So, an introduction of sorts.

[valis2]

For all of the new and exciting people who've friended me recently, an introduction. A re-introduction for those of you who have suffered through my LJ for longer.



From a previous question meme:

The lion has to do with a trip I took to Italy several years ago. I ended up photographing several lion statues, and I wrote a poem about photographing lion statues, and it just sort of stuck. I don't care about *real* lions at all, honestly, but a lion statue...they intrigue me. After I wrote that poem I just kept seeing lion statues. People make symbols out of lions.

I'm not making much sense, but I guess it has to do with all sorts of feelings I experienced in Italy, thoughts of being a stranger in my own 'culture' and then being a stranger in an entirely different culture. There I was, not wanting to do 'tourist'-like things, yet I couldn't stop myself from taking these pictures of lions (the lion is the unofficial symbol of Venice & St. Mark's).

I just wanted to use pictures that I had taken myself. I'm rather stubborn that way. I didn't want to have to mess around with figuring out how to credit and such. I just wanted a nice set of icons with a common theme. I started with the lion and with some grave marker icons, and then I phased out the grave marker icons when I took more pics of lion statues and scanned in pics.

I also am intrigued by lions in art, and what emotions the artists infuse them with. We do so much projection with art, and I always like to see what artists show with art of lions.

More answers here. Thoughts about friending here.

I started out in the Mummy fandom, honestly. I wandered into HP fandom because I wrote a quick smutlet (we used to call them "weasels") for my friend bookwench2096 about Snape accusing her of hiding something from him, and insisting upon doing a strip search. (I wonder if she still has that.) I wasn't really into him while I was writing it, but then it started to work on my subconscious, and before I knew it, I was thinking about him quite a bit.

I went online officially in Nov 2003, when I bought my supah computah. I spent a few months reading everything about the Mummy I could get my hands on, but I also started to look through stuff in the Harry Potter world as well. I ended up spending three months on ffnet reading, skimming, or at least checking out the summary for EVERY Snape story there. Seriously. I looked at them all.

I was telling Bookwench about a story that had taken root in my brain, and she wisely steered me to look up Mary Sue online. I did so, and became fascinated with that author's rite-of-passage...the self-insert. Based on what I read, I went through and changed a lot of things in my head, and eventually began to post The Last Sanguimagus online. It's a story I usually abbreviate as tLS, and I talk about it quite a bit. It's a ss/ofc story, still a WIP, and I've learned a lot about writing just from the experience of working on it. Nearly everything else I've written has ended up here.

I'm pretty spazzy, and I do like to comment quite a bit. I post nearly every day that I'm home, but I'm gone over four months every year, so there will be points where I'm not saying anything. I always leave a message so you'll know when I'll be back to spam everyone again.

Occasionally I slip into a trance, and become valismort, high queen of unknowable custard. I'm not really into memes, except text-based ones. I have a couple I've developed that I do every so often, the Everyone Gets a Compliment meme (example here) and the valismort Death Eater Flist meme (example here).

I have a lot of fun with livejournal. I like to talk about fandom and RL, and I like to ponder about absurdities, and rant occasionally. I still really love the HP fandom, and I haven't really explored any other fandom yet. HP fascinates me because I love the characters.

I also have an unhealthy obsession with bad!fic. I talk about bad!fic mostly with fellow bad!ficcers on MoMAD, a private yahoo mailing list. If you want to apply to join, you're more than welcome to.

I do not friendslock posts. I do not filter. I read each and every entry on my flist. Even when I go away I try to make an effort to read everything when I come back.

I can't think of anything else to add! heh.



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