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no_takebacksHappy 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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!!
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!!
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Re: YAY! I LOVE FRIENDING MEMES!!!
Date: 2010-09-28 01:41 pm (UTC)Hee! It’s totally an insane thing to be proud of, but hey, I don’t think I’m ever going to win a Nobel or a Pulitzer or whatever, so you know, I’ll be happy with having “bamceps” be my legacy :P
Rome! Yay! Did you hear that they're gonna do a movie now? Kevin McKidd ROCKS!!!!
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be too much progress on this front, perhaps because Bruno Heller is all involved with “The Mentalist” (which I like but forget to watch and now I’m one and a half seasons behind, but Simon Baker is quite !!!! so I’ll prolly watch the dvds someday!) I loved Vorenus, but I have to say that I was always Titus Pullo’s gal :D (I loved Atia’s description of the two of them as the “stern Catonian” and the “cheerful brutish one.” Heeee!)
And Friday Night Lights!!! So sad that it's their last season :-( But I really applaud them for wanting to end it and leave on a high note.
That’s one of the few shows that came back from a less than stellar season 2 and just kept hitting high notes with their subsequent seasons. I honestly think the short seasons for DirectTV and the knowledge that it would go five seasons and no more is a GOOD thing for the show, because they can build this great narrative arc with logical consequences. It’s a marvelous, marvelous, show, isn’t it? I resisted for a long time b/c of the high-school football thing, but then I watched season 1 and was totally, utterly hooked. (And Matt Saracen is SO Lee Adama!!)
And LOTR FTMFW!!! I was super active on theonering.net and still check in every once in a while to see how they're all doing. Remind me to tell you about "grandma" one of these days. She is still the ultimate Super Fan, IMO.
HA! Brilliant!!! I love how we have family memories connected to those books/films. My father got me the books when I was nine and we have shared the love for them all this time. I took him to see ROTK in the theaters when it came out and bought him all the extended edition dvds. (It was a big deal because he’s not super-mobile any more.) Awwww! (Now I want to call my daddy and talk to him. Hee!)
I'm going to admit that I lurk on your LJ quite a bit. Your fics are some of my all time faves.
*blushes* Thank you!
Friends? *asks shyly*
Absolutely!!!
Re: YAY! I LOVE FRIENDING MEMES!!!
Date: 2010-09-28 04:05 pm (UTC)Oh no, this isn't about MY grandma, although I do have a family connection since my uncle turned me on to the books when I was like 13.
This is the story of SUPER FAN, who was affectionately known as "Grandma" on theonering.net. Basically, she was an older lady (I think at that time, she was around 70) and had read the books EVERY YEAR since it had been published. Yup, once a year. So, she did a daily post called "Today in Middle Earth" and had figured out the calendar and would tell everyone what was happening on that day in Middle Earth. When the movies came out, she went and saw EVERY SINGLE showing, EVERY DAY for as long as they were playing in her neighborhood and she kept all the ticket stubs. Any way, when the Oscars rolled around for ROTK (and I admit, when they did the clean sweep, I cried), theonering.net hosted a party in Hollywood (which coincidentally, is the party all the cast/crew attended with the exception of Sean Astin who's a kiss-ass). "Grandma" really wanted to go to this thing, but she was an older lady living off of social security so they did a huge campaign and we all contributed and bought her a ticket to LA. She flew out here and was treated like royalty by all the fans. She's brought her ticket stubs with her and showed them to PJ and Richard Taylor and they took her in to a radio interview the day after the Oscars. They all knew about her, because they had all been lurking on theonering.net since the beginning. She was thrilled. She got to meet all the cast, etc. The boards were going crazy when all of that was going on. We were happier for HER to have this experience than anyone else. It was one of the best "come together" moments in fandom that I've ever had.
Any way ... isn't that a cool story?
Re: YAY! I LOVE FRIENDING MEMES!!!
Date: 2010-09-28 04:26 pm (UTC)(Also, since you’re an LOTR fan, I can confess that I quite often read your username as “Nazgul” … :P but a nice, friendly Nazgul, I hasten to add!)
Re: YAY! I LOVE FRIENDING MEMES!!!
Date: 2010-09-28 04:44 pm (UTC)Re: YAY! I LOVE FRIENDING MEMES!!!
Date: 2010-09-28 08:06 pm (UTC)*sheepishly admits to Naz that I do the same thing...but, as mentioned above, you are the nicest of Nazguls, bb* :D
Re: YAY! I LOVE FRIENDING MEMES!!!
Date: 2010-09-28 08:08 pm (UTC)