Introductions - Please Introduce Yourself HERE!

[Laragh]

Hi Bekky!

[Aly070]

Hey im Aly, im a 22 year old college student, graduating this yr w/ a BA in English living in Rhode Island... new to the site and i hope to figure out al the boards and whatnot and yeah... wicked stoked to have found this site!

[Laragh]

Hi Aly! You'll fit in here with a name like that!

[Aly070]

thanks lol we share the same name yet different spelling- oh btw went and saw American Reunion last night w/my gf, we swooned when aly was on screen lol

[Finey_McFine]

Hi Aly!!

Welcome to the board! Hope to see you around:)



~Shelby

[mudbloodonherarms]

Hola Aly

Welcome!!!!

[Big_Pineapple]

Hi. I'm a bit unfamiliar with forum etiquette, but I assume it's polite to do introductions before anything else.

So, hi. I'm Kay, and after lurking for about a year, I decided I wanted to encourage the writers whose work I enjoy reading here, and also, since I have a school break and a thought-out idea, to start posting a story of my own. I like to use Willow/Tara fan fiction to practice writing techniques. And then, I care about the characters.

I'm going to go post a story chapter now. It's nice to be here and meet you all.

[Finey_McFine]

Hi Kay!

Welcome to de-lurkesville!

Hope to see you around!

~Shelby

[Laragh]

Howdy Kay!

[Festive1]

Hello, I am a Festive1,....just ask anybody who comes into contact with me! I have been lurking on the board since around 2001, posted a few times but ALWAYS enjoyed and continue to enjoy the tremendous writing talents of all the regular posters. Hi all!

[Azirahael]

Welcome Festive1!

Glad you delurked!



I hope you like smileys!

[RoyoNobus]

Hi, I'm J.J. (not my legal name but the one i'd like to go by)
The most important thing to know about me is that i am incredibly nervous about joining the kittenboard. i've been checking it out for a while and absolutely fell in love with the site. i figured it was time to suck it up and join this wonderful community. i am a native of fanfic.net and got turned on to this site by another frequenter of that one (special thanks to Finey McFine, i owe you). even when im feeling down the love that willow and tara share always manage to pick me right back up and since Joss seems to hate my happiness i read fanfic. luckily, some authors can write as well (or better) than the writers on the show and i am so grateful that they all seem to have found this site. anyway since im so new, if i do anything really embarassing or against kitten standards someone should really let me know cuz i want nothing more than to be a part of this wonderful community. thanks to all y'all for being awesome

[Azirahael]

Hi-de-hi J.J!

Welcome to the board!

Yup, that's why i'm here, i like the happiness.

So here is a friendly smooch
And a rose for you

[Finey_McFine]

Hey J.J.!!! Big Welcome and lot's of {{{{hugs}}}}

You signed up...woo hoo!! There is no reason to be nervous, the KB is the happiest place on earth:) Anyway, I'm glad you took the plunge and registered. Plus, as an added bonus, you can catch up on Racing...since I'm about 30 or so chapters ahead over here.

Glad to see you on the board!!

~Shelby

[maudlin]

I'm Cat, I'm 22, & I've been lurking for a wee bit & decided to join since you all seemed lovely & I enjoy so many of the fics here

[Laragh]

Hi Festive, J.J. (love the name!) and Cat! Welcome to our little community

[Tenlia]

Hi!! I am Kris...I am a huge BtVS and of course Willow & Tara fan. I was lucky enough to find a way to include them as part of my Master's thesis even. I'm excited to be part of this community.

[Laragh]

Hi Kris! Welcome to the KB!

[Legolise]

So, I was a little shocked to see that I have been here for almost a year now and haven't even introduced myself properly, what a shame. Well, here it goes:

My name is Lisa, 20 years old, and I am currently studying English and German to become a teacher. I first came in touch with fanfiction when I was around 13 years old (Lord of the Rings having been my main fandom back then, my nickname is a mixture of Legolas and my name) but somehow stopped when I was about 15, mainly because I was starting to get annoyed by all the bad fanfiction out there (I used to beta for the rather hopeless cases though, which has probably influenced my opinion). Then at the beginning of last year I watched my first episode of Buffy (while graduating, bad idea) and it somehow brought me back. And I just can't believe it's already been a year, after all I hadn't thought I would ever seriously start reading fanfiction again. And I really have to start leaving more feedback, I have been bad.

[T.G.I.F.]

Oeh I like introductions. I was bored so I wrote a long one. So If people still have questions after my story, you can't!

Kidding, ofcourse you can, I'm open to everything. Just ask away. I've been wandering around here for a while now. Actually since the beginning, but I'm a secret reader. So now after more than ten years, I've deciced is was time for a registration.
Nothing difficult about the name, I just like friday's.

So, let's take of

Is happiness the key of life? Should it be? Is it the golden rule of life to wake up every morning with a smile on my face to reassure that my life is perfect? I hate perfection. And I also hate to jinx things, so when I do say that my life is perfect I am sure something really bad is going to happen. I get hit by a piano on my way to work, or my landlord calls that the building burned down, something like that. So I settle for a 7, calculated by the fact that I am happy seven out of ten days, wich I think makes a excellent grade for my, self proclaimed, mediocre life.

I am a 29 year old woman and I’m on the verge of a breakdown, no, just kidding. I’m still a student, I’m a late one. Not to confuse with a lazy one. I’m starting my thirth course in september, for I worked most of my years after graduation. I descided I wanted more out of life then stacking shelfs and filled in an application for the communication program at college and I got in, after a big and difficult test. Okay, okay, it wasn’t that hard. But after a struggling relationship between me and my assignments I came to the conclussion that it didn’t work out. But I did manage to get my propaedeutic degree, so that’s worth something. So that was my first course. After that I had the insane idea that teaching geography could be my thing, bit there wasn’t a poorer match in the world then that.

Oh I forgot to mention, I'm dutch. Really dutch because I eat Gouda cheese, I own two bicycles, both flat tired though. But I do not smook weed! Weed is bad. Beer is good! I have one sister, who is 26 and a brother who is turning twenty and he lives with my mom. My parents are divorced and my mom got re-married and my stephdad is the best. I haven't spoken to my own dad in a couple of months.

I’ve been working part time at the movie theatre for the last four months or so. And no, I am not the happy person who sells you you’re slurpy or popcorn. No! Three mornings a week, I clean all the garbage people leave while enjoying their delight evening of fun and laughter, or angst and terror. It’s not a dream job, but it pays the bills and it gets me into the movies for free.

I have roommates, well, not actually roommates because we all have our own livingroom and bedroom. But we do share the bathrooms (3!), toilets and kitchen. Wich are rooms right? So they are indeed my roommates. But they are the worse, they never clean the toilets or the bathroom, that is on my expense. They do stand in line to get it dirty again, so it really is a bottemless pit. But hey, I like to rest my buttocks on a clean and fresh toilet seat. So I just keep doing it over and over again, just for my own sensation. But the kitchen is really clean.

Creativity, I have it, but I don’t know how to express it most of the time. I’m writing a book, that is working really well. It’s just an escape route to my weird, creepy and sometimes strange humorous thoughts and fantasies. But sometimes I just like to draw something, and lately I have the tendency to paint, but I just don’t have the space. There are three art studio’s in the building where I live and everyday I walk by them and I see the paint just laying on tables and palettes, waiting to make their way on the canvas. I just stand there for a while and wonder what my hands would create with it. But honestly I don’t think I am good enough, or ever will be. One of my bests friends is an artist, I admire her. To find the freedom of your mind and mix them with your own inspiration and just give them form, give them life, make them solid but yet fluid. Un vrai artiste. Maybe it’s the same thing I do when I create a whole new world in my stories and books, but it feels so more shallow. People create a world when they read your stories but it’s never the world you want them to see. But then again, that’s what I like about reading. Getting lost in a world that I’ve created by myself build with the words of others.

But one day I would like people to see the worlds that I’ve created, like I wanted them to be. Just to be shown on a screen. That’s the way to give stories substance, reading is like a way of thinking, but movies are just shown to you. You don’t have to make it into anything else, it’s already there. So that’s why I decided to assign to another course, with intention to finish. The sciense of movie, televison and theatre. I’m siked about it, but in the mean time I have never had so much nerves about anything. Okay, maybe for a first date. But I’m not really a date queen. I’ve dated a couple of times, but I’m just not relation stuff I guess. Although I only had two serious relationships and some flings, I do know what I want.

It’s not about money, power or looks. It’s about being completely on the same level with someone. But over the years I just adjusted to doing things on my own, because it is hard to find somebody who connects with you on that same level. In creativity and in love. But I still think my life is worth a seven, and now that I have wrote this, sometimes it’s an eight!

Oh nice to meet you guys by the way!

[Laragh]

'Hello' seems vastly insignificant after that...but Hello! Welcome to the KB! I hope this place might be able to help or be a place you can let out that creativity!

Looking forward to seeing you around

[T.G.I.F.]

Thanks! I never wrote fan fiction before, so maybe one day I will give it a try.

Oh and I totally discovered that I didn't mention my name anywhere in my story, it's Fallon. And thanks for the welcome!

[Azirahael]

Hi Friday!

Welcome to the board!
Normally at this point i'd tell you it's a place filled with snuggles, but you've been here waaay longer than i have, so you probably know that better than me

And WOW! best intro ever!
I have no more questions i could ask!

But it's still a pleasure to meet you



Welcome home.

Richard

[T.G.I.F.]

To be honest I'm not here for the fanfic. I am a secret snuggles lover, that's why I'm really here for

[Azirahael]

Wow really?
you should really look over the stories, they are awesome!

R

[T.G.I.F.]

Got ya hahaha, I think I read almost everything. Except for new updates ofcourse.

[Ariel]

Hi Fallon!

I've dreamed about visiting Holland . . . definitely on my list! Love the stories, but the hugs and love are the best!

You're utterly, completely welcome as an old time new member!

Ariel

[T.G.I.F.]

Thanks!

Hm, before you come to the Netherlands, let me tell you this; Amsterdam is totally overrated, there are much nicer and beautiful places to see here

[sova]

Hey,

I've totally missed this thread. I'm so rude. :/

So, my name's Soňa (or Sonia, 'cause ň is a weird letter for you) and I'm 16 year old student. I'm from Slovakia; we kicked ass' in ice-hockey WC this year.

I had been lurking here for maybe 6 months, reading stories and they kind of awakened my writing muscles. Right now I have one big idea, but I decided to start with some simple plot. Since I noticed this is one AWESOME community I was really tempted to not only put W/T's characters into my story, but also to start writing in English. And that was exactly what I did. I have to say I was a bit terrified in the beginning. And I still am. I've always been writing stuff, but only like short texts and poems, so this is my first serious and long project and I really hope I'll overcome my rather unsteady personality and finish it. And the language thing is also really scary, but I think that I'm getting into it more and more with each sentence, but my story would be a total grammar-crap without ExtraFlamey, so really big THANKS to him.

Since we are discussing countries... I'm a big sucker for North Europe countries - especially Finland. It's my dream place to live. And it looks like I'll finally be able to get into Helsinki this holidays and that's just... WOW. But I actually can't decide what country is more cool - Finland or Nederlands... Hm.

So, thank you for your fb on my story and I'm sorry I hadn't introduced myself before. :/

@T.G.I.F. - I have a friend, her name is Tara and she's a half Nederlandse! She taught me a children song that went like this "Een, twee, drie, vier, heodje van papier.." and a song about a sheep: "Schaapje, schaapje, heb je witte wol? Ja baas, ja baas, drie zakken vol." But she also taught me some more than that and sometimes we were talking in dutch in front of other people and then laugh, because they were usually really freaked. She has recently returned from her visit to her family in Amsterdam. And this is interesting; she lives in Slovakia, her mother is from Holland (her name's Elkien - those are really strange names you have in Nederlands, you know?) and she had actually met queen Beatrix. Here. In Slovakia. In some god-forsaken village, maybe 5 years ago? I think it's in some newspapers but isn't it funny?

[T.G.I.F.]

@sova

I know these songs! And the Netherlands is so much cooler than Finland. We have the best typical Dutch things:
- drop
- stroopwafels
- frikandel
- haring
- kroket
- gouda cheese
- and we are so going to win the Europian Soccer Championship this year!

But we really do have strange names here, I agree, and I am sooooo glad my parents decide to give me an English name.

And our queen is the coolest, she smokes and she doesn't even keep it a secret. I think that's a nice attitude for a queen, though smoking is bad. But I mean, just act like you're a normal person. Not as stiff as the UK queen, damn she is really one of the old-fashioned manners.

Trix, work it girl!