This profile has a lot of text. I can't help it, I just love talking about myself to an unknown audience. If you can't be bothered, click any link but the Message link and it should take you far away from it. : )

For the rest of you; Hello! How very brave of you.
Some of the boring basic info that you can't get from all the fluff surrounding this: I'm Icelandic born-and-bred, but I'm in London for the time being, studying photography. It's expensive, but I'm passionate about it and I really love it here, so it's worth it.
However, I don't know that many people around here, hence this profile. Well, I made it way back when I was a teenager for the quizzes (it's true!) but hence me being active on here.

I know my age here says I'm what, 21? But I think I will continue telling people I'm 19 for a few years still. It's a good age. I don't think age in years really matters, it's all about how you act. Though I usually act more like a five year old..

Shiny things fascinate me. Have you guys ever noticed how much shiny stuff there is in London? I love walking around this city because inbetween buildings you can often find the shiniest things! It's amazing!
I wish the lights on the City Hall changed all the time like they did last winter. I could stand in front of them for hours just watching the lights change and be way more entertained than I should've been.

I tend to look at everything like I'm seeing it for the first time, even though I've seen it lots of times before. It makes the whole world seem new and exciting.

Discovering new things. That sounds like I'm an adventurer who travels the world but in reality, I am an adventurer who doesn't travel very far very much. I am quite content discovering new things in the city I live in, even in my own neighbourhood. Traveling is fun and everything, I'm just really terrible at packing.

I have that dangerous collector's syndrome. I collect way too much junk and then I bond with it emotionally. My mum hates it, she always wants to throw things away, and I hate that tendency in her (especially when I see pictures of her old clothes she threw away or when she tells me about old records she used to have). But other than that, we're great friends.

I do also have ambitions to become a fashion photographer. And that is exactly what I am going to become. If you'll allow me to do a bit of shameless self-plugging, have a look at my photos! I'm very proud of them, but at the same time I'm not in a rush. I'm still learning and I know I can become so much better.

I live life at my own pace. This society we live in always wants things to happen FAST FAST FAST and I don't. Things should happen in their own time. Anyway, stress is a terrible thing. It does bad things to everyone, and I hate what it does to me so much I always try as hard as I can to avoid it. (I'm not saying I can't work under pressure, I just try to manage things so that the pressure won't become to gruesome. Or just look the pressure right in the eye and say to it "You don't scare me. I'm doing this as fast and well as I can, and when I'm done, that's that.")

Luckily, I'm a fine art student, which means I might not have a lot of moneys, but what I do have enough of is time. I try to use my free time wisely. Like by skipping in the park or playing cops and robbers or cloud watching.

Paranoia. And amusing myself. I do get bored and dangerously restless at times, but at other times I'm quite content with just looking at things and not saying anything.
In real life, I'm often a bit quiet. It's not just because I'm shy, but mostly that if I don't have anything to say, I don't think it's worth thinking up something stupid to say, just to say something. But I think being around another person and just walking around in silence is okay too. Some people think it's awkward but it's only awkward if you want it to be. And I don't like awkward.

I'm good at skipping though! It's a ridiculous sense of freedom, skipping. Whenever you're feeling down, you should try it. It's like it lifts a heavy load from your mind and afterwards, you also get to feel a bit silly about it, so you start laughing, which makes it even better.
Laughter is like a cure for everything.

My bellybutton. Even though I try covering it up with clothes, people always seem to notice that first. Apparently it's like a window into my soul.

I don't know what people notice first, because I don't make a habit of asking. It probably used to be my colourful hair, and it might still be my non-conventional fashion sense, or it might be that I'm laughing by myself for no apparent reason. It sort of depends on what I'm doing when people first see me, I guess.

This is such a terrible section, because it's asking for huge lists of favourites.
I'm difficult with favourites because I don't usually go by genres. But I'll try my best not to make this too long.

Books
I love fantasy. I read to escape the mundane and get lost in a far away world. Slightly related would be magical realism - where it's happening in the real world but some things are very different and magical.
I like short stories and poetry a lot.
Then there's comics.. I don't read a lot of manga (the only manga series I own is Death Note), but I do pick some of it up at the library back home every now and then. There's just so much crap, it's difficult to find the good things. I read quite a bit of Western comics though, mostly superhero stuff.
And finally, I love photography books and fashion magazines.

Currently reading Pride and Prejudice (soon to be followed by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and listening to American Gods and looking for more good audiobooks. Any suggestions?
Just finished reading The Graveyard Book and listening to the Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Series.

Films
This one's pretty much aaaalll over the place. I think it'll be easier to say I don't watch horror (because I'm too afraid of the dark to dare add to my already rich imagination), in general I don't like American comedy stuff (especially not romantic comedy, oh the horror) and I'm not too fond of pure action movies. I mean, I can watch them and probably get excited about them while watching them, but if I could choose what to watch, I wouldn't pick an action movie.
Needless to say, I love shiny movies. Which is probably one of the main reasons I love sci-fi and superhero movies. Yes, superhero movies are usually action movies, but they've got superheroes!
I require good acting and good cinematography. Other things are sort of optional. And, well, someone to watch films with is important. I'm terrible at watching things on my own because my attention span keeps jumping to something else. As a result, I have about dozens of films on DVD and on the computer I haven't watched yet - and I'm still buying more! (help!)

TV
Here I can make a list because it's really not that long.
Doctor Who (only slightly obsessed), Torchwood, Heroes, Being Human, True Blood, Jeeves and Wooster, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mighty Boosh, Spaced Flight of the Conchords, Black Books and what I've seen of Jekyll.
I really want to watch Star Trek, but I don't know where to start. I should find a proper Trekkie to pile together a best-of selection and give/show me.

Music
This is going to sound like I don't care what I listen to, but I like almost anything. I do have strong opinions about music and I love it to death, but I guess I love it so much that I have a hard time finding music I really dislike.
Though drone metal, most R&B and the terrible kind of commercial, popular hip hop would probably not make it to my favourite lists. (I like some hip hop, just not the kind about bitches and bling bling and cars and shit. I seem to have a preference for white rappers, in general.)
If you want a taste, here's my last.fm.

Foods
As long as there's chicken, I'm good. And not rosemary or thyme. Love good food and cooking can be fun. Though cooking for one usually isn't.
Oh, and ice cream. Preferably chocolate. Or just anything chocolate. Give me delicious chocolaty things and I'm yours forever. Or a shiny, colourful, fruity cocktail. Yummmm.

I would be pretty damn lost and lonely without a computer, internet, camera, music, cuddles and sex.

There, interests: tagged.

"I wonder if.. but.. then.. oh, yes I see.. but doesn't that make it a bit.. y'know.. hmm, maybe.. but.. oh look, a shiny! oooooooohhhhh..."

I make up conversations I would have with people in my head a lot. I imagine people in the street can hear my thoughts and try to refrain from thinking mean things about them. I always end up doing it just because I'm trying not to. I think about how that scene over there would be perfect for a photoshoot. What superpowers I might still have without knowing about them. My dreams, which are usually not really all that interesting, but they tend to haunt my waking hours all the same. I spend unnerving amounts of time thinking about sex. Like, pretty much all the time. And then inbetween I often blank out and don't think about anything at all.

somewhere else.

Is this the least liked section of OkCupid profiles? I think so. Everyone gets all defensive and goes "OMG how dare you assume I have typical days of the week I am too unique and mysterious to have typical Friday nights". Which is quite amusing.

Being a university student, Friday nights are not necessarily my 'going out' nights. Tuesday nights are just as likely, or any other night of the week, really.
I really like playing board games or table-top role-playing (or occasional LARPing, but I have more fun writing those than acting them out) but I don't know anyone in London who enjoys those things quite as much as me, so I'm afraid if I don't soon, I will get terrible withdrawal syndrome.
Then there's always films, video games, playing the guitar, internet, sex or reading. It's all good, on a Friday night or any other night.

I think I might have become slightly addicted to dancing (even if I'm probably not very good at it), but as my best friend here is always poor (and always needs drinks when clubbing), I go way too rarely. If you're not into clubbing, don't be scared as I enjoy lots of other things, but I really would like to meet someone I can go clubbing with. Going on your own doesn't quite work, even if it's just for safety reasons and such.

Isn't it interesting how OkC asks about religious beliefs and income but not political views? It looks to me like there are just as many people who would rather not date people of opposing political views as people who would not date people of opposing religious beliefs. Or is that just a European thing?
Though I'll admit, if it did ask about political views, I'd still be "Other" and "not too serious about it". This "Other" would stand for something like "Communanarchism" and since I know it would never work with people the way they are now, I wouldn't be serious about it. My religious "Other" stands for something like "Polytheist agnostic", or something.
It's all very complicated.
If I could pick "Other" as my sexuality and gender identity, I would probably have to go with that too, actually. I swear I'm not trying to find non-popular labels for myself.

I refuse to choose anything for that Body Type thing because it all depends on what you're used to. In the fashion industry, I would probably be full figured, although I usually look at myself as either average or curvy.
But I tell everyone I'm just waiting for them to put 'Curvalicious' as an option.

Commitment scares me. If there's one thing I'm not looking for, it's a committed, monogamous relationship. Maybe it's just bad experience in the past, maybe if I met the right person, maybe.. but for now, I'm just looking for fun people to hang out with.

I know, I know, this isn't very private. I'm really quite open about most things and I won't be shy talking about private things in general (though if you jump straight to asking me about sexual fantasies you shouldn't expect replies). It's just that when asked about THE MOST PRIVATE THING EVER, I'm at a loss for what to admit. Happens to everyone, I think.

you...
...have anything more to say than one-liners telling me I have awesome hair (always fun to hear, but it gets tired if you've nothing else to say) or that you'd like to fuck me senseless (unless you look exactly like a young David Bowie, Jim Morrison or Jeff Buckley).
...look like young David Bowie, Jim Morrison or Jeff Buckley.
...can type properly. I would be very grateful for basic respect, like spelling out your words and such.
...live nearby and would be up for acting silly wherever and doing fun stuff. Chatting online is fun, but really, I want to meet people who I can hang out with in the near future.

Mind you, the "replies selectively" thing is mostly due to aforementioned one-liners or bad typing.. and a little bit of it might be because of my short attention span, causing me to forget to reply. Uhm, oops.
Don't let that frighten you though! I'm really very very very nice. Promise.