Hello, New People!

[chomiji]

I'll try not to repeat too much from my profile page.

I'm a slightly genderqueer married woman Of a Certain Age. I have a husband of more than 30 years, a grown daughter in a PhD program on the Left Coast (definitely a nerd like her folks), and various family members in my nearby area, which is Washington DC and environs (specifically, Takoma Park, MD, a/k/a The People's Republic of Takoma Park).

I have been a member of various fandoms since I was an 8-yr-old following the space program with my dad and reading the "Spacecat" books. In middle school and high school, I was a huge Tolkien and Star Trek:TOS nerd, and things went on from there. In college, I discovered D&D, and I still play tabletop RPG (Numenera, most recently) about once a month in a group that includes The Mr., his brother, and friends we have known for years.

I work as a web content manager (and to some degree, a systems analyst) on the intranet portal of a medium-sized organization. We're in the middle of porting a 4500-item site from Rhythmyx to Drupal.

I'm Jewish, liberal, and have fought depression for years (mostly with meds and meditation). I'm also a two-time cancer survivor.

I lock various posts. If you are interested in my health issues (including depression), my fic writing projects, the manga Saiyuki, or the remodeling job we're starting on our 1920s house, let me know, and I will add you to the applicable filter.

Comments

[iamshadow]

I am happy to be a bunch of those filters. I don't know the manga, though.

[chomiji]

Saiyuki is a long-running manga (now stalled because of the mangaka's illness) that has generated a large amount of often very good (mostly m/m and shippy) fanfiction.

When it was still new and shiny, coffeeandink described it as follows:

A whacked-out retelling of the Chinese classic, The Journey to the West, in which the four protagonists travel in a jeep (which is also a dragon) across an anachronistic ancient Chinese landscape in order to save the world from a plague of insanity that's descended on the formerly peaceful youkai (demons). Or at least as peaceful as humans,which -- okay, not so much with the peaceful. But formerly sane. In Minekura's version, the holy monk Genjo Sanzo gambles, smokes, drinks, curses, and shoots people at the slightest provocation; about the only sin he doesn't commit is unchastity, and that's clearly because he doesn't like people enough to let any of them touch him. The Chinese trickster figure, the Monkey King, is a naive teenager with an endless appetite and an extremely violent alter ego. The kappa (water sprite) Sha Gojyo is a womanizing gambler with a vulgar mouth and a heart of gold; the last companion, Cho Hakkai, is a soft-spoken, well-mannered scholar with by far the most violent and disturbing past of the four; Kanzeon Bosatsu, the goddess of Mercy, is a hermaphrodite with a wicked sense of humor and a taste for transparent dresses.

Scanlations are online, but I would recommend trying to get the published English manga instead, because there's a lot of nuance in the characters' language use that many of the fan translations miss.

I'll add you to the other filters I mentioned. What about my girl-stuff filter, where I (rarely) talk about clothes and other fem-stereotype things?

[iamshadow]

Okay, I will keep it in mind, but won't likely get to it as I have so much to read, and only one set of eyes to read with. So little time, too! My goodreads to-read is 1500 books long.

Girl stuff filter is fine. :)

[blackcatsboon]

I may already be on there, but if not, I'm happy to be included in all filters that you're happy to include me in. :)