Why I'm here
May. 29th, 2001 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianWell, I haven't told anyone about this yet. Partly that's because I'm lazy, but mostly I wanted to work out the pictures and get a post up about why I wanted to be here.
Primarily I'm here because of Rose and H-L. I keep wanting to respond to their journals, and I hoped that I could set something to forward me responses to my responses in other people's journals. (Doesn't look like it. Oh well.) So now they can at least see my pictures, which is just as well, because "jinian" is likely to confuse people.
Note the first: Jinian is from a book I discovered at around 14 called _Jinian Footseer_. It is a good book and I love it very much apart from any inherent goodness. It's part one of a trilogy, and it has been reprinted in a very scarce omnibus (called, I think, _The End of the Game_). It's by Sheri S. Tepper. All of the True Game books are quite good; I especially like the Mavin books, too, probably because I read them around the same age. I recommend reading them even if you've been put off by recent Tepper. (I still enjoy her stuff, but the new ones are really just elaborations on a boilerplate novel, unfortunately, and she has managed to make feminism annoying even to me several times now.)
Back to the topic:
I used to post in the "place" conference on Drizzle, which was tremendously useful to me during the breakup of my relationship with my ex-fiance. At some point, though, Drizzle quit feeling like home to me, and I slowly stopped posting. It has to do with lots of things, really, including the fact that Drizzle got soppier than it used to be -- In My Day, if people were oozing compassion at you, something had to be wrong. :) Also, I have a former friend there who posted obnoxious shit during our fight, so I feel a bit less than safe about posting there. But I'm mostly just grouchy that it's not the same as it used to be, which is not a problem except for me. I'd stopped being very attached to Drizzle long before that fight happened.
So hi and stuff. I'm probably not going to be writing deep emotional stuff or anything right now, but if you feel like looking at my random notes, welcome.
Primarily I'm here because of Rose and H-L. I keep wanting to respond to their journals, and I hoped that I could set something to forward me responses to my responses in other people's journals. (Doesn't look like it. Oh well.) So now they can at least see my pictures, which is just as well, because "jinian" is likely to confuse people.
Note the first: Jinian is from a book I discovered at around 14 called _Jinian Footseer_. It is a good book and I love it very much apart from any inherent goodness. It's part one of a trilogy, and it has been reprinted in a very scarce omnibus (called, I think, _The End of the Game_). It's by Sheri S. Tepper. All of the True Game books are quite good; I especially like the Mavin books, too, probably because I read them around the same age. I recommend reading them even if you've been put off by recent Tepper. (I still enjoy her stuff, but the new ones are really just elaborations on a boilerplate novel, unfortunately, and she has managed to make feminism annoying even to me several times now.)
Back to the topic:
I used to post in the "place" conference on Drizzle, which was tremendously useful to me during the breakup of my relationship with my ex-fiance. At some point, though, Drizzle quit feeling like home to me, and I slowly stopped posting. It has to do with lots of things, really, including the fact that Drizzle got soppier than it used to be -- In My Day, if people were oozing compassion at you, something had to be wrong. :) Also, I have a former friend there who posted obnoxious shit during our fight, so I feel a bit less than safe about posting there. But I'm mostly just grouchy that it's not the same as it used to be, which is not a problem except for me. I'd stopped being very attached to Drizzle long before that fight happened.
So hi and stuff. I'm probably not going to be writing deep emotional stuff or anything right now, but if you feel like looking at my random notes, welcome.
