Post by Poppy on Jan 30, 2017 20:29:26 GMT -5
Hi, everyone! I'm Poppy. I post at AO3 as Eschscholzia, and lurk at FF.net under the same name. It comes from my favorite flower, Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy. Poppy is my Girl Scout camp name.
I first read Tolkien when I was in 7th grade, but I really didn't "get" it. I read it again in college and it made a lot more sense! At that point I had more life experience behind me, as well as having taken an amazing anthropology class called "Consciousness and Symbols." My degrees are in archaeology/anthropology, with an undergrad minor in botany. I work in GIS/Python/social media these days.
My favorite characters are secondary and minor ones; I tend to fast forward through the Sam/Frodo/Gollum stuff in the movies. Then I feel guilty and worry that makes me a horrible person. I guess I'm just a sucker for the hardanger. If you asked me twenty years ago, and I knew what such a thing was, I would have said my OTP was Eowyn/Faramir. Nowadays I cheat on them with Eomer/Lothiriel stories. Don't tell them!
My favorite things to read besides LoTR are Jane Austen and other Regency Romances (whether modern authors or Mrs. Radcliffe's "Horrid Novels"), straight-up Sci Fi (like Asimov, Heinlein, or Jeffrey Carver), and Young Adult Sci Fi/Fantasy (like Robin McKinley, Kerstin Gier, and Shannon Hale). I have a tendency to be a hopeless romantic, as I was raised on Richard Harding Davis, Anthony Hope, Elizabeth Peters, and black and white movies on Saturday mornings. I also love Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Star Trek.
I've been reading fan fiction for over 20 years, but I've never attempted writing it until this year. I have been writing non-fiction scientific publications for quite some time, but I have a terrible time separating peer review comments from criticisms of me personally. It's one part of why I took my MA and ran, and didn't finish my PhD. I may have a permanent traumatic phobia of red ink and the phrase "this has the beginnings of a good paper/article/thesis!" But, I am working very hard to overcome that.
I found GoI based on cryptic references here and there on stories that I read in various places by many of my favorite authors. I am still getting used to the writing craft, so I may not have great writer-ly feedback yet. On the other hand, I am considered a pretty ruthless copy editor by my co-workers. You are welcome and encouraged to point out any typos or make writing suggestions to me- I don't claim to be perfect!
I first read Tolkien when I was in 7th grade, but I really didn't "get" it. I read it again in college and it made a lot more sense! At that point I had more life experience behind me, as well as having taken an amazing anthropology class called "Consciousness and Symbols." My degrees are in archaeology/anthropology, with an undergrad minor in botany. I work in GIS/Python/social media these days.
My favorite characters are secondary and minor ones; I tend to fast forward through the Sam/Frodo/Gollum stuff in the movies. Then I feel guilty and worry that makes me a horrible person. I guess I'm just a sucker for the hardanger. If you asked me twenty years ago, and I knew what such a thing was, I would have said my OTP was Eowyn/Faramir. Nowadays I cheat on them with Eomer/Lothiriel stories. Don't tell them!
My favorite things to read besides LoTR are Jane Austen and other Regency Romances (whether modern authors or Mrs. Radcliffe's "Horrid Novels"), straight-up Sci Fi (like Asimov, Heinlein, or Jeffrey Carver), and Young Adult Sci Fi/Fantasy (like Robin McKinley, Kerstin Gier, and Shannon Hale). I have a tendency to be a hopeless romantic, as I was raised on Richard Harding Davis, Anthony Hope, Elizabeth Peters, and black and white movies on Saturday mornings. I also love Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Star Trek.
I've been reading fan fiction for over 20 years, but I've never attempted writing it until this year. I have been writing non-fiction scientific publications for quite some time, but I have a terrible time separating peer review comments from criticisms of me personally. It's one part of why I took my MA and ran, and didn't finish my PhD. I may have a permanent traumatic phobia of red ink and the phrase "this has the beginnings of a good paper/article/thesis!" But, I am working very hard to overcome that.
I found GoI based on cryptic references here and there on stories that I read in various places by many of my favorite authors. I am still getting used to the writing craft, so I may not have great writer-ly feedback yet. On the other hand, I am considered a pretty ruthless copy editor by my co-workers. You are welcome and encouraged to point out any typos or make writing suggestions to me- I don't claim to be perfect!