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[doyle]

Psst - flist lot, any of you doing that anonymous love Secret Santa meme-y thing? I've been scrolling through but see very few names I know, which makes me sad. Naturally, I'm there, because I'm an insecure whore and seek validation - note that I ran screaming from the brutal honesty meme - but that's neither here nor there.

LJ is still being an arsebiscuit about comment notifications. And I am woefully late with femslash_minis and can't read my own fic till I've done it (it's a thing), so will go and do that. After watching the Christmas Invasion trailer another few times.

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

You mean there are people who allow themselves to read fics written for them before they finish/post the fic they're writing for the ficathon? *boggles*

There is ANOTHER anon meme? I feel like we have one every two days. (And I never put my name on them, in large part because then I don't have to feel lame when no one replies.)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I think there are vogues for anon memes, and they're just in fashion at the moment.

I need to go through a bunch of ficathon masterlists as I'm sure that at the time when I was doing loads there were stories written for me I didn't see because they were posted late or whatever and I just forgot to check back later, and since Christmas is my time for guilt I worry that people wrote for me and thought I hated it...

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

It just starts feeling kind of ridiculous, like wouldn't it be more efficient for people to just post on their own LJs "tell me what you think of me, good/bad/everything, now"?

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Probably, but it's a safety in numbers thing - I think it's that feeling of "look, other people are doing it too! It's not just me who's needy!" Is for me, anyway...

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I actually prefer just saying in my own LJ "I want validation" or "I want brutal honesty" whenever I happen to need it 'cause I feel lame and sheeplike jumping on anon meme bandwagons -- which wow, sounds so judgmental... I just have independence self-sufficiency whatever issues, so these memes make me wanna post in my own LJ, "Tell me whatever you wanna tell me, now or whenever, anon or no, you do not need a special occasion, bitches" -- which, okay, is more than anything else a function of the fact I get all "woe is me I am ignored."