Intro post
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luzulaSo for the new people following me, here's an intro post. : )
I am 38 years old and am a Swedish woman living on the west coast of Sweden, working as a mathematician at a university. I am very enthusiastic about teaching but currently have a complicated and non-enthusiastic relationship to math research. I live in a shared apartment with three other people and two lovely sighthounds (also a snake, but I rarely see her). I am currently not in a relationship and have chosen not to have kids. I am active in two organizations, one is an environmental organization working with Swedish forest issues. We try to save old-growth forests from logging and work for a better, non-ecosystem-destroying kind of forestry. The other is a syndicalist workers' union, where I am currently on the board of the city-level branch.
I love outdoors life, like hiking and tree climbing. I am also very geeky about nature and love learning new species. I suppose I know vascular plants and bryophytes (mosses) best, but I've also worked with lichens, fungi (but mostly those on wood), and some groups of insects, such as butterflies and moths, dragonflies, hoverflies, and bumblebees.
Fannishly, I've always been a voracious reader of SF/F and whatever else I got my hands on. I actually found my way into fandom in my brief but intense anime phase fifteen years ago, but I quickly moved over to Western fandom instead. My first fandom there was Good Omens. But then I found due South, where I spent many years and wrote a lot of fic with a lovely fannish community around me, many of whom I still know. I fell out of that fandom a couple of years ago (it wasn't the fandom, it was me), and since then I've flitted around writing a few rarelit works a year. My fannishness is mostly centered around reading these days, and I love talking about books! Some of my favorite authors are Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Jo Walton.
I also have a rekindled love of Star Wars. I watch pretty much no TV at all, though, so I skip a lot of talk about TV shows on my reading list. Besides writing fic, I also record podfic. I haven't been very productive the last few years, but I have a huge back catalog of podfic.
I am 38 years old and am a Swedish woman living on the west coast of Sweden, working as a mathematician at a university. I am very enthusiastic about teaching but currently have a complicated and non-enthusiastic relationship to math research. I live in a shared apartment with three other people and two lovely sighthounds (also a snake, but I rarely see her). I am currently not in a relationship and have chosen not to have kids. I am active in two organizations, one is an environmental organization working with Swedish forest issues. We try to save old-growth forests from logging and work for a better, non-ecosystem-destroying kind of forestry. The other is a syndicalist workers' union, where I am currently on the board of the city-level branch.
I love outdoors life, like hiking and tree climbing. I am also very geeky about nature and love learning new species. I suppose I know vascular plants and bryophytes (mosses) best, but I've also worked with lichens, fungi (but mostly those on wood), and some groups of insects, such as butterflies and moths, dragonflies, hoverflies, and bumblebees.
Fannishly, I've always been a voracious reader of SF/F and whatever else I got my hands on. I actually found my way into fandom in my brief but intense anime phase fifteen years ago, but I quickly moved over to Western fandom instead. My first fandom there was Good Omens. But then I found due South, where I spent many years and wrote a lot of fic with a lovely fannish community around me, many of whom I still know. I fell out of that fandom a couple of years ago (it wasn't the fandom, it was me), and since then I've flitted around writing a few rarelit works a year. My fannishness is mostly centered around reading these days, and I love talking about books! Some of my favorite authors are Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Jo Walton.
I also have a rekindled love of Star Wars. I watch pretty much no TV at all, though, so I skip a lot of talk about TV shows on my reading list. Besides writing fic, I also record podfic. I haven't been very productive the last few years, but I have a huge back catalog of podfic.
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Date: 2018-01-28 07:18 pm (UTC)I do editing/proofing and related work, which is part writing and part nitpicking the hell out of other people's writings ;) Mostly in the area of linguistics, lately.
I can't quite pinpoint "areas of interest"; I try to read something new every day, which is mostly in the vast and vague areas of history, animals and plants, literature... Looking at my shelves to jog my memory there's a LOT of queer history books, both non fiction and some fiction. Example for randomness: I just now learned that old english used the phrase "sunnan upgang" to mean sunrise, and it's the perfect band name, is it not? Other perfect band name I ran into earlier today is "spadix", pronounced "SPAY-dicks". Maybe a punk band, then. It's a botany thing. It's a... bunch of flowers. On a dick. Kinda :) Also involved in a strange discussion on "who's more to blame", portugal or britain, for the spread of christianity worldwide, and specifically the spread of the term AD (for the calendar). you can see why pinpointing is hard for me ;)
I'm actually shopping around at the moment for something more specific to care about, due to low "fandom!libido" - low interest and no current fannish loves, other than the old true and tried ones. Comes and goes, doesn't it :) I feel like I haven't posted real fannish love in forever.
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Date: 2018-01-28 08:12 pm (UTC)That is a random collection of things, but interesting ones! In Swedish we say "soluppgång". And "sunnan" means a wind from the south.
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Date: 2018-01-28 08:58 pm (UTC)