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The Fangirl Life
The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal | Kathleen Smith
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Are You a Fangirl? Do you survive boring classes or meetings by imagining your favorite TV couple making out? Have you posted a lengthy diatribe on the Internet defending a fictional character? Have you gotten carsick from reading fan fiction on your smartphone? Has Netflix presented you with the Are you still watching? button at least once? If you answered yes, you are a fangirl. (But you already knew that!)Fangirling is more than a hobby; its a way of life for an enormous community. As a fangirl, you are a passionate, intelligent, and creative creature. But sometimes focusing on the fictional can keep you from putting those qualities to use in your everyday life. Rather than using your pop culture obsessions to avoid your real-life problems, you can tackle issues like stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem by turning obsession into inspiration. If you enjoy flailing over badass fictional ladies or speculating endlessly over plot points, but would like to carve more space for the narrative of your own life, this is the book for you. Written by a proud fangirl who is also a licensed therapist, The Fangirl Life is a witty guide to putting your passions to use in your offline life, whether its learning how writing fan fiction can be a launching point for greater career endeavors, or how to avoid the myths that fictional romance perpetuates.If youre ready to start translating those fictional obsessions into some bold personal moves, let The Fangirl Life help you become your own ultimate fangirl.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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bullbunny
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1. It depends on my mood, right now the song playing in my head is Deja vu by SONAMOO
2. Too many, not enough room
3. Again it depends on mood, but my dominant music is a variety of loop
4. Technically I do have Amazon prime but I majorly listen on spotify or my iTunes
5. Hmm @sudi

#hellothursday @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Thanks for playing! 😀 6y
bullbunny @wanderinglynn you're welcome ^^ 6y
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Endowarrior21
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Endowarrior21
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So I am having a fan girl moment

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DM_Johanna
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It wasn't what I expected, but it was a really cool and relatable guide on harnessing fangirl energy to transform your life and be a BAMF!

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DM_Johanna
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Learning how to balance my own Mulder and Scully. I've become too Scully over the years.

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DM_Johanna
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I suppose I should learn about the life I live.

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Misanthropester
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A fun, accessible, and honest book about embracing your fandom(s). in the course of doing so, she casually shows us all how to live an affirming feminist life by merely doing what we love. Taking pleasure seriously is perhaps the most fun and rewarding thing a person can do for themselves and others. I dunno if calling this a self-help book is fair to its quality but if it's self-help to believe we need to embrace our pleasures, then so be it.

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Misanthropester
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Misanthropester
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from the 'Fact or Fan Fiction' chapter

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Misanthropester
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SQUEE!!!

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BookishClaire
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Excited to come home to this new book - "a guide to all the feels and how to deal".

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BookishClaire
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I've just spent the weekend fangirling hard over my West Wing heroes, so finding out about this book today was perfect timing! Can't wait to read it.

ShonaCook So jealous (but completely awesome!!) 👍👍 8y
Chessa OMG!!!! So much envy!!! 😍😍😍 8y
TheWellReadOwl So many good West Wing memories! 8y
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Neverlistless Josh and Donna! OMG! 😍 8y
amandaz Omg! I would die! I looooove them. 8y
GuiltyFeat I can't forgive Josh for divorcing Malcolm in the Middle's mum... and then getting shot by the Mentalist. 8y
LA_Mead Yay Josh and Donna! 8y
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penguinrandomhouse
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💯💯💯

MelodySchreiber I need this book! 8y
Autumnscribe Does anyone know if this would be appropriate for a middle school girl? I don't want to think I am handing her Doctor Who and inadvertently give her Fifty Shades of Gray instead. 8y
BookishClaire So excited about this book! 8y
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