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Aug. 22nd, 2016 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rck1. Why did you sign up for DreamWidth?
Nobody actually in my fannish circles had been affected by Strikethrough or anything similar (probably because I was only in small fandoms), but I wandered enough on LJ to get the impression that this was a big thing, so I looked for a good place to crosspost. I was at InsaneJournal for a while, and I can’t remember how I got there or how I ended up on DreamWidth after that. There’s probably something in my journal about it, but I’m not willing to dig to find it. I’ve still not had any problems with LJ, and there are a lot of people I follow there rather than on DW, but DW is where I have a paid account.
2. Why did you choose your journal name?
Around 1987, a college friend was making fun of one of characters by calling her 'the RCK' which was short for 'the Red Cross Knight' from Spenser’s Faerie Queen. I grabbed it as a usable pseudonym and have used it, or a variation on it, in most places since.
3. Do you crosspost? Why or why not?
I do. I did it manually for quite a long time, and for a while, I was posting at DW, LJ, and IJ. I’ve dropped IJ at this point, and I now use DW’s crossposter. I just need to poke at that enough to figure out how to customize the notice at the bottom of the LJ posts because, in spite of what that says, I don’t mind comments in either place.
4. What do you do online when you’re not on DW?
I read a bunch of blogs via Feedly (on my phone). I chat with friends if anyone’s online and up for talking. Recently, I’ve been using Gdocs for writing because I can access it both from my laptop and from my phone. I manage my account at the local library. Sometimes, I try new-to-me music on YouTube.
5. How about when you’re not on the computer?
Household chores, reading books, Ingress (does that count as offline?), cuddling with my daughter.
6. What do you wish people who read your journal knew about you?
I’m not sure. I guess I assume people will ask if there’s something they’re wondering about. It’s not like I’m particularly secretive about my life.
7. What is your favorite community on DreamWidth?
Hm. Looking at the list of communities I follow, many of them seem to be fic exchanges and challenges that I thought about participating in (or at least about reading the resulting fic). There are several that I have no memory of joining and am not sure exactly what they are. I mean, I can guess from most community names, just not all of them. I don’t know. I suppose I’m pretty fond of![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fucking_meds and kink_finders.
::sighs:: I probably ought to weed my community memberships.
8. What community do you wish was more active?
Any of the Weiss Kreuz related communities. I don’t think I’m ever going to stop writing that fandom, and it works so much better when I have people to talk to.
9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?
I am not so very good at this sort of thing. My mind simply goes blank, and I start thinking that I don’t know very many of you well enough to have an opinion in that direction.
10. Tell me about your default icon.
On DW, my default is a woman sitting in a skeletal tree with fairly thick branches. I got it from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
iconriot. I just liked it a lot.
On LJ, my default icon is a ten year old picture of Cordelia dressed as a 'fairy witch.' When she was three, dress up clothes and costumes were huge in her life. Cordelia occasionally asks why I use such an old picture of her instead of updating. At this point, I don’t think I’d be comfortable using a recent picture of her even with her permission. Three year old Cordelia is very clearly not me. Thirteen year old Cordelia would also be not me to people who’ve been reading my journal for a while, but…
11. What features do you think DreamWidth should have that it doesn’t currently?
I’d really like a way to cc myself on PMs that includes information about who I sent the message to. I haven’t figured out how to do that, and I haven’t gotten a response to the support question I put in that asked if there was a way to do it. Currently, the copies I get of PMs I send all look like I sent them to myself and only to myself which leads me to questioning whether or not I actually sent them to the people I meant to get them. This seems to me to be fairly basic, and I’d hope it would be relatively easy to do.
12. What do you consider the five most "telling" interests from the list on your profile?
I’m completely blanking on this. Possibly the fact that I have several version of 'role playing games' listed might be a sign. I have a lot of things related to writing and reading and recommending fanfiction, too. There are also a lot of specific authors listed.
13. Do you have any unique interests on your user profile? What are they? How’d they get there?
Aria the Natural - This is a very sweet and soothing slice of life science fiction anime series with mostly female characters.
Fay Hield - She’s a British folk musician.
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - This is an old PBS show for kids that Cordelia watched over and over and over for several years. There were five seasons. It was part cartoon and part reality game show with six kids participating each season. The kids were all in the thirteen to fifteen age range, and there were always three girls and three boys. They competed in challenges that taught lessons about science and history, and they got to do things like visiting (and helping out at) an elephant sanctuary or planning and filming a PSA about the value of turkey vultures. The host was a cartoon dog, Ruff Ruffman, and there was a supporting cast of cartoon characters. The cartoon characters had a plot/adventure every episode that fit around the footage of the kids doing their challenges.
literary anthropology - I keep checking to see if I’ve misspelled that one because I can’t believe that I’m the only one interested. This is looking at works of literature to see what they say about the cultures that produced them and how changes, over time, reflect changes in those cultures.
Lloyd Biggle Jr - He was a science fiction and mystery author whose works I found in elementary school (1970s) and loved. The small library in the town where we lived while I was a teen had several of his books, too, so I ended up rereading those several times. Biggle’s books are pretty dated at this point, but the Suck Fairy and her various relatives have made any sort of major inroads there.
Marian Babson - Babson wrote a lot of mysteries that I really enjoyed before she took a left turn and started centering all of her mysteries on cats. I’m not sure if she’s still alive and/or publishing because cat POV mysteries really aren’t my thing. She also put me off by insisting in one book that having a cat allergy wasn’t a real thing and was probably a sign of true evil. But her earlier books… I loved some of them, and I own quite a lot of them. I preferred the ones that were funny over the grimmer ones, but the grim ones were very good, too. Let’s see… Murder on a Mystery Tour, Murder at the Cat Show, and Reel Murder were all excellent.
Mustard’s Retreat - This is a local folk music duo. I first heard them perform when they opened for John Prine, and I bought the one album of theirs that I could find at the time (on vinyl because it was the 1980s).
reasonable accommodation - I think this one maybe should be 'Just accommodation, damn it! Forget the reasonable thing' because too many people think that 'reasonable' means 'as long as I don’t have to do anything for it to happen.'
Sit and Be Fit - This is an exercise program that I did regularly up until I broke my foot last year. I still intend to get back to doing it regularly. I just haven’t managed yet. It’s aimed at people with mobility issues and physical limitations (definitely skewed toward older people as opposed to people with disabilities, but I haven’t found anything for people with disabilities, probably because there are so many different types of disability and each requires a different sort of approach). The show airs on one of our local PBS channels which is how I found it to begin with.
theater tech work - I haven’t done any theater work in any capacity since college (so almost thirty years), and most of the tech work I did was in high school, but it was fun, and I’d enjoy talking about it and hearing about what’s current.
theatrical style LARPs - For a long time, every time I mentioned LARPs, I got people who assumed it was all running around bashing each other with boffers. 'Theatrical style' LARPs tend to go a bit further than I necessarily would in terms of costuming and the like, but they’re a lot closer to what I enjoy than the other styles I’ve heard described. I have no idea if the label 'theatrical style' is still in use (if it’s not, that would explain why no one else lists it).
writing LARPs - I haven’t written a new LARP scenario since before Cordelia was born, but I’m still very interested. I’m more into it from the one shot side than from the campaign side.
14. Did you have a gateway fandom? Still in it? Why or why not? Is there a community for it on DW?
For reading fic, it was The Pretender which doesn’t have a DW community that I’ve been able to find. I still offer to write it every time I sign up for an exchange where someone’s nominated it. I’m not actually sure what qualifies as 'being in a fandom.'
For writing fic, it was Weiss Kreuz. That does have some DW communities, but I haven’t seen anything posted to any of them in a long time. I still have at least half a dozen WIP for the fandom, so I don’t think I’m ever leaving. I’m not sure why it should be the fandom that consistently gives me plot bunnies, but it is.
15. What is your current obsession? What about it captures your imagination?
The fic I’m currently working on. It’s pretty much always whatever i’m currently writing.
16. What are you glad you did but haven’t really had a chance to post about?
I can’t actually think of anything because I talk about most things here. Anything that I haven’t is something I never will, you know?
17. How many people on your reading list do you know IRL?
As in have met them offline? Seven, I think.adrian_turtle, jessicasteiner, jss, lemon_badgeress, filkertom, kyrielle (not sure if this counts as we said hello in passing at, I think, GenCon one year), rilina. Should I count my access locked writing journal, somethingdarker? I mean, I definitely know myself offline. ::laughs::
There are a lot of people I read on LJ who I know offline. I’m not going to try to list them.
I’m not actually convinced that online isn’t real life, though.
18. What don’t you talk about here, either because it’s too personal or because you don’t have the energy?
Not answering this one.
19. Any questions from the audience?
???
20. Yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?
Maybe at some point when my brain isn’t mush, I’ll be able to come up with something to say to this, but right now, I think I might just post this and head for bed.
21. What’s your favorite thing about DreamWidth?
Posting here makes me keep a record of things going on in my life in a way that I find helpful. I write in word processing documents and then cut and paste into the posting window, so I’m not just saving entries here.
Nobody actually in my fannish circles had been affected by Strikethrough or anything similar (probably because I was only in small fandoms), but I wandered enough on LJ to get the impression that this was a big thing, so I looked for a good place to crosspost. I was at InsaneJournal for a while, and I can’t remember how I got there or how I ended up on DreamWidth after that. There’s probably something in my journal about it, but I’m not willing to dig to find it. I’ve still not had any problems with LJ, and there are a lot of people I follow there rather than on DW, but DW is where I have a paid account.
2. Why did you choose your journal name?
Around 1987, a college friend was making fun of one of characters by calling her 'the RCK' which was short for 'the Red Cross Knight' from Spenser’s Faerie Queen. I grabbed it as a usable pseudonym and have used it, or a variation on it, in most places since.
3. Do you crosspost? Why or why not?
I do. I did it manually for quite a long time, and for a while, I was posting at DW, LJ, and IJ. I’ve dropped IJ at this point, and I now use DW’s crossposter. I just need to poke at that enough to figure out how to customize the notice at the bottom of the LJ posts because, in spite of what that says, I don’t mind comments in either place.
4. What do you do online when you’re not on DW?
I read a bunch of blogs via Feedly (on my phone). I chat with friends if anyone’s online and up for talking. Recently, I’ve been using Gdocs for writing because I can access it both from my laptop and from my phone. I manage my account at the local library. Sometimes, I try new-to-me music on YouTube.
5. How about when you’re not on the computer?
Household chores, reading books, Ingress (does that count as offline?), cuddling with my daughter.
6. What do you wish people who read your journal knew about you?
I’m not sure. I guess I assume people will ask if there’s something they’re wondering about. It’s not like I’m particularly secretive about my life.
7. What is your favorite community on DreamWidth?
Hm. Looking at the list of communities I follow, many of them seem to be fic exchanges and challenges that I thought about participating in (or at least about reading the resulting fic). There are several that I have no memory of joining and am not sure exactly what they are. I mean, I can guess from most community names, just not all of them. I don’t know. I suppose I’m pretty fond of
fucking_meds and kink_finders.::sighs:: I probably ought to weed my community memberships.
8. What community do you wish was more active?
Any of the Weiss Kreuz related communities. I don’t think I’m ever going to stop writing that fandom, and it works so much better when I have people to talk to.
9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?
I am not so very good at this sort of thing. My mind simply goes blank, and I start thinking that I don’t know very many of you well enough to have an opinion in that direction.
10. Tell me about your default icon.
On DW, my default is a woman sitting in a skeletal tree with fairly thick branches. I got it from
iconriot. I just liked it a lot.On LJ, my default icon is a ten year old picture of Cordelia dressed as a 'fairy witch.' When she was three, dress up clothes and costumes were huge in her life. Cordelia occasionally asks why I use such an old picture of her instead of updating. At this point, I don’t think I’d be comfortable using a recent picture of her even with her permission. Three year old Cordelia is very clearly not me. Thirteen year old Cordelia would also be not me to people who’ve been reading my journal for a while, but…
11. What features do you think DreamWidth should have that it doesn’t currently?
I’d really like a way to cc myself on PMs that includes information about who I sent the message to. I haven’t figured out how to do that, and I haven’t gotten a response to the support question I put in that asked if there was a way to do it. Currently, the copies I get of PMs I send all look like I sent them to myself and only to myself which leads me to questioning whether or not I actually sent them to the people I meant to get them. This seems to me to be fairly basic, and I’d hope it would be relatively easy to do.
12. What do you consider the five most "telling" interests from the list on your profile?
I’m completely blanking on this. Possibly the fact that I have several version of 'role playing games' listed might be a sign. I have a lot of things related to writing and reading and recommending fanfiction, too. There are also a lot of specific authors listed.
13. Do you have any unique interests on your user profile? What are they? How’d they get there?
Aria the Natural - This is a very sweet and soothing slice of life science fiction anime series with mostly female characters.
Fay Hield - She’s a British folk musician.
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - This is an old PBS show for kids that Cordelia watched over and over and over for several years. There were five seasons. It was part cartoon and part reality game show with six kids participating each season. The kids were all in the thirteen to fifteen age range, and there were always three girls and three boys. They competed in challenges that taught lessons about science and history, and they got to do things like visiting (and helping out at) an elephant sanctuary or planning and filming a PSA about the value of turkey vultures. The host was a cartoon dog, Ruff Ruffman, and there was a supporting cast of cartoon characters. The cartoon characters had a plot/adventure every episode that fit around the footage of the kids doing their challenges.
literary anthropology - I keep checking to see if I’ve misspelled that one because I can’t believe that I’m the only one interested. This is looking at works of literature to see what they say about the cultures that produced them and how changes, over time, reflect changes in those cultures.
Lloyd Biggle Jr - He was a science fiction and mystery author whose works I found in elementary school (1970s) and loved. The small library in the town where we lived while I was a teen had several of his books, too, so I ended up rereading those several times. Biggle’s books are pretty dated at this point, but the Suck Fairy and her various relatives have made any sort of major inroads there.
Marian Babson - Babson wrote a lot of mysteries that I really enjoyed before she took a left turn and started centering all of her mysteries on cats. I’m not sure if she’s still alive and/or publishing because cat POV mysteries really aren’t my thing. She also put me off by insisting in one book that having a cat allergy wasn’t a real thing and was probably a sign of true evil. But her earlier books… I loved some of them, and I own quite a lot of them. I preferred the ones that were funny over the grimmer ones, but the grim ones were very good, too. Let’s see… Murder on a Mystery Tour, Murder at the Cat Show, and Reel Murder were all excellent.
Mustard’s Retreat - This is a local folk music duo. I first heard them perform when they opened for John Prine, and I bought the one album of theirs that I could find at the time (on vinyl because it was the 1980s).
reasonable accommodation - I think this one maybe should be 'Just accommodation, damn it! Forget the reasonable thing' because too many people think that 'reasonable' means 'as long as I don’t have to do anything for it to happen.'
Sit and Be Fit - This is an exercise program that I did regularly up until I broke my foot last year. I still intend to get back to doing it regularly. I just haven’t managed yet. It’s aimed at people with mobility issues and physical limitations (definitely skewed toward older people as opposed to people with disabilities, but I haven’t found anything for people with disabilities, probably because there are so many different types of disability and each requires a different sort of approach). The show airs on one of our local PBS channels which is how I found it to begin with.
theater tech work - I haven’t done any theater work in any capacity since college (so almost thirty years), and most of the tech work I did was in high school, but it was fun, and I’d enjoy talking about it and hearing about what’s current.
theatrical style LARPs - For a long time, every time I mentioned LARPs, I got people who assumed it was all running around bashing each other with boffers. 'Theatrical style' LARPs tend to go a bit further than I necessarily would in terms of costuming and the like, but they’re a lot closer to what I enjoy than the other styles I’ve heard described. I have no idea if the label 'theatrical style' is still in use (if it’s not, that would explain why no one else lists it).
writing LARPs - I haven’t written a new LARP scenario since before Cordelia was born, but I’m still very interested. I’m more into it from the one shot side than from the campaign side.
14. Did you have a gateway fandom? Still in it? Why or why not? Is there a community for it on DW?
For reading fic, it was The Pretender which doesn’t have a DW community that I’ve been able to find. I still offer to write it every time I sign up for an exchange where someone’s nominated it. I’m not actually sure what qualifies as 'being in a fandom.'
For writing fic, it was Weiss Kreuz. That does have some DW communities, but I haven’t seen anything posted to any of them in a long time. I still have at least half a dozen WIP for the fandom, so I don’t think I’m ever leaving. I’m not sure why it should be the fandom that consistently gives me plot bunnies, but it is.
15. What is your current obsession? What about it captures your imagination?
The fic I’m currently working on. It’s pretty much always whatever i’m currently writing.
16. What are you glad you did but haven’t really had a chance to post about?
I can’t actually think of anything because I talk about most things here. Anything that I haven’t is something I never will, you know?
17. How many people on your reading list do you know IRL?
As in have met them offline? Seven, I think.
adrian_turtle, jessicasteiner, jss, lemon_badgeress, filkertom, kyrielle (not sure if this counts as we said hello in passing at, I think, GenCon one year), rilina. Should I count my access locked writing journal, somethingdarker? I mean, I definitely know myself offline. ::laughs::There are a lot of people I read on LJ who I know offline. I’m not going to try to list them.
I’m not actually convinced that online isn’t real life, though.
18. What don’t you talk about here, either because it’s too personal or because you don’t have the energy?
Not answering this one.
19. Any questions from the audience?
???
20. Yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?
Maybe at some point when my brain isn’t mush, I’ll be able to come up with something to say to this, but right now, I think I might just post this and head for bed.
21. What’s your favorite thing about DreamWidth?
Posting here makes me keep a record of things going on in my life in a way that I find helpful. I write in word processing documents and then cut and paste into the posting window, so I’m not just saving entries here.
