Is this thing on?

[eleanorjane]

So, here I am, on Dreamwidth. It's pretty shiny.

It occurs to me that this is probably a good time to reintroduce myself - to any new folks I'll meet here, and to the people who've had me on their flists for months or years and can't really remember where I came from.

• I'm thirty three, female, Australian/British. (Born in and live in Australia, but I hold dual citizenship.)


• My first degree was in genetics, but I haven't worked as a scientist since a road accident in 1998 left me with some long-term mobility issues; I can't comfortably sit on hard surfaces (like lab stools) and I can't run in the event of chemical spills.


• I'm a long-time geek; I've been playing roleplaying games regularly for more than half my life. We're currently playing Shadowrun.


• I used to write for roleplaying games as a freelance writer - I wrote for Shadowrun, White Wolf's Demon: the Fallen and a bit of general World of Darkness stuff, as well as some one-offs for smaller publishers that never saw the light of day. I stopped when burnout and fairly serious depression caused me to flake on a few jobs; I burnt a few bridges and let people down, which I still regret, but I only rarely miss the actual job.


• I'm a computer gamer; at the moment I'm playing WoW, and have been for four years. I write a fairly popular WoW blog for holy paladins called Banana Shoulders.


• I'm currently single, and not looking for a relationship at the moment for health reasons (long-term complications from the above-mentioned accident). However, it does get rather lonely sometimes, and I'm looking forward to being well again.


• I am a terrible procrastinator, easily distracted, and prone to on-off depression. As you can imagine, I don't get much done a lot of the time :)

So that's me. Hi!

Comments

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

Yo. I'm openIDing over here until... well, I'm not sure. Last thing I need is another journal, though I have cupiscent on every other journal platform (a blatant lie - I try not to go anywhere near journalfen) so why not this one? Anyway, using this as an opportunity to explore the functionality of openID. No idea how "add to my circle" will work like this, but I'm about to try it out!

[eleanorjane]

Hi! :)

I'm separating my fandom stuff over to dreamwidth because a) I think DW is shiny and want to support it, b) it looks like significant chunks of fandom are migrating to dreamwidth, c) I've always had a separate fandom journal anyway, so it may as well be on DW rather than LJ, and d) I'm trying to use this as a fresh start to prompt me to actually create and be active instead of passively consume.

I can imagine that for people with more integrated LJs, though, it'd be a much harder choice.

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

From the brief poking around I've been doing, there do indeed appear to be many shiny things about DW. Already having a blog, a fandom journal, and an RP journal on three different servers makes me uneasy about opening a fourth front. Inertia and the depth of roots makes me loath to abandon LJ. But I suppose we shall see what transpires; it's about community, after all. Fresh start and creativity highly encouraged, in any case! *G*

[helens78]

Hi! So, um, I think I qualify as someone who has had you friended on LJ for quite a while but does not actually remember when that happened. /facepalm

On the other hand, this means I get to go all squeeful and say OMG you write Banana Shoulders!!!!! Eeeeee! :D

[eleanorjane]

Hi! Yes, we're mutually friended over at LJ (and I recently commented on your AWESOME 'Condor Pants of the Whale') - I think I found you when I friended kyuuketsukirui and she recced some fic by you? Or you were posting collaborative fic? Or something? My memory is terrible :)

And yay, I'm glad you like Banana Shoulders :) I'm rather behind in posting; family health woes and stuff like that - nothing serious, but enough to limit my blogging time. Plus a Leverage vid idea ate my brain a few days ago so I've been busy trying to put together my first ever vid. :)

[helens78]

I've known kyuuketsukirui/torachan for ages, so that seems very possible! :D

Whee, vids! I'm in favor of vids! :)

I found Banana Shoulders via a link from TooManyAnnas.com -- I'm in Anna's raid. :) My paladin alt is 73, but I'm thinking of snapping up dual-spec for her anyway -- she was originally rolled to be a PvP healer, but hasn't done that for years; I just recently leveled her through Outland, prot, but people have been taking bets on how long she'd go without a respec to Holy. /facepalm

[eleanorjane]

Cool! Wow, small world - I'll have to tell Anna :) (When you say in her raid - Wildfire Riders, or TRI?)

What do you play as a main?

[helens78]

TRI! :) My main is a resto shammy, who I love to tiny little cloven-hooved bits. :)

[damned_colonial]

Welcome to Dreamwidth!

[eleanorjane]

Why thankyou! :) You, too!

[thorfinn]

Buh? I guess everyone really does know skud. :-)

[eleanorjane]

It is not just a small world, it's tiny. :)