introduction

[cittasette]

Hi! I'm Vii. This is a little about me, since Dreamwidth seems to be sucking me in.

She/her, they/them. Software development engineer who spends all their free time learning about everything except software engineering. I write and draw for fun, and consume fanfiction like mad.

Interests: Original fiction, web novels, webcomics, worldbuilding, linguistics (and conlanging), art, history, technology, psychology... basically everything under the sun. Except (current) politics, which is too divisive too quickly for my taste.

As for specific genres, I like historical fiction, fantasy, especially weird fiction and magical realism, and sci-fi, which I need to read more of.

I eat fanfic for breakfast, but I don't really write fanfic because characterization is hard. Fanart is more likely. I've historically been more of a lurker than a poster, but maybe Dreamwidth's slower pace and finding more communities here will help with that.

So, here's a (non-exhaustive) list of fandoms I have an interest in (as of November 2019):

Fandom Interests

The Addams Family*, Doctor Who, Good Omens, Guardian (镇魂), Hamilton, Harry Potter, Hannibal (NBC), Inception, James Bond (Craig), Jeeves & Wooster*, KHR, Kingsman, Les Miserables (musical, The Brick is to-read), Lucifer (comic), The Magnus Archives, MCU, My Hero Academia, Naruto*, Overwatch*, Pacific Rim, Person of Interest*, Pride and Prejudice, Sandman, Sherlock (BBC, ACD*), The Sentinel*, Stargate (esp. SGA), Steam Powered Giraffe, Supernatural, Temeraire*, Tolkien*, Valdemar, Voltron (Netflix), Welcome to Night Vale, White Collar*, Worm

*I have very limited knowledge of the source material, may or may not return to them, but will read fanfic of it anyway

I'll probably post about linguistics, worldbuilding, writing, drawing, whatever I've been reading and watching lately, and so on. As for fandom stuff, perhaps fic recs, link dumps, and the occasional fanart.

Comments

Hello!

[are_youready]

Hey! I'm the person you asked about le Carre on the friending meme. My name is B and I am also super new to DreamWidth, but I'm working on getting to know people. Want to get to know each other? I'm studying Chinese in college too, as it happens; it's my major.

Anyway, I do in fact have recommendations on what le Carre to read if you want them:

- if you like a compassionate, slow, thoughtful thriller that takes its time to smell the roses, is full of beautiful prose, and is all about the relationships people have to each other, read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

- if you want a bleak, stripped down, painfully dark thriller, read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

- if you like detective novels and extreme homoeroticism and don't mind things being a little rough around the edges because it was le Carre's first novel, read Call for the Dead

- if you want a silly romp that's a lot of fun and super duper (subtextually) gay and don't really care about high quality writing or the plot making sense, read Absolute Friends

Re: Hello!

[cittasette]

Want to get to know each other? I'm studying Chinese in college too, as it happens; it's my major.

Of course! I'm studying Mandarin mostly for heritage reasons, and speak Cantonese at home. What interested you about Chinese? Are you focusing on anything in particular?

I do in fact have recommendations on what le Carre to read if you want them...

Thanks for the list (and great descriptions)! All of these actually seem very interesting, I'm going to see if I can read some of them over winter break.

I also went back and checked your post on the friending meme and noticed you mentioned Fringe as well -- man, I watched up to Season 3 (?) while it was still streaming, but now it isn't online anywhere ;-;

Re: Hello!

[are_youready]

I think I've found places to pirate Fringe? but to be honest, it's not actually really worth watching past the third season, and certainly not past the fourth. It takes that trademark Bad Robot Studios nosedive. I do miss Fringe though, so much! Who were your faves?

I started studying Chinese because it was one of the options presented to me in middle school, I chose it because it seemed interesting, I loved it because it WAS interesting and also my teacher was wonderful, and I just. Kept going.

If you have any thoughts on any le Carre novels please hit me up, I can also if you want provide you with comprehensive warnings on shit like "really specific fetishistic antisemitism," "inconsistent writing," and "the fifty year old main character's love interest being twenty."

If you wanna chat feel free to DM me here, on Twitter @holodeckfreud, on tumblr @autisticandroids, or on Discord @areyouready#9369

Re: Hello!

[cittasette]

Who were your faves?

It's been so long, I can't remember! I do remember really liking Walter, though, and I remember being really frustrated at alternate!Olivia during the parallel universe arc. I don't think I finished Season 3, mumble grumble.

You've been formally studying Chinese longer than I have, then. I (re)started in freshman year of college and have mostly been getting by with a heap-load of Pleco. Tangentially, I took a look at your Twitter and saw your thread on moralizing textbooks -- I was going to say "oh, that's really interesting but not unexpected, though my textbooks haven't really been like that" and then I remembered that just this semester there was a chapter on "OMG porn websites are destroying society! Think of the children!" (and wow, isn't that relevant right now). I facepalmed the whole time while reading that one. Too bad my classmates didn't similarly appreciate the ridiculousness.

I will let you know what I think about le Carre. I've been in a reading rut for too long, hopefully reading something new and fun will get me reading Actual Books again.

Anyway, Twitter is mysterious to me, I use it mostly for art-related things. Might take you up on DMs here or on Discord though! (I'm not very interesting at the moment; swamped with finals and all that.)

[alasse_irena]

Hello! This list of interests is very me. I've added tout back.

[cittasette]

Cool, nice to meet you!

[sylvaine]

Hello hello! We don't have a huge amount of overlap in terms of fandom, but we totally match up in other interests! :D I hope dreamwidth ends up being a good place for you!

[cittasette]

Thanks! This seems like a great place to get to know people at a slower pace. Hoping people stay after the rush ends (myself included ;;)

[colls]

I eat fanfic for breakfast
LOL


I used to dabble in everything, but have moved away from most of it. The only medium I never tried my hand at was fanart as I have zero talent in that area. I love admiring it though!

What flavor of MCU are you most interested in?

[cittasette]

What flavor of MCU are you most interested in?

Flavor, hmm... mostly Avengers and the like? I've kept up more with the movies rather than the TV shows due to lack of time. I want to watch Daredevil and Jessica Jones sometime, though.

[colls]

Same. I watched some AOS and some Jessica Jones, but really enjoy the films the most. I hear really good things about Daredevil though.

[tozka]

Yay, Good Omens! I'm so looking forward to the renewed interest in that fandom once the TV show hits.

[cittasette]

:D I'm nervous about how they'll adapt it, but with Gaiman at the helm it should be fun at the very least. Too bad David Tennant will always remind me of the Doctor, though...

Also, took a peek at your intro page -- there are a lot of fandoms that I've read-fanfic-for that I've forgotten to list, mostly since I've lurked in so many. Alphabetizing the list is also a good idea, think I'll steal that.

[tozka]

It should definitely be fun to watch! Even the bad Gaiman adaptations are still watchable, luckily.

And thank you! I keep finding tiny fandoms I'd forgotten about on other people's intro posts and have to keep updating that list, haha.

[thechromabooks]

Hey there! Thank you for subscribing :D Sorry I didn’t thank you sooner, I’m still figuring out how to navigate the site. Nice to meet you!

[cittasette]

Same here -- nice to meet you, too!

[narya_flame]

Hi! Thanks for subscribing :) looks like we have a lot in common - I'm fairly monofandom in terms of writing (Tolkien only) but read in a few of the ones you list, and a lot of our other interests overlap. Looking forwards to getting to know you!