Etiquette?

[galadhir]

Is it okay to just slide into a complete stranger's DW over here and comment on their latest post as if you've known them for years? Or would a "hello, I hope you don't mind that I subscribed to you, I saw that we shared an interest in [whatever]" need to come first?

Comments

[duskpeterson]

(Happily does a quick web search.) Yup, I thought so - we were hanging out at LJ during the same time period. And since you say in the 2006 thread I found that you were writing m/m romance then, we were also hanging out in the m/m romance community during that same time period. Betcha our paths crossed. :)

This is just icing on the cake; I'd already started to sense we'd get along well. Would you care to move this conversation to email?

http://duskpeterson.com/#contact

[galadhir]

Ooh, thanks for the link! Your retrospective of the m/m romance scene looks fascinating! I wrote something similar myself in my Things Unseen: A Book of Queer Christian Witness because the whole writing slash fic and then writing m/m romance was a big part of both my realization that I was not straight and my wrestling with my religion. I'm definitely going to check out Pixel-Stained and see how you experienced the whole thing :)

I suppose it does make sense to take the chat off the public record! Part of the reason why I reverted to a fannish DW under a pseud was because blogging under my pen name felt so much like a public performance I ended up censoring myself into silence. I'll go and send you a short hello rn.

[duskpeterson]

Got your email and will reply to it! I thought I should say here, though, about Pixel-Stained: I should warn you that that volume is only about my first six months in the slash community.

[galadhir]

No problem! It's odd to be looking back on those days in retrospectives, but it's surprising how different the world is now than it was when I started writing slash. And how different I am! I thought I was straight at that point :)