About This Journaler
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dragonlady7 It seems trendy to make introduction posts for yourself, so I'm gonna, because I goddamn love talking about myself. I even looked up how to make it sticky. I'm super-fancy y'all. (Seriously the FAQ on here is great.)
Most people call me B and I tend to do that when I talk about myself.
I've been writing a very long time, and have published some fic over the years. Most, though not all, is on AO3.
I go through cycles of not liking the limitations of various canons, though (WHY IS EVERY STAR WARS MOM DEAD), so I try my hand at original stories from time to time. I struggle with endings, so a lot of my fics have completed stories but the whole series never gets marked complete. Maybe I'll come back to them, maybe I won't; I have kind of a sprawling imagination and a terrible inability to stay organized, so it's hard to say.
IRL I am very into photography, and have worked at a small camera store for about a decade, though of late this has burned me out on photography for pleasure and I don't really do graphics edits and things because I'm just so tired of Photoshop. This is subject to change, though.
The other big thing I do in real life is that my darling youngest sister owns an organic farm in New York State's Capital District (near the city of Troy), and I spend about a third of my time there, mostly during the summer season. She has a subscription-based vegetable service (CSA) that serves about 110 families, with twice weekly on-farm pickups and a U-pick herb garden, and raises chickens for eggs and meat, turkeys for Thanksgiving, and they maintain a small passel (I looked it up, that's a technical term, they're not a herd or a flock) of hogs that they breed and raise on pasture to process for meat approximately twice annually. She also grows flowers that she sells both fresh and dried at the local farmer's market, along with the eggs and meat produced on the farm. (The vegetables are 100% for the subscribers, and aren't sold individually.) I started out just going every two weeks over the summer to help with the meat chicken processing, but I spend a lot of time there nowadays and have my own yurt that I set up every spring and take down every fall. My sister also has a daughter, born 2014, who I'm pretty close to and very amused by, and usually call Farmkid on here.
I have two other sisters, besides Farmsister: Eldest is in the Army and has three kids, I'm the second-oldest, and then Middle-Little is unmarried, like me, and lives in the city of Troy near the farm. (When there are four of you, you have to share your middle child syndrome. I never even got THAT to myself.)
I live the rest of the time in western NY with my Dude, who I impulse-moved-in-with in 2002, and we've moved several times and across state lines since then, so that's pretty stable even when I bitch about him. He's a vaguely computery guy for a living (we are not rich but he earns a decent living which is why my shit camera store job is fine interspersed with my basically-unpaid farm job; it means I've got no disposable income but I won't starve and can pay my bills, and it's complicated but it works), but Does Not Blog, or read this one. Sometimes I call him Z, which is confusing because that's not his initial (it's from his online handle, which is not on this site anywhere) and is the actual RL first-name initial of Farmsister's husband, so there's occasional mis-naming there, don't be alarmed. I generally assume people don't care about details when I'm telling stories, so don't worry if you can't keep it all straight. I'm not, like... alarmed at the idea of anyone finding out who I am in RL (which is why I link to my Instagram and uh the farm website which is pretty not anonymous), I just figure people's real names are harder to keep track of so I don't bother with them. Staying off Google for random blog posts is just a side benefit of that. (That said please don't doxx me, it's just weird?? I live in a canvas shack in the woods and yeah you could easily triangulate its location but we have a lot of guns in the country why would you get involved in that?? And I get why other people are into privacy so don't worry if you let your RL identity slip or something, I am disinterested in connecting anything and won't out you to anybody.)
Other RL interests and things include cooking, sewing, embroidery (hand and machine!), singing, and cocktail crafting (I was a bartender full-time for four or five years and come from a pretty robust drinking culture), and I used to do roller derby-- skated for nine years and helped found a league and then my career-ending injury involved skipping practice because my knee hurt, and then falling down a flight of stairs and spraining both ankles, one quite severely, and that was that. That was almost five years ago, now, I think, though, and I've been back on rollerskates exactly twice and I miss it but I'm over it, thanks. (My skate name was B-17, after the WWII bombers.)
I'm on a bunch of other sites and those are all linked in my profile. I haven't really gone into what fandoms I'm in because I'm in an original fic phase at the moment and so my interest in and involvement in fandoms is at a low ebb. I consume relatively little media, so most of the stuff fandom types are into is just completely irrelevant to me. Six years on Tumblr means I know who most of the generally-popular actors are, at least, and whether they've ever done semi-unclothed modeling gigs, which is as good an insight into popular culture as any, right?
I will make a good-faith effort to use tags intelligently and conscientiously, and beyond that, will attempt to put anything I think is upsetting or distressing or just boring under a cut, well-described. Do, please, feel free to let me know if there's anything you specifically need cut, tagged, warned for, or whatever (a lot of things I'll definitely cut and warn for by default but probably won't discuss often enough to tag for, the way tags work on this site). I can't promise I'll always remember, but I will do my darnedest. I'm also habitually foul-mouthed for effect, though for some reason I find myself censoring that more here, maybe Tumblr just brought out the crudest in me.
Tags I will absolutely use that you might want to blacklist (and here's a post on how that works on Dreamwidth):
I am not particularly a Dreamwidth veteran but I cut my teeth on Livejournal in the early aughts so I'm more fluent with the culture of this kind of site in general than many other Tumblr refugees, so I have both an insider and outsider perspective on the weird culture of this kind of place and most importantly, on the fun shit you can do with the HTML coding and such, so. Hit me up if you have questions, I like people, but if I don't answer back promptly, I do go through not-very-talky sort of depressive phases, and when I'm at the farm my online time is super limited.
Most people call me B and I tend to do that when I talk about myself.
I've been writing a very long time, and have published some fic over the years. Most, though not all, is on AO3.
I go through cycles of not liking the limitations of various canons, though (WHY IS EVERY STAR WARS MOM DEAD), so I try my hand at original stories from time to time. I struggle with endings, so a lot of my fics have completed stories but the whole series never gets marked complete. Maybe I'll come back to them, maybe I won't; I have kind of a sprawling imagination and a terrible inability to stay organized, so it's hard to say.
IRL I am very into photography, and have worked at a small camera store for about a decade, though of late this has burned me out on photography for pleasure and I don't really do graphics edits and things because I'm just so tired of Photoshop. This is subject to change, though.
The other big thing I do in real life is that my darling youngest sister owns an organic farm in New York State's Capital District (near the city of Troy), and I spend about a third of my time there, mostly during the summer season. She has a subscription-based vegetable service (CSA) that serves about 110 families, with twice weekly on-farm pickups and a U-pick herb garden, and raises chickens for eggs and meat, turkeys for Thanksgiving, and they maintain a small passel (I looked it up, that's a technical term, they're not a herd or a flock) of hogs that they breed and raise on pasture to process for meat approximately twice annually. She also grows flowers that she sells both fresh and dried at the local farmer's market, along with the eggs and meat produced on the farm. (The vegetables are 100% for the subscribers, and aren't sold individually.) I started out just going every two weeks over the summer to help with the meat chicken processing, but I spend a lot of time there nowadays and have my own yurt that I set up every spring and take down every fall. My sister also has a daughter, born 2014, who I'm pretty close to and very amused by, and usually call Farmkid on here.
I have two other sisters, besides Farmsister: Eldest is in the Army and has three kids, I'm the second-oldest, and then Middle-Little is unmarried, like me, and lives in the city of Troy near the farm. (When there are four of you, you have to share your middle child syndrome. I never even got THAT to myself.)
I live the rest of the time in western NY with my Dude, who I impulse-moved-in-with in 2002, and we've moved several times and across state lines since then, so that's pretty stable even when I bitch about him. He's a vaguely computery guy for a living (we are not rich but he earns a decent living which is why my shit camera store job is fine interspersed with my basically-unpaid farm job; it means I've got no disposable income but I won't starve and can pay my bills, and it's complicated but it works), but Does Not Blog, or read this one. Sometimes I call him Z, which is confusing because that's not his initial (it's from his online handle, which is not on this site anywhere) and is the actual RL first-name initial of Farmsister's husband, so there's occasional mis-naming there, don't be alarmed. I generally assume people don't care about details when I'm telling stories, so don't worry if you can't keep it all straight. I'm not, like... alarmed at the idea of anyone finding out who I am in RL (which is why I link to my Instagram and uh the farm website which is pretty not anonymous), I just figure people's real names are harder to keep track of so I don't bother with them. Staying off Google for random blog posts is just a side benefit of that. (That said please don't doxx me, it's just weird?? I live in a canvas shack in the woods and yeah you could easily triangulate its location but we have a lot of guns in the country why would you get involved in that?? And I get why other people are into privacy so don't worry if you let your RL identity slip or something, I am disinterested in connecting anything and won't out you to anybody.)
Other RL interests and things include cooking, sewing, embroidery (hand and machine!), singing, and cocktail crafting (I was a bartender full-time for four or five years and come from a pretty robust drinking culture), and I used to do roller derby-- skated for nine years and helped found a league and then my career-ending injury involved skipping practice because my knee hurt, and then falling down a flight of stairs and spraining both ankles, one quite severely, and that was that. That was almost five years ago, now, I think, though, and I've been back on rollerskates exactly twice and I miss it but I'm over it, thanks. (My skate name was B-17, after the WWII bombers.)
I'm on a bunch of other sites and those are all linked in my profile. I haven't really gone into what fandoms I'm in because I'm in an original fic phase at the moment and so my interest in and involvement in fandoms is at a low ebb. I consume relatively little media, so most of the stuff fandom types are into is just completely irrelevant to me. Six years on Tumblr means I know who most of the generally-popular actors are, at least, and whether they've ever done semi-unclothed modeling gigs, which is as good an insight into popular culture as any, right?
I will make a good-faith effort to use tags intelligently and conscientiously, and beyond that, will attempt to put anything I think is upsetting or distressing or just boring under a cut, well-described. Do, please, feel free to let me know if there's anything you specifically need cut, tagged, warned for, or whatever (a lot of things I'll definitely cut and warn for by default but probably won't discuss often enough to tag for, the way tags work on this site). I can't promise I'll always remember, but I will do my darnedest. I'm also habitually foul-mouthed for effect, though for some reason I find myself censoring that more here, maybe Tumblr just brought out the crudest in me.
Tags I will absolutely use that you might want to blacklist (and here's a post on how that works on Dreamwidth):
- for discussion of farm work involving livestock interactions that may be not for the faint-hearted, I will use the tag animal slaughter
- for discussions of drinking, with which I think I have a healthy relationship but many don't and I get it, I will tag alcohol
- for discussions of my writing, I'll use my writing
- for personal posts about me, I'll use about the author
I am not particularly a Dreamwidth veteran but I cut my teeth on Livejournal in the early aughts so I'm more fluent with the culture of this kind of site in general than many other Tumblr refugees, so I have both an insider and outsider perspective on the weird culture of this kind of place and most importantly, on the fun shit you can do with the HTML coding and such, so. Hit me up if you have questions, I like people, but if I don't answer back promptly, I do go through not-very-talky sort of depressive phases, and when I'm at the farm my online time is super limited.
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Date: 2018-12-09 02:22 am (UTC)I remember once years ago when you posted yourself singing! You have an amazing voice! I also remember avidly reading your original WIP which I believe you called "the Barbarian." That had great promise.
Whatever happened to that?
You sent me down memory lane!
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Date: 2018-12-11 03:34 am (UTC)And thanks for being nice. It's been a fun ride knowing you this long and I'm glad you're still findable. :)
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Date: 2024-11-22 10:52 pm (UTC)So, that question, and feel free to not answer it, or to backchannel me somehow (I still don't know that I'm staying here yet, because it seems built less for users and more for tech-savvy coding types: Who am I talking to?
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Date: 2024-11-24 01:14 am (UTC)Dreamwidth just works like an old code fork of Livejournal from before SixApart took over. It's an open-source version of the platform. So it's not very full of modern social media frills, and works the way old social media used to, where if you wanted it to do anything fancy you had to make it do the fancy things yourself. But it also didn't collect your information to sell it, so.
But someone following you on Dreamwidth doesn't particularly give them any access to you. I just subscribed because I remember I used to follow you on LJ, though I honestly don't particularly remember who you were. All "subscribing" means is that if I look at my reading page, your entries would show up there. It's not sinister, it just means I would read your public entries along with those of every other person and community I'm subscribed to. If you "grant access" to me, then that means that if you post things friends-locked, I'd be able to be included on the list, though you can further customize that and make it accessible only to people you specifically include.