The Ship That Faced A Thousand Launches ...
My mind is a scary place to be, that's why I'm out of it so often.
Journal created:
on 17 February 2003 (#907761)
Updated:
on 3 December 2025
Name:
Dark Star
Location:
Sydney, Australia
It's hard to be a Sxxy Deth Chyk, with the constant tension between "I am Woman, hear me Roar" and "I am Goth, hear me Whine" ...
I am a proud Non-binary SJW Spoonie.
Pronouns are they/them/their.
Bigots will not be tolerated.
I wear many different hats at different times. I am (in no particular order) a Goth, parent, programmer, scholar, netizen, atheist and citizen-of-the-world.
I am more than just my job or the sum of my possessions.
I am a work-in-progress. When I am finished, you may cremate what's left.
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"quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" ('who watches the watchmen?') - Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
"but if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence" - Pop Will Eat Itself, Ich Bin Ein Auslander
"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog." - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), in a speech given in 1900
"The problem with being a princess is that you have to kiss so many frogs before one of them turns into Prince Charming" - unknown
"Some days, it just isn't worth chewing through the restraints ... " - unknown
I am a proud Non-binary SJW Spoonie.
Pronouns are they/them/their.
Bigots will not be tolerated.
I wear many different hats at different times. I am (in no particular order) a Goth, parent, programmer, scholar, netizen, atheist and citizen-of-the-world.
I am more than just my job or the sum of my possessions.
I am a work-in-progress. When I am finished, you may cremate what's left.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" ('who watches the watchmen?') - Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
"but if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence" - Pop Will Eat Itself, Ich Bin Ein Auslander
"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog." - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), in a speech given in 1900
"The problem with being a princess is that you have to kiss so many frogs before one of them turns into Prince Charming" - unknown
"Some days, it just isn't worth chewing through the restraints ... " - unknown
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