Good insert time of day here, and welcome to my profile page. I shall now stop beating around the bush and tell you about myself. As should be expected, I'm a teenager...now the particulars.

Location: On the not-so-green and pleasant outskirts of London, England

Lives with: Both biological (as far as I know) parents and two cats

Hobbies: Writing, drawing, singing, dancing, studying, thinking, arguing, and surfing the net

Music: Bobby Darin, Gershwin and come to that any and all cheesy show tunes, Nina Simone, Simon & Garfunkel, Yves Montand (especially anything by Prevert/Kosma), Beatles, swing, samba & bossa nova, baroque music, Beach Boys

Dislikes: People yelling "Shut up!" at me when I'm trying to prove a point, society (especially that of my peers) because it's so shallow and homogeneous, being made to feel a freak purely because of my tastes, stupid and shallow people, classical music (AAAH SO TWEE), screeching violins (ouch), not fitting in, people not grasping my ideas, PE, Mary-Sues (especially real-life ones), favouritism, the BNP, bubblegum pop, anything on Disney Channel

Favourite school subject: Chemistry

Favourite subject of all time: Thinking and arguing

Favourite plays: The Theban Plays, Antigone, Becket, King Lear

Favourite books: Cancer Ward, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Favourite sites: Wikipedia, Nuklearpedia, NPF

Webcomics: 8BT, OotS

If:

1. I have alienated you by saying that I hate society because of its shallowness

2. I have made you think that I am a pseudointellectual and general pain in the backside (I'll concede that second point to you; I'm very difficult to live with, so anyone who manages is a saint)

3. You are still reading this, as opposed to fleeing this page due to your sheer disgust

I would like to say that I think the society of my peers is shallow because I associate it with stuff like this which I find there:

- "I'm so emo and alternative AND COOL" (yet everyone there "fits in" rather exactly and so many people are alternative in a homogenized way it's actually mainstream. Hypocrites.)

- "If you don't like heavy metal or you like pop, you're worthless scum" (I'm going to try not to defend pop/attack heavy metal here, but it's very tempting...What I must say, and I should try and live by this as well, is that all vaguely melodic music is formulaic to some degree, as is virtually everything, and going for 100 chaos doesn't make people any cooler or more badass in music tastes or in real life. The corollary is also true.)

- "If you don't fit onto a precise scale so we can measure you mercilessly, we hate you even more than we would ordinarily" (OK, that might just be me and my paranoia/self-loathing, but I think it happens)

- "What colour is your soul? What flavour are you? How much does he like you?" I just find that very shallow and annoying.

- "Look at me, I can afford to spend about a thousand pounds on clothes which have artificially inflated their prices via having letters stitched onto them! That makes me cool!" (Enough said.)

- Person 1: "Look, I'm not going to take any of your crap. I wasn't even at school on the day, so how can I-"

Person 2: "SHUT UP BITCH!"

- "You hang around with boys all the time, therefore you must be sleeping around with them." (Irritates me more than words can say, especially since I get this all the time)

- "Why can't you go on normal sites like Facebook instead of this...thing?" (Facebook involves living your life online, something geek/nerd people like me were berated for, so it's at the very least hypocritical)

...I'll add more things if I think of any. But yeah, that's my list of grievances against society. I'm not saying rejecting it makes me cool, I'm just saying not fitting into a wide, wide oddity makes me cranky. I don't necessarily hate you for being a part of it - I'll decide that if and when you make me hate you, which requires acting like a total jerk and trying to trip me up at every step.

That's my two cents. Hopefully I haven't made you hate me too much.

Noooww...as to why I review but never, ever write ANYTHING...

Firstly, I'm an original fiction writer more than a fanfic writer and I often find myself at a loss when trying to write fanfiction - I can't think of any plot, I get stuck with writer's block, etc. I'm not sure why. Secondly, I don't always have that much time (well I don't really have any time, to be honest) and what little free time I do have tends to go on my 50 million other projects. Thirdly, I do have some stuff on my computer, but not much, and I'd like to get a decent amount done before putting it up here. Fourthly, I criticise my own work too much for my own good, so if I think it's bad I don't put it up. And I'm not even so-bad-it's good level, I'm just bad in a very dull way.