so I'll stop in order to avoid ego-inflammation. Heh.

t laughs

Oh, I don't think we'll ever have to worry about that, but thanks for letting me know about those. I'm still finding LJ land to be entirely labyrinthine.

I believe I saw a link to Spectacle with the comment "THIS is what I wish I wrote like."

Heh. I think I actually saw that one. It had a comment underneath that wasn't exactly complimentary.

I'm not a shrinking violet. I can take criticism -- and sometimes even with aplomb! I'm just backing away from fandom right now while I'm caught in one of my love-hate-cycles-of-I-suck-dom.

I'll be under the computer desk taking a nerf bat to my subconscious.

Is Spectacle on Shriftweb? That's about the only place I look for new stuff.

Some Shriftish notes:

"Spectacle" is really lovely. I love the way you've captured the quiet certainty and strength of S7!Buffy in the last line.

Persephone is still my laptop background image. It makes me happy every time I turn on my computer. I've been meaning to write to tell you that.

The work you do to keep the fannish infrastructure going--Leviathan, Firefly background, BFA, 1/2 of PolyRecs--amazes and awes me. I'm so glad you're there.

Yeah, Connie, it's up on the Buffy Fiction Archive.

Hee. Stupid proto-Slayers. Make 'em cry.

I love the way you've captured the quiet certainty and strength of S7!Buffy in the last line.

Heh. Thank you. I slammed my brain against the wall for about five hours before that line dropped out of it. Dana patiently allowed me to rant and rave, and feed her one line at a time.

It makes me happy every time I turn on my computer. I've been meaning to write to tell you that.

Huh. Cool. I've actually got three more wallpapers I've done from "Serenity", but I keep forgetting to upload them. Thanks.

I'm so glad you're there.

Sometimes I'm not. It's a lot of work, and the sense of fannish entitlement seems to get worse every year.

Then again, there is satisfaction in knowing some fannish infrastructure is in the hands of someone without a god complex... ;-)

The work you do to keep the fannish infrastructure going--Leviathan, Firefly background, BFA, 1/2 of PolyRecs--amazes and awes me. I'm so glad you're there.

Word, word, word. With a Wrod on top. Not to mention Exodus from Genesis, the new Farscape Primer site, hosting me & several other people, doing Buffy and Firefly transcripts, and her own writing.

Shrift rocks mightily. She Getteth Shit Done without tantrums or needing to have her ego stroked and reassured constantly.

And she is running the banner ad campaign for SF.com, for which she gets several 'goodonners' and a basket of baked goods if I ever get around to sending them. Or, you know, my garage, should she choose to move to SF and need a place to crash/store shit.

t considering announcing today "appreciate Shrift Day" and wondering if anyone would comply if I did...

considering announcing today "appreciate Shrift Day" and wondering if anyone would comply if I did...

t hand shoots up

'Cause she also does the script site, the BRQG, a Hard Core Logo archive, and when I say crazy things like, "Hey! We should have a thing on the front page of Bifictional Bedlam where you get a random banner every time you hit it!", she figures out how to do it.

Not to mention Let's Objectify Men, which should never ever be forgotten.

puts hand up for shrift-love

AND she looks great in pleather pants.