Introductory post

[lizard_socks]

I usually don't like to talk about personal stuff, out of fear that someone might be hurt from me butting into their space, but I feel like a Dreamwidth journal really is my space (as opposed to the topic-centered nature of Reddit or DeviantArt, or the public commons of Twitter or Tumblr where there's no technical distinction, implementation-wide, between a conversation and a public shaming).

I'm a computer programmer (Microsoft stack) with an old-fashioned taste in software (the reason I use Firefox over Chrome is that it still has a File/Edit/View menu and I use SeaMonkey to check my email and write my stories). F# makes me happy and IAsyncEnumerable<T> makes me feel like a wizard.

I'm cisgender, white, male, and even though I'm asexual I don't consider myself LGBT+ or queer. My asexuality is tied to being on the autism spectrum, and when you're already on the autism spectrum, nobody's terribly surprised that you haven't ever been on a date. I'm also a Christian, if not a particularly devout one, but I grew up going to church and I like to keep that tie to my heritage.

I'm doing very well in my life, but a lot of that is thanks to the people who've supported me. It's taken me pretty much that long to figure out how people around me interact, and as a result I'm uncomfortable in a lot of online spaces, especially leftist spaces, where the norms are different. And yet it's consistently the people in those spaces who are creating the kinds of art and stories I'm most interested in. If I wanted to see people who looked like me and had my background, I'd just go outside.

My biggest fandoms are either episodic TV sci-fi (e.g. Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1) or contemporary Western kids' animation with clever humor (e.g. Steven Universe, Summer Camp Island, Amphibia). My favorite Voyager episode is Alter Ego. I love writing about my OCs, living on their unimportant spaceship and doing nothing but delivering exposition all day long, but you might be more interested in my SG-1 / cartoon crossover series which I think has some of my best work.

Separate from my fandom stuff, I also make cute drawings and post them on DeviantArt and Fur Affinity. Most, if not all, of my icons come from there.