ten things I generally assume you know about me

[isiscolo]

A couple of years ago cereta started a meme on "ten things you probably know already about me," and I did it - ten things that people who had been reading my journal for a long time had probably figured out, that I sort of assume everybody knows and therefore don't spend any time explaining, but that new friends might not yet know. Sort of a "who I am"

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[llassah]

Now this, right here?

fanfiction and recs, pointers to cool things, commentary on life, weather, music, food, squid, whatever.

is a life philosophy I can get behind *g*

[isiscolo]

I vote yes! But I am all squirmy about this right now, because 1) there are people who want ALL FANDOM ALL THE TIME, and that's not me, and 2) I have nonfannish friends who I want to see this stuff but I think the fannish stuff bothers them, and again, that's not me, either. So I am sort of dithery about it all.

[scriggle]

#3 - You don't understand me! *weeps* :D

One of these days I have to do this meme.

[isiscolo]

I don't! It's true! I have a NOTP brain and the idea of limiting what I read or write kind of flabbergasts me. But then again, there are pairings that make me back away slowly, so I understand the reluctance to read pairings one doesn't like.

I can do your meme for you: 1) I love CKR. 2) I hate Dale Carnegie. :-)

[saramwrap]

The flip side of this is that if you're one of my nonfannish friends, hi, we talk about gay sex and time travel and swordfighting. Sometimes all at the same time.

Those are the best posts ever!

P.S. If you haven't seen this: Engineer's Guide to Cats

[isiscolo]

I saw it the other day, yes! Oh, what a fantastic video that is. \o/

[china_shop]

Hee! That Guide to Cats is awesome. :-)

[eisoj5]

*snerk* I didn't know about #8, either, but it's funny...most of my flist really is pretty good about that these days anyway. Comes from having fic writers and English majors (which, er, overlap a lot anyway) around, I think. Hee.

Also, what the hell are "Snaps Cups"?

(Now I'm all worried about where I just put that question mark...inside or outside the quotation marks? Our style guide for work says inside but I always learned outside...)

[isiscolo]

You'd think - but I know fic writers who don't use capital letters in their non-fic posts. Drives me batty. The big problem I have (which is why I want someone to write me a Greasemonkey extension) is that I run into their posts in communities I read.

(and hee, I put it inside for sentences and outside when the quotes are around a term.)

Snap cups are where you comment on a post with your name and people comment to that with nice things about you. I think it's supposed to be anonymous, though I don't recall exactly. I figure, if I want people to say nice things about me, I just ask in my own damn journal.

[china_shop]

I didn't know #10, but that seems entirely reasonable. :-) And I don't know if you want opinions on this, but I vote for not splitting off the fannish parts of your LJ. I like the mish-mash, but I like it because of the fannish context. I'm less interested in RL things when they don't have a fannish username attached. *is callous and strange*

[isiscolo]

Hey, no fair, I saw you commenting over at claire's journal, and that's her nonfannish split!

The thing is - okay, this is complex, and I'm still working through it. But basically, I have a nonfannish journal already (it was actually my first journal) (and I think you know this already, right?) but I hardly post there. The few times I have, the only people who have commented are people I first met over here and pointed there! So I posted locked to try to figure out if my old Usenet and RL friends are actually reading that journal, or if maybe I should just get rid of it - and everyone came out of the woodwork! So I'm dithering about - should I just tell everyone to read over here, damn it, if they want content? Except they get the fannish stuff, then, too. Which I personally don't mind, as I'm not shy about admitting that I write fanfiction and erotica, but I sort of feel guilty about putting them through. And yet, I feel more comfortable posting pointers to wacky stuff, complaints about my computer, cat photos etc here. This is

[china_shop]

I never claimed to be consistent! (I've met her in RL -- it's different. And she's not in my fandom.)

You could cross-post your more general life stuff to the other LJ, maybe? That'd give non-fannish friends the option to opt out of the fannish stuff. /idle suggestion

*provides another lickable icon*

[isiscolo]

*licks*

Yeah, I dunno. I am not a fan of crossposting, because I don't want people who have the other journal friended for things I don't post here (mostly local stuff and travel photos) to see things twice, and I hate splitting up discussion. Although for the purposes of splitting off people who approach things from a fannish perspective from those who don't, that might be useful. And I'd have to lock the other journal. (In fact, I'm thinking of crossposting writing-oriented posts and locking them to just the filter of people-I-read-from-there so that those who are on this flist, who I read here, don't see that side of the discussion but can participate in this one. *ponders*)