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My self-summary Propose an edit

I'm a socialist/feminist/posthumanist geek with alternating love/hate relationship with humanity. I like most of the "standard" geeky things like video games (particularly RPGs), reading books, dorking around on the Internet, and talking about esoteric things.

I'm shy, socially awkward, and all together a failure at communication sometimes. I'm working on it, but the only way to do that is to actually communicate. So sometimes I'll pause awkwardly and not really know what to say in a conversation.

I love learning. One of my favourite activities is simply playing the Wikipedia game: I start on one article and read related articles that look interesting until I find myself on some radically different subject. This has since spread to TV tropes and other similar information repositories.

Sometimes I'm silly. Sometimes I'm serious. Sometimes I seem serious but am being silly, or vice versa. It happens.

I love animals of all sorts, particularly felines, canids, cetaceans, birds, and rodents. As my username probably conveys, I also like dinosaurs (which of course does include the aforementioned birds).

I should note that I'm really not bisexual, but rather pansexual, so I'm potentially attracted to people of any gender. But to be honest, I tend to be more interested in women and genderqueer folk than men. Ah well, fuck the labels.

(I've been working on revising this. It still needs some reworking though.)

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I'm a recent college graduate with a BA in Asian Studies. I'm looking to enroll in graduate school in about a year and continue my education, perhaps after studying abroad. I hope to study queer culture in East Asia, particularly Japan.

If I could, I'd study a great number of fields in an attempt to become a polymath. These would include Theology/mythology (particularly the kind not restricted to just Abrahamic religions), World History, Lingusitics, Chemistry, and Biology. Unfortunately I don't have the time nor the money to learn all these wonderful things outside of casual research.

I'm rather interested in queer activism, and I'm vaguely interested in becoming an author of both fiction and nonfiction. Unfortunately things tend to get in the way of both.

I (not so) secretly hope to save the world someday, though I haven't quite figured out how yet.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

I'm really good at finding things on the internet, researching things most people don't care about, etc. I can pick out patterns in various things pretty well too.

I have a pretty decent sense of direction, so I don't get lost very easily.
I also have a pretty good long term memory. Once something gets stuck in there, it's not going away for some time. (Short term on the other hand, things start getting slightly goldfishy...)

I guess I'm pretty good at non-sequitors, though this isn't exactly intentional most of the time. I also have a pretty good imagination (for an adult) but that's not always a good thing.

I'm good at making up completely implausible stories. Occasionally people believe them.

I'm also really good at making terrible puns. Not so much the good ones.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

Probably my height. I'm just a bit tall.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

I can't just pick one for each of these...

1) Books/Comics: Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, Forgotten Realms series, Dragonlance series, Kurt Vonnegut books, Arthur C. Clarke books, Isaac Asimov books, Neuromancer, Idoru, and Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Anansi Boys, American Gods, and Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman, most books by Murakami Haruki, Oku no Hosomichi by Bashō, V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, Girl Genius

2) Movies: B movies on Sci-Fi, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Being John Malkovich, Dr. Strangelove, The Princess Bride, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blade Runner, Shaun of the Dead, NANA, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, V for Vendetta, Office Space, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Charlie Chaplin films, Laputa, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakuchi / Spirited Away, The Cat Returns, Grave of the Fireflies, Hoshi no Koe, Hotel Rwanda,

3) Music: Vitas, VNV Nation, Evanescence, DragonForce, ThouShaltNot, Therion, Nightwish, Franz Ferdinand, Jonathan Coulton, Wolfsheim, The Flaming Lips, In Extremo, Deerhoof, Cirque du Soleil, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, various "Oldies", Angela Aki, Utada Hikaru, Gackt, Hyde, L'arc~en~Ciel, m-flo, BoA, X-Japan, The Black Mages, move, OLIVIA, Cirque du Soleil,

Composers: Kanno Youko, Mitsuda Yasunori, Shimomura Youko, Sakuraba Motoi, Uematsu Nobuo, Sakimoto Hitoshi, Kajiura Yuki, Gustav Holst

4) Food: I love food from a great number of culinary traditions. Generally this includes Indian, Mexican, Greek, Middle Eastern, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Thai. I tend to favour foods that are spicier and full of flavour. I have a great love of stuffed savoury dumplings, buns, pasta etc. Pierogies, mandu, gyoza, baozi, ravioli, tortellini are all great.

My beverages of choice are water, teas (particularly boba tea, masala chai, and Cha Yen (Thai Tea)), Italian soda, mango lassi, and fruit juices. (Though coffee is growing on me, so long as it isn't too hot and is sweetened. Vietnamese iced coffee and iced lattes can be great.)

5) Television: Doctor Who, Avatar, Heroes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Mythbusters, NANA, Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu, Macross, Honey & Clover, Paradise Kiss, Shoujo Kakumei Utena

6) Video games: Katamari Damacy series, Baten Kaitos series, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Xenosaga, Final Fantasy series, Okami, Super Smash Brothers, Half Life 1&2, The Legend of Zelda series, Seiken Densetsu / Mana series, Kingdom Hearts series, MegaTen series, Gyakuten Saiban / Ace Attorney series, Castlevania series, The World Ends With You, World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

Close friends, lofty goals, music, wonderful things to read, food with actual flavour/spice, respect

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

I think about anything and everything. A common stream of thought starts on some topic (like ducks), invariably ends up in the realm of theology or politics, swings through heresy into the eclectic, then comes back in to the topic again. Repeat ad infinitum. (For those who know their maths, I don't go off on tangents so much as secants.)

A number of topics I'm greatly interested in:
-Politics (I'm a lavender-red/green kind of girl)
-Cultural interactions (You'd be surprised how much cultural interaction went on between societies we generally think of as completely alien from each other. Rome and Han China were in contact with each other as early as the 2nd century BCE. It's not like Central Asia had this giant wall that only Marco Polo could climb.)
-The nature of the universe, and the inhabitants (such astrobiology questions like the Fermi paradox)
-Animal intelligence (particularly that of Corvids and Psittacines (Parrots) as of late)
-Human/Primate behaviour, including intimacy

I also think about how fucked up humanity is, and how beautiful it can be as well. I'm a mix of misanthrope and philanthrope, with a heavy dose of posthumanist thrown in. (Yes, I don't think humans are the be-all and end-all of life on Earth. We're just one species of many on this blue Earth, and we're ruining it for a lot of the others.)

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

More often than not I'm shut in. I'd like to get out more, but all the social anxiety / shyness gets in the way.

Ideally I spend it with a few close friends, perhaps going out, perhaps staying in together for a night of gaming/movies or the like.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I'm really not all that good at talking in real life. I'm much better at communicating by type typically. I'm not a very good conversationalist either, but I can typically keep a conversation going if it's a topic I find interesting. With this said, I actually do like to talk in real life. I'm just saying that I'm terrible at it.

Guilty pleasures: I really like puns. This probably makes me a terrible person, but that's okay. Furthermore, I like really terrible slash. I don't really read much slash, but I do enjoy reading the most terrible to laugh at it.

I've actually read Memoirs of a Geisha, but only because I wanted to laugh at/critique its terrible Orientalism. (I suggest not reading it.)

You should message me if Propose an edit

NOTE: I WILL miss your IMs 90% of the time, as I tend to leave tabs open. If you want to message me, send a mail. I actually get notified of those things.

I'm mostly interested in making more local friends to hang out with and do stuff with. Most of my friends from college have all graduated and moved away so I don't have many local ones left. I'm mostly interested in people who are late-undergraduate-aged or graduate-aged (20-30 or so), but an person who is exceptional in other qualities could be of any age.

I'd be most interested in people who are also liberal-minded geeks. I'd love to meet an open-minded person who I could talk about things like science, books, video games, politics, Japanese culture, queer culture, and such. As such, please don't message me if you have the mental age of a 12 year old playing a FPS/MMO while calling everyone gay/retarded. Or for that matter, if you're the average *channer. (Though the two are not obviously not mutually exclusive...)

Being a feminist is pretty much a requirement (and I don't mean the exclusionist kinds who are racist, misandrist, homo-/bi-/transphobic, etc.). A healthy love/hate relationship with humanity (in general) is a definite plus, as are posthumanist and socialist beliefs.

I'll be honest here: I'm also more likely to talk to you if you're a woman or genderqueer person. Sorry, guys, I'm just more on the lesbian side of the fence. I'll still try to make some kind of conversation though.

Though, I should say, I'm not interested in dating so much, but I would be open to the possibility, particularly after friendship. But we'll see!

I'm also interested in meeting Go players for real life or online Go. I don't really have anyone to play it with. Though it'd be best if we were friends too.

Oh, and please don't message me if you can only communicate via netspeak. Yes, grammatically challenged cats are cute, and I will assure you, I do liek mudkips, but it gets tiring after a while when you want intelligent conversation. IY KAN TAIP WiERD 4 TEH lulz 2. Sometimes. Sometimes.

Also, don't message me if you're just going to say I'm cute/sexy whatever. I don't care about that shit. I prefer real conversations.

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