Updates & things

1. I managed to sign up for chocolateboxcomm and my assignment should be fun, so I hope I will not fail again this time.


2. I had to Do The Thing and upgrade to Windows 10, which I was very scared about. (I had meant to do it in December, but LOL.) Anyway, while I foresee many years of trying to fend off Microsoft's efforts to take over my entire life, I followed the free workaround and not only did it work but I didn't lose anything, not even my most ancient of freebie software. And I think some of my fonts that weren't working before are working now, so overall, I'm relieved and amused. And possibly have more fonts. But backing everything up while overtired kept me away from almost everything here again for a bit.


3. I did some friending tidying, so if anything weird happened yesterday, I was just subscribing to people I seem not to have subscribed to and given access to and meant to, and removing random people who subscribed to me without introducing themselves or interacting with me (that just weirds me out and makes me scared of posting because strange people I don't know are reading this and probably judging me for my James Maxwell obsession.) If I did anybody the wrong way round, I am sorry, and just let me know.

Also I finally tried to friend about three or so people from st_aurafina's friending meme without doing my own blurb for it (because I just don't want more Silent Ghost People friending me right now), so:

Hello! I am thisbluespirit. I used to be lost_spook until about this time last year. I also used to run the Obscure & British Commentfest, and I run several comms including tardis_library, historium, tic_tac_woe and others I should pay more attention to. I am, by fandom standards, very old, although not actually old enough to have seen most of my current fandoms of my heart the first time round. I write fic, sometimes make icons, basic gifs, even more occasionally rec sets and other things. Once upon a time I experimented with vidding.

I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and therefore a lack of spoons for being too serious or negative about fannish things and sometimes for anything at all, but I do what I can. It does mean I'm more often around than not and usually comment.

I am first and foremost a Doctor Who fan, especially Classic, early Big Finish and the Moffat era, but I really do like all of it one way or another.

Other fandoms of my heart include: Sapphire & Steel, Blake's 7, Spooks (or MI5), Press Gang, Adam Adamant Lives!, Once Upon a Time but I am very multifannish and like trying to create in new fandoms. I am not good at OTPing and my shipping frequently comes out like other people's gen, but I'm working on it. I also like The Librarians, Star Wars in a non-fannish way, The Flash, ST: Voyager, Discworld, New Tricks, Lucifer, and lots of little Yuletide-type fandoms. I go in and out of most fandoms, but I rarely put them down entirely.

When I was first ill, I watched a lot of old theatrical British TV because modern TV was too fast and noisy for me to cope with. The side-effect of this was that I got intensely fannish about cardboard problematic telly that isn't on Netflix that nobody else wants to watch and have a gallery of favourite 60s & 70s actors. I especially like James Maxwell. (He's a ghost and has a nice obit; apparently this is what I look for in a man these days. He falls over in fake moustaches a lot. It may be the weight of the moustaches.) Also David Collings. (He dies a lot in everything and has great hair.) And Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Murray, Alfred Burke, and Suzanne Neve. But on the upside, sometimes I picspam Thriller (ask me about the one where Patrick Troughton battles Satan who is Diana Dors dressed up as Mary Poppins) or films where people tried to colorize it without bothering to do anybody's hair, so I like to think I'm at least being entertaining about it sometimes.

Of my ancient telly voyages, I really loved (in different ways) Enemy at the Door, Shadow of the Tower, The Power Game, Public Eye, Doomwatch, Department S, Dracula (1968), Elizabeth R, Survivors, Manhunt and no doubt other things I have forgotten right now, but I am always happy to talk about them.

What else? I'm in the UK, in the North East, was a children's librarian when I was an anything, she/her/they is fine, like family history, and originally am from the south west. (I am not a proper Northerner at all.) Sometimes I write origfic for rainbowfic here, too.

I like random generators and writing memes and hope this year will allow for a bit more of the latter, because last year was not so good on that front. If you want to unfriend me again, that's fine, but I hope not. ♥

(I suppose I've accidentally now also achieved Day 1 of snowflake_challenge too. I don't know how I feel about that.)