I... what... just... no.

[camrogers]

There are people out there claiming to be Na'vi. As in, from Avatar.

- Na'vi Anti-Defamaton League (troll site?)
- LJ Community

Unless I'm missing something huge, what this says to me is that you're a disempowered citizen of the western world who has never been loved the way you'd like. While you're whacked up on this morphine your soul's bleeding out.

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[silverblue.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, you should google 'Otakukin'...

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Every day something from a 1988 issue of Judge Dredd becomes a reality.

[paracelsus.livejournal.com]

Maybe this is a contemporary version of wearing the Aladdin Sane lightning streak, doing your hair in a mohawk or going about in New Romantic eyeliner and puffy shirts?

Hey, I think it's lame too but in some ways if I approved of what kids that age are doing these days I'd be even more worried. We're meant to think our whacked-out behaviour when we were that age is cooler!

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Kids wearing the lightning streak didn't actually think they were spacemen. I don't think the Na'vi-kin are doing it because the other kids are doing it, or because it's cool. I think they're doing it because (to use their language) they've discovered they are actually Na'vi. I think that constitutes a really clear difference between wearing those who wear band shirts, go to gigs and get drunk together... and those who identify so strongly with non-existent things that they come really close to (or do) believe they are those things, for real. And drift toward a community of people who will reinforce that.

[paracelsus.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. I don't think that kind of behaviour is unique to this generation though, what with 80s D&D spelunkers and such.

The 'identify with something that's nonexistent' turns really bad in cases like the car culture that led to those five kids getting killed on Sat... identifying with an impossible idea of hyper-masculinity to the point that you lose control.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

I don't think that kind of behaviour is unique to this generation though, what with 80s D&D spelunkers and such.

But those guys (with only a few rare exceptions) were just kids playing a game to a set of rules in a commercially available pass-time. They didn't actually think they were wizards and, for the most part, the game ended after a few hours and life resumed.

I hadn't heard about the thing on Saturday, but I think I get it. And yeah, there's that. And the urban survivalist/gun-nut culture. In fact anything that subscribes to a heightened and edited version of reality and then throws weaponry into the mix (be it cars or guns) is kinda asking for it.

Jonas Brothers? WTF?

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Legit Pandora people?

Oh, FFS.

I am afraid to read her comments.

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[greylock.livejournal.com]

Her 13,000 + comments.

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[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

What the hell?

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[greylock.livejournal.com]

I am not afraid of their attacks. If it leads to martyrdom, then I've served Eywa well.

http://community.livejournal.com/tothehometree/4785.html?thread=111281#t111281

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[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

I can't stand much more of this. I don't know how this works. I think... I dunno... it's some kind of self-absorbed hyperactivity? Either way, this can't be something they'll still be doing ten years from now. God I hope not.

Brain hurt.

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[greylock.livejournal.com]

I had to stop too.
The movie mythology isn't even that deep, or well developed.

It's just sad. Yes, sadder than furries and otherkin.

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[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

That's the thing, the movie ain't that great. I think that's what really gets me: the idea that someone could be spurred to this by marketing.

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[greylock.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it's a combination of the simple way of life, the body-swapping and the immersive 3D experience.

Oh, and the crazy.

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[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

No. It's the hissing, the primal expression of passions, the sense of community, the idea of a massive guardian figure who can be seen and grasped and communicated with, and an easily comprehensible philosophy that strikes all the major emotional touchstones.

It's crack for the unexamined.

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[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I couldn't get past the first ten seconds. The "...pay my respects to the people of Pandora" bit. Part of me just died. Or something.

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[greylock.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure she's not a Na'vi otherkin, just some attention-seeking girl.
On the other hand, I am .... following links that scare me.

How can people believe this? HOW?

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[belegdel.livejournal.com]

Part of me just died. Or something..

I think it's more like you try to access the part of your brain that's capable of comprehending it but realise you don't have that part in your brain.

So the normal process of sympathy/empathy just...dies.

In my case, I think I'm just avoiding work...

[fengshuiguy.livejournal.com]

Difficult to think of this without a mixture of pity and contempt. While it's not hurting anyone else, it is, as you say, letting their soul bleed out.

Instead of getting up off the mat, dusting themselves down and making their life the kind of life they want, they use this delusion to create the feeling of being a special unique snowflake instead.

Which is sad, 'cause you only get one roll of the dice.

[bell-man.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm missing something huge, what this says to me is that you're a disempowered citizen of the western world who has never been loved the way you'd like. While you're whacked up on this morphine your soul's bleeding out

Ooooh, that's going on my wall. Or into Evernote. Or something.

Iz gud.

(And I'm too bloody scared to click on links or even, Godhelpme, press the 'play' button on that video there).

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Can't wait for the next census -- maybe they can taken-on the wannabe jedi?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

There was a report in the UK papers about people suffering 'withdrawal symptoms' because after seeing Avatar they felt that the world was drab, depressing and boring compared to the technicolous 3D of the Na'vi planet.

Radio 6 did a spoof 'charity appeal':

"Just £10 will pay for an unemployed person to paint themselves blue and dangle outside their window for an hour. And just £50 will pay for a baseball bat to sort them out once and for all."

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Oh that's not kind. ;)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Might teach them to appreciate the wonders of the world they have, rather than fantastising about a CGI-wonderland.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Reminds of a line from an X-Files episode: something about wanting to be abducted by aliens and live among the stars. And that way I don't have to get a job.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but have you seen the forms at the intergalactic dole office?

wow

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

...
There are theories in the community, however, about the multiplicity of the planes of existence and the possibility that James Cameron was filtering ideas down from a higher plane - that he was chosen as a sort of conduit for the reality of that world to be told to this one.
...
I am the first Na'vi 'kin, however, because I am a Na'vi, and I am the first. I cannot explain it any plainer than that.
...


I wonder if they know just how many lawyers Mr Cameron employs?
Ellison must be laughing his arse off.

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[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

God brain hurt