Comments | bagheera_san: the prodigal blogger returns...?

bagheera_san

the prodigal blogger returns...?

May 03, 2017 14:44

On a whim today I went on Dreamwidth and looked at my profile page and saw that it was 6 years out of date. Six years? Has it really been that long since I blogged regularly? No, not quite, I was pretty active until 2013, but it sure feels that long ( Read more... )

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elviaprose May 3 2017, 19:55:56 UTC

I'm still here and still remember reading and enjoying your fic and your posts. Nice to see you posting again.

bagheera_san May 4 2017, 16:28:46 UTC

Hello - and I still remember you! It's awesome to see that some of the old crowd are still around :)

xparrot May 4 2017, 02:21:33 UTC

How dare you get a life outside of the internet! I hate you! :P

But seriously, I am glad things are going well for you, especially on the relationship front, that is awesome, congrats!

As for not knowing where your life is going at 31, well, maybe I just know a lot of exceptions to some normal rule, but a lot of my friends and me as well all seem to have been through that kind of pre-midlife crisis somewhere around 30-35. I think it's because that's when you're finally old enough to have a better grasp of not what you want so much as what you really don't want, and have to restructure accordingly? Anyway, good luck with all of that!

And fanning-wise, maybe this is a sign that I should either play Dragon Age (as everyone I know has, I loved Mass Effect so I want to, it's just, games take tiiiime!) or finally read Discworld. Or the Imperial Radch series as has been rec'ed to me by several folks. Because if you are writing fanfic in anything I'd be curious~~

bagheera_san May 4 2017, 16:27:18 UTC

Heeeeey! If you're still here it was worth posting just to say hello :)

I can totally rec Dragon Age, Discworld and the Radch series - the latter is probably the smallest investment time-wise, but it's also not quite as awesome as the other two. I love Dragon Age way more than Mass Effect (I got stuck halfway through Mass Effect 2 because the repetitiveness of it bored me even though I love sci-fi). Da:Origins is a relatively short game, DAII is even shorter (still, don't skip that one, if you do play them, because people who say it's not good are wrong - it does have flaws, but it more than makes up for them in terms of characters, story structure and mood), but Inquisition, yeah, there go 100+ hours of your life. I'm trying to figure out which Discworld series you'd like the best... I think Going Postal (awesome con man/trickster main character) or Guards, Guards (I'm fairly certain you'd ship Vimes/Vetinari) might be good places to start.

xparrot May 10 2017, 23:21:05 UTC

Yeah. I don't post on lj at all (am a slight bit more active on Tumblr, but mostly on my sideblog right now) but I still read it. And it was awesome to see your post suddenly appear!

Hee, I will definitely not skip DA2 -- I've got too many friends into Anders who wouldn't let me! ;)

I've read a bit of Discworld randomly, but years ago; the only one I particularly remember was The Truth. I don't think I've read any of the books starring Vimes, though, and I've gotten the distinct impression that I should...

enigmaticblues May 5 2017, 02:08:04 UTC

Hello! It's good to "see" you again, and I'm glad to hear that the personal aspects are going well.

dragonofmemory May 5 2017, 13:22:27 UTC

Sometimes you just need a break from things, but it's good to have you back!

aralias May 6 2017, 22:07:01 UTC

hello :D welcome back. i decided not to update my profile page a while ago - for no real reason, really. it's not as though it would take any more time than writing a post, bt i made it generic so it says i'm in my twenties/thirties. that will keep me going for at least another 5 years.

really glad to hear you're happy, even if you're not sure where things are going. i think that's ok - i know loads of people who feel the same at the same age. i also like the civil service partly because it has clearly graded career progression, so thus feels a lot like school and you know what you're doing next i.e. getting to the next level, etc.

v understandable re, not clicking with children. but good that you feel that teaching generally is for you, and working out. which kind of contradicts the above stuff.

To some extent I think being in love sort of took over the role fandom had played for me for a long time (plus, relationships are time-consuming!). Fandom is a work of love, of investing yourself in something, and it gives back a ( ... )