intro post of sorts
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thedarlingoneSo given that I've just subscribed to something like three dozen new people, I figured I might as well write something along the lines of an intro post, or at least a "things about myself that I will eventually forget I didn't already mention under this username" post. ^_^
* I've been in fandom for over ten years under various names. I'm not linking this blog to my past names publicly in most places, but I'm not all that anonymous.
* I mostly write fanfic and rambly metas, occasionally try to draw something, have been known to design geeky knitting patterns but that was a long time ago. My current fandom is the Star Wars Legends X-Wing novels; I write mainly Wes Janson, my co-authorthe_dour_one writes mainly Hobbie Klivian, we have at least three different stories over 20k words in rewrites right now. I'm thedarlingone on AO3 also (and maryellencarter on Tumblr, where I'm still vaguely active since some of the fandom is over there and some on Discord).
* Previous fandoms: Stargate SG-1 (acquired a lifelong tendency to AU everything and a deep cynicism about fandom's unwillingness to ship POC), Man from UNCLE (a fandom so burned out on slash wars that I developed flashbacks to slash wars I'd never been in), Doctor Who (the one and only time I have tried to be fannish for an open canon, did not go well), Yuletide (I respect the hell out of people who can do exchanges but I am not one of them), Mass Effect (a whole new level of rarepair hell with FemShep/Zaeed). Probably some others I wrote a thing or two for and am not remembering.
* There are also a ton of things I will read but have not written, like Discworld, DWJ, The Mummy, MCU, anything by Copperbadge... Tolkienverse is an extremely special case, because I have an encyclopedic knowledge of LOTR/Silm/HoME nerdery but I will absolutely not read, write, or beta fanfic for it. It's the only thing where I have that level of "canon is sacrosanct" sort of attitude. Everywhere else, I'm transformative as fuck and usually a massive multishipper.
* I'm queer on a lot of different axes, and when I had the energy I used to get very loud on tumblr about all of them. I do not have the energy anymore. The ones that tend to come up the most are that I'm genderfluid (I can get quite vehement about assumptions of a gender binary, though I try not to assume ill-will until it's demonstrated) and that I'm aromantic but not asexual (which gets really complicated to try to write fic about).
* I'm physically functional because of modern medicine/science, including orthotic shoes, depression meds, type-2 diabetes meds, an IUD, and a CPAP machine (just got my new mask, yay!). I've been intermittently homeless over the last several years, and right now I'm living in a "rapid rehousing" place designed to get homeless people housed in something besides a shelter; for that purpose, it's pretty damn minimal, with a communal kitchen I don't use and a bathroom I share with another apartment. No bathtub, no dishwasher, no internet, no cooking facilities unless I want to go down and be socialized at by old men watching Fox News, no real fridge, and the laundry room is useless... but rent is under $400 a month including utilities.
* I work full-time at a call center taking calls for a Large Telecommunications Company. At some point I decided my tag for this was "eletelephony", because I think I'm funny. XD It's not bad work, much better than the Medicare call center where I used to work, but between the hour-long commute and all, it's very hard for me to find time to socialize. Which is bad, because I'm a massive extrovert. You'd think talking to people on the phone eight hours a day might help with that, but nope.
* I used to play D&D online, had to quit due to scheduling issues, but I had a lot of fun, and it inadvertently got me into my current fandom and writing again, so there's that.
* I was raised to be a Catholic theologian. These days I have a really intensely complicated relationship to gods, religion, ethics, morals, and that whole big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, which occasionally turns into really long posts. (Which often involve "my boys", who are perhaps most briefly described as imaginary friends? There's background with my self-insert character from when I was a teenager, and background with Mass Effect stuff, and background with me being kind of weird about identity shit in general... anyway. I'm not the only person in my head, but I'm the only one you'll wind up talking to, hopefully that covers the basics.)
* Yeah, I have a lot going on. I tend to be fairly open about most of the shit that goes on in my head, which is why I'm doing this massive intro post here -- ten years of explaining myself under previous usernames is a lot of backstory to infodump. XD I'm also probably autistic or ADD/ADHD or something along those lines, what they used to call "autistic cousins" apparently, but mostly how that comes out is me being really analytical about societal shit. And sometimes giving my characters meltdowns or stims or other little things I have that their most strictly canonical versions don't.
That's probably enough to be going on with... ^_^
* I've been in fandom for over ten years under various names. I'm not linking this blog to my past names publicly in most places, but I'm not all that anonymous.
* I mostly write fanfic and rambly metas, occasionally try to draw something, have been known to design geeky knitting patterns but that was a long time ago. My current fandom is the Star Wars Legends X-Wing novels; I write mainly Wes Janson, my co-author
the_dour_one writes mainly Hobbie Klivian, we have at least three different stories over 20k words in rewrites right now. I'm thedarlingone on AO3 also (and maryellencarter on Tumblr, where I'm still vaguely active since some of the fandom is over there and some on Discord).* Previous fandoms: Stargate SG-1 (acquired a lifelong tendency to AU everything and a deep cynicism about fandom's unwillingness to ship POC), Man from UNCLE (a fandom so burned out on slash wars that I developed flashbacks to slash wars I'd never been in), Doctor Who (the one and only time I have tried to be fannish for an open canon, did not go well), Yuletide (I respect the hell out of people who can do exchanges but I am not one of them), Mass Effect (a whole new level of rarepair hell with FemShep/Zaeed). Probably some others I wrote a thing or two for and am not remembering.
* There are also a ton of things I will read but have not written, like Discworld, DWJ, The Mummy, MCU, anything by Copperbadge... Tolkienverse is an extremely special case, because I have an encyclopedic knowledge of LOTR/Silm/HoME nerdery but I will absolutely not read, write, or beta fanfic for it. It's the only thing where I have that level of "canon is sacrosanct" sort of attitude. Everywhere else, I'm transformative as fuck and usually a massive multishipper.
* I'm queer on a lot of different axes, and when I had the energy I used to get very loud on tumblr about all of them. I do not have the energy anymore. The ones that tend to come up the most are that I'm genderfluid (I can get quite vehement about assumptions of a gender binary, though I try not to assume ill-will until it's demonstrated) and that I'm aromantic but not asexual (which gets really complicated to try to write fic about).
* I'm physically functional because of modern medicine/science, including orthotic shoes, depression meds, type-2 diabetes meds, an IUD, and a CPAP machine (just got my new mask, yay!). I've been intermittently homeless over the last several years, and right now I'm living in a "rapid rehousing" place designed to get homeless people housed in something besides a shelter; for that purpose, it's pretty damn minimal, with a communal kitchen I don't use and a bathroom I share with another apartment. No bathtub, no dishwasher, no internet, no cooking facilities unless I want to go down and be socialized at by old men watching Fox News, no real fridge, and the laundry room is useless... but rent is under $400 a month including utilities.
* I work full-time at a call center taking calls for a Large Telecommunications Company. At some point I decided my tag for this was "eletelephony", because I think I'm funny. XD It's not bad work, much better than the Medicare call center where I used to work, but between the hour-long commute and all, it's very hard for me to find time to socialize. Which is bad, because I'm a massive extrovert. You'd think talking to people on the phone eight hours a day might help with that, but nope.
* I used to play D&D online, had to quit due to scheduling issues, but I had a lot of fun, and it inadvertently got me into my current fandom and writing again, so there's that.
* I was raised to be a Catholic theologian. These days I have a really intensely complicated relationship to gods, religion, ethics, morals, and that whole big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, which occasionally turns into really long posts. (Which often involve "my boys", who are perhaps most briefly described as imaginary friends? There's background with my self-insert character from when I was a teenager, and background with Mass Effect stuff, and background with me being kind of weird about identity shit in general... anyway. I'm not the only person in my head, but I'm the only one you'll wind up talking to, hopefully that covers the basics.)
* Yeah, I have a lot going on. I tend to be fairly open about most of the shit that goes on in my head, which is why I'm doing this massive intro post here -- ten years of explaining myself under previous usernames is a lot of backstory to infodump. XD I'm also probably autistic or ADD/ADHD or something along those lines, what they used to call "autistic cousins" apparently, but mostly how that comes out is me being really analytical about societal shit. And sometimes giving my characters meltdowns or stims or other little things I have that their most strictly canonical versions don't.
That's probably enough to be going on with... ^_^
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Date: 2019-05-28 09:46 am (UTC)Yay!
I work full-time at a call center taking calls for a Large Telecommunications Company. At some point I decided my tag for this was "eletelephony", because I think I'm funny. XD It's not bad work, much better than the Medicare call center where I used to work
I was killing time yesterday by going on a nostalgic ramble through my old blog posts, and I came across one from around eight years ago where I remarked that from what I'd seen of what telephone helpline workers went through I was glad I wasn't one, and the first comment is you saying "Me too, I don't know how they do it". Been a lot of water under the bridge since then, for better and for worse.
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Date: 2019-05-30 08:29 am (UTC)It really, really has.
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Date: 2019-05-28 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-05-28 06:13 pm (UTC)Ah, MFU... been there as well. :D
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