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tozkaHi! I'm tozka, a queer pagan 30-something ex-librarian from California. My pronouns are xe/xem/xyr.
At the moment I'm a self-employed blogger (off-DW), fulltime housesitter and general ne'er-do-well. Current non-fandom interests include: FOSS, internet history (particularly 1990s-2010s), queer history, world travel, solarpunk/gardening/permaculture, stage musicals, zines.
Besides my personal journal entries, I tend to post mostly links to interesting articles, videos and websites, what I'm reading/watching, and the occasional fanfic rec list. For content and access policies, scroll down.
Other places I can be found
Ranked in order of where I'm found the most...
I'm a hardcore lurker and fanfic addict since the early 2000s. Sailor Moon was my OG fandom, back in fifth grade when we'd LARP on the playground and spend afternoons hunting for art scans on the library computers. In middle school we got a family computer-- and I discovered fanfic and IRC. Memories include: saving copies of Gundam Wing and Harry Potter fanfic on floppy disks, printing out Sailor Moon fics on my dad's computer, this emoji: (=^_^=)
I was part of the LiveJournal era circa 2005-2012. It was great! And then Strikethrough (and Boldthrough) happened, fandom moved away from LJ and Tumblr/Twitter became popular. I joined Tumblr, made a Dreamwidth but was confused by it, and lurked on Twitter. IRL I graduated college, went job-hunting, and then started grad school-- and lost all energy to do more than scroll through my Tumblr dashboard and save fics to my A03 bookmarks. Memories include: so much discourse, watching AO3 grow into something amazing, figuring out how to archive fic using Calibre.
When Tumblr banned pornography in December 2018, I followed the fandom exodus over to Dreamwidth. I also dumped Tumblr and Twitter and made the fediverse my main hang out spot. It took a while to stick, but now I'm here to stay...while still dipping my toes into Tumblr/Discord because I really need new Good Omens fanart, okay.
*** Previous fandom IDs in reverse order: doctorsidrat, tozka, 1843, mendacious. I circled back around to tozka after about 11 years.
I'm multi-fandom and multi-shipping, though I tend to read mostly slash (m/m) and femslash (f/f). Here is a non-exhaustive list of fandoms I've enjoyed being in over the last 20+ years. Current (as of December 2025) fandoms are bolded.
Ace Attorney, The Adventure Zone, An American Werewolf in London/Paris, Angel: The Series, Astreiant, Batman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Captain America (MCU), Check Please!, Community, Daredevil (Netflix), The Dark is Rising (books), Dead Zone, The Devil Wears Prada, Doctor Who, Dragon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Dragonball Z, The Dresden Files, The Faculty, Fantastic Beasts, The Goblin Emperor, The God Eaters (book), Good Omens, Grantchester, Grimm, Gundam Wing, Haikyuu, Hannibal, Harry Potter, Hikaru no Go, The Hobbit, Hornblower, House M.D., Initial D, Inu-Yasha, It Chapter Two, Jeeves & Wooster, Jujutsu Kaisen, Jurassic Park III, Kingsman, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Leverage, Lord Peter Wimsey, Man from UNCLE, Merlin (BBC), My Hero Academia, Naruto, NCIS, Nightrunner (books), Person of Interest, Pet Shop of Horrors, Pirates of the Caribbean, Queer as Folk (UK), Rurouni Kenshin, Sailor Moon, The Secret Garden, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Smallville, Star Trek (TOS, AOS, DS9), Star Wars, Static Shock, Suits, Supernatural, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Temeraire, Thor (MCU), Transformers, Trigun, Venom, Welcome to Night Vale, White Collar, The Witcher, Yu Yu Hakusho, Yuri!!! On Ice, X-Men (movies & comics).
This journal is 75% unlocked/public, 15% access-locked/friends-only (and 5% private).
The public stuff is a mix of links, technology how-to/instructional stuff, reviews (video games, books, podcasts, etc.), and misc. fandom things (meta, recs).
The access-locked stuff is all personal life things that I don't want strangers casually snooping on but usually involves updates about my catsitting gigs, travel plans, family stuff, and so on.
Please note I don't tag or warn for content except for fic ratings on rec posts.
Feel free to subscribe at any time!
If you want access to the locked stuff: I'm pretty open to friending anyone who friends me first, as long as you have some entries and look like a real person (and are over 18). Just let me know.
Head's up that I do prune my circle(/friends list) every so often, so if you find yourself removed from my access list, it's probably because you haven't updated your journal in a few years.
Feel free to link to any public post. I would love it if you left a comment telling me where you linked it, but it's not necessary.
Please do not copy my entire post; short quotes are fine. Do NOT link to locked posts.
I welcome comments from everyone, including people not on my access list. I love comments of all kinds, even if they're just heart emojis or slightly off topic. Off-topic comments? Totally cool! If I ever DON'T want a certain comment on my blog, I will either freeze the thread or delete/screen it.
Updated January 12, 2026. Made un-sticky because it was annoying me to scroll past it all the time.
At the moment I'm a self-employed blogger (off-DW), fulltime housesitter and general ne'er-do-well. Current non-fandom interests include: FOSS, internet history (particularly 1990s-2010s), queer history, world travel, solarpunk/gardening/permaculture, stage musicals, zines.
Besides my personal journal entries, I tend to post mostly links to interesting articles, videos and websites, what I'm reading/watching, and the occasional fanfic rec list. For content and access policies, scroll down.
Other places I can be found
Ranked in order of where I'm found the most...
- Pixietails, my personal website
- tozka @ fandom.ink (chatter)
- tozka @ LibraryThing (books)
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
lakertya (icons) and misthold (video games reviews) (not much)
Fandom History
I'm a hardcore lurker and fanfic addict since the early 2000s. Sailor Moon was my OG fandom, back in fifth grade when we'd LARP on the playground and spend afternoons hunting for art scans on the library computers. In middle school we got a family computer-- and I discovered fanfic and IRC. Memories include: saving copies of Gundam Wing and Harry Potter fanfic on floppy disks, printing out Sailor Moon fics on my dad's computer, this emoji: (=^_^=)
I was part of the LiveJournal era circa 2005-2012. It was great! And then Strikethrough (and Boldthrough) happened, fandom moved away from LJ and Tumblr/Twitter became popular. I joined Tumblr, made a Dreamwidth but was confused by it, and lurked on Twitter. IRL I graduated college, went job-hunting, and then started grad school-- and lost all energy to do more than scroll through my Tumblr dashboard and save fics to my A03 bookmarks. Memories include: so much discourse, watching AO3 grow into something amazing, figuring out how to archive fic using Calibre.
When Tumblr banned pornography in December 2018, I followed the fandom exodus over to Dreamwidth. I also dumped Tumblr and Twitter and made the fediverse my main hang out spot. It took a while to stick, but now I'm here to stay...while still dipping my toes into Tumblr/Discord because I really need new Good Omens fanart, okay.
*** Previous fandom IDs in reverse order: doctorsidrat, tozka, 1843, mendacious. I circled back around to tozka after about 11 years.
Fandom Interests
I'm multi-fandom and multi-shipping, though I tend to read mostly slash (m/m) and femslash (f/f). Here is a non-exhaustive list of fandoms I've enjoyed being in over the last 20+ years. Current (as of December 2025) fandoms are bolded.
Ace Attorney, The Adventure Zone, An American Werewolf in London/Paris, Angel: The Series, Astreiant, Batman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Captain America (MCU), Check Please!, Community, Daredevil (Netflix), The Dark is Rising (books), Dead Zone, The Devil Wears Prada, Doctor Who, Dragon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Dragonball Z, The Dresden Files, The Faculty, Fantastic Beasts, The Goblin Emperor, The God Eaters (book), Good Omens, Grantchester, Grimm, Gundam Wing, Haikyuu, Hannibal, Harry Potter, Hikaru no Go, The Hobbit, Hornblower, House M.D., Initial D, Inu-Yasha, It Chapter Two, Jeeves & Wooster, Jujutsu Kaisen, Jurassic Park III, Kingsman, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Leverage, Lord Peter Wimsey, Man from UNCLE, Merlin (BBC), My Hero Academia, Naruto, NCIS, Nightrunner (books), Person of Interest, Pet Shop of Horrors, Pirates of the Caribbean, Queer as Folk (UK), Rurouni Kenshin, Sailor Moon, The Secret Garden, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Smallville, Star Trek (TOS, AOS, DS9), Star Wars, Static Shock, Suits, Supernatural, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Temeraire, Thor (MCU), Transformers, Trigun, Venom, Welcome to Night Vale, White Collar, The Witcher, Yu Yu Hakusho, Yuri!!! On Ice, X-Men (movies & comics).
Content, access, commenting, & linking policies
Content
This journal is 75% unlocked/public, 15% access-locked/friends-only (and 5% private).
The public stuff is a mix of links, technology how-to/instructional stuff, reviews (video games, books, podcasts, etc.), and misc. fandom things (meta, recs).
The access-locked stuff is all personal life things that I don't want strangers casually snooping on but usually involves updates about my catsitting gigs, travel plans, family stuff, and so on.
Please note I don't tag or warn for content except for fic ratings on rec posts.
Access/Friending
Feel free to subscribe at any time!
If you want access to the locked stuff: I'm pretty open to friending anyone who friends me first, as long as you have some entries and look like a real person (and are over 18). Just let me know.
Head's up that I do prune my circle(/friends list) every so often, so if you find yourself removed from my access list, it's probably because you haven't updated your journal in a few years.
Linking
Feel free to link to any public post. I would love it if you left a comment telling me where you linked it, but it's not necessary.
Please do not copy my entire post; short quotes are fine. Do NOT link to locked posts.
Comments
I welcome comments from everyone, including people not on my access list. I love comments of all kinds, even if they're just heart emojis or slightly off topic. Off-topic comments? Totally cool! If I ever DON'T want a certain comment on my blog, I will either freeze the thread or delete/screen it.
Updated January 12, 2026. Made un-sticky because it was annoying me to scroll past it all the time.
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Date: Jan. 14th, 2019 05:13 pm (UTC)I've found your journal through your fandom-meta. They were so interesting to read.
Dead Zone
Date: Jan. 20th, 2019 06:58 am (UTC)Christopher Walkin movie Dead Zone,
or Anthony Michael Hall TV Dead Zone
???
(I'm familiar with them all, but I have a favorite.)
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Date: Jan. 20th, 2019 06:36 pm (UTC)Re: Dead Zone
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Date: Jan. 24th, 2019 02:29 am (UTC)Re: Dead Zone
Date: Jan. 24th, 2019 03:22 am (UTC)Well, there is now because I wrote it, so if you trust self-recs:
Sometimes They're Just Dicks Words: 1,516
This could be gen or put-on-your-slash-goggles. Johnny and Bruce in a car talking about penises. This was my demonstration of why I would never write smut. All the words for penis sound stupid. Writing this story was supposed to be me talking myself out of smutty plot bunnies. (It didn't work.)
God Spelled Bacwkards Words: 16,206 ANGST WARNING
This was a fusion of the TV show and the books (books plural as I quote from some of King's other books set in Castle County, Maine) and includes references to Sheriff Bannerman's death (Stephen King version). It actually has some funny bits mixed in because I'm incapable of writing serious for any length, but there are dark recurring themes.
Coffee May Be Hot Words: 22,083 Johnny/Bruce
My first sex scene! It's not good sex, but it's funny sex and I'm very happy with how the story worked out. (Story takes place in the final season after Walt has died.)
QUOTE: "He and Bruce were standing in line at Starbucks when Johnny had his epiphany: it was Starbucks that was making him gay. Had he ever heard the word metrosexual before he'd heard of an iced venti chai? Coincidence? Every time he ordered a mocha frappuccino or a pumpkin spice latte, he lost another gram of testosterone. It was inevitable. You didn't even have to drink the drinks. Just saying the words "non-fat mocha latte" made you just a teeny bit more gay each time. And he reached this conclusion a full two minutes before he had the vision that proved it."
And They All Lived Happily Ever After Words: 4,668 gen-but-implied-smut
Summary: And they all lived happily ever after and had lots of sex because they deserve it, damn it!
QUOTE: "Walt Bannerman did not die. Heeding Johnny's warning, Walt alerted the fire department. He pulled into the church parking lot at the same time as the fire trucks.
Reverend Purdy didn't die either and was only singed a very tiny bit (which served him right anyway).
Some guy named Janus did die, but that was really for the best all around.
Nor did Herb Smith die. Walt told Johnny everything he knew about Herb's secret captivity. They called in Dana Bright and rescued Herb with a television crew alongside them, capturing it all on video and exposing Congressman Stillson's twisted exploitation of an aging mental patient.
Stillson's criminal trial was still pending, but the mere fact that he was being guided by the so-called psychic visions of a certified lunatic had already permanently destroyed his political career and thus no one at all died in a nuclear apocalypse.
* * *
Herb moved home with Johnny and…"
There was supposed to be a free-for-all sex scene at the end of this, but I got lazy and never wrote it. I don't think I know how to keep track of all the body parts anyway so just use your imagination. (I think that technically makes this a porn-without-plot-but-also-without-porn. Sorry.)
And then I also wrote a gen Dead Zone / Early Edition crossover, but Bruce isn't in that one.
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Date: Jan. 20th, 2019 06:41 pm (UTC)Ha! I never preview my comments because it's like two extra clicks and REALLY ANNOYING so I do not judge.
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Date: Jan. 21st, 2019 02:10 am (UTC)Yeah I doubt this is something I'll ever do consistently myself but I guess it's good to keep in mind that it exists as an option, or something x)
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Date: Jan. 26th, 2019 04:39 am (UTC)Anyway, 'lo! I am, I have to say, really happily enjoying the increased activity on DW of late. Not remotely thrilled with its genesis, but I'll appreciate the flood gifts when I run into them.
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Date: Jan. 26th, 2019 04:53 am (UTC)Love your icon, btw!
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Date: Jan. 26th, 2019 04:59 am (UTC)So, probably it was just some concatenation of friends and interests in common. WE MAY NEVER KNOW FOR SURE. C'est la vie! Fandom is weird that way, sometimes. :D
And, omg, thanks! I am so fond of this icon; it was made for me by
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Date: Jan. 26th, 2019 05:11 am (UTC)Maybe you'll just be my ~mystery friend lol
Aw, I love how attached people get to their icons! I remember seeing some discussion somewhere on DW last month about how people associate themselves with an icon and, after a certain amount of time, it becomes part of their online identity. Like, for me, I've been using this Doctor Who icon for 12 years. When I moved to DW I didn't even think about changing it, and I still don't really want to. If I DO, it'll probably just be for another Fourth Doctor icon, ha.
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Date: Jan. 26th, 2019 05:31 am (UTC)I don't really do most of those much! I tend to follow people through comments posted on friend's entries rather than hitting network directly. And I really only have ever hit up the DW Recent posts page and searching regularly when I was actively spamwhacking on the regular (it's a good way of catching SEO creeps who are making journals rather than posting comments). It is Odd, because, yeah, I'm pretty sure I friended you awhile back (definitely it was not just the other day)! We truly may never know?! XD
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Date: Jan. 7th, 2020 06:09 pm (UTC)I found you via the snowflake challenge. We seem to have both interests and friends in common, so I'd like to add you, if you don't mind. :-)
And wow, you really weren't kidding when you said multi-fandom. Although if I wrote down all the fandoms I've ever been hunting fic in my list would probably be not much shorter. *g*
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Date: Jan. 12th, 2020 08:12 pm (UTC)Friended back. <3
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Date: Jan. 12th, 2020 08:11 pm (UTC)But fandom lifespans seem so much shorter than they used to be? Like even Hannibal, which had a solid post-show presence for several years, seems to have quieted down a lot now.
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