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Created on 2009-04-19 06:11:24 (#96251), last updated 2014-11-13 (584 weeks ago)

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Name:elements
Birthdate:Oct 5
Location:Massachusetts, United States
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I am:
a social systems geek
an alternative economies geek
a collaborative creativity geek
a traditional folk culture, music, and dance geek
a social justice geek
a sci-fi and fantasy and what-might-be-possible geek
not a techie, but
a student of the communities and collaborations and new social systems technical innovation can create

If I've friended you and you're not sure if you know me, see this handy post.

My most popular posts, if you heard my name through the fannish meta grapevine, are probably the ones linked under the tag Users as citizens.

This is both a fandom journal, and my very much real life journal. I started writing here instead of at the several other, disparate journals I'd been using for years to acknowledge that many aspects of my online and offline self have merged enough not to be meaningfully separable anymore.

While this isn't a "fandom journal" per se, you can expect a heavily fannish bent. Many of my friends here are folks I met through fandom, and I do personally care about fandom, fannishness, and the academic, social, cultural, political, and legal causes and effects of fannish activity. Fan geekery is a big part of who I am. But I'm not posting under the assumption that every reader is a fan, or aware of fannish terminology, and I don't plan to post any fanfiction to this journal. If you've come here expecting occasional fannish meta essays, you'll get them - but you'll also get my angst over choosing career paths and other random blather.

Friending: I intend my friends list here to be a true reading list of friends to keep up with and journals I find interesting. Please don't be offended if I don't friend you back - it has nothing to do with how much I like you, and everything to do with how much little time I have for reading. I fully expect that my friended list will be larger than my friends-of, anyway.

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