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I'm a stranger here, myself.

Confined to bed with the dreaded Long Covid--in a room with literal yellow wallpaper (!!!), slowly detoxing from an insane world. I'm in my chrystalis era.

Not sure what this space will become, if anything. It's been a long time since I've played with this alter ego. I wrote fanfic back in the early 2000’s, mostly writing in Harry Potter, with some Buffy, X Files, X-Men (those x’s!), and I think a few stories about Picard and Q thrown in. A lot of my work was lost, because internet and time, but someone archived a couple of the HP stories here:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/thisveryinstant/

I’m here to reconnect with fandom while I convalesce, hopefully reach out to some old friends, make some new ones, indulge my burning obsessions, and maybe recreate something of the old Livejournal days (but probably not).

At the moment I'm reading a lot of Hannibal (NBC series) and rediscovering old Snarry stories I used to love; I absolutely condemn Rowling’s transphobia, and so many problematic elements in those books, but the fandom also transcends its creator, blah blah blah.

Some parting quotes (not sure why they all ended up being by men; I'll fix that later):

"I've got it
I'll be sullen and withdrawn
I'll dwindle off into the twilight realm
Of my own secret thoughts
I'll lay on my back here 'til dawn
In a semi-catatonic state
And dream of guitar notes
That would irritate
An executive kinda guy..."
-Frank Zappa, who such is an asshole. Please enjoy this brilliant send-up of Frank Zappa by the amazing Alex Temple.

"Freud does not even listen; he glances at his dog and answers, ‘It’s Daddy.'"
-Deleuze and Guittari,. I refer anyone who tries to psychoanalyze me via my writings to this.

"And I belong to a race too, says Bloom, that is hated and persecuted. Also now. This very moment. This very instant. Gob, he near burnt his fingers with the butt of his old cigar."
-James Joyce, a wonderful pervert

"One never knew, after all, did one now did one now did one."
-David Foster Wallace--who is kind of a bro, but I dig his pathos

“Well, I’m a tumbler. Born under punches.”
-David Byrne

Age statement: I'm over the age of 18.