Hester Prynne did it like a Puritan.

[amand_r]

In the spirit of the Pilgrims and the oppression of the native peoples of North America, I have compiled a short list of things that are good about fandom, because I feel that I am negative most of the time. Or perhaps people think I'm negative because I derive delight and amusement from other people's misfortune and/or stupidity. So, without further ado:


1. I met my husband, the oft here quoted tianyu back in 1997 on a Highlander mailing list. Added humor: I thought he was a chick at first. Similarly, danawoods met me online in 97 and married my RL best friend, rabbijones. Tianyu's best friend and ex, arsenicjade became friends with me and another user, jamwired. wenchita fits in here somewhere. nyn gets for form the head. And we are Voltr—er, plerk.

2. Conventions that let you run around with a sword/ray gun/D&D book and/or dressed as Vulcans/Hogwarts professors/Furries/anime characters/Sci-Fi CEOs without anyone thinking anything different. In fact, the better and more realistic your costume, the more free drinks you get.

3. The old Rysher HL forum with the frosting wars and the forum fable. And frus.

4. That awesomely horrible and great moment you get when you realize that you have been in front of the computer for three hours and you're way past your bedtime, but the story is just too good.

5. The first piece of feedback after you post a new story.

In addition, I present to anyone who might care:

Moments That Make Me Remember Why I Started Writing Methos

1. Methos weeping for Silas
2. Ming vase throwing Methos.
3. Candygram.
4. Methos crying in a train yard.
5. Methos beheading Kristen.


For those of you who might be admiring the icon in the left, it is made by the lovely faith_accompli and contains a poem written by me for a troll. For posterity's sake, I shall print the whole :

Trolly McTroll: ok that's it you freaks are DEAD!!!!!!!!!! How can you laugh at this? That you've made someone so sad?? Is that what you like to do with your spare time? I guess you have way too much of it!!!! GO TO HELL FREAKS!!! I'M FINALLY GONNA DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOU UGLY BITCHES. I'M GONNA SUE YOU FOR COPYRIGHT VIOLATION!!!! DIE FREAKS!!!! THIS PLACE WILL BE GONE SOON SO LAUGH YOUR BITCH ASSES OFF WHILE YOU CAN!!! end crazy troll talk

I know what you're thinking: this person is a nutcase, right? Perhaps so. So, in the spirit of poem wank, I wrote her a post:

Me: OMG! You hate my fic!
You stupid fucking whore!
If you don't stop, I'll feel real bad.
And never write...no more.

I just can't take it anymore
This crit has taken toll,
So I'll stop writing stupid fic
And just become a troll.

Could you compose more of your pathetic flames in poetic form? Because really, I respond better to pathos attempts if they are in meter and rhyme.

I am also easily swayed when someone has a monkey. Do you have a monkey?

Hence the monkey at the end of the icon poem.


I also received another great icon from wingsister with a decidedly more fangirly sensibility. Note the "I <3 Orli" at the bottom of one part. Fangirl indeed:



God, I love the universe. Really. This is turning out to be the best Thanksgiving ever. Now, take these used wool blankets and return to your tribe. Ooop, a bridge too far; I'm going to hell now.

Comments

[faith-accompli.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad that you like it--and that it's travelled to journalfen, too. *snicker*

On Plerk...

[idyll.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think the reason wenchita and nyn are kind of hanging out there is because you approached this wrong. Let's try it again.

In 1997, three people joined HLBeta and posted/responded to posts for beta readers. These three were danawoods, amand_r and wenchita. (sidebar: the Newbit post was courtesy of dana) The three began beta reading for one another and became known to ourselves, and to others, as The Beta Triumvirate. (sidebar: dana apologies profusely for the Mary Sue tripe she made you edit)

amand_r began chatting with jamwired who was running the MacMint Asylum at the time and said to Dana (and probably also Ali, but I was not privy to that): Yo, you gots to meet this biahtch. Thus, jam was brought into the fold. We grew from the Beta Triumvirate to the Four Ho-Women of the Apocolypse. There were many ICQ chats because we couldn't AIM group chat with jammy, and then the formation of Alam Cida.

Then we all found ourselves on ROGLanders, where tianyu amused the hell out of all of us, but especially amand-r. Arsenic and Jammy found they had a lot in common and were chatting. I think Jam encouraged Arsenic to IM me, and we gots to talking. Nyn, if I'm not wrong, was chat buddies with Arsenic, who said to me: Yo, you gots to meet this biahtch. Nyn was also being urged to close the circle [TM Aresenic].

Around that time rabbijones became online capable, and he and I started chatting because we each thought the other was cool because of what amand-r told us. I believe there was also a weird, triple marriage dreaming guy from arsenic's school who pronounced me Goddess of Bloodstone & Mirth, but he's not really important.

We were all chatting in pairs and groups, and causing quite the OT ruckus on ROGLanders with our talk of Buffy and Angel. Hence, the formation of plerk. Where nothing was OT. Especially random cries of "Want! Take! Have!" On an interesting note...plerk itself came into being four years ago this Thanksgiving. Because I remember sitting around the kitchen table in amand-r's parents house with her and rabbijones discussing the idea.

I've left out raine. This was not an oversight. I'm honestly unsure how she fits in, and she really never participated much. But she was quite funny those two times I met her.

[idyll.livejournal.com]

Oh, and might I add:

6. The BABE forum (before the new wave came). Because, that was gobs of fun. And, dude, death by rice pudding and Pokemon. Aw, yeah.

And your poem is why I lurve you, yes it is. You rock my world. Says both the sock puppets. *g*

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I just thought of this: Sifl & Olly. Can we name our sockpuppets Sifl & Olly? Heeehhhe. If I ever become a sock puppet, I shall actually type out my really bad messages in caps and netspeak WHILE I'm wearing the socks.