*loves you all*
Jun. 5th, 2004 03:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My God, people, I'm completely flabbergasted that you're all so supportive! I love all of you, very very much. I resisted getting online today until eleven pm (hee, played through the whole second disc of FFIX in the meantime) because I didn't want to see all the angry/disappointed emails I was sure would be there...and then I log in to my email and to livejournal, discover that only two people have defriended me (one I know for legal issues--dammit, I hate being underage!--though I'm not sure about the other) where I was expecting a lot more, and that every single email I got about that post yesterday has been supportive of me. I don't cry, and I seriously started bawling as I read all those, and the supportive entries flocked to me here on lj, and just...God. *hugs* All of you are the best, really. I haven't heard from anyone FA yet, but unless I hear otherwise, I'll just assume that they're letting me keep my positions of eMentor and coder. I hope so, at least. And at least now you know how I've had so much time to do all that--dude, high school is not that hard, even with three AP classes, and I've managed to maintain As/Bs in all of them, even with spending so much time online. I think I should be able to do the same next year, especially considering I'll only have three classes at RHS one semester and four the other (though I will hopefully be taking Japanese at UNR! *crosses fingers* Am last in priority, being a non-degree student, so I don't know...)
But yes. I love you all and really appreciate your support. I've replied to a bunch of you tonight already (though considering the time, this morning rather), and will finish my replies probably this evening (as, eeep! It's past three am and I should be in bed). I have someone's graduation party to go to tomorrow...
So again, thanks. And goodnight.
But yes. I love you all and really appreciate your support. I've replied to a bunch of you tonight already (though considering the time, this morning rather), and will finish my replies probably this evening (as, eeep! It's past three am and I should be in bed). I have someone's graduation party to go to tomorrow...
So again, thanks. And goodnight.
sent you an e-mail
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Date: 2004-06-05 07:23 am (UTC)Though now I have yet *another* friend on my flist young enough to be my daughter...*sighs*
:D
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Date: 2004-06-05 07:57 am (UTC)I sent you an email. :) I completely understand your reasons. And 16 isn't really young. Heck, I'm only a year and change older. Age doesn't seem to be much of an issue in fandom...my friends list contains people from 15/16 to 40. It's one of the things I love about it.
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Date: 2004-06-05 08:00 am (UTC)~ Uozumi
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Date: 2004-06-05 08:13 am (UTC)- Katz
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Date: 2004-06-05 08:26 am (UTC)College isn't that hard either. ._. Well, until the GODFRICKINGAWFUL end of term. *bangs head against a wall*
I think you did what you had to do, and when I was 16 I never told anyone my age at all because... well, same fears you had. I didn't want people to stop taking me seriously and start locking me out of everything.
So yeah, totally understandable.
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Date: 2004-06-05 09:35 am (UTC)neato
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:36 am (UTC)*glomps*
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:43 am (UTC)I don't think it matters about age. You are one of the most mature people I've gotten to know in the fandom, so what does it matter?
Plus, you use pretty green colours!
*hugs*
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-05 11:04 am (UTC)I would have said something on my own LJ, but felt that I shouldn't since I knew you'd post again. :)
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Date: 2004-06-05 11:40 am (UTC)Do you need to be 20-something to be an eMentor? I didn't think you did. How strange *scratches head* Either that, or you're by far not the only one lying to the Mods about age. But hey. That's to be expected.
You seem to have a big thing for honesty. Whoo. I find it overrated myself, and have a yahoo account in which I'm twenty-something so I could get into yahoo! Groups. See? Then agian, it was the poeple there who told me to lie about my age because they thought the age restriction was stupid (Yes NSG'ers, I blame you entirely!). Anyway... I prefer to lie by omission, and have done so concerning quite a lot of stuff, but that's not the point of this comment. The point is... that I heart you and would never defriend because of an insignificant little detail like your age. Why should it matter to me? *huggles*
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-06-05 12:46 pm (UTC)I mean, to me, it doesn't really matter. It happens all the time across the internet, and I wouldn't defriend you over something like that. I happen to think you're an interesting person who I'd like to know better, and so what if you're younger than I thought you were?
:)
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Date: 2004-06-05 12:53 pm (UTC)motherolder sister.Of course we're still you're friends, Rynne. All we care about is that you write/discuss in a mature manner. If you don't act like a squealing fangirl--"Keep Remus away from Sirius; he's mine!"--we won't treat you like a squealing fangirl.
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:38 pm (UTC):p You feel old, and I feel so very young...
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Date: 2004-06-05 01:18 pm (UTC)I just don't see how someone could hate you for this. I'm really sorry you felt you had to make up an age. It's hard and often rules aren't able to take individuals (like their maturity or lack thereof) into consideration.
I appreciate your concern and your desire to 'come clean' but I agree that it doesn't change a thing about the person behind the posts.
So, thanks very much for telling us what is going on, but please don't worry about losing friends. For myself, at any rate, I don't feel it matters.
Best of luck on the FA issues. I hope they will be able to see it in the same light. Though, I'm glad you will be understanding if they feel they can't.
*GLOMPS*
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Date: 2004-06-05 02:51 pm (UTC)I'm not upset because your initial reason for doing it was completely innocent. And like you said, you didn't invent a personality, and that (along with the great fic) is what is so enjoyable about your joural.
Good on you, hun, for being so brave. It takes guts to do what you did.
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Date: 2004-06-07 12:49 am (UTC)I had an experience exactly like yours, and for the exact same reasons. For a different fandom, of course, but nonetheless. I was thirteen at the time, and things were a bit less strict back then, so I only said I was fifteen, because I didn't think people would take me seriously if I said I was thirteen, and also because I wanted to write fic. Everyone was really supportive of me, too, when I "came out" about my real age. And up until July of last year, I still had to lie about being 18 with smut stuff and whatnot. I completely understand where you're coming from on that.
Honestly, I think it's a load of horseshit to have legal age limits. I understand why they're there, but you can't have one giant sweeping limit. There are some 18 year-olds that I don't think can handle, well, smut. And there are a lot of 13 year-olds that I think can. It all depends on levels of maturity and whatnot, which you can't judge and say that everyone in a certain age group is of a certain maturity level.
Sorry if this isn't making sense; I'm kind of asleep. :)
I still have to finish up the fic for you, and it's still going to be smutty because you're obviously mature enough to handle it. Heh. And that just makes me sound really old. O_o
Anyway, yes. It's such a great weight to have off your shoulders, isn't it?