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?

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Comments

[justacat.livejournal.com]

I have you friended because I met you and liked you and am interested to know what's going on with you. I'm not really interested in your current fandoms, and I don't really expect you ever to talk about Pros anymore, so I'm not really here for that - but I admire the things you've done in fandom, particularly in my current favorite fandom.

It's true that I really get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that whether or not you currently share them or write about them, you "get" my obsessions, and that's part of the appeal, but mostly I'm here because though I don't know you that well I just like you - it's an emotion that doesn't depend on logic or the things you do.

I so understand where you're coming from in wondering why people read your LJ - but I do agree with those who say, use it for whatever you want, whatever works best for you.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

And I definitely never leave a fandom, that's for sure. i may not continue to produce, but I'm not one of those folks who ever looks back and goes, "Why did i ever care about that? It's so five minutes ago." Once I'm hooked, I'm hooked for life. ;-)