Ten things that probably make sense anyway.

[sapote]

1) This icon is kind of badly made (by me), but both my boyfriend and my mother thought it was me, so if you're wondering what I look like, apparently I look like Jeannie McKay with a rounder chin.

2) My brother, my mother, and my sister all stalk this lj from time to time. This has kind of killed any intention I had of writing smut, but I wasn't particularly gung-ho about writing smut to start with, so actually, meh.

3) I started off reading fanfiction and metafannish stuff when I didn't have any access to television - hello, hippie mountain childhood - and fandom has pretty much been my fandom the whole way through. I think that's one reason why I wrote in SGA - it was easy to get caught up in the SGA zeitgeist without actually having to watch the whole show.

4) I am not so good at watching actual shows. I have a very low tolerance for general mayhem and bloodshed, for starters, which means the most recent generation of televised scifi awesomeness was mostly lost on me.

5) I tend to cycle in and out of fannishness depending on what else is going on in my life; my point of greatest fandom immersion was also when I had more free time then anyone in the world should reasonably have, and right now I'm trying to figure out how to reintegrate fannishness and other hobbies with a job and a relationship and sometimes having clean laundry and exercising.

6) Right now I mostly post on a friendslocked filter in which I ramble on about my feelings and what I had for lunch. I didn't intend this journal to become my real life journal, but I've really enjoyed that aspect of it, even if I wonder sometimes how much I tax the patience of the people on my real life filter.

7) My other workday internet hobby is getting into fights on blogs, which I need to stop doing, because it isn't good for anyone's blood pressure. I am generally upset about the Patriarchy, which may not be the most constructive way to go through life.

8) I was absolutely sure I wanted to work in sustainable development projects in Central America from age 14 until I actually tried it full time nine years later, at which point I crashed face-first into the fact that the reason we praise people who work internationally is because it's incredibly hard to do well. So lately I spend a lot of time feeling vocationally at sea and compensating by being a sustainability nerd. My Spanish isn't bad, at least, and I do kind of know how to form a self-sufficient farming compound in the case of industrial collapse?

8.5) Also, I was raised in towns that were fairly serious about forming self-sufficient compounds in the case of industrial collapse. It wasn't until I moved out of Appalachia that I realized that it was a fairly weird preoccupation.

9) My natural tendency is to be very serious about everything, and I honestly credit fandom with teaching me that it's okay to be cheerful and goofy in public.

10) I used to write every day; I am trying to learn how to do that again.

Also, I'm in my mid-twenties, I'm white, I'm Southern-ish, I'm cisgendered, I'm as straight as can reasonably be declared, and my paid LJ account just ran out so I'm about to get serious about migrating to Dreamwidth (from which I will probably crosspost).

ETA: I would never edit something this far back, normally, but hello from 2013: dear Sapote, you aren't straight, you knew that back then, and you were kidding yourself pretty hardcore. Love, future Sapote.