once in a million years (take me like the wind, take me like the sky)
From 
fallingtowers, about six weeks ago, because I fail:
Comment to this post, and I will list five things I associate with you. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your LJ (or just add a reply back to me). Other people (including me) can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
- social justice
I'm fairly new to 'social justice' proper, though I've been a feminist since the late 90s. If I'm being perfectly honest, I'm forever feeling out my place in it and trying to figure out how to manage being in support of equity while managing to carry on from day to day and without losing sight of the big picture. The spoons and energy are small and there is so much wrong, not to mention that sometimes people want and need to fight their own battles. While I'm learning to pick mine, I don't think it's too much to ask that the subcultures to which I belong are supportive of the non-dominant paradigm, or at the very least, not fucking assholes.
In short, I feel too much and it's not good for me.
- OCD
I've had OCD since I was about twelve or thirteen, with tendencies long before then and a long family history of mental health issues. I don't know what I'm like without it, or even much of what I'm like without medication (read: bad). Sometimes the epic nature of that scares me, and I'm not going to pretend that it's not difficult and painful to have OCD, but I wouldn't lose it, because I like being me and I don't have regrets about that. The one thing that bugs me is that it's next to impossible to explain to anyone how it feels, what I do for thoughts and rituals and how it won't stop--people DO NOT get it.
- genderqueer
I've always been more than a bit different, but it was only when I ended up at a women's college that I realised I didn't really feel like a 'woman' (and I have a wide, wide understanding of what woman can be, before you make that comment). I can ID as a 'girl' sometimes, but I...I don't know. I like to play with gender, I don't like to be nailed down, and I know deep down that this ID fits better than anything else I've found in words yet.
In Janelle Monáe's words,
I'm trying to find my peace
(I'm trying to find my peace)
I was made to believe there's something wrong with me
(There's nothing wrong with me)
- Scotland
I...ended up in Scotland a bit half-assedly, in the sense that I needed to go somewhere where I could learn in English, not speaking any other language at a university level. I didn't want to go to England for study abroad, nor Ireland because Everyone Does That; Wales has too much rain (what little I knew then) and Australia and New Zealand were too far away for cost reasons.
That said, it was the right decision in the long run for a myriad of reasons. I love it now, and I loved it pretty soon after I first saw it. Even with the rain.
- Doctor Who
My meeting Doctor Who was predominantly
ladyvivien's fault, I was at hers and L's over Easter when I was first in Scotland, when the new skool premiered. It was a bit shaky but over time it embodied a lot of what I really liked about the cultural aspects of Britain along with science fiction and brain breaky stuff. Sort of a perfect storm, particularly when I was back in the US, feeling more than a little adrift with long-term reverse culture shock. And then I met the tenth Doctor and did some RP, and that was that. I don't know what I'd do if I'd not had him in my brainmeats; this place would be considerably different.
I wouldn't know a good portion of you, for a start, and for that I am grateful.
Meanwhile, I've made a list on Spotify of some tracks I can't be without. God, I had forgot how some of these break my heart. NO SHAME. I'd love to make a collaborative mix with someone one of these days.
This entry was initially posted at http://rhivolution.dreamwidth.org/94997.html. Comments are welcome at either location.
fallingtowers, about six weeks ago, because I fail:
Comment to this post, and I will list five things I associate with you. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your LJ (or just add a reply back to me). Other people (including me) can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
- social justice
I'm fairly new to 'social justice' proper, though I've been a feminist since the late 90s. If I'm being perfectly honest, I'm forever feeling out my place in it and trying to figure out how to manage being in support of equity while managing to carry on from day to day and without losing sight of the big picture. The spoons and energy are small and there is so much wrong, not to mention that sometimes people want and need to fight their own battles. While I'm learning to pick mine, I don't think it's too much to ask that the subcultures to which I belong are supportive of the non-dominant paradigm, or at the very least, not fucking assholes.
In short, I feel too much and it's not good for me.
- OCD
I've had OCD since I was about twelve or thirteen, with tendencies long before then and a long family history of mental health issues. I don't know what I'm like without it, or even much of what I'm like without medication (read: bad). Sometimes the epic nature of that scares me, and I'm not going to pretend that it's not difficult and painful to have OCD, but I wouldn't lose it, because I like being me and I don't have regrets about that. The one thing that bugs me is that it's next to impossible to explain to anyone how it feels, what I do for thoughts and rituals and how it won't stop--people DO NOT get it.
- genderqueer
I've always been more than a bit different, but it was only when I ended up at a women's college that I realised I didn't really feel like a 'woman' (and I have a wide, wide understanding of what woman can be, before you make that comment). I can ID as a 'girl' sometimes, but I...I don't know. I like to play with gender, I don't like to be nailed down, and I know deep down that this ID fits better than anything else I've found in words yet.
In Janelle Monáe's words,
I'm trying to find my peace
(I'm trying to find my peace)
I was made to believe there's something wrong with me
(There's nothing wrong with me)
- Scotland
I...ended up in Scotland a bit half-assedly, in the sense that I needed to go somewhere where I could learn in English, not speaking any other language at a university level. I didn't want to go to England for study abroad, nor Ireland because Everyone Does That; Wales has too much rain (what little I knew then) and Australia and New Zealand were too far away for cost reasons.
That said, it was the right decision in the long run for a myriad of reasons. I love it now, and I loved it pretty soon after I first saw it. Even with the rain.
- Doctor Who
My meeting Doctor Who was predominantly
ladyvivien's fault, I was at hers and L's over Easter when I was first in Scotland, when the new skool premiered. It was a bit shaky but over time it embodied a lot of what I really liked about the cultural aspects of Britain along with science fiction and brain breaky stuff. Sort of a perfect storm, particularly when I was back in the US, feeling more than a little adrift with long-term reverse culture shock. And then I met the tenth Doctor and did some RP, and that was that. I don't know what I'd do if I'd not had him in my brainmeats; this place would be considerably different.
I wouldn't know a good portion of you, for a start, and for that I am grateful.
Meanwhile, I've made a list on Spotify of some tracks I can't be without. God, I had forgot how some of these break my heart. NO SHAME. I'd love to make a collaborative mix with someone one of these days.
This entry was initially posted at http://rhivolution.dreamwidth.org/94997.html. Comments are welcome at either location.