Everything I Need To Know
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fox1013 and my need to Not Think About Exams.
I walked into MBTV young and innocent and, let's be honest, kind of dumb. I started out in Dark Angel and OTB, maybe a few of the Other TV threads. I never did get the nerve to walk into the Buffy or Angel boards. They were kinda scary. But I did stumble into Roswell, and I met some of the best online friends I've ever had there. My first few posts there were squaring off with VM, who decided she liked me after I showed some backbone*. I didn't know then she was a raging bitch, and here's the thing...she never was to me. She even sent me a very nice e-mail after, y'know, my house burned down. I kept that e-mail for like, a year and a half.
Here's the other thing. She was the only one who did. Some of you expressed sympathy in the thread I made the announcement that I wouldn't be around for a while in**, but she was the only one who took the time to e-mail me. So...I don't know. In a way, I could understand where [name deleted] was coming from when she sold us out to TWoP, even though most of the people who'd been there for her during her crisis made the move to Meta, as far as I know. TWoP was there for her when she really needed someone to be there for her, so she stuck by them. So...yeah.
I think the RosBoards were where I first made my mark. I was apparently a BNF for a while there, according to some of you guys, and I guess it had to be in Roswell***, because the Dark Angel boards imploded after two of the other main posters there got banned for asking Sars if maybe somebody who actually, y'know, didn't hate the show should be doing the recaps. I knew MBTV was headed down the tubes way before a lot of you, because I was there for that disaster. Getting "I've been banned" e-mails from two of your friends is never a fun morning.
That's where I learned that people are absolutely insane (silver hand tattoos, anyone? Dreamers try to get Emilie deRavin deported?) That's where I metjuliedarling and fox1013 and a bunch more of you, I'm sure, but just try to get me to remember names. Where I learned that the only appropriate food to eat while watching Roswell is, in fact, spray cheeze. For some reason, I still hold dear the incident where I revealed that I recognized Kyle and Tess because I'd watched them on Team Knight Rider and Beastmaster****, and everybody predictably pointed and laughed at me.
Roswell was my first fandom. And it sucked. But man, was it great.
*Nobody told me she was a raging bitch, and I was too new to know any better. Somehow, it worked.
**I sincerely doubt anyone could do that now without being yelled at for being off-topic, told they were lying, and banned.
***And, okay, Meta. But that's another story.
****My bad-TV watching cred will always be higher than yours. Even Fox's.
So that's my Roswell story. What's yours?
fox1013 and my need to Not Think About Exams.I walked into MBTV young and innocent and, let's be honest, kind of dumb. I started out in Dark Angel and OTB, maybe a few of the Other TV threads. I never did get the nerve to walk into the Buffy or Angel boards. They were kinda scary. But I did stumble into Roswell, and I met some of the best online friends I've ever had there. My first few posts there were squaring off with VM, who decided she liked me after I showed some backbone*. I didn't know then she was a raging bitch, and here's the thing...she never was to me. She even sent me a very nice e-mail after, y'know, my house burned down. I kept that e-mail for like, a year and a half.
Here's the other thing. She was the only one who did. Some of you expressed sympathy in the thread I made the announcement that I wouldn't be around for a while in**, but she was the only one who took the time to e-mail me. So...I don't know. In a way, I could understand where [name deleted] was coming from when she sold us out to TWoP, even though most of the people who'd been there for her during her crisis made the move to Meta, as far as I know. TWoP was there for her when she really needed someone to be there for her, so she stuck by them. So...yeah.
I think the RosBoards were where I first made my mark. I was apparently a BNF for a while there, according to some of you guys, and I guess it had to be in Roswell***, because the Dark Angel boards imploded after two of the other main posters there got banned for asking Sars if maybe somebody who actually, y'know, didn't hate the show should be doing the recaps. I knew MBTV was headed down the tubes way before a lot of you, because I was there for that disaster. Getting "I've been banned" e-mails from two of your friends is never a fun morning.
That's where I learned that people are absolutely insane (silver hand tattoos, anyone? Dreamers try to get Emilie deRavin deported?) That's where I met
juliedarling and fox1013 and a bunch more of you, I'm sure, but just try to get me to remember names. Where I learned that the only appropriate food to eat while watching Roswell is, in fact, spray cheeze. For some reason, I still hold dear the incident where I revealed that I recognized Kyle and Tess because I'd watched them on Team Knight Rider and Beastmaster****, and everybody predictably pointed and laughed at me.Roswell was my first fandom. And it sucked. But man, was it great.
*Nobody told me she was a raging bitch, and I was too new to know any better. Somehow, it worked.
**I sincerely doubt anyone could do that now without being yelled at for being off-topic, told they were lying, and banned.
***And, okay, Meta. But that's another story.
****My bad-TV watching cred will always be higher than yours. Even Fox's.
So that's my Roswell story. What's yours?
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Date: 2005-05-03 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-03 04:05 pm (UTC)I knew the show sucked from day one, because I'd, y'know, read the books.
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Date: 2005-05-03 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-03 04:22 pm (UTC)And I'm really picky about casting (which is why my being copacetic with Mos Def as Ford Prefect was actually a little weird). I was on the phone with Baz the day I found out the cast screaming, "Liz isn't Hispanic any more! What the hell??"
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Date: 2005-05-03 04:14 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's right, bitch.
*preens*
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Date: 2005-05-03 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-03 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-03 05:01 pm (UTC)Everything after that was Julie's fault.
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Date: 2005-05-03 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-04 11:35 pm (UTC)It's odd; everyone says they know Fox from Roswell, but I never did. I had already left by the time she got there. Same with Vamp; I really only remember Vamp distinctly from Meta, although a lot of us were chattin' it up in OTB.
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Date: 2005-05-04 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-03 11:03 pm (UTC)Roswell was my first fandom. And it sucked. But man, was it great.
Hee. So true.
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Date: 2005-05-03 11:07 pm (UTC)It's truly a miracle we all survived Rosfandom.
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Date: 2005-05-04 03:50 pm (UTC)Hmm. Did this not post the first time?
Date: 2005-05-04 11:40 pm (UTC)As I said in response to keenai, I don't remember you (or Fox) from there at all. It's not that you two weren't memorable or anything -- I had just left. There was a new crop of posters that I didn't really recognize (Raksha and some other people, I think), and I was spending more time in OTB anyway. And then everything exploded, and you had Meta, and you know the rest.
You know, some days, I really wish we were all on a message board again. Or if we could go back to the glory day or something. Oh, ignore me. I'm being nostalgic and weird. I blame being delusional and sick around finals.
Re: Hmm. Did this not post the first time?
Date: 2005-05-04 11:53 pm (UTC)