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[dracolosses]

NAME: KB

AGE: late twenties

INTERESTS: linguistics, ethnobotany, ornithology, fashion (particularly EGL), witchy stuff

HOBBIES: the usual, like playing video games, watching stuff on the boob tube, reading anything i can get my hands on, hiking, etc. other assorted grandmacore nonsense like drawing, knitting, baking, and gardening. i was getting into herding but then covid happened T__T

🎶THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS(in no particular order)🎶: okami, FF9, FF10, the sandman, alice in wonderland/through the looking glass, studio ghibli movies, tsutomu nihei’s work (KNIGHTS OF SIDONIA IS FINALLY GETTING ANOTHER SEASONS ASDFGGJLTRIRHFJS), agalloch, alcest, dogs, birds, death stranding

LOOKING FOR: folks to interact with and befriend. i’ve actually been on this website since 2011 and have made a handful of good friends, so that’s a trend i’d like to continue if at all possible. despite the list above, i’m not active in fandom these days, so i’m not looking for journals strictly centered around it.

ANYTHING ELSE?: my journal is mostly about my daily life, with the occasional Emotional Vomit ™️ rambling. i recently got back into overwatch and i’ll probably be hopping back on to FF14, so if you would rather connect through either of those, give me a poke so we can exchange handles c:

ALSO KNOWN AS: ursoidea , kaybeeshouse , dratinis (the latter deleted in a misguided attempt at starting over)

Comments

[annofowlshire]

Hello, I’m into witchy stuff, hiking and all that “grandmacore nonsense” you spoke about. XD

My journal is mostly about happenings in my life—at the moment it centers a lot on our in-progress move from The Big City to House in a Forest, and navigating life with a 2 year old.

My journal is all public so you can see if it’s of any interest to you ^_^

[dracolosses]

omg you sound like you’re living my dream life. i want to relocate to the country or the woods or something SO BAD, but i gotta save up some money if i wanna do that. T___T

anyway, i added you so that i may live vicariously lmao

[annofowlshire]

Oh, but you’ve done herding which is awesome! I eventually aspire to have a small flock of sheep (meat and wool, maybe for cheese, and to keep the pasture from overgrowing), but I want to settle on our property for a couple of years first. I kind of don’t really want a dog (I like dogs, but they tend to scare off the wildlife and why would I live in the forest if I didn’t want to see the wildlife?), but everyone basically says it’s required if you have a house in the country for security if nothing else and the Mr is keen to have a dog so maybe a herding dog will be in our future XD

[dracolosses]

ooo, if you’re concerned about future pups scaring away wildlife, you guys should look into maremma sheepdogs! there’s a group of them that have been trained to protect wild penguins from invasive species, so i’d imagine they could be trained to recognize animals that pose a threat to the flock versus critters that are just passing through.

[annofowlshire]

Oooh. Will investigate!

[sonofgodzilla]

I super like Alcest - they were the last band I saw live before the lockdown! - but whenever I think of them, I inevitably have to think of Peste Noir also, and that makes me sad. I know that Neige has spoken about this a lot before and that he was 15 at the time, but I get sad thinking about it. I mean, I'm awful, because I still listen to early Burzum, but it's like constantly there in my mind.

tl;dr I love black metal, but it's really not easy somedays.

Also: FFIX is hands down one of the best Square games ever made.

[dracolosses]

OH NOOOOO I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT PESTE NOIRE!! the main reason is because —-and this gonna sound terrible coming from me, a brown and queer woman—- i chose blissful ignorance. i got so fucking tired of finding new bands only to later discover they were neo nazi pieces of shit. i know next to nothing about the artists i listen to these days. one band doesn’t even do interviews, so at least i have that?


so yeah, i feel your pain. ;n; i love black metal, too, but jesus fucking christ, sometimes i just wanna throw it all out a window.

(hope it’s ok that i added you!)

[sonofgodzilla]

I get you, I get you, it's a fucking kick in the teeth. But Neige is definitely better than some, like at least he addressed it. I was really into Audrey Sylvain's solo stuff for a while - she was on a couple of Alcest records too - but she was also in Peste Noir for a very, very long time, long enough to know basically how Famine felt about such issues. I'm so miserable about it, because a lot of the time, I can make excuses, and I feel like there's a weird delight in me liking early Burzum, because, being queer and Jewish, I'm exactly the kind of person that Varg Vikernes would not want listening to his stuff, but some of the stuff after all that is just sad.

I guess we shouldn't talk about why Agalloch broke up. :p

I feel awful, because I love this genre, I love the rawness, the weight of the sound, I love the great shadows it casts, but I feel like there's a bitter little knot of people who misinterpret the idea of universal disgust with the human race as an excuse to voice their petty prejudices.

UGH.

But I'm super happy to meet you! I'm sorry for wading into your post with my own sadness about the genre/scene.

[dracolosses]

i feel like this is the best and most concise way for disgruntled folks like us to express how we feel about the current scene:



idk if this would make you feel any better about burzum, but last i heard, varg relocated to france and couldn’t speak french. i felt a smug sense of satisfaction when i found out, because he basically became what he always railed against.

[sonofgodzilla]

Hahah, that meme is so absolutely spot on. This is the true spirit of black metal in 2020, lol.

The man is such a joke. sigh Me and a colleague at work had a look at that role playing game he made (it's basically racist!Lord of the Rings) and there are a race of people/enemies who are clearly based on Jews who all have a +1 to sneak ability, and ever since I saw that, whenever I get caught not doing my work I steadfastly cite my +1 sneak ability as the reason. (>_>)

[helvetica]

Hey, I added you! I love video games, reading, hiking and needlecraft! By herding do you mean herding sheep??

[dracolosses]

yes! i have an australian shepherd with a penchant for herding my birds, other dogs, and humans, but he had never done any herding in a farm setting. so i thought we’d try something new, and we were both loving it!

added you back ^^

[law]

hello, we have some interests in common like final fantasy, ( i need to beat ix but i love it ) anime and metal. i just started a discussion community for the latter @ sprohm. anyway, you seem chill and i'd like to try getting to know each other if you're interested!

[dracolosses]

oo, thank you for the comm invite! i went ahead and subscribed, it looks like it’s gonna be a welcome reprieve from the rest of the black metal scene.

i went ahead and added you back also ^^

[rebeccarobota]

Hey there! Linguistics, ethnobotany, baking, gardening, and hiking are all interests of mine. I minored in linguistics in college, and used to forage a lot when I lived in the country (still have my eye on some pawpaws in the local park system once fall comes).

I also blog about daily life, both personal and mundane, with an extra helping of Emotional Vomit since the pandemic started.

[dracolosses]

aaaaaa you’re so lucky to have had a proper linguistics program at your university! i had to hunt down each linguistics class individually during my studies and cobble together a “””linguistics””” degree.

i’ve done some foraging too, and i love it! i’m still a beginner though. i haven’t had a chance to go anywhere pristine (read: not overly contaminated by gasoline runoff), so unfortunately my greenhorn phase is being drawn out. i did manage to gather some mushrooms before this madness started, but i couldn’t get a definitive ID on them. T___T

[rebeccarobota]

The only mushrooms I've foraged are morels - otherwise I've never been confident enough about an ID to be sure I'm not about to poison myself.

[dracolosses]

yeaaah, that’s the huge downside to mushroom picking. it doesn’t help that where i live has a bunch of dangerous lookalikes to edible shrooms. the other day, i got really excited about some boletes i found, but all the sources i referenced were like “well here’s one type of choice boletes, and heres 95794 not edible and/or poisonous doppelgängers, have fun figuring out which is which”.

[dorchadas]

I also mostly blog about my daily life, with the occasional foray into video games (I post a review of every game I beat and just got into FFXIV for the first time), Judaism, Japanese (I taught English in Japan for a few years), anime, and food.

Also, wait, Nihei Tsutomu did Knights of Sidonia??

[dracolosses]

yes! its art style is much less grungy than his previous work, but you can really tell it’s a nihei manga when the illustrations for 100 sights of sidonia pop up. i love his work pre-sidonia, and i loved sidonia itself, so i’m excited about what any future projects! i really need to get my hands on APOSIMZ.

[dorchadas]

I really loved BLAME!, so if there's any element of that in any of his new work, I'm in. I know I had friends who liked Knights of Sidonia a lot, so I should check it out!

[rabbitica]

My wife is an ornithologist so I'm very bad at it, but good at pretending I know more stuff than I do! I also like all the grandmacore stuff, that's a great term... gardening, crocheting, baking, etc. Happy to add you - I'm also a "mundane day-to-day stuff" poster.

[dracolosses]

oh, how neat!! she has one of my dream jobs, that sounds AMAZING. i’m probably in the same boat as you when it comes to pretending to know stuff about birds lmao

[rabbitica]

I'm sure you can identify more than like 5 birds so you're ahead of me!

[nameless_nancy]

I'd love to be your friend!

[nextworstthing]

I also like FF14 and black metal. I mostly post about gaming, sexuality and opinion. Add?

[dracolosses]

sure thing!