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sunshine_challenge 2019: Prompts 1 & 2
Jul. 6th, 2019 02:02 amPrompt 1: Fannish Housekeeping — we invite everyone to prepare their journal spaces for new guests who may be visiting.
I finally got round to writing a sticky introduction post for visitors to my journal. My tags and interests are already fairly organised, but I did have to figure out how to put my friending policy and blanket permission statement into words (luckily pretty easy since both are wonderfully lax lmao), and realised I need more icons that aren't just transformers lol. There are just so many amazing tf ones!
Prompt 2: Fannish Identity — we invite everyone to take a deeper look at their own fandom identities.
Oh man, where to start. I guess with usernames? I first discovered fandom in... I want to say 2008? Or early 2009. Anyway, it was also my first foray into the internet in any meaningful capacity, and when fnn.net asked me to make a username I typed in my birth name and it wasn't taken thanks to the obscure spelling, and away I went! I kept it that way until I realised it felt weird to have strangers flame my fics using my actual name hahaha; then I changed it to something I don't remember inspired by some latin word I don't remember, and a few months after that, I chose ambivia.
The reasons for ambivia were, if I remember correctly: fanfiction 'fave author' lists were alphabetical so I wanted something with 'a', I chose a word I liked (ambivalent) and made up a word I liked from it, and thought ambivia sounded pretty. I liked made-up latin-sounding names (see: my fic titles from 2015) That stayed my username for years (also where my online nickname 'biv' comes from) until I had bit of a drama on twitter, and wanted away from any of my previous online associations so I deleted all my ambivia accounts and disappeared under lots of dif usernames.
In the last year, I decided I was okay with having a username people knew me by, so after a lot of trying to figure it out, I settled on 'aruviere'. I don't remember why; again, I just thought it was pretty. But a few months ago I decided it didn't feel me anymore — pretty made up usernames definitely once did, but not really anymore? So I decided to find something spacy that fit me. QuietMoon was free, I grabbed it, and here we are. :) I wanted something that sounded a little melancholic, a little odd, but also spacey and pretty. I'm happy with it! Took me like 2 years to find something I was happy with, but I finally got here in the end hahaha.
So that's the username. With regards to icons: I used to keep the same ones for years on end. But now, it's been more about what suits my mood and interests. I go for what is pretty, and very often end up choosing an new icon as the seasons change.
I go mostly by Biv online now! I spent a long time (around a year after I chose ambivia for my username) trying to find a name I could go by online that sounded more gender-neutral than my given name, which is not only quite obviously gendered but also a huge cultural give-away. I know a lot of people find it easier to derive names from usernames (and as I mentioned, that name is as well haha) so I'm alright with anything from my username quietmoon as well (hell, that'd be adorable). Any pronouns are fine with me, by which I mean I'm happy for people to use they/them exclusively, use he/him or she/her as they associate with me, or a mixture of the three. It doesn't bother me~
With regards to languages — English isn't my native tongue, but I live in an English-speaking country and it's probably my first language now if that makes sense. My native languages are, again, too much of a give-away for me to reveal haha. I studied German for 6 years, and got pretty good until I started learning Japanese, and then all my German went down the drain to be replaced with the new language. It's a work in progress and I'd say my knowledge is rudimentary at best, but I'm having a lot of fun working at it! Languages have always been a love of mine to learn. <3
From the challenge post: Tell us anything else you want to share publicly that would help people know how to interact with you. So what else? Hmm... I live in Scotland (UK) right now and I love history and castles and nature and rain, so it suits me quite well. I'm in academia, I'm old enough, I'm LGBTQ+, I love using smileys and think they're awfully cute. Oh! And I did make this post talking about as many interests that came to the top of my head, so it should definitely help anyone trying to get a better read on what kind of stuff I'm into right now. I desperately need more people to talk about Optimus Prime and Megatron and how they're absolutely paladins and also soulmates. hehe
I think that's all that's coming to me right now! I'd love to invite anyone reading to introduce themselves in the same way. What is your fannish identity? :D
I finally got round to writing a sticky introduction post for visitors to my journal. My tags and interests are already fairly organised, but I did have to figure out how to put my friending policy and blanket permission statement into words (luckily pretty easy since both are wonderfully lax lmao), and realised I need more icons that aren't just transformers lol. There are just so many amazing tf ones!
Prompt 2: Fannish Identity — we invite everyone to take a deeper look at their own fandom identities.
Oh man, where to start. I guess with usernames? I first discovered fandom in... I want to say 2008? Or early 2009. Anyway, it was also my first foray into the internet in any meaningful capacity, and when fnn.net asked me to make a username I typed in my birth name and it wasn't taken thanks to the obscure spelling, and away I went! I kept it that way until I realised it felt weird to have strangers flame my fics using my actual name hahaha; then I changed it to something I don't remember inspired by some latin word I don't remember, and a few months after that, I chose ambivia.
The reasons for ambivia were, if I remember correctly: fanfiction 'fave author' lists were alphabetical so I wanted something with 'a', I chose a word I liked (ambivalent) and made up a word I liked from it, and thought ambivia sounded pretty. I liked made-up latin-sounding names (see: my fic titles from 2015) That stayed my username for years (also where my online nickname 'biv' comes from) until I had bit of a drama on twitter, and wanted away from any of my previous online associations so I deleted all my ambivia accounts and disappeared under lots of dif usernames.
In the last year, I decided I was okay with having a username people knew me by, so after a lot of trying to figure it out, I settled on 'aruviere'. I don't remember why; again, I just thought it was pretty. But a few months ago I decided it didn't feel me anymore — pretty made up usernames definitely once did, but not really anymore? So I decided to find something spacy that fit me. QuietMoon was free, I grabbed it, and here we are. :) I wanted something that sounded a little melancholic, a little odd, but also spacey and pretty. I'm happy with it! Took me like 2 years to find something I was happy with, but I finally got here in the end hahaha.
So that's the username. With regards to icons: I used to keep the same ones for years on end. But now, it's been more about what suits my mood and interests. I go for what is pretty, and very often end up choosing an new icon as the seasons change.
I go mostly by Biv online now! I spent a long time (around a year after I chose ambivia for my username) trying to find a name I could go by online that sounded more gender-neutral than my given name, which is not only quite obviously gendered but also a huge cultural give-away. I know a lot of people find it easier to derive names from usernames (and as I mentioned, that name is as well haha) so I'm alright with anything from my username quietmoon as well (hell, that'd be adorable). Any pronouns are fine with me, by which I mean I'm happy for people to use they/them exclusively, use he/him or she/her as they associate with me, or a mixture of the three. It doesn't bother me~
With regards to languages — English isn't my native tongue, but I live in an English-speaking country and it's probably my first language now if that makes sense. My native languages are, again, too much of a give-away for me to reveal haha. I studied German for 6 years, and got pretty good until I started learning Japanese, and then all my German went down the drain to be replaced with the new language. It's a work in progress and I'd say my knowledge is rudimentary at best, but I'm having a lot of fun working at it! Languages have always been a love of mine to learn. <3
From the challenge post: Tell us anything else you want to share publicly that would help people know how to interact with you. So what else? Hmm... I live in Scotland (UK) right now and I love history and castles and nature and rain, so it suits me quite well. I'm in academia, I'm old enough, I'm LGBTQ+, I love using smileys and think they're awfully cute. Oh! And I did make this post talking about as many interests that came to the top of my head, so it should definitely help anyone trying to get a better read on what kind of stuff I'm into right now. I desperately need more people to talk about Optimus Prime and Megatron and how they're absolutely paladins and also soulmates. hehe
I think that's all that's coming to me right now! I'd love to invite anyone reading to introduce themselves in the same way. What is your fannish identity? :D
