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| User: | britgeekgrrl (508089) 
Hang On Tightly, Let Go Lightly
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| Name: | Johanna |
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| Website: | Rough Cut |
| Location: | Concord, California, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1972-07-22 |
| Bio: | 
New mantra as of 6/10/06: I may not be meant for better than this, but I'm made for it, goddamnit.
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I'm an enlightened optimist, an aspiring meglomananiac and a raconteuse - or so I like to think. Sometimes I refer to myself as an incipient bitch goddess awaiting apotheosis. Interpret that how you will.
I'm an expatriate Brit, but it's been so long since I lived there that there's hardly any Britness left in me - not, at least, when I'm sober.
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I'm a geek, married to a fellow geek - ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dancingshaman - and we're are both struggling to incoporate our dreams (world conquest, turning a knack for the creative arts into a viable career, cleaning the damn bathroom) into the dreary everyday world. So far, results have been erratic...
If I'm not planning global domination via the medium of live-action gaming, sewing a fabulous outfit to go with same - I'm a graduate of the Servalan school of Overdress For Success - or listening to my husband's patient explanation as to why I need a new hobby, I'm probably online. Or asleep.
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If You Want To See Anything Other Than The Blandest Posts, Read This!
I keep a bunch of filters and I use them extensively for both posting and reading.
To opt in to my filters - an action I recommend - friend me and visit this post. Therein is a survey which allows you to opt in to my filters. When I receive the "Hey, you've got a new friend!" alert, I'll check the post and add you to my f-list and to the apt filters. Without the filters you won't see much, nor will I visit your journal all that often. It sounds complicated, but it works for me.
On a related note, I use a lot of tags. Here's a sample, in case you're looking for something in particular: costuming, crazy game ideas, dr who, darlings (it's about rpg characters), depression (not the most cheerful of tags), fetish, frivolity gaming (also rpgs), kink (usually, but not always, filtered), slash.
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What I Get Up To Around Here
I mod/co-mod a few communities of varying degrees of activity:
- ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) corsetmakers (my pride and joy)
- corsetshoppe (a sibling community to corsetmakers)
- dw_cosplay (Doctor Who cosplay)
- sewcraft_dir (a directory for sewing and crafting communities)
- torchwoodgenfic (a 'ship-free Torchwood fanfic site).
- cardiffxtime (an RPG for Doctor Who/Torchwood/SJA characters)
And, unsurprisingly, I spend a lot of time being fictional people. At last count, there's 8th_doctor (Doctor Who), b7_soolin (Blakes 7), dr_demontfort (Vampire: The Masquerade), dr_owen_harper (Torchwood), dr_logsdon (Vampire: The Masquerade), harriet_jones (Doctor Who), jack_harkness_ (Doctor Who/Torchwood), liz_carter (BTVS 'verse) sally_wingrove (Vampire: The Masquerade), renee_vamp (Vampire, The Masquerade) and jugglingmercury (Catchall for a variety of characters that don't make enough noise for their own journal, check the tags). They're in various states of activity - ranging from long-retired to active/whining to be active (rpg characters are noisy, I've noticed) so if you'd like to spend some time with 'em, drop me a line and let's see if we can't work something out.
And yet, I don't understand why people keep saying I have a strong imagination. That kinda stuff hardly counts as writing, in my opinion. Anyways...
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Hey! Where's The Fannish Stuff? I Met You At An SF/F Con, So There Must Be Fannish Stuff Somewhere!
You want to visit fangrrl_squees - that's my fannish journal. This LJ is cluttered enough and, god help me, the fandom squee'ing generates enough content to maintain its own space...
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Other Bits And Pieces
Ever since David Cronenberg announced that he's doing a series for HBO based off Dead Ringers, I am convinced that I should be wearing a tinfoil helmet on a regular basis. Should you ever meet me in person, I'll be glad to rant about explain that, further.
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Learn far more about me at Rough Cut. Especially about the costuming monkey I have on my back.
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Join the Cult O'Johanna by buying and wearing a nifty shirt. Really, that's all that's required - no tattoo, no Kool Aid and no more brainwashing than can be reasonably expected...
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And, oh yeah, I'm on Library Thing. OCD-prone folks should not be left alone with this application. Especially if they have a bar-code scanner. *gibber*
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Note to LJ Administrators: I have posted my contact information and next-of-kin information in a private entry, backdated as the first entry of this journal. (It's a good idea, everyone should do it)
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| Memories: | 17 entries |
| Pictures: | over 100 public |
| Interests: | 150: 007, 1960s fashion, 7th sea, absinthe, absolutely fabulous, aeon flux, anglophilia, anne bronte, anthony burgess, bdsm, beautiful geekboys, beauty truth and love, bill hicks, blakes 7, bret easton ellis, brighton, british history, buffy the vampire slayer, cats, champagne, charlotte bronte, chocolate, christian bale, christopher eccleston, clive owen, comic books, corsetry, corsets, costume college, costuming, cthulhu, cymraeg, d&s, daleks, dangermouse, david lynch, david tennant, doctor who, douglas adams, dr who, dreaming, eddie izzard, edward gorey, eighties music, elizabeth george, emergency protocol 471, emily bronte, espionage, fabric, fan fiction, fashion, fashion history, fiction, film, firefly, fountain pens, frank herbert, gallifrey one, gaming, garth ennis, goth, harry potter, history, hunter s. thompson, ian fleming, imagination, james bond, jasper fforde, jellybaby?, jeremy irons, john kovalic, john woo, joss whedon, kevin smith, lao tzu, larp, latex, literature, london, luis bunuel, masochism, maya deren, men, michael moorcock, modern art, monty python, moulin rouge, movies, murder mysteries, music, myfanwy, nikola tesla, nostalgia, nyarlathotep, oceans, patricia cornwell, paul mcgann, pd james, pedro almodovar, pet shop boys, peter david, photography, pj o'rourke, poetry, polyamory, pvc, quantum physics, random things of rassilon, rasputina, renaissance faires, robert graves, roy lichenstein, rpgs, san francisco, sandbaggers, science fiction, screenwriting, sewing, shakespeare, sherlock holmes, shiny things, slash fanfiction, stanley kubrick, stephen frears, steven moffat, syd field, taoism, tarot, tattoos, the goodies, the goon show, the matrix, thrift stores, torchwood, torturing ljer baronlaw, toys, vampire: the masquerade, vampires, victoriana, vintage fashion, vodka, warren ellis, welsh, wile e coyote, wine, withnail and i, wobbly sets, world of darkness, writing, zagreus |
| Schools: | Prydonian Academy - Gallifrey, County Dublin, Ireland (1905 - 1910)
Balfour Junior School - Brighton, England - East Sussex, United Kingdom (1980 - 1984)
Glastonbury High School - Glastonbury, CT (1986 - 1990)
Diablo Valley College - Pleasant Hill, CA (1991 - 1993)
San Francisco State University - San Francisco, CA (1993 - 1996)
Miskatonic University - Arkham, MA (1996 - 1999)
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robshearman, roguishdevil, roseembolism, rvqavalon, sally_wingrove, sandbagger4, sarah_donner, savageplanet, scarywhitegirl, scendan, seamoose, seamstrix, semy_of_pearls, sewingbird, shademar, shadowwalkyr, shannybug, shesingsnow, shimere277, shipofools999, shoutingboy, sifueireman, silverkun, silverstreak, simplykimberly, sliv_1, slothman, slytherin_quill, snapesbabe, solan_t, spacefem, spastasmagoria, spencerpine, sphinxvictorian, sproutchk, spurious_logic, squeakydalek, sroth, straif, straytenebrae, stresskitten, surfofpewter, svashtar, svetlana_, tacky_tramp, takhisisbabies, tamago, tardis_rose, targeter, tatteredpsyche, tattermuffin, tattooedartgirl, technocracygirl, textivore, the_boy_who_ran, the_merricat, the_ogre, theaurorablaze, thebarpilot, thecoughlin, theradarmun, thunderwill, tinellaq, tlyoung88, trav28, trinker, trinsf, tronpublic, trystbat, tsarina, tsgeisel, tshuma, tsjafo, ultra_lilac, uncledark, unkyrich, vampwillow, vandonovan, velvetgarden, venusrising, vesper2000, 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fakehair, fakehairlearner, fandom_lawyers, fountainpens, garbncostume, gbacg_costume, gears_and_steam, henriettastreet, hp_costuming, i_love_paris, jack_in_cuffs, jamesbondicons, john_simm, larpers, latexcrafters, librarything, lj_2008, ljunited, loeg, loversoflondon, mod_party, moulincostumes, multi_who, new_who, owenharper_fans, panniers, patternsource, pmgpics, prettypetticoat, ratjamandpizza, refinement, restoration, saxonvoters, sca_garb, screenwriting, sewcraft_dir, sf_eats, sfba_sf_fans, sfbars, sfbay_bdsm, sfbayarea, siliconventions, spooky_doings, steam_armory, steamfashion, tardis_icons, tardis_tour, tardis_tour_ooc, teamtorchwood, tennant_icons, tightlaces, timebinding, today_i_am, torch_wood, torchwood_daily, torchwood_eps, torchwood_three, torchwoodgenfic, torchwoodicons, torchwoodslash, twdw_muses, victorian_fash, victorianera, victorianlife, vintacon, vortex_trip, wales, wga_supporters, whoicons, zagreuswaits |  | 7: | bunnycomic, chaucerhathblog, englishcut, 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| Friend of: | 494: 0ccam, 10orchids, 1ucifer, 27outs, 8th_doctor, _duncan, abc123dog, aberrantvirtue, aelfsciene, affablestranger, agentxpndble, aikido_jones, akasha_zuul, akira00, alanmoss, albion_fan, aleaxiactaxest, alice6, aliciag, allsunday, amilori, amywithani, angrybuffalo, anhedoniac, annie_brujah, anothervoicemdf, arcadiax, ashacat, astrobeej, astronemly, auroraceleste, auros, b5fan, b7_soolin, bad_wolf56, baronlaw, bast_kitten, being_haunted, bella_suona, bellacrow, benliblit, bettyscout, bjwest, bk2w, blackberry74, blackfyr, blackrayne, blogus, bloodygrace, blue_oryx, bobbythemartian, bootkitten, borderlad, bovil, brewsternorth, brithistorian, bryozoan, bunyip, bvamp, caffeinedelusio, calieber, camino_volare, caramida, chalepa_ta_kala, chaosrex, chelsea_sloane, chiefted, chrisber, christophera_, clemtaur, clive__owen, clubsatori, cmdrsuzdal, columbiaist, cooperati, corsetmama, crabby_lioness, crowgargoyle, culturalbaggage, dakron, daleloco, dancingshaman, dangerpudding, darkteddybear, dave_gallaher, daveyreese, ddommus, deirdremoon, delayra, denisen1, denizsarikaya, devonapple, deyo, dicedork, didjiman, digitalsidhe, dj_splitsecondh, doctor_toc, donpaul, dough_puncher, dr_demontfort, dr_evan_green, dr_j_vangruen, dr_logsdon, dr_owen_harper, dr_whuh, dragon_spirit, dragongrl, dragoniching, dragonluk, dreaming_shaman, driestone, drtheta, dwnasu, ebonlock, eireangel560, elendriel, elisem, elizabethbear, elonweis, emberleo, emmett_the_sane, eriktdahl, erikwieder, essentialsaltes, estelofimladris, eudaimonia, evildmguy, ewhac, experimentanon, faeriedoctor, fairegoddess, fangrrl_squees, fatelvis138, faunimabibble, feisty__kitty, feyandstrange, fiannagalliard, fierytale, filmstarusa, finbardivine, fintach, fizzixrat, flitljm, flonaldinho, floresaj, forbiddenone, foreverforsaken, fornaxus, fortysevenbteg, ... |
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