you and me in the stars (sinking in mercury)

Good god, this website has a backend like trying to drive a Mars rover.

I guess we'll start this post, and this account, off with a good ol' fashioned plea for mercy: I've never had a Dreamwidth before, and this site drives with the finesse of a dilapidated cruise ship, so if I break anything via code-poking, or if I commit any Dreamwidth etiquette sins, please be gentle.

So, for starters, my name is Kenna: I'm named after my grandfather, which I always think is fun. My twitter is womb2tombs and my AO3 is tendertorn.

I was born in a little swamp-town called Hammond, Louisiana, about 45 minutes outside of New Orleans. It's mostly famous for having a devil-worshipping murder cult out in the woods that inspired the first season of True Detective, but the weather's nice, too.

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I've also worked as a shotgun-toting dive bar bartender, the clerk at a probably-haunted mob-front hotel, an exceptionally mediocre guitar player, a UX / UI designer at a tech startup, a waitress at a novelty restaurant, and a video game QA tester for Marvel. I'm currently living in Appalachia, after moving back to ride out the pandemic, and... ugh, god. These kinds of posts are always so hard, aren't they? Like. What do people even want to know?

As far as interests go, I'm into MDZS, Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Dragon Age, The Expanse, comic books (mostly DC, but I'm also a slut for Stucky), fantasy novels, HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts: basically competitive swordfighting, it's rad), rock-climbing, kickboxing, archery (I used to compete a pretty high level, actually: mostly in recurve, barebow, and compound), and video games. Many, many video games. 

I'm 26, I'm bisexual, I speak 3.5 languages (English, Cajun French, Spanish, and some Mandarin), and I also write fantasy novels! I'm currently (slowly and begrudgingly) working on a high-fantasy story inspired by the West Virginia Mine Wars, which draws heavily from American history and folklore. It's super fun and I'm excited about it. 

Aside from that, I'm drawing a blank on what else to throw in here: I think this gives you a taste of the Experience, at the very least! I'm super, super laidback, and I love talking to people, so please never be scared to talk to me! I'm excited to meet everyone, and I hope we can build a cool fan community on here together! 

hooked on phonics progress: 69%

 I'm working on cleaning this theme up and personalizing it a bit, I was too excited / in a rush last night to sit down with the markdown and polish everything the way I want to. I think I'm getting more of the gist of what Dreamwidth is and how it operates, though, and I gotta say, I'm like... really into it, to be honest. 

I love doing long-winded metas and threads, that was what I kind of like... made my reputation on back on Tumblr, so the concept of having a platform where I can just write and structure that however I want, without the pressure of having to cut it at a certain point, is really enticing. I like how laidback and chill everything is, too, and how it's not so in-your-face about metrics and numbers and engagement algorithms (and ads). 

There are certain more niche aspects that I'm squinting at, though, like icons: are icons like, moodlets? Or like proto-memes? How does that work? Like... what social purpose do they serve? What do you do with them?