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Hello new people!

Given the givens, it seems high time I made an intro post for new arrivals and recent returnees. Apparently my last one of these was in 2012?! I've cribbed off my last one where it was still relevant and added new stuff as warranted. Including the list format. I love a list.


  • I'm Scottish and I'm a Gaelic learner. I live in the Highlands and work in a technical capacity in Gaelic language media. (I can bitch about UK politics in two languages!)

  • I have odd obsessions with Ireland, Wales, Canada, Japan and - most especially - Germany. I have a list of cities I want to live in as long as my arm.

  • I love maps, postcards, old photos, and the smell of old reference libraries and leather bound books.

  • I am the elusive BBC Radio 7 listener. I'm a total public service broadcasting fangirl. I love radio drama and radio documentaries and podcasts and was heartbroken the day they closed the BBC Radiophonics Workshop as I realised that I would never work there.

  • I suffer from anxiety, which can mostly be described as 'a right nuisance' and was better described as debilitating for large swathes of last year. I did the therapy dance for a while and it definitely helped (10/10, do recommend) finally having a reasonably secure job and quitting the temp job I hated was also a significant factor.
  • I need one of those 'I knit so I don't kill people signs' and love all kinds of crafts, including cross-stich, crochet, knitting, beadwork and umm...woodwork.

  • I enjoy cooking to the extent of having a food blog, and I'm currently experimenting with growing my own herbs and vegetables. I'm also saving up to buy a flat, and not enjoying how much of my life it is taking over.

  • I'm bisexual and genderqueer. I'm equally happy with female or non gendered pronouns. I'm currently single, partly because I'm in my mid-thirties and more interested in my career than kids, a lot of my dating pool at the moment have gone baby-mad so I'm waiting them out.

  • Fannish-wise: I'm a life-long Doctor Who geek (especially extended canon). Beside that I've been known to write fic for: Stargate SG1, Harry Potter, Merlin, Firefly, Buffy/Angel, Stardust, Neverwhere, Good Omens, Sandman, Discworld, Torchwood, Star Trek (AOS), Pushing Daisies, Avengers (both 60s spy show and the Marvel movies), Narnia, Being Human, Dark Angel, Big Bang Theory, Rivers of London, Ghostbusters, Wolf 359, Leverage and a whole host of really tiny fandoms. I make and listen to podfic, love watching vids. I adore meta (mmm crunchy thinky thoughts) but don't really have the brain space these days to write it myself. I'm mainly a femslasher, though I happily write het and slash too, and my response to a love triangle in canon is almost always 'threesome'.

  • I'm a small scale comics fan, I love Sandman, FreakAngels, Global Frequency, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and Sin City. My adventures in current-ish Marvel output is confined to Black Widow, Hawkeye and Ms Marvel. I'm currently slowly working my way through both Tintin and Asterix the Gaul in Gaelic.

  • I'm a large scale film fan. I'm an ex film student and I own or have read a lot of film theory (I read academic books on different parts of the media for fun - check out my list of books read this year for an idea of my magpie interests), I've seen a lot of films, though I've not seen a lot of the 'classics' and my 'to watch' list is massive. I love documentaries, silent films, short films, Universal Horror movies, film noir, 50s B Movies, zombie films, Hammer Horror, bad 80s blockbusters and action flicks, Japanese samuri flicks, intelligent but not pretentious European art house cinema, awkwardly charming Australian films and will watch pretty much anything I can get hold of in a minority language.

  • I like lists. :D


Date: 5 Dec 2018 10:03 pm (UTC)
raven: [hello my name is] and a silhouette image of a raven (Default)
From: [personal profile] raven
I did not know you were genderqueer! What are your pronouns in Gaelic?

Date: 6 Dec 2018 10:23 pm (UTC)
raven: [hello my name is] and a silhouette image of a raven (Default)
From: [personal profile] raven
Well, it's another slightly unlikely thing we have in common. :) One day when I'm fluent - a longer-off day for me than for you! - I'm going to try and set a trend for i pronouns with non-lenited adjectives.

Date: 5 Dec 2018 10:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] anoyo
HELLO AGAIN! I noticed the word Wales.

I am super interested in the history of Wales, specifically anecdotally or in common custom, rather than in academic or official capacities. My family is from Wales, but sort of dropped all of our history and went super blue-collar-immigrant-yay! We're from somewhere inside of the Forest of Dean (are there villages there? everything I read in books is so, so academic), and the sole signs of our Welsh history are that I have great uncles named Forest and Dean.

Also, apparently Elizabeth is a matronymic for our family? (And James is an insanely common last name, so no real help there.)

WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT WELSH THINGS.

Date: 5 Dec 2018 11:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dhampyresa
I can bitch about UK politics in two languages!
An admirable thing!

Also talk to me about woodwork?

Date: 6 Dec 2018 12:33 am (UTC)
cloudsinvenice: "everyone's mental health is a bit shit right now, so be gentle" (Default)
From: [personal profile] cloudsinvenice
I enjoy it when people post these, because I've been terrible at keeping in touch with everyone, and it's nice to be reminded that, for instance, you're another Sandman fan. :)

Date: 6 Dec 2018 11:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cloudsinvenice
Did you ever read Sandman Overture? I'm starting to be curious about it!

Date: 10 Dec 2018 04:55 pm (UTC)
cloudsinvenice: "everyone's mental health is a bit shit right now, so be gentle" (Default)
From: [personal profile] cloudsinvenice
Oh wow, I hadn't realised they'd done a collection of the Death stories too!

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