Well, it seems that I've fallen off the map for a while but I am alive and well and writing again. I just updated The Name of the Game and I'm actually proud of it. Go read it. It's funny...sort of.

Anyway, I am Rae (not my real name but whatever). I am eighteen years old (too old to be reading fanfiction but hey, there's no age limit on this stuff and I have nothing else that I'd rather be doing). I cannot wait to have high school be nothing but a distant memory. I read too much. I love words and I love love love critiquing other people's work, not because I'm mean but because I like taking a piece of writing and tearing it to shreds in order to make it better. It's a very satisfying experience. I like many other things as well. Crossword puzzles, sudoku, movies (Slumdog Millionaire is absolutely epic), music (I'm very eclictic, though at the moment I've been listening to Taylor Swift's Love Story on repeat for about four hours), playing guitar, writing poetry, thinking (I LOVE thinking), taking extremely long walks at night, snow, warm weather (soonsoonsoonsoonsoonsoon please!), building set pieces, instigating (it's a talent of mine)...lots of other things.

I'm noctural and a little touched in the head. My pride and my big mouth tend to get me in trouble. I have yet to realize that No-I-Don't-Deserve-Everything-I-Want and Sometimes-It's-Okay-To-Shut-Up. It's all right though, I'm remarkably good at doing damage control.

I am not very open with people, especially in large groups, however, if I'm close to you then you will hear every little insignificant thing that enters my head. I think a lot about big questions (who I am, my relationship with everyone I know, where I'm going, and of course, why). I either care too deeply about things or I don't care at all. I am a good friend even though they don't deserve it most of the time. I am loyal.

I am hopelessly idealistic. I believe that all people are good (at least a little bit). I love fairy tales and secretly I believe that everyone is a prince or princess or wizard in disguise. I really like the Bohemian motto in Moulan Rouge: Freedom, beauty, truth and love. Love is like oxygen, etc. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go watch Moulan Rouge. It's gorgeous. I don't fall in love easily (though I think that people are good, that doesn't mean that I like any of them), but when I do I drown.

I hate school. Hatehatehatehatehatehate it. I think it is a miserable waste of time because everyone is disgustingly passive and their brains are atrophying. I hate the rules. I hate most of the people (some of my teachers are gems, but most of them are dirt clods). I hate the fact that they enforce rubrics and discourage originality. I hate the bells and the lunch line and the prison walls.

I am 100 percent for gay marriage. I think it's disgustingly old fashioned for anyone to say that gays are less than straights and don't deserve the same rights. Every single antigay argument I have heard is flimsy, stupid and frankly intolerant and nobody should have to put up with that kind of treatment. If this mentality frightens, angers or disgusts you, then, by all means, ex out of my profile.

Clearly, this is a lot to absorb about me, but I didn't ask you to read it. I don't know you. You don't know me. We're safe from each other. That is why I feel comfortable smearing a small piece of my guts onto this profile. Now for some harmless informaton:

~~~Pairings I Love~~~

Remus/Sirius
(I didn't like it at first, but after reading a bunch of stories with this pairing I really can't see them any other way. They are just so perfect together.)

Lily/James
(I don't think there's anyway a Harry Potter fan could dislike this pairing)

Harry/Ginny
(As implausible as it is in the series, I like fics about them. Those tend to make more sense)

Ron/Hermione
(The same arguement as the Lily/James one)

Remus/Tonks
(Remus deserves whatever happiness he can get. He is my favorite HP character in both canon and fanfic. If he can't have Sirius then Tonks will have to do. Sometimes they're cute together)

marauders (excluding Prongs)/ OC (s)
(These tend to be very entertaining, if somewhat generic)

Hermione/Draco
(I love love/hate relationships)

~~~Pairings I Despise~~~

teacher/student (gross, eww, bad image, must delete)

snape/anyone (okay, it really depends on how it is written. i've read some snape/lily ones that are good. i like unrequited love...i'm a little cruel that way. i really don't like the idea of snape kissing anyone, especially Remus. yucky)

Harry/Hermione (it bothers me, im sorry)

any pairing if it's gross, graphic or will thoroughly corrupt my brain for the rest of eternity. i am not against smut if it is artistically done, but most of it is boring, tasteless, ridiculously implausible and doesn't contribute to the story at all. if i wanted something like that i would go read the romance novels in the grocery store.

~~~Some Random Quotes~~~

~the only guy who is worth getting depressed over, won't make you depressed--some wise person

"Do you mean to tell me that we had a Garth Brooks T-shirt on file?"--Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

self worth is not determined by comparison--Me

How come the best romances are always works of fiction?--Me

Why is it, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?--Ernest Gaines.

BLARG

i just felt like writing that.

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