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| User: | serpentstar (734038)
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| Name: | Ian Sturrock |
| Website: | Hyborian Tales |
| Location: | Wrexham, Wrexham, United Kingdom |
| Birthdate: | 1970-01-02 |
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| serpentstar | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Skype: |  ian_sturrock |
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| Bio: | Killing all of your dreams -- two shots to the back of the head -- since 1970.
I am the Heart; and the Snake is entwined
About the invisible core of the mind. -- Liber LXV
Born in Liverpool, grew up on the Wirral, went to Manchester university, did an English degree, then hung around Manchester for about another seven years doing stuff like market trading, hair wraps, making vegan chocolate, delivering organic vegetables by bicycle, being a circus performer with Dogs of Heaven, and running a pagan bookshop. Moved to Wales, worked again in a variety of fields from washer-upper to microwave-oven-assembler, Mac Operator, stage technician, Mac Operator/Copywriter again, sales & marketing manager for a roleplaying games publisher, then -- finally -- what seemed to be my dream job, full-time writer for another RPG publisher, Mongoose Publishing. I lasted 18 months there. For over 4 years after that, I had a portfolio of jobs: freelancing as an RPG writer, editor, & consultant; working on various projects of my own; occasionally working at the local library; and some research work. As of now (2008) I am a full-time manager at one of the companies that used to be one of my favourite clients, when I was a freelancer. I'm still doing bits and pieces of freelancing, but am in the lovely position of being able to pick and choose which bits.
Currently living with awesome wife ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bridiep, our seven-year-old son Kyle, our dog Nuala and our cats Hekitty, Timogen & Orlando. Polyamorous, but not really actively looking right now due to lack of time. Still pagan, anarchist, eco-activist etc but not enormously active in any of the above fields due to lack of time. Still enjoy going to gigs and clubs but, you've guessed it. . .
"Love is that short period of time when a person of the opposite sex holds the same opinion of us as we do of ourselves." -- Magdalena Samozwaniec
"Well that's love, isn't it? Load of old wank." -- Daisy, on _Spaced_
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." -- Einstein
"Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own."
-- Sir Richard F. Burton
"Boo. Boo. Boo." -- The Ancient Booer
"D&D, in the popular imagination, is for geeks, the nerds, the unpopular kids at school, the ones whose mothers fed them in their bedrooms, otherwise they wouldn't eat: losers, fit only to be sneered at by the cool kids.
"But the geeks are now running the world, while the cool kids are sitting in vast fluorescent hangars in post-industrial hardship zones, calling you on behalf of Capital One in connection with your account; or wondering if you'd like fries with that." -- The Independent
"I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live, let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
-- Robert E. Howard, _Queen of the Black Coast_, 1934
Links:
RSS feed of this journal, so you can read what I write without needing an LJ of your own:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/serpentstar/data/rss
Amazon wishlist (got my own one at last -- buy me a bowmaking book, and I might give you a discount on a longbow):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/wishlist/D6TKI3WR5H5D/ref=cm_wl_sortbar_o_page_1/202-9626460-5855033?ie=UTF8&filter=all&sort=priority&layout=standard&reveal=unpurchased&page=1
My Care Instructions can be found here:
http://serpentstar.livejournal.com/186623.html
I think this may be the most important post I've ever made:
http://serpentstar.livejournal.com/197910.html
NOTE: This journal and all its entries are copyright Ian Sturrock, 2002-2008. No part of it may be reproduced without prior written permission from me. In particular, the content of any friends-only or otherwise filtered journal entries and posts should be regarded as confidential. |
| Interests: | 150: ∞, alabama 3, alan moore, alternative, anarchism, antony gormley, apocalypse culture, apocalyptica, ashbet's tits, aubrey beardsley, b-movies, babylon 5, big boots, big train, bitter & twisted, bjork, blacksmithing, blade runner, blake's 7, blood music, body art, body modification, brass eye, british plate armour society, cats, chris morris, chuck palahniuk, clark ashton smith, clubs, conan, contemporary dance, costuming, creatures, crossfit, crossfit.com, cycling, dali, diamanda galas, dick gaughan, discordianism, dr john, dressing up, dumnonni, ebm, eliptony, english martial arts, epstein's rock drill, ewan mccoll, fancy dress, farscape, festivals, fetish clothing, fire, folk, fritz leiber, gaming, ghost dog, giacometti, gigs, girls under glass, goth, goth clubs, greg egan, half-basket walloons, hard house, hard sf, hardwave, hip-hop, hoegaarden, hyborian tales, iain banks, iain m banks, imminent starvation, industrial, italo calvino, jack vance, jam, jg ballard, ken macleod, kronos quartet, laser squad nemesis, leatherworking, man(i)kin, medieval re-enactment, movies, muppet treasure island, nanotechnology, nice boots, nobilis, north wales, orbital, outlore, piercings, pil, pirates, pirates of the caribbean, pj harvey, plate armour, polyamory, pottery, punk, pvc, reading, robert e howard, rubber, runes, running, sci-fi, sculpture, sea shanties, sex, sheila chandra, shiny metal, single malts, siouxsie, slaine, sloe gin, spaced, star wars, stephen baxter, stilts, stooges, suns of arqa, swans, swords, tai chi, talhoffer, tattoos, the clash, the day today, the hidden game, the ocean game, the princess bride, the sacrificin' brethig song, the sopranos, the stooges, theatre, thelema, tim powers, trance, treasure island, vernor vinge, vikings, weissbier, western martial arts, whitby, william blake, woad, woodcarving, zombies |
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| Member of: | 33: analplay, beyond_perfect, bipolypagangeek, britpunk, darkpaganism, daveallsopstuff, dragonmeet, ethical_sluts, fit_larper, goth_w_i, gothcruise, gothic_babes, gothicnorth, grammargasm, guildwars, john_peel, just_whitby, lrp_uk, neil_gaiman, pagan_skeptics, poly_bitch, poly_marriage, polyamory, polyamory_uk, polypersonals, protest_survive, rpg_slaves, subculturemoms, transhumanist, tyrellcorp, urban_dead, urban_zombies, wtswtb |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
