Flist swap report.

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I spent a fun-filled day on rensong's friends list, and discovered the following things:

-It is much easier to keep up with a flist of 50 than 150.

-LOTS of people are doing the flist swap. Was anyone actually reading their own flist today?

-There exists a community called john_elizabeth, and my first thought was that it was for John Edwards/Elizabeth Edwards shippers, which tells you a little something about how my mind works. In fact, it is for shippers of two characters on Stargate Atlantis. Even though I've never seen a minute of the show, I sampled some of the fic. I liked Ariande's Got a Gun by taylorkate, despite not really knowing what was going on in it. (I was privately amused by what passes for "slightly porny" in that fandom.)

-An old kids' show called "Rainbow" recorded an innuendo-laden sketch for their friends' entertainment, and there was some confusion over whether it had actually aired. (It hadn't, but it's still funny.)

-zeedoubleu met some dancing ducks.

-Wayne Brady was on... er, Stargate? the non-Atlantis one? Also in this episode, someone named Harry was either wearing a codpiece, or had a hamster in his pants. (Why not both?)

-There exists astronomy. Whee!

-There exists an anime series called Ebichu, which apparently chronicles the exploits of a housecleaning hamster. (rensong's friends are clearly hamster fans.) There's a warning for sex and violence, but there is no "tentacle porn or anything". (Imagine my disappointment! *cuddles Otto*)

-lostnyanko posted a very cruel meme. Eep!

-There was some sort of icon battle, which was amusing enough to look at on its own. When I realized that the fandom involved was "the Prince of Tennis musical", it became funnier by several factors.


Overall, I had a good time! Interesting to poke around in foreign fandoms, observing the _structure_ of fic and analysis without being familiar with the content.

rensong's rundown of her day on my flist is here.