The Life and Language of Messageboards and Forums [Part One]

This happened a few days ago but I thought I might blog about it in order to expand into a nostalgic rant about my life thus far on internet messageboards.


Which also leads me to warn who ever may stumble across this and read my blog but I have a habit of drawing often random connections between events and then ramble about them. However I am resigned to leave the rambling to a minimum on this blog. Hopefully.


So, getting back to what I was talking about in the first sentence, recently the British band known as Muse, who I am a [huge] fan of, had on their messageboard a question and answer thing where members of the muse.mu messageboards submitted questions for the band's threesome and messageboard members would vote on them, from which the top 30 would be picked and the band would answer them in the form of posts on the forum when they felt like it.

So, one day I happened to be checking these forums, just browsing through the questions and seeing which ones had been answered when I realised one of the threads was unlocked (each question had it's own thread which was locked until one of the Muse boys answered the question) but the messageboard still only displayed the initial post of the question in the menu. So wait...

That must mean...

That one of the Muse trio was on their computer at the SAME TIME on the SAME FORUM as ME!

I refreshed the page and sure enough the user Muse Answers (the screen name all three Muse members, used to post their answers under) had posted something on a particular question (the number which I have now forgotten but I do remember that it was Matt who answered the question because the answer ended with "... Matt." Haha obviously. I'd also like to point out it was around 11:30am GMT time so make of that what you will...)

At this point I had a bit of a fangirl moment. Or perhaps to use the "proper" notation:

*fangirls*

And then, naturally, proceeded to laugh at myself for being a fangirl.

This happened a few times in the space of about five minutes with the other two members (Dom and Chris) posting a few answers to a couple of questions.

Looking back; if I had to liken this situation to a real life one; I would say that it was kind of like being in the same shopping complex as Muse without really knowing if they were there or not; and I was in the frozen food section, while they were on a different floor looking at novelty beach towels. If such a product even exists; I don't know, I just wanted to use the word novelty and 'beach towels' was the only thing that I could think of that vaguely make sense.

However, my conclusion is that it is fun to be a fangirl once in awhile. It makes me (at least) happy. I suppose I'll talk more about fangirls later because I am part of huge fandom (Harry Potter! woo!) and fandoms don't come without fangirls (or fanboys)....

So there is my story. It actually took longer than I thought to explain; so perhaps my blog about my life on various messageboards/forums should be expanded into a series of blogging. Haha serial blogging. Oh and I'm not a member of the muse.mu boards.....yet - I have way to many other outlets that I check and post at regularly (and other's I don't which makes me a little sad but there's only so much time one can spend typing things about various books/movies/music/random things).

Thanks for reading, I hope I'm not boring.



~Gerarda