I'm a song with a mission. Ask me how.
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dolorosa_12I've just added a whole bunch of new people on Dreamwidth (and LJ people, if you're considering making the switch, you should head over to the friending meme to meet awesome people), so I thought I should do another intro post. Feel free to ask me anything - I'm a very approachable person (or so I like to think) and I'm really keen to make some good new friends here on Dreamwidth. Ideally, I'm hoping to find something like the sense of community I felt on LJ circa 2006-9, when journal-based fandom was so vibrant and eloquent and communicative. Although I have a Tumblr account, I'm very ambivalent about its effect on fandom and online communities in general and am taking an extended break from it.
My name is Ronni, and I am an Australian PhD student studying at the University of Cambridge in the UK. I'm in what I hope is the final year of my PhD, the subject of which is literary depictions of exile in medieval Irish literature. As well as research, I work teaching undergrads and as an invigilator in my faculty's library, and I'm hoping to work in either academia or a library after I've finished my thesis. Over the past thirteen years, I've worked as a newspaper subeditor, childcare worker, newspaper book reviewer, tutor of children and in the service industry (mainly in bakeries and patisseries, but also in a big supermarket chain, a healthfood shop and serving food at a Cirque du Soleil show). I live with my boyfriend, Matthias, who finished his PhD last year and has since been working in Cambridge. I'm very close to my family, most of whom live back in Australia, and I often write about how much I miss them.
Although I listed my main fandoms back on the meme, I might as well go through them again here. I tend to be mainly involved in book and television fandoms, as, although there are several movies I really love (especially '90s teen movies such as 10 Things I Hate About You, every Marx Brothers film ever and films by Joss Whedon), I tend to get invested in things due to the characters, and I usually find that films aren't long enough to properly develop their characters. The big fandoms I'm involved in at the moment are Avengers, Whedonverse stuff, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Wolf, Once Upon A Time and The Vampire Diaries. However, my heart belongs to my smaller or semi-dead fandoms: Pretty Little Liars (TV series), Veronica Mars (although I pretend the third season doesn't exist), Being Human (UK, again pretending the third season doesn't exist), Robin Hood (BBC, pretending the third season doesn't exist - this seems to be a pattern) and Daria. The things I am absolutely desperate to discuss with fellow fans seem to all be mini fandoms, and are mainly YA books: Galax-Arena and Space Demons series by Gillian Rubinstein, the books of Victor Kelleher, Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Lexicon trilogy and above all, the Pagan Chronicles by Catherine Jinks and the Romanitas trilogy by Sophia McDougall. If you have even heard of any of these things, I will love you forever. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman was my first introduction to online fandom, and I met a huge number of people who are now some of my closest friends through a forum for that series. If you ever see me mention 'sraffies', that's who I mean.
I am slightly obsessed with music. This is my Last.fm profile, and it should give you a fair idea of the scope of my musical tastes. I have a tendency to write long, rapturous posts about the lyrics and music of singers and bands I like, so consider yourselves warned.
Feel free to have a poke around on my blog to see the sorts of stuff I write about. I'd say it's accurate to describe my posts here as a mixture of real-life updates, reviews, meta about media, fandom and internet culture, political/social justice themes, with the odd meme thrown in. Politically, I'd describe myself as a social democrat, and I'm very left-leaning in most social and economic issues. I'm a feminist and from time to time I post about misogyny, victim-blaming and rape culture, but I will always tag and cut those posts, so if they're not your cup of tea, they should be easy to skip.
Outside the internet, I'm interested in comparative literature (especially medieval literature), history, travelling, art, theatre, politics, hiking, swimming in the ocean, cooking, circus (Cirque du Soleil owns my soul, and I also used to do a bit of circus - mainly adagio - when I was younger) and going to concerts. I did gymnastics for ten years when I was a child and teenager, and although I've never found another sport that was as awesome, I now do yoga, jogging and kickboxing, all of which I love.
Apart from the places I've already linked (where you are welcome to add me), I have a:
Wordpress blog (which is for longer, more essay-like reviews);
Fanblog for the Romanitas trilogy;
Twitter account; and
Archive of Our Own account.
Feel free to add/follow my at any of those places. I hope this rather long post has answered any questions you may have had about me, but I still would love to hear from you if you have anything you want to know. I'm also very keen to get recommendations for both fanfic and Dreamwidth-based communities for the things I've listed above, so if anyone has any such recs, please let me know.
My name is Ronni, and I am an Australian PhD student studying at the University of Cambridge in the UK. I'm in what I hope is the final year of my PhD, the subject of which is literary depictions of exile in medieval Irish literature. As well as research, I work teaching undergrads and as an invigilator in my faculty's library, and I'm hoping to work in either academia or a library after I've finished my thesis. Over the past thirteen years, I've worked as a newspaper subeditor, childcare worker, newspaper book reviewer, tutor of children and in the service industry (mainly in bakeries and patisseries, but also in a big supermarket chain, a healthfood shop and serving food at a Cirque du Soleil show). I live with my boyfriend, Matthias, who finished his PhD last year and has since been working in Cambridge. I'm very close to my family, most of whom live back in Australia, and I often write about how much I miss them.
Although I listed my main fandoms back on the meme, I might as well go through them again here. I tend to be mainly involved in book and television fandoms, as, although there are several movies I really love (especially '90s teen movies such as 10 Things I Hate About You, every Marx Brothers film ever and films by Joss Whedon), I tend to get invested in things due to the characters, and I usually find that films aren't long enough to properly develop their characters. The big fandoms I'm involved in at the moment are Avengers, Whedonverse stuff, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Wolf, Once Upon A Time and The Vampire Diaries. However, my heart belongs to my smaller or semi-dead fandoms: Pretty Little Liars (TV series), Veronica Mars (although I pretend the third season doesn't exist), Being Human (UK, again pretending the third season doesn't exist), Robin Hood (BBC, pretending the third season doesn't exist - this seems to be a pattern) and Daria. The things I am absolutely desperate to discuss with fellow fans seem to all be mini fandoms, and are mainly YA books: Galax-Arena and Space Demons series by Gillian Rubinstein, the books of Victor Kelleher, Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Lexicon trilogy and above all, the Pagan Chronicles by Catherine Jinks and the Romanitas trilogy by Sophia McDougall. If you have even heard of any of these things, I will love you forever. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman was my first introduction to online fandom, and I met a huge number of people who are now some of my closest friends through a forum for that series. If you ever see me mention 'sraffies', that's who I mean.
I am slightly obsessed with music. This is my Last.fm profile, and it should give you a fair idea of the scope of my musical tastes. I have a tendency to write long, rapturous posts about the lyrics and music of singers and bands I like, so consider yourselves warned.
Feel free to have a poke around on my blog to see the sorts of stuff I write about. I'd say it's accurate to describe my posts here as a mixture of real-life updates, reviews, meta about media, fandom and internet culture, political/social justice themes, with the odd meme thrown in. Politically, I'd describe myself as a social democrat, and I'm very left-leaning in most social and economic issues. I'm a feminist and from time to time I post about misogyny, victim-blaming and rape culture, but I will always tag and cut those posts, so if they're not your cup of tea, they should be easy to skip.
Outside the internet, I'm interested in comparative literature (especially medieval literature), history, travelling, art, theatre, politics, hiking, swimming in the ocean, cooking, circus (Cirque du Soleil owns my soul, and I also used to do a bit of circus - mainly adagio - when I was younger) and going to concerts. I did gymnastics for ten years when I was a child and teenager, and although I've never found another sport that was as awesome, I now do yoga, jogging and kickboxing, all of which I love.
Apart from the places I've already linked (where you are welcome to add me), I have a:
Wordpress blog (which is for longer, more essay-like reviews);
Fanblog for the Romanitas trilogy;
Twitter account; and
Archive of Our Own account.
Feel free to add/follow my at any of those places. I hope this rather long post has answered any questions you may have had about me, but I still would love to hear from you if you have anything you want to know. I'm also very keen to get recommendations for both fanfic and Dreamwidth-based communities for the things I've listed above, so if anyone has any such recs, please let me know.
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