I'm a female 29 year old freelance writer from London, UK. I have an undergraduate degree in Modern History and a Masters in Russian and East European Literature and Culture. I only know a minimal amount of Russian though and even that's rusty.
I found TV Tropes after someone on a Doctor Who forum linked to
Xanatos Gambit in a post. Other favourite shows include Criminal Minds, House, The OC, Fraiser, Arrested Development, My Family, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Take Me Out, Strictly Come Dancing and the majority of English and Australian soap operas.
I'm really big into spectating sport, with the sports I follow most consistently being football, tennis, cricket and rugby union. My favourite music artists are Garbage, Madonna, Arcade Fire, Girls Aloud, Cheryl Cole, No Doubt and Gwen Stefani. As you may have guessed from my MA, I'm interested in Russian literature, with my favourite period being the latter 19th century and my favourite author being Dostoevskii, with Crime and Punishment being my no 1. book of all time. Outside of Russia/the 19th century, I favour Elizabeth Wurtzel for prose and Euripedes for drama, with Sylvia Plath and Siegfried Sassoon being my go-to poets.
I am an example of the following tropes:
- Cloud Cuckoolander - Or, as someone once called me, 'Dolly Daydream'.
- Strange Girl - If you really want to be rude about it.
- Black and Nerdy - When I was 11, I was able to recite the whole of Wayne's World off by heart. When I was 18, I spent a month studying for 12 hours a day, just so I could get into Oxford. When I was 21, I bought a pair of glasses with blue frames. Black people think I'm a coconut; white people think I'm parodying them. Asian and mixed race people just kind of mock me.
- Starving Artist - Part of the reason I'm thinking of becoming a 9-to-5er is because I'm tired of being hungry.
- Lazy Artist - I might be less starving if I'd spent less time lurking on TV Tropes. And now I've gotten myself known. Ooops...
- The Quiet One - In real life, I'm so quiet that strangers have asked the people with me if I'm 'spastic'. At one parents' evening, a teacher told my mother that she was on my team because I only put my hand up when I had something worth saying.
- Broken Bird - You Don't Want to Know about my Dark and Troubled Past, you really don't. Suffice to say, I've only ever had two boyfriends and tend to push everyone away - I'll probably push you away too, eventually.
- Deadpan Snarker - I thought about giving up sarcasm for Lent-yeah, for about two seconds.
- Everything's Better with Princesses - Check my handle, yo.
- Romantic Runner Up - At least once.
- Do I Really Sound Like That? - Every single time I hear a recording of myself.
Vandalise me! Vandalise me!:
- Welcome! Please ensure you enjoy yourself here; it is mandatory and failure in this regard will result in severe irritated-librarian looks. Would love to know what kinds of things you write, too. —Morven
