I saw this URL in something about saving Firefly and came to see what was what. Found my people.
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
I'm almost 40, living with my partner and our cat (singular). It's 9/11, and I can't deal with the news coverage that my partner insists on watching. I get on the computer and check out the boards where I've been lurking for months. It's finally time to start talking.
What year did the Buffy thread start on TT?
Buffy went on the air in March, 1997, and the TT thread started in May.
Hi. I'm...not as different as I would like to be, but I have better hair(and sadly a worse wheelchair) since I joined the board. After a few years, I could get my stories published, ignore the crazy peopleor fight with them and actually post some of the curse words that can be mainstays in my spoken speech.(That year, I was really concerned about how much to let gimptitude influence what I posted...was "coming out" the right way to go?)
OK, so now I had to go back and read the first TT thread from the archives. There are only a few posts in 1997, and traffic was pretty slow through 1998. Discussion didn't really pick up until S3, and finally there's a burst of traffic at the end of S3. I'm looking for the first posts of active Buffistas I can recognize, and it seems a bunch of us all started posting within a few days of each other:
Dana D. - 07:27 am PST - Nov 25, 1998 - #442 of 4014
(I assume this is our Dana?)
Vortex - 01:34 pm PST - Feb 11, 1999 - #787 of 4014
Katie P - 01:29 pm PST - Jun 1, 1999 - #1594 of 4014
David J. Schwartz - 10:19 am PST - Jun 3, 1999 - #1647 of 4014
Holli M. - 12:54 pm PST - Jun 3, 1999 - #1649 of 4014
Tom Scola - 06:49 am PST - Jun 4, 1999 - #1678 of 4014
Madrigal Costello - 01:52 pm PST - Jun 10, 1999 - #1793 of 4014
I think we should delurk as the people we were when we joined the board.
How happy I am that I am no longer that person, let me count the ways!
I think we should delurk as the people we were when we joined the board.
Ha!
Hi, I'm Jilli. I just started working at Microsoft as a content editor, and it seems like a pretty good company to work for. I'm a goth, and I run the Gothic Miss Manners site. I have idle dreams of becoming a published author, and I make a lot of jokes about eventually starting a cult. Also, I take advice from a fanged stuffed bunny who will one day rule the world.
I'm in my late 30s, just got out of a relationship, lonely, depressed, and broke, and looking for Buffy people. Found the Board at random. Not sure how come all these people seem to know each other, but they're funny and smart, and reading about their lives in progress is better than a novel. And now the Real Actual Tim Minear is talking to us and everyone's chipping in to bring somebody named "Nilly" to the US for a tour, and this all seems pretty cool, so I guess I'll delurk.
Hi - I'm Maidengurl/Lexine/Suziq
I have been lurking and posting occasionally for a few years but now that I'm posting more, I figured I should say Hi. I'm looking forward to meeting some of you at the NillyQue. Nervous but excited.
I'm married with two young kids. I like my job and it feels like I've been working here forever. My mom lives with us and it is so nice having three adults working and watching over the kids. I like baseball, palm trees, the oxford comma, and cilantro.