I still say it should be something that says we came together around Buffy, Angel, etc., but that doesn't imply that's still our main purpose. If it needs to say anything at all.
I'm a big girl. Just tell me.
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Jesse - Apr 30, 2005 8:06:55 am PDT #4692 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
SailAweigh - Apr 30, 2005 8:09:06 am PDT #4693 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Do we discuss preservation, though?
I thought about that. I originally put "the preservation of" before discussions of. I dunno, I just came to this board for Buffy and Angel and don't want to lose that. Not that change isn't evil, but it may just have to at some point in time.
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2005 8:13:08 am PDT #4694 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
How about:
We first came together to discuss Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and branched out into the rest of the Whedonverse as it developed. We quickly discovered we had more in common than just an obsessive love for a group of TV shows, and began to discuss, well, pretty much everything. Obsessively. With good grammar, good humor, and good will. That's where we are today.
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2005 8:16:19 am PDT #4695 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Me, I'd just slip "originally" in at the start of the existing blurb. The list of threads below pretty much indicates we don't do just that anymore.
SailAweigh - Apr 30, 2005 8:16:21 am PDT #4696 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I like that Steph. Like it a lot.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 30, 2005 8:17:05 am PDT #4697 of 10001
What is even happening?
Me, I'd just slip "originally" in at the start of the existing blurb. The list of threads below pretty much indicates we don't do just that anymore.This.
or "built upon" in place of "dedicated"
Laura - Apr 30, 2005 8:20:04 am PDT #4698 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Me, I'd just slip "originally" in at the start of the existing blurb.
I agree with the idea, except originally we didn't discuss Firefly.
and change is Evil
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2005 8:24:12 am PDT #4699 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Depends on what you consider the start of the board. I think the start is when we were discussing Jossverse shows. That start ended when Angel was cancelled. Which tucks Firefly in the origin quite neatly.
DavidS - Apr 30, 2005 8:38:32 am PDT #4700 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In the Change Is Evil category: I'm sticking with my archeologist preference for leaving the dedication because there's more history and knowledge implicit in that, than mashing up some generic, covers-all-points menu description of who we are now.
In short, a Sphinx with no nose, buried up to its neck in sand tells us more about Egypt and its history than a nose-job excavated Sphinx.
Jesse - Apr 30, 2005 8:40:06 am PDT #4701 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Me, I'd just slip "originally" in at the start of the existing blurb.
So simple, so easy! Let's do that one.