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So I'm reading my friendslist and my own personal spoiler shield is this: I have a magazine in one hand and I'm holding it over the left side of the page as I scroll, allowing the username and pic on each post to be visible on the right. And if I trust the user (and think they're likely to have something interesting to say), then I pull back the magazine and look at the entry. My high-tech is pastede on yay.

Now I'm starting to see things about spoiler spamming to communities. Users like

ixchelmala have given us a method to filter out all communities by adding "/?show=p" at the end of your friendslist url (It looks like this: " www.livejournal.com/username/friends/?show=p " ), but I think I'll just call a halt on running my friendslist for now. I'll catch up all the way back on Saturday night or Sunday morning, but I already have 87 open browser windows on which I could catch up and should--eight parts of

cluegirl's Umbra Nihil,

fabularasa's SG:A ficlet,

glockgal's gorgeous interest meme art. Gawd, I haven't even looked at anything on Big Bang, Baby. I'm really behind. (As usual.) So, if anyone wants my attention to something, email or leave a comment.

Oh! I haven't even thought about what I'm going to wear to the release. Probably nothing special. Hmm. Well, I could re-think that. If you see a female at your bookstore dressed in a long blue gown and blue-and-bronze striped socks, masquerading as Rowena Ravenclaw, that might be me. ^_^

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Since I'm the one she was discussing it with (unless there was more than one discussion, which is completely and totally possible, of course), my thoughts as we came away from it was that we both thought of you as being like us. Us in the individual sense, there - she thought of you as being like her and I thought of you as being like me. So when I saw Hufflepuff on your userinfo, I was a trifle confused.

My giggles at the recent "What House would my flist sort me into" Meme/poll aside, I do find it rather interesting how we are perceived and how that differs from our own perception. I see myself as Raven-puff, Ivory tower academic with teamwork strengths. I also see myself as a coward and can pull up all of my failings at a moments notice. So when someone mentions they see me as Gryffindor or Slytherin, it takes me a moment to come up with any possible reason how that could possibly be true. And yet, I have stepped toward fire, waded into fistfights to pull someone out, etc. I have been fiercely competative at times and will disregard others in order to further my own priorities. So yeah, it's all there.

So I can totally see how you would think of yourself as Ravenclaw while others percieve you as Hufflepuff.

But my real reason for commenting is ... where did you find blue and bronze striped socks. I'm on the hunt, you see...

Aha! But I notice you haven't pinned down what you think the "us" of you is. Do you and Clue both see yourself sorted the same way, then?

And I got my socks from an SF convention dealer! They're soooooo high. They're like, thigh-highs. She had them in all house colors; I bought green-and-silver ones too because they were two-for-one or something.

Hee, there we go with the perception again. Everyone knows what House we are, right? I think of myself as Ravenclaw with Hufflepuff undertones. I'm as guilty of getting lost in the theory with disregard to the practical as the worst academician, but I'm Hufflepuff enough that I can turn that off and come up with a "good enough" solution, while resolutely chanting "The good is the enemy of the Best" to appease my Ravenclaw instincts.

She's Slytherin, and she sees in your writing a willingness to face the other side of the mirror, the anti-hero, the ulterior motive. As she does. Looking away from the shiny-kid side, as it were.

But she also mentioned (as she said above) that while your writing showed a Slytherin mindset, she thought that you, yourself, away from LJ and fandom, were probably more Hufflepuff, given your encouragement of new writers (me included!) your sense of the benefits of working toward co-operative success versus simple BNF solo fame, your pattern of promoting others and supporting the group.

So that's what we were thinking -- I thought Ravenpuff; she thought Slytherpuff.

See, I don't feel proud of my Slytherin qualities; ambition and self-interest and "if they don't see my laziness then it doesn't exist"--euuch. Which doesn't mean they aren't there. I would resist being labeled Slytherin but I know I've got some of their traits.

*is ded of icon love, sorry*

Heh. I think that might have been inspired by something

bethbethbeth said. Her or someone. And I had to icon it.

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