Thoughts on cool, acceptance, friendliness, etc.

[filkerdave]

There's an enormous to-do going on now about being one of the BNFs or Cool Kids in filk (I'm not going to link it here unless someone asks; most of my flist who'd be interested is already reading it). So you get, "this person is a Name -- I want to follow them around! I want to be a part of their circle! Wait, I'm not getting to do what they're

Comments

[the_gwenzilliad]

THANK YOU.

[nelladarren]

Yes, yes, yes!!! That's SO much the point!!!

I choose to spend my rare leisure time with the people I love. (Yes, this is me now having a touchy-feely moment...) That doesn't mean that exchanging some words with others would be perceived as "waste of time", no, I'm always up to getting to know new people or growing closer to others, because sometimes the bonds to older friends also loosen.

But if I don't get any connection whatsoever to someone I'll not spend much time with them. And a con is an occasion to be closer to my usually far away friends. So if someone I don't like much tries to impose themselves on my time too much I could even get grumpy. I still don't think that's arrogant. :o)

[thatcrazycajun]

Amen, brother. Love the tortured Shakespeare at the end.

[filkerdave]

It's not being tortured, just agressively interrogated.

[ohiblather]

LOL!

[technoshaman]

*snerk*

Oh, I don't know, I think you're at least goosing it's funny bone...

[poltr1]

Yes! Yes! Thank you for articulating this.

[dougs]

s/filk/fandom/
s/filk/church/
s/filk/BCS/
s/filk/$SCENE/

It's still true.

[thatcrazycajun]

How 'bout a translation for those of us who aren't programmers?

[dougs]

Replace all occurrences of "filk" in the original post with "other thing".