Re: about my story (REQUIRED READING)

[Myself03 <myself03@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Posting ideas to the list is ALWAYS welcome. It's how I first met
> Shadow, Pat, Jen, Janine, Sammy, Fool, Aly etc etc..... and how other
> writers have come to know... and respect each other. Back when I was
> a list member....
>
> You´re not anymore ? Ahhh.come back : )
>
>
> Rod encouraged us to hold conversations on list.
>
>
> Well, just so we´re clear on this , he still does...he is even sad to
> see so little of it going on....We´re unconventional shippers....we´re
> supposed to discuss the possibilities and moments to death ...open up
> a bottle of wine everytime they're in the same scene and stuff like
> that...I know that most of the people are here more for the femslash
> factor than anything else , that would rather talk about Faith/Buffy ,
> Will/Tara cause they're more "on your face" , but there has to be at
> least a few that really like Buffy/Willow and has seem possibilities
> on the eps...I mean was i the only one who watched Wellcome to the
> Hellmouth, or saw the way that Buffy was all jealous in I robot , you
> Jane , thought that Buffy Should teach Willow how to play doctor in
> Killed by death and came up with quite a few different ways for Will
> asking Buffy out for Xander in The witch ( and how Buffy would react
> when she saw the real date...) .. Okay, i rambled enough...i just
> realized that we may be the only shipper group that lets stuff like
> that go unnoticed...SHAME ON US : )See if anybody takes the hint...
> What i'm saying is, all kind of talks are encouraged and since we
> don't talk about the couple we talk about everything else... I think
> that the fact that we feel comfortable talking about everything gives
> us a head start , a kind of homey feeling....But we always must
> remember that because of this sometimes things go bad and we get on
> bad terms,but that happens in the best families....the only thing we
> can not let happen is to allow the situation to come to that point
> when we loose respect for one another.Okay...that was just to remind
> people that we're all part of a pretty open society, and that to keep
> it like that we sometimes have to know that there are limits....I
> don't even know why i'm saying this, nobody here ever crosses the
> line, i guess i just like to keep it fresh ...
>
>
> We're a FAMILY here..... If you insist on being rude, do it on your
> own time and off list...... it's none of my business or anyone elses
> what goes on in your own private email correspondance.
>
> Okay , i'm gonna have to disagree with Kim in this one...I read
> Steven's message and while i think that he may have chosen the wrong
> words to express himself he was not rude...I think he was only trying
> to encourage the guy...Maybe it would have been taken more lightly had
> it been filled with smiley faces, but still, i don't think that he was
> being rude, nor do i think that it was ever his intention to offend
> anyone...Also, i think he was right in saying that noone would say
> anything if the story sucked (which is not the case) and not because
> we're a bunch of false people, but because when you have nothing nice
> to say then you just stay quiet, it shows we respect that person...
> (at least that's what i like to think...of course i stay quiet due to
> the lack of time, but still...) as for the parental coment, I know for
> a fact that he wasn't trying to take over our positions or anything
> like that : )...That is just something parents, grandparents and such
> always like to say...Doesn't matter the language...
>
> It is however, my business when a list member decides to go
> parental. Only I can do that.
>
> Ahhhhh....i feel so left out....Nobody remembers the father figure....
> : (
>
> Seeing as Rod has been MIA since December....
>
> The girl i was supposed to spend the rest of my life with broke up
> with me; i moved out of my house for good and had my room
> ,house,mother and computer taken over by a pevert that apparently has
> used my e-mail to subscribe to every porn list on the planet and used
> all the blank cds i had to put porn and episode from every show he can
> find ( Fi, i know you'll read this...me aguarde...); i'm monitoring a
> few students at med-school , kind of a TA; I'm spending A LOT of time
> studying ( people don't seem to put much faith in dumb doctors...i
> wonder why...); my grandmother just had two more heart attacks in less
> than a month and her already precarious heath got even worst in the
> past few months, even more so now that she lost her second son and was
> only told that after the funeral( i think it's sort of ironic, all the
> Jesus thing going on and my uncle dies...It's amazing, he was in and
> out off hospitals every month, he had a heart condition and was very
> overweight , but he always got out ...i 'm still getting used to the
> fact that this time he didn't ....Since my father died he's being like
> a father to me , and he end up dying in the same day that my father
> did...Kind of like dad came to take him...it's amazing how fast i
> became so religious...)............Anyway, enough with the bad stuff,
> just pick one of then and explain my absence...although...has it been
> really since december ? Time flies when you're NOT having fun ....
>
> I'm all you've got.. take it or leave it. I'd expect you and everyone
> else to be mindful about the WELCOMENESS of OT convos, posting about
> stories, talking about episodes and such. In no way do I run a tight
> ship.. as a matter of fact,
>
> Once again I disagree...I don't think this list relies much on the
> moderators...We're only two and that's not all we have...We also have
> some fantastic regulars and some not so regular members that know how
> to keep the lists going...Everybody here that gets involved with the
> lists is part of what we've got....Those who step up and help the
> newbies, the ones that post fics or comments, the ones that
> participate in the lists one way or another are all kind of
> moderators, even it it's not there next to their names...To me,
> figures like Sam, Alex, Pat, Quin or Shadow, to name a few, have as
> much authority here as the two of us...and not because they post or
> used to post fics, but because they have been here long enough to know
> how things should be done if we're not here....I know that sounded
> idealistic, but to me, at least when it comes to these two lists, the
> title of list owner is more of a in joke , a reference, the person to
> blame when things get out of hand, something that is next to my name
> when i get the members list, than a position or some power...I went to
> military school, i don't need any more of that crap...
> As for the OT stuff...it was always this way, those who don't like it
> , unsub...
>
>
> I've been pretty absent as of late due to real life shit....... but
> that doesn't mean I don't see what's going on and read the stories
> posted and notice when it looks like feathers are getting ruffled.
>
> I'm on the same boat...I may not be here , but i always know what is
> going on...I spent a lot of time trying to get a few friends to enjoy
> the couple, and the lists, now instead of me going off about the lists
> during lunch they do...I even get copies of fics to read at
> "work"...(word of advice...keep angelina fics away during work hours,
> peoople think you're crazy when you start laughing...)
> No one will tell if a story sucks???? I beg to differ... I've been
> told I suck on many occasions.... and I've also been the target of
> hate mail and a wonderful little website dedicated to the 'shit
> writers of the buffyverse'.........I find that when you request honest
> criticizm and comments, you receive them. And even when you don't
> request them sometime you get them. You don't know how many emails
> I've gotten OFF LIST with comments, criticism, praise, drop dead you
> suck, you're a hack, blah blah blah ad nauseum. I even stopped
> writing for a while over that whole "bad buffy fic" thing and notice I
> haven't posted anything in a while either... so... I'm still a bit
> tattered and torn over that one......... Bottom line is that this list
> is respectful enough of each other that those comments are reserved
> privately... if at all necessary...
>
> I don't feel qualified to talk about this since i'm not really a
> writer myself, but i believe i said it before and i will say it
> again...WE DON'T ALLOW FLAMES...If an author is being flamed by
> someone on this list, please let me know...i know i most likely won't
> be able to stop it, but i'll try...The no flaming thing was for quite
> awhile one of our only rules and nowadays it still is the most
> important one...As for the writers...if you're happy with what you
> wrote then f*** everybody else, in the end you won't be the only one
> to like it...Sometimes it's not about the story, it's just about
> taste, not everyone likes the same kind of thing...
> I hate it when things like this happen... cause then I have to get
> all parental... and I'm the only one who has that right.
>
> Don't say that , Bill or Heather's (where IS that girl?) kids might
> get the wrong ideas... : )
>
> I'm not gonna be like other list owners and just unsub people who piss
> me off... variety is the spice of life after all... but I am getting
> pretty tired of the mini tirades and nasty comments as of late from
> the peanut gallery.....
>
> I don't think there are a lot of then , in fact, i can only think of a
> couple of real problems, it's just that they seem to stir things
> up....
>
> This has always been a friendly list and a place of solace for
> people...
>
> It still is...
>
> please don't anyone change that and make me go all 'List Moderator" on
> you.
>
> Again, i don't think it's even an issue...
> I now return you to your regularly scheduled fanfic, OT discussions,
> idea flinging and jungle juice consumption
>
> While we're at it, am I the only one that has read a 1000 times
> WHITHER THOU GOEST... and is still waiting for an update? Gosh, i
> need more of that...That's a masterpiece.....in fact i need a lot from
> quite a few authors...Bunch of lazy people : ) ...
>
> Oh, and Shadow,....you like jungle juice more than
> me................why don't you just kill me now...I'm
> hurt...*sniff,sniff*.And don't put the word small near my name(that
> small countries search comment) I'm a guy....we don't like that
> ..Geeeezzz....They never learn....
>
>
> Well, it's almost 2 in the morning i'm off to bed...i'm sleeping in my
> homey bed...i'm all giddy...If only i didn't have to wake at
> 5:30...Well, at least i still have till friday...
>
> Night ,night...