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Post by julia17 on May 6, 2015 18:42:36 GMT
Hi everyone, I'm julia17 and I've been lurking around the forum for a little bit now. I've been meaning to introduce myself for forever but I kept forgetting! lol. I'm pretty much a Wilson fan with heavy emphasis on the Will! He's just always been my favorite and even though I understand how hard it's been lately for Will fans, I was happy to find a forum like this where people are being respectful of people's opinions. I'm not really a Paulson fan, I can't lie they kind of bore me quite a bit. However, I still love Sonny very much, even though the writers are also quite intent on screwing him up lately. And I also really, really like Paul. But I also wish the writing for Paul will pick up because I used to enjoy his edginess so much and now he's getting pretty boring as well. Anyway, those are my most basic views on the matter and since I've been dying to get in the conversation around here for a long time now, I figured it was time I actually introduced myself!
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Post by sunnyways on May 6, 2015 22:49:34 GMT
Welcome Julia17, I'm glad you found us! I'm looking forward to reading your posts/pov.
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Post by Cordelia on May 7, 2015 4:32:15 GMT
Welcome, julia17! Can't wait to read your POV!
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Post by dalphine112 on May 17, 2015 18:27:25 GMT
I'm dalphine112... Just like to Hi.
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Post by honeybees on May 17, 2015 18:32:50 GMT
I'm dalphine112... Just like to Hi. Welcome! Glad you found us.
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Post by dalphine112 on May 18, 2015 1:36:06 GMT
Thank you.
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Post by stephenstepsout on Nov 6, 2015 23:13:35 GMT
Hello Everyone! I am a crazy Will Horton fan - thanks to those wonderful people who have shared clips of W and W & S on the internet (Days is not broadcast in the UK where I am, and I'd never heard of it). How is it that I am discovering this wonderful site just today? Well, I've been searching the internet to see what people are saying about the unbelievable Daysaster that happened on October 9th, (and saying quite a bit about it myself too on Michael Fairman's site). And I've been looking for more talk and info about this since activity on that subject has dried up there, and then Google happened to serve me up this forum! I am delighted to have the opportunity here to connect with other folks who love this character as much as I do. I am delighted to discover there are lots of people who love this character as much as I do! Damn shame about the event that brought me here - and yet it makes me more pleased to find others who share the same enthusiasm. So Hello! And Very Pleased to Meet You All!
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Post by honeybees on Nov 6, 2015 23:16:48 GMT
Hello Everyone! I am a crazy Will Horton fan - thanks to those wonderful people who have shared clips of W and W & S on the internet (Days is not broadcast in the UK where I am, and I'd never heard of it). How is it that I am discovering this wonderful site just today? Well, I've been searching the internet to see what people are saying about the unbelievable Daysaster that happened on October 9th, (and saying quite a bit about it myself too on Michael Fairman's site). And I've been looking for more talk and info about this since activity on that subject has dried up there, and then Google happened to serve me up this forum! I am delighted to have the opportunity here to connect with other folks who love this character as much as I do. I am delighted to discover there are lots of people who love this character as much as I do! Damn shame about the event that brought me here - and yet it makes me more pleased to find others who share the same enthusiasm. So Hello! And Very Pleased to Meet You All! Welcome! Welcome! We discussed your wonderful posts on the Michael Fairman site - many of us were the disgruntled Will, Horita and Wilson fans that expressed our displeasure at the terrible turn the show took under the new writers. You are among friends....feel free to look around and post away. I'm a huge fan of your Kermit gets strangled post. It was brilliant. I was Kaylie15.
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Post by stephenstepsout on Nov 6, 2015 23:31:20 GMT
Awww ... Thank you very much for the welcome! And Hello Again! (And Hah! Outed as I step into the room! That was quick! Thank you for the appreciation, and thank you for making me laugh!)
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Post by mistresseuclid on Nov 6, 2015 23:45:24 GMT
Awww ... Thank you very much for the welcome! And Hello Again! (And Hah! Outed as I step into the room! That was quick! Thank you for the appreciation, and thank you for making me laugh!) Outed as a hero! Welcome, welcome!
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Post by stephenstepsout on Nov 6, 2015 23:59:41 GMT
Awww, thanks again!
I have to say here too, that I am so very thrilled to discover that Guy is doing his Athens marathon to help people with AIDS on the VERY DAY of the anniversary of that show that didn't want him. That made me laugh out loud and makes me so grateful because he has given me a way to celebrate the brilliance that is Will Horton by giving me the opportunity to back him doing something grand and important *and* relevant to the character. That day would have sucked so bad, but now I can celebrate and laugh too! For me, it gives something of a happy ending to the whole affair. It made me think : Goodness Gets The Last Laugh! Wow! An unbeatable thing to do on that day! Guy has shown such utter class and unbelievable good grace and humour throughout this fiasco. RESPECT to the man!
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Post by mistresseuclid on Nov 7, 2015 0:11:02 GMT
Awww, thanks again! I have to say here too, that I am so very thrilled to discover that Guy is doing his Athens marathon to help people with AIDS on the VERY DAY of the anniversary of that show that didn't want him. That made me laugh out loud and makes me so grateful because he has given me a way to celebrate the brilliance that is Will Horton by giving me the opportunity to back him doing something grand and important *and* relevant to the character. That day would have sucked so bad, but now I can celebrate and laugh too! For me, it gives something of a happy ending to the whole affair. It made me think : Goodness Gets The Last Laugh! Wow! An unbeatable thing to do on that day! Guy has shown such utter class and unbelievable good grace and humour throughout this fiasco. RESPECT to the man! It still infuriates that Ken Corday gave $1000 to Guy's run in August, as though that would make up for the blatant homophobia in the show's new writing. But you are so right! I think Guy raised all this money and this publicity in the best way he knew how to give back to the gay community and I would love to think he was trying in his own gracious way to make up for the hurt he knew Will's death would cause. He is a beautiful soul, and I hope dearly that he gets a much better job and leaves the show far behind him as he moves on to much better things. I'll be cheering him on and trying my best not to think about the dumb show that didn't appreciate his talent or his fans.
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Post by stephenstepsout on Nov 7, 2015 0:34:57 GMT
Heh, I saw that too, and I so wish I had $1001 to give, because I so would, just because. (Because I love Will Horton more than you KC!)
But it gladdened me to see it all the same. It doesn't make up, no, but a good deed is a good deed is a good deed. The whole thing is barmy. That show created wonders, again and again and again - it created something extraordinary, extra-special, and fabulously unique - it created LEGEND. And then it stamped it out horrifically. How can one respond to that? "I REALLY REALLY don't know how to comprehend this!"
Anyhow, I'm off to bed! See you around folks!
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Post by tinman on Nov 16, 2015 7:20:11 GMT
Hello all - I'm sorry to meet you all under these sad circumstances.
Over the last few years I've grown to be a fan of the show generally, but more specifically of Will, Sonny and everyone in their orbits. I've known about Days for a long time of course (it's a classic after all) even though my mom was more a fan of AW and GH. Incidentally Soapdish is one of my favorite comedies so I do have a soft spot for the genre.
By a strange coincidence (and the exact timeline's a bit foggy), I became aware of speculation of a future gay wedding storyline on a soap, and started to watch while catching up on Will's coming out storyline and then his relationship with Sonny via online clips. I say coincidence because it was around that time that I was having to struggle with my own coming out (although at a quite different stage in life). Wow that got personal fast.
The actors often said in interviews that they get fanmail about people who credit them with being helpful under similar circumstances, and I can say it's absolutely true. Being able to see characters who are not just the punchline to a joke, the entertainment factor, the supporting character who's always single, and more importantly are not necessarily stereotypical, is extremely important and the writers, production crew and actors brought that to the screen in a sensitive and beautiful manner. A far cry from Jack Tripper (Three's Company), and all those tragic characters in that Celluloid Closet documentary that were all that was available when I was Will's age. And no internet back then either.
After catching up with the storyline and then watching pretty much daily, I found a few fanfictions online, and found them entertaining and thought provoking in many cases. Headscratching in a few cases lol. Then found a few more. Then fanfiction became the only real option as the show went the way they did... It"s through reading some of those more recent fictions that I found this lovely little forum. Lovely because healthy and intelligent discussion is welcome, but bigotry is not (some of the discussion on other soap forums or even IMDB is not for the patient or faint of heart I tel ya). Maybe #hatewins but not here. Thank you all for this.
Most of my reviews on AO3 and fanfiction.net are under the name Paul (not Narita), and I also posted a few comments on Michael Fairman's site as Sad in Salem. Obviously not a fan of recent events, or even of the slow character assassination that occurred, probably over the last year or so. Good thing there are fics that continue to be written, that do the characters justice. Maybe one day I'll try my hand at it too.
Anyway, before I need to break this down into chapters, I'll just say thanks for putting this forum together, posting fics and pics and commentary, and believing in our boy's right to being happy and loved, in whichever reality and pairing you prefer.
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Post by stephenstepsout on Nov 16, 2015 9:11:11 GMT
Hello and Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, from another newby around here (who also came here in the wake of the October 9th Daysaster)! Great introductory post!
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