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unlocking some Highlander posts
For the past week or so, I've been posting about Highlander to a locked filter on my LJ. Due in part to LJ's downtime and heavy load over the last couple of days (which, if you haven't heard, is apparently caused by a politically motivated DDOS attack aimed at the Russian side of LJ), and due in part to having finally gotten past the part of HL that I was really worried about being spoiled for (yay! I'm up to 5x13 now), I'm unlocking those posts and opening it up to public discussion again. The DW importer is slowwwww right now and they're asking people not to start new imports for awhile, so while I've imported the HL posts to DW, it didn't grab the comments (the existing discussions, therefore, are still over on LJ). You are, however, totally welcome to comment in either place; you can find the backdated HL posts by browsing my Highlander tag (LJ or DW).
I truly do not mind strangers/newbies jumping into these discussions, but one of the reasons I went under filter was because I was feeling overwhelmed by the sudden influx of new people into my LJ, so ... please be understanding with me? ^^ My journal's been a fairly quiet place since my last big fan-crush went off the air, so I pretty much just interact with the same small group of people except when I post a new fic or something, and I wasn't expecting a sudden explosion of new people. I'm a shy person and normally I lurk in a new fandom for a while to learn the social norms and fannish history and so forth at my own pace, before jumping into discussions and joining comms and friending people and stuff. Interacting with a bunch of new people at once is difficult and stressful for me, especially since it's a lot of people who share a fannish history and common background that I don't -- I was ending up feeling very lost, like everybody shared an in-joke and I wasn't part of it, and that's not a good feeling, you know? Anyway, I think I'm confident enough now to venture back out and discuss the show again, but I've discovered with the locked discussions that I'm much happier waiting 'til I'm done with the series to find out much about the fandom or the behind-the-scenes or any of that. I really don't care about that stuff right now -- mostly I'm interested in canon and watching as much of it as possible. *g* And if I start to feel that discussing the series is harshing my buzz, I'm just going to stop reading/answering comments 'til I finish the series, so ... if I seem to be ignoring you, it's not you, it's me, okay? (And, er, obviously my request for no spoilers still applies to the future episodes I haven't gotten to yet ...)
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I truly do not mind strangers/newbies jumping into these discussions, but one of the reasons I went under filter was because I was feeling overwhelmed by the sudden influx of new people into my LJ, so ... please be understanding with me? ^^ My journal's been a fairly quiet place since my last big fan-crush went off the air, so I pretty much just interact with the same small group of people except when I post a new fic or something, and I wasn't expecting a sudden explosion of new people. I'm a shy person and normally I lurk in a new fandom for a while to learn the social norms and fannish history and so forth at my own pace, before jumping into discussions and joining comms and friending people and stuff. Interacting with a bunch of new people at once is difficult and stressful for me, especially since it's a lot of people who share a fannish history and common background that I don't -- I was ending up feeling very lost, like everybody shared an in-joke and I wasn't part of it, and that's not a good feeling, you know? Anyway, I think I'm confident enough now to venture back out and discuss the show again, but I've discovered with the locked discussions that I'm much happier waiting 'til I'm done with the series to find out much about the fandom or the behind-the-scenes or any of that. I really don't care about that stuff right now -- mostly I'm interested in canon and watching as much of it as possible. *g* And if I start to feel that discussing the series is harshing my buzz, I'm just going to stop reading/answering comments 'til I finish the series, so ... if I seem to be ignoring you, it's not you, it's me, okay? (And, er, obviously my request for no spoilers still applies to the future episodes I haven't gotten to yet ...)
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I totally understand you, about being scared by so many strangers and everything.
I am glad though that you didn't lost your squee and still love the series!
You did re-kindle the love for Highlander in many of us and that is a great accomplishement for which again I am grateful.
Missed your posts these last weeks though and will delve in right away to read!
I do hope you aren't scared any longer and will find many new friends through this!
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I'm still absolutely loving the series, and I have my DVDs now, so I can start making vids! (I have so many ideas!) *squees*
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What is their position on anything?
I'm serious...
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