1. When did you first "friend" me? Erm, earlier this year? Maybe March?
2. Why did you first "friend" me? Because of the wonderful and sensible things you had to say about The Lord of the Rings in various forums. When I peeked at your journal there was all this Harry Potter stuff, and I thought, wow, I didn't know there was so much to say about Harry Potter.
3. What posts of mine do you like to read the best? The meta, which is just about everything I guess. :) Another way to put this would be, what makes your meta different from all other meta? I'd say it's the way you tackle a question. Your argumentative style is really interesting: you hold up an idea for examination -- say, an interpretation of a particular character -- and then you seem to turn and twist it in the light of common sense to see what can be made of it. You base your positions on appeals to ordinary experience (things like "whenever I do x, y happens: why can't we judge the books that way?"). That's very refreshing; you don't seem to trip up in abstractions or some predetermined position about how books should work. Also, it's very cool how you do in fact acknowledge other points of view, and you don't have heart failure when one of your commenters respectfully disagrees with you. It's an incredible skill to run discussions on such hot topics that don't degenerate into rancor.
4. What would you like me to write about that I don't? I think the world would be a better place if everyone in it wrote slash twenty-four hours a day. But meta is fine. :)
5. Do you think we would be friends in real life? Don't know; it depends on how calmly you'd react when you discovered that I'm a wombat IRL.
6. How often do you read my journal? You've always been on my A filter, so I read all your posts. Sometimes I don't get to LJ right away on weekends, though.
7. What do we have in common?The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and I believe we share OTPs in these fandoms as well. You are clearly a woman of impeccable taste and discernment. Are you by any chance a wombat too?
8. Will you post this in your journal so I can answer? Erm, well, uh, probably not, because I'm a coward about personal posts.
9. If I were an HP character, who would I be? Crookshanks; you have an eagle eye for suspicious characters and you can help people find their way home when they are lost.
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Date: 2004-11-15 03:06 pm (UTC)2. Why did you first "friend" me? Because of the wonderful and sensible things you had to say about The Lord of the Rings in various forums. When I peeked at your journal there was all this Harry Potter stuff, and I thought, wow, I didn't know there was so much to say about Harry Potter.
3. What posts of mine do you like to read the best? The meta, which is just about everything I guess. :) Another way to put this would be, what makes your meta different from all other meta? I'd say it's the way you tackle a question. Your argumentative style is really interesting: you hold up an idea for examination -- say, an interpretation of a particular character -- and then you seem to turn and twist it in the light of common sense to see what can be made of it. You base your positions on appeals to ordinary experience (things like "whenever I do x, y happens: why can't we judge the books that way?"). That's very refreshing; you don't seem to trip up in abstractions or some predetermined position about how books should work. Also, it's very cool how you do in fact acknowledge other points of view, and you don't have heart failure when one of your commenters respectfully disagrees with you. It's an incredible skill to run discussions on such hot topics that don't degenerate into rancor.
4. What would you like me to write about that I don't? I think the world would be a better place if everyone in it wrote slash twenty-four hours a day. But meta is fine. :)
5. Do you think we would be friends in real life? Don't know; it depends on how calmly you'd react when you discovered that I'm a wombat IRL.
6. How often do you read my journal? You've always been on my A filter, so I read all your posts. Sometimes I don't get to LJ right away on weekends, though.
7. What do we have in common? The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and I believe we share OTPs in these fandoms as well. You are clearly a woman of impeccable taste and discernment. Are you by any chance a wombat too?
8. Will you post this in your journal so I can answer? Erm, well, uh, probably not, because I'm a coward about personal posts.
9. If I were an HP character, who would I be? Crookshanks; you have an eagle eye for suspicious characters and you can help people find their way home when they are lost.