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balsamandashHello new people! I've got a bit of an about-me post here, but I've done a couple friending memes and the revival comm without ever doing a more indepth intro thing, and there may be random things older people just never heard as well, so here is an intro thing. I am generally not great at talking about myself, so we're gonna do this in whatever bits and pieces come to me.
Fair warning: This got really long and rambly. Like, just shy of 1,400 words rambly.
I'm August. This is not the first name I've used, and a couple people may refer to me as older ones, but most of them aren't on DW. None of those are my legal name, which is both very unique and very uncomfortable to me, and I don't use it anywhere except with my family, where I'm kind of stuck right now.
I'm 26, birthday in July; I live in Florida, around the Tampa area, and I have since I was nine. Originally I'm from Brooklyn, NY. I live with my partner, about a forty-minute drive away from my family, which consists of a mother I have a decent but stressful relationship with (and who I work with, at the moment), and two younger brothers -- technically half-brothers, but I rarely refer to them that way. G is 18 and we're pretty close, especially recently; Q is 16, and we're a lot less close for various reasons, but I love him dearly anyway. There's also a fairly abusive grandmother, who I lived with for a few years and none of the family is currently on speaking terms with; and a stepfather (my brothers' father) who recently left my mother, is awful, and is generally referred to interchangeably as the asshole, the bastard, and that fucker. Hopefully I'll have nothing to say on him from here on out except "the divorce is finalized", but you never know. My family situation without them is... still not the healthiest in the world, but I have a complicated and loving relationship with my mother, which is more than I can say for the other two. Until we moved we had a giant Italian family, the kind that makes certain jokes sound very familiar, but I don't really speak to any of them anymore, for various reasons.
My mother is Wiccan and has been since I was too young to remember, and that's how I was raised; as I've grown up I've stepped back from Wicca in particular for various reasons. I consider myself a semi-wiccan-flavored Witch doing some long-term religious and spiritual soulsearching as I try to transition from familial religion to personal religion. Or a Witch when I don't want to use that many words. The work I do with my mother is Wicca-related as well, and we semi-regularly hit up Pagan/Wiccan festivals for both personal and business reason. Usually this involves camping, and me getting energy highs.
I also read Tarot, both professionally and personally; I started fourteen years ago and now I have a ton of decks, including some Oracle decks I'm tentatively branching out into. I occasionally post up free one-to-three-card draws, and am generally open to discussing doing paid readings for a lower price than normal even if I don't currently have an open draw post, so feel free to prod me about that if you're ever interested. I love it, and it's basically the one part of my religious/magical practice I'm pretty confident in. The other half of my professional work is editing, which I've mostly done for people I know so far and am slowly trying to branch out into doing freelance.
I worked as a night shift Walmart stocked until May 2016, and it kind of took my vaugely-messed-up body and turned it into a totally-fucked-up body. I basically live at a 4 or 5 on the pain scale (this one specifically) when it's not a bad pain day, which my brain parses at "not bad enough to be chronic pain problems" but other people tell me counts, so I'm trying to believe that. My mother has sarcoidosis, and the chances are annoyingly high that I do too, but insurance and doctors aren't a thing right now, mostly for money reasons, and it's not an easily diagnosed thing anyway, so. I also have scoliosis and poly-cystic ovarian syndrome so far as diagnosed physical stuff goes. Diagnosed mental stuff, I have depression, anxiety, and maybe OCD; I am not officially diagnosed autistic, but I am autistic, and if you're not comfortable with self-diagnosis I am... probably not a person you want around, since I'm very, very for it. I may also have other issues; it's something I'm still working out, but what it comes down to is pretty severe executive dysfunction issues, and possibly even more severe self-esteem issues. Also, everyone I know and love is mentally ill in some way, and most of them are or have been severely depressed, so my life's been pretty steeped in mental health issues since around... eleven or so. I forget not everyone is severely mentally ill, to be honest.
I am queer in a variety of ways, both gender -- I've been using genderqueer for years but agender is probably the most accurate label at this point -- and sexuality -- romantic asexual, and theoretically polyamorous, though I've only been involved with one person for a long time now. My partner isthebonesofferalletters and they mean the world to me; we've been together eight years. There is probably more I could say about them but really they factor so heavily in my day-to-day existence, they'll come up enough as is. I'm also theoretically kinky, but not actively do anything in that realm at the moment; if that ever changes I may talk about it, but will cut/warn appropriately.
Other important people in my life who come up on and off include our roommate, who I generally don't identify by name just to be polite, and who is a friend; the cats, Vaska (my tiny angry friend) and Persephone (the chillest of cats); my best friend and practically sister, Beth, who I've known since 2004 and who now lives in California and who I worry about pretty regularly; and a couple of local friends, who have DWs and who I haven't seen in too long but may talk about more regularly if that starts to change. I like people in theory and get nervous talking to them in practice, so while I'm trying to change it, I don't really talk to many people outside that list at the moment.
I'm a writer, but in practice my writing is kind of sporadic; I do both fanfic and original fiction, and have lots of ideas for both. I occasionally roleplay on Dreamwidth, but I've been fairly inactive on that for some time now, and I'm working on setting up a tabletop group online -- I grew up playing AD&D 2nd Edition with my mother, recently resurfaced getting into it again in the last couple of years, and need to make an active stab at getting tabletop on a regular basis, because I love it. I am trying to get into podfic and vidding, and occasionally come to flail over vids in particular, because they are basically a stim for me and I adore them. I'm not great at video games, but G got me into Overwatch and even though I'm awful at it, I really love it; I also play Avengers Academy, mostly for the character designs, and fall regularly in and out of Fallen London/Sunless Sea. Sometimes I get bursts of Flight Rising, too. I adore theater, especially musicals; I took acting and singing classes for a good portion of my teenage years, don't really do either anymore, but still revel in every show I get to go see. I also go through regular slam poetry fan bursts; I won't say I'm well-versed in it or anything, but I really love what I do know and I continue to slowly spread out as time goes on. I'm super multi-fannish, and also basically ship everything in all my fandoms, with pretty rare exceptions; I have my favorites some places, but my 'no' list is pretty short.
Things I'm working on in the hopefully-near-ish future is making a decent amount of money on a regular basis, getting my learner's permit (and then hopefully driver's licence and a car), figuring out places to move outside of Florida (right now we're looking at Ohio, with an eye on maybe ending up in Minnesota as a long-term goal), getting personal spiritual stuff in order, and figuring out coping mechanisms for my personal flavor of executive dysfunction. We'll see how all of those go over the course of this next year.
And that is me, uh... out of the nutshell. Definitely not in a nutshell. But that's me, and I'm happy to answer any questions you might want to ask (whether from new people or old people) or discuss whatever, whether it's about stuff I said or totally random. Also, if you want to be on filters to see me ramble about creative stuff, health stuff, or spiritual stuff, there is a poll here to fill out.
And yeah, I think that's finally all I got. Open roads?
Fair warning: This got really long and rambly. Like, just shy of 1,400 words rambly.
I'm August. This is not the first name I've used, and a couple people may refer to me as older ones, but most of them aren't on DW. None of those are my legal name, which is both very unique and very uncomfortable to me, and I don't use it anywhere except with my family, where I'm kind of stuck right now.
I'm 26, birthday in July; I live in Florida, around the Tampa area, and I have since I was nine. Originally I'm from Brooklyn, NY. I live with my partner, about a forty-minute drive away from my family, which consists of a mother I have a decent but stressful relationship with (and who I work with, at the moment), and two younger brothers -- technically half-brothers, but I rarely refer to them that way. G is 18 and we're pretty close, especially recently; Q is 16, and we're a lot less close for various reasons, but I love him dearly anyway. There's also a fairly abusive grandmother, who I lived with for a few years and none of the family is currently on speaking terms with; and a stepfather (my brothers' father) who recently left my mother, is awful, and is generally referred to interchangeably as the asshole, the bastard, and that fucker. Hopefully I'll have nothing to say on him from here on out except "the divorce is finalized", but you never know. My family situation without them is... still not the healthiest in the world, but I have a complicated and loving relationship with my mother, which is more than I can say for the other two. Until we moved we had a giant Italian family, the kind that makes certain jokes sound very familiar, but I don't really speak to any of them anymore, for various reasons.
My mother is Wiccan and has been since I was too young to remember, and that's how I was raised; as I've grown up I've stepped back from Wicca in particular for various reasons. I consider myself a semi-wiccan-flavored Witch doing some long-term religious and spiritual soulsearching as I try to transition from familial religion to personal religion. Or a Witch when I don't want to use that many words. The work I do with my mother is Wicca-related as well, and we semi-regularly hit up Pagan/Wiccan festivals for both personal and business reason. Usually this involves camping, and me getting energy highs.
I also read Tarot, both professionally and personally; I started fourteen years ago and now I have a ton of decks, including some Oracle decks I'm tentatively branching out into. I occasionally post up free one-to-three-card draws, and am generally open to discussing doing paid readings for a lower price than normal even if I don't currently have an open draw post, so feel free to prod me about that if you're ever interested. I love it, and it's basically the one part of my religious/magical practice I'm pretty confident in. The other half of my professional work is editing, which I've mostly done for people I know so far and am slowly trying to branch out into doing freelance.
I worked as a night shift Walmart stocked until May 2016, and it kind of took my vaugely-messed-up body and turned it into a totally-fucked-up body. I basically live at a 4 or 5 on the pain scale (this one specifically) when it's not a bad pain day, which my brain parses at "not bad enough to be chronic pain problems" but other people tell me counts, so I'm trying to believe that. My mother has sarcoidosis, and the chances are annoyingly high that I do too, but insurance and doctors aren't a thing right now, mostly for money reasons, and it's not an easily diagnosed thing anyway, so. I also have scoliosis and poly-cystic ovarian syndrome so far as diagnosed physical stuff goes. Diagnosed mental stuff, I have depression, anxiety, and maybe OCD; I am not officially diagnosed autistic, but I am autistic, and if you're not comfortable with self-diagnosis I am... probably not a person you want around, since I'm very, very for it. I may also have other issues; it's something I'm still working out, but what it comes down to is pretty severe executive dysfunction issues, and possibly even more severe self-esteem issues. Also, everyone I know and love is mentally ill in some way, and most of them are or have been severely depressed, so my life's been pretty steeped in mental health issues since around... eleven or so. I forget not everyone is severely mentally ill, to be honest.
I am queer in a variety of ways, both gender -- I've been using genderqueer for years but agender is probably the most accurate label at this point -- and sexuality -- romantic asexual, and theoretically polyamorous, though I've only been involved with one person for a long time now. My partner is
thebonesofferalletters and they mean the world to me; we've been together eight years. There is probably more I could say about them but really they factor so heavily in my day-to-day existence, they'll come up enough as is. I'm also theoretically kinky, but not actively do anything in that realm at the moment; if that ever changes I may talk about it, but will cut/warn appropriately. Other important people in my life who come up on and off include our roommate, who I generally don't identify by name just to be polite, and who is a friend; the cats, Vaska (my tiny angry friend) and Persephone (the chillest of cats); my best friend and practically sister, Beth, who I've known since 2004 and who now lives in California and who I worry about pretty regularly; and a couple of local friends, who have DWs and who I haven't seen in too long but may talk about more regularly if that starts to change. I like people in theory and get nervous talking to them in practice, so while I'm trying to change it, I don't really talk to many people outside that list at the moment.
I'm a writer, but in practice my writing is kind of sporadic; I do both fanfic and original fiction, and have lots of ideas for both. I occasionally roleplay on Dreamwidth, but I've been fairly inactive on that for some time now, and I'm working on setting up a tabletop group online -- I grew up playing AD&D 2nd Edition with my mother, recently resurfaced getting into it again in the last couple of years, and need to make an active stab at getting tabletop on a regular basis, because I love it. I am trying to get into podfic and vidding, and occasionally come to flail over vids in particular, because they are basically a stim for me and I adore them. I'm not great at video games, but G got me into Overwatch and even though I'm awful at it, I really love it; I also play Avengers Academy, mostly for the character designs, and fall regularly in and out of Fallen London/Sunless Sea. Sometimes I get bursts of Flight Rising, too. I adore theater, especially musicals; I took acting and singing classes for a good portion of my teenage years, don't really do either anymore, but still revel in every show I get to go see. I also go through regular slam poetry fan bursts; I won't say I'm well-versed in it or anything, but I really love what I do know and I continue to slowly spread out as time goes on. I'm super multi-fannish, and also basically ship everything in all my fandoms, with pretty rare exceptions; I have my favorites some places, but my 'no' list is pretty short.
Things I'm working on in the hopefully-near-ish future is making a decent amount of money on a regular basis, getting my learner's permit (and then hopefully driver's licence and a car), figuring out places to move outside of Florida (right now we're looking at Ohio, with an eye on maybe ending up in Minnesota as a long-term goal), getting personal spiritual stuff in order, and figuring out coping mechanisms for my personal flavor of executive dysfunction. We'll see how all of those go over the course of this next year.
And that is me, uh... out of the nutshell. Definitely not in a nutshell. But that's me, and I'm happy to answer any questions you might want to ask (whether from new people or old people) or discuss whatever, whether it's about stuff I said or totally random. Also, if you want to be on filters to see me ramble about creative stuff, health stuff, or spiritual stuff, there is a poll here to fill out.
And yeah, I think that's finally all I got. Open roads?
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Date: 2017-04-18 12:54 am (UTC)Also, Hi love! I may have gotten a second wind, so now I'm getting coffee.
Byeeeeee!
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