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ChristineX
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 Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: Bright shiny newbie! |
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Hi -- I think I did this backward, since I posted a fic and then wandered over here. Oh, well...story of my life.
I found this archive because an LJ friend recommended a fic over here, and I thought, Well, this looks like a happy place -- I think I'll sign up!
I guess you could sort of call me a fandom dilettante, since I tend to jump around a bit depending on what interests me (my main fandoms are POTO, HP, and Star Wars), but I've been a LOTR fan since the fourth grade. I'm so ancient I remember buying The Silmarillion in the original hardback when it first came out (I think I was in junior high).
While I write mainly romance, I tend to focus on darker characters. I have never written a Legomance and never will (well, unless someone holds a gun to my head and tells me I'd have to write it or get my brains blown out). IRL I'm a copy editor for a magazine publisher and do historical costuming and historical dance in my free time. Oh, and throw blowout parties several times a year. (My personal favorite memory from one of my LOTR shindigs was seeing seven Ringwraiths smoking cigars on my patio....)
Well, I guess that's enough blathering for now!  |
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome! Always good to have folk around who appreciate the bad guys!
I'm SpaceWeavil, often referred to as Space, Weavil or (for reasons far to convoluted to go into here) 'Speesh' or Species.
Anyway, hope you enjoy it here. Your fic sounds very intriguing from the summary and I'll look forward to sitting down having a read.
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trekqueen
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Hiya ChristineX!
Looks like we may be neighbors! Always glad to have a fellow SoCal'er around.
Feel free to ask questions and such, we'll always oblige but don't mind the occasional newbie thread hijack... we can get carried away with ourselves.  |
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vladazhael
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| ChristineX wrote: | | While I write mainly romance, I tend to focus on darker characters. I have never written a Legomance and never will (well, unless someone holds a gun to my head and tells me I'd have to write it or get my brains blown out). IRL I'm a copy editor for a magazine publisher and do historical costuming and historical dance in my free time. Oh, and throw blowout parties several times a year. (My personal favorite memory from one of my LOTR shindigs was seeing seven Ringwraiths smoking cigars on my patio....) |
I think I love you.
Or, if that's a bit too forward, hello! They call me vlad, usually followed by "put down that staple gun!" or something of the like. Always glad to meet a fellow geek-of-all-trades (I dabble in the historical fun myself, among other things).
Welcome to the monkey house. 
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Rhapsody
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:47 am Post subject: |
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Why do I get all excited when I read the word shindig? Welcome on board Christine! I saw your story poppin'up on the RSS feed the other day, now finding the time to read...
| Quote: | | While I write mainly romance, I tend to focus on darker characters. |
That's a wonderful combination, always good for plenty of angst and conflict and something I like to write as well. Given your fandoms, we have some lovely quizzes and challenges in the tv/movie section (Tolkien section as well) you might like to try or get inspired by. Just check them out or if you have a great challenge suggestion for example, feel free to enter those! Space is in charge of the fab quiz section, it's always fun and relaxing to do those. 
For the rest, well when we can, we love to encourage the WRR-routine (write, read & review), cookies are love too  , and we also love to banter back and forth, so I am not sure when the rest of the crew will arrive, the last time I think we kinda scared off the latest newbie cookienut, so either we're trying to figure out what happened to her or... 
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Alassante
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: |
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Hey ChristineX! Can we call you X for short? How do? We can never get enough 'blathering' so no need to worry about that
I'm Al. I see you've met my evil twin Vlad. Vlad! Put down that chainsaw!!!! Anywho...just keep your fingers away from her mouth and you should be okay. I would also like to invite you to check out the Virtual Village if you like the 'naughty' variety of stories. So far it seems like everyone who was welcomed you is one of our village writers so you can tell we're a friendly bunch. Trek, please ask Ecthelion to stop trying to look up her skirt.  Ignore the Nagzul with the 'Shaun the Sheep' backpack. That's Bawab and he's mostly harmless. He's with Space. Oh and Feanor and Curufin are poking me to remind you that ALL of the Feanorians are in the Village So check it out and welcome to the insanity. I'm sure one of our lovely admins has locked the door behind you so you can't get out anyway
hehe I just called Robbie lovely - think he'll notice? Sorry Robbie. Our two lovely admins and our wonderful programmer guy. Better?
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SpaceWeavil
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| trekqueen wrote: | Hiya ChristineX!
Looks like we may be neighbors! Always glad to have a fellow SoCal'er around.
Feel free to ask questions and such, we'll always oblige but don't mind the occasional newbie thread hijack... we can get carried away with ourselves. |
We??? Hijack?? Never heard of such a thing. (No question marks were harmed in the making of this post. Or were they?????)
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Ottis413
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Hi ChristineX, I'm Ottis, some people call me "Damn, you need a haircut!" or, "that guy that can't spell".
Anywho, I like to read stories from the POV of the "bad guys" or lesser known characters, I look forward to reading your work.
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ChristineX
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I don't mind a thread hijack (didn't one of the other newbie posts degenerate into a discussion of man nipples?)! 
Space, I'm glad to see another pervy Nazgûl fancier! I've been hot for these guys for way too long.
Trekqueen, it's good to know there are some other SoCal folks on these boards. Guess you never know who might pop up (I started chatting with a gal on theforce.net a while back, and it turned out she was going to college two towns away from where I live. Now we work together. Funny world, what?)
Vlad, what kind of historical stuff do you do? I dabble in everything from Regency dance to SCA. And no, "I think I love you" isn't too forward -- just don't tell my husband.
| Quote: | | Hey ChristineX! Can we call you X for short? |
Hey, Alassante, you can call me anything -- as long as you call me! So how much naughtier than the stuff here is the material in the Virtual Village? My story gets fairly risqué...did I post it in the wrong place?
| Quote: | | we also love to banter back and forth, so I am not sure when the rest of the crew will arrive, the last time I think we kinda scared off the latest newbie cookienut, so either we're trying to figure out what happened to her or... Twisted Evil |
Don't worry, Rhapsody -- I hang out at science fiction conventions; there's not much that can scare me off. (Well, maybe the furry fans....) I'll have to check out the challenges, although since I tend to get embroiled in novel-length fics, I don't usually have time for much beyond that. (Yeah, how dare I have a life?)
I don't have as much time to read as I'd like, but if I read something, I do review it. That's just my policy. We all gotta share the love! |
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ChristineX
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Anywho, I like to read stories from the POV of the "bad guys" or lesser known characters, I look forward to reading your work. |
Oh, hi, Ottis -- you posted whilst I was typing my other reply.
I'm glad to see so many fans of the darker or less-known characters -- I think my enjoyment of writing fic comes from exploring things that don't really come up in canon. Plus, bad guys are just hotter.  |
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Rhapsody
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| ChristineX wrote: |
| Quote: | | we also love to banter back and forth, so I am not sure when the rest of the crew will arrive, the last time I think we kinda scared off the latest newbie cookienut, so either we're trying to figure out what happened to her or... Twisted Evil |
Don't worry, Rhapsody -- I hang out at science fiction conventions; there's not much that can scare me off. (Well, maybe the furry fans....) I'll have to check out the challenges, although since I tend to get embroiled in novel-length fics, I don't usually have time for much beyond that. (Yeah, how dare I have a life?) |
Busy bees 'r us. I am wondering though, your penname sounds so incredibly familair... hmmm It will probably come to me somewhere in the middle of the night.
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I don't have as much time to read as I'd like, but if I read something, I do review it. That's just my policy. We all gotta share the love! |
Yeps, that's what I do as well, leaving lengthy reviews of luv, wiggling in some writing time here there, betareading... *nods*
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trekqueen
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| ChristineX wrote: |
Don't worry, Rhapsody -- I hang out at science fiction conventions; there's not much that can scare me off. (Well, maybe the furry fans....) I'll have to check out the challenges, although since I tend to get embroiled in novel-length fics, I don't usually have time for much beyond that. (Yeah, how dare I have a life?)
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does that mean you might have been at the grand slam sci fi convention last weekend???? Small world if you were.... |
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trekqueen
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| SpaceWeavil wrote: | | trekqueen wrote: | Hiya ChristineX!
Looks like we may be neighbors! Always glad to have a fellow SoCal'er around.
Feel free to ask questions and such, we'll always oblige but don't mind the occasional newbie thread hijack... we can get carried away with ourselves. |
We??? Hijack?? Never heard of such a thing. (No question marks were harmed in the making of this post. Or were they?????) |
well we have to come up with something other than feather nipples because she discovered them. |
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ChristineX
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Busy bees 'r us. Smile I am wondering though, your penname sounds so incredibly familair... hmmm It will probably come to me somewhere in the middle of the night. |
Well, I'm ChristineX over at ff.n as well (and other sites such as fictionalley and Sycophant Hex) , so maybe that's where you saw it.
| Quote: | | does that mean you might have been at the grand slam sci fi convention last weekend???? Small world if you were.... |
No, I didn't go to that, mostly because I refuse to give Creation any of my hard-earned cash. I go to Loscon every year, and I was at Worldcon last August. I go to Comicon about every other year (I hate the crowds, but we always go up the street to The Field [an Irish pub] for dinner, and that's a lot of fun...especially the year we invaded with the Ringwraiths. We overheard muttered comments about getting overrun by the bain sidhe [hope I spelled that right]). |
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Rhapsody
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| trekqueen wrote: | | SpaceWeavil wrote: | | trekqueen wrote: | Hiya ChristineX!
Looks like we may be neighbors! Always glad to have a fellow SoCal'er around.
Feel free to ask questions and such, we'll always oblige but don't mind the occasional newbie thread hijack... we can get carried away with ourselves. |
We??? Hijack?? Never heard of such a thing. (No question marks were harmed in the making of this post. Or were they?????) |
well we have to come up with something other than feather nipples because she discovered them. |
 Be careful, don't lure out MistressG, once she and Space gets on a roll we all look bewitched and bewildered!
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does that mean you might have been at the grand slam sci fi convention last weekend???? Twisted Evil Small world if you were.... |
Yeah I am curious too!
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