Loki: meow?

Me: Setting up a Mastodon account.

Hazel: meow

Me: I do have another one, @dpnash@mastodon.online, but I post a lot about #Neurodiversity topics, so I'm planning to do more of that here. For one thing, the character limit in posts is larger here, so not only is it a bit easier to post longer-form items, you fuzzballs get to have longer conversations with me.

Loki: *MEOW*.

Me: Oh, right.

- Things I am: #ActuallyAutistic, #LGBTQ+, in a #Polyfidelitous family of 3 older adults and 4 equally awesome (now mostly grown!) children.

- How I pay the bills: #DataEngineering now, #WebDevelopment and #DevOps before that, #Chemistry even longer ago.

- Other things I like: #Cats, obviously. Also #Astronomy (#AmateurAstronomy in particular), #History, #Science, #Books, #HistoricalFiction, #ScienceFiction, #SFF, #Programming, #Hiking, #Nature.

- Some weirder, more specific ones? Fine. #StudioGhibli. Indoor #Rowing. #Languages, currently learning #Spanish and #Latin. I geek out a lot about astronomical data and I maintain a widely-used database of stars (the HYG catalog, and its new extension, the AT-HYG catalog with Gaia data) at https://github.com/astronexus.

Yes, I'm a geek. But you still put up with me, right?

Loki: meow
Hazel: meow

Me: Love you both too.

Redoing my intro because it's been a minute...

Hi! My name is Sarah, and I'm a queer neurodivergent poet, musician, and AuDHD/OCD advocate.

The words queer and neurodivergent are doing a lot of heavy lifting in that first sentence, though! The longhand is "bisexual nonbinary genderfluid demigirl who is autistic, PDA, ADHD, OCD, GAD, CPTSD, and bipolar", but that doesn't fit on a business card. 😅

I'm Australian, but I live in San Francisco. ostensibly working on a novel but mostly just sucking up life like I'm a vacuum cleaner and it's lint.

Special interests and hyperfixations: #Creativity, #Writing, #Poetry, #SFF/#SpecFic, #Drag, #ClassicalMusic, #ChoralMusic and #Musicals, #ContemporaryArt, #History (especially #QueerHistory and #DisabledHistory), #Biology and #Zoology, #Food, #FiberArts, #MBMBAM and #TheAdventureZone, #TerryPratchett, #AceAttorney, #AnimalCrossing, #StevenUniverse, #OurFlagMeansDeath, #RuPaulsDragRace, #Psychology, #Neurodivergence, #Autism and #OCD, #DisabledRights, #SocialJustice, #Ducks.

Current projects: the NOCD Autism/OCD support group, "The 17%" support Discord for autistic folk with OCD (link in bio!), Tabitha and the Nightingale (YA queer/neurodivergent/disabled fantasy novel), and OCD: The Musical. 🧡

#sevenbooks, #bookstodan, #SFF #SpeculativeFiction. Seven Spec fiction books/series that I adore
The Orphan’s Tales (duology) by Catherynne M. Valente
The Sandman (graphic novel series) by Neil Gaiman
The Fifth Season (trilogy) by N.K. Jemisin
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Monstress (graphic novel series) by Marjorie Liu
Bonus Section 1 fiction book: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
1 nonfiction book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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