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[thelinesoflearning]

You have reached the journal of a Morgan and I suck at intro posts. I don't really know what to tell you. I am a being, I am a witch, I am involved with an amazing being, I am poly and a panromantic theoretically-kinky asexual, I am genderfluid but mostly genderneutral, I prefer 'it' pronouns but will accept they/them if that makes you uncomfortable.

When I am lucky, I write, roleplay, graphic, filk, meta, podfic, and do other creative things. When I am not, I bum around and mostly marathonread various things, be they books, fanfic, webcomics, or communities. I fan a lot of things, including fannish things themselves.

I don't post a lot and I'm bad at commenting, but I read my list pretty regularly and I'm more than happy to be friended.

If you're looking to get ahold of me, here's my other contact info. PMing or commenting on any random post also works, if you want the easiest route. Sometimes it takes me a while to get back to people even though I seem to be around; that's because my anxiety sometimes makes one-on-one communication nearly impossible. Please be understanding if my response takes a while.

Email: letmebeasong@gmail.com
AIM: linesoflearning
Plurk: letmebeasong
Tumblr: letmebeasong

Religion things go here: letthechangecome
Fanfiction goes here: apatternedfever

An Idea of Fandoms You'll Find Here
"Main" is loosely defined as "something I'm really into right now and/or drift back to on a very regular basis". I'm extremely multifannish and don't tend to ever drop a fandom entirely, even if I drop the canon, so I can't promise this is totally up to date at any given time.

Main at the moment: Devil's Carnival, Dolls of New Albion, Firefly, Hannibal (NBC), Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Newsflesh, October Daye, Sanctuary (Five things mainly), Sherlock (BBC), Welcome to Night Vale

Others: Burn Notice (mainly S1&S2 -- I love Jesse and also Sonya, but have not seen big gaps of 3-7), Cabin Pressure, Chess, Chronicles of Narnia, Dead Like Me, Doctor Who (new, through Angels in Manhattan), Dollhouse, Fallen London (very into the game, less involved as a fandom), Feeling Electric, How I Met Your Mother, Life on Mars (UK), Repo, Slings and Arrows, Sports Night, Suits [S1], White Collar (early seasons more than latest), lots of other random musicals and books without any real fandom to name

Comments

[umadoshi]

This seems like the right post to say "Hello, I just friended you!" Odd as it may sound, I went through the tags on fandom_stocking to see if there were people I don't know requesting Newsflesh fic (thereby revealing themselves as Newsflesh fans). And there you were, so here I am, leaving you a very roundabout-feeling comment. ^_^ (Having such a small primary fandom results in having feelers out everywhere. ^^;)

[thelinesoflearning]

Hello! Always awesome to have more Newsflesh fans around. :D I don't talk about any specific fandom that much on my journal, fair warning, but if you don't mind that I'm happy to have you!

[umadoshi]

Nope, I don't mind. ^_^ It just makes me happy knowing there are other fans out there, because sometimes we seem to be so few and far between, and it breaks my heart. (I, uh, do blog about it a fair bit sometimes, because BOOKS OF MY HEART, but I've been in the habit of trying not to overdo it. ^^; I know it's my own journal and all, but still. I get self-conscious.)

...apparently I'm starting out with "Here, have a comment about my state of mind even though you don't know me!" La?

[thelinesoflearning]

I understand entirely. I really wish there was a bigger fandom. I've been thinking about trying to run a fest sometime next summer-ish, because SUMMER OF THE RISING, how cool would that be? But I feel like trying to get the fandom together would be herding cats.

(BOOKS OF MY HEART INDEED. I love everything she writes but Newsflesh, seriously. They are some of my favorite books ever. Though, I'll be honest here, I do still have to finish Blackout. I know most of what happens and I've even read stuff set after it, but my partner and I were reading it over the phone and we never got around to finishing.)


Hey, if you're on my journal you're gonna hear a lot about my state of mind, so might as well start out strong. I understand entirely, though. It's very easy for me to get nervous about whether or not people still want to hear about something, or from me at all.

... For the record I am always up to hear about Newsflesh if you want to contact me. XD

[umadoshi]

I've been trying for a year and a half now to figure out why there isn't a bigger fandom. There's so much in it that should be fannish catnip, and yet! I even know quite a few fannish people who've read and really enjoyed the books without it clicking with them at all on that level.

"Herding cats" seems like it's probably accurate. :/ But! It might still be fun to try!

I always tell people I feel very, very good about my choice of favorite author--I enjoy all of Seanan's books, and she's smart and funny and says intelligent things on important subjects. But Newsflesh is the one that made itself at home in my heart, and even now, I still get hit with these moments of real grief over Georgia even though I adore so much of what happens in Blackout. ;_; Georgia. (...it may be obvious that she's my favorite.)

(I also always tell people that I can't speak at all objectively about Blackout in terms of plot or anything, because the emotional narrative is just so perfect for me. I try to think about the conspiracy, and instead I discover five minutes have passed and I've mentally wandered off to think about things like how Becks' various blog posts say so much about how she and Georgia were actually pretty close.)

Hey, if you're on my journal you're gonna hear a lot about my state of mind, so might as well start out strong. I understand entirely, though. It's very easy for me to get nervous about whether or not people still want to hear about something, or from me at all.

I tend to have a lot of that. ^^; Brains can be cruel. Mine likes to be both shy and anxious. I tend not to write about it much, I guess (but I never mind reading about other people's states of mind).

... For the record I am always up to hear about Newsflesh if you want to contact me. XD

Yay! *^^*

[thelinesoflearning]

See, everyone I know who read it got fannish about it? But the people I know who read it is a sad, small number. And a lot of them RP it more than anything else. Which, granted, I am into and love too, and is an awesome kind of fandom, but.

Yes, well, this happened last night. XD If you're interested in spreading the word, that'd be awesome.

She is very good at destroying your heart while she makes you love her. I still cry when I read parts of Newsflesh, even though I've read them repeatedly -- I actually just made the mistake of reading San Diego 2014 on the bus the other night. I read it on the bus the first time too. I should stop making that mistake. Anyway, tangent passed, I think Seanan is well worth favorite author status. She's definitely one of mine (I can't pick one. I'm indecisive. XD), as well as one of my favorite singrssongwriters.

(Fair enough. XD I feel this way about A Local Habitation to be honest. I know it's not a general favorite, and apparently a lot of people complained about how seperate from the overarching plot it seemed? But I love it so much for every tiny detail about Tamed Lightning and the added bonus of Toby and Quentin bonding that I can't be objective about whether it's an unnecessary detour or anything, because Tamed Lightning guys.)

Oh, honey, I understand entirely. I have pretty severe anxiety problems. I talk about it sometimes, and it gets the better of me a lot more often. Brains are awful things and I'm in the habit of apologizing to people in their place.

[umadoshi]

I basically rec it to everyone I know unless I'm quite sure they wouldn't like it, so at this point I think I've gotten...maybe twenty-odd people to read it? (That's with a year and a half of actively working at it. ^^;) A few of them read fic for it sometimes, but that's the extent of the engagement past "hey, that was awesome"--except for my friend wildpear (who comes up a fair bit on my journal), who hasn't written anything, but has beta-read everything I've written since she read the books. I hold out hope that this might evolve into her also writing some fic herself. *fingers crossed*

(The lack of much fic is the part that makes me saddest about the fandom size, I think.)

I keep being a bit afraid that someday I'll sell somebody on the books and then they'll get actually angry at me at the end of Feed, because my sales pitch for the series largely involves overflowing with love for Georgia at people. But she is so very worth the heartbreak--!

RP is one of the big facets of geekery that I've never fallen into, and I don't know why--I know lots of people who do it online or in person, but...I don't know, I think I feel like if I tried it and liked it I'd get veryvery invested, and fanfic and meta (most of which never makes it out of my head ^^;) already take up a terrifying amount of my brain.

The link is now open in a tab, and I'll gladly spread the word!

Anxiety is so aggravating! (To say the least.) I tend to classify mine as "interferes noticeably with my life, but isn't outright debilitating", and one of the many reasons I'm grateful it's not more severe is that it seems to be very resistent to medication. Ugh.