STICKY POST: HI NEW FRANDS!

[osaraba]

I AM A FANGIRL.

That's probably one of the most important things you should know about me, here in the context of this journal. I get obsessed. Not in a scary/destructive/harmful way, but I've come to terms with the fact that this is what I do. I go through life being really into specific things for different lengths of time -- from a couple of weeks to years and years -- before my interest dies down (and sometimes is revived)!

Which, I suppose, is kind of why I have that handy-dandy CURRENT OBSESSIONS box in my sidebar. ^^;

CURRENT FANDOMS (most likely to be squeefully posted about): None! Oh noes! (RL is too busy atm.) PAST FANDOMS (but ones that often still make surprise appearances): Panic! At The Disco (and some bandom, by extension), Merlin, Inception, due South/C6D

FANFIC: I read about a million times more than I write. I'm a huge fan of shortform fiction. I have no aptitude for telling long stories; scenes suit me best. Reading epic fanfiction, however, is a thing I could do (and have done) all day long, every day.

THINGS I'M ALWAYS INTO (even if I don't often post about them):

• MUSIC. Here's a sampling of the range of my taste in music.
  
• READING. Sometimes fanfic, sometimes profic, sometimes non-fiction. Never NOT reading, though.
  
• TATS & BODY MODS. I've got a few (piercings: 16 ear, 1 nose; 10 tats... so far). I love talking body mods. You cannot go wrong talking body mods with me. I can restrain myself for politeness' sake, but there's no such thing as TMI for me; I haven't met a thing that has fazed me yet.
  
• HOCKEY. NY Rangers first; Chicago Blackhawks second. I'm cool with you liking your teams if you're cool with me liking mine.
  
• FEMINIST & LGBTQ ISSUES. I tend not to post about this stuff unless there's something that upset me. But I'm always interested in it, reading about it on the side, and absolutely welcome discussions!
  
• TRAVEL. Wish I could afford to do this more often. SADFACE.

FRIENDING POLICY: I LIKE NEW FRIENDS! I do actually read and keep up on all of my flist, even if I don't always comment. You can go ahead and friend me without saying anything but I usually don't friend back unless you comment. I've never (yet) had to do a mass defriending, but I reserve the right to do so in the future if reading my flist gets to be too much!

Feel free to follow me on twitter (especially if you're in bandom because EPIC SPENCER SMITH CONVOS!) or tumblr.

OTHER: I... sometimes write posts that read like "I did this today, and this, with this person, and it was awesome!" Fair warning: It's not very deep. I've had this journal for 10 years now; part of the reason I've continued writing in it for so long is that I'm able to look back and browse through entries and remember random fun times or shitty days and details and feelings that I wouldn't have remembered if I hadn't written them down.

Comments

[gandolforf.livejournal.com]

Hi there, new here. I love P!ATD too, so that's awesome. Although I've not heard the most recent album yet...need to get on that, but I was massively disappointed by the new MCR one ):

I tried to check out your song meme, but that's too many posts for me to go through rn, since I still need to read and comment on posts from a few days ago. Do you have last.fm? (Also, I will add you on twitter--same username as here. I've been using TweetDeck, though, and I sometimes forget to check it.)

I'm also looking forward to your posts about feminism and lgbtq stuff--even if they're upsetting stuff, which sucks, it's still good to know/discuss. Same with travel--I don't really get to myself, but I've loved what little I've done.

[osaraba]

I don't really listen to any other bands in bandom, like MCR or similar, in general that sound is a little too light for me. P!ATD is still kind of my guitly pleasure even though I'm not completely ashamed of it, hahaha. But their third album is closer to the first than the second -- but with a lot of 80s pop/new wave influence rather than pop-punk influence that went into Fever.

Oh yeah, please don't feel pressured to go through all/any of the posts or even comment. I linked them if you're curious but no worries either way! =D

As for the Feminist/LGBTQ stuff -- I generally just read http://www.feministe.us/blog/ and http://clarissethorn.com/ and so sometimes I'll post reactions if they're strong enough. I think I reblog more of that kind of stuff on tumblr than here, too.

[osaraba]

Sure! I wouldn't mind, though it's a bit hard to tell what kind of interests we have in common from your profile, and your journal is f-locked.

Happy Birthday!

[yaoichick.livejournal.com]

I hope your day is special and filled with sunshine and all good things! *hugs*

Re: Happy Birthday!

[osaraba]

Eeeeee thank youuuu! It's been a pretty great day. =D *HUGS*