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[nny]

What I want, still, more than anything in the world, is to find out that stories are real. I am still careful around wardrobes and watch avidly through the gaps in broken-down walls and try to spot the people from London Below on the Tube.

I haven't flung myself against the wall in Kings Cross, yet, but I take great delight in watching other people do so. XD

I make up stories about the people I see, especially if they vanish into nondescript doors or walk into blind alleys or look a little freaked out by the crazy girl people around them. I love Torchwood because I know where the aliens are!

I don't want to grow out of this, thank you. Growing up is overrated.

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[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Metaquotes for you.

ETA: also one of my best facial injuries came from throwing myself at Platform 9 3/4 while pissed. :D

[villainny.livejournal.com]

This is why I love you, see.

Hear, hear.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I spent my eleventh birthday entirely and honestly depressed because Merriman Lyon did not come and tell me I was an Old One. I know the feeling and I applaud the post. Growing out of that is most certainly overrated.

Re: Hear, hear.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Reeeeeelly need to read that whole thing at some point. ¬_¬

[the-10thdoctor.livejournal.com]

Hear hear.

Someday I'll find a police box that's bigger on the inside, I just know it.

[megaleena.livejournal.com]

Someday I'll find a police box... ;)

♥

[computersherpa.livejournal.com]

Good for you. Stories are important in ways most people don't understand. I still pull out my Myst books every so often and place my hand on the inside cover...

Re: ♥

[villainny.livejournal.com]

If you stop believing in stories there's no point reading them any more. :)

[skygiants]

Word.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

DIANA WYNNE JONES UBER ALLES

[rathenar.livejournal.com]

Here from Metaquotes and just wanted to say thank you. It's good to know that other people feel like me. ♥

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Hee, I know! I love not being the only one.

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Heh. Part of my brain is still convinced that Hogwarts is out there, that in a remote area there are large white telepathic horses, and that if I went down to Antarctica I could find the remains of an Ancient city. In general I'm pretty scientifically-minded, but I think there will always be that part of me that says, 'well, who knows? Just because I don't know about something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.'

And do people *really* throw themselves at the wall in Kings Cross? That idea amuses me *way* more than it should.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Dude, I totally get a squee any time Antarctica is on TV, and in my head any helicopter is flown by John Sheppard. Unless it is a film in which the helicopter explodes, in which case he escaped at the last minute.

And seriously, there is nothing quite like watching small children ping themselves repeatedly off a brick wall, seriously. XD

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

Me to, darling. When I'm in London, I shop at Fortnum & Mason's because I know Bunter's been there. And Mary Russell Holmes. And houses one of Sherlock's bolt holes.

Everytime I see the London Eye, I think of the Doctor. And now, every time I see Queen Victoria, I think of werewolves and Torchwood.

I feel the same way about wardrobes. And we had a lamp post in our yard when I was growing up and once it snowed....well if I'd known what a hottie Mr. Tumnus was, I'd have watched longer.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Bunter! Oh, Bunter!

*delighted*

In London I always get excited on the Tube because of Neverwhere, and go to St James Park to see if I can find Aziraphale and Crowley.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

HELL YES.

I go even further back and pretend to be on a mission from the Famous Five when I'm on walks, and there's a Dangerous Criminal around every corner OH GOD I MUST HIDE. BY CLIMBING THIS TREE. INCONSPICUOUSLY.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

SOME DAY YOU AND ME WILL FIND STOLEN MEDALS HIDDEN IN A TREE! AND THEN EAT LASHINGS AND LASHINGS OF BOILED EGGS!

[silveraspen]

Hear, hear. :)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*SQUISHES YOU TIGHTLY*

You are one of the people who makes me believe in stories the most. I miss Susan and Aziraphael so very much. So's you know.

[unravels.livejournal.com]

*agrees!!*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

AND ST JAMES PARK!

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I am still careful around wardrobes

I think, if I hadn't already, I would love you forever for that. I do, too. Narnia is still my comfort-story, no matter how old I am.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I used to live in Narnia! Did I mention that?

[sticktothestory.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Mind if I friend?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

No! I mean, of course! Go right ahead. :D

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

I could accept, *just*, that houses in Australia were unlikely to have a hidden door to a secret passage. But I did get very annoyed at my mother because I was trying to make a concealed compartment in my wall for hiding small objects, and she got angry at me for cutting the wallpaper and scraping away at the plaster.

At my current house, I'm making plans for a secret door behind a bookcase to the wine cellar.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I so need an old house with nooks, someday. I'm totally with you. :D

[sticktothestory.livejournal.com]

Also, if we're being honest, sometimes I think this is a large part of what religion means to me, you know?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Ooh? Please to expand?

*intrigued*

[ms-ntropy.livejournal.com]

People were very highly entertained to watch me try, and I was more than happy to oblige.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I LOVES YOU!

[minkhollow]

In conclusion: Hell yes.
(This is why I just kind of stared at my spam filter and went '.......................UM.' when I got something 'sent by' Marty Bishop. Not only has Sneakers been foundational-as-of-late, but that was ENTIRELY PLAUSIBLE.)
I think this is also why I mostly write fantasy/sci-fi/weird-shit stories.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...Marty Bishop?

[dramawench.livejournal.com]

WORD, SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Makes me SO HAPPY how many people have responded to this, here and over on metaquotes.

[ignescent.livejournal.com]

Word. Also, saw this on metaquote and went 'wow, that's really cool, who wrote it, I should friend them' and then saw your name and went 'oh, of course it was cool, it's villainny.' :)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That's very sweet, thankee.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

I often peer down alleyways and wonder where I might end up if I went into them. They are usually piled high with trash bags so I never find out. :(

[villainny.livejournal.com]

You should totally potter. The Marquis de Carabas is waiting. With me, it's gaps in drystone walls. Somehow the world looks a little bit wilder on the other side.

[okelay.livejournal.com]

Aw. This is so true. It is also a big part of the reason I'd love to move to the UK,not just because it's where history comes from, but where stories are born. The best ones, anyway.
And when I get there, I am so flunging myself at the wall in King's Cross.
And I'll go to Cardiff and claim to be from the lost Torchwood so they'll let me in. And I'll go to St.James and ride the Tube in hopes of seeing someone from London Below and I'll search for an old,possibly magical, wardrobe.

There should be like a tour, see the fantastic places in London!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm from the UK, obviously, and I kinda want to move to Vancouver where all ther stories are filmed.

I lived in Cardiff for four years and it's really dreadfully distracting when I'm watching it and Jack's running up the street by my old house. XD

[genarti]

*warbles*

If growing up means it would be
beneath my dignity to climb a tree,
I'll never grow up,
Never grow up,
Never grow u-up!
Not me!

Mind you, unlike Peter Pan, I choose to grow up for the good bits and insist upon being allowed to act like a five-year-old when I feel inclined to do so. :D

And yes, so very much agreed on all of this. *dorky high-fives*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Yus! Precisely! I love being old enough to make my own food and pay my own bills and live in my own place, but I also love being old enough to believe that the drystone wall near said place has Faerie on the other side. :D

[exactchange.livejournal.com]

May I T-shirt-ify parts of this? Or poster-ify it? It is too perfect to lose in my digitally cavernous bookmarks folder.

[exactchange.livejournal.com]

(got here via metaquotes, by the way)

[kailiia.livejournal.com]

so much love!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I love how many responses it's got!

*bounces happily*

[mer5.livejournal.com]

Here from Metaquotes.
Your quote has created the biggest "you are not alone" comment I have ever seen. It's awesome. *hugs*

I'm one of those people who didn't throw themselves against the wall of King Cross because some part of me thinks it's a wall and I don't want to prove it's right. I prefer to think I choose not to cross :).
I still want to find my daemon or see if there's a village called Wall and go during Market Day.

We may grow old but we don't need to grow up :D

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*points at icon*

That's a sloth called Shmoopy, and that's totally and without question what my daemon looks like. And there's a drystone wall near my house which has a gap that's fallen through, and the wood on the other side (I'm convinced) is a little wilder and a little older than the wood on this.