BronxWench

Welcome

Ooh! Yes! Literature is one of the most amazing forms of art! It is my world, my heart, my solace! I remember when I used to be mad over not being allowed to check out books that I had to wait until I was in an older grade for because I'd already read all the books in the school library I did have access to. I also grew up on Harry Potter and Percy Jackson and Charlie Bone and Fable Haven as favourites from fourth grade on up. The former two are well known, especially HP. The latter two, it's a bit harder to find fellow fans or even just others who know of the books. The latter two definitely are deserving of movie depictions of them, both very good reads.

I pretty much phoned it in in English class in elementary and high school. Like I was writing by then, but writing for fun and writing for school were two very separate things. But I dropped out and by the time I got to adult ed, I pwned that shit and learned to express my love for writing in essays as well. 
I think everyone here loves to write and/or read. But there’s a special place in my good books for people who treat and love writing as an art in all facets. Not just the writing of it, but the sculpting of it: the alterations, the additions, the cuts. 

Thanks, pittwitch. 

I suppose I took to the written word strongly because of an innate part of me sensing the potential of words in and of themselves. I'm not the best at precision when speaking, so naturally I rely mostly on my writing. I prefer texting over calls for this reason unless I'm merely listening and saying very little. I take it you're best subject would be science?

Welcome aboard!
 

Haha~ Grammar has always been my life and English throughout elementary, middle, and high school was always my best class. I absolutely love a well written sentence and I do my best to catch every err in my own writing to fix it as soon as humanly possible. I also have to force myself not to nitpick others writing as not to cause unintentional offence since a lot of people get too defensive about it. To me, wording is everything, so the written word is best for me over vocalisation because I feel the need to choose my words carefully to be as precise as possible. Spelling and punctuation,  of course, go along with grammar for obvious reasons. 

An editor?  Oh, those are rare around here, welcome indeed!  

Omg, I love to edit too! I like you already. (To anyone going through these comments, I’m not saying this randomly, lol. It’s on her bio.)

Oh, I always read the rules for any cyberspace I join! It's better to know how to avoid doing something you're not supposed to, even if you wouldn't do it in the first place. Besides, I say the rules count as reading material, so I'm happy to have a look(and not just mere skimming through, but genuinely reading it all). 

Welcome, and good to see that you’re reading the rules, the mods will most definitely appreciate that!

Thanks. I'm already enjoying myself. Feel free to take a look at my archive profile for a bio/an About Me since I haven't set that up here just yet.

Fresh meat? Welcome! I love seeing new people, and I hope you enjoy yourself here!

I’d rather hide, kinda makes me eligible for Hermits United, if I could stand a crowded cave, that is. 

Wait, you tried to be friendly, right?  

Smile, nod, and dead eyes. That’s my go-to response in the real world. Why, is that not friendly?

Meatspace is overrated. I can’t control it, I can’t talk about pervy shit in it, and I can’t block strangers that talk to me. So Gross.

Gotta prioritise meatspace over cyberspace! Good luck out there.

@Wilde_Guess I’m an old DOS user, so I’m very much at home with working in the command prompt arena. The daft one and I were tidying, and ran across our ancient notes on tweaking HIMEM on our--really—IBM PS1. We’re hopelessly geeky, and the daft one has at least one laptop that runs Linux (don’t ask me what flavor) and one that still runs DOS.
@Desiderius Price Very good! You get to move to the front of the spanking line.

@Wilde_Guess I read the "fast and durable hard drive" way too fast, started to think latex and naughty thoughts (this is AFF after all) 

A fast and durable hard drive is never a bad thing.  As for *nix, you will want to be VERY COMFORTABLE with the “normally hidden wires” of an operating system before using it.  I have experience with SCO Unix, Intel Solaris, Linux, and post-Intel Apple OSX.  If you have to try *nix, get an iMac.  All the unix stuff is in there, but stays “hidden” unless you go looking for it.

As long as I end up with a working desktop again, I’m happy!
The new HD will be a treat for me, though. It’s a gaming HD, so on those rare moments when I get to game, it will go more smoothly, or so the Elderspawn tells me. (Elderspawn’s OEM HD croaked last year and was replaced with the same model HD, and Elderspawn is a heavy gamer.)
It’s just always a pain in the ass to reinstall everything, but the old HD is now set up as an Igor, so once I have the programs reinstalled, I can pick its brain for the data files I want.
@Desiderius Price I have yet to play enough with Linux to be ready to make the move from Windows. Some day!

As long as I end up with a working desktop again, I’m happy!
The new HD will be a treat for me, though. It’s a gaming HD, so on those rare moments when I get to game, it will go more smoothly, or so the Elderspawn tells me. (Elderspawn’s OEM HD croaked last year and was replaced with the same model HD, and Elderspawn is a heavy gamer.)
It’s just always a pain in the ass to reinstall everything, but the old HD is now set up as an Igor, so once I have the programs reinstalled, I can pick its brain for the data files I want.
@Desiderius Price I have yet to play enough with Linux to be ready to make the move from Windows. Some day!

May they only jab you once on the bloodwork.  (I had to be jabbed a second time when I did mine earlier this week.)

I’m not sure putting on Windows is a treat for a hard drive.  Now, if you were talking Linux, that’d definitely be a treat!