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Friends Overhaul

I have been silent for quite a while and will probably continue to read and comment only. I intend to do a major overhaul of my friends list in the next couple of days and before I do it I wish to tell you why and prevent, as much as I can, any hard feelings.

My only interest on LiveJournal is SSHG fanfiction. My first pick of people to friend was guided by my appreciation for their SSHG stories. I later learned that some of them have lost interest in SSHG fanfiction or, if not, use their LJs for other purposes mostly or always. For a long time now, when I read my Friends' list (almost every day), I skip an enormous percentage of content. It is not only that I have no interest in things written there, but I very often have no idea what they are writing about. I live in Austria and have little interest in television even here. My knowledge of the USA daily interest is limited to politics, and world politics at that. I know about the main presidential candidates, but not on a day-to-day basis. I have never seen a single Dr.Who episode, for instance, and I know of his/her name only because an author whose WIP I crave mentions him/her as her current interest.

I despise memes, but I have no problem disregarding them as long as there is chance of reading something about SSHG once in a while. The same goes for private or semi-private stuff that I don't understand or don't feel like getting into. I am good at "diagonal" reading and skipping altogether. But, very often, there is nothing SSHG at all and little chance of ever appearing.

So, I am going to unfriend many people and try to friend others, on one basis only: SSHG content or lack thereof.
Please don't be offended if I unfriend you. It is not personal.

I would appreciate very much if you could point me to LJs which deal with SSHG fandom. I am sure there are many that I know nothing about.

Thank you.
Lipasnape

Comments

I had a quick look at your f-list and gave a couple of suggestions you might consider. [info]grangersnape100 is an exclusively HG/SS drabble community. There's also [info]snapenews, a newsletter which, although it is Snape focused, will often post links to fests and communities that periodically have HG/SS fics that don't always make it onto the archives. Just a couple of suggestions.

Thank you very much. I added both communities and will watch them from now on. Thank you for taking the time to look at my f-list first.

No problem. My LJ is not 100% SS/HG but it is mostly potter and I don't meme all the time because I dont have time for them. I do rec SS/HG fic and SS/HG art on my private LJ.

Per the post above, you may want to friend Grangersnape100. I moderate it with blackaces.

Grangersnape100 is 100% SS/HG all the time.

Look at my user info profile and join up to the specific SS/HG fic groups. SSHGdigest is a good one.

Thank you very much. I've known about your drabble community for a while and did not join because I don't enjoy drabbles. I will be watching it now just to see if I am prejudiced against them for no good reason.
I had a look at your choice of communities. I have all of SSHG on my list already.
I know that you are into dressing up as Snape and meeting people live.
Thank you for your suggestions.

I think it's a good idea to warn.

The digest is here - http://community.livejournal.com/hgss_digest/

and just has what you might call the least irritating stories posted that day.

Thank you, Shiv. Digest is my main source of information, along with the WIKTT list.
I think it is a good idea to warn, too.
Not that I would dare unfriend you ;-)
Actually, I believe your Friends' comments might be the best way to look for LJs I might like to follow.

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