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I used to have an intro post, but it is long lost to the un-tagged history and it was old, too, so here's a new shiny one for everyone I friended last month:
1. Me == Long-time geekgrrl (no, really, I remember when Wolverine first appeared in the comic books. And yes, I was reading them back then, so I really am a hopeless geek.) Electrical engineer, now working in software. Most of the time that's awesome (like when I get to play with GoogleGlass), but sometimes it means I get called a fake geek girl over lunch. The mood of my posts will vary accordingly.
2. HoB == The House of Boys, my traveling circus of a family, including 3 teen/tween boychildren (cleverly referred to as Oldest, #2Son, & BabyBoy); D, my husband of 20+ years, who is best described as the shorter, baseball-coaching brother of Eric Taylor from Friday Night Lights (no, really. that show was documentary-like in more ways than I'm totally comfortable with. Unfortunately, I am nowhere near as awesome as Tami, but we all have our aspirations in life, yes?); RileyTheDog, our Dalmatian mix of a rescue pup; and (the only other female in the house), Curia, the Dalek masquerading as a delicate and dainty kitty. (She brings us fresh kills weekly.)
3. We have a few health issues in our house, including my neat-o autoimmune disorder (hey, it had its own episode of House, and no, it's not lupus), Oldest's hearing loss, #2's severe anxiety disorder, and my mom's triple, non-related cancers and the unfortunate side-effects from the chemo that saved her life from cancer #3 while she was still recovering from cancer #2, but did some really bad stuff to her insides. (She has her own patient number and is has been referenced specifically in studies from MD Anderson/Sloan Kettering/Johns Hopkins. She calls this her 15 minutes of fame; the rest of us would really rather she'd gotten famous some other way.) I mention this because while I don't generally talk about any of it here (I have this icon that says it all: I do have a life, thanks--fandom is what keeps me from committing murder in it), I sometimes fade off the radar while I deal with all.
4. I write fic, mostly slash, but sometimes het and gen. I have almost everything posted to AO3, where I am![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
topaz. I do tend to like the unconventional pairings, fyi.(Cf: Jeff/Jensen, Jeff/Jared, Kirk/Pike, Hawkeye/everybody.) Also, (in case you haven't noticed already) I do like my babbling narrators and sentences that neverever end.
5. I read a ton of fic, too, and try to keep track of things that make me smile or cry, or blow my mind with how hot they are. I'm perpetually behind in sharing them, but I do get around to it. I tag them here with things that made me happy and cross-post them with tags and all on![[pinboard.in profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/c3508662f31c/-/pinboard.in/favicon.ico)
topaz119. (I'm up over 800 links there. I may throw a party when I hit 1000.)
6. Meta & me? Tend to get a long much better when it comes out in my fic so most of my actual fannish discourse is along the lines of squee! yay! ♥! I'm still thinking about stuff, it'll just work itself out when I look at whatever fic is on my gdocs and think, huh. yeah, I guess that *is* how I see things.
7. I don't read nearly as many books as I used to, but I haven't totally thrown in the towel. I usually end up mentioning what I have managed to read and love to chat about you're reading, too.
8. FOOD. My sole domestic talent is cooking, so that's always fair game for a post or two a month. And I've been known to include recipes in my author's notes of fic. Eating out is also taken seriously in my house, (you don't want to see my google map of restaurants I want to try in-town), so if I'm ever venturing somewhere where I know a flister/circle-er lives, I do hit them up for recommendations.
9. Beach Week / Disney World / crazy travels with the HOB. We've spent a week for the last 23 years in an ocean-front house on the coast of South Carolina with my bridesmaids and their families. I will start gearing up for Year 24 soon, and since that entails 18-20 people in one house, the planning and organizing does tend to spill over here. You might get a reprieve from Disney World for the next year or so, as we've gone multiple times this past year and I think we could use a break, but ... then again, maybe not. Also, D is not the kind of person to go sit and look at the scenery, so whenever we travel, I am in overdrive with the planning (because if I don't keep him busy, I'll kill him. And that Would Be Bad.) which also spills over here.
10. X-Men. Batman. Star Wars (OT). ST:TOS. XF. LOTR. *NSYNC. SPN. ST:AOS. H50. MCU. ===> Fannish life, on- and off-line, starting from when I was about 10.
I also spend some time at![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
topaz119 & I love to interact wherever!
1. Me == Long-time geekgrrl (no, really, I remember when Wolverine first appeared in the comic books. And yes, I was reading them back then, so I really am a hopeless geek.) Electrical engineer, now working in software. Most of the time that's awesome (like when I get to play with GoogleGlass), but sometimes it means I get called a fake geek girl over lunch. The mood of my posts will vary accordingly.
2. HoB == The House of Boys, my traveling circus of a family, including 3 teen/tween boychildren (cleverly referred to as Oldest, #2Son, & BabyBoy); D, my husband of 20+ years, who is best described as the shorter, baseball-coaching brother of Eric Taylor from Friday Night Lights (no, really. that show was documentary-like in more ways than I'm totally comfortable with. Unfortunately, I am nowhere near as awesome as Tami, but we all have our aspirations in life, yes?); RileyTheDog, our Dalmatian mix of a rescue pup; and (the only other female in the house), Curia, the Dalek masquerading as a delicate and dainty kitty. (She brings us fresh kills weekly.)
3. We have a few health issues in our house, including my neat-o autoimmune disorder (hey, it had its own episode of House, and no, it's not lupus), Oldest's hearing loss, #2's severe anxiety disorder, and my mom's triple, non-related cancers and the unfortunate side-effects from the chemo that saved her life from cancer #3 while she was still recovering from cancer #2, but did some really bad stuff to her insides. (She has her own patient number and is has been referenced specifically in studies from MD Anderson/Sloan Kettering/Johns Hopkins. She calls this her 15 minutes of fame; the rest of us would really rather she'd gotten famous some other way.) I mention this because while I don't generally talk about any of it here (I have this icon that says it all: I do have a life, thanks--fandom is what keeps me from committing murder in it), I sometimes fade off the radar while I deal with all.
4. I write fic, mostly slash, but sometimes het and gen. I have almost everything posted to AO3, where I am
5. I read a ton of fic, too, and try to keep track of things that make me smile or cry, or blow my mind with how hot they are. I'm perpetually behind in sharing them, but I do get around to it. I tag them here with things that made me happy and cross-post them with tags and all on
6. Meta & me? Tend to get a long much better when it comes out in my fic so most of my actual fannish discourse is along the lines of squee! yay! ♥! I'm still thinking about stuff, it'll just work itself out when I look at whatever fic is on my gdocs and think, huh. yeah, I guess that *is* how I see things.
7. I don't read nearly as many books as I used to, but I haven't totally thrown in the towel. I usually end up mentioning what I have managed to read and love to chat about you're reading, too.
8. FOOD. My sole domestic talent is cooking, so that's always fair game for a post or two a month. And I've been known to include recipes in my author's notes of fic. Eating out is also taken seriously in my house, (you don't want to see my google map of restaurants I want to try in-town), so if I'm ever venturing somewhere where I know a flister/circle-er lives, I do hit them up for recommendations.
9. Beach Week / Disney World / crazy travels with the HOB. We've spent a week for the last 23 years in an ocean-front house on the coast of South Carolina with my bridesmaids and their families. I will start gearing up for Year 24 soon, and since that entails 18-20 people in one house, the planning and organizing does tend to spill over here. You might get a reprieve from Disney World for the next year or so, as we've gone multiple times this past year and I think we could use a break, but ... then again, maybe not. Also, D is not the kind of person to go sit and look at the scenery, so whenever we travel, I am in overdrive with the planning (because if I don't keep him busy, I'll kill him. And that Would Be Bad.) which also spills over here.
10. X-Men. Batman. Star Wars (OT). ST:TOS. XF. LOTR. *NSYNC. SPN. ST:AOS. H50. MCU. ===> Fannish life, on- and off-line, starting from when I was about 10.
I also spend some time at
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