love's the only engine of survival

This journal is about two-thirds fannish and one-third personal. I try to emphasize the fun side of life, because I agree with House: "Everything sucks. Might as well find something to smile about." (from episode 2x16, "Safe")

I'm divorced, not looking for a relationship, but not opposed. I'm gray-ace, so I don't expect a connection to happen, but life offers unexpected blessings sometimes.

Friending policy: I rarely lock posts (usually just ultra personal or work-related ones), so I don't automatically friend back. All recs posts will be unlocked. I don't filter, so it's hard to keep up if my flist gets too big. If you friend me, I'll visit your LJ until I get to know you; I friend based on the fannish content of your LJ and the number of fannish interests we share, plus general vibes I get from your journal. I tend to favor my current obsessions, which at the moment are Marvel Movieverse, Person of Interest, Sherlock, and Teen Wolf, with side of comics and a dash of sci-fi TV fandoms. I'm multifandom, so there'll be forays into other fandoms as the spirit moves.

I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone
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I'm falling apart, I'm barely breathing
with a broken heart that's still beating
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Your hands once touched this table and this silver,
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you, beloved,
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.
—Conrad Aiken
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Melancholia
the history of melancholia
includes all of us.
—Charles Bukowski
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"Hope may be a lying jade, but she does at any rate lead us to the end of our lives along a pleasant path."
—François, duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), Sentences et Maximes Morales
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"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
—Louis L'Amour

I'm active on DW: on http://raveninthewind.dreamwidth.org/ (I cross-post from there)
I'm at http://twitter.com/raveninthewind on Twitter.

Also can be found here (theoretically thus far):
http://www.journalfen.net/userinfo.bml?user=raveninthewind
http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/raveninthewind/