it's to keep the ALIENS from STEALING your THOUGHTS

[sab]

*I* am staying in tonight, the first Saturday in AGES, and retiring to a bubble bath with my book on iPod. This being, of course, Dark Tower VII, and I've got about eight-ten hours left to go so I'm trying to let it linger (while desperately needing to know WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!). _maayan is off to the bar to represent, yo, take one for the team, as it were, and tell Shox that I'm wet and naked at home with no interest in anything else. *g*

Last week I was in NY for Dad's 70th birthday -- photos to come, including some highly adorable ones of baby me and baby spycookies -- and I blew off this week under the pretext of recovering from my cold and writing the Great American Screenplay about Abe Lincoln, but next week it's back to the grindstone and 40 hour weeks with the DNC. Which is fortunate if for no reason than I need the money, putting aside the great Democratic post-election ennui that needs a sharp kick in the ass. I'll keep you posted.

But mostly, mostly, I'm suffering sensory overload. I ain't built for this rockstar lifestyle, yo! THOUGH, yesterday I saw Jason for the first time in weeks -- M and J and I went out to a little middle-eastern place and sat quietly in the courtyard and drank Lebanese beer and spoke like civilized people, which was long overdue and very nice. Ostensibly the extended Jason-Chris-Elijah brigade is having brunch tomorrow at some ungodly hour, which may or may not also be calm and civilized, but it sure as hell better be if I'm waking up at 8:00 for it. But I swear, I haven't spent so many nights a week drinking since COLLEGE. pene, you would not recognize me what with all the groovin' and bar-hoppin'. I need a WEEK holed up in my room, is what.

While we're on the subject. Or not. I notice I've got some new friends since I laid the smackdown on Jason's behalf regarding his photographs of Elijah et al. Welcome welcome, there's nothing wrong with new friends, but if you're expecting me to be some sort of font of Elijah info I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. I don't know Elijah terribly well yet, we only met a couple months ago through Jason and Shox, and even if I did, I'm not in the business of using this LJ to chronicle anyone's life but my own, and me, I'm just yer run-of-the-mill fangirl. It's also worthwhile to let you know that I've known Jason and Shox for YEARS, and they're both well aware of my porny fangirl habits -- and Lij et al are certainly aware of the internet's interest in them. So, y'know, keep on keeping on -- I have always endorsed a healthy fannish lifestyle, and plan to continue mine for years to come. *g*

I'm also not terribly familiar with the LOTRips fandom (everything I know I learned from my loyal henchwoman esorlehcar) but -- as I venture toward being part of canon what with this new surreal twist my life has taken, I find myself exposed to some marvelously tinhatty freaks. So, you know, if you're a freak, and you're reading this, basically as long as you don't show up at my house and throw stuff or try and harm my family we'll all get along fine. Yes? I'm not in the habit of friends-locking my LJ (I tend to use that to keep RL friends *out*, and therefore only lock it if I'm, like, bitching about my current girlfriend or boyfriend or co-worker or boss) and I don't wanna, but maybe I'm just being stupid. Seriously -- is anyone out there plotting to harm me or my family? If I friends-locked this journal, would that PROTECT me or my family? spycookies, are you afraid of tinhats harming you or Beanie? And -- world at large -- do you think I'm being stupid? Am I putting myself in danger? How dangerous ARE these LOTRips people?

In conclusion, a kitten, thanks to tzikeh, and I am off off off to the Dark Tower and a bubble bath for mon peau sensible!

(Meanwhile, likethesun, gamesiplay, whatever hat you're wearing, and septicemic [purveyor of fine icons everywhere], go have lunch together on my behalf and I'll buy you both dessert and I'll even text-message your cell phones while you're there so I can participate in the festivities.)

Comments

[wisteria-way.livejournal.com]

HI,

You may remember me from the Seekrit pics posting a couple of weeks ago.

I deliberately did not friend you not because you aren't a cool person but because I did not want to seem to be doing so only because you know a certain someone I am a major fan of.

As someone who has battled with tinhats on many occasions to the point where ,and esorlehcar will confirm this, I have developed a 'reputation' for it and have since retired from the battle because they are too ridiculous to bother with anymore, I hope I can give you some reassurance about them and most Elijah fans in general.

As absolutely crazy as the tinhats are I doubt they pose any real threat. They seem to prefer living in their little made-up fantasy world online. Though many of them including their 'leader' have met Elijah and friends on many occasions they have never, to my knowlege, ever done anything more than greet him, take his picture and get autographs. If they've ever done anything worse Elijah would be the one who knows and you should ask him about that. And if any of them or any other fan I know have ever done anything worse I'll 'virtually' clobber them ;)

I don't think you are in any danger. Most Elijah fans of all sorts are really pretty nice people. A few, a small few, are borderline-lunatics but not, I hope, dangerous ones.

I am very obsessed with your small friend as are all my online pals but I live in the boonies of PA and I'm old and tired and sickly and rarely venture beyond my neighborhood. So I pose no threat whatsoever. Aside to Eso... All right no wise-cracks..I'm obsessed and prone to manic type posts on occasion but I'm not dangerous and neither are any of my good friends.

Have any of the tinhats or anyone else been bothering you particularly, beyond just friending your journal? If they haven't been doing anything I doubt they will.

If you'd really like more info from the point of view of the obsessed side of fandom you can email me (it's on my info page) and I'll be glad to answer any questions I can.

Most of us including those wacky tinhats are OK people. Many of us are actually quite nice and non-threatening.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I've found so far. I've gotten so many e-mails from nice people looking out for me, expressing concern over the fact that I've got the pictures up, that I've publicly associated my fannish LJ with Jason et al, making sure I'm not worried about my fannish personal getting public. Really, I think most folks are just being kind and considerate, which is why I pointed out that my sekrit pornish nightlife is no secret to my friends, and I'm not terribly worried about anythign I post becoming public -- unless, as I said, somoene sees it as an opportunity to physically accost me. *g*

But I have had the experience you describe, so far, all very nice people who have found me and friended me through this extravagaaaanzza. Feel free to friend me, if you want, or don't, but thanks for posting and responding.

[wisteria-way.livejournal.com]

Thanks for being cool about all this. I doubt I could remain so calm in the middle of such a fandom windstorm. I've seen a lot of major kerfuffles but this whatever-it-has-been is different from them all. What I have appreciated out of this is actually seeing the real side of the life of that little guy I like and seeing he's just so normal and has regular friends etc. It's always good, I've found after many long years of fan-girling over various people, that seeing them as they really are tends to bring us firmly down to earth and out of the fluffy pink clouds of our imagination. Duh! They are real people! It's good for us to be reminded of this. I hope it is equally good for the objects of our fascination because it de-fictionalizes them and makes us respect them for who they are and not what we wish they were.

I was one of the people who emailed you back at the beginning of the Seekrit pics thing trying to warn you of the fan invasion that was likely to occur. I don't think many of us are dangerous, as I said, but many do tend to invade areas where we can gain info about you-know-who. Look, tell him it's his fault for being such a damn nice and appealing little dork. ;) Maybe if he'd start kicking paparazzi or something we'd back off a little.

But I think and hope you will be OK with most fans. We were largely bookish Tolkienites before we got into the whole movie fandom thing and not terribly violent people, mostly old and new hippie-ish types. There might be one or two or three fans I wouldn't want to get real close to but they problablyare mostly harmless. Here's hoping.

I think I will friend you because you have been so nice about everything and you seem to be a very literate bookish intelligent person. I'm a writer of sorts and not just fanfic..NOT RPS!... just LOTR hobbity stuff of the cute and cuddley sort. Apart from that I've been working on various versions of my 'great novel' for years and years.

So I hope that as long as this whole thing can stay confined to a few Live Journals everything will simmer down. Someone said that it got mentioned at Datalounge, though. o_0 That does not bode too well unless the webmaster there hopefully quashes the thread soon. They usually do knock these things down pretty quickly. So I'm hoping for the best.