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Signing up and joining in
Jan. 7th, 2019 10:36 pmThese are things that I am going to attempt, more, in 2019. A few years back I lost my access to Tumblr other than on my phone, through a series of defunct email account fiascos. And it all seemed too difficult to sort out, or to use my phone to write anything, so instead of sorting it out, I reverted to my default mode in relation to both social media in general, and fandom in particular: lurking in the shadows.
If I've found you here, then I have been reading you on tumblr, and I'd like to keep doing so here. All my posts are likely to be private from this one on (see 3-5 below), but I'm going to automatically give access to anyone whose name I recognise, in case you're interested. I'm always happy to be contacted, I'm just not always good at being proactive at contacting people. And in the last few years, I've also been more or less out of participating in fandom because of various factors, including but not limited to:
1. Falling out with Sherlock canon
2. Failing to find any other fandom that stuck for more than a short period
3. Becoming Extremely Senior at work.
4. Consequently becoming paranoid that the powers that be, at work, would notice that I was writing porn in my spare time
5. And that my staff - because becoming Extremely Senior means that I can now say things like 'my staff' and they are at least partly true - would also notice, and this would turn out badly.
6. Near-total lack of spare time due mostly to terrifying upwards trajectory of career, with some credit also due to family, cats, and crumbling Victorian townhouse requiring constant vigilance or it will fall to pieces.
7. Any spare time spent in exercising, baking bread, or rereading Dorothy L. Sayers, in order to cope with the stress of terrifying career.
8. General ongoing tendency to revert to behaving like myself at 14 when online (acutely shy, introverted, appallingly bad at social interactions) rather than myself at 43 (could happily improvise hour-long talk in front of 500 strangers, and frequently do).
So anyway - here I am, making an effort. Signing up. *looks around nervously*
If I've found you here, then I have been reading you on tumblr, and I'd like to keep doing so here. All my posts are likely to be private from this one on (see 3-5 below), but I'm going to automatically give access to anyone whose name I recognise, in case you're interested. I'm always happy to be contacted, I'm just not always good at being proactive at contacting people. And in the last few years, I've also been more or less out of participating in fandom because of various factors, including but not limited to:
1. Falling out with Sherlock canon
2. Failing to find any other fandom that stuck for more than a short period
3. Becoming Extremely Senior at work.
4. Consequently becoming paranoid that the powers that be, at work, would notice that I was writing porn in my spare time
5. And that my staff - because becoming Extremely Senior means that I can now say things like 'my staff' and they are at least partly true - would also notice, and this would turn out badly.
6. Near-total lack of spare time due mostly to terrifying upwards trajectory of career, with some credit also due to family, cats, and crumbling Victorian townhouse requiring constant vigilance or it will fall to pieces.
7. Any spare time spent in exercising, baking bread, or rereading Dorothy L. Sayers, in order to cope with the stress of terrifying career.
8. General ongoing tendency to revert to behaving like myself at 14 when online (acutely shy, introverted, appallingly bad at social interactions) rather than myself at 43 (could happily improvise hour-long talk in front of 500 strangers, and frequently do).
So anyway - here I am, making an effort. Signing up. *looks around nervously*
