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soph ([personal profile] sophia_sol) wrote2010-09-19 07:27 am

Introduction Post!

Hi there! I'm Soph, and this is my journal. If you want to know more about me and about what you can find here, this is the place!

(last updated: April 2024)


My pronouns: they/them

Other places you can find me online:
- [archiveofourown.org profile] sophia_sol
- [tumblr.com profile] sophia-sol
- @soph_sol@federatedfandom.net on mastodon
- my website, aviansoph.com

What you can expect from my journal:

1. My dw has been a lot of different things over the years, but of late I mostly find myself using it as a repository for my many opinions about books. I have so many book review posts that I outgrew the number of posts you can have in a single tag! My more recent book reviews can be found under the tag book thoughts 2. I love talking about books with people.

2. Once a year I post my recs for 10 of the best professionally-published, freely-available short stories I read in the previous year, under my annual rec list tag.

3. I can also occasionally be found writing fic or making podfic, both of which can be found at my ao3 linked above, but those are pretty rare these days, and you won't find me creating works in any consistent fandom. My interests bounce around a lot.

3. a) If you're interested in doing something with one of my fics (remixing, podficcing, translating, fanbinding, creating art, etc) I give blanket permission to do so for non-commercial purposes. Please provide me with a link to whatever it is if/when you post it online. I do not give permission for anything I have created to be fed into any generative AI program for any reason.

4. If you subscribe to me, please feel free to lurk or interact as you feel moved, but I enjoy talking to people about things so I hope you'll feel welcome! And if you feel comfortable doing so, please do say hi if you're new here -- in the comments of this introduction, or on a recent post, or whatever!

5. Generally speaking I'm a person who enjoys spoilers, but I understand that many other people don't, and so I do my best to put anything that might be a spoiler beneath a cut. HOWEVER, I may not always judge correctly what others might consider a spoiler, and I may occasionally forget, so I cannot promise a perfectly spoiler-free experience on my journal.
calvinahobbes: Calvin holding a cardboard tv-shape up in front of himself (doctor tardis)

[personal profile] calvinahobbes 2012-02-22 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
*fangirls your sticky post* Now I want one!
calvinahobbes: Calvin holding a cardboard tv-shape up in front of himself (Default)

[personal profile] calvinahobbes 2012-02-23 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
I've actually made a fic masterpost, I just haven't gotten around to making it sticky yet...? It's a process, okay! I'll get there :oP
jesse_the_k: Black dog staring overhead at squirrel out of frame (BELLA expectant)

[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2020-06-09 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Here thanks to your translation of [profile] melanenn’s biting-heads-off-chickens SGA fic. I’m amazed we haven’t crossed paths before and aim to fix that now! (No mutual obligations!)
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[personal profile] yuuago 2020-06-23 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hi there! Your book posts have been coming up on my Network, and I've enjoyed reading them, so I figured I might as well subscribe. ;) Nice to meet you!
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[personal profile] superborb 2020-09-11 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey! I'm trying to get back into active fandom, and thought your book blogging was interesting!
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)

[personal profile] luzula 2020-10-07 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi! I always love having book reviews on my reading page, so I am following you. : )

No obligation to follow back, obviously--I normally post a lot of book reviews, too, but for fannish reasons, most of what I read/post about nowadays is somehow related to the 18th century.

Also I see that you listen to Librivox audiobooks! I do a bit of recording for them, along with my podfics. : )
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)

[personal profile] luzula 2020-10-08 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Re: Librivox, I started recording there because I wanted to record Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist, which I also did (all seventeen hours of them!). Besides that, I've also done a little poetry, but then I didn't do anything for quite a few years. And now I'm in a fandom where the canon comes into public domain next year (D K Broster's slashy The Flight of the Heron, written in 1925 and set in the 18th century), so I'm looking forward to that! As a warm-up, I've been recording the fannishly adjacent book Flemington by Violet Jacob (from 1911).

Anyway, I found the Librivox community to be welcoming. It's certainly different from the podfic community--as you say, there are rules you have to follow. But you also get more support in some ways, like, there's a proof-listener who checks for errors and gives you feedback if you want it.
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[personal profile] mific 2021-08-24 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi there - here from the interesting blogs post. I like reviews! :)