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!
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Steph L. - Oct 06, 2009 11:37:41 am PDT #680 of 3094
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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!!
shrift - Oct 06, 2009 12:15:47 pm PDT #684 of 3094
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Not legally...
I know. Those bootleg discs are in my office.
Ginger - Oct 06, 2009 12:16:30 pm PDT #685 of 3094
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Uphill, in the snow!
Uphill both ways in the snow!
DavidS - Oct 06, 2009 12:16:48 pm PDT #686 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I know. Those bootleg discs in my office.
Scofflaw!
Lee - Oct 06, 2009 12:19:17 pm PDT #687 of 3094
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Uphill both ways in the snow!
Barefoot, and with no serial commas!
Zenkitty - Oct 06, 2009 12:23:43 pm PDT #688 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Barefoot Scofflaw would be a good name for a band. Or a cat.
billytea - Oct 06, 2009 12:25:22 pm PDT #689 of 3094
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Uphill both ways in the snow!
Because it's the Buffistas, I knew it wouldn't be long before someone mentioned the other way.