Intro Post! [Updated 1/1/2023]

Hello there, person who is glancing at my journal and seeing this sticky note for the first time! This is a first stop to kate/kisahawklin to let you know a bit about me.

In real life, I have a very stressful job managing an (perpetually understaffed) office (which I am nominally on leave from to assist with implementation of a number of new systems for the entire university system in my state - and even MORE stressful job). This means that my stress level is often very high and there is a hard limit to how much fannish interaction I can manage at any given time. If I don't respond to you immediately, please assume that my work life is flaring up and I do not have the brainpower or just plain time to answer your wonderful, thoughtful comment with the attention it deserves.

Fannishly, I've been hanging around fandom around 25ish years now, and in the LJ/DW sort of area since 2005ish. I'm a fandom old, but I adore young folks and wish to help basically everyone develop themselves in whatever ways they wish to do that. I love fandom generally and it is a wonderful part of my life I don't expect to ever give up. I'll be a 90 year old writing smut for fun, JUST WATCH ME.

Current fandoms:
* The Untamed (Chen Qing Ling (CQL))/Mo Dao Zu Shi (MDZS) + RPF of The Untamed actors (mainly a pairing with the delightful acronym BJYX): This was my gateway C drama fandom and I am still swimming in these waters, so unlikely to get out any time soon.
* Other Asian dramas to a greater or lesser degree: Guardian, TGCF/Heaven Official's Blessing, SHL/Word of Honor are faves; I have watched, and loved, Legend of Fei, S.C.I., Prince of Tennis, Cherry Magic (Japanese), The Yin-Yang Master (both versions), Hidden Blade, The One and Only, and several others, including several Korean and Japanese dramas and several Korean and Japanese movies. I haven't made it over to Thai dramas just yet but I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
* My old (and mostly still beloved) fandoms are, in reverse order: Supernatural, The Losers, Stargate: Atlantis, Alexander (2004, but also the Mary Renault stories), Lord of the Rings (LoTRPS, really), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (+ Angel)
* If you check my AO3 fandoms, I've got like, 100 fandoms listed there because I do a lot of crossovers and one-offs and there are a few fandoms I've flitted in and out of (like Criminal Minds), and a few long standing flirtations (like Leverage). Also Voiceteam is a thing, and often part of that is to podfic in small/new fandoms so that number just keeps going up!

My fannish activities are, at the moment, limited to writing (very very slowly – stress fucks this up for me) and podficcing. My podfic life has turned upside down a bit since I discovered that people actually enjoy me reading things with commentary and without editing. I call these cold reads, which is a bit of a misnomer but one that has stuck so I'm not actually planning on changing it at the moment. Someday I may try to figure out vidding but for now, it's off the table. I'm also veeery slowly trying to learn Chinese, which is only partially a fannish activity, but had its roots there, so I'm counting it.

I'm also at kisahawklin, I reblog stuff that interests me, positivity, and occasionally other stuff. It's pretty eclectic, but it's such a low bar to fandom participation that it's delightfully easy. I exist at kisahawklin but I don't go there often and don't have notifs set up. I come to dreamwidth like clockwork every winter vacation because of snowflake_challenge and I usually get both a burst of fannish energy for the beginning of the year and also a bit melancholy about how it doesn't last all year long. (It would burn me out if it did, but it's still sad to know how great it is to be that involved in fandom and then... not have that for a while.) Pretty much if there's a fannish site out there, I'm on it as kisahawklin, but my mains are tumblr, discord (kisahawklin, obviously), and AO3, with dreamwidth being like... my parents' home after I moved out. It will always be home. I come here often, I have many warm memories of it and I love it dearly, but I don't live here anymore.

I have a blanket permission statement on my AO3 profile, but I'm going to copy it here so you don't have to go looking around for it: Listen. I didn't ask permission to write this stuff. YOU DON'T HAVE TO ASK PERMISSION TO DO ANYTHING WITH IT. Podfic, art, re-write, crit, whatever you want. IT'S POSTED PUBLICLY. YOU DO WANT YOU WANT, FRIEND. Now, I am honored that you would even consider it, and I'd love to know about it, if you feel comfortable with that (including linking our works on the AO3), but again - NOT NECESSARY. You do what you like.

Welcome! I'm stressed right now, but fandom is still my home and I love it so much. Come on in and say hi!