Note: My profile indicates that I'm seeing someone, but I'm also available. What this means: My lover and I are interested in other women, but preferably together and definitely with each other's knowledge. We're polyamorous, meaning we would like to develop a relationship with another woman.

My name is Ben.

I am a writer, a dreamer, a student; I am obsessed with music, poetry, fiction, and with seeking out beauty, in all its forms, in a world sadly deficient of both beauty and dreams.

Everything you need to know about someone, you can tell by what they believe.

I believe in honor and chivalry; love at first sight and the purity of shadows. I believe that if there is a God, then God has better things to do than worry about gay marriage or whether the ten commandments are posted in an Alabama courthouse.

I believe that God loves all of us, except for (possibly) southern Baptists.

I believe in good and evil, right and wrong, karma and destiny. I believe that patriotism is not blindly accepting what the government tells you, but having the courage to question authority and the status quo.

I believe in butterflies and poetry. I believe that the pen is mightier than the sword. I believe in Santa Claus.

I believe in heroes and villains. I believe in Spider-Man. I believe in the power of electronic music to take me to another world.

I believe in Holden Caulfield and The Great Santini, Joe Kavalier and Johnny Rico, Jubal Harshaw and Scout Finch. I believe that if you know what books all these characters come from, you might be my soulmate.

I believe that jam bands suck, breakbeats rock, and Counting Crows are the greatest band ever. I believe that fire burns, knives cut, and I can't fly, even if at some point in my life, I lost track of these essential rules of life.

I believe in my instincts and my dreams. I believe that there is nothing wrong with sleeping with a stuffed animal, even if youre twenty-eight.

I believe in my family, both those I was born with and the friends that have become family through the things we've overcome together.

I believe in giving a hand up, but not a hand out. I believe in helping others. I believe in random acts of kindness. I believe that willful ignorance should be met with deadly force.

I believe that writing is the only thing that keeps me sane.

I believe that Canada may be the root of all evil. I believe that there is no more beautiful place than Asheville, North Carolina. I believe that snowball fights are good for the soul.

I believe that Jagermeister is a wonderful thing, but that I should probably be locked in a padded room when I drink it.

I believe that if I could communicate with the world entirely in haiku, I might be more coherent. I believe in the primal power of a bonfire.

I believe that if I was in a situation where I had to lay down my life to save the life of another, I would not hesitate.

I believe that life is too short to drink cheap beer. I believe in boobies. I believe in the concept of peace. I believe that some things are worth fighting for. I believe that puppies, butterflies, and little girls exist to be beautiful.

I believe that we all hold within us the power to create beauty somehow. I believe that art is more important than anything else, because it is a creation that can transcend even our own lives, our own civilization.

I believe in the dream of someone reading something I wrote a century from now, and feeling then what I felt when I wrote it.

I believe that love is all that matters. I believe in banana pudding. I believe that we were all meant to shine.

I'm a college student, a writer, and to get paid for now, a retail drone. In a year, I'll be a high school english teacher, once I finish my degree.

Reading, writing, dancing to electronic music and industrial music, teaching, freestyle walking, BDSM (I'm a dom), and rocking gigantic goth boots.

Wow. That guy is a teacher?

Books:
Generally (although my interests are very far-reaching), I enjoy early to mid twentieth century American Lit, modern literature, classic and modern science fiction and fantasy, dystopian literature, and fables. Some of my favorite authors and books are listed below.

*Cormac McCarthy
-All the Pretty Horses

*Pat Conroy
-Beach Music
-Prince of Tides

*Hunter S. Thompson
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
-Any of his political rants

*Kurt Vonnegut
-Cat's Cradle
-Slaughterhouse Five
-Timequake
-God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

*Robert A. Heinlein
-Stranger in a Strange Land
-Friday
-Moon is a Harsh Mistress

*Laura Antoniou
-Marketplace series

*Yevgeny Zamyatin
-We

*Max Brooks
-World War Z

*Truman Capote
-In Cold Blood
-Breakfast at Tiffany's

*J.D. Salinger
-Catcher in the Rye

*F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Great Gatsby

*George Orwell
-Animal Farm
-1984

*Molly Weatherfield
-Carrie's Story

*Chuck Palahniuk
-Fight Club
-Invisible Monsters

*Orson Scott Card
-Treason
-Ender's Game
-Redemption of Christpher Columbus

*David Weber
-Off Armageddon's Reef
-Honorverse

*John Ringo
-Hymn Before Battle series

*Charles Stross
-Accelerando
-Singularity Sky
-Atrocity Archives

*Douglas Coupland
-Microserfs
-Life After God

*Aldous Huxley
-Brave New World

*Ray Bradbury
-Martian Chronicles
-Dandelion Wine
-Fahrenheit 451

*Harper Lee
-To Kill a Mockingbird

Music:
Too many to list. I hate pop. My favorite genres (generally) areIndustrial, electronica, EBM, punk, some metal, and some alternative.

1. Boots. 2. Books. 3. My laptop. 4. My ipod + headphones. 5. My flogger and handcuffs. 6. Fuzzy (if you want to know about Fuzzy, ask about Fuzzy.)

Politics, writing, literature, the environment, U.S. educational policy (No Child Left Behind is a joke), BDSM and Dominance/submission, polyamory, creative sex, the future, and macroeconomic antidisestablishmentarianism in reactionary subversive subcultures.

not at home. Other than that, it varies.

You'll have to message me for this one.

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