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This journal is partly fannish, half personal / other interests, though I friends-lock a fair amount of the more personal content. I'm a relatively recent but very passionate Doctor Who fan, having discovered the show around 2015 (because I'm late into things), and after catching up with all of the new series and loving much of it obsessively, I became an equally enthusiastic Classic Who fan via the Twitch marathon in summer 2018, and am now in the process of watching it in a more leisurely fashion. In addition, I read a lot of books, I write, I dance ballet as a hobby, and I drink lots of tea. I'm super into history and science (especially space stuff and physics) and I enjoy geeking out about languages and speak several of them. I live in Finland, I'm female (she/her pronouns), I'm definitely not straight although I keep waffling about exactly how I identify (somewhere between lesbian and bi, I guess), and I'm in my 30s. I battle depression and occasional anxiety, and sometimes it shows up, mainly in locked personal entries. I don't talk a lot about politics, but I'm staunchly feminist and left-wing and all that.

My main fandom is Doctor Who, both classic and new. My favourite Doctor is Two, though I'm fond of most of them, and I'm eagerly waiting for Thirteen. My favourite companions include Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot, Ben and Polly, Leela, both Romanas, Nyssa of Traken, Ace, Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, and Bill Potts. I ship 2/Jamie, Ben/Polly, Doctor/Jack, and various combinations of companions with one another, but I'm also heavily into gen and friendship in this fandom.

I also have a variety of book fandoms, ranging from various examples of new and inclusive sci-fi & fantasy (Becky Chambers, Murderbot Diaries, Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch books, Yoon Ha Lee's Hexarchate books, Gail Carriger's historical steampunk/fantasy series, various Seanan McGuire things, many Tor novellas, etc. etc. etc.) to any good 19th century books where I can pair up two female characters with one another and forget about the straight romances. Doctor Who takes up most of my TV watching energy, though lately I've been obsessing over the Good Omens adaptation like everyone else, and I occasionally enjoy cozy murder mysteries with pretty period costumes. I like musicals and theatre, and go to see ballet and the occasional opera when I can afford to.

One of the reasons I started this is the hope that I might meet other people who share my interests and discuss things online with them. So if you feel at all inclined to it, feel free to friend me and comment! I may occasionally follow some people who would at least seem to be active and in the same fandoms, but don't feel any pressure to add me back if it doesn't seem to be your thing. Do let me know somehow if you friend me (comment, PM, whatever), because I may not notice otherwise it happened, or I may forget to check you out. You can also just subscribe to me if you only want to see my fannish entries, but most personal stuff goes under friends-lock.

My fanfic can be read over at my Archive of Our Own account. Most of it is Doctor Who (both New and Classic), but there's also some for various book fandoms, and a few Torchwood fics. I'm pretty bad at titles for the most part, but hopefully the summaries and tags help you figure out what you might want to read.

I also have this journal over at LiveJournal. Feel free to follow/comment at whichever place suits your fancy. I get to the Dreamwidth comments much faster, though.

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Here are some banners! First, the banners I've been rewarded for fics of mine that have done well in the who_contest community, which has themed fanfic contests for Doctor Who and related fandoms. The banners link to the story in question!


Like Siblings is a short genfic (546 words) featuring the First Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Vicki, written for the 'Reach' challenge. I maaaay have been drawing somewhat on personal experience of being a younger sibling (and a short person, for that matter).


Birds in Gear (look, I just wanted to give it a title that wasn't 'Pets' before the contest deadline passed! I said I wasn't good at titles!) is a short gen fic (550 words) that features Victoria Waterfield, Jamie McCrimmon, and steampunk in space. It's nearly as silly as 'Like Siblings'.

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And here are the banners I've so far received for my participation in the various reccing challenges in the lovely tardis_library community, a reccing community for Doctor Who and its related fandoms:


My banner for 'Star Monthly Reccer' in 2018, meaning I recced something for all the monthly challenges in 2018! It was fun!


My banner for the 2018 character challenge, where I chose Jamie McCrimmon as my character and recced lots and lots of things (mostly fic, but also some art) for him. Just go to tardis_library and check out the Jamie McCrimmon character tag, most of them are mine... I like the boy, and so do fanwork creators!


My banner for the 2018 Summer Bingo challenge, where I successfully completed a bingo line for a reccer's bingo!