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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 09:19 pm (UTC)/ From the faces in my dream, they are coming back for me /
/ As it was told in their prediction /
/ Is it just a dream... or just a wicked memory /
/ Now I see her coming - on her besom /
/ The smell of brimstone and the mark of the beast /
/ From the open window, is it just a dream? /
I just really liked the idea of not being able to tell if you were in a nightmare or reliving the horribly memories of something you'd done - and the character singing this particular song is being haunted by the ghost of a woman she had tortured, dismembered and killed earlier in the story, so there was a sense of vindictive gratification that he's not going unpunished for his hurtful actions.
Default icon: Most of my icons are character/ship-specific or are reactionary. This one is the most all-purpose, so it became my default.
Customizations: I don't have any text personalizations except for lyrics for the song the username comes from. XD I used to have this layout, which was literally just doodles of my friends (that's me and my BFF snoozing), but I didn't like my journal being graphic-heavy and switched to a text-based layout because I'm boring like that.
I wondered what sort of bird that was in your icon! I love its beak. Even its name is ridiculously adorable. XD And your quotes are very good advice, yes! Ahhh, I'd offer to help customize your LJ but I work better with raw coding and have never been good at tweaking LJ's minor customizations. T_T I find many of their available free layouts to be really... bulky, ugh. XD
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Date: 2013-10-25 09:47 pm (UTC)The poem reminded me of this: http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/A_Dream_Within.htm
Probably not really much of a connection, but it came into my head straight away.
Capitu has very kindly offered to look at layouts with me. I will put it off forever, though, I know I will, because I have difficulty making up my mind on things... O_o
The curlew is the most adorable bird ever. This is a wonderful video of them doing their thing, including their song, which is amazing, and starts "currrrliiii", so their name is sort of onomatopoeic. <33
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:54 pm (UTC)Oh! I've never actually read that particular Poe poem before, but it's lovely! I can see why my SN/lyrics reminded you of it, for sure - the uncertainty of being in a dream or not, but lying in misery either way. XD
Awww, that's nice of her! (... Him? Her?) Good luck with that. ;D I tend to be indecisive as well - used to switch my layout like every two months in high school, lol. I just don't really like any of them very much now... >_O
Ohh, I'll have to YouTube their song when I'm at home! XD That makes me think of a Pokemon, ehehe... ♥
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Date: 2013-10-26 10:42 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws7jH6wNKN4
It's only if you are feeling an urge to watch a 5 minute video of curlews, LOL!
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:35 pm (UTC)Love where your LJ name comes from :D
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:54 pm (UTC)