jedibuttercup

Challenge #1 - In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

[Giving this a try this year. I can't promise I'll hit every challenge, but hopefully it'll help get me posting again for non-fic related things!]

Happy New Year, everyone. I'm pretty consistently known as

jedibuttercup across the fic and journaling sphere, and have used that name since 2002. (Though I am not the JediButtercup on Twitter or the one on Instagram; I was bemused to find not-me JB's out there the last time I vanity Googled.)

I work these days as a "technology and media manager", which basically means website design, database management, document design, and other marketing and software-support related fun. Mostly for the same not-for-profit HR consulting firm since 2006, where I am lucky enough to have excellent co-workers and decent benefits.

I graduated college in 2000, for some perspective; I found fanfic in ... 2001? I was living with my brother at the time and commuting to my first post-college job, and he loved having the TV going in the background all the time in the evening while playing video games. We tuned in at the beginning of both season 6 of Buffy and, a year later, Stargate SG-1 season 6, and I quickly caught the fixit bug. Followed soon thereafter by the crossover bug! Though that was neither my first experience as a writer, or my first experience as a fan (more on that in Challenge #2?)

I'm a fairly voracious reader, as much as time allows (see my yearly list posts) primarily in genre fiction, but also the occasional nonfiction book too. My movie/TV preferences are very similar; I have an embarrassment squick, and I have a hard time with plots that are primarily romantic or horror-centric or plagued by idiot balls, but actors and characters I get attached to can make up for a lot. I also take yearly roadtrips with my best friend (38 US states now and counting) and the occasional trip with my widowed mom (Disneyland last year; Grand Canyon coming up this year). I spent the first several years of my life in coastal Texas, but we moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1988, and I've lived there ever since.

I'm single, and have three young niblings and a very spoiled 13-year-old half-Maine-Coon cat named Berúthiel. My equally nerdy BFF and her husband both went to college with me; we found out years after they married and we all graduated that he's a distant cousin (ninth, according to the genealogical charts, diverging back in the 1600s), through my mother's father's well-documented ancestry.

Life is much crackier sometimes than any half-way believeable fiction ever could be.