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tothehilltops2011-02-11 03:05 pm
syf) wrote in tothehilltops2011-02-11 03:05 pm
Welcome
Hello and welcome to "To the Hilltops!" We're so glad that you are joining us and choosing to share in this journey toward an ethics of Christian womanhood.
Please view this post as an invitation to a comfortable seat beside a cozy fireplace. Come in, kick up your feet, grab yourself a cup of tea, and introduce yourself to everyone. Who are you? What brings you here? How do you see the need for a community like this one in your life right now?
Excitedly,
the mods (Kay, Sharon, and Tamara)
So. Erm. Hello. This is me.
(Hee puns! Sorry.)
Hi! I'm a little late to the slumber party, but rather glad to be here. My name is Mara. My username is an obscure quote from one of my favorite Anglo-Saxon poem that can variously be translated, "We are separated," "Our lives are apart," and "Our destinies are different." I'm a lit!geek who mostly reads fantasy, a grammarian descriptivist with proscriptivist impulses, a cooker of random experiments that (usually) turn out ok, and a bit of a jaqueline of all trades when it comes to crafting. I tend to live in a drift of messy dishes and half-finished projects. I read too much Victorian literature as a kid and as a consequence have a penchant for long sentences with too many appendant clauses.
In the interest of laying my cards out on the table and being really honest: I'm also a lesbian with a loving (older) boyfriend who knows about and supports my orientation. We've made it work, somehow. I'm probably a bit liberal for this crowd, but I love and respect the views of my conservative sisters and brothers.
My relationship with Christianity is complex and involves a lot of hurt, anger, and passion. I suffer from depression. I was molested as a child by a close family friend. Most of the women in my blood family were sexually abused at some point, sometimes by family members. The attitudes towards sexuality in family have been/are poisonous, often because of the lack of healthy and open discussion, and this is something from which I've struggled to pull myself free.
Discovering feminism has helped with this struggle a lot, to put it mildly.
(I'm struggling to come up with what's most relevant to an introduction. I don't want to over-share but I don't want to leave anything out either.)
When Kay told me a bit about this community I really fell in love with the idea. I live near San Francisco and frequently find myself serving as what I think of as an interpreter of Christians to the liberals. Most of my friends here are secularists; I've disconnected from the church to give myself time to process all of my beliefs (and damage) but I've really missed the conversation of sincere believers and I've always wanted to be able to talk about these unspoken things. Thank you for letting me in.
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P.S. If you think you're TMI, you should see the post where Sharon told us about how Jason compliments her labia, or our recent discussion on how we like to trim our pubic hair. Man, this community sounds really sketchy when I say it like that... I swear we're good, godly women, really!
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Seriously though, I think living in California has totally skewed my TMI-filters. People are OPEN out here in ways that I never would have thought possible (and sometimes wish weren't).
I think labia compliments are probably desperately needed in the world.
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*crowdsurfs and throws glitter*
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WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!! *crowdsurfs*
Hee!
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We desperately needed some more queer up in here. (And, mm, some more liberal, too, although I have been pleasantly surprised to discover that I agree with more people than I thought I would.)
P.S. We read through the Joy of Sex this weekend. Some useful stuff, some WTF?, some meh. (Which is probably how all sex books work, I'm guessing.) So thank you again for the gift!
P.P.S. I *do* wish they had said a bit more about bondage. *cough*
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Kay, The Joy of Sex is kind of an general all-purpose manual about enjoying sex that came out in the 70's and was recently updated (sortof). It covers most of the basics of heterosexual sex and is really helpful in some ways. (I liked that it says women shouldn't use deodorizers on their ladybits, because their natural perfume is beautiful. That was revolutionary for the time, and unfortunately still can be.)
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Also, this would make my Old English teacher roll over in his grave (well, he's still hale and hearty, so maybe he experienced it as a sudden chill in his office), but my first thought on reading your lovely username wasn't Anglo-Saxon but rather a leap from "ungelic" to "angelic." :)
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Speaking of? When I come home I should make hot chocolate. And I totally pimped this recipe on another thread, but you should look at the chocolate peanut butter crumble rounds recipe I invented. It's on my DW. With a picture. (Heavenly scent of mingled molten chocolate and PB not included.)
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