so happy I could die.
Note to self: trying to find a pair of white semi-dressy shoes/sandals that are under $20 at the mall is nigh impossible. Everything I found either looked frumpy or like it was an inch away from being stripperific.
Another two-shot day because I forgot yesterday: A talent of yours and a hobby of yours.
For the talent portion, I was going to phone post me singing. Instead, I went with the vaguely quick and dirty version, and this is a spread from the journal I was writing in during early 2008.
I started to write with the intent of telling a story when I was about six or seven years old. It was around then that it dawned on me that someone was behind all the books I liked to read and I would write down stories that were pseudo fan fiction about what I liked (Peanuts, Salute Your Shorts, the Baby-Sitters Club, the list goes on). Around the same time I won essay competitions in school. This would all culminate in me deciding that I wanted to be an author, and starting to keep a journal when I was in fourth grade.
I like to think I'm a good writer/storyteller and that I tend to worry too much about the details instead of just getting it all down. Writing's one of the few things that I do not doubt my talent in. Singing-wise, I know there are people who trained more and who have better voices than I do, and I am by no means an artist in the traditional sense, but I know I can write nearly anything and do it with a fair degree of success.
Hobby-wise: I roleplay.
I've been doing it in some sort of variation for forever, although at first I didn't realize it. In middle school my best friends and I would have epic phone conversations, and sometimes we'd tell each other ridiculous stories that usually involved boy band members, if they were our age and went to our school (Middle School AUs, if you would). This later became something we'd do via AIM, and we would, of course, play ourselves and whichever other characters were in the story, which is weird/funny when you consider it.
Around 2003, GreatestJournal came into being and it was the first time I got introduced to roleplay that wasn't just people celeb-playing. Like, I knew about must_be_pop and fandom games (hello, babysit!), but GJ introduced me to played-by (PB) games, where you just create an original character. I joined my first game around May of 2004, and since then I have been RPing in some way, shape, or form ever since.
It's weird, I know that there are people on my friends list who do that too (the journal-based RP thing), but I rarely ever talk about it. I do all sorts of memes and surveys involving my characters on my IJ journal, where nearly everyone who is on my list either roleplays or is someone I've roleplayed with in the past. I've been in a battery of games but only about four on a consistent basis, and I have some characters who I've grown extraordinarily fond of. I have tried celeb (playing a celebrity), but I don't have the attention span for it, and every fandom line I've had either dies or I can't get exactly the character I want, so I stick to PB, mostly because it's what I really clicked into and because I view it as extra writing practice. Right now I'm playing at one game and I have a slightly embarrassing level of characters there, and it's the game that most of my new random quote icons have come from and it is so much fun.
But don't even ask me how many character journals I have. I counted once and I think I died a little on the inside.
Another two-shot day because I forgot yesterday: A talent of yours and a hobby of yours.
For the talent portion, I was going to phone post me singing. Instead, I went with the vaguely quick and dirty version, and this is a spread from the journal I was writing in during early 2008.
I started to write with the intent of telling a story when I was about six or seven years old. It was around then that it dawned on me that someone was behind all the books I liked to read and I would write down stories that were pseudo fan fiction about what I liked (Peanuts, Salute Your Shorts, the Baby-Sitters Club, the list goes on). Around the same time I won essay competitions in school. This would all culminate in me deciding that I wanted to be an author, and starting to keep a journal when I was in fourth grade.
I like to think I'm a good writer/storyteller and that I tend to worry too much about the details instead of just getting it all down. Writing's one of the few things that I do not doubt my talent in. Singing-wise, I know there are people who trained more and who have better voices than I do, and I am by no means an artist in the traditional sense, but I know I can write nearly anything and do it with a fair degree of success.
Hobby-wise: I roleplay.
I've been doing it in some sort of variation for forever, although at first I didn't realize it. In middle school my best friends and I would have epic phone conversations, and sometimes we'd tell each other ridiculous stories that usually involved boy band members, if they were our age and went to our school (Middle School AUs, if you would). This later became something we'd do via AIM, and we would, of course, play ourselves and whichever other characters were in the story, which is weird/funny when you consider it.
Around 2003, GreatestJournal came into being and it was the first time I got introduced to roleplay that wasn't just people celeb-playing. Like, I knew about must_be_pop and fandom games (hello, babysit!), but GJ introduced me to played-by (PB) games, where you just create an original character. I joined my first game around May of 2004, and since then I have been RPing in some way, shape, or form ever since.
It's weird, I know that there are people on my friends list who do that too (the journal-based RP thing), but I rarely ever talk about it. I do all sorts of memes and surveys involving my characters on my IJ journal, where nearly everyone who is on my list either roleplays or is someone I've roleplayed with in the past. I've been in a battery of games but only about four on a consistent basis, and I have some characters who I've grown extraordinarily fond of. I have tried celeb (playing a celebrity), but I don't have the attention span for it, and every fandom line I've had either dies or I can't get exactly the character I want, so I stick to PB, mostly because it's what I really clicked into and because I view it as extra writing practice. Right now I'm playing at one game and I have a slightly embarrassing level of characters there, and it's the game that most of my new random quote icons have come from and it is so much fun.
But don't even ask me how many character journals I have. I counted once and I think I died a little on the inside.