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[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.

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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.)