Intro post
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koritsimounew place, fresh start?
Hi. I'm Mack. 19 - though my lack of regular life experiences and an extra year of high school ensure that I certainly don't feel it. Scottish and proud. I own a kilt, but only because odd circumstances that resulted in me attending a private school for one year meant it had to be so. It is a very pretty kilt though.
I believe that Jesus Christ lived, died and rose again, and in so doing, wiped the slate clean for me and for anyone else who should choose to believe it, giving me a spot in heaven. This isn't a part of me, it's all of me, and it's a fact that makes me strive to be a better me, so if it's a fact that bothers you, then we are really not in the same place at all. But that doesn't mean we can't be friends.
Another huge thing in my life is music. My love for it exists outside of genres, although is usually most concentrated in softer rock & punk. Alternative rock, whatever that even means. This is my real reason for ignoring genres. I do not understand them. I have a tiny intolerance of most dance "music" and rap, but to each his own and all that. The music I like is strongly influenced by the people I know. Not in a wishy-washy way, in a introduced-to-me-by-them way. Belle & Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Panic at the Disco are three straight off the top of my head. I don't know who I would be without the people who introduced me to their music, or who I would be without the music itself. I bought a bass guitar in the summer of '07. I love him, and although I'm rather unskilled as a musician, I enjoy digging through bass tabs and playing along to my favourite songs.
Books. Books are probably a bigger part of me than music. They definitely came first. I'm not sure there is a better escape in any universe than delving into a good book. To those ridiculous enough to suppose that fiction is pointless or boring, I can only quote a fictional character. "Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you." - Julian Carax, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. (That's definitely a book rec, btw.) I've always been a reader. Sometimes I pretend I'm a writer too. I'd like to believe that there's a novel in me somewhere, but for now I stick to fanfiction.
Books started me on fandom. My first was Harry Potter, and it will forever have a very special place in my heart for the amazing experiences and friends it brought me. Right now, I am waist-deep in a fandom I never expected to fall into. I'm still unsure of how I feel about rpf, but bandom didn't wait for me to work that out. I'm in and I'm still sinking, because who they are, as ridiculous, adorable, geeky bestfriendsforever, is as inspiring as the music they happen to make together.
I think that's everything for now. Questions?
Fic, icons and anything else my little fandom heart produces will be publicly posted. Posts of mostly rl storytelling will be locked. Access is granted rather freely. Comment if you want it :)
Hi. I'm Mack. 19 - though my lack of regular life experiences and an extra year of high school ensure that I certainly don't feel it. Scottish and proud. I own a kilt, but only because odd circumstances that resulted in me attending a private school for one year meant it had to be so. It is a very pretty kilt though.
I believe that Jesus Christ lived, died and rose again, and in so doing, wiped the slate clean for me and for anyone else who should choose to believe it, giving me a spot in heaven. This isn't a part of me, it's all of me, and it's a fact that makes me strive to be a better me, so if it's a fact that bothers you, then we are really not in the same place at all. But that doesn't mean we can't be friends.
Another huge thing in my life is music. My love for it exists outside of genres, although is usually most concentrated in softer rock & punk. Alternative rock, whatever that even means. This is my real reason for ignoring genres. I do not understand them. I have a tiny intolerance of most dance "music" and rap, but to each his own and all that. The music I like is strongly influenced by the people I know. Not in a wishy-washy way, in a introduced-to-me-by-them way. Belle & Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Panic at the Disco are three straight off the top of my head. I don't know who I would be without the people who introduced me to their music, or who I would be without the music itself. I bought a bass guitar in the summer of '07. I love him, and although I'm rather unskilled as a musician, I enjoy digging through bass tabs and playing along to my favourite songs.
Books. Books are probably a bigger part of me than music. They definitely came first. I'm not sure there is a better escape in any universe than delving into a good book. To those ridiculous enough to suppose that fiction is pointless or boring, I can only quote a fictional character. "Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you." - Julian Carax, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. (That's definitely a book rec, btw.) I've always been a reader. Sometimes I pretend I'm a writer too. I'd like to believe that there's a novel in me somewhere, but for now I stick to fanfiction.
Books started me on fandom. My first was Harry Potter, and it will forever have a very special place in my heart for the amazing experiences and friends it brought me. Right now, I am waist-deep in a fandom I never expected to fall into. I'm still unsure of how I feel about rpf, but bandom didn't wait for me to work that out. I'm in and I'm still sinking, because who they are, as ridiculous, adorable, geeky bestfriendsforever, is as inspiring as the music they happen to make together.
I think that's everything for now. Questions?
Fic, icons and anything else my little fandom heart produces will be publicly posted. Posts of mostly rl storytelling will be locked. Access is granted rather freely. Comment if you want it :)