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vexation / vek-ˈsā-shən
The Very Spirit of Vexation

Basics

  • Name: Vex Verlain
  • Pronouns: she/her
  • Age: 35+  (Year of the Rabbit, Gemini)
  • Location: Iowa  (CDT, UTC-5)
  • Status: mostly lurking—quite ill

Fannish and Adjacent Spaces

About Me

Vex Verlain (she/her). White, cisgendered lesbian in her late thirties. Intersectional feminist, fangirl, gamer, and highly sensitive introvert. Partnered to a wonderful woman (Rebel) for over a decade.

I've been part of online fandom since 1999. At age 12, I was webmistress to the largest Ares/Xena fan fiction archive on the internet; some may remember me as Illyandria. I frequently find myself nostalgic for the days of Web 1.0.

I have a lot of ships. Most of them are m/m.

Following & Friending Policy

Feel free to follow me or friend me anywhere; lurkers are welcome.

I don’t do DNI lists. People with beliefs that devastate me are welcome to follow, but may be blocked if their direct interactions with me are uncivil. We are all curators of our own online experience, and I believe that DNI lists are a rejection of that responsibility, putting the onus on others to do the work we should be doing ourselves.

Some Thoughts

YKINMKATO, ship and let ship, but also, racism in fandom is a thing. No, I don't have the answers. But fandom has saved my life more than once, and it enrages me that others have been harmed in the places I was helped.

Yes, it is possible to be anti-censorship, write extremely kinky and fucked up idfic, be a longtime supporter of AO3, and also be anti-racist. Furthermore, your beliefs do not have to perfectly align with a movement—nor every person within that movement—in order for you to support that movement. Ideological purity will be the death of us.

Also, I have very strong feelings about what the internet has become (a capitalist hellscape), the necessity of fannish spaces, and the importance of any online space that operates noncommercially and without an algorithm constantly trying to snatch the visitor's attention.

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