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Hello, new people. I'm pleased that people are coming back to Dreamwidth and I hope it's an ongoing trend.

I have been in this type of fandom since 2001; I was around at the tail-end of Usenet and mailing lists, just before we all moved to LiveJournal. I moved to Dreamwidth with everyone else back in 2010 or so (or whenever Strikethrough was!) and I have not really -- gone anywhere else. (Ye gods. How you know how old I am - I find it momentarily jarring when people call it their Dreamwidth "feed" and not their flist.) I have a Twitter, which I do use, and a Tumblr, which I don't; the form of interaction never worked for me very well because I'm really verbose and I like comments. I also found it quite disturbing that I had been very young for Usenet and LJ fandom, and then suddenly I was very old for Tumblr fandom - somehow I never got a fandom adulthood? (But I'm still into things. Star Trek and Doctor Who (again just recently) and the Vorkosigan series and long ago, M*A*S*H, and really, a lot of other things.)

Anyway! Pleased to meet you. If you have heard of me before, it's probably is because I have written a whole shitload of fanfic over a period of seventeen years. (Most, but not all, is on the AO3.)

About me otherwise: I'm a thirtysomething lawyer and civil servant (and because of the job, a portion of what I write here is locked; I don't mind people reading it if they want to and you should feel free to ask, but I don't like to have it in public). I like languages. I'm a pro writer under another name. I'm brown and nonbinary. I don't really know what else you'd need to know about me! Hi.

Hello new friends who have arrived with the friending meme! Hello. Lovely to meet you and I am enjoying all your posts. I wish to make a post of my own introducing myself only, ah, stuff. Urgh. Stuff. In brief: I am a writer, long-term fangirl, twentysomething lawyer, my partner and I live in a flat in the south of England that increasingly resembles the All-You-Can-Eat Junkshop of Babel (anyone want a hatstand? a hideous green coffee table? Butterworth's Company Law Handbook 2009? no? you shock me) and I'm having a Major Career Crisis and a Great House Refurbishment at the same time. It's charming. I'm charming. Really.

December will be better and indeed all things beautiful. If you want to ask me to talk about a thing you still can!

/exit, pursued by a bear

From abyssinia4077:

People who live in/know people in the Bay area - I've got a good friend about to end up temporarily homeless because her current lease is up today and every other lead she had died. She has a job near downtown and works a variety of shifts, so needs to live within 2-ish miles of Market and Van Ness so she can get to work. She has a very sweet dog who goes to work with her and needs something not too expensive that allows large dogs. If anyone has any possible leads on a place, I know she'd appreciate it a lot, and I'd certainly appreciate not worrying about her too. She's quiet and clean and dependable and the housing market is ridiculous. Please let me know if you know of anything I could pass on - either longterm or somewhere she can stay until she finds a place. Thanks!

I can further vouch for our friend - she's one of the best people you could ever meet. If anyone's got anything, I'd really appreciate it.

I just discovered Instagram, which has reminded me: every so often I start using Twitter. Now is one of those times. I'm @singlecrow - let me know who you are! Also, rec fun/interesting people to follow?

(Also @singlecrow on instagram - it appeals to my inner teenager.)

If I get this right, then hopefully this will crosspost to LJ as well as Dreamwidth. (forthwritten has been talking me through it all morning.) Fingers crossed. Anyway, on that note, I have made all the changes I'm going to make - you can comment on my DW or my LJ, I honestly don't mind either way. I think I have given access on DW to everyone who can read my flocked posts on LJ - if this isn't the case just let me know. Ditto if you have a DW user account that I've somehow missed.

That is all, please talk amongst yourselves in the comments. Imagine there is a sideboard with mimosas and cheese and pineapple on sticks, and those little brie-cranberry parcels I like.

edited to add and edit crossposting works too, hurrah.

Yay! brynnmck, emerald_embers, pinkfinity! Thank you for the snowflake cookies! Today is grey and hideous and miserable and has featured a lot of road traffic law (don't ask) so it is much appreciated. Still. Ten more days of term, then I will be in London and then I will be in Edinburgh and then I will be in Liverpool, and they are all grey and hideous too but at least I'll be there with people I love.

(Not that I'm not here in Oxford with people I love. I think this is a sign I should stop complaining.)

Anyway! A while ago I had my phone stolen. It sucked. The phone company replaced it, which sucked less. But of course I lost all my numbers, annoyingly. Might I ask, therefore, the usual favour? If I had your number before, might I have it again? And if I didn't but you think I ought to have done, please help me put that right. All comments are screened, of course.

(My number is the same as it was, thankfully; I do appreciate everyone who left abuse for the thief, by the way.)