FRIENDS ONLY

[leigh57]

I thought I should include an entry to indicate that most of the stuff in my journal is friends-locked and explain a little bit about that. Fic and some fannish stuff is the exception. A couple thoughts on why you may or may not want to friend me:

Things I love:
My kids. My family. My friends.
Insane liberals
Kiefer Sutherland and almost everything about 24 until the end of 8x17;)
BSG
Books, words, and ideas
Writing fanfic
Irony and sarcasm
Laughing at idiocy
Intelligent, respectful debate
Learning about anything and everything I'll never have the opportunity to experience myself
Profanity

Things I hate:
Actual embodied evil from below the lowest rung of hell, Donald Trump
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and everyone like them. No, seriously. If you fangirl Ann Coulter, we are probably not a good LJ matchup.
The NRA
Republicans who want to sink Obama's legislation just to watch him fail
Intolerance
Nationalism
Fundamentalism
Materialism

I may edit this as I think of others. If you want to friend me, comment on this entry and it's likely that I'll friend you back. I do like to know something about the people on my friends list, so give me a hint as to what you think we have in common:)

FO banner of excellence by dealan311. You ROCK, Kay:)

Comments

Re: Oy.

[uptownfancybway.livejournal.com]

Hey, hey? Can I be all weird and respond to this? Yes, as in respond to someone else's friend post-y thingie? Here I go.

So I'm TOTALLY curious as to why you refer to ff.net as "The Pit." I can probably guess...and granted, a lot of the stuff on there BLOWS (and cannot be compared to even existing on the same planet as half the stuff I've found on here), but I've also come across quite a few lovely pieces, as well.

Does this seem argumentative? Cause it totally isn't supposed to. I'm fo serious just completely curious about your thoughts on ff.net! That is, if you're willing to share & don't want to tell my nosy self to eff off. :)

Okay, going now.

Re: Oy.

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

LOL! I forget about my 'friends only' post half the time, even though it's the first thing that comes up in my journal.

Actually *risks being defriended by everyone on LJ*, lots of people refer to ff.net at "The Pit." I didn't coin the phrase myself at all. I don't by a long shot claim to speak for everyone who uses that term. For me, it's because if I go to ff.net and search 24 stories, I might have to wade through three pages of stuff about Jack and Chloe (or god, Jack and Ramon) before I even find a Jack and Renee story. And even then, that Jack and Renee story might be pretty terrible.

However, I'm sure you're right that there are plenty of lovely stories over at ff.net. There's kind of a recathon going on at het_reccers right now, and many of the fics recced there are linked to ff.net. Again, speaking only for myself, I find that I'm not willing to wade through everything there in order to find the few stories that I would probably want to read. I don't have that kind of time. I hope that made sense!

Also, feel free to be argumentative in my journal, not that this was argumentative at all. Unless you're going to say something bad about Renee, which I know would be highly unlikely, coming from you;)

eta: Sorry for all the edits. My brain is even more dysfunctional than usual today!