I Am Using My Zombie-Killing Time To...Dance.

[dodger_sister]

Listen, menel - I saw what you did on your journal. I hear you, outside my window, calling out MY UBER-AWESOME ZOMBIE-KILLING-DANCE-TEAM!! Okay?

I know, you're all, "My CIA-Zombie-Killing-Team is better because they are so pretty and my boyfriend is Scottish. And my team can only kill zombies with guns instead of their awesome athletic bodies.

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[menel]

That wallpaper cracked me up! I loved how there were even objects on it (because Legolas would obviously know what to do with the Horn of Gondor). Of course, Gimli was perched on the Prince's shoulder but the irony is that Legolas/Gimli has always been a squick for me. Those two have a bromance . . . without the sex! *g*

You will be so proud of me. I read through all of that correspondence and didn't even get choked up . . . once! Ha! My reputation is intact. *preens*

I did, however, grin like an idiot the entire time and now my face muscles are a little sore. Hmm . . .

I think what amazed me about reading all that is how little we've changed. I mean, of course, we've each had major life experiences that have shaped us as people, but those emails are still recognizably us. Don't you think?

And it's bizarre (in a wonderful way) how a little correspondence can bring back memories so clearly. Like my wallet getting stolen? I remember that! And how I'd just begun teaching because I'd quit my previous job? Wow. And I'm still teaching. Those were the days before my LJ was f-locked too because I didn't have psycho-stalker problems back then.

I also know why the correspondence cut off so abruptly. It was a combination of me finally leaving my old ISP (and you always used my personal POP3 email) and my Great Hard Drive Failure of late 2007. I didn't have your email saved anywhere except my Netscape address book (yes, I still used Netscape back then!) so when I lost my drive, I literally lost everything. Plus, if you'd tried to contact me through email again, that account had already been deactivated. Oh, what a mess.

We can't let that shit happen again!

/super hardcore fist bump/

[dodger_sister]

That wallpaper cracked me up! I loved how there were even objects on it (because Legolas would obviously know what to do with the Horn of Gondor). Of course, Gimli was perched on the Prince's shoulder but the irony is that Legolas/Gimli has always been a squick for me. Those two have a bromance . . . without the sex! *g*

It’s the Horn of Gondor, for fuck’s sake. Even I know how to fuck that! (remember the tshirts back in the day that said “I blew the Horn of Gondor? lol) You know I’ll slash anything so Legolas/Gimli was never off-limits for me - but if you ask me like what I really think beyond “Give Me More Slash!” and I would agree with you - bromance but not slashy-chemistry going on there. They are totally each other’s wingmen. Like, okay, do you watch Psych? I can’t remember. Anyway, I have actually written Shawn/Gus and I can see why people slash them but to me, they are so brother-type of thing - it’s weird how some pairings that you would think would be obviously slashy for me, just aren’t even though they totally love each other. That said, I have written Shawn/Gus and Legolas/Gimli, because I will fuck slash anyone.

You will be so proud of me. I read through all of that correspondence and didn't even get choked up . . . once! Ha! My reputation is intact. *preens*

I didn’t get choked up either, but I did laugh and smile the whole way through - I maybe got a little swell in my heart, maybe.

I mean, of course, we've each had major life experiences that have shaped us as people, but those emails are still recognizably us. Don't you think?

Agreed. I have been through so many things that have changed me as a person, but that I am still intact at the core is very pleasing. Plus the way you and I interact with each other - you know what’s awesome? Like, five seconds back into contact with you and we were talking like no time had past at all. It was like a weird college reunion or something where we immediately threw off our grown-up persona and were just us, again. shit, a hallmark card just fell out of my face right there, sorry

I did not know you had a psycho-stalker problem. I must have missed that drama.

I didn’t expect to be away from the internet for so long when I left for a little R&R. The longer I was away, the harder it was to go back. But I had all your fics and everything tagged on Stewart and when I lost him, I lost so much stuff. My stuff was saved but everything I had bookmarked on the internet was gone. I figured that was it for my dream of getting back with people, especially since all the yahoo groups are so dead.

It will never happen again!! /knock on wood because yes, I am superstitious, shut your face!/

/super hardcore fist bump/

[menel]

Seriously, where are you digging all this shit up from? LOL. I thought I had a handful of comments/threads from the stone ages over on camera_lucida, but this stuff is pretty ancient too. (Ancient by netland standards, that is. Not necessarily by our standards 'cos apparently we've gone from three weeks to three months.)

The two phrases from LotR that were never going to be forgotten by the slashers are: the Horn of Gondor and the Crack of Doom. I mean, really. Just. How can you not? LOL.

Like, okay, do you watch Psych? I can’t remember. Anyway, I have actually written Shawn/Gus and I can see why people slash them but to me, they are so brother-type of thing - it’s weird how some pairings that you would think would be obviously slashy for me, just aren’t even though they totally love each other.

We talked about Psych a bit before. It's a show that I watch if I catch it on TV but I don't follow it religiously. It's fun and zany. I've caught some really memorable episodes though, like when Jane Lynch guest starred as Shawn's mom. She was amazing, of course. Also saw the ep where John Cena (is that his name? The wrestler?) guest starred as Jules's brother. But yeah, I totally get your point about how these two are bromance through-and-through and how they obviously love each other. They were never slashy for me either. I can think of two reasons why. The first is awfully shallow. My slash pairings have to be hot, as in sexy and smoking. I don't find either of these guys, hot, either separately or when they're together. If I can't picture the boys naked and having sex, it's not gonna work. Sorry.

The second reason is a tad more intellectual. I honestly don't think there's enough tension in their relationship to merit slash. I also like my slash pairings to have a (usually twisted) psychological dimension with the potential for darkness. In fact, the more taboo or fucked up the relationship, the more I'm attracted to it and that explains why incest totally works for me. (Sam and Dean? Elladan and Elrohir? Boromir and Faramir? It's all good. Notice how all those men - and elves! - are really hot too. *g*)

So, yeah. Shawn and Gus were never destined to be slashed. Neither were Legolas and Gimli because even if the Elf is smoking, I can't imagine the Dwarf naked and doing dirty things to him. And if I tried, it would squick me out.

[menel]

Plus the way you and I interact with each other - you know what’s awesome? Like, five seconds back into contact with you and we were talking like no time had past at all. It was like a weird college reunion or something where we immediately threw off our grown-up persona and were just us, again. shit, a hallmark card just fell out of my face right there, sorry

LOL. It did. Treacle aside, I hear you. I think I told you as well that how we reacted to each other is the true test of friendship for me and it's only happened with a handful of friends. You, babe, are the only person it's ever happened to 'online,' (even though I don't consider our friendship be an 'online' one - I just can't think of a better term).

I did not know you had a psycho-stalker problem. I must have missed that drama.

It's not a major drama, I reckon. Lemme try and summarize it. Basically, I have two RL friends that know about my slash habit and the existence of this journal. Both of them used to be friends on camera_lucida (one of them still is), but I never gave them the link to this journal or even told them what my online handle was. One of them found out through camera_lucida what my handle was. This didn't bother me too much until we had a falling out and then the idea of letting him have access to this part of my life was a big no-no. So, I f-locked the journal since I couldn't bring myself to change the user name. Besides, in those days, changing the user name simply redirected people from your old name to your new one. Now LJ gives you the option to have your name re-directed or not. (Thank god!) Even with the re-direct option I still can't bring myself to change my user name. I'm too attached to 'menel.' I think if I cared more about having my fiction read, I'd make more of an effort to unlock the journal or open a community/another journal purely for fic, but the truth is, I don't. F-locked it is. (I'll have to break the rule for spn_reversebang though. Oops.) And that's pretty much my psycho-stalker drama. (He's not really psycho though, at least, not anymore.)

You? Superstitious? No way. *g*