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First, in the interests of full disclosure, I'm not an actual librarian. I got the name from an ex, who gave it to me when I needed a new username and couldn't think of one. He chose it based on 1. The fact that, at the time, I had an extensive book collection in a wide variety of genres, and I often recommended, loaned, and sometimes gave books to others. 2. My love of fantasy/speculative fiction settings and my love of RPGs (especially the tabletop variety). 3. A bookish character I have in an RPG who is sometimes a librarian when ported to other settings. My ex thought the name combined all of those things, and sounded fantasy-esque. I liked it, and agreed, and it stuck. I still like it, so it stays, at least for now. But as I get older, it sounds more pretentious -- especially without context -- so I prefer giving the backstory now.

I have several chronic illnesses and disabilities (including mental illnesses) and either one or two autism spectrum disorders, depending on how you look at it. I also deal with chronic pain. I have social anxiety, lots and lots of brain fog, and memory and concentration problems. Due to a conflux of all of these things, I am sometimes slow to respond, often drop off the face of the earth for a while where communication is concerned, and occasionally even forget entirely that I need to get back to someone and don't reply at all. I promise it's my intention to reply, and if you aren't being a creep or a jerk, I'm not ghosting you. I'm sorry for the situation, but it is what it is, unfortunately. If you say something to me that you want me to reply to and I don't get back to you in a reasonable amount of time, feel free to flag me down again, and/or remind me.

Religiously, I'm Pagan, a polytheist, an Animist, an Ancestor venerator, a witch, and a student of Druidry. I like tarot decks, though I can't often afford them, and I'm particular about the ones I do buy. I also participate in Unitarian Universalist communities.

I'm transgender. My pronouns are he/him. I'm omnisexual and demiromantic. My partner and I are in a functionally monogamous relationship, and don't plan to change that, though we have a history with polyamory. Our choice for our relationship is not a judgement or criticism of others.

I love coastal locations and ecologies. Social justice and environmental justice are important to me. I'm an animal person in general, but especially a cat person. I'm a writer. I'm also a reader. I used to be an avid reader, but that has tapered off due to brain fog and memory, concentration, and I.Q. loss. I do still read often, and get cranky when I don't, but it is frequently bittersweet for me now because I often don't remember much of what I read. It's also gotten a lot harder -- it's difficult and sometimes impossible for me to read some things that I would have sped through with ease in the past. My favorite genres are: fantasy, poetry, religions, mythology, natural history, history, books about musicians and writers (whether fiction or nonfiction), historical fiction, and literary fiction. I like fiction set in coastal locations, too, but most of those seem to be either romance novels, thrillers, or "women's" fiction, which are not genres I enjoy. I am a former musician and hopefully a future one. I can no longer sing, sight read quickly, or truly play musical instruments. But a lot of the theory is still there. I still enjoy music very much and hope to be able to rebuild my skills. I'm a member of an NSFW lifestyle/community, which I won't say more about because I don't know how to put it behind a cut. I grew up in a lot of other subcultures, too, such as goth, hippie, metal, and grunge, and they're largely something I still identify with, but I'm less loud/stringent about it now. My other hobbies are knitting, tabletop RPGs, and fountain pens, the latter of which is a new hobby for me.

I created this blog and account a few years ago specifically to be able to participate in the "Get Your Words Out" challenges. I've been doing it for a few years, but I am slowly trying to get more involved in participating in the actual community, as opposed to just the challenges. While I was here, I figured I might as well use the blog to track my writing and reading, which I've been doing in increasingly more workable ways since I started the blog. The reading portion got started with "Novel Knight's Beat the Backlist" challenge, though I've expanded on it since then. Tracking my reading and writing is almost exclusively what I use this blog for. I have two other blogs that are more for public consumption on a different platform. I won't link to them now, but I may change my mind in the future. At the present time, however, they are both fairly dusty, anyway. I don't really participate on most social media sites, except occasionally for one uncommon one. I also have a really difficult time with Discord and Slack. Though I do participate in Zoom meetings and, exceedingly rarely, on forums.