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starrylizard Mar. 24th, 2006 11:43 am)
starrylizard Mar. 24th, 2006 11:43 am)Dear friends list,
I'm probably simply a paranoid nut, but lately it has seemed from the tone of a few conversations I've had and such, that perhaps some of the stuff I put in my LJ is not to some of your tastes and somehow this has made you annoyed or frustrated with me.
It is my LJ and I don't apologize for what I put in it! I realise that when I joined LJ, I was as good as a country bumpkin and only tentatively opened the odd fic labeled slash or smut. I do still absolutely love the gen and crack fic for which I friended many of you, though good gen seems to be getting harder and harder to find *sobs*. If my tastes have now changed slightly to include some of the things I previously stayed away from, or refrained to mention, I'm sure you can all cope with it.
I enjoy chatting with you all and, after some comments in particular, have made an effort to clearly label all of my recs and fics for content. Hopefully this is enough. You all friended me voluntarily and of course are free to unfriend me, so I'm hoping this is simply my own paranoia at work, but I felt the need to say something.
Let me say also, that if I instigated our friendship, it was because I admire something about you, whether it be your social commentary and general view on life, your fan fiction or graphics skills, a mixture of the aforementioned or something else entirely.
*hugs and love*
StarLizzie
EDIT: Thanks to those of you who responded to this little paranoid rant. I won't respond to all your comments, but I feel somewhat better. Like I commented to _wwsd_ below, it's not aimed at anyone in particular, but it just needed to be said by me for my own peace of mind.
I'm probably simply a paranoid nut, but lately it has seemed from the tone of a few conversations I've had and such, that perhaps some of the stuff I put in my LJ is not to some of your tastes and somehow this has made you annoyed or frustrated with me.
It is my LJ and I don't apologize for what I put in it! I realise that when I joined LJ, I was as good as a country bumpkin and only tentatively opened the odd fic labeled slash or smut. I do still absolutely love the gen and crack fic for which I friended many of you, though good gen seems to be getting harder and harder to find *sobs*. If my tastes have now changed slightly to include some of the things I previously stayed away from, or refrained to mention, I'm sure you can all cope with it.
I enjoy chatting with you all and, after some comments in particular, have made an effort to clearly label all of my recs and fics for content. Hopefully this is enough. You all friended me voluntarily and of course are free to unfriend me, so I'm hoping this is simply my own paranoia at work, but I felt the need to say something.
Let me say also, that if I instigated our friendship, it was because I admire something about you, whether it be your social commentary and general view on life, your fan fiction or graphics skills, a mixture of the aforementioned or something else entirely.
*hugs and love*
StarLizzie
EDIT: Thanks to those of you who responded to this little paranoid rant. I won't respond to all your comments, but I feel somewhat better. Like I commented to _wwsd_ below, it's not aimed at anyone in particular, but it just needed to be said by me for my own peace of mind.
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...and thanks! Like I said, I was just being paranoid, but it helps to say my peace, rather than get weird wondering what people are thinking each time I post. My mental space just can't handle anymore stress/guilt, especially when I know I'm probably being silly, and I refuse to be anything but happy in my cyberspace haven. *grin*
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Anyway, I can relate to being paranoid about stuff like that - sometimes I really don't worry about others' opinion of what I post, and I just write anything I want, but then other times I worry a lot about what people will think ... A few 'real life' friends read my journal, so I tend to "censor" the stuff that I put in it - thats why I rarely mention my love of slash in my journal!!
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It's like, slash is not any sort of obsession, but I'm a multi-shipper and it certainly doesn't bother me and as far as the reading fic goes, alot of the good fics are slash. Smut...I don't write in general, but I do read on occation and well if it's in a proper context it can be quite tasteful in my opinion.
I figured when I started this journal, that I was going to post fic etc, so it had to be away from rl and I wanted to be able to write whatever I wanted. That includes slash now. *shrugs* It just happened, so bite me.
I had a few comments in chats and in my LJ to the effect of "eeew I wouldn't have read that if you didn't rec it" and I was like oops. It just had me feeling guilty when damn it this is my little haven, so go away!
Hee I'm so rambling here. *looks at empty wine glass* Sorry. I'm gonna stop now...
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Keeping online life and real life seperate would have been a good idea! When I started this journal, it was basically just cos a friend had one, and made me to join, and I didn't use it very often ... ... now I use it too often!!!
I've been fan of slash (and het and gen too) for about 10 years now, but haven't really discussed it much with rl-friends --- I know that they wouldn't actually care or anything, and it wouldn't matter if they did 'find out' --- but I just don't think they'd "get" it!!
Hmmm... now I'm rambling - ok, time to stop! Anyway, glad you're feeling better! And the conclusion is that your journal is great - write anything and everything you want to! :)