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Welcome to my journal!

My journal is primarily a personal one, posting about the various things that interest me, as well as the things that happen in daily life.

I live in Colorado with my partner, Alex (whom I met on Livejournal, originally!)

I try to frequently share pictures when I've gone on hikes or other fun places. The doing things tag is probably the most comprehensive tag for these posts, but hiking will narrow it down to just hikes, and pictures will broaden it to anything that felt pic-worthy, even if it was just a quick walk in the neighborhood, or a garden, or a pet being cute.

My pets are another frequent topic of posts and pictures. Currently I have four: Belladonna, an almost-four year old pit bull; Summer "Berry Mad" Refresher, a young Woodhouse's toad, and Guava Splash Electrolyte, a young chorus frog; and currently (as of January 2026) have Clickbait, a broad-winged katydid, who has more than doubled his life-expectancy! Cyanide, our elderly pit bull, sadly passed away in June of last year. He is still sorely missed. Guest-star pets include Jaspurr (a cat) and Ripley (a garter snake), who belong to my mom and younger sibling.

I also post about writing fairly often, which is mostly lumped under the writing tag. I have a post here collecting summaries and links to all the fics I have shared. While I haven't completed any new works in a couple years, I am still slowly working on things.

I am pretty firmly in the "hobby" writing camp; it isn't something I do professionally, nor am I likely to try to. Sometimes there's that vague temptation, but then I remember how awful the rest of publishing sounds, haha. Most of what I've written is fanfiction, but am trying to start devoting more time and energy to my original works as well. I'm not certain how or if I will share the original works, but I'd like to actually at least get them written.

Fandom-wise, I've nearly exclusively written Kingdom Hearts AUs focused on the "Destiny Trio"/SoRiKai OT3. (I haven't played a Kingdom Hearts game in more than a decade, and don't have the systems required for any of the newer ones, but I imprinted on the characters and just never stopped liking them!) I also wrote one Silent Hill fic that I'm quite proud of. Those two fandoms are a bit of a 180 from each other, I realize, haha.

Other fandoms that I'm more of a lurker in include: Zero Escape (999/Virtue's Last Reward/Zero Time Dilemma), Captive Prince, Newsflesh, other Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant series, Murderbot, Final Fantasy XIV, and I'm sure plenty of others I'm just failing to remember at the moment. Nothing has really grabbed onto me in a way that just won't let go in many years, though I still hope that someday something else will.

The last couple of years I've been trying to do more reading, and so that is also something I often post about. My preferred genres are fantasy, science fiction, horror, and romance, especially when any of the above are queer. I do try to post reviews of the books I read. You can also see my reading on LibraryThing.

I also watch a lot of horror movies. (Good horror is great, and bad horror is hilarious, so it tends to be win/win to pick some mediocre streaming offerings.) I used to have a blog reviewing horror movies, but despite a decade+ of intentions, I never got back around to continuing that.

I do still miss the heyday of Livejournal as a primary form of social media, and I know that Dreamwidth probably won't ever have that kind of critical mass... but I love that Dreamwidth is here, and I love that there are still people to connect with on a "slower" and more personal, long-form site.

Feel free to add me or comment below if you want to say hi! I'm always happy to find new friends.