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DISCLAIMER: There's not much to disclaim here!
I belong to myself and the copyright of me goes to my parents! DEDICATION: To the fine people who invented Tang! Hi, my name is Leslie and I am a Buffaholic. (HI LESLIE!) Worse than
that I am addicted to Buffy fan fiction. I ask myself everyday, how I managed
to fall so low. But I just don't know. Maybe if I share the story of my
plunge into the Hellmouth, I can keep someone else from following my path
to self-destruction. It all started when I was just innocently surfing that great big world
wide web. I came across this site: http://Slayerfanfic.com/. Then I came
across instructions on how to join a Buffy fan fiction mailing list: http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~ag775/BUFFYFIC.HTM
so I joined! I figured what the heck, at least I could count on some e-mail.
Nothing harmful! Right??? When I would get home from work, I'd check my e-mail, read a few story
parts and be done with it. Then I decided that I really should check my
mail when I got home *and* after dinner. You know, just in case something
was added while I was eating. Of course I would only do this if there was
like one part left to a story. Oh, I fooled myself with that one for a
while. But I couldn't fool my friends and co-workers. (OOPS Hold up. I gotta check my e-mail!!) It used to be Lois and Clark this, Lois and Clark that. Until it went
away! I needed something to fill the void, the emptiness that was my life.
So suddenly, everything became Buffy this, or Buffy that, or I read the
best story last night, this morning, this afternoon. People were telling
me I was obsessed, addicted. But I didn't hear them. I wasn't listening.
I was too busy checking my e-mail! I have been known to check my e-mail upwards of 12 times a day. I have even begun to write my own Buffy fan fiction. (Send me an e-mail and I'll drop you a copy!) But I knew I had hit rock bottom when I started (oh it pains me to admit this) role-playing. Yes folks, I play "Buffy" on the #bvs channel on Undernet: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Shores/4145/ (OH THE SHAME! My family must never know!) So yep! Here I am 29 years old addicted to a show probably aimed at
a demographic group 7 to 10 years younger than I actually am! (OOPS Hold up. I gotta check my e-mail!!) If any of you reading this feel you might be going down the same path,
either compulsively checking your e-mail, or just generally obsessing about
Buffy, I am always available to chat. You can find me several nights a
week on the #bvs channel on Undernet. Unless I'm checking my e-mail. |