I am sarcastic, literary, and geektastic.
My Self-Summary
Hey there! My name is Madeline, and I'm a 20 year old Missoula
native. I like watching tv, meeting people, drinking coffee,
reading (mostly YA lit), and puttering around on the internet. My
favorite shows are
Supernatural,
How I Met Your
Mother,
Merlin,
Doctor Who,
Glee,
Bones, and
Buffy, but there are many, many
others. I like going for urban hikes, I love hanging out downtown
and getting coffee or tea and people watching. I'm a procrastinator
of the first degree.
What I’m doing with my life
I'm a Junior at the University of Montana, majoring in literature
and creative writing. I work full time as well, so I don't have
much spare time, but what I do have is usually taken up by
attempting to write my first novel- a young adult fantasy novel
which has no vampires in it whatsoever. That makes me sound much
more impressive than I actually am- mostly my writing involves a
lot of me checking my email every three seconds, in between making
character maps and plot charts. I hope to move to Wales on a
student exchange in the next year, although lately I've been
thinking about just powering through school and traveling in my
year(s) off. After I graduate I hope to take a few years off to
travel and live new places before heading back to graduate school-
hopefully someday I'll be a professor of Queer Theory, Shakespeare
and Children's Lit.
I’m really good at
Literary criticism, conversation, hiking, writing, helping kids
find a good book, helping make people comfortable in social
situations. Once they're comfortable, I'm good at making them
uncomfortable again.
The first things people usually notice about me
My hair, especially if it's in the fauxhawk; my outgoing nature, my
sarcasm, my quirkiness, my willingness to try anything once, my
smile, my amazing ability to put my foot in my mouth
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Books/Authors I could never live without:
Harry Potter,
Tamora Pierce,
Neil Gaimen,
Good Omens,
Hamlet. If I started listing
all the books I like, I'd be here for days- I work in a bookstore,
and my entire house is lined with piles of books. Seriously, piles.
I prefer YA literature because I feel like those authors have to
work harder to keep their audiences attention- they know kids are
easily bored, and have less reservations about abandoning a book,
so YA lit often has better characterization than adult literature.
Also, as a rule, it's less pretentious, which is always a
plus.
I'm fairly eclectic in my food and music tastes- I'll try anything
once, and most things at least twice.
As with books, most of my favorite movies are children's movies,
and also really terrible teen romantic comedies. I love going out
to the movies, though, so while I don't own many myself I'll go see
almost anything, as long as there are no body parts flying at the
camera. I'm not so good with the gore.
The six things I could never do without
My friends, Supernatural, my laptop, my books, my tv shows, and my
coffee
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Myself, the future, and my place in it, what I want to write, what
I want to read; my family and friends, what I want my next tattoo
to be, what to do instead of my homework, what I think of religion,
why it's so awkward to contact people on this site even though
that's what we're all here for, stupid things I've said today,
stupid things I said nine years ago, life, death, how much Eric
Kripke is a god, books I've read, how to help bring awareness to
issues that are important to me, why I can't learn latin, why I
can't parallel park, why I thought buying ice cream was a good idea
when it's like 40 degrees in my house...
On a typical Friday night I am
At home, relaxing with my roommates. Or, on occasion, out on the
town.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
I'm a slash fan
You should message me if
You're interested in expanding your social circle!