Not Friends Only

[bard_linn]

Quote from Babylon 5, Banner made by lumivalkea.

Hi! Welcome, wherever you have come from. Hope you enjoy your stay over on my little corner of the net. ^_^ I use this place as a combination real life and writing journal, so you'll see posts relating to both.

If you're really here just for my so-so writings, they are all collected in my Archive

I do have comment alerts on, so don't be afraid to drop me a line, here or by email, if you like. I love to meet new people! I have Trillian, so I'm also contactable that way, though it's better if you let me know to expect you first. Else I won't know who you are and I won't accept the message. I'm mildly paranoid, I'm afraid. ^^;;; Just please, please, PLEASE refrain from excessive net speak and l33t. I don't speak either well and it annoys me.

I try to answer at least most, of the comments I get. [Less so some days that others.] If I don't answer you chances are I forgot. Brain like metal strainer, if you get the picture. ^^;;;;;; Please don't take it personally and just nudge me again if you need me.

Friending: Please, feel free to friend if you want to. I may or may not friend back. Now having graduated College, I am looking at full time jobs in the future, so I have a lot less free time on my hands, meaning I've been cutting my Flist down to size.

I comment. I comment at LOT. I like having discussions in comments. So if for some reason you don't want me commenting (I've had really long strings of comments before) let me know. Don't want to crash your inbox or anything. I USED to comment a lot. Now I've slid into lurking - I blame kiraya. And not having as much time.

Major obsession at the moment is a combination of Code Geass and X/1999 (And Tokyo Babylon, as well). I'm also a fan of Babylon 5, Crusade, the Last Unicorn, Mercedes Lackey, Slayers, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Gundam Wing, Rurouni Kenshin, Fruits Baskets, Detective Conan, Magic Kaitou, Pirates of the Caribbean, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, Numb3rs, Star Wars, Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy VII, Harry Potter, the Dresden File - and anything else in my icons. Always willing to talk about them too.

Babylon 5 is done by fangaili. Last Order Mood Theme by lumivalkea
FMA Banner [S2 mode] by Alchemy_geek @ greatestjournal. Final Fantasy Last Order Banner [S2 mode] by bombayicons Last unicorn banner [S2 mode] by sky_castles
Color Bars and Such

Comments

[nashidesei.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to say that anyone who likes B5, HagaRen AND FF7 must totally rock. And that is one of my favorite quotes from the entire series. I still shout it at my sister when things go wrong and nobody seems to know how anything will work out. ^_^

So yeah. You rock.

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! B5 will forever be a love of mine; it's timeless. I've been known to through out the quotes when someone is down.

As for rocking...

AREN'T YOU THE AUTHOR OF BOUND? *_* /YOU/ rock so much!!!

[rougaroux.livejournal.com]

Hey...stumbled over here from morningxstorm journal...aren't you from alter series?? *goes to check* yes...yes you are!

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Amongst other places, yes! Welcome. ^_^

[if-i-had-you.livejournal.com]

Hi! ^_^ Adding you, 'cause we have a lot in common and you seem really cool.

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Always glad to have another friend! And thank. *blushes* May I ask where you came from? *is always curious*

[nadleeh]

Heya, I came here from Quela's journal (and your icon, which I found so much love I just had to see :P)

I will now proceed to lurk, and friend. >.> <.<

~Miri

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Queen of random glompings has to be one of the best titles ever! Welcome. I hope I amuse you. ^_~

[rose-nightshade.livejournal.com]

<3 just a quick observation: you forgot to put the "e" on the end of my name on all the icons that i made when you credited me... XD *LMAO, is amused*

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Excuse me while I go BANG MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL. *slinks off to fix*

[pandarot.livejournal.com]

Uhm, hi there! *waves* I'm not sure if you remember me, but we talked once before and when I checked your userinfo, I noticed that you like Hagaren, FFVII, Detective Conan, Fruits Basket and Harry Potter, too, which is just love. So, uh...can I add you? ^_^;;*blush*

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Hm...Didn't you do Roy/Ed fanart and I liked you icon or something to that effect? :3 And of course you can add me! Friends in multiple fandoms are love. ^.^

[kesenaixtsumi.livejournal.com]

*Fangirls.* Urk; I thought that I had befriended for sure, but didn't -- Mind if I add? f^^;;

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Sure. ^.^ Why the fangirling? o.O

[yuukihikari]

It almost feels rude to friend someones journal and not say anything. It's so nice/odd to find a journal that welcomes the world.

I've seen you around the Hagaren world forever (well, at least as far back as I can remember). I have no idea why I waited so long to friend you, but I hope you don't mind that I do so now ^^;

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

That's the point of the post. I like knowing whose viewing my journal, but I find friends only ones intimidating.

Well, it must have been from February, because that's when I joined LJ! *snuggles* Sure, go ahead. Not writing much FMA at the moment, but I'll probably drift back. : )

[neo-rufus.livejournal.com]

Hello there, my name is Miguel and I found you're journal by looking up "seifer almasy": in the interest search. You seem like a very awesome person, and we both love Final Fantasy, so I have added you as a friend, I hope you add me sometime. :)

Oh and I have a Final Fantasy debate community known as
new_shinra87. I'm still working hard to make the community grow, and it's going pretty well. We have had some pretty deep debates so far, and I think you will love being a member. Hope you join sometime. ;)

Thanks, and take care.

Miguel

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Hey! Nice to meet you. ^.^

Sorry, but I'm not much for "debates" as it were. They tend to tire me out and make me crabby if they're online. ^^;;; So I won't be on the comm.

[lochar.livejournal.com]

Hmm, why is Chapter 18 a protected file? I wanna read! Just came here from the ff.net link.

*grin*

You do realize, I'm probably going to have to nag you now until I see it, since it's supposedly there.

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Because 8'oclock isn't for another six minutes. ^_^ The coding is done ahead of time.

[drone-dragon.livejournal.com]

Ah, Full Metal Alchemist. The only anime in the entire world that I still have not checked out! =^.^=

What are some of the highlights of the anime? I might have a pal of mine download some episodes for me sometime.

btw; Hi! I was listening to "the Legendary Beast", did a search for lionheart interests, and... now I'm here! :D

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

I liked it quite a lot. Worth seeing. ^^

Hm...Episode 13 was my favorite, I think. And Episode 5!

Er, actually lionheart in this case was refering to Squall Leonhart's weapon. ^^;;

[seventheternal.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not entirely sure how I found your LiveJournal, but somehow I did, and I love Butterfly Effect, more like I'm addicted. I'm a huge Advent Children and FMA fan, as well.

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Ah good, the crack is working. Soon we will take over the world!

Ahem. That is, I'm glad you enjoy the story Kiraya and I slave over for hours (this is sadly true). XD AC And FMA for the win! So shiny. <3

hehehe...

[kaji-sensei.livejournal.com]

Long time no see! Thought I'd poke about and see what's become of some old friends on LJ. Hope life's been good out your way, it's been interesting for me. Graduated with a B.A. in Japanese last year, just about finished a master's degree now and have since relocated to San Jose to start teaching kids to read.

Hope to see ya around, say hi to the rest of the Eva crew when you get a chance. hehehe...

Paul/Kaji

Re: hehehe...

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really @.@

Glad to hear you're doing well!

Friended

[romyra]

Hi there, I've been lurking for a while but decided to come out and friend you since its the best way to keep track of your Butterfly effect posts. I've enjoyed reading your work and am a huge fan of the house of smex and the alter series and one day I hope to see a continuation of Kieran and Helios. I really enjoy plausible crossovers and I was immediately intrigued when I read yours.

Hello Lurker!

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

We're glad you're enjoying Butterfly Effect! Its always nice to see our baby appreciated. ^_^

Ah, the FMA writing comms! So much fun. I really enjoyed writing there, even if I have run out of bunnies.

Kieran and Helios most likely will never be continued, I'm afraid. But if I ever do, it'll be posted here!

[fantasy2004.livejournal.com]

About the comment that was left over at KH awards for mu icon you can use it if you want, with credit.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/mizunotsubasa/icontest/kh_iconawards-grow-up.png

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Yay! *steats, credits, uploads*

That icon is also very cute. :)

Delurks.....for the moment

[nachtstar.livejournal.com]

wandering in from ff.net, before realizing i know you through stalking Icka and Hime...oops for not realizing sooner? Anyway hi. I'm just here to stalk your writings and comment occationally. ^___^

[wngdngl.livejournal.com]

Hi Bard. I've seen your "Butterfly Effect" story on FF.net, so I thought I'd visit *adds Bard as friend*

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Always glad to meet someone new! ^.^

[silara.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm a bit of a lurker, but I thought I'd stop by and let you know how much I adore you and Kiraya's fic "Butterfly Effect".

Also, this seemed the best place to ask, but in an earlier post you mentioned genderswitch-verse but you don't have it listed in your archive. So, I was wondering if it was f-locked? (I've been hooked by Laylah and Icedark_Elf myself.)

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Always glad to meet another BE fan!

Well, the genderswitch verse fics aren't done. XD They start out as RP logs. The first log is 15+ pages and I still have 11 pages to translate into fic. After that, Kiraya has to go over them and polish them up. When they are done, they'll be posted to genderswitchot4 (being recent events with LJ, I'd rather not have my account deleted because of them. <.<)

[pyrotechnik.livejournal.com]

Hello. I absolutely adore your Butterfly Effect. I'm not much for commenting, as I tend to degenerate into incoherent gurgles, but yeah.

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

We like incoherent gurgles though! Welcome aboard. Hope you enjoy the rest of what we come up with. :)

[fallen-chan.livejournal.com]

-squees-

I followed the link over from Kiraya's ff.net profile - I absolutely worship your Butterfly Effect!

-adds as friend because she tends to forget the almighty author's name and never remembers to check for updates until it's past midnight-

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

You can put the ff.net version on alert, if you'd like. :) Also, just so you're aware new fic that will eventually be published is going to be on our IJ community (with things being as they are on LJ) so you can check that out if you'd like.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/drops_n_ripples/profile

Everything started here is going to be continued here as well - but we're trying to be careful.

[sheikah-minuet2.livejournal.com]

Hi! Mostly I'm just curious about your FFVII fanfiction because while I could swear that your name sounds familiarly like one of the famous author's I couldn't remember where I've read any of your stuff. So I hope you don't mind if I friend you, I generally comment when I read a story...

Also the link up above 'Archive' isn't working so could you either fix it or give me the new link Please?

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

http://bard-linn.livejournal.com/22537.html <- the regular archive.

http://bard-linn.livejournal.com/127470.html <- Butterfly Effect, the reason most people know my name. XD;;;

[glorfindel.livejournal.com]

Hello!

My friend introduced me to your fic Butterfly Effect today and I was quick to read through it all. I absolutely adore it and the characterisation is wonderful. <3

I was wondering if it is just the 34 chapters and if it is being continued?

Thankyou for the wonderful read ^^

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

At the moment 34 chapters are posted. Chapters 35-38 are in 'first proof' stage, which means I drafted then and kiraya has done a major reworking of them. I have two or three more chapters drafted she hasn't gotten to yet. Chapter 35 will be done when Kir gets through a second proofing of it.

BE isn't dead, but there hasn't been a lot of Fandom inspiration, so it's going slower, plus we are both working - me full time, Kir part time while she goes to grad school, so stuff is pretty nuts.

[ixtey.livejournal.com]

Good day~

I've read through Butterfly Effect and a few other fics of yours in one sitting, since they're that awesome. I hope you wouldn't mind if I added you to my f-list~? Add back if you want to. :)

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

I'm honored that you enjoyed them! I'm actually writing BE's next chapter right now. If we can ever find kiraya's muses back, we might get another chapter before....eventually. >.>

I won't be friending you back, only because I keep my friend list really short since I became a full time employed adult. :/ I miss college a lot, but I don't have a lot of free time on the internet anymore. Feel free to friend, though!

[wille-zur-musik.livejournal.com]

Hey! I kept seeing you around kiraya's journal and your list of interested fandoms seems to be mostly stuff I'm into so... I friended you(?) o/

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Hey! Welcome. :) This is...a pretty quiet journal. Mostly I post fic occasionally and give RL updates, but I hope it won't be too boring?