Hello world!

[loganberrybunny]

NAME: Logan. That's not my legal name, which I still use freely in the offline world -- but almost everyone calls me Logan online these days. I'm a guy. He/him.

AGE: Old. Well, all right, let's say "in my 40s" and leave it at that, shall we?

INTERESTS & HOBBIES: I'm not into anime/manga, really. Right, now 90% of you have stopped reading, I'll scare away most of the rest. My primary and most active fandom is My Little Pony. Yes, it's still a thing. We didn't all fade away years ago as you may fondly have imagined! I'm not a hugely fannish person beyond that, though Watership Down was my first and remains my favourite book (my username comes from that), and I'm a fairly casual viewer of Doctor Who. Oh, and Miraculous Ladybug on occasion, too.

I used to be fairly active in furry -- with a rabbit fursona, hence a few of my icons -- but that's largely a thing of the past now. In the non-fandom world, my interests include cricket (hey, I am English!), weather/meteorology, retrocomputing, reading (mostly non-fiction, especially history), current affairs, walking, trains (especially steam trains), motorsport, photography (at a fairly casual standard) and using too many brackets. There are probably more that have entirely slipped my mind at the moment, so you can add "forgetting what my interests are" if you like.

LOOKING FOR: People to talk to, really! I was on LiveJournal from 2003, and only finally left after one of the Russian anti-LGBT palavers. Dreamwidth is (obviously) very familiar in look and feel, but I really do miss the vigour of LJ at its height. DW is very quiet sometimes, and it would be great if it were a little bit less so. I love rambling on in comments and so on. That said, I won't mind at all if you don't comment or post yourself very often. I'm pretty easy-going about that kind of thing, and it's not as if I can always think of what to say to other people's posts.

WHAT I POST: Nearly all my journal is public, so flicking down its last couple of pages will give you a pretty good idea of the sort of rambly waffling I go in for. I'd like to post a bit less pandemic stuff, but realistically it's going to be a major topic for quite some while yet. I generally only lock posts that mention personally identifying details -- family subjects, detailed health matters, exact location, you get the idea.

I do post about politics sometimes. I'm centre-left by UK standards, so adapt that for your own country's norms. I'm pretty open to people of other views for the most part, and I actively try to avoid the Twitter/Tumblr echo chamber effect. If you're going to give me "Gates and Soros made a fake virus to forcibly vaccinate us all with 5G" stuff then we probably aren't going to connect very well. Otherwise, things should work out all right.

ANYTHING ELSE? I have several trans and non-binary friends. Their validity is not negotiable. Oh, and feel free to add/remove me as you wish. No offence will be taken.

ALSO KNOWN AS: I'm Logan(berry) pretty much everywhere these days.

Comments

[mr_picard]

Hi Logan! I'd love to add you! I also use way too many brackets - lol. And I like retro stuff. And our political alignment matches as well.

[angelofthenorth]

Hi!

I like cricket, and even occasionally post about it. I'm centre-left (Plaid), and spend a lot of my time as deputy mayor of a small town in south west wales, where I try to make a difference for those who so often get forgotten. I also joined LJ in 2003, and most of my journal is friends-only, but I'm fairly relaxed who I add. I'm 40, female, married, and into walking during this pandemic thing.

And I have a loganberry in my garden.

[gwendraith]

Hi Logan, I'd like to add you if that's okay. I'm a bit out of your age range and a grandmother so I hope that doesn't put you off. I'm young at heart :) Big cricket fan, #1 son is a fine player. On the political front I'm centre left, my passion is ancestry and dna, and my two black cats. I also joined LJ in 2003 but jumped ship a few years ago. I'm easy going, hate drama and hate bigotry of any kind. I have a black sense of humour and I probably could bore for England so if you find I'm not what you're looking for then it's okay if you remove me.

[loganberrybunny]

Hello there, and welcome! I suppose the best combination of brackets and retro stuff would be programming in LISP. Sadly something I never got around to learning, but oh well. Adding you now!

[loganberrybunny]

Well, I hope it's not me -- wouldn't be good on the social distancing front! Anyway, hello and welcome. SW Wales is somewhere I've never actually been -- I think Llanelli is the furthest I've managed in that direction. I went to uni in Liverpool, so it was far easier to get to North Wales. One day, one day! (Edit: Whoops, forgot to say hello and welcome -- adding you now! :) )

[loganberrybunny]

Hello and welcome -- and yes, it's more than okay. :) I'll add you once I've posted this comment. Age is not a problem at all, so no worries there. Great to hear about your son -- what does he do in his team? Hating bigotry is a definite plus! And if you think you could bore for England, we should probably have a boring contest sometime... :P

[mr_picard]

Yay! I shall add you back ASAP!

[gwendraith]

Have added you too :) Son was a fast bowler and generally an opening batsman. He was known as a bit of an Ian Botham type in his teen years. He learned the game as an 11 year old with Wiltshire CCC (minor counties) - practiced so many forward defensives ;) Played for Hythe and Dibden in his teen years winning the New Forest U15 and U16 cup as captain and played for his university (UCL). Too busy to play often these days but gets the odd game in. Still bowls, still bats :) Do you play at all?

[loganberrybunny]

Your son is considerably more advanced at the game than I ever was, then! I haven't really played the game for years, but I used to be a fairly (well, very) hopeless leg-spinner and lower-order biffer. Which would have been fine if I could actually biff!

[wingedcatgirl]

*waves* You seem pretty cool!

[howsmyenglish]

Hi! I'm not fannish at all (and i don't even know what My Little Pony is *expects something heavy to fall on head*), but from what i read in this post and in the few entries in your journal i looked at - i think we might totally get along.
(I'm not posting much lately, but it's... not a permanent thing, I hope!)
So, anyhow, feel free to check out my journal and see if you think that we'd get along, too)) (it's not that i don't subscribe to journals that don't subscribe to me, but i am here to make friends, and one-sided interaction tends to annoy me..)

[loganberrybunny]

*waves back* Well, that just shows that appearances can be deceptive! But anyway, hello and welcome! Added. :)

[loganberrybunny]

i don't even know what My Little Pony is

Very short version so as not to bore you too much: a kids' cartoon that ran from 2010 to 2019 based on a toy line of plastic toy ponies. In a way nobody at all expected, least of all Hasbro, the cartoon spawned a vast fandom that included a whole heap of adults. It's very weird, and I say that as a member!

Anyway, hello and welcome! Your journal looks pretty interesting to me, so I've just added you. Let's see how things go. :) As with everyone else here, I'm not going to be remotely offended if you decide we're not clicking and feel you'd rather unsub.

[howsmyenglish]

So the show was discontinued only last year? Wow. I mean, I haven't had a TV for decades, but I still find it amazing that I've never heard of this :D

But, yeah, hi! I'm looking forward to knowing more!
(and, of course, feel free to unsubscribe if you feel like it!)

[loganberrybunny]

Well, there have been several generations of the show (and the toy line it's based on). This one was the fourth, and the fifth is on its way... well, it was supposed to be in autumn 2021, but the pandemic is going to delay that. My icon on this post is a close-up crop of a screenshot. Not an entirely representative one for reasons that would be boring to non-fans, but the animation style (2D Flash) is right.

[reenee]

Hi, I'm adding you. I'm fairly new to the whole blogging thing and desperate for people to talk to!

[loganberrybunny]

Hello! Welcome aboard. :) I've just added you back, so you should be able to see this locked post which lets you know a few things about me I'd prefer not to say publicly. If you can't see it, please let me know!

[whatarewordsfor]

Hello Logan,

I’m in my 40’s as well. I do ramble. I’m a married US expat in Mexico with a trio of kids and a weird life history, once described as Hunter S. Thompson in pearls currently studying to be a relationship/sex coach. Perhaps we’ll get on, perhaps not, only one way to tell. I’ll just go ahead and add you and you can add back or not. Ciao!

[loganberrybunny]

I've added you back -- welcome! I believe it was John Lennon who said, "It's weird not to be weird." :) As I've said to others, please do feel free to wander off if you find we're not connecting. Absolutely no offence will be taken. Otherwise, stay as long as you like and comment as much or as little as you prefer.

In the meantime, please check you can see this locked post, which adds a few details I didn't feel comfortable putting out here. If you can't, let me know and I'll fiddle with the settings. Thank you!

[casimiera]

i'd love to be your friend on here. i was a big fan of my little pony as a kid. i still have all my ponies actually. i can't give them away. (watership down is currently on my TBR list, which i'm looking forward to)

[loganberrybunny]

I've just added you back -- welcome! If I've done this right, you should be able to read my locked info post, which explains a few things I didn't want to put out in public.