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[sofiaviolet]

21 Days of Dreamwidth

10. Tell me about your default icon.

It is an illustration of some violets:

I've been using it for ages, and I use it on other sites. But on Dreamwidth, I have other purple things to represent me:

11. What features do you think Dreamwidth should have that it doesn't currently?

I think media hosting is an important thing for the site to accomplish, even though I am not currently suffering from the lack of picture/audio/video/whatever hosting.

12. What do you consider the five most "telling" interests from the list on your profile? Why?

\o/, adventures in city living, archives, collecting other people's hobbies, dreamwidth as a lifestyle, fetlife, fictionalizing fascinating people, filing off serial numbers, hello kitty, jamaica plain, lazy femme, online communities, people who don't suck, spending too much time on the internet, things that are underground

13. Do you have any unique interests on your user profile? What are they? How'd they get there?

#dreamwidth (I also list #dw, but added the new channel now that we're on Freenode)
adventures in city living (aka My Life)
camberville (Cambridge+Somerville)
catholic kitsch (what happens when you are a recovered Catholic who spent Mass as a small child fantasizing about decorating a house with all the wacky gilded statues)
fictionalizing fascinating people (one step further than RPF)
lazy femme (my gender presentation)
retro kitsch (I blame my relatives' houses full of nifty old shit)
thinking happy thoughts (an important part of my Coping Strategy)

And as to how they wound up on my profile: I typed them into the textbox.

Side Effect: May Cause FEELINGS

So I have a question for the people out there who are not congenitally depressed.

Sometimes I experience semi-random happiness, where I'm just having a nice day and everything is kinda shiny and it's good to be alive. Sometimes I get enormously ragey over stuff that doesn't seem to merit serious RAEG.

And both of those ~~feelings~~ are pretty obviously tied to my meds (along with an increase in ability to Get Shit Done and a decrease in memory function). My question is: do I finally, after 20 years of being depressed, have a reasonable range of emotions?

Plans

Boston MCR show tomorrow night; I'll be in line during the day. Meeting with tuesdaysgone Friday morning for a ride to PA and another MCR show. Assuming the gods of train schedules smile upon me, I should be back in Boston in time for the SlutWalk. (Fingers crossed I can make all my transit connections.) And then there is the DC concert. Wheeeeeee.

Comments

[turlough]

Pretty purple icons!

I'm now seriously contemplating stealing your "retro kitsch" interest. I love retro kitch but I almost always manage to talk myself out of buying any when I happen upon it.

Have lots and lots of fun!

[sofiaviolet]

Feel free!

[wicked_socks]

I love the cast/plot icon.

I am very interested in responses to your feelings question. I feel like depression has broken my meter on feelings.

[sofiaviolet]

Urgh, I know. It's why I asked. :\

[etcetera_cat]

Preeeetty icons. I particularly like the half-picked lavender field, but that be because I'm strangely intent about lavender (I live in an area where it's grown commercially).

That sounds like a range of emotions to me? That said, I'm not exactly the best to judge, because my emotional range goes to 11 (and -11)...from 0, without bothering to pass through any of the other numbers /brain chemistry\

[sofiaviolet]

*headtilt* I think I have in-between feelings; yay for that, I suppose. I cannot imagine the whiplash of the setup you've described.

[etcetera_cat]

Whiplash is a pretty accurate comparison (mainly, what it is is exhausting. At least, that's the most of what I remember afterwards)

[isis]

I certainly have these emotions. I'm only mildly congenitally depressed (actually probably mildly bipolar, because of big swings in both directions, but mild, in that I don't think meds are necessary or even indicated; many family members are either depressed or bipolar, though) and I have periods of mysterious elation as well as mysterious annoyance snaps and mysterious woe is mes.

[sofiaviolet]

\o/ *is not broken in new and interesting ways!*

Although even if I were experiencing extreme fake emotions, I would not want to discontinue this particular medication as a result. I value Getting Shit Done and the happyshiny part is very nice actually.