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Still amused to see that Erik, that little fic I wrote a couple of months back which is really just a bit of connective tissue binding one chapter to another, is up to 225 hits, over FIVE times as much as the next most-hit of my Z/C output. No kudos, of course. I wouldn't expect any, since it's not really a story, just a bit of opinion from an outlying character.

But even with me posting a disclaimer at the TOP of the fic saying it's just a chapter and won't make sense unless you read at least some of the rest - even with that, people still don't seem interested in what that little bit is a part of. They read it, but then they don't read anything else, so I wonder what they think of the thing.

I'd really love to know where they're finding it, or who's passing the link around. It's not that it's not explicit, and it's not that it has no relationship listed - I have others parts of the story like that, but they don't get even a portion as many hits as that one has. Curioser and curioser.

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LOL.

I just downloaded an episode of the new season of Hawaii Five-O, just to see how it holds up now. HA. Amazing how much interest I did not have in it. Seriously, it took me maybe six minutes to decide, "Nope. Bored. Good-bye."

Wow, I don't think my fandom interest has ever plummeted that violently. That whole ridiculous kerfuffle just flat out BURNED that guy out of my brain. Pity. He did have his moments. Maybe I'll be able to watch Moonlight again if I give it a couple of years. Long enough to wash the taste of that fish-flavored coffee out of my mouth, at any rate. ;)



Still glad I wrote those ficlets, though. It's too bad I never got to the third in the trilogy, Leechman. It was going to be about a heart surgeon. Oh well, perhaps it'll come through someday

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So I'm thinking about keye, whose birthday is today, and what a surprise it was when she showed up in the LOTR hobbit fandom. We had known each other as part of KCRL, the Keanu site run by my friend Cat. She posted on my Keanu message board (yes, Virginia, this is back when people had message boards).

I really miss that board. It was hosted at a place called insidetheweb.com, and they provided customizable boards. It was the old fashioned threaded format, but you had full control over the layout and appearance. You could up load background pics, set up picture sections, etc. It was great. I had a Daily Pic thing going, where I would post a picture near the top of the board along with a quote from a piece of poetry, and so would post a whole poem over a number of days, with pics to match. (Ended up making a photobook of those pic/poem posts, a really nice one, that I gave away as gifts one year.)

So keye was one of the people who wandered into that board. So interesting to see someone from a former fandom show up over here. She went back to lurking some time ago, and is one of those people I'm sorry to have lost again.

*waves* If you're still here, hon, hope you're doing well!
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I have an interesting little problem which I'd like to get opinions on, if people have anything to say. This is especially germane for anyone who's got stuff posted on AO3 or other big sites.

LOTR was not the first fandom I wrote in. For a couple of years before that, I was writing in the Keanu fandom. It was all het, mostly character-based but some RPF. (In the Keanu fandom, it was basically ALL wish fulfillment fantasy, so nobody cared about that whole Mary Sue business. All that mattered was that it was good, whatever it was.) The gals reading my stuff did like it a lot, and I had a lot of fun with it.

(Side note: When I talk about My Muse? Keanu is the default. He dresses up as different guys - the latest one is obvious to all of you, I'm thinking - but in between times, when whatever obsession I've got fades off, He goes back to being that pretty half-breed Dorian Gray figure, with the down-pillow voice and restless hands and utterly spectacular smile. (Seriously, you have no idea of the wattage. It's a "you gotta be there" thing. It's blinding.) Before Keanu came along, it had been nearly ten years since I had crushed on a guy, so he kinda reset my clock, I guess. Regardless, when my Muse wanders back in after a dry time, that is the outfit he's wearing. Just FYI.)

So I've got this cache of stuff I wrote which is nowhere else on the web. Originally it went out through a Yahoo group that's defunct, then a few pieces went up here and there at friends' sites, which are also all gone now. So I'm thinking I'd like to post the stuff.

The question is how.

I'm very fond of these pieces. I think they're hot - they certainly got me off, they got other people off, and rereading some of them, I still get off on them. I think the ones that I would post (because I wouldn't post them all, oh no way, some are way too personal) would be enjoyable for anyone looking for that stuff. The thing is, I don't know if I want to embrace that earlier identity, to connect it with the handle I have now. I have no idea why I balk at this because frankly, who gives a shit? I really shouldn't think it's important, but somehow it is.

But then I think of the people I liked in that fandom, and how cool it would be if one of them was still around in it and bumped up against my stories. I think of how terribly much I miss Cat, and how great Shell's sci-fi porn was, and how comforting Chrys was when Nyquil went after me, and how Red and I would bounce bits of our MAAN fics at each other, and I get sad at how we lose each other, you know?

So I'm in a quandary here. Should I post them and risk having my handle connected with what would likely be seen as Mary Sue nonsense? Or should I keep them back to myself and risk losing the tiny chance of reconnection? It's not a life-changing decision, but it's something that's been hanging there for some time now.

Because I really do like those stories.

Any thoughts?

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Hhhhokay, so...

I'd like the opinion of anybody still reading this journal who is in fandom. Yeah, so like, all of you. I've just had a puzzling situation come up, and I'd like your input because...well, because I really think this is just...oy.

( A little background first. (Just a little, I promise, so you get the lay of the land.) )


ETA: Added a note about my post to clarify.

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Just popped in over at TORn, and I see all the same dim-witted arguments about what PJ is doing "wrong" are being dredged up again. Kili is too cute! Nori's hair is too weird! THORIN'S BEARD ISN'T LONG ENOUGH!!! (I shit you not, the ninnies over there really are arguing about that.) Like all of this hadn't been hashed over ad nauseam the last time.

It's just too fucking FUN.

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EEEEK

SupaNova Con report from Sydney. Out lovely KAAAAL Urban is there, making uteri explode with delight. From this report, we learn:

Karl knows nothing about computers

Karl contributed a key line to the script

and last but OH MY GOD certainly not least:

Karl Urban is a dirty, dirty bastard


Mm mm mm. Isn't he turning out to be a big ol' plate of barbecued HotSex? :p~~~~~~~

Go. Drool. Enjoy.

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OK, let's just chill out, people. Those of you going around waving your arms about supposed censorship and journal deletions, how about you step back and take a look at what evidence there may be for such accusations?

Journals get deleted for a number of reasons, and as far as I know, censorship has never been one of them, at least here on LJ. For me to believe that LiveJournal has suddenly decided to start interfering with its members' freedom, I'll have to see quite a bit more than hyperbole and finger-pointing. Does anyone actually have any proof of this?

Statements by LiveJournal? Emails from them to the community owners? Replies to inquiries? Anything at all? If so, then trot them out. Otherwise, let's just stow these rumors where rumors usually belong, why don't we?


ETA: Okay, having seen a couple of things that've been pointed out, it looks like those journals were deleted for listing interests that could encourage illegal activity.

I gotta a couple of words to say about this which will no doubt piss some people off, but you know me. I can't keep my trap shut.

( Basically, it boils down to this... )

I miss Fennelseed.