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aceeccentricIf anyone is coming here from Tumblr (which I suspect most of you are), hello!
I am terribly awkward and bad at talking about myself, but memes are easy to fill out, so I wrote one up. You can copy/paste the text from the text box if you want to do the same in your own journal or in the comments. (And feel free to skip any questions you don't want to answer. I wrote some questions I didn't answer.) Also, add any questions you wish were on there.
Later I'll make a post about creating an ace community (still interested in possible names! Right now people have suggested GroupX and acecommunity).
username:aceeccentric
What you can call me: ace eccentric
My default icon explained: A Good Omens reference. In the bottom right corner is the top of an angel wing. The background is mostly blue with a strip of white at the top. It features the quote "Just enough of a bastard to be worth liking" said by a demon character in reference to an angel character.
Sexuality: Asexual romantic
Gender: Neutrois, genderqueer
Preferred pronouns: She and her
Other platforms I'm on: Wordpress and Tumblr
Favorite books: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Favorite movies: the Harry Potter movies, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Princess Bride
Favorite TV shows: Stargate: Atlantis, most of the USA Network original shows, Leverage, Doctor Who
Languages I know: Just English. I remember a tiny bit of Latin from school.
Occupation: Grad student. Studying library and information science.
Location: Southeastern United States
A long-term goal: I'd like to get some original fiction published someday.
My superpower would be: Healing people. It used to be telekinesis, but I have too many people in my life who can't get to a doctor.
Favorite animals: Basset hounds and sharks
Hobbies: Writing fanfic and original fic, reading
How I would describe my personality: Introverted, protective, thoughtful, semi-optimistic, awkward.
I am terribly awkward and bad at talking about myself, but memes are easy to fill out, so I wrote one up. You can copy/paste the text from the text box if you want to do the same in your own journal or in the comments. (And feel free to skip any questions you don't want to answer. I wrote some questions I didn't answer.) Also, add any questions you wish were on there.
Later I'll make a post about creating an ace community (still interested in possible names! Right now people have suggested GroupX and acecommunity).
username:
aceeccentricWhat you can call me: ace eccentric
My default icon explained: A Good Omens reference. In the bottom right corner is the top of an angel wing. The background is mostly blue with a strip of white at the top. It features the quote "Just enough of a bastard to be worth liking" said by a demon character in reference to an angel character.
Sexuality: Asexual romantic
Gender: Neutrois, genderqueer
Preferred pronouns: She and her
Other platforms I'm on: Wordpress and Tumblr
Favorite books: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Favorite movies: the Harry Potter movies, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Princess Bride
Favorite TV shows: Stargate: Atlantis, most of the USA Network original shows, Leverage, Doctor Who
Languages I know: Just English. I remember a tiny bit of Latin from school.
Occupation: Grad student. Studying library and information science.
Location: Southeastern United States
A long-term goal: I'd like to get some original fiction published someday.
My superpower would be: Healing people. It used to be telekinesis, but I have too many people in my life who can't get to a doctor.
Favorite animals: Basset hounds and sharks
Hobbies: Writing fanfic and original fic, reading
How I would describe my personality: Introverted, protective, thoughtful, semi-optimistic, awkward.
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Date: 2011-07-29 09:40 pm (UTC)username: Shiyiya
What you can call me: Shiyiya (pronounced shih-yie-yuh), Shi or Shiy (pronounced shy) for short. Because I don't really expect other people to be able to spell it.
My default icon explained: It's one of those mangatar generator things! It looks mostly like me! Except I normally wear one braid rather than two.
Sexuality: Queer *romantic polyamorous demisexual.
Gender: Girl
Preferred pronouns: She/her
Other platforms I'm on: That's a weird thought, I'm not on that many others anymore. Twitter, I suppose.
Favorite books: ALL OF THEM. Pratchett, Tamora Pierce, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Tales Of The Five Hundred Kingdoms, Garth Nix, I LOVE BOOKS.
Favorite movies: Karigurashi no Arrietty. Also, Jesus Christ Superstar, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Muppet Christmas Carol, The Princess Bride, Repo! The Genetic Opera. I like musicals.
Favorite TV shows: Doctor Who.
Favorite songs: That is about as hard as books. Seanan McGuire and SJ Tucker top the list of artists.
Languages I know: English. I've mostly forgotten my two years of French class, sadface. I miss French class.
Occupation: Waiting to turn 21 and emigrate.
Location: Arizona
Pets: Two cats, Tabby and Bluebell. They're sisters and they turned ten in March.
Favorite food: Uh. Cheese?
A long-term goal: ...I'd like to learn to can?
A short-term goal: Finish my Discworld reread, I suppose.
My superpower would be: I'd really like teleportation. What with living in Arizona and having partners in England and Texas.
Favorite animals: Caaaaaaaaaats. Also, birds of prey are *gorgeous*.
Hobbies: Variable. I'm not a very solid sort of person. I'm knitting and crocheting again right now, but I probably won't be in a month or two.
How I would describe my personality: Impermanent.
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Date: 2011-07-30 02:15 pm (UTC)username: anghraine
What you can call me: Elizabeth or Anghraine
My default icon explained: It's a picture of Jane Austen with INTJ scribbled in the corner, since she's always listed as one, my personal icon of INTJ-ness and being awesome, and the icon represents my main interests (stories and psychology!).
Sexuality: aromantic asexual
Gender: femaleish
Preferred pronouns: she/her
Other platforms I'm on: lj, wordpress
Favorite books: Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, Good Omens (yay, there are others!), the Young Wizards books by Diane Duane, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Women of the Underworld by Kelley Armstrong, the Belgariad, Malloreon, Elenium, and Tamuli by David Eddings, Cotillion by Georgette Heyer, The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis, the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, the Emily books by LM Montgomery, and many more!
Favorite movies: Star Wars, original trilogy only
Favorite TV shows: Castle, Bones, Lie To Me, Avatar: the Last Airbender
Favorite songs: the soundtrack to every SW movie ever, This Is Gallifrey, Going Back To Hogwarts, Viva la Vida, I'll Make a Man Of You, Mr Blue Sky, Revolutionary Etude, Do You Wanna Date My Avatar, Battle of the Pelennor Fields, For Unto Us A Child Is Born ... um, it's a bit eclectic.
Languages I know: English; some Spanish
Occupation: undergrad in English
Location: Portland, Oregon (well, I sleep about thirty miles away, but I go to university there so I spend most of my life there)
Pets: a spoiled cat, elderly dog, and ninety-pound puppy
Favorite food: Um. Hamburgers, probably.
A long-term goal: Get into a graduate program. Somehow.
A short-term goal: Finish my au_bigbang stories by the fifth. Right.
My superpower would be: I'd like empathy or elemental control. It'd probably be invisibility though.
Favorite animals: cats!
Hobbies: reading, writing, playing the piano and flute, playing Guild Wars, making virtual paper dolls (idek)
How I would describe my personality: straightforward, awkward, obstinate, chilly, analytical, obsessive, introverted, opinionated
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Date: 2011-07-30 03:36 pm (UTC)I was an English undergrad too :) Do you want to do that for grad school?
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Date: 2011-07-30 06:07 pm (UTC)Heh, awesome. I think I'd like to do English for grad school, probably - I'm a writing minor and I love that, too, but analysis is really my thing. :)
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Date: 2011-07-30 06:11 pm (UTC)I wish you luck! :) Analysis can be fun.
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Date: 2011-07-31 12:34 am (UTC)Good Omens is an awesome, and I am actually on my fourth copy of mine--two vanished into an endless cycle of lending and borrowing with friends, one exploded when left in my then-roommate's car, and I finally bought a fourth one last year. Then I got back one of the ones in the lending/borrowing cycle, so now I have a Crowley-covered one and an Aziraphale-covered one, which is all kinds of excellent.
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Date: 2011-07-31 12:53 am (UTC)I read a quote from Pratchett or Gaiman once that said whenever they're asked to sign Good Omens, it's never a new copy, but one that's held together with rubber bands or carried in a plastic bag to keep it from falling apart. Which I thought was probably accurate :)
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Date: 2011-07-31 01:09 am (UTC)I thought it was accurate too, especially given the state of mine! Did you also see the bit about "weirdest things they have been asked to sign by Good Omens fans?"
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Date: 2011-07-31 01:18 am (UTC)I have not! I tried to Google it but only found the bit about Crowley doing weird things with his tongue. *cough*
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Date: 2011-07-31 01:43 am (UTC)The one I remember most vividly is someone--I think Neil--signing a person's arm, only to find a few hours later when the person came back that they'd run off to a tattoo parlor and had the signature tattooed on!
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Date: 2011-07-31 02:23 am (UTC)Wow. That's quite something. Dedication, definitely. I can bet he was not expecting that.
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Date: 2011-07-31 12:39 am (UTC)username: virescence
What you can call me: Anything so long as it's not rude? XD Most people shorten this username to Vire or Vir.
My default icon explained: "virescence" means "the state or process of becoming green". So... green leaves.
Sexuality: Asexual. Not entirely sure about the whole romantic side of it - sort of wtf-aromantic in a "I don't think I feel romance but really it depends on your definition" way. I have a zucchini though!
Gender: Female
Preferred pronouns: She/her
Other platforms I'm on: I vaguely use tumblr as likespacegandalf, and I was on AVEN with the same name.
Favorite books: ... I'm doing an MA in Creative Writing. Naming favourite books involves me staring blankly at you for a bit, then staring at my bookshelves/Kindle and picking the first things I see that I remember as being pretty good. That said: Anything written by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, or both. Also rather liking Ursula Le Guin generally but need to read more of her - the bookstores have a really poor selection. The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas, The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, The Regneration Trilogy by Pat Barker (which I borrowed from a friend and never gave back because it had been sitting on her bookshelves unread for years and it did not deserve this treatment). And harry Potter because that's my generation.
Favorite movies: I'm not that big on movies in general, but recently I watched X-Men First Class and am sort of addicted to fanfic for it.
Favorite TV shows: I don't watch much TV, so this is pretty much a list of what I watch. Doctor Who, always and forever. Sherlock. Merlin. And recently My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I am not ashamed.
Favorite songs: Not very big on music (I see a pattern here) but I just noticed someone else mentioned This Is Gallifrey so OH MY GOD YES (it's my ringtone and has been for years: the text alert is the TARDIS). Also Song of Freedom. Other than that... Still Alive? Oooh, I own an album by Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid - my brother-in-law was playing it on repeat once when I was staying with them and I had to get it.
Languages I know: English, and I have a GCSE in Latin and French, but if you stranded me in France or the Roman Empire I'd probably fail at communicating completely.
Occupation: Student, also part-time office job.
Location: England! Specifically Manchester.
Pets: None, actually, though my mother is planning on getting a poodle.
Favorite food: Chocolate? Or chicken. Or pizza.
A long-term goal: Publish a novel. O.o.
A short-term goal: Finish my %&(*^ing dissertation and graduate this MA.
My superpower would be: Oh, god, I don't even know, everyone keeps asking me altely XD. Possibly flight. Or healing. Or shielding. Or... I'd like some sort of really subtle background power that isn't all flashy and used in battles and things but is really pretty powerful/awesome when you think about it. I've been thinking about the ability to fix things. because a) pretty useful on an everyday basis, b) it gives me healing powers anyway (injuries are things that need fixing!) and c)... what about fixing abstract things, like a broken heart, or a relationship, or THE WORLD? (although for fixing those sorts of things I wouldn't just want to be able to wave a hand and poof! two people are magically back in love, because that's sort of mind controlly and creepy. I'm thinking something more like, I get the sudden urge to go and talk to Person A and pat them on the back a bit and suggest that they go and apologise to Person B and try a particular compromise, and then that fixes things.
Favorite animals: I like most of the ones that aren't scary/ugly/creepy/ Cats? or some of the ones that give me lovely yarn to knit.
Hobbies: Knitting, reading, writing, baking cakes, various other bits and pieces.
How I would describe my personality: This is a question I always have trouble with. I'm not very good at seeing me from the outside. I'm just me. I think I'm friendly. I'm certainly loyal? or I try to be. Very, very much a procrastinator and I can be rather lazy.
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Date: 2011-07-31 01:10 am (UTC)I like the description of your power :) That sounds like a nice thing to have.
Also for a second I forgot yarn could come from animals and pictured cats buying and bringing you yarn, lol.
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Date: 2011-07-31 05:05 am (UTC)What you can call me: Haley
My default icon explained: It's... my face.
Sexuality: Grey-a heteroromantic
Gender: Female
Preferred pronouns: She, her, and so on and so forth
Other platforms I'm on: haleysunshine.tumblr.com
Favorite books: The Road, Leaves of Grass, Heart of Darkness, A Farewell to Arms, Harry Potter
Favorite movies: I don't think I have one...
Favorite TV shows: The New Adventures of Old Christine, How I Met Your Mother,Sherlock
Favorite songs: There, There Katie by Jack's Mannequin; I Saw by Matt Nathanson; Marching Bands of Manhattan by Death Cab for Cutie
Languages I know: English and four years of high school French... so, just English
Occupation: About to be a college freshman
Location: Texas, soon to be VA
Pets: None
Favorite food: I like peanut butter... and oatmeal... and cottage cheese
A long-term goal: I mean, hopefully I'll graduate college and go on to grad school.
A short-term goal: 4.0 for my first semester
My superpower would be: A super-awesome memory... Or the ability to make people uncomfortable with a single glance.
Favorite animals: Giraffes and otters
Hobbies: Quilting, calligraphy, wasting lime, eating
How I would describe my personality: Introverted, awkward, sensitive, aloof as fuck.
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Date: 2011-07-31 05:09 am (UTC)Yay for college! I hope your first semester goes well and you achieve your goal. :) Do you know what you'll be majoring in?
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Date: 2011-08-03 09:36 pm (UTC)What you can call me: Azaelia or Azi
My default icon explained: Okay, this is going to be long. So I used to run (well I guess I technically still run it but it's dead now so) this Harry Potter fanboard. We'd always do stuff for April Fools' day because the board was sort of a celebration of pranking. One of the last years the site was still pretty active, our April Fools' joke was to re-skin the site into black and green and change all the admins and moderators usernames to those of Voldemort and the Death Eaters. One of my best friends, a fellow admin, got to be Voldie, and because she was around when we wanted to start the change, made the announcement post. In it, she said something to the lines of "And all shall bow to me! For I am Batma.. I mean, THE DARK LORD." I found it hilarious and made an icon of it.
Sexuality: Asexual. Possibly aromantic, possibly greyromantic (with panromantic leanings), possibly WTFRomantic, usually questioning my romantic orientation.
Gender: Cis-woman
Preferred pronouns: She/her/hers
Other platforms I'm on: Tumblr (as ace-azaelia). I also have an old empty wordpress but that's under my old failed internet pseud (it failed because people from meatspace started finding out about it).
Favorite books: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, John Green's books, right now I'm quite enjoying Leviathan by Scott Westerfield...
Favorite movies: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Batman Begins, Newsies...
Favorite TV shows: I grew up without TV and currently don't have cable so I have like 6 public access channels, but shows that I have the DVDs for include Avatar: The Last Airbender, Justice League Unlimited, Batman: the Animated Series, and Batman Beyond.
Favorite songs: The current five highest playcount songs on my itunes are The Batman themesong (the original one by Neal Hefti), The Dr. Horrible Themesong, the Superman Themesong, Brand New Day from Dr. Horrible, and I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today from Avenue Q. I also enjoy Hank Green's music and a lot of music that is significantly less nerdy than anything in the above list.
Languages I know: I am fluent in English, took a year of Italian, a semester of Spanish, understand French if it's something likely to show up on a cereal box, and speak a couple phrases in German and Dutch.
Occupation: Recent college grad, hopefully on my way to being a theatre technician of some sort. Or maybe a writer.
Location: Canada
Pets: None. I had an imaginary pet dragon when I was about 6, though.
Favorite food: I don't know, I like nutella, though.
A long-term goal: Well hopefully I'll actually finish a book at some point, whether or not it gets published...
A short-term goal: To find a day job until I can start getting theatre gigs with some regularity.
My superpower would be: If I got to choose it? Teleportation. If it chose me? Probably invisibility. Well, that or genre savvy.
Favorite animals: I am partial to ducks. And arctic foxes. And honey badgers. Honey badgers are badass.
Hobbies: Drawing, reading, making friendship bracelets, collecting embroidery floss in pretty colours, collecting playing cards.
How I would describe my personality: Quietly friendly, really awkward, nerdy, flexible, dependable, sometimes a bit anxious, apparently easy to get along with, apparently hard to really get to know. Sometimes really angsty and unsure of myself. Slowly gaining in confidence.
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Date: 2011-08-08 04:03 pm (UTC)Also, having had an imaginary pet dragon is awesome.
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Date: 2011-08-05 04:45 pm (UTC)What you can call me: Kaz, by preference. :)
My default icon explained: It's meant to be a white quill which has just finished writing the word "Kaz" dissolving into butterflies, but because my Photoshop skills are dreadful this is a bit unclear (I keep meaning to go back and edit this to make the butterflies actually look like butterflies.) I am not sure there is an explanation for this one beyond "I like butterflies."
Sexuality: Asexual, with a romantic orientation of divide by cucumber (or wtfromantic but that doesn't quite encapsulate the "ERROR QUESTION NONSENSICAL" feeling I get.) I used to call myself greyhomoromantic and still feel a vague connection to that as well as the identities of aromantic and homoromantic but I no longer consider myself any of those things.
Gender: Nonbinary representing~ I am somewhere in between woman and neutrois and looking for a somewhat easier way of describing this. (Neutroisgirl?)
Preferred pronouns: Ze/zer/zer or ze/eir/zer (as in, stealing "eir" as possessive from Spivak because it's so pretty *_*)
Other platforms I'm on: I'm Kazaera on tumblr and on LJ (which is really just a more-locked mirror of my DW with less posts these days) and some other places like the AO3 and others? Er, as far as I know that nick is unique so anytime you see a Kazaera it's me, although I prefer Kaz these days really.
Favorite books: Tamora Pierce all the way. I am also quite fond of Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series. Also, I have a deep, abiding and somewhat terrifying love for the Silmarillion, and <3 Pratchett (as if that's anything unusual). But my heart will always belong to the Circle of Magic series, I'm afraid.
Favorite movies: next question? I don't really watch video these days.
Favorite TV shows: see above. Although I've managed a few eps of Doctor Who and am sometimes interested in the fandom. :)
Favorite songs: ...?! um. Usually I like classical music with an occasional excursion into symphonic metal, medieval rock or suchlike, the past few weeks I've mainly had "the sound of tau" and the German children's song "Am Bahndamm wohnt der Regenmann" running through my head on repeat (that latter bitterly ironic, I should note, when it actually starts raining.) If we're talking actual songs songs there are quite a few I really liked from my time in the Waldjugend aka German eco-anarchist Scouts as a teenager? IDK I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THIS QUESTION.
Languages I know: My native language is German, took French and Latin for four years in high school but can't communicate in either, took one year each of Arabic, Scottish Gaelic and Mandarin but is pretty much hopelessly incompetent in all of these. And I can't speak English at all this comment and my entire online history is an optical illusion. :D
Occupation: pure maths PhD student. (This is the part where people generally start backing away.)
Location: Somewhere in the UK! Beyond that is se~cret~ :)
Pets: does my potted basil count?
Favorite food: ...still pizza after twenty years...
A long-term goal: My ~dream~ is to one day become a maths professor.
A short-term goal: Finishing this asexual flag scarf I am knitting! I am halfway through the third stripe THE END IS IN SIGHT. Also, I want to actually do the coder stuff for the AO3 because I volunteered for that ages ago and then got frightened off by a request form for over six months but I'd really like to do something there. >>
My superpower would be: FLYING FLYING OOH I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE :D
Favorite animals: errr. I am not much of an animal person, as the basil comment probably told you. >> Let me get back to you on this one. POSSIBLY BUTTERFLIES idek.
Hobbies: VARIABLE. Autistic interest patterns are an adventure. :D Usually something to do with fandom in some way, though, sometimes online flash games (in which case you will probably run into me ranting about the horror that is having your brain completely fixated on a mind-numbingly boring flash game seriously fate I would not wish on our trolls, even), very sometimes something crafty such as knitting or making jewellery or making chocolates. I also hike and do big cycling trips sometimes. :)?
How I would describe my personality: Indescribable. Uh. I don't actually believe in being able to sum up personalities in pat words like that? At least I've always been totally stuck whenever people want me to talk about mine. ;_; I am sorry, you will just have to figure out what sort of person I am by observation.
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Date: 2011-08-10 04:41 pm (UTC)I would like to make my own chocolates; I actually have a little chocolate-melter thing so that I don't have to do anything awkward with cobbling up a double boiler from random pots around my house. I would also like to make jewelery despite not wearing any because I think it's a cool art.