2019-12-01

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[personal profile] prixmium2019-12-01 03:10 pm
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Procedurally Generated Fandom Friend-Seeking Post

Hello community! I have made posts probably more than most users here. I don't subscribe to the community because it tends to be very boom and bust, and back when I did on another account it was sort of weirdly discouraging to have it be the majority of my reading page even when I wasn't actually making any friends. My experience on dreamwidth has gotten a lot better, and I have been thinking about my social media presence in general in the meantime. I am settling in to using dreamwidth, and I am developing some healthy distance from twitter, I think. (tumblr went the healthy-distance way a long time ago, though I do still technically have one.)

I have added a few people from the first few posts I saw in scrolling, because it is my belief that if you're going to make a post/write a fic/whatever and expect feedback that you ought to give at least some effort in kind. That said, I don't know that I have gone through every post since the last time I was here, so don't feel off-put if I didn't add you and you see this!

So for the form-letter part of this post:

Name: Prix
Age: 28
Country: USA but currently in Japan until December 14th.
Subscription/Access Policy: I usually subscribe and grant access in-kind to whatever you do if you add me first. So far, I don't really have any access-locked posts, but I do plan to use it in the future for anything that I think contains identifying information or which I would like to restrict broader access to. For example, I'm thinking about posting some meta-posts that will be dreamwidth-exclusive because I might want to try formulating them into a more polished format to be pitched to sites that might pay me for rambling in the future. It's an unlikely dream but a precaution I might take. I haven't decided. You can subscribe at any age, but I guess I'll elect to not grant access to minors. Pay attention to the age-restriction tag if it's there and any in-text warnings. They're rare but they happen.

Main Fandoms (at the moment): Doctor Who, Good Omens

Other Fandoms (just as likely to be main fandoms some months from now; I'm very cyclical): Agents of SHIELD, MCU, CW DCTV/Arrowverse, Fate/stay night (Type Moon), YuGiOh DM, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, The Society (Netflix series), The 100, Star Wars, ATLA, Steins;Gate/Robotics;Notes, Young Justice, Young Avengers, Carmilla, Skins (UK) S1-S4, Narnia (especially the movies/headcanon), The Hunger Games (I don't hate the movies but I want a new film/tv series in the future), Leverage, The Librarians, White Collar, and probably others I'm not listing at the moment.

Fannish Interests: I write fanfic when I can summon the concentration. I would say that I self-identify as a fic-writer more than anything else within the fandom ecosystem. I would like to write more extended efforts, but in recent times adulting and other more draining social media have gotten in the way. I hope that continued dreamwidth usage will help me with that!

I also make icons and other graphics. (I used to make gifsets on tumblr, but I haven't been able to make them lately. Plus I got tired of the low-effort engagement involved.)

I really want to get back into making fanvids, too. I made them on a sort of script-extended version of Windows Movie Maker back in high school and early university, but I haven't made any for years. I have started to make strides toward doing it again, though! I am excited to continue in the near future.

I like to write meta, too.

Basically anything that allows me to do creative commentary and I'm there. Some people say they lurk too much. If anything, I have the opposite problem. I feel skittish if I am not being productive in fandom in a way that may or may not be healthy. I honestly need to work on simply reading others' fic and watching others' vids without it causing me to feel like I am falling down on some self-defined job that I don't actually have.

OTPs and Ships (a smattering; I multi- and poly-ship often):

Under a cut because it seems long??? If you are interested in specifics read. If not, just know I ship Everything and in various intensities including some ~problematic~ things but mostly not. Biggest content warning is that in a handful of fandoms I have some sibling-incest ships. I tag and warn to high heaven if it comes up because I know it squicks some people out seriously, but depending on context I don't automatically condemn it because the world is weird and people are strange ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Seriously, though, this comes up like a few times a year at most and I'm usually pretty normal about ships.

Read more... )

Other Interests: I like listening to music, both popular and showtunes from musicals (I wasn't sure if I should list it as a fandom but lately have been watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend). I want to get into crocheting and guitar more than I have in the past. I have dabbled. I love dogs. I am interested in religious studies and my own self-knowledge and faith which I mention sometimes but not in a way that seeks to convert anyone against their wishes. I am pro-LGBT rights (bi myself haha). I am generally progressive in my politics, but sometimes my hardcore leftist friends don't think I'm far-left enough. However, I am compassionate and willing to listen when people think I'm wrong. I generally avoid political discourse on my blog here because twitter is exhausting enough, but I am interested in political philosophy, food justice, and economic justice in particular.

I'm weirdly addicted to true crime media.
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Bemused_Writer Reporting In

Name: "Bemused" or "Em" 
Subscription/Access Policy: Subscribe and unsubscribe as you like. If we have similar interests there's a decent chance I'll follow back. I don't give access because so far my posts are either public or private. The fandom stuff is all public.
 
Main Fandoms: As far as what I'm currently writing for: Vanitas no Carte, The Untamed, and Dragon Age. I'm doing chapter-by-chapter meta for Vanitas no Carte and I have several fics going for it. I'm also writing a fair amount for The Untamed and have a series for Dragon Age in the works.
Other Fandoms: Star Trek (most versions), Good Omens, CLAMP's works (specifically xxxHolic, Cardcaptor Sakura, X/1999), Pandora Hearts, Pet Shop of Horrors, Fullmetal Alchemist, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and The Lord of the Rings.
Fannish Interests: I love writing and reading meta and fanfic, I enjoy story-based podcasts, video games (point-and-click, RPGs, puzzle-based), NaNoWriMo, and setting reading goals via GoodReads. 
 
Favourite Movies: Pan's Labyrinth (in general I'm a fan of Guillermo del Toro), The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Spirited Away, and Pirates of the Caribbean. I also have an interest in silent film more generally.
TV Shows: Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Orphan Black, Good Omens, The Untamed, Pushing Daisies, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Good Place.
Books: The Stormlight Archive, The Golem and the Jinni, The Lord of the Rings, Uprooted, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Language of Thorns, The Borrowers, and the Little House series. Some favorite authors are Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, Douglas Adams, Jun Mochizuki, and Shaun Tan. 
Music: Metal, Art pop, and electronic. Two favorite artists at the moment are Blind Guardian and Susanne Sundfør, 
Games: Portal, Diablo I and II, Earthworm Jim, INSIDE, Dragon Age, SOMA, Penumbra, Sonic the Hedgehog, the Blackwell series, Unavowed, Dungeon Siege, Escape Goat, Thief Gold, and Thief: The Metal Age.
Comics/Anime/Misc: Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Batman: The Animated Series (and the DCAU), Yuri!!! on Ice, Princess Tutu, Cardcaptor Sakura, Nabari no Ou, Loki: Agent of Asgard, The Sandman, A Bride's Story, The Dragon Prince, and Fullmetal Alchemist.
 
Other Info: I've listed a lot of things here, but as far as what I'm posting about most at the moment it really is Vanitas no Carte, The Untamed, and the video games I'm currently playing, which at the moment are Mass Effect 2, Penumbra: Black Plague, and Planescape: Torment. I enjoy writing and talking about any of these fannish interests and I hope to find more people who are interested in similar things. ^^

I try not to discuss super heavy subjects on public on my journal, though I'm occasionally critical in my reviews of a series or of fandom itself. I use Tumblr, AO3, and Pillowfort as well, but I'm particularly fond of Dreamwidth. Some other hobbies of mine are crochet and tarot. Thanks for reading! ^^