Welcome

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Welcome weary traveller,

You seem to have stumbled upon my journal and you are welcome to stay and have a look around. Here are some things that you may be wondering about:

Kat: Female, fabulously in my forties, Finnish but living in the UK, academic, university lecturer, writer, poet, fandom slut, geeky, polyamorous, pansexual, kinky, romantic, fluffy-headed, soft-hearted, open-minded, strong-willed, observant, introspective, over-analytical, assertive, prone to working way too much, sarcastic, silly, tactile. Also into cats (not like that) and woolly socks (maybe a little bit like that).

Fandoms: All of them, all the time? I don't really leave fandoms so much as collect them and then become less active in them. But I always return to them eventually. I consume fanworks and media far more widely than I produce fanworks, and I've produced fanworks in... *goes to count* over 70 fandoms so... You can check my (always woefully out of date) list of interests or AO3 profile MistressKat to get an idea. Or ask what my current obsession is and I'll happily elaborate.

Other social media presence: Uhhh... Not really. DW remains my main presence on the web, largely because I don't have mental energy to maintain a lot of social media (I'm one of those people who never got a Facebook even!). I have a locked poetry journal on DW as well for my own work: boneverse

Fanworks: Apart for some co-authored verses and older graphics/icons that need to be migrated, everything should be on my AO3. I also still post things on DW (nostalgia) and here you can find things under relevant tags such as my fanfiction or my graphics.

Transformative works policy? YES, DO IT! I welcome all transformative works based on my fanworks. Please feel free to remix, make fanart, podfic, fanmixes etc. However, I ask that you a) acknowledge my work and link to it, and b) please, please drop me a line somewhere (comment here, pm, AO3...) about it because I want to squee and admire!

Questions/comments: Are very welcome!

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Snowflake Challenge #1

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So, in a probably doomed attempt of Posting and Interacting and Doing Something Else Besides Work Please God, I've decided to have... Maybe... A little go at the...



For the first time ever. I've given it a pass in the past because the timing is murder for anyone working in HE but screw everything this year, and my 90h of overtime in particular. So there.

The first challenge was an introduction so I took the opportunity to write a new Welcome Post and update my profile ever so slightly. Achieve!

In other news, I am WRITING AGAIN HALLELUJAH. Which is both fantastic and depressing, because it took me 1.5 weeks of recovery/holiday to get to the point where words were cooperating again. And now I want to write All The Things but I know that from Monday work is going to try to kick my ass so hard again :( Anyway, I have signed up to another try at getyourwordsout. I did not achieve my goal last year because 2020, but I did write 86k of fic anyway so fuck you universe. There will be the usual fanworks round-up meme soon. Well, this month?

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