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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.

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[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...

[fallingfortruth.livejournal.com]

I always come into those memes late, and I feel bad for posting a link to them, when I'm on, like, page eleventy billion. :|

I don't need to be all anonymouse with you... I think you're lovely and awesome, and I still hope that you're going to do another phone post, because your accent makes me smile like a loon.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*tacklehugs* Aww, and heee! I would do one right now, just for you, but I have a terrible head cold and would be more incomprehensible than usual.

[fallingfortruth.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I think I've a bit of an advantage over the average Yank, because the hick accent here in the Ozarks has a lot in common with the North Irish/Scottish one, because that's where most of their ancestors came from. I'm not an O'Neal for nothing.

I hope you feel better, though! Head colds are rubbish and awful.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*g* My accent is a hick North Irish accent, to make matters worse (or at least was, before 4 years at uni in Belfast made me a bit more understandable.) My first few days at college, people from my own country assumed I was a foreigner.

[fallingfortruth.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Whereas I can apparently pass for a Canadian to Canadians without much trouble. The only sound of mine that's distinctly American is the 'ou' in 'out' and 'about'. Hoorah for being an army brat, I guess.

[gloss]

*comes out of the closet re:love for you*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*is undone in manner of blushing Victorian maiden*

*remembers that most of own knowledge of Victorian maidens comes from Tipping the Velvet*

[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"?

[janeway216.livejournal.com]

My first year of high school, my English teacher was from the sticks of Northern Ireland. None of us knew this beforehand, however, so as she started to talk to us for the first time, everyone slowly got this look on their face like she was speaking a foreign language.

Eventually of course we all picked it up, but there were still some things she had trouble with. One of the girls was named "Jamie" and my teacher never could get it right -- it kept coming out "Jimmy". After a couple times of staring around looking for the "Jimmy" in the class we eventually figured it out.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*g* When talking to people with English accents who I don't know are English beforehand, I occasionally take a minute to register what language they're speaking - despite constant exposure to English and American accents on TV it takes a second to switch gears in my head.

[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."