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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: 2013-10-26 01:09 am (UTC)Sure! I'll play. Quite boring though, compared to the wonderful stories already shared!
I chose my username while I was re-rereading Book5. So, yes, it was a celebration of CAPSLOCK!Harry! I thought of potteresque_angst or potteresque_capslock, but both were too long.
I was a lurker at the time, using the handle only when it's necessary to log in to read stories, which didn't happen often. I never thought at the time that I would delurk to comment, never mind to write and post; otherwise I would have used a more calling friendly name. (In retrospect, I should know myself way better than that. I can never quite keep mum on my obsession of the moment! :) )
Luckily, not long after I delurked
and started to comment everyone's ears off, two friends shortened my name for me. Frayach started calling me P.I., and then Calanthe said something along the line of "I dubbed thee Pie" and so Pie I become and I love it! So Pie I am...I stick with this icon of mine 99.99% of the time. I rely heavily on icons to tell who's who, including, er, myself, when I'm scanning a page. I am Asian and so have the black hair like the girl does and I love owls.
LJ journal name: Between the Shadow and the Soul, from a poem by Pablo Naruda. I am far from a "literate" person in RL, as in, I haven't read much at all compared to most of my LJ friends here (or anyone, really) and what I read I've mostly forgotten, and I feel guilty quoting people and things I don't really like or know about... and Neruda was one of the very poets who left an impression on me in poetry. And more importantly, the sonnet from which it came from, as well as the phrase itself, was to me so very Harry/Draco .. which is, of course, my main ship.
As for the layout, I change mine quite often--my one and only *huge!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!* problem with LJ layout is that the title is usually in Helvetica / Arial, which simply doesn't look right with Between the Shadow and the Soul to me (on the other hand, it's PERFECT with ABCDEFG, or NATIONAL SHUTDOWN AGENCY, or DO NOT REMOVE.. you get the idea.. ). I usually make a bit of modifications here and there with existing designs. The current one I have isn't my favorite, but it's simple and fast to load :).
I really love your username (poetic in its own way!) and the icon fits perfectly, although, I admit these days I have this wondering whether the bird is Nic Cage's patronus or... Nic Cage in disguise. :D!!!!!
*Huggles*!!!!
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Date: 2013-10-26 06:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-26 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-26 11:22 am (UTC)I agree my username has a poetic aspect to it. It does please me. I would never have called myself "shorebirds" for instance, although it means exactly the same thing. "Birds of shore" to me, sounds faintly archaic, mysterious, and yes, poetic. But that's just in my pretentious head :DD
Who_la has an icon with my bird pecking Nic's head, LOL. I must steal it from her and use it more often, I've got plenty of OTHER people's icon with Nic in (see current one), but not my own.