1 and 3 for the fandom old meme. ;)

  1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite?

oh bugger i don’t think i ever actually counted before? uh…9. i think, i might forgetting something… or 10 depending on if you count working 2 different jobs at the same place as one or not? and at one point i had 3 jobs at once for about 2-3 months in the summer of ‘06 cus that was the summer before i went to college and i really needed the money. and i’ve got 2 jobs right now so… it sounds like i’ve jumped around a lot but mostly i’ve been working at this one restaurant for about 16 yrs now and depending on school/scheduling/whatever i would take on another job for more money. like when i was away at school i had a job at a cafe near campus but still went home on weekends to work at the first restaurant. 

My favorite i think was dishwashing (at the same restaurant where i’m currently the sous chef which is why idk if it counts as 2 or not cus VERY different jobs, cooking pays a lot better tho). i got the dishwahsing job when i was like 14 and once i had my system figured out? it was GREAT. cus see, unless it was a busy weekend or holiday i worked alone, and the dishroom was my domain and i owned that motherfucker and felt like i was good at something cus i can still polish a copper pot until it shines and STAYS shiney (that’s the trick cus if you don’t do it right it tarnishes and gets streaky). plus i got fed dinner every night. and if it was slow and the boss didn’t have any chores for me i got to read all night.

3.)Were/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other?

my family completely missed out on aol entirely, i think i was like 12 when we got dial up internet? and then i got onto fanfiction.net. i didn’t get an LJ until college (’06) because a girl in my dorm introduced me to the wider world of Fandom. before that i was just reading and writing fanfiction. 

E, K and T for the shipping meme?

E. Do you have any poly ships?

Aw hell yeah I do. Parker/Hardison/Eliot from Leverage, of course. Cus that kinda seems to be everyone’s gateway poly-ship of choice. And who can blame us? They just love and trust each other so much????? 

Also Poe/Finn/Rey from SWTFA as kind of an offshoot of my fondness for both Poe/Finn and Finn/Rey and I don’t really see Poe/Rey so much, at least not romantically, but they both love Finn and he loves them so… 

Oh! And from the Rivers of London books Nightingale/Peter/Beverley. On a similar vein as Poe/Finn/Rey where Nightingale and Beverley are both with Peter but not with each other. 

K. Talk about your favorite first kiss.

Are we talking canonical first kiss or fanfic first kiss? I’m gonna go with fanfic because I don’t think any of my most recent ships are actually canon or have a chance in hell of being canon so. OK. I re-discovered my love of RoyEd recently after finally watching FMAB and rewatching the first series. And then fell headfirst into Tierfal’s fic (which you should read if FMA is your jam because omfg FEELS. AND PUNS. and an uncanny ability to be hashtag relatable at every turn) Anyway, one of their series is Inside of Emptiness with demi/ace Ed and the first kiss he has with Roy in the 4th fic in the series is so fucking Excellent, and fills me with so many warm fuzzy feelings, it’s great. 

T. Talk about a ship you feel alone in shipping.

Probably Wade/Vanessa. I love their love so much in both movies, but if there’s other people who ship it they’re few and far between. I just want them to be happy dammit! And also for them to adopt Russell and let Wade be the Dadpool he was always meant to be. 

G & O for the fandom related questions, please?

G: What was your first fandom?

Sailor Moon! I think i was like 10 when i started writing fanfic for it? some of it may even be floating around ff.net still, but i don’t even remember what my username was back then anymore. still got the notebooks tho, somewhere 😀

O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?

Life Less Ordinary by Carbon Leaf has been in my head for days and reminds me of Roy/Ed (FMA), specifically in Tierfal’s Loud and Clear series. the series is ed’s POV and it’s amazing, but this song makes me think of roy’s POV, especially this part:

“Well, I hate to be a bother,
But it’s you and there’s no other, I do believe.
You can call me naive,
But I know me very well,
At least as far as I can tell,
And I know what I need.”