Livre d&#39;Or

I've seen you around for a while now through my network and your entries always see interesting, so I'm gonna go ahead and add you now. :)

From:

ce_jour_la

We've seen one another around (support, albeit briefly, IRC, network) and yet I've always been a little intimidated to ask. You seem generally awesome (and we've fandoms in common); if you don't mind a temporarily quiet journal, friends?

From:

yvi

Sure! :)

From:

rainflowermoon

Identity:

rainflowermoon, or as I'm known in the real world Jess, or Jessica. Jessie, among close friends and family.
Link to my writing style: http://rainflowermoon.dreamwidth.org/profile/
I am disabled, and semi-homebound, so DW also serves as my brain some days *g* Kidding. DW is an outlet for me to connect to the outside world.

What I'm passionate about: see user info for an ever growing list. Anything to do w/languages, pop culture, steampunk, and late 1800's-early 20th century life and history up until 1969, writing, books, and music.

How I use DW: it is my journal, a bit of a social network, and a healthy outlet for my pain, my sorrows, and my joys.
Journal you might enjoy reading:

cluegirl

Edited (adding info and correcting a typo) Date: 2010-03-23 09:00 pm (UTC)

From:

arisbe

I have been on LJ since '02 and ready to move on. I am a New Yorker, and have described myself as a Greek-Catholic libertarian monarchist. Graduate of Earlham College and Columbia University. Enthusiast of Middle Eastern music and (especially) dance. Lover of Anton Bruckner. Existential pragmatist, Thomistic Vedantin. Friend me and I will friend you back -- if I don't it's probably just a clerical error, which I will fix when I figure out how. --Frank

From:

liv

Identity: I'm 31 years old, and I'm a biologist. I work as a university lecturer, teaching science to medical students and doing cancer research. I come from England originally, and recently moved back here after some years in Sweden and Scotland before that. I'm a Reform Jew and very much involved in Jewish community stuff. I'm a huge extrovert and known for talking a lot.

Passions: I love reading, books (which I review here), blog articles, whatever I can get my hands on really. I'm committed to pluralism and multiculturalism, which means both that I like interacting with people with different views and backgrounds to my own, and that I care about making society more just towards minority and disfavoured groups. I am very much driven by curiosity; there's nothing I love more than learning new things.

Dreamwidth use: I try to post two or three times a week, though a lot of that is either book reviews or 'what I did on my weekend', with occasional more thoughtful, essay-style posts. I love having detailed conversations about any topic, and keeping discussions alive after that first day or so when posts are on the first page of reading lists.

Recent post: I love living in the future

One of my rare thoughtful essays: Defend to the death your right to say it

Journals you might want to read:

piranha posts gorgeous gorgeous pictures and occasional thoughtful comment.

auntysarah has the most wonderfully acerbic writing style, and talks about snakes, climbing and trans politics.

hatam_soferet is one of my best friends, but she's also a really witty and interesting writer, talking about her life as an English ex-pat in New York, working as a traditional scribe who writes Torah scrolls and other sacred writing by hand.

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delight

You sound a lot like my dad, which is a compliment because he's one of my favorite people in the entire world and the person I look up to the most, professionally speaking. (Teaches medical school, works in community health, a verbal reform Jew talking about being Jewish in medicine, traveling all over the place to spread his science and frequently attempting to solve every problem presented to him.)

This alone is a good enough reason to add you, though I also really like your writing!

From:

liv

Welcome! I added you back, and thank you for proposing the meme in the first place, and for saying nice things about my writing.

From:

snowsurrounded

Sooo... You write book reviews, you know the awesome

syllopsium, and I really like your writing. Subscribing to you, if that's okay. :)

From:

You seem really, really interesting. Do you mind if I add you? (I haven't put my "ad" up yet. It'll be up shortly.)

From:

sophie

While I'm not

liv, do remember that this whole meme is about finding new people and adding them. So that said, I don't think she'd mind, since she put the comment here in the first place *looking* for people. :D

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Yeah, I know. -lol- I did eventually friend her without waiting for a reply. My brain is just sometimes slow on the logic front. XD

From:

meretia

Oh my heaven, yes, I must add you!

From:

feuille

Hi, I'm totally adding you. I really like what you've said about feminism - not driving away at all. May I ask what research you're doing?

From:

lexicalcrow

Not long after I joined DW, someone rec'd you as an awesome and interesting person, but I was too shy to add you then. This meme is a good enough excuse to add you at last, I think. :)

From:

polarisnorth

Thank you for hosting this! (Even though I'm a little late to the party.) I have lots of tabs open right now to check out potential new friends. And you seem pretty cool too, so I'm adding you as well! :D

From:

ekmisao

Interested! Could I at least subscribe? ^^

From:

rho

Your identity: I'm rho (which I always spell with a lower case r) or Rachel, depending on who's asking, and respond equally well to either of them, both online and off. I'm British, but am hoping to move to the USA later this year. I'm a geek, a scientist, a feminist, a transwoman, a lesbian, a sceptic, a liberal, and a whole lot of other things.

What you are passionate about: Lots of things! Having suffered for a long time from sever clinical depression, I try to be as passionate as I can about as much I can, because it sure beats anhedonia. If I had to pick one thing that stirs my passion, I'd say science, and especially physics. Beyond that, I'm also passionate about mental health, transgender rights, women's rights, politics, video games, technology, maths, the Internet...

How you use Dreamwidth: I tend to post what I feel like when I feel like it. Sometimes this means I post several times a day, and sometimes it means I go weeks without posting anything at all. Sometimes I tend more towards a journal, talking about my life and what I've been doing with it, and sometimes I tend more towards a blog, talking about whatever issue stirs my interest at the time.

Example posts:A personal journal type post.
A maths geek post.
A feminism and body image post.

From:

recessional

because it sure beats anhedonia.

EVERYTHING DOES.

(I have my psychomotor function back. Can gets rid of anhefuckingdonia nao?)

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lady_eclectic

Your identity: is very private but I'll share that I am a woman in my early 30's, passionate about life and society, music, travel, writing, cooking and deep thoughts.
How you use Dreamwidth: I have a professional account which I use for 'serious' blogging and this account, which is for fun. I've thought long and hard whether I should blog personally again after leaving my various guises at LJ and am now tentatively exploring the idea.
I want this account to be an alternate reality to the one I live, an oasis focused on esthetics, beauty, enjoyment, culture, philosophy and the finer things in life.
A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style: nothing yet!

From:

liv

Just a note - you've accidentally posted this as a reply to

rho and it would probably be more visible if you posted as a top-level reply to the main post. (Click on the "Contribute something" link.)

I really like the idea of an alternate reality oasis, though :-)

From:

pj

Added. :-)

From:

velvetpage

Can I add you?

From:

thegorgon

I loved the feminism and body image post... added!

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So, I just stumbled onto this nifty thing, and started reading.

Your surgery is on my birthday (I'll be 23). I think that is a pretty damn good reason for us to be friends. (If you can handle the fact that I'm not exactly PC about anything, despite being proud of my trans-gender identity. And the fact that I don't always post in English, or any recognizable language...)

--Kai

From:

inkedheart

I took a look at your journal and I think I'd very much like to be reading your entries. Do you mind if I friend you?

From:

chagrined

Howdy, I am adding you to my subscriptions. :) If you wish to subscribe to me as well, I will also add you to my access filter.

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ajnabi

hi! i like the posts you provided here, and your journal in general ~ well, i really liked the personal journal type post and the feminism/body image post. i'm not so much of a maths/science geek :S but yeah, um.

i also have severe depression, tied up with anxiety/ocd, often reaching suicidal and psychotic levels. yeah, it sure can suck. XD

i'm adding you; it would be nice to get to know you :)

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ekmisao

Interested. Could I at least subscribe? (I'm not sure if you'd like the stuff I do post though; I tend to be bipolar...just never had enough cash and guts to actually go and have a consult.)

From:

ex_pippin880

I picked a good time to look at my network! I've been wondering if something like this was going to happen. I'd love to make some non-fannish friends. Hello and thank you. :3

Identity :: I'm a 24-yo Australian. I'm an atheist and an asexual. I like speculative fiction media and I'm a fan of a lot of TV shows and books and manga etc.. but I don't do anything in fandoms. I'm a bit of a writer, and sometimes I post some (original, usually fantasy) fiction or about my struggles with writing.

Passions :: Interesting and well-written speculative fiction, linguistics, discussing fantasy meta (e.g. what sort of vampire teeth are best), world-building magic systems, learning new things.

Dreamwidth use :: I don't tend to post much about daily life (because it's boring). I post bits of writing and crafts (origami and cross stitch, mostly), sometimes photos and interesting things, sometimes reviews and squee/thoughts on things I've watched/read. Hopefully I'll be posting more often in the future. The last few months haven't been good. :/

Recent posts :: thinking about non-abled body magic ; origami & cross stitch pictures

Rec :

sqbr is very thinky. A lot more thinky than I am.

From:

sofiaviolet

Added you.

From:

liv

Your icon is mesmerising... Thanks for joining in, anyway!

From:

Adding you!

From:

ursamajor

You had me at "origami." Those flowers are gorgeous!

From:

meretia

You know, I keep seeing you around various places on DW and thinking that I want to add you, and then immediately forgetting that I meant to add you. I should remedy that.

From:

velvetpage

Add me?

From:

miss_haitch

Ooh, fantasy meta is always exciting, and I like the look of your crafts. Subscribing!

From:

lexicalcrow

I am intrigued by your thoughts on magic systems. Adding you.

From:

zanzando

*puts hand over heart*

Ace (like me!), into speculative fiction (like me!) and you mention Disgaea [Prism Rangers! ;)] in your second post! ADDED.

From:

birke

Hi! I'm 24, American, atheist, and sort of reluctantly asexual. I like speculative fiction, I only have one small fandom, and I studied linguistics in college. :D My own journal is very daily-lifish, but I would like to talk fantasy and shtuff with you!

From:

ex_pippin880

Hello! D-do you have cats? Is the scar on your left or right side? I'm getting a creepy separated-at-birth vibe here.

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I'm Rowan. At least, most of the time.

What you are passionate about: I love my photography, my cats, DW, the Renaissance faire and sometimes other things related to it, like my spinning and whatnot, though aside from spinning I don't do any other fiber crafts. I read books voraciously despite that I'm dyslexic. If I get brave, I write original fiction type stuff and if I'm even more brave, I post it. And then there are the various gods and things related to them that go into play.

How you use Dreamwidth: My journal might look a little empty, but that's just 'cause everything is access-locked. I do, however, add people a lot. I post pretty often and it varies, sometimes about my life, sometimes about other stuff, and most often, touching on more than one of those during the same post.

I also founded

renfaire and am working on getting that off of the ground and going.

From:

sofiaviolet

I recognize you from irc, and I had thought about adding you but I didn't know whether you would welcome that. Now I have an excuse!

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I like when people add me! I'm quite often too shy to go and add people that I talk to often, and I'm never sure if they're going to tolerate all my vaguely pagan rambling tendencies, so :D excuses are good.

From:

gelasius

Yay! I'm going to be starting my third year as a castmember at the Bristol Renaissance Faire this summer -- joining

renfaire. :) (Here's my intro comment.)

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Oh so you have the lovely experience with the company! We run a booth down at Southern California faire (which is of course just about to start next month).

From:

gelasius

Do I detect a note of sarcasm there? ;) I've been to SoCal once or twice, but not in YEARS; my mom, who also performs at Bristol, goes out to visit almost every year to play with the court. Maybe I'll manage to join her this time.

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Noooo nooo. None what-so-everrrrr. I do not say things about the company that could get me in trouble too often, considering that I also work for the booth of one of the people who works for the company down here, and I value the fact that they pay me money and all of that.

And I mean, SoCal is nice enough, but it's a faire that is only a shadow of the faire that I was raised in somewhere between 10-20 years ago, and a weaker shadow still of the faire that my father began to work 34 years ago. Sometimes I get bitter about the fact that the faire now has such things as faeries — that just don't really seem to belong, whenever I think about it too hard — is all.

I've never had the chance to go up to Bristol, or any of the other company-owned faire. We do go to Casa de Fruitcake, I mean Fruta, every year, though.

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gelasius

Sometimes I get bitter about the fact that the faire now has such things as faeries

Ah, yes, the good ol' history/fantasy divide. :D I was a faerie and I had a lot of fun doing it -- and I've always tried to think of my character as an older fae legend come to life -- but sometimes I didn't quite know if I belonged. My parents are both on the historical side of things, in the Court guild.

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See, your interpretation of it sounds fine to me -- and of course, I'm an adult who doesn't see the faeries at the faire when they're right in front of him anyway. Which can be a great lot of fun for me, overall, because it is getting to play with another actor, and getting to play with the smaller people in the audience, all without breaking character. (I let myself get tied up by one of the faeries one time, all the while not even seeing that they existed.)

It's not the company casted faeries that so much annoy me as the ones that have come in with some of the outside acts here in the past.

And heh, yeah. I'm on the historical side of things too when I do actor stuff, or at least I have been for a while, though I'm not this year. I grew up, more or less, in MacColin. Very, very historical. :D This year, though, I'm going over to The New Reformed Guild of St. Helena's (otherwise known as the peasants) and I'm very much looking forward to the fun of things.

If you do get down to SoCal, lemme know when and all?

From:

enochiansigils

You're passionate about cats and reading, therefore I like you. Am adding!

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Adding back!

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Cats, photography and Renaissance faire? Sounds awesome!

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Except when the cats try to eat the spinning.

From:

meretia

You sound very interesting! May I add you?

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You look interesting too! And of course you may add me.

From:

velvetpage

I have a feeling we may have some friends in common already, but I may be thinking of a different Rowan. In any case, add me?

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kowe

Ooh, you sound interesting!

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Well thank you! I like to think I'm interesting but at a lot of the time, my life does of course get very mundane. And I'm afraid you did manage to stumble into what is pretty much the most mundane time of the year, what with the semester starting, too.

From:

janinedog

Your identity: I'm Janine, I'm 25, and I live in the SF Bay Area (US). I work as a web developer at a biotech company, though before that I worked at LJ. I'm married to one of the owners of DW (

mark), and I'm more of a lurker and don't post too much anymore, but I'm trying to change that.

What you are passionate about: Dogs, biology, hanging out with friends, raw feeding for pets...nothing too exciting heh.

How you use Dreamwidth: I write about my life. It's pretty much a way for me to keep a log of what's going on, and to share things with my friends. The majority of my posts are access locked (filters are used rarely). I used to write more often, but not so much anymore. I'm trying to write more, though.

Mostly, I'm looking for some new friends on DW, since the majority of the people who read my journal are either exclusively on LJ, or were my friends on LJ before they moved to DW. I don't comment much, and I don't post to my own journal much, but I do read pretty regularly. :)

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cyprinella

Yay raw food for pets!

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janinedog

\o/ I created

rawfedpets on here a while back. It hasn't gotten much traffic, but I hope it'll pick up at some point. Feel free to join if you want to. :)

From:

cyprinella

We only have fish right now so I will bookmark it for future reference. I've have the LJ version bookmarked for years waiting for my life to be right for a dog. Although, if there's any interest in culturing live food for fish, let me know.

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janinedog

The community's for all pets, so if you'd like to post what you know, feel free. I don't know if any of the members have fish or not.

And yeah, I know what you mean about waiting for a dog. I only had to wait about a year after I graduated from college to get a dog, but it felt like forever! Now I have two. :)

From:

yvi

The community's for all pets, so if you'd like to post what you know, feel free. I don't know if any of the members have fish or not.

You know, I never thought about that. I always thought the whole thing only applied to cats and dogs. I have a gecko, fed only on live insects we breed ourselves. That's not uncommon in the reptiles scene, but I suppose some people might find that odd :)

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janinedog

Yeah, cats and dogs tend to get the majority of the press since, I think, most people aren't even aware that you have any other option besides dry or canned food for them. But yes, your gecko sounds raw fed with species-appropriate food to me! :)

Here in the US, at least, people who buy reptiles (and birds, and pretty much any exotics) from pet stores also tend to get sold the commercial food sold for those pets...for example, when I was young, I got an iguana and fed him "iguana food". It was basically a mix of fruits and dried insects, but I'm sure it wasn't the best thing for him to be eating. So unfortunately, these animals are given unhealthy commercial foods as well...but I do agree with you that it's more common (or perhaps more accepted) to feed them something species-appropriate than it is to do so for a cat or dog.

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kriski

i feel ignorant now, what's so special about raw food for pets? you simply don't give your carnivores pre-made and pre-packaged stuff but meats and organs from the butcher, no? and herbivores, well, vegetables, no?

btw, i added you and gave you access, since pretty much all of my entries are locked.

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janinedog

There are pre-made commercial raw foods, but yes, I feed meat, bones, and organs that are processed for humans. I get them from grocery stores, mostly, plus I get some via a co-op that buys things in bulk so it's cheaper. I feed what's using a guideline that's generally called "prey-model", which means I try to simulate feeding whole prey animals to my dogs by feeding as many different parts from as many different animals as I can. Some people feed actual whole prey (I don't have easy access to that), and some feed ground up food, and some feed veggies...there's a lot of different ways to feed the diet. But the goal is to feed things as naturally as possible.

I wrote up a quick FAQ a while back about raw feeding, which you can read here. And I'm happy to answer any questions you have about it. :)

And I added you back!

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redroanchronicles

I raw-feed my new dog... I thought there was a huge change in him when I got him off the Science Diet crap that they were feeding at the pound and onto Evo. But then when I moved him from Evo to raw food... wow! His coat is so shiny and lush, I'm mesmerized by it. :D

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janinedog

Yay raw! \o/

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I see lots of doggy pics. And the idea of raw feeding intrigues me (though it's not really anything I can do with a chinchilla and parakeets. ;)). So consider yourself added!

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janinedog

There are indeed many doggie pics! I will need to figure out how to post them to DW without needing to post them to LJ first and then import them (since they're almost always from my phone).

You're added back! :)

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sdwolfpup

Another raw food pet feeder! We've been doing it for our two dogs and two cats for about six years now and it has made a world of difference. Their teeth, their coats, their POOP. When we ever-so-often run out of raw food and we have to go to the backup stash of dry food, it's like night and day. And always a good reminder that the extra effort for raw is worth it. Heh.

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janinedog

Indeed! Glad to hear there's another raw feeder around here. :)

From:

ce_jour_la

Another Californian (I'm from the San Jose area and transplated to NY, so West Coasters are rare)!! :D

You seem generally awesome, and I'm looking to broaden my proverbial Dreamwidth horizons, as well; mind if I add you?

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janinedog

Go ahead! Anyone who wants to is welcome to add me. :)

I'm not from CA originally...I was born and raised in NY state. I moved to the Bay Area in 2005, after I graduated from college in MA. :)

From:

delight

Identity: I am Rue (yes, that is really my name); 21 years old, living in central New York, originally a co-resident of Manhatan (NYC) and Troy, MI, traveling back and forth between the two. The influence of those two places leads to me not really being able to stand central NY, but I'm here for school. I'm about to start my field internship as a paramedic, which I'm terrified of, but I should be finishing in August and hopefully continuing on to nursing school.

I have a lot of problems communicating in words (I think in pictures; yes, like Temple Grandin, exactly like) the first two to fifteen times I write something, and so can come out very awkward and incoherent. My posts come with a 'bad communicator' warning label.

I also happen to be female, an atheist Jew (you can ask me how if you want), socially awkward, on the autistic spectrum, highly disabled by my OCD but trying to pretend that isn't true, extremely small (5', 85lbs) and trying to grow, bad at explaining myself, and someone who creates a lot.

Passions: Medicine and public health, first and foremost. (Although I suppose you could say my parents and boyfriend are first and foremost, they don't really count as that kind of passion.) Dogs, secondmost and horses and birds thirdmost, all of which I used to have in my life and right now, sadly, don't. Living for the sake of living and occasionally doing something crazy. Books and reading. Creating and writing and telling stories, as well as my characters and the ones I share with my friends, although I generally don't share the stories. Adventuring and traveling and being outdoorsy. Mysteries and the solving of them. Being spontaneous. Things I'm sure I'm forgetting.

Use of Dreamwidth: I confess, I post about my daily life despite the fact I think it's boring. I mod some communities, post in others. I also post links when I think they're of interest (many are public health related), and if I ever get the nerve will post about my end of the neurodiversity stick. I also tend to spew out Diary of a Paramedic sorts of things, and when I was in classes often posted about what class did. Probably when I'm back in classes that will pick up again. I try to present daily anecdotes in as interesting a fashion as possible. Also, I made the Tropo Purple scheme. I was ~~goaded~~ encouraged to say that as a point in my favor.

Example posts of mine: Here is a post about paramedic school, and fun times with my parents' technology.

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Oh hi, I added you. :)

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janinedog

Yay for a fellow dog lover! Adding you. :)

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afuna

I thought I'd subscribed to you before, from having seen you around but I guess not! Hi then :)

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Oh, you sound really intriguing. Adding you! :)

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st_aurafina

*waves* I'm adding you, if that's okay!

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sin_after_sin

Hi! I added you. I think your life and your chosen career sound very, very interesting!

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bells

Hi, I added you.

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ajnabi

i added you! we're very different, but i think that's a good thing. um. yes. oh! we do have in common the ocd thing-- i have severe ocd too, and yes, it seems to be the sort of thing that is hard to admit is as disabling as it is (it doesn't help that society treats it like... well, like something very small, or just finickiness, the whole "i'm being so ocd" when person saying it is not ocd thing, or whatever).

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ekmisao

Interested. May I at least subscribe?

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invisionary

Hi there, saw this on

delight's journal and wanted to jump in :).

Your identity: Hi, I'm John, I'm 27, a father of two young girls (and their primary caregiver), a native of upstate NY, and finishing up a degree in business so I can get on with law school. I have a long list of hobbies, more than enough to fill my copious amounts of spare time, but not much of it involves fandom.

What you are passionate about I am passionate about life, as I figure I've only got a short span and I want to make this world a better place before I punch out. It's taken a lot for me to get here. I believe we can still accomplish great things as people and as a culture, but we have to get through some pretty nasty attitudes of "superiority" first. Outside of my philosophy, I am an avid computer builder and more budding musician.

How you use Dreamwidth I am one of the leads of DW's Anti-spam team - you only notice us when we're not doing our job (which we are pretty darn good at, so you don't notice us hardly ever :). I keep meaning to write more about social issues of various sorts, and I try not to Fail when I do it. But those are the things I do most around here.

This is a good example of my writing style: Reasons in Favor of Fundamentalism - http://invisionary.dreamwidth.org/15848.html

If you don't read

trouble, you should. She is quite insightful about a lot of different things.

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I am passionate about life, as I figure I've only got a short span and I want to make this world a better place before I punch out.

I think the same thing and love when I find others that do so as well. I like what you've said here and on your profile. I'd like to keep up with you.

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invisionary

Glad to have you on board :). There's a new poll up for what you'd like to see me write about, if this interests you.

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Oh, awesome - I'll check it out now.

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I believe we can still accomplish great things as people and as a culture, but we have to get through some pretty nasty attitudes of "superiority" first.

That alone is made of win. :) I hope you don't mind, but I'm adding you!

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invisionary

I don't promise everything to be made of win, for I Fail more often than I'd like. I don't mind being added, not at all :).

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shanaqui

Your identity: I'm Nikki. I'm a woman. I'm twenty. I live in Wales at the moment, and attend Cardiff University doing English Literature. To quote my mini bio: "I'm non-judgemental, pansexual, liberal, Liberal, Unitarian Universalist, Welsh, a writer, a reader, a singer, a gamer, a fangirl."
What you are passionate about: Books, poetry, university, writing, folk music, singing, discussion, my girlfriend, fandom, religion, politics.
How you use Dreamwidth: With this journal, it's a mixture of everything. I post every day about whatever's on my mind that day, which might be fandom, or might be about books I've been reading, or it might be about going out with my friends or it might be about how much I love cleaning (I really do). My fanfic is separate, at

edenbound, my original writing is separate and by invitation only, and my book reviews/babble about fandom is at

wilderthan.
A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style. I'm sorry I can't provide this. Feel free to just chat to me in comments for a while to see if you get on with me!
A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally.

justira. A lot of fandom stuff and art, but also interesting and thoughtful posts about politics/feminism/etc.

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Books, poetry, Wales, writing, folk music and singing...sounds awesome to me. It's been a long time since I last was in Wales (more than 15 years ago), but I do remember my trip very fondly.

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shanaqui

Haha! Any particular part of Wales?

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Hah, don't I wish I knew that! It was an adventure trek when I was 16 years old. We were a small group of German kids who got kind of dumped in the wilderness with two guides/instructors. We hiked through caves and small rivers and had to dry ourselves at the campfire at night.

We had only our sleeping bags and a bit of food - no tents, no toilet, no running water exept those small rivers. The trek lasted four days - can you imagine the smell?

Still, I loved it. The landscape was so beautiful! And it was an awesome experience.

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shanaqui

Wow, sounds cool. I did something like that when I was fourteen or so, but not in Wales -- in the Yorkshire Dales.

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*g* Yeah, I think it kind of defies the purpose if it's too close to home. Then it's not an adventure anymore.

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viklikesfic

Added because your self-description made me smile.

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shanaqui

Hee, okay!

From:

*pokes* I know you ♥

From:

shanaqui

Reaaaally? Let me see now, who are you...

*sticks tongue out*

From:

Oh fine, I see the way it's going to be. *pokes some more*

From:

redroanchronicles

I have nothing to say, really, except that I visited Cardiff a few years ago and you Welsh are some of the loveliest people ever. :)

From:

shanaqui

Hahaha, yay!

From:

I love your description and am adding you. :)

From:

shanaqui

Added back!

From:

pj

Is it wrong that part of why I want to add you is because I adore your nick?

From:

shanaqui

Hahaha, perfectly allowable!

From:

polarisnorth

You sound like my kind of person. :) Adding you!

(I love Wales, btw, and would love to spend more time there in the future. I've visited a few times, but only for a few days during longer trips.)

From:

shanaqui

Added back!

From:

rooibos

I'm adding you, if that's okay!

From:

shanaqui

Yep!

From:

blog_of_cool

Um, you sound very much like someone I would get along with. (My mini-bio: I'm a twenty-one-year-old bisexual feminist Unitarian Universalist. I game, I write, I dance, I read, I advocate, I frequently mention Batman.)

So...I would like to get to know you better.

Er. I'm Maggie, by the way. I'm also an English major, but live in the US.

From:

shanaqui

Hi Maggie! Sure, add away! I'll add you now. I did a bit of an introduction post here.

From:

stepps

Your identity: I'm stepps, an Australian born woman who's lived in New Zealand more than half her life. I also lived in Germany for two years, and would love to go back there sometime for longer. I'm a fan foremost (and actively participate in bandom (band fandom), Generation Kill, and Band of Brothers fandoms. I also work for a major telco, in frontline sales and service and like my job despite the shit it gives me.
What you are passionate about: Good fiction (books or fannish). I create rec lists for my fandoms fairly regularly. Music, though I don't play an instrument I come from a family of musicians, and some of my best friends are musicians. Art and design. I studied graphic design for a while, and might again. Gender (in an aim to figure out my own), and girls being allowed to enjoy sex and porn. My delicious.com accounts.
How you use Dreamwidth: I post almost daily with a little RL, a little fannish talk, and discussion about a) dreamwidth (which I love), b) delicious, c) lists or fannish projects. Though I've reasonably fannishly active I enjoy interesting journals of all kinds.
A recent post: A post about Dw stuff with some bandom comm pimping. Another, about recent tech, Aussie politics, and my bands.
A link to a journal on Dreamwidth: Oh gosh, I'm really not sure whom to pimp that isn't very very fannish. celli, murklins, reginagiraffe, yvi, and charmian

From:

afuna

You don't know me but I've seen you on my /network page a couple of times, and I've wanted to subscribe to you before. So um. Hi!

From:

stepps

Oh hi! I'm glad this has given you a reason to subscribe! I have heard of you of cause, and have thought about subscribing too, so win for us both :)

From:

st_aurafina

*waves* I'd love to have more Aussies in my circle so I'm adding you, if that's okay.

From:

stepps

Of cause! I'm not a very good Aussie, since I've lived in NZ more than half my life and spent my formative years here instead of there... but we Downunder must band together, right? :)

From:

roga

Hi! I wasn't really participating in this meme, but then

marina pointed me at your LJ because I may or may not have been obsessing about Bandom over the past month or so and OH MY GOD BANDOM. Seriously I am the latest person to the party ever and I still have YEARS OF CATCHING UP TO DO and basically I'm ecstatic to know that people like you are still out there and that this fandom is still aliiiiive! So anyway, lalalala you have shiny pretty recs (GSF! Sex pollen! I love you) and also Nate Fick :D

No friendbacks necessary, duh, I'm just randomly squeeing here. Hi :D

From:

stepps

LOL, dude, you have won me over entirely with the flattery :D And also Nate Fick, because he wins all hearts!

From:

roga

He does! And man, you have no idea how much your lists have ~~helped me~~ ~~ruined my GPA~~ I can't decide! -- over the past few days. Fucking bandom /o\

From:

cantankerous_curmudgeon

I'll be subscribing to you, if that's cool?

I enjoyed the fact that you like your job despite the shit...because I hear you! Good fiction is wonderful and people who read it and recommend are equally wonderful.

From:

dar

Your identity: Dar, Daz or Darren. 27 and looking forward to being old (it beats the alternative). I live in Ireland and right now I'm trying to get enough money together to get the hell out and go live somewhere with opportunity. I've spent a long time learning lots of life lessons. Some hard, others not so much. Now I'm ready to spread my wings, and I'd like to make my journal a document of that.
What you are passionate about: Oh, lots of stuff. I used to get passionate about always negative subjects, but I'm a reformed cynic and a born-again optimist. I feel passionate about the good things. Creativity, the goodness in people, all of it.
How you use Dreamwidth: Trying to make my day-to-day life sound more entertaining than it actually is. Random bouts of philosophy. Occasional opinion pieces on stuff in the news. Sometimes ideas for books or movies I feel like sharing, and every now and then a dose of fanboying. If I post less than two paragraphs, I feel like I'm doing something wrong.
A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading: My good friend

chebe

Edited Date: 2010-03-15 08:27 pm (UTC)

From:

velvetpage

May I add you?

From:

dar

May you might!

From:

sin_after_sin

I was thoroughly entertained by the first few entries of your journal. I'm definitely subscribing. You have a great writing style.

From:

dar

Aw, thanks! =)

From:

darchildre

Your identity: Hi, I'm Sara. I'm 27, I live in Western Washington, I work at the library, and I'm a great big geek. I'm a heathen and do occasionally post about religion. I'm asexual and occasionally post about that as well, though not terribly often. I crochet a lot and sometimes post pictures, if I think the project ended up all right.

What you are passionate about: Horror fiction. I don't write it but I read/watch a lot of it and babble about it at anyone who will let me. Books in general. Singing. Heathenry. Language. There are other things, as I tend to be something of an obsessive and will latch onto a subject and bore everyone around me about it for weeks on end, but they come and go at sporadic intervals.

How you use Dreamwidth: I post about my life. I gripe about the library (I love it but sometimes people are foolish), I talk about the books I'm reading, I talk about my current crochet projects. Occasionally, there are thinky posts, but they tend to be about horror fiction and monsters.

A link to a recent post of yours: Here is me talking about people who have misconceptions about science fiction and here is me talking about Bride of Frankenstein, 'cause I do that a lot.

From:

asecretchord

You sound like good folk and I've added you. I hope that's okay!

From:

darchildre

Hurrah!

From:

birggitt

Oh, yay! A fellow horror fan! Hello there! *waves madly*
Oh, do you find Bride of Frankenstein funny, too? That's fantastic!
I love books, too and read a lot. But, as English is not my language I usually shy away of any kind of long, thinky post. So, me? not interesting.
But I think you are. If you are ok with it, I'd like to add you yo my circle :D

From:

darchildre

::waves back:: Bride is hilarious. No movie with Dr Pretorius could fail to be. 8)

I am happy to be added.

From:

birggitt

Done! You'll see me around quite a lot :D

From:

nan

Uhm, I'm definitely adding you. Horror fans, unite!

From:

I loved both those posts, so am adding you! :)

From:

teigh_corvus

Occasionally, there are thinky posts, but they tend to be about horror fiction and monsters.

This is one of my favorite types of thinky posts. Question - what would you call a group of zombies? I vote a Shamble of Zombies. :)

Oh, I'm Pagan - Celtic-flavored, though I have known many heathens as well. It's a very rich collection of traditions.

From:

darchildre

Hmm. An interesting question. I like shamble, though I'll admit that I tend to go with "mob" or "horde". There's something classic about zombie hordes. 8)

From:

teigh_corvus

Horde makes me think of Goths versus Romans... which gets especially interesting if one adds the zombie part to the equation. Hmm. I like it.

I'm trying to slide over this way from LJ, so my posts are sparse at the moment. Do you mind if I friend?

From:

darchildre

Not at all. I'm trying to slowly shift my way over as well. Add away!

From:

meretia

Your name sounds really familiar. I think I know you from one of the librarian communities elsewhere (I was just earlier tonight complaining about the piece of work I had to work with in reference today). But your journal looks interesting and I like fiber arts and photography, so I think I want to add you.

From:

darchildre

Awesome. Feel free. 8)

From:

velvetpage

Yay for crafty people! I'm a crocheter myself, though lately I've taken to knitting instead - somewhat easier on the tendinitis.

Add me?

From:

darchildre

Sure. 8)

From:

once_whimsical

Hi! I'm new here and I was wondering I could add you?

From:

darchildre

Certainly - feel free.

From:

polarisnorth

I'm going to go by your journal and poke around, but I wanted to say, Hi, other person from Western Washington who works at the library! :D

From:

zanzando

Hi! *waves*

Ace, works at a library, kind of ships Alice/Mad Hatter ... I'm in! Subscribed.

From:

silveradept

Ding! +1 Circle add. Expect me to go back through your entries and make commentary on them, so you may be seeing a rush of stuff from me. (It's what I do, y'know.)

From:

Hey! I'm in PNW (Kitsap County).

You seem pretty awesome, so I added you.

From:

darchildre

Dude, really? Me too! (I'm always surprised when I run into Kitsap denizens on the interwebs.)

I am happy to be added.

From:

of_carabas

Hi, fellow heathen horror fan!

And omg, B5 and Brimstone and Preacher and Sweeney Todd and Gormenghast and Highlander and Renfield/Dracula and askldfj;ADDING YOU NOW.

From:

draigwen

Your identity: I'm Drac, a civil servant living in wet Wales. I'm a computer geek, a wannabe author and a wannabe musician.

What are you passionate about: My rats, writing, music, the Welsh language (which I'm attempting to learn and have been for the past five years or so)

How you use Dreamwidth: Mostly reading the posts of my friends and synfeeds. My account is mostly just twitter updates at the moment but I do intend to write more proper entries. This may mean that I'll write fairly boring 'this is what I did today' posts for a while, but when I first started my LJ I wrote pretty cool 'this is what I did today' posts and I need practice to get back to that. Unfortunately these tend to be locked posts and I do try to avoid locking posts as much as possible.

Example post: my most recent public non-twitter post - about my rats. I've recently written a perhaps more thoughtful post on going on strike, but that one's locked.

Journal on Dreamwidth to read: Off the top of my head I'd recommend

yvi,

afuna and

sisyphus_rolling.

From:

glinda

*subscribes*

Mainly for the Welsh language stuff, but on the strength of that post, also for the rats.

From:

draigwen

I'll definitely have to try to write more about the Welsh stuff then.

Also, re rats... one of our late rats was called Glinda - so another good reason to add you. ;)

From:

I'm Drac, a civil servant living in wet Wales. I'm a computer geek, a wannabe author and a wannabe musician.

I'm sold! *g*

From:

draigwen

By which bit, I wonder? :)

From:

Wales, author, musician *g*

From:

askygoneonfire

I listed my rats in my passionate section too which I think means I need to add you!

From:

draigwen

Cool, always good to meet someone else who likes rats!

From:

rainflowermoon

I'd like to subscribe too :) We have some things in common....

From:

draigwen

Cool - will subscribe back! :)

From:

marina

Your identity: Like it says in my bio, non-fannishly I am a USSR born Israeli Jewish girl post IDF service and currently triple majoring in Film, East Asian Studies and Sociology & Anthropology in Tel Aviv.
How you use Dreamwidth: My DW is sort of a reflection of my brain. So it contains a bit of everything - meta on being an immigrant/Israeli/Jewish, school related shenanigans, links to things I find interesting, movie reviews and picspams and various fandom content. I post pretty often - sometimes more than once a day.
What you are passionate about: Languages, visual art, poetry, writing. Knowledge, mainly. I am interested in people, in how they work and how they interact. The more I learn the more fascinated I am - with myself and with the world.
A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style. Real Life meta: Cultural Differences Don't Work Like That, example of a pretty standard links-and-things post: Mega post is mega, movie reviews + meta about the IDF If you believe they put a man on the moon. I also have a masterlist of all my entries that have to do with stories/meta on my time in the IDF (I was a team commander in the Intelligence Corps).
A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally.

zvi! Everyone I know basically subscribes to her already.

Edited (blah icon is blah) Date: 2010-03-15 08:44 pm (UTC)

From:

kate

I'm torn between saying everyone should friend you and trying to keep you to myself. Ha. <333

From:

marina

AHAHAHA <3

From:

lunarwolfik

You know someone is awesome when you check their DW and their current post is about Batman and Superman's tag-team shenanigans.

*adds*

From:

glinda

I read and enjoyed (is that the right word? Maybe found really interesting/engaging is better.) your post on Hotel Rwanda and being in the IDF the other day, so I'm going to take the opportunity to add you just now, as your other posts seem interesting too.

From:

kriski

for your icon alone i'm adding you! i only post locked, but gave you access.

From:

viklikesfic

I love languages, sociology, anthropology *adds*

From:

dar

I've seen you around, I know you through Sabrina. She's mentioned you a few times, and linked some of your posts every now and then, and they're always so interesting =)
Mind if I add?

From:

liv

You're obviously good at writing intro posts, cos you seem to have picked up a number of subscribers already. But I'm happy to join the throng of budding Marina-fans.

From:

marina

Oh my god, I think twenty people added me since yesterday O_O I don't even know what to do with that! Clearly you've created the most adding-happy adding meme ever! LOL

Also, hi. :)

From:

flourish

I have been ordered to sub to you by Joni! So I will! :D

From:

marina

AHAHA JONI! You are actually not the first person to tell me that! You tell a girl you approve of her new beau and suddenly she's reccing you all over, it seems.

From:

gool_duck

Hello. I have added you to my subscriprion list because I enjoy reading your posts.

From:

marina

Thank you for letting me know! :)

From:

invisionary

You sound interesting. Hope you don't mind if I subscribe to you :).

From:

marina

Not at all :)

From:

velvetpage

May I add you?

From:

marina

Of course!

From:

ce_jour_la

You sound extremely interesting--if you don't mind a temporarily quiet journal and/or someone potentially picking your brain about IDF service, friends?

From:

marina

I don't at all mind people adding me! (Hence leaving a comment at a meme like this.)

My reading list on DW however is currently already a bit much for me to keep up with, so I'm not currently adding any new journals to it. I'm trying to slowly work my way through all the people who've added me as the result of the meme, and that's going to take me a while, lol.

From:

ce_jour_la

Never hurts to double-check. ;)

Heh. Fair enough, and thanks for the heads-up!

From:

madelienegrey

May I subscribe? You seem interesting. :)

From:

surpassingly

I read your post on cultural differences and was saying "YES, THIS" throughout the whole thing. I'm subscribing, and I hope you don't mind! And in line with what you said about adding a couple comments up, please don't feel obligated to subscribe back.

From:

tatjana

I added you :D

From:

ajnabi

I'm adding you! I like the way you write and the things you write about (been skimming your journal just now).

From:

viklikesfic

Your identity: I'm a poly, kinky, queer, feminist lesbian. I'm out about all those things here, which is kind of cool. If any of them make you go "yuck," you may not want to subscribe to my DW. I'm also a human rights activist, a liberal, a socialist, a pacifist, a vegetarian, white, cis-gendered, Southern, 25 years old, tall, left-handed, and glasses wearing.
What you are passionate about: Gender and sexuality. Feminism. Human rights. Intersectionality. Reading. Writing. Cooking. Baking. Academics. Independence. Yoga. Travel. Languages. Language. Organization. Ice cream. Snuggles.
How you use Dreamwidth: I came here initially through some fandom friends who thought I might find the platform more user friendly than LJ (they were right). I then came to see DW as a great way to integrate my fannish and non-fannish personalities, which I never did on LJ. Though there's still some disconnect, in that I'm using a fandom pseudonym and thus can't link to my "real life" blogs and things, I've been using DW as a place where I can not just talk about fandom and post fic but also as a great place for talk about non-fannish interests. I've found the new comms here to be really awesome for talking about the stuff I love, like yoga, reading, etc. and also like the way some fannish ideas are getting incorporated into non-fannish communities (like the home ec challenges, for example). I also use DW to run two communities,

feminist50 for discussion of feminist and woman-friendly books and

baltimore_md, which is self explanatory.
A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style: I don't love this idea, just because my "writing style" is not the same as "what I post in my journal," if that makes sense? I like the idea of this meme because I'd love to meet cool people that I can chat with in comments, share interests with, etc. My journal isn't really in a "serious blog format," though. So I'll link you this with the caveat that most of the non-fandom content on my journal is just talking about my week. I do more of my non-fannish participation in communities.
A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally: I've really been digging

aurora lately. It's all about the figure skating squee these days, and the videos make me smile. If you like skating, take a look.

From:

kate

Y halo thar Baltimorean kinky lesbian feminist! :D I'll be subscribing to you!

From:

viklikesfic

Whee! Right back atcha :-D

From:

enochiansigils

You're different from me in like five gazillion ways and are completely awesome. I like having friends that aren't necessarily into everything I am, so I'm adding you! I promise I'm civil and don't bite unless asked.

From:

viklikesfic

Adding you, too! I like having all sorts of folks on my Circle, so cheers to that :-)

From:

yasaman

We definitely seem to share some of the same passions, so I'm subscribing!

From:

viklikesfic

Awesome! Will do the same.

From:

liv

I take your point that not everybody has a characteristic "writing style". Mind you, incautiously phrased posts are always a good way to attract comments! And I do like your post on sexual and relationship inexperience, very chewy, thanks for linking that.

From:

viklikesfic

Hee, I should've said that I don't love the idea "for me," I think it's great in general to have a sample when deciding who to add.

Actually, this meme has given me some ideas for things I might start posting in DW, like book reviews and Friday Fives and such, to be a little more inclusive of non-fans and those not in my fandoms.

From:

mllesatine

Language as in grammar and etymology and languages as in foreign languages?

From:

viklikesfic

Both! That's why I said "Languages" and "Language" separately. By languages I mean foreign, and I'm also interested in language in terms of grammar, usage, etc :-)

From:

thegorgon

I thought your self description sounded interesting, so I read the post you linked, and thought it was so awesome that I am absolutely subscribing!

From:

pinesandmaples

I'd like to give you a whirl. Don't feel pressured to add me back. (I'm pretty boring.)

From:

rooibos

I'm adding you! I hope you do not mind!

From:

viklikesfic

Course not :-D Thanks!

From:

Like I said to rho up there ^^ : I'm gonna add you. Add me back, if you don't care about me being PC ever, at all. I own my identity, and I talk probably too frankly about many things. So, yeah...
But you seem really awesome, so I hope you add me!

--Kai

From:

viklikesfic

Hey, owning identity is good! Thanks for the add :-)

From:

clopen

You sound fascinating :o I've added you, I hope that's okay!

From:

libitina

from

libitina

Your identity: I have more than one pseudonym - one for fannish things and journaling; one for kink; one for SCA; one for food blogging; and then there's my real life identity. I find it useful to not cross-pollinate, but every few years the system breaks down, and by now I'm pretty sure that anyone with a vested interest and three hours to sit down with google could connect them all - I still like that you have to work at it. Despite how careful I am about my name, I'm fairly open about being from Philadelphia because I use my journal to schedule events and co-ordinate transportation to things.

What you are passionate about: Would you believe that I wrote my classical studied dissertation (undergraduate) on cuttlefish? Cephalopods have done well for me, even bringing me to livejournal in the first place.

I have a food blog, and I'm rather passionate about maintaining my slacker attitude toward it (and that will continue until it doesn't). But it has no pictures. The recipes might be written as recipes, or they might be long, awkward narratives of doom. There's a whole tag for dubious food, where such things are explored as just how long you can leave meat and still eat it. I review restaurants and chocolate with such elegant verbiage as, "It was yummy." And yet, oddly, it is far more useful a thing than I ever thought it would be. It's a great way to pass on specific recipe, and even strangers from the internet seem to find it useful - who knew that there was a world-wide shortage of blogs talking about bridge snacks? NoCounterspace (re: identity - I refer people from journals to the blog, but I try to limit the spread of information in the other direction)

What else? I bind books (since high school). I enjoy random bits of 'folk' dancing - i.e. anything I can do barefoot and without a partner that isn't too rigorously athletic. I've been picking up random middle eastern 'belly' dancing classes since 1995.

And I enjoy bringing all those topics and pretty much any conversation to sex.

Dichotomies frustrate me.

How you use Dreamwidth: I'll write anything here. Very occasionally fic, sometimes fic recs. Links. Navel gazing. my grocery list. lists. Lots of lists for scheduling. Scheduling. And sometimes even more lists. Sometimes there are polls. It's a bit like treating my life as if I were one of The Sims.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style. Yeah, it's pretty much all friendslocked. Oh, but I posted to

boilingwater recently. Eggs!

libitina

From:

willidan

I'd love to subscribe to your cooking blog, or your main blog where you write about cooking.

From:

libitina

YAY! I love it when people read the cooking blog. :)

I've just set up a feed here:

nocounterspace_feed
Or you can go to NoCounterspace.net

I won a site redesign in the

help_haiti auction, so I have high hopes for it looking brighter and less template-y soon.

From:

weaverbird

Hi! I'd love to read you, please.

(Oh, and squid FTW!)

From:

libitina

Oh hi! I remember you from Pirates and LotR days. Welcome to my circle. Erm... I mean welcome for entirely non-fannish reasons of squid and cooking and stuff. Probably stuff.

From:

zarhooie

SCA funtimes! Adding you. :)

From:

libitina

Oh, man. I hardly ever post about SCA - mostly because I am the worst A&S officer ever. But I see you like scotch, and I do, indeed, sometimes talk about that.

From:

heartequals

You bind books and talk about cephalopods! It might be love.

From:

libitina

Welcome.

The other fans of cephalopods on my friendslist include (but are not limited to):

gnomad,

isis, and

merisunshine36

From:

syntheid

Identity: I am an introvert, not quite 24-years-old, not quite an artist, not quite a programmer, not quite a linguist, not quite female, not quite asexual, not quite Asian, not quite Coloradan, but wholly an entity commonly called Li.

Passions: Probably the only thing I can, in general, say I'm passionate about is knowledge. Of all sorts. I also enjoy fiction, music, language (I majored in Linguistics, but I am actually still monolingual, sadly), drawing, design, and computers.

Usage: I probably read more than I write, but when I do write I tend to just write whatever I feel like. Which can include introspective posts, daily life rants, slightly more structured article-things, brief snippets of fannish ideas, etc. I keep trying to wrangle my life to a point where I can contribute more in the way of dev stuff, because I'd really like to (I am, actually, in the middle of finishing up a theme submission), but so far this hasn't happened yet.

Link:

marina is someone I have really enjoyed reading and you might too.

Edited Date: 2010-03-15 09:32 pm (UTC)

From:

glinda

Linguistics! I love languages and how they grow and change and interact with each other, even though I'm also monolingual (I'm trying to change that, I just don't succeed very much).

Also you have an elephant bouncing on a trampoline icon that endears me hugely.

*subscribes*

From:

syntheid

I know! I love linguistics a lot-- I wish I could just study dialects forever, but that seems to also require publishing papers on them and/or teaching, so I've gone in different directions. (What languages have you studied/do you want to study?)

From:

sinatra

You seem interesting and neat; subscribing!

(I'm INTP as well; I seem to remember being a 5w?, but it's been so long since I've taken an Enneagram test that at this point I've no idea if that's accurate)

From:

kalmialatifolia

weeee seem to have a lot in common! languages fiction music design drawing et cetera. and anyway you seem to be pretty interesting. is it all right if i subscribe? =D

From:

syntheid

Sure, subscribe away (and I'll do the same)! :)

From:

ursamajor

Coming through belatedly on the subscription train! Hooray for knowledge-gathering and being multiracial and your shinies in

chronetician are awesome :)

From:

clopen

You seem interesting. I've added you, hope that's okay!

From:

zorkian

Mememe: I'm Mark; 27, male, California. I do a lot of things -- probably more than I should, most of the time, but I do tend to keep busy and enjoy trying things a lot.

Passions: Communications, behavior of people (individuals and large groups), computers, gaming (console and PC), Warhammer, roleplaying (LARP and tabletop), ...

Usage: Actually I need to fix this... I don't tend to use my journal for positive, interesting things all that often. I really should and my wife tells me that I should, too, so it will probably have to happen.

I do maintain

the_2nd which is a community for political discussion (with a conservative/libertarian lean). In case that's interesting to you!

From:

Warhammer, roleplaying (LARP and tabletop)
Why wasn't I already subscribing to you? I do remember commenting, though. *g*

From:

zarhooie

Wait, who are you again? *g*

From:

velvetpage

Warhammer. Sold. *subscribes*

My biggest tag at the moment is for my Warhammer tabletop character, Altriona. She's a lady elf turned pirate when her sister-in-law accidentally transformed her brother into a beastman.

From:

zorkian

Hah, that sounds really interesting! Okay!

And I will try to do more writing about the games I play and the things I'm working on. Of late, my Tau army is still in the painting stage, my High Elf army is still half in build, and my Gondor (War of the Ring) army is in paint as well.

From:

havocthecat

Ooh, shiny. What games do you RP in?

Honestly, I have to be reminded every now and again the RP isn't automatically fannish. I guess it comes from most of the people I know doing character backgrounds for their LARPs that are intricately researched and thousands of words long. It just feels fannish to me.

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zorkian

The main roleplaying I do right now is a friday night LARP (live action RP) game:

http://masquerade.endogaming.net/

I keep thinking about starting up a tabletop gaming group but I haven't really gotten around to doing it. I think it'd be a lot of fun though, but it's been so long since I DMd that I don't know if I can really do it anymore.

Edited (Link to the main page, not the forums.) Date: 2010-03-18 08:18 pm (UTC)

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nacbrie

Your identity: Hi! I'm Nacbrie. I'm a science student, twenty years old but forty years young (these dang kids today!), and I'm originally from London but I've been living in Dublin since I was ten. At this stage, it's anyone's guess where I'm from. I'm also female and bi, but I don't think that should matter very much.

What you are passionate about: Science. Picking out the bad science in scifi, but loving it anyway. Reading, widely, and deeply where I can. Debating - online, on the telly, in a big room with college students wearing tuxedos and saying 'hegemony' a lot. And chocolate. Always, always, chocolate.

How you use Dreamwidth: I post about RL, about things which interest me (which usually intersect with the topics mentioned above), and about media fandom. I use Dreamwidth to communicate with others, and to find people who are interesting to read.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style: http://nacbrie.dreamwidth.org/31081.html

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally:

oursin is always a source of items of interest and ticklish commentary.

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afuna

Knitting, and science, I cannot resist.

(I love your journal name, btw. You had me at "Erlenmeyer flask")

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nacbrie

Thanks! *g* Nice to meet you!

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scaramouche

Hello, adding you! Are we supposed to comment if we do that? I have no idea.

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nacbrie

Not sure - I've just been adding people without commenting - but very nice to meet you :)

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liv

I don't think you're particularly "supposed" to comment, cos most people will get a notification anyway if someone adds them. But since people are using this post to meet new folk, which is the idea, then commenting to say can't hurt.

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Okay. The first line of your profile made me giggle my occasionally silly lolcat speaking ass off, so I'm going to add you. :)

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nacbrie

:D

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darkemeralds

Cooking! Media fandom! Over 30! I love your writing, so I'm subscribing.

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nacbrie

Aw, thank you! Nice to meet you.

(20, not 30, but tickled nonetheless).

Cycling?! *subscribes back*

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darkemeralds

Oh, I'm sorry--eep! I thought I read in your intro that you were...well, forgive my slip of the age, and nice to meet a fellow bike rider.

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meretia

I like your writing! May I add you?

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nacbrie

Of course, m'dear.

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feuille

Hi! Debating, baked goods and science sound like a really awesome combination (and your dog is really cute...) so I'm totally adding you, I hope you don't mind!

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ranunculus

Hi, saw your post, thought I'd subscribe...

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ursamajor

Chocolate! Nifty photos and science and a few entries back, calling Mr. Shue's hair "Justin Timberlake hair." Heeee. \o/ Subscribing!

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recessional

Your identity: I go by M, Marwen,

recessional; I'm a 25 year old queer polytheist mystic who grew up in Northern Canada and then ran away to the Wet Coast.

What you are passionate about: Theoretically, writing. Right now I'm mired in MDD and my anhedonia eats my head, so mostly I am passionate about how much I hate being depressed.

How you use Dreamwidth: Dreamwidth is my public journal: I do not as yet have any access-locked anything, and when I do it'll only be for

scifibigbang, because the entire point of DW is to be a more public space for me.

On my DW I do talk about some fannish stuff, but I'm not very active in "fandom". I babble about writing, and reading, and depression, and anything else that comes across my mind that I feel like talking about in public. I tend to average a post every one or two days so far, but that sometimes means a bunch of posts in one day and then long periods of silence.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style:
Scenes from a Paper is a good representation of my mundane sort of chatter; I Never Used to Write Fanfic is an excellent example of me going off on a lot of chatter about stories and how I like to twist them; Winter Leaving Universe Description, despite the misspellings, is me babbling about my original stuff; carries the act, finally, is an example more of what happens when I go off on more formal, performative writing.

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally: I am REALLY enjoying

fucking_meds existence. >.>

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st_aurafina

Yay for scifibigbang! I would have loved to have signed up for that, but I'm totally big-banged out at the moment. (That sounds ruder than I meant it to!)

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recessional

I tripped and fell and signed up! (I seem to be tripping and falling a LOT in that way this year). I blame Will and Lyra.

. . . scratch that, I blame Lyra.

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Oooh, I like your writing style; subscribing/accessing now!

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You're perfect. Added/subscribed, whatever. You're it.

--Kai

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ce_jour_la

Excuse the epic lateness of this comment--I've been on hiatus for too long, and I missed your comment the first time around. Found you through

lilalanor, incidentally, which led me to your sticky post (CM! Flashpoint! Tolkien!); seem to have similar journalling, if not writing habits, and I do the five million simultaneous worlds, too. :) If you're game, shall we give this whole subscribe/access thing a go?

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effex

Your identity: I'm Effex, a 25 year old USian currently living in Dallas*. I'm the graphic designer for a mid-sized retail company, a geek, a bookworm, an agnostic, queer, fannish, liberal/progressive, a feminist, an environmentalist, white, USian, and cis female.

* I've also lived in Iowa (for college, mostly), Southern California (Inland Empire, woo!) and Chicago (briefly).

What you are passionate about: Social justice, human rights, books (!!), paper (just... in general), history, science (particularly astronomy and physics), design, animals, storytelling, art, comics, human nature, SciFi and Fantasy, food, the inherent evil of the Papyrus typeface, etc.

How you use Dreamwidth: I do regular link/video/music/pic spams and book posts in addition to (the apparently much less frequent [pokes posting history]) art posts and fannish stuff (fanart, recposts, random acts of fiction). Sometimes I even talk about myself and my Expanded Thoughts on Things! But not often and usually under access lock, so.

Other interests that may occasionally get a mention: renfaires, ball-jointed dolls, incense crafting, book making, miniature horses, travel.

Sample post: This is my most recent Internet Readalong and this is my most recent book post.

Other journals:

*

cimorene for shoes and book discussion.

* [edits too long list] Everyone else on my Follow Friday posts.

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lunarwolfik

I agree with you that paper is awesome, as well as history and science. *high five*

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effex

[hive five]

Paper! It's amazing. So papery.

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delight

I have my own profound loves for stories, design, HATRED FOR PAPYRUS, social issues and ball-jointed dolls (I've always wanted one or a thousand but can't really afford any) along with, uh, most of the other things you've mentioned! So: definitely going to add you.

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effex

Stories is pretty central to my sense of self and how I, idk, interpret the world - amazing things, stories.

PAPYRUS, UNG. I mean, I don't like comic sans either, but I'm pretty sure it's the victim of the poor taste of others. Papyrus bends people to its evil will, it's the only explanation.

I <3 my bjds - they're (comparatively) less expensive Bobobie/Resin Soul models, but I like them the best so it's win/win [pats them].

Fantastic - adventures in paramedics sounds v. interesting, I will be adding you back! [goes off to do so]

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glass_icarus

All of this sounds awesome, so I am subscribing! :)

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Ah! You're plowing through Pratchett. Clearly you have exquisite taste. Adding!

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effex

And clearly you have exquisite taste to find Pratchett exquisite tasteful [grins]

Adding you back!

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miss_haitch

That sounds really fun, so I am subscribing!

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vi

Oh paper! I'm the sort who buys paper for craft purposes and is then reluctant to use it. >_> I also like links, arts, and books- definitely subscribing!

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merisunshine36

Your identity: I'm 25, female, African-American, originally from the midwestern United States but now on the East Coast, and a chronic victim of overscheduling.

What you are passionate about: My bike, food and beverage, Japanese language, finely tailored clothing, baby animals. Cinema and speculative fiction, especially by women and people of color.

How you use Dreamwidth: I've been primarily using it to cross-post star trek fanfiction, but I've decided to be more proactive about cross-posting all of my entries in order to widen my circle. Therefore, it's kind of on the impoverished side right now. My DW features fanfic, food posts, movie reviews, and meta, not necessarily in that order.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style: Here is one of my food posts, and here is me at my meta rantiest.

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally:

skywardprodigal makes amazing photo posts.

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glinda

I just read a couple of your food posts and they made me hungry, so I'd like to sign on for some of that and some Japanese language too.

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sinatra

...you had me at that Kirk meta. :D

*subscribes*

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afuna

Kirk meta, yay :D

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effex

Amazing brownie recipe *and* great Kirk meta? Consider me subscribed.

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glass_icarus

Ooh, food blogging and Star Trek?? Definitely relevant to my interests. *subscribes* :)

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vi

Your post reminded me that I forgot to add 'food' to my list of passions. =( I'm interested to read more!

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ursamajor

Biking and spec fic and food posts? Count me in! :)

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majoline

Your identity: I'm Margaret. I am a bi cis-woman currently in a relationship with the bf for almost 6 years. I'm a Navy kid who grew up in Italy/England, so getting used the culture shock of living in Mississippi still happens.

What you are passionate about: computer culture, paganism, reading, fandom, family, linguistics, equal rights and crafting

How you use dreamwidth: Originally I was using DW as a mirror of my livejournal, but considering how much more active DW is for me, I think I'm going to stop allowing comments on my el-jay and try to move over here more. I still have a lot of journals/comms that I follow AND I paid for a permanent account, so I'm not going to get rid of it.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style: Considering I haven't actually been here that long, if you want to find out anything about my writing you will have to check out the comments on my 3 sentence autobiography post.

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally:

rydra_wong has a finger on the pulse of dreamwidth and

dharma_slut is just such a good/thinky writer! I really recommend the "questions about Christian-identified fic" post (http://dharma-slut.dreamwidth.org/92726.html)

My favorite community is

poetry and it's very non threatening! Worth checking out.

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Who I Am
Katie, age 22½.
A bit of a photographer (but lacking a working camera); also a grassroots activist, knitter, bellringer and huge geek.

Passions
Equality for all (but especially LGBT women), human rights, civil liberties, digital rights.

How you use Dreamwidth
I have a post on that here! http://tajasel.dreamwidth.org/4725.html

My writing style differs depending on topic; take a look:

katieastrophe

I also have

tajasel_feed, a feed of my WordPress blog which is used to talk about politics at the moment but may involve geekery in future too.

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viklikesfic

I have to admit, I kind of added you because I love your icon and your layout. Shallow? Maybe. But friending memes don't have to be deep :-D

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meretia

Knitting photography geek, I can get behind that!

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st_aurafina

I, um, love your hat! And that you're a bellringer - how awesome.

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Your identity: non-white, English, queer, feminist, vegetarian, PhD student and apprentice academic, living in Nottingham by way of Liverpool, Winchester, Watford and Carlisle. MY research focus is on the British suffrage movement, but I also dabble in gender stuff.

What you are passionate about: Communication, languages, gender & sexuality, intersectionality, identity, feminism, equality, social justice, knowledge, the environment. I also like my rats, food, cycling and cheese (I treat it as a separate food group :D).

How you use Dreamwidth: As a record of how I spent my days, my Srs Thoughts On Research, wailing about my thesis, procrastinating and documenting the misadventures of my housemates.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style: Here's one where I get my rant on about terminology used to describe those involved in the suffrage movement and here's something about a mummified seagull.

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally: Erk, so many!

oursin always has something interesting though.

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My research focus is on the British suffrage movement, but I also dabble in gender stuff.
So, how did you not end up at Women's Conference...? ;-)

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Hah, haven't really got involved with Women's Network yet. I have been invited to give a talk on my research though :D

How was conference?

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It's going great, doesn't finish until tomorrow. I'm re-running opposite someone from SOAS for bi caucus later... quite nervous as she has a lot of people behind her, so I'm busy writing both a speech for that and open place just in case, meep.

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Good luck!

Are you planning to go to NUS LGBT conference? I'm crossing my fingers that I'll be able to go.

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I hope so. I'm bi rep until July, at least, so I'm eligible - but needs to be voted on within committee.

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I'm in much the same position - there's a space I can take which is fairly unlikely to be filled by anyone else, but the committee needs to decide.

From:

yasaman

Oh, someone else wailing about their thesis! I just posted wailing about my undergrad history thesis. Anyway, I am intrigued, and thus subscribing.

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Hello, nice to meet you :)

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viklikesfic

I think we may be academically compatible. Also, I was a cheeseatarian until my body gave up on teh cheese (so sad!)

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Your body can give up on cheese? *look of horror*

And hello, nice to meet you.

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viklikesfic

Well not entirely, but I can only handle cheese occasionally now. I used to eat it about twice a day, now I can handle a small amount a few times a week with an otherwise balanced diet. Woe.

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nextian

Oh hai, I love your serious thoughts! *subscribes*

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Thank you, I'm flattered.

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velvetpage

May I add you?

As an aside, I grew up in the Salvation Army and have done a few papers over the years on the intersection of the Sally Ann with the suffrage movement in Britain. My great-grandmother was a Hallelujah Girl in Nottingham, and my great-grandfather was of the generation when brass banding was still done for protection of Hallelujah Girls.

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Of course, nice to meet you.

Your background sounds really interesting! And one of the things I like about the suffrage movement was how extensive its intersections were and the range of concerns of people involved in the movement.

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