It was disgusting.

I'll trade you some vanilla penuche for that there fudge! Thanks for the kind {and delicious} welcome! Don't worry about it, after a day of stunned silence I think I've purged my mind of the experience pretty thoroughly. Coffee and job-searchin' helped!

(seriously i just made a huge batch of penuche and i have no idea what to do with it!)

I love problem solving with constructive fictional violence!... Thanks for the words and the action though; seriously. I internalize stuff like that too easily, especially on the internet where my ability to snark through situations isn't always as strong as I'd like it to be. It means a lot.

In return for this act o' kindness, Pierogies and Daffodils!

Hugs! *Hugs back* It's been ages since I've been to a place that has hugs... And bromeliads! I'm an asteraceae fan myself, though I've heard Roundworld plants are rather amazing in general. Plants and flowers and verdant vibrant nature in general is just awesome! Thanks!

Y'all were just looking out for your own - I'd have done the same thing if some stranger had posted some terrible crock. I've never been one to like securing my name anyway; perhaps this was just a reminder that although my laid-back attitude can be easy and thickens my skin up, there are still things that can shake even the most hardened of internet dwellers. What really kills me is the first thing I did after waking up/preppin' coffee/checkin' e-mails was get a face full of that. What a way to start that day, right?

Because I thought I heard you say fandoms!

It'd be easier to list what aren't my fandoms, probably; but taking the easy road is boring and the internet is like an all-terrain vehicle! The things I like most, hmn... Mysteries of all sorts, from the golden age to here and now; Poirot and Marple and Father Brown; Miles Bredon and Lord Peter and Umineko. Metafiction (is that even really a genre) of all sorts; magical realism and things that inspect villains and their motives without falling into villain worship or idolization; surrealism, depressive stuff and The Death Of The Vazir Mukhtar which I just recently found out has a rather good tvtropes page. I realize the english copy is hard to find but it's one of the most amazing books ever and and and

Uh, cosmic horror and deconstructions of what that actually means; horror in general. Supernatural cosmic horror romance murder mysteries... That *weren't* all just a dream! Shin Megami Tensei - demons, spirits, mythology, NATURE! Ah, glorious Nature! Gogol, Kafka, Nabokov. The typical awesomepack of things; Trek, Rings, Disc, Douglas Adams. Satoshi Kon, everything he ever did. Cartoons! Avatar, Adventure Time and recently, MlP: FiM. Anything that empowers - regardless of who or how. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things as opposed to epically heroic people... usually! With exceptions, oh so many exceptions.

There's very little I don't like - even things that I don't necessarily enjoy myself - Warhammer, Sliders, Howard the Duck - I can usually find something interesting or funny or worth talking about. To me, words and creativity and worlds (wordworlds!) are just... Yeah, wonderful! I guess my only exception would be that as much as I'm crazy and metafictional and very much into things that sometimes fans - or the worst of - can get to me. I really love Touhou, for example; but after trying to join into the fandom multiple times I just end up feeling kind of... Eh. I don't know.

And writing-wise I'm a hack, and openly admit it - but nothing hurts me more when people write sues or so no regard for anything or just... Ugh. Hopefully I've never/never will do anything like that, and this seems like the place to watch it get taken down - with handy afterbeatdown linear notes!

Hopefully that wasn't too much of a ramble, but I'll definitely be interested in hearing about spamfloods and things past and present and *discussions!* Thanks for the welcome and the reassurances and hopefully I'll be a somewhat interesting if on-again off-again visitor! Borscht?

• although it won't stop me from feeling your pain, nay, the pain of every person who has had to deal with the advent of the accursed metal demolisher of tape and time! DVDs are just so much easier to use - although I do keep several (actually, about twenty) VHS's around, due to not finding certain things on DVD.