I am curious (purple)

[gwyn]

One of the things that the past couple weeks or so brought home to me is that I'm completely bewildered by why anyone reads this LJ. I know most of my flist comes from the Jossverse -- especially Buffy fans. Judging by the response to last week's new chapter of my F&F WIP, it's not for the F&F fic updates. Many of you are folks I know through fandom, especially vidding. And then there's the inevitable confusion over why I get both massively defriended after a usage post, but also friended by a lot of new people, and many of them haven't been shy about telling me it's boring if I don't do more usage posts. At this point I almost have no idea what to use it for anymore. I would actually be grateful if you'd do the ticky box thing, and let me know, so I can figure out what to focus on. As it is, with fic, I'm trying to put the focus back in the Buffy since I think there's clearly more interest there, but is there something else I should be wasting words on?

[Poll #372466]

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

This is a massive cop-out, especially as I am going to be doing a more in-depth version of this same poll later in the week (the discovery that a few people who read my LJ don't like slash at all has me sort of stunned), but I honestly think you should write what you want to write here. We're your audience, yes, but this is your journal.

Personal narrative, though, in case it is of interest to you. Someone linked to a usage post of yours in the comments section of a rant of my own. I liked the essay, so I friended you and browsed through your memories. (Ew. That sounds bad. I trust you know I'm not, like, trawling your brain or anything.) Then, some time later, I wandered through your website and found your vids, and that was another thing I liked. Later I read your fic and liked that. And now I consider you to be in the general category of "likely to come up with something interesting." In other words, I don't read your journal for any one particular thing, more just for you in general.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Isn't that weird when you realize that one or more of your interests is so not a part of your flist's interests? I am always wondering why...

But that's actually helpful about how you arrived here -- in a way it says that my thinly disguised ADD poster child behavior might not actually be a bad thing, which I was starting to wonder if it was. I know it's a bummer when you want one thing from someone and they go haring off on another (the Spuffy fans probably wanting more Spuffy and grinding their teeth if I'm off writing F&F slash), but it sounds like a lot of people are more like you, where there are different interests to follow, so a wider variety of people you read. Which is a good bit of food for thought.