Hello sweeties!

[savvyliterate]

Name: Meg
Age: 37
Location: Deep South native who made her escape to Pennsylvania but stopped in several other states first.
Tumblr/Goodreads/IG/etc: I was also dqbunny on LJ. Everywhere else I'm savvyliterate, such as: savvyliterate, savvyliterate, savvyliterate. I also have GoodReads, Instagram, and FF.net accounts under the same name.

Describe yourself in five sentences or less
I'm a cisgender demisexual woman who is the co-creator of a fantasy comic called Namesake and other works with my BFF and creative partner. I work for a newspaper by day then writes a ton of fanfic, reads, and knits at night. I stole a bisexual Scouser from England and refuse to give him back, and we're being held hostage by two cats. Fandom is my escapism from reality, I have a mad, passionate affair with history, and I get twitchy if I'm not within three feet of a book. I love technology, hate our current government, and try to be as kind to others as I can (except if you are driving 10 mph in the left lane, then get out of my way.)

Top 5 fandoms

• Gilmore Girls (my latest fandom crush, I have never shipped anything so fast in my life as I did Luke and Lorelai. It only took 30 seconds into the pilot)
• Doctor Who (my old friend)
• Babylon 5 (my true love)
• Slayers (without it, I wouldn't be married or have a successful career as a writer)
• J.D. Robb's In Death series (though I have yet to finish the latest book, I am ashamed of myself)

I mostly post about
When I am really active, it tends to be an even mix between real life and fandom. I also write a lot of fanfic when the muse is good. A lot of my journal is access only because I have to be careful about vocalizing my political views because of my job. 

My last three posts were about
Getting my Dreamwidth updated, including importing the last of my old LJ entries and bringing over some of my Tumblr text posts to fill out the years between 2013-2017, gushing over the shippening of Luke and Lorelai in season 4 of Gilmore Girls, and some meta on "The Six Thatchers" episode of Sherlock.

How often do you post? What about commenting?
I'm pretty good at commenting, but when I am super busy, I do lurk. Same goes for posting. I only got away from this style of journaling because real life got super busy. Now I want to get back to it. 

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Comments

then get out of my way

[erisreg]

yessum,.. read your comic, look forward to your journal,:)

Re: then get out of my way

[savvyliterate]

Oh, hello Namesake reader!!

[elrhiarhodan]

I highly recommend Echoes in Death. It's really a return to form - an excellent procedural that stands with the best of the series.

And you seem interesting. May I add you to my circle?

[savvyliterate]

Absolutely! I've already granted you access!

I'm partially through Echoes in Death. Unlike the other books, I began this one on audiobook because it came out while I was traveling in Georgia, so it was good company for the drive back. But I didn't finish it on the trip, so I listened to more when I was flying to Seattle the next week and accidentally slept through a good chunk of it. So I need to figure out where I left off and finish it.

[elrhiarhodan]

And I've granted you access in return. Will need to check out your webcomic, too.

[the_rck]

Oooh! Slayers! And Babylon 5! I remember watching certain B5 episodes on grainy VHS tapes mailed to local fans from the UK and shared and copied by all of us who didn't want to wait for the episodes to finally air in the US.

I lean more toward old Who and am kind of spotty on more recent new Who. Seven was the Doctor of my heart, and I haven't been willing to give him up. I'm also... I can't deal with some of the violence and horror elements in new Who (my husband pre-screens a lot of it to tell me which episodes I should avoid).

My journal is currently about 80% venting about health related stuff, both mine and my daughter's (hers tends to be access locked), so I don't tend to recommend subscribing to me until things settle.

I write fic, some of it light/happy and some of it out and out darkfic. I've not written Slayers or B5 yet, but I've done two Doctor Who crossovers.

[the_rck]

Oh, and my daughter is currently really, really heavily into The Gilmore Girls. I think she's on season four now. I've picked up some things by hearing the TV while I'm in another room.

[savvyliterate]

Hahaha, if she ships Luke and Lorelai, get earplugs when you reach the end of season 4. I wound up binging the end of season 4 when my husband was at work one night so he didn't have to put up with my fangirling (though he has no room to talk with his own fandoms)

[the_rck]

I think she watched the recent Netflix revival season before going back to watch the original series, so I'm hoping she's prepared.

She did almost stop watching Reign when they broke up her favorite ship, though, and she and her friends use the term 'ship' very liberally. Today, she and a friend were talking about liking a 'broship' on the show they were watching. They're thirteen.

[savvyliterate]

Ohhh, then she knows how Luke and Lorelai end up if she watched the revival first. I actually got into the series because Alex Kingston was in the revival, so I went back to the original before watching it.

Your daughter reminds me of my co-worker's daughter, who's around the same age.

[savvyliterate]

Ohhh, I remember the UK getting to see episodes first! I was a teenager, so I didn't have the in connection I do now.

Slayers is so dear to my heart. I met my husband through my Lina/Gourry fanfic, though I fell out of writing it when I got into Doctor Who again.

I love a mix of both old and new Who and love, love the Big Finish audios. Do you listen to those? If not, those are amazing for expanding on the older Doctors, especially Six and Eight.

Right now, my muse is firmly stuck in Gilmore Girls land, though I have a request from a good friend for a fic with Twelve and River that I'm also working on.

[the_rck]

My history with Slayers started with frustration. I went to GenCon in, I think, 1988, and wandered through the area where they were showing anime while an early episode or two of Slayers were playing. I was fascinated, but I didn't know what the show was called or know anyone else who might know, so I wondered for at least a decade what happened after Zelgadis captured Lina.

I haven't tried any of the Doctor Who audios. Our budget for buying such things doesn't go very far right now, and the local library only has a handful of them. I should find out if our fifteen year old niece has looked at those. She fell hard for new Who (though she was dubious about Twelve because he was so very, very old compared to what she was used to. She fifteen now).

[miss_s_b]

Some of the BFAs are on Spotify, if you have that

Drive by commenting

[miss_s_b]

EVELYN FTW!

[miss_s_b]

OK, so I've decided today to try and revive the slightly moribund doctorwho comm, since it's new episode day and all. I notice that you have Doctor Who in your fandoms list. Care to join me?

[savvyliterate]

Absolutely! I haven't seen "The Pilot" yet though, so can't weigh in on that at the moment.

[miss_s_b]

Fairy nuff :)