Thank you

I just wanted to thank the people who still read and comment on my blog. I think there are about 6 folks left who read it, and I'm not being at all facetious - I really appreciate each one of you for doing so.

For whatever reason, lately LJ's demise in popularity has really been bothering me even though LJ has been dwindling for quite some time. But even has recently as 2011 when I was really into X-men First Class, the X-men comms on LJ were buzzing; it was still a very active place.

I miss LJ being active. For my fandom now, there's good activity on FB, Tumblr, and Reddit and I've learned to appreciate those mediums for what they are and be glad they exist. But LJ was/is special. None of the above places let you combine fangirling with personal blogging and you can't get as in-depth anywhere else either. LJ has its flaws but I've also had so many good interactions and discussions here over the years.

Definitely I plan to stick with LJ as long as one or two others who I like are posting and one or two others are reading my LJ. I do seriously mourn its loss of popularity, and that's why I want to thank anyone who is reading this or even glancing at it.

Fangirl moment

I got another message on FB from Sharon Needles!

I'd sent him and Alaska some vegetarian cookbooks as a gift. (Since they are vegetarians. I included the official cookbook put out by the veg restaurant where I met them at. I also included a copy of the blurry camera phone pic I took of Sharon and Alaska that afternoon, and photocopies of my favorite soup recipes since I know they both like soup a lot. And I made sure that the cookbooks all had lots of soup recipes.). I reminded myself that you don't give a gift in order to get a thank you and that I know lots of fans send them stuff - but I did hope for an acknowledgement, as wrong as that may be. So anyway, Sharon had mentioned that he was sick, and I posted on his FB that I hope he feels better soon. Yesterday he 'liked' my comment, and today he replied to it saying that he was still sick but "getting better with all these amazing soup ideas!!"

Yay!! This is the third contact I've had with Sharon on FB, and it's so nice of him to take some time to do that. It's really awesome.

I'd love to have some contact with Alaska but he doesn't use FB much. He tweets more, and I've tweeted at him a few times with no reply, but that's ok. He was super-sweet both times I met him in person.