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[tjs_whatnot]

I’m trying. Really I am.

I want to be here more than I am.

I want to be geeky and share what brings me joy with everyone here more than I do.

I want to FUCKING write for the LOVE OF GOD, more than I do anymore.

But mostly,

I want to make friends with like-minds.

What you can expect from this journal:

Shenanigans and Hijinx.
Book Reviews (mostly queer lit)
Broken Promises to be here regularly.
Half-finished memes.
Seriously, I am the WORST!

Things I post about When I do Post:

Me being ridiculous about what I'm reading
Fandom Shenanigans
Writing Shenanigans

Fandoms:

The most reading and writing I have done historically is for:

Harry Potter--my forever fandom, though that has waned since the whole JKR being a giant piece of shit thing.

I sadly only get inspired to write once a year for yuletide these days, or when I have big feelings about things like Heartstopper and The Green Creek series. 


Hmmm… What else? My fic can be mostly found Here on AO3

Pronouns: She/her but I’m also considering “Whatever” as a pronoun too.

Which brings me to the Friending policy:

Feel free to friend me all you want. I’ll more than likely friend you back--especially if you throw a comment below introducing yourself. If you just want to read my public fandom related posts, that’s cool too, just let me know so that I don’t accidentally friend you and expose you to my brand of silly ridiculousness. Cool?

♥ ♥

Comments

[ms-worplesdon.livejournal.com]

Pretty!

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Isn't it beautiful? Ahhh, Kerouac!

[kerosinkanister.livejournal.com]

Can I be your friend?

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Only the bestest!

[la-dissonance.livejournal.com]

a) You always find the best quotes!

b) Could you maybe add me, pretty please? We don't have tons in common, and I like a lot of super sketchy things, but somehow I'm convinced we would get along famously anyway!

c) Doing a post of just porny pictures is awesome and in good taste, y/y/mfy?

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

1. I'm just well read okay?

2. You say we don't have things in common and then you say you have a love of sketchy things, and those two things just don't go together at all *is super sketchy*

3. MFYYYYYYY

[hermette.livejournal.com]

pretty!

:clings to your leg:

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you!

And sfasjf;lksdf; Is this the same leg that la_dissonance is currently humping? *awkward* Not that I don't dig a bit of f/f/f ya know! ;))

[capitu]

Nice. I feel I'm part of a MAD club!

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

You are one of the maddest of mad! Which is just one of the million reasons I ♥ YOU!!

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

heehee, IKR?!?!? Yes, it really is them...and it really isn't a photo manip...they apparently just love each other and have no problem being extremely domestic and whatnot...also this icon is from the same photo shoot...

[hull1984.livejournal.com]

So hey.
Well, you helped organise this year's ginger_lust fest. And Ron love is never not good.

And then I checked out your lj and saw the Salinger post. Oh and the Tom Waits on your interests.

Although I have to hold up my hands and admit I have no love for Jude Law on or off the loo.

That said, I'm trying to be more proactive in adding new friends, so I hope you'll let me in ;)

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

*added*

And it's okay about the lack of Jude love...for me, it's mostly just to objectify him and his naughty-naughty mouth and as shallow as it is, it happys me...but I'm not super tied to it or him, sadly.

And sdfklasj;fdas THANK YOU! You just reminded me that I needed to re-watch "Down by Law." I was listening to some Waits in a mix and remembered how amazing that movie was and then forgot to seek it again. *runs to netflix*

[cephalopinguin.livejournal.com]

I want to die because your banner is just about the best thing that's ever happened to me. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. *drools* Ewaaaaaaannnnnn!

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

RIGHT??? And it's a totally legit photoshoot too! Not manip or anything...they are apparently really good friends and also married obvs and just the idea of them being this domestic makes me happy. :))

[spidermoth.livejournal.com]

Hi there. I loved meeting you and talking fandoms at Ven's this weekend. You are coolness! Wish you could have stayed longer. We ended up watching the 1st 3 eps of Merlin!! (Not sure Ven is seduced but that's OK, she keeps me grounded in HP. ;D)

I just friended you back but in the interests of remaining a card-carrying Virgo, I wanted to put you in the correct filter. Would you prefer one of these choices over the other....
HP fandom friends vs Merlin fandom friends? I'd put you in the "new awesome people I just met" but I don't have that catagory. ;-P

Hope your trip home was uneventful. I almost hit a deer in my own neighborhood at 1:30am. WTF? Just when I left my guard down. Silly deer....

So, I'll be checkin' out your fic when I get a chance. Comments soon...........

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

It was great meeting you! I would actually love to be in both filters. I enjoy witnessing people's squee about pretty much all things that happy them, whether I share it myself or not.

OMG! I almost hit a deer too! About a mile from our house! I've never even seen any deer around here, but there it was, just walking down the road. :((

Heehee, I hope you find something you like. There sort of spread out all over the internet, but I have just finished the massive task of collecting them at their own journal, whatnotastic. :))

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

*added*

LETS GET SHIT DONE!! w00t!

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

SUH-WEET!

*friends*

[matt-1215.livejournal.com]

of course I want to be friend if it's possible??? thank you!!

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

*meep*

Forgive me if I step on toes, but do we know each other? I have a really short memory so I don't mean any offense.

[sherylyn]

Could I possibly be your friend? I won't even make you return to Texas for it ;-)

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

*\YAY/*

HAHA! For all its crazy, it did also give us Matty (and you) so it can't be all bad, yes? <3<3<3

[mariannedreams7.livejournal.com]

Please add me??? :)

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

It looks as if your journal is empty? Have we met?

[shaddyr]

Commenting. Because it seemed like agood idea. Also, because of firewhiskeyfic.

[tjs_whatnot]

HIHIHI!!!

I can always use more tipsy friends!!

♥♥

[lash_larue]

Found you...

L

[tjs_whatnot]

Yay!

[jpegghost]

I just kind of found you while rolling around DW, but I'm always looking out for more people to read about / befriend. I like pretty weird things and talk about corpses (I'm a mortician okay?!) but hey, that's good reference for writers!

If you can tolerate that maybe we can have a mutual friendship!

Can we be friends?

[writedragon]

You commented on my Snowflake post and I've been poking around your profile (and whatnot) and I think I'm already in love. YOUR WRITING! OH!BE STILL! MY HEART! And if it helps? I actually did the museum exhibits (as in, wrote the exhibit script for) the International Steinbeck Center in Salinas California, many moons ago. I have definite opinions about the man and his work. :)

Re: Can we be friends?

[tjs_whatnot]

❤Steinbeck❤

Would definitely love to hear of your opinions of him and his work. All I know about him as a person is what he shared in Travels with Charley. ❤❤

[seleneheart]

I am amused that this post seems to date back to 2010. Which was a century ago (it seems like from 2022). What a nice collection of your history though!

[tjs_whatnot]

Haha! I just updated something that I hadn't since LAST MILLENNIUM! I just didn't want to lose the comments because most of these people are just ghosts now. Dear, dear ghosts.
❤❤

[dreamersdare]

Broken Promises to be here regularly.

Ha, between this and the "I give too much detail vs meh, whatever" you commented on my post, I'm starting to think we might be brain twins :DDDDD

(I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does that ALL THE TIME)

[tjs_whatnot]

Haha! See, this is what I mean. It was SO HARD to keep this short and sweet (and even now I want to tinker with it) but I know me, I could write verything you'd ever want and even more you don't or I could accomplish more than one day of this challenge. I can't do both! 🤣😭🤣😭

[driedroses]

I want to be geeky and share my squee with everyone here more than I do I feel this so much. It's what I'm here for too!

[tjs_whatnot]

We CAN do it!!

♥

[mierke]

You seem like my kind of person ("Broken Promises to be here regularly" - YES, THIS, SO MUCH), and my kind of ridiculous. ♥

[tjs_whatnot]

Haha, we are the WORST! ♥

But also ridiculous and that has to count for something! :D

[ruric]

Here via The Snowflake Challenge and committing a drive by subscription as what you say in the post above resonates so much!

[tjs_whatnot]

Yay! Like-minds unite! 😍😍

Yuletide bestie?

[raise_the_knife]

Hi!! I'm a bit of a hermit so if this is overly forward or unusual please feel free to bahleete with prejudice!

I wrote for you in Yuletide 2021 and, as per your letter, you left a comment in which you included a desire to be friends! I do not have many online friends, barely use my DW and have not written all that much lately (YT was my first fannish activity in 18 months!!) due to illness and the face that when I knit I don't really get the creative bug in writing, except of course, for when I read your letter. I am Australian and watched the first season of Harrow as it aired and got the whole mystery in week by week instalments and rewatched it just to write for you, although I was still mourning Forever at the time and may be trying to make the mother of all crossovers with Harrow as an undercover witness protection version of Henry...

I also just finished White Collar and adore Mozzie and Peter and Neal although I almost have Peter/Neal/Elizabeth as my OT3 and think of Mozzie as an ace with a smush on Neal and they're platonic life partners who probably tried it once and realised they fit better as partners in crime and don't really need more from each other than trust. My fandom home for many years was LotR but as the resident kinky weird person never really had anyone who shared the most snarkiest of thoughts.

I currently watch the FBIs, Chicago Fire and Med (I just glommed onto Severide early on and tolerate everyone else since Sophia Bush left, I gave up on PD and also Blue Bloods because the plots were so plaint by the numbers transparent and I was bored), SEAL Team, SWAT and whatever looks good on STAR and Acorn TV, although I have a not so secret love for Hudson and Rex even though I am not a dog person IRL (cat person? allergies aside, yes my heart). My most recent binge was My Life Is Murder with Lucy Lawless. I love gaming and I'm currently in Genshin Impact hell, used to play Kingdom Hearts 1+2 at least once a year until 3 was so boring I still haven't completed it. I have an unreasonable affinity for visual novels where if they're not All The Gay I can at least pretend they are and am currently in love with Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk, I will always have a soft spot for Final Fantasy and if Gladio wasn't such a total ass to Noctis I'd like in FFXV forever (except I can't bring myself to play it again with all the post-release changes, a bit like how I can't watch the theatrical releases of LotR...). I also have more than passing interests in Harry Potter (firmly believe in 'the author is dead' and 'Word of God is not canon'), Twilight (although I still haven't finished Midnight Sun), Tsukiuta, Trails/Kiseki and other Falcom games, and basically if it's a procedural with a heart of snark, has pretty anime people I can pretend are in hot kinky love, or someone I can impress upon and have as my favourite regardless of medium (so I am still very loyal to Rocky from Power Rangers and still consider myself a RENThead even though it's basically a monument to white masculine superiority), I'll be able to write for it even if I tend to avoid communal fandom.

So I have babbled a bit, and if you think there's enough overlap that we could pull off penpals, feel free to friend/message me and babble back!

Re: Yuletide bestie?

[tjs_whatnot]

BESTIE!!!

I KNEW you were Australian from your story! It was just so very perfect with colloquialisms and attention to geographical detail! ♥ ♥

YES! YES! Penpals for sure!

Harrow! I can't even explain how I found it and why it hit so hard, but I have to think it was a little due to how much I loved and missed Forever--why did that not have a million seasons?!?! I had not heard of Harrow, but there was another show with him that I was too terrified to watch--I think it's called Liar, or The Liar? But, I just didn't want to see him being a bad guy and I thought maybe he was? So I avoided it. When I saw there was another show with him, I was excited. When I saw it was a crime procedural I was doubly so (I'm a sucker for those--but not usually in a fandom-y way, just in a put it on and do other things-noise in the background way). I have such good memories--which in 2021 were sometimes hard to come by--of finally learning how to pronounce his name (according to YouTube) and shouting it out while watching because it's just such a great name to shout out. ;)

And oh man, White Collar! I too am very much Peter/Neal/El (I think this is the only fandom I've ever heard of that almost EVERYONE in it ship those three the most. ♥ But Mozzie is my heart! Especially now since losing Willie Garson *sobs* I just want all the Mozzie with all his quirks and the ways that every character changes him and makes him shine. Oh, that reminds me, you should sign up for chocolateboxcomm, it's like Yuletide by focuses on relationships--either gen or romance--and there are SO MANY fandoms, not just tiny ones--even though I lot of those too.

And haha, The Author is Dead is a very good way to be able to fandom in spaces that the actual creator is toxic. I will remember that one. I'm sad to say as far as Twilight, Breaking Dawn sort of broke me of that one. It was a fun ride though. But yeah... full disclosure. Video games and anime I love that other people love them and I love watching my nerdy friends nerd out on things that don't do it for me, so we're cool there too, even if I'm not right there with ya. ;)