I read your blog regularly under the guise of brainbuffet which is my journal for reading random good writers. That explains how I'm often here but not friended.
Hello! Welcome (again) and cool. I'm not _actually_ as cranky as post above sounds, but the partial move to LfT has been helping me address the toxic parts of the relationship I have with LJ, and that's meant laying some ground rules.
# I will not apologize for: being queer, genderqueer, female or successful; having a not insignificant online readership; living with an invisible illnesses; changing my mind; or for how I look
I actually appreciate your authoritative voice and your rhetorical absolutes, though I understand how that can fall anywhere between "off-putting" and "offensive" to some. I work in a job where it's really not appropriate for me to spend much time using IT resources for my own purposes, so I don't get to LfT as often as I'd like, but I do try.
I allow anon commenting on my fic lj only. My personal one is mine and mostly locked. But I consider fanfic to be free, so I leave that open. That has rarely been abused.
But I got protective of my life after a dumbass boss tried threatened to find my blogs. (He is now fired.)
Hey there, it's Vanessa. We had each other added before. I was sunday_best before I signed up for a new account. I missed reading my friends page and sometimes there's something personal that I liked about LJ that I couldn't always blog about. Nice to see you're still on here. I added you again!
Hello! I just friended you, but I'm aware my LJ doesn't have much recent content, so it seems a brief introduction may be in order. I stumbled upon your blog through fic, but over the past several days I have been systematically devouring every entry on LfT. Systematic devouring sounds creepy, but I mean that in the most loving way possible! So at this point I know a lot about you, and you know almost nothing about me, but we can remedy that as time allows, if you are so inclined. Once I slow my reading of LfT down enough to write out a few of the many (mostly emotional) responses I've experienced, you'll probably hear from me over there, too. I'm going to step on the brake now, before my rambling gets beyond control. Just one more thing, though - thank you. Really.
Thanks for introducing yourself. I'm slightly circumspect (as opposed to my formerly not giving a crap at all) about friending people thanks to a few ridiculously screwy incidents, eventhough I don't post much here anymore (although this journal has buckets of stuff in it from actual content to crap crap crap and more crap).
Comments always welcome both places; I am a big fan of the blog-based chitchat and getting to know people.
OH MAN SO I'm hardly on LJ anymore, but I use things like longreads a lot and I opened up an article entitled "The Boy Who Lived Forever" which had a very ambiguous blurb on my blogroll, and you can imagine my surprise upon reading the opening paragraph:
"J.K. Rowling probably isn't going to write any more Harry Potter books. That doesn't mean there won't be any more. It just means they won't be written by J.K. Rowling. Instead they'll be written by people like Racheline Maltese."
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Um, awesome. I didn't realize it was an article on fic, and now I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy it a bunch. *off to read*
Hi! Yeah. Um, it's been a thing. I knew it was happening, but didn't quite know how it was happening and had actually thought it was going to drop tomorrow. So while I was trying to decide if I was going to talk about it or how, it happened.
Lev did a lovely job talking about fan works and the community and I'm just really grateful for that. Being in it (and laughing my ass off at a few contextual moments around that) has been all bonus.
I really loved the article - I agreed with the various people quoted so much (Kelli Joyce pretty much articulated my experience starting in fandom at 12. Her name is even very close to mine, so kind of funny!). It was especially great to see an article that really got what fanfic is about, and didn't just play it off as "women writing porn with other people's characters". I shared it with J and he found it very interesting too, from a no-experience-with-fic perspective.
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Date: 2011-02-11 12:33 am (UTC)I read your blog regularly under the guise of
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Date: 2011-02-11 12:50 am (UTC)# I will not apologize for: being queer, genderqueer, female or successful; having a not insignificant online readership; living with an invisible illnesses; changing my mind; or for how I look
^ HELL YES :) :)
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Date: 2011-02-14 12:06 am (UTC)But I got protective of my life after a dumbass boss tried threatened to find my blogs. (He is now fired.)
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Date: 2011-06-08 01:43 pm (UTC)Comments always welcome both places; I am a big fan of the blog-based chitchat and getting to know people.
Welcome.
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Date: 2011-07-07 07:53 pm (UTC)"J.K. Rowling probably isn't going to write any more Harry Potter books. That doesn't mean there won't be any more. It just means they won't be written by J.K. Rowling. Instead they'll be written by people like Racheline Maltese."
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Um, awesome. I didn't realize it was an article on fic, and now I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy it a bunch. *off to read*
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Date: 2011-07-07 09:13 pm (UTC)Lev did a lovely job talking about fan works and the community and I'm just really grateful for that. Being in it (and laughing my ass off at a few contextual moments around that) has been all bonus.
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Date: 2011-07-08 12:40 am (UTC)Is XT the XT I think he is?
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Date: 2012-10-27 09:58 pm (UTC)http://www.shorpy.com/node/5392?size=_original#caption
(Woman on the far right looks like she could definitely be an ancestor, if not.)
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