THE 'BUT' MEME

[fahye]

Masterminded by ryokophoenix, inspired by How I Met Your Mother, and hosted here as a form of stress relief. I'm a med student on the edge! DO THE MEME. Ahem.

WHAT'S MY 'BUT'?

The concept is explained in this video:

How would you promote your friends to a third party, and what caveat would you add?

This is an anonymous meme -- IP logging is off -- so comment with your username and then link people to the comment*, and go around leaving anon comments for everyone else you know. To keep the balance, I suggest keeping responses in the form provided by the show: two selling points, and a 'but'.

*LOOK, HANDY CODE:

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Comments

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

ryokophoenix

First anonymous meme ever signed on for - LET RIP, GUYS.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

OKAY THEN

fahye

[anr]

why not? anr :)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

YAY DELICIOUS CRITICISM.

apiphile

[(Anonymous)]

articulate, devastatingly intelligent, but not exactly stand-offish so much as giving the impression of with-holding affection until a decision's been reached; emotionally cautious.

[(Anonymous)]

Delicious, well-garnished but slightly over-boiled.

[(Anonymous)]

creative
& uncomplacent
but in lifestyle conventional.

[(Anonymous)]

bold + generous but too concerned with nonconformity

[(Anonymous)]

Funny and talented, but certain to pay more attention to the "buts", bloody woman.

[(Anonymous)]

I second this one. A++, anon!

[(Anonymous)]

Intelligent, ballsy, and very funny, but be warned, there is a lot of porn.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

I'm not sure how I describe you. I think it mostly involves FLAIL. And stuff about you being way too good at everything, especially the whole writing gig.

The but is invariably 'but don't try to hug her' or, sometimes, 'but doesn't give you any kind of emotional or social cues, it's disconcerting'.

Usually, if the conversation continues, this is followed by the positive caveat that this is really good when one needs people around who can be guaranteed not to invade one's emotional space.

[shangri--la.livejournal.com]

Why not?

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]

[(Anonymous)]

Talented, funny, but not around as much as she should be.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Wow, you completely fail at the concept of 'anonymous', hon :D

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I never reply anonymously to anon memes. ;) There's not much I wouldn't own up to thinking, and those things I should probably never say at all.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Don't worry, nothing is ruined except my sense of symmetry.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

OMG YEATS/SPOCK OTP.

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

Wait, porn is supposed to be a ... bad thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Incredibly funny, wonderful writer, but I swear to god if she keeps putting herself down I'm gonna catch a flight to the UK and strangle her myself. Wait, no, she'd probably like that too much. I'll tie her up and force her to listen to audio books on regaining positive self-esteem and deny her access to porn and other assorted filth until she heals on the inside!

Yeah, that's better.

[wuhdemah.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'm all for it!

wuhdemah

[(Anonymous)]

Amazing writer, witty, but tends to disappear with the wind. ;)

[swear-jar.livejournal.com]

APIPHILE IS AMAZING AND TALENTED, BUT, SHE'S IN BLOODY STUPID FAR AWAY ENGLAND.

[(Anonymous)]

artistic, intelligent, BUT does not post enough fic

[(Anonymous)]

kind, prolific, BUT the text on your journal can be sometimes hard to read

[(Anonymous)]

interesting, talented, BUT the not lj-cut .gifs on your journal can wound other people's friends lists

[shangri--la.livejournal.com]

Haha Duly noted! I'll try to keep them to a minimum.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

STOP BEING IN AUSTRALIA. FFFFFFF.

[swear-jar.livejournal.com]

GOOD POINT FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU

[(Anonymous)]

Passionate about knowledge
Endlessly loyal
But lacking in empathy

[(Anonymous)]

This is kind of late, eh?

You are a very talented writer, one of the best in the entire VM fandom, hands down, your character development is remarkable BUT Veronica does gasp a lot in your fics. The other day I searched for "gasp" inside my computer files and every fic of yours has Veronica gasping in all these different scenes. Girl, I LOVE YOU, but please make her stop gasping 24/7!