Oh HAI flist!

[kerravonsen]

Stolen from astrogirl

I have 35 people on my flist, and I'm on other people's flists (44 of them). You folks range from close friends to people I've never so much as talked to on LJ once, with a big bunch falling somewhere in between. Hello! Welcome!

But y'know, I'm shy of friending people I don't know, and I feel awkward to just jump into and comment on friendsfriends even if they've said interesting things, because I'd just be a random stranger, yes? (Comments on fic is notable exception) And, even more embarrassing is when Person A (whom I think I don't know) turns out to actually be Person B whom I do know, but using a different nom-de-net. Very confusing.

So, what I'd really appreciate is if all of you flist folks, wherever you fall on the spectrum, would come on by and say "hi" here. (Re)-introduce yourself, maybe mention how you ended up friending me, tell me something random about yourself, whatever you like. And, if you're so inclined, let me know what you'd like from me as a, um, flist-person, whether it's "Don't mind me, I'm only here for the fic" or "Don't be such a stranger, come on over to my LJ and talk to me more!" or "Actually, we don't have any fandoms in common any more and I'd like to take you off my flist now" or "Hey, the only reason I haven't been commenting here is because I felt awkward about talking to you", or whatever. It's all good! I won't get offended or freaked out by any of it, I promise.

Comments

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

Hi!

I think I friended you first; I know you from your gen rec list, and we seem to have a lot in common wrt age, fic tastes, and profession, and have enough of a common religion (probably not the best way to put this!) that we at least understand where each other are coming from.

- Helen

[kerravonsen]

And I friended you back with glee because I remembered you from your TS fic.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

And, even more embarrassing is when Person A (whom I think I don't know) turns out to actually be Person B whom I do know, but using a different nom-de-net.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that's happened to. :)

And, wow, I appear to have started a meme. Go, me! I'm really happy with how much response this has gotten on my LJ, and I hope it does prove to be a useful thing for other people to do, too.

Anyway, oh, yes. Hello! And you know I'm cool with being talked to when you feel like talking and with not being talked to when you don't. :)

[kerravonsen]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that's happened to.

Yeah, it happened in particular with communicator, whom I didn't realize was Alison P (from the Lyst, but whom I'd also met at conventions in the UK back when I was travelling a lot). Not until someone else pointed it out to me.

And, wow, I appear to have started a meme.

Well, it's a good idea, and you expressed it in such a way that people are hopefully not shy about giving an answer.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I'm Judith and you were one of the first friends I made in Blake's 7 fandom. If I hadn't given up air travel in an effort to protect the environment, I'd have flown to Australia by now in order to spend time with you again.

I curse the time zones which mean I almost never feel safe phoning you in case you're in bed!

Comment in my LJ as much as you like. I love hearing from you!

[kerravonsen]

{hugs}

If I hadn't given up air travel in an effort to protect the environment, I'd have flown to Australia by now in order to spend time with you again.

{big hugs}

I've given up on long-distance air travel because it takes too much out of me and I can't seem to adjust to the timezone changes any more; New Zealand is about as far away as I'll go now.

I curse the time zones which mean I almost never feel safe phoning you in case you're in bed!

Weekends are probably the best time, there's a larger window of opportunity.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Hello. I friended you after reading some of your B7 fic.

tell me something random about yourself
hmm...the only sports I am good at tend to be ones with some kind of fighting application (archery, fencing, martial arts...). I have NO idea why.

[kerravonsen]

Aw, thank you!

the only sports I am good at tend to be ones with some kind of fighting application (archery, fencing, martial arts...). I have NO idea why.

It's because they're all cool.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

I ran into you first in The Sentinel fandom, naturally; you were one of those who welcomed me to the Cascade Times list. So when I joined LJ and found you here, I was thrilled, and I believe you were one of the first people I ever friended on LJ.

I always enjoy hearing what you've got to say, especially regarding stories and Deep (sometimes Theological) Thoughts. We also have a ton in common, including our attitude towards the awesomeness that is genfic, and our view of God. I hope we stay friends for a long time!

[kerravonsen]

{hugs}

I hope we stay friends for a long time!

Me too.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I read your web-site for the B7 fic and sent an e-mail saying what I particularly liked about a couple of them. You were kind enough to reply so when I joined LJ and found you were here, I friended you because you seemed a nice person.

I haven't found any reason to change my mind.

[kerravonsen]

Thank you! 8-)

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Name, rank and serial number: Marie (Ri, Kal, the Cheese Elf), Empress of Penguins and Future Ruler of Your Trifling Planet, 8675309

I love having you on my friendslist almost as much as I love being on yours. I've really enjoyed your Doctor Who fic, thus far (Oh! I just finished S3! Does that mean I get to read your other Saving-the-day-without-Bad-Wolf fic, now?) and I love posting my impressions about various Who eps because I know you'll always have something amusing or interesting to say in response.

Also, you make kick-ass icons.

[kerravonsen]

Oh! I just finished S3! Does that mean I get to read your other Saving-the-day-without-Bad-Wolf fic, now?

Er, no, because I've taken it down because it's undergoing a complete rewrite (stalled at the moment, because of Multiverse and other things).

Also, you make kick-ass icons.

So do you.

If I recall correctly, I friended you because we had some mutual friends in common, and I thought, hey, she's been friended by John C. Wright, she must be interesting, and we have stuff in common, let's give this a go, and I never regretted it for one minute.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

We both like Blakes 7.

We both like The Sentinel.

We both like... well, old Who :)

We both like playing with icons.

We both like gen.

What's not to like? :)

[kerravonsen]

Indeed. 8-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You know me! We met on the Lyst, but I can't remember who got here first and how we found each other. :-P

[kerravonsen]

Me neither. But there were a bunch of Lystians who joined around the same time, I think.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I don't remember when or why I friended you. But the chances are good that if you write (or even just link to) interesting fanfic--interesting to me, that is--that that is why. I still have no clue about when.

I'm a fanfic junkie. Especially crossover fic. Oh yeah--now that I've looked at your info page, I remember. I've been looking at your Katspace fanfic reviews for years. I friended you when I realized that this was you!

[kerravonsen]

8-) My Net-Fic reviews does seem to have given me a rep...

[timewanderer.livejournal.com]

You know, I really don't remember why I friended you. In the past, I have friended people simply because I read one of their entries and thought, "Hmmm, this journal could be interesting. I think I'll friend them, so I can read their journal from my friends page." Heh...well, maybe my thoughts weren't that precise. More like, "Hmmm, interesting..." then my thoughts trail off as I click the Add this user to your friends list button and then surf on to the next journal or web page. :)

Our common interests are Billy Joel, books, chocolate, computers, House, movies, music, reading, science fiction, web design, and writing. I should probably update my interests because they wax and wane over periods of time and my list may be outdated. Most of our common interests are common between most people.

But I have to ask you why you like Billy Joel, because he is one of my all time favorite singer/songwriters. I've been to every album tour he has done since his Greatest Hits Tour in 1984.

Anyway, if you want to know more about me, you can read my Profile (http://timewanderer.livejournal.com/profile). I don't post nearly as often as I'd like to. That part waxes and wanes, too. But since I friended you, you can get more info about me in my "Friends Only" journal.

- Paul

[kerravonsen]

Well, I'm obviously not as into Billy Joel as you are, not having been to any of his performances, and not having a complete collection of his work. But what I have, I like. He's one of those who can write more than just love songs, and he also ranges from pounding beat to ballad, and he knows how to tool a piano, man. Some of my favourites songs of his are (goes and looks up discography):
- She's Always A Woman (The Stranger)
- Allentown (Nylon Curtain)
- Goodnight Saigon (Nylon Curtain)
- Falling of the Rain (Cold Spring Harbour)
- The Downeaster "Alexa" (Storm Front)
- Leningrad (Storm Front)
- And So It Goes (Storm Front)
- River of Dreams (River of Dreams)
- All About Soul (River of Dreams)
- Shades of Grey (River of Dreams)
- Honesty (52nd Street)
- Piano Man (Piano Man)
- Travelin' Prayer (Piano Man)

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

I think it was either that you showed up in somebody else's journal comments and said interesting things, or that I got linked to you for ficathon reasons. Maybe both.

[kerravonsen]

We do definitely have mutual friends in common.

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

Hi, it's me, Tigger. We met on tpdis and then in RL at the tpdinner? If I'm forgetting to comment, it's only 'cause the new job is using up a lot of my psychic energy at the moment. (In the learning new things and trying to remember everyone's name way, not in all the bad ways! :)

*tacklehugs at random*

I am planning on getting back to some of my TP WIPs. REally. Honest. I just have PR WIPs and this stupid Solarbabies fic that are taunting me at the moment. ;)

[kerravonsen]

One must follow the Muse.

{hugs}

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

We joined LJ at around the same time - the LJ archives say on the very same day in 2003. I don't remember who friended who first. I knew you mainly from the Lyst, which I had joined some years before. We'd met offline as well. Usually I drop by when I am in Melbourne.

I'm an ENTJ personality type. So I'll never be like my hero, Kerr Avon.

I don't suppose you've bought a new wide screen TV set? 60-inch plasma sets are really cheap lately...

[kerravonsen]

I don't suppose you've bought a new wide screen TV set? 60-inch plasma sets are really cheap lately...

No, I still have my old classic TV. I still can't justify the expense, especially when I got myself an eeePC, and interest rates have gone up...

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Hi, I am Vera and I joined happily , as well as the others,looking for B7 stuff. Never got bored, thanks! Now, of course, the horizon has gone wider but still happy!

[kerravonsen]

I remember vilakins mentioning you.

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Jacqueline and we go way back to the lyst. We also met once at Redemption. And while we don't agree on religious matters (what with me being a devout atheist), we do seem to have the same preferences on a lot of other things, especially fanfics. Also I love your icons and hope to someday have the energy to spend time learning to make them myself.

I've become a bit shy about commenting on comments of people that aren't on my flist. I didn't have any problems, but recently a comment of mine got a really bad (read abusive) reaction from a person who's on the flists of several of the people on my flist. I'm keeping a low profile now.

[kerravonsen]

We also met once at Redemption.

Yes, I remember. Weren't you dressed as a Trill?

Also I love your icons and hope to someday have the energy to spend time learning to make them myself.

Thank you!
I call icons "the artistic equivalent of haiku". Because you pack a lot into a small space. And they're quick to make, compared with other things.

but recently a comment of mine got a really bad (read abusive) reaction

I'm sorry to hear that.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

This is Joanne, who is pretty much out of practice at both filking and Lyst-posting. You once explained something about B7 fandom, you may or may not remember, that had been puzzling me. For that alone you have my thanks...

[kerravonsen]

You're welcome!

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I can't remember how you ended up on my friends list, but I see you have a lot of the Proctors on your friends list, and I've been working on Redemption since the first one (and on the last Whos 7 before that) so it's possible I picked up your LJ by seeing a comment you made to one of my friends. You were asking about how we knew each other on LJ weren't you? :-)

And you like Alan Parsons Project, so you're a person of taste and distinction! I played my cassette (yep!) of I,Robot to death and as soon as I could afford it, bought everything of theirs I could on CD :-)

Oh, and you like filk, so you're as warped and twisted as I am, which is nice :-)

[kerravonsen]

Well, yes, I've seen you perform at Redemption.

And you like Alan Parsons Project, so you're a person of taste and distinction!

I first discovered Alan Parsons with "Turn of a Friendly Card", which impressed me because it was the first record I'd ever got (young teen that I was) in which I liked every single song on the album. That was unprecedented! I didn't know it was possible! 8-)

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Well, considering you're one of two people who strong-armed sweetly cajoled me into joining LJ, you'd better know who I am and why I'm here. :-)

We met in the TS fandom, on the Cascade Times list. I think you were one of the first people to respond to a fic I posted. It was during Shakespearean week, and I posted my haiku "Cascade Crimson" and you gave me feedback and it was delightful (both the feedback itself and the fact that you responded).

We were also on the Sentinels for Christ list together.

I tend mostly to lurk on your lj because while we do have a couple fandoms in common, we're not into them with the same intensity, and I'm afraid that I'm not into most of your favorite fandoms. (Though thanks to you I at least know what B7 is.) I don't have a whole lot to contribute to the conversations, but I do read.

[kerravonsen]

(evil grin)

Yeah, I've kind of been drifting away from TS. Not that I like it any less, but it seems to be reducing its presence on my landscape, if you see what I mean.

And Sentinels for Christ seems to have vanished, doesn't it? But I've actually been finding that LJ has been even better than that, because I have a small but lovely group of Christian fans on my flist, and even if we don't all have fandoms in common, we know what fandom is, and can support each other with sympathy.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I may have friended you through having signed up for the Lyric Wheel, or it may just have been that I saw interesting comments from you on friends' journals. We share an interest in SF and fantasy, and in particular in Doctor Who.

Seeing as how you have my severed ear, I think that the least you could do is friend me back. :) (Only joking. Please don't if it would make you uncomfortable.)

[kerravonsen]

Seeing as how you have my severed ear, I think that the least you could do is friend me back.

(chuckle)

[ladyslvr.livejournal.com]

Hi :) I know you from TPDIS. And even though I'm not in charge anymore or on the list much at all, we've still spent enough virtual time together that I can't imagine not seeing your name on my flist. Our interests have overlapped in multiple ways through the years, so something else will undoubtedly crop up that we both like.

I don't have much online presence any more, so don't expect to see comments from me. My real job is all about grading papers -- lots and lots of papers -- which doesn't leave me a lot of time to pursue my hobbies. I'm even less inclined to leave comments on fiction because fanfic is for fun and leaving comments is my RL job, which I'd really like to leave behind me when reading fanfic.

There probably isn't much about me that you don't already know, except that I've recently become totally addicted to the Heroes game on Facebook. I'm not a fan of the show, but the game won't let me go. If you have a Facebook presence and you're playing Heroes, friend me so we can play together.

[kerravonsen]

I'm even less inclined to leave comments on fiction because fanfic is for fun and leaving comments is my RL job, which I'd really like to leave behind me when reading fanfic.

Fair enough; when it becomes work, then it's not fun, and it's supposed to be fun.

If you have a Facebook presence and you're playing Heroes, friend me so we can play together.

Not on Facebook, I'm afraid. LJ is enough for me.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

And, even more embarrassing is when Person A (whom I think I don't know) turns out to actually be Person B whom I do know, but using a different nom-de-net. Very confusing.

Completely with you on this. I can't keep up with people's split-journal personalities.

*waves* Hi!

I believe we met through B7_Friday. Because, well, B7 obviously. I have no demands to make of anyone on my flist. If people read my journal, that's nice. If they don't, that's fine. If people comment, that's nice. If they don't, I assume it's because they haven't read it, or because they have lives that require triage, and they can't fit everyone in, no matter how much they'd like.

I keep up with the journals on my flists in fits and starts, depending on what's happening in my life. Hence I tend to leave a flurry of comments in people's journals, then disappear like April snow. I'd love to be keeping up on everyone's journals and fic and whatnot, but circumstances dictate otherwise. Which is why I usually miss all the best fic. And somehow only turn up between the dramas I should know about, in time to stand around saying "Huh? What'd I miss?" Makes me seem like a complete dork. Which approximates my real life.

I have no policies on friending, as I state in my info, so if I've friended you it's because I find your journal interesting for some reason, and I'm not in the least bit offended if you don't friend me back. I'm not offended either, if people dump me off their flist, although it would make me curious as to why.

In conclusion: No expectations. No demands. Just a common interest in B7.

[kerravonsen]

(nods) All makes sense.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

We met in RL at Redemption 07, although I'd known you a fair while before that from B7 fandom, and possibly elsewhere.

I just rediscovered a huge box of music cassettes that I hadn't played in at least seven years (it may even have been several house-moves before that). And they still work.

[kerravonsen]

Yeah, but it's not until one meets you in person that one really knows how fitting "dormouse" is as a nickname. (grin)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Well, I sort of assume that you know who I am, as I've known who you are for a dozen years via Lysator, I think, and we've met a couple of times at cons. But if not, ask me to remind you...

I just like reading your posts, though I rarely have time to fit in fiction these days. Religious themes particularly interesting.

Um, I think that I had something else to say but a cat distracted me.

[kerravonsen]

But do you go by Kalypso on the Lyst?

[infiniteviking]

This is horribly late -- I meant to answer it, wasn't sure what to say, saved the link, and... well, hello anyway. ^__^'

We've been moving in the same circles vis a vis Doctor Who fandom for a long time, but the first real discussion we had was probably about Methos icons. *grins* And then your 9th-and-Methos fic(s) occurred, and somewhere in there we became friends.

Something random about myself: I like bridges. Especially gigantic suspension bridges with bright lights and graceful arches. They connect the here-and-now with the there-and-then; they meld art, geometry, and human endeavor; there's something almost mystical about a bridge wreathed in river-mist with its spires silvered by the dawn. If I ever do the series of highway paintings I've had in the back of my mind for ages, bridges will feature prominently among them.

As, er, a flist person... *sheepish* Of late I'm more absent than not, but I like reading what you have to say and frequently long to be bold enough to comment more often. Don't be shy to comment to me, though. If I say anything interesting, please do put in your two cents if you wish!

[kerravonsen]

Thanks. Still appreciated; late is better than never.