it's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

[hitokage]

Name: Lise or Sel or Jagu, depending on context
Age: 38 for a whole two more weeks. Ish.
Location: Oh must we? Cascadia native in exile in the Deep South
Other: I'm on FB (twice), Twitter (multiple), Ao3, Patreon....

Describe yourself in five sentences or less: Invisibly disabled poor queer poly writer and part-time casual-core gamer girl trapped in a Red State hell. Ok, it's not quite that bad - at least I've got my wifey and our three cats. We're holding it together so far at least, and these days that's just going to have to be good enough.

Top 5 7 Fandoms: Visual Kei. Harry Potter. GetBackers. Stargate (SG-1&Atlantis). Yarn (shh, totally counts). Doctor Who. Transformers (G1).

I mostly post about: Currently, the most common topic is progress and woes related to the house me and wifey just moved into late last month. Also regular references to my writing (mis)adventures. And our three cats and their tendencies to fail at catting and/or be rude/adorable little assholes/cuddlebuckets.

My last few LJ posts were about: The level of random detritus left in the two other major areas of the house, fic/Patreon updates, yesterday's severe thunderstorms/tornadoes, The Death of LJ and nostalgia for the jrock fandom of the past.

How often do you post? How about commenting? I am currently on a thing where I'm trying to post every day. It ... hasn't managed to go for more than a couple weeks before something happens to disrupt my flow. I'm pretty good at reading, but I am admittedly completely balls at commenting. I blame my modest social anxiety issues.

My journal is almost entirely access-locked because I'm actually pretty private (and have (semi-ancient) history of stalkers), but I could use some more friends. Who knows, I might even talk about more than just asshats and people who should be fired out of cannons. (Not to be confused with canons).

Comments

[solarbird]

Cascadia native in exile in the Deep South
Oh, gods. I went to graduate school at the University of Kentucky. I'm so sorry.

[hitokage]

Spent the last two years living just outside of Clemson, SC, and that was.... I miss Seattle. And mountains. I can't get used to the sky down here.

[solarbird]

That freaks me out. But the physical thing I couldn't cope with - like, at all - was the heat. It was just unbearable. I finally figured out I just needed to eat salt a couple or three times a day and that was still awful? But not knock-me-unconscious awful.

(The other thing that freaked me out in the east wasn't in the South (tm), but was in Toronto. Lake Ontario is too big to see across, right? So in my brain it was 100% THE OCEAN and it was BROKEN. YOU BROKE THE OCEAN WHAT DID YOU DO. etc. XD )

[hitokage]

It's the humidity. Thankfully, we've had good AC and I learned quick to get my gardening done early in the morning and then just park in front of the AC during the middle of the day. Though there was the one week where it was getting so hot I was having to shut down my laptop and put her in the FRIDGE for an hour because she just couldn't take it.

XD I grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan, so the lack of Big Water just creeps me out. Except for college in Iowa, I've pretty much always lived close to significant water - Lake Michigan, the lower Columbia River, Pudget Sound. I know there's water around here, but not anywhere were I encounter it, like, at all (doesn't help that I can't drive, but disabilities).

[albijuli]

I'm from FL, and for me the heat is so DRY to me once I get past SC! Humidity I used to handle but flat-out heat? Game over, man, game over.

*general stuck in Deep South solidarity bump?*

[hitokage]

Air-con is my bestest friend in summer, oh yes. The high humidity and my chronic issues do not mix well at any time of year, but when it starts to feel like a muggy swamp, then I'm useless.

*does the thing~* XD

[kshandra]

Yarn is totally a fandom.

[st_aurafina]

I agree - yarn is totally a fandom!

[meepettemu]

Adding you if that's ok? Queer poly invisibly disabled non-binary person here :)

[hitokage]

Did the thing~

[springviolets]

hi! i am a southern native currently living on the east coast :) if you need any southern translation i am here, ha. i'm also married to another woman and cat mom to 3 cats and LOVE hearing about (and sharing) fail!cat stories. while i'm not into jrock anymore, i used to be, so i'll probably have some clue who you're talking about, and HP is def still one of my interests.

friends? :)

[hitokage]

My wifey's lived down here her whole life, it's how I ended up here in the first place, so mostly got that covered. Until her Southern gets all riled up and I sit there a second going "... uh..." XD

There *might* be fewer cat fails now that we're living in a place with carpet - all three had problems getting their breaks to work on the linoleum floors of the old place, leading to many crashes into everything from the walls to the side of the bed. Then again, they're all still derpy babies, soooo.... XD

[springviolets]

oh man, our place is all hardwood floors or tile (in the kitchen) and when our smallest kitty gets going, she slides all over the place! it's hilarious to watch. our fat boy, on the other hand, does not have that issue lol.

[kalmialatifolia]

i'm laughing pretty hard rn because i was scrolling thru the back entries in this comm and didn't see your username. i was JUST ABOUT TO be like "oh man i gotta add you."

then i realized.

whoops.

[hitokage]

XD Yeah, jrock fandom on DW is ... I haven't been able to really find it. Ok, I haven't really gone looking in awhile, either, but the communities pretty much all went dormant ages ago, sadface. I'm trying to remind myself that I'm not actually all that healthy right now and don't need to try singlehandedly doing something about that. :p

[swingandswirl]

Yarn totally does count! If I didn't live somewhere tropical (and had the patience for knitting) I'd love to try it.

My sympathies re: the heat, I moved back to the tropics from California and it has NOT been fun.

(also you sound fun so I have added you, if that's all right!)

[hitokage]

The patience is generally the bigger problem. Well and I imagine you don't find much need for a good sweater in the tropics, really. XD