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[shadowkat]

I don't know why this is but some inexplicable reason I can't write today. Had to do a free hand writing sample for an interview and my words just got stuck. They would not come.
Did it again tonight with an lj entry. Did not any sense when I read it again.

Does this happen to you? The words just get stuck somehow. They won't come out.
Perhaps I'm tired?

Oh...has anyone heard of Allyson Beatrice? Or Buffistas? (The board group she moderated and ran?)

She apparently wrote a book entitled, I kid you not, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby: Adventures in Cult Fandom

And yes, if you guessed it was about Buffy fans, you guessed right.

Sigh. She beat me to it. Although from reading the excerpts in Entertainment Weekly, she's had far more bizarre experiences and done far crazier things than I have. So, I doubt I'd have gotten published. Plus Tim Minear encouraged her to write it. Can't beat that.

I'm not a fan. I just flirted at being a fan. A fan is someone who stalks follows (and I mean literally not just watching them on tv or reading stuff on the net) actors, writers, creators of the series about. And writes them. Emails them. That is a fan.
Me? I just happened to be a little obsessed by the show.

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[minim_calibre]

::waves hand from that corner of fandom, which has some crossover with your corner::

(Herself used to post with the Buffistas back in S6, for example, and I met her first in person at Buffista event. We over there have all kinds of fans.)

To clarify, Allyson's a community member of long standing, but B.org has no mods. We're modless. Which is like beltless, in a way. Only more of a pain in the ass, in the way that any community-run co-op is a pain in the ass.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Out of curiousity? This isn't the same Allyson that ran David Fury's website, is it?

And posted on Whedonesque and Bronze Beta diatribes about Spikefans?