In which I cough from all the dust that accumulated on my LJ

[caroline_shea]

Hello, internetz!

So I hadn't realized quite how AWOL I'd been until I saw that it was freaking November (whoops!), but in the interim there have been many exciting happenings at Chez Shea!: New city, new apartment, new job for me, new job for the spouse, new friends, new co-workers, new... well, new everything, really, which is nice - but a little

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[narie]

Moving is so hard! I've not jumped around as much as you have lately, but I understand completely; the lack of stability wears you down so much, whether you realise it or not, and you wake up one morning to discover that you don't actually have a home or a place you belong to. Tho I'm envious and impressed by your ability to be open with people about your online life - I can't imagine telling most of my friends about my super-sekrit fanfic habit because I think they'd either fail to understand it at all or just mock me!

[caroline_shea]

Hi, hon!

Ohmygosh, I couldn't possibly have phrased it better - it's like we're in each other's heads. It *does* wear you down and it *is* highly unsettling to feel so untethered. It's so nice to talk to someone who understands! <333

(And yeah, my friends totally DO mock me for my semi-sekrit fanfic habit, but in a loving "This is Caroline we're talking about; are we really surprised?" kind of way. :)

[narie]

Well this year I've moved from the UK to San Diego and three months later to Chicago, so moving is to blame for most of my woes right now, I think - I've taken to fostering cats to stave off the loneliness, because it takes forever to settle in a new place, make friends and get your stability back. So yeah, I totally understand! <333

I don't know where I'd begin having the fanfic conversation - some friends know and write fic themselves, but my new batch of friends, we'll see if I ever tell them. It's habit by now to hide it!

[blue_peridot]

YOU'RE BAAAAAAAAAAACCKKK! YAAAAAY! *welcomes enthusuastically* i'm looking forward to whatever you might write, though i might skim the angst. you know, i actually don't think i've seen any seb/dave fics so far, though i do mostly just stick to klaine. quick, write it fast so you'll be the first! lol. and i'm looking forward to that fluffy oneshot

[caroline_shea]

Hi, sweetheart! :)

I need to throw out there that I am SO sorry I still haven't replied to your comments on my BigBang story. (See above, re: weird, semi-depressed funk) But please rest assured that I bawled my eyes out over how beautiful they were, and they meant SO much to me - like, you wouldn't believe how much.

And geez, I'm with you on the Finn/Schue weirdness. It's so weird that Finn's discussing his sex life with a teacher, but it's just *especially* weird that it's Schue. And yes, I'm *pining* for Kurt and Rachel to make up and discuss their respective love lives. It's kind of appropriately cyclical, too, considering that Kurt (at one point) was into Finn and that Rachel (at one point) was into Blaine.

You *totally* encouraged combustion with mentions of TEH SEXYTIMES, but... well, I think pretty much the whole fandom is ready to implode/explode at a moment's notice, so no harm done. :)

[blue_peridot]

hey dear! haha, thanks for letting me know! i was wondering if you hadn't seen them of if my commenting time had been wasted or something but it's nice to know you've read and appreciated them. i'm so glad they meant that to you. i actually haven't read the rest of that fic yet, so i'll probably need to reread the first chapter when i revisit it. it's sitting in my tabs, just waiting for a day when i want to sit and be awed all over again. that's a fic that needs time to settle, you know? for want of a better word, to digest. process! i'll need time for that- it's a weighty fic. i'm looking forward to that day

[lola_mejor]

I hear ya on feeling untethered through moving... i've lived in four cities (out of three different countries) in the past 5 years, and friends/family are similarly mobile. It's odd, and I don't get the time to try to make my current location home because, in all likelihood, i'm moving on again in about 10 months' time!

Words will come to you I'm sure, and I'll eagerly read them.

(and I'll pine enviously at the fact that the people close around you know about and support the whole fanfic thing... I can't even fathom the mockery if I told them)

Welcome back!

[caroline_shea]

Hello, dear!

Goodness, I can't even fathom what it would be like to move internationally - I've found it hard enough to move from state to state! It's so nice to talk to people who get it; it really is so disorienting. :/

(And my friends absolutely mock me, but it's in a fairly loving way. Writing fanfic isn't even CLOSE to the weirdest thing I do, and they're all used to my shenanigans by now. :)

[colfer]

GOONIES AU. I'M SAYIN. WE SHOULD TALK.

[whenidance]

I WOULD APPROVE OF THIS SO HARD. *PUSH PUSH*

[caroline_shea]

YES, YES! I'M WATCHING THE GOONIES TONIGHT (since it's been at least a year since I've seen it) AND I AM TAKING COPIOUS NOTES THAT WILL HOPEFULLY PROVE USEFUL TO US. THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME. <333

[caroline_shea]

Hi, Jude! :)

It's bizarre how I end up having so much in common with people I've never met face-to-face. It makes me feel so much better that I'm not the only one who feels weirdly untethered. And yeah, aside from freaking out about writing and posting porn, it WAS just nice not to have anyone know who I was... but c'est la vie, I suppose.

And clearly we SHOULD talk because *I* need to reach out to awesome people more and *YOU* are awesome (as I have deduced from stalking your tumblr). And gay porn and kittens is just asdjrfkalgw!!! I'm pretty sure those two things could revolutionize modern therapy as we know it, and I will *happily* partake. <333