Sunshine challenge 2

[shadowhive]

So prompt 2 of the sunshine challenge is about identity. I figure the best way to cover this is to go through the suggested questions from the post so here goes.

What does your username mean?

My username is pretty much as old as I have been active online. I first used it when I set up my livejournal way back in 2004. (The only difference is that it has a _ between the words which I lost later.) The two parts of the name came from different things. The shadow was from my general personality, because I’ve always been quiet shy and kept to the shadows, avoiding people (a defence mechanism from high school). The hive part came from the Resident Evil film (which has a facility in it called the hive), which I guess was on my mind at the time. It ended up sticking and the rest is history really.

How is it pronounced?

It’s pronounded as it’s written so... there’s nothing to really say there.

What's your origin story? Is it fannish?

Honestly, I can’t remember what made me start up at livejournal (a lot has happened in 15 years after all!). I think I pretty much got it as somewhere I could just... ramble. I didn’t start writing until much later.

What is your default icon about? Does it have personal meaning? Why did you choose it? What is it from?

Since these are all about the icon, I’m gonna answer all these in one go. My default icon for dreamwidth is of Jay James, who was the former bassist of Bullet For My Valentine. He was my favourite member of the band and, unfortunately, he has vanished off the face of the earth. I had hoped he’d come back as part of another band, but alas, that never happened. It’s sad because he was talented and sweet and pretty. I miss him. (And still resent Matt, the singer from the band, who I’m sure is responsible for it.)

So when I started up my dreamwidth account (in 2013) it was for the sole purpose of joining kink bingo. As such I only uploaded two icons at the time, Jay and a Waycest one. I never expected to end up using dreamwidth for anything other than that, but eventually I moved over here fully.

So why that picture of Jay to use as a default? I’m not sure. On lj I had the infamous pic of Jay with the drawing of a cock as the default, but for some reason I went with this one. It’s from a photo shoot for an Australian magazine (that I can’t remember) and, although you can’t tell, he has a phone cord around his neck. The whole look of it though, makes it look like he’s having an orgasm, so I guess that’s why Iike it.

I’ve not used the icon in awhile, mostly since I don’t write about him much anymore (mainly because I’m not sure anyone but me cares to read about him anymore) but I’ve used it for this post so you can see it.

Tell us anything else you want to share publicly that would help people know how to interact with you. Preferred pronouns? Do you have a first language other than English?

Another bunch of questions that’s best answered together.

I’m pretty much an open book. I’ve never been one to compartmentalise, so I tend to have one just account on whatever site I’m on.

I guess I can do an intro thing though. We’ll I’m Shadowhive (or Stuie) I'm 32 and my pronouns are he/him/they. I’m pansexual and currently in a relationship. I mostly use dreamwidth and twitter, though I do use discord and ao3 too. The first fandom I wrote for was Blue, a British boyband and my current ones are My Chemical Romance and The Umbrella Academy. (I have to get back to writing for the latter.) I have anxiety and depression. I’m a student with the open university (currently off for summer so I have to sort out my next course). I’m pretty much a geek, I love sci-fi stuff but especially Star Wars. I game a lot too, though mostly on the Xbox lately. I play all kinds of stuff, Elder Scrolls Online, Star Wars battlefront 2 and Call Of Cthulhu being some of the ones I’ve been on lately. (I love Pokemon and Zelda but not been on either in awhile.)

My music tastes are all over the place. Lately I’ve listened to a mix of Kylie, Silverstein, Death Spells, The Used and My Chemical Romance as well as the Solo soundtrack. Filmwise I love Star Wars, Mamma Mia and (most) of the Marvel films. I also like watching horror stuff though I’ve been not as good at watching them lately. Tv is all over the place, with Taskmaster, Killing Eve and Lucifer being current things I’ve been watching.

I only speak English fluently, though I wish I did speak more languages. Sadly they just don’t seem to stick except a few odd words. I have four pets currently, Naryu a 1 year old poodle puppy, Padme a guinea pig and two cats, Midna and Leia.

I think that covers most things though I’m sure I’ve missed something

What does "fannish identity" mean to you?

Honestly I’ve never really thought about it that much so I don’t think I can come up with a good answer to that really.

To the end this part of the post, I’ll take the other suggestion from sunshine challenge post which is opening the post to question, so if you have any, whatever it is, ask away.

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Yesterday I didn’t do too much after the post last night. I watched The Descendants though and I really love Jay. He’s just so cute and pretty. I can totally see why people ship him and Carlos after watching that. I’ll try and watch the second film soon (probably not tonight though).

I’ve not done much today so far. I might try and write some more later, but I dunno since mum’s friend is here now and she can be loud making it hard to focus.

Comments

[enemytosleep]

I currently have a toy poodle, a bichon, and four cats. I had a guinea pig for a very long while (he had been dumped in a box outside of a petstore and he ended up coming home with me for many years after). What size is your poodle?

[shadowhive]

Aww yay! They sound adorable. I dunno how people can do that to animals, I’m glad they had a good home with you

She’s a miniature one and she’s always up to mischief

(I’d have linked toa pic post I made here but the pics aren’t showing up which is annoying)

[enemytosleep]

That's the one real downfall of DW, I think, that it's kind of a pain to add photos (I understand why it's text-based, of course). Poodles are too smart for their own good. Mine is 17 and still causing trouble. ♥