Getting to knooooooow yoooooo...?

[rj_anderson]

Looking at my profile, I see a whole lot of people who've Friended me whom I've never met and about whom I know nothing (or at least, I don't think I do). This is cool -- no objections here -- but it would also be fun to find out a bit about who you are and what brought you here. So feel free to leave a Comment if you feel like de-lurking. And if not, that's fine too. I'm just nosy, so sue me. :)

Comments

[dagnylilytable.livejournal.com]

::waves:: I sent you feedback on "Sfumato," back in July and got rabid plotbunnies immediately after your reply, so I friended you and then started writing up a storm.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I like that, I do. Especially because if I've inspired other people to write Alias fic I can feel less guilty about not writing any Alias fic myself. :)

[sibylle]

I am the one who wrote that song about Darkness & Light, of which I still need to change the last verse. Yahoo email addy "simplysibylle" is the one I used.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yes! Sorry I didn't recognize you before! Welcome! :)

[cssp.livejournal.com]

hi there.

let's see. well, my name is michelle (i'm the chick in the picture). i'm 19 years old. i live in new jersey, and i go to school at ramapo college of new jersey in mahwah.

i befriended you because you post a lot of neat stuff about our good friend harry p. the day that i came across your journal, you wrote on your opinions of the first chapter of the fifth book. and the way you saw it just struck me as really interesting.

that's all i can think of at the moment. but if there's anything else you'd like to know, just ask. i'm pretty much an open book. :O)

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Nice to hear from you, Michelle -- thanks for the intro post! I spent a year going to Bible school in New Jersey -- just outside Deptford to be exact -- and I have good memories from that time.

I hope to have more thoughts on Book 5 as soon as I have the chance to read my husband another chapter! I'm glad you like what I've posted so far.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

Heh, well you might know me by now; I'm Bran aka "say the word 'martyr' please" from the Russ-L list, and I...suppose I just friended you because you're intelligent and because you gave me feedback via LJ for my Russell story A Retrospective of the Partnership (http://www.geocities.com/sconivorous/Partnership.html). It's sorta rare for me to friend people who haven't friended me first, so...feel special? Or something. ^_^

(I suppose I might also be hanging on to find out if you're ever going to write more of Winning Woman!)

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I do indeed feel special -- thank you! As for WW, I have not forgotten it, and hope to get back to it once my kids are a little older and less demanding, and I can actually devote some time to serious research. I'd love it if I could get the thing published one day...

Anyway, thanks for your interest!

[vaznetti]

Uh oh...

I can't remember precisely why I friended you. Possibly something to do with Harry Potter. Possibly something to do with Dorothy Dunnett. Possibly (this is starting to become clearer in the marshy landscape of my memory) something to do with both of them? Yes. You wrote a post about Snape as a Dunnett-style hero, didn't you? I may not have commented.

Also, I approve of people who write unusual Harry Potter crossovers.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

You wrote a post about Snape as a Dunnett-style hero, didn't you?

I did. I'm glad you liked it. :)

[dragonpaws.livejournal.com]

I don't remember how I found you- looking up Mary Russell, reading Dr. Who fics (well, probably not that one. I love yours, but it's the only exposure to Dr. Who I've ever had), reading X-Files fics, or through Harry Potter fics (Snape! Woo!). Or maybe I was just searching for Sherlock Holmes related things. I'm pretty sure I found your livejournal because you mentioned it on your blog, which I also read- I commented on a couple of things on the way geeks are treated in high school discussion, probably under the name of Dragonpaws, or if not that, Bethany. I'm also Christian, and enjoy reading your well-thought-out comments on current affairs and such things, but that's not in this journal, so I suppose it's a bit off-topic.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Topic? We don't need no steenkin' topic! :)

Good to hear from you -- thanks for the info!

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

Hi,
I friended you a while ago, but I never introduced myself. I'm a college student and fellow Snape fan. The Darkness and Light trilogy is one of the first good fics I ever read, so I guess that's why I'm here. :)

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Well, glad to have you here!

Ooh, is that a Harry & Cho icon? Where'd it come from? I'm always looking out for good HP artists...

Well...

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I've been hanging around for a while, so even though we STILL haven't met in person (or likely to, probably, any time soon, alas), I might as well fill in a bit for you, eh?

I'm a born fan - I badgered my mother about seeing '2001' when it was in the cinema, and the first SF film I saw in first-run release was 'The Andromeda Strain'. It gave me nightmare-intense dreams for two solid weeks! (Those defence lasers gave me the creeps.)

I've collected comics from when they were 20-25 cents, but stopped when D.C. got panicky and stupid and killed off most of my 'friends'.

My first WorldCon was 1977. I got interested in the Society for Creative Anachronism (http://www.sca.org) starting with that same WorldCon, and have been playing at some level or another ever since then.

I've been hooked on television production mostly since reading The Making of Star Trek, but have only had a few very minor jobs in a couple feature films. Much to my annoyance, mind you.

And I was just reminded that Timothy Bottoms played a comedic George Bush a year or so ago for Comedy Central, so he hasn't been away quite as long as I'd thought.

Howzat? ^_^

Re: Well...

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Very nice, thank you. I thought about joining the SCA once, but I was warned by a member that my local group had a lot of nasty internal politics going on, so in the end I decided to just stay clear... still, it always did look like fun.

[janabanana.livejournal.com]

Hey. It's Jana, of Markov fame. :) Miss our Markov chats? I know I do.

Friend me? *pathetic look*

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

LOL, I haven't done a chat Markov in ages. Now you've made me all nostalgic. And I love your icon. And I've been dropping by your LJ every now and then anyway. So... sure! *friends*

*points to icon*

[gramarye1971]

Never feel like I introduced myself properly, so here 'tis.

::waves hello:: My name in fandom is Gramarye, and has been since I first began writing anime-related fanfiction and posting to the alt.fan.sailor-moon USENET newsgroup six years ago. My 'claim to fame' (if you could call it that) in HP fandom is my novel-length fifth-year crossover Harry Potter and the Legacy of the Light. A crossover with The Dark Is Rising, it is solely responsible for the majority of my online HP friends today. ::hugs to everyone::

As far as 'shipping goes, I'm one of the heretical freaks who does not ship. I don't have an OTP or anything of that sort, though I will admit to a certain fondness for well-written Snape/Hermione and platonic (or not so) Trio-love. If you can write well enough to make your relationship believeable, I'll read it -- regardless of whether it's Ron/Hermione, Harry/Draco, McGonagall/Trelawney, or a still weirder set-up. I do draw the line at 'shipping for the sake of 'shipping. Not everyone needs to be paired up.

Outside of Harry Potter-dom, I write Dark Is Rising fanfiction. And although I've come to the conclusion that my anime fanfiction writing days are over, I have written several short stories in various anime-verses as well.

In real life (what's that?), I am currently writing a thesis on the social and political impact of the British satirical comedies Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. (Did you know Margaret Thatcher actually wrote herself into a short script with Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne, where she played herself?) I'm a complete swot and a rabid biblioholic, though the polite term is 'bibliophile'. My friends call me Hermione to my face (hence the reason I love that icon of yours). I own a Time-Turner -- an hourglass necklace -- and would probably sell my soul to have it actually work.

That's about it, really. Anything else you want to know, ask me, I promise I'll do my very best to avoid giving a straight answer. ^_^

Re: *points to icon*

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a time-turner necklace. How cool is that?

And I love your icon. *winks*

I almost wrote TDIR fanfic once, back in my early teens when my chief gripe about the series was that it ended when Will and Bran were still only twelve. So I had a rough outline and a few paragraphs of a fic where they were grown up and there was some Very Important Prophecy (there always is) indicating that the four Magics (Light, Dark, High and Wild) were to be united. Enter the OFC's! Bran got stuck with a chilly Dark girlfriend and Will got the Wild one. Snert.

I bet you're about ready to get on your knees and thank me for not inflicting this fic on the world... I know I would.

[la-enamorada.livejournal.com]

In RL, I'm a thirty-something married Systems Analyst and frustrated former (nonfiction) writer. New to the whole LJ thing, but I'm trying it out in hopes that it gets me writing again (something besides systems requirements documents, that is).

I'm also a fic-writer wannabe who is just getting ready to post my first stories. I hang around and sometimes post at snapesupport partly for ideas, but mostly because the quality of conversation is excellent. I've seen your comments around there and enjoy reading your insights.

Your Darkness and Light series had been on my List of Stuff to Read for a long time, but it was the recent recommendation of your story "Cold Water" on lizbee's Bright Shiny Objects (http://mirrordance.net/recs/index.html) that sent me scrambling to read the rest of your stories on Sugar Quill. Shortly thereafter, I heard about your attempt to make the DandL stories OotP compliant, as well as make general edits. I lurk on the associated Yahoo! group for that project out of pure interest in the process, though I haven't had a lot of constructive comments to make yet.

So anyway, I came across your journal and enjoy reading it. Also, I'm keeping an eye out for news on your works in progress, notably the Margot fic for which you've provided such tantalizing tidbits.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Somebody liked "Cold Water"! *is happy*

And thank you for joining the group, too. I don't mind if people can't find anything that needs fixing (I'm lousy at that kind of thing myself) -- just so long as they're ready to shout out if they do spot something...

And I hope to have another scene from the Margot fic soon. Thanks for your interest!

[manycolored.livejournal.com]

Well, the cat just killed what I'd spent 20 minutes writing.

In brief, I have a fiance, Dennis, and two cats: Leah, and the culprit, Moses. I'm in SUNY Albany for History and Library Science. I'm in the SCA with an Irish persona. I crochet, cook, and do other crafty bits. I'm a feminist progressive with DIY tendencies, so that probably puts me on a list somewhere (snerk). Religiously I started out Lutheran, became a Discordian pope as a joke (which turned out to be on me, of course), had a brief stint as a Franciscan Catholic, flirted with Paganism, explored Buddhism, and am currently a secular humanist and chinese menu mystic. Last summer

I was forced to watch the first HP movie and promptly read all four books in one week. I saw the second movie, and had the brilliant notion that there was probably a fandom somewhere on the Internet... there was. I've tried to write fanfic a few times, but haven't really completed anything satisfactorily. I particularly enjoy SS/HP and SS/HG, and have been known to like the occasional SS/DM or HP/DM. PWP doesn't usually even get me tingly, so I go for heavy-duty plot, some angst, and lots of dysfunction.

Other guilty little pleasures include bath salts, leftwing conspiracy theories and apocalypticism, wilderness survival manuals, self-help books, and lattes.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Argh, I hate that (losing something you've spent ages working on). It happens to me all of the time, and I don't even have a cat to blame it on.

Thanks for the bio, and welcome!

[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

I read your DW fics years back. I just figured that your LJ might be a good thing to look in on now and then - as I enjoyed your writing so much. =)

btw - always wanted to mention - you've got the synethesia just about pegged. I've never read anyone else who's captured it quite so well. =)

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Seriously (re the synaesthesia)? Are you a synaesthete yourself? I'm not, and when I wrote the stories I actually had no clue that synaesthesia was a real condition and not just a case of me taking a literary metaphor to strange biological lengths. So I'm surprised and pleased to hear you think I captured it so well...! Thank you!

[sabrinanymph.livejournal.com]

Well, the main reason I'm here is because you write a killer Snape the D&L trilogy was one of the first Snape fics I ever read and I must confess, after years of reading other ones here and there, I've not found another I like better. So I enjoy your Harry Potter related and Snape posts.

Secondarily, when I found your journal, I found your website, and I appreciate your worldview. Good thoughts and strong communication skills and I appreciate reading people who have both.

And I'm kind of helping you canonize D&L right now, although I'm afraid I've been slacking horribly recently! Too many things to do!

Sabrina

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Wow! Thank you! And LOL on "canonizing" D&L. I haven't even beatified it yet... :)

[naomichana.livejournal.com]

I'm Naomi, and I mostly live at my blog (http://www.baraita.net/blog) but have an LJ account so I can keep up with fandom. I recently decided to go ahead and friend several HP fic authors/commentators whose work I've enjoyed, and whose LJs I'd read from time to time anyway. That's where you come in. :)

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I had a bit of a look at both your LJ and your blog last night and found the latter in particular fascinating, given my long-time interest in Judaica. (Re your LJ profile, I almost added "Yochanan ben Zakkai" to my Interests list, only you seem to have put a period on the end of his name so that might be why it looks like the only one with him listed?)

Anyway, thank you and welcome!

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I'm just stalking Albion you. But you knew that anyway.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

You'll need a bigger butterfly net, I'm afraid...

[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

Hi - I found you via the Darkness and Light Trilogy - I told a friend I enjoyed it and she pointed me to your Blog (which I think I've commented on a couple of times) and that pointed me here.

I dabble in fanfic, am trying to create my own original literary opus and generally drift through life (occasionally blowing up at the petty frustrations). And that's about it.

[resumes lurking]

t-q

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

And you have a brilliant icon. Hee! Thanks for the reply.

[jessanndi.livejournal.com]

I shan't sing my reply. But just to say your name came up again at the Sugar Quill Workshop 2. It seems we refer to your D & L work quite often as a point of reference of how things should be done.

Week one was romance
Week two was OU characters
Week three was plot development.

You scored pretty highly on all counts.

The purpose of this post is ask whether you would like to join SQWS2? Either as a participant or a Guru.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I'm curious now -- where's the Workshop located? Alas, I don't have time to commit to anything serious in the way of participation, but I wouldn't mind taking a peek...

And what's an "OU" character?

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

Hiya! :)

I think I was directed here because you write excellent fanfic (I hear), and I didn't have a chance to actually read any of it at the time, but wanted to remember how to find it later. Sad, no?

A shockingly large amount of information about me is available on my blog, but the quick version is: I keep pet rats, I'm (maybe) going back to grad school for English, and I really like food. So, there you go.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Not sad at all. And pet rats are cool. As is food. Welcome!

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

I can't remember exactly how I found your LJ, but it was certainly through Zendom, and it was one of the ones I was already reading regularly before I got my own LJ (April this year).

D&L is one of the few Harry Potter fics I have read, and I certainly enjoyed it. Although the interests I have listed in my profile don't seem to cover many of yours, I certainly share the interest in Austen, Laurie King (Mary Russell is growing on me, but I still prefer Kate Martinelli!), and CS Lewis. I wrote my Honours thesis on religious fantasy, CS Lewis, and Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising books last year, so the rare mentions of that genre of writing, and Lewis in particular, always interest me.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I keep seeing you around, and often find your comments interesting, so I'm glad you're here. Your Honours thesis sounds fascinating!

[pigwidgeon37.livejournal.com]

Yep, sorry. One tends to forget common rules of politeness amidst friending and being friended. ;)
Nothing much to be said about me, except that your trilogy was the first work of fanfiction that made me think there might be more to Snape. The rest is history. Too much reading and writing of fanfiction. Come to think of it, I *will* sue you, though not for nosiness. You shall be facing charges similar to those against Socrates, "Corrupting the Youth", or somesuch. Not that I'm youth, but a good lawyer should be able to gloss that over... ;)

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Erm, I'll just go and drink this hemlock then, shall I?

Seriously, thanks, and glad you're here.

[bluemoon02.livejournal.com]

Hey...Not sure whether you know who I am or not....But I love to talk about myself, so....meh!

My name is Vicky, I'm a Welsh A level student, studying English Language, English Literature, Communication Studies and Religious Studies with the hope of one day becoming a teacher...It's my birthday in two months (Feel free to come to the party if you're in the country!), I love chocolate and I listen to lots of cheesey pop music because I like to dance around and be nutty rather than depressed....I friended you cos I liked the Potion Master trilogy....*Smiles sweetly*

[lesserstorm.livejournal.com]

Hi

I friended you when I got lj, a week or so ago. I don't think I've ever posted on your journal, but I've been following it for a while now and you always seem to have interesting things to say. I post as Storm at both Fiction Alley and The Sugar Quill and my journal will be mainly HP related.

Storm

...getting to know what to say

[sannalim.livejournal.com]

**waves**

I'm Sannali. The name is Finnish; as a young man, my father spent two years in Finland as a missionary for the LDS Church. I'm currently beginning my third year of a five year PhD program in BioOrganic Chemistry, which is the study of non-covalent interactions.

Online, I tend to lurk in what might be called the "conservative fringes" of the HP fandom, where I go by the screenname "Morwen."

I am an HP fanartist. I've illustrated quite a bit of the canon and have also done illustrations for my favourite pieces of fanfic: Harry Potter and the Doomspell Potion (http://home.twcny.rr.com/doomspell) (an underappreciated post-PoA, pre-GoF fourth-year fic), gramarye1971's Crossover Monstrosity (http://gramarye.freehosting.net/harry2.htm), and Darkness and Light (cover artwork; scans are coming, I promise). My website is None of this Nonsense, Please (http://morwenandtelemain.net). Over the summer I generated a huge pile (65 pieces!) of artwork, but RL has kept me so busy lately that it's going to be a while before I get any of that work scanned and uploaded to my website. Updates, when I get to them, will be announced in my LJ.

D&L was recommended to me by the authors of Harry Potter and the Doomspell Potion. I began reading it midway through the production of IWS and, once I got past the squick!factor that Snape is about as many years older than Maud as my parents are than me, thoroughly enjoyed it. I belong to the D&L revisions group, but I'm afraid I've mostly been a lurker. RL has kept me busy, and I'm not a great critical reviewer. I'm mostly there to see what other people have to say and to keep an ear to the ground, as it were, concerning the progress of the revisions. I hope you don't mind....

Poking around at the Sugar Quill in hope of finding more HP stories by you, I found links to your blog and LJ. I promptly bookmarked your blog and friended your LJ, partly so that I could keep an eye out for any new stories, and partly because I like both your opinions and the clarity with which you articulate and defend them. Reading your essays on your faith gives me lots of things to think about concerning my faith (LDS).

[dotdotdot87.livejournal.com]

Like a lot of people who've already replied, I basically was brought here through D&L, which I still think is the best piece of fanfiction, Harry Potter or otherwise, that I have ever read. It's absolutely beautiful. =D Everything else you write is also as interesting, thought-provoking and well-done. ^^

It's nice to meet you!