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| User: | polgarawolf (33746) About that Decision to Not Live a “Normal” Life . . .
Warning! Contents Might Bring on Sudden Severe Bouts of Insanity |
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| Name: | polgarawolf | |||||||||
| Website: | http://polgarawolf.livejournal.com/ | |||||||||
| Location: | Indiana, United States | |||||||||
| E-mail: | polgarawolf@yahoo.com | |||||||||
| Bio: | Even the short, censored version of my life's story would, unfortunately, carry an NC-17 warning for violence, etc. Sorry, y'all, but I'm not going to elaborate on that here. My journal is not entirely like my life, though. In case you were wondering:  What rating is your journal? brought to you by Quizilla Very rarely indeed does my journal (or my life anymore, thank all that's holy) warrent the following:  What rating is your journal? brought to you by Quizilla If for some reason, you believe you know who I am in real life, for the love of all that's holy, please, don't tell me! This is where I come to try to get away from myself. One of these days I may take my MA thesis work and turn it into an ongoing book on this lj, but I'm not quite that whole again yet (and if you don't know me well enough to know why I need more healing/courage for that, then odds are you're wrong about guessing who I am or you really don't know me all that well in real life, bucko), okay? Until then, this is the place I come to in order to get away from all of the real life crap and the limitations imposed on me by the particulars of my life and the culture/society I live in, and I'd like to keep it that way, if you don't mind. I am what you might call anti-prejudice. I try very hard to be and to remain as open-minded as possible. Thus, bigotry of all sorts gives me hives and tends to make me foam at the mouth. Since I am female, I self-identify as a feminist. Before you have a knee-jerk reaction to the word "feminist," please take the time to go visit http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/index.php?entry=entry060617-123610 and read Karen Healey's (girl-wonder.org) wonderful list detailing and/or linking to explanations of several reasons why more people should recognize the need for feminism and feminist thinking in general. Please then think about the points enumerated therein before you commence yelling at me. The list was made with comics in mind, but it applies equally to canon and fandom 'verses based on films, tv shows, books, games, etc., with only a little bit of mental editing. If you would, please, while you're at it, visit http://carnival.feministsf.net/ and support the Feminist SF Carnival, peruse the "Women in Refrigerators" list at http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir/index.html (and consider how this kind of list applies to your fandom/canon 'verses of choice before you protest that you don't really read comics, please), and take the time to visit http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/ Finally, a Feminism 101 Blog if you have any other specific questions about feminism in general that you'd like to see answered. Please note that remembering the argument laid out in Andrea Rubenstein's "De-Bunking the Myth of Frivolity: Understanding Popular Culture, Part 2" at http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-05-24_170 will help you to avoid falling prey to the anti-feminist bingo response (and if you haven't already, please read "Bingo: The Callers Enclue You" at http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/index.php?entry=entry070518-204342#17 and "For Those Playing Along At Home" at http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/index.php?entry=entry070415-071159 as well as the original "Anti-Feminist-Bingo! A Master-Class in Sexual Entitlement" at http://viv.id.au/blog/?p=431 for further examples/explanations of anti-feminist bingo) of "Why are you complaining about comics [and/or any other popular culture medium, such as films, novels, tv shows, games, fandoms, etc.] when women . . . are oppressed [in real life]?" Since I am not only a feminist but a supporter of diversity, tolerance, equality, and all manner of other basic, universal, inalienable human rights, please also humor me by giving ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} human_rights, antiracists, colorful_rage, stop_hate freetobelieve, worldconscience, gaystr8alliance, gsa_lj, feminist_101, and womens_studies a gander. And while you're at it, dear friends, coffeeandink had created a valuable tool for those seeking both a greater understanding of the ways in which the all too real and prevalent topic of racism is far too often ignored nowadays and ways in which to speak out against it, so you'd be doing yourself a favor if you went to http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607897.html?view=8194457 and read the wonderfully sarcastic essay there. Also, please keep in mind that links to pertinent communities and posted info are everybody's friends, as far as I'm concerned. Spread the word by posting and/or sharing links to such communities and posted information, please. Anyone who knows of any similarly themed essays or sites, give me a holler, and I'll add them to my list! And thanks, y'all!In case you couldn't tell, I am a fanfic reader and writer. I am, moreover, a fanfic writer who enjoys f/f and m/m slash as well as het and gen and all other kinds of wonderful, lovely, plotty things. Please do not attempt to harass me about my wide-ranging tastes or to harangue me about my chosen form of expression. I am likely to go into wild rants - as in the one over here, at http://polgarawolf.livejournal.com/75566.html - all over your punk-arse if you try, so considered yourself warned, alright? PS: I am also a dyed-in-the-wool bookworm and rabid sci-fi/fantasy fan who started reading her mother's "adult" books (as opposed to the boring children's and young adult books that my teachers wanted me to read) around the time she turned eight. I was also read things by J. R. R. Tolkien, Ayn Rand, Frank Herbert, and others much ealier on in life, as a very young child, indeed, while my mother walked in loops around the braided rug in the living room with me to try to get me to quiet down and take naps. I am, thus, admittedly a wee bit ecclectic (and my mother is extremely proud of me). Currently, most of my "free" time is spent between my obsession with, ah, "fixing" the Star Wars 'verse (as I call my occasionally somewhat embarassingly extensive AU reworking of the Star Wars film saga and EU), reading in other fandoms (most of them sci-fi/fantasy, others based on various television shows I'm addicted to, such as Criminal Minds and House) and attempting to pawn plot bunnies from those 'verses off on others, and providing support for a certain Joss Whedon creation. If any of you don't know what Firefly or Serenity is/was, please take a few moments to visit the following sites: http://www.fireflyfans.net/ http://www.serenitymovie.com/ and http://www.fireflyseason2.com/ Oh. By the way, I participated in NaNo successfully in 2006. My NaNo project - an AU retelling of the Timothy Zahn Star Wars EU book Outbound Flight - is on my lj, but I've been working at getting it cleaned up and truly finished since then due to the fact that I didn't get the whole month of November to work on it on account of the hard drive in the computer going out and having to be replaced (after my wonderful cousin meticulously saved and transferred every file on the hard drive he actually could, first). If you wonder why there are entries on my lj about my NaNo project long after the month of November was up, this would be the reason why, okay? | |||||||||
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| Interests: | 150: abuse recovery, aliens, alternate reality fiction, alternate universes, anakin skywalker, anakin/obi-wan, archaeology, art, arthurian legend, batman, books, bruce wayne, celtic legends, celtic mythology, chloe sullivan, chocolate, christopher reeve, clark kent, clark/lex, clex, cold case, colonel/general jack o'neill, criminal minds, crossover fics, csi, dana scully, daniel jackson, denial, dragons, dreaming, egypt, ewan mcgregor, faeries, fairytales, fanart, fandom, fanfic, fantasy, fellowship of the ring, feminist theory, fiction, film, firefly, fox mulder, gender, gender theory, ghosts, greco-roman mythology, harry potter, hephaistion, heroes, history, house, ice cream, icons, intelligence, j. r. r. tolkien, jedi, john lennon, king arthur, kissing, laughing, laziness, legend, lestat, level three, lex luthor, lex's lip scar, lex/clark, lexcorp, liberal politics, literature, lois & clark, lord of the rings, love, metropolis, michael rosenbaum, movies, mulder/scully, music, my cats, mythology, napping, nature, ncis, neo, noir, novels, obi-wan kenobi, original characters, orlando bloom, philosophy, playing in the rain, poetry, popular culture, pretty men, pretty things, psychology, qui-gon jinn, reading, return of the king, sanity/insanity, science fiction, serenity, sg-1, sidhe, slash, slash fanfics, sleeping, smallville, smiling, snark, speculative fiction, spencer reid, spiderman movies, star trek, star wars, star wars au, stargate, stargate atlantis, stargate sg-1, stephen king, superheroes, superman, sv_journals, symbolism, t.s. elliot, teaching, the brain, the dark tower, the dead zone, the force, the kents, the matrix, the smallville ledger, the stand, the torch, the two towers, the west wing, the x-files, theatre, tom welling, travel, trees, tv, unseelie, vampires, wicca, writing, x-men films | |||||||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 1: fancyspinner | |||||||||
| Also Friend of: | 6: dragonknyght, emrinalexander, lovely_evil_one, medie, neotoma, thezonefic | |||||||||
| Account type: | Free Patient | |||||||||
