Your LJ is not your living room. Really.

[gabrielleabelle]

I find myself a bit baffled by one aspect of the current warnings debate (is there a cute name for it yet? WarningWank2009? TriggerFest V.01? Attack of the Privileged Mentally Ill People With Delusions of Entitlement? I really wish sarcasm could be more easily conveyed in text. So I'll say it explicitly: I am mocking some of the arguments I've seen

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[angearia]

cause my journal is very much a big Buffy playground

And this is one of the reasons why your journal is awesome. That and when you unleash it like here. Bossy Gabs! You tell 'em.

I personally am quite happy with having the warning there with a highlight option, it's the very least I can do. I agree that our LJ's aren't private. We're on the internet here for the love of Jossus. And just because the internet is home to the crazies and the rude jerks doesn't mean we have to suffer it within our community.

[gabrielleabelle]

You know, reading the whole debate on metafandom is really tiresome-making, and then I get irritated at people, but it's a lot of people and I don't want to reply in comments to each one, but I can't keep my mouth shut cause I am a mouthy bitca who likes to overshare in great internet fashion so then...posts like this happen.

LJ Buffy fandom really is extraordinary. I know Buffy fandom used to be a mess and ultra-wanky. But here, at least in my corner on LJ, it's fantastic. I don't think I've ever met such a wonderful bunch of people. *tears up* You guys are just so great!

[angearia]

LJ Buffy fandom really is extraordinary.

WORD. LJ Buffy fandom rocks my socks off. I have no socks. I am joyfully sockless.

It's really amazing to me all the Buffy awesomeness stored on LJ and all the amazing people. I kinda view LJ as the Buffy fan's evolutionary pinnacle. You rise up out of the crazy dregs of fan forum hullabaloo and become. Heh, we are self-actualized.

[gabrielleabelle]

You know, I don't really venture onto the various Buffy forums (and I know they're out there). That's primarily because I know that there's still very outspoken crazy parts of fandom there. And LJ just seems like a much nicer place to hang around so that I don't end up rolling my eyes too much (course, I think it's easier to select a corner and avoid opposing fannish viewpoints on LJ).

Evolutionary pinnacle. You know, I do think we are that awesome. I'll second that motion. :)

[lavastar]

This

[lavastar]

Also, I was going to be like, FIRST COMMENT, and then I decided not to be an immature jerk, and then I took long enough posting it anyways that I wasn't. XD

[angearia]

Bwahaha!

[lavastar]

*shakes my fist at you*
:P

[shipperx]

Attack of the Privileged Mentally Ill People With Delusions of Entitlement?

So... fandom? >;)

[gabrielleabelle]

We are a strange and wanky bunch. :)

[anonymous]

The entrenched positions and lightning quick self-righteousness of many people on the Internet is puzzling. Is hearing about something outside your own experience so threatening? Isn't it kind of, you know, interesting to discuss?

Oh, well. I appreciate your willingness to play host to people who sometimes agree, sometimes disagree, without everyone getting all shirty about it. That's why I was lured into posting here to begin with. (Damn your womanly wiles.)

roland

[gabrielleabelle]

This warnings debate is very fascinating when considering the social and group dynamics at play. If it didn't strike the personal nerve of involving mental health issues, I would probably sit back, bemused, and go, "Huh" without feeling the need to add my own voice to the volatile mix.

And the awesome discussions we manage to have here have very little to do with my hosting. It's all because the fans are fab and intelligent and thoughtful in this corner of Buffy fandom. :)

(Damn your womanly wiles.)

It's the Willow icons. She's a sexay thang.

[gabrielleabelle]

Thanks for reading. I'm just a bit dumbfounded at the people who seem to think they're on an isolated island on the internet. Just...it's the internet! Nothing outside of password-protected pages is isolated!