the voices in my head tell me I'm perfectly normal

I'm a 50-something, divorced woman, raising a special-needs kid on my own. I struggle with weight and self-image issues, as well as depression and anxiety. I hope to get back to being a productive member of society again someday.

This journal started out as a way to interact with fandom, and I don't see that changing anytime soon; fandom as an activity and a community are what keep me sane when real life gets a little too real and a little too lively. So there will be squeeing about sexy guys doing sexy things to each other, as well as television shows I watch, movies I've seen, books I've read.

That said, there's also personal stuff in here. The aforementioned issues, my posts on raising my special needs boy virtually by myself, stuff about my extended family. That stuff generally gets locked down and/or filtered.

I like to share things I feel are important, or sound interesting, so there'll be links and media, fiction, pictures, you name it.

This journal is heavily pro-LGBTQ. I write homoerotic stories. I try very hard to keep an open mind and judge solely on what a person says, rather than their gender/race/religion/sexual orientation, though I will freely admit that I tend toward an anti!straight-male bias. Hopefully someday I'll temper that and/or get past it. I'm also very pro-women, pro-choice and liberal. If that's a problem for you, please don't stick around.

I don't have a "friending policy" as such, but if you appear out of nowhere and never say a word, chances are unlikely that I'll friend back. If you're lurking just for the fanfic, that's cool -- lurk away :)

Anyway, this is me: mother, daughter, niece, aunt, friend. Just someone trying to figure out who I am, and where I fit in, in this crazy thing we call life.

Love is love, plain and simple.

Show you give a damn for equality!