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gwynI'm always, like, a day late and a dollar short. Whenever there are kerfuffles or Big Doings in fandom, I'm walking about ten paces behind, going, "What? Huh? What?" and begging people to explain stuff to me. Trends are usually something I find out about approximately five minutes after they've passed. I hadn't even heard of hate memes until a few weeks ago, and when I did, I checked out a few of the links and thought they were kind of an interesting reaction to the way fandom is going these days. To me, they seem like they'd be more appropriately called venting comms, but then I guess half the cowardly fun of ranting about a BNF you can't stand would be gone if you were just venting rather than hating.
People seem to misunderstand what I'm saying when I say they're sociofannishly interesting to me. Maybe it's because I haven't been attacked in one, since I'm nobody, but I do find some of the ones where people vent about other fans or the fandom in general kind of morbidly interesting (the ones where people are just screaming about the series or insulting the actors they don't like? Yawn.), though also, yes, childish at a level I don't think I've seen since I was in the fourth grade. It gets old really fast.
I thought, though, that by not participating in much these days I'd be immune, but somehow one of these odd, spiteful little communities has friended me (something about crime shows, which completely flummoxed me until I remembered that I'd written one tiny Numb3rs story and have it listed as one of my interests). I actually went to see what it was, because I really don't pay attention to much (late, remember? Short of money?), and they have the rather in your face statement that if you're too stupid to do something called ban set, then you deserve to be friended by them. So, apparently they will friend you for reasons I'm not sure I understand (why on earth would a community based on anonymous hating friend... well, anyone, let alone someone who doesn't really participate?), but you're also stupid if you let them because you don't have enough time on your hands to learn arcane commands for LJ. Or something. It's hard for me to tell because... I'm stupid, according to their very helpful diagnostic skills.
So, maybe one of my actual real friends list people can help this obviously very stupid person out -- what is ban set and how do I get the fourth-graders off my friend-of list? (And truly, I beg your sincere pardon for being so busy with things like, oh, death of loved ones, taking care of a house and a more than 40-hour a week job and teaching and doing grades and trying to produce those hateable fannish products like stories and vids, because obviously it makes me stupid that I haven't learned these things about LJ and really, you should probably defriend me because who wants someone stupid on the flist?) Last week was work hell, and this week is shaping up even worse (I should so not be posting right now, but... my brain is dead already), and time isn't my friend right now in terms of doing research.
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People seem to misunderstand what I'm saying when I say they're sociofannishly interesting to me. Maybe it's because I haven't been attacked in one, since I'm nobody, but I do find some of the ones where people vent about other fans or the fandom in general kind of morbidly interesting (the ones where people are just screaming about the series or insulting the actors they don't like? Yawn.), though also, yes, childish at a level I don't think I've seen since I was in the fourth grade. It gets old really fast.
I thought, though, that by not participating in much these days I'd be immune, but somehow one of these odd, spiteful little communities has friended me (something about crime shows, which completely flummoxed me until I remembered that I'd written one tiny Numb3rs story and have it listed as one of my interests). I actually went to see what it was, because I really don't pay attention to much (late, remember? Short of money?), and they have the rather in your face statement that if you're too stupid to do something called ban set, then you deserve to be friended by them. So, apparently they will friend you for reasons I'm not sure I understand (why on earth would a community based on anonymous hating friend... well, anyone, let alone someone who doesn't really participate?), but you're also stupid if you let them because you don't have enough time on your hands to learn arcane commands for LJ. Or something. It's hard for me to tell because... I'm stupid, according to their very helpful diagnostic skills.
So, maybe one of my actual real friends list people can help this obviously very stupid person out -- what is ban set and how do I get the fourth-graders off my friend-of list? (And truly, I beg your sincere pardon for being so busy with things like, oh, death of loved ones, taking care of a house and a more than 40-hour a week job and teaching and doing grades and trying to produce those hateable fannish products like stories and vids, because obviously it makes me stupid that I haven't learned these things about LJ and really, you should probably defriend me because who wants someone stupid on the flist?) Last week was work hell, and this week is shaping up even worse (I should so not be posting right now, but... my brain is dead already), and time isn't my friend right now in terms of doing research.
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On a brighter, happier note, I wish sincere birthday felicitations to
movies_michelle and destina. The world is a better place with you both in it, if you ask me.
