spyderqueen

Not quite what you would call refined. Not quite what you would call unrefined.

She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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Name:
spyderqueen
Birthdate:
1 April 1981
Location:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Website:
The SpyderRealm
External Services:
  • spyderqueen@gmail.com
  • spyderqueen@livejournal.com
  • SpyderQn AIM status
  • spyderqueen Yahoo! status
Schools:
Broadneck Elementary School - Arnold, MD (1986 - 1992)
Magothy River Middle School - Arnold, MD (1992 - 1994)
Severn River Middle School - Arnold, MD (1994 - 1996)
Broadneck High School - Annapolis, MD (1996 - 1999)
Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr, PA (1999 - 2003)
Interests: (150)
african greys, allison janney, amanda palmer, angelic layer, anime, archery, baltimore, beckett/mckay, bryn mawr, bryn mawr college, buffy the vampire slayer, cake and daniel, carrot ironfoundersson, catatonia, cerys matthews, city of heroes, city of villains, cj cregg, clamp, concultures, constructed languages, conures, cowboy bebop, d/leon, daniel jackson, darkwave, deep space nine, dirty jobs, discworld, douglas adams, dr pepper, dresden dolls, dwight schultz, early alternative, fake, firefly, flcl, fujishima kousuke, futurama, gackt, gargoyles, get fuzzy, ghost in the shell, gibbs/abby, gir, guild wars, guys who wear glasses, harry potter, havelock vetinari, hayashibara megumi, hellboy, hiroshige, ichihara yuuko, invader zim, j-pop, j-rock, jack o'neill, jack/daniel, jack/rowe, james marsters, janet fraiser, japan, japanese, jhonen vasquez, johnny the homicidal maniac, jonathan coulton, joss whedon, kajiura yuki, kanno yoko, kirsty maccoll, l33t, licensed by royal, linguistics, mahou tsukai tai, maleficent, manga, mark harmon, matsumoto leiji, megatokyo, midnight oil, midorikawa hikaru, miguel ferrer, mike rowe, morning musume, moxy fruvous, murdock, ncis, neil gaiman, neon genesis evangelion, new wave music, noir, old school anime, parrots, peter david, petshop of horrors, philadelphia, pocky, poketto monsutaa, polka, project runway, psychedelic furs, punk, pvp comic, questionable content, ravenclaw, reginald barclay, rupert giles, sakamoto maaya, sam/janet, samuel vimes, sanami matoh, sci-fi, seiyuu, shadow play girls, she-ra, shinohara tomoe, slayers, snape/lupin, sociolinguistics, something positive, spiders, stand alone complex, star trek, stargate sg-1, steve conte, tabatha's salon takeover, tachikoma, terry pratchett, tezuka nagisa, the a-team, the eleventh doctor, the pillows, the seatbelts, the simpsons, the stig, the venture brothers, they might be giants, tim gunn, tocharian, top gear, tsujimoto natsumi, ukiyo-e, vampire princess miyu, west wing, white collar, xtc, xxxholic, yamane mai, you're under arrest, yugo the negotiator
Bio
Oh, fuck it. I'll write a real bio. Damn procrastination's siren call. I'm a Bryn Mawr alum, class of '03 (raise the green lantern high!) bachelor's in Linguistics, since I like being able to justify the grammar of my sentences that would be considered incorrect if analyzed prescriptively instead of descriptively. If you call me on my grammar, be prepared to face my linguistic wrath if you're being anally prescriptive about it (I moonlight as The Mysterious Masked Linguist). I write something like I talk here; formal writing is for papers, not for gossiping with friends. I prefer to be mostly on target with my spelling, but some words give me issues, especially words where the root ends in 'e' and then suffixes are added. Somehow, despite 16+ years of education, I still screw up when I'm supposed to drop the damned 'e'. But, the first person subject pronoun should always be capitalized and the word is spelled 'cool' not (shudders) "kewl". That kind of crap just rubs me the wrong way. That being said, my senior thesis was on l33t.

I also seem to have a short attention span as I can and often do change subjects in a blink of an eye, and both follow AND participate in disjointed conversations (topic A to topic B to topic C and then back to topic A with no segue). Thankfully, most of my friends are the same way. Particularly danceswithbeans, although, since we've known each other since Kindergarten, this may be a shared developmental trait.

I am a fandom junkie. My most active fandoms are currently most anime, Stargate SG1 and West Wing, but I also have deep fondness for Trek, anything by Whedon, and Harry Potter.
I'm slash friendly. I occasionally write fic (check my memories for fanfic I've posted on LJ), and I love making icons.

I waste a LOT of time on City of Heroes/City of Villains. And I'm an altoholic so you can find me on Virtue, Champion, Triumph, and Infinity a variety of servers. Full documentation of my altitis is here on The CoX Alt Spreadsheet of Doom.
Global Chat @Winged Murasaki

- providing I remembered to sign into Glycerin.

Origins of my username are here, BTW. And for those of you who don't want to look at that, I give a quick summary: It's not from Lloth, it's not from various legends of spiderwomen, it's not from comics, it's not from video games. It's because I think spiders are cool. And I'm not much of a Goth either. I have nothing against them, I have many friends who are, I just don't like that when people see the color scheme of my journal they think "Ooo, Goth." WRONG.

When I redid this, I was going to take the quote out, but I don't want to. I like it too much.
"Pancakes is the better part of valor"
"That's not right. It's discretion. Discretion is the better part of valor"
"Which do you like better? Discretion or Pancakes?"
"Ooh. Pancakes. I like pancakes."
"Well, there you go."
(from Goats)

And my default spyder icon is MINE. I made it (the design and everything), and so help me Vantara if I catch someone else using it.

All other icons are free to take. Almost all of my icons are made by me, I've got this policy about mostly using the ones I make just because I make so many. My Icons are all found at my personal link. If you want to use on, just leave me a message and tell me which you're taking and credit me in the keywords. Some are off limits (for example, the spyder icon). The offlimits ones are clarified in the keywords.



I am owned by a 12 yr old Mitred Conure named Woody and a 6 yr old African Grey named Gabbie.


Conure Love!
- Cherry-Head, Sun, Golden, Green-Cheek, Blue-Crowned, Dusky -
Conures Are Squeaky, Screechy Love






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