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- Chloe Frazer
In this forum tradition we give a specific member a thread for a week in which they can share whatever information they want about themselves, then answer whatever questions the public asks them. It's sort of an expansion on the "Let's get to know each other" thread by, well, giving one member the spotlight. More information on the concept can be found here.
This week's participant is [member=3867]Fangu[/member], who has elected to share the following information:
Feel free to ask whatever you'd like. This thread will be up for approximately a week before we move onto our next participant.
This week's participant is [member=3867]Fangu[/member], who has elected to share the following information:
Sup guys, I'm Fangu, 34 year old female from Norway. I stumbled upon this forum in 2011 after seeing Advent Children, and kind of (lol) stuck around. At the time I had just gone back to school to study Computer Science to pursue a career in IT (I used to worked in logistics.) As a student working night shifts in telecom I had a looot of time to spend on this board, so I did. In 2012 I halped build the template that the TLS front page uses today by writing n00b PHP, but I have since stepped down as Front Page Developer, explained in some post somewhere I can find, but tl;dr time, plus I now work with this stuff as a developer (web programming; .NET, JavaScript, etc if that means anything to you). I love the subject but the profession itself can be kind of draining, for a million of reasons. But yeah I used to live here, getting to know a bunch of lovely people, hanging out on Skype, on IRC, and I've met Yop IRL twice.
I hadn't played a lot of games until my then boyfriend introduced me to newer gen consoles in 2010-ish. Since then I've enjoyed several, most worth mentioning the Uncharted series, Valkyria Chronicles, and of course Final Fantasy games. In 2012 one of the guys I was writing my bachelor thesis with lent me Final Fantasy XII, which was a grand day in my life. I loved the game from the very first cutscene and have since then probably spent 1000 hours or so playing various versions of the game. In 2013/2014 I attempted an 'XII in a day' playthrough - I think I had 3 attempts. The first one had me all the way to The Undying before I had to call it quits. That was 13 hours something. Right now I'm trying to learn a speedrun route for this very game. Obsessing over things, learning them by heart, is something I love to do because my memory isn't excellent - I tend to need 'coat hangers' to put stuff I learn on, so mapping the run in my head, remembering the tiniest detail, feels good.
I've also written tons of XII fanfic, and some other fanfic too. Learning English better was another obsession I had a couple of years back. I've also taken up drawing over the recent years, but I don't do it that often anymore. When I was a teenager I used to ride a horse 4 times per week. I've recently started riding again, which is such a great stress reliever: The fresh air, the routine, the smell of pony I used to run a lot (I ran a half marathon in 2012) but don't do so that often - I've taken up strength exercises instead (there's a gym right next to my job.) I also like going on hikes.
Personality wise I'm not very good with people, but I do care for them, and I want to understand them. I guess it's why I ended up in technology anyway - people can be stressful to navigate, tech stuff at least has set rules. Well, mostly anyway. I have a temper and I know I can be difficult to work with sometimes. (I have been described as scary more than one time on the Interwebz ) I have recently learned I'm able to care for people and make them feel loved, which for many years I didn't think I could. Which is related to the next point.
I'm currently living alone for the first time in my life. When I was 20 I moved out from my mother's house into an apartment with 4 other people that I didn't know, which turned into quite the success story: I moved in with one of the girls a couple of years later, living with her for a year until my best friend from high school took her place. Four years later I moved down to Oslo where I'm currently living to live with my ex (to TLS people known as 'BF', my partner', and recently just 'T' (or 'my ex')), and to work, as I had just finished my first engineering degree. Seven years gone by I've moved out from the ex into a small apartment I've decorated from scratch. It's been an exhausting, soul shaking, liberating experience - I haven't talked too much about it on the open part of the forums, but I've been coping with the break up (which happened in March) while getting to know someone knew, which I also happen to work with. (We didn't start dating properly until this summer.) So far we've told a couple of colleagues (or they've sniffed it out) and the first response is always a version of 'but is this wise?' And I guess that's where I want to say that you never plan life. When I got together with my ex, he was the Love Of My Life. Like, blood, sweat and tears, nothing could ever replace this kind of passion. This was It. And for many years I held on to that feeling, even when our differences in personalities were slowly destroying our liking for each other, our ability to live together. When I met him, we spent two years in a long-distance relationship, and what did people say then? 'But is this wise?' So fuck being wise, I say. Do what feels right. I finally feel like I've met someone I don't have to put a lot of work into adapting my personality to be with. Being with him feels effortless, organic. Because he's alike me on many levels, there's a lot that doesn't need hours and hours of explaining.
I'll try my best to reply, probably like once per day. We have a major product release at work this Wednesday but my weekend is fairly unscheduled. My almost-boyfriend and I are trying to learn how to ignore each other so he'll probably bring his laptop over this weekend. (Knowing when and how to ignore each other is vital for being able to live together! Finally I have met someone who agrees with me 100% on this )
So yeah, um. Ask me anything. No questions are off limits. The more personal, the more interesting
Feel free to ask whatever you'd like. This thread will be up for approximately a week before we move onto our next participant.