X-men 10 Year Anniversary

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

Forgive me since this is a little similar to a post I did a few months ago…

I first became a fan of X-men 10 years ago and I’ve really been wanting to do something to mark this milestone. I mean, this is a major anniversary and I still love X-men as much as I did 10 years ago when I dragged my friend nytshd3 to see the movie with me again for the 4th time. (The movie is what got me into it, but now I like XTAS the best of all forms of X-men.)

Here’s the problem – I can’t figure out how to celebrate it. None of my friends in real life are into X-men. Well, nytshd3 is kinda but there are limits to even her patience and I can’t see a point in having, say, an X-men themed party or viewing of XTAS or the movies if I’m the only one who’s into it. I need to be able to celebrate in cyberspace. And I need ideas.

So, does anyone have any ideas? The only one I have off the top of my head is: ask people for X-men fanfic recommendations, take a day off work so I can read most of the recs, and post a link to my own fanfics. I can also try to write a short one but anyone who knows me know that fics I write tend to be lengthy (and my life is so busy now that I can’t commit to writing a longer fic now). Any other ideas on how to celebrate online?

Comments

[furousha.livejournal.com]

i vote the fic idea-any forms of it, reading or writing. :)

Wow, has it been 10 years since the movie came out?! I remember watching XTAS as a kid and pretending to be Rogue. I still love it just the same. :D

[jade-lightning.livejournal.com]

Reading and writing fic is always good. I would totally rec you a bunch of shit, if you have firefox (it's the only way I can think of to do this shit) I can just give you my whole favorites folder (there's... a lot :P)

Watch your favorite episodes, the movies, re-read some comics you like, write up a big post about how much you love it and why it's so special for you. Definitely take a day (or two) off.

[rivulet027.livejournal.com]

aim viewing party. One of my PR friends did this for her b-day. Everyone watches the movie while on Aim and comments to each other.

[denisia.livejournal.com]

Not online, but: Are there any sort of X-Men souvenirs you might want? Like a special poster of Remy and Rogue or Storm, or an expensive graphic novel, or a super-deluxe box set you don't have? If so, maybe you could buy yourself a special X-Men treat and then spend time enjoying it. Or, maybe you could do something else that reminds you of the X-men

Online, I think an online viewing party would be good; there will certainly be like-minded fans who will enjoy watching and commenting with you! :)

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

I'm in for the viewing party!

Although an icon-test would be cool too. I do love making icons.

[nytshd3.livejournal.com]

i'm totally open to an x-men party just by the way :) hey, we could even make it an x-men/game night party... maybe start a little earlier and invite folks who would like to watch x-men, watch some episodes, etc, then maybe when we play games we could use the x-men figures from the monopoly game as our game pieces no matter what game we played? just a thought. also i bet it would be easy to find all kinds of x-men party supplies ;)