Long-Belated Intro Post (Updated January 2024)

[justanorthernlight]

About me/my journal:

I've been on Dreamwidth for over 3 years now, and keep putting off making an 'About Me' post. I hate talking about myself, but here goes.

Hi, I'm justanorthernlight , J for short.

I'm a lurker, reader, and vidder. I'm considering giving up 'writer' as part of my identity considering how long it's been since I've written anything.

On my journal you will mostly find my monthly 'Reading Wrap-Up' posts where I talk about what I read that month. Expect sci fi, fantasy, historical fiction, and occasional forays into other genres. Also lots and lots of Star Wars expanded universe content. I'm also trying to read more nonfiction.

Occasionally when I'm mid-project and want to talk about it I will do WIP Wednesdays, or something similar. I have in the past tried liveblogging various books and shows, but I don't stick with it. I do make extremely occasional meta posts.

I don't make all that many fanworks so when I do I tend to link to them from here.

I post occasional real life updates in locked entries.

How many times am I going to use the word 'occasional' in this bio? Ugh.

Fandoms:

Star Wars is my forever and always fandom. I have been reading Expanded Universe novels since I was a tiny child in the '90s, and in online fandom since the early '00s. Because I've been in it so long I don't feel super compelled to keep up with new entries in real time (ex, it's 2022 and I haven't even seen The Mandalorian yet), they will always be there waiting for me.
(Updated Jan 2024: I have seen some Mandalorian but not Ahsoka, I'm currently knee-deep in The High Republic comics/novels, but also behind the curve there).

(Side note, in general I don't even like keeping up with new fandoms in real time, hot takes and speculation kind of exhaust me. Rereading and rewatching old shit FTW!)

Babylon 5 is another forever fandom, although I came to it in the early 2010s.

In general, I love sci fi and fantasy movies, tv shows, literature, etc. A lot of my current fandoms are smaller fantasy books.

I also like historical fiction, Black Sails was my last big non-SFF obsession.

Friending/access policy:

Feel free to subscribe/follow/comment/lurk! I don't always follow back, but I love seeing new people. I'm just a little picky about what comes into my feed.

When it comes to granting access, I'll (probably) show you mine if you show me yours ;) Most of my content is public, so don't feel obligated to grant or request access if you don't want to.

Comments

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

It wants to creep around the clock, but some parts of that clock are more attractive than others. If I let it cycle, it'll go all the way around, which I don't really like; I've tried it in summer when I was younger. The morning hours are not when my body likes to be awake, so it would rush through that phase. It creeps slower through the evening and night hours. If I'm not careful, it creeps until I'm going to bed late enough in the morning that I don't sleep well. But the creep means that dialing it back can be challenging -- sometimes it works, other times it crashes into some other weird pattern that takes days to get back to a comfortable one.

It's not no circadian rhythm; it has a cycle, sort of.

It's not a 24-hour rhythm, or it wouldn't creep.

It's kind of like playing with loaded dice. It overlaps somewhat with various descriptions, but I haven't seen an exact match in a description anywhere. Since I'm not entirely human, that's no surprise.

It is somewhat malleable; I can compensate for jet lag easily, and I can kinda sorta keep a schedule that works for me, most of the time. But sometimes it goes off on a tangent for a while. Trying to keep a rigid schedule is a recipe for disaster; if I'm not sleepy then I just lie in bed for hours, and I'm almost never alert in the morning. :/