Friending Meme

[thisbluespirit]

Like Vines Toward The Sun :: A Friending Frenzy for RETURNEE &&& Long Time LJers!

There are former LJers who would like to return, but their friends lists have been deserted.
Let's all welcome them back with open arms and show them that LJ is very much alive!


It looked a bit scary (it's all LJ, not necessarily just fannish folks), but I ignored the questions I didn't want to answer and plunged in, because people should definitely be encouraged to return to LJ. Also new friends are not to be sneezed at. :-)

Comments

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, it would be very difficult to sneeze at them, since they're on the other end of an internet connection. Though I'm not above trying, obviously.

New people.

[thisbluespirit]

This is true, but still, best not to try, I think. :-)

And, heh, I'm pretty sure you must have friended me once. I am quite terrible about friending myself except on occasions when I'm not. Also I promise only to friend people who seem nice! (Anyone who wants to friend me despite my confessions about going on about beige 70s TV is probably definitely nice, right?) ;-p

(Oh, and btw, am watching Sleepy Hollow, which is indeed good fun. I have decided though that as it is an AU where demons walk the earth, that explains why history is so completely random there.)

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Ha. Yes, the history in SH is... not as we know it. :D

[thisbluespirit]

Alternate demon dimension, obv. ;-)

Also I was amused that somewhere in episode 1 he says something like "evil has found a new place to live!" And I was, aha, yes, it must have been having trouble ever since someone blew up Sunnydale that one time...

But, yes, provided a person doesn't pay any attention to the history, it's being good fun so far, thank you!

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're enjoying it. I don't know if we've ever talked much about history - it's what I read at uni, so I do share your pain. I usually let these things slip if something is entertaining enough though! Like the Doctor spouting off to Steven about Viking helmets with horns on. :) Although possibly that one was down to the Meddling Monk!

Hmm... SH/Buffy crossover...

[thisbluespirit]

The space helmet for a cow was far too good to sacrifice to historical accuracy! (Besides, maybe back in pre-Time War days, Vikings did attach horns to their helmets, but the entire timeline of the universe has been messed about with since. or, as you say, the Meddling Monk. Totally the sort of thing Peter Butterworth would do!)

If Sleepy Hollow didn't have such engaging leads, it would be terrible. It's not even trying in the slightest, lol. I don't actually go round looking at everything complaining about accuracy because most of the time I can't remember enough to say. But it is a terrible curse, almost as bad as having read the book before watching the adaptation and needing to throw things.

I don't think you did ever mention you did history though - which periods did you study? (Mine were fairly random because I did joint honours and had to chose things that didn't clash with the essential Information & Library Studies modules, and it really limited my selection. But I did have a marvellous US lecturer who did Colonial America. *side-eyes Sleepy Hollow again*)

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

I can never quite decide if SH is intentionally bad, intentionally nuts, or just doesn't give a stuff. Season one was a massive hit though, so I guess it worked, whatever it was. And they are good leads, which as you say, does help!

I did modern history, which was essentially defined as being from around 1700 onward (we even had a quick look at the Falklands War, which was scary! It's not history if I remember it, damn it!) I did get to do a course in Mediaeval history in the first year though, which was good. The modules weren't bad. I did a crash course on 20th century European affairs, which was compulsory; and then the history of the Soviet Union; Nazi Germany; Southern Africa (that one was good - I'd never been out of Europe for history before); Black America (also good); and Crime and Punishment in England and Wales, which was also rather good. And the history of agriculture in England from 1640 - 1870, which was the dullest thing that ever was dull. :)

[thisbluespirit]

They are good leads, which is just as well. I don't think I've ever seen a show that just didn't care so much and managed to stay on the watchable side. I was highly amused at the last episode, because Ichabod had the temerity to get annoyed at people's historical inaccuracy. :loL: Funniest thing so far. How would anyone on this show even know???

Aw, that was much mor defined than me. For A-Level I did Democracies & Totalitarian States (one the first year, the other the second), which is... a theme. :loL: But for university, as I said, I did whatever didn't clash with ILS and allowed me to get across the Waunfawr to the other campus in time. (There was one where there was only a ten minute gap which involved much speedy cycling and me being thankful I was going downhill at the end or I'd never have done it. As you sort of know Aber, you'll know that it doesn't do hills by halves!) That sounds like a good solid overview, with a broader sweep than anything I managed. I was sort of WWI here, Colonel America, 19th C America, Roman Britain, Non-Comformity in Britain 1700-1900 ish, and a very dull economic history of Britain in the 20th C, but your ag. one sounds even more so. (Although I am also interested at the same time, because with my family history head on, I can see that now being helpful. If still not exciting. Did you do well in it? The only time I ever got a first in history was with the Economic module I didn't understand and didn't like. I don't understand marking.) I would have liked to do some Chinese history, but it wasn't offered (well, it wasn't offered anywhere I applied to!) and European history, especially medieval and early modern to get a better understanding of context really. But I kept winding up in America again.

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an interesting bunch of subjects. I'd like to have looked into American history in more depth. Somebody I speak to regularly over on a Doctor Who forum is a Civil War nut, and I've learnt a lot from him. It's simultaneously a horrible and fascinating time. Plus ties in nicely with my fondness for cowboy tales. ;) I'd love to have done Rome/Roman Britain in uni-level detail too. Did it as a kid, obviously, but that's never quite the same!

I don't really recall what mark I got overall for Agrarian England. Sixty-something percent, iirc. I got a 2.1 over all, and got much the same for the various modules. Something of a relief, as I was envisaging horrors from that one. It was DULL. Did tie in nicely with GCSE and A Level though, both of which were 'A Social & Economic History of Britain from 1760' (the A Level also covered Europe). I have read more about seed drills, and the industrialisation of farming practices, than I could ever have desired!

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, snap as to the 2.1! (I hear all the best people have a 2.1. :lol:)

US history is interesting, of course - I just wanted to do something different at the time. But Colonial America was great, because we had this lecturer called Dr Schlenther who was just one of the most fun, interesting and nice history lecturers we ever had. He made us sing psalms unaccompanied like Puritans and told us about one Governor of somewhere who used to like to dress up as a woman daily and even had his portrait painted that way. Because he was, he said, representing Queen Anne, so, naturally he had to look the part... :-D

If I am stuck on my ag labs in my family history, I shall come to you, asking about seed drills!!

[liadt]

God lord, it has all the questions I mark "prefer not to say" on the equal oppos forms and more! I prefer to let the council put out my personal information;p

[thisbluespirit]

I managed to ignore/handwave as many of them as possible & then it was fine. (Which is fair enough; it'll be what they get when they get here!)

[liadt]

Yes, draw them in by being an international woman of mystery;p

[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

Hah, yeah, I'm with liadtbunny -- what's with all the personal questions?

I mean, yes, I could just ignore them, but being asked in the first place already makes it weird. Those aren't the kinds of things I care about when looking for new book/Doctor Who stuff to follow.

It's a nice idea in general and I did find a couple of people to add, but. . .

[thisbluespirit]

I think it's because it's a wider LJ friending meme - it's easy to forget in fandom that some people use it for daily journaling and lots of more rl-related things, where some of that might be more of interest. I just handwaved anything I didn't want to answer and concentrated on the more relevant posting side of it, but it did nearly scare me off too.

[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

I understand! I'm just being old and grumpy (like you do when you're young).

[ylla.livejournal.com]

The questions all seemed to all be aimed at activist sort of people, which a) I get more than enough of on facebook and b) was never what I wanted - I seem to have outlived three communities on LJ, but they were all mainly just people chatting about day to day stuff.

I have been making an effort to friend people and at least get an active reading list again, but it still tends to be friends of friends and things. Completely random is too intimidating.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I thnk so - and while I'm often in favour of many or all of the things in question, I find that the same - this is my place to go to get away from too much rl issues and things!

Speaking of which, since you're here & I know you from fic_rush and from that lovely Heyer ficlet you wrote during my commentfest, we may only overlap here & there, but would you mind me friending you? Or is that still a little too random?

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Yes please - I've been reading you on and off since the commentfest, I think. Half the time* I have no idea what you're talking about, but it's interesting all the same :)

*The more obscure fandom half, to be fair.

[thisbluespirit]

I have now friended you! You can now see even more of my super-obscure old TV babbling! Although, actually, often the flocked stuff contains the explanations as well. But sometimes I just babble. I got ill, I wound up watching more old TV (by accident) and found it was a lot easier to cope with, because of the general pace and style, I suppose. And then I fell in love with non-existent fandoms and the actors, characters and ships that sail in them, and now I'm just a nuisance! With pictures. And sometimes even gifs.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I don't have the patience to watch TV, somehow - I never did, much. I got about halfway through JS+MN last summer, which was doing quite well for me!

My reading is fairly random, though, or would be if I had any time for it (I'm working full time and studying part time and pretending I have a life as well, and it's all a bit hectic...)

[thisbluespirit]

That does all sound pretty hectic! I'm unfortunately still ill and since I only rarely have the concentration needed to read, TV is very helpful - especially static and wordy old stuff! :-) I did watch JSMN & it was excellent, although I was rather unhappy at the ending.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it is bringing together all kinds of people - and I can understand how it can be scary...

*HUGS*

[thisbluespirit]

Friending memes are great, but they're always a little scary - especially when they want to know things I wouldn't necessarily even tell my best friend. But some nice people have approached me & I mean to be brave if I can and go back and approach a couple of others, too...

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

As you are locked in the past in old TV land you will be sad to learn of this:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35455932

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! (I know I've seen him as Porthos and no doubt other things, but I just haven't come across him so much as others! But still. *doffs a hat for Porthos*)