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[viridian5]

From dine: So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to

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[viridian5]

1] I've been on disability for 15 years, since my not-as-successful-as-promised brain surgery in October 2006. It saved my life but didn't return me to normal by any means. My pain and fatigue issues and occasional bouts of dizziness can be very bad and unpredictable. (Or very predictable, like I know I won't be able to get out of bed when it's raining hard from what the barometric pressure does to my head.)

2] I've been shooting on my own for about 15 years, so a lot of experience. I can especially see how much I've improved over the years from my early window display photos. I also take a ton of shots and then just post my favorites.

I'm not a professional because I don't self-promote well and because I'm on disability and don't want the possibility of losing my Social Security money that I worked damned hard to get to begin with, my Medicare, and my Medicaid. This country and state demand that I stay poor as hell to keep any of that. If I seem too healthy or "wealthy," I could lose my guaranteed income and all my health insurance, and with my condition I really, really need health insurance. I'd need someone really well-versed in the laws and bureaucracy to help me make sure any side gig I tried didn't destroy my life.

3] I used to write in modern fiction! The X-Files, Smallville, and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda were airing new episodes as I wrote fic, and I got into writing due South just after the series finale when the fandom was still huge and producing a ton of commentary and fic. Weiß Kreuz was fairly new and hot when I first got into it, and Saiyuki was still running regularly when I started writing for it. I'm dying to get the fannish feels for some new, big, hot property but thus far it isn't happening.

I never got any story ideas from Harry Potter's characters and world. The MCU had so many thousands of fan writers already that I never felt like I would add anything really new and had to write for it, then it started making decisions I really disagreed with and Civil War led to some fan toxicity I didn't want to be anywhere near. Why did the creators have to make a Team Iron Man-Team Captain America schism? Some of Tony Stark's fan writers raise my blood pressure too high. Then Infinity War and Endgame killed a lot of my fannishness for the MCU completely. I don't want to spend a lot of time in a fandom that makes me sad and angry or numb.

I actually wrote some X-Men and X-Force fic off the comic books ages ago.

4] Someone I know is currently writing whom I enjoy is
daegaer.