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Let’s get to know each other! :D Not sure what to say? Here are some ideas:

<b>Name:</b>
<b>Collective/Main site:</b>

<b>Latest finished project(s):</b> (site-related)
<b>Next project(s):</b> (outside of this event)

<b>Currents:</b> (any web stuff, a fandom you’re active in, a book you’re reading, things you’re trying out, recent life events etc.)

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[verushka70]

Yikes! I meant to post this like a month ago, but time slipped away from me. (Forty+ hours a week work and commuting will do that, argh.)

Name: verushka70

Collective/Main site: Right now I don't have one... I did, in the distant past (really distant: mid-to-late 90s, early 00s - I was even part of a couple webrings! *iz old*). All I have now is my works on AO3 and my DW.

Latest finished project(s): No new site related stuff yet. I used to hand code html (back in the day), so I'm not familiar with web-site building apps/software. Guess I'll be learning.

Next project(s): I am just finishing doing complementary work for a due South c6d Big Bang primary fanfic (due tonight, yikes!). Next up is my assignment for the due South Seekrit Santa, a fanworks holiday gift exchange, which I'm also signed up for.

Then I will finally get to my shrine-building. As I explained in my sign-up email after completing the form, one thing that I can see with the benefit of hindsight over decades of being in fandom is that, most fandoms that I really got into had either a canon and/or a fanon OT3. So I would like to make a shrine to all my favorite fandom OT3s over the decades (usually, but not always, m/f/m) and even those from before I knew what fandom even was.

I've written several fics featuring my OT3s across multiple different fandoms (and have many WIPs of OT3s in these fandoms). For some of these OT3s - most, actually! - there are sections of canon (sometimes long, even even entire seasons) where one of the OT3 is canonically gone... Yet that missing third person's (ghostly) presence is still felt by the other two characters (who sometimes carry on as OTPs, and sometimes don't), and they're often mentioned in canon by the remaining two of the OT3 (plus in tons of fanfics, of course). It's rather ghostly, in its way, which seems to fit The Ghost of You Shrine Challenge.

Currents: Been doing fanart more the past couple of years (mostly photo manips) lately, but also recently bought new sketchbooks/charcoals/pencils/colored pencils (blending sticks, gummy erasers).

My younger sister and I are both currently reading The Master and his Emissary about the neurological, philosophical and societal/cultural/global issues related to right and left brain hemisphere differences, how they're integrated (or aren't) - and how this affects humans' perceptions, beliefs about "reality", and treatment of each other and the planet. It is a TOME (4th edition) but really, really interesting. (I took it out of the library.)

That book also spurred me to buy a book my oldest sister lent me decades ago - Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain , and the accompanying workbook.

I hope the two books will help jumpstart me re-acquainting myself with foundational skills in art that I haven't practiced in... let's just say "decades," and leave it at that!