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Nov. 26th, 2002 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverwhereI changed my journal! Wheeee! :D
Thanks to the wonderful![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thehush I now have a LOTR boys mood theme (yayyy!), and so I decided to change everything, because I was tired of looking at the same boring colours. Blah. So now my journal is PURPLE! It's so pretty. *giggles* I changed my comment tag to a Tori quote as well, but I'll probably make it something different soon -- I seem to change it as much as I make new icons, which is to say alot. *grins* But I think the purplely goodness is here to stay. :)
Considering that I have had a total of 3 hours sleep in the past two days, I am surprisingly coherent and upwardly mobile. *laughs*
Sunday night I had terrible insomnia, and got less than an hour sleep. I don't think I need to tell you I was an irritable zombie all monday. *G* Last night I was up till almost 5am cleaning my house before the landlord came for his inspection. Yes, I should have done it before, but I am the world's worst procrastinator, and leave everything, no matter how important (sometimes especially if they're important) to the last minute. I hate the way I do this to myself, but I just can't seem to stop. Sigh. But at least the house is sparkling clean (mostly) and passed inspection with flying colours. Which now that I think about it is such a strange expression, how can colours fly? *giggles*
andraste_oz wrote a bit in her journal about Fandom, and how she doesn't really feel like she fits in. I don't think I do either. It's so odd, because there are many wonderful things I'm a huge, if not unbelievably obsessive fan of, like LOTR and Monty Python and Neil Gaiman just to name a few, yet I don't feel a part of that nebulous thing called 'Fandom'. I think the main problem is that I don't write fanfiction. I don't even read it, unless it's written by my friends. I suppose this is because I have read such appalling bad fanfiction over the years -- the few that I did read when I gave it a try were so poorly written it made me want to scream, so I just gave up on the genre entirely. It's only very recently (since I got a LiveJournal actually) that I started reading it again, and I'm still very selective in my choices. I still find most of it to be terrible, but there are a few (like the things written by ashfae, trianne and monkeycrackmary) that I really enjoy. I'm almost certain that because I don't write fanfics myself, or have famous fic authors to moon over I am overlooked, and, probably, unwanted.
I am also not a squealing teenager, which I'm sure helps to feel like you belong. I would have thought that because the things I am passionate about are good for intellectual discussions as well as fangirl squeeage, there'd be more mature people in the Fandoms, people who won't hate you for having a different opinion or point of view, who don't ignore you because you might be new to their particular 'clique', even though you've been a fan of the book/author/show for years, people who are welcoming and friendly and not vindictive and cruel. Where are all these people? I'm not a member of any groups or clubs because every time I've tried to join I've felt like a pariah, which certainly isn't right. I just want to meet people who share the same love as me, can that be so wrong?
There's been a lot of discussion recently on various people's journals about privacy and whether or not to make all entries friend's only. I rarely make any posts friends only, simply because I have very little to hide -- I am not controversial, I don't talk about other people behind their back, I just ramble on about my thoughts and my life. And I like sharing my thoughts with others, even people I don't know, it makes me so happy to know that people think I'm interesting enough to read about, because frankly hardly anyone I come in contact with in the boring 'real' world gives a damn about me. I certainly don't fault anyone who makes their journal private (like one of my dear friends who's just had a nasty scare and has every reason to want to protect herself), and I feel privileged to be one of the people they feel is worthy enough to read them, but it's just not for me. Although I suppose if ever I were to be attacked for some reason by lurkers or if (godforbid) my father ever found out about this journal, I'd probably be tempted to go private as well. Lets hope I never have to find out, neh? ;-)
I made two new friends today,akira114 and thevoicewithin! And my friend Angelina finally took my offer of an LJ code and signed up today as theinsaneasylum, whooot! :D
I just love the Two Towers soundtrack, I can't believe my luck in finding a place to download them before it's even released! Go me!
Gollum's Song is hauntingly beautiful, as is just about all the music, which maintains many of the same themes as FOTR but uses them in new ways, and blends them perfectly with the new ones. I hope Howard Shore wins another Oscar for this magnificent score. No, wait, I hope that TTT wins Peter Jackson that Best Director Oscar he so desperately deserves. And Best Picture wouldn't be bad either. *grins*
Another day, another astoundingly long entry. Are you guys tired of reading these or what? *laughs*
Thanks to the wonderful
thehush I now have a LOTR boys mood theme (yayyy!), and so I decided to change everything, because I was tired of looking at the same boring colours. Blah. So now my journal is PURPLE! It's so pretty. *giggles* I changed my comment tag to a Tori quote as well, but I'll probably make it something different soon -- I seem to change it as much as I make new icons, which is to say alot. *grins* But I think the purplely goodness is here to stay. :)Considering that I have had a total of 3 hours sleep in the past two days, I am surprisingly coherent and upwardly mobile. *laughs*
Sunday night I had terrible insomnia, and got less than an hour sleep. I don't think I need to tell you I was an irritable zombie all monday. *G* Last night I was up till almost 5am cleaning my house before the landlord came for his inspection. Yes, I should have done it before, but I am the world's worst procrastinator, and leave everything, no matter how important (sometimes especially if they're important) to the last minute. I hate the way I do this to myself, but I just can't seem to stop. Sigh. But at least the house is sparkling clean (mostly) and passed inspection with flying colours. Which now that I think about it is such a strange expression, how can colours fly? *giggles*
andraste_oz wrote a bit in her journal about Fandom, and how she doesn't really feel like she fits in. I don't think I do either. It's so odd, because there are many wonderful things I'm a huge, if not unbelievably obsessive fan of, like LOTR and Monty Python and Neil Gaiman just to name a few, yet I don't feel a part of that nebulous thing called 'Fandom'. I think the main problem is that I don't write fanfiction. I don't even read it, unless it's written by my friends. I suppose this is because I have read such appalling bad fanfiction over the years -- the few that I did read when I gave it a try were so poorly written it made me want to scream, so I just gave up on the genre entirely. It's only very recently (since I got a LiveJournal actually) that I started reading it again, and I'm still very selective in my choices. I still find most of it to be terrible, but there are a few (like the things written by ashfae, trianne and monkeycrackmary) that I really enjoy. I'm almost certain that because I don't write fanfics myself, or have famous fic authors to moon over I am overlooked, and, probably, unwanted. I am also not a squealing teenager, which I'm sure helps to feel like you belong. I would have thought that because the things I am passionate about are good for intellectual discussions as well as fangirl squeeage, there'd be more mature people in the Fandoms, people who won't hate you for having a different opinion or point of view, who don't ignore you because you might be new to their particular 'clique', even though you've been a fan of the book/author/show for years, people who are welcoming and friendly and not vindictive and cruel. Where are all these people? I'm not a member of any groups or clubs because every time I've tried to join I've felt like a pariah, which certainly isn't right. I just want to meet people who share the same love as me, can that be so wrong?
There's been a lot of discussion recently on various people's journals about privacy and whether or not to make all entries friend's only. I rarely make any posts friends only, simply because I have very little to hide -- I am not controversial, I don't talk about other people behind their back, I just ramble on about my thoughts and my life. And I like sharing my thoughts with others, even people I don't know, it makes me so happy to know that people think I'm interesting enough to read about, because frankly hardly anyone I come in contact with in the boring 'real' world gives a damn about me. I certainly don't fault anyone who makes their journal private (like one of my dear friends who's just had a nasty scare and has every reason to want to protect herself), and I feel privileged to be one of the people they feel is worthy enough to read them, but it's just not for me. Although I suppose if ever I were to be attacked for some reason by lurkers or if (godforbid) my father ever found out about this journal, I'd probably be tempted to go private as well. Lets hope I never have to find out, neh? ;-)
I made two new friends today,
akira114 and thevoicewithin! And my friend Angelina finally took my offer of an LJ code and signed up today as theinsaneasylum, whooot! :DI just love the Two Towers soundtrack, I can't believe my luck in finding a place to download them before it's even released! Go me!
Gollum's Song is hauntingly beautiful, as is just about all the music, which maintains many of the same themes as FOTR but uses them in new ways, and blends them perfectly with the new ones. I hope Howard Shore wins another Oscar for this magnificent score. No, wait, I hope that TTT wins Peter Jackson that Best Director Oscar he so desperately deserves. And Best Picture wouldn't be bad either. *grins*
Another day, another astoundingly long entry. Are you guys tired of reading these or what? *laughs*
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Date: 2002-11-27 11:36 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2002-11-27 04:12 pm (UTC)Why thankyou very much, it seems for every one useful thing I know theres 7 usless ones for it to lean on :D