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Elements
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Disclaimer & blog policy: This is a personal journal, not affiliated with my work life identity. I request that anyone linking to or quoting from this journal on a site other than Dreamwidth, LJ, another LJ-clone fan-owned journaling site please obtain my permission first.
If you use Dreamwidth, please friend me there instead! I do crosspost things here, but I much prefer it over there. elements.dreamwidth.org
I am:
a social systems geek
an alternative economies geek
a collaborative creativity geek
a traditional folk culture, music, and dance geek
a social justice geek
a sci-fi and fantasy and what-might-be-possible geek
not a techie, but
a student of the communities and collaborations and new social systems technical innovation can create
If I've friended you and you're not sure if you know me, see this handy post.
My most popular posts, if you heard my name through the fannish meta grapevine, are probably the ones linked under the tag Users as citizens.
This is both a fandom journal, and my very much real life journal. I started writing here instead of at the several other, disparate journals I'd been using for years to acknowledge that many aspects of my online and offline self have merged enough not to be meaningfully separable anymore.
While this isn't a "fandom journal" per se, you can expect a heavily fannish bent. Many of my friends here are folks I met through fandom, and I do personally care about fandom, fannishness, and the academic, social, cultural, political, and legal causes and effects of fannish activity. Fan geekery is a big part of who I am. But I'm not posting under the assumption that every reader is a fan, or aware of fannish terminology, and I don't plan to post any fanfiction to this journal. If you've come here expecting occasional fannish meta essays, you'll get them - but you'll also get my angst over choosing career paths and other random blather.
Friending: I intend my friends list here to be a true reading list of friends to keep up with and journals I find interesting. Please don't be offended if I don't friend you back - it has nothing to do with how much I like you, and everything to do with howmuch little time I have for reading LJ. I fully expect that my friended list will be larger than my friends-of, anyway.
FYI: This journal hasn't always been named Elements. For some time, it was IceClayFireSky, because Elements was in use and then deleted by another user. If you're looking for the person who used the name Elements prior to the summer of 2005, when I snagged this name with a change-token in the grand deleted-usernames freebie, I'm not them, and I know nothing about them.
Useful links for my own reference:
My friendlist, users only
My followed communities
My followed feeds
Recent Comments
Manage Logins (where I am forced to admit how infrequently I log in!)
Users only, subset people who don't post everything on Dreamwidth
Subset comms & feeds together
If you use Dreamwidth, please friend me there instead! I do crosspost things here, but I much prefer it over there. elements.dreamwidth.org
I am:
a social systems geek
an alternative economies geek
a collaborative creativity geek
a traditional folk culture, music, and dance geek
a social justice geek
a sci-fi and fantasy and what-might-be-possible geek
not a techie, but
a student of the communities and collaborations and new social systems technical innovation can create
If I've friended you and you're not sure if you know me, see this handy post.
My most popular posts, if you heard my name through the fannish meta grapevine, are probably the ones linked under the tag Users as citizens.
This is both a fandom journal, and my very much real life journal. I started writing here instead of at the several other, disparate journals I'd been using for years to acknowledge that many aspects of my online and offline self have merged enough not to be meaningfully separable anymore.
While this isn't a "fandom journal" per se, you can expect a heavily fannish bent. Many of my friends here are folks I met through fandom, and I do personally care about fandom, fannishness, and the academic, social, cultural, political, and legal causes and effects of fannish activity. Fan geekery is a big part of who I am. But I'm not posting under the assumption that every reader is a fan, or aware of fannish terminology, and I don't plan to post any fanfiction to this journal. If you've come here expecting occasional fannish meta essays, you'll get them - but you'll also get my angst over choosing career paths and other random blather.
Friending: I intend my friends list here to be a true reading list of friends to keep up with and journals I find interesting. Please don't be offended if I don't friend you back - it has nothing to do with how much I like you, and everything to do with how
FYI: This journal hasn't always been named Elements. For some time, it was IceClayFireSky, because Elements was in use and then deleted by another user. If you're looking for the person who used the name Elements prior to the summer of 2005, when I snagged this name with a change-token in the grand deleted-usernames freebie, I'm not them, and I know nothing about them.
Useful links for my own reference:
My friendlist, users only
My followed communities
My followed feeds
Recent Comments
Manage Logins (where I am forced to admit how infrequently I log in!)
Users only, subset people who don't post everything on Dreamwidth
Subset comms & feeds together
activism, activist songs, actualization, adrienne rich, agit-art, alternative dispute resolution, alternative economics, amateur astronomy, ambiguity, analysis, art, audre lorde, balkan dance, balkan music, being a fandom anthropologist, being a t00b, being whole, bell hooks, bisexuality, borders, carl sagan, civic engagement, civil liberties, collaborative creativity, communication, community, community organizing, connection, contact, contra dancing, cooperative economics, cooperative housing, cooperatives, copyright reform, critiques, dance, dancing, deena metzger, dismantling systems, draco malfoy, dystopia, electoral reform, emma goldman, england, epicureanism, expression, fair use, fandom, fandom analysis, fandom anthropology, fandom as folk culture, fandom as modern mythology, fandom culture, fandom sociology, fanfiction, fantasy, fanthropology, female science fiction writers, fighting systems not people, firefly, folk culture, folk dance, folk song, frederick douglass, free culture, full bookshelves, gajdas, geekdom, gender, global is local, global justice, good conversation, hardwood floors, harry potter, henry jenkins, honesty, interactive fiction, interstices, irregular time signatures, jane austen, jenny holzer, jewish anarchists, john cusack movies, judaism, liberation, libertarian socialism, liminality, logic puzzles, lord of the rings, love is radical, marge piercy, media fandom, meta, meta-meta, metaphysics, modern poets, movement-building, necessary secrets, nonviolence, nonviolent communication, online community, openness, optimism, owning my desires, patriotic dissent, peace, personal is political, phenomenology, poetry, pop culture, possibilities, protest songs, punjabi dhaba, queerness, radical economics, radical love, radical nonviolence, radicalism, richard feynman, roma, sapiosexuality, sci-fi, self-analysis, silly puns, singing, sleep, slow food, snogs, social experimentation, social justice, social networks, social systems, socialism, sociology, song, songs, t00bing, textual poaching, the idea of order, the spaces in between, the universe, truth, universal design, urban planning, ursula k. leguin, utopia, vegetarianism, wallace stevens, words, writing
