Clerks
Dante and what'shisface? So not goth. Also lacking in boobies and XML skills.
The thing with fandom is -- fans are all craxy to someone.
Too true. Which is why, for example, there are certain aspects of my comics love I just won't discuss in the shop. Safer to stick to talking smack about Green Lanterns and making fun of the covers for the Under the Hood storyline in Batman with the guys than to say, "Whoa, so, last week's Outsiders. How totally doing it are Dick and Roy? I have GOT to write a missing scene with them in the shower or beg FiccerX to do it." or "Dude, Loeb's version of Superman and Batman need to move their HQs to Boston, because they are SO married." Because the former makes me normal in the eyes of the guys, but the latter'd have them backing away slowly as they hand me my pulls. Meanwhile, the general population thinks all of us are nutburgers.
"I'm generally very tense. I think I've fallen into the trap of blaming fruit."
See? Jeff is me, though again, lacking in boobies.
Suela, Allyson: Did you learn stuff from running a fan campaign? (Over and above "Never gonna do THAT again".) It seemed to me, from the outside, that you were exercising organization skills, learning how to cope with/ignore prima donnas, learning how to get useful work out of volunteers even when they'd rather savage one another. Does it seem that way to you?
Meanwhile, the general population thinks all of us are nutburgers.
That's the thing to remember. I sit here on the b.org, pointing and laughing at the people who seem so crazy, and then I remember...
I wasn't serious. I knew that wasn't your intent.
Honestly? You didn't come across that way.
Not that I don't like a good flogging victim from time to time.
I'd prefer to be spanked for no reason at all than for problems in communication.
I wish you hadn't edited, Steph. Now I'm damn curious.
Person B is crazy for running a fan web site
As a Person B, I think I've already established that
I
think I'm crazy for doing it sometimes.
ETA: Most of the time.
Honestly? You didn't come across that way.
Sorry, I guess it does look like I'm calling you to account, but I was just trying to tweak you and deflate any potential misapprehension before it started. But all I did was promote chaos & confusion and denied ita her 'fuffle.
I'd prefer to be spanked for no reason at all than for problems in communication.
Duly noted.
I wish you hadn't edited, Steph. Now I'm damn curious.
You're crazy in categories 2 and 3.
I wish you hadn't edited, Steph. Now I'm damn curious.
I can re-post; I just don't want anyone to think that *I'm* being all judge-y toward them. (I *do* think the Kittens are batshit crazy b/c of the don't-go-near-an-open-window insinuations, but beyond that, I don't judge people on their craxyness.)
That's the thing to remember. I sit here on the b.org, pointing and laughing at the people who seem so crazy, and then I remember...
This. I can't tell you the number of people (DF included) who actively worried about my sanity levels and mental health when they found out about my involvement in fandom? This is his first experience with it, and he still doesn't quite know how to deal. It's beyond his comprehension as to how I can be friends with certain individuals (that I met online) because of a TV show. But he trusts me, and we're both aware of what pushes each others' buttons, so landmines are avoided and we both end up happy.
I work with someone who met his wife in a chat room. So I'm evidently less crazy, but more loserish -- he does have a spouse, after all. They are realer (usually) than invisible friends.
Which is to say, 'net activity is one thing -- lack of balance is another consideration in the hierarchy. So the basement-dwelling, inappropriately-attached folk should be bumped up a level.
