You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.

Willow ,'Sleeper'


Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.


amych - Oct 06, 2009 4:15:00 pm PDT #702 of 3094
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I think if you didn't all exist I'd have to make you up.

So says Miss "Gave up everything to bring Rock and Roll to the Needy".


quester - Oct 06, 2009 4:28:10 pm PDT #703 of 3094
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Oh, I forgot to mention that my SiL with whom I am currently staying, has 2 cats: a skinny male, monkey thug named Sobey and an orange tabby named Larry, who is female.


ehab - Oct 06, 2009 4:31:43 pm PDT #704 of 3094
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala

I learn things here that are often extremely relevant, witty, thoughtful, or just damn well worth repeating. As asked, therein lies the dilemma. I have tried explaining the website to family and close friends, but as a lurker, it’s that much more difficult to explain how I learned something through active non-participation. Add to that it’s fandom roots and I completely lose my audience as my RL family and friends have not one iota of love for science fiction (or fictional storytelling in general) and are very suspicious of my Buffy lovin’ ways.

This doesn’t stop me. I am usually somewhat vague about the source and will hand wave an explanation that includes “I found this online.”

I am really enjoying learning more about regular and infrequent posters. I confess I’m a little sad that there haven’t been more true lurkers, people like me who don’t have a personal link to a Buffista and haven’t posted much or at all. I guess I’d hoped to feel less lonely in my quirky lurkerdom.

I’m marveling at the speed with which this new thread is moving.


Amy - Oct 06, 2009 4:36:20 pm PDT #705 of 3094
Because books.

I confess I’m a little sad that there haven’t been more true lurkers, people like me who don’t have a personal link to a Buffista and haven’t posted much or at all.

I think there are more of them out there! They just haven't delurked yet. Come on out, people! We'd love to meet you.

And honestly, all stances on olives and muffalettas and bacon and spaces and serial commas are just fine.


DebetEsse - Oct 06, 2009 5:04:26 pm PDT #706 of 3094
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I will often do "we were talking about" with the pronoun undefined, wrt conversations.

My family knows of the 'istas (this is how I tend to refer to us), as do some of my meat-space friends, usually in non-specific "Internet people" terms


Barb - Oct 06, 2009 5:09:59 pm PDT #707 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”

Please lurkers, come out and play!

And one of those benefits of being a writer is that so much is done online, I can use "online friends" and no one questions me anymore.


d - Oct 06, 2009 5:31:00 pm PDT #708 of 3094
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.

I refer to my knowledge as learned from the "online message board".

I think I shocked poor Sox's mom when she asked me how I knew her daughter and I replied that I met her online. It was kind of fun. My mom makes her own friends from the internet, and my dad picks up people on planes and brings them home for dinner, so they are not bemused by references to the board. Facebook, on the other hand...


askye - Oct 06, 2009 5:36:20 pm PDT #709 of 3094
Thrive to spite them

My Mom knows about the Buffistas, I've told her about all about y'all and showed her pictures (especially of the cutie head Buffista sprog). When I went to the first F2F it wasn't weird because I'd actually gone to meet some people online in DC before. That online community fell apart (partly because the forum owner got pissy and flounced off with the website).

When TT was not going to be an option was I really worried that things would fall apart but luckily there were plans and we've grown.

Also that other online forum looked a lot like the way TT and now b.org does so I had a really hard time getting used to other formats. So I was really glad we stuck with this.


sarameg - Oct 06, 2009 5:45:32 pm PDT #710 of 3094

I've invited buffistas to my parents' for Xmas morning! Kat and lori had xmas dinner with us.


P.M. Marc - Oct 06, 2009 5:47:02 pm PDT #711 of 3094
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I can always claim I met Sox at Sparky's wedding! Which is also where I met Sparky.