Dear Flist

[moonshayde]

Taking a page out of astrogirl2's book...

I've actually wanted to do this for a while, but now that astrogirl2 has done it, I can be a lemming instead :)

While my flist is not ginormous, it's pretty big and I don't get to talk to half as many people as I would like. Most of the time it's because I'm really bogged down with RL stuff, but sometimes it's because I don't know you very well and I'm a little too shy to just start posting whatever all over your space.

I also wonder, like astrogirl2 whether people are just here for fic or basic fandom and don't want to move into a "friendship" or if there are people on my flist that really would like to chat? If you're just here for fic, that's cool. I have no problem with that, though I don't write as much as I used to. But if you're looking for more and I haven't been talking to you much, I'd love to know. Actually, I enjoy meeting new people and talking about a range of things, so if I know you're open to various discussions, then I'll be more inclined to do so if I know that I'm not bugging you.

Also, the nature of fandoms are ever changing. We move onto to new stuff, we hold onto the old, and we develop new opinions and interests. Maybe some of you are here because you feel bad about defriending. Maybe some of you don't know me very well and are too shy. Maybe some of you are new and we haven't really had a chance to talk yet.

I ask because I go through the same thing. Sometimes I wonder if I should comment or not. And there are some people I've drifted away from fannishly. I wonder if people would feel weird if I started engaging them in a more personal or friendly manner or if people would rather keep it "strictly professional." And if I feel that way, I'm sure others do as well.

So in this post, please feel free to reintroduce yourself. Feel free to tell me to please go away or to talk more or to post on your LJs. Really. Or if you feel the need to take me off your flist, no hard feelings. (Unless I've like known you for a long time and we've talked alot, then *sniff* but I know people change.)

Or just go about your own business.

I just like to talk is all ;)

Comments

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know. Btw, it doesn't mean I like you any less, but if I know you don't post very often, I won't be wondering if I've done something wrong to offend or wonder where you are.

You are free to jump into any discussion here that you like, whether it is with me or someone else. I never mind.

I know that I've been very fannish about SG-1 much lately, but it doesn't mean I like it any less. And I still have some Macgyver stuff to get through as well.

Btw, I love that icon. I think it needs a sequel - built to last :)

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

Thanks, the icon is thanks to Lilferret--I'm barely able to function on a computer, but luckily others are much better and I can borrow. I like your idea for a follow up for that icon--maybe someone can do one like that!

I have been putting in comments occasionaly even when I had to do it as "anonymous" (though I always signed them Melissa M.) for some time, but I feel less of an intruder now that I have an lj of my own. It's just never going to have anything interesting there--I dislike typing so I only do it where someone else has written something interesting and I want to respond in some way. (For instance, Pepper had a great many comments from me for her Jack Spam day--I love Jack and kept thinking of a good bit, then another good bit, etc., till her comment number for Jack was over 100. And I thought of another one today, that I'm going to go add, too. I can't help myself where Jack is concerned.

I might add that I enjoy history, too (having read the comments that come after this one). It was my major in college--I graduated 35 years ago, and after I had to quit my job as librarian 5 years ago, I started volunteering at our local county museum, working with the man who was my Missouri History professor way back when. He was pleased to get a former student in to help him out.

Did you ever get all the MacGyvers watched? I was looking thru some of your older posts last night, and looked at the MacGyver tags. I had never seen RDA in anything, ever, until I watched SG1 for the first time 3 years ago. Sometime that summer I started watching MacGyver on Spike and TV Land and had seen all of them by the time they took them off the air. I've since bought all of them on dvd (not counting the movies), so I watch them some, though I usually rewatch a Stargate episode most nights. Sometimes a Mac, though. When I read your thoughts as you were first watching it, I thought, "Yes! He was cool that first season." He's always worth watching, but I have a special fondness for the first season, I think, particularly the pilot. Mind you, I didn't care for Golden Triangle all that much, but I did absolutely love that little bit at the beginning when he's sunning himself on the beach--one of his white socks in the background. Such a cutie! And of course the fact that the actor is right around my age makes me feel an extra bond with him, I think.

Melissa M.

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

P.S. When you said you had "Macgyver stuff to get thru" I didn't know if you meant more of the dvds of the shows, or maybe fanfiction. (I've read only a little bit of Mac fan fiction--I love the ones Pepper has put out.)

Meliss M.