We Will Know Them By Their

[mrissa]

Continuing the "M'ris is mentally twelve" theme, last night upon meeting one of you poor people, I blurted, "Oh, you're one of my friends!" Livejournal. Aiding my social gracelessness since...hmm, only since 2003 or so, I guess.

eileenlufkin has a livejournal name even more sneaky and hard to decipher than mine. But some of the rest of you are quite pseudonymous. Others have icons that are not even trying to look like you. (pameladean, for example, has no wings. Neither does fairmer. matociquala does not look like any television spy ever...although I might very well watch a spy show with her in it if they ever made such a thing.)

So what I want to know is, if I don't know you know, how will I know you if I meet you? For the people who don't know you, how will they? You will be the one who's wearing lime green tights? You will be the one who offers to let people pet your stuffed head cold virus? You will be the one who mutters clever jokes about jazz saxophonists when you think no one is listening? Which one is you?

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[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

I've proven I can do the recognizing, from behind, 50 feet away. I shall find you, if you cannot find me. Broad, generic "you." I spotted Jo Walton before I figured out she was actually Jo Walton. I thought, "Hm. Woman in a blue shirt. Ribbon on the badge." If only there'd been an opportunity to lay bets. I would have won.

In the future (at future cons, at least) I will be adding my LJ name to my badge. And before I go to cons, I will post a variety of pictures, in a vain hope that some photo shall look actually like me. (If we are to believe the majority of the photographic evidence, I am the woman pointing her decidedly non-pointy-but-rather-broad chin at the camera. Otherwise, I'm the woman pointing the top of her head at you and looking sidewise at you. This is supposed to be a grumpy look, but never as grumpy as I want.)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

LJ name to badge--what an excellent idea! I hope I remember that, next time I get to go to a big con.

[ckd]

Yes. Many folks had either stickers or separate LJ-badges at WorldCon, which helped immensely.

(Amusingly enough, mrissa and I turn out to have met at WorldCon, but without her realizing that I am in actuality a small blue foam shark toy.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, you were that small blue foam shark toy! See, it was just that "small blue foam shark toy" is such a fannish archetype that I had a hard time remembering which one you were. But now that I see the picture, it's all very clear.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!