anghraine

I wanted to move over my Tumblr Star Trek posting (almost entirely TOS or reviews of the original films), which if you follow me on Tumblr, you'll know is... quite a bit of stuff. So there's going to be quite a bit of spam, especially now that I made a few TOS icons :P

(It feels like it says something about my TOS priorities that the icons I felt the most need for were a) an iconic Kirk/Spock scene for both shipping and cinematography reasons, b) one of my favorite of the many Kirk-Uhura brotp moments that surprised me in TOS, c) my girl T'Pring, and d) Kirk looming menacingly behind an elderly Shakespearean actor in "The Conscience of the King," a moment that registers very differently after seeing the episode and realizing that said Shakespearean actor is a barely-veiled metaphor for the very 60s problem of finding elderly Nazis who had escaped justice 20 years earlier).

Anyway, my main tags for this are #fandom: star trek and tv: star trek the original series, if you have the ability to screen tags.

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Teo Torriatte (Queen)

This isn't really discourse (at least, I hope not!). I really wanted to keep backing up my Tumblr posts and keeping a lot of my content over here and linking or something, but a few months ago, I ran into a single terrible problem with Dreamwidth that I never before thought about.

Even the paid premium accounts max out at 2000 tags :(

"But Elizabeth," you might say, "you don't even use tags for commentary over here, just for organization. You shouldn't need more than two thousand, surely."

And to this I would say: "shut up."

I was already deleting less essential tags to get them below 1999—for instance, extremely minor Guild Wars 2 characters I had dutifully tagged even though I suspect vanishingly few of you have the slightest interest in even major GW2 characters/ships like Marjory/Kasmeer (my beloved MMORPG f/f ship canonized in 2013; if ArenaNet doesn't animate their wedding I will revolt harder than Separatists in Ascalon), much less a barely-named character who shows up in one chapter of a 70k stylistically odd and niche GW2 fanfic. I used to tack more generally, but I don't want to give up things like my Gondor-specific tag ... or my aasimar tag ... but after so long the tags have definitely accumulated. And I don't think you can even pay for a higher number of tags than the 2000 from the premium account (which I would do! take my money, Dreamwidth!).

Anyway, at this point, any post that uses a new tag involves combing through my old tags and making decisions about what tags are really essential and it pains my soul. :( :(

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie)

Digging up the links to so many DW tags got me wondering what tags I've actually used more than any others over here. It will probably look different after I'm done cross-posting, and maybe I'll check again then. But as of right now, the evening of 29 April 2024, this is every tag I've used over 100 times since my first post on 19 July 2009—

A. Tags used over 500 times:

1. #site: tumblr

This is far and away my most commonly used tag (used 1739 times), mainly because I've been cross-posting old Tumblr posts to Dreamwidth for years now, but also because I use it for every post referring to basically anything going on at Tumblr as well as the cross-posts.

2. #fandom: star wars

This feels like the "real" #1 tag, used 668 times and beating out all other fandoms (and indeed, everything). I suspect this is partly because I got into SW after making my DW account, but at a time when journal fandom was still quite active, so one of my most intense periods of SW fannishness was based here (or synced with lj, so the content is here as well). And then when you add in SW cross-posts and "overflow" material from Tumblr once Disney SW got kicking, especially after Rogue One, it's enough for the SW tag to jump ahead of every other tag but the Tumblr one.

3. #genre: meta

I periodically whine about feeling like I'm perceived more as a meta writer than a fic writer, even though I care more about fic and derive far more joy from it ... but I've tagged 667 posts with the meta tag and far less with any fic-related tag. In fairness, I originally conceived as "meta" as basically any post talking about a canon or fandom that wasn't fic, no matter how abrupt, so things I wouldn't really describe as "meta" these days fell under the tag until pretty recently. Even so, I've posted a lot more serious meta than fic!

4. #fandom: austen

The only surprise here is that this one wasn't even higher. I've tagged 640 posts with it over the years, and if you've followed me on Tumblr for awhile, you know there's only more coming. I'm pretty sure it'll beat out SW in the end for sheer quantity.

5. #fandom: middle-earth

While the previous three tags are clustered pretty closely together, there's a jump from the 640 Austen posts to a mere 505 Tolkien posts. This is partly because a bunch of my Tolkien stuff never made it onto Dreamwidth (that is, it happened on sites that are now dead or on lj before Dreamwidth was ever founded, or much later, was posted over at Tumblr and much of it hasn't made its way back over here). It's still one of my biggest fandoms, obviously; SW, Austen, and Tolkien will probably always be the Big Three for me.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Radio Ga Ga (Queen)

I’ve gotten a bunch of new followers recently and I’m not sure why—but regardless, hi!

[ETA 4/28/2024: I'm cross-posting this one mainly for record-keeping purposes, though I've added Dreamwidth-relevant clarifications in brackets. I've also been recently fixing, consolidating, and adding some DW tags for a more consistent system over here, so some older posts are only under the tags for the relevant fandoms and characters rather than the specific book, show, or film they're referencing. Anything Austen-related is under #fandom: austen, say, but many of my older Pride and Prejudice-specific posts don't have the P&P tag because I instituted the specific tag more recently.]

Run-down: my name is Elizabeth and I’m a 30-odd, US American PhD student. I study 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century British literature, primarily 18th [ETA: and early seventeenth, these days]. I also kind of hate academia at this point, lol, so you’ll see a lot of complaining about it unless you block #ivory tower blogging [DW tag: #uni and academia for anything related to academia, while #complaining covers exactly what you'd expect].

I talk reasonably often about mental health issues; I have autism, bipolar II, and anxiety, and my general tag is #rare breed of attack unicorn [DW tag: the same; I also tend to tag the specific disorders more often over here, since I don't have to worry about them going into a site-wide autism tag or whatnot; e.g., posts about anxiety are tagged with both #rare breed of attack unicorn and #anxiety].

I write original fiction in addition to fanfic and angst about it; the tag is #original fic rambles [DW tag: #original fiction, though plenty of it is either locked or under a different account], and vaguer or more general writing stuff is just #writing [DW tag: the same]. Rambling about my fanfic is under #fic talk [DW tag: #genre: fic talk, usually accompanied by a specific tag for the fic or verse, such as #fic talk: lucy skywalker for my f!Luke Skywalker fics].

My main fandoms and other tags include:

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Yours Truly, 2095 (Electric Light Orchestra)

I'm cleaning up old tags because I'm finally running up against the max even for an upgraded account. And there was a period around 2012 when I'd started using tags on livejournal/Dreamwidth in a Tumblresque running-commentary-under-my-breath way even though 1) they don't work as well on LJ/DW in that way, because they're automatically alphabetized and 2) I wasn't likely to reuse those specific tags, so it's ultimately kind of a waste.

At the same time, I (obviously) prefer to preserve old posts and such as a kind of record of what I was doing and thinking and saying at the time (really putting the "journal" in livejournal!), so I haven't wanted to delete these Tumblr-style tags. They were part of what I was doing back then!

This is especially glaring for an admittedly very wanky series of posts I put together. For context, the liberal-leaning Star Wars blog fangirlblog had recently posted defenses of slave Leia and Padmé Amidala from an allegedly feminist perspective that were making the rounds at the time. I found both takes ... objectionable. It was difficult enough to put together a coherent response that I ended up simply recording myself reading it and responding in real time, and then transcribed that recording into text, ultimately spread across nine different posts. It's very 2012 in a lot of ways—including my much more overt hostility towards the prequels and the OP's extremely binary concept of gender—but also, I do still think the defenses of slave Leia (and even of Padmé in some ways) are short-sighted at best and deeply rooted in fucked-up concepts of gender at worst. In any case, I decided to preserve my tags before deleting them as organizational tags by making a new post (this one!) with the old tags listed.

Part 1: Intro (touches on gender, representation, diversity, marginalization of women in the OT and PT, and over-reliance on "Watsonian" or in-world explanations for choices made by overwhelmingly male creators in constructing narratives). Tagged: #ahoy false catch-22 #feminism marches on #i try to be fair but i hate the prequels #strong female characters

Part 2: Slave Leia and constructed narratives. Tagged: #fanservice for great justice #reading comprehension failure #rotj makes me cry inside #stories don't come from shangri-la #strong female characters

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Renegade (Styx)

To those of you who haven't been driven off by the massive quantity of cross-posts from Tumblr lately: thank you! I really wanted to get 2020 on Tumblr backed up over here and it now is. The other cross-posts should happen more slowly. I appreciate your patience as I've been dumping old posts here!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Who Wants To Live Forever (Queen)

heget responded to this post:

how populated is pf now?

I replied:

I’m not sure. I’ve only ever used it to talk to a handful of friends, so it’s hard to judge the overall site.

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Always On My Mind (Elvis Presley)

F-lock will always be my favorite feature of a site when it exists, but one thing I do really like about PF is the ability to set a post so that people can comment but not reblog. There are kind of inane posts I make which I don’t mind people responding to at all, but when they reblog without commentary or explanation, it’s confusing and disconcerting.

I can’t speak for everyone, but this happens to me a lot, so it’s nice to have a place where I can just opt out of that particular experience without going full f-lock.

[ETA 3/14/2024: Tumblr has actually had this feature, functionally, for awhile now! Too little too late, though.]

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Take It On the Run (REO Speedwagon)

I reblogged this post and said:

This is a … really odd post to start getting obvious bots on.

Tagged: #it's weird because there are a bunch on a post about rogue one's soundtrack #and now it's starting on this one with some of the same accounts but no reblogs and ... ????????????

[ETA 3/12/2024: if there's anything I don't regret about withdrawing from Tumblr, it's the bots. I know clearing out Dreamwidth's is tedious for Denise, but I for one am very grateful that she does it.]

[ETA2: I couldn't resist the urge to use this icon, though it's unfair to the honor of K-2SO. He would never! Unless he thought it was funny.]

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Stay (Rihanna & Mikky Ekko)

heckofabecca responded to this post:

Prettttty sure I came for the Austen?

I replied:

Haha, I think so, actually! But most of my followers came with the sequel trilogy and that one HP post.

tree said:

CECILY <3

I replied:

MY GIRL!!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Jump (Van Halen)

I reblogged a post from dxntloseurhead on Tumblr about how far Tumblr blogs drift from what people actually followed them for.

Tagged: #lmao i started as a sw blog and it's what the bulk of my followers came for #meanwhile: babbling about my pride and prejudice/mansfield park fusion headcanons

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Hold On Tight (Electric Light Orchestra)

To everyone who is a woman in any of the many ways there are to be women, many happy returns of the day!

I don't really have anything prepared because of health & other responsibilities taking up too much of my time, but my "Music" on cross-posts is so often by men that I thought it'd be fun to only listen to female singers while I'm doing today's Tumblr "back-up" cross-posting.

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Bad Reputation (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts)

I’m going to get through the Metamorphoses today if it kills me. Currently at Book 11 (pg 304 in my edition) and:

“Peleus was fortunate in his son and his wife
And everything else, except for the crime
Of murdering Phocus, his brother.”

Well, except that little thing.

Tagged: #i know that this is not what anyone followed me for and y'all deserve a prize for sticking around

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: My Life (Billy Joel)

What happened to my activity bar?!

[ETA 2/28/2024: preserving this mostly out of morbid amusement that "wtf are you doing, Tumblr?" has always been an essential part of the Tumblr experience.]

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Pilgrim (Enya)

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of metallic snowflake and ornaments. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

Okay, this one is also weirdly, well, challenging!

IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.

It feels like I do that all the time, lol, but (even though I'm not posting in the community's comments—lingering shyness, I guess) I guess it can be handy to have in one place. Okay. I think I'll do this one as a bulleted list for convenience. Stuff about me:

My name is Elizabeth (most people know me as Anghraine and a few know my family nickname, but any of these are fine).
I'm in my 30s. (Still. Somehow.)
I'm a PhD student in English literature, hopefully in my final semester. I complain about my dissertation pretty regularly.
Like many people in fandom, I'm very opinionated, frequently about things that seem trivial to other people.
I'm US American and politically a progressive Democrat.
My home is the Pacific Northwest and love it dearly.
I don't like most of my appearance, but I do have dark hair and grey eyes, which give me a bit of joy as a Tolkien fan.
I'm a grey-ace lesbian & she/her or they/their pronouns are both fine. My sense of gender is both very clear (no intrinsic gender) and very muddy (AFAB and in the habit of alignment with women for various reasons, but it's complicated), so I tend to veer between "eh, whatever" and "????????" as far as gender goes.
I have three parents—my mother, my (adoptive) father, my (biological) father, and since I have ties to all of them (though much stronger to the first two), it's not always clear which father I'm talking about. My adoptive father is Mexican-American and my bio father is Greek/Irish-American, both of which come up sometimes for family reasons.
I don't talk about it a whole lot, but I was raised Mormon (by my mother and adoptive father), while my bio father is Catholic, and this has definitely impacted my particular experience of US Christianity. I'm personally agnostic.
I'm bipolar and autistic, and relatedly, tend to veer between not doing much and super-intense posting.
I've been active in fandom since about 2003, when I delurked at the Faramir/Éowyn Emyn Arnen forums (I also stealth shipped Faramir/Aragorn, but didn't admit it then :P). My main OTP is Elizabeth/Darcy (book versions). I also love the Star Wars OT (with the prequels and, some days, TFA+TLJ along for the ride) and Rogue One a lot (I've had various SW ships over the years, but nothing really compares to the greatness of Jyn/Cassian; my other SW faves are Luke, Anakin, and Leia). I only intermittently still talk about Legend of Korra, but it's never left my heart (Korra, Noatak/Amon, Tarrlok, and Kuvira <33333).
It's not the only thing I do, but I especially love genderbending my favorite male characters to women.
Dreamwidth is not the place I post most often, but it is my favorite place to post (icons, f-lock, normalizing long-form conversations...).

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Bed of Roses (Bon Jovi)

Hi, everyone!

I was busy yesterday for holiday reasons, but for 2024, in this era of social media chaos we live in, I wanted to do the Snowflake Challenge here at my online home (Viva Dreamwidth!). Today's challenge was to create or update your profile/profile post, which it looked like I had never once done (I've been here since 2009...). So I went through and changed the interests that needed changing, switched my location from Oregon to Washington (I moved years ago), and *gasp* added a mini-bio (I had never done this, either). For the click-averse, here it is:

I'm Elizabeth or Anghraine (no preference!). I've been in fandom since my late teens and I'm in my 30s. I'm especially here for Pride and Prejudice (the book, not the adaptations), Tolkien (the books; I'm overall not a fan of the LOTR films or their impact on fandom), and Star Wars (mainly the original trilogy and Rogue One the film). I also love games; I'm not actually good at them, but I'm very invested in the humans of the Guild Wars series and currently, like many others, in Baldur's Gate 3.

In the meanwhile, I'm wrapping up grad school hell, so I also talk quite a bit about that—and anything else that moves me, really. Dreamwidth holds the overflow of my brain as well as my material from less stable sites.

Identity stuff: grey-ace lesbian, somewhere between agender and cis female (she/her and they/them are both fine), autistic/bipolar/anxious, white US American.

(Posted 1/2/2024)

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: I'm Going Slightly Mad (Queen)

I, uh

Thanks for hanging around, y’all! ❤️️

#i'd like to do something but i'm too tired #STILL i appreciate you all!!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Remain Nameless (Florence + The Machine)

I switched my BG3 tag from game: baldur's gate 3 to fandom: baldur's gate 3, because it's clearly a fandom for me and I have a separate gaming tag I can tack on. But in general, I tag by the "master" fandom (Middle-earth for all Tolkien stuff rather than individual tags for LOTR, the Silm, etc, fandom: austen rather than pride and prejudice, etc) and it really is part of the wider D&D or at least Forgotten Realms material. But it'd be a pain to add a master fandom tag to all 77(!) of my BG3 posts, and it is kind of its own thing, so I went with the easy route of just renaming the tag (though the inconsistency in my system pains me!!).

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Who's Crying Now (Journey)

[ETA 10/22/2023: Reposting this one for my general Tumblr records rather than because it describes my Dreamwidth tagging at all. Dreamwidth means functional tagging, lol.]

I’ve gotten some 25 followers in the last few days and have no idea why, so … um, hi? Anyway, a general overview of The Blog:

My name is Elizabeth, and I’m a suffering PhD student who occasionally writes fanfic/original fic/meta on the side. I’m also in my thirties and got into fandom around 2003 via livejournal and forums, so … I don’t mind young people following me, but I’m an adult and I think of my audience as adults. I tend towards a) determinedly enthusiastic or b) grumpy and salty, with little in between.

I’m mainly a Star Wars/Austen/Tolkien/ATLA+LOK fan, among other things. I should probably say that for me, SW = the films, Austen = her writing, Tolkien = his writing, ATLA+LOK = the shows, and I reallyyyy don’t care for “well, actually, in the expanded universe” and the like. Otherwise, (civil) comments and asks are fine!

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Ticket to the Moon (Electric Light Orchestra)

Belatedly, we're on the second phase of the shipping polls! So I'll consider the previous phase "locked" and use the results as of today as the final results for that phase that generate the second phase.

(I also want to be more consistent about them, but well, I'm me.)

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: King (Florence + The Machine)

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