TTCoBS: REAL Leave #1

Date: 08/23/2001
From: Brand_S

The True Confessions of Brand_S

REAL Leave #1

Now, during the Joke, I was in that limbo with Space that was between him attacking me and me writing the Dominion War. Not having really followed the politics between the old-timers (of which Space was still part then) up to that point, when all of them suddenly got mad at him, the only real happiness I felt was in knowing that, although I wasn't going to start a flame war with him, some moron would. He wasn't my favorite person at the time, but I've always thought he writes really good flames.

For me, a "Sliders" movie has always been like... "Meh." Maybe there are others here who care. For me, it's just another reason to go to the theater. (That I know a projectionist there who is the brother of a girl whom I spent a year trying to get in the pants of kinda factors into it too.) It's a TV show; it's not my life. It would be really really nice, but it won't ever happen. If it did, Tracy Tormé would not in a million years support it. So when SpaceTime said that he was posing as RK Weiss the whole time, my response was, "Why do all of you people care?" Initially, I was still foaming at the mouth from his flames, but there were plenty of people there who would make a big deal out of the large nothing that it was. I realized this as my mild annoyance gave way to indifference. If they take this shit seriously, fuck 'em.

It wasn't until the message board became flooded with "i hate SpaceTime y dont u/1" that I just got fed up. There's no fun in visiting a message board if everyone there is fixated on the one person they hate most. So, for most of January of 2000, it was lurking only for me. The only time I said anything was the first annual TemporalFlux Day. The only person who really cared that I wasn't active there was DoctorQuinn.

· DoctorQuinn
Even for a "Medicine Woman," DoctorQuinn's support has blown me away. Of all the people who have read my writings, she was the most supportive. She has responded to easily 90% of them. She IS the reason I have kept writing up to this point. I've thanked and thanked and thanked her, and her only response is a self-effacing, "Thank YOU for writing!" How awesome is that?

I returned in February, just in time for the premier of "The Seer."

It was a whole day full of morons. One of the people there was 3king3, whom I'd flamed a while back for being such a dumbass. He took such offense to that that he sent me two anonymous e-mails over the following months that said shit about me blowing goats. "Dear Brand_S, You blow goats." That was it. Can I help it if I was punishing him? Being a moron is a serious offense!

Another was QBall3, a guy I flamed for making no effort to improve his grammar. People who don't try to better themselves should be shot. They're the ones who leech off the economy and make gas cost fucking $1.98 (and the 9 mills) per gallon.

Another was Brier_Rose, the only moron ever to support sliderfanone's low-IQ crusade against me. It brought from me many good laughs, so I can't complain.

All of this, however, gave me the fuel for the project I'd started working on. If nobody cared about Life on the Slide, I needed to try something else. I had a special story in mind. It was based off one of the pitches that HunterD_Raven submitted to Slide-it-Yourself. For me, it was just another fanfic. For the message board, it was the beginning of the biggest change it had ever undergone (and probably ever will undergo).

o/` No need to BE alone...

Date: 08/23/2001
From: Blinker

> Being a moron is
> a serious offense!

No; actually, being a jerk is. Of course, it's only because Exec was both that he could be despised so universally.

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

o/` It's Real Leave, it's real...
Yes, it's Real Leave, it's real... o/`

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