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[updated January 3, 2017]
My profile has the general background, but herein is a list of links to things I've written that might give you a sense of me. Tagging is extremely irregular on my journal, and likely to continue to be.
Mostly locked posts, for a variety of reasons. I'm generally happy to add most people to my locks these days. (I keep a very small number of more tightly focused filters for trusted-in-person friend type conversations.)
I'm a librarian. I geek stuff by nature. Most of what I write is various bits about daily life, books, music, thinking, doing stuff, chronic illness coping, and miscellaneous other topics. I tend not to write about politics and current events.
Lots of people who keep reading me say they really like my long thinky posts, even if they're otherwise not particularly interested in the subject matter: I am most likely to do them about
And as an example of a non-public one, this one, about my father and the power of theatre and memory and the living power of words made real is one I'm still very proud of.
Also, people like when I go librarian smash at bad research. Tagged for your convenience, but I think they're all locked posts.
( You will also see some other material )
I mention in my profile that I was one of the player-authors of Alternity, an alternate universe Harry Potter project that ran from 2007 to 2015 (yes, that's seven years). You can find out more about it (including PDFs of all of the entries) on the Alternity website. I was also data goddess for the project, and you can find a link to our 7000+ page wiki there, too. While the project is over, I'm still very proud of the whole thing and my part in it, and there is some interesting commentary in my Alternity tag (locked posts, mostly) for the curious.
Generally, if it's me doing personal stuff, I'm Jenett. Or JenettSilver, if Jenett was taken. I also write under that name for Pagan stuff.
I am nominally on Facebook under my legal name, but avoid all directly Pagan (or otherwise personal stuff, like specific health details) stuff in public there which in practice means I use it for access to our work page (occasionally) and otherwise never check it.
I run a site called Seeking, which has introductory material about religious witchcraft a lot of people find interesting (and is also a good example of my geekiness). I started it in 2011, it now has over 150 pages, and I did a major layout and organizational revamp in December 2016.
I am of the type "I consider my journal like my living room." I post stuff that's useful for me, framed as is useful for me, which may not be useful to you.
I have some idiosyncrasies about spelling. I mostly use British - I am born and raised in the US, but my father was English, and my mother was raised in the UK. I often use US punctuation. Yes, this is weird.
In my own journal, I do not edit ruthlessly for typos or word swaps (because brain fog is a thing, and there are days where if I felt I had to do that, I wouldn't write things down, and that makes my journal useless for documentation for me.) If you have problems understanding a sentence, I am glad to try again.
If suggesting something, please understand that I probably have reasons for what I say even if I haven't spelled all of them out. Like most people, what I write about online is the tip of the iceberg of my experience, knowledge, or understanding, and of course, online, it's often easy for a mischosen word to cause confusion. (In particular, I have multiple chronic health issues, and thus get to play the game of 'which option doesn't make these three things worse' fairly often, or the variant 'that seems like a perfectly logical solution, but it doesn't actually work for me for weird reasons I don't want to go into right now.')
I try to be clear if I'm asking for problemsolving or not, but if you're not sure, advice is usually fine, but you may get a "Yeah, sorry, that won't work for me." without details in response, depending on my degree of energy.
My profile has the general background, but herein is a list of links to things I've written that might give you a sense of me. Tagging is extremely irregular on my journal, and likely to continue to be.
What you'll see here is:
Mostly locked posts, for a variety of reasons. I'm generally happy to add most people to my locks these days. (I keep a very small number of more tightly focused filters for trusted-in-person friend type conversations.)
Various posts from me about daily life:
I'm a librarian. I geek stuff by nature. Most of what I write is various bits about daily life, books, music, thinking, doing stuff, chronic illness coping, and miscellaneous other topics. I tend not to write about politics and current events.
Lots of people who keep reading me say they really like my long thinky posts, even if they're otherwise not particularly interested in the subject matter: I am most likely to do them about
- sorting out the inside of my head.
- religious stuff (some basics, but more how to learn, teach, share, and explore it better)
- music (with which I have a complex relationship)
- things that bug my librarian brain. Bad history and research. Online interactions, especially around privacy and communication.
Samples of public long-and-thinky posts:
- An exposition on a mix CD I made for a particular trip which is really about bits of my musical history.
- General info about how I handle access and subscription on this journal.
- A post about the movie Agora, about Hypatia of Alexandria
- A deconstruction of the history in a Bones episode that involved a purported victim of the Salem Witch Trials.
- My somewhat dated advice to people considering library school
And as an example of a non-public one, this one, about my father and the power of theatre and memory and the living power of words made real is one I'm still very proud of.
Also, people like when I go librarian smash at bad research. Tagged for your convenience, but I think they're all locked posts.
( You will also see some other material )
Past projects
I mention in my profile that I was one of the player-authors of Alternity, an alternate universe Harry Potter project that ran from 2007 to 2015 (yes, that's seven years). You can find out more about it (including PDFs of all of the entries) on the Alternity website. I was also data goddess for the project, and you can find a link to our 7000+ page wiki there, too. While the project is over, I'm still very proud of the whole thing and my part in it, and there is some interesting commentary in my Alternity tag (locked posts, mostly) for the curious.
Other places I am online
Generally, if it's me doing personal stuff, I'm Jenett. Or JenettSilver, if Jenett was taken. I also write under that name for Pagan stuff.
I am nominally on Facebook under my legal name, but avoid all directly Pagan (or otherwise personal stuff, like specific health details) stuff in public there which in practice means I use it for access to our work page (occasionally) and otherwise never check it.
I run a site called Seeking, which has introductory material about religious witchcraft a lot of people find interesting (and is also a good example of my geekiness). I started it in 2011, it now has over 150 pages, and I did a major layout and organizational revamp in December 2016.
Other useful stuff about this journal
I am of the type "I consider my journal like my living room." I post stuff that's useful for me, framed as is useful for me, which may not be useful to you.
I have some idiosyncrasies about spelling. I mostly use British - I am born and raised in the US, but my father was English, and my mother was raised in the UK. I often use US punctuation. Yes, this is weird.
In my own journal, I do not edit ruthlessly for typos or word swaps (because brain fog is a thing, and there are days where if I felt I had to do that, I wouldn't write things down, and that makes my journal useless for documentation for me.) If you have problems understanding a sentence, I am glad to try again.
If suggesting something, please understand that I probably have reasons for what I say even if I haven't spelled all of them out. Like most people, what I write about online is the tip of the iceberg of my experience, knowledge, or understanding, and of course, online, it's often easy for a mischosen word to cause confusion. (In particular, I have multiple chronic health issues, and thus get to play the game of 'which option doesn't make these three things worse' fairly often, or the variant 'that seems like a perfectly logical solution, but it doesn't actually work for me for weird reasons I don't want to go into right now.')
I try to be clear if I'm asking for problemsolving or not, but if you're not sure, advice is usually fine, but you may get a "Yeah, sorry, that won't work for me." without details in response, depending on my degree of energy.
Other useful info
- I cut-tag anything over 4-5 paragraphs.
- I am not reliable about tagging most things, sorry.
- For complex posts I do my best to use headers and formatting that will help screenreaders.
- I rarely post photos (I'm more likely to link to something that has them) but if I do there will be alt-text and usually descriptive details in the surrounding text.
- For comments, I reserve the right to say "Hey, don't do that." and to kick people out of my virtual living room.
- I do love knowing how you found me, or what you found interesting. Questions are a good way to get me to expound about something if I've got the time and energy. It's very hard to offend me by asking a sincere question - at worst, you won't get an answer, but that's it.
