I know this is going to be a long post....so I admire anyone who actually reads through it all. I guess I am feeling a bit Lixy-like this evening.....My body clock is set somewhere over South Dakota, and I flew about 2600 miles today....and had one too many scotches en route.
First, on feeling comfortable on pixies (here's another bulleted list for ya, wyndhy):
* There are some cliques here, and it took me almost 15 months to feel "at home" here -- two events made it happen....(1) IAKG's patient friendship, and (2) meeting Aqua (which seemed to soften a couple of people up.
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* Sometimes I still feel left out, even though I have 13K+ posts and I am one of 10 most prolific posters on the site.
* I *know* I am different than most members -- and I have learned to sometimes hold my tongue, but often my difference from the group has kept me coming back. Where else can you meet suuch a diverse group of basically good people?
Thoughts on Pixies in general:
* We can be a surprizingly conservative group. I've seen lots of people flamed for disrespect. questionable sex practices, infidelity, deflowing virgins, and the like. Our response often depends on tone.......Howeever, it has often struck me that we are a curiously conservative group for a sex site.
* There are an amazing number of people here with some of the deepest and most wonderful hearts I've ever met...and this keeps me coming back.
* It bothers me that some topics like politics are paux pas in Pixies. I think these topics -- properly labeled -- should be open game. If CGT doesn't want to read them (or anyone else!) then oyu don't need to.
((I say this as kindly as I can. I rarely look at pics because many of them do not interest me....If I don't want to see them, I just don't open the threads.))
* I think sometimes this site can be a bit "dummed down." There are a few of us on the site who are engineers, intellectuals, politics, current events, science lovers, and the like. I almost *never* start a thread in one of these topics, because it ***always*** gets ignored or hijacked. I feel like it's *uncool* to be a smart or politically aware Pixie, and that seems like a damn shame to me.
I've welcomed many new members, and I love new blood here. There are very few Pixies I dislike (although I am sure more than a few dislike me. HaHa). I *have* occasionally flamed someone -- I did it recently (about a week or so ago) I believe. I've never checked with a mod before a post, and to my knowledge have only had one post removed because of the content that I posted. I think the mods do a grand job in this department, and I thank them all for their time and thoughtfulness.
(((((hugs to all)))))