I'm just giving you crap. I think it was your birthday and you were having lunch with your dad, too, right?
Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
javachik - Oct 06, 2009 11:28:00 am PDT #674 of 3094
Our wings are not tired.
Vortex - Oct 06, 2009 11:28:50 am PDT #675 of 3094
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Vortex, you forgot your drinking abilities.
fixed! although I tried to make it about quality, not quantity :)
meara - Oct 06, 2009 11:30:40 am PDT #676 of 3094
Heh. Poor lurkers. Now we are back to being all gang of 14 about everything and "oh well I've stayed at more houses than you have!" and writing 500 posts in a week. We're just impossible aren't we?
Shhh! We're hunting wabbits listening for lurkers!
t sits on the curb, elbows on knees, attempting to be quiet and anxiously await another lurker.
Fred Pete - Oct 06, 2009 11:31:23 am PDT #677 of 3094
Ann, that's a ferret.
500 a week? We're slipping -- it used to be 500 an hour.
Lee - Oct 06, 2009 11:34:26 am PDT #678 of 3094
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Uphill, in the snow!
DavidS - Oct 06, 2009 11:34:42 am PDT #679 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
like how the original Batman TV series has never been released on VHS or DVD because of complicated legal and rights issues.
Steph L. - Oct 06, 2009 11:37:41 am PDT #680 of 3094
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm just giving you crap.
I know -- I hoped the melodramatic tone of my first line indicated that I was hip to your 'tude.
I think it was your birthday and you were having lunch with your dad, too, right?
I think so! Good memory!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 06, 2009 11:57:30 am PDT #681 of 3094
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Online fandom stuff generally, whether Buffista or otherwise, mostly has invented contexts. These days I can say 'was talking to someone online about' without it getting too weird. When it comes to actual friends from the internet, though, these were usually met 'through another friend' - including The Girl, whose origin story is still not known to everyone in my life. Although I'm getting better at being honest about it. (Most fun moment ever: a few years ago, when I had a birthday party, and my new flatmate encountered twenty Bronzers descending on his living room. He was very good about it.)
Of course, that hasn't kept me from dropping hints to new kewl people I meet, in wild hopes that they might already be a buffista.
Not quite as good, but back in May, after sitting next to a friend at uni and going out for post-class drinks with her for six months, I learnt she was a fandom type. While her fandom was not my fandom, we knew each other's communities and had online people in common. She's the person who encouraged me to come back here and get posty (I think she herself was once a lurker here). Seriously awesome experience, that, when real life and online worlds collide unexpectedly.
DavidS - Oct 06, 2009 12:04:51 pm PDT #682 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Of course, that hasn't kept me from dropping hints to new kewl people I meet, in wild hopes that they might already be a buffista.
At the first Chicago F2F, Sumi basically spotted a pack of us on the street and said, "Are you Buffistas?" And we were!
javachik - Oct 06, 2009 12:06:54 pm PDT #683 of 3094
Our wings are not tired.
I know -- I hoped the melodramatic tone of my first line indicated that I was hip to your 'tude.
Yar, I was.
Hec, that's such a cool story about Sumi!!