teleen_fiction | A Quick Reminder For My New Friends

Since a few new people have friended me lately, I thought I should reiterate my friending policy, :). I'll only friend you back if you're over 18 or tell me that you're over 18 somewhere either in a comment here or via PM, AND if your journal has something in it. Actually, I'll friend back a mostly-blank journal as well if you just tell me that you want to read my private entries because you want to know me better, 'cause I'm just cool like that, ;). Don't be shy - I have no shame. Actually, that should be obvious - I have a blog! :)

One thing - I always see people apologizing for spamming their friend's lists - I'm never going to do that. Apologize, that is. Sometimes I might post ten times in one day. Other times I might not post for several days. I cross-posted The Perfect Storm to seventeen LJ communities and two archives by the end and if I ever get off my butt to do so, I'll be posting it to Archive Of Our Own and any other communities I find where I feel it fits. I realize that it goes against the unwritten rules of the internet to post so damn often and to cross-post to infinity and beyond and I have to say - I don't care. I cut long posts and warn for triggers and every mouse has a scroll function - if you don't care for how often I post, please don't friend me, :).

Why am I even bringing this up? Because I see a lot of people on my flist apologize for being 'spammy', so I felt the need to address it and to tell each and every one of you - spam away! If I don't want to read seventeen straight posts over two hours about your cat, I'll scroll past them, as I would expect you to do if I were posting about watching paint dry or any other subject matter that doesn't interest you. I also realize that there is probably some poor soul on my friends' list who has a dial-up connection who thinks that I'm being incredibly insensitive. Yep. I'm a terrible human being where this subject is concerned. I read the rules of communities where I post and don't post any more often to each one of them than they say I'm allowed to. And when it comes to my journal, there is no maximum number of posts I'm 'allowed' to make. It's my journal, my space and my voice. All of you are my honored guests here, but this is still my little corner of the internet and I don't feel like I should have to apologize for what I write her or how often I write it, so long as I've given everyone fair warning.

To those who have been my friends for a while and know all of this, I love you all for understanding that this is who I am and that I'm not going to change, :).

As always, if you've only friended me for teh pr0n, ignore this and happy reading! :)