Come to the SV social

[norwich36]

"I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party. The party with the...with the pants. The party with pants."
"Brick, are you saying there's a party in your pants and I'm invited?" (Anchorman)


No, actually the party is in the comments of this entry! Come and join the fun and meet new people in SV fandom. I would especially like to encourage you quiet folks lurking in the back--even those of you without livejournals of your own--to drop by and introduce yourselves. We're all a pretty friendly bunch here, and we like to make new friends. Fandom is more fun when you get involved and meet people, so why don't you stop by and say hi?

Here's a little mini-questionnaire, almost completely stolen from svmadelyn's glee week social, in case you need a conversation starter, but feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you are interested in answering:

1. Tell us something about yourself:
2. Likes (characters, ships, genres, TV shows, actors, real life stuff):
3. Dislikes (characters, ships, genres, TV shows, actors, real life stuff) :
4. What got you interested in Smallville?
5. What are your favorite SV episodes?
6. What SV fanfic do you reread most often?
7. Random facts (favorite food, color you wouldn't be caught dead wearing, pets' names, number of pairs of shoes you own, where you would live if you were a billionaire, etc.)

Happy delurking day! Come join the party!

Comments

[mailerose.livejournal.com]

Wee! This looks fun!

1. Me: 21 years old. Biology student. Soon-to-be college-graduate. Kind of a newbie to fandom, I stumbled upon it when I rediscovered SV less than a year ago.
2. Likes: Fannishly, I like Lexana/Clex/Clois/Chlex (multi-shipping rules), making icons, and writing fanfic. SV fandom may consume me, but House is my favorite show. Random things I love are public art, coffee shops, chai, garlic naan, shoes (I have 60+ pairs. They are my weakness.), outdoor markets, camping, and road trips. I love random acts of kindness and smiling at strangers, as it seems that too many people are walking around with sticks up their bums.
3. Dislikes: Loud eating, wasabi, small spaces, skinny jeans, ugg boots, grape-flavoured anything, music snobs, flying (even though I love to travel), negative folk, and Kristom shipping.
4. What got you interested in Smallville? I've always been into superhero stories. Batman (with Adam West) was a childhood fave, and Batman was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I liked Superman as well. Saw the movies as a wee one and then LnC when I got older. So when SV came on, I was naturally and instantly intrigued.
5. What are your favorite SV episodes? Pilot, Shattered, Memoria, Onyx, Splinter, Lexmas. Too many to list.
6. What SV story do you reread most often? Anything by Zannie (http://www.zannie.net). More specifically, her story 'Attachments (http://www.zannie.net/smallville/attachments.php)', the first piece of fanfic I ever read, and a good one at that.
7. Random facts: I shot down a guy last week, but rather than feel guilty, I felt ridiculously good (for the first time ever). Currently on rotation in my CD player is Duran Duran's Greatest. I am procrastinating at this very moment. My name is not Maile Rose.

[mskatej.livejournal.com]

I HATE SKINNY JEANS.

Omg. Just, the WORST FASHION EVER. No one. NO ONE looks good in them. I have several friends who succumbed and bought pairs, and, no matter how thin they are, they still look like CRAP. They make people's legs look short! Who the fuck wants that?

I feel very strongly about this fyi.

Duran Duran huh? DUDE. *dances*

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

I can't wear them now because I wore them last time round and now my thighs are larger.

They do look good on really skinny little Asian girls with dresses over the top.

[mskatej.livejournal.com]

My friend Aly is a skinny little asian girl and she wears them and I still think that normal jeans look better on her. But yes, she probably suits them more than anyone else I know.

[mailerose.livejournal.com]

Bad fashion is making a comeback, I swear. It's only a matter of time before stirrup pants are back.

Yes, I love Duran Duran. I can't be the only person who finds Simon Le Bon sexy.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

*Why* do I not have you friended already?? I blame having been overseas for the last few weeks. Eep! Scanning your LJ quickly, it seems like we have quite a bit in common (you're reading I capture the castle? I love that book!). Yay for multishipping! And House! I'll get the jealous-making story over and done with really quickly--Hugh Laurie babysat me when I was a kid. And yay for chai and naan and random kindness. *g*

[sadface.livejournal.com]

*is still jealous about that*

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but dude, you MET CLARK! *points at icon*

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Ok, what with the what now? (I am only slowly catching up with the comments that were posted when I was asleep, and it is 4 in the afternoon! Productivity today=zero, oh well).

Becky met Clark? How did I not know this?

Hugh Laurie BABYSAT you? Damn!

Dude, my only claim to fame is that someone I went to grad school with used to babysat Uma Thurman. Ok, maybe I can count being friends with Dale Peck, but outside the NYC gay literary world I don't think anyone's actually heard of him, except maybe as the critic who said Rick Moody was the worst writer of his generation.

You are both, like, famous! Famous by association. ::Bows in awe::

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

I'm throwing productivity out the window today! *lobs*
It's 9:30 here, and I've going to see how long I can keep commenting without getting through my inbox... if it slows down, I will do some actual work. That's fair, right? ;)

Becky met Clark? How did I not know this?
Er... well it's possible that that only occurred in stick figure form, but personally I'm still jealous! ;)

Dale Peck rings distant bells with me! That sounds like a brush with fame... my Hugh Laurie connection was a real obscure one until recently. My uncle is an actor, so I've met a few of the old UK comedy scene people--Ronnie Barker used to scoff my gran's baking. Other than that, I'm a deadloss when it comes to fame. Some people are fame magnets! Me no. The best I can rustle is that my mum's met Robbie Williams (I do like that story actually...) and my cousin has discovered something awesome about a star but I can never remember what (she's an astronomer and worked for NASA for a while).

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

As an author, Dale Peck is most famous for his first book, Martin and John , a post-modern gay bildungsroman, although he has actually written quite a few things by now: The Law of Enclosures , Now It's Time to Say Goodbye , What We Lost , as well as a book of critical essays called Hatchet Jobs and a children's novel that just came out last year called Drift House. Though I was most excited about the story he *didn't* get to write--apparently he was asked to write an X-men novel on Magneto's backstory, but they wanted to emphasize the Holocaust backstory and he would only go so far with it, since he thought it was exploitative, so they withdrew the offer.

He has a wikipedia entry and everything. And I'm acknowledged in one of his books (under my real name), so I guess that makes me famous-by-association.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I once worked on a play with the producer of Desparate Housewives , though he wouldn't remember who I am, so I don't think that counts.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Interesting! And yes, that definitely makes you famous-by-association. Wiki entries are the marker of fame these days, I guess!

[mailerose.livejournal.com]

Yay, new friend! Hi!

I Capture the Castle is one of my favorite books. I'm rereading it for the 5th time, at least.

You'd think I'd be jealous, but that just made me really excited for you. Hee.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Yes, I figured it was probably a reread! That's one of favourite reread books! If I have to get over an emotional trauma, leaving me alone with some good hot chocolate, a blankie and I capture the castle will usually take a lot of the sting out of things!

And thank you! But it was a lot less exciting back then... my uncle is an actor and they knew one another. Still, I'm a longterm fan--from his Blackadder days, etc. So it was always my one 'claim to fame' but suddenly it's become a lot more meaningful to a lot more people, with House being such a hit! I'm so glad for him. He's always had a lot of talent, but he's finally got a mature role to play.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Yay for multi-shipping! And garlic naan. Two of my favorite things.

I'm learning such cool things about people in this thread!

[althea-astrea.livejournal.com]

making icons, and writing fanfic.

I already admire you. I can't read or make icons, really!

Loud eating

Lol, that's a disgusting thing!

[mailerose.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've only recently started showing/sharing my icons on LJ, finally having enough confidence in my skills. I've yet to share my fanfics on LJ though. They're still pseudo-hidden from most eyes in a non-LJ community/messageboard.

And yes, loud eating and the associated *smacks*/*slurps* are quite unpleasant to the eye and ear.

[althea-astrea.livejournal.com]

I'll like to read your stuff, so I'm friending you, kay?

[mailerose.livejournal.com]

Yay, new friend! *Friends back*

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

*waves enthusiastically*

Shooting a guy every once in a while does a body good, I say.

You know, I was never that into superheroes as a kid, but I love Spiderman now, and ADORE Clark Kent. So, I'm converted.

[mailerose.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Well, I don't know about shooting a guy. Heh.

I don't remember why or how I got into superheroes, but I had always thought that Batman, Superman, and Super Woman were the coolest characters ever.

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

Heh. Um, I seem to have the problem here recently where I leave key words out of sentences. My brain, it works faster than my fingers. *g*

Batman Begins with Christian Bale? *loves so much*

[voldything.livejournal.com]

I love random acts of kindness and smiling at strangers, as it seems that too many people are walking around with sticks up their bums.

Oh! Me too! We must stick together and keep smiling to make people wonder what the hell is so funny, hee!

[disprove.livejournal.com]

..There are people who ship KK and TW? Huh. The world is stranger than I thought.