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queenofairanddarness
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[2007-11-30 00:01:36 +0000 UTC]
"Adrien Etienne"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 1210; Deviations: 62; Watchers: 48
Watching: 26; Pageviews: 10045; Comments Made: 833; Friends: 26
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: various members of the Hudson River School, Georgia O'Keefe, Minekura KazuyaFavorite movies: Star Trek XI, Blood Sport, LotR, Good Shakespeare films (BBC, Branagh), Good Martial Arts movies, good Samurai films (especially Kurosawa Akira)
Favorite TV shows: Star Trek (TOS, TNG, Voyager, DS9), Doctor Who, Torchwood, Sherlock, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, various Anime (Saiyuki and Gundam Wing being the first that come to mind)
Favorite bands / musical artists: James Taylor, Stan Rogers, Josh Groban, Blackmore's Night, Dougie MacLean
Favorite books: Vorkosigan Saga, Space Cadet, Pride and Prejudice, Return of the Native, more than I can shake a stick at
Favorite writers: A. E. Housman, Robert Heinlein, Jack Vance, Lois MacMaster Bujold, Lynn Flwelling, Tanith Lee
Favorite games: Call of Cuhthulu, Changeling the Lost, various GURPS, various White Wolf, FF7
Favorite gaming platform: Tabletop
Tools of the Trade: A text editor for writing, and notebooks to story outline
Other Interests: science fiction, fantasy, literature, folklore, math/science, martial arts, dance, music
# About me
I am a recent college graduate working as an English Tutor for everything from preschoolers to high schoolers. I'm still looking for more work, but so far, this job is going well. I have had a few things published, and hope to have more things published eventually, but those will not be put up here. If you are interested in reading more of my serious work, please go look at my lj (linked below). My LJ is currently not being updated very regularly, and I'm currently trying to decide about taking it down all together (so if you care about it and would like to see new things, please do let me know).I am a flexigay (to borrow a term from a friend), FtM transman. This is something that is very important to me personally, and so, it gets into a lot of my writing. Queer themes in general are common to my work, and if you don't like that, you probably shouldn't be looking at my work. Or maybe you should be looking at my work, but you probably won't like it very much.
I read a lot. I majored in literature, this is unsurprising. I am very fond of everything from "serious literature" to science fiction and fantasy: what I care the most is that it is well written.
Finally, I am natively bilingual. I speak both English and French fluently, and I am happy to read in either. I love to find new things to read. If you've read my stuff and like it, comment! I look at everyone who comments on my work, and there's a decent chance that I will respond.
Adrien Etienne
Current Residence: Earth
deviantWEAR sizing preference: M-L
Favourite genre of music: Folk (both Western and Asian), Baroque (specifically Telleman), and I have a weakness for K-pop/J-pop/C-pop
Favourite style of art: anime/manga, fantasy, nature photography, hudson river school
Favorite genres of literature: science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, (and all that lies in their intersections)
Operating System: Windows 7
Favourite cartoon character: Hakkai, Gojyo (Saiyuki); Trowa, Quatre, Wufei (GW)
# Comments
Comments: 281
You're welcome. You posted a bunch of amazing things recently.
AEH
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As in from Spencer's "The Faerie Queen" as referenced in A. E. Housman's "Her dark enchantments failing". I'm a poetry geek.
AEH
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Mab is the faerie queen of the winter court in a series I read by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files). That might be where he got the name.
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Ah, I have read Butcher's books. They are very good. Mab is one of the names that is traditionally ascribed to the queen of the sidhe, as is Maeve, which is where Butcher almost certainly got the names.
His books are very well researched, and I enjoy them a great deal, but my screen name is the result of an obsession with poetry that only befits and english major.
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" shows up a lot in literature, starting even before Spencer, though I believe that he was the one to coin the phrase. Spencer and Housman are just two of my favorites to use her.
AEH
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You're welcome.
AEH
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Again, thank you! You are made of awesome.
AEH
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Hey whats up?
long time no see!
write back!!!1
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I'm busy with work and taking care of myself this summer. And I have rather bad internet. Other than that, I am doing OK, and I have had time to write, which is nice.
AEH
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sweet-ness
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You're welcome.
AEH
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You're welcome.
AEH
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Thank you so much for the fav! Wonderful writing, btw, and you have possibly the all-time coolest screen name
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You're welcome. I really like your art, I got a chance to look through the rest of your gallery.
Thank you for the compliment on my writing. I'm always glad when other people like my stuff. Though this is by no means the best of what I do, since I don't post anything here that I might try to publish at a later date.
I'm always mildly embarrassed by the screen name actually, there's a typo in it. I was trying to write queenofairanddarkness, and instead I got queenofairanddarness, because I'm unused to typing on stupid PCs.
AEH
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You're welcome.
AEH
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I really liked your work so far, so I'm sure that you won't.
Adri
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About the note you wrote me. I hope you are alright. I dont like when my friends are confused or sad.
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It's going pretty well. I was in England for a while. But even with consistent access to my computer, I don't go into GBW on all that a consistent basis. I'm a college student, and thus rather busy...
AEH
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wow england sweet dude my dad worshups england!
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It was a great deal of fun. And now my semester is starting, and I am very excited since I will now be taking two literature classes.
AEH
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Happy New Year!
Y'all are probably having fun, since it is New Years, but I thought that I'd drop a comment on the off chance that you were online.
I'm hoping the scarf arrived. It should have come by noon today.
You may have already seen this, but their is at last new Metanoia.
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I got the scarf, and I know that there is new Metanoia, though I haven't read it yet.
New Years is fun, but I miss you.
*hugs*
Adri
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Good Journey, my friend!
See you in a few weeks.
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You're welcome. Some of your pics are lovely.
AEH
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You're welcome. Merry Yule.
AEH
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You're welcome!
AEH
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Oh wow, I can't believe I haven't thanked you sooner for the watch!
How disappointing of me!
So, Thank you!!!
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You're welcome. I really liked some of your work.
AEH
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hmmm.. intelligent, good taste of music, interest for liteature... you faved some of my works and watched me... Perfect
I really appreciate this!
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You're welcome. And thank you for the compliments.
AEH
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