I own an actual
barnstar, and have had it before I even knew they existed on Wikipedia. It's hung up on my wall next to my shrine.
some biases
Regarding
religion: I am a polytheist, though I have a fairly abstract/confusing definition of "god." I disapprove of pagans who don't research their religions seriously, and I'm skeptical—though not against—eclecticism. I'm not anti-Abrahamic religions. I came from a Reconstructionist Jewish background, learned enough about Wicca to know it wasn't for me (and enough to rewrite the
Simple English Wikipedia article!) and am currently (as I wrote before) a
Kemetic recon.
Regarding
LGBT issues and
gender: I believe that gender exists and is real, but that it isn't binary, and
transgenderism of any kind (or
agenderism) is legitimate and normal. I strongly support equal rights for LGBT people, both sexual and social. I am personally leery of whether
polyamory "works" or not, but I do not believe it's morally wrong.
Regarding
therianthropy and
otherkin (this gets into the weird territory...): I identify as partly
leopard, making me a therian and otherkin. I'm generally skeptical about most people in both communities, but I believe that it's quite possible to be of another species (though not physically).
Regarding
linguistics: I am a
descriptivist regarding spoken and written language, but (hypocritically) I'm biased against a lot of
internet slang, especially the parts of it that are not transferable to everyday speech. I don't like certain spelling changes, like using the wrong "it's/its," because they aren't standardized among the error-makers—suggesting that they're more a problem of laziness than an evolutionary change in the language.
Miscellanea:
I support (and have three times won)
NaNoWriMo. I don't think it necessarily produces bad writing, and even when it does, it's just for fun. No harm done.
I tend to call the ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) deities by their Egyptian names, instead of their Greco-Roman ones, and follow the
Kemetic Orthodox renaming standards: Wesir instead of
Osiris, Yinepu instead of
Anubis, so on.
I own an actual
barnstar, and have had it before I even knew they existed on Wikipedia. It's hung up on my wall next to my shrine.
some biases
Regarding
religion: I am a polytheist, though I have a fairly abstract/confusing definition of "god." I disapprove of pagans who don't research their religions seriously, and I'm skeptical—though not against—eclecticism. I'm not anti-Abrahamic religions. I came from a Reconstructionist Jewish background, learned enough about Wicca to know it wasn't for me (and enough to rewrite the
Simple English Wikipedia article!) and am currently (as I wrote before) a
Kemetic recon.
Regarding
LGBT issues and
gender: I believe that gender exists and is real, but that it isn't binary, and
transgenderism of any kind (or
agenderism) is legitimate and normal. I strongly support equal rights for LGBT people, both sexual and social. I am personally leery of whether
polyamory "works" or not, but I do not believe it's morally wrong.
Regarding
therianthropy and
otherkin (this gets into the weird territory...): I identify as partly
leopard, making me a therian and otherkin. I'm generally skeptical about most people in both communities, but I believe that it's quite possible to be of another species (though not physically).
Regarding
linguistics: I am a
descriptivist regarding spoken and written language, but (hypocritically) I'm biased against a lot of
internet slang, especially the parts of it that are not transferable to everyday speech. I don't like certain spelling changes, like using the wrong "it's/its," because they aren't standardized among the error-makers—suggesting that they're more a problem of laziness than an evolutionary change in the language.
Miscellanea:
I support (and have three times won)
NaNoWriMo. I don't think it necessarily produces bad writing, and even when it does, it's just for fun. No harm done.
I tend to call the ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) deities by their Egyptian names, instead of their Greco-Roman ones, and follow the
Kemetic Orthodox renaming standards: Wesir instead of
Osiris, Yinepu instead of
Anubis, so on.