Snowflake Challenge #1

[kate]

In your own space, introduce yourself!

Oh lol. Well, it's 3am and I just quick recorded, edited, and posted a podfic, so I am gonna shorthand this something fierce. here's my 'about me' tag. The highlights:

I'm married. My wife is a gamer by trade and not really in these kinds of online spaces anymore. Sometimes I miss that.

I'm a fan. Currently my obsession is The Untamed/MDZS (all versions) and RPF related to that. Yes I'm sort of nominally trying to learn some Mandarin in my copious free time. Shut up.

I'm a writer. Fanfiction, mostly, though I have ideas for original fic and will probably write them after I retire.

I'm a podficcer. Please please please, put a blanket permission statement on your fic. It really helps podficcers out, and we will make you things!!!!

I'm a musician. My degrees are in music. I have played in a professional orchestra and have a professionally recorded and edited CD.

I am the director of an office. I have 13 staff members. I take this very seriously and do my best to do right by them.

I am still growing and learning, particularly around racism, sexism, and ableism. I want to do right, and if I recognize a mistake, I will try to make amends. At the very least, I will apologize and try to do better. If I don't recognize a mistake, and you have the bandwidth to tell me, I'd appreciate it if you would. I understand if you don't have bandwidth and I recognize it's not anyone's responsibility but my own.


The questionnaire.

About me (yup, stupidly accurate, I hate that a bit):

TENDERNESS
You are not afraid of the sufferings and sorrows of other people, even when they are acted out in unappealing ways. Beneath even defensiveness and self-righteous behaviour, you know that deep down people need nurturing and consolation. One danger is being naive about people’s dark sides. But at your best you know you can be mean yourself, which helps you to sympathise. You bring strength and forgiveness where other people might panic.
RATIONALITY
You like clarity and intelligent simplicity and you get frustrated at messy thinking. This can make you seem unreasonably pushy to some, but it is actually a virtue: you are motivated by a horror at pointless effort and a longing for precision and insight into how things and people work. Your ability to synthesise and bring order is essential in producing thinking which is truly helpful.
AGGRESSION
One part of your character is anger in all its forms: frustration, outrage – and when anger is suppressed – bitterness, grumpiness, and bodily aches. Fundamentally, frustration comes from hope: you get upset because you expect your life will be more than a valley of tears. One way to deny aggression is to direct it inwards, as self-criticism. But you’re at your best when you acknowledge anger, and act it out clearly and in a focussed way, with honour.
SENSITIVITY
You have delicate, sensitive perceptions; you can be deeply moved by appearances – the right light in a room, or good food, or the texture of a piece of clothing. Expressive, intelligent language has a powerful hold on you; your mind works better when it is inspired and provoked by vivid imagery. It can be sad to live in a world which is often so ugly and not properly looked after. But you know that things can be otherwise, and you have the ability to appreciate the world at its best.
EXHIBITIONISM
There’s a strand in your nature which loves making an impression – perhaps with your clothes, or conversation, or in a self-revealing blog or a novel. You like to dramatise yourself, to pose as a unique, perhaps mysterious person, to joke or exaggerate your part in adventures. Though you might more than once have been called a show off, it is actually a generous tendency: you want to please and entertain others. It could be the start of good teaching and leadership.

Comments

[kate]

Absolutely! That's the first place I go to look. I might suggest adding it to anyplace you have masterlists, etc. of your fic, adding yourself to the blanket permission to podfic list on fanlore, and mention it in your social media spaces, if you know any podficcers. Blanket statements are catnip to podficcers!

[paulamcg]

Thank you for the more detailed advice in addition to the reassuring, positive response!