Romans, countrymen, LJ friends

[resonant]

I've been following the "write a message to each person on your Friends list" trend with interest, but apparently everybody else's Friends list represents a much greater variety of relationships than mine does.

I won't be making a list, because everybody on my Friends list falls into (at least) one of these categories:

You are actually a friend, or at least a colleague.

I love your writing and feel that I must know the instant you post a story or snippet.

I loved your writing when you were writing in fandoms I cared about, and I'm keeping track of you in case you decide to return to writing in fandoms I care about. (Or in case I decide to care about fandoms you write in.)

You're a DS slasher, and I friended you as an act of fandom solidarity.

You're an HP slasher, and I friended you as part of my ongoing effort to figure out the fandom.

I have no idea who you are or how I found you, but your journal is very interesting.

I have no idea who you are, but you friended me in the early days when I was friending everybody back. I don't do that any more, but as long as you don't put up eight hundred posts a day, I have no reason to take you off my list.

Comments

[mei-x.livejournal.com]

I friended you because:

I love your writing and feel that I must know the instant you post a story or snippet.

and I suspect that you friended me because:

I have no idea who you are, but you friended me in the early days when I was friending everybody back.

which is all good. *g*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I know you from DS, don't I? I had the idea we'd corresponded a while back.

[mei-x.livejournal.com]

Yes, we did correspond regarding due South. This whole Friends list meme just makes one wonder which entry applies to her, and sometimes it's a bit unclear. *g*

[leadensky.livejournal.com]

Do you mind being friended by total strangers?

(seeing as I'm lurking anyway)

- hossgal

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Not at all! I do it to other people all the time, and was rather shocked to learn that some people actually don't want strangers to show up on their Friends list.

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Your categories are remarkably similar to the ones I would come up with. And I friended you b/c I like your writing and was reading your blog before I ever had my own LJ. And you have cool friends that I also have as friends. And we both love the dS slash, although I don't write it myself. And so on. I'm not sure which category I fall into for you...

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yep, you're on the list because your posts fill me with DS daydreams. (Not to mention your icons!)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

You're an HP slasher, and I friended you as part of my ongoing effort to figure out the fandom.

Good God, I hope this isn't the reason you friended me . I'm the last person to EVER help anyone do that, I think. Partly, I think it's because I'm rather confused myself.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

My study of the HP fandom is based on the touching faith that if I have a hundred and fifty different views of chaos, eventually they'll evaluate down to clarity. If this isn't true, please don't tell me.

[cereta.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of in the same boat. For about half the people on my friends list, the only honest thing I could is "I barely know you." For the rest, there's nothing I could say that I haven't already said to them.

[simplelyric.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm way behind on everyone else's entries, so I'm just seeing this now. In case you're wondering, though, I most likely fall into the dS fandom solidarity category. *g*