Siirima
11-26-2013, 10:46 PM
I don't know why I hadn't thought to look for the introductions area, this certainly makes things easier!
(This is just a break down of my name, the next paragraph is the actual meat of this, lol)
Hello hello mers of the world~ My name is Doriann (or Dori). I would have gone with my actual name here but there's a certain infamous regal tank that goes by the name Dory and I didn't want to do that tango, lol. So I went with my mersona's name, Siirima- A name I chose when I was discovering The Lord of the Rings, you'll find it no surprise that it's an elvish word that means "liquid" lol. My nickname is Siiri, I know the double I's can make pronouncing it odd, and I certainly didn't follow the elvish pronunciation- but for the sake of trying to make it more accurate to how it's supposed to be pronounced for me here's a rough break down and the IPA for it:
Sound out: s-eye-ear-ee-muh
IPA: S-aɪ-ɪr-i-mə
Blah blaaah, I know it hardly matters but I thought I'd try X3 God bless you if you actually try to get it right D: <3
Anywho! I can not express how absolutely THRILLED I am to be here! I've been swimming through the forums since I joined last week, you are all so amazing! I simply can NOT believe I hadn't found this place sooner. It's really neat to see some of the mers I've found on Youtube and google searches and way too exciting to know I can actually talk to such glorious people!
I am a practicing prosthetics and costume designer (costumes before prosthetics, I just got into Prosthetics at the beginning of year) and have dreamed of making my merself a reality since I was very young- you can only imagine the revery I went into when I discovered all the support and resources this community offers. more so, how many others have pursued and made real the very same dream I share in!
Aside from my mermaid musings, I am a writer of fantasy fiction, a digital artist, and cosplayer (well, sort of). I attend the Steampunk convention in San Diego, "Gaslight Gathering" with my entire family (we are very much a family of adventurers and I guarantee I'll be making more than one tail when designing is done, lol). I also attend Anime Expo in LA, Anime LA, Reanaissance Faires (I'm a performer with Danse Macabre, working toward playing the recorder with them, but for now, I'm a dancer of death!)
On an obviously less enthused but necessary side- for "real life" I have one main job at an HVAC company as a permit technician (lots of driving around SoCal and occasionally farther north) I sometimes have listings on ETSY (currently making some mermaid inspired hoods to sell there, mostly because my seashell collection has gotten out of control and I'm crazy inspired after finding Mernetwork XD) my shop is empty right now (and still very new) but feel free to look at it (and it's single sale, lol)
wanderfate (https://www.etsy.com/shop/wanderfate)
And I occasionally work as a photographer when I'm asked to, I don't advertise it, so that's not extremely often, but I got me a camera and some training- why not get paid for it every now and then, ey?
I love travel and run off on adventures all the time so I sure hope mermaid adventures will some day be apart of that list :D
Annnd with that I feel like I covered most of the info bases??
Pleaseacceptmylove DB>
(This is just a break down of my name, the next paragraph is the actual meat of this, lol)
Hello hello mers of the world~ My name is Doriann (or Dori). I would have gone with my actual name here but there's a certain infamous regal tank that goes by the name Dory and I didn't want to do that tango, lol. So I went with my mersona's name, Siirima- A name I chose when I was discovering The Lord of the Rings, you'll find it no surprise that it's an elvish word that means "liquid" lol. My nickname is Siiri, I know the double I's can make pronouncing it odd, and I certainly didn't follow the elvish pronunciation- but for the sake of trying to make it more accurate to how it's supposed to be pronounced for me here's a rough break down and the IPA for it:
Sound out: s-eye-ear-ee-muh
IPA: S-aɪ-ɪr-i-mə
Blah blaaah, I know it hardly matters but I thought I'd try X3 God bless you if you actually try to get it right D: <3
Anywho! I can not express how absolutely THRILLED I am to be here! I've been swimming through the forums since I joined last week, you are all so amazing! I simply can NOT believe I hadn't found this place sooner. It's really neat to see some of the mers I've found on Youtube and google searches and way too exciting to know I can actually talk to such glorious people!
I am a practicing prosthetics and costume designer (costumes before prosthetics, I just got into Prosthetics at the beginning of year) and have dreamed of making my merself a reality since I was very young- you can only imagine the revery I went into when I discovered all the support and resources this community offers. more so, how many others have pursued and made real the very same dream I share in!
Aside from my mermaid musings, I am a writer of fantasy fiction, a digital artist, and cosplayer (well, sort of). I attend the Steampunk convention in San Diego, "Gaslight Gathering" with my entire family (we are very much a family of adventurers and I guarantee I'll be making more than one tail when designing is done, lol). I also attend Anime Expo in LA, Anime LA, Reanaissance Faires (I'm a performer with Danse Macabre, working toward playing the recorder with them, but for now, I'm a dancer of death!)
On an obviously less enthused but necessary side- for "real life" I have one main job at an HVAC company as a permit technician (lots of driving around SoCal and occasionally farther north) I sometimes have listings on ETSY (currently making some mermaid inspired hoods to sell there, mostly because my seashell collection has gotten out of control and I'm crazy inspired after finding Mernetwork XD) my shop is empty right now (and still very new) but feel free to look at it (and it's single sale, lol)
wanderfate (https://www.etsy.com/shop/wanderfate)
And I occasionally work as a photographer when I'm asked to, I don't advertise it, so that's not extremely often, but I got me a camera and some training- why not get paid for it every now and then, ey?
I love travel and run off on adventures all the time so I sure hope mermaid adventures will some day be apart of that list :D
Annnd with that I feel like I covered most of the info bases??
Pleaseacceptmylove DB>