silveradept | Jan. 7th, 2024

Challenge #4 takes its cue from a Rachael Isadora picture book (or a Jay-Z song) with the request "Say Hello."

IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.
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Think of it as an elevator pitch, or a manifesto; give us bullet points are lyrical prose. Want to make a game out of it? Tell us things that are true and things that aren’t and let us guess. Don't know what to say? Hate elevator speeches, but don't want to skip a day? Try this Random Question Generator and make yourself a meme all your own.

Whatever you want to do is grand. After all the best thing about fandom really are the people you share it with. The rest—the fic, the art, the vids and metamdash;is just gravy.

( What do you want to know? )

Which is a lot of reading to do to get to know someone, really. So I should probably condense it into something useful.

I'm old enough to have performed Y2K maintenance on a computer, and I intend to live long enough to see what the Linux kernel does when 2038 rolls around.

Use gender-neutral pronouns for me, of the they/them variant, if that exists in your language. If it doesn't, but you have ungendered pronouns that indicate humanity, use those instead, please. Most people perceive me as a man, and I generally do not correct them on that, because most times, they're perceiving me as a man doing something not traditionally masculine, so either way, I win.

My wetware is configured with the variable attention stimulus trait loadout (VAST being a less stigmatizing way of referring to Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder) and therefore there may be things that slip through and would appreciate a gentle reminder.

I am sufficiently multifannish and multishipper that even if I don't know the first thing about your fandom or your ship, I'm curious enough to learn about it. Someone else that I encounter might be perfect for that, and your pitch might be what sells them on it. Since I also write the exchange circuit, generally, I'm pretty used to figuring out how any given combination might plausibly work.

You may get to know me better because I've shown up in your comments about the neat things you're posting about than anything interesting that I'm posting. This is normal.

So, what did the random question generator ask me?

What is the easiest way to bring a smile to your face?: Tell me a bad pun. Or a good one. I just saw a visual joke where it was three panels. The first two panels were identical, depicting the Sun God of Ancient Egypt. The third panel was the hand of the Sun God carrying a dish made of brown gravy, cheese curds, and fried potatoes.