Snowflake Challenge Day #1

Challenge #1: In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm thisbluespirit (same name at AO3 and tumblr), formerly lost_spook, which you may still find me under in some places. I was vvj5 on Teaspoon.

I've been around online fandom for about fifteen years, although I did have a former life on newsnet when I was at uni before that. I've always been primarily a Doctor Who fan, though I love several other fandoms (especially Spooks, Once Upon a Time, Sapphire & Steel and Blake's 7) and like flirting with any others that take my fancy. My tags and interests here and my AO3 dash show which ones crop up the most. I'm mainly a writer, but I also sometimes make graphics and icons and, for a few years, even did some vidding.

I live in the North East of England, by the sea, and am chronically ill with ME/CFS, so my rl was very locked down before lockdown, and I much prefer to use this space for being creative and escaping into fictional worlds wherever I can - and interacting with fellow fans. I'm not very good at the rl journalling as a result - it just makes me miserable. My condition made (and sometimes still makes) it difficult to read, or to watch modern TV for quite a while, so I disappeared into old British TV, which helped immensely, but does now make me super-obscure as a fan and inclined to rec 1960s & 70s things nobody else wants to know about and fall for long-forgotten character actors and other perfectly normal things like that.

I am also interested in family history & sometimes talk about that here (generally under a filter). Before I was ill, I was a librarian and still am one at heart (& make rec lists to prove it). I run a few communities, particularly tardis_library (a Doctor Who reccing comm), and sometimes I write some origfic pieces for rainbowfic. I've been meaning to catching up with reading/watching posts for probably about a year, or maybe more. It ought to happen soon...