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msmoonThe Thundercats Issue stems from the same place as the Gargoyles Issue. Thundercats I found after I found Gargoyles. I was in Jr. High, no one liked me, I was an out cast and hated by most. I was constantly getting beat up, so I suppose my extremely active imagination sought some solace, some thing to focus on, some place to escape. After finding Gargoyles I became slightly more bold. People threatened me and I actually growled at them, bearing my teeth and making my eyes go really wide. It scared people off, and I was left blissfully alone. But Gargoyles was very angsty, while when I saw Thundercats it was more of a ‘happily ever after’ thing. Sure there were problems, but at the end of the episode usually there was a joke and everyone ended up laughing. Happy to be alive, and mostly content with their situation. Something I envied at the time.
I’ve also been a huge fan of big cats. I have my own three big cat races in my own world, and they know me there. One of these days I’ll have to explain the whole ‘voices issue’ as well. But anyway, I suppose the part of me that created my own cat races saw the Thundercats and felt a sense of kindred. Not only that, but it’s like the ‘Tolkien Elves Issue’ in that the Thundercats weren’t just cat-people trying to make their way, but they had a solid moral code that they never deferred from and there was no exception to. Nobel beings, not at all like the animals they were fashioned after. But then even animals know to be true to their nature and the laws of nature. Humans are the only ones that challenge that. But I’m getting off the subject.
Thundercats was a way to be creative. It was different and new and I liked it for many reasons but firstly and simply because I liked it. I always ask my self ‘Why do I like this’ and if the first thing that comes to my mind is ‘because I do’ then I know I’ve found something I simply click with. That’s a rarity in many issues.
But you must understand, I’m not simply obsessing about one thing. I am Obsessive Compulsive (more on the obsessive than the compulsive side though) and everything that I have loved I’ve obsessed about. First it was Batman, then it was X-men, then Spiderman, then Gargoyles, then Thundercats, then Star Wars, and the list just goes on. When I love something, I get this thing that says I have to know everything about it...I have to understand it completely or it won’t work. Because knowing something is one thing, but understanding something is different. As I always say, To hear the truth will make you mad, but to know the truth will set you free. I can hear that I’m an imperfect, ugly slob and it will (and has in long years past) riled me up. But now that I know it, it doesn’t bother me. I’ve accepted it, and I don’t care. Instead of trying to be social, trendy, and popular, I’m now an introverted antisocial who doesn’t care what people think of her, and actually enjoys her self-made outcast title. It all goes back to the old knowledge is power doctrine. In the end, all my obsessions are another way for me to mold and shape my own creativity for my own world.
Fan fiction is something altogether different. To me, writing a fan fic is the most sincere way to say “I’m a huge fan”. It also proves the quality of the fan, because you have to know your stuff about the fandom you’re writing about. It takes hard work and plenty of toil to make a fan fic work. Because you have to take the fandom that everyone loves, and then put your own twist on it without everyone hating it. I remember when I first watched Thundercats I dreamed up a Thundarian character who, looking back, would’ve never worked. She was a loner, she hated people, she came in to help the Thundercats when they needed her desperately, but otherwise scampered off to seclusion. I decided that it was impossible (after much angst of letting that character go) and dropped the entire fan fic idea.
Some people can make up their own Thundercat or Thundarian characters and it will work for them. I’m not that good at it. Not that it’s impossible or bad. I’ve read great fan fics in which this was the case. Signal In the Sky by Purrsia, in which Jaga’s daughter is found, and must marry Lion-O is one of them. The character in question, Felina, is more scholarly and shy which provides a great balance for Lion-O. Another of great interest to me is Born Into Marriage by ladyleatc. This one is more interesting because it’s about the daughter of Panthero being hidden away until the Eye of Thundera calls her to come out of hiding. Then she has to marry Lion-O and come to terms with having an arranged marriage from birth and being connected to him whether she wants it or not. The character, Leanna, is well written and seems like the type of girl everyone would love.
It’s all pretty well written and with incredible characters. But that plot line just doesn’t work for me. It’s not that I can’t see making a character to marry Lion-O, or any of the other Thundercats. They’re all fine specimens of maleness, and I won’t protest to that; but, it’s that I can’t see any of my characters solely existing for that purpose. And every time I try to write something like it, it turns out being that way, and it drives me nuts. It’s like saying females are only around for the males to mate with, and that seems ridiculous to me. So I’m working on making more dynamic characters that have a purpose other than just meeting up with the guys (or girls) and getting hitched. Only now do I actually think I have it, but we’ll see I suppose.
And I also suppose that this will conclude the Thundercats Obsession entry. Not that it means I won’t still talk about Thundercats, but at least there’s a full explanation for it no da. I should probably make a Thundercats tag...Anyway. I shall post later (maybe), but until I do, goodbye.
