Okay, time *sigh* to remove friends.

[icarus]

I'm about as good at deleting people who've unfriended me as I am about throwing out old photos and letters from old lovers. That is to say, I'd prefer not to do it at all.

No matter what our disputes or how our interests have diverged, I still remember you fondly, if (in some cases) rather faintly. If we've disagreed I still probably respect you.

I have in my LJ career only unfriended a handful of people, one of whom I friended back less than a year later. Of the remaining two, one was a personal "unfriending me? Well, then -- so there. Pbblt." The other was a more general swearing-in-capslock irritation.

I hate unfriending.

But recently I haven't been able to friend people back.

LJ places a limit on the number of people you can friend. Thanks to prillalar and vermillion_moon's helpfulness, I'm now scanning the ever-depressing Joule and marking the bodies with yellow tags.

If I unfriend you and you don't want to be unfriended (I can't imagine why) just let me know. I'm assuming all of these who've removed me are gone for good.

*goes back to sorting old photos, feeling rather discouraged, but dutiful. There are new people to add after all.*

ETA: What I have learned -

1 - There are a lot of deleted journals in this world (and on my friendslist)
2 - What the hell did I say on January 13th? Because a whole lot of Stargate people friended me, and a hell of a lot of HP people dropped me
3 - That I still hate unfriending

Comments

[jaig.livejournal.com]

I remember you going on about the Stargate fandom. And er.

Unfriending's like cleaning out your closet. You really like that dirty sweater from a billion years ago, but you don't have any more room, you can't get a bigger closet, and you've got five new shiny sweaters you like.

Um.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured I must have posted some sort of Stargate Manifesto that day. *snorts*

But I still show up for the hp_dungeons weekly chats, and I still correspond with Harry Potter writers and reviewers. I've just needed to let my HP batteries recharge. There's no way I wanted to force it and inflict a lot of shallow HP stories on the fandom. Quality to me means depth. You may not be the world's greatest author, but there are layers and complexities to your characters and secondarily, there are compelling and complex plots.

I should probably explain this, shouldn't I?

Icarus

[tjstein.livejournal.com]

I think you just did. Being of the HP-centric ilk that's just skulking about for more of that...I'm waiting patiently for the Primer sequel. Oh and if I ever get around to actually seeing some Stargate, I may fall down that slippery slope too.

Oh and you're still doing the RPG thingy? I'd thought you'd called it quits a while back so I stopped following it. Perhaps I need to check it out again...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

There's a storyline coming up at the beginning of March that I'm participating in. (It was irresistible.)

Icarus

[celestialseason.livejournal.com]

yeah!
I miss Percy and Niko.

[jaig.livejournal.com]

Not really. There's always something in a story I like, that certain bit of detail, whether it's in a nervous tic or a habit, or the way the classroom's described. It makes the whole story richer. It's also the same with the plot. It's not just some road where BAM, you see the ending after reading the first paragraph.