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Post by Queen E on Feb 6, 2015 23:09:32 GMT -5
Thank you for the new part, Karen. I just spaced...absolutely no excuse. As for re-energizing: you're right, Spring. I don't know of anything that might draw people back. I personally don't post much because my life is really quite boring. I don't even post on Facebook that much. But I love checking in here and seeing how people are doing...there's a lot more space to talk here that other social media don't really provide. One thing I do miss is talking about shows I watch with you guys. I haven't found a substitute for that... The only thing that might revive this place is if we did really great, timely reviews of some show that was going to be as great and popular and long-running as Buffy - and we did some things to generate traffic to the reviews. But it is nearly impossible to imagine that happening.
I do agree that there is "more space to talk" here, and I don't find that my ventures into FB or Twitter have been as fulfilling. I mean, here we were really able to discuss in depth, and to get to know one another.
For some reason I was thinking of Patti quite a lot the last few days, and did something I hadn't done in ages - looked over our first "where is Patti?" thread. It still had the power to bring me to tears. Though it was a terrible day, it was also one of our finest hours as a board, and something I can't imagine repeating in quite the same way on popular social media.
Yeah, it just doesn't have the same...cohesiveness, maybe? I don't know, but I definitely do not find social media congenial to that type of discussion.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 7, 2015 6:05:00 GMT -5
Thank you for the new part, Karen. I just spaced...absolutely no excuse. As for re-energizing: you're right, Spring. I don't know of anything that might draw people back. I personally don't post much because my life is really quite boring. I don't even post on Facebook that much. But I love checking in here and seeing how people are doing...there's a lot more space to talk here that other social media don't really provide. One thing I do miss is talking about shows I watch with you guys. I haven't found a substitute for that... The only thing that might revive this place is if we did really great, timely reviews of some show that was going to be as great and popular and long-running as Buffy - and we did some things to generate traffic to the reviews. But it is nearly impossible to imagine that happening.
I do agree that there is "more space to talk" here, and I don't find that my ventures into FB or Twitter have been as fulfilling. I mean, here we were really able to discuss in depth, and to get to know one another.
For some reason I was thinking of Patti quite a lot the last few days, and did something I hadn't done in ages - looked over our first "where is Patti?" thread. It still had the power to bring me to tears. Though it was a terrible day, it was also one of our finest hours as a board, and something I can't imagine repeating in quite the same way on popular social media.
I was thinking about Patti too. I miss her. It will be 10 years this May that she's gone, yet every terrible minute of that terrible day is etched in my mind and perfectly clear. I miss our breakfasts and the times she would call me to rant about something or other. The fact that our board still goes on is, all or in part a testament to how well prepared she left us.
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Feb 13, 2015 8:20:30 GMT -5
#grouphug# #wavey#
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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 13, 2015 22:22:48 GMT -5
Hi!
Have been busy doing temp care for a 7 yr old boy.
What an experience for me and the girls.
He's back home now, but it was very educational for the girls to watch how he behaved - like them many years ago, he had been suddenly pulled from his home, and he was in "reaction" mode. They were mostly quite good with him - some problems arising from jealousies, but nothing much.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 17, 2015 22:31:38 GMT -5
They were children then. They're young women now. This is an insight they will keep that will in time serve them well. I could not do what you are doing, but I'm so proud to know you and be your friend.
For my part, last week I started chiropractic care for my degenerating back issues. Since that one treatment I've been able to take a 30 minute (very slow) walk and get up and down from sitting with comparatively little effort.
Today I visited my doctor to report the results. She wants me to continue the treatment and add physical therapy and also to contact the clinic to discuss mutual referrals and whether they need someone to write scrips when needed.
It's all good.
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Feb 18, 2015 10:04:02 GMT -5
the flat plan went splat a deadline happened and now the paperwork has to be started over in the new financial year. :-(
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Feb 18, 2015 10:04:40 GMT -5
on the other hand, tomorrow is a convention, Redemption 15 there are many panels and lots of fans to talk to and also a disco :-)
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Feb 18, 2015 17:55:59 GMT -5
*brackets Diane*
*brackets becca*
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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 21, 2015 17:56:20 GMT -5
the flat plan went splat a deadline happened and now the paperwork has to be started over in the new financial year. :-( So it can still happen, it will just take more time? Or does this mean you might miss out?
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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 21, 2015 17:57:02 GMT -5
I have some good news to share - Kitty's been accepted for transfer to Cal State Fullerton as a Computer Science major, starting this fall. *general hugs all 'round* I read, and I think about all of you. I just noticed this . . . congrats to Kitty!
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Post by Vlad on Feb 22, 2015 4:15:50 GMT -5
<snip> I wish we could get this board going again, but with the proliferation of other social media like FB and Twitter and such, I'm not sure we could make it happen, even if "another Buffy" type show got everyone interested on that level.
Sometimes I wonder what Patti would have done, if she had been with us all these years . . . what she might have come up with, to keep the board going.
Buffy, Angel and Firefly were unique phenomena. Right time, right place, right people. The S3 is much the same. If it hadn't been for that particular mix of characters (right people) showing up at ScoopMe (right place) and ScoopMe deciding to shut down it's doors with the ending of Buffy (right time), then our worlds would have been very, very different. If that initial group of folks from there hadn't shown up, what would have happened? The S3 would not have happened if there hadn't been a Spring, a Nan, a Rob, a Rae, an Alexandra, a Vlad, a Deborah, a Diane. a Lady Di... the list goes on. Those original founders, the members of The Cabal (later renamed the more or less PC Steering Committee, followed by the CoW)really did something special. And we knew it was special. Oh, we argued and bickered and had our own little prideful points and games. (Maybe that was jsut me? Whatever! ) But, we felt it in our bones. We were doing something special. We were prideful of our community. We cared about our society's other members. And we changed each other's lives. My world would have been completely different. I wouldn't be living in KS with Shannon, Sofie and Frazer. Pretty dramatic difference there! But there is one name that wasn't a "founder" and wasn't an original CoW. Patti. That woman managed to touch every single one of us and make an improvement on our lives. The S3 practically was her life for the time she was among us. I know I literally would not have done half the things I did for the site if it had not been for her. I know that so many of the fun things that kept people involved either came from her or were massively boosted by her involvement. That thing I wrote above about living in KS, etc? If it had not been for her, I would have never had the relationship I have with Shan. The majority of the last decade of my life would be... different. And I can't imagine how it would have been for the better. It seemed like so many of us came to the S3 less than "whole." Or we were in a troubled portion of our lives. I know many others' stories, but that is for them to tell. Personally, I was in a really bad way emotionally. I was losing custody of my son to my ex-wife, sitting at home without a driver's license because of a DUI and was really feeling rather useless in nearly every aspect of my life. But then I met you guys. You all believed in me in a way that I hadn't believed in myself in a long time. You all believed in me and I wasn't going to let you down. And I threw myself into it harder than I had thrown myself into anything for a very, very long time. But, maybe that's why it worked. We all were looking for friendship and companionship and found that with other people that got us, because we all got Buffy and Angel and Firefly. It was our outlet to have fun, to be silly. But it was also a place we could have meaningful serious moments. The reason for all of the above was that there was a sense of trust. And with that trust and companionship, a sense of responsibility was fostered for so many of us. I really don't know where I am going with this. I guess I am jsut feeling nostalgic at 3 in the morning. I am as flummoxed as you guys are. I don't know that we will ever see the likes of the S3 in it's glory day again. It could have been lightning in a bottle. FB and the assorted social media sites have stripped away some of it's place for many. I do know that even with my long, long absences, I'll never forget what it and my fellow S'cubies mean to me. Nor will I never not return, at least if only to say "Hi." Vlad, S'cubie Forever
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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 23, 2015 0:46:30 GMT -5
<snip> I wish we could get this board going again, but with the proliferation of other social media like FB and Twitter and such, I'm not sure we could make it happen, even if "another Buffy" type show got everyone interested on that level.
Sometimes I wonder what Patti would have done, if she had been with us all these years . . . what she might have come up with, to keep the board going.
Buffy, Angel and Firefly were unique phenomena. Right time, right place, right people. The S3 is much the same. If it hadn't been for that particular mix of characters (right people) showing up at ScoopMe (right place) and ScoopMe deciding to shut down it's doors with the ending of Buffy (right time), then our worlds would have been very, very different. If that initial group of folks from there hadn't shown up, what would have happened? So true. I will always be glad I decided to "take the plunge" after lurking for so long on ScoopMe, and post some comments - I think it was about the S7 Ep, "Him." I quickly joined ScoopMe and made up the name "Spring Summers," on the fly. What was amusing was that some of the more "sourpuss" types on there made some comments, like "yeah, right, your name is 'Spring Summers!,' " as if I was really trying to pass it off as my RL name. But then, there was a lot of amusing stuff going on, on ScoopMe.
What was the name of that one guy that was always so snooty and trying to get the goat of Spike fans . . . Conner? Conrad? Colton? Anyhow, it was a good thing we got so much grief, because that is what made Alexandra start the special Spike threads.
Patti was THE BEST. She could not have been a more perfect fit for the S3, and vice versa. I was so looking forward to meeting her in Chicago; what a kick in the gut losing her was. And what a testament to the work she had done on the site, that we kept going without her. Patti and I were once emailing about something we were doing on the site; I can't remember what. It must have involved you in some way, because for some reason lost in the windmills of my mind, I made some silly joke about you, something like, maybe you were "really a 12 yr old working from his parent's basement" or some such thing. I was just being silly, but Patti surprised me by answering very seriously, saying that you were having a challenging time, and it was confidential so she wasn't going to say anything more. I was kind of flabbergasted because I hadn't meant to pry or get into anything serious, and said I had just been kidding, thought you were doing a great job.
I can no longer remember exact phrasings or anything, but the reason I remember it at all, is because I could tell from that, how much she cared for you.
Yes, the S3 was a place I could come to relax, have fun, be silly, and be serious. It was a way to do that without the stress of trying make equivalent friendships in "Real Life," where I was dealing with my son's schizophrenia diagnosis. and my Mom's Parkinson's diagnosis, and lots of crazy at work, and breaking up with the bf.
Even the craziest moments, with people stomping off the board and what-not, had a quality of fun in them for me. The remaining S'cubies always had a way of turning things around and making me laugh with their comments, no matter what was going on.
I can still remember that day that we got "invaded" by the folks at that Angel-site, mostly attacking you and me. I can hardly remember any of the nasty, what I remember most clearly is Rob popping in toward the end of it all, with some comment like "So, how's it going today? Anything going on?" deliberately pretending not to have noticed all the crazy back-and-forth, and how that just made me burst out laughing. But of course, Rob was #1 when it came to the funny. And wasn't he the one with the life-saving penis, as well? That was certainly a plus, for the board.
I guess it is unlikely that lightning can strike twice, but I am glad I was here for that first sizzling bolt.
For me, writing the analyses was so fun and cathartic especially, and I definitely thank you and Patti and many other S'cubies for the encouragement there. I had all these thoughts just bubbling inside me, with no where to go, no way to truly share them. I mean, no one around me really cared about how I noticed that Buffy and Spike both had red-marks on their cheeks, during "School Hard." Posting on ScoopMe only went so far. And then writing the fanfic, and then the purposely fun-silly reviews for Smallville . . . really great experiences for me, to get my confidence up about my abilities and writing.
Anyhow, yep . . . S'cubie Forever.
Glad you stopped by!
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Feb 23, 2015 18:31:09 GMT -5
the flat plan went splat a deadline happened and now the paperwork has to be started over in the new financial year. :-( So it can still happen, it will just take more time? Or does this mean you might miss out? that is indeed the question. ... apparently a bunch of people have got to talk to a bunch of other people, and as even just the first step it would require the vendor to promise not to sell it to anyone else, even though the earliest this new version of the plan might work by is July. Plus the funding might be refused this time around, you never know.
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Post by Sue on Feb 25, 2015 10:53:47 GMT -5
Man, some Deep Thoughts. (seriously, not mocking).
I'll try to be back more (and maybe try to dredge up some old posts for fun).
I'm all good. Actually was iced in all last week so should have been here more but used the time to weed through a ton of old paperwork. Now we are headed for a short vaca to San Antonion -- which, like everywhere is having severely unlikely cold weather -- but still better than Nashville.
See y'all next week.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 26, 2015 11:22:54 GMT -5
Perhaps it's not us and it's not Buffy that have declined. Perhaps it's just because we're using a method that is becoming obsolete. I say this because there is a living, thriving Buffy page on Facebook. It seems that a new generation has discovered the Scoobies, Slayers and just how awesome Spike's cheekbones really were. Many are not much above the "Spike's hot and u r dum" level of posting, but some are trying their best to make a real study of the show in all its awesomeness. There's a whole new crop of fans who are asking themselves "WWBD?" Check it out: www.facebook.com/groups/2204367513/?ref=bookmarksNo, they're not us--but then we weren't always US either. Once we were part of ScoopMe. Then we had to break away because ScoopMe grew too polar and then declined and died. I'm not talking about disbanding (heaven forfend!) but rather re-connecting--re-invigorating. An awful lot of inactive Scubies are out there, too. I hesitate to suggest, but maybe we ought to think about just moving house?
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