premature catastrophe: intro post

[rosasericea]

I decided to match up all of my accounts with roughly the same name, a silly nod to Marimite (マリみて), one of my favorite adorable things. (Can I say how sad it made me that I couldn't find any fansites or shrines or anything when I looked for a link other than a wiki? The Internet is a cold, barren place.) Anyway, Rosa sericea is known as the silky or winged thorny rose:

Left: Silky rose blossoms (white, open flowers with orange anthers and yellow filaments). Right: Silky rose stems with wide, bright red thorns.

Anyway, I was on LJ for a million years, Tumblr for a few years...I've never been very fannish, though, so getting my footing on Dreamwidth has been a bit of a challenge. Most of my identifiers are kind of in flux right now, but I'm in my 30s for a few more years. I'm queer and married. I'm disabled and an English educator by training. I love sweet, cute things and also true crime books and podcasts about bizarre serial murder. David Lynch and David Fincher are my favorite directors. Favorite bands include alt country, old college rock, hardcore punk, goth, shoegaze, thrash metal and twee-ish artists, but my favorite Musicians currently Musicking are Zoe Keating and PJ Harvey. I Read, and love a good fairy tale treatment.

Comments

[highlyeccentric]

I have been seeing that rose around (not... right now, obviously, thanks Winter) and wondering what it was! It's gorgeous.

[rosasericea]

Aw! I'm kinda jealous, as I don't see many roses of any variety where I live (and winter, also, is not a real thing here!). :)

[highlyeccentric]

I always notice wild roses in Europe, because I’m so unused to roses being things that just run wild! Actually I notice flowers at triple the rate, just because they’re not the ones I’m used to. Very often I find out they’re something I’ve known /of/ for many years but never seen.

[rosasericea]

I get that way about desert flora sometimes, or phenomena. The first time I actually saw a haboob, my mind was blown.