Are you addicted to Harry Potter? If you're still reading/writing Harry Potter fan fiction you probably are. I am. Harry Potter fan fiction is fucking rad. But seriously the seventh book is out...the series is completed...why are we still obsessing over it? Do we get a "high" from it, like we can't wait to read Shezza's Denarian Knight, nuhuh's Demon's Pain... Like it's so good we can't stop. I've been reading fan fiction for 8 years... some of you can beat me.

Admitting an addiction is said to be the first step in treatment. So Critic at Large, Greg Moody, is admitting he is addicted to Harry Potter.

Heres the link:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=6690379&src=news

Give it some thought. Can you honestly say you're not addicted?

 

Link's broken.

Anyways, I consider myself strong enough mentally to cut back on fanfiction when I have to. It's not ever going to top work, family, and having a social life, so I enjoy it for what it is: a hobby.

 

I read 2 fics.

 

You've been reading fanfiction for 8 years and only just joined DLP?

Shame.

 

icanstopanytimeiwanna. sothere!

 

Eh... To me fanfiction is more of a hobby than anything else. I enjoy reading them, and I spend a bit of time on DLP, but eventualy I'll just get sick of them and move onto something else.

 

...I spend more time on DLP than I do reading fanfiction.

 

Yeah...I guess you could say I'm addicted to the fandom, more than the fan fiction. I used to read a load, but now I read very little - I keep up with updates, and only very rarely do I take up a new fic. This is mostly due to my standards increasing as time goes by.

 

While the HP fandom is loads of fun and a good way to spend time when there's nothing else going on (family, friends, and social life come first), I'm hoping none of the members of DLP have gotten to the point that we break into people's homes and steal electronics to pawn just to keep our internet service and get our fix. Actually, let me change that. If any of you are to that point, I'd love to hear the story behind it, lol.

Lots of fun to read, write and plan through? Sure. Addiction? I doubt it. Unless you want to call DLP our focus group, anyway.

 

Addiction.. I'd say that it IS an addiction,though
not one that's overly hazardrous (like crack or heroine). Something like cigarettes,perhaps? Pleasing, mildly calming, ultimately bad for your health.

(I both smoke and spend long hours reading ff. Both aren't good for your health. Really.)

 

Lol, you're deluding yourself if you think that death sticks don't fall in the realm of "overly hazardous".

 

Mm. Maybe. I intellectually know that my continued smoking will have unpleasant consequences (such as destroyed lungs, cancer, even death). Still I can't be fucked to quit. On some level, I don't even WANT to quit. Death wish? Who knows..

 

@Socialist:
Hey, you're a kid, still. One of the most reliable markers of maturity is Really Believing that the mistakes you make now will come back to haunt you in twenty years.
If I had understood what long-term damage the anorexia was going to inflict, I'd have been FAR more responsible. As it is, I got off very lucky.

 

When I was a young lad, I used to read a lot of Fanfiction. I even remember a time where I spent the entire day on the computer looking for new things to read, and that was not even HP. Nowadays, I hardly read any new FF, I stay with Updates, and that is about it, I am trying to find something new to read though.

Addicted? I think not.

 

It's the quality of fan fiction the more you read the more you want a decent story, you can read as many h/g h/hr h/dg fic's as you like but you soon get board with the same old story line's and the same old ship's and then to start to hate the ship's because it will become predictable so you move on to other ship,s and genres,

becoming addicted it can happen but when you run out of fresh material to read you will soon find something else to occupy your mind.

 

@Banner: I'll thank you not to call me a kid. I'm almost 24.Still, if you mean a kid in the sense that I don't know everything (or much, really) about life - you're probably right.

As for understanding consequences for ill-thought actions and habits.. I know something about that. I'm still paying for some of the stupid things I did years ago.

 

So- You're 23

Nothing wrong with smoking. It's your body; go for it.

As for the original topic, I'm not addicted to anything!

Except heroin.

 

As evidenced by:

Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Salonica
Age: 23

 

My point was that you said "I'm almost 24", what you meant was "I'm 23"

 

But 24 sounds so much more dignified ~!