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For the fanfic meme: 6, 18!

6. (favourite of my own fics) a hard question! I am fond of a lot of them, but I think I have to go with The Old Bad Songs, my BBC Sherlock and Maurice (1987) crossover, with Lestrade as an older modern-day version of Alec Scudder, who meets an older Maurice because of a blackmail case. it was the first long fic I wrote (over 20k, which is a lot for me), and the one that meant I went on writing fanfiction seriously rather than assuming it was a flash in the pan. it was the first time I realized that I could write about queer history through fic, which is something I still love doing, and I remember vividly the intense excitement of that realization. it was also the fic that introduced me to the transformative experience of being beta read, by the lovely and brilliant ginbitch, and (because of that) the reason I got to know my best and dearest friends.

18. nsfw head canon: Geoffrey Tennant's impressively short refractory period (also he is a biter).

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@panzercat

I received the card, thank you, it’s lovely!

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happy new year, friend!!

Aw, Happy New Year to you as well dear Red !!! <3 Wishing you the best //hugs hugs

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panzercat replied to your post: I discovered fanzines during college in the...

oh my gosh this is fantastic!!! is it ok to reblog?!! i love it! :D

Sure. :)  I spent a small portion of the holiday reveling in a  trip down memory lane.

[mrkinch]

Today he stayed out in the living room for some sunshine. He really is furry! (Believe it or not, I did vacuum between pictures.)

panzercat replied to your post “The bad news about cow kitty is official:[[MOR] Morgoth has oral...”

I'm so, so sorry to hear this. Man, 2016 keeps giving, doesn't it...? Cats always know to be suspicious, too, even when we're trying our best. I hope he's comfy and happy, for the rest of his days. <3 I'm here if you wanna talk!

Thank you.*hugs* Giving him his meds sure isn’t getting any easier! But I do it in the morning and by evening he’s happy to get on the bed and be brushed and purr a lot. So far, so good. 

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panzercat replied to your post: so i have to be flown in for an interview…on...

no mail-in or early voting in your land? :O (also this is a late reply aaahhh so sorry if you’ve already addressed!)

nope! there’s no early voting in ny, i could theoretically do an absentee but i’d have to go down to the board of elections and request one and it’d be more effort than it’s probably worth

my flight leaves early in the afternoon so i’ll just go to my polling station at 6 am :’D

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panzercat asked “for that meme: 2 and 17! :D” and telesilla asked “2, 11 & 17”

Hmm, there’s a trend here.

2. When did you first connect to other people via computers?

I got on compuserve comics forum in 1994, it must have been, where I came to dislike Busiek and challenged Gaiman’s language usage./0\ More importantly, I met a man there I still talk to nearly every week. 

11.  How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in?

In generally chronological order: Clinton, Iowa; Lafayette, Indiana; East Lansing, Michigan; Honolulu, Hawai’i; Peru, New York (six months with relatives after  Brasil); and Stockton and Berkeley, California. Outside the US I lived in Piracicaba, Brasil, for nine months in 1961, where my father, an agricultural engineer specializing in tropical agriculture, was working at the University on a Fulbright. Unsurprisingly, with the exceptions of Clinton, Iowa and upstate NY, they’ve all been university towns. 

17.  What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear?

Does anyone remember Chi pants, with the wonderful gussets in the crotch? I have two pairs of chi shorts that are probably thirty years old that I wear at home and sometimes for sleep. The purple canvas pair is in pretty good shape, but the grey canvas pair is sitting out, waiting for repair of the drawstring channel.

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15, 12, 30!

15) five most influential books over your lifetime

Hmm, this is a hard one! I’ve read a lot over the years, but I can’t quite say that anything I’ve read has had a super huge influence on me past fandom stuff...

I guess my favorite books would have to be The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Stranger, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow, and Bridge to Terabithia.

Dorian Gray is just...wow. I just absolutely love it, but I can never seem to find the words to describe why. Everything about it just clicks into place for me. Gothic horror, drama, suspense, wonderful prose, ugh. So good.

I fucking hate The Stranger. In fact, I utterly despise it and thinking about that novel makes me want to punch a hole in my bedroom wall. Never has a book pissed me off so much with its prose, characters, etc. The thing is, I completely understand the philosophical meaning behind the book. That doesn’t mean that I enjoyed it, though. Whenever I rate books, I usually use this one for “on a scale of worst to best” with The Stranger being the worst.

Man, do I love me some questioning of the humanity of artificial intelligence, so it should come as no surprise that I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It’s so interesting that we have a lot of the same thoughts regarding the humanity of AI that people did back in the 1960s. And for the record, I don’t like Blade Runner.

The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow is a republished version of the diary of Opal Whiteley, originally published in 1920. As a young child, I was exposed to a children’s edition of her diary. I could never remember the girl’s name who was featured in it and it remained a mystery for over ten years until I found this music video. I’m almost a little sad that that mystery has been solved, but Opal is an incredibly fascinating person to read about, even though there’s not much info on her - definitely go out of your way to learn more about her.

And finally, Bridge to Terabitihia, thank you for breaking my heart as a child and rudely awakening me to the fact that, yes, important characters can die.

12) dog person or cat person?

Dogs, definitely! I like cats, but I’m also highly allergic to them, so I can never own one...

30) pick one of your favorite quotes.

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov