DPP: "We're all friendlies. So, let's just... be friendly!!" FRIENDING MEME take 2!

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

Happy Monday Shipper Nation!! I'm Liz and I'm excited to be your DPP driver this week. I've got games, memes, ficlets, and other goodies planned so I hope you'll drop by throughout the week.

First, a huge shout-out to sci_fi_shipper for an amazing week full of insightful discussion, gorgeous and adorable artwork and scenarios for happy pilots, comment!fic, pilots playlists, and loads of fun!! Great work, hon!!

And now, I'd like to introduce the Return of the Friending Meme!!


shah_of_blah had a lovely idea about two months ago to host a "friending meme" DPP. During my time in K/L fandom, I've been continually impressed by how wonderfully kind and supportive everyone here has been. It's an absolute pleasure to be part of this community. When I saw Shah's meme, I thought to myself that we should really do that on a regular basis to renew old friendships, get to know more about one another, and welcome newcomers to the community. I've also been chatting with some new (to me) people recently and realized that a number of you aren't on my flist. This problem must be rectified!!

In that spirit, I've put together some "getting to know you questions" so we all can introduce or reintroduce ourselves. I encourage using this opportunity to add fellow shippers to your flists. (p.s.--You'll notice I've tried to make the questions short and sweet (when vs. why, etc.) since we've had many discussions of why we're here or why K/L is our OTP. While you are certainly welcome to include that info, I am hoping the quick answer format will encourage participation...and friending...of old, middle, and new guard shippers since posting should be a quick, painless five minutes.

The questions:
1. Your username, callsign if applicable, +/- anything else you prefer (or don't mind) being called.
2. When did you start watching bsg?
3. When did you enter fandom?
4. Is K/L your first/only fandom or are you a multi-fandom type?
5. Have you done things you never dreamed you would in order to participate in fandom? Examples?
6. Any current projects you want to advertise?
7. If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have 5 bsg episodes, which would you take? I'll allow an arc to count as one entry to make things a little easier.
8. What do you do in the few minutes that you aren't obsessing over K/L?

Now, go on, friend, chatter, and be merry!!

Comments

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

1. My username is obviously ddt73, used the same one over on Skiffy. Most people call me Dave. I've even been called OTD (the one true Dave) lol. I got that name for all the promos I captured and gifs I created for BSG. :)

2. I've been with BSG since the beginning. I remember when I first heard of the series, that they were redoing Battlestar Galactica, which I remember vaguely from when I was a little kid. By the end of the first season I was hopelessly hooked.

3. I became a part of the fandom during season 3. I lurked before that. I believe the first time I went online about it was after they pulled the year time jump.

4 K&L is my first and only fandom. Other shows have captured my attention from time to time, but nothing even remotely like BSG did.

5. I never imagined I would spend so much time capturing SciFi and scanning their shows just to find new promos for BSG. I would capture whole nights of shows and would scan through it the next day to search for promos. When I did I would post them on youtube. I became good at it and could do it fairly quickly but still... lol

6. At the moment I'm not working on anything. I never know when a song will inspire me to create a vid. My last vid idea came when I was just channel surfing stopped on a music channel and the song they happened to be playing inspired me. So nothing today, but tomorrow? Who knows...

7. Mini Series, 33, Act of Contrition & You Can't Go Home Again, Home 1 & 2, Unfinished Business aired and extended.

8. Watch Phillies (4 straight division titles woot!) and Eagles, work on yard, read, watch my niece.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you, Dave! I'd like to see some of your vids. Where can I find them?

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

You can watch most of them here:

http://video.yahoo.com/mypage/video?s=5470290&o=10

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting, OTD!! (*grins*, it's a good nick) I love hearing from you bsg Old School folks. As I've mentioned to others above, I appreciate you guys sticking with it and being here for all of us that are newer. I don't know what I would have done with myself if it hadn't been for lurking on skiffy (esp. the K/L thread and the LOLcats and rats) during S4/4.5.

I don't know what it is about K/L. They are truly epic. I never dreamed I'd be part of a fandom like this. (I didn't even know fandom existed prior to K/L.) It's an honor to be part of this group though. Everyone is absolutely wonderful. (I suppose we take after our wondertwins like that.)

Your epi list is much like mine. Those are all in my top ten. :)

Friends?

p.s.--Where do you post your vids?

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

I orginally posted my vids on youtube, but ran into a problem there, they got tough with copyright enfringment. I created the yahoo video profile so I could upload them there without worrying about it.

Sure we can be friends hehe.

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah something else I did for the fandom. I would track down deleted scenes that weren't just from the US DVDs or even the UK's. The released DVDs in France, Germany, Eastern Europe, Italy, and other places. Anyway I had a usenet account and I would download DVDs from all over the world, just to see what deleted scenes they had. It's not quite a big deal I have fast internet and you can start downloading and walk away and check it later or the next day, but still I DLed whole DVDs for what turned out to be no reason cause they had nothing new. It's not like any of the downloads would tell ya what the deleted scenes were lol. I did find some deleted scenes that are on my yahoo video page cause that's the only place that seems to let you post such things.