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Saturday, January 15th, 2005
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2:10a
I hold the Buffy fandom near and dear to me for many reasons, one of those being that I’ve been immersed in it since day one. I didn’t stumble onto it in reruns, it wasn’t recced to me by someone else, it wasn’t a fluke or an accident. I saw the movie, fell in love with it, and five years later, I watched the show.
As long as there’s been the Buffyverse, there’s been a foundation of internet sites that are the cornerstone of the fandom that we have today. I still have a handful of floppies that are packed with wav files from Sounds of the Slayer. I actually remember of the EARLIEST Buffy adult fic sites that was safeguarded by AdultCheck ID. I was one of maybe three fic writers who were writing Faith/Buffy slash when it was new.
I’ve seen many site and communities come and go. I was devastated to see the loss of Slayer Pride (which I co-founded with Sasha) more than a year ago. And today, I just found out that Sonia Marie’s link site… is gone.
Now, in an age where Google is a verb, it’s fairly simple to find what you need. Heck, most of us have a little G box (not to be confused with G spot) right in the toolbar. But back in the day, during the Yahoo! and AltaVista regime, you needed a hub. There had to be some place that would be willing to show you everything you needed to know about the Buffyverse. And Sonia Marie’s was that place.
I get excited when I randomly stumble over my stuff on Google. I was ECSTATIC the day I first saw one of my sites on Sonia Marie’s Links Page. I still, to this day, can’t use the word GASP without thinking of Giles.
I often get caught up in the nostalgic tidbits within this fandom. The reason is because it’s so very cohesive and tangible to me. There’s a whole world inside, and I’m not just talking about the world that’s populated by slayers, vamps, and witches. There’s us. We make up a ‘verse of our own. We’re a community. More than that, we’re family. The fact that we so often get into bickering debates over the lamest ideas only reaffirms that familial concept.
I’ve seen this fandom grow from handfuls of us on AOL message boards, to the original Official Posting Board Posters, to Yahoo! Groups, to LiveJournal communities, to a writer’s convention that might as well have taken place on the sun (or hell, depending on your level of debauchery)… we’ve grown.
But as big as we are, when part of us disappears, there’s something to be missed.
So, to you, Sonia Marie… You provided, by far, one of the most central and important elements that cultivated this group of rambunctious fankids.
Thanks for the linkage. Most of all, thanks for the memories.
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2:29p
Because I just can't get enough.
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5:33p
What I learned on my LJ vacation:
- There are a lot of elitist snobs out there who look down on LJ.
- I’m obsessed with the way people work.
- I, as always, like jumping to the challenge of keeping on top things and keeping people informed
- I can’t help but write essays about EVERYTHING.
- I’ve never been so happy to see Frank the Goat.
- I need to maintain a backup journal.
- I need to learn more about my friends other than their LJ username.
For most of you, LJ’s back up and running.
I, however, happen to be one of the sad sad saps stuck on the MadCow cluster and won’t see my beloved Ice Princess layout for another ten hours or so.
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5:44p
I give and give and give…
And here I am still locked out of LJ.
It’s probably better. In fact, I’m wishing people had a little more restraint in waiting. I’m afraid that the mad rush back home with screw with the bandwidth.
Meanwhile, I’m making my little home away from home more comfy here at JF, expanding my flist and whatnot.
So, go ahead… ravage LJ.
We’ll just see who she comes to when we call her.
current mood: Catty (3 comments |comment on this)
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9:42p - Oh, fuck, no.
Unfortunately MadCow is still recovering, and we expect it to be back online by around 10 PM PST tomorrow.
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10:07p
I thank shiny pony Jesus for everyshowsucks.com. It's helping maintain my sanity.
Except for right now, when all the channels are full.
I was listening to KFI talk radio today and Ken Gallacher was talking about this trend of people who are shutting off the internet because they're tired of dealing with spam and spyware and viruses and the like. He was comparing it to the 80's and 90's when a lot of parents were getting rid of tv in their households.
My dad nixed the TV when I was about five or six (so… 1983ish…). My mom always had TV at her house, but when I was visiting my father, I just found other ways to entertain myself. I understand the motivation behind the split from television. Heck, I don’t have TV in my house now. I have A tv. I have a good selection of DVD’s. And I can find anything that’s new on tv on the web and watch it commercial free. I actually feel a lot less stressed because I’m not facing constant media bombardment, day in and day out.
As for the internet, however, I think this is just a matter of people not understanding and/or being too lazy to properly maintain their systems. It’s like saying you don’t want to drive a car because you don’t like having to avoid driving over nails or stopping at intersections. It’s one thing to unplug because you’re not happy with the product, but it’s another thing, entirely, if you’re just too damn ignorant to know when to run AdAware and that most P2P software is going to bog you down with a bunch of bullshit.
Then again, I’m considering getting rid of dishes, because I really hate having to wash them.
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