oanja

Hi! I've noticed people making these now that people might be coming back to journal fandom (for the time being) and I thought it would be a good idea to make one too.

I'm a Finnish woman, early 30's, I got my Master's degree in December 2018. I have a full time job I'm not particularly excited about and always wondering if I'm in the right line of work.

I have a cat (Maine Coon) called Taika and a Dog (Lagotto Romagnolo) called Leia ( cut for photo )

I'm single and maybe demisexual or somewhere on the Ace spectrum, I'm bisexual (and yes that includes more than two genders)

My life situation is a bit weird in that I keep moving all the freaking time! I don't think I've lived anywhere for more than a year since 2016 and since then I've moved four times and I'm about to move again this month. I keep changing jobs and all of them have been in different cities, which makes moving a real pain. We'll see how long I'll stay in this next apartment...

I read mainly fantasy with some scifi and historical mixed in. I like the idea of reading published romance, but I find I'm very picky these days so I haven't found many romance books I've genuinely enjoyed or finished. (this is pretty funny because when I was like 11-15 I used to read a shit ton of Harlequin romances and the like).

I've been in fandom since I was 19, so 13 years now, I've written some fic, but mostly I have been a lurker. I used to roleplay quite a bit in my early 20's when I had time for such things *sigh*

When fandom moved to tumblr I kind of became an even more passive fandom participant, as I found tumblr bizarre for having conversations or for making fandom friends, I did write quite a bit of Hockey rps at the time, but I didn't really get to know any other fans, except a few people on twitter, whom I still follow there.

My forever fandoms are Stargate Atlantis and Star Trek (tos and the new movies). I'm really glad I got to see a few of the massive fandoms that used to exist before it all got super fractured.

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Hmm what else? I started an urban fantasy novel in last year's nano and won, with maybe about 25% of the story still unwritten. I should get back to writing that, because I think it would be very cool to actually write and finish an actual book manuscript, even if it never goes anywhere. I have other ideas for original (fantasy) fiction, but I haven't really managed to write anything this year (except my thesis which was 42k so I'm pretty proud of that!)

I knit (socks mostly) and sow (cosplay stuff) sometimes, but I'm not very good at it and I keep starting and getting distracted by a new project and abandoning the old one, which is bad for ever finishing anything.

This got long and brambly, which is like peak me, or whatever the kids say these days... :P Anyway, hi and welcome! feel free to subscibe to my my journal, I hardly ever post anything locked and when I do it's just personal whining. I will most likely follow back if it looks like we have similar interests.

Edit for 2019: Have a new job now, which I like a lot more than the one I wrote about originally. Have moved yet again, but I think I will stay in this town for a few years *fingers crossed*

I have become totally addicted to Youtube, even more than I've previously been. (I just binge watched like 5 hours worth of Jenna Marbles videos) I think I should just cancel all my streaming services, it's not like I watch anything on there anymore...

I got into d&d during 2019, which has been great. I've also found out that I might actually prefer to DM instead of play (might be my control issues showing a bit...)

I also got into BTS this December, so that's a super new fandom for me. I'm very excited to have a new fandom again.

Almost time for Christmas shenanigans! I'm going home tomorrow to spend the holidays with mom. I think I'll come back to here on Friday. That's such a long time to spend over there, I'm not sure it's a great idea, but we'll see. I'll need to pack a lot of books and other stuff to amuse myself with.

I have become totally addicted to Youtube, even more than I've previously been. (I just binge watched like 5 hours worth of Jenna Marbles videos yesterday and today. It might be even more like 7?) I think I should just cancel all my streaming services, it's not like I watch anything on there anymore...

Shows I plan on watching, even though I haven't so far:

• the his dark materials show
• the witcher
• expanse seasons 3 and 4
• gentleman Jack
• Killjoys (I have 1 season to watch, unless a new one has come out)
• and I feel like there's something else on HBO that I've been meaning to watch, but can't remember now
• The Untamed, if it was on freaking Finnish netflix!!! why you do this to me netflix? It's not like some finnish tv channel has the rights to it, so what gives???

Oh the drawing tablet I ordered on a black friday sale finally got here on Wednesday and I played around with it a bit. I also got the free trial to skillshare, so I can look at drawing tutorials. It seems fun, except my computer only has one HDMI slot so if I use the tablet I can't use a screen at the same time, which is the whole point of the thing! I need to update my computer, but I don't have the money.... *whine* (but like seriously it's 5 years old) also somehow the tablet messed up my computer, which now doesn't think I have speakers, so I need to use headphones to watch videos, wtf computer, why?

I'm debating whether I should bring my whole computer with me to mom's or not... she has a laptop (my old one) but I have a feeling it might not even have and HDMI port and I wanna draw now that I have this freaking tablet. At the same time, it's winter and maybe I should not take the computer and new tablet on a long cold drive... I'll decide tomorrow.

There's this service where you can use an app to order real photos out of your phone photos, so I did that and got like 130 something photos. Most are from the trip to Italy. I'll need to get a real photo album again and organize them... eventually. But it's really nice to look at physical photos you guys! Also camera phone photo quality is really good these days. Some of these photos look amazing.

Randomly, I was thinking about BTS and how being a fan of them makes me feel a bit better about myself because some of them are getting close to 30 so they're not actual teenagers, like 1D were back in the day (even though I think all of them were in their 20's when I got into the fandom). Also why do I always pick the least popular guy as my favourite, or at least I never pick the most popular person. I always end up shipping rare pairings, even when I don't know it yet... anyway Kim Namjoon is my favourite. He's just such a goober.

Let's end with some work related news, because I'm a whole ass grown lady with a real job and everything! anyway the solution focused therapist training program emailed me on Friday and said I'd been accepted and that I needed to confirm that I was gonna take the training course by the 30th, which is messed up, like everyone is on holiday lady!!! this deadline is too soon! Also they said I need to have confirmation from my employer that it's cool for me to do this (I need to get clients through work). I did email my boss about this in early December but she hasn't gotten back to me yet and now she's on holiday obviously, like everyone is! If I confirm that I'm doing the training and then have to cancel I still need to pay half the fee, which is 2k! I can't afford that! I need to email them back and be like 'are you serious with the deadline date, everyone is literally on holiday right now?' but in a polite way.

Anyway, hi new DW friends from the friending meme!

I just finished reading that 90k fanfic about Crowley going to therapy and now I'm just sitting here with that good empty feeling you get after you finish reading something great. Just wow. This is definitely a fic I'll come back to periodically over the years

Just in case you haven't been recced it yet here's the link https://archiveofourown.org/works/20177950

I have so many thoughts about Aubrey! Aaaah!

Do you ever just see a fic like this and get all jealous of other people's talent? I'm trying to be better about it, but sometimes, yeah sometimes it's hard. <3

I left the writing a pretty incoherent comment (which is why I very rarely comment on stories) and wanted to copy paste it here, because I think I need to think about this story more and I need to have this at hand

 

( spoilers for the story )

 

Going to Helsinki tomorrow! Whee travel, also I get to stay in a hotel and my employer will pay the bill. :D


( onto the meme )

If I'm going to be using DW more often I feel like I should update my icon options, but man, where do you even go for icons anymore :D I should check if my old hard drive still has my icon folder. I used to have hundreds saved in the hayday of LJ. I also think I had the account that had loads of icon space, it was basically the only reason I got a paid account.

Also because of this I went to look at my old Photobucket account and I even remembered my password! All my old photos I posted to LJ are still there!!! :O I guess if at some point I'm super bored I could go back to my imported posts from LJ and fix all the broken photo links??? (I doubt I'll ever be that bored)

( old gifs and images from my fandom past )

Okay enough of that, or I'll be here all night. But it's pretty cool to see a site I've been using since 2005??? (maybe) is still there. Pretty rare I would guess. It seems you need to pay money these days to get the watermarks off and things like that and I'm not sure I'm willing to do that. Where do people host images these days and is it free?

Also I found a Troy and Abed moodheme I had uploaded, do people remember those? People used to make hundreds of tiny gifs for people to use as moods on their LJ

It's independence day tomorrow, so I have a day off work! Whoo~ I should start packing I guess and then I think I will just play some more Odyssey.

Year in fandom

Your main fandom of the year?

I feel like I wasn't very actively in any fandoms this year, but if you go by the fic I wrote then it's still definitely hockey rps


Your favorite film watched this year?

Thor:Ragnarök, Wonder Woman and I'm sure there's something I'm forgetting now....


Your favorite book read this year?

This is too hard to answer... also I didn't read that many books. Maybe the Magicians trilogy, then the Hanging Tree


Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?

Uh, I think I listened quite a lot to Fall Out Boy this year. Then just radio stuff


Your favorite TV show of the year?

The Expanse, Stranger Things, Black Sails



Your best new fandom discovery of the year?

The expanse I think. I've actually read fic for that one



Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?

Still no new Stargate Atlantis fandom sadly... This is the eternal trouble I fear. I don't think such a massive fandom can come again now, it's so fractured. But I guess there not being a big new slash fandom for a TV show I like


Your biggest squee moment of the year?

Can't think of anything specific right now, maybe how I found out Dutch and Alvis actually have a bdsm relationship. I was really surprised in a good way that they went there. Then Steve from Stranger Things in season two was pretty squee worthy


The most missed of your old fandoms?

SGA (always) and Star Trek. I was also pretty nostalgic for bandom stuff but it seems a lot of the fic is gone and also it doesn't feel as good as it did when I was reading it the first time around


The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?

Writing for it? Then the Expanse I think. I also just found my old Teen Wolf wip, so maybe this is the year I finish it. I would also like to write a longer MCU fic at some point

I signed up for bandomstuffsit, I think it will be fun and I really need to have deadlines or I never get anything finished. It's kind of nerve wrecking to know you are writing for someone specifically though, 'cause you don't want to give someone a crappy present. >_>

I haven't written anything for the mpreg challenge yet and that's no good! /0\ It's just that I don't have a good idea for a story. (I thought that would be a lot easier... grr)

And then some random photos and gifs of pretty boys to distract me. All thanks to tumblr

( picspam time )

How come I didn't know about this before? xD

Weekends are the best, even if you have messy_kisses  stay over and she is an alien who doesn't know how to sleep in late... (but we have almost finished watching the third season of Buffy, which is cool)
So yesterday I went to bed at 10pm! I was that tired and woke up today at 10. Hah~ Well at least I managed to write that report I had overdue and I think I passed the exams I had on Friday, so I actually feel like I've been productive this week. \0/

And then some fanvids just because.

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