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 09:43 pm (UTC)My username: My real name is Meagan L Wheeler. Meg for short... or just because nobody, even my family, can ever spell my name right...and I
mightget a little anal when I see it spelled wrong. And L and W for my initials obviously! The 0228 is my birth date, February(02) 28. I've had usernames before that were fandom oriented, but when the fandom interest fades I found I hated using the name. So back in 2004-05 when I really became interested in HP I came up with a name that fit me, and just used it for everything!My title/subtitle: I love love love alliteration. So when I came up with my title I wanted all M words... and at the time my mom figured I'd should warn people up front that I'm crazy, or can be in real life. The subtitle is just something I thought of out of the blue, again a warning. It's kinda stupid to keep it because on the internet I'm more shy and reserved, but I've always loved it, and am really bad at coming up with any kind of title!
My quotes: I have one quote on my profile, that one is from one of my favourite books, Just Listen by Sarah Dessen, and is one of my favourite quotes ever. I love music, and any time I listen to a song it transports me, usually to the first time I heard it. The other quote is on my banner, and is from the Harry Potter series. Albus Dumbledore says it...and for the life of me I can't remember which book now! (I think Goblet of Fire or Order of the Phoenix.) When I made the banner I was still trying to work through my grief and pain of losing my dad, and chose that quote. The art on that banner is by the lovely
My default icon: changes a lot! The one I had most recently was an eye with purple makeup and a butterfly along with my name. All my default icons are something I find very pretty, and almost always include my nickname, Meg. Currently, I have a huge fascination with purple. And I like personalized icons because it helps getting people to address me as Meg instead of meglw or even my full name spelled wrong. Right now, in honour of Halloween I have something festive with my name.
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Date: 2013-10-25 09:57 pm (UTC)You are very bold having your real name (kind of) on your journal!
I do love the book my quotes came from, very much. It has one of my favourite female characters in, who I identified with a lot when I was younger, in fact my earlier online personas were usually some version of her name, Franny. I am nothing like her in RL but she inspires and comforts me <3 There are many wonderful characters in the book, though. When I met Mr Birds he was going by the online name 'Bear', which is quite funny if you read the book... anyway, I won't go on about it any more!
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:08 pm (UTC)I've always been very open about what I do. I've always believed wholeheartedly the saying that goes 'once it's out there on the net, it's out there for good' and I always sort of think to myself before writing anything or sending anything do I want it out there. My family also knows I write sexually explicit slashy things too, and the only opinions I really care about are their's. And while they don't want to read the sexually explicit things, they're perfectly happy for me to write anything!
Lol, I love when people go on about books...you can really get a feel for the book more than just a generic review! So thank you for that!