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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:20 pm 
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- You have been arrested for carrying a sword down the back of your shirt, and were completely baffled when the police classified it as a "hidden weapon." What dope can't see a sword in the back of someone's shirt? What do you have to do, stick a neon sign on it?
- You watched Night of the Lepus and found nothing strange or surprising about the idea of giant carnivorous rabbits.
- When you are told that sewer rats do not naturally grow to a length of six feet or more, you ask in genuine confusion, "Then what do the big monsters eat?"
- You are disappointed that your mouse does not have a sword, your rabbit does not speak with a British accent, and despite hours of dedicated effort you have not yet managed to understand Sparra talk.
- When confronted with people baffled by ideas like female dragons or mice with swords, you cry in frustration, "You people have no imagination!" Bonus points if you have felt the urge to stab them in the feet (a la Repicheep).
- Guys Only: When your girlfriend says she wants a knight in shining armor, you take her literally.

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You only answer to your Arthurian name, i.e. Sir Lancelot. (Me)

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You only answer to your Arthurian name, i.e. Sir Lancelot. (Me)

I should do that!

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* You are having a conversation with one of your characters, and a friend in real life asks you a question. You answer in your character's language.
* When asked for advice on a problem, you say, "I'm not sure. Let me ask (insert name of character).

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* You randomly try to shoot the guy you don't like in the face with a fire spell. (true story)


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*You imagine an aura of a character around your body and try to see what they would do in the situation you're in throughout the day. (guilty)

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*You imagine an aura of a character around your body and try to see what they would do in the situation you're in throughout the day. (guilty)

A less extreme version of that:
* You get into your characters by mentally "morphing" them, willing yourself to feel your body shifting into their shape, kinda like Animorphs (guilty).

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* You have spent great lengths of time deciding what a dragon's egg would consist of in order to withstand, much less require, incubation in a fire for seven years.

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Dragon Tamer wrote:
Rusty the Fox wrote:
*You imagine an aura of a character around your body and try to see what they would do in the situation you're in throughout the day. (guilty)

A less extreme version of that:
* You get into your characters by mentally "morphing" them, willing yourself to feel your body shifting into their shape, kinda like Animorphs (guilty).


Guilty of that too.

*You attempt to find an endless list of medias to continue the adventure. (guilty)

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* You wonder if an insurance company (or a police report, for that matter) would file a dragon attack as fire damage or creature damage.
* You contemplate having a dragon attack someone's house in order to find out.
* You wonder, if a unicorn stabbed someone with its horn, would the wound heal as the horn came out?
* You find yourself unable to give directions that are not cryptic, rhymed, or both.

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- You frequently imagine using your best friend as an indestructible weapon.


Guilty, XD. Actually, I'm guilty of most of the following too.

-(Girls only) When you are severely disappointed that your guy doesn't dress up in a suit of armor and come to your rescue. Bonus points if you also wish that he knew how to sail a ship, so that you two could run off and be pirates.
-You pretend that you really can become your character at will.
-When your characters take on a life of your own and make comments on much of what you do and say throughout the day.
-When you end up responding to these comments out loud and get strange looks from the people around you.
-You begin to believe you really do have a magical power, and try to crush/help people with it. Bonus points if you're upset when it doesn't work. Extra bonus points if you can attribute the failure to something in your fantasy universe, which would be perfectly logical there, but here makes no sense.
-You strangely wonder if a half-moon will make you transform into a half-werewolf stage.
-When you're posting in a topic about writing fantasy.
-When you're posting in a topic explaining that you know you're writing fantasy when you fulfill a list of many requirements. Especially if you add to that list yourself. Extra bonus points if you waste time and procrastinate on more important things to do this.


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- All your creatures on Spore are fantasy-based.

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- When you subconsciously always see a Dhole around you that isn't really there (only in your mind) and you can't stop seeing it however much you try, because envisioning it has become second nature to you. Bonus points if you spent the last 2 years creating this character for a story. (Guilty >( )


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You get punched by a man with dwarfism because you absent mindedly asked him what he did with his beard and battle axe.

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* When your dog starts talking, you don't faint or scream, you just go, "It's about time you spoke up!"
* You refer to this world (the human world) as "that world," "that place," "Otherworld," etc.
* When you get that feeling like something bad's about to happen and instinctively look down in case it's a really short threat (like a mouse with a sword or a dwarf with an axe), you're writing fantasy. Either that or you're living with toddlers.

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- When you invent a complex system of ruins stretching through 100's of miles underground.


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