All about YOU
Oct. 25th, 2013 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdsofshoreI love talking with you all here each week / day / hour / insert own level of addiction, but I often think I don't even know basic stuff about your LJ , like what your username means, what your icons are, etc etc. Come and tell me everything.
Why did you pick your username, and what does it mean? What's your default icon, and does it have any significance? If it's a famous person, please don't assume I will know who it is - I never know who anyone isunless I have the hots for them. What about those other things we can personalise on LJ - the quotes or messages at the top of your journal, and that odd little thing I've never worked out how to change, for instance ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
who_la_hoop's says "I can see your house from here", which always makes me laugh. Do you have special art or graphics on your header? What are they all about?
I will start you off. My username is from a poster that I have in my living room, which says "Birds of shore & sea", with, er, drawings of different birds. Of shore, and, indeed, of sea. "Birdsofshoreandsea" is more characters than LJ allows, and besides, the shorebirds are the ones I like the best.
My picture is probably self-evident, but it's a curlew, which is my absolute favourite bird. I live quite near to plenty of these glorious creatures and they make me very thrilled and happy whenever I see one. They're just so ludicrous and beaky. They look like they shouldn't exist, and they seem to have really fabulous personalities. I can watch them for hours, just mooching about and digging for worms. They also have subtly beautiful plumage and the most wonderful song. I'm not actually OBSESSED with birds in real life, but I can verge on HIGHLY ENTHUSIASTIC about birds on any given occasion, so apologies if you just glazed over there.
The quotes on my journal are from one of my favourite books, The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. "You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed" and "Keep passing the open windows" are pieces of advice from the book on how to survive whatever life throws at you. If you haven't read it, it's a big, insane, sexy, sweet, funny, tragic romp of a book and please don't tell me if you don't like it, because I have adored it since I was about 15 and bought it to impress a boy I fancied who worked in a bookshop (my rec for Frequent Patronage will be along any day now, by the way). Fandom is definitely part of my plan to remain sane and to 'keep passing the open windows' (in other words, to avoid falling into depression and self-harm), so both quotes seemed apt when I was picking my layout.
I have only got a standard LJ header thing - it was the one that seemed least offensive when I looked through. I'd love fancy graphics or some beautiful art up there, but OMG, how hard to choose, plus, if I'm being honest, I don't have a clue how to do such things DD:
Please come and do all the sharing. I really, really want to know.
p.s. A very big thank you to whoever nominated me at HPfanficpoll thingy, if you are on my flist. I was very flattered indeed that you liked my fics, and touched that you took the time ♥
Why did you pick your username, and what does it mean? What's your default icon, and does it have any significance? If it's a famous person, please don't assume I will know who it is - I never know who anyone is
who_la_hoop's says "I can see your house from here", which always makes me laugh. Do you have special art or graphics on your header? What are they all about?I will start you off. My username is from a poster that I have in my living room, which says "Birds of shore & sea", with, er, drawings of different birds. Of shore, and, indeed, of sea. "Birdsofshoreandsea" is more characters than LJ allows, and besides, the shorebirds are the ones I like the best.
My picture is probably self-evident, but it's a curlew, which is my absolute favourite bird. I live quite near to plenty of these glorious creatures and they make me very thrilled and happy whenever I see one. They're just so ludicrous and beaky. They look like they shouldn't exist, and they seem to have really fabulous personalities. I can watch them for hours, just mooching about and digging for worms. They also have subtly beautiful plumage and the most wonderful song. I'm not actually OBSESSED with birds in real life, but I can verge on HIGHLY ENTHUSIASTIC about birds on any given occasion, so apologies if you just glazed over there.
The quotes on my journal are from one of my favourite books, The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. "You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed" and "Keep passing the open windows" are pieces of advice from the book on how to survive whatever life throws at you. If you haven't read it, it's a big, insane, sexy, sweet, funny, tragic romp of a book and please don't tell me if you don't like it, because I have adored it since I was about 15 and bought it to impress a boy I fancied who worked in a bookshop (my rec for Frequent Patronage will be along any day now, by the way). Fandom is definitely part of my plan to remain sane and to 'keep passing the open windows' (in other words, to avoid falling into depression and self-harm), so both quotes seemed apt when I was picking my layout.
I have only got a standard LJ header thing - it was the one that seemed least offensive when I looked through. I'd love fancy graphics or some beautiful art up there, but OMG, how hard to choose, plus, if I'm being honest, I don't have a clue how to do such things DD:
Please come and do all the sharing. I really, really want to know.
p.s. A very big thank you to whoever nominated me at HPfanficpoll thingy, if you are on my flist. I was very flattered indeed that you liked my fics, and touched that you took the time ♥
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Date: 2013-10-25 08:50 pm (UTC)My username is a combination of my nickname (Isi short for Isabelle, pronounced as 'easy' in German -to avoid the awkwardness of having to say 'Hi I'm easy' I introduce myself as Izzy when talking to English speaking people-) and a Japanese anime series called Inuyasha that I used to watch when I was very small, 12 or something. Nowadays I don't remember anything about the series but the name stuck, so much that I don't want to change it. Sadly on deviantart I'm "Isi-angelwings" because, again when I was small, I thought that was "cool". Now I really wish I could change it to my LJ name but I'd have to have a paid account :D
My default icon is really what it says! My default mood is "I love you all" and it fits in most cases! Especially when I reply to comments on my art because that's exactly how I feel :D I have various other icons to either represent my mood or fandom :)
I think my layout is by
The quotes on my pages represent pretty much what I think about H/D, since it really is not only my OTP but also OTF (One true fandom :D)
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Date: 2013-10-25 09:23 pm (UTC)Also LOL @ 'Hi I'm easy'. I had never thought of that.
Are we friends? I can be your friend?
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:11 pm (UTC)YES, friends please! :D *see icon* :D
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:14 pm (UTC)*Added faster than Harry says Expelliarmus!*
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:22 pm (UTC)So weird that we weren't already friends... know that feeling where you see people on LJ aaaaaall the time and you think you already added them but turns out you didn't? That's definitely the case here :D
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Date: 2013-10-25 11:46 pm (UTC)I know! I actually had to check we weren't friends because, yep, see you aalll the time!
But now that that's done, we can love each other. <3
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Date: 2013-10-25 09:30 pm (UTC)So you're German? That is so funny because in my head you are 100% Japanese. The combination of your name, your art and even your cherry blossoms!
I love your icon! Is it a little cactus?
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:16 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm 100%sausagelovingGerman, heh, no euphemisms ;D I have some photos of me in my LJ from not long ago, I think, in case you want to see what dark dark things lie behind my LJ name ;D
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:41 pm (UTC)It's brilliant how we imagine people and then the reality can be equally wonderful but totally different.
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:53 pm (UTC)Explanation um...German Carnival is not really like, dunno, Brazilian or Venetian Carnival...it's more like Halloween, without the scary part :D
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Date: 2013-10-26 09:11 pm (UTC)You are super saucy! It's not fair to be so talented and also drop dead gorgeous.
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Date: 2013-10-29 08:54 pm (UTC)you never need to be too shy to comment <3
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Date: 2013-10-25 11:00 pm (UTC)WELL, a one-month membership is only $5 and that's more than enough time to change a username, and CHRISTMAS/SOMEBODY'S BIRTHDAY IS COMING UUUUP... ;D
My default mood is "I love you all"
You are so unbelievably adorable. ;_;