Where ya going, Glitter?

[caropop]

We also have less "serious" threads because there are so many more internet resources available now that focus more exclusively on those topics than there used to be. We have other places we can go to talk about feminism and sociology, etc, that are, I don't know, maybe more academic, more focused on those topics? So it just doesn't come up as much here because we glitter doesn't have to fulfill the same need as it used to when there were less of those other places. So it is more about us and our lives then about the world happening outside.

And I think one big thing to point to that is the lack of any discussion here of all the attacks on women's rights and women's health by our politicians. It's certainly not that we don't care, but we have other outlets to express our thoughts on that.
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[SlipperyShade]

[pinkie]

Are you planning on sticking around?
Oh heck yeah, I am, I wanna be 90 and checking in with this amazing community I found in my very early 20's. I wanna watch everybody change, see where we all go,

Is there some deal-breaker that would make you quit g* for good?
Not likely. I'm unoffendable.

Do you gather with glitteratti elsewhere?
Inky is sitting next to me right now, also looking at the yellow screen (apparently there's an awesome thread on parenting I need to look at) (btw she is such a bitch) I've hosted part of a glittercon, know most of the SF ladies and have meet up with the Knitty/LadyJane/Baby Maggie crew in Chicago. I'm fb friends with 50-something of you.

Do you feel g* has had its run and its on its way out?
Ugh, I think it's half that we're all old and busy and have partners and babies and half that glitter isn't an app on my phone. Lazy and busy, the downfall of all communities.

Did you, like me, not even realize that the end is nigh.
I knew it had slowed down. But dead? I think it might get smaller, those of us that are lifers will be here, those looking to get banned spectacularly will not be.

Do you have another community (online or IRL) that will (or already has) replaced g*.
Nope.

Will my marble magnets become a collectors item when g* is no more?
Not because G is gone, but because those are awesome magnets.
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[smokingmonkey]

[puck]

pssh, i'm not going anywhere.

my glittering ebbs and flows, often with drama (i tend to avoid it the best i can, a lot of the time), but i love the glitters so much.

i spend most of my glitter time constrained to the chartreuse board, because i can't do the username-to-real-name/other-pseudonym thing in my head, and i just get confused. i think i'm on the glitter rav group, but that's it - i don't like having folks i don't know as my facebook friends, and i just get... confused. when i don't remember who people are.

so i'm here. and sometimes i'm not. but i'm here mostly, reading if not posting.
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(rawr!)

[caropop]

[smokingmonkey]

[crookedtree]

This is a sort of jumbled, stream of consciousness post...

[LooseyMama]

Goddamnit, I was just writing a lovely, long-ass litany of so many people who've posted in this thread who I love so much, and then I accidentally pushed Command-Q (to quit!) instead of Command-A to select all and start re-reading it from the top to see what I needed to add! And now I've got to wrangle my boys to bedtime (they've been stretching bedtime wayyyy late lately and I need to nip this in the bud!), and then I owe my freelance client a good three hours' writing tonight, so the chances of my being able to reconstruct it tonight are pretty damned slim.

Suffice it to say that I lovve this place because I love so many of you who've inhabited it for so long with me AND because I'm thrilled to death with a few of you who're new enough that I have no picture in my head of what you look like, but who I really, really want to get to know as well as I know my other favorites.

I'm going to put this laptop down nowo and take care of my responsibilities, then I'll try to come back and write more ... maybe tomorrow.

But hell no, I'm not going away, and like ... Aliwa, was it? ... the recent brouhaha actually makes me want to post *more* rather than disappear. And I'm so, so glad to have read five pages tonight of others saying more or less the same thing.

{{{{{{{big, booby-squishing hugs to all of you}}}}}}}
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[pinkie]

[pinkie]

[LooseyMama]

Pinkie, you KNOW I was thinking of you and your boobies, particularly! ;)
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[underage_elf]

[shortskirt]

Pinkie for president!

Also, I'd like to add to marble magnets: t-shirt undies, knitted neckers, beef showers, fetching wrist warmers, punk rock quilting, Sublime Stitching, ATCs, and breaking all the rules with our bare hands.

[IrmaVep]

Do we need an "Introduce yourself here!" Sticky thread on La Vida? Would that make it a little more welcoming to new posters maybe? I know a few other sites I've been to have that.

Also, in addition to everything else pinkie has done for our community, she made me blue cheese scones. I will NEVER EVER forget those scones (I think I ate most of everyone else's share too).