Rabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbit...

[byslantedlight]

On the way to work this morning I passed the bizarre little shooting range/polo ground place by the roundabout, and through the winter-shorn trees I saw a row of about a dozen little tommies, all in camoflage - with rain capes and backpacks - lying down on a little rise of grass and peering through their rifle scopes at a set of targets! It was just like on t'telly! Nine-thirty on a misty-rain wet Friday morning... awww! Guess who I was imagining out there with them? Ah, lads in training... Ooh, and there's various lads-on-manouevres fic actually, isn't there... Hmmn... Army Games by Sebastian... erm... what else?!

I'm feeling... maybe in a mood to write a wee Pros ficlet, between jobs? I have longer fic to write, but I need to concentrate on that, so... would anyone like to give me a prompt? A mood, an atmosphere for the lads to be in? A random word or two? Not a plot, cos half the fun for me is figuring out how the lads get to the prompt, but... would anyone like?

HG... has anyone been in touch with HG recently? Actually had emails/letters or anything from her? See, ages ago she sent me some letterzines on loan, and I've been trying to get in touch with her for ages now to send them back. It's been long enough that I've not wanted to just randomly send them to the address where we were corresponding before, but she's not replied to any of my attempts to get in touch, which seems unlike her from our previous (admittedly relatively brief) emails and all... I tried via her Auto Hatstand posts and all, but no reply... I'm sure she wants these letterzines back, but I'd hate for them to get lost... And it occurs to me that anyone can set up an AH account and call themselves anything - I could set up as Jane, nick her stories from Proslib, or scan them from zines, and put them up, pretending to be her, so... eek. Does anyone have any news?

Oh... stuff! My flist is full of SPN and other fandoms, and I spend so much more time scrolling down these days (ah, poor little finger... *g*) but even more bizzarely, people are doing odd things with DW, and I'm going to be forced to decide how to deal with this, aren't I... On the one hand, it's weird having posts on my lj to which you can't comment, and instructions to go somewhere else if you want to talk to them, knowing that if they then talk to you back you're not going to know about it unless you randomly check their DW account... And apparently I'm not readable in DW, DW people still have to physically come to lj to do that, and... and none of that is going to make me move to DW - I'm happy here with Pros in lj, and... and I hate to "lose people" but on the other hand, I like the fact that Pros lj is a community, and when that's all split up again and again it's... something else entirely... and... *sighs* Oh, it's kind of like friends moving away to another city, isn't it! You know that in theory you can still keep in touch, but... Only these gradual moves are a bit different actually - some of my flist moved away completely, and I thought oh but got used to not seeing them around. This other way around is... disturbing. It's like someone moved away and then made the effort to write and phone and stuff, but is now saying cool, but now you have to come and visit me if you ever want to chat..., which is a whole different thing... I'm more of a rip-the-bandaid-off kind of girl, I guess... Gargh. Which really means I should just defriend DW-ers who move away completely, shouldn't I... *sighs* Is anyone else worritting about this?

I friended myself. Which is kind of weird, but it's also kind of a good shortcut to replying to people in my own posts, cos I have my friends page open all the time... What d'you reckon, will I get better about it all?!

Aaaand... I've kind of been reading around my PhD again, a bit, and feeling quite... you know... interested again... *g* Be a bugger if I get all interested and then the funding doesn't come through, mind... I'm getting very bored with being boring, though... *g*

And Pros on the big screen! Pros on a boat! MS back in Windsor! Wheeeee!

We have rain. Many, many raindrops on my office window... that's cool. But it'll be nicer when I'm home and cosy...

See - rabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbitrabbit... *g*

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - I'll take our Pros-y lads with strategically-placed thigh straps any day... *g*

Yeah, I'm not so fussed about people going to DW like that either (though I think it's kind of a shame when it means a relatively small community is split even further) - I just didn't follow, as you say, when people did at first. But then it's this other thing, where I can still see them in my flist, but I can't interact with them there... I guess I think of my flist as people who I chat to occasionally - some much more occasionally than others, if we're more on the edge of each other's interests, but... still people that I chat to, rather than watch on telly and send occasional letters (or some much better metaphor... *g*) I dunno... I should just defriend, I guess...

And whee PhD! I've been trying to think of ways to get research time without losing too many holiday days, but... I wish archives were open at the weekend! Well, the ones that I need... *g* Yeay reseearch - it should be bouncy!

[lukadreaming.livejournal.com]

I've purposely kept my flist small, as I'm nosy and like to know what people are up to! There are a couple on there who I don't really know and don't say much. In the end, I decided to leave them where they were and to customise distribution lists for locked posts rather than defriending anyone.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - see, I'm mostly happy to have people reading what I'm up to, but I tend to think that we should probably have said something to each other somewhere along the way - and mostly we have... My fic is all elsewhere, and unless you want to know me me there's really no reason to be here in the first place - and vice versa, of course...

But then it comes undone a bit too when people move onto other fandoms, and suddenly my lovely Pros-y flist isn't a lovely Pros-y flist any more... it's got other kinds of loveliness in many other ways, but... I really really don't care about SPN, for example and yet everyone seems to be posting comment posts for new eps or something... But then... Oh, *head hurts*...

A couple of times I've found out that someone's filtered me off their flists for some bizarre reason (I never know, why not just defriend me? Presumably they want to know what I'm up to, but don't want me to know what they're up to? Odd...) and when that happens I do just defriend people, cos... that's not friendly... *g* I'd understand if it was filtering off particular posts, but when you're filtered off all of them?! People's relationships and views of lj are eternally fascinating!

[lukadreaming.livejournal.com]

I don't post loads of private stuff, but when I do it's usually f-locked. I only use filters for super-duper private stuff and the only people not on that filter are about three who I can't remember how I acquired them as friends -- it was probably early on before I realised that you don't *have* to friend people back *g*. I've never met them in RL, they never comment on my posts and rarely post on their own LJs.

I probably should defriend, but it looks so unfriendly *g*.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - it does feel unfriendly - I think that's probably my problem with the DW movers. They move to DW, but then I have to be the "bad guy" and defriend them... *sighs*

I do like my flist - I think most people comment now and then - sometimes more then than now, but that's okay... sometimes we had a little flurry of commenting, and now we're over that excitement and quieter, and sometimes people seem to have stopped posting and I really should go and see what's happening, but then I don't mind if people sort of move away for a bit and then move back, so that's cool too...

I have a couple of people who are sort of lurkers - but I know them from other contexts than lj, and have chatted to them there, so that's okay... One person amuses me highly by checking my lj every day, but never ever commenting - and not even emailing me any more, except through proxies... But that's okay too, I know who she is! *g*

I do filtering a wee bit - friendsonly if it's a bit personal, "closer friends" if it's what I think of as quite personal... But I don't like mucking around with that too much either, cos... cos it feels unfriendly... *g*

Then again, I was wandering around sussing out the DW system yesterday, when all this came up, and although I liked the idea of it at first, I think having three different reading lists (sort of friends/readers/network (can't remember how that works though, cos it's not a place you can read, say ljs) would get old fast too... I like having people in one place, sort of like a big happy street... *g* My community. *vbg