Prompts for me?

[rahirah]

We got a fair amount of work done on the gazebo the last two weekends. My camera battery seems to have conked out, though, so I I need to replace it to take pictures

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[velvetwhip]

If it helps, I'm not even a Spuffy person and I think you're swell!

Which leads into... I am not the person to ask for Seasonal Spuffy prompts. I tried for feliciacraft and it was a disaster. This isn't shampoo, so I shan't rinse and repeat. Better folk than I can step up.

Gabrielle

[feliciacraft]

What? It was not a disaster! You just overestimated my ability to navigate tricky Spuffy tropes.

Your input is always appreciated, Gabrielle!

[velvetwhip]

You are incredibly skilled. No overestimating going on here. I wish I had offered something better. *sigh*

Gabrielle

[rahirah]

Prompts are weirdly personal things -- you never know what's going to click, and what doesn't click with one writer might click with a different one. So I don't think prompts are ever wrong or wasted; even if the person you leave it for doesn't use it, other people will see it, and someday, maybe one of them will use it, or pass it on to someone else who will. It's the circle of fic!

[spikesjojo]

Yeah, I suck at the friend thing, too. So we can be friends because we can just say 'I'm not alone - she sucks at being friends'. Counter-intuitive, but true.

I am a Spangel fan - I suck at new Spuffy ideas. Sorry, that's all I got.

But counter-intuitive - I like that idea.

[rahirah]

We're actually in the same state, which puts us one up on some people! Are you coming up to Phoenix for Comicon, by any chance?

[spikesjojo]

Don't I wish - it's a lot of money, and I'd be stuck in a wheelchair after a few hours. But my daughter might go - the one who introduced me to Buffy.

OTH - I will be going up in the next week or so - maybe I could call you on a weekend?

[trepkos]

Is there anyone you've met who you like enough that you want to be friends with them? Unless you "click", there's no point forcing it. Then you just say, "want to meet up for a coffee after work/on Saturday etc?" and that will probably progress to one of you inviting the other round. I met quite a few of my friends while out in pubs or clubs ...

[rahirah]

Well, that's the problem, we haven't really met anyone in a long, long time. We got into an RPG group for a little while, but the DM quit and it died; Kathy tried to keep it going, but the local gaming community seems pretty saturated and she couldn't get any other players because all of them were in games already.

We have about three people we've known for years, and that's about the limit of our social life. It's starting to feel claustrophobic. :/

[baphrosia]

Slaymesoftly asked for ideas a few months back, before she started her most recent story. There were lots of interesting ideas - maybe there's something in that post to spark you. I was planning to go look at it myself, 'cause I got nothing too. I didn't even sign up, I had so much nothing.

Friends. Friends are hard. Parties and gatherings bore me, usually. Gossip and idle chit-chat is not my thing. I can fake it for a while, but... eh. Totally cool with just the fam and the internet, and the few RL friends that I have because I like them, not because I feel like I should have more friends. Stories like the Ya-Ya Sisterhood baffle me. Who has friends like that? Obviously not those of us who prefer to hang out on the internet (and sometimes even internet friends are just too much emotional stress for me, and then I disappear for weeks).

[rahirah]

I am big with the disappearing, too. But we're at a point where the tiny RL circle feels claustrophobic rather than comforting, so... something's gotta give.

[hobbituk]

I totally sympathise because I'm not good at making friends either.  Or actually that's not totally true - it's not making them that's a problem, it's keeping them.   I'm a lazy friend who retreats into solitude periodically and doesn't keep in touch.   I'm fighting shut down mode right now in point of fact....

[rahirah]

That's a big part of my problem too. I should get on Facebook and like things. :/

[trepkos]

You know, FB has its drawbacks, but I have got back in touch with so many old friends on Facebook, made new ones who I've met in RL, and been to so many events because of it, that to me, that doesn't sound like a terrible idea.