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]

You're welcome to comment on my LJ any time, of course. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I've always considered you a beyond-fandom friend.

You're wrong! WRONG!

Nah. I've known you for quite a long time and we've had some pretty in depth conversations, if I remember correctly.

As for fic, no one is ever obligated to read my fic anyway, so it's not like I expect it from people. Besides, I'm not really writing much fanfic right now anyway. I still want to finish soem outstanding SG-1 stories, though it looks like I won't as more time passes and I have a couple of Superman and SPN related ones I want to do, but may never get to. I'm just too busy and know I have to focus on my own stuff if I am going to ever make it.

And what? You write a comment and then don't post it? What's that about? I just say post it. Not because I am comment hungry, but because how am I supposed to know what you want to say if you don't say it? Come and share! I don't bite. ;)

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Ah, the commenting and then not posting is because sometimes my thoughts get so jumbled up in my mind that even I don't know what I meant! *g* Also, sometimes I write it and then I realize that I probably really don't need to post it because it's not as relevant as I thought once I wrote it. It's mostly all that sort of thing. Sometimes I'm just too shy. *g*

It's mostly a good thing. I used to just write whatever came into my head and then post it, so it's probably better to second guess a little, but now I think I do that a little too much.