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Getting To Know You
Apr. 20th, 2011 11:02 amRight. Proper, non-eulogising greeting for all y'all that came from the Dragon Age friending meme. Hello, and welcome to the insanity. I'm Thess, mid-30s, medical secretary, BPAL addict-in-training, writer, filker, ranter, RPer, pagan and all-around freak of nature. How d'you do, and how d'you do, and how d'you do again? *g*
To be fair, I haven't posted much fic on the various Dragon Age communities to which I belong. There was the one where Nathaniel and F!Mahariel have a conversation in the wake of the Adria thing, a piece of Zevran/F!Mahariel platonic relationfic I wrote for a challenge once ... and then there were parts one, two and three where I set the whole of the Mage origin to the tune of the Wizard of Oz. Because I am a lunatic. But then, considering my fic project list includes a further filking effort on the Dwarven Noble origin that includes riffs from Disney hits? You probably already knew that.
Beyond fic, my interests include:
- General writing (book 3 of urban horror series in progress)
- Reading: Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, Stephen King, Joe Hill, Cory Doctorow, Neal Stephenson George RR Martin ... eh, to be fair, I'll read damn near anything I can get my hands on that isn't Mills & Boon. My bookshelf is eclectic, with everything from Watership Down, The Secret History and Gone with the Wind to almost everything King's ever written, the Rachel Morgan books and my rebuilding collection of Dresden Files novels.
- TV: A lot of the shows I like are miniseries, over or cancelled - Neverwhere, Wonderfalls, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Daria, Ultraviolet. But there's also Misfits, Doctor Who, Leverage, Eureka, the V remake they started in 2009, Primeval, White Collar, NCIS, and an itch to get back into True Blood and Farscape.
- Movies: Oh dear gods. Um. My tastes run the gamut from 80s cheese (The Breakfast Club, Heathers, Pump Up the Volume) to quasi-serious drama stuff (American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation) to really heavy drama stuff (Blood Diamond, Lord of War, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) to period pieces (Amadeus, Gone With the Wind) to Western horror (Silent Hill, the Nightmare on Elm Street series, at least the first Saw movie) to Eastern horror (Whispering Corridors, Wishing Stairs, Memento Mori). Also Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars IV-VI, the Harry Potter films and ... well. You get the idea.
- Video Games: Given my lack of console, my inability to make a controller work on my PC and my fumble-fingered atrocities with keyboard controls, I haven't played a lot of video games of late. I played a lot of FFXI online for awhile, but gave it up and am pondering Warcraft. Currently all I really play are Sims 3, the Dragon Age games and the occasional round of Worms World Party or Civ IV. I'm so out of touch and really want to play my Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect 1 and 2...
- RPG: Mostly old WoD, mostly Mage: the Ascension ... entirely bloody nuts. But fun. Awesome wicked fun. I play with an awesome online group and my only real complaint is that either they're in the wrong time zone, or I am. Bloody UK.
I think I've gone into enough detail about what I'm into entertainment-wise. There's other stuff (aromatherapy, my BPAL addiction, various mad socio-political ravings, yadda) but for that, you can probably click on various tags if you're interested. In the meantime, all I can say is hi, and that I promise to be better at posting and to try not to bore you when I do. *wave*
To be fair, I haven't posted much fic on the various Dragon Age communities to which I belong. There was the one where Nathaniel and F!Mahariel have a conversation in the wake of the Adria thing, a piece of Zevran/F!Mahariel platonic relationfic I wrote for a challenge once ... and then there were parts one, two and three where I set the whole of the Mage origin to the tune of the Wizard of Oz. Because I am a lunatic. But then, considering my fic project list includes a further filking effort on the Dwarven Noble origin that includes riffs from Disney hits? You probably already knew that.
Beyond fic, my interests include:
- General writing (book 3 of urban horror series in progress)
- Reading: Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, Stephen King, Joe Hill, Cory Doctorow, Neal Stephenson George RR Martin ... eh, to be fair, I'll read damn near anything I can get my hands on that isn't Mills & Boon. My bookshelf is eclectic, with everything from Watership Down, The Secret History and Gone with the Wind to almost everything King's ever written, the Rachel Morgan books and my rebuilding collection of Dresden Files novels.
- TV: A lot of the shows I like are miniseries, over or cancelled - Neverwhere, Wonderfalls, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Daria, Ultraviolet. But there's also Misfits, Doctor Who, Leverage, Eureka, the V remake they started in 2009, Primeval, White Collar, NCIS, and an itch to get back into True Blood and Farscape.
- Movies: Oh dear gods. Um. My tastes run the gamut from 80s cheese (The Breakfast Club, Heathers, Pump Up the Volume) to quasi-serious drama stuff (American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation) to really heavy drama stuff (Blood Diamond, Lord of War, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) to period pieces (Amadeus, Gone With the Wind) to Western horror (Silent Hill, the Nightmare on Elm Street series, at least the first Saw movie) to Eastern horror (Whispering Corridors, Wishing Stairs, Memento Mori). Also Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars IV-VI, the Harry Potter films and ... well. You get the idea.
- Video Games: Given my lack of console, my inability to make a controller work on my PC and my fumble-fingered atrocities with keyboard controls, I haven't played a lot of video games of late. I played a lot of FFXI online for awhile, but gave it up and am pondering Warcraft. Currently all I really play are Sims 3, the Dragon Age games and the occasional round of Worms World Party or Civ IV. I'm so out of touch and really want to play my Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect 1 and 2...
- RPG: Mostly old WoD, mostly Mage: the Ascension ... entirely bloody nuts. But fun. Awesome wicked fun. I play with an awesome online group and my only real complaint is that either they're in the wrong time zone, or I am. Bloody UK.
I think I've gone into enough detail about what I'm into entertainment-wise. There's other stuff (aromatherapy, my BPAL addiction, various mad socio-political ravings, yadda) but for that, you can probably click on various tags if you're interested. In the meantime, all I can say is hi, and that I promise to be better at posting and to try not to bore you when I do. *wave*