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Perhaps it's a dud. Perhaps it's the wrong board. But people other than me did mention it too and I figure, why not... It could be fun

This is the self-help-group for addicts of Carol's On The Other Hand.

Hello, my name is Michael and I keep checking back after leaving FDK to a new OTOH-part at least once an hour to read the new FDK. I'm addicted to Carol fic and I need help.

Hello, I'm Anonyma, and I happen to check not only for new parts of OTOH to be posted, I also check the FDK thread as often as I can. Within reason (meaning about only once per half an hour when I'm online).

Yay! A place where I can meet like-minded and like-afflicted people, lol.

Yes, I too am addicted to Carolfic. I self-medicate by continuous refreshing and fdk appraisal, but it seems that the more I get, the more I need.

Any ideas?

Oh yeah--protocol: Hello, my name is Sonia.

Hello, I'm Mr D8a, aka James.

I sampled OTOH and then stayed away as long as I could but Elisabeth, my beloved Eve, enticed me back to this addictive fic and I have partaken yet again.

I tend to reist only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (NaNoWriMo guard in place) but I fall back again on Mondays. I am a sad and pathetic man.

Pray for me.

James

Hi, I'm Ann and I keep checking in when I should be grading essays instead!

Ann

Hi, my name is JD, and I'm specifically checking the boards every midnight while I'm on vaca this month to read story updates.

Mannn it's just .5 steps forward 18 million steps back. I feel like we're constantly butting up against an ice wall of silence...but it can be broken down!!!

JD

Well, I did manage to refrain form checking the boards for several hours. Of course, I wasn't awake during that time, so to James who manages to put writing in front of reading. That's a real achievement

JD, I'd vote for sending them into the Sauna, or a lonesome tropical island, to break down the ice.

Michael

Hmm. Maybe we should sent Carol into the sauna until she agrees to post everything at once? Anybody know where she lives?

Good idea, Mellie, and from her timezone, somewhere with Central Time.

More importantly, I just checked the boards and she's going to post soon again.

Michael

/points to Fanfic folder/

It's now been two hours since parts 70 and 71 were posted. It must be time already, no?

Michael, who is feeling sort of lost right now without new Carol-fic. It really seemed like a good idea, cajoling for daily-posts. But when you think about it, even EOD-posts are too high a frequency. No, once you reach this level of angst, it's an all-or-nothing deal. Weekly posts at least allow you to live a healthy live 6 days of the week. But daily posts, that's just waiting for the next fix

What Carol is trying to say is that she doesn't live anywhere with central time, but eastern time... (ET, right?)

Huh? And actually, her location entry says Southwest Missouri (Central time). Of course, that would be too easy for me The timezone trick was, that Carol mentioned she would get to read it before midnight when MLT posted NPLH at midnight ET.

Michael

PS: Don't worry, Carol, those back vans aren't following you. They're just... from the phone company. So nothing to worry

So, let's try to find her and ask google. If we enter her first name and her family name (which she once provided on this forum), we only get about 149.000 hits. Doesn't look like much of a problem, does it? After all, there's still enough time between her posts to look through them.

And it even gives her a very easy way out: Carol just has to post so often that people don't have time for anything else

Michael, who'd better stop boarding and get back to writing.

So *that's* why our phones aren't working...

Seriously. They're supposed to come fix them tomorrow...

Carol

It's sort of like when Babylon 5 went to syndication. When it was on once a week, it was an interesting show. When you could see it five days in a row, it was so emotionally intense that you needed Saturday and Sunday to recoop.

Maybe...I will probably be vilified for this, but here goes.

Maybe she should only post on Mondays. But each post should be equal to 4 of her usual posts, of course.

James

As in eight parts? But that still wouldn't work Of course, then we'd not get to read this all in one evening so we'd be right back to were we are now.

/looks back at James' post. Oh, you mean *only* for parts. Not four days worth. Okay, now that's mean. Bring out the tar and the feathers,

You know, James, I know exactly what you mean about B5. Only I had them all taped long before syndication (or our equivalent) and when S3 was done, I spent an entire Easter holiday-week with a B5 marathon.

Nowadays, when I do watch the discs (yeah, I upgraded ) I do it slowly, one episode a day and 4 on a weekend or so. I can actually deal with that, given how I already know the show. Not that I don't give in an watch till the end of some of the more intense arcs But with all the Fanfic reading and writing, I didn't get around to it this year. I do think that's a good thing. I think. On the other hand, I have DS9 in my DVD-player this year, so that might help, too

Michael, who begins to realize that joking about extreme posting schedules is all fun and play until somebody gets hurt.

Ok. so I suppose introductions need to come first. My name is grinch, and I'm ready to steal Christmas pretty darn soon if Carol doesn't post the entire story and its sequel in one shot.

Why bother with once a week postings or multi-day postings? We can get it over with one shot. We can then request a sequel to the sequel so we can avoid those nasty withdrawal symptoms...

I'm quite far away from Missouri, but am totally up for some tag team action. Anybody else in? Cutting phone lines seems a bit harsh, now stealing Christmas...

Make the Clark hatred go away and make Clark and Lois fall in love. That's not asking a lot is it?