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Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises* of Yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
The world tells us we must be humble, we must take a compliment, but never to compliment ourselves. Never toot our own horn and many other cliches about how to be proper and not overbearingly egotistical. We at FSC say, f&#k that! Tell us of all the ways you are the BEST! All the things you’ve done, want to do or will one day do. All the ways you are marvelously you.
I am a wordsmith. I write fiction, nonfiction, poetry, pretty much anything else that pops up. I do fanwork and original work. My work has been described as "flypaper for eyeballs" and there is a LOT of it available, so please consider your time before diving into it.
My most popular fannish series is Love Is For Children (Avengers). It's a look at how to repair a bunch of traumatized superheroes using fluffy family activities. This is a great choice for teamfamily fans. You can find these and other fanworks on my AO3 page. Another very popular one is Frankenstein's Family, which is gothic fluff. Victor is transgender, he and Igor have a queerplatonic relationship, and they're raising their son Adam together. See what happens when two scientists take over an isolated valley and start educating its peasants.
Here are a couple of my favorite standalones:
"Homicidal Psycho Jungle GoH"
"A Vorbarra, a Naismith, and a Stark Walk into a Bar"
My original writing is more widely dispersed. My writing website has sections for my books, my how-to material on crowdfunding, a few nonfiction articles about poetry, my Serial Poetry page, and a sampling of standalone poems. For more poetry, use the Poem tag on my blog. There are 6,081 at present, so again, consider your time. I post original recipes under the Recipe tag, although that also includes links to other people's recipes. You can find more of my nonfiction and links to other posts under How To; for a more concise list of my most popular posts on this topic, see my Memorable How To entries. I've also made a Grief Questionnaire and a Safety Tracker. Some of my Pagan material appears on the coven website under Writing, although a majority of the content is stuff I wrote or helped to write.
Other people make fanwork inspired by my original canons, so some of those are pretty much shared worlds now. You can find some of that linked in Polychrome Heroics under Berettaflies and Schrodinger's Heroes under Crossover Content and Sponsorable Works. Among the largest contributors aredialecticdreamer and siliconshaman in Polychrome Heroics and chanter1944 in Schrodinger's Heroes.
I participate in a number of shared worlds and open-source fandoms. If you're looking for a new playground, come check them out! The Blueshift Troupers is far-future science fiction about the crew of a living ship who tour the galaxy solving problems. It is designed for easy use and production at any budget level and includes characters diverse in race, sex/gender dynamics, intelligence, and other factors. Schrodinger's Heroes is quantum science fiction about saving the world from alternate dimensions. It is designed to facilitate crossovers and includes characters diverse in race, sex/gender dynamics, intelligence, species, and other factors. Check out Schrodinger's Hulk in Crossover Content if you're a fan of Bruce-and-Hulk. The Ursulan Cycle is genderbent Arthurian Cycle in which almost all characters appear as the opposite sex/gender from the original cycle. If you like historic fantasy but wish it had more women, here you go.clare_dragonfly is the biggest contributor in this one. Torn World is science fantasy about the hazards of temporal technology. Do you like unicorns? Our snow-unicorns are the size of small mammoths! We also have a whole ecosystem of sea monsters, and warsailors who fight them. The archive lets you browse by date, character, content, etc. and there's a separate section for artwork.
I do crowdfunding. At present, the most lucrative of my writing projects is the Poetry Fishbowl, as in January's session. So don't believe people who say there is no money in poetry; that only applies if you follow the usual rules. Nothing is impossible if you're willing to blow a few holes in the reality tunnel and keep going. The fishbowl has passed my other major writing project, writing for the Llewellyn annuals such as The Witches' Datebook.
I garden for wildlife. I have a prairie garden among various others. Sometimes Gaia plants random things for me which so far have included wild grape vines, cup plant, and an elderberry. My detritus food chain is three days to apex. \o/
I am an activist and have been pretty much all along, since my parents took me to their things before I was even old enough to choose causes of my own. *ponder* Well, I've kept all theirs, so I guess those were just my first ones. These include environmentalism, labor rights, and diversity. I am a very experienced pain in the ass.
I'm a gender scholar, from back when I was the only one calling it "gender studies" and everyone else was saying "women's studies." I have lost count of how many different sex/gender configurations I have written. But here, see my QUILTBAG characters, gender identities, sexual orientations, and romantic orientations represented.
I read everything in a language I can parse and I hack things out of languages I don't know. We have lined our house with books. The last time we counted, which was years ago, the home library was over 10,000 volumes. I am a hobby-linguist. More than one of the times when I oopsed a book, it has been a dictionary/grammar for an invented language.
Last year I met almost all of my goals. I'm still pretty stoked about that. :D
As you can see, there is a lot of me. I don't bother trying to hide it. I can only fake normal for about 3 hours and it's exhausting. My wings and tail poke out through the bars, and sooner or later I start breathing fire at idiots, and the gig is up. The way I look at self-promotion is this: It's only arrogance if you can't back it up; if you can back it up, it's not arrogance, it's confidence.
I'll spare you the counterbalancing list of things I suck at, but I'll share the funniest one: I may be the only writer who HAS been told not to be a plumber. At length. For cause.
Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises* of Yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
The world tells us we must be humble, we must take a compliment, but never to compliment ourselves. Never toot our own horn and many other cliches about how to be proper and not overbearingly egotistical. We at FSC say, f&#k that! Tell us of all the ways you are the BEST! All the things you’ve done, want to do or will one day do. All the ways you are marvelously you.
I am a wordsmith. I write fiction, nonfiction, poetry, pretty much anything else that pops up. I do fanwork and original work. My work has been described as "flypaper for eyeballs" and there is a LOT of it available, so please consider your time before diving into it.
My most popular fannish series is Love Is For Children (Avengers). It's a look at how to repair a bunch of traumatized superheroes using fluffy family activities. This is a great choice for teamfamily fans. You can find these and other fanworks on my AO3 page. Another very popular one is Frankenstein's Family, which is gothic fluff. Victor is transgender, he and Igor have a queerplatonic relationship, and they're raising their son Adam together. See what happens when two scientists take over an isolated valley and start educating its peasants.
Here are a couple of my favorite standalones:
"Homicidal Psycho Jungle GoH"
"A Vorbarra, a Naismith, and a Stark Walk into a Bar"
My original writing is more widely dispersed. My writing website has sections for my books, my how-to material on crowdfunding, a few nonfiction articles about poetry, my Serial Poetry page, and a sampling of standalone poems. For more poetry, use the Poem tag on my blog. There are 6,081 at present, so again, consider your time. I post original recipes under the Recipe tag, although that also includes links to other people's recipes. You can find more of my nonfiction and links to other posts under How To; for a more concise list of my most popular posts on this topic, see my Memorable How To entries. I've also made a Grief Questionnaire and a Safety Tracker. Some of my Pagan material appears on the coven website under Writing, although a majority of the content is stuff I wrote or helped to write.
Other people make fanwork inspired by my original canons, so some of those are pretty much shared worlds now. You can find some of that linked in Polychrome Heroics under Berettaflies and Schrodinger's Heroes under Crossover Content and Sponsorable Works. Among the largest contributors are
dialecticdreamer and siliconshaman in Polychrome Heroics and chanter1944 in Schrodinger's Heroes.I participate in a number of shared worlds and open-source fandoms. If you're looking for a new playground, come check them out! The Blueshift Troupers is far-future science fiction about the crew of a living ship who tour the galaxy solving problems. It is designed for easy use and production at any budget level and includes characters diverse in race, sex/gender dynamics, intelligence, and other factors. Schrodinger's Heroes is quantum science fiction about saving the world from alternate dimensions. It is designed to facilitate crossovers and includes characters diverse in race, sex/gender dynamics, intelligence, species, and other factors. Check out Schrodinger's Hulk in Crossover Content if you're a fan of Bruce-and-Hulk. The Ursulan Cycle is genderbent Arthurian Cycle in which almost all characters appear as the opposite sex/gender from the original cycle. If you like historic fantasy but wish it had more women, here you go.
clare_dragonfly is the biggest contributor in this one. Torn World is science fantasy about the hazards of temporal technology. Do you like unicorns? Our snow-unicorns are the size of small mammoths! We also have a whole ecosystem of sea monsters, and warsailors who fight them. The archive lets you browse by date, character, content, etc. and there's a separate section for artwork.I do crowdfunding. At present, the most lucrative of my writing projects is the Poetry Fishbowl, as in January's session. So don't believe people who say there is no money in poetry; that only applies if you follow the usual rules. Nothing is impossible if you're willing to blow a few holes in the reality tunnel and keep going. The fishbowl has passed my other major writing project, writing for the Llewellyn annuals such as The Witches' Datebook.
I garden for wildlife. I have a prairie garden among various others. Sometimes Gaia plants random things for me which so far have included wild grape vines, cup plant, and an elderberry. My detritus food chain is three days to apex. \o/
I am an activist and have been pretty much all along, since my parents took me to their things before I was even old enough to choose causes of my own. *ponder* Well, I've kept all theirs, so I guess those were just my first ones. These include environmentalism, labor rights, and diversity. I am a very experienced pain in the ass.
I'm a gender scholar, from back when I was the only one calling it "gender studies" and everyone else was saying "women's studies." I have lost count of how many different sex/gender configurations I have written. But here, see my QUILTBAG characters, gender identities, sexual orientations, and romantic orientations represented.
I read everything in a language I can parse and I hack things out of languages I don't know. We have lined our house with books. The last time we counted, which was years ago, the home library was over 10,000 volumes. I am a hobby-linguist. More than one of the times when I oopsed a book, it has been a dictionary/grammar for an invented language.
Last year I met almost all of my goals. I'm still pretty stoked about that. :D
As you can see, there is a lot of me. I don't bother trying to hide it. I can only fake normal for about 3 hours and it's exhausting. My wings and tail poke out through the bars, and sooner or later I start breathing fire at idiots, and the gig is up. The way I look at self-promotion is this: It's only arrogance if you can't back it up; if you can back it up, it's not arrogance, it's confidence.
I'll spare you the counterbalancing list of things I suck at, but I'll share the funniest one: I may be the only writer who HAS been told not to be a plumber. At length. For cause.
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Date: 2020-01-13 09:20 pm (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-13 09:27 pm (UTC)I am a devout empiricist. I look for evidence. All feelings are valid, but not all feelings are accurate; they can lie to you. So check the facts.
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, things they do well and things they do badly. A happy, successful life relies greatly on knowing what yours are and choosing your activities accordingly. Your profession should be something you enjoy and do well. Hobbies are more flexible. If you like the process, the quality of the end product is largely irrelevant. Write badly with pride! Knit ugly scarves! Jog like a turtle stampeding through peanut butter!
Live your life. Celebrate your accomplishments. Learn from your failures. And never let anyone make less of you.
Apply the same to other people. Compliment their accomplishments. Encourage their hobbies and curiosities. Discourage misbehavior, gently if possible, firmly if necessary. Help them learn from mistakes, if that input is welcome. When they put themselves down, disagree -- and cite counterexamples if at all possible.
A fact-based life is just more secure than one built on the shifting sands of social illusion.
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Date: 2020-01-14 12:50 am (UTC)You are a treasure!
♥
Well ...
Date: 2020-01-14 01:25 am (UTC)Then again, writing is also a chosen means of relaxation for me -- I'll write fanfic rather than, I don't know, whatever other people do like going to bars or sports.
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Date: 2020-01-15 04:08 am (UTC)