If Ann Coulter says some stupid shit, is it worth getting upset about?

Hey Robin, I wore that same wig too--well okay probably not the exact same one, but one just like that.

Also? How funny is it to come into the thread and find that everyone actually *is* discussing duct tape?

I'll fully cop to being lazy and mostly reading whatever you/Consuela/Dana/shrift rec.

Goes to sit in the chopped liver corner.

takes the tiara boys with me.

Wow, I sort of feel badly for those writers. The only one whose name I recognize is keepaofthecheez, and that's from VM fandom (and even then I don't think I've read any of her fic).

The poster should have limited her focus -- stuck to encouraging people to give feedback on the work they like done by lesser known writers.

O fandom! You're so easy from far away.

Yeah, but that just means your comfort zone is "stories recced by people you trust". Which seems to me a perfectly fine zone to stay in, but you wouldn't believe the number of people who get all het up about it.

Yep. Exactly. I mean, I keep a recs list so that other people can find things they might not have found. I read recs lists from people I trust for the same reason. I don't, generally speaking, go wandering off the beaten path unless I've got a craving/itch I can't seem to satisfy with the usual suspects. Or unless it's Dark Angel, my fandom of little-to-no shame.

Sometimes I am a BNF. It depends on the context, and the fandom. I even know where some of the cabals are. I like being multifandom because it gives me a much better perspective on perceived status, and also I get to see the growth cycle of fandoms over and over.

Like an antfarm!

What's the opposite of a BNF? A No Name Fan?

What's the opposite of a BNF?

Me. No one knows who I am. I produce nothing related to fandom, I only talk about it here, and I'm terrible at feedback.

At least you people can vouch for my existence.

I like being multifandom because it gives me a much better perspective on perceived status, and also I get to see the growth cycle of fandoms over and over.

Word.

Sometimes I am a BNF. It depends on the context, and the fandom. I even know where some of the cabals are.

I'm comfortably MNF: recced a fair amount when I do write, namechecked every once in a blue moon, and a frequent name on metafandom. The sort of fan that, as I said during a discussion of MNFdom a while back, you're happy to see in your fandom, but not the one you try to drag kicking and screaming into it.

And, okay, I'll cop to occasionally getting all emo about never showing up on those anon lovememes when it seems like everyone I know's there, but you know, I don't show up on the anon hatememes that I know of (and dude, don't shatter this illusion), so it's all good.