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 (Me, as Susan, of course) |
Susan... it wasn't a good name, was it? It wasn't a truly bad name, it wasn't like poor Iodine in the fourth form, or Nigella, a name which meant “oops, we wanted a boy”. But it was dull. Susan. Sue. Good old Sue. It was a name that made sandwiches, kept its head in difficult circumstances, and could reliably look after other people's children. It was a name used by no queens or goddesses anywhere. And you couldn't do much even with the spelling. You could turn it into Suzi, and it sounded as though you danced on tables for a living. You could put in a Z and a couple of Ns and an E, but it still looked like a name with extensions built on. It was as bad as Sara, a name that cried out for a prosthetic H. - Soul Music, Terry Pratchett |
| As
you can see, I'm a Susan who likes to hide that fact
behind her
alias. I never much liked my name, and the only nickname I care for
is Susy, and nobody can spell that correctly (for some reason
I
usually
get "Susie" or "Suzie"; those must be more common variations).
Not to
mention the problem that in any
given
place, there are bound to be a half dozen Susans, all of whom are twice
my age. So I go by Meri. Short, sweet, and, most of all, different;
the
uniqueness fits me. I rarely go by Meri offline, however,
because I
have two friends named Mary and that gets needlessly confusing. So I'm
stuck with two aliases that I use equally, neither of which I want to
give up- this spawned the apt observation by one of my friends a while
back that went something like: "half the time
you don't know who you are, and even when you do, you can't spell your
own name correctly". I got the name Meri from a roleplay character I had years ago who was an Elbit/Elfling (half Elf/half Hobbit)- her full name was Merily Thranduiliell, but while I often keep the Merily, Thranduiliell was way too much of a mouthful (ie, no one, myself included, could spell it), so it got shortened to Greenleaf. No, I'm not a Legolas fangirl, although he is one of my favorite LotR characters (not quite as high as Eowyn, Merry, and Faramir, though). The name actually comes from the fact that my character was the daughter of the Elvenking; what can I say, I've loved Mirkwood and Thranduil since my dad read me The Hobbit when I was six. Legolas just became the older brother I enjoyed (and still enjoy) making fun of, so any joke I make at his expense is purely out of love. ;) Even though I don't currently roleplay an Elbit/Elfling (at the moment I just play a Human cleric and his Orc bodyguard, and a Goblin from my fiancé's webcomic), I'll always consider myself one, and in fact still use that as my online/alternate persona (you'll see references in my art and blog to Woodland, Mirkwood, Elves, etc). Besides, as a cheerful tree-hugger, the name Meri Greenleaf fits me well. The top drawing on the right is a sketch I did years ago (2002, I think) of my Elfling persona.
The other
fantasy character you'll see around
this site (as well as my shops
and my blog) is of a Faerie dressed in green with red hair, Dragon
wings, vine tattoos, and horns.Where the Elfling represents me, this
Faerie is my
muse, or how I imagine my creative side to look. Now you're likely
nice and confused by this point, but don't feel bad; I don't know where
this one came from, either. She just showed up one day and demanded
that I crochet and draw her, and hasn't left since. I'm not even sure
if she really is a Faerie, or is instead some sort of Dragon in the
guise of a Fae. Maybe someday she'll tell me. ;)
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Meri (Meri Greenleaf, Merily Thranduiliell) Susan Logue 26 (or 557) Media, PA, USA female brown hair, blue eyes, 5' 4" chaotic good (with some LG leanings) Human (or Elf/Halfling) 3 equally Water and Earth (as in green growing things fed by Water) engaged oldest child rogue/cleric (artist/scholar) BA in English (I focused on literature) professor of Brit Lit, artist on the side English, Spanish (not fluent), Old English (even less fluent) crochet, spinning, paint/drawing, sculpting, chainmaille, jewelry, handsewing, cross stitch housecats, dogs, turtles, dolphins unicorns, gryphons, dragons JRR Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, Mercedes Lackey, Peter Brett, Tamora Pierce, Tad Williams, Anne Bishop, Douglas Adams, William Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Jane Austen Blackthorn, Hanson, Enter the Haggis, Default, Tonic, Jimmy Eat World, Flight of the Conchords, The Beatles, Melissa Etheridge, Vienna Teng, Spin Doctors, Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls MST3K, Ghost Hunters, Myth Busters, Jeopardy, Cash Cab, Doctor Who, Star Trek Legend of Zelda, Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon, Lord of the Rings "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde |
 Chloe and Clarabell |
 Clara in a nest of my yarn |
 (My fiancé, me, and one of my friends at the faire in 2007)  (Bad photo, but this is Josh and me after the faire in 2009) |
I think I have more Renfaire
costumes than any sane person should own:
And these aren't counting my cosplay/Halloween costume of Susan Sto Helit from the Discworld books, or the three cosplays and the Elfling costume I've been planning out but haven't finished yet. Some of my costumes can be found on my Cosplay.com page. As you can probably tell, I love dressing up. ;) |
