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resonantThings I Learned From Blogpulse and Google's Blogsearch:
- That when that unbalanced girl accused several dozen HP writers of stalking her and posting her photos on nasty dirty porn sites, among the people who believed her and banned me were both Wizards For Bush and the Conservative Fangirls Coalition.
- That it's really common for someone to post a comment on a rec saying, "Wow, that was a great story," and never say anything to the writer at all -- what's up with that?
- That when my name shows up in those memes that randomly fill in blanks with people on your friends list, it's usually to do something attention-grabbing, such as insist on walking around naked, or set the back seat on fire.
- That when it comes to online life, there are big advantages to having Jim Ellison-style intimacy problems.
- That when that unbalanced girl accused several dozen HP writers of stalking her and posting her photos on nasty dirty porn sites, among the people who believed her and banned me were both Wizards For Bush and the Conservative Fangirls Coalition.
- That it's really common for someone to post a comment on a rec saying, "Wow, that was a great story," and never say anything to the writer at all -- what's up with that?
- That when my name shows up in those memes that randomly fill in blanks with people on your friends list, it's usually to do something attention-grabbing, such as insist on walking around naked, or set the back seat on fire.
- That when it comes to online life, there are big advantages to having Jim Ellison-style intimacy problems.
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Date: 9/15/05 04:36 am (UTC)Wizards for Bush? And it's not a group of enthusiasts who admire shrubbery or the female reproductive apparatus? Gods, if I were to compile lists of places any rational person would want to be banned from, a list run by conservative fangirls would have to be near the top of the list. Fannish churchladies?? Eep.
I am scratching my head over how this french-fried fruitloop claims you got her picture, especially if it was of the sort one would find on an obscene site... sounds like wishful thinking on her part.
I know fandom has a bell-curve population--some really wonderful folks, some genuinely unbalanced people, and lots in between--but HP fandom seems to have more than the usual number of young and very flaky folks in its ranks.
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Date: 9/21/05 07:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 04:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 04:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 05:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 03:57 pm (UTC)The thing I don't get is, if you're going to leave a comment that says, "Wow, that's a great story" -- why on earth would you leave it on the reccer's LJ instead of the author's?
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Date: 9/15/05 04:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/21/05 07:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/16/05 12:41 am (UTC)*sputters*
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Date: 9/15/05 05:08 am (UTC)But people who read the story and then give their feedback to the rec-er *instead of* the author will burn forever in the lake of fire.
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Date: 9/15/05 11:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 01:08 pm (UTC)It does irk me, though. It makes me feel like I'm being dissed, since the person had the time and inclination to say something about the story, just not to me.
Intellectually, I know that this isn't so. And I'm certainly not filled with rage when it happens. Just ... irked.
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Date: 9/15/05 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 01:50 pm (UTC)What I *think* and what I *feel* about feedback are rarely the same thing. I'm working on that.
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Date: 9/15/05 03:24 pm (UTC)Unless the rec-er reprimands them immediately so they run whimpering to the author to comment.
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Date: 9/15/05 05:38 am (UTC)That when it comes to online life, there are big advantages to having Jim Ellison-style intimacy problems.
I agree and would probably agree more if you told me which Jim Ellison you meant?
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Date: 9/22/05 02:50 am (UTC)Jim Ellison of the Sentinel, who was sort of the classic Strong Silent Type (though probably not as much so on screen as in the slash, where it made such a nice foil for Blair's Being In Touch With His Emotions).
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Date: 9/23/05 02:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 01:39 pm (UTC)So, maybe these people think their words are good enough to speak to the reccer, but not to the author.
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Date: 9/21/05 07:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 02:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 04:14 pm (UTC)I don't think you missed anything -- LJ entries are now searchable on the two search engines I linked to, which is freaking a lot of people out, and mostly I'm just relieved that my LJ's utter lack of personality is turning out to mean that I have nothing to hide.
The "ban the stalkers" post is here. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/xxpinkshoos69xx/264.html) She said that I and a bunch of HP writers (the list has been removed, but as I remember, it could have come right off the friendslist of anybody who read HP slash) "took private photos from me n my friendz in swinsuits at a pool party and put them up on some dirty sites!"
[shrugs] Fandom. Always weirder than anything else in the world, but never weird the same way twice.
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Date: 9/15/05 05:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/21/05 07:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/18/05 01:23 am (UTC)*hugs again*
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Date: 9/15/05 03:08 pm (UTC)I think you should take that one as a compliment...
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Date: 9/15/05 03:16 pm (UTC)Heh. I've never done that but I don't FB as often as I should so I'll take this opportunity to say that I really enjoy your writing. After reading one of your stories, the most complex thought I have is ... wow, that was reeallly good.
Anyway, I've read all of your TS and SGA stories (at least I think I have) and Waking and Warning are among my favorites in those fandoms. Also, Cred and Resolution and...
regards,
~les
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Date: 9/21/05 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 03:28 pm (UTC)amazing the online craziness is that ubiquitous that it inspires quizzes.
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Date: 9/21/05 07:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/21/05 11:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/22/05 01:08 am (UTC)Evidently I'm Joseph Duncan, a child molester/killer.
And only on the internet would this news be greeted with a "Cool!"
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Date: 9/22/05 02:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/15/05 03:55 pm (UTC)Too very true.
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Date: 9/15/05 05:46 pm (UTC)Which says a lot about both their credulity and their taste.
Wizards for Bush. I'm having a hard time getting my mind around that. I wonder if Rove Karl knows about them. I wonder if Rove has 1)found a use for them, 2)done his best to hide their existence from the part of the religious right wing that is terrified of anything that smacks of fantasy or magic (or science, but that's a rant for another day), 3)gotten the FBI to investigate them.
Blog-gate has taught me that other blogging giglets exist. And that friendslocking posts regularly is a good thing.
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Date: 9/21/05 07:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/17/05 05:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/19/05 01:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/20/05 08:32 pm (UTC)Also, I can't believe that Sandburg's alias was Dr McKay (he of Zelenka love lust).
Can you rec two of your top-ten Sentinel fics evah?
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Date: 9/21/05 07:32 pm (UTC)Dork, (http://trickster.org/francesca/Dork.html) by
Other Kinds of Things, (http://www.helenish.net/otherkinds.shtml) by
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Date: 9/22/05 09:35 pm (UTC)*runs off to read*
I didn't know Helenish had written Sentinel!! Is there anything that woman can't write? (One of my other very-first-omg-I'm-in-lust fics was a Helenish NSYNC.)
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Date: 10/26/05 03:19 pm (UTC)