My first official LJ entry ... YAY!
Ok, I think I've been lurking around everyone else's journals without really having one of my own long enough. I've been mostly reading the Bus Riders friend's list. I've been responding to various people's entries and I bet a few of them have wondered "Who the heck is this person?!" So, I felt it was only fair to try and keep a journal to help answer that question if anyone was wondering.
I've been aware of the LJ community for a while but I had been kinda avoiding it because it had been the center of a pretty decent fan wank in the "X-Files" fandom a couple of years ago and I was kinda on the side of the people not using LJ at the time. Ah, the X-philes, the wankiest fandom of all time. It was so much fun! ;) I fully admit I was both wankee and wanker at times. I think I got pretty good at it too. My specialty was the passive aggressive, self-righteous style of wanking. Though, the term "fan-wanking" wasn't well known back then ... or, at least, I didn't know it. I wish I did though. One aspect of my passive-aggressive style of wanking was to nitpick the misuse of the terms "flame war" and "troll" which people tended to use when trying to break up a good wank. (And really, trying to break up a wank is as much wanking as the original wank.) It just would have been so much easier to declare, "It's not a flame war; and it's not trolling. It's fan wanking!" Oh well.
Anyway, I rediscovered LJ recently when I suddenly became totally obsessed with the show "Everwood" and went looking for fanfic. All the good "Everwood" fanfic seems to be posted in people's journals and/or in LJ communities, so I joined. At first, keeping my own journal didn't appeal to me. I've never been really good at keeping any sort of diary. Still, I've been enjoying reading other people's entries, so I thought I'd give it a try. The way I look at it, it's kinda like talking to yourself (and I'm very good at that) only maybe someone is listening in and you might not know who. Looks like fun!
I've been aware of the LJ community for a while but I had been kinda avoiding it because it had been the center of a pretty decent fan wank in the "X-Files" fandom a couple of years ago and I was kinda on the side of the people not using LJ at the time. Ah, the X-philes, the wankiest fandom of all time. It was so much fun! ;) I fully admit I was both wankee and wanker at times. I think I got pretty good at it too. My specialty was the passive aggressive, self-righteous style of wanking. Though, the term "fan-wanking" wasn't well known back then ... or, at least, I didn't know it. I wish I did though. One aspect of my passive-aggressive style of wanking was to nitpick the misuse of the terms "flame war" and "troll" which people tended to use when trying to break up a good wank. (And really, trying to break up a wank is as much wanking as the original wank.) It just would have been so much easier to declare, "It's not a flame war; and it's not trolling. It's fan wanking!" Oh well.
Anyway, I rediscovered LJ recently when I suddenly became totally obsessed with the show "Everwood" and went looking for fanfic. All the good "Everwood" fanfic seems to be posted in people's journals and/or in LJ communities, so I joined. At first, keeping my own journal didn't appeal to me. I've never been really good at keeping any sort of diary. Still, I've been enjoying reading other people's entries, so I thought I'd give it a try. The way I look at it, it's kinda like talking to yourself (and I'm very good at that) only maybe someone is listening in and you might not know who. Looks like fun!