kiya: (connections)
( Mar. 15th, 2022 02:06 pm)
Ridiculous tales of my brain making my life awkward, and me finally resolving it.

I read a webcomic called "Casey and Andy", which I believe I learned about through Mary MacTavish commenting on it on alt.polyamory - Mary being one of the characters in said webcomic. There were four key humans based on a friendgroup in the comic - Casey, Andy (Andy Weir, better known now for The Martian), Mary, and Jenn Brozek, whose alter ego was an international jewel thief.

Anyway. C&A stopped running a number of years ago, Andy went on to become reasonably famous, and I puttered along writing quietly and joining writing discussion groups after the degeneration of rec.arts.sf.composition.

One of which contained ... Jenn Brozek.

For the ... two years or so I have been aware of this, my brain has been trying to come up with an excuse to make a Casey and Andy joke, and I have not been letting it because of bizarre parasocial awkwardness. There was no smooth opportunity that didn't just feel wack to me, so I sat on it.

TODAY I MADE THE JOKE. And she laughed.

So now I can stop having this ludicrous unfinished joke process running in my brain making me feel weird and selfconscious.

(Context: she was talking about a new Shadowrun novel she has coming out, I said something to the effect of "As an old Casey and Andy reader, I'm just thinking Shadowrun's an application of international jewel thievery", and all was fine.)

Do join me in laughing at my own self-inflicted social anxiety and its pleasant resolution!
kiya: (pooka)
( Oct. 23rd, 2019 09:55 am)
I just glanced at the bookmarks for my fic about the whole AO3 Hugo debacle and someone bookmarked it with the note "probably the best interpretative dance fic about the Hugo Award wank" and I am going to laugh forever now.
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You see, the internet makes it so easy to produce trivial content like stuff on the internet, so I've only been agonizing over this for days and then when I actually have it drafted stared at it for ages before hitting "post". It's just too easy for people to contribute, I GOT MIMEOGRAPH INKSTAINS ON ME FINGERS.

http://kiyanicoll.com/2019/06/30/i-was-born-to-be-a-fake-fan/

Bonus ha ha the correct icon for this post is the one with the Heinlein quote.
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The thing about the missing stair people that always gets me is that I have never been confident of being sufficiently in the in-group to be one of the ones who knows.

This is not why I never leave the house if I can help it but it does kind of sour me on lots of social groups.... Large gathering? What do I need to know that nobody's bothering to tell me? Don't know. Can't know. Better stay home.



(If you think you know what I'm talking about, it's more than that. No, more than that too. And that.)
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( May. 28th, 2014 07:03 pm)
Comment notifications down for everyone or just me? ;P
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kiya: (pooka)
( Dec. 6th, 2012 04:01 pm)
Bad idea: implemented.

In case anyone might be amused by the links that I send everyone else.
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