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Avatar: Azula colour meme by ~sqbr on deviantART

Avatar: Azula colour meme on tumblr

Since Artician was an irritating spoon-suck(*), I have combined my desire to have an alternative venue to DeviantArt with a vague thought I had about making a tumblr for my fanart. Thus! alias-sqbr@tumblr. No idea if I'll get bored of it or if anyone will bother subscribing etc but there you are. (nb this is separate to sqbr @ tumblr, which is pretty much just for very occasionally reblogging things)

(*)Though they have nice hotlinkable large preview images that I may use from time to time on places like AO3

I am still frustratingly blah and stupid after Worldcon (I knew it would take longer than I expected to get back up to my usual level of crapness, and yet it still has) and thus not answering mail and screwing things up(*). (Original title of this post: "Three posts that didn")

So! My attempts to make a sticky post having screwed up my ability to crosspost for a while, three posts that didn't get crossposted to livejournal when I made them:
Non spoilery thoughts near the end of Mass Effect
Spoilery thoughts on Mass Effect
Things I like in creative works

Speaking of which, I have a bunch of dreamwidth invites if anyone's interested, it's not usually this much of a pain, honest :) Plus one AO3 invite.

And so there's some new content for the dreamwidth folks: am playing Mass Effect 2, it's awesome, but now I'm wondering if I want to go back and redo ME1 to get a more complete and integrated backstory. Bioware is totally my master now.

(*)I decided to take my mind off needing to deal with my email and making a doctors appointment by playing Mass Effect 2...and in game got an email from the ship's doctor telling me to go see her about my health.

This is my personal/fannish journal. For topics I feel require a more serious and moderated approach I have sqbr.

You may be also interested in:

• Other places to find me online.
  
• Things I assume you know about me.
  
• Things I like in creative works.
  

Posts I end up linking to a lot:

• Advice for people with chronic fatigue (which may or may not be chronic fatigue syndrome)
  
• Masterlists: collections of reaction posts to various fiction and non-fiction, mostly dating sims but also like...queer theory and Dracula.
  

At least that seems to be the reason why our home internet can't see any dw addresses. Have contacted support but until then am relying in the iPad which is a pain. I am still getting comments etc but can't reply.

Ug. Plus westnet, our Internet provider, are being broken half the time they seem to have broken their system.

I may be forced to turn to Twitter and tumblr where I am sqbr of course.

So! It looks like I will set aside Wednesday of next week for seeing people in Melbourne. Let me know if you want to come and at roughly what times you are free (I have to keep some of the day free to register for the con, though since the hotel is attached to the convention centre that hopefully won't take long). I'm at the Hilton South Wharf.

Here's my contact details (which I think everyone who expressed an interest should all be able to see)

If you need to update your enrolment be quick! http://www.aec.gov.au/Enrolling_to_vote/Update_enrolment.htm

So I decided the only reason I hadn't posted to fanfiction.net was snobbery and that was unfair on the poor huddling masses who might otherwise find some brief moment of joy reading my glorious and unique stories. Thus I uploaded a bunch of fic to ff.net, basically everything that's not a WiP or really short and insignificant. Notice that only left me with seven works as opposed to the forty(!) I have at AO3, I was reminded of how many of my stories are in comic form!

I immediately got a bunch of positive reviews which was nice, but mostly I'm enjoying the stats feature which is trivial but fun, seeing how many readers (say they) came from Canada or the Phillipines etc. My Dr Who fic is the only one not dominated by US readers, for some reason...

I tell you what: AO3 really is a lot better to use, especially for categorising and searching for fic.

I've been meaning to make a post about this for ages but it refuses to come out right.

So: on the whole I don't like hugs. That includes virtual *hugs*. I am for some reason ok with "positive vibes". Touching in general I'm wierd about. It's not a fear thing, or a sex thing (mostly, though that does make things more fraught), it's more an emotional thing. It doesn't mean I don't like you!

I'm...weird about emotions. I have real trouble expressing them, and by the time I'm at a point where I can talk about something that makes me sad I'm usually not actually feeling that sad about it, and people comforting me as if I am sad makes me Very Uncomfortable(*).

I also tend to get weirded out by flirting, even if it's obvious the other person is joking. (Though sometimes I'm not) On the whole I get uncomfortable talking about sex, though this is the result of neurosis not conservatism (or lack of interest! :)), and the more dispassionate and intellectual the discussion the more comfortable I am.

Aaaannd that's enough of that. You can ask questions if you feel you need clarification but I may have trouble answering. Right now I feel like I've been holding my hand to a mild electrical current (a rough approximation of my mental response to thinking about things that make me feel neurotic).

(And thanks again to livewareissue for the icon :))

(*)The primary motivation for this post being that I can link to it when I think I'm in danger of being given lots of *hug*s

Lj comment notification appears to be entirely borked for many (all?) people, but I noticed that for some reason "recent comments" doesn't seem to be, so you can at least see comments on your own lj:
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml

I have a bunch. Comments screened, give me your email address (I think a gmail one works best?)

I will be setting this post to private once the invites are gone.

I already did a friends-locked post and had a total of one request so people I don't know are free to ask.