freshers' fair
Oct. 7th, 2004 06:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneok, so my heart *did* leap when i saw the LGBT stall. and i felt bad immediately, because i know how ridiculous it is to feel a sense of 'belonging' with all non-heterosexual people. but then the two behind the stall beamed at me and i just wanted to give them a great big hug! because, however wrong it is, the thing i have been missing about home the most is just the sexual diversity of everybody. i need to identify as queer and, i am beginning to think, i need to socialise with others who identify the same way. half the girls i talk to here have boyfriends back home. i'd got so used to being openly gay and all of a sudden everyone here is assuming i'm straight. and i am actually scared to put them right.
the girl behind the stall was wearing a rainbow flag as a cape. LGBT drinks on monday... do i dare turn up alone?
the girl behind the stall was wearing a rainbow flag as a cape. LGBT drinks on monday... do i dare turn up alone?
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Date: 2004-10-07 07:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-07 10:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-10 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-07 08:52 am (UTC)Good luck, all the best ect
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Date: 2004-10-07 09:15 am (UTC)There is a kind of "belonging" within every minority group, I think. Completely ridiculous but true. My friend who's immigrated to Sweden always mocks herself for wanting to embrace the non-Swedish society here, as well. So we're not alone. :)
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Date: 2004-10-07 09:49 am (UTC):D
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Date: 2004-10-07 10:14 am (UTC)You will go and wow them all with your spifossity.
Damn Oxford being further away than it should be. *sulks*
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Date: 2004-10-07 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-07 11:26 am (UTC)(waaaay too many exclamation marks in there...)
And next time I get into Oxford you can socialise with me ^_^
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Date: 2004-10-07 03:07 pm (UTC)(you know, i have the feeling that if people in my college weren't so dull i'd have broken out the ziggy-wig and the bowler hat and the purple top with the arwen-sleeves by now, and a rainbow-flag would be almost tame by comparison.)
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Date: 2004-10-08 01:21 am (UTC)Or maybe not, but people would notice you. That's always fun.
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Date: 2004-10-08 02:09 am (UTC)hmm. maybe i'll wear those boots today...
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Date: 2004-10-08 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-08 11:44 am (UTC)I too am a fresher at Oxford, and while I'm not joining the LGBT(Q) society, I am a ficcer. (Almost entirely slashfic.)
I am *starved* for some ficcy conversations! And I couldn't help but notice your icon, and then your ff.net website. So, I'm thinking, unless you're already inundated with fannish friends in the area . . . you wanna go for coffee?
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Date: 2004-10-08 05:11 pm (UTC)wanna meet sometime next week?
~emma
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Date: 2004-10-09 12:57 am (UTC)Maybe next weekend, or sometime in week 2? (Ooooh, and see if you can't find out more about the girl who writes 'porn about manga people'. **fun thought** We should start a fanfic meetup for Oxford.)
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Date: 2004-10-09 02:24 am (UTC)sure thing, whenever we're both free. :)
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Date: 2004-10-12 09:07 am (UTC)Guess what? I'm starting a fanfic society. (Actually, it's the "Folklore and Fanfiction Society", or "3F".)
Currently, including yourself, there are 3 members. That just means you can pick any officership position you want. **grin**
Our first meeting is on Sunday at 4pm at the Grand Cafe on High Street(high/cream tea) . . . assuming that's all right with you. This meeting will be a general "get to know you" and deciding on our activities/whatnot for the term.
See you this weekend,
Janine (Univ. college, short reddish hair, glasses, maybe I'll make a placard)
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Date: 2004-10-12 10:27 am (UTC)if it'll be a one-off, meeting on a sunday afternoon, then i figure i can plead a 'subsequent engagement' to the choir people.
do the officerships have silly names like 'captain of the ship' and suchlike?
*is fangirlishly excited*
~emma, who will undoubtedly be wearing something purple. and has a bag shaped like a guitar.
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Date: 2004-10-12 02:05 pm (UTC)I'm a modern history grad at Univ, more into reading fic than writing but I guess that counts? Also a London exile by the way...
cheers,
Rhian
Re: Sorry to jump in...
Date: 2004-10-12 02:29 pm (UTC)I'm friending you now. Mwahaha. You cannot stop me. **is a tad tired after sitting through her 8th hour of lecture for the day** (<--- don't tell me that I brought the last 2 hours upon myself voluntarily. I'm perfectly aware.)
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Date: 2004-10-12 02:36 pm (UTC)what's your fandom(s)?
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Date: 2004-10-12 02:27 pm (UTC)I picked Sunday this week b/c it was the first day I didn't have some crazy freshers week conflict. (Heck, earlier on Sunday, I *do* have a conflict!)
The Sunday "General Meeting" is going to be all fangirlish, as well as spent deciding what we're going to do with our society. (I figure that the "folklore" element gives it a modicum of respectability, so I'm going to be playing to that, among other things.)
Is Sunday this week a serious problem? We could shuffle it off to . . . errr . . . next Thursday if it is.
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Date: 2004-10-12 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-12 03:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-12 03:08 pm (UTC)meaning, if it is to be sunday, i may as well not go.
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:12 pm (UTC)