All right, the payback meme

[hobgoblinn]

Yeah, you know the drill. I did this meme several months ago, but recently new friends sucked me in while I was diligently not working on my novel.

Reply to this entry and I will...

1. Tell you why I friended you (if I can remember, that is).
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4.Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ. (recent meme-ists are exempt)

If you have my response from a previous version of this, it might be entertaining to see if my recollections have changed. Old Age does that to one, or so I am told.

Comments

[father-turtle.livejournal.com]

Were you wondering if I'd forgotten?

Oh, and you might as well do it for me. I'm a sucker for these things.

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

All right. Let's see:

1. I friended you because you commented on several entries in addition to giving lovely feedback on Lost Boys. And when I went to check out your journal, I found we had things in common, like writing and faith. (Well, you have faith. I have a lot of anger and doubt. But I care about it.)
2. nanowrimo!
3. I like that you prepared for nano and jumped into with both feet. But you still make time for your family and have good priorities about what's important.
4. memory: friending two different journals for you in the same week
5. How'd you get into fan fic? And is HP the only fandom, or are there others you have read/ would consider reading?
6. You have some cool userpics. LOL Jesus is best, but the charlie brown ones come a close second. I still remember when you used the bear with his head stuffed in a drawer to comment on a particularly evil cliffhanger in Lost Boys.....

[father-turtle.livejournal.com]

I got into fanfic just after HPatDH came out. I was trolling a spoilers community on LJ, and people started posting fanfic. After how disappointing the ending of DH was, I decided to see if there was something that could fill the void. I started reading you, kanedax and deenas_fics in particular because you seemed to have something special in what you wrote.

As for any others, I haven't gotten into any yet, but I'm a huge fan of Buffy, Stargate SG-1, and a number of other things, so maybe when I have more time I'll get into some others. But the transition to HP fanfic was just natural with the end of the series.

[whitestar-alpha.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll give this a go since I've never tried one before :)

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

1. You're another recent new friend, from comments on Lost Boys.
2. HP fandom is all I know at the moment.
3. Well you comment. And your comments are pretty darn thoughtful. which leads me to....
4. A memory--you commented on "Two Dads" and we got into a conversation about some issues raised. You gave me some really helpful ideas for where the next installment could go, just in those few things you asked about, not having read any of the rest of the saga. Very cool.
5. How'd you come to the HP fandom? Do you read or write fanfic in this or other fandoms?
6. userpic: man, you have like a gazillion. The celtic horse one is very neat though.

[whitestar-alpha.livejournal.com]

You know, I thought for some reason you were going to like the celtic horse icon ^_^

Yeah, I have a paid account and I bought extra icons. When I renew my account they give like 5 extra icons. And then one year there was a problem with LJ and they gave all the paid account members extra icons for losing posting time.

I forgot to answer your #5 question. I love Harry Potter and anything to do with Magic. I think relatives first read the first books and then I saw the first movie. Once I saw Sorcerer's Stone I was hooked.

I don't write fanfic, I'm not imaginative enough and my grammar isn't all that great. I used to read fanfic about Buffy and Spike, but I've fallen out of the fandom. It's mostly HP now. The other fandom I love is Babylon 5 where I'm co-mod of an icon contest community. But I'm not into reading fanfic for that.

[ladyforash.livejournal.com]

:raises hand: me please! :)

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

who are you, again?

1. Only one of my oldest LJ friends, probably friended because I recognized your name from the buffy yahoo groups when I saw you comment in antennapedia's journal
2. Giles, of course
3. how supportive and kind you are to your friends
4. just that I remembered your name from earlier in my internet fandom explorations, and I'd run across your stories on archive sites and reading awards sites.
5. How'd you come to Buffy Fandom and Live journal? Do you read in other fandoms?
6. Good Lord. How many userpics do you Have? I like a bunch, but the "Is it safe to come out? Are all the fanfic writers gone?" is pretty cute.

[ladyforash.livejournal.com]

I came to both Buffy fandom and LJ because of my bestest friend, marsterslady. I just recently started reading CSI fanfic, specifically GSR. :)

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

Hi, hi! Posting this in my journal too!

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Okay. Let's see:
1. I friended you because you left some lovely feedback on Lost Boys and then I checked out your journal and found it interesting.
2. So far, the HP fandom and Snape
3. That you haven't yet ratted me out to your neighbors for causing little outbursts at odd hours of the morning reading my story. And your sense of humor.
4. That's the memory. I don't think my writing's ever caused anyone that reaction. That I know of.
5. How'd you come to LJ and fanfic reading? What other hobbies/ interests do you have?
6. what? you have no harry potter ones? I like your default one best, especially how it looks like a cute little baby gargoyle is on top of the fearsome one's head.....

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't reply sooner, but I am doing a masterful job of procrastinating on my comprehensive. I should've done that for Nano even though it had better not be anywhere near 50,000 words, dissertation sure comp no.

In response to #6 first, I don't have many icons and I am absolutely horrible about searching for new ones. I like a lot of my friend's icons but I'd feel like a grade school copycat if all of my icons were the same as my friends!

#5 part 1: How did I come to LJ? One of my old roomates from university harrassed me to join LJ. She joined a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago, but I didn't follow. After I got fed up with MySpace, I migrated here because of my university friend and a lot of other RL friends who'd had LJ accounts and were also tired of MySpace. I believe they were quite relieved when I finally caved.

Part 2: Fanfic....oh how I love and hate you. Fanfic started out as a glorious procrastination tool for my roomate and I our last year of university. Both of us knew better than to bring books for pleasure reading with us to school because nothing would get done. As our school library didn't carry much of anything interesting (I'd already read the classics I wanted to read thank you), this worked quite well to keep us nice and studious...(*snort*). We were in major withdrawl because it was between GoF and OoTP when we came across FF.net. It exploded from there to SugarQuill, the Werewolf Registry, FanfictionAlley, etc. My roomie and I read eachother (yes, out loud) soooooo many Lupin (her) and Snape (me) fics.

Part 3: Other interests...I'm a sci-fi nut. I also enjoy fantasy novels other than HP. Vampires are most glorious though, suprisingly, I was never a Buffy fan and I HATE Anne Rice novels...don't get me started unless you want a rant. I enjoy music both playing and listening to it. I am particularly fascinated with the British Isles. Oh, and I like Chemistry (FIRE and making things go BOOM!) and Pharmacology/Toxicology. Sorry, I'm not being very coherent. I'm waiting very impatiently for my labmate to return and show me where he stashed something. Yeah...

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Vampires, huh? Have you read Barbara Hambly's "Those Who Hunt the Night?" and its sequel "Traveling with the Dead"? All her stuff is pretty amazing-- I've been a fan since stumbling across "Time of the Dark" back in high school. She's got some historical mysteries set in 1840's New Orleans that are amazing, for the social interactions alone, quite aside from interesting puzzles and historical detail.

I came to LJ because of Buffy fanfic writers, but it wasn't the vamps that drew me to the show-- it was the humor, quirky characters, family building, and Giles. Not nec. in that order. Up through Season 5 is really something. After that-- it has its moments. Most of them bad. But there's some great fanfic out there to make up for it.

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't read the Barbara Hambly vampire books, but I do have a rather humourous story involving a few of her Star Wars novels that I'm told do NOT live up to her other works and are really quite horrid. Granted, I haven't read those either, but I had no problem tormenting a friend with them. ;) Have you read any of the Michael Romkey books?

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

No, I'll have to look for those. BH has a couple of Star Trek books that were not at all bad. But her original stuff is better.

Getting paid to write fanfic-- must be nice.

You really should check her vamp books out, at least, though.

[nemaihne.livejournal.com]

Oh, me! I love memes.

::Dashes off because she just remembers guiltily that she forgot to reply to Sahiya's!::

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....

!. I friended you from some comment in antennapedia's journal. no idea what.
2. Buffy and HP fandom
3. your loyalty to your friends
4. reading a lovely story start about Draco, George and Fred (I hope you finish it)
5. how'd you get all the way out to the left coast from the Queen City? Ever coming back to visit? (If so, we definitely should meet up.) And what does your LJ name mean?
6. hmm-- you don't have but the one userpic. what's up with that??

[nemaihne.livejournal.com]

5. In spring of 1989, I started dating a guy who was a Mac engineer at a business software company. Early in the relationship, he warned me he was headed to California someday. I said great, let me know when to pack. Sure enough, Apple brought us out in '92 and we got married in either '95 or '96. I really need to remember which before our next anniversary. Yes, I come back somewhat regularly because both of our families still live there.
I started using nemain as a login for the unix at UC when my friend studied in CCM's broadcasting division and wound up in charge of their honking big unix system. Nemain is one of the Celtic battlefield goddesses- part of the Macha. Specifically, she's the goddess of chaos and panic, which was pretty fitting for me during my college years. (late eighties) Nemaihne is an off-the-cuff misspelling of nemain. I made it up over a decade ago when I couldn't remember my Yahoo password for nemain and I was giving random false information for all online accounts so there was no way to recover it. For some reason nemaihne stuck and I tend to use it now, which is fortunate because nemain has since become the name of a heavy metal band and I'm not a fan.

I only have one userpic because I only need one userpic. Probably says something about my personality, huh? ;)

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

goddess of chaos and panic?? That's wonderful. I love it.

Let me know next time you're in the neighborhood, as it were. Sadly, with gas and plane ticket prices being what they are, I don't get to my hometown much at all, so I'm usually here for the holidays. I'm sure we can find some neutral location somewhere in the area.

[nemaihne.livejournal.com]

Neutral location?

Bwah-hah-hah. My brother's family lives in Batavia, my father in Cold Springs, everyone on my husband's side lives in Harrison, and almost all of our old friends have congregated north of the city. When I'm back, I think I spend half of my trip in the rental car.

[nemaihne.livejournal.com]

So, what I meant to finish with was: 'Don't worry. I can certainly find my way to KY when I get back next.' ;)

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Hee! yes, indeed. I know where all those places are. I'll look forward to a meet up eventually. I met nwhepcat over the labor day weekend, and it was very, very cool. Have you been following her latest serial? She is amazing. I want to be like her when I grow up. Except, you know, the growing up part....