Okay, just one quick fic question...

[trinityofone]

...and then I am showering going to the library, I swear.

On the left you have: ages where you make up elaborate fantasy stories in your head and play pretend and run around thwacking your friends with sticks.

On the right you have: ages where you're starting to feel the first stirrings of sexual awakening, (mostly) innocent and vague, yes, but there.

In the wacky Venn diagram that is this story, where do those two circles intersect? How old are you?

Remember: also, you are a boy.

I was going to say 12, because at 12 I think I was still semi-convinced that I could still find the wardrobe to Narnia, but also I was crushing on Harrison Ford like mad and cutting his picture out of magazines and stuff.

Anyway, I would love to hear your thoughts.

(And sticks are still TOTALLY the best toys ever, OMG.)

Comments

[wychwood]

12 is probably good. I was still playing complex imaginary fantasy dungeon games in the playground when I was about ten, I know that :)

The downside with twelve (at least here) is that it's secondary school age, and you tend to deliberately move away from that sort of thing. Certainly at school, although less so outside of it.

(also, Harrison Ford! Have you ever noticed the freaky resemblance Joe Flanigan sometimes has to him?)

(also also, sticks are AWESOME!)

(also also also, go and shower! Go to the library! We'll be here when you get back! :))

[randomeliza.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely say 12 - just before my first real kiss, but old enough to want in that kind of vague way. And I have never stopped believing, at least partially, that at some point I will find a portal to someplace better, preferably with dancing penguins and a handsome prince with a cool sword. (I never read the Narnia books.) But I seem to remember my guy friends being all, "Ew, girls!" at age ten, but by age 12 they were trying to look down my shirt. So that sounds about right.

[birdsflying]

Probably about 12. At 12 I was in my final year of primary school and still setting up fantasy worlds in my back garden but also crushing on boys. And uh, Hugh Grant.

Ten years on and I still set up fantasy worlds although now they're on the internet and they involve a hell of a lot of porn. And I also crush on girls. And my Hugh Grant crush is back. Um.

[skylark-cee.livejournal.com]

I'm apparently a little precocious:)

My first boyfriend/innocent kiss was in 1st grade, so 7ish. 2nd grade me and girl across the street would hide behind a deck chair on my porch and play 'honeymoon' which involved more kissing until we would decide to play superhero instead. And I was still determined play make believe up into HS. 12, totally believable.

Now I'm feeling all nostalgic. Yay for sticks as swords and staffs and wands and guns and *joy*! Why aren't I that easy to entertain anymore?

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I agree with twelve, from what I've seen of twelve-year-old boys.

I do not agree about sticks, because cardboard boxes are the best toy ever.

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

I'd say 11 - for me, that was grade 6, when we got The Talk at school, and everyone was suddenly pubescing, and Jack totally got an erection sitting next to Sadie in Assembly. There was a lot of voracious reading of Biology textbooks and womens' magazines, and a lot of running up to boys on a dare and asking them about their penises. Ahh, grade 6 at Saltbun Primary - I look back on it with such... horror.

[crownglass39.livejournal.com]

I don't know, 12 would be seventh grade? I would say then maybe 10 or 11, because by seventh grade I was definately more into the whole 'OMG that person is a sexual being' thing.

Will ask my hubby for his input though.

[pantherrrrea.livejournal.com]

OK..... now.... for me it was 8..... my first kiss on lips definetely 8.... my first sexual fantasy too.... but I've had first sexual situation with one of my friend *if you can rate it like that* when I was very litle 4 or 5.
But I blame for the first fantasy my brother... he is 8 years older and had playboy and stuff like that and I was soooooo very curios, so I have known about sex when I was 8.
I'm girl yes, but I don't think it would have been otherwise if I were boy.... if the boy would have older brother it is pretty possible for him to have fantasy very soon in his life

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

because at 12 I think I was still semi-convinced that I could still find the wardrobe to Narnia, but also I was crushing on Harrison Ford like mad and cutting his picture out of magazines and stuff

That is *exactly* what I was doing when I was twelve. That's kind of scary. But then I was still doing that when I was fourteen.

[notpoetry.livejournal.com]

I was thinking twelve, too, because I definitely remember being twelve and still running around outside with my friends pretending we were horses or fairies or whatever the mythical creature of the week was, but at the same time, zomg Backstreet Boys etc. I don't know if it's the same for boys, because I think at some point they go from "imagination!" to "video games!" and I think I remember all the neighborhood boys hitting that when they were ten or so. But, you know. Thing.

I am so excited for this story now.

[lordelessar.livejournal.com]

Ok, this is going to seem really really late, but I was a freshman in high school. SERIOUSLY late bloomer. So, I was 14. Ugh.. yeah, that sounds even stranger when I actually wrote it down.

But I never actually got past fantasy stories in my head and pretending. I just stopped thwacking people with sticks.

[leech.livejournal.com]

Why does the overlap need to be only one year? I'd say 8-18.

[sonofzeal.livejournal.com]

I was going to say 12, because at 12 I think I was still semi-convinced that I could still find the wardrobe to Narnia, but also I was crushing on Harrison Ford like mad and cutting his picture out of magazines and stuff.

And you were what, 17 when you were convinced that we had actually found Narnia? ;)

[grey-bard.livejournal.com]

I would definitely say 12. Before that love, romance and acting on it was all sort of an abstract concept, and around then it became kind of a tantalising thing off on the horizon that was scary but sort of exciting.

Err...

[arionchan.livejournal.com]

I still make up complex fantasy worlds and play pretend and I'm 27 (though sadly I don't get to hit people with sticks nearly as much as I sometimes think they deserve. *G*) But for normal people? Yeah, 12 sounds good. ^_^