Obligatory Introductory Post

[olamina]

Hello!

I’m an 18-year-old English and Jamaican girl who was born and raised in Toronto. I’m an anachronist, an INTP, and a bit of a loser. I’m the girl who makes back stories for all her video game characters.

Even I don’t have time to list every artist I like, but the genres I like are classical, funk, jazz, old school hip hop, and soul. Octavia E. Butler is my favorite author and the Savage Love podcast is my favorite, period. I’ll watch anything with Keith David or Jeremy Irons in it.

Other stuff I like: 90’s anime, alternative (stand up) comedy, astrology, history, shitty cop shows, shitty erotica, underground comics

You probably shouldn’t add me if you don’t want to read about mental health issues (depression, OCD, SAD), non-fandom, or sex. I don’t mind at all if you’re religious, as long as you’re not self-righteous and are respectful of other people’s faiths. Writers of original works are also quite welcome.

So... yeah.

Comments

[deathgaze]

Hello :D We have a friend in common, and I enjoy reading about mental health issues (it's a majority of what my journal is about too).

I'd like to start writing too so maybe we can support each other!

[olamina]

Hey, yeah, I think I've seen you around. I feel a lot more comfortable ranting about therapy and stuff to people who are going through it or who have gone through it. And I'm always looking for fellow writers in crime. ;) I'll add you!

[foxfinial]

I’m the girl who makes back stories for all her video game characters.

Oh, I have totally never done that. >.> <.< >.> In fact, back stories and expanding stories for computer game characters is how I started writing fiction. (I write original fic these days, but some of it is very loosely based on some of those old fanfics.)

Historyyy. Out of curiosity, is there any period or subject that particularly interests you? I'm interested in Ancient Near-East and Alexander the Great, with a side-interest in some aspects of medieval history (mostly the part where they thought stuff like the Alexander Romance and Prester John was real - the way myth and reality were defined very differently to now) and Central Asian history/culture.

I'm interested in making new friends on DW, so do you mind if I add you?

[olamina]

Haha. Nice to know I'm not the only one! ;)

I'm particularly interested in the Italian Renaissance and the Enlightenment. I also love badass women like Hatshepsut, and the Near East is neat-o, too. /rant

I don't mind at all! I'll add you back.

[foxfinial]

Combining female badassery and the Near-East: Tomyris, who killed Cyrus the Great and dunked his head in a bucket of blood. One of my projects for the next few months is to determine whether there's any scope to write an MA thesis about her, when I go back to uni in 2012.

[olamina]

Tomyris, who killed Cyrus the Great and dunked his head in a bucket of blood

o_o AWESOME. Thanks for giving me yet another historical figure to obsess over.

[foxfinial]

Stories about her are, apparently, still told in Central Asia to this day. BADASS.

[fasateen]

Hi! I quite literally just joined DW so I'm looking for people to connect with, but I'm not sure how everything works yet, haha.

I'm quite familiar with mental health issues and am myself non-fandom. I also am a writer, though I don't know how much I'll be posting--probably just snippets here and there. But I do love writing and it's something I do as automatically as breathing.

Also, I just read two of Butler's Lilith's Brood books (the first and technically the third, I think) and I rather enjoyed them. I think we'd get along pretty well!

[olamina]

Don't worry, me neither. And I've been here for about a year. :P

I'd recommend the Parable series (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, respectively). It's actually where my username came from! The main character's last name is Olamina. /nerdtrivia

I'll add you back. :)

[bellipotens]

I've been through the ringer with mental health issues and definitely post about mine (or will since I just re-vamped my journal and DW is still kind of new to me). I'm also a writer and an actor and occasionally post some of what I write.

Would you mind if I added you?

[olamina]

I wouldn't mind at all! I'm a total voyeur: I love reading other people's stuff. *cough* I'll add you back.