra holiday!! If you go to school, you know how important that is! Of course, I go to college...same principle really. College at 16? Wow. Is that done differently in India, then? We don't go to college around here until a bit later, depressingly enough...
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Post by lindahoyland on Dec 12, 2005 21:57:47 GMT
In England you usually go to Sixth form college at 16 to take your A Levels if you want to go to university.
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Post by eggowaffles on Dec 12, 2005 22:20:03 GMT
In England you usually go to Sixth form college at 16 to take your A Levels if you want to go to university. Eru, I would kill for that arrangement! I have to plow through three and a half more years of public schooling before any colleges will even look at me. The curse of a September birthday...
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Post by lindahoyland on Dec 12, 2005 22:30:29 GMT
I had the same problem as I'm a September birthday too.Then I was at a school which had a sixth form.In retrospect I wish I'd left and taken the exams at sixth form college as I hated school.
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Post by eggowaffles on Dec 12, 2005 22:42:55 GMT
I had the same problem as I'm a September birthday too.Then I was at a school which had a sixth form.In retrospect I wish I'd left and taken the exams at sixth form college as I hated school. I hate school, too. But I've looked into graduating early, and unfortunately, what with colleges being so competitive these days, there's no way I could build up the resume I need in that period of time... so I'll just have to wait it out. *sigh* I guess our SATs are the equivalent of your A-levels, or something like (though I've heard A-levels are much, much harder). I took the SATs for fun when I was thirteen and my scores (though not spectacular) were feasible enough for me to get into quite a few of our state colleges, but I just don't have the credentials...
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Post by lindahoyland on Dec 12, 2005 23:37:48 GMT
A levels are pretty hard and I made a right mess of mine but was lucky to get a place at a college as it had been reprieved from closing at the last moment,YOu take them when you are 17- 18 and GCSE's when you are 15-16.It was O levels in my day. Here you only graduate from university,not school.
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Post by stoneagewoman on Dec 15, 2005 15:14:22 GMT
About the college thing- I'm going to an international school and taking Cambridge A levels (!) but even for people who go to normal schools it's junior college after tenth grade. College is the equivalent of 11th and 12th grade. I would be in First Year Junior College if I WASN'T doing A levels.
A levels are very tough compared to the Indian board I'd been studying in- and that was ICSE, which was reputed to be the toughest Indian board there was. I got 80 percent in my final exams, which was quite low compared to my class average. But still quite high. I mean an eighty is an eighty, whether everyone does better or no one does better.
Eggo, you'd be interested to know that a lot of my friends are probably going to take the SATS if they wanna study in the US. I might too- but I'd rather go to the UK, coz the best colleges are there (I think). My parents say that they can either send me after 12th or they can send me after university for my...whatever you do after university. I'd prefer going later- so I'm working hard to get good grades in A levels so I can get a scholarship so I can go earlier as well!
But as I get deeper and deeper into the A level course, I realize how impossible it is to make A grades. I topped my class in my first term exams this year with three C's and one B so you can imagine how hard it is. And worst of all, I heard that UK universities don't offer scholarships to Literature students, which is what I want to do after college, which sucks and narrows my chances for going abroad with a scholarship even further...
But life moves on, you know? Must dash! Like I told you, I'm on a time limit here!
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Post by laerien on Dec 15, 2005 15:48:13 GMT
Now, I can understand how you feel. (Or at least I can imagine) There was a kind of scholarship here, announced by some kind of New-Zealand&Hungary organization, and all you had to do was to do an online test. And with that, you could have won a 10-week-long scholarship to New-Zealand... They would have paid the courses, the accommodation etc... And when I wanted to join it turned out that it was only for adults... (over 18) I was a bit angry let us say... Not that I 'd have won, I guess the others would have been better than me, but it is so frustrating that I was never given a chance... Your system is so strange to me. It is very different here... Not that it is better. I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who doesn't know what to do after secondary school/college, whatever.
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