Hi, it's nice to eat you. I mean, MEET you.

[xifeng]

Name: Lee
Age: 37
Location: Indiana, in the Midwestern US. (This disclaimer is included because way too many people think I'm on the Indian subcontinent.)
Tumblr/Goodreads/IG/etc: My Tumblr isn't active (I'm just there to read history fansqueeing, why lie) and since my IG is a selfie wasteland I would really rather not give it out to people I don't know well. It's not illegal to ask me for it once we know each other better, though :D My Goodreads needs an overhaul as it has been a million years since I was on there.

Describe yourself in five sentences or less: I am self-aware, snide, smart, slightly scary, and something of a workaholic. I love words and history and dead things. I basically have two modes: THIS IS INCREDIBLE, I WANT TO BATHE WITH IT AND SLEEP WITH IT AND BE WITH IT 24/7 and "lol no1curr". Sometimes I am a spaz. Sometimes I am depressed.

Top 5 Fandoms: I really don't do fandom in the conventional sense and don't make very many fannish posts. About the most fannish stuff I do is occasionally churn out some Greek mythology fanfiction (I LIEK TEH TROJAN WAR), which is under a cut so you can skip it if you don't want to read it. I'm not sure if history counts as a fandom, but the ancient world, the long eighteenth century, and Tokugawa Japan are three of the great loves of my life.

I mostly post about: Real life, in which my lolmom and my jobs play rather large roles. Mildly entertaining things that someone said or did at work. Occasionally things I wrote, if I'm okay with people seeing them. Sometimes the odd to-do list, if I'm okay with people seeing that. Things I'm reading. Occasionally pictures. Anything that comes to mind, really. I may set up some filters for religious stuff (I'm Pagan, agnostic always, currently not-very-practicing and trying to fix that), but those are opt-in and no opprobrium applies if you're not interested.

I rarely post about: Politics. Social justice (my own interests therein are things like "does everyone have enough to eat? Does everyone have a safe place to stay?", not some of the more extreme things you find on the outskirts of Tumblr). My sex life (one, that's private, and two, I'm usually single and celibate, and pretty happily so). Things that I have been asked to keep in confidence. Things that I don't think anyone needs to know about.

My last three posts were about:
1.) I had a weird dream/here's how my life is going
2.) Hello LJ friends, I am no longer going to be on LJ but you can still follow me here
3.) (OLD) I drew a thing, here is a broken image link from before I switched domain hosts

How often do you post? When time allows. I work two jobs and am at work or in bed a good deal of the time. I'm hoping to be more active here than I have been in recent years on LJ, though.

How about commenting? I comment when I have something to say, and I try to reply to comments I receive. I am not, however, the person who says "hi" or "i leik cereal" just to have something to say, and if you have an emotional investment in MASS QUANTITIES OF COMMENTS, I'm probably not your man.

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Comments

[innerslytherin]

*waves* I'm a 40-year-old living in Indiana who works at a history museum. Following you. :)

[xifeng]

Oh, sweet! Following back :D

[yohjideranged]

For the record, I believe strongly that history is a fandom with several wonderful fandom subcategories that overlap beautifully. You could play there for HOURS and never be bored.

[xifeng]

I've never put it in those words, but that's very similar to how I see it -- I've never really understood people who find history boring, because there is SO MUCH THERE. There are some events and themes that will literally never get dull for me because you can slice them in so many ways and find something new and interesting every time. Sure, it can be presented boringly (what can't?), and I think that's a real shame, but the subject matter itself is the richest and most fascinating thing I've ever clapped eyes on. :D

[yohjideranged]

I hear you! I completely fangirl over certain areas of history and a few historical figures. And then I get distracted and fangirl in different areas because history is a huge wealth of stories! It's like a wonderful library that just keeps writing itself with every new piece of information we uncover. :)

[yohjideranged]

Also, I think I am going to add you. ;)

[xifeng]

I think I would like that, and also that I am going to add you back :D

[sgamadison]

Okay, we might not have anything in common but your post made me laugh more than once, and I was totally into Greek mythology back in the day (still have my copy of Edith Hamilton's Mythology around here somewhere). So I'm subscribing, if you don't mind. :-)

[xifeng]

Feel free! I am always happy to provide cheap laughs :D Mythology is one of my all-time favorites; just re-read it for the umpteenth time this year. :)

[sgamadison]

Well, funny AND loves history counts for a lot in my book. :-)

[xifeng]

We aim to please :D

[cosmolinguist]

History counts as fandom, definitely. And mythology may be the original fandom. :)

[xifeng]

There's a running joke in the Classics world about Virgil's Aeneid being the first fanfic, so that may well be true :)

[kay_brooke]

Hello! I'm also in Indiana, and I love history and mythology (though I've drifted away from reading much about either). Would you mind if I subscribed?

[xifeng]

Not at all, fellow Hoosier! I would love that :D

[zhelana]

the fact that you list history time periods as your fandom makes me love you. Be my friend? XD

[xifeng]

YES! Let us do this friendship thing XD

[zhelana]

have added you :D

[xifeng]

Likewise :D

[hitokage]

You had me at Tokugawa. Shall we try the friend thing?

[xifeng]

Let's do this! I dub thee DW FRIEND.

[we_are_spc]

We're a multiple living in Indiana. Very much into mythology, though we've gotten away fron the reading and such in a lot of ways.

Just...there's a lot of school related/poorskills/metaphysical stuff going on with us, some of which is filtered because distance things and...trust.

So if you don't mind the rare-posting (We're trying to post every day but it doesn't always work) Can we add you? It's nice to have semi-local peeps. :d

-Fallon~

[xifeng]

Feel free! I don't mind rare posting at all; I'm of an age where I'm off living my regular life, and I assume everyone else is, too.

[we_are_spc]

Yaaay, added you. :d

-Fallon~

[boywhocameback]

Hey, you sound quite nice and interesting and we seem to have some interests in common. I'm a bookbinder from Indiana, uh, FINLAND, and I've some random history fandoms/obsessions as well. There's a somewhat steady rotation of subjects/eras/countries/historical figures I enthuse about. Currently I'm also interested in vegetable gardening, the 90's (I'm turning 30 so I have problems), the disappearance of Richey Edwards (closely related to the 90's), painting and trying to live a simple good life. I have pretty much the same policy with commenting etc. as you. Add me if you feel like it & we'll see if it works out!

[xifeng]

Sure, that'd be great! Adding you :D

[belleweather]

Hiya! I'm late to the party, but another migrant whose looking to have a more lively flist on this side of the divide. I love people who have an "OMG I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS" setting, no matter what it's for. Shall we try being friends?

[xifeng]

Yes, let's! :D Adding you now.