Anonymice and other things

[swatkat]

First things first. There's something seriously screwed up with my computer. Or else, why would the computer clock keep on being reset to Jan 1, 2001? The last LJ post I'd made had actually been dated in 2001 (@!%^!~%!#%@#$), so I had to delete it to post this one. I'll repost it sometime later. *sigh*

Anyway, on with fandom.

I was right about msgenevieve and jaybee65. Of course, it was easy, seeing that they didn't attempt to disguise their voices. I wouldn't have guessed delle, though, because she did really adopt a different voice (provided that I had actually read that drabble before, or any of the last few. yes, I've been neglecting LFN a bit. forgive me?). And mommysusan! Now *that* was a surprise. Write more, you! *g*

*waits for others to own up*

I played too. *g*


Sometimes, he just hates the way he looks.

It's been months since he came here, and they still look at him. Look through him – like he's freaking unreal, like he'll stop pretending and really be himself if they all just stare at him like that.

She looks at him too; in the eyes when they speak (gotta hand her that), and with an odd expression on her face when she thinks he won't notice.

But he does.

He gets a lot of that.

It's annoying. Unnerving. Like he's a damn thief, sitting in someone else's place, wearing someone else's face.

Comments

[nell65.livejournal.com]

OO. Nice - I didn't guess that was you!

Nell

Heh

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

You didn't sound very much like yourself, either (now that I've read it). Oh, this was fun! *g*

Swatkat

Hey!

[jaybee65.livejournal.com]

But I *did* attempt to disguise my voice in the second drabble I did. I aimed for schmaltzy HR, in fact. *Thumbs nose at Swatkat*

I thought yours was great, by the way, and if it hadn't been for the spelling that gave you away as a non-US person, I would have had trouble narrowing it down.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Yes, and your schmaltzy HR was *very* good, in fact. Shouldn't you be worried? *eg*

Swatkat

not really -- I dared her to do it

[sk56.livejournal.com]

since I wasn't able to manage.

I liked your when I read it on the blue board, and I like it here. Very, very nice work.

Oh, good work...

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

but she *does* sound like a HR in there. I suspect it's her inner HR coming to play. *ducks and runs*

Swatkat

Noooooo

[jaybee65.livejournal.com]

I'm just a better mimic than people may have thought. *g*

[delle.livejournal.com]

I liked that drabble very much. I hope I wasn't a spaz and forgot to say so on the board? I signed all my posts as "the anonymouse".

As for my drabble... ::shrug:: I think it must have sucked. That's not a plea for attention, it's stating a fact. When only AZ comments on it, that's telling me something... Either it sucked or *all* my stuff sucks and people are nice about it simply because of who I *am*. I think I'll stick with option A; that the drabble sucked.

[nell65.livejournal.com]

I didn't comment on as many as I should have - in fact, I think I only manged to comment on sk's - but I read yours and admired it, though it made me cringe a bit. Which is a good thing! It was supposed too -

But - yeah - I'm lame about commenting on stuff that makes me cringe.

So - quality has nothing to do with it, at least for me. *g*

Nell

No

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I don't think it sucked (and you know I don't hesitate to say it when I don't like something). It's a very well-written child's voice, and it's the convincing child's tone that makes the disturbing bits even creepier.

This always happens with the drabbles that get posted a bit later, what with all our short attention spans and the fact that the FFMB has been quite slow in the past few weeks - the slowness makes you lazy and diverts your attention elsewhere. In the bigger drabble comms like hp100, even some of the best drabbles go unnoticed or uncommented; it has *nothing* to do with quality.

Swatkat

No, it didn't

[jaybee65.livejournal.com]

suck at all.

Somehow it seemed to have gotten buried in that huge thread, and I overlooked it. :-(

Reading it though, it was quite creepy, and I mean that in a good way.

It most certainly didn't suck

[sk56.livejournal.com]

but it was very creepy, and like Nell, creepy creeps me out.

But in a good way...

I didn't play fair...

[mommysusan.livejournal.com]

...as no one would have anything to base a comparison on, no one would ever guess me. But it was nice to be "truly" anonymous. Many thanks for the kind encouragement, from you, Swati, and everyone who replied.

Heh

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I suppose so. But I'm glad, glad, glad that you took the opportunity, Sus. Now, write more! *g*

Swatkat

Re: I didn't play fair...

[jaybee65.livejournal.com]

I'm going to join Swatkat and plead for more.

Yours was a vivid and original voice, and that's always welcome. In fact, in my opinion, yours was probably the most interesting drabble of the entire challenge.