TTCoBS: Slide-it-Yourself

Date: 08/23/2001
From: Brand_S

The True Confessions of Brand_S

Slide-it-Yourself

Later on in the summer of 1999, I republished a second edition of "A Very Long Sliders Rant." This one was even longer (a fuck of a lot longer; I still can't believe I ever had that much free time on my hands). I named the names of all the people I considered friends. One of them was TemporalFlux. So all the problems I ever had with him went up in smoke, for which I'm extremely grateful. If I'd never patched things up with him, it probably would have driven me up the wall by now. With that post, I also made two other friends. At the time, they were known as sleepingtiger and Le_Monde. Now, they're Tigs and Le_Modus, respectively.

· Tigs
Although we didn't become very good friends for a long time, I've always had a high opinion of Tigs. I think she's a warm, caring person; she has no idea what the hell I'm talking about. But nevertheless I think she's extremely nice and I'm very, very proud to be able to call her a friend. I can't even count the number of times I've been able to go to her and get some much-needed support. When you're as unstable as I am, you need someone to keep you from going off the fucking deep end.

· Le_Modus
I always envied Le_Modus. His intelligence is obvious in his writings. Me, I have to use lots of rhetoric just to convince people that I know jack shit. He successfully mixes the intelligence of an Ivy Leaguer with the mouth of a sailor. (He's as proudly foul-mouthed as I am; fuckin' A!) Le_Modus is an encyclopedia of classic literature. That's another area where I envy him. He has all these long-ass books under his belt. I just have "Les Misérables" and a few others. However, reading the aforementioned book is one of the most life-changing, perception-altering things I have ever experienced. I can't say enough about it. EVERYONE should read that book, and if you settle for an abridged version, I'll kill ya!

So now that the two of us were friends, it came time for me to defend him. Thus came that idiotic Slide-it-Yourself tourney.

The final results of that frickin' tournament can still be viewed at http://www.scifi.com/sliders/ . It was over before it started. You don't start a contest for episode writing on a message board crammed with fanfic writers, then pick some of the last ideas that would ever actually become episodes. It doesn't help that the judges were two Doofy clones. ("Don't bother me while I'm cleaning my room!!!") SpaceTime's and TemporalFlux's respective outrages as this are well documented. When webslider received credit for TemporalFlux's idea, I fired off one of my most brutal flames at webslider. Nobody ever heard from him again.

Also involved in Slide-it-Yourself were Blinker, Yeontoo, and JorgeCis. Through chats and other correspondence, Blinker and I hit it off almost immediately. Yeontoo talked to me after I attacked a spammer and her niceness blew me away; we became very good friends. JorgeCis I didn't really notice until the first big RK Weiss chat; after which, I became friends with him too.

· Blinker
For a long time, Blinker was one of my biggest fans. That everyone considers him one hilarious motherfucker doesn't hurt, either. And he IS extremely funny. It's the stuff he wrote that was part of what motivated me to write my own continuation of "Sliders." BUT... in the last few months my standing with him has been in a state of flux. I know he was pissed at me for attacking Mychand, and it gets on my nerves that, although I asked, he still hasn't given me any word on whether or not I'm forgiven in his eyes.

· Yeontoo
There's a very well-kept secret that many learn in community college... For adolescent guys, the best people to befriend are older women (provided they aren't family, in which case they're actually the worst). They're nice, friendly, supportive, enthusiastic, helpful, interesting, genuinely interestED, and they have the unique trait of being able to find the good in anyone (and people at my last job judge me because I flirted with a single mother; those uncultured swine). I always considered it a blessing that Yeontoo and I always gravitated towards each other. Now you know why. For a long time, Yeontoo was my best online friend. She's also the reason I would end up befriending SpaceTime. Although I don't talk to her often enough now (and watching my f------ language in her presence can be really frustrating sometimes; f-----' A again!), I'm very glad she's still around. And I don't give a f--- what religion you are; Yeontoo is GOING to HEAVEN, and that is THAT!

· JorgeCis
JORGIE! Jorge and I have a lot more in common than meets the eye. We both approach women the same way (and with the same amount of success, which is somewhere around none) and we both have pretty much all the same friends in the Sliders community. We would both rather have normal American names. Oh, and I also look like him. I just wish we got to talk more often, but he has that friggin' Ivy League university (which I don't have the money for; out of state fees = a bitch that won't quit) and I have... living... with my parents... God help me. Ah, well. At least I can still try to convince high school chicks to call me "Daddy"...

My involvement with Slide-it-Yourself dwindled once I realized that virtually all the other competitors could kiss my tan ass. I just wish it didn't turn into such a big debacle, but it was where I first met SpaceTime. My initial opinion of him wasn't the highest in the world. His anti-SiY ramblings sounded like whining to my ears, and he did invent the advent of flaming new people, which to me was more scary than anything else. But I left it to buffyboy to slug it out with him. Not my problem. Besides, if buffyboy's supposed "Annoying Energies" could be directed in a non-Brand_S direction, more power to the little ragamuffin.

Oh, the guilt! <hand to forehead>

Date: 08/23/2001
From: LiquidSunshine

Now I feel sorta bad for being a smartass on your little "Shameless" post.

It was just one of those...reply to your emails dammit.

And I was bored. You can't blame a bored onliner...

Well, you can to a point.

But reading all that warm/fuzzy Tigs stuff...

Oh, the pangs of guilt.

Are you ever going to download AIM? Email? I'm so offended.

I just had a thought. Shut up! It happens. What if you don't know it's me????

Naw, you know who I am.

So, what's with all this? Purpose? Point?

You aren't gonna bail. Are you?

LiquidSunshine -- A Tigs by any other name isn't quite the same (or quite as sane).

Don't worry about it.

Date: 08/23/2001
From: Blinker

I forgave you.

As LS can attest, I always get pretty awkward when my opinion is considered to actually mean something.

- Blinker 7:-I
http://slidersweb.net/blinker

Ain't catharsis grand?

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