About Me: I'm a twenty year-old English major at Ball State University. I'm ginger and proud, OCD and not happy about that, and asexual. My personality is best described as an mix of Bunny Ears Lawyer and Cloud Cuckoolander. That is, a crazy person who focuses brilliantly in select areas and someone with her head permanently in the clouds. I'm also ridiculously naive and trusting, with all the coordination of an uncoordinated thing. I'm a purple belt in tae kwon do, though I haven't been to the classes in a long while and have probably forgotten it all. I'm the middle kid, with a younger brother and an older sister. My older sister, incidentally, is as much the inspiration for my Joker as Heath Ledger, at least when he's being his version of nice. My nasty Joker is more based on my father.

About Asexuality: Contrary to arguments I've heard to this effect, asexuality doesn't mean afraid of sex/commitment/men. It doesn't mean I'm a repressed lesbian, that I was abused, or that I just got out of a bad relationship. It puts me in the one percent of the population that identify as feeling no sexual attraction whatsoever. I also identify as aromantic asexual, meaning that I don't feel romantic attraction either. Could I find the right person some day? Maybe. I'm not discounting the possibility. But I'm not searching for a partner either, nor do I feel the desire too. For more information on asexuality, check out the Asexuality Visiblity and Education Network at http://www.asexuality.org.

Things That Make Me Very Happy: Disney and Pixar, always (when they aren't making me cry). Most musicals, my sister, mother, grandmother, and most of my extended family. Also my brother, when he's not being annoying. My friends, my cat, knitting, sewing, writing, making (bad) art, the Internet. Rain and snow, and fuzzy socks. Also my rainboots. They are bright yellow and as ridiculous as my giant rainbow umbrella. Most all villains. Glasgow smiles. Those were my favorite scars even before the Joker. If you think having favorite scars is messed up, I also have a favorite disease: scurvy, because it's fun to say. Kittens and freshly baked cookies.

Things That Set Off My Kill Sense: Closed-minded people. Bigots and zealots. Abusive relationships. Those Epic Movie/Meet the Spartans/Other Talentless Crap films. Romantic comedies, for the most part, and most romances in general. People who talk loudly in theaters and kick the backs of seats. The idea that cartoons and comics are only for children.

Favorite Books: Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Stand, JK Rowling's Harry Potter series, Battle Royale, The Sandman, Speak, The Paper Bag Princess (brilliant picture book that's been taught in feminist literature courses), and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, among many, many others.

Favorite Flicks: Star Wars, Breakfast on Pluto, The Princess Bride, Mary Poppins, Wall-E, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Back to the Future Parts I and II, Watchmen, and the latest Star Trek. Once again, among many other films.

Favorite Music: This one's tricky. I don't like particular bands or genres so much as particular songs. But if there's one "style" of music I'm very fond of, it's lyrical dissonance. That is, when the mood of the music and the mood of the lyrics are two very different things. For example, "Carol of the Bells," which is all about having a merry Christmas but sounds like horror film music to me, or Suzanne Vega's "My Name is Luka," which is an upbeat-sounding song about child abuse. Artists that I am particularly fond of include They Might Be Giants, The Beatles, Alanis Morissette, Suzanne Vega, and Jonathan Coulton.

Favorite Authors: Stephen King, Dr. Seuss, JK Rowling, George Carlin, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Phillip K Dick, Beverly Cleary, Anne Rice. Among others, of course. I'm a librarian's kid, so I've read a few thousand books over my life.

Favorite Actors: Julie Andrews, Heath Ledger, Leonard Nimoy, Cillain Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Michael Caine, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Zachary Quinto, Clark Gable, Christian Bale, Vivien Leigh, Aaron Eckhart, Mark Hamill, and many others.

Favorite Arists: Edvard Munch ("The Scream") and Salvador Dali. I tend to like minimalism or impressionism. And general weirdness.

Fan Art: Behold, the fanart for my fics! If you're a fan and want to draw one, feel free, and be sure to drop me a link:

Mad Friends A poster made for my first fic, Mad Friends, by Lyndalion16. http://muezac.deviantart.com/art/Mad-Friends-108257729

Act Like We Are Fools Another of Lyndalion16's posters, this time for my second fic, Act Like We Are Fools. http://muezac.deviantart.com/art/Act-Like-We-Are-Fools-108228892

Crane Considers a Clown: This one's by sapzberry, and it references Chapter Twenty of ALWAF. http://atroxbasium.deviantart.com/art/Crane-Considers-a-Clown-Fini-108818495

Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitten...: sapzberry again, this time for Chapter Thirty-Three of ALWAF. http://atroxbasium.deviantart.com/art/Here-Kitty-Kitty-Kitten-109209188

BBQ SAUCE: Also by sapzberry, this is an intepretation of the Joker's picture in the first chapter of Say That We're Sweethearts Again. http://atroxbasium.deviantart.com/art/BBQ-SAUCE-112923337

Leporiphobia: Another poster by Lyndalion16. http://muezac.deviantart.com/art/Leporiphobia-119389609

Joker is Pretty: By GreyLiliy, for the first chapter of The Knight and The Prince. http://liliy.deviantart.com/art/Joker-is-Pretty-114149130

Shadow Selves: Comic Panel: By RiddlesxandxRoses, for the first chapter of Shadow Selves. http://riddlesxandxroses.deviantart.com/art/Shadow-Selves-Comic-Panel-137791469

Don't Let Morning Come: By Komman, for Chapter Thirteen of Shadow Selves. http://www.necessariusmalum.net/img/Dontletmorningcome.jpg

Scarecrow: By Lily Mae Ray, also for Chapter Thirteen of Shadow Selves: http://candyinmypants.deviantart.com/art/Scarecrow-138015077

Scarecrow-Shadow Selves: By dididouli, also for Chapter Thirteen of Shadow Selves: http://dididouli.deviantart.com/art/Scarecrow-Shadow-Selves-135636515

Promise: By RiddlesxandxRoses, for Chapter Twenty-Seven of Shadow Selves: http://riddlesxandxroses.deviantart.com/art/Promise-130456028

The Boatman: By Lily Mae Ray, for Chapter Thirty-Two of Shadow Selves: http://candyinmypants.deviantart.com/art/Shadow-Selves-The-Boatman-131676992

Shadow Selves: By Puck-Sexton, for Chapter Eighty/Eighty-One of Shadow Selves: http://puck-sexton.deviantart.com/art/Shadow-Selves-142704695

Random Facts About Me:

I have a unique speaking voice, or so I've been told. It's a low, flat monotone, and I've been told by various people that I sound like a robot, Squidward, or Ben Stein. On the other hand, when I'm reading things aloud I'm told that it's very expressive and I ought to go into radio broadcasting.

I have a ridiculously strong memory, usually about random things. I can recite chapters out of kids' books I haven't read in years from memory, or tell you conversations people had in front of me when I was four or five.

I am a hypochondriac.

I think unicorns are the best thing ever. But traditional unicorns, with the cloven hooves, lion's tails, and goats' beards will always be the best. None of this "horses with horns" nonsense, outside of Charlie the Unicorn and its sequels.

I would love to be a mermaid, even though I hate water and can barely swim. I'd also love to be a centaur, thanks to their portrayal in Fantasia.