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Friday, 12 February 2010 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightOn 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*
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*
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Date: Friday, 12 February 2010 01:15 pm (UTC)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