what *are* you doing here?

[heresluck]

Having spent some time this afternoon doing actual work, I'm now back to goofing off. I made the mistake of opening the folder of "LJ posts in progress," which is a weird jumble of stuff about music, books, politics, academia, Firefly, Farscape, and squash soup. I promptly felt overwhelmed

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[boniblithe]

Wheee, I'm a poll answer!

Now I know I have MADE IT.

[heresluck]

Of course you're a poll answer, silly. I think about 90% of the traffic my site and LJ got in the first few months of their respective existences was due to you and your vid recs page and your fandom-switchboard-ness.

[renenet]

I am so not the target audience for this poll. You know exactly why I read your journal and that I read everything. (That's me with one vote each for "other" and "pretty much everything.") I just wanted to submit answers so the poll results would show up on my reading list view. Carry on with your study.

[sisabet]

Seconded. Also, Brrraaaiinnnssss

[renenet]

Yes. Must have Brrraaaiinnnssss.

[heresluck]

I know that in this case "other" means "we bonded on NT back in the day." And, yeah, everything is fascinating (::cough::) details of my personal life one way or another.

Speaking of brrraaaiinnnssss, I still gotta get those brain scans to show you.

[_swallow]

> This got me thinking about LJ audience and the relationship, if any, between what I post and what people read. I mean, I study rhetoric and rhetorical situations, including the tension between actual, narrrative, and ideal audiences. This stuff interests me. I know how *I* perceive this blog, but I realized that in most cases I have little to no idea how the folks on my "friends of" list got there or why you've stayed, whether there are additional lurkers about, etc.

It's funny, I'm writing a post on kind of the same subject for this very journal. Except it's like a thousand words long and there are sentences like "The dual function of a LiveJournal, however, complicates my impulse towards the total rejection of privacy."

[heresluck]

Well, I certainly hope it wasn't something about Shakespeare, since my knowledge in that area would pretty much fit in a thimble. Must have been truepenny. *g*

But yes, it *is* interesting to see the points of intersection for fannish and non-fannish interests, within and across readers. Thanks for elaborating!

[lonelybrit]

Found myself here through a rec of sockkpuppett for your Donnie Darko vid.

Which, by the way, was brilliant! Wonderful how everything slowly built up to that final scene between Donnie and Frank. Bravo!

[heresluck]

So glad you liked the vid -- thanks for letting me know!