Autobiography Intro Post *waves at everyone I've friended*

Would you post a short (3 sentence) autobiography?

I was born in 1985 in Washington, D.C. and am a military kid. I now live in Mississippi after being raised in Italy/England; my life is full of culture shock! I run a small weekly newspaper and have a B.S. in Political Science from USM and I'm thinking about opening a cosmetics store.

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flourish

I was born in 1987 in Lincoln, NE, and grew up in Sacramento, CA, and pretty much was in fandom from the moment I could work a computer (despite the fact that my parents are not fen). I now live in Boston, MA and attend MIT for a master's, but not for very much longer; I don't really know where I'm going to be moving next, as my life is extremely up in the air right now. I also spend a lot of time nattering on about Christianity, video games, interactive fiction, and feminism, which is fairly fully reflective of my life (as is my icon: see me!).

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majoline

OOOh exciting! That's way more information than I was expecting too. I didn't want to scare anyone away. I took poli sci long enough to realize that I neither wanted to be in academia or be a politician or be a census collector.

I love fiction of all sorts, poetry is a particular favorite of mine, and I love fandom! I natter on about almost all Comparative Religious topics and enjoy discourse about ethics. I am a chaos mage & Mahayana Buddhist, with reflections into Western Hermetic thought which is a long ass way of saying I like the rituals of my Catholic childhood and I am post-modern about everything else and into lessing oppression.

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flourish

Hey, not at all! I'm very open about myself (being "out" and being easily googleable, and my fiction easily connectable to my name) so it's my pleasure.

I had a similar reaction to political science! Although mine was more like "damn, I become a horrible person when I'm doing things that are remotely political. I should try to be less horrible."

Haha, your description of yourself sounds quite a bit like my description of myself might be, with different specifics, of course. I can't wait to get to read your journal & interact with you more!

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majoline

Eh, It was more - how much can I blather on before I don't want to read this? That and I get nervous about that sort of thing!

I think everyone just ends up different ways, same end result after a while. There's a point where it's all, "Man, I'm just gonna be nice!"

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eumelia

I was born in 1985, In Israel, the first in my nuclear family to do so (we're immigrants, like a large portion of Israeli Jews).
I'm Jewish culturally, historically and mythologically speaking. Religion and the super-natural are not my thing, I wasn't always vocally anti-religious and I would be happy to be an Apathetic Agnostic, but the reality of my country doesn't enable me to do so.
I'm bisexual-queer (will id as gay when necessary), feminist, internationalist, anti-Occupation and a bunch of other things that mark me as a Loony-Leftist...

Oh and I'm at Uni studying Literary Theory and Women & Gender studies... I like being an acafen (I <3 fandom).

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majoline

Hello! I do understand wanting to be apathetic and just not hear anything about it. I lapse into atheism occasionally, but mostly I like rituals and trying my best to have moderation and treat everyone fairly.

I am a crazy libertarian which is confusing as I believe in treating everyone well and keeping my money. (Sometimes in America it seems like these are mutually exclusive) But yay for looney-lefies! They make sure the world goes 'round!

I id as bi but have been dating my current SO for almost 6 years now and we're het, so I don't actually think about my own identity. I mostly just get angry about others' lack of rights now.

And fandom is fabulous! So, if you don't mind my asking, what does the literary theorist think of fandom, professionally? Do you write any papers about fandom? I've seen some people do stuff like that. *is curious*

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eumelia

Oh boy, I totally gave you the wrong impression! I'm third year BA student, I'm totally not a pro-acafen like many others.

I am in the process (gah, pressure!) of writing a seminar paper about porn in slash fiction.

I view fic, beyond the entertainment value and the interaction with the text, as a meta textual expansion of the canon. Unlike various literary theories in which you (very broadly speaking) are either trying to break apart the text by its inconsistencies or it's underlying ideology or form a cohesive unit of meaning, fan reading (and its major product fic) searches for the holes, the inconsistencies and creates a logical causality as to why the things are the way they are in that fictional world, searching for a large cohesive meaning is silly and trying to deconstruct goes against the grain when it comes to writing fic as you're expanding the fictional world in which you're interacting.

Did that make any sense, or was that a big gobbledegook of jargon?

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majoline

Don't worry! It was just, oooh fan who is doing it for a degree, oooh!

No pressure, hon, no pressure! *sweatdrop* But wow, the thing that impresses me the most is the fact that you can have a paper topic like "porn in slash fiction". That's awesome. None of my paper topics were remotely that interesting ;)

And yeah, I think I get what you're saying! Unlike an original piece where our discussion is: what is this saying? what are the building blocks? Oh this is a plot hole, what was the author trying to convey?
all of us are here going: what happened if that was different? How do I fill that plot hole? What happens after/before/during a certain scene etc.

Oh crap, did I make sense?

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fizzyblogic

I was born in 1983 in Warwickshire, England (Shakespeare county!), in a hospital named after George Eliot, and take this as auspicious beginnings; words and literature are the greatest passions in my life, and if I were handed miraculous health tomorrow I'd go get degrees and be a Lit professor. I grew up in Leicestershire and Yorkshire, the former feeling more like home than the latter, though I retain enormous fondness for my home town in Leics; it's tiny and adorable and people who have visited me there said it suits me. As a kid, all I wanted to do was be an actor, but at the age of fourteen I became ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which I still have; I'm searching for better words for my mobility problems, since "bedbound" and "stuck in bed" are so negative; so now my ambitions are to manage my illness, have a family one day, and write write write.

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majoline

Mmm literature! I myself am a voracious reader and I love symbolism but am more of a linguist nut myself. I have unfortunately not seen much of the UK as I lived in Cornwall and occasionally visited Wales with a trip or two to London.

I almost ended up killing myself with stress and it took a cardiac stress attack to get me to take care of myself two years ago. I am now only getting to be mobile again, so I have some small inkling of how difficult it must be.

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holyschist

I was born in 1984 in California, to two computer scientists. I grew up in Oregon, doing crafts and learning about science and playing chess and generally being a wee geek. Now I am almost done with a too-expensive master's degree, buried in debt and looking desperately for a real job, but still a geek and otherwise pretty pleased with my life.

Bonus sentence: Also, I like to dress like historical people on weekends.

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majoline

I hear you! I was lucky enough to have the free dosh to pay my way, but hoh boy was that too expensive to keep up when I started having health problems and bad office politics went down (in the Poli-Sci department no less!).

A real job would be a life-saver. But in MS there are no jobs and it would cost more than I would get paid to be a waitress for gas money :(

Geeks are awesome! I am glad that you have found a healthy outlet :D

Dress like... is that the SCA thing I hear about? *is officially clueless*

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holyschist

I had assistantships for most of it, but it wasn't really enough, and whoooo the office politics. Horrid.

It is indeed that SCA thing, although I'd be interested in more serious reenactment if there were groups around here doing something I was interested in (there are Fur Trade guys, but...it's not my thing).

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majoline

Huh. That is completely cool sounding. It's always seemed like a really cool thing to do that involves other people but I wouldn't know where to start looking or even if at this point, being able to afford it.

I imagine it's right fun, though.

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holyschist

There's http://sca.org/, and you're in the kingdom of Gleann Abhan: http://www.kingdomofgleannabhann.org/

As far as affordability, it can be a pretty cheap hobby (all you really need is one set of clothing and site fees--and practices tend to be free, so it's entirely possible to get involved without either of those, in a limited way), or it can be a very, very expensive one. And the clothing can be borrowed initially. It's not uncommon for people to give away old clothing or fabric, or sometimes make clothing for newcomers. Anyway, trying it out can be free (except transportation), but I wouldn't call it a cheap hobby in the long run. Probably not one I would get into while unemployed.

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majoline

Thank you for the information, even if it's probably not something I will get into for a while yet. :D

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senmut

I am an Air Force Brat, ex-Army person, mostly female in my mid-30s who grew up mostly in the South. I worked my way through 90-odd credits before funding dried up, but am considering getting at least a Teaching Assistant's level degree just to get the heck out of retail. I am currently in a loving relationship that is poly, though I am only sharing this time, as opposed to the poly relationship that fell apart with the death of my 'wife', wherein my children remained with the father as their family was there.

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majoline

Ick retail. I hope that you do get the degree you would like and the job that would be more rewarding for you.

I'd never joined the military only because there are so many years of military school one can go through before burnout. I would have, but I wanted something different and I wanted to see America and now, with all my health problems, I'm really glad I didn't join.

I don't know what to say about anything else, because I've never really lost anyone I've been in a relationship with and losing grandparents one was care-taking is hard, but in a different way. And in completely different circumstances I would wager, I don't know what I would do if I lost the limited guardianship over my sister :/

Will you accept hugs and my attempt at sympathetic vibes? I don't have anything else.

Thank you for sharing :)

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senmut

That's more than enough. +hugs+

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